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m0n0 doesn't have any MAC filtering per se... but if you want to
implement some type of layer2 protection, you can make use of the
captive portal. It's definitely not as secure though but I use it as
a workaround in one of my environments where someone could easily
hijack my ethernet line and gain access to my site2site VPN.
In my network, I set up the captive portal on the LAN. I set MAC
address passthrough for all my trusted hosts. You have to set this
list up manually and enter it into the pass-thru mac address section.
(Just remember as you step through this, the captive portal wasn't
really designed for this). Now, set up the login page as a flat HTML
with no forms and no buttons.
The idea is that anyone who opens up a browser and connects to
something will bring up m0n0's captive portal page. Without any
buttons, there's no way to bypass that page. However, if your
"trusted" computer is in the MAC pass-thru table, it will be allowed
through regardless. One glitch of this seems like you NEED to open up
a web browser to start off your session for the trusted hosts. Now, I
think I could get by that by not setting any session timeout, but I
didn't feel like keeping sessions open. I use "keep-alive" utils on
my hosts to ensure it doesn't time out.
Now you could say that if someone created a button and posted to m0n0,
then they could get through. I think I'll try it tonight, probably
enable it with a fake RADIUS address, making it so that noone can ever
authenticate through. Only the MAC pass-thrus will be allowed onto
the network ;)
Have fun!
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 20:39:07 -0400, Chris Buechler <cbuechler at gmail dot com> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:46:49 -0600, Robert Bialecki <robert at mpiwifi dot com> wrote:
> > What is the easies way to limit access by MAC address to monowall ???
> >
> http://m0n0.ch/wall/docbook/faq-macfilt.html
> -Chris
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An individual functioning as a nuclear medicine technologist prior to January 1, 2011, and who is not accredited must obtain documentation that the individual is competent to apply ionizing radiation to human beings.
The documentation of competency must be provided by a licensed practitioner of the healing arts under whose general supervision the individual is employed or has been employed.
The documentation of competency must specify the nature of procedures and the equipment the individual is competent to utilize and must be limited to work performed before January 1, 2011.
The documentation of competency must be retained by the individual for inspection upon request by the department.
August 15, 2011
Copyright © 2011 by the Revisor of Statutes, State of Minnesota. All rights reserved.

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Greyson Chance Takes Over the Studio (VIDEO)
Look out, Justin Bieber; Greyson Chance is about to give you some serious competition on the charts.
Chance—the 13-year-old who earlier this year enthralled the Internet with his school recital rendition of Lady Gaga's "Paparazzi," (see it here if you missed it) has entered the studio to record his debut album, and judging from this preview featuring Chance singing his original song "Stars," he's going to have a smash hit on his hands.
Chance's album will be released on Ellen DeGeneres' eleveneleven label. Until that momentous day in music history arrives, check out the sneak preview below.
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 23.041 Wednesday, 1 February 2012
Date: February 1, 2012 2:47:24 AM EST
Subject: Re: SHAKSPER.net: How do I circulate a CFP?
Montpellier (France)
Wednesday 26 - Saturday 29 June 2013
Organised by the Institut de Recherche sur la Renaissance, l'âge Classique et les Lumières
(UMR 5186 CNRS, University of Montpellier)
Under the auspices of the Société Française Shakespeare and the European Shakespeare Research Association (ESRA)
Conference announcement and call for seminar proposals
Conference announcement:
Shakespeare and Myth
A shaper of European identity, Greco-Roman mythology has been invoked down the centuries both to glorify and undermine rulers, to uphold or subvert political or social order, and to probe and question issues including those of gender, religion and history. Simultaneously, Europe has been the cradle of classical mythology, which has infused all modes of artistic creation and inspired influential theoretical and critical approaches well beyond the continent's borders, in the fields of history, literature, psychology and anthropology. In this process, the legacy of Antiquity encountered other European myths (Nordic, Celtic, etc.). Over the past fifty years or so, Europe has increasingly acted as an area of exchanges between its own mythologies, ideas and representations and those of other continents. Today, the continent's heritage is challenged, refashioned and reconsidered in the light of other cultural forms that reflect an increasing diversity, out of which a new European melting-pot of myths may be emerging that interacts with other cultures in an increasingly globalized world.
Within this process, Shakespeare enjoys a privileged position. Like myth, and through classical and other myths, his work "To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe", is "not of an age, but for all time" and, indeed, places, and has contributed to the building of a continental identity, providing tools to apprehend and comprehend, endorse and critique European history and culture. However, this European Shakespeare is to be taken not as confined to a Eurocentric vision but rather as pushing back boundaries, challenging assumptions and inviting a criss-crossing of perspectives worldwide. Reception and appropriation of his work has also involved its processing through non-European mythological and cultural prisms, drawing attention to, and inviting research into, a plasticity that is akin to the flexibility of myth.
Following upon the exploration of Europe's cultural landscapes and seascapes through Shakespeare's works at previous conferences of the European Shakespeare Research Association (ESRA), the Montpellier conference proposes a journey into Shakespeare's kaleidoscopic "Mythscape".
This journey can take three main directions:
- Myth in Shakespeare: classical mythology pervades the work of Shakespeare and his European contemporaries, like a kind of lingua franca or culturally bonding material; other mythological influences are also present in his work, or may be processed into it through stagings, adaptations or other forms of recreation.
- Shakespeare as Myth-Maker: Shakespeare has contributed to raise to the status of myth Mediterranean and (other) European locations (including Bohemia, Cyprus, Elsinore, Navarre, Roussillon, Verona, Vienna, as well as Stratford-upon-Avon) and figures (Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Desdemona) that have found a place in the collective imagination, alongside classical and legendary places and characters.
- Shakespeare as Myth: the paradox of his own elusive biography and the universality of his works have contributed to a process whereby Shakespeare himself is at the centre of a myth – his own, and that of all those who claim him as their own, through translation and other forms of appropriation.
Within these three directions, which are neither watertight nor mutually exclusive, the conference invites papers on a wide range of topics that include:
- (Re)presenting myth(s) on Shakespearean stages and screens
- Shakespeare's mythology as a common ground for, or an obstacle to, understanding and exchange
- The (ir)relevance of Shakespeare's mythological references on the contemporary and global stage and screen.
- Processing Shakespearean performances and performers into "myths"
- Shakespeare's place in the transfer and circulation of classical mythology between Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Renaissance Europe
- Shakespeare as "translator" of Ovid, Virgil and other classical authors for his time
- The impact of translation on Shakespeare's mythological subtext
- Shakespeare's "translating" of the politics of Olympus and Rome into a critique of the Elizabethan and Jacobean context
- "Mythical" translations and/or translators of Shakespeare
- Shakespeare's place in the transfer and circulation of classical mythology between Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Renaissance Europe
- Mythography as a key to Shakespeare
- Iconography in relation to myth, Shakespeare and the visual arts
- The relevance of classicist scholarship to Shakespeare studies (Claude Calame, Marcel Détienne, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Charles Martindale)
- Addressing 20th century critical approaches on the relation of Shakespeare and myth (Georges Dumézil, Mircéa Eliade, Claude Lévi-Strauss)
- Shakespeare's mythical figures in interdisciplinary studies
- The "mythologizing" of Shakespeare's world (characters, places, Stratford-upon-Avon)
- Representing and receiving the Shakespeare icon in contemporary cultures
- (Re)fashioning, perpetuating and/or subverting the Shakespearean myth through film, TV and the Internet
- Shakespeare's myths as an enduring form of (re)creation
- Working on and with Shakespeare's myths in the classroom
Call for seminar proposals ESRA 2013
From 26 June to 29 June 2013, the IRCL, under the Auspices of the Société Française Shakespeare, will organise the European Shakespeare Research Association (ESRA) Conference around the theme of "Shakespeare and Myth"
Members of ESRA are invited to propose a seminar that they would like to convene on "Shakespeare and Myth".
Proposals of 300-500 words (stating topic, relevance, and approach) should be submitted by 2 or 3 potential convenors who agree to work together.
If you have ideas for a seminar, please submit your proposals to:
by 15 March 2012
The board of ESRA will make its final choice of seminars in April 2011. By this time, all the convenors will be personally informed of the choices made, and the list of seminars will be made available on the IRCL, the ESRA and the Société Française Shakespeare websites


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It was a date!!! it was a date!!!
Let them get together!!!
O yay!!!! They kissed!!!!
I'm so excited!!! Please tell me that they're gonna kiss!!!
Oh boy!!!!
Score 1 for Hermione!!!! (I think Hermione and Severus makes a better couple than Hermione and Ron!!)
Author's Response: I don't like her with Ron. I have to say I'd prefer JKR hook her up with anybody other than Ron. I know she'll never get her with Snape, but I think they might have quite a bit more in common intellectually.
They HAVE to get together!!! It's fate!!!
Yay!!! But a bidet??? How could u put one in the bathroom???
oooh!!! Severus loooooves her!!!
What???? But it said in the letter.........
I'm loving this!!!!
Author's Response: I hope you enjoye the rest. Thanks for giving this story a chance.
your story was truly enchanting and i expect you to write others. why put such a talent to waste. i would be incredibly happy if i saw another of your storys appear under one of the other catagories. hope you all the best with your other storys.
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smasing story!loved it.
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Oh my god, you get eighteen million stars! I absolutely loved this story, I just couldn't stop reading it. You have such a good way of describing things, and the personalities of the characters felt incredibly natural from the reader's point of view.
Author's Response: Thank you. I like to be as descriptive as I can. I'm very happy that you liked this so much.
i think you write the most beuatiful story keep up the good work.
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This was a great story! You have talent my dear! You have to or you wouldn't have created such a great character as Osiris. Thank you for a wonderful story with this ship ~Cheers
Author's Response: Thank you for such a great compliment. I loved creating Osiris and had so much fun writing him. It makes me happy to know you enjoyed reading him. I appreciate you taking the time to read this.
I just have to say I love Draco in this story!!!!! Too funny! LOL =D
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James Hardie: no Christmas deadline
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Embattled building products group James Hardie Industries has refused to set a Christmas deadline for its compensation commitment to asbestos victims.
But the company's corporate spokesman James Rickards told AAP today the company was hoping to finalise the $1.5 billion agreement soon.
"We're working towards, all the parties are working towards, a heads of agreement which has the best interests of the claimants in mind as well as allows James Hardie to remain strong and profitable," he said.
"We're hoping to achieve a heads of agreement as soon as possible, but we're not going to set a Christmas deadline.
"There are still issues being discussed and there are negotiations taking place almost on a daily basis.
"While... all parties agree we're reaching common ground, we're hesitant to put a deadline on it.
"We want to spend and appropriate amount of time on this to get this right."
The company's announcement today all but dashed ACTU hopes for a James Hardie Christmas present for asbestos victims.
A spokesman for Australia's peak union body said he could not comment directly on negotiations with James Hardie Industries because they were still continuing.
"The timing is in James Hardie's court as the board just needs to sign off on the deal," he said.
But he confirmed the ACTU was hopeful an agreement could be reached with James Hardie this week.
James Hardie established its official headquarters in the Netherlands in 2001, a move it said was for tax purposes but which unions claimed was to prevent the company being chased for extra funds for asbestos compensation.
For 11 weeks, James Hardie has been in talks with unions and the Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia over a deal to compensate people exposed to the company's asbestos products.
James Hardie's compensation liability would include payouts to an estimated 30,000 Australian victims who are likely to suffer mesothelioma, asbestos-related lung cancers and other fatal illnesses as a result of exposure to asbestos dust.
The vice-president of the Asbestos Diseases Foundation, Bernie Banton, said reports of the deal had come as a surprise.
"I certainly feel we've moved forward, but I certainly wouldn't say with any confidence it's going to be signed," Mr Banton told ABC radio.
He said he did not know when an agreement would be finalised.
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Montezuma, NM*
In the foothills on an outcrop
where the Sangre de Cristos erupt,
the lips of stiff pines sing
as night wind scrapes confetti
from frayed jet-trail spray.
The last cry of a lost jay
sends the townsfolk for cover
except a stray fox loping
along the ledges before
darkness swallows his way.
The brush of his prints
hardly disturbs the needle debris.
As sun sinks, aspen groves glow.
Shadows spilling east open veins
of a silhouette the daylight hid
when kestrels worked the brow.
In the mist, cedar laces
up the ponderosa's sleeves
like prayer. In still darkening,
footfalls stretch beneath earth
beyond the bounds of time.
Great sky folds descend,
caress the spine and shoulders
as it was before man's mark,
secret of a lonely God.
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KENSINGTON – Winter Light, a display of Island artists from the Kensington Artist Co-op, is on display at the MacNaughht History Centre in Summerside.
The exhibit features the work of 15 artists, most depicting winter.
Co-op president Lise Genova and Gloria Sonier, a founding member of the co-op, said the reputation of the organization is growing.
"The co-op started about seven years ago and it was Donna Sutton who got together with Gloria Sonier and Rollande Meloche, two members right now of the group, and they wanted to find a place to show their paintings," Genova said.
She said it was fortunate that the Town of Kensington had a location at the back of the train station called the 'Shed' and offered it to the women to display their work in the summer months.
"So, that's how it started," she said. "So every year they show paintings. Tourists started to come along and then we also have local people. It's been very successful."
The group itself takes on the task of setting up the gallery each year to save money.
Sonier said Kensington Mayor Gordon Coffin was instrumental in helping the co-op in its efforts to display its art.
"The mayor contacted us and wanted to know if we would like a building to hang our work in," she said. "We did and we met with them. They set it all up for us with anything we needed - lighting, whatever we needed for the gallery, they paid for. They did our signage. I think it's worked out very well for the Town of Kensington and us as well."
Sonier said the co-op has 20 members and some on a waiting list to join.
"We don't take more than 20 because the place has only so much space to show and we can't take more people," Genova said. "During the summer we do invite artists and they can show their paintings during the season, but if they want to become members they can always put their name on the list."
The gallery is only open during the summer months, June through August.
"This is the first time that the Kensington Artist Co-op is showing at the MacNaught Centre," Genova said. "They showed last year at the Eptek Centre for the first time too. As the president, I decided we should show work in the winter. It gets us to do a bit of painting because it's something new."
Sonier said having winter showings is an incentive to artists.
"For me, it has been a wonderful experience," she said. "It keeps you painting and it's nice that people can see your work and appreciate what you do. We have a lot of people that come back. Even summer residents will come back year after year to see what's new. And I'm always amazed at the new work that's going on."
Genova said last year, three artists painted a mural that they gave to the Town of Kensington for its co-operation in helping the co-op find a home.
"It represents the train (era)," Genova said. "It's a big train with lots of colours. It's sitting in front of the train station. We're going to do a second panel this year and hopefully three other members will work on it and we will do a scene of the old days in the village of Kensington."
The exhibition at the MacNaught History Centre runs until March 30 and is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The official opening reception is Feb.5 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.


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When does life change from "regular days with a toddler" to "homeschooling a preschooler"? Age three? Four? Or does one start small (with one hour of planned "schooling" activity a day) for a young toddler, and move up to full time as s/he nears age five?
Is it worth getting a premade homeschool curriculum for a preschooler?
We have friends who send their one year old to what I would call daycare, but it is called "preschool," which leads me to wonder if those who keep their children at home also start calling it "homeschool" at a young age. My daughter is not yet two, but I am considering "homeschool preschool" as an affordable alternative to preschool. We would probably not homeschool after she is eligible for public kindergarten.
I'm glad you asked this question. I have a 20 month old and I have been wondering the same thing myself. I have just started looking into home schooling and didn't want to put to much on her right away.
I basically set aside about 30 min once or twice a day and pull up my favorite youtube videos of the alphabet and counting. She seems to like that better rather than me showing her letters on paper. All of it is set to music, so afterward throughout the day, we sing the songs while cleaning or playing. She seems to pick it up faster.
I was thinking of doing ABC mouse when she turned 2 or using Timberdoodle to get some "work" books around 3.
I just don't want to pressure her. We also need to set up a schedule, right now we just do it when we have an open time throughout the day.
You are going to get as many different answers as you would to a question about the value of "preschool".
For us, it hasn't been different at all, from toddler to my 7-9yo daughters. Interests change, formats change, activities change, what you communicate about changes, but the essence of life changes not one bit for us.
We unschool, though. If you are planning to be more formal whne kindy comes (which I believe is going to be the most common response as to when to start, or 1st grade) you might want to dedicate a very small chunk of time to a child-led-but-parent-as-teacher/guide session and very gradually add to the amunt of time you dedicate to this, rather than nothing, then suddenly have the parent's role change from helpmeet and guide to formal instructor. Some kids are apt to rebel mightily if the parents' roles change too abruptly.
Also, a very important question is to ask how much time parents with kids in this age range dedicate to that type of instruction. Even amongst those who would not identify as unschoolers, you will hear some very short times-- 15 minutes to an hour "most" days is very common for K-1st grade.
What I hear the most is simply to have a wide variety of books and materials, allow for enfettered exploration sessions, embrace play as a necessary part of how children learn and process information, as well as the inclusion of children in adult tasks.
A child's main business at this age is to learn about everyday life and the way things work and their place in it. For some of us, that doesn't change. Set your day up to emphasize and allow this. Begin a rhythm of more parent-intensive activities, starting small and building very gradually, at a child-led pace, if you want to include some formal academics eventually in your homeschooling. Otherwise, keep on with what you are doing. It doesn't have to change, but it might look very different from the outside.
"She is a mermaid, but approach her with caution. Her mind swims at a depth most would drown in."
We started calling it homeschooling the year it was assumed our child would have to attend school. Around here that means she was 5: although kindergarten isn't technically compulsory where we live, it's the beginning of public schooling and 99.5% of kids who aren't homeschooled attend kindergarten. (While the vast majority of destined-for-public-school kids attend preschool here, it's clearly understood to be optional, and is very part-time anyway, so we didn't call those pre-K years homeschooling.)
The reason I'm talking about when we began referring to our choice as homeschooling is that for us there was no clear shift in what we were actually doing on a day-to-day basis. Our experience was identical to SweetSilver's second paragraph. At age 5, or 7, or 11, what my kids were doing and learning and exploring and talking about and interested in overlapped with the type of learning that public-schooled kids would be doing at school. But that wasn't because I engineered a school-like experience or school-like expectations for them. It was just the result of the fluid evolution of their natural learning.
Kids who go to school "start school" at some point. Kids who don't go to school simply continue with home-based learning as they've been doing from birth, learning that evolves with them as they grow. Sometimes for communication and documentation purposes it is helpful to define a beginning, but the way I see it the semantics of schooling don't fit home-based learning well.
On the practical issue of curriculum, we used none prior to 1st grade level, and even for that it was only a matter of providing a manipulative-based math program for child-led use. Anything else we waited until at least 3rd grade level.
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I have daughter who is 5 1/2 year old and we haven't done any formal, parent led homeschooling with her. However, if we pull up the state guide lines for a kinder, I am sure she will meet most of the expectations, exceed some of them and is below in other areas. It is just the way learning goes when it happens organically. For example, last summer she asked for some "math books" after seeing her brother work on some. I got her pretty simple Kumon workbooks. She did a few pages and lost interest. I set them aside and just the last couple of weeks, she picked them up and zoomed through them. I honestly don't see much value in these types of workbooks designed for "early" "preschool" learning. Her brother never did one. Alas, she wanted some; I got them for her then she ignored them for almost a year. Just when I began thinking about giving them away, she picked them up again.
She also went through an intense phase of wanting to learn to read in Sept and Oct and we sat down and worked on reading together. She saw her brother list the books he has read on his door and she wanted her own list. So, we put a list up for her and she couldn't wait to fill it up. Then, just as it began suddenly, it was done. She had plateaued and was having difficulty moving forward, so she quit. Since then her reading has probably come along some but not in any noticeable way. I get the feeling she will be a late reader. What was interesting about her reading process is the fact that she never wanted to learn the names of the letters. She ended up knowing the sounds many make but not their names. She didn't want to do it the traditional way but she has picked up some of the names anyway.
In the mean time, she draws, paints, she makes things (she has a real tool box and she has injured herself with a hammer a couple of times). She gardens. She builds forts. Plays mine craft and listens to books and stories. She is learning a lot but her learning pattern is her own making. I think young kids learn all they need to know by exploring. Your children will gain a lot by waiting until age 6, preferably 7 to begin (formal) academics and lose very little in the process. And if you are homeschooling, delaying formal instruction is a choice you can easily make because there is no cohort/grade level pressure involved.
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I never quite felt comfortable saying that we "delayed academics," but what we did delay was formal instruction. My kids were quite academically inclined at young ages, so they learned lots of academic stuff; they just didn't learn it in formal schoolish ways. I only raise this to affirm Emaye's point that delaying formal instruction doesn't leave kids academically "behind," certainly not in the long run, and not necessarily in the short run either.
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I never quite felt comfortable saying that we "delayed academics," but what we did delay was formal instruction. My kids were quite academically inclined at young ages, so they learned lots of academic stuff; they just didn't learn it in formal schoolish ways. I only raise this to affirm Emaye's point that delaying formal instruction doesn't leave kids academically "behind," certainly not in the long run, and not necessarily in the short run either.
Exactly what I meant, Miranda, although not as clear as you put it! Thank you for pointing that out. When I talk about "delaying academics" I am talking about formal instruction. Will edit my post to reflect that.
Thanks, this is really interesting. I love being my child's full-time caregiver, and I want to make sure she is getting everything she can out of it. Many days, I end up thinking, "We didn't do any real activities - no outings, no projects - yet I also got very little done for the house or for myself, and I didn't spend much time in my own leisure. What in the world did we do?" In retrospect, it seems like most of the time was spent trying to get her to eat and then cleaning the kitchen afterwards, plus the pre-nap and pre-bed routines, which can be lengthy. Maybe I put away a little laundry. I am thinking that some structure might make sure that important categories such as fun, learning, and practical work each get at least a nod every day, even if some days are heavier on one than the others.
I realize that, like Lisamo76, we probably devote about that much time to letter learning (and, to a lesser extent, math) already because my daughter LOVES books and loves learning letters. We do that by her pointing to letters on everything from story books to stop signs, and talking about what the letters are. It is totally child-led, not because it is necessarily my philosophy that everything must be child-led, but because I would not have started this early on my own. If she had shown no interest by her third birthday, you'd find me pulling out the letter puzzles and flash cards and trying to push things. For math, we just count things as we are doing them. I ask her to get me a certain number of things (such as books to read before nap), and I count other things aloud in front of her. This little bit of math seems like a normal part of life for her, but I don't see her jumping up and down for more like she does for letters, so we haven't expanded our math activity beyond this type of counting.
I am a Mother of a toddler and found a whole bunch of homelearning families with children aged 0 + who organize play and events through a homelearners association in my city. You may find this a nice way to start the homeschooling experience.
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Before the 2nd apocalypse occurred on my mp3 player of unfortunate choice (I never had this problem back in my Creative days), the unfortunately named The xx and their equally unfortunately named album 2.0 was able to grab hold of my ear cavity and worm it's way into my cranium. I'm assuming they are straight-edge or something by the album cover?
No clue, didn't notice any "beat up the guys smoking" lyrics... No, instead what we have is some pretty chill,slightly "dark" boy-girl pop. Quiet, intimate, pretty midnight music, or maybe "after the club" music when it's time to "cool down", if you "know what I mean" -- haha, go to love all the "air quote"! In the end, it's pretty easy and quiet lovely, but then again, I'm a sucker for boy/girl vocals, aren't I? - Tsuru Radio


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Why Your Enthusiasm Is Costing Your Company Sales
One of the first lessons in sales is "don't oversell."
Don't keep talking if the customer is ready to buy. Never talk more than the customer is willing to listen.
Many young entrepreneurs are very excited and passionate about their business, but this eagerness to sell can (paradoxically) cause them to lose sales.
No matter how passionate you are about your company and your products, make sure to keep your sales conversations in the realm of "controlled enthusiasm" to close more deals.
Here are four simple ways to keep sales conversations focused, and avoid "unbridled enthusiasm:"
1. Remember – It's Not About You, It's About the Customer
Don't talk about your company; ask about your customer.
No matter how proud you might be of your company's innovative solutions and exciting achievements, remember to focus on the customer's needs first. Enthusiasm is great, but make sure you channel your passion for what you sell in the right direction – helping the customer.
2. Listen more than you talk
You can still show enthusiasm for your product by being an active listener.
Show interest in what your customers and prospects have to say. Ask follow-up questions. Draw out the customer's deeper concerns and issues, and look for ways to help.
Success in sales is not just about who can rattle off the most clever sales pitch or convey the most charisma, but is often a matter of empathizing with customers and quietly reaching out to meet their needs.
3. Don't ask for the sale too soon
One of the biggest mistakes that young business owners make is to try to constantly close sales with everyone they meet or ask for the sale too early into the conversation. Especially if your company is in the B2B market, you need to be prepared for a longer sales process.
Start slow. Build trust. Ask good questions to show the customer that you're on their side. Get a detailed understanding of what the customer really needs and then look for ways to align your offerings in a way that can help.


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Were happy to be in Wilson County. All I forecast in the future for us is growth, said David Love, co-founder and chief executive officer of Care Line, a family owned business that makes patient care kits and custom pillows for the medical profession. The company was founded in 1969.
Care Line, however, is no stranger to Wilson County having been in operation here for the past 30 years at a site on Northern Road where workers at the injection molding shop there produce plastics for the hospital industry.
There are 16 people employed at the Northern Road facility, and they will move to the new site on the corner of Hartmann Drive and Baddour Parkway in April.
We do plan to expand, Love said, adding the company also has facilities in Pittsburgh, Penn., and in Reno, Nev. Care Line has a total workforce of about 160 people.
Love said the former Hartmann Luggage building was in good shape and did not require any renovation, only some cleaning up. The building is about 160,000 square feet in size and includes office, manufacturing and warehouse facilities. The parcel on which it is located is 16.83 acres in size.
Samsonite, which purchased Hartmann Luggage in August and closed it in December 2012, will continue to lease and operate the 3,000 square foot retail store located on the property.
Hartmann produced high-end luggage and was founded in 1877. Ira Katz was the owner and moved the facility to the corner of Baddour Parkway and Hartmann Drive in 1959. It was one of the first businesses to open in the William D. Baird Industrial Subdivision.
At one point, Hartmann produced all of its luggage at the Lebanon site and employed more than 350 workers. However, over time, most of its manufacturing operations were moved to China and South America.
Samsonite hired XMi Commercial Real Estate of Nashville to seek a buyer for the building.
Love declined to name the purchase price for the building. When it first went on the market, the asking price had been listed at $2.65 million.
Stan Snipes and Henry Menge of XMi Commercial Real Estate represented Samsonite in the sale.
Purchasing the Hartmann Luggage facility is a significant demonstration of their long-term commitment to Middle Tennessee and the local community, Snipes said.
We will make Lebanon home for a number of years, Love said.


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Is there another way besides surgical lipoma removal to get rid of lipomas? I have one that is 4 inches on the left side of my back. My insurance at the time deemed it cosmetic. I have no insurance now. Please help. I can't even wear a bathing suit without it being noticed. I feel like the hunchback!
Non-surgical Lipoma Removal Possible?
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Non-surgical removal of lipoma
If the lipoma is really this big, I am not sure that there is that much alternative to surgical excision, which could be accomplished under local anesthesia and which may be affordable.
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Lipoma removal and insurance coverage
Lipoma removals are usually covered by insurance. Speak to a plastic surgeon about the removal. The other option is to pay out of pocket to have the lipoma removed.
Learn more: http://www.karemd.com
Non Surgical Removal of Lipoma
Yes, you can have it liposuctioned. It is not truly non surgical since it involves making a small stab incision to put in the cannula but is minimally invasive. This way you don't have a big scar (incision) and may be one stitch.
There are some mesotherapy treatments available as well but are still relatively new.
I would go with Liposuction.
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text: Rob - Unregistered September 21, 2011 5:28 AM This is really fantastic news for us road racing fans in the states. Given the fall of the ALMS and the fugly Grand Am cars and general crappy racing there, I have personally been seeking out better road racing series to watch. Previously, V8 Supercars, DTM, and BTCC were shown as abbreviated highlight shows in the winter months which isn't all that bad given the dearth of racing at that time of the year, but having some great road racing with actual passing and strategy is fantastic news. See you all in Texas in 2013!!!! 3 agree 0 disagree


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With increased involvement between Stussy and graffiti artist Delta, it comes as no surprise the full unveiling of a collection featuring many trademark aesthetics from the artist. The expansive collection features pieces ranging from outerwear jackets, to hoodies and t-shirts bearing the works of Delta. Not to be over-looked is a strong range of accessories including pouches, hats and straps. Available now at StussyDirect.com.
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A rare marsupial that had disappeared from Australia's mainland is thriving near Canberra, with reports the population is fat and happy.
Last year a group of 17 eastern bettongs were brought to protected forest areas in Canberra from Tasmania, their first appearance on the mainland for 80 years.
Adrian Manning, from the Australian National University, says health checks show the small members of the kangaroo family are faring well, with about 35 bettongs leaving the pouch and about 20 more young on the way.
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(CNSNews.com) – At the urging of homosexuals gathered at the White House on Wednesday, President Barack Obama praised gay "spouses" in his speech marking lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender "Pride Month."
"We've got community leaders here. We've got grassroots organizers," Obama told the gathering in the East Room of the White House. "We've got some incredible young people who are just doing great work all across the country -- folks who are standing up against discrimination, and for the rights of parents and children and partners and students."
At that point, someone in the audience shouted, "and spouses."
Obama concurred: "And spouses," the president said, drawing applause.
"You're fighting for the idea that everyone ought to be treated equally, and everybody deserves to be able to live and love as they see fit," the president added.
Obama says he supports civil unions, but so far, he has refused to endorse same-sex marriage. He has said his views on that topic are "evolving."
Obama's remarks on Wednesday came just days after New York became the sixth and largest state to legalize same-sex marriage, through an act of the legislature and with the enthusiastic support of the Democratic governor. In some other states, courts forced have forced the change.
In his speech, Obama sought to remind an important Democratic Party constituency about his administration's efforts on behalf of the LGBT agenda, such as ending the ban on homosexuals serving in the military and signing a "hate crimes" law that made homosexuals a protected class.
The president of the United States also stressed that his Justice Department is refusing to defend the law of the land – the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as the union of one man and one woman. It also says one state is not required to recognize a same-sex marriage performed in another state.
"I told you I was against the Defense -- so-called Defense of Marriage Act," Obama told the LGBT gathering on Wednesday. "I've long supported efforts to pass a repeal through Congress. And until we reach that day, my administration is no longer defending DOMA in the courts. The law is discriminatory. It violates the Constitution. It's time for us to bring it to an end."
In February, the Obama administration announced that it would no longer defend DOMA against lawsuits filed by legally married same-sex couples. Obama had come to the conclusion that the violates the equal protection component of the Fifth Amendment, Attorney General Eric Holder said at the time.
"So bottom line is, I've met my commitments to the LGBT community. I have delivered on what I promised," Obama told the LGBT gathering.
Earlier on Wednesday, Obama portrayed himself the most pro-homosexual president in American history:
"Let me start by saying that this administration, under my direction, has consistently said we cannot discriminate as a country against people on the basis of sexual orientation, and we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 presidents to uphold that principle -- whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples," Obama said at a news conference.
"Across the board -- hate crimes -- we have made sure that that is a central principle of this administration, because I think it's a central principle of America."
LGBT health data
In another nod to the homosexual community, Obama's Department of Health and Human Services announced on Wednesday that it has started planning for the collection and monitoring of LGBT health data.
The goal is to help researchers, policy makers and health providers "identify and address health disparities" affecting that group, among others.
"Health disparities have persistent and costly affects for minority communities, and the whole country," HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said. "Today we are taking critical steps toward ensuring the collection of useful national data on minority groups, including for the first time, LGBT populations."
HHS said it plans to integrate questions on sexual orientation into national data collection efforts by 2013 and begin a process to collect information on gender identity.


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TALLINN, Estonia (AP) Naval experts will begin searching Friday for an airliner that crashed into the Baltic in June 1940 with nine people on board — including a U.S. diplomatic courier considered one of the first American casualties of World War II.
The mystery of the plane's fate has since remained unsolved, despite Estonia's efforts over the years to locate the wreckage believed to be lying 300 feet underwater near the tiny island of Keri, some 20 miles northeast of Tallinn.
"If the aircraft is in the area where we're searching, I'm highly confident we'll find it," said Martin Ammond, senior surveyor aboard the USNS Pathfinder, one of the U.S. Navy's oceanographic survey vessels dispatched to help in the hunt for the missing plane.
Nine people were on board the plane, the Kaleva, when it disappeared in the frantic days before the Soviet Union annexed the small neighboring Baltic nation.
Most Estonian and Finnish experts agree that two Soviet fighter bombers shot down the small plane on June 14, 1940, minutes after it took off from Tallinn for Helsinki, Finland. The Soviet Union annexed tiny Estonia three days later.
One of Kaleva's passengers was Henry Antheil, a 27-year-old diplomatic courier at the U.S. Embassy in Helsinki.
Antheil, based in Moscow 1933-39, had been rushed to Tallinn once it had become evident that the Soviet Union was preparing to swallow up Estonia and its Baltic neighbors Latvia and Lithuania.
"Henry came here to help evacuate materials from U.S. Legation in Tallinn," said U.S. Embassy spokesman Eric A. Johnson, who has done research and written articles on Antheil and the Kaleva case.
"It was feared that Soviets would come anytime, so all the sensitive materials had to be removed. He was doing a job for his country," he said.
Carrying several diplomatic pouches, including material from the U.S. Embassy in Riga, the capital of Latvia, Antheil boarded Kaleva along with six other passengers. They never reached their destination.
Neither the Soviet Union, nor Russia, acknowledged shooting down Kaleva.
Estonia has been unable to find the Kaleva despite intense efforts after regaining independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
The Navy vessel was sent to Tallinn following a request by Estonian Defense Minister Jaak Aaviksoo to his U.S. colleague, Robert Gates, in January.
The Estonians hope to learn the fate of Kaleva, a German-made Junkers Ju-52 that was operated by Finland's Aero, later renamed Finnair.
"This is a unique mission," Ammond said Thursday. "We're not in the business of looking for aircraft or sunken ships, so this is very exciting for my surveyors."
If the plane is found, it will be up to the Estonian and Finnish governments whether to organize a salvage mission, Johnson said.
Finnish authorities kept silent about Kaleva for decades, saying only the plane crashed due to technical failure. In March 1940 the country had just signed a peace treaty with the Soviet Union after a costly war and did not want to provoke Moscow.
Max Jakobson, a veteran Finnish diplomat, says he recalls Kaleva's case "vividly."
"It was a dramatic situation when this plane went missing," Jakobson, a former envoy to the United Nations, told the Associated Press. "There was plenty of talk about it in Finland. Hopefully the Americans will help solve this case."
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Backstreet Boys coming to the Live Nation Amphitheatre in Tampa
Poor Aaron Carter. Even in a week when he has a big hometown show at the Ritz Ybor, he finds himself being upstaged by his big brother Nick.
Nick Carter and the rest of the Backstreet Boys -- including Kevin Richardson, who's been mostly absent since 2006 -- have announced a summer tour, and according to 93.3-FLZ, it'll come to Tampa's Live Nation Amphitheatre on Aug. 23. Jesse McCartney and DJ Pauly D from Jersey Shore will open the show. Tickets are $35-$75, and they go onsale Friday. Click here for details. (And if you want tickets for free, 93.3 has 'em. Click here.)
This will strike some of you 30-somethings out there as the best concert announcement of the summer -- especially now that Richardson is back in the fold -- and others as the worst imaginable night on earth. All we'll say is the Boys have found a huge audience of nostalgic fans, thanks in no small part to arena-filling tours alongside the likes of New Kids on the Block. Plus, with no chance of competition from a reunited 'N Sync anytime soon, they have the late-'90s boy-band nostalgia market all to themselves.


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OMA puts pen to paper at the AA with the first retrospective of the practice's books. There's also plenty of photographic shows to keep the snappers happy with an exploration of civic space and the limitations and virtues of the medium
A-Z to election 2010 for architects
Which party opposes Heathrow's third runway and which would scrap Arb? Traditional left-right labels will be little help in distinguishing policies on May 6, so here is our guide to the parties' plans for the built environment
Polish war museum competition launched
British practices have been urged to enter an international competition to design a second world war museum in Poland
This week's ups & downs
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Jewish Museum extension by Long & Kentish in Camden Town, London
The Jewish Museum has been skilfully expanded with the addition of a converted piano factory at the building's rear, but was it wise to persist with such an understated site?
The Pritzker Prize 2010 - all bets are off
Yes it's that time of year again, the daffodils are finally out and among those who care the anticipation is building for the announcement of the next Pritzker Prize winner on Sunday. Who will win is really anyone's guess, so it's no surprise that William Hill hadn't been taking bets on the Pritzker when we rang.Calatrava, Steven Holl, Libeskind and Sanaa are among the names being pitched across the blogosphere.
Nouvel's Paris skyscraper scrapped
French architect Jean Nouvel has scrapped plans for 300m-high skyscraper in Paris, after failing to attract investors.
Mipim hopes overseas projects will lure 18,000
Attendance set to match last year's as property fair takes industry's pulse
Styles that defined the decades
Hugh Pearman looks at the architectural movements of the past four decades
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Daniel Libeskind's €75 million (£68 million) Grand Canal Theatre project in Dublin has completed, with the grand opening of the new 2000-seat venue due to take place in a fortnight.


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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 23.0302 Tuesday, 17 July 2012
Date: July 14, 2012 11:43:13 AM EDT
Subject: RE: Corambis
Re: J. D. Markel on Corambis
Shakespeare would not have thought "Corambis, thy name dost sucketh."
He'd have thought either '"Corambis, thy name sucketh" or 'Thy name doth suck'.
I'm sure I'm not the first to suggest that 'Corambis' might be a contraction of [I quote OED] 'coram nobis before us (i.e. the sovereign) = in the court of King's Bench'.
Polonius probably has associations with Poland, mentioned at least thrice in the play (cf. also 'Polack').
A Dorothy Woods in early C17 Cheshire was robbed of several items, including shoes 'with polonie heels' (see Kermode & Walker, 1994, p89).


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Demolition begins in Richmond Hill neighborhood
Crews tore down three homes in the Richmond Hill subdivision Tuesday as homeowners stood by and watched.
The homes were damaged in the Nov. 10th explosion that killed Dion and Jennifer Longworth.City building inspectors have ordered the demolition of 29 houses in the subdivision, six of which must come down this week. Four other homes will also be torn down once the arson investigation is complete.
As three homes fell, the tears were too numerous to count.
It was a torturous after noon for Abby Jackson, but she couldn't look away from the home her family loved every bit of.
"I had to watch even though this is hard. It is. Part ot me said not to come But this is for closure for my heart my mind my soul. I had to see see it be done," she said.
Down the block, Brett and Nikki Cocherell watched as well, holding on to each other as their home was torn apart. They took pictures and a few souvenir bricks, trying to save some memories from the demolition crew and dumpsters.
Neighbors Andrea and Brian Cox were relieved to see their badly damaged home coming down.
"It's what we wanted," Andrea said, for the safety of their family. The Coxes plan to rebuild.
Neighbors admit the demolitions are a difficult but an important and necessary step for a community trying to pull itself together and recover. Some of the Aldridge's best friends are now homeless.
"It's going to be painful for a lot of peope who live in here. This is where we gotta start," said Doug Aldridge.
"It's sad to see houses go down, but it is part of the rebuilding process. It's part of getting the neighborhood back to where it was. Getting the houses back up. Getting it to where the kids can come through on the school bus and not have to see all this," said resident Mike Phillips.
Phillips says in that respect, he's glad to see progress towards rebuilding.
"It couldn't come soon enough. It's every day, the helicopters overhead, you know what time it is. It's thrown our lives upside down," he said.
As her home splintered into bricks and sticks, Abby Jackson relived the night of the explosion and how she, her husband and four children ran for their lives.
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"This is a home," said Jackson. "It will be gone, but the visions of that night just haunt me over and over again and what my kids had to see that night. That won't go away for a long time."
The demolitions will take another month to complete. Rebuilding homes may take a year, but healing lives will take much longer.
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Dear doctors, on thursday I took my last antibiotics against a possible infection of my cheek implants. At that time the symptoms were nearly... READ MORE
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I had bilateral malar cheek implants done on 2/15/11. Unfortunately the right side implant shifted the day of the surgery and is not where it should... READ MORE
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I had cheek implants done about 9 weeks ago, i still have swelling but the implants look too big and uneven, I want them out, but my dr advises that I... READ MORE
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Not literally DURING a treatment, but if I decided to initiate one treatment and then a month later decided to go with implants could I do that? Or... READ MORE
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I had a cheek implant which proved to be extremely large and made me look much worse than before.Should i remove them right away (7 days have passed... READ MORE
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Your beauty care needs may change due to illness, lifestyle changes, or just by aging.
It takes a lot to realize that the beauty myth is exactly that, a myth, and that no one rolls out of bed looking magazine perfect!?
If you are someone who deals with issues that are not commonly discussed in the glamor magazines, and if you are someone who is frustrated by a lack of representation when it comes to issues like beauty, you will find first that you are not alone, and second that there are definitely things that you can do.
Your Inner Beauty
Inner beauty can give you a wonderful shine, but remember that polishing up that outer beauty can make you feel like a million dollars!
The first thing that you should think about, no matter what your goal is, is to think about people who exemplify a beauty that you considered admirable or fascinating.
Are you after something that is sultry and glamorous, or do you prefer something that is more quiet and down to earth?
Remember that when you are thinking about beauty that it is an extremely individual thing, and that you should always think about what a look will do for you.
You can use someone else as a template or as a model, but remember that the result is going to need to be one hundred percent you.
If you are looking for some inspiration, you may find that it is interesting to look at is Britain's Missing Top Model.
On this show, eight beautiful women are competing for a fashion spread shot by a world-famous photographer.
While this in your face glamor might not be your style, you will find that it is still worth a look to see how these women present themselves. There is no hiding here, and there is no "camouflage."
Think about your best assets, and make sure that you really appreciate them.
When you go shopping, look for things that emphasize a part of you that is irresistible, that you know is going to make you feel terrific.
Keeping Your Confidence
Part of looking good is being confident, and if you know that you own the room, you are going to. One way to look at beauty is as comfort.
When you are comfortable in your own skin, you'll find that you're part of the way here. Play to your strengths and you'll find that you can't go wrong.
When you are looking at beauty from a disabled perspective or from any perspective that is different from what is commonly considered the norm, there are going to be doubts.
When you look at a picture of a woman in a magazine, remember that not even she looks like that.
Beauty is a highly personal thing, and for better or for worse, the route that you take to find your own look isn't going to be handed to you out of a magazine.


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Samson Wong is the general manager at Asia Pacific Breweries (Singapore). Before taking the helm at the local operations, he spent four years as general manager at Shanghai's APB. With the takeover by Dutch beer giant Heineken completed, APB Singapore will continue to stay focus in developing the business in Singapore while keeping an eye on opportunities regionally. With a new canning line and brew tanks installed in 2013, it expanded the capacity of its brewery to meet higher demand forecast in the next 18 months. APB also announced that it will pledge $300,000 towards water education, research and outreach programmes in an effort to champion water conservation and water resources management over the next three years in partnership with the National University of Singapore and Van Kleef Centre. APB Singapore's commitment to social responsibility and sustainability is firmly on the radar. APB Singapore won two awards at this year's National Energy Efficiency Conference (NEEC) 2013 organised by the NEA. The brewery aims to reduce specific water use by 25 percent in 2020.
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Possibly the Nicest Watch in All of Winterfell and King's Landing
We should have seen it coming. HBO, not one to pass up merchandise licensing opportunities that yield things like action figures and bobbleheads, released a watch for its racy and violent fantasy series, "Game of Thrones." A watch was only a matter of time.
HBO must think some of its fans are doing well--25 of them, anyway. That's the number of "The Nights' Watch" timepieces produced. The HBO store also offers standard themed gewgaws like the Jon Snow bobblehead for $9.99, and family arms t-shirts for $24.99. And for those in the throes of Thrones, there's a $30,000, 350-pound life-size Iron Throne.
By comparison, the watch, made of stainless steel coated in black rubber with a black rubber strap, is a far subtler accessory, if not exactly cheap. As one lawyer put it, seeing it on my wrist at a Museum of Modern Art party: "$10,500 for rubber?" Well, yes, for an automatic watch made by Ulysse Nardin, a Swiss watchmaker with 250 craftsmen producing 20,000 watches annually.
There aren't many of these watches. HBO Global Licensing and Ulysse Nardin lent me watch No. 8 out of 25 made, as indicated by a plate on the left side of the watch. Of all the details, that elicited the most awe.
To the relief of people who might like the watch but wouldn't want to seem like this generation's version of a Trekkie, the Throney details aren't terribly loud. On the band are two steel insets. The one that faces the wearer is engraved with a sword and the words "The Night's Watch." The one that faces outward has part of the vows of the Night's Watch: "I am the sword in the darkness." At both fundraising parties I wore it to, it was too dark for most people to see these details.
Where, many partygoers asked, does it say "Game of Thrones?" Flipping the watch over shows the words printed on clear glass. Cooler still is the intricate timepiece movement this little window reveals.
Some didn't need much to get excited. "I love it, I've read all the books" said finance executive Dana Auslander. That was before she heard the price; she said she'd pay "maybe $500" for it.
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PUPILS in Carmarthenshire sit firmly at the top of the class with GCSE results compared to the rest of Wales.
Figures show that 70% of pupils achieved grades A* to C, an increase of 1.9% on last year and higher than the Welsh average of 66.3%.
Some 7.3% gained A* compared to 5.3% nationally, with 21.4% of pupils awarded A* and A, compared to the Welsh average of 18.4%.
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Education executive board member Cllr Keith Davies added his congratulations to the pupils.
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"This continued high standard of achievement reflects the total commitment of our authority to the young people of Carmarthenshire by affording them every opportunity to achieve their full potential."


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Panasonic Avionics Corporation and Kymeta Corporation have announced a landmark agreement that brings innovative, high-performance antenna technology to several unique maritime markets. Under terms of the agreement, Panasonic will order a significant volume of Kymeta's flat panel antennas and use Kymeta mTenna technology to manufacture and distribute maritime terminals for vessels around the world. The antennas are expected to go through prototype testing this year and be commercially available in 2017.
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Cleveland OH (SPX) Mar 25, 2011
Catalysts made of carbon nanotubes dipped in a polymer solution equal the energy output and otherwise outperform platinum catalysts in fuel cells, a team of Case Western Reserve University engineers has found.
The researchers are certain that they'll be able to boost the power output and maintain the other advantages by matching the best nanotube layout and type of polymer.
But already they've proved the simple technique can knock down one of the major roadblocks to fuel cell use: cost.
Platinum, which represents at least a quarter of the cost of fuel cells, currently sells for about $65,000 per kilogram. These researchers say their activated carbon nanotubes cost about $100 per kilogram.
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They placed the nanotubes on the cathode of an alkaline fuel cell. There, the charged material acts as a catalyst for the oxygen-reduction reaction that produces electricity while electrochemically combining hydrogen and oxygen.
In testing, the fuel cell produced as much power as an identical cell using a platinum catalyst.
But the activated nanotubes last longer and are more stable, the researchers said.
Unlike platinum, the carbon-based catalyst: doesn't lose catalytic activity and, therefore, efficiency, over time; isn't fouled by carbon monooxide poising; and is free from the crossover effect with methanol.
Methanol, a liquid fuel that's easier to store and transport than hydrogen, reduces activity of a platinum catalyst when the fuel crosses over from the anode to the cathode in a fuel cell.
The new process builds on the Dai lab's earlier work using nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes as a catalyst. In that process, nitrogen, which was chemically bonded to the carbon, pulled electron partially from the carbon to create a charge. Testing showed the doped tubes tripled the energy output of platinum.
Dai said the new process is far simpler and cheaper than using nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes and he's confident his lab will increase the energy output as well. "We have not optimized the system yet."
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