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Randal Edwards
Profession: Actor
Age: 32
Hometown: Born in Calgary, raised in Victoria, B.C.
The car: 2003 Pontiac Vibe
Notable achievements
- Stints on the TV series Smallville, Eureka and Supernatural
- Roles on The Firm, The Killing, Fairly Legal and Degrassi: The Next Generation
- Package Deal will debut Monday, Sept. 30, at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT on CityTV
After launching his acting career with supporting roles, Randal Edwards has landed the lead role in the comedy series Package Deal that debuts in September.
The new comedy series from creator Andrew Orenstein, of Malcolm in the Middle and 3rd Rock from the Sun fame, is getting a prime slot on CityTV's fall lineup on Monday nights between How I Met Your Mother and 2 Broke Girls.
Despite Edwards' success, he is taking it in stride, driving around town in a used 2003 Pontiac Vibe.
Why did you buy a Vibe?
It's one of those wonderful gifts from my girlfriend's mom. So, it's even better. It was a beautiful hand-me-down. I got this by default. It's fantastic. Before then, I was a walker and a TTC rider.
It's 10 years old and it looks brand new. It's in fantastic shape.
Do you have a new sense of freedom with the Vibe?
I can go to IKEA and Costco any time I want! I will often just go to IKEA for lunch for the meatballs, a hot dog, and frozen yogurt and then drive home. I'm not joking.
What's the best feature on the Vibe?
The space. We actually just moved my girlfriend in with me and it's so much bigger than you think. You pop those back seats down and you'd be surprised what you can fit inside.
Anything you don't like about it?
Absolutely not. It's wonderful. Its amazing to not have to ride the street car or subway to an audition and look like a crazy person running your lines in public.
And now you run those lines behind the wheel?
Yeah. Exactly. Now I'm talking hands-free.
Do you have any concerns about Pontiac since GM dumped the brand?
No. I do not. I wasn't aware of that. As far as I know, it's been a very reliable automobile.
Are you a car guy – do you know what's under the hood?
I don't know. I imagine a small engine, a place to put windshield wiper fluid. Other than that, I'm not really a car guy.
I know how to turn it on and how to turn it off. That's the extent of it for me. I often forget what side the gas tank is on.
What does a Pontiac Vibe say about you?
All joking aside, I think a car says a lot about people. For one it says we love the fact we got a free car and we're going to enjoy it. It doesn't have to be a fancy car. It's perfect for us. It makes me feel sporty.
What was your first car?
The very first car I ever bought was a 1978 Pontiac Acadian – old school. This thing was a tank. A little hatchback in a gold colour and it ran like a dream.
I was in high school and my dad bought it for me for about $500. Best 500 bucks ever spent. My brother eventually took it off my hands. But he let it run out of oil and it died on the side of the street. He allowed the tow truck driver to keep the car if he would just get it off the road.
Really a poor way for that beautiful car to come to an end. I still blame him for it.
What cars came after that?
Then I traded up for a little MG convertible with a backseat that was held up with a stick. There was actually no floor board. It was almost like a Flintstones car. It lasted for only about a month and then it was done as well. This thing was a death trap.
It was a poor trade on my part. It was the worst car I've ever owned, but I looked unbelievably cool when it did run.
After that, I got into a Honda Civic, a spanking brand new Honda Civic hatchback. Moving up in the world! That was when I was selling insurance in Victoria, British Columbia. Then I sold the car and I moved to New York.
I moved back after school and then I got my first Capital One commercial deal a bunch of years ago. I got a lump sum of money and I bought myself a Mazda3. I thought, bang for buck, it was the best deal on the market. I liked the look. I found it reliable. It was the best car I ever owned. I never had an issue with it. It got me to a lot of auditions and I'm sure I owe the Mazda a lot more than I give it credit for for booking those jobs. That was the last car I had – I sold that when I moved to Toronto.
What do you listen to behind the wheel?
A lot of Billy Ocean. Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car is an absolute favourite. Other than that, we open the sun roof and we like a good mix. I always sing behind the wheel, too.
What's your best and worst driving story?
My best? I once drove from Pensacola, Florida, to Phoenix, Arizona, by myself the whole way. It was just spectacular.
Amazing to be by yourself with your own thoughts for that long. Loved it.
I was driving a one-ton U-Haul. Pretty sketchy once we hit Houston. The lanes are very scary, very tight. I was at 10 and 2 white-knuckled the whole time.
My worst was failing my driver's test the first time around. I took it on a standard and I really didn't know how to drive a standard. It was my dad's work truck, a Ford F-150 with a very sticky shifter on the floor. Not a good idea.
It was one of those cocky 17-year-old decisions where you figured, I could swing this. There were so many demerits. I remember when we finally parked I couldn't even park it straight. I was literally angled, almost taking up two spots. He didn't even go through it all with me. He was so disgusted with my ability to drive – lack thereof.
The second time I borrowed my friend's mom's Honda Accord and cut it up like butter. It was great – no problemo!
Can you drive a stick now?
Yeah. But the older I get the more I enjoy driving an automatic. I do love driving a stick, but in city traffic there's just too much stop and start.
If I could bring you the keys to any vehicle what would it be?
I would go with something classy – a brand-new silver Mercedes convertible with two doors.
This interview has been edited and condensed
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|Acqusition of Time-Varying Participating Media
|SIGGRAPH 2005 Papers Proceedings
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We present a technique for capturing time-varying volumetric data of participating media. A laser sheet is swept repeatedly through the volume, and the scattered light is imaged using a high-speed camera. Each sweep of the laser provides a near-simultaneous volume of density values. We demonstrate rendered animations under changing viewpoint and illumination, making use of measured values for the scattering phase function and albedo.
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This post was liveblogged by J. Nathan Matias, Ethan Zuckerman, Erhardt Graeff, Lilia Kilburn, with illustrations by Willow Brugh
Jill Dimond lives in Ann Arbor Michigan, and hails from rural Western Michigan. The logo for her company, Sassafras, evokes the shape of the state of Michigan. After a degree at the university of Michigan, she moved into industry, working on the App Inventor project, and then completed her PhD at Georgia Tech in Human Centric Design in 2012. Most recently, Jill is a worker owner at Sassafras Tech Collective, a worker owned technology cooperative based in Ann Arbor, and they focus on research and technology for social justice.
When people in society come together to collectively perform a task -- from cleaning up a park to organizing around a cause-- the benefits of their cooperation extend far beyond the specific task at hand. People get to know each other, build bonds of trust, argue their understanding of a situation, and often form long-lasting partnerships, organizations, and communities for learning and action. Within cooperative technologies, these civic and community values are not easily computable. As a result, it is easy to pass over these values in favor of improving the performance of a task, increasing the number of petition signatures, or measuring the immediate outcomes of a social action. A core theme of my work at MIT has been to imagine how new kinds of measures more aligned with civic values, community, and social justice might transform our technology designs and our social interactions online.
How can policymakers conduct randomized trials and incorporate them into their policymaking? Over the summer, Oliver Hauser, a PhD student at Harvard, worked at the Behavioural Insights Team in London (@B_I_Tweets), sometimes called the "nudge unit." Yesterday at the Cooperation Working Group that I co-facilitate with Brian Keegan, Oliver shared with us the work that the nudge unit has done before opening up the conversation for discussion.
At Harvard, Oliver works with the Harvard Business School and at the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard. He is also author of a recent Nature article: "Cooperating With the Future." Oliver's research focuses on cooperation and pro-sociality, and he often works with organizations using randomized experiments and using the term "Behavioural insight," when he uses research from behavioral sciences applies it in the world.
Are social computing and data science just tools for the powerful, or can they be used to question power and reshape the structures that influence us? It's a question I've been wondering as I've watched civic tech & academic communities idolize the employees and "alums" of big corporations and governments-- partly because of the resources they have, and partly because it seems like these companies are the sole gatekeepers of social experiments and large-scale interventions to influence society.
Last week, Yahoo! announced that Flickr would start selling prints of Creative Commons licensed photos, and that they would only pay some of the photographers. Some commentators, like Jeffrey Zeldman, see it as a breach of good will. Mike Masnick at Techdirt argues that this is a victory for open licensing, which "is about giving up control so that other people can benefit." Ben Werdmuller, co-founder of Indieweb social platform Known, argues that users don't understand the license, and that we need to give creators more clear controls.
"Change favors the prepared," Louis Pasteur once famously noted in a lecture on the nature of scientific observation. The best academic events create moments of highly likely inspiration, and the luckiest ones bring that inspiration into action. That happened for Emily Harburg and me this weekend at CrowdCamp, a two day intensive hackathon on crowdsourcing and social computing research.
Today at the First Parish Church in Cambridge, William Gibson gave a reading, in conversation with Jonathan Zittrain, director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society (where I am a fellow). The event was hosted and organized by Porter Square Books.
Today at the Media Lab, we were joined by Susan Crawford, visiting professor at Harvard Law School and co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Susan's last book, Captive Audience, focused on net neutrality. Her most recent book, The Responsive City, focuses on ways that cities are using data to support governance.
(this blog post was written by Nathan Matias and Ed Platt
"The most human technology we have is the Internet," Susan tells us. It gives us the ability to talk to the people we need to, when we need to. "I'm very worried about democracy," she tells us. This past midterm election had the lowest voter turnout in 72 years. At the same time as we have all time lows in participation, citizens are worried about issues of surveillance.
How can open source and participatory communities like Mozilla support diverse inclusion? Here at the Community Building Track at the Mozilla Festival, an international group of organizers convened to discuss ways to cooperate effectively across gender, age, accessibility, and cultural differences. It's part of a larger initiative here at the MozillaFestival to create a community building handbook for open communities.
The session was facilitated by Beatrice Martini, Katelyn Rogers, Flore Allemandou, J. Nathan Matias, Deb Soumya, Alifiyah Ganijee, Leo McArdle, Ibrahima Sarr, and Cynthia Ng. These notes were created by me and Katelyn Rogers.
For the past three years, I've been using methods to identify gender in large datasets to support research, design, and data journalism, supported by the Knight Foundation, with an amazing group of collaborators. In my Master's thesis, used these techniques to support inclusion of women in citizen journalism, the news, and collective aciton online. Last February, I was invited to give a talk about my work at the MIT Symposium on Gender and Technology, hosted by the MIT Program in Women's and Gender Studies. I have finally written the first part of the talk, a practical guide to methods and ethics of gender identification approaches.


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AEN members recently participated in a webinar titled "What to Expect: Arizona's Race to the Top Application," presented by Arizona School Boards Association [ASBA] and the Arizona Association of School Business Officials [AASBO]. The featured speaker was Mesa School District Superintendent Dr. Debra Duvall, who serves as a Special Advisor to Governor Brewer on the Race to the Top program. The Race to the Top Fund will provide $4.35 billion in competitive grants to encourage and reward states that are creating the conditions for education innovation and reform.
The Governor, in conjunction with Dr. Duvall and the P-20 Council on Education, have created a plan to apply for the Race to the Top grant. The stated goal of the plan is to make sure that, "[b]y 2020, Arizona's students will be ranked in the top 5 in the country and among the best globally."
In creating the plan, four areas of reform were identified:
- Standards and Assessments
- Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems
- Great Teacher, Great Leaders
- Supporting Struggling Schools
Race to the Top is a competitive grant that all 50 states can apply for. In order to apply for a Race to the Top grant, local education agencies (LEA's)– public school districts and charter schools–have to fill out a participation agreement outlining specific actions to be taken under the four reform areas, as well as a memorandum of understanding. Arizona plans on meeting the January 15, 2010 federal deadline for funding. The winning states will be announced in April and if Arizona is chosen, school districts and charter schools would have to submit a written plan within 90 days. Implementation would take place in August/September 2010. If Arizona is not chosen in the first round, the state can reapply in June, 2010.
Dr. Duvall's presentation, as well as a recording of the full presentation along with the Q & A, can be found on the AASBO web site.
.The following are some key points made by Dr. Duvall during the Question and Answer section of the webinar:
- Race for the Top (RTTT) funds will not replace funding cuts by the state.
- RTTT funding is not dependent on an increase in education funding by the Arizona legislature.
- Funding is not assured but AZ can expect to receive approximately $150-$250 million over 4 years if it is one of approximately 10 states that is chosen.
- The RTTT grant money will be split 50% to the LEA's and 50% to the Arizona Department of Education.
- Only Title 1 schools or those eligible for Title 1 funds will receive RTTT LEA grants; however, LEA's that don't qualify may receive money through the portion of the funds that go directly to the state.
- For-profit charters are not expected to be eligible for RTTT money.
- Arizona has joined 48 other states (all except AK and TX) in an agreement to adopt common academic standards, which Dr. Duvall expects to adopt whether or not AZ receives a RTTT grant.
- Arizona parent stakeholders have not been involved in the formation of the plan, though they have been present during informational meetings.
- As part of the proposed data gathering process, students and teachers would receive an ID number for tracking performance and information in the data warehouse, which would be shared by LEA's and higher education partners to track student performance and teacher effectiveness.
- Social promotion would be controlled at transition points (i.e. end of 3rd grade).
View Arizona's Race to the Top application, submitted on January 15, 2010.
Find out more about Race to the Top:
Arizona seeks $250 million in federal stimulus funds for education grants, San Francisco Examiner, January 20, 2010
State on track to receive education funding, Yuma Sun, December 1, 2009
Arizona may have leg up in race for education funds, Arizona Republic, November 30, 2009
Race to the Top, Ted Simons interview with Dr. Debra Duvall and Rep. Rich Crandall, PBS Channel 8, September 16, 2009
Duncan Sets High Bar for Race to the Top, Coverge, November 16, 2009
Tags: arizona education, Arizona education funding, Arizona Race to the Top, Arizona RTTT, Arizona school funding, Dr. Debra Duvall, Mesa Superintendent Deb Duvall, Race to the Top, Race to the Top Arizona, RTTT, RTTT AZ


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Deloitte Oracle Retail - Manager in San Francisco, California
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The retail industry is undergoing a transformation. Challenged by enduring recessionary consumer attitudes, increasing competition and the continued trend away from brick-and-mortar shopping, retailers are embracing digital technologies, carving out new sales channels and integrating their supply chains to deliver superior value to the marketplace. In this time of reinvention, Deloitte s Retail & Distribution team brings demonstrated experience in strategy, operations, finance, IT, and talent to help you move forward with confidence.
Work You ll Do
As a Diamond-level member of the Oracle Partner Network, Deloitte needs thought leaders like yourself to help pave the way for our clients and Oracle service line development. For our clients, our Oracle Retail Managers reduce cost and support innovation at the enterprise level by managing business requirements and leading the functional design, prototyping and process design stages of Oracle Retail implementations. Responsibilities will include:
Client Management: Manage day to day interactions with executive clients and sponsors
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Must have Experience in Consumer Business - Retail, Wholesale & Distribution industry Experience with Oracle Retail version 14.
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Proven skills as a team lead or Project Manager with at least 3 full cycle implementations.
10 years of relevant consulting or industry experience
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Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to exercise mature judgment
Commitment to gaining exposure in multiple industries
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At Deloitte, our professional development plan focuses on helping people at every level of their career to identify and use their strengths to do their best work every day. From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there s always room to learn. We offer opportunities to help sharpen skills in addition to hands-on experience in the global, fast-changing business world. Our team has deep industry and functional knowledge of Oracle applications and technology. And with a knowledgebase of more than 14,500 Oracle practitioners globally, we can help you develop your tool belt and build your career in ways you probably never even knew existed. For you, leadership, core competency and consulting capability development are priority one here at Deloitte so we make sure you have the personal hands-on direction from the leadership team and Deloitte University to make sure your skills are developed on all fronts. From on-the-job learning experiences to formal development programs at Deloitte University, our professionals have a variety of opportunities to continue to grow throughout their career. Explore Deloitte University, The Leadership Center.
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Here I am. :-)
well i am having trouble with history i have a 20 question exam that is open notes. i chose answers based on what ive read and need tto know if they sound write because i am trying hard in this subject and just having trouble
We'll be glad to check a couple of your answers. Please tell us what confuses you about them and what you think the answer is.
okay and thankyou...this is for pennfoster and i am trying to go by the book, i don't have it right now it's not with me i forgot it at my grandpareents house and my parents don't have the extra money to pay for a new one so i am going by what i know
With the adoption of Christianity by Constantine, the emperor
A. stopped using images of pagan gods.
B. ended pagan rituals and ceremonies.
C. was no longer worshipped as a god.
D. was called God's deputy on Earth.
*well this is my first question. i chose B because a new religion was made and people that didn't believe in what was there started believing in christianity.
I disagree.
Since you don't have your book, please study this article.
Which ruler's conversion to Christianity ensured this religion would be adopted by eastern Slavs and Russians?
A. Vladimir
B. Mieszko
C. Constantine
D. Altigin
This is #2 i chose C because Constantine began christianity.
What did Islamists spread throughout the Old World starting in the eighth century?
A. Disease
B. Democracy
C. Metals used to make new weapons
D. New crops
#3 i have chosen A. because back then i believe deseases were passed around and they also killed people.
_______ was the first thinker to postulate that numbers are real, not abstractions.
A. Parmenides
B. Pythagoras
C. Aristotle
D. Hui Shih
I chose B because i remember in math class pythagoras was mentioned in our books and python and pythagoreum theorum.
Alexander the Great was tutored by
A. Epicurus.
B. Zeno.
C. Aristotle.
D. Plato.
#5 i chose C. because according to the first history book i think i remember Alexander the great was associated with Aristotle and i cant remember for sure if it was tutoring.
My information about #2 i know is wrong because constitine was 42 when he figured out Christianity was existing.
What group colonized many small islands in the Pacific Ocean?
A. Koreans
B. Japanese
C. Polynesians
D. Chinese
#6 I have chosen B. japanease because on my map japan has islands in the pacific ocean.
what is the second website for?
my final answer for number 1 is D based on what i read.
I will be back on here tomorrow to finish typing my answers and questions. i will be on here around 8:oo or 8:30 am-3:00pm maybe longer.
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The Church of Scientology National Affairs Office released a new brochure March 6 at a Study Technology seminar for D.C. community activists, officials and educators.
The literacy crisis in Washington, D.C., was the focus of concern to the community activists, officials and educators attending a seminar at the Church of Scientology National Affairs Office March 6.
The crisis was summarized in the Washington Post March 8: nearly 20 percent of adults in the District of Columbia are functionally illiterate. Only four in 10 D.C. third graders are proficient in reading and nearly 40 percent of D.C. students fail to graduate from high school in four years. [washintonpost.com "Illiteracy is D.C.'s biggest challenge"]
The seminar at the Church's National Affairs Office was entitled "The Key to Literacy—Learning How to Learn." John Stanard, Social Betterment Secretary of the National Affairs Office, presented a simple program that can reverse these numbers, one person at a time. Stanard presented an overview of a technology of study that can overcome the barriers children and adults encounter when attempting to learn to read and write, and will also give them the ability learn any subject and apply what they have learned. This technology, known as Study Technology, or "Study Tech," was researched and developed by American author, humanitarian and Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard. [8]
Stanard gave various simple examples of the basics of the subject, and invited those attending to return for a more comprehensive Study Technology workshop to be held in late March.
Stanard presented each attendee with a copy of the new brochure Scientology, How We Help: Applied Scholastics, Achieving Literacy and Education, one of a series of publications presented by the Church of Scientology International to meet requests for more information about the Scientology religion and its support of global humanitarian initiatives and social betterment programs. For more information, visit the Scientology website at www.scientology.org/AppliedScholastics. [9] Located in the historic Fraser Mansion at Dupont Circle in northwest Washington, D.C., the Church of Scientology National Affairs Office houses an array of facilities for meetings, conferences, seminars, workshops and events to promote collaboration on solutions to society's greatest challenges. Its establishment in September 2012 was necessitated by the Church's unprecedented worldwide growth and commensurate demand for Church-sponsored programs.
Applied Scholastics International [10] is a secular nonprofit public benefit corporation that addresses head-on the problem of illiteracy by making broadly available L. Ron Hubbard's discoveries in the field of education and literacy.
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The 507th, stationed at Fort Bliss, near El Paso, was not supposed to be a combat unit; the troops were mechanics and technicians. The officers at the door could provide few details of how they died.
"This was the visit we didn't want to get," said Randy Kiehl, who lost a son, Specialist James Kiehl, 22, a computer technician. The young soldier's wife, Jill, is due to deliver their first baby, a son, within weeks.
At Fort Bliss, every family grieves with Jill Kiehl and other family members of the 507th. "Even if you don't know them, you're all on the same team," said Drill Sergeant Marion Winston, 29. Photos of the eight dead soldiers stretched across the front page of Saturday's El Paso Times. The headline: "Worst News Possible."
Family members briefed on the fate of the 507th Maintenance Company said the ambush occurred after several vehicles in a convoy to the front lines stalled for unknown reasons. More than a dozen soldiers stopped to repair them. Later, as they raced to catch up with the larger, armoured vehicles ahead, they came under fire from Iraqi tanks and fedayeen gunmen.
Private Lynch was apparently among six soldiers taken captive. The other five were shown on Iraqi TV, being interrogated after the firefight.
The dead soldiers ranged from recruits fresh out of high school to veterans near retirement. They were mechanics and computer technicians, cooks and truck drivers, trained to supply combat troops and to keep equipment in good repair.
They were supposed to be stationed well behind the front lines. Many had reassured their families they would be safe.
Among them was Private Lynch's roommate, Private Lori Ann Piestewa, 23, the first female US soldier killed in the war. She left a son, 4, and a daughter, 3. Private Piestewa was one of the few American Indians serving in the military.
A Hopi woman who grew up on an impoverished Navajo reservation in Arizona, she joined the army two years ago. Her father and grandfather served in the army. During the long wait for news about her fate, the Hopi and Navajo people, who live together on the reservation but have feuded for years, came together to pray.
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Ronny's Diaries - Day 01
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Great extraction.
I am really glad that I found this layout. I took in a stray kitten and this has inspired me to make some pages especially about her settling in to my home.
Thanks for all comments. You cant imagine how this kitten grew up in less than two months. I will scrap his recent pictures and upload here soon!
Jaclyn, I am just a beginner in editing and blending! I confess that photos with background extracted arent something I enjoy the most, but, as my house is usually really messy, sometimes its the only way to have pictures to scrap. As on that day I woke up with four grown up cats and went to bed with an extra kitten, you can imagine that the scenario wasn´t set :) This day was so weird that I even forgot to take pictures before giving the kitty a shower at 8pm :p But as I wanted to have a first day page...
Our pets make such special pages. I love the colors of this layout!
Awesome Lorien!
I want to know more about Ronny Peppers!
awesome!!! i love the blended photo effect you used!!!
What a fun idea! Great way to remember your kitten when it's all grown up.
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I am a thirty-something years-old Brazilian, married for almost a decade, and with no human kids for now, but 5 cats istead. I was a teacher, but I gave up on teaching, profession that I chose to young to know what I was doing, and I´m looking for other possibilities. Right now I´m sharing time between my own business and helping at a no-kill cat shelter.
I have been digiscrapping and designing for a couple of years, but I still need to learn a lot. I´m also in geek/nerdy culture, and I love literature!
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I am making a digiscrap dirary of my new kitten, using only personal-use kits (well, I may open some exceptions soon), and this is the first page. I used a font called Mistral and a freebie called Mini 1 from this site. The long journal tells how I found the cat and how he won his name (Ronny Weasley at first, although now is Ronny Peppers).
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Protecting children from abuse and neglect
Mathews, Benjamin P. (2008) Protecting children from abuse and neglect. In Monahan, Geoff & Young, Lisa (Eds.) Children and the Law in Australia. LexisNexis, Chatswood NSW, pp. 204-237.
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Governments throughout Australia are increasingly engaged with the complex, multifaceted and costly problems of child abuse and neglect. At least three massive challenges exist: 1. how to prevent a child from being abused and or neglected before it initially happens; 2. how to detect abuse and neglect at an early stage to protect the child and enable the provision of assistance to the child, the parents and family; and 3. how best to respond to different cases, whether formally substantiated or not. All three challenges face legislators, policymakers, public administrators and many practitioners in social work, health, education and law enforcement. Further, these challenges involve difficult issues of philosophy, law, government, and social work and case management practice. Philosophical issues include, for example, those regarding when and how it is appropriate for the State to intervene in family life. Legal issues include how to design appropriate and effective ways for legislation to enhance the early reporting of cases of abuse and neglect, and how to ensure that court orders are appropriate and effective in any given case. Even more fundamental is the issue of what a government defines as sufficient 'abuse' and 'neglect' for various purposes, including when child protective services are warranted. There are pressures on government, including matters of policy leadership, decisions about financial resourcing, challenges of administration including ensuring effective case intake and assessment, demands for service provision, and ongoing requirements to monitor practice and to conduct evaluative research. For those involved in social work or case management, there are issues concerning what interventions are most effective and most cost-effective in responding to different types of abuse and neglect, both regarding the child, the child's parents, and the child's family. As well, workers in the field unfortunately have to deal with an innately difficult context in which to work, and cope with seemingly inevitable understaffing and resource shortage. It would be difficult to do justice to such complex and multifaceted problems in a full-length book, and the situation is further complicated by each State and Territory having its own child protection system, rather than there being one national system. Accordingly, this chapter introduces just some of the key areas of legal regulation concerning the protection of children from abuse and neglect, and points to some of the most urgent questions facing legislators, policymakers and practitioners.
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England U19 manager Noel Blake has chosen his 18-man group for the game against the Netherlands early next month, and Newcastle's 18 year-old goalkeeper Jak Alnwick is included.
Jak Alnwick – 18 year-old Newcastle goalkeeper
England U19s will play their first game of season in early September when they travel to the Netherlands. The England U19 side just missed out on a place in last season's European U19 Championship Finals, by goal difference. to the eventual winners Spain.
England have received a bye through the European First Qualifying Round, and will now play in the Elite Round early next year.
England were beaten 3-0 by the Dutch last March, so it's a good time to get even.
The England U19 Squad:
Goalkeepers: Sam Johnstone (Manchester United), Jak Alnwick (Newcastle)
Defenders: Adam Reach (Middlesbrough), Aziz Deen-Conteh (Chelsea), Jamaal Lascelles (Nottingham Forest), Kieran Kennedy (Manchester City), Louis Laing (Sunderland), Bruno Pilatos (Middlesbrough), Nathaniel Chalobah (Chelsea).
Midfielders: Chuks Aneke (Arsenal), George Thorne (West Bromwich Albion), Jordan Obita (Reading), Larnell Cole (Manchester United), Nico Yennaris (Arsenal).
Forwards: Benik Afobe (Arsenal), Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur), Will Keane (Manchester United), Luke Williams (Middlesbrough).
It's interesting that on the England FA web site, they have Jak Alnwick down as playing for Sunderland.
Jak was at Sunderland before joining Newcastle and of course his brother Ben played for Sunderland before joining Spurs in 2007.
Jak was born in nearby Hexham, as was Fraser Forster of course, and his two football idols are goalkeepers Pepe Reina and Steve Harper.
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It's April and, once again, it is time for the Amsterdam Tulip Festival, the world's largest celebration of the nation . . .
General Mart de Kruif, the retiring boss of the Dutch Army, has lobbed a few missiles at his old colleagues as he retreats . . .
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Written during the December Lunar Eclipse
In An Orphan's Tale: In the Cities of Coin and Spice by Catherynne Valente, there's a tale of the last Star Being of the heavens walking through a vast dark abyss until she reaches countless tiny swirling Grass Stars. Even though she walks carefully through the rivulets and marches of pooled light she breaks many. Their silver light blood splashes her face and destroys her eyes. Now all she sees is light.
But in the light I could see a kind of shape, a shape which seemed to me something like the world, and a world which seemed something like me. There were things which wove, and I could not see them. but I could see their weaving, how tiny and diamond-strung, how intricate and perfect. And I wanted to weave that way, I wanted to weave bigger things and greater things, and as this wish formed in me like a spindle gathering flax, my arms opened up into eight, and silk pooled in my belly …
The Weaver-Star finally leaves heaven to create places and events in the world.
I read this passage while sipping my morning coffee with a splash of eggnog and relaxing in my favorite chair by the picture window. The rising sun painted the sky pink and its warmth melted the night frost into a glimmering fog. The world was filled with light. I can still feel the flow of energy moving through my body fresh and bright from my morning meditation where I visualize light from the Divine flowing to the world and then through me and into the earth. Then I cleanse my various energy bodies with this light. When I am done, the remainder is put into the harmony or safety of my home. Variations of meditations that include visualizing and working with energy or light are found in many religions and Pagan traditions.
As a panentheist, I believe that a Consciousness resides outside of space and time. Part of it is in a meditative state of existence. Part of it is dreaming the material universe or universes. It also experiences it's creation by being in it. The Being, The Dreaming, The Experience. This can be visualized as never ending threads connecting all places, things, and events. It is one reason the Spider is a totem of mine. Stories and myths about gods and sky or cloud people coming to the earth remind me of Divinity experimenting with new limitations and surroundings.
During the Winter Solstice, a time for contemplation, I experience different trials on my Path. some years I'm holding a candle against the dark of humanity's sorrow. Other years I'm like the Tarot card of the Hermit wondering on a winding path in the dark feeling lost and alone with no destination wondering where the Yuletide Joy is. In the worst times I'm searching in the dark to find a spark of who I am so I can reignite my will to keep living. This year I feel a fuller connection with my Divine self and I am the light. It is the light of Divinity being, dreaming and experiencing all there is with my five senses to fully embrace my place in the Weaving. We all continuously spin through the emotions of sadness, ambivalence or joy. Changes in the world are as constant as the changes in how we perceive it. The difference for me this year is that my health and spiritual practices are becoming aligned. I continuously return to my Center and breath. I'm more conscious of what I'm eating and how I communicate with my heathcare team.
Where ever you are on your Path during the Winter Solstice, take time to contemplate your needs and desires. When you feel overwhelmed, find your Center and observe.


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As the trade deadline looms, the Celtics' future is uncertain. In the wake of Rajon Rondo's ACL tear and the announcement that he would be done for the season, many presumed that the Celtics were done for the season. Many said the team should blow it up and start to rebuild. Boston Celtics head coach Doc Rivers was not among those doubters. Rivers said to the media in a press conference after the Miami Heat game on January 27th (where Rondo's injury was announced), "Well, you can write the obituary. I'm not... We won tonight, and so the way I look at it is: we're going to stay in there. In my opinion, we're going nowhere." And for the most part, the Celtics have proved the skeptics wrong. Since Rondo's injury, the Celtics have been on an unbelievable tear, winning 8 games out of 9, beating the Heat, Kings, Magic, Clippers, Raptors, Lakers, Nuggets, and Bulls. Their sole loss was to the Charlotte Bobcats on the 2nd night of a back-to back. Paul Pierce has taken over the duties of...
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Michael Douglas accepts his Emmy for his role as Liberace in Behind the Candelabra, opposite Matt Damon. His acceptance speech takes a funny turn as he begins to thank Damon and offers his a perverted half off his Emmy. Watch the video to see Douglas' hilarious speech.
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Michael J. Fox pays tribute to Gary David Goldberg, of 'Family Ties' & co-creator of 'Spin City.' Watch this touching dedication to Goldberg at the 2013 Emmys.Click here to read more
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Edie Falco paid tribute at the 2013 Emmy Awards to her late cast-mate James Gandolfini, aka Tony Soprano.Click here to read more
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Derek Hough wins the "Outstanding Choreography" category at the 2013 Emmy Awards after an awesome performance by each choreographer. Watch the video.Click here to read more
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Reese Witherspoon: Beverly Hills Business Babe
Posted Friday May 4, 2012 10:48 AM GMT
Tending to some career affairs, Reese Witherspoon was spotted at an office building in Beverly Hills yesterday afternoon (May 3).
The pregnant "Sweet Home Alabama" cutie tried her best to hide her growing baby bump behind her handbag as she made her exit to find some shutterbugs looming nearby.
Meanwhile, Reese has donated an autographed pair of Christian Louboutin high heels to raise money for the Hillsides Foster Soles charity for foster care awareness.
The Louboutins are up on eBay, along with shoes from celebrities like Ellen DeGeneres, Seth Green, and Denzel Washington.
Enjoy the pictures of Reese Witherspoon out in Beverly Hills (May 3).
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Deus Ex - Retrospective @ CGMagazine
CGMagazine has a new article looking back at the Deus Ex game franchise. The writer calls the games good, but goes on to say they could've been better.
However, despite my love for the series, it became evident during my recent play-through of Human Revolution that something is missing. I remember walking around lower Hengsha and hearing whispers of people selling their augmented body parts in order to buy other necessities in an attempt to simply survive. It didn't occur to me the first time I played it, but the second time around I thought to myself, how cool would it be to see those scenarios playing out during gameplay? You walk down an alley-way and you see a poor soul trying helplessly to remove an augmented arm so they could sell it and fill their stomach with food.
The game also tries to emphasize the protesting against augmentations in general, but once again, you're never in the midst of the chaos on the streets where riot police are doing their best to hold people back as the outrage pours on. These extra layers would have taken the game to a new height, effectively putting players in the thick of things and really hammering home that feeling of rage many people in that world are experiencing.
I've also thought that characters throughout the series were quite one-dimensional. This was most evident in Invisible War, where I found myself killing key characters for fun here and there, and never feeling the repercussions of my actions. Human Revolution did improve upon this a little, but even there I felt the environment I was a part of as a whole was far more interesting than individual characters themselves.


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Has the state government handed the Regent to a developer?
11 May 2009 , 8:12 AM by Spencer Howson
This sounds very "Yes Minister" if it's true.
According to Save the Regent (STR), the State Government secretly changed its directive on the Regent Theatre just before the state election (February 19th) "to exactly match Multiplex's development proposal for the site" (STR's words).
STR's Brett Debritz believes the State Government has offered up the Regent to Multiplex as a consolation prize for the North Bank debacle.
Brett Debritz, a weekly commentator on 612 Breakfast, outlines STR's concerns:
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New Infrastructure Minister Stirling Hinchliffe:
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The historic Regent Theatre complex in Brisbane's Queen Street Mall is set to become the cultural heart, and operational centre, for cinema and television in Queensland.
Premier Anna Bligh and Deputy Premier Paul Lucas today announced that the State Heritage-listed building will host a new Queensland Film and Television Centre.
The centre will become the headquarters for the State's leading film and television artistic and training groups while retaining three working cinemas.
"I can think of no grander vision then to breathe new life into the Regent while still retaining a functioning cinema complex with the building," Ms Bligh said.
"The Regent's future lies not just as a working, boutique cinema but also the home of Queensland's film and television industry.
"People will be able to go to see a movie on weekends and public holidays, during the week it will be a vibrant artistic centre."
The Premier said that developers ISPT and Brookfield Multiplex, had offered to host the Queensland Film and Television Centre at the Regent at no extra cost to the taxpayer.
"This centre will make a significant contribution to Brisbane city by protecting the Regent's magnificent heritage-listed building," she said.
"But by making sure it stays a working cinema and adding the film and television precinct we have created a drawcard for the arts world."
"The redeveloped venue will house the offices of the Pacific Film and Television Commission, the Brisbane International Film Festival and the Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
"It will also continue to play a part in major events on the Queensland arts' industry calendar such as the Brisbane International Film Festival."
The Queensland Government took steps to protect the Regent in February 2008 by issuing a direction aimed at preserving the historic theatre when it was threatened by development plans.
"Since then the developers have amended their plans to provide three multi-function auditoria suitable for cinema, live performance and meetings," said the Premier.
"One auditorium will have 300 seats while the others will each have 60 seat spaces.
"They will be accessible via the original Heritage-listed foyer preserving a vital link between the old and the new Regent."
The Regent Theatre was erected in 1928 and has been screening movies since 1929. It has a rare, gothic Spanish architectural style and is reminiscent of the Hollywood picture palace era. The Theatre is one of only four Hoyts/Regent picture palaces constructed in Australia during this period.
Deputy Premier Paul Lucas said the Queensland Government would enter into a formal agreement with ISPT and Brookfield Multiplex this month to cement the landmark agreement.
"There will be a heritage advisory committee established including members of the community to provide ongoing input during the redevelopment," said Mr Lucas.
"The Regent's prominent location and long history, combined with its spectacular ornate foyers, mean it is cherished by the movie-going public and high-profile members of the arts industry alike.
"That's why the Government stepped in to make sure that this heritage would not be lost to Brisbane's future generations."
The State Government is again going into spin overdrive to justify the changes to its directive last year to save Brisbane's iconic Regent theatre.
The directive issued by the State Government in February 2008 protected many original 1929 features of the complex which were not already covered by State Heritage Laws.
Under revised plans, formalised in a new directive to Brisbane City Council dated February 19 this year, the four existing cinemas and other features are no longer protected. Instead, the 40-storey tower will have three small auditoria which will be open to the public only on the weekends.
The new directive no longer protects any of the many original 1929 plasterwork fittings and fixtures found in the Showcase cinema and in the original mezzanine area, which was relocated to the ground-floor bar area in 1979.
Similarly, the unique Elizabeth Street facade of the building will be lost forever if the development goes ahead.
The current plans lodged with the council do not even indicate that the small part-time auditoria, which reduce the seating capacity of the venue dramatically, can even be viably used to professionally screen "box office" movies.
They appear to lack features such as cinema-style seating, a raked floor to allow comfortable viewing and the projection equipment normally associated with professional cinemas. In fact, these auditoria more closely resemble the type of meeting rooms found in hotels and school libraries than real cinemas.
Despite the government's spin, the developers' intentions have changed very little since the first plans lodged in February last year, which prompted outrage from thousands of Queenslanders - including more than 3200 members of a Facebook group set up by the STR campaign.
The new directive to the city council seems to totally favour the plans first lodged by developers Brookfield/Mutiplex, who late last year lost out on their plans to develop the Northbank complex.
Is it too cynical to suggest that the Regent has been handed to the developers as a consolation prize after the Northbank debacle?
When the government spin doctors talk about the Regent becoming the "creative heart" of the city, they are referring only to these auditoria and some office space provided at no expense for the Brisbane International Film Festival (which, ironically will no longer be able to hold its red-carpet opening nights at the Regent), the Asia Pacific Screen Awards and the troubled Pacific Film and Televison Corporation.
The government has not said how long this deal will last, but Queenslanders can be certain that there is a use-by date after which the Regent will be totally lost to the general public.
The Save the Regent Group would welcome the oportunity to give Premier and Arts Minsiter Anna Bligh, Infrastructure Minister Stirling Hinchliffe and Lord Mayor Campbell Newman a guided tour of the Regent - and to point out the many wonderful heritage features that will be lost from Brisbane's last remaining Hollywood Picture Palace if this proposed development is allowed to proceed.
We remain hopeful that the government, having changed its mind about the Carrara AFL ground, will also change its mind about the Regent, and consider alternatives to the current plan, including:
+ the development of a 1500- to 2000-seat venue that incorporates elements of the original 1929 auditorium and would provide a much-needed venue for live theatre and red-carpet cinema events;
+ redevelopment of the exisiting cinemas to provide a commercially viable multiplex similar to the recently revitalised Southbank Cinemas.
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this pi**es me off to no end.
this should not happen.
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can foam board be used on interior?
i have an old 2 story farmhouse. the bathroom was gutted. the exterior walls are only 2x4 so r-13 insulation is being used.
On the face of the 2x4's can I use 1" foam board to give another r-5? then drywall over it.
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If you want additional R-Value in that wall, cut foam board to fit inside the wall and do a layer of foam first, then the batts.
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Sophomore middle blocker Hannah Schraer also got in on the action with nine kills (1e, 15att, .533) while freshman outside hitter Kiara Wright notched seven kills (0e, 12att) for a .583 hitting percentage. For Boston College, Katty Workman had 16 kills (10e, 46att, .130) to lead the way. She also shared team-high honors for digs with 12.
The Trojans made the first set look easy as they cruised to a 25-13 victory behind eight kills from Fuller (0e, 9att, .889). Together, the Women of Troy compiled a .630 hitting rate on 27 swings for 16 kills (2e). The Eagles never threatened the USC lead and it was the Trojans who flew away when junior outside hitter Sara Shaw's kill put the last point into the books. BC hit .292 in the first set (9k, 2e, 24att) but had to endure a stretch through which Hagglund served eight straight points for the Trojans.
Hitting errors plagued the Trojans in the second set as they emerged with a .100 percentage (12k, 8e, 40att). Though BC took an early lead, USC wrestled it away for an 11-10 advantage when Schraer put a ball to the ground. The Trojans were up, 24-21, and had three set points to work with, but the Eagles scored the next three points to even the set. USC found itself on the wrong side of set point when BC blocked a Trojan attack, but freshman middle blocker Alicia Ogoms and Fuller teamed up to return the favor to tie the set at 26. Fuller rose up on the right side to finish of the set, 28-26, for USC and log her 13th kill of the match.
The two teams plodded through the third set to 17 tie scores. Shaw and Fuller earned back-to-back kills to help USC pull ahead, 22-20, but the lead was short lived as the Eagles came right back. The Trojans held their course, but a service ace by Boston College ended the set, 26-24, for the Eagles. USC hit at a .140 rate in the third with 14 kills (8e, 43att) while BC earned a .208 hitting percentage on 48 swings with 16 kills (6e).
In a dramatic turn of events, the Trojans came out of the gate churning in the fourth set as they built a 10-2 lead. USC registered an astonishing .680 hitting percentage in the final set as they claimed 17 kills on 25 attacks without a single error. Bricio was the toast of the town as she came through with nine of those kills. USC's defense was also on point as it dug up 12 balls; seven by Hagglund. The Trojans held the Eagles to a .074 hitting percentage with seven kills (5e) on 27 attacks. USC led by as many as 14 points; once at 18-4, and once more at 21-7. Wright came in and got the final kill of the match to make the score 25-10.
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Extremely slow and boring book, this plods on and on and Nick is quite the idiot. It is obvious what the ending will be, and I was disappointed in this one. I liked the movie the Wicker Man, but this book doesn't really remind me of the movie. The "mystery" of the dead woman, and the blind man was VERY obvious. The ending was interesting, though. Plow that field!
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I read this when it was first published in 1973, it was pretty scarey to me. They're were a lot of really good horror novels written in the early '70s including Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist and this novel by Tom Tryon, who was once a pretty decent actor. To bad he died at a fairly young age. He wrote another good novel called The Other.
I read this when it was first published in 1973, it was pretty scarey to me. They're were a lot of really good horror novels written in the early '70s including Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist and this novel by Tom Tryon, who was once a pretty decent actor. To bad he died at a fairly young age. He wrote another good novel called The Other.
An artist moves his family to a small Connecticut town, where he discovers horrific secrets behind the quaint harvest rituals.
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What a horrifying story! What a great book!
This is the story of what awaits Ned Constantine, his wife Beth, and his daughter Kate after they leave urban life behind and move to the rural Connecticut town of Cornwall Coombe. Its population of individuals, most notably the herbalist Widow Fortune and the postal worker Tamar Penrose, carry out their ancient harvest traditions and festivals, having as their crescendo the rite of Harvest Home, an ancient secret ceremony celebrating the corn harvest and ritually symbolizing earthly renewal.
The characters of this story are positively creepy. It turns out that you can't tell the good guys from the bad guys (or gals). I really liked the main character Ned who was an artist. He, at first, saw the beauty of Cornwall Coombe and tried to capture it in his paintings. His intention was to make a better life for his family. Unfortunately, he didn't realize his mistake until too late.
If you love taut writing, unpredictable characters, small town settings, and unsettling scenes, you'll appreciate this book. if you have a queasy stomache for grizzly scenes, it might be better to just pass this book along to someone else who finds horror novels entertaining.
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