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Home Eq Sevicing has left me any my two small children homeless. My taxes where and has always been escrowed in the mortgage.In 2004, Home Eqfailed to pay a portion $400 in taxes to the county. Home Eq increased my taxes three times due to tax increases in county. All this time, I had been paying my mortage complete and on time. My taxes where sold in 2008 and we where evicted from our home of almost 20 yearsin October 2010. I was never aware that my taxes had been sold. Never contacted by anyone.
After recieving notice to vacate property in 24 hours I went to the county officials and that is when I found out that my taxes had been sold and there was recourse but to leave the home. I tried to say but the Judge and sheriff order ruled the day. I did not want my belongs on the street.
When I contacted HomeEq there tax department confirmed that they where and had been paying the taxesand would contact me back immediately. I was then informed that HomeEq was shut down by the Fed's. I had to wait until and new servicer was announced. I contacted the new Servicer Ocwen mortage in regards to the situation and still no response four months later. I just keep getting notices to pay the insurance on a home that has been stolen from me due the neligence on Home Eq.
I tried to secure and attorney but found that my nightmare only got worse. There are only three attorney's that deal with this type of tax situation and one of those attorney's purchased the property and other works for him, and the third attorney represents Home Eq. If there are any suggestions out there please I would like to hear from you.
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Awkward creator Lauren Iungerich is having a banner development season following her three-year stint at MTV. After landing a pilot production commitment at ABC for single-camera comedy Damaged Goods, Iungerich has nabbed a put pilot commitment at NBC for another single-camera project, Bitch Off The 'Ol Block, for which she has reunited with former MTV boss David Janollari, now a Universal TV-based producer. Written by Iungerich, Bitch centers on a young professional woman whose life is turned upside down when her biological daughter, who turns out to be a younger smart-ass version of herself, moves in with her and her roommates. 'It takes a village' takes on a whole new meaning in this ensemble comedy about a group of friends who become an unorthodox surrogate family. Loosely inspired by the upcoming birth of Iungerich's first daughter as she imagines what kind of child she might raise, Bitch deals with the same themes of complicated and hilarious mother/daughter relationships and complicated romantic triangles that Iungerich successfully tackled in Awkward, but in a more adult comedy. Iungerich and Janollari will executive produce for Universal TV and David Janollari Entertainment. As programming chief of MTV, Janollari brought Iungerich to the network and developed her hit comedy series Awkward as well as followup pilot Hot Mess. Iungerich, repped by WME and Robyn Meisinger at Madhouse Entertainment, ran Awkward for the first three seasons but exited the series as well as Hot Mess earlier this year.
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So last spring Lauren had two great shows set up at MTV – that she walked away from when the new regime arrived. Question – Who at MTV is getting fired for killing it's relationship with one of the biggest comedy stars working?
"…one of the biggest comedy stars working"? No disrespect, Lauren, but huh?
I get that some people find this person funny, but in what universe is she a comedy "star," let alone one of the biggest (working)? It must be the same universe where my dentist is a tooth whitening star, and my dog a butt sniffing one.
"my dog a butt sniffing one." Ha! Thanks for the laugh.
You're right. She's not a "star" but she did put MTV scripted on the map with a critically acclaimed show. That's no easy feat. And she landed one of the biggest production commitments of the season plus a put pilot. Whatever you say– that's pretty impressive for someone outside the world of network comedy "stars".
Janollari has assembled a kick ass team and they. are. on. fire.
Gooooo Lauren! *
* throws pom poms in the air
You only need to look at the 12-34 demo numbers of awkward that were down season to season (actually, plumeting in the last season) to understand why Iungerich isn't the show runner anymore. I dunno if MTV's new regime has any beef with her, but if you're a commercial network, you need to try to fix a troubled show. Of course, it's always easier to to throw ridiculous anonymous statement online… as a "fan".
Someone moving in with someone else? Brilliant!!!
And not only that, the mover-inner turns the life of the person being moved on upside down! I literally lament these "moving in" cliches every week. Yet another one. Over one million served. Networks – the fast food of comedy.
The numbers falling in season 3 were a result of putting the show on off season, spring not summer. The network knew this would happen, they needed A show that could hit a minimal number in the spring, awkward was the only show they had that they knew could pull that minimum number. The numbers in season 1 & 2 were consistent. The DVR, iTunes download, and streaming numbers have all been consistently high.
Haha damn woman. Best decision ever she ever made to leave the new idiots at mtv.


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Wacom, the maker of graphics tablets for Macs and PCs, will now sell you a stylus for your iPad. When I read this news, I got pretty excited: It's from Wacom, so it must be pressure sensitive, right? Maybe it measures how hard you press and sends that info via Bluetooth to a custom app?
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Normally I'd recommend Wacom every time. The company makes the best tablets I have used (although the driver software is so bad that it would be a joke even on Linux). But making yet another iPad stylus seems pointless, unless they are made to be given away as schwag at tradeshows. And perhaps they are — as of this writing, there is still no price associated with the Bamboo Stylus (not to be confused with the Bamboo Pen, sold as a replacement part for the tablet).
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I oberved two different bank thermometers in the west metro yesterday afternoon that recorded a temperature of 33 degrees. The official maximum temperature taken at Twin Cities International Airport was only 28 degrees.
Here is some information gathered by Pete Boulay at the State Climate Office regarding the history of January thaws in the Twin Cities. The current trend continues of below normal temperatures through the rest of the month.
No January Thaw in 2009?
A January thaw is something that one comes to expect in Minnesota, especially in southern and central parts of the state. Looking back to 1891 in the Twin Cities, there have only been three years without a January thaw, defined as having a maximum temperature of 32 degrees or more. The years that did not have a high temperature of 32 or greater in January in the Twin Cities are: 1912, 1978 and 1979. If the Twin Cities stays below 32 degrees for the rest of the month, this will be the first time in thirty years where there hasn't been a January thaw and only the forth time this has happened since 1891.
If statewide temperatures remain below freezing for the rest of the month, this will also be the first time since 1979 that there has not been a January thaw in St. Cloud and Rochester. The last time there wasn't a January thaw in Duluth was 2004.
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This place is SO overrated! I'm only writing this review because I don't want anyone to go here! 10 of us decided to try this place out as a great get together opportunity. I was particularly excited because I was keen to see the interactive table which I spied on an episode of the Gadget Show on Channel 5. How disappointed was I!
The Restaurant:
The Restaurant is located on the overly restaurant populated and subscribed Wardour Street in the West End of London. It is easy to miss especially with the funeral parlour-esque black front. Some say this is chic, I say it is too dark! And how right was I! You almost have to have night vision to eat at this place. I soon found out where the lights were turned down so low.
Upon entering the restaurant we noticed that all the tables were grouped in twos or fours, which meant our group of 10 was an awkward size. Although were sat next to each other, the tables were just that bit too far apart to hold discussions and so we all ended up having to swap seats every so often to ensure we were doing the rounds of talking to everyone. Very annoying!
A waitress came over and explained that the entire restaurant was slave to the interactive table, and left us to it(!) Although, their "interactive" table was not as interactive as I had hoped. The tables are all touch sensitive and white, and a projector from above your head, projects the image onto the table. Very quirky, not as innovative as I had hoped and I had my answer for why the restaurant was so damn dark!
The idea is you order your own food and drinks, you press a button to call a waiter over to complain/chase up the food (we did both by the way!), and you play games with the person sitting opposite you (battleships etc). Great but unfortunately, this quirkiness does NOTHING for social interaction. Everyone spent the first 10 minutes looking down onto their tables playing with their menu etc. Either that or you attempt to talk to your friend and risk not processing your food order and not eating. Here comes the major problem with this restaurant!
Because of the interactive table, food is ordered at different times. How the kitchen copes, god knows, but the problem lies in the placing the order and then the eating. If, as did happen to us, people place their food at different times, the food comes at different times, people start eating (or not eating because they are polite and want to wait) at different times, finish at different times and slowly get bored of looking the slow coaches that are still eating at different times. It is utter chaos!! You cannot hold a decent conversation because of this!
Worse, my meal didn't come at all (despite being one of the first to place an order - I suspect the problem the kitchen in reality copes really badly with customers placing order at different times) and I was left to just look at everyone's meals! And yes, this is despite me pressing the "Call Waiter" button about 6 times to ask what was going on! When my meal did eventually turn up, it came when everyone had finished and was starting up conversations minus me! Not a good experience!
Food was OK. This restaurant is EXTREMELY EXTREMELY overpriced for what is in fact a really dark over-stylised canteen!
I had the wagyu beef with rice and a side of endamame beans. Bit on the salty side and considering I waited over an hour for my meal, my 3 pieces of beef could have done with some complimentary bulking up to say 10 pieces!!
Didn't bother with desert - we all decided to hop it and find a bar so we could socialise (that being the operative mission of the evening!)
Awful horrendous experience! Paying the bill was a joke! Can you believe this restaurant charges service charge!? Yes, even though you have to order the food (and potentially cook it) yourself!! After the manager took the service charge off, the bill came to approx £250 (this included 3 bottles of wine) - remember no desert!!
Really, do not bother with this place. Don't even bother to go check it out because we did that and we all feel thoroughly ripped off!
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DEERWOOD — Kyle Thompson carded an 87 for the Aitkin Gobblers during a fourth-place finish in Tuesday's Great River Conference tournament at Cuyuna Country Club.
Will Peterson finished with 91 while Dalton Stevens and Collin Wilke each shot 96s for the Gobblers.
Team scores: 1-Moose Lake-Willow River 344, 2-Pine City, 3-Hinckley-Finlayson 364, 4-Aitkin 370, 5-Isle 410, 6-East Central 419, 7-Braham 420, 8-Rush City 422
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Hodnick struck out six batters in six innings as the Wolfpack went on the road and defeated the Warriors, 11-3.
Greenbrier improved to 2-1 in Region 3-AAAAAA play, while Grovetown fell to 1-2. In other region action, Evans took two of three against Alcovy, while Lakeside won two of three against Heritage.
Three Lakeside girls soccer players are battling the flu. Another player recently broke her leg in a game. To make matters worse, the short-handed Lady Panthers had to face their main rival Tuesday night.
Despite having a depleted roster, Lakeside played tough defense and prevailed in penalty kicks, defeating Greenbrier, 1-1 (4-1 on penalty kicks).
With the victory, Lakeside improved to 5-0 overall and 5-0 in Region 3-AAAAAA at the halfway mark of the region schedule. Greenbrier fell to 3-3 overall (3-2 region).
Former Evans swimmer Aaron Hendry helped Eastern Michigan recently claim its third consecutive Mid-American Conference men's swimming and diving championship in thrilling fashion. The Eagles defeated Missouri State, 717 points to 716, in the four-day event for their 34th overall conference title.
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Westminster's Cy McLeod said he was familiar with Lakeside's tennis team. On Monday, the eighth grader took advantage of the opportunity to show off his stuff against the two-time state defending champion Panthers.
McLeod, the top-ranked player in Georgia for the class of 2021, defeated Lakeside's Thomas Huff, 6-4, 6-4, in the first meeting between the two schools.
"I know all of them really well," McLeod said. "It's great to come out here and play."
Jake Estroff is off to a record-setting pace in the swimming pool during his high school career. And he's just a sophomore.
Already the Augusta Prep standout owns four gold medals from the Georgia Independent Schools Association state championship meets. Recently, he broke through in water, helping his school regain its greatness.
Estroff won three events and the Cavaliers claimed their first state title in five years.
The story of the 2016-17 basketball season was the outstanding season turned in by Lakeside. The Panthers, under first-year head coach Jeff Williams, set numerous school records. They won 21 games, finished a perfect 10-0 in region play, and captured the Region 3-AAAAAA Title.
Unfortunately, they were upset by Valdosta in the opening round of the state tournament, 56-55, but it was still an exciting year for Lakeside fans.
Earlier this year, Rebecca Martini displayed her toughness.
The Greenbrier swimmer participated in several events in the Columbia County Swim Championships in January, despite being ill. Still, she persevered and helped the Lady Wolfpack win the meet.
Martini will take her toughness with her to the next level. On Thursday, she signed a Division I offer with the University of Nebraska Omaha.
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Frank has pet insurance that is serviced through Banfield. With a dog the size of a backstreet boy it's always a good idea. We have been completely satisfied with our experience. We have had a few emergencies, his neuter and all of our preventative care there and we love it. Frank is 136lbs now and just had his four year check and is in perfect health. They gave him a room for the day (it's an all day appointment) and an attendant spent a lot of time with him so he wasn't alone all day. How cool is that? They have been a part of our dogo care team since day one and we couldn't be happier!
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Dogos have very sensitive skin that is easily irritated. Plus he's allergic to wheat glutten; so he's on a raw frozen diet that only mud bay carries in our area, luckily for us we love it there!! Besides being a great store with lots to choose from Frankie considers this His place. They have a whole isle of treats right at his level so he can choose his own. How fun is that? And who doesn't love to get a treat just for being there. What is not to love about mud bay?? I know it's our favorite place!!!
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The best walker ever!
This is my walker Rose and she is the best. My mom doesn't just trust anyone with me. I'm big and can be a hand full, I'm too friendly and I have never really been alone so when my mom travels it's a big deal. With Rose she never worries and knows that she'll takes care of me as if I were her own. It's been over two years now and we could not be happier. I'm still so happy to see her because I know it means I get to go for a walk and hang out with my friends.posted: December 9th, 2007


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Mercyhurst College women's hockey forward Meghan Agosta scored her second hat trick of the 2010 Winter Olympics to lead the Canadian National Women's Hockey Team over Sweden, 13-1, on Wednesday evening at UBC Thunderbird Arena.
Agosta, who tallied her third Olympic hat trick dating back to the 2006 games, totaled five points for the second time this tournament. She now has an Olympic-leading eight goals and 12 points.
In a rematch of the 2006 gold medal game, the Canadians unleashed 12 goals through the first two periods en route to their third-straight double-digit victory. Agosta did most of her damage early on, scoring the game's first goal and adding two assists in the opening period. She added two more tallies in the second as Canada scored seven goals in a span of 10 minutes and 37 seconds.
With the victory, Canada finishes the preliminary round with a 3-0 record and advances to play the loser of the Finland/United States match-up on Monday, Feb. 22 at Canada Hockey Place.
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The recent shortage of flu vaccine, which eventually became a surplus, points to problems with vaccine financing and production. Various solutions to these problems have been proposed, but there has been no consensus on the path to take. In an article published in the July issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, a summary of the findings of the Vaccine Financing Workgroup of the National Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC) suggests several steps to improve the present situation. These recommendations differ from those of a recent Institute of Medicine (IOM) report.
During 2003-2004, the NVAC working group conducted a series of discussions and meetings leading to a proposal for substantial, but incremental, changes to the current system that the group feels would go a long way toward stabilizing the financing of immunizations in the United States. In contrast to the IOM recommendation to replace the current immunization financing system with an insurance mandate and system of subsidies and vouchers, the NVAC would like to see "expanded and stable funding for the existing immunization grant program, expansion of the Vaccines for Children program, regulatory harmonization, promotion of 'first dollar' insurance coverage for immunizations, and the assurance of adequate reimbursement for the administration of vaccines."
When the IOM recommended, among other things, that insurers be required to cover immunizations, that vaccine prices be set in advance of their development, and that vaccine coverage decisions include societal benefits and costs, including consideration of the impact of the price of a vaccine on recommendations for its use, there were widespread and varied responses. Editorials in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times helped raise awareness of the complexities surrounding the vaccine industry. A briefing was held at the American Enterprise Institute at which reservations were expressed by many stakeholders about the Committee's recommendations. Questions and comments were raised by The Winter Immunization Forum of the National Partnership for Immunization and in an editorial comment in the journal Pediatrics by the past president of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
The National Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC) makes several recommendations to stabilize financing of immunizations in the Untied States, including: expanded and stable funding through Section 317 of the Public Health Service Act for immunization program infrastructure and operations, as well as for vaccine purchase; expanded funding through Section 317 to support adolescent and adult immunization programs; expansion of the Vaccines for Children Program to include underinsured children in all public health clinics; promotion of "first-dollar" insurance coverage for immunization; and assurance of adequate reimbursement for administration of vaccines.
The article is titled "Financing Vaccines in the 21st Century: Recommendations from the National Vaccine Advisory Committee" by Alan R. Hinman, MD, MPH, for the National Vaccine Advisory Committee and appears in the July issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine (Volume 29, Number 1) published by Elsevier.
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The term "Bacon Number" comes from a popular bar game based upon the theory of the Six Degrees of Separation and Hollywood actor, Kevin Bacon. It comes from the idea that anyone that has appeared in a film production associated with the traditional Hollywood film industry can be linked to Kevin Bacon through six connections. There are a few different premises to the game. The most popular is to try and find someone that has appeared in a traditional film that has the furthest connection from Kevin Bacon. There are currently 3 people listed in the IMDB.com database that are linked to Kevin Bacon in 9 steps and this seems to be the furthest connection from him that is known. There are many obscure films and a few actors & actresses from the very early days of film that aren't able to be linked to Kevin Bacon.
Be sure to check out our Bacon Number Calculator resources! These tools will help you find out the Bacon Number for any actor you could think of as well as how many people are connected by each number of steps. It also has info on how many people are connected to Kevin by each amount of steps. Take a shot at the Kevin Bacon game and see what the highest degrees of Kevin Bacon you can come up with is!


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First Annual SAP Contest
Professor Duane Truex's summer CIS 8090 enterprise architecture course requires a SAP ERP simulation game as the final exam. The SAP ERP simulation was held all day on Saturday, April 21, 2012. The course targets executive decision makers from areas such as operation management, finance, marketing and information systems. The course proposes a "learning-by-doing" approach to learn concepts about IT infrastructure, and more specifically ERP technologies.
Using a simulation game, students are placed in a situation in which they have to run their business with a real-life ERP (mySAP ERP). Each team operates a made-to-stock manufacturing plant that interacts with suppliers and customers by sending and receiving orders, delivering their products and completing the whole cash-to-cash cycle. Using standard reports, they have to make business decisions to ensure the profitability of their operations. This business simulation course is set to last for many weeks and concludes with a one-day business simulation game that takes the place of the regular final exam.
The contest was open to students who had experienced the live SAP simulation via tutorials or in-class instruction. The competition started at 8:30 a.m. and completed at 3:34 p.m. in the Manner's Room at the Robinson College of Business. There were three volunteers without whom the game would not have been doable. Dr. Truex wants to recognize and thank Ph.D. students Sumantra Sarkar and Arun Aryal, and master's-level GRAs Ahmed Awad, Brian Davis and Katrina Eddins.
According to Dr. Truex, it was a fun and informative day, competitive and full of hands-on learning.
The results are below:
- The winning team awarded the top-slot (15 points)
- Theresa Binienda
- Sarah Homsi
- Preetha Sridhar
- Team with the greatest improvement from dead last to second place in the afternoon competitive rounds (14.1 points)
- Brian Lumbard
- Marguerite Antoine
- Steve Reynolds
- Greatest handicap (two people bringing in a newbie midstream)
- Patrick Horace
- Vasudevan Sreenathan
- Morning session's first round winners overturning the leaders in quarter three
- Ken Agans
- Brandon Chavis
- Jake Guerrero
The remaining teams, while not listed here, did very well according to Dr. Truex.


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ARCADIA - Richard Schulhof, whose name emerged in July as top contender to lead the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden, will become its chief executive officer in October.
Schulhof, reached by phone in Boston on Friday, said he was "honored" to return to his native Southern California to head up one of the country's premier public gardens.
"Initially, I need to do a great deal of learning from the very dedicated arboretum community of staff, volunteers, trustees and the county Department of Parks and Recreation," said Schulhof, who has been deputy director of Harvard's Arnold Arboretum for the last seven years.
"At this juncture, the intention is to work with that dedicated community to further enhance and build an already outstanding public resource," he said.
Schulhof, formerly executive director at Descanso Gardens in La Canada Flintridge, was chosen from a short list of three candidates after a year-long search to replace Mark Wuorms.Wuorms, who had previously been director of Kansas City Zoo, left after about four years in the job to join the Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest in Kentucky.
In July, the county Board of Supervisors approved an annual salary supplement for Schulhof of $3,577 a month, plus an annual performance bonus of up to $10,000, to be paid by the nonprofit Los Angeles Arboretum Foundation.
The supplement, up to $52,935, tops up the county salary of $117,000 that goes with the job.
Schulhof said he decided to take the arboretum job because he is "committed to public service" and wants to expand the arboretum's role in the community.
"I'm tremendously excited by the dedication of the Los Angeles Arboretum community and their enthusiasm for the future," he said. "I wanted to be a part of that."
Board of trustees President Burks L. Hamner said Friday that Schulhof was the unanimous choice of the board and officials of Los Angeles County, which owns the 127-acre gardens.
"We all like him, his enthusiasm and his background," Hamner said. "He supports, and will enhance, existing programs and carry us forward into new areas. He's a visionary sort of person, and I think he's going to be well-liked by staff, volunteers and the board of trustees."
Hamner said the board hopes Schulhof will expand the support base for the arboretum, and attract new members and volunteers.
`We see Richard's hiring as the dawn of a bright new day at the arboretum," he said.
Contributing a salary supplement, he said, showed the arboretum board's level of support for the appointment.
"We thought, yes, we'll participate," Hamner said. "But what we want to be part of, rather than the dollars, is the spirit...We wanted him, obviously felt it was very much worthwhile, and wanted to be a part of it."
Schulhof has an undergraduate degree in landscape architecture from U.C. Berkeley and master's degrees in public garden administration from the University of Delaware and in forestry from Harvard.
An arboretum statement credited him with creating new programs supporting science education in both Boston and Los Angeles schools.
"Through collaboration with school districts and private foundations, his programs have offered teacher training, field trips and in-class instruction," the statement said.
In addition, working with the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Park Service, Schulhof has launched programs interpreting historic landscapes.
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text: I have always--all my life--been one to get a head start on processing change, or upcoming traumatic events (the loss of a pet, loss of a loved one). Rather than waiting until the thing happens, I face it head on months before I need to. When I was pregnant with T., for instance, I spent weeks mourning the loss of L.'s only child status, and worrying about the shift from a family of three to a family of four. Hormones running rampant, I would weep over silly story books, or simple moments with L., as I tried to come to terms with the transition. When the time came, I had processed so much of the emotions involved that I think I was better able to tackle it all head on. I also spent weeks wringing my hands over the decision to send L. to preschool when he was three. By the time he did disappear through those now familiar white doors, I felt a strange calm inside. All this is leading up to say that for months now I've been processing T.'s transition from preschool to kindergarten. I've written about it, thought about it, talked about it, dreamed about it, even. Yesterday, at the Mother's Day Tea ceremony at T.'s preschool I sat in the tiny, cramped preschool chair, my knees jammed under the table, and I thought about how even though I've known for some time that T. is ready for kindergarten, I certainly wasn't feeling ready myself. At least I hadn't been feeling very ready until that very moment when, looking around at those same walls that had housed L. when he was in his last year of preschool, I realized that I was feeling some real glimmers of excitement over this new stage in our lives--just glimmers, but they were there all the same. ********** Before bed each night, and after stories, T. always asks me to make up a story "from my mouth" and then she provides me with a brief plot outline, and character names. Lately she wants all stories about poor children with no toys, so I always oblige and tell her tales about little girls named Sarah Louise or Mary Kate who have no toys but dolls they make out of paper and scraps of string from their mother's sewing basket (because their mom makes all their clothes, and tends to her own organic garden, AND makes her own jam as well). Then I remembered last week that when my sister and I were kids we loved to make paper dolls. We had other toys, of course (though not as many as T. and L. do), but paper dolls were our favorites. So T. and I sat down to make our own dolls: (This one's mine) (This one is T.'s--she calls her Bridget) We designed and cut out clothes (easy, but be sure to leave generous tabs at the shoulders and legs so you can fold them onto the doll's bodies). We also made hats for them, and because they were such floppy creatures, we glued a craft stick onto their backs. I won't say T. is ready to donate all her toys and stuffies and play only with these two dolls, or that I will learn to sew, but these dolls have become the center of T.'s little world lately, which makes me smile. Happy Mother's Day to all, and Happy Weekend!


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Cat in the Hat Visits Preschool Storytime
In honor of Dr. Seuss's birthday, a very special character visited with the children at Preschool Storytime. The Cat in the Hat greeted the children as Mr. D. read from Dr. Seuss books. There were cookies and green eggs and ham to round out the storytime. A fine time was had by all. Now, if Thing 1 and Thing 2 will only come in and clean up the mess!


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What would you recommend as a replacement for NE5534N in a preamp?
See question above, would like to upgrade an existing preamp. Am thinking about either OPA2134 or OPA2604 since I have good stock of both. What else would you recommend, and would you recommend one over the other?
NE5534A is a single amplifier.
The devices you mentioned are dual amplifiers. They won´t work.
So look for OPA134, OPA604 or OP176. But circuits using 5524 at low gains also contains 22pF compensation capacitors.
Analog Devices mention the OP176 as an upgrade for the 5534. According to the datasheet the capacitor won´t harm in most cases. But ADI recommend to remove the 22pF.
OPA134 pin 5 and OPA604 pin 8 are open (no internal connection) so the 5534 compensation capacitor should not cause problems. You could also build dual-to-single adapters to use your OPA2134, OPA2604 but it's probably more trouble than it's worth.
God I feel dumb, I also have a good supply of OPA134's, not quite enough, but will only have to buy a few. I think that's the way I'll go, thanks.
hallo Hastur,
very good for replacing the opamp NE5534 is OP27 or
OPA-134 AP. The OPA 2134 is a double of the OPA-134.
You can find them in : www.selectronic.fr
Succes. Grtz, sigurd.
Hastur, how many OPA134 do you need? I have 3 pieces I can send you no charge.
Thanks for the offer, I only need 2 more. I'll send you an email with my address.
Wher to buy?
Anyone know where I can get the NE 5534H? I need a few for my Sound Technology ST 1701A.
Thats not a Q I was expecting from the heart of the U S and A (Borrat term).
I saw my 4 opa2227 samples landed today in JHB, should mean delivery by monday... allready laid out PCB for the parallel circuit in the datasheet... It will be a headphone amp for an old friend...
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Eleven students arrested in WHS burglary, vandalism
On Friday, April 4, 2008, at approximately 11:45 p.m., several subjects forcibly entered Walton High School (WHS) and committed approximately $10,000 worth of damages. Video surveillance footage from WHS revealed that the subjects wore masks to conceal identity.
An investigation resulted in the arrest of 11 WHS students. During the burglary a security camera was torn down and thrown into a pond, students poured different color paints on the carpets, poured paint on the walls, sprayed silly string on the camera housings, stopped up the urinals and sinks in the girls and boys bathroom, and taped open the fixtures nozzles, resulting in flooding of the bathrooms. They also poured asphalt patching material and fertilizer throughout several carpeted hallways. The subjects stated it was meant to be a prank.
Those arrested surrendered to the police on April 8 and were released to their parents. Nine students were charged with burglary of an unoccupied structure and felony criminal mischief over $1,000. Due to the amount of damage, the burglary is a first-degree felony. Two students were charged as principal to burglary and criminal mischief for their role as look-outs.
Those arrested are: Michael Todd Campbell Jr, 17, of DeFuniak Springs; Beau Rushing, 18, of DeFuniak Springs; Sean D. Carter, 18, of DeFuniak Springs; Markus Jiggetts, 17, of DeFuniak Springs; Ashley Campbell, 19, of DeFuniak Springs; Samantha J. Brown, 19, of DeFuniak Springs; Tyler Reisner, 18, of DeFuniak Springs; Bryant Bowen, 18, of DeFuniak Springs; and Charles K. Caldwell Jr., 17, of DeFuniak Springs.
Charged as principals to burglary and criminal mischief for their role as lookouts are: Matthew T. Nall, 17, of DeFuniak Springs; and Sean Michael Allen, 17, of DeFuniak Springs.


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13g Blue Velvet Love (56k warning)
I tore down my 13g collectoritis community and RCS tank in early June to turn it into an OEBT tank. I sold off every piece of unused equipment I had and plants I didn't have a tank for so I could afford them. After about a hundred PMs with Speedie, I was no longer confident that I could keep the OEBTs happy and healthy; so after much deliberation, I decided to buy blue velvet neos instead. I know I can keep them happy and healthy because my RCS colony has been just that for over two years now.
Tank Info
- 13g
- AC 20 x 2 with outflow significantly dampened by layers of quilting batting
- air pump and airstone for a little extra water movement
- stock 15w T8 lighting
- initially Flourite Dark substrate but changed to Flourite Black on July 22 to see shrimp better
- straight up tap water with Prime
- occasional Pfertz micros
- fissidens fontanus
- peacock moss
- flame moss
- mystery moss
- mini Xmas moss
- initially 10 ivory mystery snails to keep the cycle alive while I waited about six weeks for biofilm to build up and mosses to grow in
- currently 22 blue velvet neos and 3 or 4 batiki nerites
- possibly 5 blue ramshorns if the USPS's major screw ups haven't killed them yet
The First Week
I removed the mysteries and replaced them with the batikis on July 18. I vacuumed the ever living crap out of the substrate because I can't stand mulm and the mysteries live to create it. I even refilled the tank so I could vacuum two more times. I regret not putting in a UGF, but since the tank is on my kitchen counter, I have no place for a canister.
The BVs arrived alive and well on July 19. I dripped them for about four hours because Speedie kept them in liquid rock (I lost count at 8 drops of the GH test). Once in the tank, they were all zooming around, landing on things for a brief moment then taking off again. Not at all what I'm used to with new shrimp. So I turned off their light and let them settle in.
They were still zooming in the morning so I tested my water and all was well. It then hit me that the filters and airstone might be causing too much water movement. The BVs are much more sensitive to strong currents than my RCS. As soon as I significantly dampened the outflow with quilting batting and turned off the airstone, everyone settled down and began foraging. I moved the airstone to the very top of the tank because I want more water movement than I was getting with my filters and the shrimp are tolerating that well.
I couldn't see the shrimp well on the Flourite Dark and even though I love the look of it, I changed to Flourite Black on Sunday. I can see the shrimp better and they look better now. Everyone seemed to take the change well as they all pigged out on corn that night. Even the nerites managed to find the feeding dish and got in on the act.
Unfortunately I woke up to find a dead male yesterday morning. I netted it out and dismissed it. But I also found some beautiful molts, which is a good sign. Later in the day another male tweaked out when I put my hand in to snatch up an unwelcomed MTS. He was doing that uncontrolled, flailing flipping that only sick shrimp do. I sucked him up with the turkey baster and put him in a cup, giving him the benefit of the doubt that he was just having trouble molting. No dice. He is also dead. So I checked my params and again all was well. I'm chalking the deaths up to stress from the substrate change.
The good news out of yesterday is that the saddled female totally stuffed with eggs is now so berried she can barely move. I'm hoping for the best, but we all know that first time moms often drop their eggs. I hoping she doesn't so I can snap a photo of eggs with eyes and one up Speedie. :icon_twis
Everyone looks good this morning so I'll feed them later and see if they like kale as much as they like spinach.
Are the Blue Velvet a different name or your name for the Blue Pearls (I assume?)?
Lookin' good, gal! My blue velvets are some of my faves too- although my berried ones dropped their eggs due to being first timers.
That's really awesome!
Yeah, blue pearls can't even come close to these guys! I call them the poor (wo)man's OEBT. :D
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Lovely little playground you got going on there for them BV's.
One thing I'd suggest you not do anymore is to stir up the substrate with a gravel vac. This only creates spikes in params which eventually kill shrimp. What you can do is gently wave the vac across the subtrate surface without actually touching it and suck up as much mulm as you can. Otherwise, just toss in lots of moss and floaters in there to suck up the nutrients and leave the mulm alone lol. I also think those mystery snails need to go (no offense because I know you love them dearly) but they excrete wayy too much poo for my liking. And they eat plants! haha
Sorry to hear about the deaths... stop messing with your substrate! ;)
*edit* you already took out the mysteries! Great... what are batikis? lol Do they poo just as much?
Pomacea diffusa isn't a species that typically eat plants but they obviously create a lot of waste. I keep them in nearly all of my planted tanks with no issues.
The substrate change could definitely be your issue but it could also be that the shrimp were recently shipped to you. No matter the species, shipping is stressful. Especially if they were recently imported. (This is why I don't like to buy shrimp that haven't been allowed to settle in for 3-4 weeks before they get shipped to me. Just a risk I don't like to take.)
And definitely don't vacuum your substrate in a shrimp tank. I wouldn't even try cleaning the surface of it unless it's to remove large chunks of uneaten food. And even then, I'd just use a piece of airline tubing and do it quickly without disturbing the substrate too much.
You're assumptions could be right regarding shipping but if shipped "correctly" shrimp suffer very little. It's the water param changes/differences from one person to another that kills the shrimp. I say this because my sources pack very well and the shrimp only take 1 night to get to me via air cargo, insulated boxes with coldpacks, and big bags with lots of O2. If you've bought from me I don't Micky Mouse when it comes to packaging because my packing dept is OCD about it.
Obviously it could be many factors involved when shrimp die but we shouldn't assume things that could vary from seller to seller/ breeder to breeder. That's all.
I vacuumed the day before the shrimp arrived and did a 100% WC with Prime after I did. I don't normally vacuum any tank except the 37g, and that's just to get up the mess the cories make of the dead plant matter. I have no more plans to mess with the substrate, so don't worry. :)
Batiki nerites are small, like coronas and they have very interesting patterns. Take the stripes of a zebra nerite and scramble the lines a whole bunch in funky, wacky ways and you've got a batiki. I'll try to take some pics but they are all so so different that seeing one doesn't really give you an idea of all the possible patterns.
Wasn't trying to step on the toes of the shrimp source. Regardless of whether or not shrimp are shipped correctly, they can and do occasionally die from the stress. I have it happen all the time when ordering from experienced shrimpers. (I also occasionally receive foreign shipments that get tied up for up to 8 days and never lose a shrimp, so try that one on for size - almost doesn't seem fair)
I do find that I lose less shrimp when they've been allowed to 'rest' (for lack of a better term at the moment) for several weeks before getting shipped to me.
Cleaning the substrate the day before the shrimp arrived and testing things/doing a water change probably means things are safe. But you never really know. Just like it's tough to know if a shrimp died from stress during shipping.
On a similar note: I carried a package of PRL CRS with me to Flagstaff a few weeks ago and they were banged around like crazy during the trip. Opened them up and they were fully colored, happy, not bothered in the least. Last night I transferred a PRL CRS to my CBS tank for breeding (can't justify the expense of a high quality female CBS at the moment) and the second the CRS hit the transfer cup - even prior to drip acclimation - she faded like woah. Of course, she colored up within a couple minutes of moving into her new tank but it's indicative of how finicky shrimp can be.
Some shrimp are super finicky indeed, not all. You look at these finicky shrimp wrong and they flop over like those fainting goats lol. One minute they're ok and the next, they're dead. That's just part of keeping shrimp. Not all shrimp are created equal, even within the same variant.
Week 2
Everyone seems to be settling in. I have had no more deaths and my berried female is still berried, so I'm happy. I found some beautiful molts in the tank this morning and I have a few females that could end up berried because they are as stuffed as my berried female was. But as of this morning, no new mamas-to-be.
These guys aren't getting the concept of the feeding dish. I'm not getting the shrimp balls or sissy fights that I get with my RCS. But of course, the RCS are accustomed to gourmet catered meals already. I'll find maybe three or four shrimp in the dish at a time while the rest seem oblivious to it. And it looks to be the same individuals in the dish each time. I'd like to see more feeding from the dish because my RCS colony grew, with more saddled and berried females, and more molts once I started feeding them directly instead of allowing them to forage and steal what they could from the pygmy cories. The BVs are still small, so any little bit helps.
The flame moss is starting to develop some hair algae and BBA. I'm not sure what to do about it other than pick it out by hand and trim the moss. I've had bad experiences with Excel and nerites, so I'm not going to take the risk of harming them. My photoperiod is about 8 hours and the light is only a 15w T8. I'm going to go to Petco today to see if they have any Amanos to take care of the hair algae.
I bought what were supposed to be blue ramshorns from a member here. They all arrived alive despite major USPS screw ups. I had them in QT for a week because I'd rather have one die in a Tupperware bowl than under a rock in the tank and cause an ammonia spike. One of the smallest ones did die. I put the remaining nine in the tank this morning. They look white, not blue, but they were cheap, so I can't complain. I just hope I'm not unleashing certain doom upon the tank. I don't want a population explosion and I don't want them to push the shrimp out of the feeding dish like the mystery did.
Cleaned up the pic a bit for a better look at the shrimp lol thought it only fair to share it.
You have some serious noise in your pics, if you can use manual mode on your camera turn down your ISO to maybe 100 with 300/sec shutter speed and F6. may get better results but keep playing about till you get it right :)
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Day 10 - Hanging at the pool
Trip Start Aug 11, 2009
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Did some running around late morning and by mid afternoon we were floating in the pool and enjoying the day.
This entry is kind of short with no scenic rides or crazy roads to tell you about.
We did include some pic's of where we are staying....it is beautiful here and always makes us wonder why we don't live in a place with weather like this. 45+ degrees, sunny and wonderful. Yeah, that is hot but with a pool it's a lot of fun!


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After months of development and installation, Monkey C Interactive's first permanent interactive public artwork, Musical Railings, is now complete and open to the public.
Using sensors and microcontrollers, the back stairwell of the Bastion Square (Yates Street) Parkade in Victoria, BC, has been modified into a fully-playable 5-story-tall musical instrument with sound-responsive led lights. And people are having a lot of fun with it. We couldn't be more thrilled.
It actually (sort-of-secretly) has been up for the last couple months while we tested and tweaked it. In that time, hundreds of people accidentally stumbled upon it, and returned to show their friends "the magical, musical staircase." (This was a phrase used by a young gentleman who welcomed us to the stairwell one night while we were there to work on the installation.)
Each of the 10 landings of the stairwell has 8 sensors embedded into the railing. Sounds are triggered by simply placing a hand over one of the sensors. Some of the floors are individual instruments (like a piano) while others are loops that allow people to remix a funky bluesy track by Victoria's Jules Uno or some Glitch-hop by France's CLoZee.
Protip: The sensors are photoresistors, which are light sensitive. They trigger when they are darkened, which means using the palms of your hand works best in direct sunlight. Believe-it-or-not, your fingers are translucent.
We built the system the allow us to change the sounds, songs, and lights which we're hoping to do a couple times of year, and we've got a few tricks planned… but more on that later.
Projects of this scope can't happen by themselves, so we're thankful that we had the support of our community. A huge thanks to The City of Victoria, One Net Studios, Limbic Media, PK Sound Victoria, InterArts, Victoria Makerspace, Kindle Arts, Tedx Victoria, Byte Computers and MediaNet for helping to make this project happen.
And an extra-special thanks to the musicians who stepped up make music for the first wave of the project – Jules Uno, David Parfit, and CloZee


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We had an interesting issue of late building a Surface2 application solution within a TFS 2010 build system. The solution built fine in VS2010 on both my development PC and also using VS2010 on my TFS build box (both Windows 7 64bit PC), so I know I had all the right SDKs in place. However if I built it via TFS 2010 Team Build I got the error
App.xaml (136): Unknown build error, 'Index (zero based) must be greater than or equal to zero and less than the size of the argument list…"
This error appeared after we added this new block of XAML code
<VisualTransition GeneratedDuration="0:0:0.2">
<CircleEase EasingMode="EaseInOut"/> – this was the line the error was reported on
I assumed the issue was that Visual Studio was somehow able to resolve an assembly reference that MSBuild could not.
so to try to resolve this I copied the MSBuild command line that was being run by the TFS build from the build log and ran it in a command prompt on my build box. Happily I got the same error, so at least it was repeatable. I then removed options on the command line until I had the minimum to give the errors. I ended up with
C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe "C:\Builds\7\Surface\External Concierge CI\Sources\BlackMarble Concierge.sln"
If I changed to
MSBuild.exe "C:\Builds\7\Surface\External Concierge CI\Sources\BlackMarble Concierge.sln"
the error when away, so it had to be the version of MSBuild. When I used the 32bit version (picked up by default via the PATH) all was OK, the 64Bit gave the error.
So my fix was just to force the build to run x86 and all was OK


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By late 2011, Jai Courtney had given up on trying to take Hollywood by storm and simply wanted to go home.
The brawny Aussie actor had absented himself from the Land Down Under for nearly half a year to hustle work in the Northern Hemisphere, spending 3 1/2 months in Pittsburgh to portray an evil mercenary in the romper-stomper Tom Cruise action flick Jack Reacher. Less than 24 hours after Courtney auditioned for his most high-profile role to date -- co-starring in the new installment of the blockbuster "Die Hard" film franchise, A Good Day To Die Hard -- his mind was not on his next job. It was on boarding his flight at LAX.
"I was not going to gamble on this -- I had been away so long," Courtney, 26, recalled. "I went to the airport and was walking down the jetway when my manager called. She said, 'You've gotta get off and get your bag. They want you to test with Bruce.'"
Bruce, of course, being Bruce Willis, the franchise's yippee-kai-yea-ing forward face, whose previous four "Die Hard" films have combined to gross more than $1.2 billion worldwide. Reprising his role as hard-knock police detective John McClane, the '80s action stalwart had final say over who would be hired to play his character's long-estranged -- and now pistol-packing, combat-trained -- son, Jack.
It was a hotly contested part for which such Hollywood up-and-comers as The Hunger Games' Liam Hemsworth, Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul and D.J. Cotrona ( G.I. Joe: Retaliation) were reportedly in serious contention. There was a screen test, some gunplay in front of a camera crew, and a natural chemistry between Willis and Courtney blossomed.
"He sounded like me," Willis, 57, explained recently. "He got the character, got what he had to do and just seemed like family."
The son also rises
Landing the role in A Good Day To Die Hard stands as a coup for Courtney, a drama school grad whose biggest credit before Jack Reacher was a 10-episode stint on the New Zealand-shot Starz swords-and-sandals series Spartacus in 2010.
The Sydney native capably handles the physical rigors of the Die Hard role; his character crashes through windows, jumps down garbage chutes, attempts to reconcile a tenuous father-son relationship amid hails of gunfire and wages a single-handed rooftop battle with a military assault helicopter. But in accepting the part, Courtney was implicitly handed the torch for the future of "Die Hard," one of 20th Century Fox's most enduringly lucrative properties.
"The log line to the whole casting process was, 'It's the son and the idea is, one day he'll take over the whole franchise,'" Courtney said.
Over a bloody mary at a Beverly Hills watering hole, however, the actor quickly clarified his standpoint on any post-Willis "Die Hard" films. "If I'm being fair, it's all about Bruce. He's the one constant throughout. If you took him out, I don't know how I'd feel about it," Courtney said. "I'd love to do another one with Bruce, though."
Set in Russia -- and employing every cent of its $100 million production budget to bring to the screen some of the most concussive mayhem, steroidal car chases and gnarly shoot-'em-up action in recent memory -- A Good Day To Die Hard references the original 1988 film's theme of hangdog heroism while heaping on additional genre trappings like so many pizza toppings.
The film opens with Jack, a reputed mob thug, on trial in Moscow for murdering a Russian gangster. The predicament compels John McClane to head east to explicate the mess. But as is necessarily the case in any "Die Hard" film, the truth is messier and far bloodier than it appears.
Jack escapes captivity just in time to reveal himself as a CIA operative in a smash-mouth, meet-cute scene with his father. Although initially leery of each other, the two are soon in cahoots attempting the seemingly impossible exfiltration of a political prisoner -- whose possession of a mysterious key could topple Russia's government. Between bursts of automatic-weapons fire, father and son also try to sort out their emotional baggage.
From Australia to America
It's all a far cry from the earnest theatrical-studies curriculum Courtney pursued at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (also fellow Aussie Hugh Jackman's alma mater), where the fledgling actor immersed himself in Shakespeare and Chekhov while harboring fantasies about breaking into mainstream moviedom.
In 2011, after his portrayal of the doomed Roman gladiator Varro on Spartacus helped establish his action-star bona fides, Courtney landed a splashy part as a paramilitary heavy -- Tom Cruise's trigger-happy antagonist -- in Jack Reacher. On that set, Courtney was schooled in the ways of wielding an assault rifle and casually instructed on how to crash a car into an A-list movie star.
"There's a driving sequence where Tom and I are slamming into each other in these vehicles," said Courtney. "It literally was Tom and I. The rehearsal was like, 'OK, Jai, here's you and here's me. We're going to go into each other like this. Three, two, one, action!'"
He now joins the ranks of Aussie heartthrobs in Hollywood including Chris Hemsworth ( Thor), brother Liam Hemsworth ( The Hunger Games), Ryan Kwanten ( True Blood), Sam Worthington ( Avatar) and Joel Edgerton ( Zero Dark Thirty).
In the coming months, Courtney will be seen in two more high-profile projects: the horror-thriller I, Frankenstein, directed by Pirates of the Caribbean scribe Stuart Beattie, and the Australian cop drama Felony opposite Edgerton and Tom Wilkinson.
But the young actor remains intent on resisting categorization. For a career model, Courtney points to Jackman and his capacity to deliver in big-budget studio action fare (four installments of the blockbuster "X-Men" franchise), sweeping movie epics such as Les Miserables and even Broadway musicals, including The Boy From Oz.
"I'm sure once Die Hard comes out there'll be offers for action-heavy stuff. That's not necessarily what I want to do next," Courtney said. "I hope to explore a diverse landscape of genres. I'm trying not to box myself in."


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NBC News
Applause Erupts As Ukrainian Opposition Leader Freed From Prison
A chief political rival of embattled Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was freed Saturday from prison as the defiant leader struggled to hold on to power as protesters seized control of the presidential palace and the parliament voted to remove him from office.
Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko waved to supporters from a car as she was driven out of the hospital in the northeastern city if Kharkiv, where she has been treated for a bad back while serving a seven-year sentence since 2011.
"Our country can from this day on see the sun, because dictatorship fell," Tymoshenko said.
Parliament members had voted to free her after Yanukovych fled the capital of Kiev a day after announcing a pact with opposition leaders. Yanukovych said he is traveling the country to seek advice and will "do everything to stop the bloodshed" that left at least 77 dead, hundreds injured and nearly collapsed the country into a civil war.
"I am not planning to leave the country," he said in a video televised on local media. "I am not planning to resign. I am a legitimately elected president. I was given guarantees of safety by all the international mediators I worked with."
Yanukovych claimed his car was shot at, but that he didn't fear for his life, denouncing some of the opposition protesters as "bandits."
"I will not sign anything with the bandits who are terrorizing the whole country and Ukrainian people. They are discrediting the country," he said on UBR television.
In another strike against the president, the parliament Saturday freed Tymoshenko, who had been imprisoned on charges of abuse of office, which the West had questioned. They also endorsed Oleksandr Turchynov as the new speaker.
The apparent toppling of the pro-Russian looks likely to pull Ukraine away from Moscow's orbit and closer to Europe.
The New York Times
Ukraine's Leader Flees the Capital; Elections Are Called
KIEV, Ukraine — Abandoned by his own guards and reviled across the Ukrainian capital but still determined to recover his shredded authority, President Viktor F. Yanukovych fled Kiev on Saturday to denounce what he called a violent coup, as his official residence, his vast, colonnaded office complex and other once impregnable centers of power fell without a fight to throngs of joyous citizens stunned by their triumph.
While Mr. Yanukovych's nemesis, former Prime Minister Yulia V. Tymoshenko, was released from a penitentiary hospital, Parliament found the president unable to fulfill his duties and exercised its constitutional powers to set an election for May 25 to select his replacement. But with both Mr. Yanukovych and his Russian patrons speaking of a "coup" carried out by "bandits" and "hooligans," it was far from clear that the day's lightning-quick events would be the last act in a struggle that has not just convulsed Ukraine but expanded into an East-West confrontation reminiscent of the Cold War.
At the presidential residence a short distance from the capital, protesters carrying clubs and some wearing masks were in control of the entryways Saturday morning and watched as thousands of citizens strolled through the grounds in wonder. "This commences a new life for Ukraine," said Roman Dakus, a protester-turned-guard, who was wearing a ski helmet and carrying a length of pipe as he blocked a doorway at the compound. "This is only a start," he added. "We need now to make a new structure and a new system, a foundation for our future, with rights for everybody, and we need to investigate who ordered the violence."
With the riot police they battled for days having disappeared, the protesters claimed to be in charge of security for the city. There was no sign of looting, either in the city proper or in the presidential compound.
A pugnacious Mr. Yanukovych appeared on television Saturday afternoon, apparently from the eastern city of Kharkiv, near Ukraine's eastern border with Russia, saying he had been forced to leave the capital because of a "coup," and that he had not resigned, and had no plans to. He said indignantly that his car had been fired upon as he drove away.
"I don't plan to leave the country. I don't plan to resign," he said, speaking in Russian rather than Ukrainian, the country's official language. "I am a legitimately elected president." He added: "What is happening today, mostly, it is vandalism, banditism and a coup d'état. This is my assessment and I am deeply convinced of this. I will remain on the territory of Ukraine." He also complained of "traitors" among his own former supporters but he declined to name them.
Regional governors from eastern Ukraine met in Kharkiv and adopted a resolution resisting the authority of Parliament. They said that until matters were resolved, "we have decided to take responsibility for safeguarding the constitutional order, legality, citizens' rights and their security on our territories."
One of the few institutions still taking orders from the president was the official trilingual website of the Ukrainian presidency, which posted a transcript of his defiant television address. But, by evening, the text had appeared only in Ukrainian and Russian, suggesting that his English translator had perhaps jumped ship.
The former nerve center of Mr. Yanukovych's power, the huge compound of the presidential administration, just a few hundred yards from Independence Square in Kiev, was empty Saturday aside from protesters who patrolled its courtyard and blocked off a nearby street to prevent residents swarming into the building. Ukrainian flags flying outside had all been lowered to half-mast, in honor of those killed by police officers and snipers on Thursday.
Mr. Yanukovych said in his television appearance that he would be traveling to the southeastern part of Ukraine to talk to his supporters — a plan that carried potentially ominous overtones, in that the southeast is the location of the Crimea, the historically Russian section of the country that is the site of a Russian naval base.
The president's departure from Kiev, just a day after a peace deal with the opposition that he had hoped would keep him in office until at least December, capped three months of streets protests and a week of frenzied violence in the capital that left more than 75 protesters dead. It turned what began in November as a street protest driven by pro-Europe chants and nationalist songs into a momentous but still ill-defined revolution.
With nobody clearly in charge, other than the so far remarkably disciplined fighting squads, lieutenants of Ms. Tymoshenko moved to fill the power vacuum. With Oleksandr V. Turchynov, a former acting prime minister and close ally of Ms. Tymoshenko, presiding over the Parliament, her Fatherland party seemed to be in charge, at least temporarily.


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Hee! Hee! Hee!
Isn't it just a laugh riot! We keep asking the White House for information about the Air Force One flyover incident by Lower Manhattan and they keep responding with evasions.
Ha! Ha! Ha!
And then they keep referring us to the Air Force which keeps bouncing the questions back to the White House which, in turn, refers us back to the Air Force again!
Isn't this just too funny!
That pretty much sums up the attitude of Time Magazine towards the Air Force One flyover affair as you can see in this article by Mark Thompson and Michael Scherer:
Sometimes, even the most straightforward question can create evasion and denial in Washington's corridors of power — a question like "Why does Air Force One need publicity photos?" It's a legitimate question, following the official explanation that Monday's flight over lower Manhattan by one of the President's fleet of 747s (shadowed by two fighter planes), which evoked ghosts of 9/11 and spread panic, was simply an ill-conceived photo opportunity.
And now the laughs begin...at least for Time:
A call to the Air Force on Wednesday seeking an answer to that simple question was referred to the White House Military Office, just across the Potomac River. The White House office — which had approved the flying photo opportunity but ordered that the public be kept in the dark about the flight plan — said the Air Force was handling the issue. As is typical in such snafus, the White House Military Office's answer wasn't completely wrong, as a second call to the Air Force revealed.
"That's a question for the White House, and I understand that they may be bouncing you back here," Air Force Lieut. Colonel Tadd Sholtis explained. Following Tuesday's release by the Air Force of the cost of the flight — $328,835 — the beleaguered White House Military Office was bouncing all questions on the topic back to the flyboys. But the Air Force, which knows how to employ stealth technology and evasive maneuvers when warranted, wasn't going to allow the media to lock on. "The purpose of the flight, why did it happen, all those kinds of things," Sholtis said, "need to be addressed to the White House Military Office."
On another call to the White House Military Office, headed by Clinton-era Army Secretary Louis Caldera, the reporter explained how the Air Force was answering only questions about the cost of the flight and not anything else. Cornered, the WHMO official punted: "You'll have to call the White House press office." But White House press secretary Robert Gibbs couldn't shed any light on the matter either. "They've had [such photos] for at least two decades," Gibbs told TIME on Wednesday. "Our point was that we don't need a new one."
It isn't until the final paragraph that Time drops its previous amusement and replaces it with reverential awe for The One who, as we all supposedly know, couldn't possibly have had anything at all to do with authorizing the Air Force One flyover because he isn't a bit interested in the "aura of power":
Unfortunately, "dedication and integrity" don't necessarily include common sense and intelligence. It appears to be taking official Washington some time to grasp that Obama isn't interested in the aura of power supposedly conferred by new presidential helicopters (he's killed a proposed $13 billion upgrade of the fleet of 28 Marine Ones) or glossy souvenir photos of Air Force One flying over New York City. Trimming the trappings of power gives his Administration the credibility to seek sacrifices from other parts of the government, and from taxpayers too. But it appears that some folks — like Caldera, who as of this moment still heads the White House Military Office — still haven't gotten the message.
At this point one doesn't know whether to burst out laughing at Time's absurd reverence for Obama or reach for an Air Force One nausea bag. From the tone of the article it seems highly doubtful that Time has even filed an FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request to find out such things as who was on the flight and whether Louis Caldera somehow accomplished the seemingly impossible task of hermetically sealing off the rest of the White House from knowing a thing about the state of Air Force One (one of the two planes used as Air Force One) especially since the President can't fly without that knowledge readily available.
So while Time Magazine chuckles over the White House evasions on this matter while remaining smugly satisfied that Louis Caldera was the one and the ONLY one who authorized or even knew about that Air Force One flyover, it once again is left to the Blogosphere to actualy do any real investigation of this matter. Time Magazine, meet Michelle Malkin who is actually performing the task you should but won't be doing:
My syndicated column commemorates Barack Obama's 100 days with the Scare Force One story as a take-off point. Imagine if this fiasco had happened under George Bush's watch. It would have made the Left's incessant carping over the "fake plastic turkey," Mission Accomplished banner, and My Pet Goat incidents look like nothing.
We now know thanks to WCBS in NY that the feds knew the "mission" would cause panic and that they went ahead with the secret plans, anyway. There are still a lot more unanswered questions about what happened in the skies above New York City. I have filed two FOIA requests with the Office of the Secretary of Defense and Joint Staff FOIA Requester Service Center seeking more info, including the flight manifests; communications that would shed light on the origin of the "mission," and copies of any and all photos taken on the taxpayer-subsidized journey. Let's have some of that vaunted transparency Barack Obama is always talking about.
However, in the meantime, Time, let us all laugh together happily about the White House not providing answers that we really (or at least you) don't want to hear.


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Why should I start a HackerNest?
How do we support our organizers?
What does it take to be an organizer?
Why spread?
Can I run a HackerNest Tech Social?
What does being a city organizer involve?
Do I have to pay to be an organizer?
What's next?
Become an Organizer.
We're putting together a HackerNest instruction manual and bundling up the flavor and success of our original Toronto events to help others start HN "splinter cells" in their own communities.
Why should I start a HackerNest?
To foster innovation. To do something good for your city. To strengthen the local tech scene. To build community and camaraderie. To spark brilliant conversations. To support each other. To get people out of the house, the office, the basement – out of isolation. To connect with others who are also working hard at making something better. To link people with jobs and cofounders. To learn about all the neat stuff happening around you. To hang out and make friends with other smart people that understand you. To belong. We aspire to have one "splinter cell" per city.
There are a few perks to being an organizer (though hopefully, these aren't the only reasons you'd get involved):
- You'll get a smug sense of self-satisfaction knowing that you're doing something genuinely meaningful and empirically good for people
- By championing a more cohesive grassroots tech community and connectivity with your city's greater innovation ecosystem, you'll end up becoming very, very central in the community
- Operating under the banner of the established, legit, no-bullshit HackerNest movement can lift your credibility and enable conversations with people/companies that many would kill to get access to
- You'll be connected to something grand; what will be the HN support network across cities
- You'll meet a plethora of really smart, really competent people
- And oh-so-much-more!
How do we support our organizers?
- help guide you with the best practices and experiences we've picked up from running popular, successful events
- connect you with a solid, growing peer-group of organizers to talk, spark ideas, and draw wisdom from
- help pull together partnerships and relationships
- lend our clout to help pitch for endorsement, funding, and support for your events
What does it take to be an Organizer?
Competence. Ferocity. Stick-to-itiveness. Good intentions. Reliability. Anti-flakitude. Drive. A passion for bringing people together, good organization skills, and being pretty damn resilient are essential.
Why spread?
We think events like ours are good for society. People seem to agree, since they keep coming back. We want that everywhere, so we're sharing what we know so others can replicate our success. Imagine traveling half way across the world and hitting up a familiar HackerNest Tech Social and making new friends. How cool?!
Can I run a HackerNest Tech Social?
Absolutely. They're simple to set up, fun to run, and you'll make a million friends. You've come out, loitered in the forums, connected with other HackerNesters – you get the vibe and know what we're all about — great! Find a partner in crime and get in touch. We'll do a call to manage expectations and make sure everyone understands the flavor/intent/vibe/message/spirit we're pushing and go from there.
What does being a City Organizer involve?
Once you're properly set up with us, being a HackerNest City Organizer will require a few hours of commitment every week. Organizers typically get up to this:
- building, coordinating, and working with their city's organizing team (and us)
- sparking new relationships in your community, strengthening current ones
- planning, organizing, and running regular Tech Socials (likely every 2-3 months to start)
- choosing dates/venues, promoting the event, connecting with local sponsors, handling the budget, coordinating volunteers, managing the actual event
- facilitating community dialogue and interaction around events and in their city's forum
Do I have to pay to be an organizer?
What next?
Interested? We hope so. Send us an email and we'll talk. Please include important tidbits like:
- a bit about yourself: where you are, who you are, what you currently do, etc.
- why you (and your team?) are a good fit
- a little background on the tech scene in your city
- how much time you'd be able to dedicate
- anything you might want us to know beforehand
- any questions/concerns you have
- whether you have people in mind for co-organizers and if they're applying jointly with you
Have questions we haven't answered? Please ask us.


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