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Hour Glass Slips Through in Vagrancy 'Cap
Hour Glass, trainer Todd Pletcher's second horse in Belmont Park's Vagrancy Handicap (gr. II), held off Tar Heel Mom by a half-length to win the $150,000 event for fillies and mares May 29.
Hour Glass, trainer Todd Pletcher's second horse in Belmont Park's Vagrancy Handicap (gr. II), held off Tar Heel Mom by a half-length to win the $150,000 event for fillies and mares May 29.
Alex Rankin's Tar Heel Mom, the Distaff Handicap (gr. II) winner last month at Aqueduct, will tote top weight of 119 pounds as the 5-2 morning-line favorite in the $150,000 Vagrancy Handicap (gr. II) May 29 at Belmont.
Maktoum family stable owner of seven U.S. grade I winners in 2009 including Flashing, Gayego, Music Note, Pyro, Seventh Street, and Vale of York
Flashing, thought to be making the final start of her career, popped the gate in front and never looked back, drawing away from Unrivaled Belle through the stretch drive to easily win the $300,000 Gazelle Stakes (gr. I) by 4 1/4 lengths at Aqueduct Nov. 28.
The flashy gray 3-year-old daughter of Tapit returns to action in the $300,000 Gazelle (gr. I) for 3-year-old fillies at 1 1/8 miles at Aqueduct.
Satans Quick Chick slid through the inside under Leandro Goncalves and caught Slides Choice and Don'ttalktome in the final strides to pull a 23-1 upset in the $300,000 Lexus Raven Run (gr. II) for 3-year-old fillies Oct. 24 at Keeneland.
Godolphin Racing's Flashing, a winner of four of six starts this season including the grade I Test Stakes, has a clear edge over a full field of 3-year-old fillies in the $300,000 Lexus Raven Run (gr. II) Oct. 24 at Keeneland.
Odds-on choice Informed Decision improved to five-for-five on synthetic tracks and cemented her position as a leading candidate for the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint when she sailed to a 2 1/2-length victory in the $398,000 Presque Isle Downs Masters (gr. III) in Erie, Pa., on the evening of Sept. 12.
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Four grade I winners -- Diamondrella, Flashing, Game Face, and Informed Decision -- are part of an overflow field entered for the $400,000 Presque Isle Downs Masters (gr. III) on tap Sept. 12 in Erie, Pa.
The fast-closing Flashing collared pacesetter Heart Ashley with a sixteenth of a mile to run and went on to a 1 1/2-length win in the $300,000 Test Stakes (gr. IT) at Saratoga Aug. 8.
Undefeated Cat Moves, who became a grade I winner in just her third start when she landed the Prioress at Belmont Park last month, is the one to beat in the $300,000 Test Stakes (gr. I) at Saratoga Aug. 8.
A walk down the Godolphin shedrow at Belmont Park reveals a "Who's Who" of major stakes horses, many of whom are just coming back off layoffs and getting ready for the Saratoga meet.
Rachel Alexandra faced only two opponents in the $300,000 Mother Goose (gr. I) June 27 at Belmont Park but the sensational filly put on a dazzling display anyway, setting a stakes record while romping by nearly 20 lengths under Calvin Borel.
Rachel Alexandra, who when last seen was making history by winning the May 16 BlackBerry Preakness (gr. I), will make her return to the racetrack in the $300,000 Mother Goose (gr. I) June 27 at Belmont Park. The Horse of the Year candidate will face only four rivals in the nine-furlong test for 3-year-old fillies.
Rachel Alexandra will make her first start since her historic Preakness (gr. I) victory June 27 at Belmont Park, but her presence in the $300,000 Mother Goose (gr. I) isn't scaring everyone away.
The 45-1 outsider Trusty Temper, ridden by Justin Shepherd, shook off favored Saarlight in early stretch and repulsed a strong challenge mid-stretch to win the $200,000 Jostle Stakes by 2 1/2 lengths at Philadelphia Park June 13.
Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin will send the promising Saarlight as the 3-1 morning line favorite in the $200,000 Jostle Stakes at Philadelphia Park June 13.
Flashing, passed by 6-5 favorite Saarlight in the lane, fought back in the middle of the track to win the $200,000 Nassau County Stakes (gr. II) by 1 1/4 lengths at Belmont Park May 2.
While the focus of the racing world is on Churchill Downs on the first Saturday in May, Belmont Park is offering a program that includes three graded stakes May 2.
Saarland, who was one of the top 2-year-olds of 2001, died March 11 because of injuries suffered after running into a feeder.
West Point Thoroughbreds and partners' Justwhistledixie stalked the pace, took over leaving the turn, and cruised to a 3 3/4-length victory in the $150,000 Davona Dale Stakes (gr. II) for 3-year-old fillies at Gulfstream Park March 1.
Since scoring in the Forward Gal (gr. II) less than a month ago, Frolic's Dream was purchased privately and has changed barns, but that won't keep the promising filly from trying to win for the fifth time in six starts in the $150,000 Davona Dale Stakes (gr. II) March 1 at Gulfstream Park.
Sent off as the 3-2 favorite in the six-horse field, Dare To Dream Stable's homebred Frolic's Dream took command easily in the far turn and ran on to an easy victory in the $150,000 Forward Gal Stakes (gr. II) at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 30.
Gemswick Park and Frolic's Dream, separated by two noses when they finished first and third, respectively, in the six-furlong Old Hat Stakes (gr. III)) on Jan. 4, return to Gulfstream Park Jan. 30 as the two likely favorites in the Forward Gal Stakes (gr. II).
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IAC/Interactive Feels the Mortgage Chill
IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI) managed to improve profits during recent months, but disappointed investors sold the stock on May 3 nonetheless. The New York Internet conglomerate's sales suffered as the subprime mortgage meltdown kept some customers away.
Net income grew 31.6% year over year to $62.1 million during the three months ended March 31. The company's 33 cents earnings per share came out in line with the consensus estimate.
But the troubles in the mortgage market hit sales in the company's lending related business. Revenue at its website LendingTree, which IAC acquired in May 2003, dropped 12% year over year to $100.0 million during the quarter. Consumers who use the website can choose loan offers from banks, but fewer loans were sold into the secondary market or closed at the exchange during recent months. Meanwhile the lenders began focusing on offering mainly traditional mortgage products, which contributed to lower profits and revenue per loan sold.
Not helping matters for IAC, the company closed the Home Shopping Network's spin-off America's Store in recent months. Excluding this closure, HSN's sales grew a paltry 1% year over year during the first quarter. Overall retailing revenue increased only by 2% year over year to $787.6 million.
"The HSN and LendingTree units continue to disappoint," Standard & Poor's equity analyst Scott Kessler said in a research note. (S&P, like BusinessWeek.com, is owned by The McGraw-Hill Companies.) "We are not confident about the prospects for near-term turnarounds."
Investors sold IAC's stock 6.5% to $36.10 per share on the Nasdaq May 3.
But it wasn't all bad. Ticketmaster's sales rose 26% year over year to $309.9 million during the quarter. Domestic revenue increased 20%, thanks to things like the ticket sales from concerts including The Police and Kenny Chesney. International revenue grew 36%, excluding the effects of foreign exchange, amid factors such as growing sales in the U.K. and Canada. Overall the company wound up earning $1.6 billion in revenue during the March quarter, a 10% rate of growth over the prior year.
Another plus: Revenue for the company's media and advertising division, which includes Ask.com as well as popular local search site Citysearch.com and invitation site Evite.com, gained 43% year over year to $168.1 million during the quarter. Since buying Ask in 2005, the company has overhauled the search engine, rebranding it without the trademark butler, and focusing on new tools to make search faster and less cluttered (see BusinessWeek.com, 10/5/06, "A Gaggle of Google Wannabes"). For example, it added tools that allow users to see a picture of a link's homepage without actually clicking and loading the page itself. After promotional efforts dented the media and advertising unit's profits by $6.4 million in the first quarter of 2006, the business actually earned $10.5 million during the March quarter this year.
But free cash flow generated during the first quarter amounted to $72.6 million, down $2.3 million compared to the prior year. IAC's team had promised wary investors last fall that they would use free cash to buy back up to 60 million shares. At the time, analysts had taken the news as a reassuraing sign that Barry Diller & Co. wouldn't spend on more acquisitions (see BusinessWeek.com, 11/1/06, "IAC's Diller Thinks Ask Is the Answer"). S&P's Kessler says IAC didn't buy back as many shares during the first quarter as hoped "due to discussions related to a material transaction that was not consummated." The analyst kept a hold opinion on the company's stock.
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Tory began training in classical ballet at the age of six. After high school she attended Broward Community College and graduated with an Associate's Degree in Business. She soon stepped it up a notch and began stripping and working at a local Hooters where she was approached by a representative of LA Direct Models.After signing with LA Direct, Lane's first scene in a pornographic movie was with Ben English in Suze Randall's The Young & The Raunchy at the age of 21. Since then she has appeared in over 200 films, which generally fall into the sub-genres of gonzo and anal. She is known for her enthusiastic performances and giving deep throat oral sex. During sex she uses naughty talk to add extra effect. In May 2007 Lane signed a two-year contract with Sin City for both acting and directing.
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The Long Center's 5th anniversary season is our biggest and best yet! In addition to our popular programs in the International Series, Family Series and some of the best of Broadway, we're adding six new series, including Rock-a-LONG Wednesdays, LONG Laughs, National Geographic Live! and FlamencoAustin. Select series offer same-seat guarantees throughout.
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/// Why Twitter Dropped Close to $90 Million on Bluefin Labs
Twitter just paid a lot of money for Bluefin Labs (around $90 million, we hear), a social analytics startup that marries two key streams of data to Twitter in its pitch to advertisers: What's happening on TV, and what's happening on Twitter. That price alone lets us know how important Bluefin is to Twitter, a burgeoning media company. But Bluefin's demo at our D: Dive Into Media conference on Tuesday gave better insight into just exactly why Twitter was willing to spend that much on the social network's largest acquisition to date. "This whole thing is about taking common sense and making it scale and making it quantative," Deb Roy, co-founder of Bluefin, said at the conference. "If you can take [our analytics service] and not just do it about [one event like] the Super Bowl but do it for all TV shows … now you have this comprehensive view into how TV is driving engagement." Example: Bluefin drills down into specific moments on television, be they advertisements, actual shows or what have you. And Roy says it can grab a larger, more representative slice of the Twitter users tweeting about a specific moment than, say, a hashtag can (as many people may be talking about an event without using a hashtag). From there, Bluefin runs what's called an affinity analysis, which lets the company figure out "preexisting affinities between TV program audiences and brands." Moreover, Bluefin can flesh out a profile of a particular Twitter user tweeting in a specific moment based on that person's tweeting history. That's crucial and now can be part of Twitter's way of marrying data to its ad sales pitch.
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The recent launch of BT's Total Broadband package has been largely ignored by the IT press. This makes perfect sense if you consider that an ISP's job is to provide a cable with a certain amount of data bandwidth and a monthly bill, however BT has far grander plans. To show its Total Broadband in action it hired a minimalist designer London flat at the top of a six-storey building. I have little doubt that a letting agent would call the flat an 'apartment' or possibly a 'loft' as the stairs didn't go to the top floor, but instead there was a lift with a private key-operated switch, which meant that some poor sod of a PR spent the day operating the key to prevent it being nicked. To the best of my knowledge the difference between an apartment and a loft is about £500 per month.
Anyway, it looked lovely inside. Open plan, very bright and white, hidden doors to the bedrooms and cupboards and an open staircase that took you up to a mezzanine floor and the decked balcony. Le Corbusier would have loved it and it is surely no coincidence that Total Broadband is being pushed by, of all organisations, Tate Britain.
The flat suited BT perfectly as no-one would want to mess up its minimalist interior with CAT5 cables while the lack of internal walls makes for a wonderful environment for wireless networking, which is handy as the central feature of Total Broadband is the Home Hub. This is a common-or-garden 802.11g ADSL router that has had the pearlescent white iPod makeover, so you plug in your 'up to 8Mbit/sec' ADSL and voila you've got 21st Century connectivity.
Well no doubt you've already got a router connected to your Cable or ADSL link, and 802.11g is hardly new in these days of G+, MIMO and Pre-802.11n, but the other elements of Total Broadband show some imagination. There's an Internet radio that works well very, although I was surprised that the lady performing the demo hadn't listened to the radio facility in iTunes, and the bloke with an earnest expression who assured me that on-line gaming with an Xbox 360 would be better over Total Broadband 'because BT is a close partner of Microsoft' was clearly having a laugh, but that's the extent of my mockery. The VoIP Softphone is fine provided your PC is on, while the hardware VoIP Hub Phone is a phone that plugs into your Hub, just as the name suggests.
The Homesafe security system with CCTV sounds interesting, and moving Fusion from a Bluetooth connection to Wi-Fi is a sensible revision, although it won't make Riyad any happier about the pricing that BT employs. The Videophone is a matter of personal preference, and while it may be inevitable I reckon it has more drawbacks as a concept than a simple voice call.


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Nashua's State of the City speech postponed
NASHUA - The mayor's annual State of the City address for Tuesday night has been postponed because of the inclement weather.
The mayor was expected to read her speech to the Board of Aldermen. The event has not yet been rescheduled.
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The Griffin Trust announced the judges for the 2011 Griffin Poetry Prize yesterday. The accomplished panel consists of Tim Lilburn, Colm Toíbín, and Chase Twichell, all prize-winning poets and novelists themselves.
Read more about the judges and the prize at the National Post:
Toíbín, a celebrated novelist, teaches at Princeton University, as the Leonard Milberg Lecturer in Irish Letters. The author of six acclaimed novels including The Master, Toíbín has won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He also writes regualrly for the London Review of Books and the New York Review of Books.
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Buyers line up at first legal pot shops in Washington state
By Eric M. Johnson and Bryan Cohen
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Eager customers lined up before dawn on Tuesday as Washington became the second U.S. state to allow the sale of marijuana for recreational use, although shortages and high prices were likely to accompany any euphoria.
Store employees clapped and cheered at Top Shelf Cannabis in the northern city of Bellingham as its first buds were sold to a 29-year-old from Kansas, Cale Holdsworth.
"I'm happy to be a part of history," said Holdsworth, who was on vacation visiting family and took his place at the front of the line at about 4 a.m.
A handful of shops opened a day after 25 outlets were issued licenses under a heavily regulated and taxed system approved by voters in November 2012.
The nation, and the federal government, are watching Washington's rollout as a broader trend of liberalization and pro-pot activism takes hold in the United States.
More than 100 people were outside Top Shelf Cannabis, in an industrial office park, when the doors opened at 8 a.m.
After Holdsworth's ID was checked to ensure he was 21 or older, he picked out two grams (0.07 ounce) of "OG Pearl Kush" for $26.50, which included about $6 in taxes.
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George Parker: So… What Was Transformed?
George Parker is the perpetrator of adscam.typepad.com. Every week he shares his opinions on the advertising world with PSFK.
As I mentioned in my last column, I was one of eight "Transformers" chosen to speak at last week's 4 A's conference in San Francisco. I must confess this was more than merely interesting as it reinforced my continuing thesis that not only is advertising the world's dumbest business; it manages to employ a great number of people who probably couldn't get a job at their local hamburger joint.
The few sessions that I sat through (I was only there for a day, as that was all they would cover my expenses for, the cheap bastards) were less than inspiring. Probably because on that day, most of the sessions were concerning media and so replete with eye glazing discussions of datametrics and all the other measurement bullshit BDA's love to go on and on about. As AdAge put it… "The agenda and speakers felt more media-led than management-focused, with absences among senior executives from large creative shops, a group to whom the management conference has long laid claim." This was borne out by the seeming lack of interest in thinking about the tremendous impact emerging media channels such as mobile are having on the ad biz.
I did my "Transformer" thing on how the BDA's should buy themselves back from the clutches of the evil holding companies. This was greeted by a combination of humor and horror, but when I finished my five minutes in three and invited anyone with questions to join me in the bar on the ground floor, a surprising number did… Including Mr. PSFK himself, my old mate Piers. He even bought a couple of beers. Fucking amazing! The reaction was better than I expected, as I was in a way, stepping into the lions den. Obviously, many thought it was intended as a joke and I was just engaging in my usual shit stirring, but I explained that I was actually serious in my belief that this will be the only way to save the industry. Not that it will ever happen. That's one bottle you'll never be able to re-cork.
What was surprising was that there was virtually no discussion on agency remuneration, the loss of thousands of skilled people, the erosion of the overall standard of work, and what I consider to be a major problem, the increasing use by clients of agency search consultants. These are vultures whose primary function is to grind out the best possible deal for the client, with the competing agencies compelled to offer to work for increasingly smaller margins. Agencies who agree to compete with each other in a review process managed by these fucktards, deserve everything that happens to them.
All in all, well worth the effort, even if it did mostly reinforce my impressions of the current state of the ad biz. And I did get a lot of free drinks after my speech. Even from Piers.
George Parker is a guest columnist for psfk.com. He is the perpetrator of adscam.typepad.com, which is without doubt, one of the most foul and annoying, piss & vinegar ad blogs on the planet. He is the author of MadScam and his new book, The Ubiquitous Persuaders, which is currently setting the ether ablaze (and which you can order now on Amazon). He will continue to relentlessly promote the crap out of it until you are forced to stab yourself in the eyes with knitting needles.


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i need to do make a presentation on my favourite song how do i do it.
my favourite song is moves like jagger
This is a song I do not know. Here are some links to that song that might give you ideas:
Here are some links on how to present a song:
Because we don't know anything about your class, except the subject, do you play an instrument? You could give a "background" on the musician that wrote the song (or lyrics and music might have been done by more than one person. Then you could play a tape/CD or perform it yourself. You might have a copy of the words and music and get the class to sing it!
Don't be afraid to be creative - any poster, art work you could use, or le the students draw something while they listen to the song. If you have the words, leave some of the words BLANK for the students to fill in the missing words. "Brain storm" to think of anything that would make them listen, keep them busy, etc. Have fun with it and "audience participation" can entertain everyone.
See if you can "touch" the 5 senses = see, hear, feel, hard to reach "touch" and "smell" with a song, but might not be impossible!


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It's a compression gasket basically.
The end of the nut facing the packing is rounded and when you screw the nut in,it push's the packing against the needle to seal it. The more you tighten the more it tries to squish against the needle.
The old one's were like the old "rope" seals used on rear mains on motors.
Graphite impregnated cotton.
IF you could find a "O" ring that fit the needle,that might get you thru.
Or, a rubber faucett washer from a faucett rebuild kit from the hardware store.You'd have to cut it down to fit,but when your in a bind.....
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Packing for packing nut
Is this an easy item to get, or is it something I am going to have to order? I have a Sharpe SGF 98 that I have had for 6 or 7 years. I have always hated the gun ( ruined a paint job on a truck), I did not realize when I bought it way back when that I needed 12.3 cfm to run the gun properly, nor did I have access to that much with the set up I had at the time. Anyways I used it once and put it back in the box and it has set ever since.
Today since I now have the compressor to run the gun, I used it to base the car I am doing. It worked great except the packing nut wouldn't quit leaking ( yes I tried to tighten it up) and when I was finished, I tore the gun apart, including taking out all of the packing material. In all the years I have painted I have never taken a gun completely apart. I clean them ie... take the head out clean all of the body out etc... but I have never removed any of the "packing nuts" or tigger stuff... you get the picture, so tonight when I see all this funky looking white junk where I just pulled out the packing nut, of course I think it needs to come out and that is probably why the thing was leaking OOPs to late now. Is there something I can put in there myself that I dont have to buy "special packing material" or is it going back in the box for another 6 or 7 years lol???
I have got to get this car pearled and cleared tomorrow morning... dont have enough base to cover much of anything again? I have other guns that I have always relied on, but I must admit, that sharpe sprays better than my other 3 Astros that I have... they dont ever mess up, but they dont lay things down as nice either...
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In the world of communications system, what company can provide an up to date service that enhances partnership, customer service, effectiveness and competitiveness?
Avaya telephones the world renowned leader in enterprise phone system is relentlessly upgrading its products, specifically VoIP phones and Business Telephones, to provide high-quality service to the clients it has been serving for many years. In this year 2011, what is in store for us from Avaya? In the 2011 Annual HIMSS Conference and Exhibition the Avaya phone systems revealed its new products that advance the health care practices of hospitals all over the world. The new telephone systems are:
- the Avaya Mobile Device Checkout 3.0 application with wireless LAN mobile device that allows communication from anywhere in the grounds of the hospital,
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Avaya has developed these innovations to compete against other phone system or communication providers. Avaya has always been challenged by business companies specifically by hospitals, banks and call centers to develop business telephones that increase customer satisfaction but are at the same time cost-effective. In this fast changing world where technology is always upgrading and advancing, customers would choose the best service provider for the benefit of their clients and their business. Communication is essential in many ways, but not just "communication" what is most important is "effective communication". An effective communication needs an excellent system that can convey the message fast and precise. Get such useful Avaya phones from SE Telecom.
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i think that my adapters that connect my intercoolers and all the pipeing are leaking where can i get some new ones. maby better ones.
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it looks like there is oil coming out of them it is just gathering aroung the adapters
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can't you tighten them? aren't you talking about the IC boots, hose things... that are attached with clamps?
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i think i can but they are the original ones. i think cant rember if the had been changed. so the are 8yrs old with 150000 miles but i wil try to tighten first.
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This morning I enabled the upload of image files by editing config.php in the connector area of FCKeditor. All seemed to be going well until this afternoon, admittedly from a different computer, I was told that the connector was disabled. I checked but the upload was still turned on in the config.php file.
Any hints?
As a followup - I have identified things more clearly. It appears that I am not allowed to Browse the server rather than upload - upload seems ok but not the browse - I will now go and look again.
You really shouldn't enable uploads in the FCKeditor configuration. What that does is opens a security hole where anyone can use it to upload files to your site (without going through glFusion).
Out of the box, glFusion allows you to upload files / images /etc. through the FCKeditor, but it does it with some protections to ensure you are actually logged into the site and editing something. If you look at the code,
What this does is disable the connector, but then checks to see if a special token cookie is set, if it is, then it will enable the connector. This prevents anyone from exploiting the file upload feature.
I'm wondering if you had a problem uploading items (didn't work?) so you tried to enable the connector?
Well.... that's interesting.
This is a site I have been using for some time and upgraded several times...
Anyway, I was logged in as admin - and the only thing I was trying to upload were images. A number of times, it told me that I needed to modify the connector at ../fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/config.php in order to upload (and I swear I had already enabled the connector previously - but knowing how distracted I get, it could have been on another site although I do not think so).
Apart from difficulties with uploading from my PC, it also did not allow me to browse the server until I hacked the path of where the files were meant to be saved as in the following (the uncommented line indicates the change I made - found somewhere with google). Clearly I had the wrong path in config.php in addition to the connector problem but the diagnostic message was not very clear about this.
Anyway, changing the path as indicated below allowed me to browse the required directory.
I am intrigued that, from what you say, glfusion knows how to deal with the issue. I wonder why it does not work even though I was logged in as the main admin. Would it have anything to do with my browser settings?
So... should I now disable the connector and look for a different solution? Obviously, I do not need such a big security hole.
Thanks a lot
I disabled $config['Enabled'] as follows
and everything still seems to be working. This contradicts my previous experience and I wonder if glfusion is looking at cached information. I guess I will keep trying and see what happens. Maybe fixing the path fixed all the problems - but that is not the message I was getting for the failed uploads. FCKeditor specifically claimed that the connector was not enabled.
I will report back if anything new turns up - I will now go and clean the cache/system etc.
Thanks a lot
I wonder if there might not be some other explanation for this problem.
I am not very fast with my editing and the site I use seems to time me out quite quickly - a matter of minutes, not hours - and irregularly at that. This timeout often happen when I am in the middle of editing. However, when it does happen, the system does not flag the change of status. I can still do the editing, oblivious to the timeout, and the problem appears only when I try to save. The system then forces me to login again. When that happens, it also often does not save the work that I have been doing which, of course, is frustrating (as there is no "Save & Continue" facility I tend to fix a whole page or story until I do the final save).
Could the timeout explain the lack of connectivity? I guess that if the token disappears because of the timeout then so does the permission to connect.
Does that make any sense?
The token that allows the connector to work when editing an item does have a 20 minute life, so if it takes longer than 20 minutes to edit, the token will timeout. The quick fix is to preview the story every 15 minutes or so, this will reset the token. The long term solution is something we'll work on for the next major release - something that will keep the token alive the whole time.
Thanks Mark
sounds like that could be the problem. It is quite possible that the token expires. A possible additional problem, though, is that the login session also expires at apparently irregular intervals. I know there is a way of changing the timeout by hacking a file (I have the hack somewhere) but the settings in the config area of glfusion is not enough.
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Questa volta Vittorio e' andato a trovare Alessandro Catorcini, un altro genovese che fa il senior program manager nel common language runtime team. Dopo la chiacchierata di rito sul come sia finito a lavorare in America per Microsoft, Alessandro parla a ruota libera del CLR: si va dal positioning di Silverlight all'hosting del common language runtime in applicazioni ad altissima affidabilita' come SQL Server. Durante la discussione alessandro cita un paper sull'hosting che puo' essere scaricato da qui; fa inoltre frequente menzione del blog CLR Inside Out, disponibilie da qui.
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Italia 9: Alessandro Catorcini and .NET Framework Reliability
Now that vacation time is gone, here there's the second episode of Italia 9!
This time Vittorio went to visit Alessandro Catorcini, another guy from Genova who works as Senior Program manager in the common language runtime team.After the usual chat about how he ended up working for Microsft in theUS, Alessandro talks about the CLR: the discussion flows from Silverlight positioning to the aspects of hosting the CLR on highly reliable applications such as SQL Server. During the discussion Alessandro quotes a paper about CLR hosting, that can be downloaded from here; furthermore, he often mentions the blog CLR Inside Out (feed here).
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Grazie ragazzi, vi amo!!!
Che goduria infinita ascoltare le vostre interviste in italiano dopo aver trascorso l'estate a cercare di carpire quanto più possibile da interviste registrate da tizi con accenti e slang di ogni sorta!
Skriker V1.0 wrote:English!!!
Let's start multi-language thread!!! Absolutely useless, but funny.
I will post something in russian, you (as proper scotsman!)- in gaelic, somebody else in chinese, japanese, etc. It will be a real mess!
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Skriker V1.0 wrote:
Let's start multi-language thread!!! Absolutely useless, but funny.
I will post something in russian, you (as proper scotsman!)- in gaelic, somebody else in chinese, japanese, etc. It will be a real mess!
How about not being pointless? Would that work for you?
Come on. This is an interview that will be understood by those who speak Italian. There's plenty of English on this site to keep you very busy.
There will be more of this type of thing in the future on Channel 9 (non-English interviews). I would like for these to remain unpolluted (like all threads, but that's a tall order...) by pointless posts.
Vad kul att ni skriver på italienska, svenska är annars också ett trevligt språk som man kan skriva på. puss o hej
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Skriker V1.0 wrote:
Let's start multi-language thread!!! Absolutely useless, but funny.
I will post something in russian, you (as proper scotsman!)- in gaelic, somebody else in chinese, japanese, etc. It will be a real mess!
How about not being pointless? Would that work for you?
Come on. This is an interview that will be understood by those who speak Italian. There's plenty of English on this site to keep you very busy.
There will be more of this type of thing in the future on Channel 9 (non-English interviews). I would like for these to remain unpolluted (like all threads, but that's a tall order...) by pointless posts.
Seriously what's the point of these interviews if the language is not English, I'm not trying to be ignorant, I know there are many languages out there, but I bet 99% of the people who make use of this site from non-English speaking countries can understand/read English?
unfortunately you'd lose your bet.
In Italy computer scientists can certainly READ English, but we are not exposed very often to spoken English. ALL the TV is dubbed in Italian, and the same goes for movie theaters. As a result it may actually be very difficult for them to follow English content. As an example of what I am talking about, here there's a translation of the very first comment in the thread:
"Thank you guys, I love you!!!
What a pleasure is listening to your interviews in Italian, after having spent the summer trying to grasp as much as possible from interviews given by people with the widest range of accents and slangs!"
As Carlo says, Channel9 is stuffed with English material to keep you very busy: hopefully you won't be bothered too much if we try to do something from time to time for people speaking Italian,Japanese, Chinese, etc etc
Vittorio, thanks for your insider feedback, perhaps having a Language section of channel9 would be helpful, or do this based on your profile, if your selected language is Italian show the user Italian content when they login. :O
I don't appreciate your tone. Show a little more respect for people. Vittorio is one of our best and brightest. You know not of what you speak. We're trying to make Channel 9 more representative of this planet's population, most of whom do NOT speak English natively.
Keep your crticism constructive and respectful or keep it to yourself.
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Vittorio, thanks for your insider feedback, perhaps having a Language section of channel9 would be helpful, or do this based on your profile, if your selected language is Italian show the user Italian content when they login. :O
This is precisely what we are thinking about implementing, BTW.
Caro Vittorio,
Insted of arguing with the viewers and being arrogant like a "peppino", why don't you try to learn from the feedback and improve the quality of your work? I'm so fortunate to speak fluent italian as well as english, but i still don't understand the purpose of such kind of interviews content-less. I do appreciate all your effort trying to be a "player" in the channel9 community, however not everybody is "cut" for that. Your inteviews are "candid cameras"- like and sometimes pathetic. To be honest I was expecting much more from an Italian group. I know you can do better, don't give up!
I'm watching you
Btw. what do you know about italian computer "scientists"? that's so funny!
Un salutone,
Hey Carlo Tower take it easy. Afterall I said he can do better, didn't I ?
Even negative reviews are somewhat constructive. Keep that in mind instead of arguing with the viewers.
Dear dubian,
I don't believe I said anything arrogant and I am glad that Skriker, judging from his reply, didn't seem to have the same impression.
About the feedback. The structure of the interviews is very simple, and I try to leave as much control as I can to the person I interview. The purpose is giving a feeling of what it means for an Italian person to work here, and to give useful technical information in the process. In order to achieve both goals I have to allow the person some "personal" space, and I can see how this can be unfamiliar to many viewers. Next time I will select a guy who has a peculiar style also in the delivery, so the initial segment can be shorter and his personality still come out: I'll be curious to have your feedback about if it mitigates...
Now the less pleasant part. Regardless being positive or negative, your comment contains various attacks ad hominem that are completely unnecessary for nailing home your point, and I certainly don't appreciate that. With a degree cum laude in computer science from one of the finest universities in Italy, a couple of papers solving an open problem in computational geometry and few years playing with the most advanced datacenters in Italy in the scientific visualization field, I believe I have a pretty good idea of what an Italian computer scientist is and if I'd be interested in "being a player", as you say, it would be much easier for me to get Carlo to interview ME. I am doing those interviews out of sheer love for my country, since my professional focus is elsewhere. I was sort of hoping of making people happy rather than anonymously being called names, but hey: one always does his best.
Vittorio ma per cortesia....the second part of your comment is ridiculous and laughable.
I understand the love for your country, which happens to be mine as well, but with your "commedy shows" you are hurting it.
Think about your poor job on Italia9 and learn from anybody's feedback rather than arguing the viewers' posts. It will definitely help you with the 3rd one.
Innanzitutto: complimentoni per l'intervista!
...però, peccato che è finita troppo presto
Mi togliete una curiosità: ma il Program Manager scrive codice o no? Cioè, in Microsoft, l'unica figura che scrive codice è lo SDE (Software Development Engineer)?
BTW: Sono completamente d'accordo con Vittorio, quando scrive:
In Italy computer scientists can certainly READ English, but we are not exposed very often to spoken English. ALL the TV is dubbed in Italian, and the same goes for movie theaters. As a result it may actually be very difficult for them to follow English content.
Io mi sento pienamente a mio agio nel leggere (e anche scrivere) in inglese, ma quando si tratta di ascoltare...
Sarebbe fantastico se si potessero avere dei sotto-titoli in inglese che accompagnino le interviste, per lo meno quelle delle MS Personalities. Ad esempio, mi sarebbe piaciuto capire molto di più del contenuto dell'intervista fatta di recente a Peter Spiro (il signore dalla barba fluente)!
Ciao Gio,
grazie mille per i complimentoni!
Riguardo a chi scrive codice: Alessandro puo'sicuramente dare una risposta piu' accurata, comunque molti dei PM che conosco scrivono codice. Magari e' codice che non finisce direttamente nel prodotto, comunque per esplorare idee e chiarificare specifiche il codice e' una componente importante. La cosa vale assolutamente per PM vicini all'implementazione, come i feature PM; man mano che si sale la scala dell'astrazione probabilmente il bisogno di aprire visual studio diminuisce. Ma di nuovo, sono certo che Alessandro dara' un commento piu' accurato
Riguardo ai sottotitoli. So che Carlo ha considerato l'idea, ma non so nulla riguardo alla sua effettiva fattibilita' dal punto di vista tecnico/di processo. Traduco il tuo commento in una mail in inglese e glie la mando, magari risponde qui (anche se mi sa che adesso e' fuori ufficio).
Grazie ancora dei complimenti & salutoni!
Ciao Gio,
Definire in due parole il ruolo di un PM in Microsoft e' abbastanza difficile. Per la parte che concerne la tua domanda direi che la risposta piu' accurata e' "Di solito, no".
Piu' in dettaglio, mentre un SDE scrive il codice del prodotto e un SDE/T scrive il codice che verifica che il codice del SDE faccia tutto e solo quello che deve fare, uno dei ruoli del feature PM e' definire nei dettagli che cosa deve fare il codice che il SDE scrive.
Non e' raro che per fare questo ci si serva di prototipi, soprattutto quando si progettano API, in modo tale da definire le interfacce partendo dal codice che il developer che usera' quelle API dovra' scrivere. In questo caso, parte del lavoro del PM e' scrivere codice. E' molto raro (e secondo alcuni una stortura) che il codice di un PM entri a fare parte del prodotto.
Grazie ragazzi per le risposte: siete stati chiarissimi!
BTW: Fa piacere constatare che la genialità italica di Leonardo o Michelangelo che voi avete nel vostro DNA ed esprimete nel vostro lavoro, sia esportata e applicata anche oltre oceano, a Redmond
Saluti e buon lavoro,
Complimenti per le interviste in italiano che permettono anche agli studenti di capire i video.
Ottimo lavoro.
I do appreciate your effort to bring deep technical know-how to people not fluent in English. I noticed that on outside-US MS events vast majority of participants use the live-translation kits on english sessions which means that all those people might be unable to make use of channel9 videos. I think it should be encouraged to create multi language content.
Innanzitutto volevo ringraziarvi per queste interviste in italiano e vorrei farvi sapere che mi sono molto piacute. Penso che, più che darci delle informazioni tecniche (cosa si può pretendere in 30 minuti?), possono essere utili per capire un po' come sono le persone che lavorano in Microsoft e credo che questo obiettivo sia stato pienamente raggiunto.
Aspetterò con ansia le nuove puntate.
Volevo anche segnalare che l'articolo sulla scrittura di applicazioni affidabili con .NET è uscito.
Saluti da Venezia
@Vittorio:@Skriker V1.0:Vittorio, Skriker, I would like to add something to what Vittorio said. There are many people out there who are brilliant, but dont know English well. Infact in India, I feel this is more of a problem. Since many people believe that English is needed for doing a job (which is very silly). It puts at disadvantage, those people who dont know English. If one really counts, the countries where people are speaking English as their mother tongue, you could use your fingers. Thats why focus on application localization is a de-facto standard. Some of the more progressive countries like Japan, Switzerland, Germany, Canada (many parts) dont have to use English.
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Spontaneous pneumothorax is caused by a rupture of a cyst or a small sac (bleb) on the surface of the lung. Pneumothorax may also occur following an injury to the chest wall such as a fractured rib, any penetrating injury (gun shot or stabbing), surgical invasion of the chest, or may be deliberately induced in order to collapse the lung. A pneumothorax can also develop as a result of underlying lung diseases, including
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FROM military-style uniforms after World War II to mini-skirts of the 1960s and 1970s "flower power'', the Qantas uniform has seen many incarnations throughout its 92-year history.
Now Melbourne-born, Paris-based designer Martin Grant, whose designs have been worn by Cate Blanchett, Juliette Binoche and Kate Hudson, has been chosen to take the airline to a new era.
Qantas CEO Alan Joyce said Mr Grant's collections were known for their sophistication and wearability and "elegant style'' was the preferred template for the new uniform.
They are also likely to reflect Australia's ethnic diversity, with Mr Joyce saying the new design would be "one that looks good on everybody''.
Photo gallery: Previous Qantas uniforms
While Mr Grant said he already had a vision in mind he won't be able to reveal it for a while.
A team of fashion-conscious staff were asked to help choose the designer and will act as consultants for the new uniforms, which will be worn by international and domestic cabin crew and ground staff in the new design in 2014.
The Qantas uniform has been re-designed nine times since 1959.
The current design by Peter Morrissey showcases the distinctive Boomerang print known as Wirriyarra.
Previous designers have included Yves Saint Laurent, Emilio Pucci, George Gross and Harry Who.
Mr Joyce said the past 11 years was the longest period without change, with the uniform changing every six years on average.
"The Qantas uniform is more than just a uniform - our cabin crew are Qantas ambassadors all around the world,'' he said.
"Just as Australia has changed with the times our uniform has evolved to reflect who we are as a nation.
"Australia has come of age and we have our own home-grown designers.
"We were not surprised but humbled by the interest from Australian designers from around the world.''
Mr Grant introduced his first collection 30 years ago.
He studied sculpture at the Victorian College of Arts before moving to London, where he studied bespoke tailoring.
He then relocated to Paris and set up an atelier in a disused hospital, opening his first Parisian boutique in an old barber shop in 1996.
He creates four collections a year which are sold around the world, including in Japan, France, Italy and the United States.
The National Gallery of Victoria celebrated his work with the exhibition called Martin Grant, Paris in 2005.
Vogue USA editor-at-large Andre Leon Tally said Grant's work "speaks to the international woman, the woman who travels, the woman who works, the woman who wants to be dressed with appropriateness, yet who has that appeal when she turns the hand-finished buttons in her geranium red Martin Grant coat''.


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A Space for Peace - The Desmond Tutu Peace Centre
It's time to break ground for the permanent home of the Desmond Tutu Peace Centre. After more than 10 years, the men and women on the boards of the Desmond Tutu Peace Trust (South Africa) and the Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation (United States) are anxious to begin construction. The Centre will rise on a piece of prime real estate near the city's thriving waterfront in Cape Town's central business district, propagating the vision of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu, anti-apartheid activist, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and former chairman of post-apartheid South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. If all goes as planned, by 2010 the Centre will host, empower and educate more than a million people to spread the principles and strategies of nonviolent peace making.
Though press reports often make it seem otherwise, peace is in the air in Africa. Six years ago, when U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan issued his first major report on the causes of conflict in Africa, 14 countries were embroiled in war and another 11 were suffering from severe political turbulence. In his 2004 annual follow-up report, the secretary noted that just a half a dozen African countries were in the midst of serious armed conflict, among them Burundi, Côte d'Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan.
Brokers of peace play a big role in all of these conflicts. These are prominent men and women from around the world who are well experienced in sorting through, and sorting out, the ugly collision of political and socio- economic interests. Their efforts are usually buttressed by "keepers of peace," military forces toting the latest in firepower, the very symbols of conflict. Africa now receives the highest deployment of U.N. peacekeepers in the world: there were nearly 48,000 troops at the end of August 2004, according to the U.N. Department of Peacekeeping Operations. In June, the Economic Community of West African States authorized the creation of a standby peacekeeping force of 6,500 trained and equipped soldiers for rapid deployment to any country that may fall into crisis in West Africa. The African Union plans to set up a similar standby force at the continental level, with the Group of Eight industrialized countries (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States) providing financial support and training.
The Desmond Tutu Peace Centre recasts the peacekeeper as an individual who brandishes a philosophy of nonviolence, one so imbued with caring and respect for his or her fellow human beings that physical clashes and the symbols of them have no place in problem solving. To this end, the Centre has developed an Emerging Leadership Program targeting mainly high school students. The goal is to prepare a committed generation of leaders to construct sound peace initiatives and address the challenges of their time. It would use the examples of South African leadership that guided South Africa from a legacy of violence to a cooperative peace. Similarly, the Centre's Women in Leadership Program focuses on the experience of leadership among Southern African women, and encourages participants to promote peaceful coexistence.
The Centre is intended to attract visitors from around the world. It will house various exhibitions and attractions dedicated to peace building. The largest of these will be a high-tech museum exhibit documenting South Africa's complex past, including a narrative account of the many voices that have comprised the country's search for identity, freedom, justice and peace. There will also be the symbolic "Hands That Shape Humanity" exhibit featuring iconic men and women from around the world renowned for their wisdom. The messages of these individuals will be portrayed on film, in their own handwritten pieces and through photography. A remarkable component of the exhibit will be bronze casts of the hands of these individuals. Currently in the works, this multimedia art exhibit will travel the world for four years before taking up permanent residence at the Peace Centre.
The archbishop's collection of private gifts and honors also will be on display. Add to all that a memory wall, a hall of heroes, a resource center, an auditorium, a commercial center with shops and restaurants, a public square and a space for quiet contemplation and the stage is set for a destination unlike any other in Africa.
There is a role for Africans of the Diaspora to play in the evolution of this space for peace. A few of us serve as members of the board of the Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation (www.tutu.org), which supports the Peace Centre through fund-raising. This work is valuable, but hardly enough.
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Michael J. Fox has given Parkinson's disease (PD) new visibility it, in my opinion, would never have had had he not taken up the fight on behalf of PD research. But he has done much more than speak of its importance. Through his foundation, he has raised an enormous amount of money to fund Parkinson's research, and this research has directly benefited the lives of PD patients and their families. Where does Fox get his optimism and his energy to do such good work? Fox cites Lance Armstrong, Christopher Reeve, and Muhammad Ali.

In this, the follow-up to his bestseller Lucky Man (Hyperion, 2002), Fox has written a memoir of the last 10 years of his life. Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease at a very young age, 29, and has had the disease for more than a decade. Judging from the account in his book, he keeps up a fairly hectic schedule. His advocacy work has him traveling the world, doing non-stop interviews, meeting with politicians of every stripe and variety, conducting non-stop fundraisers, asking for money from the rich and powerful and doing all this while raising a family of 4 kids. Some of the loveliest passages in the book contain his reflections on being a father and a husband.

The tone throughout the book is one of modesty, gratitude and good-humor. The man can write! He has a great sense of humor. When asked by David Letterman what it's like to raise a two year old, Fox answers that it boils down to being on a constant suicide watch…the toddler is busy trying to destroy himself by pissing in electric sockets, downing anything and everything that comes near the mouth and attempting to fling himself down stairwells and out windows. Anyone who has had kids will nod their heads in agreement with this assessment.

Fox also displays a healthy sense of humor about his PD symptoms, describing scene after scene of his symptoms intruding into meetings with the rich and famous. Fox's PD must be taken as somewhat unusual given its early onset and the frequency with which he has dyskinesic symptoms. To some extent, he says he chooses those over the akinetic symptoms, and who can blame him? As Fox knows and writes, "Parkinson's disease takes many forms — for some reason, everyone gets their own version."

Fox never struggled with depression, but most people with PD have to at one point or another. Fox apparently had successful brain surgery, but that surgery does not work well for everyone who goes through it.

He has been in some ways lucky, as he himself would be the first to point out. There is a whole section in the book devoted to the role of faith in his life. He clearly is a man searching for a form of faith that is his. His wife Tracy is Jewish, and they have raised their kids in the Jewish faith. Fox has drawn support from the Reformed congregation he attends with his wife. But he has also continued his search for faith in the tradition in which he was raised - a broadly Anglican tradition. He had childhood friends who were evangelicals, and he made it a point to interview a Reverend Cooper - an evangelical preacher who preached against the idea that God would send people to hell and was 'excommunicated' for these ideas - for his book. Years ago, he struggled with driking problems, and one gets the impression that the spirituality of AA meetings informs his won spirituality as well.

Throughout the book we get Fox's views on the stem cell controversy, a history of his political efforts to elect politicians in favor of embryonic stem cells research, his disappointment when President Bush restricted research on stem cells and his elation when President Obama lifted that ban. Here we come to one minor failing of the book, from my point of view. While Fox emphasizes the fact that he believes that many opponents of embryonic stem cell research are motivated by noble concerns, he never really lays out the thorny ethical issues involved. We never get to hear the major question that motivates the concerns of ethicists, namely: Where do you draw the line when you use others for research purposes? As Fox points out, the 'others' concerned here are a mere clump of cells that would be destroyed anyway if not used for research. But as the ethicists would say, it's the principle of the thing (that cells are a part of human life) that matters.

I agree with Fox that, in this case, the cells would be destroyed anyway so why not use them to benefit others? In any case, advances in stem cell research may make the whole debate less pressing as scientists learn more about other sources of stem cells such as those derived from skin. Who can say if Fox's advocacy of stem cell research led to Obama's reversal of the Bush ban. My own feeling is that it was crucial. Fox made the issue a front page political issue, thus drumming up political attention. Fox would likely claim a more modest role in the whole drama.

Everyone with PD and everyone who has a loved one with PD should thank Fox, not only for his advocacy of PD research but also for putting a human face on PD -- for de-stigmatizing the disorder and for giving us another beautiful read in this new book.

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Three of the four images are owned by cousins who descended from James William "Harvey" Dunaway (1829-1880) and his wife Treasy Humphress Bateman (1820-1901). Could this be the link that June's been hoping to find?
June created this graphic to illustrate who owns what.
Contacts In May 2010,
I'd posted about June's detective work trying to identify a cabinet card. That post disproved a caption identifying the couple.
A distant relative saw that blog post and sent June a copy of the exact cabinet card. This couple turned out to be the Newmans. The tintypes above show some other couple. It was an online Family Tree photo reunion.
She had such good luck with the last photo posted here, that she's crossing her fingers that a Dunaway descendant will be able to figure out who is in the tintypes.
I hope so too! I'd love to write another reunion story.
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"Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
Take these two assumptions and test them by fitting that information into the birth date of the grand uncle. He may have known her as an older woman or his parent's knew her.
Showing the grand-uncle a list of all family members born circa 1930 might trigger his memory.
I'll be looking at the unknown images on Thompson's website to see if there are any matches. Another identified picture of her might exist in his family collection. A positive ID could result from comparing her round face and smile to other images.
The final ID will come from testing the facts and comparing pictures.
"I am oppressed with a sense of the impropriety of uttering words on this occasion. If silence is ever golden it must be here beside the graves of 15,000 men, whose lives were more significant than speech and whose death was a poem, the music of which can never be sung." (The New York Herald, May 31, 1868, page 10)


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December 20, 2012 , 9:19 AM by Dominic Brine
William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night will be staged by OZACT outdoors at Kirks Reservoir in Ballarat on Wednesday 26th and Thursday 27th December.
Director Bruce Widdup (pictured) says it's the 6th year of this gig and often the weather can become part of the show as it did with a storm during the storm scene of King Lear a few years ago.
Tickets are available through www.ozact.com
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text: WASHINGTON, May 3, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, the National Press Club announced the winners of its 2013 John Aubuchon Press Freedom Awards: Zeynep Kuray, a woman reporter from Turkey, which jails more journalists than any other nation; and, in the United States, "The Whistleblower." (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080917/NPCLOGO ) Each year, the NPC confers its Aubuchon award on people whose work and lives have advanced the cause of press freedom and transparency. The annual award goes to one domestic recipient and one international one. This year, for the first time, the Club is honoring a group of people—whistleblowers--rather than an individual person. NPC President Angela Greiling Keane, a Bloomberg News reporter, said: "By conferring its domestic award on The Whistleblower, the Club is not only honoring those who have bravely stepped forward to become sources for news stories, often at personal risk to themselves or their careers. It is also recognizing a person whose identity is not yet known—who may be trying to decide whether to speak to a reporter about wrongdoing at a government agency or corporation. In honoring The Whistleblower, the Club is acknowledging that, without sources, reporters can't do their jobs and our democracy can't properly function." The decision to honor The Whistleblower is also a way of highlighting the extent to which people who speak to the press are increasingly under siege. The threats to sources run along a spectrum. On the lower end, they include a growing tendency to forbid officials and executives from speaking with reporters on the record or on background without handlers present. On the higher end, they include government attempts to prosecute whistleblowers under espionage laws and to try to compel reporters to disclose confidential sources. Sources are increasingly at risk because of the ease with which digital communications can be monitored.


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2012 was the year for God Forgives I Don't. Since coming out in 2006, Rick Ross has just gotten better with time. Haters can come in and say what they want about the music or about his personal life, but you can't deny that this man has some of the best songs and production choices of the better part of the last five years.
GFID was a collection of songs that just showed a little bit of a sonic diversity catering to the more traditional street songs he's known for with "Hold Me Back" or "911", but then Ross surprises with gems like "3 Kings" with Dre and Jay-Z and "Sixteen" with Andre3000. It was a great album. Whether its his best, that's debatable.
All in all, locally, GFID was pretty much the only choice we had for Album Of The Year in terms of presence combined with the music. Let's hope he gives us something to top this for his follow-up.


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'Tis the season for spreading holiday cheer—and making new commercials for local businesses.
In that spirit, we present two spots that captured our attention for their production value, choice cameos, humor and general awesomeness.
If you think we missed an even better local video, let us know and we'll include it. In the meantime, remember to shop local.
Bernice's Bakery does the 12 Days of Christmas
Edge of the World does Beavis and Butt-head
Old Spice's MANta Claus does Billings (not local-local, but still...)


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I haven't had good success with it so far, my buttons have fallen off twice and been replaced and I changed to my second tray and a week later it split in front......feeling very discouraged....I would rather have good old fashioned braces for all the problems I've had in a month it's not worth it.... Well here I am on my third tray now that my second tray has split in front... READ MORE
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Yes I am very excited to be going to braces now.....only one more week if my tray lasts without anymore splitting otherwise I will have to switch to tray 4 for the rest of the week until I get my new braces....until then... READ COMMENT
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Momma say her sign me up for school, and she went las week to looks at it, and her say i get to go today! YAY. i will see Chloe and Maggie, Cants waits to see my fwends! momma also say dat dere will be 15 doggies, at leas! WOW dats lots. and dey are from 4monfs to 2-3 years. i will hab so much funs wif my school. and i hear momma say to daddee dat i will be doing obediance trials... whateber dat mean... HORRAY new fun
Lastnight, mommy's friend (daddys co-werker) come over... She brought Maggie... I fink maggie don't likes me very much. She played and played, and i'ze wanted more... And maggie said no... And mommy says i have two bobos on my head now from maggie. So this mornin' when daddy wents to werk, mommy let me sweep in de bed wif her, only for a little bit tho. But i wub the bed, to show mommy how happy i wuz, i gave her a hundwed kisses... Mommy dont like my kisses, because i give a nibble sumtimes too. and mommy sayz wif my adults teef in now, its hurtful. :( i'ze sowwy mommy! Today, i'ze gonna gets a new collar. Mommy took my ode leather one off, and she says i will need one until i'ze big enuff fer the big leather spikes one!!! i'ze can't wait fer dat one... i'ze gon be a big big scawy doggy!!! naaaaww, i'ze a big baby!!! :)
Hewwo! I'ze just signed up fer this dogster fing. it seems like a neat way to meet udder doggies like me! Mine mommy says I'ze not a dog, but a bug. Because i'ze so small, 'vat i'ze gonna get smushed by my "brudders", zeus and memfis, AND becuz i'ze likes to bug eberyone. Vis weekend, my daddy is getting new fishes fer his saltwater fish tank... he and mommy puts it up weally highs, so that me and my "brudders" can't get swobbers on it. And so's that i'ze dont try to drink de waters and get sick. my brudder, memfis was sick all last week. he seems to be not sicks now, and pways wif me again. Oh, tumorrow, mine daddy's co-werker is spose'd to come visit. And she mights bring hers doggy, maggie - thats memfis' girlfwend... i mets her once. I wish i hads a girlfwend... mommy sayz maybe once i'ze 2 yearz ode, she might gets me a girlfwend that wooks likes me! I hopes so.
oh yeh, tuday - i met this funny fing that libes in what mommy calls a Baffroom. it was very long, and gween. I'ze saw it and barked. And mommy came and yelled at my brudders and i for trying to be in the baffroom - i only wanted to get to the toy-lit. But anywayz, dis fing was very mean and scawy lookin'. it had a thing hangin off it'ze neck, and had no ears... and it was gween! what is gween!?! Zeus sayz it wuz mommy's iguana, Cloud... i don't likes cloud...
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text: Dec 21, 2010 - I bought the CURLS for Target version of this. It's a pretty good conditioner, but quite expensive, especially since my daughter and I have extremely thick hair and we need to use A LOT of conditioner. Otherwise, it works well for my 3c and her 4a hair.


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BrainGate is a path to a better way of life for severely motor-impaired individuals. Through years of advanced research, BrainGate enables these people with the ability to communicate, interact and function through thought. (view video)
BrainGate's mission is to further the advancement of this life-changing technology to promote wider adoption to help impaired individuals communicate and interact with society. For instance, the Cyberkenetics BrainGate Neural Interface is currently the subject of a pilot clinical trial being conducted under an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) from the FDA. The system is designed to restore functionality for a limited, immobile group of severely motor-impaired individuals. It is expected that people using the BrainGate System will employ a personal computer as the gateway to a range of self-directed activities. These activities may extend beyond typical computer functions (e.g., communication) to include the control of objects in the environment such as a telephone, a television and lights.
BrainGate is based on technology to sense, transmit, analyze and apply the language of neurons. BrainGate consists of a sensor that is implanted on the motor cortex of the brain and a device that analyzes brain signals. The principle of operation behind the BrainGate System is that with intact brain function, brain signals are generated even though they are not sent to the arms, hands and legs. The signals are interpreted and translated into cursor movements, offering the user an alternate "BrainGate pathway" to control a computer with thought, just as individuals who have the ability to move their hands use a mouse.
There is development underway on BrainGate to potentially provide limb movement to people with severe motor disabilities. The goal of this development program would be to allow these individuals to one day use their own arms and hands again. Limb movement developments are currently at the research stage and are not available for use with the existing BrainGate System. In addition, products are in development to allow for robotic control, such as a thought-controlled wheelchair. In the future, the BrainGate System could be used by those individuals whose injuries are less severe. Next generation products may be able to provide an individual with the ability to control devices that allow breathing, bladder and bowel movements. Currently The BrainGate Neural Interface System is an investigational device and is not approved for sale. However it is available through a clinical study.


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from my un-uniqueness
let the crimson and gold
overtake my identity
It's good for me
to lose my baseness
FALL from the arms
that once held me so
dear; needed
As though my
usefulness has
become pest
It's okay once
in a while to
lose myself
maybe I will grow
into a new
and get rid of My peers
as I have myself been
As I drift slowly I find my
cord cut, and I am now one
I may have been admired
a little
Autumn by eatlimegreenWatch
©2010-2017 eatlimegreen
Thank You so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!
no prob. i loved your story.
funny that sometimes a leaf perspective how you wrote can describe someones feelings as well. i enjoyed this
good job
good job
Ahhh. ;u; What an interesting point of view. Very fitting for the season. :]