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A man with "distinctive ears" is behind a string of at least eight burglaries at shops across Melbourne, police believe.
Police say a man forced his way into and robbed eight premises, starting at a shop on McDonalds Road, South Morang, on April 26.
The other burglaries happened at:
- Star Crescent, Docklands, on April 26 or 27.
- Toorak Road, Hawthorn East, between April 26 and 28.
- Rosamond Road, Maribyrnong, on April 29 or 30.
- Two properties on the Nepean Highway, Cheltenham, on May 2.
- Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, on May 4.
- Southgate Avenue, Southbank, on May 4.
He left the first burglary in a red Holden sedan, a police spokeswoman said.
Police have described the man as aged in his 40s and being of Caucasian appearance, with a slim build, short dark hair and distinctive ears.
They have asked anyone with information to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or visit www.crimestoppers.vic.com.au.


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Joe Jonas Going Electronica for Solo Album?
We all know the Jonas Brothers have got the pop music thing down, but could Joe Jonas be venturing to the world of electronica for his first solo effort?
Joe recently chatted about his upcoming album, sans Nick and Kevin, and said he was inspired by Tron: Legacy's score by Daft Punk:
I think for me the biggest influences are Daft Punk. I love their music. There's a guy, Frankmusik, out of London, a lot of electro DJs out in Europe are doing some cool stuff right now. I just listen to a bunch of stuff you dance to, kind of electro-based. A lot of stuff that's so amazing [that] you can create on the computer. I think, for both of us, we are huge fans of the new 'Tron' movie.
Take a listen to one of Daft Punk's arrangements for Tron: Legacy below:
Do you think Joe can pull off a sound like this? Hit the comments and let us know what you think!

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Is it fair to ask why the vast majority of the shooters in Newtown-like mass murders are white men? And what would have been the country's reaction if the shooter had been black?
Those are the questions raised by Salon writer David Sirota, a white male himself, in in an interview on MSNBC and a Salon piece entitled "Time to Profile White Men?" They're queries that are making him a target of vicious attack by such right-wing media types as Glenn Beck, Fox News and the website of the late Andrew Breitbart. After his piece appeared on Salon, Sirota went on CNN to defend his position.
"I think we should ask the question why is America 30 percent white guys, and 70 percent of the shootings in the last many decades have been at the hands of white guys," Sirota said on CNN. "I do think it's interesting to note that had 70 percent of mass shooters been let's say Arab or African-American men, I think the conversation would be … much uglier."
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I had a chin implant with lipo in Aug 2011. The implant shifted out of pocket a few days after surgery. One side was absolutely perfect but you could feel the implant on the other side and it hung past the chin. My PS said he could fix it and I had the revision surgery last month. I still feel the implant and now my lipo and profile do not look as good as before. PS said he just trimmed instead of putting back in pocket. Why would he not create pocket. Should I have another revision? :(
Chin Implant Keeps Shifting, Should I Have a Revision?
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Shifting Chin Implant
You are only 6 months after your revision so allow another 6-9 months for the swelling to resolve. It may not look as good as it did before the revision because you do have asymmetric swelling after the recent localized dissection. Do not be tempted to frequently feel the implant trying to determine its position because it will never be stable.
Revision of Chin Implant Revision?
When one is dissatisfied with a chin implant revision early after it is done, this suggests that more time may not make it any better or change how you feel about it. Without seeing photos or doing an examination, it is impossible to determine if another revision/implant replacement would be appropriate. I would revisit your surgeon and discuss your specifics concerns about what you are seeing and feeling. If that does not meet your satisfaction and more time does not change your concerns, then it is time to get a second opinion.
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Shifting chin implant
You should again wait until 6 months have passed and then ,if you are still unhappy, see your surgeon. A second opinion would not hurt.
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Tonight, October 17, is Madison Waldorf Night at Umami Ramen & Dumpling Bar. Umami is donating 10% of the evening's proceeds from event guests to Madison Waldorf School. Space is limited, and this event is adult only to accommodate as many guests as possible. The response has already been great, we have a number of reservations, but a few spaces are still available – email Randy Ng, at firstname.lastname@example.com, asap to ensure a spot. Please be sure to make a reservation for one of the seating windows, seatings are between 5 – 6 and between 6 – 7. Can't eat a sit down meal out tonight? Umami will also donate proceeds from take-out customers, be sure to tell your server or cashier that you are with Madison Waldorf School.
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Passion 101 Classes @ Sexploratorium
Saturday, October 15, 2011 from 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM (EDT)
Event Details
Bondage for Lovers with Boss Bondage
Bondage is a great addition to sex, giving You the ability to restrain, just enough for what You want or so tightly You get everything You want. Bondage can greatly aid and enhance sex positions, and help create new ones. Rather than focusing on traditional ties like "spread eagle" to a bed, this class will show you how to use chest harnesses as a basis and will show you how to twist and turn someone during sex, how to fluidly move from position to position without having to untie and retie. Also learn to tie yourself to your partner during love making. Please bring rope for the hands on portion of the class.
BossBondage has been involved in the BDSM community for over a decade. He is the founder and president of The West Coast Assholes an edge players advocacy group that focuses on edge-ucation within the community. He also serves as the vice president of the Portland leather Alliance. Boss recently received mainstream attention, working as the bondage consultant on the music video for def jam recording artists Electrik Red. For almost 4 Years Boss has operated His own professional dungeon The Asylum. Born from his love of hemp bondage rope, He started BossBondage.com in 2004. Boss has also been a body piercer since 1995. Boss does not get too tied down to titles and just considers Himself to be a bondage artist. In the last several years through intensive performance of bondage, in particular suspensions, he has developed a unique style. He is self-taught. Boss was the winner of the 2006 In the woods Bondage contest, and has been nominated for a Pantheon of Leather award. He has taught at such events as In The Woods, COPE, Truly Bound, octroperfest, Kinky Kollege, Kinkfest, the Folsom Fringe, spanksgiving, Shibaricon and MVK in vancouver, Canada.
If you miss advance registration, call Sexploratorium at 215-923-1398 after 12pm noon to register the same day as this class.
When & Where
620 S. 5th St.
3rd Floor
Saturday, October 15, 2011 from 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM (EDT)
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Passion 101 Classes @ Sexploratorium
The mission of PASSION 101 Classes is to provide interactive, educational and entertaining learning experiences that enhance the abilities of individuals, couples and other intimately acquainted persons to understand sexual techniques, improve the dynamics of relationships/intimacy, practice useful methods of sexual communication, maintain and improve spiritual/physical/sexual health, and to develop and appreciation of diverse sexual expression through performance and creation of fine arts.
Since 1996, Passion 101 classes have been offered weekly at Fetishes Boutique, Aphrodite Gallery and now at Sexploratorium as well as at regional and national conventions.
Presentations can be scheduled at your community organization, private party or student club by appointment. Remote presentations require a minimum of two students, but private one-on-one consultations can be scheduled in the Aphrodite Gallery of Philadelphia.
Course topics can be tailored to meet the needs of students by request. Students are encouraged to provide feedback via surveys distributed during each class.
Current curricula focus on four major areas of sexuality:
- Anatomy/Physiology/ Sexual technique
- Relationships/ Psychology/Communication
- Psychosexual Fantasy/ Fetish/ BDSM technique
- Erotic Fine Arts /Performance/Exercise
Some individual classes that fall under these categories are offered for specific audiences: i.e. women only, couples only, men only, trans only etc.
Our presenters do not act as sexworkers or surrogates: We will coach you on techniques and strategies for a better sex life, but we won't play the game for you or with you.
Check our upcoming course schedule of workshops scheduled at Sexploratorium and other locations in Philadelphia.
For information about scheduling and offsite presentation or a private consultation with one of our educators, email us or call 215-849-7444.


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Charming Charlie in Knoxville, TN
Greetings, Knoxville! Oh, how we "adorn" you!
Welcome to your local Charming Charlie jewelry store! Conveniently located off Exit 380 on I-40, our Knoxville store in West Town Mall is your one-stop destination for all your accessorizing needs. East Tennessee's premier shopping destination, this delightful venue boasts more than 150 stores, over 40 of which are exclusive to the area.
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Effect of Tesofensine on Weight Reduction in Patients With Obesity.
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Gilbert JA, Gasteyger C, Raben A, Meier DH, Astrup A, Sjödin A. The effect of tesofensine on appetite sensations. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2012 Mar;20(3):553-61. doi: 10.1038/oby.2011.197. Epub 2011 Jun 30.
Astrup A, Madsbad S, Breum L, Jensen TJ, Kroustrup JP, Larsen TM. Effect of tesofensine on bodyweight loss, body composition, and quality of life in obese patients: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Lancet. 2008 Nov 29;372(9653):1906-1913. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61525-1. Epub 2008 Oct 22.


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The CSI franchise is spawning yet another series, this time set in the FBI's Cyber Crime Division in Quantico, Virginia. While there's no official name yet for the new CBS show, there is a lead, as Medium and True Romance star Patricia Arquette is set to be front and center of a team tasked with solving crimes that "start in the mind, live online, and play out in the real world."
Arquette's Medium, a supernatural procedural drama, aired on NBC from January 2005 to January 2011 and coincidentally ran directly against CBS's CSI: Miami and, in later seasons, CSI: NY. Arquette won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her fictionalized portrayal of real-life medium Allison DuBois in its first season on air.
Her newest role as Special Agent Avery Ryan will put her in the driver's seat like her fellow CSI counterparts William Petersen, David Caruso and Gary Sinise. This latest incarnation of the franchise breaks from the formula of a highly (and improbably) credentialed team of forensic scientists who also happen to pack heat and regularly find themselves battling it out with bad guys, by taking the lab out of state funded police headquarters, throwing viewers into the world of the Federal Government and probably going apeshit crazy with the insane 3D computer models, impossible zooms and other fantastically fun fantasy science.
The "CSI Effect," an actual term used to describe the wholly unrealistic portrayal of forensic science in the shows, is half the fun of watching. Being that Arquette's Agent Ryan will have the deep pockets of the FBI at her disposal, I expect nothing less than scientifically inaccurate insanity to the point of absurdity.
CSI: Quantico (as I'm calling it), is being written and produced by Carol Mendelsohn, Ann Donahue and Anthony E. Zuiker, all veterans of the long-running CSI franchise. Zuiker launched the original series, CSI: Las Vegas, in October of 2000, which finished its 14th season in 2013. Mendelsohn was co-creator and executive producer of both CSI: Miami and CSI: NY, which ended their runs in 2012 and 2013, respectively. In addition to CSI, Donahue has written and contributed to 21 Jump Street and Beverly Hills, 90210.
The latest entry in the series will, as always, be executive produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, under his Jerry Bruckheimer Television production company, and Jonathan Littman, as well as the introduction of Mary Aiken, whom apparently inspired the series concept with her work as a cyber psychologist.


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Contact872204 [at] chrisjeffs [dot] com
Up Until Now
Short Third Person Biography
Chris Jeffs was born in the UK but has recently moved to Berlin. Originally a trombone player, he progressed to making and releasing electronic music, touring extensively since 1994 as a live artist and DJ, most prominently under the name Cylob. He turned to creating his own programs as a way of making his sound more distinctive. His granular synthesis and visual animation software "Particularity" won joint first prize in the LOMUS 2010 competition. Recent activity has focussed on freelance development: programming for interactive installations and performances, the release of several self-published iOS apps, and work on commercial music software. He has also given workshops in programming for the iPhone and using SuperCollider.
iOS Apps
Monnix - Harmonics based Synth
DoodleShake - Remix your Doodles! Mizit - A stylish clock WireGUI - Everything's under Open Sound Control
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The Beauty of the Harmonograph
Here is a compilation of animations made from plotting three sine waves together, rotating them and changing the appearance in various ways – an interpretation of the Harmonograph concept.
The latest thing I've been investigating is Cinder, a framework based on C++. I've been using it for a week so far and it's a bit harder than SuperCollider or Java, if conceptually quite similar. (Well, they are all object-oriented, … Continue reading
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1. Re: Customize Login PageJiri.Machotka-Oracle Nov 8, 2012 3:03 PM (in response to 631750)
Thanks for any help with a stupid question.There are no stupid questions, just sometimes stupid answers :-)
Anyway, the login page is just a static html file. Actually, there is an article which describes how to customize it: http://bluestudios.co.uk/blog/2009/02/how-to-update-customise-ucm-stellent-portal-login-page/
2. Re: Customize Login Page631750 Nov 8, 2012 5:43 PM (in response to Jiri.Machotka-Oracle)Actually, I looked at that article. It describes how to modify portal.html which is not the login page. The login page is file login.html in cs.ear. There must be some way to change this without going into the ear.
3. Re: Customize Login Page631750 Nov 8, 2012 6:51 PM (in response to 631750)Ok, I finally figured it out. To modify the login.html you change the resource template login_page.htm. This is done with the component wizard. Create a new component and them modify it as you like.
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stylishbunny's recommendation
Lollipop fans will love the next single "A Milli" This album is sooo hot!
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Lil wayne has definitely made a name for himself alongside other great artist, and with the much anticipated Album this summer Tha carter III" The lollipop song is already on crazy radio stations rotation. But I like the "Mr. Carter" song Feat. Jay-Z.... CD available tomorrow (Jun 10th). Although it was leaked on the internet.......$9.99 - $19.99
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Much to my surprise, Tha Carter III proved to more than your regular hip hop album. Infused with infectious beats, melodic lyrics and several cameo appearances, this album has be one of my favorites of the year. My favorite song is a tie between the one with Babyface, the other with Bobby Valentino or the one where Lil' Wayne tells us, "That's how you let the beat build b***h!" This one is sure to become a hip hop classic.
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TEENAGERS from across Worcestershire battled it out at Malvern Town's Langland Stadium at this year's Mercian Junior League Finals.
The action-packed 11-a-side day saw six competitions contested with Newtown Sports the dominant winners, scooping four of the titles.
In the u13s girls' Mercian League Shield final, Kidderminster Girls Lions beat Newtown Sports Girls 2-1.
Newtown Sports Girls took the u14s girls' Festival Housing Shield after a dramatic 1-0 penalty-shoot win over Dudley Sports Girls. The match had ended goalless after extra-time.
In boys' action, Newtown Sports Juniors u12s were victorious in the Ron Handy Memorial Shield, beating Welland Juniors 2-0.
Oldbury Park Tigers were crowned the Trophy World Cup winners when they bested Westbury Celtic 3-0 in the u13s category.
But the last two finals of Sunday's event saw Newtown take the spoils.
In the Wayne Phillpotts u14s final, Newtown Sports Juniors took home the silverware defeating Droitwich Spa Saints 3-2.
In the last final of the day, Newtown Sports Colts defeated Kidderminster Harriers FITC 4-0 in the u15s boys' Andy Wardroper Memorial Shield.
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There were 20 men on the roster when the U.S. hockey team staged its "Miracle on Ice" at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics, and thus only 20 gold medals linked to that historic event.
Now, one of those gold medals will be up for auction.
It belonged to Mark Wells, the last player selected to the team. He sold it a few years ago to a Connecticut collector after being struck by a rare spinal cord disease that left him bed-ridden.
The medal now is up for re-sale, via SportsWorld.
"I'm thinking it will bring in six figures - probably around $125,000," SportsWorld's Phil Castinetti told the Boston Herald. "It's the only one that's ever surfaced, and there's only 20 of them."
(H/T Puck Daddy)
Reid Cherner has been with USA TODAY since 1982 and written Game On! since March 2008.
He has covered everything from high schools to horse racing to the college and the pros. The only thing he likes more than his own voice is the sound of readers telling him when he's right and wrong.
Michael Hiestand has covered sports media and marketing for USA TODAY, tackling the sports biz ranging from what's behind mega-events such as the Olympics and Super Bowl to the sometimes-hidden numbers behind the sports world's bottom line.


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Coca-Cola (KO) is one of the stalwart stocks within the dividend growth champion stalls, but did you know he has a son who is a dividend growth challenger? A yearling at present, but already shaping up to be a thoroughbred champion like his father. This article will look at the performance of both the Coca-Cola Company listed in the United States [US], but also at its junior entity Coca-Cola Amatil [CCL] listed on the Australian Stock Exchange [ASX].
Coca-Cola has a strong consistent performance record as a dividend growth stock, with 50 years of sustained dividend gains, while Coca-Cola Amatil has a proven track record of growth over the last 13 years. This article will illustrate Coca-Cola's suitability for inclusion in a Dividend Growth Investment [DGI] portfolio for US investors, as well as Coca-Cola Amatil's suitability for Australian investors looking to replicate similar performance.
Company Overview
The Coca-Cola Company is an iconic brand worldwide; a quick trip to their corporate website provides an excellent snapshot of the company's diverse range of operations, the complexity of which can be summed up in the following visual:
Coca-Cola Amatil is one of the largest bottlers of non-alcoholic ready-to-drink beverages in the Asia-Pacific region and one of the world's top five Coca-Cola bottlers. The company employs 15,000 people to service a consumer market of 265 million people through a network of 700,000 active customers. It has operations in five countries - Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea - manufacturing, selling and distributing a diversified product portfolio including carbonated soft drinks, water, sports and energy drinks, fruit juice, flavored milk, coffee and packaged ready-to-eat fruit and vegetable products. It also sells and distributes the premium spirits portfolio of Beam Global Spirits & Wines. The Coca-Cola Company owns 30% of Coca-Cola Amatil shares and has two directors on CCA's eight member Board of Directors.
Current Financial Performance
Coca-Cola. KO closed today at $36.38, $4.29 (10.5%) below its 52 week high, and $4.01 (12.4%) above its 52 week low. The company trades with a yield of 2.78%, at a PE ratio of 19.20 and holds a Market Cap of $163 Billion. The most recent quarterly earnings transcript can be accessed here and the company's 12 month share price performance is shown below:
Coca-Cola Amatil. [CCL] closed today at AUD$13.36, AUD$0.83 (5.6%) below its 52 week high, and AUD$2.06 (1.8%) above its 52 week low. The company trades with a yield of 4.12%, at a PE ratio of 14.80 and holds a Market Cap of AUD$10 Billion. The company's 12 month share price performance is shown below:
Dividend Growth Performance
The suitability of a stock for inclusion in a dividend growth portfolio, besides the company continuing to grow and perform, is that the dividend increases and there are no periods where dividends are not paid or dividend growth is negative. A notable strength for both Coca-Cola and Coca-Cola Amatil is that their dividend growth is sustained, both during and after the global financial crisis. One year performance is stronger for the US parent company, but the Australian entity has the hallmarks of a challenger looking to become a contender, and performance in dividend growth is fairly matched for 3, 5 and 10 year comparisons. The performance for each entity is listed in the tables below:
Coca-Cola Amatil figures shown below are in $AUD and dividends paid 2004 - 2012 are fully franked; dividends paid 2003 and prior are only partially franked.
Risks & Opportunities
Coca-Cola has to face the same challenging market conditions as its competitors, that is placed on it by a lagging global economy, however this is a challenge the company is aware of and working to ensure the company generates sustainable revenue and profit. Management sees five significant factors that will shape the businesses, governments and civic institutions for the next 10 years and beyond:
- Global Inflation
- China
- Global climate change
- Resource scarcity
- Demographic shifts.
Dividend growth investor 'chowder' has commented previously on Seeking Alpha (although I can't find it now amongst his 2,900+ comments) that a good goal is to find companies that offer products that will be in demand regardless of what market conditions are like, and then choose the ones with a good track record of paying dividends that increase. To that end, buy fuel companies, buy food companies, and buy beverage companies - and in both Coca-Cola and Coca-Cola Amatil you have a quality company selling products that will always be in demand. Regardless of the five significant factors above, ask any soldier who has deployed on operations what they will find in some of the most isolated and out of reach uncommercialized places in the world - bottled water and Coca-Cola (and that's just a fraction of the brands being marketed). In my mind, this is just the type of company profile to look for that 'chowder' suggests.
Continuing to grow revenue while controlling costs is vital for big companies to ensure they continue to grow, and grow in a sustained manner. Coca-Cola recently announced a new system investment of "US$300 million over the next three years in Vietnam to capture growth opportunities in one of the worlds major emerging consumer markets; the commitment will bring to US$500 million the total investment that The Coca-Cola Company and its bottling partners have committed to Vietnam from 2010 through 2015".
Growing smaller ventures is also a challenge, and keep in mind that to be included in a DGI portfolio, investors must closely manage the dividend returns of their investments. While Coca-Cola has a 50 year strong track record, Coca-Cola Amatil has a few blips before its 13 year run of dividend growth. Dividends paid prior to 2000 experienced no annual growth from 1997 to 1998, dropped by 36.8% in 1999, and experienced no annual growth until 2001. This is contrary to the expectations of a dividend champion, however its solid performance over the last 13 years warrants its consideration as a dividend contender.
Coca-Cola is a quality example of a dividend growth stock, with a strong track record of dividend growth over 50 years, and is an ideal stock to hold within a United States DGI portfolio. Australian investors can also look to hold the US stock as an international equity within a diversified portfolio, or alternatively hold the Australian Coca-Cola Amatil stock within an Australian DGI portfolio. Like father, like son, the contender demonstrates potential to become a champion.
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, but may initiate a long position in KO over the next 72 hours. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.
Additional disclosure: Thanks to SA Contributor David Fish who provides such an easy to use spreadsheet for Dividend Champions, Contenders and Challengers.


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The successor series to the View From the Mirror quartet
"Wondrous worldbuilding." - Locus
Santhenar is on its knees. The war with the alien lyrinx drags on, and humanity is losing it, but there is worse to come. The Aachim have invaded with an irresistible force - a fleet of battle constructs. Cursing humanity for the loss of Aachan and his own clan, the embittered Aachim leader, Vithis, demands half the world in reparation. The council is in no position to resist. But even if they agree to his demands, can anything satisfy his thirst for vengeance?
The future of the world rests in the hands of three flawed people: Tiaan, whose geomancy holds the key to the power that can save or destroy them; Nish, who has sworn to bring her to justice; and Irisis, whose great talents are hidden even from herself.
About the Author
Ian has written 29 novels, including the internationally bestselling 11-book Three Worlds fantasy sequence: The View from the Mirror Quartet, The Well of Echoes Quartet and The Song of the Tears Trilogy. Ian's latest book is Rebellion, Book 2 of a new epic fantasy trilogy The Tainted Realm, published in Australia in October 2012, and in the UK and US in early 2013,
Series: The Well of Echoes
Audience: General
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Language: English
Published: 1st August 2013
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The Overall Effect Of Irt At Acen This Year (2010) How would you the congoers rate IRT this year?
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I had one minor incident in the Hyatt with one, but I've decided not to make a big deal out of it. This is also from a staff perspective as well.
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Ska_Toranpetta, on May 17 2010, 10:05 PM, said:
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redx1, on May 17 2010, 10:01 PM, said:
I had one minor incident in the Hyatt with one, but I've decided not to make a big deal out of it. This is also from a staff perspective as well.
could you pm with the details? even if you would prefer to leave out a name. even just the details of what our people are doing wrong helps us train them better for next year.
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"In situations where restrictions on firing and limiting structural
damage have been imposed and/or boobytraps are not expected, using the door handle to
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First time in two years that I missed getting scolded for not walking on the curb in the Hyatt smoking zone.
For myself, it was a good year but that is an incredibly small sample size.
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Posted 18 May 2010 - 02:57 PM
I was trying to find a specific operative (my sister) and asked if they could tell me where I could find her. I don't know the rules about that, but it was an emergency. I was greeted and was told to sit and wait while they went to go find her location and I ended up sitting there for an hour while no one was doing anything to finding her location. I don't know if it was just too busy, or not a good time (since it was like 2 in the morning) but I was really upset with being told that they would find her for me and didn't do anything to help. And if they couldn't find her for any reason, why not just tell me so I could have went back to my room.
Other than this, IRT did a pretty good job this year. They were really friendly and helped me out with any other questions or problems I had, even the new operatives.
(Just a suggestion, I think IRT should split the night/zombie shift. 12 hours of work would make anyone grumpy)
Posted 18 May 2010 - 05:34 PM
I especially want to give a huge shout out to Red XIII. She was on my list of sign language translators, which I had a sudden need for. I called dispatch and was told the she was off duty. Before I could even call for the next person on the list, she came walking into my office, in full costume and obviously missing out on something she did a LOT of preparation for, just so she could help just one more person. Thank you so much, Red. I'd be proud to have you on my staff.
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Posted 19 May 2010 - 07:19 AM
Dave, on May 18 2010, 07:34 PM, said:
Haha - she walked into Dispatch literally five seconds after we'd finished talking to you, and we told her that special needs had been asking for her, so she turned around and ran. Awesome human being
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Posted 19 May 2010 - 07:53 AM
Hobbes, on May 19 2010, 08:19 AM, said:
"So she turned and ran"... Towards the Special needs area. Jeze hobs make it sound like I was running "away" from things. LoL. And Thanks you Hobbes.
Thank you very much Dave. You make me blush very much so. I was just doing what I signed up for. Helping everyone that I could. Whether I was recognized for it or not.
~Mia "Red XIII"
Posted 19 May 2010 - 02:05 PM
You were also really cool and understanding about us taking a little corner after the show for some post-show photos of the models, keeping us from getting in the way while not being rude and bossy - thanks again. Mad props, guys. It was well-handled.
I've had some negative experiences with IRT over the years, just minor ones but enough to leave a bad taste in my mouth, but this year was excellent. Great job, everyone.
Posted 19 May 2010 - 02:29 PM
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Posted 20 May 2010 - 07:02 AM
Dave, on May 18 2010, 06:34 PM, said:
I know, right? Well, you can't have her! She's Dispatch's forever! I guess loaning her to you every once in a while is acceptable, though.
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Posted 20 May 2010 - 06:19 PM
Hobbes, on May 17 2010, 10:18 PM, said:
Hobbes, I have to give you a specific call-out on this. You are a huge part of the reason things DIDN'T explode in dispatch sometime Saturday evening. You always went above and beyond. We are totally keeping you for next year... tigers are good luck! :-D
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Posted 20 May 2010 - 10:01 PM
I did like that conversation though with the three jewish guys one or two were irt about 3 in the morning friday overnight, I cant remember who it was, but you might know me as the guy with the black shirt and black wristbands in blue jeans, as we sat by the viewing rooms.
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Posted 21 May 2010 - 12:53 PM
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Posted 21 May 2010 - 01:17 PM
Bunni, you get an A for awesome.
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Posted 21 May 2010 - 02:17 PM
Lunar Crush, on May 21 2010, 02:17 PM, said:
Bunny, or whichever IRT guy it was, you get an A for awesome.
HAHAH yup that would be Bunni
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Labor, therefore, should think very hard before it trades away its hard-won reputation for good economic management for the privilege of merely presiding over a hung Parliament. The party's long-term success will depend on it matching its opponents on economic growth and beating them on equity.
As the Productivity Commission's
There are some encouraging signs: Gillard's strong public commitment to economic reform in October, and
She hails as a major economic reform the national broadband network and the associated restructuring of Telstra. But the NBN is not an economic reform. It is an expensive national blunder and a lamentable retreat from Labor's promise to raise the quality of public investment by submitting major projects to expert cost-benefit analysis.
Gillard's success in pushing through the NBN is purely a political victory, and possibly a short-lived one at that.
The government has stubbornly refused to submit the $43 billion project to an independent cost-benefit analysis because it knows the costs far exceed the likely benefits. Presumably it thinks the argument about the worth of the NBN will be forgotten in the celebration of nation building, and in truth it has Australia's history of vote-winning white elephants on its side.
But the NBN is not your average white elephant: its cost and benefits will be felt more directly by the public. And the government's fear of a cost-benefit analysis should be a warning to the Prime Minister that the public might not be very impressed with the trade-off.
That might be true even in regional Australia, where people now are drooling at the prospect of a heavily subsidised new internet service. The cost of the NBN is so great, it will be a long time before any government is ready to throw serious money at regional Australia's genuine education and healthcare needs.
Country voters, who could have used the hung Parliament to extract billions more dollars for education and healthcare, have walked away with a telecommunications project that, at best, will make a marginal contribution to health and education.
The NBN easily could end up being blamed for every unmet need for government services. It could be like the Olympics, but worse. The punters' love of the Olympic circus probably tempered their resentment of its cost. But there's nothing much to love about a telecommunications cable that you don't want.
The government claims the structural separation of
Because the additional benefits of the NBN are not sufficient to justify the additional cost, the government has had to restrict competition, including from Telstra's existing hybrid fibre coax cable. Again, the government presumably hopes the public won't miss the price competition that it has so carefully suppressed. Fat chance, I'd say.
The choices made by the Gillard government in the NBN debate offer little encouragement to those hoping for a year of economically worthwhile "decision and delivery". The numbers in the Senate and the "new politics" of the hung Parliament created an opportunity for Gillard to graciously accept an independent cost-benefit analysis that could have laid out the options in a way that let the government to achieve its political objectives with a modified NBN at a much lower cost to the nation. But Gillard chose to stick to her crude game of cargo-cult politics.
But it's an ill wind, as they say. And the economic good that might flow from Gillard's NBN is this: by welding the rural independents more firmly to the government, it should give the Prime Minister more scope to confront the Parliament with genuine economic reform.
The Tax Summit is an obvious launching pad for a major reform initiative. The more comprehensive the tax reform, the better, not just for the economy, but for a government under pressure to make the reform "revenue neutral". Multiple tax reform increases the likelihood that an individual taxpayer's losses and gains will cancel out.
Of course, it will be risky. But unless Gillard starts using her formidable political skill to get real economic reform through Parliament, both her reputation and Labor's will quickly erode.
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Ownership of the company is 0.10% for insider ownership while institutional ownership is 44.50%. The management of the company have seen the company have a payout ratio of 101.80%. Return of assets are at 1.60%, with return on investment at 6.80%.
In terms of debt levels and profit levels, Energy Transfer Equity, L.P., ETE is seeing a long-term debt/equity of *TBA. While Total debt/equity is *TBA. With a profit margin of 3.10%, this is combined with a gross margin of 22.30%, and operating margin of 6.50%. Energy Transfer Equity, L.P. ability to meet debt levels, with a current ratio of 1, while the quick ratio is 0.7.
For the last year Energy Transfer Equity, L.P., ETE has seen a EPS growth of 94.90%. A performance for the year of -25.74%. The 52-week high is -27.37%, and the 52-week low is 309.47%. The average volume for Energy Transfer Equity, L.P., ETE is 4097305.
With a target price of 19.06, can Energy Transfer Equity, L.P., ETE reach this target? Looking at the value indicators of Energy Transfer Equity, L.P., ETE. Energy Transfer Equity, L.P. has a P/E of 14.33 and a forward P/E of 12.4. Perhaps the more useful indicator than P/E, is PEG which has a value of 1.13. Energy Transfer Equity, L.P. also has a P/S and a P/B of 0.46 and *TBA respectively. For P/cash, Energy Transfer Equity, L.P. has a value of 35.75, while it is *TBA for P/free cash flow.
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For our client, the virus originated from a business it had on retainer, through a document that had nothing to do with the business whatsoever. The virus had mailed the company an infected contract with the text, "Here's the document I told you about." Of course, the person opened it to investigate. When the worker couldn't figure out why it had come in, the employee closed it and forgot about it, but it was too late.
Cleaning up the mess
The virus wasn't terribly difficult to remove, but tracking down all of the outgoing emails was "fun." The client readily agreed to have us update the antivirus software and tighten up the firewall. As part of our (billed) cleanup process, we also secured written permission from our client to get in touch with the contacts who might have received an infected email. The client again readily agreed.
I wrote up a script that explained what had happened, taking care to make clear this was not a sales pitch. We called each contact on the phone and explained what was going on and what they needed to do to ensure they had not been infected.
A very few took us seriously and said they'd look into it. Some asked us to come over and look over their computers. Approximately 75 percent of them said, "Oh, we have antivirus software," and hung up. But out of the 75 percent, about half later contacted our client to admit that, yes, they too had been infected by the virus and proprietary information was being randomly mailed out.
In the end, the situation turned out well. The client's contacts appreciated the honesty. Some of them hired us to maintain their computer systems -- including updating their antivirus software. And the client took our recommendations more seriously from then on. This particular brick wall came down.
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WASHINGTON – The lawmakers raised the issue two days before a White House visit by the conservative Abe, whose previous prime ministership was dogged by historical issues but who is now seen as increasingly pragmatic.
Rep. Mike Honda, who spearheaded a 2007 House resolution that took Japan to task over its wartime sex slaves, and Rep. Steve Israel voiced "serious concern" about the Abe government's stance.
In a letter, the two Democratic lawmakers wrote that if Japan replaces a 1993 apology with a watered-down version, it "would have grave implications for the U.S.-Japanese relationship and could ignite unnecessary tension and provocation with neighboring countries."
Historians say about 200,000 "comfort women" from the Korean Peninsula, China, the Philippines and elsewhere were drafted into Japanese military brothels. The legacy remains a particular sore point in Japan's relations with South Korea.
In the 1993 statement, issued by then-Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono, Japan offered "sincere apologies" for the "immeasurable pain and suffering" inflicted on the comfort women, as they were euphemistically referred to by Japan. Two years later, Tokyo issued a broader apology, under then-Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, expressing "deep remorse" for the wartime suffering that Japan brought about.
Abe, whose grandfather was a wartime Cabinet minister, raised controversy during his 2006-2007 prime ministership for his statements that appeared to play down Japan's culpability over the sex slaves, and after leaving office he called for a revised apology.
The 1993 apology is passionately opposed by conservatives who contend that Japan did not directly coerce the females into sexual slavery.
Since returning to office in December, Abe said he plans a new "future-oriented" statement on the war.
He has declined comment on the comfort women apology, suggesting it was not under his purview as it was issued not by a prime minister but by Kono.
Honda, who was interned during World War II due to his Japanese ancestry, said that aging former comfort women were "still waiting for an appropriate apology" from Japan.
"Government is a living, breathing organism that is responsible for its past, present and future," Honda said.
"As someone who was put into an internment camp as an infant during World War II, I know reconciliation through government actions, to admit error, are the only ones likely to be long-lasting," he said.


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Campaign finance limits will not change in the 2014 election cycle, according to a legal opinion from Vermont Attorney General Bill Sorrell.
Sorrell issued the opinion in response to a question from the Secretary of State about a glitch in the state's new campaign finance law, Act 90. The Legislature passed new campaign donation limits for parties and candidates on the first few days of the session, and Gov. Peter Shumlin promptly enacted it into law on Jan. 23.
But a drafting error repealed the existing donation limits before the new law went into effect. H.640, a technical correction bill that fixed the mistake, passed in the House and was taken up by Senate Government Operations, but died in the Senate Finance Committee.
Sorrell's opinion makes it clear that even though the Legislature didn't address the error, lawmakers intended for the current law to remain in place through 2014 until Act 90 goes into effect Jan. 1, 2015.
"This is some guidance going forward with the Legislature gone now and with the election season starting up in earnest," Sorrell said.
That means for this year, no Vermont candidate can accept more than $1,000 from a single source or more than $3,000 from a political committee for any election, and no political action committee can accept contributions of more than $2,000 from a single source, political committee or political party over the two-year general election cycle, according to Sorrell.
After Jan. 1, 2015, candidates for statewide office will be able to accept campaign donations of up to $4,000 from a single source or political committee over the two-year election cycle. Political parties, under the new law, can take donations of up to $10,000 from a single source or political committee, and $60,000 from a political party (a national outfit, such as the Democratic Governors Association or the Republican Governors Association).
The new law puts a lid of $1,000 for donations to House candidates, and Senate candidates can receive no more than $1,500.
Contribution limits will be adjusted for inflation.
New campaign finance reporting dates went into effect immediately. The dates are March 15, July 15, Aug. 15, Sept. 1, Oct. 1, Oct. 15, Nov. 1, Nov. 18 and Dec. 15.
A provision in Act 90 that would have limited aggregate donations from a single source to $40,000 to Vermont candidates or political committees was contingent on the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in McCutcheon v. the Federal Election Commission. The court struck down aggregate limits to congressional candidates in its decision on April 2. The federal decision is widely believed to be a signal that state limits also will not hold.
The Legislature carefully crafted the new campaign law and made a conscious effort to avoid running afoul of the Supreme Court. In a 2006 decision, the court ruled in Randall v. Sorrell that Vermont's limits on campaign funding and expenditures violated candidates' right to free speech under the First Amendment.
Since then, the court has consistently struck down laws that would place limits on campaign fundraising. In 2010, the court said groups could spend unlimited amounts of money on independent expenditures for advertising made on behalf of candidates. The groups, however, may not coordinate their efforts with candidates. Last year, Sorrell successfully sued the Republican Governors Association and former Lt. Gov. Brian Dubie for sharing polling results in the 2010 election.


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What type of mac? How old is it? What type of monitor and how old is it? When are these broken images and dots appearing and are they covering the entire screen or just part? The more info you can provide, the easier troubleshooting will be.
G5 tower. Twin 2ghrtz. 3.5 gb ram. -- 2 flat screen monitors, 23" cinema HD display & 20" display -- Whole rig is 5 or 6 years old -- problem exists on both monitors -- Tiger on one drive, Leopard on another problem occurs when booted on either system, or even when booted from optical install disk or disc warrior disc
problem has been intermitant for several months - repeated shut downs and startups would clear it up and machine would run ok for several days then happen again -- as of today, doesn't seem as if it's going to go away -- I' ve been told that i may have a bad graphics card -- also that i may have a bad driver off some sort -- card has two connectors for monitors
When problem is severe, i lose control of machine
Ok, because it is two different monitors, I'd rule out bad monitors.Because it occurs when running from all different sources (hard drives, optical drives, etc), then I'd rule out software or system. I'd even rule out it being a bad driver, because it would mean that all drivers are corrupt on all startup drives. Very unlikely.What's left? Video Card, Logic Board and RAM. Most likely culprit would be the video card. There are a few things you can do to make sure that it isn't the Mac itself and in board cache causing the issues. I'd suggest a PRAM reset and then a Safeboot. If the problem returns, I'd point at the video card.First let's reset the PRAM on the computer.1) Shut down the computer.2) While the computer is shut down, locate these keys: command (has an apple on it), option (sometimes called alt), P, and R.3) Turn the computer on, then press and hold Command-Option-P-R before the gray screen appears.4) Hold these keys down until you hear the startup sound a total of 3 times.5) Release the keys.Next, let's try a Safe Boot. This will perform several clean up procedures that may be affecting the machine's performance and startup as well as clear out any cache here as well.1) Shut down your computer completely.2) Start up the computer and immediately after the startup chime, press and hold the Shift key3) Once the gray Apple and progress indicator appear, release the Shift key4) Note: Startup will likely take substantially longer than normal (20 - 30 minutes is not unheard of)5) You should have to login to your account, even if it normally does so automatically.6) Shut down the computer.7) Restart and see how the monitors are acting.
I should have mentioned something earlier that may be significant here. Early on in this trouble, I ran the Apple hardware test that came with the machine. I ran the long test - about 2 hours. It told me that everything tested OK. With this in mind, do you still think I should perform the actions you reccommended?
Yes. Do both the PRAM reset and the Safeboot.
Thanx, Travis. Will do. -- Phredd
Good luck and keep me posted.
Will try this tomorrow. Thanks for the info and if I need add'l assistance, I'll be back for another question and try to get you.


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CRICKET AUSTRALIA'S fast-bowler rotation policy is off for now but the controversial initiative remains on the agenda for the second half of the Test summer against Sri Lanka.
The pace trio of James Pattinson, Peter Siddle and Ben Hilfenhaus have emerged unscathed from the first Test, which was dominated by batsmen, and any changes to the XI for the second Test will be made on form rather than reasons regarding injury management.
''Given we've got quite a break between the first and second Test there's no real concern there,'' Australia's fast bowling coach Ali de Winter said on Wednesday. ''What we will do is monitor quite closely what we can through the Adelaide Test match then we'd be making any decision on how they come through that on the way to Perth.
''At the moment we're confident our three bowlers that are in the side can play the first three Test matches given the lead in.
''All the bowlers got through the game physically very well.
''All three of them now will rest up until we meet back up in Adelaide so they won't be doing any bowling or playing any cricket.
''What they will be doing is some strength and conditioning work and some rehab stuff between now and then.'' De Winter said it was ''not reasonable for any or all of them to play all six Test matches'', and that a pool of ''eight to 10'' quicks had been identified as back-up.
''It's not just the group of bowlers in the Test squad at the moment, we're monitoring up to 10 bowlers around the country in partnership with their states,'' de Winter said. ''We feel like we're across the whole bank of bowlers.''
There had been concerns that the heavy volume of Twenty20 cricket entering the series against the Proteas would hurt Australia but there are no worries with the bowling volumes shouldered by their pace trio in Brisbane.
All three delivered less than the 55 overs CA's coaching staff predicted would be required for each bowler in a Test.
''Outside of that you don't see too many times where they bowl more than that,'' de Winter said.
''When we're projecting the workloads over the summer we bank on them bowling 330 balls in a Test match. Most often it's less than that but we go on the high side so we cover the bases in terms of planning.''
Red flags are raised when that quota is exceeded but de Winter said that did not mean ''danger or risk'' but rather an indication a bowler needed to have his workload more closely monitored.
Even if Australia's quicks had gone over the limit in Brisbane the long gap between Tests meant Australia's quicks would have been able to use the rest of this week to rest, or ''de-load'', before the next match.
De Winter said a schedule of three Tests in as many weeks ''would represent an area we would need to be very aware of'', but Australia will only play back-to-back Tests in Adelaide and Perth against South Africa, and again over the Christmas-New Year period in Melbourne and Sydney. ''We're confident the three or four bowlers we have in our squad … can cope with the three Test matches in the space of four weeks,'' he said.


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Purchased from Larry McMurtry, 1999 and 2008.
Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana Papers , MS 276, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University
Books and other published items have been cataloged separately.
Additional Larry McMurtry papers available at Southwestern Writers Collection, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas.: · Larry McMurtry papers (http://www.library.txstate.edu/swwc/archives/writers/mcmurtry.html) · and Lonesome Dove miniseries production materials (http://www.library.txstate.edu/swwc/archives/film/lonesome_dove.html) · Texas Monthly magazine archives (http://www.library.txstate.edu/swwc/archives/tm/index.html) · Photographs of McMurtry in Jay Milner Papers,1960-1993 (http://www.library.txstate.edu/swwc/archives/writers/milner.html)
Larry McMurtry papers also located at University of Houston Special Collections and Archives (http://info.lib.uh.edu/sca/index.html).
Permission to publish from the Larry McMurtry and Diana Osanna Papers must be obtained from the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University.
This material is open for research.
These papers represent a broad view of Larry McMurtry's literary career, including his collaborations with Diana Ossana. Handwritten notes, editorial correspondence, annotated typescripts, and production material show the creative process for McMurtry's (and Ossana's) novels, screenplays, teleplays, and essays. While many works are included here,
Larry McMurtry was born June 3, 1936, in Wichita Falls, TX, the son of William Jefferson, a rancher, and Hazel Ruth (McIver) McMurtry. McMurtry earned a B.A. degree from North Texas State College (now University) in 1958 and an M.A. from Rice University in 1960 with additional study at Stanford University. He married Josephine Ballard, July 15, 1959. In 1962, their son, singer songwriter James McMurtry, was born. In 1966, the couple divorced. McMurtry's teaching career began at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, TX, where he taught from 1961 to 1962. From there he returned to his alma mater Rice University, as a lecturer in English and creative writing, 1963-69. He then moved north to Virginia and Washington D.C. and taught as Visiting professor at George Mason College, 1970, and at American University, 1970-71.
His first book,
His 1986 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel,
As a spokesman for the status of modern Texas letters, McMurtry has been known to criticize some Texas writers for their tendency to overlook the potentially rich material to be found in Texas's modern, industrialized society and growing urban areas.
McMurtry became writing partners with Diana Ossana of Arizona for the screenplay "Pretty Boy Floyd", in 1993, and has collaborated with her on many screenplays, teleplays, and novels since then. Although at the time Ossana had not previously published or even considered herself a "writer", the pair found that her research skills, discipline, editing style and knack for writing female dialogue in particular complemented McMurtry's work. (See essay entitled "Ours", Box 68 F. 1, describing the beginnings of this collaboration.)
In addition to being a teacher and writer, McMurtry is also a savvy businessman, the founder and owner of renowned bookshops by the name of "Booked Up" in Washington, D.C.; Archer City, Texas; and Arizona.
Source: Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2003.
Arranged in alphabetical order by title of the work, whether it is a novel, a screenplay, a teleplay, or an essay. Many works are featured both as novels and screenplays or teleplays, and are filed in order according to which was created first. Essays are often represented by an annotated draft of the piece, and in other cases only by the essay "as published", meaning the published version is the only version in this collection. Novels are represented by handwritten notes, annotated typescripts, galleys, editorial correspondence, contract correspondence, publicity notes and correspondence, cover and dustjacket art.
Screenplays and teleplays are generally those originally written by McMurtry (in many cases along with Ossana) but in some cases are works based on McMurtry's works but written by others. This material is generally represented by notes, character lists, "step sheets" or plot outlines, annotated typescripts, and depending on how developed the project became, it could also include editorial and contract correspondence, and extensive production material for the film or teleplay (tv miniseries). Production material would include notes and correspondence regarding casting, director selection, music, locations, editing; shooting schedules; call sheets; videotape of "dailies" (daily footage shot) and various edited versions; publicity plans and materials, and more.
Most heavily featured works include Dead Man's Walk (pre-quel to Lonesome Dove), and Streets of Laredo (sequel to Lonesome Dove), both of which include drafts of the novels and screenplays, and all extensive production material for the teleplays.
Annotated typewritten drafts, galleys and correspondence related to book reviews written by McMurtry for the
Annotated typescripts for three speeches written and delivered by McMurtry in the 1990s.
Screenplays, novels, and other works by authors seeking McMurtry's comments. Most date from the 1990s.
Photographs of McMurtry and his family and friends, dating from the turn of the 19/20th century, through McMutry's childhood, his son James McMurtry's childhood, and through the1990s. Photographs of Dianna Ossana also included.
General letters from Charles E. Neu and Michael M. Thomas, 1997, not particularly related to specific works of McMurtry's.
Dating from James McMurtry's young boyhood, this series includes one letter from McMurtry's grandmother and one postcard written to his grandmother.


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Father Water, Mother Woods (Mass Market Paperbound)
Survival in the wilderness--Gary Paulsen writes about it so powerfully in his novels Hatchet and The River because he's lived it.These essays recount his adventures alone and with friends, along the rivers and in the woods of northern Minnesota. There, fishing and hunting are serious business, requiring skill, secrets, and inspiration. Luck, too--not every big one gets away.
This book takes readers through the seasons, from the incredible taste of a spring fish fresh from the smokehouse, to the first sight of the first deer, to the peace of the winter days spent dreaming by the stove in a fishhouse on the ice. In Paulsen's north country, every expedition is a major one, and often hilarious.
Once again Gary Paulsen demonstrates why he is one of America's most beloved writers, for he shows us fishing and hunting as pleasure, as art, as companionship, and as sources of life's deepest lessons.
Praise For…
"This book is obviously a feast for the outdoor lover--the hunter, fisherman, or camper--but it will also draw those who love the beauty of the carefully crafted description, so detailed and vivid....The essence of Paulsen."--Booklist
"The pieces are rooted in the details of a youth spent in search of perfection: the perfect cast, perfect catch, perfect shot...On target." --School Library Joumal
"Descriptions of light and water, of fish and wildlife, kindle in the reader a measure of the author's own complex respect for nature."
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Biomedical Engineering seniors Jared Barfknecht (right) and Alexander Kollman (2nd from left) displayed a poster at the 2013 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual meeting held in Seattle. Their poster described@ the battery-powered microbial incubation system they developed for testing water quality in remote. They did this project with as part of MSOE's Engineers Without Boarders (EWB) program.
Here is a link - http://www.qmed.com/news/stryker-bets-17-billion-mako - to a news story about Stryker spending $1.7 billion to buy a surgical robot company. I think this is indicative of the optimism of companies in the medical device marketplace and the potential for continued growth in BE jobs.


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You could go to your CreditCard issuer and demand your money back. But first document your attempts to resolve the issues with Amazon peacefully. Send an official letter to Amazon demanding an official answer.
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please, may you add new options to the console screen? I wish:
- show amount of used/unused/reserved/blah/blah/... memory (ps: I know
nothing about memory assignment under FreeBSD, info about used/free may be
- reset Firewall log
- reset DHCP service log
or I'm asking: how to do actions above using "exec.php" ?
thank, D.M.
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Regional Reviews: Minneapolis/St. Paul
Penumbra produces a King Hedley II
Penumbra produces a King Hedley II
Hedley II's issues concern the effect on lives when a community loses its connections to its cultural roots, the cycle of failure and violence in generations of poverty, and what happens to a man when he's emasculated by a majority that treats him like dirt and expects him to be no better than dirt for the rest of his life.
In prose that sings like music, Wilson confronts ingrained racism more directly in Hedley II than in his other plays that chronicle the black American experience in the 20th century.
The play is set in the Hill District of Pittsburgh on Ken Evan's convincingly detailed set of two tenement brick houses. The impoverished physical and emotional terrain of Hedley II is achingly familiar from Penumbra's last play, Seven Guitars, in the theater's 25th anniversary season of Wilson plays. The scruffy yard is a place of male swagger, brittle egos and illicit guns.
The main character, King, has a sense of himself that's as fragile as cracked glass. He's an ex-con. He gunned down a man who first slighted him, then razor-slashed his face through his left eye. Now, King and his friend Mister are saving to buy a video store by selling stolen refrigerators at $200 a go. King has a strong desire to make his way legitimately in the world, but he has no resources materially and few personally with which to seed his ambition. Pushed to find money fast, he and Mister rob a jewelry store and, just as Hamlet crosses a point of no return once he murders Polonius, King crosses a line with this robbery.
Adding to his problems, he has a confrontational relationship with his mother, Ruby, a warm, sexual woman, played by Rhodessa Jones. Ruby has returned after leaving King to be brought up by his recently deceased aunt, and she's full of too-late affection. His wife is pregnant with a child that she doesn't want to bring into a hostile world, and his murder victim's cousin is out gunning for him. Like Hamlet, the world stacks up against King with crushing weight as he struggles to turn his life around.
Muscular Lester Purry as King drips pride and fury; he delivers King's magnificent monologues with fierce passion. King is the son, in spirit, of the unstable visionary and two-time murderer, King Hedley, from Seven Guitars. The unnecessary revelation of King's true paternity by Elmore causes the play's shattering dénouement. Elmore is an ill con man who has returned to claim his on-again, off-again love for King's mother. He's been an occasional father figure to King, but he carries cancerous old jealousies and resentments. In this hand picked cast, Ernie Hudson plays the smooth-tongued trickster, Elmore, with slick panache.
But the show-stealer is Tonia Jackson as King's beautiful wife. She speaks her two monologues with such fire and feeling that tears flow down her cheeks. In the first speech she justifies not wanting to keep her pregnancy because she knows all too well what misery that child's life will bring. In the second, she pleads with King to simply be a man. She doesn't want his money. She wants him to be a man who she can rely on to stay out of prison, to come home and to be a father to their child. Jackson is as fine an actor as any in the region.
In a role that's like Hamlet's steady friend Horatio, David Alan Anderson plays Mister, King's partner in crime, a man with a knack for defusing tense situations.
An archetypal figure recurs in Wilson's plays, an earthy bones-man, an eccentric who works charms that are rooted in African tradition and who effects change through the sprinkling of blood. The challenge is to differentiate in the playing of these characters, and Stool Pigeon, though played affectingly by James Craven, feels derivative of Hambone in Two Trains Running and Hedley in Seven Guitars.
Overarching the action is the death of the unseen 366 year-old Aunt Esther, a seer who has rooted the community in its African past and whose absence enlarges the action of the play in the same way that the ghost of Hamlet's father deepens Hamlet.
Master Wilson producer Lou Bellamy directs Hedley II and draws magnificent performances from his gifted cast. But Malo's sound design is often overwrought and intrusive; the same holds true for moments in Mark Dougherty's overly melodramatic light design. The poetry of Wilson's language and the fineness of Penumbra's acting carry their own weight and require only light touches in tech support.
This vast play ends in tragedy, but the very shedding of blood opens the possibility of renewal.
King Hedley II May 29 - June 29. Thursdays and Sundays, 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 8:00 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays 2:00 p.m. $26 - $30.Penumbra Theatre Company, 270, North Kent Street, St. Paul. Call: 651-224-3180. Online @ www.penumbratheatre.org.Be sure to check the current schedule for theatre in the Twin Cities area


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New Look 6097
Pattern Description: Workroom from Project Runway, misses' belted knit dress with neckline and sleeve variations. New Look Just 4 Knits sewing pattern.
Sizing: 10 to 22
Likes/dislikes: I really liked the pockets, the pleats and the wrap dress look. Not dislikes.
Changes: I made View A but left the tabs off the sleeves and then tapered the sleeves so they are more slim fitting. I cut out a 12 but the dress was big, so I took it up on the sides and the fit was better.
Fabric: An ITY fabric
Conclusions: I have really like the look of the dress on all the reviews on Pattern Review. I am not sure this style of this dress on me. I do like it better with the cardigan and I need to find a good belt to complete the look.
I did enjoy finding some time to get back to my sewing machines.
Funny look on my face but the best picture of the dress.
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Lori, I love this dress on you! I've made it twice and had a belt dilemma too - one I wear a purchased belt and the other I made a long sash out of the dress material which double wraps around the waist. Great fabric too!ReplyDelete
Un vestido precioso y has elegido una tela muy , muy bonita.ReplyDelete
Impeccable as always, Lori!ReplyDelete
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by Staff Writers
Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Feb 02, 2016
The native ferns that form a lush green understory in coastal redwood forests are well adapted to dry summers and periodic droughts, but California's current prolonged drought has taken a toll on them. A comprehensive study of water relations in native ferns, conducted during one of the worst droughts in California's recent history, shows that extreme conditions have tested the limits of drought tolerance in these plants.
"We've seen permanent dieback in some patches," said Jarmila Pittermann, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz.
Pittermann's lab is studying ferns in the redwood forest on the UCSC campus. Over a period of 15 months in 2013 and 2014, the researchers closely monitored ferns at their study site, focusing on two common species in the redwood forest understory: the western swordfern (Polystichum munitum) and the coastal woodfern (Dryopteris arguta).
"These understory species are important in themselves, but also serve as indicators of how climate change may affect our redwood forests," Pittermann said. "Considering that these plants are adapted to persist through a typical summer dry season, the dieback emphasizes just how unprecedented this drought has been over the past three years."
Her team collected data and samples at the study site every 10 days, including measurements of soil moisture, leaf temperature, hydration status of the plants, and how efficiently water moved through the fronds. They also conducted greenhouse experiments and laboratory tests.
The results, published in New Phytologist, show that the fronds of these ferns can almost entirely lose the capacity to transport water by the end of the dry season, yet they can recover within 24 hours after a heavy rain. Despite this remarkable physiological resilience, however, an extended drought limits the plants' ability to photosynthesize and store energy. As a result, they may develop fewer new leaves in the spring and be more vulnerable to insects and diseases.
Ferns and other vascular plants transport water from roots to leaves through a system of pipe-like conduits called xylem. When a plant starts to experience water stress, its first response is to close the pores in its leaves. This reduces water loss, but also blocks the uptake of carbon dioxide needed for photosynthesis. Under extreme water stress, the plant's hydraulic system starts to break down as air bubbles form in the xylem, causing "embolisms" that block water transport.
"We found that during the worst part of the drought in 2013, these ferns had extensive embolisms that severely compromised the ability of the xylem to conduct water," Pittermann said.
Although many plants would have a hard time recovering from this condition, the native ferns were able to recover quickly after heavy rains. Nevertheless, the extended periods of water stress during the drought greatly reduced their ability to conduct photosynthesis and perhaps their capacity to produce and store adequate levels of sugars and other carbon compounds in their underground rhizomes, Pittermann said.
"These plants are not accumulating enough carbon to support new growth in the spring," she said. "The implications are that they may not make enough spores to reproduce, and they may be more vulnerable to pests."
Pittermann and others have noticed an increase in infestations of thrips, tiny insects that feed on plant sap, affecting ferns during the drought. Other observers in Marin County have reported thrips infestations and dieback of ferns in that area's redwood forests, including popular tourist sites such as Muir Woods.
The new study is the first of its kind in ferns or understory plants in general, and Pittermann has received funding from the Save the Redwoods League to conduct further research.
The redwood forest ferns may be an important indicator of ecosystem change, she said, and continued drought could lead to a very different type of understory and might even threaten the redwoods themselves. "Redwoods are not deep-rooted trees, so an extended drought will eventually affect them too," she said.
In addition to Pittermann, the coauthors of the paper include graduate student Alex Baer (first author) and postdoctoral researcher James Wheeler. This research was funded by the National Science Foundation.
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That scandal turned out to be a blessing for bitcoin. Basically it went viral. Suddenly everyone was hopping on the bitcoin express -- mainstream etailers like Overstock, car dealerships like Lamborghini and Tesla, swampland salesmen, and space vacation hawkers like Virgin Galactic. ATMs popped up in California and New York, and the financial wizards in Cyprus began to use it when their own banks started to fail (bet they're pissed).
For a while, everyone who was anyone wanted to become part of the bitcoin scene. Its value skyrocketed for a short time, but then started the up-and-down valuation dance indicative of a volatile commodity in a completely free market. People got smart and realized that bitcoins probably aren't the place you want to keep the down payment for that eventual old-age condo in Boca -- everyone outside of Mt. Gox anyway.
Still, that didn't slow down massive venture investments in bitcoin mining operations or the enthusiasm with which traders approached the market probably because, hey, it's more fun than Wall Street. Anything can happen. But get past the Mt. Gox faceplant, and the fun is going to end. The Goxxers spoiled the party. Or did they?
Head I win, tails you lose
It depends on whether you wanted bitcoins to stay the fun-loving, wildly fluctuating crypto curiosity they are today, or evolve into an actual currency on the same level as meatspace dollars and euros. If you're in the latter camp, the Goxxers gave you a leg up. When someone loses $400 million of a pie our government suddenly realizes it doesn't have its grubby fingers in, you can expect only one thing: regulation.
Bitcoins weren't that high on Washington's to-do list until this happened. Partially because if drug dealers and assassins were using it, politicians had an image problem; more likely, it's techie and a little difficult to understand, and boning up would have burned valuable time better spent on golfing and booze naps. But now that we've exposed good, old-fashioned white collar criminals/incompetents burning that kind of cash, that's a whole lot of graft, reelection, and escort money floating around without a regulatory siphon. We can't have that!
In all probability, armies of leather briefcase-clutching legislators are now drafting bill upon ill-informed bill each designed to regulate bitcoin trading and valuation, ineffectively protect your investments, and get their snarfing noses as deep into the currency's taxable trough as possible. Believe it or not, this might be a good thing.
You may have noticed that I lean ever so slightly toward the opinion that our slavering big brother already regulates too much, but for bitcoins I think it'll be a boon. As long the bitcoin community is really looking to make the technology a viable currency, being regulated is like showing a little ankle at the cotillion. It says you've arrived, you're legitimate, and you're being run by stodgy, reliable men in Brooks Brothers suits, not pot-toking dungeon masters. It'll rob bitcoins of some of the fun, but it'll also add a perception of stability that can make bitcoins a mainstream financial instrument.
Maybe you love that, maybe you don't, but there's no way around it: The lawyers have found bitcoin. It'll never be the same again.
This article, "Bitcoin grows up, Mt. Gox melts down: The crypto currency crapshoot," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Follow the crazy twists and turns of the tech industry with Robert X. Cringely's Notes from the Field blog, follow Cringely on Twitter, and subscribe to Cringely's Notes from the Underground newsletter.


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Dave Warren wrote:
> I finally took the plunge and upgraded to 1.2b7 (from b3) running the
> ISO version.
> Things were good for the first 24 hours or so. Starting earlier
> today, the router is rebooting every couple hours (somewhat randomly)
> -- I'm not sure what the exact cause is, one time it was right after I
> opened the CPU graph, but that wasn't the case any of the subsequent
> cases.
> I'm going to toss my b3 CD back in the drive and make sure the problem
> doesn't recur.
> Anyone else? What can I do as far as troubleshooting this?
What kind of hardware are you running this on? The big change between
1.2b3 and 1.2b7 is that 1.2b7 runs on FreeBSD 5.3 as opposed to 4.9 for
the older version. I'm personally running 1.2b7 on 3 different
machines, a PII333, a PII400 and a Celeron 566. Each has 128MB of ram.
One has a flash card, the other 2 are running from hard drives. All 3
are running stable. The PII400 machine has about 60 users behind it,
and a VPN to another office with the PII333 and another 10 users. Both
are on T1s. Considering how stable mine are running, I'd be checking
towards my hardware if I were you.
Let me use this as a time to say to Manuel, thank you for a job well
done. Even your beta is stable enough to carry this kind of load with
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