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Friday, November 8th
- Nov8All dayMen's Tennis vs. Friday Day at Tribe InvitationalWILLIAMSBURG (MNTC)
- Nov8All dayWomen's Tennis vs. First Day at Kitty Harrison InvitationalChapel Hill, N.C.
- Nov8All dayWomen's Tennis vs. Second Day at ITA National IndoorsFlushing, N.Y.
- Nov8-Nov18Chinese Paper-Cut Art ExhibitionSadler Center, Lounge area of the second floorCome and view the New-Realism style paper-cut artworks that integrate traditional Chinese techniques with Western painting.
- Nov88:15am - 9:15amYogaStudent Recreation Center, Group Fitness StudioWith Ling.This ancient art is a great way to get fit both mentally and physically. Utilizing stretching, breathing and strengthening movements, yoga is a perfect way to revitalize and energize your body.
- Nov88:30am - 10amPPFA Meeting - CANCELLEDBlow Memorial Hall, BOV Board RoomOpen to the public. {{http://www.wm.edu/sites/proffaculty/meetings/minutes/,View meeting agendas and minutes}}.
- Nov88:30am - 12pmMBTI WorkshopSadler Center, Tidewater BThe Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a helpful tool for understanding oneself and others.
- Nov89am - 2pmMeeting of the Alumni Association Board of Directors for William & Mary Law SchoolLaw SchoolThe Alumni Association Board will meet at the Law School on November 8, 2013
- Nov812pm - 12:45pmYogilatesStudent Recreation Center, Group Fitness StudioWith Elizabeth. A combination of two of our most popular classes: Yoga and Pilates!
- Nov812pm - 1pmCommunity Discussion with President ReveleyBlow Memorial Hall, OCE Lounge on 3rd FloorEver wondered what community issues are of personal interest to President Reveley?
- Nov812pm - 1:15pmHazing Prevention Webinar 4: "Knowing What To Do"Sadler Center, Colony RoomThe Hazing Prevention Coalition is offering a series of webinars to promote education and awareness on hazing prevention. Come learn with us how to make W&M a "home without hazing."
- Nov812:30pm - 2pmEtiquette Lunch - For Graduate Arts & Sciences MajorsSadler Center, Chesapeake CThe Cohen Career Center and the Office of Graduate Studies and Research are co-hosting this event. Don't miss out on this great opportunity to polish your etiquette skills, so you can put your best foot forward in varied business and social situations.
- Nov81pmDeloitte Consulting Case Competition PresentationsCohen Career Center, Presentation RoomPresentations of your cases!
- Nov82pm - 3pmInfo Session for Cape Town Summer ProgramJames Blair Hall, Room 211Learn more about the W&M Summer Study Abroad Program in Cape Town, South Africa!
- Nov83pmComputer Science ColloquiumMcGlothlin-Street Hall, Room 020Disaggregated Computation for Computer Graphics Turner Whitted
- Nov83pmWomen's Soccer vs. vs NortheasternHarrisonburg, Va.
- Nov83pm - 4pmChemistry Fall SeminarISC2 (Integrated Science Center), Room 1127Andrew Trask '99, Patent Attorney at Williams & Connolly LLP, presents "From Lab Bench to Bench Trial: A Chemistry Major's Path to Patent Law"
- Nov83:30pmDecadal level sea-level forecasting: Do we need it and can we do it?VIMS - Watermen's Hall, McHugh AuditoriumProfessor Han-Peter Plag of Old Dominion University will explore issues related to long-term forecasts of sea level.
- Nov84pmBiology Seminar: Raymond Keller (University of Virginia)Washington Hall, Room 201"Morphogenesis: new players that play well with old ones in shaping the vertebrate body plan"
- Nov84:15pm - 5:15pmBody CombatStudent Recreation Center, Group Fitness StudioWith Morgan and Terrence. Body Combat is the empowering cardio workout where you are totally unleashed.
- Nov84:30pm - 5:20pmSpinningStudent Recreation Center, Multipurpose StudioWith Ally G. Awesome music, motivation, and enthusiastic coaching lead participants through Spinning(TM) routines that are designed to simulate situations similar to cycling outdoors!
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- Nov85:30pm - 6:30pmBODYPUMPStudent Recreation Center, Group Fitness StudioWith Paul and Terry.The original barbell class that strengthens your entire body.
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- Nov87pmMen's Basketball vs. at HamptonHampton, Va.
- Nov87pmVolleyball vs. James MadisonWILLIAMSBURG
- Nov88pmMiddle Eastern Music Ensemble Fall PerformanceWilliamsburg Regional Library TheatreThe College of William and Mary's Middle Eastern Music Ensemble, in concert with guest artist Amir ElSaffar, will perform Iraqi traditional and popular music, Middle Eastern classics and original music.
- Nov88pmWomen's Chorus and Botetourt Chamber Singers Candlelight ConcertOff-Campus, Bruton Parish Church
- Nov1-Nov30Hot Stones Complementary with 90 Minute MassagesStudent Recreation CenterThrough November, enjoy Hot Stones added for Free to any 90 Minute Massage Session.
- May10-Nov10States' Rights v. Civil RightsSwem Library, Marshall Gallery, 1st floor RotundaConceived as a demonstration of American Cold War consensus, the Civil War centennial revealed how divided the country remained 100 years after Fort Sumter.
- Oct38am-Dec315pmFrom Fights to Rights: The Long Road to a More Perfect Union ExhibitsSwem Library, Special Collections Research CenterVisit Swem Library for exhibits from the "From Fights To Rights" project commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War and the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement. Exhibits rotate at least twice each year.
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This Master-Bilt fusion series refrigerated merchandiser uses a self-contained bottom mount refrigeration system with capillary tubes to control the flow of refrigerant, providing consistent cooling. The temperature range of this merchandiser is 32 to 40 degrees F, and the double pane glass doors with transparent thermal insulation film make for more efficient cooling. The top graphic panel on this merchandiser is lit by fluorescent lights, and the interior is lit by fluorescent bulbs placed vertically, so all items receive even illumination.
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The diversity of the animation industry is reflected in the wide range of courses available to postgraduate students. Options range from traditional drawing-focused MA programmes to highly technical MSc options looking at game-engine design, and 3D computer modelling.
Full-time courses are spread over one or two years, depending on the establishment (some part-time courses are also available). More than 30 institutions offer some form of animation programme at postgraduate level; titles and qualifications vary from the simply named animation MA offered by (among others) the Royal College of Art, University of West England or Edinburgh College of Art, to more specific options such as Bournemouth University's computer animation and visual effects MSc, or Teesside's digital character animation MA. Other possibilities include the computer animation and visualisation MSc offered at both Liverpool John Moores and the University of Dundee.
With such a broad range, it's hardly surprising that students have a mixture of artistic and technical backgrounds. Entry is certainly not limited to those with prior experience of animation, says Sofronis Efstathiou, joint associate dean and postgraduate framework leader of the Computer Animation Academic Group at Bournemouth University. "Our students may have just finished an undergraduate degree or they may have been working in the industry for a number of years. They might also have been graphic designers, architects, 2D animators, scriptwriters... it's very mixed."
Donald Holwill, head of animation at the Edinburgh College of Art, agrees: "Our students might come from a photographic background, while others come from an animation area and have a hankering to do a piece of personal work."
There's no one way of getting on to a course, says Efstathiou – what's more important is technical and creative ability, a portfolio that shows potential, and a real interest in animation. "We want students to go beyond having a favourite Pixar movie. We want them to have favourite artists or directors on those movies, to be interested in what inspired those artists; we like to see how much they know about the subject."
Courses tend to be very student-led, but whether aiming for an MA or an MSc qualification there are certain universal benefits to studying for a postgraduate qualification, says freelance animator and film-maker David Bunting. "A course can open your eyes to what's possible with animation, and you can explore the medium. It's the balancing act of giving you technical skills and widening your artistic horizons as well."
For those moving on to employment within a studio (as many do) there are additional benefits, Bunting continues: the collaborative nature of the projects set on many courses will prepare students for working in the industry. "A studio is a group environment," he says. "You have to be able to work through a problem together."
It's helpful to choose a course that has good links with industry, he says, and Efstathiou agrees: "We try to give students as much knowledge as we can about both the industry and the actual subject matter they're studying." To achieve this, Bournemouth has regular guest speakers from across the animation world, including those who have worked on major films such as Inception, which won Bournemouth graduate Andy Lockley an Oscar for visual effects.
Of course, visual effects is just one route for graduates seeking employment. Some students might start their own companies, while others might find employment in studios all over the world. However, as one of the largest employers of UK animators – from 3D modellers to scenic artists and programmers – the computer games industry is the one to watch. "Computer games are going to be an extension of the storytelling we see in books and films," says Bunting, "and that's going to be very exciting over the next 10 years."
For a successful career beyond the intense experience of a one-year animation MA or MSc, students need to be flexible, explains Holwill. "We want our students to be adaptable, and not afraid of tackling new challenges. Technology is changing all the time and will bring opportunities that we can't predict."
Whether through technological or artistic innovation, animation has always been at the cutting edge of creativity and will continue to be so, according to Holwill – which can only be encouraging for prospective students. "Animation is endlessly fascinating," he says. "It's never going to dry up, because it's about ideas, and our relationship with the world. It's full of potential. Everything's possible."
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The District of Columbia Government's Department of Human Resources (DCHR) is once again proud to announce its District Leadership Program (DLP). The DLP is a leadership program that is designed to provide tomorrow's leaders with the knowledge, tools, skills, and experiences that can be readily applied to their future challenges and pursuits, whether personal or professional. Our program takes a holistic approach to developing Interns by providing a wide range of stimulating and developmental activities including, but not limited to:
Substantive assignments in an unlimited array of functional areas related to government operations (i.e., Human Capital Management, Finance & Budgeting, Information Technology, Legal, Contracting & Procurement, Small & Local Business and Economic Development, Legislative Affairs, Health & Human Services, Education, and Performance Management).
A customized Individual Development Planning (IDP) Learning Lab & Tool Suite
Classroom lectures and coursework on topics centered around core business services as well as other specialty topics
Online access to web-based training and development courses
A series of 'Profiles in Leadership' brown bag luncheons
360⁰ performance feedback for each intern
Guest lecturers focus on topics such as Customer Service, Priorities for the District of Columbia, and Leadership Development
The program is year round (October 28st through May 30th)
Eligibility requirements include:
Undergraduate (Junior or Senior year) and graduate students currently enrolled, who are in good academic standing with a minimum GPA of 2.5 at an accredited U.S. college or university. This must be supported by a transcript.
Recommendation letter from an administrator and a reference letter from an advisor or professor must both be attached to the application. Absent of any of these three aforementioned documents, the application will be deemed incomplete.
Students must be eligible to work in the United States
Applicants will be evaluated by their essay questions, answer to a reflective question, professional resume, and interview.
Preference will be given to applicants who are residents of the District of Columbia.
The deadline to apply is October 4, 2013. Applications are now being accepted and evaluated and must be submitted by visiting http://dcforms.dc.gov/webform/dchr-district-leadership-program-application. For more information about the program and its offerings, please visit the www.dchr.dc.gov website or contact DCHR (202) 442-9700, option 2.


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Banorte Advances After Signing Consulting Pact With IBMDanielle Verbrigghe
Grupo Financiero Banorte SAB, Mexico's second-largest publicly traded bank, rallied the most in a week after entering a consulting agreement with International Business Machines Corp.
The stock advanced 2.2 percent to 93.53 pesos at the close of Mexico City trading. It was the second-biggest advance on the Mexican IPC index of stocks, which fell 0.1 percent.
The 10-year agreement will allow Mexico City-based Banorte to cut costs as a percentage of revenue while increasing the bank's return on equity to more than 20 percent, the companies said in a statement today on PR Newswire. Banorte's ROE in 2012 was 14.3 percent, according to its year-end report.
"This is very good news," Rafael Escobar, an analyst with Vector Casa de Bolsa SA in Mexico City who rates the shares buy, said in a telephone interview. "The investments in technology will be useful to Banorte."
Under the agreement, Armonk, New York-based IBM will provide consulting, information technology and research and development to create a "client-centric banking model" for Banorte, according to the statement,


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Every Nation Church Planters
by DAVID HOUSTON — So, you want to be a church planter? Nothing could be more exciting, more challenging, and more meaningful. It certainly has been all of that for me. Planting a church can launch you into a new ministry career or can greatly expand and deepen your present ministry.
That has also been true for many others and for myself. Most of all, it is one of the most strategically effective ways of advancing Christ's kingdom on earth (see Church Planting, Attendance, and New Leaders by Walt Walker).
Some might even say, "If anyone has enough faith and dedication they can go and plant a church." Admirable intentions. However, successful church planting usually doesn't work like that. The challenges of successfully planting a church force those who go, as well as those who send them, to first ask two basic questions:
Are you called to be a church planter?
Are you ready?
The Better of Many Approaches
In my thirty-four years as a church planter, pastor, and now consultant/coach with Every Nation Churches, I've seen and studied just about every approach to church planting one could imagine, all producing varying degrees of success. There is the sink-or-swim strategy (I know all about that one), the throw-money-at-it approach, the massive-team concept, the secret prayer-invasion tactic, the conspiracy-of-kindness church, the attractional church plan, the big-bang theory, the missional cells model, and so on. Many of these strategies contain valuable elements of establishing and growing new congregations of believers. But none will guarantee church-planting success.
__We tend to be more deliberate now, testing that sense of calling and evaluation the level of preparation.
In the last twenty years, the body of Christ in general (and Every Nation as a particular movement) has come a long way in its understanding of the process of church planting. The process and strategy have also been somewhat demystified. We are far less likely to simply attend a prayer meeting, feel a sense of calling, buy a ticket, and go. Not that this approach has not or will not be successful; but the people and the endeavor often suffer a lot of difficulties — many of them unnecessarily. We tend to be more deliberate now, testing that sense of calling and evaluation the level of preparation. One aspect of this approach has been the development of church planting networks and affiliated assessment centers.
The Every Nation Assessment Center: What It Does and Does Not Do
Kevin York is the Executive Director of Every Nation Churches and Every Nation Ministries. Kevin and I have been participating in and observing assessment centers across North America for nearly ten years. Putting together an assessment center unique to Every Nation mission, vision, and values has been a slow and deliberate process. The strategy that has emerged has been very successful. The Every Nation church-planting success rate is double the national average in terms of membership at the two-year mark (see Success Rate of Every Nation Church Plants by Kevin York).
There are a lot reasons for this success, not the least of which are the efforts at the Every Nation Assessment Center, helping people discern their own calling and readiness. The Assessment Center helps people answer these two basic questions:
Is it evident that you have the calling and gifting to plant a church?
If you are called to plant a church, what do you need to do next to be prepared to plant in a specific city or region within the next twelve to eighteen months?
The Every Nation Assessment Center is a rigorous, three-and-a-half-day immersion experience for church planting candidates and their spouses. We talk with attendees about their history of fruitfulness in past ministry roles, as well as their experiences in previous entrepreneurial activities. We believe the best predictor of the future is the past.
__We give them our recommendation on the BEST ministry lane for them to run in.
Because we want to give them the best possible chance at succeeding in what God has called each person to do, we typically have one assessor for each candidate couple, We also have a licensed marriage counselor that sits down with each couple to help them gauge their readiness to sustain the pressure and weight of a church plant.
As seasoned church planters and trained assessors, it is not our purpose to tell attendees whether or not they CAN plant a church. Rather we give them our recommendation on the BEST ministry lane for them to run in. It is then up to them and their sending church or pastor to decide the next steps.
We do not do any training at the Assessment Center. That comes later. What we do focus on intently are the preparedness, character qualities, and giftings common among successful church planters.
Every Nation ABC3
The Assessment Center is only the first of Every Nation's efforts to help church planters launch healthy, self-sustaining, reproducing churches. We refer to the ongoing process ABC3, which stands for:
Assessment Center — The Assessment Center is open to any potential church planter who plans to plant their church in the next twelve to eighteen months and is designed to help them discern their calling to church planting by affirming their strengths and identifying weaknesses.
Boot Camp — The objective of the Church Planter's Boot Camp is to give church planters practical skills that will help them break through current statistical norms by planting healthy, vibrant, and growing churches.
Clusters — Clusters are regional gatherings of pastors and church planters with the aim of imparting vision, discussing best practices, and deepening relationships.
Coaching — The objective of coaching is to help pastors and new church planters to develop their leadership skills in order to succeed in their given church context.
Consulting — Once a church plant has been established, Every Nation provides trained consultants to help pastors grow healthy churches and develop strategies to effectively engage their cultures.
The Every Nation 2020 North American Church-Planting Initiative
The 2020 North American Initiative is a focused and concerted effort by the Every Nation churches of North America to establish influential churches and church-planting centers in twenty potential cities. It means that we will concentrate on eight strategic centers lacking an Every Nation church, and each existing church will continue efforts to plant churches throughout its region. All will continue to establish student ministries that make disciples and train leaders for Jesus Christ. See The 2020 North American Initiative by Russ Austin.
For more podcasts by Every Nation leaders and other information on Every Nation Church planting, go to the church planting page of the Every Nation website or contact Cindy Lopez at 615-371-8479.
David Houston is a church consultant for Every Nation Churches.


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VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The technicians from Bell Canada call this switch box "Mona Lisa," because the wiring is so immaculate. And it kind of is beautiful, tucked into its special spot at Canada Hockey Place — behind a bar in what is usually one of the executive levels of the arena. It's not the only piece of equipment crammed in an odd location.
"There's one in a concession stand, right next to a pizza oven," says Justin Webb, Bell's vice president of Olympic services. "At one venue, we have one sitting in a shower. We made sure that we turned the water off." In a venue like Canada Hockey Place, Bell has 20 or so switch locations like the Mona Lisa, handling not only the data traffic for journalists and spectators, but also phone calls and the video feeds that go out world wide.
Multiply that by the dozen or so major venues for the Games, and then factor in the two loops of redundant fiber that links each venue with the International Broadcast Center and Main Media Center, and you come to realize the completely insane scope of the project.
"Basically, any piece of information that goes out into the world from the Games has been on our network," says Webb.
The numbers start to overwhelm. In just the hockey venue, there are 25 kilometers of fiber optic cable, 80 kilometers of Cat 5 Ethernet cable, 1,500 Ethernet drops. And they had 12 days to install it all, after the Vancouver Canucks turned over the building to the Olympic organizing committee.
It's the sort of gonzo network building that leads to great stories. At the alpine skiing venues in Whistler, Bell has run fiber up and down the mountain, and as a service to photographers, they have set up stations on the hill where they can send their photos wirelessly to their photo editors.
"We know of at least one case where a photographer took a photo at the start of a run, and it was online on a website before the run was over," says Webb.
One thing we weren't able to see was the central node at the International Broadcast Center, where all the cables from each venue converge. "There's one room where 2,500 strands of fiber optic cable come together," says Webb. Each broadcaster around the world has their own piece of fiber from every venue; it's like the cerebral cortex of the Olympic video world.
The Bell project started shortly after Vancouver was awarded the games seven years ago, with Webb suggesting that the company bid on the communications project. After they got the job, Webb and one other Bell employee started working on it; at its peak, 700 Bell personnel from all across Canada staffed the project.
From 2005 to 2008, Bell laid all the fiber optic cable, including two redundant — and completely different — paths to each venue. So, getting to Cypress Mountain high above Vancouver, one cable runs along the road, and one cuts straight up the mountain. To allow for some standardization at the venues, Bell built much of the big electronics into shipping containers that they could hook up outside each one.
Overall, things have gone smoothly on the network side. They're seeing about double the normal traffic on their wireless network, but the hundreds of antennas they've added in the venues have kept things smooth (I'm on a Bell SIM card, and I've had great luck, personally).
The biggest issue? According to Webb, it's the media. Seems that some of us like to bring our own wireless access point, and hook them up, leading to a ton of RF interference.
That, and keeping the switches dry and free of pepperoni.
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President Obama told reporters last week that, "We can't keep on running the government based on a two-week extension ... That's irresponsible". He was referring to the stopgap measures Congress is taking to keep the government running by extending what's known as a continuing resolution.
Like many students, I often put projects off until the last minute. This was a great source of aggravation to my parents, who would be besieged by requests for rides to the library at 8 pm the night before research papers were due. This lack of foresight on my part led to several sub-par efforts, and many teachers cited a "hurried" feel to the papers or projects in question.
Sweeping reforms to the Department of Interior's oil and gas leasing program on public lands were handed down by Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on May 17.
These reforms, which we view as a win for wildlands, will finally pull back the unbridled controls the oil and gas industry held over public lands during the Bush Administration.
The issue of forest protection, species survival and climate all come together in a just-issued report from the US Department of Interior. "State of the Birds" is a timely reminder of the looming threat of Climate Change to Hundreds of Species.
The Department of the Interior is calling for an investigation of a Bush-era deal on oil shale leases that grossly favored industry over American taxpayers.
The investigation, announced Oct. 20, will look into excessively low royalty rates and other benefits that were tacked onto oil shale research-and-development leases in the final days of Bush administration.
Nearly a year after the Bush administration put some of Utah's most pristine lands on the auction block for oil and gas leasing, the Department of the Interior has handed down a report with recommendations aimed to overhaul the Bureau of Land Management's oil and gas leasing programs.
A remarkable news item surfaced this past week that Gale Norton, President George W. Bush's first Secretary of the Interior from 2001-2006, is under a federal criminal probe due to her potentially inappropriate, unethical, and illegal relationship with Royal Dutch Shell over the federal lands that a Shell subsidiary was awarded for oil shale development when Norton was Secretary.
A recent Senate hearing on the skyrocketing costs of wildfire suppression has underscored the importance of moving forward on the FLAME Act, a bill that would relieve budgetary pressure on federal land management agencies.
Areas of the Prescott National Forest in Arizona are getting a long overdue visitor called fire. Normally, this wouldn't be news — the type of ponderosa pine forests that make up places like the Prescott are naturally thinned out and tidied up by low-intensity fires every five years or so. It's like nature's maid service.
In a victory for America's Arctic, a federal court today issued an opinion requiring that the U.S. Department of the Interior withdraw and reconsider the Bush Administration's 2007 to 2012 oil and gas lease sale program for the outer continental shelf.
The court upheld the claim that the environmental sensitivity rankings in the lease sale program are irrational, and thus required that the lease sale program be "vacated" for reconsideration.


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Same holds good for Hide & Seek which could have turned out to be a coverage affair if not for such strong competition from IPL. However, the situation was even worse for this film as there were talks of shows being cancelled on the very opening day due to lack of audience. A good first effort by director Shawn Arranha, Hide N Seek was made for young audience but a pathetic box office opening means that even survival till the end of first week would be quite a challenge for this slasher thriller.
The other four releases met with even worse fate as Na Ghar Ke Na Ghat Ke saw some audiences coming its way only in the interiors. However, a title which hardly enticed the urban audiences coupled with a star cast that was largely unknown, this low budget film saw itself being lost in oblivion. However, it may end up recovering money through home video and satellite revenue due to its low budget.
As for Swaha and Trump Card, they were C grade affairs and expectedly failed to make any noise whatsoever. In fact if not for the massive rush of releases that brought to fore the topic of numerous films willing to take on IPL, Swaha and Trump Card wouldn't have been noticed at all. As for 'Do Dilon Ke Khel Mein', there wasn't even a proper release due to which one continues to wonder if the film has come and gone or has actually been postponed for a further date? Another common factor amongst each of these three releases was that no reputed website/publication/newspaper even bothered to review them at all!


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HYDE PARK, Monday —I had a very nice group of visitors here on Saturday. Commander Flanagan brought his two daughters and Miss Hickock and Mr. Harcroft from New York, and a young Oklahoma newspaperman, Mr. Tom Omstead, who has a temporary summer job in Poughkeepsie, joined us. We all swam and drove around the place and talked hard before and after dinner.
One interesting thought came out of the evening's discussion. It was finally agreed that the unemployment problem is not just in the U.S.A., but it exists in all the countries in Europe to a greater or lesser degree. The only real difference is in the way we have attacked the problem. Europe takes care of the greater part of its unemployed either in the armed forces of the nation or in the munitions factories. The people of the country pay for both, especially when there is a war. We, on the other hand, feeling more secure where war is concerned, tried a new method and started public works to take up the slack of unemployment, and these public works can be seen by anyone who takes the trouble to drive around the country.
It is just a different answer to the same problem. Both of them cost the taxpayers about an equal amount of money, but one plan leaves something tangible for the good of the nation and eventually is productive of jobs which do not cost the taxpayers money, while the other means a complete loss in the end. Most of us haven't got vision or imagination enough to look at the new programs and make up our minds as to which we prefer. We worry and we worry, but we rarely propose any practical alternatives.
Today I started off at 9:00 a.m. with Mr. Flanagan, Mr. Wagner and Mrs. Mellen to see NYA projects in my own neighborhood. We stopped first at the Hudson River State Hospital, which has been most cooperative and which is a very good place for young people to gain experience at real jobs under workmen who have held them for a long time. We went to the state agricultural experiment station, which, until today, I did not know existed in Poughkeepsie. We visited an abandoned trade school which has been turned over to the NYA program. Here I was shown a collection of fifty spoons made from different woods found in this vicinity. I carried away a really lovely one made out of pear wood.
Seaplane floats were being built in Poughkeepsie and in Newburgh in preparation for the flight which is to be made next Friday. The Newburgh work center was interesting and we enjoyed an excellent lunch served by girls studying home economics. The work done at the trail museum in Bear Mountain State Park by the young people is useful to them and to many sightseers. The proof of the pudding is in the eating, many of the youngsters are graduating from these programs into jobs.


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Oil prices edge down on US crude stocks build
On Wednesday, crude prices sagged because an unexpected build in American crude stocks weighed on markets, along with worries that Chinese crude demand could falter because China clamps down on alleged tax evasion in the crude industry.
International Brent crude futures were worth $49.57 per barrel, tumbling 0.8% from their last close. American West Texas Intermediate crude futures descended 1%, trading at $47.64 per barrel.
Decent Chinese crude demand growth has been mostly spurred by independent refiners or simply teapots, who started importing crude last June right after getting government crude import quotas as well as licenses.
However, Beijing's recent crackdown on alleged tax evasion in the crude industry, targeting the teapots, definitely threatens to put a lid on Chinese demand.
Financial analysts are eager to learn whether the teapots are going to start cutting runs or not.
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Two lines of trenches face off across No Man's Land. A soldier marches, rifle in hand, along a ditch. These are instantly familiar images of World War I – but this is Britain, a century on and an English Channel away from the battlefields of the Western Front.
This overgrown and oddly corrugated patch of heathland on England's south coast was once a practice battlefield, complete with trenches, weapons and barbed wire. Thousands of troops trained here to take on the German army.
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Borderlands issue - freezes when I attempt to run[ Edited ]
I have as yet been unable to play the PS+ Instant Game Borderlands off of PSN. I have attempted several downloads. The first time it downloaded and gave me an error when attempting to install.
The second time, it downloaded and installed; however, when I attempted to run the game after all of the intro screens, it hung on the screen of some triangle-like symbol, all the while playing some kind of nature noises in the background. The whole system locked up. It wouldn't even respond to the PS button on the controller. I was forced to hold the power button down to power off.
After this, the whole system was slow and sluggish, hanging frequently for up to 20 seconds at a time while just trying to navigate the XMB. I attempted to download again and after a couple time receiving the install error again, I was able to get it to install. This time, the program hung on a black screen with no sounds (this is sometime after the Gamespy notice comes up). The PS button on the controller responded, but when I attempt to exit the system beeps at me and then completely restarts.
I then attempted a system file rebuild to see if that would fix the issues. After that, the XMB performed properly again, but I still get the same result when I download and install Borderlands. It just hangs and I am forced to exit, which promptly restarts the whole system.
I've put the PS3 in a DMZ on my router, but that hasn't changed anything. I even bypassed the router and hooked the modem directly up to the PS3 and still no results. What the heck is going on? All of my other games work fine...
Edit: Sorry, first time posting here. Looking around, it appears this thread should have been placed in one of the "Support" forums. Sorry for the mistake. If there are any mods out there, please feel free to move this. Thanks!
Re: Borderlands issue - freezes when I attempt to run
Wish I could help here, but you may want to reach out to Customer Service if the game is not loading up properly to see if they have any solutions that may help.
Re: Borderlands issue - freezes when I attempt to run
Try deleting the game data.
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Coolum Beach is a popular day trip and holiday destination. The town is focused around the beach which is patrolled by life savers and offers swimming and surfing, in its day it is known as one of the best breaks in Queensland. Parks, a boardwalk, esplanade shops, and the surf lifesaver club surround the beach. Over the last five years Coolum Beach has seen heavy development, with new buildings for retail business and holiday apartments.
In "An Island Surrounded by Land",the white settlement of Coolum is described by Windolf and Windolf (2004),as having occurred, unconnected by road to Maroochydore and Noosa. This gives Coolum, to this day, the friendly feeling of a country town, even though it forms part of an urban strip called the Sunshine Coast. Perhaps the aboriginal history of Coolum endures only in the place names and in the brooding presence of Mount Coolum. Settlement in the 1950s and 1960s was often by working class Brisbane families who first built holiday cottages. Lifestylers joined the mix in the 1970s. This influx confirmed the tolerant society that Coolum had become. Coolum Beach is still a "live and let live" society, with no identifiable ruling group. Whilst Queensland voted conservatively throughout the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, Coolum Beach has always voted Labor.
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Finding a new colour laser printer at around £160 is something that catches our attention. Although prices of colour lasers have been dropping fast over the last couple of years, this has largely been through companies pitching the price of heavier-weight printers very low and making it up on consumable costs. The CLP-300 is a different case, as the machine appears to have been designed from the ground up as a low-cost, colour laser printer.
Looking much like many personal, mono laser printers, the CLP-300 has a conventional cuboid design, with a 150-sheet multipurpose tray projecting from the bottom of the front panel. Printed pages feed out to the indented top surface and a fold-out paper support is needed to stop pages sliding off the front.
It's when you pull down the front cover to reveal the print mechanism that you see where the majority of the new design comes in. There are four cylindrical toner containers, each about the size of a small tube of Pringles, which slide into the front of the photoconductor unit. Each is colour-coded and will only fit into its own socket. At the left-hand end is a shaped, toner waste bottle. Both this and the photoconductor unit are consumables, as well as the tubes of toner.
The control panel consists of four toner indicators and a single status light, which shows when the printer is available and online. A round, orange button stops the current print job. At the back, a single USB socket connects the printer to your PC; the N version of the CLP-300, which costs around £50 more, includes an Ethernet socket, too.
Set up consists of slotting in the four toner cartridges, connecting a USB cable – unusually, you connect it before installing the driver – and printing a test page. There's no default colour calibration, though you can switch on colour match settings based on perceptual, saturation or colourimetric models.
Other than the printer driver, there's little support software. The bundled copy of Corel's Paint Shop Pro X would be a good extra, if it were more than a 30-day trial of the software.
To keep things simple, the printer uses a carousel engine, which means that each colour is built up on the same drum, which has to be loaded four times before a colour page can be printed. When printing black text, there's only one drum load and the claimed 16ppm is not too far off what we saw. Our five-page text document completed in 32 seconds, giving just under 10ppm.
I was advised by a so called expert to get the later version, the CLP 350N and have had no end of grief and wasted paper. Try before you buy
DON'T BUY THIS PRINTER - paper is stuk all the times and the picture quality is very poor - it 's a shame for samsung they bring this on the market
After only 12 months of moderate use (just out of warranty) black is banding so badly text is almost illegible.The only thing it prints acceptably are graphics not involving black, or text in colour.When the current toner runs out I'm binning it.
I wouldn't recommend it.
VERY POOR PRINTER. STONGLY ADVISE DO NOT BUY. We bought two for our business, after six months of moderate use both developed severe banding on black, and one on colour too. Drum/toner unit replaced on both under warrenty. Replacements on both printers started to fail after a few weeks, one becoming unusable after just 1400 pages! Samsung define this part as a consumable and only warrent the replacements for 3 months irrespective of usage hence would not help other than to quote me the price of replacements (slightly more than the cost of the printers). Either I am very unlucky or these are not fir for purpose. Taking the matter up with Samsung, will report if I get anywhere.
This is the worst printer I've ever purchased. It costs more to fix it than what I can purchase a new one. Quality is just not there. The paper constantly jams.
I can only agree with the comments above. Print quality is appalling on photographs, it developed severe banding on black after a few months and the teeth on the toner cartridge on black keep getting chewed off, meaning no toner gets to the drum and a horrible clicking noise. A total waste of money. When I raised this issue with eBuyer they simply pointed out that they don't support business users so tough luck. This proves the point that if you buy cheap, you buy twice. But don't buy a Samsung.
Print quality I can just about live with but this printer is the worst piece of junk I have bought in over 25 years involvement with printers and computers. It is simply unusable as it will jam a page for every one it prints. I recently spent 20 minutes trying to get ONE PAGE printed but it refused with the paper sticking half way. It's in the bin and my Canon IP4300 never lets me down.
Samsung plainly knew this printer was junk. They give you this upgrade junk until the warrenty is out, then refuse to do anything about their problem. My company was supplying 50+ samsung microwaves and refrigerators to an apartment group every month. Not any more. They got me one time, I get them 50 times every month.
VERY BAD printer!!!! The paper jam all the time and after 1 year of rare use it start cutting the text from the documents. Now it doesn't print at all. Waste of money.
Cheap to buy (I should have known that it was too good to be true...), extremely tempermental, and very expensive to run - not at all what I expected from a laser printer. My Samsung CLP-300 has been very poor value for money and provided the greatest hassle of any of the seven printers that I've owned over the last 15 years. Today I am having a party because the Samsung is going to the tip. I shall replace it with a Brother mono laser (for less than the cost of a set of toners for the Samsung) and start using my old HP OfficeJet again for colour printing. I will never buy a Samsung IT product again.
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Jonah G. Sinowitz writes:
"Since I was a young child, I've written the word G-d with a hyphen. I still think in terms of G-d, even though everyone around me uses the word Hashem. On the other hand, I have no problem writing 'god' with a small 'g.' Today, for example, in referring to what folks in the technology field might call a 'guru,' I spoke of someone as 'a god in the field of computer science.' I'm curious whether other languages have the same issue."
I've written before in this column about the spelling "G-d,' which is restricted to Orthodox Jews. It's one that quite literally sets my teeth on edge, since the only sound I can imagine for it is the sound I might make if I suddenly were to swallow a goldfish — and what good is a word, even a written one, if it sounds like a goldfish in the gullet?
I understand, of course, the logic behind "G-d." It goes back both to the biblical commandment against taking God's name in vain and to the shem ha-meforash or Tetragrammaton (from Greek tetra, four, and gramma, a letter of the alphabet), the Hebrew letters yod-heh-vav-heh that compose this name in the Bible. By the end of the Second Temple period, they were considered so sacred that Jewish law permitted their utterance only once a year, by the high priest in the Holy of Holies on the Day of Atonement, and while they continued to be copied by scribes in Torah scrolls, they were now read as adonai, "Lord" or "Master."
Subsequently, in early rabbinic times, adonai, too, began to be considered too holy for anything but liturgical use. In all ordinary situations, it was replaced by various euphemisms, the two most common being ha-kadosh barukh hu, "the Holy One Blessed Be He," and ha-shem, "The Name" — which, as Mr. Sinowitz observes, is how many Orthodox Jews refer to God to this day. The same thing happened with the other main biblical word for God, elohim, while when the Bible or prayer book was read or quoted from in nonliturgical situations such as study, adonai and elohim were de-sacralized by being changed, respectively, to adoshem and elokim.
Writing "God" as "G-d," a development that has taken place in the past half-century of American Jewish life, can thus, I suppose, be defended as a further extension of an old trend into English. Yet, English itself has traditionally resorted to dashes only to indicate unprintable vulgarisms like "f—k" or "sh—t," so that, ironically, "G-d" looks more like an obscene word than a sacred one. (This is another reason I find it foolish.) The traditional method by which English has avoided profaning the name of God has been quite different and has involved — like adoshem for adonai, or elokim for elohim — mimetic euphemisms, like "Gosh" or "Golly."
Indeed, English has a large number of such euphemisms, all originally used for oaths, such as "Gosh darn" for "God damn," "By golly" and "By jingo" for "By God," "For goodness' sake" for "For God's sake" and so on. Expressions of this sort go back to the Middle Ages. Probably the best known of the medieval ones, though rarely heard anymore, is "Zounds," a contraction of "s' wounds," a substitute for "[by] God's wounds!" — a way of swearing by the crucified Jesus. English also has many substitutes for the name of Jesus itself, such as "Gee whiz," "Gee whillikers" and "Jeepers," in addition to such combinations as "Jiminy Crickets" for "Jesus Christ," and "For crying out loud" for "For Christ's sake."
Unlike Hebrew, however, English did not develop such words because "God" was considered too sacred to utter; it did so solely in deference to "Thy shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain," which was interpreted as referring to trivial or unnecessary oaths. Almost nowhere in the English language can one find a sentence like "I pray to Gosh when I'm worried" or "I've always had a strong belief in Golly," situations in which Jewishly observant speakers of Hebrew and Yiddish (and increasingly, as Mr. Sinowitz points out, of English) will use "Hashem" or one of its equivalents. (The only exception to this rule that I can think of is a sentence like "Goodness knows that I meant well," in which "Goodness" functions as a "God" substitute, too.) Other European languages have similar "minced oaths," as they are called, although none, to the best of my knowledge, as extensively as English. Thus, for instance, we have the French sacre bleu (literally, "holy blue"), which is a circumlocution for sang de dieu ("God's blood"), and the Italian porco zio, translatable as "goddamn it,"" in which zio, "uncle," replaces dio.
The nice thing about such euphemisms is that, unlike "G-d," you can pronounce them. Perhaps Jews made a mistake when, 50 or 60 years ago, they did not start writing "The Torah is Gosh's revelation to man" or "We are Golly's chosen people." It's too late for that now, but between "G-d" and Hashem, I definitely prefer the latter. At least it has some vowels.
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What a beautiful, moving story. It is truly a tribute to your father, Curt, as well as to the man he raised in you! God's blessings as you continue your time of grieving and remembrance.
This is wonderful! My Father was a farmer with great wisdom, as well, and passed away a year and a half ago. I could relate to a lot of what Curt was saying about his father. After my two older brothers left home, it was up to the three youngest girls to help on the farm, so I drove the tractor, combine, and wheat truck every summer. Those are memories with my Dad I will treasure forever. God bless!


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Gray-haired desktop virtualization specialists may remember Parallels as the developer of Virtuozzo Containers, a containerized application hosting solution for Windows Server that provides a halfway house between RDSH sessions and full server virtualization. Parallels is back in the desktop virtualization news after having announced its acquisition of 2X Software. This move brings mobile device management, VDI, and RDSH to the company's current portfolio of Linux and Windows containers, a Type 2 hypervisor for OS X, and service provider–focused web server management tools. In a prepared statement announcing the acquisition, Parallels President Jack Zubarev said, "We see huge synergies with Parallels Access and Parallels Desktop products and are excited about the potential 2X solutions brings to us."
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text: Not sure if anyone has heard this but there is a protest against one of the most stringent gun laws in the nation called the NY safe act taking place this Saturday at Noon. Its a huge story that according to local papers has gained a lot of momentum and support (even worldwide to Japan) to shoot one shot (safely obviously) at noon on Saturday January 11th to protest the law. Ive heard recently that most of the law has stayed intact but one part was struck down by a judge stating that the part stating that only 7 rounds was the maximum allowed in any magazine or clip. He ruled that unconstitutional but other than that most of the law remains. Such as registering any semi-automatic rifle with a military type feature,re-certifying your pistol permit every 5 years, requiring any mental health profesionals to send patient lists to authorities so they can check if guns are owned by the patients. Can no longer purchase semi-automatic rifles in NY. And there is more to it thats all I can recall off the top of my head. Im getting a couple buddies together and wer'e going to make sure people hear ours. Ive got about 5 lbs of Tanerite thats gonna really make my anti-gun nieghbor dirty his pants.:lol:


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Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of Englandhttp://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/blackstone.asp
This website, hosted by Yale University libraries, contains the Blackstone Commentaries on the Laws of England written from 1765 to 1769. It will be useful to students researching legal and English history.
Calvin College German Propaganda Archivehttp://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/
This excellent website includes visual and textual forms of propaganda from both the National Socialist and the Communist East German dictatorships. It will be useful for students researching Nazi German, the German Democratic Republic, communism, or the Cold War.
Cornell University Digital Witchcraft Collectionhttp://dlxs.library.cornell.edu/w/witch/digital.html
Cornell University has digitized an immense number of documents related to the witchcraft trials in medieval and early modern Europe.
EuroDocs provides a portal to a wide variety of online primary source collections. This link takes you to list of countries and time periods in Europe. You can follow the links to find primary sources from almost any country in Europe. In the German section, there is an excellent list of links for primary sources related to the Holocaust or National Socialism.
First World Warhttp://www.firstworldwar.com/
Within this site one can view a timeline of events, primary documents including diaries and memoirs, and propaganda posters. This site also includes other useful information about individual battles and descriptions of the western front as it is today.
German Federal Archive Digital Image Collectionhttp://www.bild.bundesarchiv.de/
The Bundesarchiv, or Federal Archive, has digitized many historical images and posters. Students can search by topic or time period for images. While the initial page has been translated into English, some German language skills will be useful here as you explore the database. Not all links on this website are available in both English and German. Images from the Holocaust, World War Two, and other periods of German history can be found here.
German Historical Institutehttp://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/home.cfm
This website contains maps, images, and textual primary sources translated into English. Eventually, sources will be available for 1871 to the Present. Currently, some time periods have not been completed. Within each time period, sources are organized thematically. It will be useful for those of you researching a topic in German history, the Holocaust, or the Cold War.
German Historical Museum's Image Databasehttp://www.dhm.de/datenbank/bildarchiv.html
The Germany Historical Museum allows you to search for images from German history. German language skills are required to navigate this site.
German History Documentshttp://www.csustan.edu/history/faculty/weikart/gerhist.htm
This website, created by Dr. Richard Weikart of California State University at Stanislaus, includes a variety of primary sources translated into English. It will be useful for students researching a variety of topics in German history.
Germany Under Reconstructionhttp://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/History/GerRecon
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i actually had surprisingly good luck with the resin from michaels. really clear, and very little bubble action.
and now if i just win that sx-70 auction
i actually had surprisingly good luck with the resin from michaels. really clear, and very little bubble action.
and now if i just win that sx-70 auction
I found a different way to mix the resin and get a better result. I also have one kit ready if anybody would like it.
pm sent.
Hey Asok, really nice job on the hollow RFs! I forgot you had this thread on making hollow RFs coz I am doing the exact same thing. I also have the lens from an old non-functional SX-70 camera that I bought for only $10 dollars. I just hope mine turns out as good as yours!
If I can make this, just about anybody can. I am like you and did not like the RF that are out there. I just cast mine so when I break it, I just cast a new one. $10 for a SX-70 lens, WOW! Mine cost me $30 each! Great find. Also, this is my 3rd try at making a RF. So, if it takes a few times, do not worry about it.
well if you ever do a run Asok I want in...
Have you tried a pressure pot? with a pressure gauge.
The kind that you use a air compressor with,not the stove top kind. I use one everyday at the Dental Lab where i work. The water can be room temp.
We use it to take out the bubbles in the dental acrylic when making small dentures or partials.
It may eliminate your bubbles completely.
This is one i found ebay.
how much does a little pot like that cost, and how big a compressor do you need?
yeah, i could google, but i don't even know enough about the tech to know if what i am reading makes sense
So, I made a pressure pot. What do you think of the results? Can you tell which is which?
Naah, I just cannot figure it out. Please tell me which is which? Just kidding, that is just great. Just like clear part of glass. Or did you just drop some water on your mold and dropped it to a freezer?
Sweet work there!
Asok, these look great, I am looking for an RF to house my circuit too, are you going to supply them ready to fit the boards? I am ready for one anytime!
Cheers Rob.
That Looks dead on accurate. Really nice work.
Updated photo.
WOW. Those look so clean asok. Very nice. You know... I've not glued mine on yet... hmm...
These look GREAT! If you do start offering them please consider me - Ive no RF or stalk so these could be just the ticket!
Very impressive pics with the two side-by-side - cant wait to see the process!
I knew that would work for ya;-)
I'm a dental tech by trade and i work with different resins and dental acrylics all day and a pressure pot is the key to an excellent casting.
They look awesome!
Awesome job man, awesome!
Can you tell me roughly how much these weigh.
I'm researching a lightwewight rangefinder 'cos my stalk is cardboard. I was originally just going to have a shell but it would be nice to have the clear part and everything else in there.
Hey asok!
Got my parts yesterday! WOW - just WOW!
Beautiful casts! At some stage I must post about the first ever cast part I bought, an E11 Blastech and what a POS it was... set me up for thinking all casts required major surgery - how wrong I was!
Absolutely beautiful RF (and MQ1) - worth twice what your charging! AND I dont know how you got it from the states to ireland so fast!
If your EVER doing any other parts Im in Great work!
Thank you very much!


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All major newspapers in New Delhi carried news of TVNZ broadcaster Paul Henry's resignation today.
Mr Henry announced his resignation yesterday after TVNZ received several hundred complaints about the Breakfast presenter's comments about Governor-General Sir Anand Satyanand not "looking like a New Zealander" and his mocking of Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit's name, which he said was appropriate "because she's Indian".
The Statesman had it on the front, under the headline "Dikshit Baiter Quits", alongside a story about four police officers in Melbourne being sacked for sending racist emails.
The Hindu ran a substantial front page story - the third most important after the Commonwealth Games hockey win over archrivals, and today's crucial confidence vote in the Legislative Assembly.
Henry was on page six in The Indian Express under the headline "Cornered over remark on Dikshit, Kiwi anchor quits".
Alongside that story ran one on Laws entitled "Another NZ anchor sparks racial row", about Laws' comments on Sir Anand.
Sir Anand was last week caught up in Indian dismay at the former TV host's comments, when an Indian Ministry of External Affairs official, offended by Henry's remarks, refused to attend a lunch in the Governor-General's honour in Delhi.
The Times of India had Henry on page five, with a photograph of him berating reporters outside his Auckland home alongside one of Ms Dikshit.
Support floods in for Henry
Meanwhile, ONE News reports that TVNZ has been flooded with support for the former Breakfast host.
They claim to have received over 3000 emails over Paul Henry's resignation, with 95 per cent of correspondence saying Henry should have stayed.
While Henry will not be returning back to Breakfast, TVNZ's rival Mediaworks have not ruled out working with the broadcaster in the future, reported 3 News.
- NZPA, NZ Herald staff


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Discussion in 'TiVo Roamio DVRs' started by TiVoMargret, Oct 17, 2013.
This one freaked out my cats and my kids!
Still getting pixelation on back to back recordings. It's brief and does not cause a pause or audio loss.
Ok, it should work now. (You might need to connect to the TiVo Service once to get the change.)
No Android streaming until 2014, sorry.
After this update I had to re-sign in to my Netflix account on my Roamio +, I also lost my place on Netflix (was easy to find but was an extra step). Have others saw this, or was I just lucky.
I had to re sign into Netflix on my Plus as well. Not sure what you mean by losing your place. Do you mean what point you were at in a paused show?
Btw any word whether the Netflix profiles UI is coming to Tivo? It's a really nice improvement IMO. PS3 and ATV both have it.
Jeez man, stop being such a fanboy. It's a valid beef.
Wishlist management is also now available from the menu or using the "3" shortcut.
I was watching a Netflix TV series and I was into year 5 E3, when I signed in I was back to year 1 E1, it was easy to get back to year 5 E3 but it was extra steps. Does every update force you to sign back into Netflix ??
Damn, there are an overwhelming number of Android devices. We know it is do-able as Comcast supports it cleanly, DirectTV is spotty but it sometimes works.
That should be remembered by Netflix's server. I use multiple devices to access Netflix and it remembers my place no matter which one I use, so this must be stored on the Netflix servers somewhere.
It's got nothing to do with being a fanboy. Swerver, and you, got your panties in a twist because TiVo decided to make it better but didn't implement what you wanted the first time.
Just got my Roamio yesterday, and it downloaded the latest software. I have experienced blank screens twice which required "standby->out of standby" to restore. I have not found a way to reproduce it.
For all Roamios? There's a difference.
Either way, I appreciate the continued transparency and hope you can keep it up.
I got the latest update like everyone else. Unfortunately, now I only have 5 tuners that operate. Even more strange, if I have selected a tuner with the V58 error, and try to change it to another channel Tivo changes one of the other tuners to the channel I selected and leaves the broken tuner still on a non working channel.
Basically, I'm done to 5 tuners and I can only tune 4 of them.
It may or may not be better depending on what timeout (or none) that you want for the Mini and live TV. But disparaging people asking for a simple option to pick the timeout you want, along with all your other posts defending anything Tivo does, makes you a fanboy.
I had something similar happen to my base Roamio the other day. One tuner was stuck to channel 9. This was strange because I am OTA and that channel does not exist. I tried changing the channel but it would stay put on that tuner and would change the others. So, I started recordings on each of the other tuners to lock them in place and then was able to change from the mystery channel on the last tuner and started a recording on a different channel to see if it would stay put. That seemed to do the trick. I'd never seen or heard of such a thing. My Premiere had some horrible quirks. The new Roamio has some new and freakier issues, but I still like it.
This isn't what swerver did. He was rude.
Someone has to offset the juvenile whining.
Glad to see the Amazon fix!


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The return of the Winnipeg Jets has created a sense of unity among Winnipeggers of all ages, says Amanda Shindak of the Youth Agencies Alliance. "But going to a game and feeling that sense of community spirit and pride, and having a chance to be there with a positive role model, is something that most of our youth will never be able to experience in their lifetime."
So when they were told they were getting Winnipeg Jets tickets donated through United Way's Dream Seats program, they wanted to make sure they used them well. "We wanted to make sure that they went to a very deserving individual that has not had the opportunity to attend a Jets game," says Shindak.
Youth Agencies Alliance created a contest for all of their 19 partner agencies, where one youth would get to go to the Winnipeg Jets game against the New York Rangers on March 14th. Youth were asked to submit 200 words indicating why they thought they should go to the game, and YAA staff reviewed the submissions to make the tough decision.
"The particular youth we selected has been faced with a number of adversities in his life," says Shindak. "The Winnipeg Jets hold a special place in his heart, and he's never had the opportunity to go to a game. He shared with us that when he was a child his dad would share stories about the Jets, and he grew to love the game of hockey. He has always wanted to join a team, but due to financial barriers has been unable to play. He wrote to us that "Going to a jets game would make my dreams come true and soon when I see my dad I would tell him about this story and he would be proud of me". We wanted to provide a positive life long memory for him."
The goal of the Youth Agencies Alliance is to provide youth with entertainment opportunities that they would normally not have access to, in turn creating positive social experiences. Experiences that were once considered unattainable, suddenly offer positive social interaction with a positive role model from their agency.
Thanks to the generous Dream Seats donor who made this possible! We can't wait to hear how the game goes.


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Offering an outdoor swimming pool and a spa and wellness centre, Palace Mirissa is located in Mirissa South. Free WiFi access is available in the public areas of the property. Each air-conditioned room here will provide you with a TV and a balcony. Complete with an electric kettle, the dining area also has a dining table. Featuring a shower, private bathroom also comes with a hairdryer. You can enjoy sea view and pool view from the room. At Palace Mirissa you will find a restaurant and a lush green garden. Other facilities offered at the property include a shared lounge, a ticket service and a tour desk. An array of activities can be enjoyed on site or in the surroundings, including cycling, fishing and diving. The property offers free parking. The hotel is 1,641 feet from Whale Watching Mirissa and 2,297 feet from the Mirissa Beach. The Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport is 51 miles away while the Bandaranaike International Airport is 112.5 miles.


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For a while now FashionTag has been chatting with British brand Steffans and so we were introduced to Pandora jewellery – a brand that was founded in 1982 in Copenhagen Danemark. And what caught our eyes with the now internationally known jewellery brand, was their exquisite combination of fine high quality design, beauty of the hand crafted jewellery and the modern design of their items – stylish & very classy pieces in glittering silver & gold and expensive stones. With the Holiday season here and Christmas a couple of weeks ahead we're all going a bit mad over what to buy our family & friends, or our colleagues for the Secret Santa at the office. Then, given that you've figured out what to get them, it's a matter of where to buy it from & making the time to go shopping. Oh my… a bit of a holiday chaos isn't it? Sure some of us may love spending time going from shop to shop during the winter holiday craze… but we may not have too much time on our hands, so… I was quite pleasantly surprised with the Pandora gift ideas! Their online store at Steffans is literally packed with all the fashion and style bits from the world of jewellery. (click here to shop)
1. Autumn-Winter Pandora Sterling Silver Ice Skate Charm – £30.00
2. Pandora Sterling Silver Christmas stocking charm – £25.00
3. Pandora Sterling Silver Red Enamel Love Letter Bead – £35.00
4. Pandora Sterling Silver Chrysoprase May Ring – £45.00
5. Pandora Sterling Silver Strawberry Fruit Bead – £20.00
6. Pandora Sterling Silver Stars Bead – £20.00
7. Pandora Sterling Silver Spiral Onyx Rose Ring – £50.00
8. Pandora Sterling Silver Snowman Bead – £25.00
9. Pandora Sterling Silver Smiley Frog Animal Bead – £20.00
In teaming up with the brand, FashionTag has fallen in love with Pandora gift ideas, especially the popular customisable Pandora bracelets, which are the perfect gift for Christmas, and what Pandora is most famous for actually! You basically pick one bracelet and add as many beads in as many shapes, designs, themes as you want and make it your own one-of-a-kind jewellery. Such a bracelet can be customed to any person and taste as Pandora beads (which I am head over heels over) come in what looks like millions of tiny sweet and delicate shapes and designs: Christmas trees, tiny houses, bugs, cute animals, little boys & girls, name initials, hearts, flowers, shoes, boxes. Each of these charms tell a story and marks a moment in someone's life so giving such a gift just comes to show how considerate you are and what an amazing taste you've got in fine accessories and jewellery.
1. Pandora Sterling Silver Scroll Forever Together Bead – £30.00
2. Pandora Sterling Silver Ring with Rhodonite Stone & Flower Detail – £95.00
3. Pandora Sterling Silver Pink Single Platted Leather Bracelet – £40.00
4. Pandora Sterling Silver Pierced Flower Safety Chain – £40.00
5. Pandora Sterling Silver Pandora Clip Bead – £30.00
6. Pandora Sterling Silver Open Work Flower Bead – £20.00
7. Pandora Sterling Silver Monkey – Baby Chimp Bead – £25.00
8. Pandora Sterling Silver Letter C Charm-Bead – £30.00
9. Pandora Sterling Silver House -Chimney Bead – £20.00
Pandora gift ideas are a load of stylish bits that you can browse around on (click here to go to their online shop) and find your match as they've got quite a range of pieces and styles at very accessible prices (sweet and perfect beads from under £30.00 to classy, elegant trendy ones at over £200.00). I loved their Christmas collection, the bracelets, the flower earrings and my all time favorite – the beads. Loved the waving cat silver & pink enamel bead, the sterling silver gold mum, the silver British rose and Union Jack bus bead. Plus you've got a range of necklaces, rings & earrings to choose from such as the flower earrings that are fabulous. And the best part about all these fantastic little pieces, which are so sweet and delicate… is that they can be extremely stylish and upgrade any look. A splash of those elegant classy silver earrings or drop down charm beads can turn any simple classic dress into the star of the evening for your Christmas dinner party. A basic turtle neck top can look rather trendy yet fashion-timeless with a necklace customised in all the beads your eyes and heart desire. The simple yet intricate designs make Pandora the brand to go to when in need of a great present. Besides… it's all one click away (click here to browse and shop) and fits any taste and pocket. And the best part about jewellery gifts is that they last a lifetime, plus they can be styled to any look and outfit.
1. Pandora Sterling Silver Horseshoe Drop Bead – £35. 00
2. Pandora Sterling Silver Heart Lock Bead – £30.00
3. Pandora Sterling Silver Hedgehog Animal Bead – £25.00
4. Pandora Sterling Silver Happy Turtle Bead – £25.00
5. Pandora Sterling Silver Grey Freshwater Pearl Stud Earrings – £35.00
6. Pandora Sterling Silver Graduation Cap Drop Bead – £35.00
7. Pandora Sterling Silver Friends Forever Butterfly Double Bead – £45.00
8. Pandora Sterling Silver Elephant Bead – £30.00
9. Pandora Sterling Silver Drop Down Girl Bead – £25.00
The Pandora charms and beads will definitely remain at the top of a stylish list as they not only look great in their intricate simplicity but can be styled to a certain look and personal statement. And you know what? It's something about these tiny sweet pieces that makes us all women and girls get in touch with out girly girl side and uber childish-feminine persona. So clashing a bit the styles (young and fun with more mature and classic) will give you a bit of an edge and fashion personality. Or… you may just keep it basic and simple if that's what you want, because that works too! If celebs (who are always spotted with one too many charm Pandora bracelets adorning their wrists) can rock these sweet and cute pieces with all our constantly-criticizing-eyes on them, then I'm sure we can take it up a notch ourselves and pick from the Pandora gift ideas for Christmas 2012. They're fun, ultra chic and feminine, trendy & rather bohemian yet classy!
1. Pandora Sterling Silver Cup & Saucer Bead – £25.00
2. Pandora Sterling Silver Crown Bead – £25.00
3. Pandora Sterling Silver Bible Book with Cross Bead – £25.00
4. Pandora Sterling Silver Angel Bead – £30.00
5. Pandora Sterling Silver And Pink Zirconia Posy Chain CZ Ring – £65.00
6. Pandora Sterling Silver 14ct Gold Love You Cube Bead – £65.00
7. Pandora Sterling Silver & Red Garnet Santa's Sleigh Bead – £25.00
8. Pandora Sterling Silver & Tourmaline Cubic Zirconia Flower Stud Earrings – £35.00
9. Pandora Sterling Silver & Purple Enamel Heart Bead – £45.00
1. Pandora Sterling Silver & 14ct Gold Twist Earrings – £60.00
2. Pandora Sterling Silver & 14ct Gold Flower Drop Bead – £50.00
3. Pandora Sterling Silver & 14ct Gold Christmas Tree Bead – £65.00
4. Pandora Readymade 'My Special Girl' Bracelet – £85.00
5. Pandora Readymade Red Hot Love-Bracelet – £200.00
6. Pandora Readymade Forever Yours-Bracelet – £270.00
7. Pandora Silver Clasp Opener With Pink Zirconia – £35.00
8. Pandora Silver And Green Stone Drop Bead (May) – £35.00
9. Pandora Purple Faceted Murano Glass Bead – £35.00
1. Autumn – Winter Pandora Sterling Silver With Gold Heart Jewellery Box Charm – £55.00
2. Autumn -Winter Pandora Waving Cat Silver & Pink Enamel Bead – £30.00
3. Pandora BEST OF BRITISH Union Jack Bus Bead – £40.00
4. Pandora Black Double Leather Plaited Bracelet – £45.00
5. Pandora Fabric Necklace-Bracelet Purple – £20.00
6. Pandora BEST OF BRITISH Sterling Silver British Rose Bead – £40.00
7. Pandora 14ct Gold & Melanite Drop Down Charm Bead – £155.00
8. New Autumn – Winter Pandora Sterling Silver With Pink Stone Stud Earrings – £35.00
9. Best Seller Pandora Sterling Silver & Gold Mum, Pink CZ Stones Bead – £70.00


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He had just returned from a trip overseas during which time he had spoken to outstanding scholars and leaders of the world. He was tired, and his driver helped carry the bags up to the porch of his house. He inserted the key in his door and attempted to open it, but the door was jammed and he pushed hard in order to try getting it open. A "neighbor" saw him on the porch trying to get the jammed door to open, and, naturally, she called the police. After all, there were two African American males standing on a porch in the up scale city of Cambridge, Massachusetts and what other motive could they possess other than breaking and entering. The police arrived and confronted the two suspects. One of them produced his driver's license which indicated this was his house. But, he was a black man and no right thinking police officer could merely accept his word. A shouting episode ensued and the man was handcuffed and taken to jail.
This is America in the year of Barack Obama just having been elected and Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., among the world's top experts in African American studies is arrested on THE FRONT PORCH OF HIS OWN HOUSE!! For some reason he became upset because police challenged his right to be on his own front porch trying to get open a recalcitrant door.
The more important question to pose is why did a "neighbor" not recognize this world famous man? Don't you think if someone lived on the same block with among the world's greatest scholars they would at least be able to recognize this individual?
This is an example of racial profiling. It is necessary for the Justice Department to conduct a thorough investigation and bring charges against police officers who subjected Henry Louis Gates to this indignity.
The more serious issue is what would have happened if his name was not Henry Louis Gates and he did not teach at Harvard? Would he have been released so quickly?