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This is going to be a quick post --- I feel dizzy and light headed when I'm sitting up and I want to get back in bed ASAP.
When was the last time you had the flu? I won't be doing much until I'm feeling better and I'm anxious about the husband cooking dinner tonight. I was hoping to feel better by this afternoon/evening so I could go for a walk, at least, so my "streak" doesn't end … but unless the dizziness goes away soon, I'm not sure that will be happening. Boo.
Monday ~ Marsala Chicken and Mushroom Casserole
Tuesday ~ leftovers
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Thursday ~ Lentil Tacos
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Weight Watchers Week 38 {01.30.12 – 02.04.12}
Weigh-in {02.05.12} = 136.8 lbs
Week 38 Loss/Gain = +0.2 lbs
Total Weight Loss = –13.4 lbs
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I earned 66 activity points & exercised everyday!
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The State of Obama's Past SOTU Proposals
President Barack Obama has rolled out dozens of domestic policy proposals in previous State of the Union addresses. Some of these became policy, but many have gone nowhere. Here's a rundown of proposals from 2010 through 2013, with a look at how they fared.

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Bobcat freshman looking for big off-season after rough fall
It was a tough year for Montana State's volleyball team. They finished the year with a 6-25 overall record and went just 4-16 in conference play.
The Bobcats were also one of the youngest teams with freshman making up more than half of their roster. The team has been busy with off-season workouts in full swing and are pleased with their development this spring.
"We're actually able to teach some skills," said head coach Kyle Weindel. "Last fall we integrated so many new players it was just kind of, roll the balls out and let's play. Now we're taking a step back and building some of the skills. It's kind of like working backwards."
Despite their inexperience, two freshman led the team in almost every statistical category. One of those freshman was Kennadie Clute, who was named the Co-Big Sky freshman of the year.
"We can all agree we didn't have the best season and we all want to be more successful," said Clute. "We're all working hard to get where we know we can be."
Kennadie led the Big Sky in kills with 513 and 560.5 points in her first year. She was also the top freshman in all of Division 1 volleyball in kills, however she isn't letting that go to her head.
"I've heard 'you're gonna have the sophomore slump' a lot of times," said Clute. "Who knows what accomplishments I can get. I'm just hoping to be as successful as I was and as long as I play well and do my best I'm fine."
Loni Kreun was the Bobcats other freshman star, scorching 339 kills and 274 digs this fall.
"It's a whole different game in college than high school," said Kreun. "Everyone's four years older than you and you have to play against girls that are older and have been playing at the college level."
With another year under his young stars belts, coach Weindel is excited to see what these two will serve the Big Sky next season.
"I can't say enough about Loni," Weindel said. "She's kind of our quiet assassin where she does everything well. She serves well, she digs, she passes. Kennadie is motivated that she was Co-big sky freshman of the year. I know that upset her. They've really come in motivated and hungry to get better which we see on a daily basis."
The Bobcats had 7 freshman on their roster this season, all of those will now be sophomores with a year of experience in their pocket which the Bobcats says will be a huge advantage next season.
"Half of our team are freshman," said Loni. "So it's like a brand new team. Now that we know each other and have played with each other, it will help a lot next season."
"A lot of the top teams in the Big Sky have lost a lot of players," said Weindel. "I'm optimistic just by default we'll get better and we'll get more wins. We're more experienced that many teams across the net, even thought we're still sophomores and a couple juniors."


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Dear stata listers,
I am trying to replicate the calculations in Brock, Lakonishok and Lebaron
1992 paper about technical analysis.
I am using two null models, the random walk with a drift and the AR 1
in the study, they produce tables that compare the simulated means and
standard deviations from the return series of the technical rules with the
original Index returns.
My problem is basically comparing the means and standard deviations using
the bootstrap
If i type the command :
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this gives me only var1 results and i have to compare var1 and var2
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Claims denies it a month later and takes back the money. They say that the ATM company says everything balanced out and the footage shows otherwise.
I'm furious and respond with a snarky, "So, you have footage of me putting $500 in my pocket?"
Silence. Chase bank must be in cahoots with Global Cash Access or Excalibur casino. Bottom line is that the money wasn't dispensed to me. I looked more than once and felt my hand in every corner of the opening of the machine. It's extremely unlikely that I was not able to feel or see $500 coming out of the machine.
Horrible company. Horrible everything. Stay away from these ATMs and I'd even say leave Chase bank because they're thieves and evil for siding with such a company. Don't stay at Excalibur in Vegas either if they continue to use Global Cash Access ATMs. All terrible, horrible people.
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In turn, these changes require a new series of relationships between the classroom and home, between educators and families, and between schools and their broader community. In this section of the paper, I review the major components of the new vision of educational reform and discuss their implications for the involvement of parents and community members in the schooling process.
Central to this view is the idea that instruction must be built on students' out-of-school experience and so teachers need to allow students to use these experiences as the starting points for learning. Effective teachers encourage students to use their personal experiences to make sense of classroom content (Diaz, Moll, and Mehan, 1986; Lipson, 1983; Schreck, 1981). To be able to build on their personal experience, teachers must then allow students opportunities to actively direct their own learning (Cohen, 1988; Slavin, 1986). Moreover, helping students to build on their knowledge base is facilitated when teachers learn more about students' home cultures and adapt their teaching approach to incorporate students' cultural characteristics (Heath, 1983; Shields and Wilson, 1992, Tharp, 1989).
Making school relevant to students' real lives is especially important in the middle grades, for it is during these years that students begin to make conscious decisions about the value and appropriateness of specific subject matter and school in general. In short, this is when students turn on or off to school (Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development, 1989; Estrada, 1992).
For teaching and learning to change in these ways clearly requires the razing of the artificial barriers between the classroom and the home. Students need to understand the value of out- of-school experiences and feel free to bring those experiences into the classroom. Parents cannot remain ignorant of what takes place in classrooms if they are to facilitate their children's learning. Teachers and administrators cannot remain ignorant of students' home lives if they are to structure appropriate learning experiences.
The destruction of these barriers will require a new openness to communicate, to create opportunities for families to spend more time in the school, and for school staff to spend more time in the community. This is not easily accomplished, but is far from impossible, as evidenced in the following vignette of just such a learning activity in an elementary school in a small Appalachian town.
This little story illustrates a number of interesting pedagogical techniques: integration of disciplines, writing across the curriculum, real-world-based learning, and cooperative learning. It also provides a wonderful example of a teacher asking community members to share their expertise with students. Here, the community is viewed as a resource to be used to help students learn important concepts--in ways that send students and parents alike a positive message about the value of schooling and the work of the community.
Thus, for example, the length of class periods or the assignment of staff to teaching responsibilities are not seen as "givens" that must structure each day. Rather, teachers in these schools might teach only two or three subjects per day, each class involving teams of teachers working with the same group of students for a length of time, depending on the subject to be covered. In the same vein, "teachers" may play several different roles in such a school, acting as instructors, curriculum developers, and decisionmakers (David and Shields, 1991).
Following this logic, the school building is not viewed as the only location teaching and learning can take place. Based partly on the argument that students need to learn critical thinking within a real-world context, as we discussed above, teachers in such learning communities are likely to design learning experiences that take place outside of the formal school building. Science projects carried out in nearby parks, mathematics projects requiring the timing of bus routes, and writing assignments based on field experiences are examples of appropriate out-of-school learning experiences for children in the middle grades.
Rethinking the basic structure and routines of the school also leads to consideration of the need to provide other services to students. More and more schools are recognizing that their students' ability to learn is contingent on their physical and mental well-being and the well- being of their families. Consequently, schools are experimenting with new ways of providing more integrated services to their communities, wherein the traditional educational function of the school is extended to include specific health and social services (Reisner, Chimerine, Morrill, and Marks, 1991). Schools embarking on integrated service delivery vary considerably in the extent to which they actually provide versus coordinate such services, but the underlying logic remains the same: the structure of the "school" should be defined not by tradition but by the needs of the specific student body.
The implications of such shifts in the traditional structure of schools for bridging the gap between the school and the community are clear. Staff of such schools are open to leaving the school building to promote educational activities for their students in their own communities. Such steps increase the opportunity for community members to become acquainted with the schools as well as for school staff to know the community better. At the same time, by structuring schools to meet the broader needs of the students' families through the provision of noneducational services, teachers and administrators are opening their doors to the broader community and explicitly expressing their desire to help community members. Thus, restructuring in these ways can both bring the school to the community and attract the community to the school.
Again, breaking down the long-standing barriers between school and community and asking teachers, parents, and even students to assume new roles is no easy task. The following vignette shows how the traditional lines between school and home, teacher and parent can be crossed in ways that promote student learning and increase communication and understanding. In this story, we see how parents, trained in giving classes in mathematics, can attract and interest other parents in coming to school after hours to take part in interesting learning experiences with their fifth- and sixth-grade children.
The ideas underlying school-based governance can be traced back to the research on effective schools and the findings that well-functioning schools had staff that were consciously assessing their schools' needs and developing coherent plans to address those needs (Purkey and Smith, 1983). The resulting effective schools movement sought to organize such self- reflective activities in a formal committee structure. Some states, such as California, formalized such councils in state-funded school improvement initiatives.
Unlike these effective schools councils or other forms of parent, teacher, and community advisory councils, school-based governance involves the formal transfer of power from a higher level of government to the school. In school-based governance, individuals at the school site do not just advise superiors, they possess the authority to make key instructional, organizational, and budgetary decisions, within legal guidelines.
Along with this new authority come a host of new responsibilities. First, school staff must decide how decisions will be made at the school site. The common strategy is to create steering committees made up of representatives of the key groups in the school community: administrators, teachers, and parents. Educators realize that the logic of having decisions made by those "closest to the children" compels them to include parents in school-based governance.
A second domain of responsibility involves accountability. Having assumed authority for making key decisions, schools should be held accountable for their results. Partly, this accountability is to the higher levels of the system from whom the school received the authority. Thus, for example, in Kentucky's new educational reform law, schools are provided more power over their own operations, but every two years they must meet a state- established standard based on their students' performance on a state-developed test. If schools fare poorly enough, they can be taken over by "distinguished educators" appointed by the state.
At the same time, this "authority for accountability" swap creates a new relationship between the school and the immediate community of families. If schools have responsibility for creating the learning environment, then they are also accountable for their results to their most immediate constituents and consumers: local community members. Not surprisingly, Kentucky's reform law includes a provision that allows parents to transfer their students from failing neighborhood schools at no cost to themselves.
Thus, school-based governance, a centerpiece of current reforms, reshapes the relationship between the community and the school in two fundamental ways. First, it creates the opportunities for parents and community members to have more direct input into the decisionmaking process than was typically possible under any earlier governance arrangements. Here, parents can sit on, elect representatives to, and attend the meetings of the decisionmaking bodies of the school. Second, this same structure therefore makes the schools more readily accountable to the community. In certain renditions of school-based governance, this accountability is strengthened by a parental-choice provision.
In sum, moving authority down to the school site through school-based governance can work to democratize the educational decisionmaking process and create meaningful opportunities for parents to influence the outcomes of that process. Under these circumstances, the provision of school choice to parents can further strengthen their political power in local schools.
The following story is an example of how parents can play an active role in the decisionmaking process of a school. This example is taken from a large urban school system that has implemented both school-based decisionmaking and a controlled-choice program, which allows parents some opportunity to choose among the schools their children attend. Here, the staff and parents of two poorly performing schools, a middle school and a high school that share the same campus, are working on rebuilding the schools from the bottom up.
Such support comes first in the form of technical assistance and staff development--helping school staff to understand and prepare for their new roles. In one study, we have found teachers spending over 160 hours per year on additional formal training to gain the skills they need to change their classrooms and schools (Shields et al, 1994). Thus, a second type of support school staff need is time--time to broaden their teaching repertoires, time to plan with other teachers, and time to participate in the decisionmaking process.
Such assistance represents an extremely large financial investment --for example, if schools were to provide all staff with an additional 80 hours of staff development (half what is needed in the schools I am currently studying), schools' annual budgets could easily rise by 5 percent.
Another type of support needed by school staff results from teachers' and administrators' need to craft a school program built on real-world experience and needs. If schools are expected to prepare the next generation of workers, for example, they need to know the required skills for the workplace. Thus, they need ongoing access to and feedback from the business community--not in written reports but through direct communication. Similarly, if we expect teachers to constantly reconsider their activities, they need access to new ideas in the field of pedagogy and in specific subject areas. Again, this access has to be ongoing and fairly easy.
Taken together, these requirements for more technical assistance, time, and access to business and research require a new definition of schools relationship with their broader communities. Here community is not limited to individual parents and community members in the schools' immediate neighborhoods. Rather I am referring to the larger community of a metropolitan area or region, including those active in business and research. Connections to this broader community are necessary not only because of the need for concrete knowledge, but also to garner the necessary political will to support the massive effort that will be required to change our schools and to keep them improving.
In short, the project of creating self-reflective, constantly improving schools will never take place if the school community tries to do so in isolation. Only with the financial and political resources of the full community will school staff ever have a chance of meeting the challenging goals set forth in the current reform agenda.


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As part of the UPA's continuing efforts to reach out to outside supporters ahead of the winter session of Parliament, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh hosted a lunch for Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Sunday.
With Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress threatening to move a resolution against the government's decision to allow foreign direct investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail in the session beginning November 22, outside supporters are crucial for the ruling coalition.
On Friday, the PM had hosted a dinner for BSP's political rivals - Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav and his son, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav.
Downplaying Sunday's meeting, Mayawati said, "Lunches, dinners and meetings are held routinely in politics.
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The Fiscal Court passed an agreement that will settle a nearly two-year-old lawsuit brought against County Clerk Jeff Jerrell by a former employee of the clerk's office.
Following an executive session, the court unanimously agreed to pay Leslie Hannan $195,000, which will be distributed to her in one lump sum. Payment of the amount will come from tax revenue in the general and tax funds.
Hannan will also receive another $150,000 from the county's insurance policy for a total pay out of $345,000. The county is liable because legal action was brought against Jeff Jerrell in his official capacity as county clerk, according to County Attorney Mike Murphy.
He said for this public dispute, it was in the county's best interest to settle based on the mutually agreed upon terms to minimize the exposure for the county and the plaintiff. Murphy added that three outside attorneys examined the case and the proposed settlement and recommended the court accept it.
Judge-Executive Van Newberry said the court made the best decision from the available options.
"I think it's the best result for the taxpayers, but it's unfortunate that the county clerk's office put them in this position," he said.
The lawsuit was filed in April 2012, several months after Hannan was laid off after working there almost 20 years. It initially cited the Fiscal Court as an additional defendant but the court was dropped in September 2012 as the case entered the discovery phase. The sides met for mediation Jan. 6, when the county intervened to settle the suit.
The lawsuit alleged that Hannan was relieved of her position in part due to a letter written that questioned several practices in the office, including the use of IOU or payment deferrals for auto dealers, unrecorded charging privileges, and cashing personal checks. The legal action also cited a hostile work environment after the letter were dispersed and sought a jury trial, employee reinstatement, and financial compensation in the form of back pay and benefits, attorney fees and damages.
Hannan expressed satisfaction that the ordeal is finally resolved.
"I'm happy to just put this behind me after two years," she said.
"Justice has been served and now I can move on with my life."
Jerrell expressed frustration following the meeting that the lawsuit was settled.
He said Hannan's job loss was based purely on cuts from the Fiscal Court to the office's Social Security reimbursements that totaled about a $80,000 reduction in the budget.
"Without those cuts, no layoffs would have occurred and the subsequent audits cleared us completely," he said
Extensive audits completed in 2011 and 2010, the years the letters were written, showed no misconduct or misappropriation of fees and in the 2011 evaluation the office received a perfect score. Hannan was offered her job back along with the other two laid off employees in October 2012 but chose not to return at that time, according to Jerrell.
"I think it's kind of unfortunate to pay her," he said. "My attorney was ready to proceed and we were confident that we would have prevailed."
In other meeting business, the Fiscal Court heard the first reading of the amendment to the local alcoholic beverage control licensing agreement according to statewide changes brought from Senate Bill 13.
Changes to the ordinance, which has remained the same since 1952, would affect the county's current ban on liquor store sales from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. on election day.
The state law would allow for sales but the Fiscal Court can override it and continue the ban. A public forum and the second reading of the ordinance are scheduled during the next meeting on Jan. 27.
Contact Kathleen Fox, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8651 or follow @kathleendfox on Twitter.
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Towards a better book recommendation service
January 23, 2013
The ideal content discovery service has yet to be invented. Plenty have tried but none have truly succeeded. The latest is venture is BookScout from Random House. It's a nifty Facebook app that uses your social graph to help you discover relevant content. As Laura Hazard Owen recently discovered though, it's far from perfect.
Reading Laura's post reminded me of something a wise person told me last year: Just because I'm Facebook friends with you doesn't mean we have the same reading interests. In fact, I'd be willing to bet my reading interests don't map very well to any of my friends, real or virtual.Read more...


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About a week after you order the item they will contact you and try to sell you a similar item.
I ordered an item back on October 26, 2009 and I still have not received it.
Also, you may want to stay away from the manager, Michael. He has a very dirty mouth and will go as far as cussing out you mother.
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Twenty Thirteen
It was a funny old year. And not always in the "LOLZ" sense, either. I'll be honest: for the first six months of 2013, I was pretty sure it was going to be that dragon I talked about in my slightly-awkward New Year's Eve post ...Read more →


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1901 An inglorious record is set today by the Nats in Cleveland. Up 13-5 on the Blues with 2 outs and no runners on base in the 9th, the Blues set a major league record by plating 9 runs for a stunning 14-13 win.
1924 Striking out a career high 14 and allowing only 1 safety, Walter Johnson records his 103rd career shutout with a 4-0 victory over the White Sox in D.C. The only hit by the Pale Hose belongs to Harry Hooper.
1927 In the 1st inning of today's game at Griffith, the Yankees appear on the road to another victory as Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig slug back-to-back homers. Sens P Sloppy Thurston settles down and the Senators score 3 runs to down the Yanks 3-2.
1929 In Shibe Park, the A's take both ends of a doubleheader, both by 9-8 scores. The Senator's offense scores 8 runs in the first two innings of the opener, but the Mackmen battle back for the 9-8 win. In game 2, Rube Wahlberg goes the distance for Philadelphia. Senators OF Ossie Bluege homers in both games.
1956 In a 17 inning marathon at Kansas City, the Sens fall to the A's 7-6. After Roy Sievers scores on a Whitey Herzog double in the top of the 17th to give the Senators a 6-5 lead, the A's score 2 in the bottom half courtesy of a solo home run by Jim Finigan and a wild pitch by P Camilio Pasqual that allows Clete Boyer to score the winning run. Sens SS Jim Snyder wears an 0-for-8 collar for the game.
1963 New Nats manager Gil Hodges is acquired in a trade from the Mets for OF Jimmy Piersall. Hodges arrives in Baltimore just in time to watch the Orioles' Robin Roberts 2 hit the Sens 6-0. Senators starter Claude Osteen is battered for 6 runs and 7 hits in 2.1 innings of work. Light hitting SS Ed Brinkman gets the only 2 hits off of Roberts.
1971 Denny McLain returns to Detroit for the first time with his new team. Two of his former teammates, Al Kaline and Norm Cash, welcome him back by each slugging 2 run homers as the Tigers smoke the Sens 5-0. In the nitecap, the Tigers maul the Senators and starter Mike Thompson 11-0.
Senators Birthdays
Another round of 5 birthdays of note this May 23rd...
Harry Stephen Patrick Chesley AKA Harry Child B May 23, 1905 D Nov. 8, 1972
Pitcher Harry Child appeared in 5 games for the 1930 Senators, pitching a grand total of 10 innings with a career ERA of 6.30.
Harry Child career record
Jose Luis (Chile) Gonzales Gomez B May 23, 1909 D Dec. 1, 1992
Infielder Chile Gomez started his career with the 1935 Philadelphia Phillies. He appeared in 108 games for the Phillies in 1936 and then disappeared from the major league scene until 1942 when he returned for 25 games with the 1942 Senators. Never a very potent hitter, Gomez' best year was 1936 when he stroked 77 hits, with 28 RBI, for the Phillies.
Chile Gomez career record
George Willis Hudlin B May 23, 1906 D Aug. 5, 2002
Pitcher Willis Hudlin spent 16 years in the major leagues, mainly with the Cleveland Indians. Starting with the Indians in 1926, Hudlin appeared in 25 or more games every year from 1927 through 1939. In 1940 however, Hudlin was bounced around like a pinball. Starting with the Indians at the beginning of the season, Hudlin played for the Washington Senators, St. Louis Browns and New York Giants all within the span of that 1 season. He would make one last major league appearance in 1944 with the pennant winning St. Louis Browns.
Hudlin's brief tenure with the Senators lasted from May 18-July 13, 1940 when he appeared in 8 games, starting 6 and going 1-2 with a 6.51 ERA.
Willis Hudlin career record
Francis Mortimer (Frank) Kelliher B May 23, 1899 D Mar. 4, 1956
Another "One Game Wonder", up for a very short cup of coffee with the 1919 Senators, Frank Kelliher appeared for 1 at bat on September 19, 1919. He did not get a hit nor did he appear in the field.
Frank Kelliher career record
Frank Octavius Mancuso B May 23, 1918 D Aug. 4, 2007
Frank Mancuso was the younger brother of Gus Mancuso who played in the major leagues for 17 years. Frank Mancuso was a fine player as well, getting his start as a professional baseball player in 1937 in the farm system of the New York Giants. He actually spent the entire 1939 season with the Giants but never appeared in a game, being relegated to the role of bullpen catcher.
His baseball career interrupted by World War II, Frank was seriously injured during parachute training at Ft. Benning, Georgia. He spent 5 months in an Army hospital and had to endure a number of operations. After recovering, his injuries rendered him unfit for further military service. However, through hard work and determination, he was able to make it back to the major leagues even if it was in a limited capacity.
Playing for the St. Louis Browns from 1944-1946, his most active season was 1945 when he appeared in 119 games, hitting .268 with 98 hits, including 13 doubles, 3 triples and 1 home run. He finished his major league career in 1947 with the Senators, hitting .229 in 43 games.
Frank Mancuso career record
Texas Baseball Hall Of Fame writeup by Bill McCurdy
SABR biography by Jim Sargent
Frank Mancuso baseball card (Courtesy of Bill McCurdy)


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Modelling, animating and rendering: Advanced topics in graphics
Alan Dorin and Jon McCormack
Prohibitions: CSE 445.
The first half of this course deals with image synthesis, in particular state-of-the-art methods for achieving high levels of photorealism in computer graphics. Techniques and algorithms discussed include: rendering pipeline overview, scan-line algorithms, ray-casting and ray-tracing, radiosity, photon mapping, texture mapping and synthesis, anti-aliasing techniques and introductory fourier theory. The course also looks at two commercial rendering systems and discusses their applicability to feature film special effects and computer games production.
The second half of the course covers the procedural specification of models for animation, their basic movements and high-level behaviour. Various means of giving Artificial Lifeâ to what are essentially sets of numbers are examined. These are utilized in the subject's assignments which provide practical experience in the production of models for computer animation, as well as in the rendering of these models.
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In many ways, Modesto has lived up to its name, favoring modest ideas and modest projects, being satisfied with the reputation of being on the way to everywhere but not the kind of place to which people and businesses are eager to move.
Like most big ideas, this one is being met with a mix of enthusiasm and sarcasm.
Modesto has some pluses when it comes to economic development. The city has a reliable water supply, coming from both wells and from the Tuolumne River. Many valley cities still depend solely on groundwater. And the city is expanding its waste-water treatment facilities so it will not have to turn away businesses because it lacks sewer capacity.
The chamber is saying — and we agree — that Modesto needs have a conversation and then establish some priorities that make our community healthier financially and in quality of life.
We look back with appreciation on the people who created the irrigation districts and built Don Pedro. Wouldn't it be great if the Modestans of 2050 looked back with similar thanks on the people who, starting in 2013, were willing to talk about big ideas and make them materialize?


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Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds Taking Relationship to "the Next Level"?
Sandra Bullock attended the premiere of The Change-Up in Los Angeles last night, and while most outlets accurately reported that she was there to support her good friend Ryan Reynolds, HollywoodLife claims it was a "date" for the former co-stars.
The blog reports that Reynolds brought Bullock "as his date" to the premiere, and the pair "looked more lovey-dovey than ever on the red carpet." Really? "Are they taking their relationship to the next level?" asks the silly site, noting, "We couldn't help but notice the chemistry they had as they looked deep into each other's eyes." Actually, they're not even looking at each other in the platonic photo HollywoodLies used to illustrated its facts-challenged report (see right).
So, was it a soap opera or a movie premiere? "They've both been burned in love recently, and we think they compliment [sic] each other so well," adds the site.
Well, HollywoodLife can "think" that all it wants, but here's what Gossip Cop actually knows: Reynolds did NOT bring Bullock as his "date." She came separately to the premiere with friends. Also, she wasn't only there for Reynolds. We're told the Oscar winner also came to support "her best friend" Jonathon Komack Martin, who produced The Change-Up.
Bullock and Reynolds are "just friends," his rep confirms. HollywoodLife should take its reporting to the "next level," or at least the first level.
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This was Brainerd - Feb. 20
20 years ago (1992)
(Photo) Chuck Pearson, executive chef for the Holiday Inn, will be one of the many sweet tooth experts to donate their wares to the Chocolate Lovers Extravaganza this Sunday. Proceeds from the event go to benefit the Crisis Line.
30 years ago (1982)
The Miss Brainerd Lakes Scholarship Pageant, a tradition that has lasted more then 20 years, may not be held this year. Many of those formerly involved are worried about it. Former sponsors, the Brainerd Jaycees, just can't handle the project and its cost.
40 years ago (1972)
Steve Borders 5-4 win earned him the State JC 142-pound wrestling title and the state tournament's outstanding wrestler award at Anoka-Ramsey JC. The Raider's Craig England finished third at 126 pounds. Both wrestlers qualify for the national tourney.
60 years ago (1952)
Approximately 500 million tons of carbonate slate exists on the Cuyuna Range near Crosby, containing six percent manganese, it was announced today. Development of the ore has been done at the university and, if successful, could treat billions of tons of steel.
80 years ago (1932)
Deputy game warden A.P. Cardle estimates that there are approximately 7,000 Chinese ring neck pheasants wintering in Crow Wing County. The County Game Protective Club is assisting the State Game and Fish Dept. in feeding and protecting these game birds.
100 years ago (1912)
Monday night's session of the city council was one of the most harmonious gatherings that body has ever had. The dove of peace winged its way through the cigar smoke above the city fathers and perched above the proceedings, never letting out a peep of protest.


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Isn't it interesting how every now and then something hits you like a crystal between the eyes and you know the right thing to do in a certain situation?
Well, that crystal appears to have hit Indian society right about where the tilak goes - the red mark men sometimes wear on their foreheads.
And it is many Indian men we need to talk about because a large number of them treat women worse than the Taleban does.
At least members of the Taleban don't pack rape women on buses, beat them and throw them off hoping they will die.
Nor do they attack a woman, pack rape her, kill her and try to pour poison down her husband's throat when he tries to save her.
The Government in India is under a lot of pressure at the moment to change a nasty widespread male attitude towards women following the recent horrific attack upon a young medical student. She was abused for hours then thrown from a bus. She died days later in hospital.
Fortunately, the vast majority of Indian men respect women and huge numbers of them have joined women on the streets of that country to show how outraged they are about the situation.
And there is not only the rapes, but also the burning of women alive if their dowries do not meet their husband's family expectations. About 2500 women a year are burned alive.
Indian prosecutors have gauged the public mood and have called for the bus attackers to be hanged.
So they should be.
It should be done in a public place so that would-be rapists will think twice before becoming a pack of animals and attacking women just because they feel the urge to.
SO, THE new skipper of the Black Caps reckons Kiwis should grasp the positive aspects his side could take out of the first test against South Africa.
If you'll remember, as masochists would, that test ended in abject defeat by one entire innings. In layman's terms South Africa only had to bat once to beat New Zealand's score from two innings.
It began with the new, more aggressive Black Caps all out for 45 runs. Yes, you read it right, 45 runs. That innings was the Kiwis' third lowest in NZ test cricket history and the 12th worst of all time.
It was the shortest innings by a side that elected to bat - good call Brendon "Brutus" McCullum, great start for the new skipper - and the worst total by a test side in the past 39 years. Now you also have to remember a lot of the really shocking cricket test innings were played on uncovered "sticky" wickets, not the pampered pitches of today.
Why am I getting stuck into the Black Caps?
Well, I couldn't believe the outrageous way in which the previous skipper Ross Taylor was shamefully knifed out of the job by those at the top of NZ Cricket. Talk about being Julius Caesar in the Roman Forum. Crikey, there was no room in his back for any more knives.
Taylor is NZ's best player and, given time to learn captaincy, would have been a great leader.
Now all NZ Cricket has is the bloodied ghost of a former skipper, a captain - McCullum - whose faults have been shown up and should resign, a coach Mike Hesson who should do the same after playing favourites to the national team's detriment and an emasculated test side that needs to harden up.
But I guess Kiwis can be pleased with the maiden test hundred for Dean Brownlie who deserves applause for his gutsy four-and-a-half hour, second-innings knock.
THERE are many wonderful inventions in the hi-tech world that not only make our lives safer, but also make them easier.
One thing that does ruin the technology benefit line is the automatic checkout at major supermarkets. I don't like using them for several reasons, number one being eventually they will mean the loss of jobs.
After that I hate the annoying voice of the damned things.
It has an irritating tone and is more impatient than a grumpy waitress at a back-blocks cafe.
There is never enough time to key in what you want before AutoCow is saying "please do this" or "please do that".
I can never quite manage to pick up the item and place it on the tray before the command comes "please put your item on the tray" and woe betide you if something rolls off it because that throws the machine into a tizz and she goes from impatient to strident.
I apologise to anyone behind me when I am trying to use AutoCow because I have taken to talking back to her when her demands are unreasonable. It's along the lines of "Please shut up" or, in extremis, "Please censored by the editor."


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"Is football your hobby?" I ask. The 24-year-old medical student bursts out laughing. She taps her chin, jutting it forward, as if to say, "Come on, punch me, then."
JSK is the Berber team, the Berber battle-axe; supporters expect a show of muscle-flexing from the players. And Hada looks like what the Algerians call "a typical Berber woman": she is tall and sturdy and loves bull-fighting, a reminder that Spain is but a short hop from troubled Algeria. If mischief has a face, it is women's football in Algeria. Around the world, women footballers attract jokes, sneers and prejudice, but not in Algeria.
Here, they attract fame and - at least until recently - killers. There are six top teams, and their players are both stars and villains: they are hugely popular because they are very good at the game and because they are so tough. They also stand as a symbol of women unencumbered by religion. And, beyond that - by thumbing their nose at authority, by standing against the conservative family tradition that unites all politicians, from the left to orthodox Muslims and modernising Islamicists - they are an inspiration to secular, rebellious young Algerians. Their matches fill stadiums with tens of thousands of mostly male spectators: fathers with children in football kits; oglers; "amateur photographers", and hordes of teenage boys and girls who wave flags, blow whistles and sing "Ol, ol" after a goal.
But there is a thin line between death and glory. The women players with their shorts and bare heads are anathema to extremist Islam. There were times when a breakfast news item featuring a triumphant team with a piece of silverware would be followed by pictures of a player in a ditch with her throat slit. Male fans gave Algeria's most famous female player, Naima Laouaddi, the highest accolade: they called her "Maradona". Naima was so popular, such a fine player - such a public affront - that she had to leave the country. She now lives in France, and plays for a German amateur team. Hada and her team-mates talk about "Maradona" with pride and admiration. They speak as if she had been transported into the world of transfers and mega deals. But she was not. "Maradona" got caught up in the world of extreme violence.
Since 1992, the war in Algeria has cost around 75,000 lives. Initially, it was described as an "Islamic insurrection", after the Algerian army staged a coup to prevent the fundamentalists of the FIS, the Front Islamique du Salut, taking power after the elections. Since then, whole villages have been massacred. Everybody was a target: football players, pop stars, shopkeepers, journalists, civil servants, men with and without beards, women with and without veils, children, babies, dogs, goats, songbirds. The graves in the cemeteries around Algiers do not have names on them, they are simply numbered. Those slaughtered were burned alive in their homes, sometimes mutilated or tortured, or killed by the now signature method of slitting the throat. The cutting of throats carries great symbolism in Islam. It is like the Sword of God at work, so this method can be used if the killers want to make their crime look "Islamic".
Officially, the conflict was between the armed forces and "the terrorists" of the Groupe Islamique Arme, or GIA, and other fundamentalist groups. Many of the massacres happened within shouting distance of army barracks, yet cries for help went unanswered. In this war fought in the shadows, no one knew who was the enemy. It also created a natural playing field for gangsters, drug dealers, pimps, family feuds, petty criminals and psychopaths.
Eighty per cent of the victims have been women and children, so to play football as a woman against that backdrop was always beyond sport. Football for women is popular all over Africa, but especially in Algiers. The sight of girls kicking and heading balls in the streets is fairly common, even in fundamentalist neighbourhoods. Every community has its stars, some of whom will never make it on to the nation's television screens, not even when they die. Everybody in Bab el Oued, an Algiers coastal neighbourhood, knew 17-year-old Samira. She was the tomboy who played football in the streets. "She always dressed in football clothes," her father says. "There were people here who were angry. But how could we stop her? She was not doing anything wrong. She was good at school. She wanted to become a pharmacist." In 1997, she was one of 400 people murdered during Ramadan, the month of fasting and alms-giving.
Since the presidential election in the spring of this year, there has been relative calm. Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Algeria's civilian president, was the favoured candidate of the military, and many Algerians expected the pattern of purge and counter-purge to continue. In fact, the new president called a ceasefire with one of the main Islamic groups in June and has managed to distance himself from the army to establish a peace platform. Following a referendum a month ago, an amnesty has been granted to most of the rebel fundamentalists, some of whom now support the government. But entrenched attitudes die hard; the women football players remain a provocation.
Algiers used to be described as a "delicious city". It still has its delicacy. By day, it makes you wonder what Monaco would be like if it fell on hard times. A Grand Prix circuit and a casino overlooking the Bay of Algiers would be natural additions to the elegant French architecture and the flair of the people, to the cafes, the patisseries, the smell of lemons, fresh coffee and croissants.
Palm trees wave while people stroll in the sea breeze. French styles and what is cool in Barcelona still inspire the street fashion. Teenage boys and girls, dressed for the safer side of the Mediterranean, hang around Peace Burger, with Boyzone blaring from loudspeakers. But by night the streets are mostly empty and eerie - there is no curfew any longer, but it is still there in the mind. Isolated groups of men hang around, talking and smoking Algerian Rym cigarettes - which mark out the "loser". Unemployment is around 30%. Two-thirds of the population is under 30 years of age and cannot find proper jobs. They scratch a living from street peddling and a little smuggling, while the well-educated and the professionals become trabandistas - traders who import a suitcase of cheap Chinese jeans or "genuine" Dunlop socks. They are the new merchant class. The talk in the street is not of Islam, but about the shameless corruption of a "small clique" - the military and their cronies, whom Algerians refer to as le pouvoir - hanging on to power at all costs.
"What we have here is a mafia behind the curtains, as if the place belongs to them," says Benamirouche Zahir, a 22-year-old psychology student and fanatical supporter of JSK. The overwhelming sense in the streets is that le pouvoir do not want to share the cake. At night the rich go to their well-protected venues. Booking a table is a must at Le Bardo, Algiers' best restaurant. To get through its door, complete with spy-hole, in the Rue Franklin Roosevelt, you need money and connections. There is no such door policy at the dark, smoky dives simply known as Les Bars, where men come to drink and listen to Rai, a mix of local music and rock that has recently been invaded by reggae beats. Most of Les Bars are in the shopping mall beneath the Monument des Martyrs, which commemorates those who fell fighting against the French. The mall is also the main hunting ground for street prostitutes. Prostitution (like satellite dishes and mobile phones) is a growth industry, providing extra cash for many female students.
In the casbah, the old part of town, once a haven for fundamentalist extremism, there is little talk of Islam either. Graffiti here shows some support for the GIA and the FIS, but admiration for JSK football club is also writ large. You see men with crescent beards, skullcaps and jellabas in the casbah - a statement indeed - and veiled women; but they move through a street scene that clearly doesn't care. Table football is played in the street, the songs of Cheb Hasni, a popular Rai singer, waft in the air. The casbah chebab - the Arabic word for a group of young men - hang around, cruise on mobilettes, talk on mobile phones, whistle at girls and smoke Rym. The girls, meanwhile, flirt. And play football...
JSK's main footballing rivals are NHD d'Alger and Kouba. Both teams are based in Algiers and neither is predominantly Berber. The Kouba stadium is near the airport, and the team trains in the stench of paraffin, and overlooked by mouse-grey apartment buildings covered with satellite dishes in one direction and a huge mosque in another. Mohamed Chalal, the Kouba coach, is not concerned about the symbolism of this clash between modernity and religion. What he's worried about is the championship football matches. JSK are winners, he says, because of their diet. "It is the olive oil. The Berbers eat a lot of olive oil. We call it the ÔBerber Medicine'. My girls prefer pizza and burgers and other rubbish." Coaching is a hobby for Mohamed (he is an accountant by trade), but he takes it very seriously.
The players jog around the field. They are from middle-class families. Charazed Touati is 17, and has played for two years. She is sulking on a bench. The coach has sent her off. She is plump and a little sluggish. Mohammed shouts, "Stop eating that rubbish." Charazed's sister, Amal, is Algeria's karate champion. "She does not eat pizza," Mohamed says. But he is proud of his star player, Aisha Berrechid, who is 18 and taking her high-school exams. She travels two hours every day to train after school. "She is devoted," says Mohammed. "And she doesn't eat pizza?" I ask. He shakes his head: "I talk to her parents."
Aisha's football is a family affair. At her home in the grey concrete high-rise suburbs that frame Algiers, her medals are on display. She is shy but football has made her a neighbourhood star, and a stream of locals come to see who is visiting the famous girl. Her father shows pictures of her with a ball. Then Madame Oum el Kheir, her teacher, makes her entrance in a veil. She sits herself down, as if for a TV interview, and says: "Aisha was always a good student. I knew she would be going far. I want her to go to university. I am telling her parents that. I am also telling monsieur Chalal that football should not keep her from her studies." What does she think about football? "Women have many opportunities now, that is very good. The women of Algeria have a very big job to do."
JSK, Kouba and NHD d'Alger are the teams that make it on to the sports pages of the French-language dailies, or the national Berber newspaper. They are not professional, unlike some Algerian men's teams, but they take the game as seriously as if they were. As I make my way to meet Hada and her JSK team-mates, I skim the morning papers for news on the competition, or maybe a titbit on the lesser team, MC Oran. The coastal city of Oran is where les papas of the 1954 War of Independence congregated. During the worst of the civil war, it was a killing ground. One article is asking, "Are our stadiums becoming a political battleground?" But it is a short piece, hidden on page three, that catches my attention.
Thirty gorges - people slaughtered by having their throats cut - have been discovered in a wine-growing region close to Oran. The story is told in one chilling sentence: "The killing was swift and sure, three people were injured but survived, and are said by doctors to no longer be able to speak." I have come to Algeria for football, but violence permeates everything. There may be less killing, but it has not stopped.
The authorities claim that 6,000 "terrorists" have surrendered so far, but desperadoes still go to the desert to sharpen their knives and regroup, and the infamous "ninjas" - the anti-terrorist heavies dressed in black with balaclavas - are still observing and "cleaning up" the suburbs. Men with guns and lists of names are no longer working the traffic jams of Algiers and executing the doomed, but their memory is still vivid. "Their shadow isn't gone," says one shopkeeper who sells aluminium couscous steamers. "I go to bed and think, ÔWill I wake up tomorrow?'"
Foreign journalists are rare in Algeria these days; dozens of local journalists have fled to France or Tunisia, or even England; some were killed. As a foreigner, I was provided with bodyguards who looked like hitmen from a Tarantino movie. Leaving town presented logistical problems. I am going to see the JSK girls in their stadium in Tizi Ouzou, east of Algiers, in the company of 12 armed gendarmes in combat gear. I'm travelling in a rusty old taxi, and they are escorting me in Land Cruisers, their headlights flashing to bully the other traffic out of the way. It's hard to feel anonymous.
The drive from Algiers to Tizi Ouzou takes about two hours, through a fertile, lush-green strip of land skimming the Mediterranean, full of vine stock on rolling hills, apricot and almond trees. The desert, so close, feels far away. It is easy to forget that Algeria is mostly desert. The land is freshly ploughed. The scent of jasmine washes in. Boys and girls with ginger hair sell bunches of spring onions, fresh baguettes and fruit by the roadside.
Tizi Ouzou is a small, pleasant town in the foothills of the Grand Kabyl mountains. Kabyl is the heartland of Algeria's Berbers, with a relaxed atmosphere and a largely young population. The older Berber women and the little girls still wear the colourful Berber dresses of folklore and henna patterns on their hands, but the young stroll around in bootlegged Dolce & Gabbana clothes bought from the trabandistas. Street peddlers from Senegal offer "magic potions".
The Kabyl like to see themselves as an open-minded people who are very much not Arabs and, in the face of increased Arabisation imposed by previous governments, they campaign for Amazigh, the Berber language, to become the national language. The Kabyl people form 16% of Algeria's total population of roughly 31 million, but they are not like the Kurds in Turkey - they are not a marginalised minority; they are at the heart of political and cultural life and debate. They formed a formidable block when they boycotted the last presidential elections, and see themselves as the champions of democracy and modernity in Algeria.
Their politician, their Berber-in-the- middle, is Saad Saadi. I met him in Algiers, where he told me: "This country is never going to be an Islamic republic. Jamais. But the young want change. They don't want the old class in charge any longer, who are disconnected from the young." This is one reason why JSK women's football team gathers support well beyond the Berber world.
In the main stadium the women are training; they share the same pitch, the same facilities and the same coach with the JSK men's team, and they attract equally big crowds to matches. JSK women are Algeria's champions year after year, and frequently play international matches against teams from other African countries where the women's game is popular, notably Nigeria. Today, it is high noon and hot. Packs of little boys in JSK football kits have gathered to watch the training session.
Coach Mohamed Dubabas makes his girls bend forward with arms spreadeagled. This coach is held in great esteem (the Kouba coach, Mohammed Chalal, confesses to being envious of him). His players listen intently, but remain on the wild side when they implement his orders. One player breaks her hand, howls, and is then back on the field. Dubabas says that there is no difference in terms of strategy between men and women. But "the girls play a purer football. I cannot push them physically as much as the men, but they are technically better players."
During the match, played a few days later, they play football, but more like rugby players. They psych themselves up in the bare changing rooms, waving their bras in the air. For goalkeeper Amal Hassoun football is a "passion". She studies videos of the Brazilian star Ronaldo, whom she admires for his "pure style". Her male admirers call her Sophie Marceau, after the French actress who appears in L'Etudiante, a popular comedy on Algerian TV. Amal says:
"I am not interested in politics, I don't have some political message." But that is not how the rest of the town sees it. In folk history, Berber women are known for their prowess, and are portrayed in Orientalist watercolours in colourful dress and veils, armed with rifles and sabres. The footballers are their modern counterparts: they are remarkably free - and this is what has made them targets. Amal played for Algeria in France during an international tournament. She recalls jogging on to the field with her team-mates, alongside the French national team.
"I was almost in tears. The lights were so bright; it was like a dream. The crowd was singing, they were waving French and Algerian flags. Then the French girls started to applaud us. We were all very emotional, that's why we lost. Well, that's what happened with Ronaldo as well, during the World Cup. He was too emotional. It does not mean he is not a great player. You should see how big and subtle he is." She stretches her hands and plays an imaginary piano. "We did not mind losing to the French. They were the better side. We exchanged shirts. I cried my eyes out... the beautiful stadium, the lights..."
Malika Aigoun does not have time for technique and emotion. The politics of football consume her. She is very thin, with taut skin over her cheekbones. She launches straight into a diatribe against the controversial Family Code, which is based in large part on the shariah. Introduced in 1984, when Algeria was still a socialist one-party state ruled by the military and the FLN papas, it strips women of most rights. Malika's point is that the code was introduced by secular Algeria, not the imams. "Do you think we need an Islamic state for that? The Muslims did not do that, did they - did they?" she asks. "Football is important. They are trying to stop us. It is the only way we can show that we want equality. We are just as good." She even thinks that male behaviour has improved thanks to the women's success. "Men are more like gentlemen now." My local bodyguards snigger. They are Berbers themselves and quite happily leave me alone.
It is easy to fool yourself into thinking that violence has passed Tizi Ouzou by, but the town is equally renowned for slaughter as for football. The talk in the street is of the notorious Hassan Hatab, leader of the GIA, who had been replaced. His "commander" for the Tizi Ouzou region is calling for fighters to join a truce. Nobody trusts it. There is hot debate in streets and parks and shops. "Then we still have the other terrorists to get rid of." They mean le pouvoir.
The next JSK match is to celebrate the Berber spring. The streets are packed with tens of thousands of people; they carry banners which read Qui a tu mon fils? (Who killed my son?) Huge portraits are shown of Matoub Lunes, the Berber singer, murdered last year by "unknown assassins". But there are smaller pictures too, of small children who have been snatched and killed. As we arrive at the ground, there is furious kicking and banging on the iron gates and the shouting of abuse. Amal simply says, "This is Algeria", but Hada "cuts" her throat with her hand and roars, "Come on then."


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The Honourable Stéphane Dion, Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Minister of International Trade, and the Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, today issued the following statement:
"International Women's Day allows Canada to put forward its vision for a world without gender inequality—a world where women and girls are fully in control of their lives.
"In all contexts, we must create opportunities for women and girls so they can be engaged in decision making in their homes, workplaces, communities and governments.
"As we look at our role in the world, Canada will continue working to close the gaps in reproductive health and rights. We are committed to empowering women and girls so they can access reproductive health services and decide whether and when to have children and to marry, as well as which education to pursue.
"Through the renewal of Canada's Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security, we will continue to ensure that women and girls are allowed to contribute to conflict prevention and resolution in their communities and countries. Canada welcomes the comprehensive inclusion of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
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Rotorua was hit by unusually high winds this week causing a tree to come crashing down.
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The strong winds on Wednesday night brought down a tree on Thebes St. One resident told the Rotorua Daily Post it was lucky the tree didn't hit any houses.
Rotorua Fire Brigade senior station office Cameron McEwen said "luckily" fire crews had not been called to any serious weather-related events.
Mr Holden said Rotorua rarely got wind gusts which were that strong because the city was so far inland.
"They were definitely much stronger than average."
He said the average wind gusts expected in Rotorua were between 20km/h and 40km/h.
According to the MetService the strong winds in Rotorua made it the seventh windiest place in the country on Wednesday.
Mr Holden said the winds were expected to die down by today. He said one positive about the high winds was that they reduced the chance of morning frosts.
Mr Holden said the city was currently experiencing an average high of about 13C and 14C, but the wind chill factor meant it felt several degrees colder.
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I think Ryan would need two good playoff runs to offset the choking that he has been known for. Not only win in the post season but play the QB position at a really high level
man playing in a dome more than half your games does wonders for qbs.. im sure elis numbers would be better if he got to play in a chilled climate controlled place half his games..
i have a question.. the main knock on ryan is he hasn't won a playoff game.. have they played a playoff game at home with him till now?
And to answer your question, depending on How matt plays, yes. It would change my opinion on Eli.


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would like to run a European marathon next Autumn.
Which should they choose and why?
Depends on what they want to achieve.
If it's to have a good time, an interesting route and enjoy a spectacle (and a glass or two of wine, oysters and ice cream) - the marathon du Medoc.
If it's to get a PB, then Amsterdam.
If they want a bit of history and a much smaller, very friendly event, then the Poppy Marathon in Albert (northern France).
1st time marathon for all three so it will be a PB anyway.
so I guess we'd like easier, flat mass participation event.
Amsterdam is very, very flat, and had nearly 10,000 finishers this year.
It's easy to get to Amsterdam, English is widely spoken (if your Dutch is not up to scratch), and you get to finish the race in the Olympic stadium.
It's also a nice city to visit
Amsterdam sounding good.
Berlin another interesting possibility and somewhere I'd like to visit.
Is Paris in the autumn?
Just did the Munich marathon... it's somewhat smaller and low-key. Very well organised, as you'd expect. Olympic stadium finish, if that matters. Quite flat. Nice stretch through a park at one point. Munich is a pretty city with excellent public transport. You need to have faith in your transport planning on the morning of, as other runners will be boarding trains/ trams that go in the opposite direction to the half mara start.
I didn't like that the water and sport drink was served in cups. (Wearing the water isn't bad, but sugary sticky all over me makes me sad.) On the plus side, they do have drink-on-course tables where you can deposit your own fluids in advance. They weren't overflowing with bottles, so that should be a viable option.Have fun, whatever your choice.
Marathon du Medoc.
Actually a Welsh marathon, or Cornish would be better. Then you'd have all corners covered.
Hilly marathons are great for first timers. Flat marathons take more effort and more out of you because you don't really vary the pace or the muscles you use whereas something more challenging allows for greater variety in pace and muscles - just my humble but I find off road hills far easier than flat road races esp over distance.
Lausanne at the end of October is great.
Flattish out and back course along the shores of Lake Geneva with the French Alps as a backdrop.
Free entry to the Olympic Museum included.
Switzerland's a bit pricey though.


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Lucidiom Inc., developer of the APM photo kiosk, will preview its expanded Luci, a creative photo kiosk program, to Europe during Photokina in September. Packed with new content and products for photofinishing, scrapbook and craft retailers, Luci will help European retailers expand their profits. Luci first debuted this past winter with photo kiosk features tailored for scrapbookers, such as exclusive Luci Layouts and specialty borders. During the Photokina tradeshow this September in Germany, Luci introduces additional creative photo category products for the European market: Wall Art, Collages, DVD Cinema and Red Letter Cards, as well as numerous new Luci Layouts and print sizes.
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"Retailers consistently need to go beyond the standard photo print in order to increase profits and to offer more creative solutions to their customers. Luci does just that. It's an entire program designed to bring the digital photo business and the paper creativity business together," said Lucidiom Vice President of Scrapbook & Craft Business Development Kesley Anderson. "With Luci's new products, retailers can expand their product offerings and reach out to a wider range of customers - from moms and dads to teenagers to grandparents - anyone who wants to take their family memories and display them creatively."
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With Luci, consumers can make personalized Wall Art from their photos, combine photos in themed Collages and create customized cards and stationery with Red Letter Cards. Luci also comes with borders that coordinate with Prism's Prismatic Packs and a newly expanded line of Luci Layouts for scrapbooking. Retailers get a batch of new content designs each month to keep customers coming back.
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No sensible person would choose a credit card based on its appearance. We'd all rather have a hideously ugly card that offered a great deal than a beautiful one with atrocious terms. The thing to remember about the More series is that all of those different looks are stamped on top of the same offer. Luckily, the offer itself is extremely good. If you're looking for a credit card with a strong cash back rewards program, it's hard to find a better deal than the Discover® More(SM) Card series.
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Oatmeal cookies suck. That is all.
^ I agree with fony
oatmeal chocolate chip on the other hand... mmmmm....... cookies.......
You're a liar and an evil man, fewyn. :/
Oatmeal cookies < Key lime white chocolate cookies.
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Bravo! And, Oatmeal is on par with ginger snaps...
Hey WowHead, quit being alliance-biased with everything, because little kids don't pay your bills. k?
^ Alliance > Horde. Horde is full of nerd-raging angsty teens from what I've seen of them...
All right, these new starting zones are pretty win.(Except, of course, the draenei. What's their problem, maaaaan?)
I'm certainly starting an alt just to see all the new stuff. Not going to replace my main though.
Anyone of you ever had Monster Cookies?They are LITERALLY every kind of cookie in one.I made some once.Since they're no-bake and have a lot of stuff in them, you end up with a bunch of tiny mutated pieces of delicious awesomeness.=Peanut Butter-Oatmeal-Raisins-Chocolate Chips-M&M'sThey're so good. Anyways.I remember the horrigay lowbie run from Azuremyst to Stormwind. I would literallly walk 4 paces. Mauled by 5 crocolisks. Die. Spirit Rez. Walk 4 paces. Mauled by 5 oozes. Die. Repeat, repeat, repeat...I was concerned that they took out the boat to stormwind. I'm glad they didn't.
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Wetlands guantlet. That should be a boss encounter right there. Win!
Chocolate chip healthstones...mmmmm
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The U.K awarded 20 million pounds ($30 million) to tidal power projects backed by Siemens AG and Morgan Stanley as it seeks to boost renewable generation.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change gave 10 million pounds to a project in Anglesey, Wales, that will use systems developed by Marine Current Turbines Ltd., which was bought by Siemens last year, Energy and Climate Change Minister Greg Barker told a conference today in London. It also awarded funds to MeyGen Ltd., owned 45 percent by Morgan Stanley, to install turbines off the Inner Sound in Scotland.
The projects, expected to operate by 2016, offer "learning and evidence" needed to move marine power to commercialization, Barker said. No commercial-scale projects are now operating.