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After dinner, I figured I invest an hour in crafting my RSS experiments page. Fat chance.
I scanned the first half dozen items and then my curiosity kicked in. There is simply too much cool stuff on the web. Maish Nichani hijacked my attention, saying
I sense a similar shift in e-learning design: from instructional design to learner experience design (LXD). If this too is going to be a mind, body, and soul shift, then we are need to be more holistic. We need to look beyond learner characteristics and learning objectives. We need our own set of learner experience methods to help us understand the complexities of learning, working, and decision making in the real world.
Nathan's site was beautiful and thoght-provoking (and marred by dead links). Ideo's experience design was so compelling that I shelled out $50 for a set of methodcards (which I'll tell you about once I have them in hand).
Next I followed Maish's lead to Zen and the Art of Knowledge Management, a short but cogent description that cuts to the chase. It's as if author Carl Davidson has been reading my mind, for he's giving the same oddball advice that I do: visual learning, storytelling, talk spaces, social network analysis, and even a lovely quote from e e cummings:
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Transportation weighs on Western Pennsylvania
Allegheny County voters appear to be more concerned about Pennsylvania's glaring transportation needs than people elsewhere in the state, based on results of a poll conducted for the Tribune-Review.
"We face serious problems," said Jim Roddey, a former county executive and a former Port Authority chairman tapped for Gov.-elect Tom Corbett's transition transportation committee.
A Susquehanna Polling & Research survey found that 34 percent of county voters think fixing roads and bridges and improving the state's overall transportation system should be priorities for Corbett and state legislators. That was the highest percentage among eight regions analyzed in the poll of 800 voters, conducted from Dec. 27 to Sunday. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.46 percentage points.
It could be that Allegheny County drivers use roads and bridges that are, on average, in worse shape than those elsewhere, and the county's mass transit agency has the most dire financial problems.
About 30 percent of the area's bridges are structurally deficient, and 22 percent of roads are in poor condition, compared to deterioration statewide of 22.5 percent and 15 percent, respectively, PennDOT findings show. The Port Authority is grappling with a deficit approaching $50 million and retiree health costs that are four times higher than those of Philadelphia's SEPTA, even though that agency is four times larger.
It's not a rosy picture statewide. The state's Transportation Advisory Committee said last spring that an additional $3.5 billion a year is needed to fund transportation adequately.
How will the governor's mansion and the Legislature, which will both be controlled by Republicans, address the problems while facing a budget deficit projected to be between $4 billion and $5 billion?
"We have no idea what the (Corbett) administration is going to do. There have been no smoke signals at all," said Rep. Rick Geist of Altoona, the Republican chairman of the House Transportation Committee.
Corbett hand-picked a 400-member transition team to examine state agencies and make recommendations. One of the team's 17 committees is focused on transportation and infrastructure.
"We've got to find extra revenue without raising taxes," said Roddey, who headed a regional look at transportation issues.
Roddey coordinated interviews with officials from Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Port Authority, the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission, Pittsburgh International Airport and the Port of Pittsburgh Commission and used the information to author a report completed last month. It will be merged into a larger, statewide report that will be given to Corbett before his Jan. 18 inauguration, Roddey said.
Roddey wouldn't discuss specifics of the report, citing a confidentiality agreement.
But Roddey in the past advocated a series of cost-cutting transportation reforms, such as dissolving the Turnpike Commission and putting it under PennDOT; revisiting Interstate 80 tolling as a means to generate money for its maintenance and to free up money for other transportation needs; finding legislative ways to deal with Port Authority's high legacy costs; and requiring the transit agency to contract out a certain percentage of services in order to qualify for state funding.
Corbett spokesman Kevin Harley said "everything is on the table" — that is, everything but imposing new taxes. Outgoing Gov. Ed Rendell proposed increasing motor-vehicle fees and taxing oil companies' profits as a way to generate up to $1 billion a year for transportation, but Harley said Corbett won't consider that.
He said ideas Corbett intends to pursue include determining whether public-private partnerships could spur transportation development; moving state police funding from the state's motor-license fund to the general budget; or creating a highway trust fund that would generate interest money for transportation needs.
Harley said Corbett plans to name his transportation secretary next week. He will deliver his budget address March 8.
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Here's one way to get some attention for your gripes with the Mayor. With 150,000-plus on hand at Churchill Downs, hire a bi-plane with a trailing banner expressing your concerns.
That's what the Fraternal Order of Police did both Friday and Saturday. There were three messages:
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I asked police union cheif John McGuire about the tactic, and he said the campaign refers to the longstanding arguments with the Mayor over opening the city's financial records to public scrutiny. The police union was unhappy about changes in its take-home car policy for police and other pay issues.
McGuire said it's the first time the union has used the tactic since before merger, though the Mayor's office dismissed the stunt as "an annual ploy."
McGuire wouldn't say what the union paid for the flyovers. Typically, the cost is around $1,500 an hour.


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WASHINGTON — Republican leaders are moving to tighten their control over the proceedings on the floor of the House of Representatives next year, planning moves that include eliminating a requirement that Democrats be allowed to sign off on certain types of bills, according to draft rule changes obtained by Buzzfeed.
When he first came into power nearly two years ago, Speaker John Boehner was adamant that he would relax the iron grip on floor proceedings that his predecessors had maintained for decades by allowing open amendment processes and permitting Democrats to get floor votes on at least some of their measures.
The draft rule changes, however, will give Republican leaders and committee chairman greater freedom in scheduling items on the chamber floor and limit Democrats' ability to block certain measures.
Republicans are expected to consider the new rules during their organizational meeting next week.
Republicans are also proposing to eliminate a ban on scheduling "suspension" bills for consideration if more than one third of the committee's membership opposes the legislation, a move that will likely weaken the hand of Democrats while strengthening the authority of chairman.
The House considers two types of bills — those under a "rule," which creates limits on amendments and provides for a 218 vote threshold, and so-called "suspension" bills that require a super majority of members, allow no amendments and are generally bipartisan or non-controversial.
Leadership is proposing two other minor changes to the rules: one change that would require all authorization measures to include a sunset provision, and second reducing the number of seats in their internal Elected Leadership council from two to one.
The changes are technically being made to the GOP conference's internal rules. However, because Republicans control the House, any internal rules effecting how they operate the chamber become de facto rules for both parties.
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This Sunday, November 6th is Daylight Saving Time. Each fall most Americans turn their clocks back one hour to observing daylight saving pursuant to 15 U.S. Code §260 et seq.
For more information about the history of Daylight Saving Time, see the U.S. Naval Observatory's page on Daylight Time, which includes future Daylight Saving dates. In addition, the Daylight Saving Time online exhibit through WebExhibits, an interactive museum, has articles and links to full-text historic documents related to Daylight Savings, including a link to Benjamin Franklin's 1784 essay on Daylight Saving.


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by Michelle Ma
Seattle WA (SPX) Nov 13, 2014
It's not uncommon to see cameras mounted on store ceilings, propped up in public places or placed inside subways, buses and even on the dashboards of cars.
Cameras record our world down to the second. This can be a powerful surveillance tool on the roads and in buildings, but it's surprisingly hard to sift through vast amounts of visual data to find pertinent information - namely, making a split-second identification and understanding a person's actions and behaviors as recorded sequentially by cameras in a variety of locations.
Now, University of Washington electrical engineers have developed a way to automatically track people across moving and still cameras by using an algorithm that trains the networked cameras to learn one another's differences. The cameras first identify a person in a video frame, then follow that same person across multiple camera views.
"Tracking humans automatically across cameras in a three-dimensional space is new," said lead researcher Jenq-Neng Hwang, a UW professor of electrical engineering. "As the cameras talk to each other, we are able to describe the real world in a more dynamic sense."
Hwang and his research team presented their results last month in Qingdao, China, at the Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, or IEEE.
Imagine a typical GPS display that maps the streets, buildings and signs in a neighborhood as your car moves forward, then add humans to the picture. With the new technology, a car with a mounted camera could take video of the scene, then identify and track humans and overlay them into the virtual 3-D map on your GPS screen.
The UW researchers are developing this to work in real time, which could help pick out people crossing in busy intersections, or track a specific person who is dodging the police.
"Our idea is to enable the dynamic visualization of the realistic situation of humans walking on the road and sidewalks, so eventually people can see the animated version of the real-time dynamics of city streets on a platform like Google Earth," Hwang said.
Hwang's research team in the past decade has developed a way for video cameras - from the most basic models to high-end devices - to talk to each other as they record different places in a common location.
The problem with tracking a human across cameras of non-overlapping fields of view is that a person's appearance can vary dramatically in each video because of different perspectives, angles and color hues produced by different cameras.
The researchers overcame this by building a link between the cameras. Cameras first record for a couple of minutes to gather training data, systematically calculating the differences in color, texture and angle between a pair of cameras for a number of people who walk into the frames in a fully unsupervised manner without human intervention.
After this calibration period, an algorithm automatically applies those differences between cameras and can pick out the same people across multiple frames, effectively tracking them without needing to see their faces.
The research team has tested the ability of static and moving cameras to detect and track pedestrians on the UW campus in multiple scenarios. In one experiment, graduate students mounted cameras in their cars to gather data, then applied the algorithms to successfully pick out humans and follow them in a three-dimensional space.
They also installed the tracking system on cameras placed inside a robot and a flying drone, allowing the robot and drone to follow a person, even when the instruments came across obstacles that blocked the person from view.
The linking technology can be used anywhere, as long as the cameras can talk over a wireless network and upload data to the cloud.
This detailed visual record could be useful for security and surveillance, monitoring for unusual behavior or tracking a moving suspect. But it also tells store owners and business proprietors useful information and statistics about consumers' moving patterns.
A store owner could, for example, use a tracking system to watch a shopper's movements in the store, taking note of her interests. Then, a coupon or deal for a particular product could be displayed on a nearby screen or pushed to the shopper's phone - in an instant.
Leveraging the visual data produced by our physical actions and movements might, in fact, become the next way in which we receive marketing, advertisements and even helpful tools for our everyday lives.
Inevitably, people will have privacy concerns, Hwang said, and the information extracted from cameras could be encrypted before it's sent to the cloud.
"Cameras and recording won't go away. We might as well take advantage of that fact and extract more useful information for the benefit of the community," he added.
Co-authors are Kuan-Hui Lee, a UW doctoral student in electrical engineering, and Greg Okopal and James Pitton, engineers at the UW Applied Physics Laboratory.
The research was funded by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute of Korea and the Applied Physics Laboratory.
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The parent company, which also owns the Vegemite brand, made revenues of $2.02 billion from its Australian operations in calendar 2012, up from $1.9 billion the previous year.
Mr Abbott on Wednesday promised $16 million in taxpayer funds as a contribution to a broader $66 million upgrade of the Cadbury chocolate factory at Claremont, about 15 kilometres from Hobart in the seat of Denison, held by Independent MP
Mr Abbott argued Tasmania had special economic circumstances and a pragmatic approach was needed in this "special case" because of a state economy that was behind the mainland states on just about every economic measure. He acknowledged that it was "quite unusual for the national government to co-invest, as it were, with a profitable private business''.
He defended the diversion from a market-based approach to economic policy, and said over the past five years "Tasmania has been left behind, big time''.
The Cadbury pledge in Tasmania comes in stark contrast to the Coalition's approach to the car industry, where it plans to strip $500 million in funding, at a time when GM Holden is considering shutting down its local manufacturing operations in Adelaide.
The Cadbury factory at Claremont has been operating since 1922 and is now owned by global conglomerate
In 2012, the company paid income tax of $18.9 million. In 2011, the company didn't pay any tax according to its financial statements, and received a tax benefit of $6.6 million in a year when it made a net profit of $45.8 million.
A spokeswoman for Mondelez said a $50 million upgrade of the Cadbury plant had already been factored in to the company's capital expenditure plans over the next three years, with the plant now at record production of 50,000 tonnes of chocolate annually. The Cadbury brand has made strong gains and has expanded its market share to around 51 per cent in Australia, according to the company.
The Coalition pledge of public funding as the election campaign heads toward its final week has faint echoes of 1989, when then prime minister
Kodak eventually shut down manufacturing in 2004 after global shifts to digital photography killed sales of film.
Production of chocolate, however, is unlikely to suffer a similar fate, given the market in Australia is worth $2 billion annually. Bank of America Merrill Lynch chief economist
Low levels of education needed to be improved, which in turn would ultimately help lift productivity.
"I think most of the solutions for Tasmania probably are in their own hands,'' he said.
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In the world of business development and branding, going digital 's all the buzz. So just what is digital marketing and how can we put it to use to grow our businesses?
Online marketing Defined
Digital marketing is the advertising and promotion of companies and their brands through digital media channels. Digital media, right now, includes websites, social media marketing, radio, television, mobile and also forms of traditionally non-digital media for example billboards and transit signs. Essentially any marketing media that's delivered electronically is considered internet marketing.
This leaves only various forms of person-to-person (P2P) marketing, print advertising and direct marketing away from the digital marketing umbrella. Still, print ads, unsolicited mail, print directories, billboards and posters are starting to connect to their digital counterparts. With items like URL landing pages, QR codes, web websites, online directories and text codes, traditional promoting almost always has a internet marketing connection.
Why the Focus on Digital Media?
The shift to digital media will be driven by marketing agencies, companies and consumers alike. The ever-increasing demand to indicate quantifiable results makes going digital a goal for the digital marketing agency. Most digital media, including websites, social networking and mobile advertising is much easier to track than traditional marketing media like print advertising.
For businesses, many forms of digital advertising are very low cost. Having a website, engaging customers in conversations through social networking and e-mail marketing are low cost alternatives to print advertising and mail. These digital channels are available to businesses of any size, which help to even the stage for start-ups, small businesses and independent consultants seeking start up business.
For consumers, the short pace of life makes digital advertising absolutely essential. When consumers are needing goods and services, gone are the days of thumbing by having a phonebook to find them. Now, we find our mobile devices or head to our computers for answers - and that we find them fast.
Using Digital Media to develop Your Business and Brand
No matter what size your business is - small or large to medium sized business / enterprise (SMB or SME) - you'll be able to effectively market your business through low-cost digital channels. The muse of your marketing efforts is usually the website. Invest wisely in your website, and be sure it does the following:
Adequately represents your organization and brand (appearance and feel, messaging)
Adequately speaks to your target market
Can be found by searchers ahead search engines
Is up-to-date and easily navigable
Provides multiple channels for customer communication
Connects with marketing efforts
Our recommendation is that you work with a professional web site design firm that is skilled in web development and search engine optimization. When your website is the foundation from which all other digital channels will lead, it should be considered one of your top business investments.
When you have your website complete, the next steps would be to launch regular monthly or bi-monthly e-mail campaigns, and repair with customers via social media marketing. If you are truly on the shoestring budget, they are efforts that can be done in-house (by someone together with the proper knowledge) or a low cost by a third party digital marketing agency. Ensure that all of your efforts lead customers to your website where they could fully engage with your company, products and services, and choose the channels through which they contact you.
If you're interested in getting aggressive with search marketing, you can set aside some online marketing dollars for search engine optimisation and pay-per-click advertising. Companies today rely heavily on being obtained online to gain new customers. A standard misconception among business owners is that simply using a website means that customers will find it. Not so. Your website must be built with specific key phrases and phrases, meta data, page content and linking strategies that will help it reach top search rankings.
Because many key term and phrases have stiff competition to get the best search rankings, you will need to supplement your search engines engine optimization efforts with pay-per-click advertising. Getting established with pay-per-click advertising campaigns can be a little daunting, though a little time, effort and instruction, this too can be accomplished in-house, or for a fair cost through an outside online marketing agency.
Beyond e-mail, social media marketing and search engine marketing, you'll be able to venture into a host of other internet marketing efforts. Mobile advertising, radio, television, electronic billboards plus much more are available as marketing outlets. Whatever digital efforts you choose, they should all connect and tie in your foundation - your business website.


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|Rhinoceroses caused a stir when they were exhibited in Europe and America. The menagerie in the Tower of London closed in 1834, but English monarchs had been collecting wild animals since the Middle Ages. By the eighteenth century, public displays of "remarkable" animals were common. Creatures like this Indian rhinoceros (from Buffon's Histoire Naturelle) suggested that "nature" was much more diverse and strange than it seemed in an English garden.
|Rhino horns, along with narwal tusks, were gradually accepted as sources of the legends of unicorns. Animals with unusual physical characteristics (tusks, horns, bony plates) also came to be linked with extinct species and fossil remains. Images, like this rhino from Goldsmith's widely circulated Animated Nature, allowed the general public to gaze upon what seemed like a living dinosaur.
|Elephants ( like this apparently undernourished one from Pennant's Quadrupeds) were among the most widely known and exhibited of exotic animals. These animals were remarkable not only for their size and anatomy, but also for their often noted "sagacity." Travelers reported their virtual domestication in southeast Asia. Public displays, however, were sometimes a threat to the creature's life. Keith Thomas notes a 1682 display during which an elephant died in an accidental fire and a 1720 pachyderm whose death was fostered "by the great quantity of ale the spectators gave it" (278).
Crocodiles, and alligators (with which they were often confused) have been sources of fear and wonder since ancient times. William Bartram's 1791 account of these dragon-like reptiles locked in mortal combat--in his Travels in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida--captured the fascination and the terror evoked by the power and mystery associated with such creatures.


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http://www.inselhombroich.de/museum.htmThe Insel Hombroich Foundation is almost unique in the way it lives from dialogue between art and nature. Close to Neuss and the densely populated areas of the Rhine and Ruhr, this is a refuge conceived as a counterpole to heavily industrialized urban existence. A little English park, enclosed by a branch of the little River Erft, formed the nucleus for what has now grown into an art landscape extending over 250,000 sq. metres. In 1982 Karl-Heinrich Müller, a Düsseldorf dealer in real estate, bought the park, which had run wild, inclusive of the 'Rosa Haus', a villa built in 1816. At that time he was looking for a new way of presenting his art collection, which concentrated on Hans Arp, Jean Fautrier, Yves Klein, and Kurt Schwitters. A separate pavilion was to be devoted to each artist. The collector found support for his plans among people linked with the Düsseldorf Academy of Art: painter Gotthard Graubner and sculptors Anatol Herzfeld and Erwin Heerich. Müller offered Heerich a chance of transposing his minimalist cardboard-box sculptures into architectural spaces; he invited Beuys pupil Anatol Herzfeld to open his studio at Hombroich; and he sought Graubner's advice about extending the collection, looked after by art historian Kitty Kemr. Landscape architect Bernhard Korte set about restoring the old park and planned the restructuring of neighbouring fields, once used for agriculture, as elemental space. Ways through Nature to ArtIngenious dramaturgy in the devising of approaches means that you slowly come closer to the "Island's" art, directly experiencing an exciting dialogue between landscape, architecture, and art. The route takes the visitor from the higher entrance area down to the water meadow, and from there through the historic park of the Erft island across the elevated terraces back to the starting-point. Heerich did not only plan the buildings as exhibition spaces. They also function as walk-in sculpture which choreograph both the visitor's movement and direction of gaze. In the first building Heerich thus takes up the idea of a crossroads. Glass doors allow the 'Tower' made from pure cubes to be permeated by light and the human gaze from all four sides. When you come close to the raw walls of undressed stone, the overgrown path remains in view, as if through a gateway, while daylight time and again restructures the inner space with its smooth, white-plastered walls. Confrontation with Contrasting Works of ArtThe next building along the route, the 'Labyrinth', is seen as the heart of the collection. Hidden behind high hedges is a large square building whose central space can be reached in four different ways. In this maximally ordered but bewildering spatial structure the works of art serve to provide orientation. The collection has become much larger by now. Alongside East Asian, Mexican, African, and Polynesian art are groupings of works by such modernist artists as Paul Cezanne, Lovis Corinth, Medardo Rosso, Constantin Brancusi, Bart van der Leck, Alfred Jensen, and Ellsworth Kelly. Karl-Heinrich Müller never collected systematically but was always directed by his personal preferences. Etchings by Rembrandt and clay vessels dating from early Luristan and Amlash are also to be seen together with works by artists involved in the project, including Norbert Tadeusz since 1990. Neither signs nor captions distract from direct experience of art. The concept developed by Gotthard Graubner, starting out from interactive encounter between artworks as the principle underlying presentation, also allows constantly new and surprising confrontations between differing artistic viewpoints. A studio-house was built for Graubner himself in 1994, and this is due to be transformed into a museum at a later stage. Architecture as Walk-In SculptureBy now eleven of the fifteen buildings on Insel Hombroich are by Erwin Heerich. All take as their starting-point simple geometrical primary forms, but each time they redefine the relationship between inner and outer space. Situated in the three different vegetation zones of the island landscape, they initiate a dialogue with the rare trees of the old park in which these buildings were carefully placed, standing as landmarks between the grasses of the marshy area and from the river terrace offering a view into the expansive Lower Rhine landscape. Buildings like the 'Snail' pursue another idea when a walkway closed to the outside winds around an inner courtyard with light from above as the only source of illumination for the entire building. These embodiments of space offer an unconventional "living area" for art. The paintings, prints, and sculpture can be seen in a completely new and unspectacular way without air-conditioning or artificial light. A visitor's perceptions thus vary, depending on the time of day or year, and on the weather. credits: Goethe-Institut
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If you own one of the higher end Nikon DSLRs like the D7000-7100 or D600-800 this class is for you. Paul Van Allen will go over the camera menu choices and show you the advanced capabilities of your Pro Nikon camera including:
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The arrest of a Muslim man on charges connected to the deadly Washington-area sniper shootings has the Islamic community bracing for another round of threats and attacks like those that followed the Sept. 11 attacks.
"The whole Muslim community was praying day and night: 'God, please. There has to be no connection to Muslims,'" Faiz Rehman of the American Muslim Council said Thursday, according to AP. "We'll probably have a backlash. People in a hurry will think that this is just a Muslim thing again. The community really fears it."
John Allen Muhammad, 41 — who converted to Islam several years ago — and John Lee Malvo, 17, were detained early Thursday. The news hit Muslims hard.
"It's like a ball in your stomach: 'Oh God here we go again,'" said Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations. "Every time we seem to make some advancements, it's like we take one step forward and two steps back."
"We're doing what we did after Sept. 11: holding onto our seats, holding on for the ride and hoping this one will be shorter," said Jumana Judeh, an activist in the Arab-American community in Dearborn, Mich.
According to AP, more than 2,000 bias incidents against Muslims were reported to authorities in the year after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. (Albawaba.com)
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I hear about and see and have dealt with many horses that have trouble loading in a trailer and I have found that it usually is much more of a foundational issue and really doesn't have much to do with the actual trailer. In order for you to get your horse to get inside this scary small box it's imperative that you have his respect and trust and the ability to move his feet in a forward manor. If you can't lunge your horse both directions, stop him and turn to change directions without moving your own feet much, "send" him forward through a space (another post to follow on "sending") like a small gate opening or between yourself and
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This is basically the male equivalent of The Wonderbra, i.e. padded "manties." With the introduction of The Australian brand Wonderjock by AussieBum, designed to "lift and promote" (i.e. pad) a "man's crotch area" (translation: penis), men have joined the ranks of women in terms of insecurity. They get manscaped. They get man-icured. Some of them are worried about boob size. And now this. Aint life fun, boys?!


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text: In 1990, Harriet Wheeler and David Gavurin of The Sundays put out their first album, Reading, Writing And Arithmetic. Full of crisp, jangly popdriven by Wheeler's sweetly lilting vocals and Gavurin's shimmering guitar linesthe album was warmly received for the bright pop moment it was. Two years later came Blind, which sounded, well, an awful lot like its predecessor. Then, for five years: nothing. Wheeler and Gavurin had a baby, spent some time off, and set to recording another album that sounds, well, an awful lot like Reading, Writing And Arithmetic. All of that record's ingredients remain intact: Wheeler's voice is beautiful, wavering between a girlish coo and a soaring swoon, and Gavurin's guitar work illuminates tons of warm, sharp hooks. The only difference, besides five years of passed time, is that Static & Silence is a bit slower and more melancholy; there's still a sunny tone, to be sure, but songs like "When I'm Thinking About You" and "I Can't Wait" (which, honest to God, samples chirping birds) are drawn out and delivered at a more deliberate pace than usual. Static & Silence is far from essential, but The Sundays' return provides a welcome respite from all the ghastly Our Lady Peace records out there.


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The vision of Save the Chimps was -- and remains -- to create a Sanctuary where rescued chimpanzees can live out their lives without the threat of ever returning to a laboratory. A generous donation by the Arcus Foundation enabled Save the Chimps to purchase 200 acres for a permanent sanctuary in Ft. Pierce, Florida. The Sanctuary environment was carefully designed to nurture and stimulate these sensitive and complex primates by creating a secure and enriching environment, including the construction of a three-acre island on which to safely express natural behaviors without human interference. These former lab chimpanzees now live as a social group, the largest in the U.S., in the largest enclosure in the U.S.
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Immediately after taking possession of the lab, Dr. Noon and her staff began to modify the stark Alamogordo facility into a healthier and happier environment for the chimpanzees now in their charge, including, for the first time in their lives, fresh food, enlarged cages, enrichment activities, compassionate caregivers and, most importantly, the establishment of social groups. By introducing the chimps to one another and allowing them to form family units, while still in New Mexico awaiting completion of the islands and facilities in Florida, their transition to the Islands in the Sun will be much faster and smoother.
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Back in May he was arrested for allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old prostitute, and now Lawrence Taylor has been indicted on rape charges.
The NFL Hall of Fame great has a bevy of charges to face as a result of the incident that transpired at the Holiday Inn outside of New York City.
He's still wading through the 3rd degree rape charges stemming from his sexual encounter with a 16-year-old prostitute, and Lawrence Taylor has come up with a story to try and avoid jail time.
The NFL Hall of Famer has stated that he never touched the girl, but rather only touched himself during their interaction on May 6th at a hotel.
In the ongoing disturbing story involving Lawrence Taylor and a 16-year-old prostitute, new details have emerged.
A source close to the former New York Giants football player who has had direct contact with Taylor since the incident tells TMZ that Taylor has acknowledged the pimp supplied the girl ... but he "honestly believed she was 19 or 21."
He was arrested early Thursday morning and charged with rape, and now new details have emerged about Lawrence Taylor's legal snafu.
The NFL Hall of Famer reportedly hired the 16-year-old girl from her pimp Rasheed Davis and paid her $300 for sex.
Shortly after being bailed out of jail, Lawrence Taylor was dealt more bad news - this time to his financial well-being.
After being arrested and charged with the rape of a 16-year-old girl on Thursday morning (May 6), the NFL great has since been dropped by one of his now-former employers, Nutrisystem.
Having already had past dealings with the lawyer, Lawrence Taylor was back in an unfortunately familiar situation on Thursday - in police custody at a courthouse.
The former New York Giants football star is currently facing charges that he raped a 16-year-old girl, with bail having been set at $75,000 with a temporary restraining order granted to the alleged victim until October 6, 2010.
He "redefined the way outside linebacker position was played" back in the 1980s and early 90s, but now Lawrence Taylor has a whole new challenge ahead of him.
The Hall of Fame NFL player has been arrested on suspicion of rape in Suffern, New York as part of an ongoing investigation.


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It should be mandatory that all new gun sales come with a locking device for the trigger mechanism. Those individuals who already own a weapon should purchase a "gun lock" to protect their children from potential harm or protect themselves from unstable family members such as the shooter in the Newtown, Conn., incident. Had the three weapons in question been fitted with "gun locks," it's possible this terrible tragedy may never have occurred in the first place. If only we could turn back the clock.
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Misplaced ideas
The argument against gun regulation stems from the misplaced Catch-22 that we need guns to be accessible because there are people who would take our guns away. This is expressed in the infantile fantasy of invasion by foreign forces of the United States, so perfectly described in the film "Red Dawn." It's as stupid as thinking the United States could successfully occupy the city of Baghdad. It's a lot like the idea that if you've got the weapon on your hip, and the lunatic is attacking, that you will get the drop on him. Tell that to Gabby Giffords. Tell that to the Pasadena cop who was executed with his own gun. The goof in Connecticut, a card-carrying member of the lunatic fringe, all primed with video hypersimulation of victory, was primed and ready. Then the other goof, his mom, allowed access.
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I agree wholeheartedly with letter writer James Clark. I would also ask: Why isn't the National Firearms Act of 1934 amended to include AR-15s, AK-47s and the like? A license fee is currently imposed for the transfer of submachine guns, sawed-off shotguns and sawed-off rifles. This would not only result in knowing who owns such weapons, but it would bring revenue to the appropriate agency.
- John M. Lusich, Glendale
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The defense bill for 2013 is $633 billion, which is $29 billion less than last year. The House and Senate allocated $88.5 billion for the war in Afghanistan, which is approximately 7.5 billion per month for a war that Americans do not support. Is the profit from the war machine more important than the lives of soldiers being killed and seriously wounded? If Congress did not allocate the $88.5 billion for the war in Afghanistan, then the war would stop. Lawmakers are not representing the American people.
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Out, damned administrivia! Well, I've made it a little further. I can now read and write old-style konfig files, though the code is gross and there's absolutely no checking of the validity of any of the variables. (I'll add some of that while I can stay awake.) So I can do the following: XYX:sina:~/mj/2.0> ./mj_shell lists firstname.lastname@example.com serves the following lists: type-o Discussion about the band Type O Negative fvwm Discussion about the FVWM window manager [...] I write the old-style files in a format that's a bit more readable and I dropped the use of that nasty format and the need to post-process the file. A sample entry looks like: # noadvertise # (undef) [regexp_array] <majordomo,advertise,lists> # If the requestor name matches one of these regexps, then the list will # not be listed in the output of a lists command. Noadvertise overrides # advertise. noadvertise << ENDAF ENDAF A big hash defines everything about a config variable. An entry looks like this: 'subscribe_policy' => { 'type' => 'enum', 'values' => [qw(open closed auto open+confirm closed+confirm auto+confirm)], 'groups' => [qw(majordomo access subscribe)], 'comment'=> <<EOC, One of three values: open, closed, auto; plus an optional modifier: '+confirm'. Open allows people to subscribe themselves to the list, [...] EOC The local user can tack things onto this hash to add new variables easily. All defaults are specified in a separate file, which contains a simple hash with entries like this: 'subscribe_policy' => Mj::Config::get_global("default_subscribe_policy") || "open+confirm", 'admin_passwd' => "$list.admin", These defaults are evaluated anew for each list. - J<


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I'm look for a replacement to the AWUS050NH because it has been discontinued and had a not so good chipset. Is there anything else that is out there with an external antenna jack that works well with BT?
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I'm look for a replacement to the AWUS050NH because it has been discontinued and had a not so good chipset. Is there anything else that is out there with an external antenna jack that works well with BT?
There really are a bunch of threads on this subject. You don't need to open another one.
I guess the new "how do I crack wep" question is "which wireless card should I buy?" Seems to be a hundred of these in the last week or so.
I would rephrase: "With what do I crack the WEP?"Quote:
"which wireless card should I buy?"
That, Which Card Should I buy thread, doesn't touch on the wireless N usb cards and if it does, it talks about the Alfa that no longer exists. That's why I opened this one.
Not sure why you say the chipset in the Alfa was not so good. It's the most recommended adapter and many people use it without issues, including myself. Plus B/G networks are still dominant these days.
What did your research tell you about the best 'N' wireless usb adapter ?. Maybe if you listed a card or two you are considering after searching yourself, Someone might be able to give further information. Or just buy a USB "N" adapter you feel is suitable and get it going with BT. That would benefit the community as a whole. Rather then sit and wait for someone else to do all the research and work of testing it with BT.
Just my two cents.
Update: Just noticed you started another thread asking more or less the same thing. Seems you received a good answer: http://forums.remote-exploit.org/wir...-good-bad.html
Ok, I was stating that the Alfa "N" adapter on serveral sites state that the performance when connecting to B/G networks was not as good as it's predecessor, which is the best of the best. That's why I was trying to find an adapter that had the performance of the 500mw Alfa on B/G with "N" connectivity as well. Sorry for the confusion. I've decided to go with the B/G for now and will upgrade later if I need to.
Thank you for the honest input. I currently have a b/g network and just wanted to be prepared so I didn't have to upgrade again in the future. Another 50bucks is still another 50bucks. I'll stick to the b/g card. Thanks again.


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-clear the crap off my dresser top
-thin out my & dh's clothes, we both have stuff we don't wear - progress made, but more needs to go!
-sort large basket of childrens clothes to donate, save a few 'special' items - DONE
-dream about convincing dh to put all 200odd dvd's into cd wallets thus getting rid of the cases & cupboard they are housed in (which lives in our bedroom for it's own safety.. boys ) - no luck here yet
-THIN out the kids clothes.. their dresser is in our room as well and they have so many clothes!
- get the junk (papers, magazine, photo album etc) off the night tables
- thoroughly clean the whole joint (clean windows inside/out, sills & blinds; clean closet mirror doors; polish furniture; vacuum & dust baseboards etc
- MAYBE by the end of the month if I'm happy with the results I'll reward us with a nice new bedding set (tired of the one we have now, need change!) or something lovely in the way of art or the wall.
How is everyone doing?? I have made big progress in my room. Still not pic worthy lol but much better. I have the head/footboard now, just need to wait till payday to get the frame and am hoping to have the room complete by then. My older girls helped me go thru 3 or 4 boxes of papers, we made piles for pics, school stuff, 'dads' stuff, etc. And I filled 2 big trashbags woohoo SO exciting. I have also been working in other areas of the house, but my dh is coming home end of next month and I really want this to be a sanctuary for us :
So far, I've cleaned under the bed, and unpacked and organized the winter clothes. I also spent hour today rearranging my bedroom, and in the end wound up with it pretty much the same. Oh well!
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declutter books
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I don't think he's all that bad, really. Maybe it's because I would consider Jordan to be the brick-by-brick kind of guy, and Sanderson by comparison isn't nearly as guilty. In many ways, I think he strikes the middle-ground between Jordan's tedious minutae and, say, Abercrombie's barebones style of world-building (particularly in
The First Law
I guess the time spent "learning" allomancy and "burning metals" just didn't do anything for me. I'm perfectly OK with the concept that; "magic can't be used willy-nilly and there are consequences if the wielder attempts too much, too soon." Anything more than that just tends to bore me and ultimately doesn't really help me "suspend my disbelief" any more/better(?). A few basic tenets are nice, but an entire framework is just overkill, IMO. It's still
for pete's sake.
And for reference, I don't really consider Abercrombie to be barebones when it comes to world building (although he's a step in the right direction for me). So Joe would represent
personal middle-ground when it comes to world-building. I prefer closer to none actually. Just plop me down in the middle of your "world" please. Allow me to learn the rest through contextual clues (preferably contained within character dialog).
Read Lawrence's
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I'm going to quote Mark Lawrence (
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[caveat: the following is aspirational, what I aim for rather than do]
For me good writing is about economy. A good writer knows something about themselves, and by extension about the human condition, and by extension about you. That's why most kids aren't so good at it. Sure the bright ones can line words up and make them dance - but if they haven't lived, had the ups and the downs, then unless they're one in a billion they can't make that vital connection. For the greats (and everyone has their own examples - I like William Golding, Dostoyevsky, Hemmingway, Irving) they can hook out of the mature reader great tracts of the shared experience of being human.
With the right line they can have the reader put all the requisite flesh on the skeleton.
A few choice 'coup de prose' can ring the reader's bell and send echoes down the corridors of their experience. Take that too far and it becomes less and less accessible and we call it poetry. Do it right in a story and the smoke and mirrors of the writer becomes magic and genius.
They do more with less - they put you there with deft touches rather than reams of description - they move you with one line rather than a page of failed entreaties.
High falutin' stuff for a hack who writes blood and guts fantasy, but we all have our dreams.
And also this one... which is in response to a reader wanting to know "more" about certain supporting characters:
There's great power in restraint. Powerful writing is often powerful because of the way hints and hooks draw so much of a story or character out of the reader - in much the same way that a good artist can impart great character to a pen & ink portrait with just a few quick lines.
Part of the impression left on a reader is there because of the questions left unanswered, the white space left unshaded. Turning too bright a light on that can destroy the magic.
If you've read Hobb then the Fool would be a prime example of this. In truth a reader doesn't always want what they think they want.
It is of course possible to read the above as condescending and pompous - it's not meant to be.
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Palestinian Red Crescent spokesman Ali Obedat identified the man as Mohammed Mubarak and said he was found with three bullet wounds in his back. His family said the 18-year-old was working for a construction company when he was killed.
The Israeli military said its forces shot Mubarak after he opened fire at an army post north of the West Bank city of Ramallah. Soldiers felt "an imminent threat to their lives" and shot Mubarak, the military said, adding that 12 bullet casings were found at the scene. Ohad Shoham, the soldier who says he shot Mubarak, told Israeli Army Radio the man was firing a gun.
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We shop in a variety of ways. One of my favorite ways to "bargain hunt" is to shop at discount grocery or surplus stores. We've kind of made it our "thing". Every time I go on vacation I first look up all the discount grocery stores that will be in the area we are going to so we can visit them!
The fun thing with discount grocery stores is that you never know what you are going to find! You might come out with nothing or maybe with an entire cart full! Once on a trip not too far from home I scored a case full of Applegate Farms Organic Beef Hot Dogs for only $1.99 a package. We put them in the freezer and are still eating them up!
Before I head to a store I check this list of surplus and discount grocery stores first. (Weird fact, I'm pretty sure I've been to a discount grocery store in every single state I've ever been in!) Locally we have 1 store that's fairly near to us and I like to stop in about every 2 months or so. There is new products every time! I made a trip there the other day and I snapped some pictures to show you along with some tips for shopping and making the most of a surplus grocery store.
1. Know your prices before you shop. Unless you actually know what's a regular price and a sale price for something before you shop at a discount store you might end up paying way more than you should or you might pass up a bargain without even knowing it. In the picture above I found unbleached flour for $1.25 for a 5lb bag or $0.25 per pound. I normally pay $0.50 per pound for unbleached flour so this is a great deal!
2. Again. Know your prices! I can normally get toothpaste for under $0.50. This tube was marked $2.12. Not a good deal!
3. Don't be afraid of a dented box or can. Some people are extremely picky when it comes to a dented can or box. First check to make sure no seals are broken. Make sure there is nothing leaking from the can or any funny colors around the dent or seal. Cans with minor dents aren't a big deal but you do want to stay away from cans with major dents. If somehow a seal has been broken, bacteria could get into the can and make you very sick. Also make sure the can is not bulging in any funny way.
4. Don't think you can only get processed products. Most surplus stores that I've found have a nice selection of organic canned products, crackers, snacks, and more. Plus, most surplus stores have quite a few products that are not even food. Many have everything from over the counter meds to paper towels!
5. Try not to get overwhelmed. Surplus stores aren't always large but the ones I've been in have always been packed with items. Make sure before you go that you will have plenty of time to look around. go down one aisle at a time. Don't stress too much about being able to see everything, even if you come back in the next day the selection will have changed!
6. Don't feel like just because you stopped to shop that you have to buy. In my latest trip we only found these boxes of 15 Power Bars for $3.50. I was tempted to pick up one or 2 more things on my way to the checkout because they were a great deal but I wasn't sure if we'd actually use them so I skipped them.
7. Know when to stock up big time. this refers back to tip #1. As long as you know your prices and you will know what's a "Buy Price" for you, you will know when you can stock up on an item. Just like in my story above. I knew that Applegate Farms Hot Dogs cost at least $5.50 per package so not only was $1.99 a buy price, it was a stock up price!
So that's pretty much it! Take your time, know your prices, and you will be ready to shop! With surplus stores you never know what kind of treasures you might find!


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True; course you know, IF (and this is a bigger IF than something like Kristin Stewart being nominated for an Academy award and Oscar for best female actress) the JLA film was success..they would undoubtedly want sequels to it as well..so if we had MOS 1 and 2 and even a JLA and WF film before MOS 3, what do we do about Superman's character in the sequels for JL? Do we then conclude his story there or what? This makes my head hurt.lol
If they're not using Cavil as Superman, then that would be a good thing for us since that would mean that they'd continue with MOS, unless Warner Bros. completely drops the MOS franchise in favor of focusing on JL, during which time, they'd risk having a bigger riot than the one that took place in Gotham City.
Damn right!
As for what to do for JL sequels, well it's again going to be the same problem as Iron Man's arc. Cause from the trailer it seems like IM3 is almost a conclusion to his arc, but of course he is going to be in IM3. I guess the only logical assumption is that his character will simply take a step back, and other characters 'arcs' will be more of a focus.
There is certainly more story to tell for Bruce Banner, and all the heroes that don't really have their own films to worry about. Focus on them in terms of actual character dilemmas, and just have Iron Man involved in a side character capacity.
Which i'd also be fine with for a JL sequel. If we get 3 awesome Superman movies, and a JL movies with Superman's arc still fairly central, i'd be happy to leave JL2's arc focus on someone like MM, GL, WW or Flash.
Just accept that this is the direction they have taken.
Then, you can either decide this version isn't for you and stop watching.
you can decide to enjoy it for what it is - an elseworlds tale.
'In Elseworlds, super-heroes are taken from their usual settings and put into strange times and places - some that have existed, and others that can't, couldn't or shouldn't exist. The result is stories that make characters who are as familiar as yesterday seem as fresh as tomorrow.'
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