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I am obsessed w/ reading...
I am obsessed w/ reading...
I'm scarred of heights and scorpions.
Regardless of what I post I don't condone any illegal graffiti, although I stayed at a holiday inn once.
Treating every day like it's the weekend, this is not how i was raised...
I only fuck asian women, and skinny white girls.
I'm scared of HIGH ASS FUCK roller coasters. Not the water roller coasters are ill! I went on the Wildebeest!
I shake everything before i drink it, except water.
Fuck off.
took me like 20 wipes this morning to clean up.... jesus. early morning shits are not my forte.
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wat about all those cunting celebritys who sell millions off books they didn even write based on their vaquas lifes
how about like 60 years ago (give or take) the people where breathing purer air more trees HIGHER conscious more awareness more knowledge.
lakim i dunno but we seem to be on the same wavelength
like i could see us puffin blunts rockin sum beats and get deep into convosaition
I may be drinking a beer or 4
Fact:I'm seriously afraid of the idea of life on other planets.
and the whole idead of bieng abducted.
Seriously,I'm absolutely terrified.
I may be literally addicted to iced tea.
Trying to get into a program.
I haven't written paper in years.
You'd think with all the gum flapping I do here it would come easy.
But it don't.
chick totally wanted my dick last night, she touched it, I came and started farting


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Sohini Sengupta is a public health researcher with over 20 years of experience in HIV/AIDS research. Her other research interests include domestic violence, stigma, research and clinical ethics, and health disparities. As a junior faculty member within the Department of Social Medicine, Dr. Sengupta received a Career (KO1) Development Award in Research Ethics from NIAID that allowed her to explore issues relating to vulnerable populations and informed consent within the context of HIV-related clinical trials. Dr. Sengupta also was a Co-Investigator on three NIH grants to examine: (1) the relationship between stigma and delay in seeking care among TB patients in southern Thailand; (2) strengthening capacity-building of social science researchers working on HIV/AIDS issues in China; and (3) exploring how to increase enrollment of racial/ethnic minorities into AIDS clinical trials in rural communities in North Carolina. Currently, Dr. Sengupta received a year-long, HPDP-funded small grant to develop and pilot tools to evaluate hospital-based domestic violence programs. Dr. Sengupta is a faculty engaged scholar through the Carolina Center for Public Service.
Dr. Sengupta holds a PhD in health behavior and health education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at the University of California, San Francisco. She also completed an ethics fellowship at the UNC Institute for the Arts and Humanities.

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The stock market indices started out the day in sharply lower fashion with a big gap down as the futures were lower before the opening. But they quickly stabilized and then took off. Within the first hour and a half they had reached key resistance at 1810 on the Nasdaq 100 and just under 1070 on the S&P 500, and backed off to form bull flags.
When it was apparent that they weren't going to rollover, they ran sharply higher again, and by mid-afternoon had reached 1828 NDX and 1078 SPX. Another bull flag ensued, and they ran sharply into the close.
Net on the day, the Dow was up 75.53 at 10,229.96, 220 points off the low. The S&P 500 was up 12.23 at 1083.48, 27 points off its low. Nasdaq 100 was a whopping 56 points off its low, up 21.39 at 1840.67.
Advance/declines were better than 4 to 1 positive on the New York Stock Exchange, and up/down volume was about 5 1/2 to 1 positive with total volume of 1.15 billion shares traded. Advance/declines on Nasdaq were about 2 1/2 to 1 positive and up/down volume was just about 3 to 1 positive on total volume of over 1.9 billion.
TheTechTrader.com board, as a result, was mostly higher, except for the ultra-shorts, obviously. Leading the way, Google Inc. (GOOG) advanced 15.41 to 481.59, and Apple Inc. (AAPL) 6.31 to 251.89, closing almost 12 points off its low. A big reversal there ahead of its earnings tonight. Goldman Sachs (GS) jumped 3.23 to 148.91, about 7 1/2 points off its low.
So, there were big reversals in the large-cap market leaders today.
Cree Inc. (CREE) was another point-plus gainer, up 1.71 at 68.61. Large fractional gainers included Acme Packet, Inc. (APKT) up 83 cents at 30.68, more than 2 points off its low today. China Agritech Inc. (CAGC) was up 60 cents at 11.11, China Automotive Systems Inc. (CAAS) 58 cents at 17.48, and China TransInfo Technology Corp. (CTFO) 14 cents at 7.43 in a generally firmer Chinese group today.
In addition, L & L Energy, Inc. (LLEN) gained 66 cents at 10.32, Isilon Systems, Inc. (ISLN) 62 cents at 14.43, IDT Corporation (IDT) 78 cents at 15.62, Cirrus Logic Inc. (CRUS) 66 cents at 18.15, and Power-One Inc. (PWER) 41 cents at 9.23.
RINO International Corporation (RINO) jumped 66 cents at 13.54, and Valassis Communications Inc. (VCI) snapped back 91 cents at 29.47. Trina Solar Ltd. (TSL), our favorite junior solar, rose 62 cents to 23.70.
On the downside, International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) lost 3.24 to 126.55 after reporting earnings, but was well off its low.
The ultra-short ETFs suffered today with the Direxion Daily Emrg Mkts Bear 3X Shares (EDZ) down 2.95 at 39.53, the Direxion Daily Small Cap Bear 3X Shares (TZA) down 2.02 at 36.85, and the iPath S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN (VXX) down 1.36 at 25.17.
Stepping back and reviewing the hourly chart patterns, the indices were down sharply at the opening, then had a strong 5-wave advance throughout the rest of the session that brought them way back into sharply positive territory today, taking out two layers of resistance along the way.
It was an impressive showing for the bulls today, and we'll see if they can follow-through tomorrow.
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This blog has been around for between 15 and 20 years – I can't quite remember when I first started it, but it was before the millennium. It hardly needs saying that the internet has changed since then.
There was a time, long before Google became what it is today, when a list of interesting websites obtained from a friend was a valuable resource – many blogs had carefully curated lists of trusted, relevant and interesting "friend" sites. People would look at these lists and explore them. The number of websites relevant to any given topic has mushroomed, and I rather doubt if even making it a full-time occupation would be enough to keep track. Nowadays you just search for what you are interested in, and under the rule of "buyer beware" try to see how valuable any given search result is.
Although my commitment to practice and study of the Dharma is pretty much the same as ever, I don't, for a variety of reasons, have my "ear to the ground" like I did 20 years ago. So being a "net-savvy" Buddhist is no longer particularly valuable, and I am no more "in the know" than anyone else with access to the internet.
Neither do I see any great value in publishing "musings", reflections or writings here. Other people can do that better.
I am therefore very strongly thinking of closing this blog. If, by some remote chance, anyone thought there was something here that they wanted to take a copy of, you'd perhaps better do it soon. I'm not setting a fixed timetable for this, but the blog may well not last much into 2017.


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A state Juvenile Justice counselor has been charged with having sexual contact with a juvenile client.
Deputy Weber County Attorney Sandra Corp filed the second-degree felony count of custodial sexual relations with a youth receiving state services on Thursday in 2nd District Court, naming Victoria Sherrow, 36, of Roy, as the defendant.
A probable cause statement was not initially included with the filing, and Corp declined to discuss specifics of the case. She did say that while Sherrow has been issued a summons to appear in court, she had not been arrested.
Elizabeth Sollis, a spokeswoman with the Utah Department of Human Services, confirmed Sherrow that had worked as a Juvenile Justice counselor out of the agency's Millcreek office. She was hired in June 2006 and left the agency's employ on Nov. 29, 2011.
That departure date was the day after the alleged sexual incidents purportedly ended. Court documents say the unspecified sexual acts occurred between Aug. 19 and Nov. 28 of 2011. The charges refer to the alleged victim only by initials, and do not identify gender.
The filing documents indicate that the allegations were at least initially investigated by Weber State University police. Officers there were prohibited from discussing the investigation.
Sherrow could not be reached for comment, either, as her telephone is not listed.


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This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
In order to promote the core competitive power for telecom operating enterprises to face market fine operation, this article compares the ECTA mode (Extension Case Transmission Mode) and the LCA mode (Loosen Couple Mode), both of which are promoted by WfMC. By comparing these two modes, the suitable situations for these two modes are determined. We also carry out empirical analysis based on the customization mode of mobile phones between China telecom and mobile phone manufacturers and to expound the ascension effect of mechanism based on the agile telecom loose coupling workflow with positive feedback to the telecom enterprises. Finally, on the basis of positive feedback system, the task complexity and information transparency of LCA mode are improved, so that the semantics of public flow mode is kept unchanged and the sub workflow is optimized when modifying the sub workflow.
Since having broken monopoly and brought competition in, the telecom industry in China has encountered competing stages on price, quality, service and business. In the business competition stage, the issue of operating mode became the focus of the industry, which was a huge transition in the telecom industry. During this transition, the boundary of this industry was gradually blurred and even disappeared. Especially in the next generation of network, telecom operators will completely depend on digital technology. Moreover, the abstractness and newness of digital technology will lead to greater invisibility and more openness so that the organizational boundary will become more blurred and dynamic changes will take place. Especially in cross-organization commercial environment, proper information sharing between providers and consumers determines the success of commercial flow contraction and commercial cooperation based on network [
The cooperated commercial flow management is applied in many commercial fields, such as electronic business, supply chain management, customer relationship management, knowledge management and science cooperation, which are all based on the information technology such as workflow technology and network service [
Although there are correct flow structure and working steps in the integrated commercial flow, if accurate data flow is inadequate, these flows cannot execute commissions synergistically. It is worth noting that the default on data flow can not only happen in working flow inside organization [
The major difference between inter-organizational and inner-organizational workflow is its cross-organizational boundary. Jiang,
(1) Extended Case Transfer Architecture (ECTA)
Under ECTA mode, all business partners have the same flow definition, and different business partners can define local variables according to their own situation when performing their duties, for example, in certain situations, flow may be extended to other tasks that should be completed before transferring case [
Under this mode, although cooperators share the same flow version, it does not mean that every operator can handle all tasks. The case is the information set to transfer information between organizations [
(2) Loosely Coupled Architecture (LCA)
Under LCA mode, the workflow can be divided into several parallel blocks, and each sub-flow is defined locally [
With loosely coupled architecture, the operation nature of LAC lies in guaranteeing the independence of the cooperative partners in executing tasks, but at specific time, isochronisms can ensure correctness in the whole business process [
The evaluation of Workflow management model is typically multiple attribute evaluation and most evaluation indexes are only qualitative statements [
Suppose we need to evaluate a workflow management mode. Let
For each evaluation index
Let vector
When evaluating several workflow management modes at the same time, in order to make comparison of the evaluation results, we can make the fuzzy evaluation results accurate and get a precise evaluation value
The essential difference between ECTA and LCA is their different division of tasks: the former is longitudinal, depending on case to transfer information, while the latter is lateral, relying on protocol to transfer information [
The evaluation results are given according to the 5 points:
The higher the scores are, the higher the support degree of the mode on the evaluation index is.
For ECTA, we invite many experts to grade it and the statistics are as follows: in terms of the collaboration degree, 20% of the people choose four-points, 40% of the people choose three-points and the rest 40% of the people choose two-points which is expressed by the evaluation vector (0, 0.4, 0.4, 0.2, 0). Using the same method, we can get the evaluation vectors for the rest the rest evaluation indexes.
The final evaluation matrix for ECTA is as follows:
Similarly, the final evaluation matrix for LCA is as follows:
The weight vector for the five evaluation indexes is below:
As we can see from the above, the weight vector emphasizes task flexibility, cooperation degree and information transparency, which is consistent with the requirement of Cross-organizational management.
Accordingly, fuzzy comprehensive evaluation results of the two modes respectively are:
And the precise evaluation values g for the two modes are below respectively:
In order to be more intuitive, we refine out of the comparative performance of the two modes in
Comparison on advantages and disadvantages between Extension Case Transmission (ECTA) and Loosen Couple (LCA) modes.
|Comparing item
|Prior cooperative degree
|Cooperative degree while operating
|Complexity of the whole task
|Transparency of information
|Complexity of information
|Smooth feature of task
|Controllability of task
As we can see from
The evolution process of positive feedback is related to the intensity of the status [
The task complexity, information transparency and work controllability are reflected as a kind of operating strategy, which includes that of cooperative partners and core enterprise. One should look for the best strategy to bring operating cost in member enterprise to a reasonable status.
Suppose there is a strategy set of enterprise operation under LCA workflow mode of cooperative business, which is the centralized performance of information exchange, business cooperative method and control method, these strategies are related to the former operating experience and effect.
Suppose there is a cooperative strategy under LCA mode, in which we can put
While at No.
Divide formula (1) by (
Rearrange formula (2) and we can get:
According to the definition of
It equals certainty recurrence process, that is:
In Formula (3),
The pattern of
If this intersecting point is stable, nonlinear Polya process will be constricted to this. This strategy space and the restriction to reduce the operation cost produce positive feedback effect as well as the best reflection on strategy collection of regular permutation and monotone, which is the basis for positive feedback system.
As we can see from the above analysis, virtual enterprise is able to adjust itself on strategy choices according to the evolutionary principle of Polya process and tries its best to constrict itself to fixed point
Illustration of positive coordinative system of LCA mode.
This section is based on the customization mode of mobile phones between China telecom and mobile phone manufacturers and will expound the ascension effect of mechanism based on the agile telecom loose coupling workflow with positive feedback to the telecom enterprises.
In 2008, the Chinese government established the main objective of deepening the reform of telecommunication system: issue three 3G licenses and form three market competition entities that has national network resources, close strength and scale, business management skills and strong competitive abilities. Telecom resource is further allocated and competitive framework is better structured. Based on the status of the telecommunications industry, the government encourages China telecom to purchase the China Unicom CDMA network (including assets and user) to achieve the reforming goal. China Unicom and China Netcom were combined. China Satcom's telecom business merged into China telecom and China Tietong merged into China mobile. Then, the ministry of industry and information issued three 3G mobile phone licenses for China mobile, China telecom and China Unicom. This move marks China's official entrance to the 3G era. Among them, China mobile, China has been approved to own a 3G license based on TD-SCDMA. China Telecom owned CDMA2000-based 3G licenses, and China Unicom owned 3G licenses based on WCDMA technology.
In the mobile communications market, China telecom group bought China Unicom's CDMA network for 110 billion RMB. From this, 66.2 billion is used to buy Unicom CDMA net assets, and 43.8 billion is to purchase CDMA nets business. By December 2008 after reorganization, the users scale of three mobile operators is 457.25 million for China mobile (76%), 113.365 million for China Unicom (19%), and 27.91 million for China telecom (5%) (
Mobile users market share of three telecom operators in China December 2008.
In this context, with reference to the operation experience of Japan's telecom operator KDDI, China telecom and mobile phone manufacturer adopts a loose coupling relationship of cooperation. There are three major contents in the partnership (a) China Telecom acquires customers' demand and determines the content of the service. It also determines matching terminal function according to the content of the service. Then, China Telecom provides the hardware and software configuration requirements to mobile phone manufacturers to form an effective information transfer. Thus, the transparency of the cooperation is improved. (2) Mobile phone manufacturers conduct technology research and develop mobile phones according to the consumer demand. (3) According to the agreement signed before, China Telecom buys according all mobile terminals at a certain price and then uses their sales channels to sell. (4) China Telecom sells mobile phones through stores and markets. At the same time, it launches new mobile phones and business in specific area to increase users' recognition for new mobile phone and business.
In loose coupling mode, how can telecom operators achieve positive feedback mechanism to make quickly sensitive responses to changes in the mobile market demand to form an agile telecom? The positive feedback mechanism can only be made when mobile phone customization loose coupling mode can win cooperation from both sides and be sustainable at the same. The mobile phone manufacturers and China telecom from two aspects.
Because China telecom provides phone customization demand and sells an amount of mobile phones at a certain price in telecom sales channel, the risk of loose coupling cooperation pattern is reduced. Under this situation, mobile phone manufacturers prefer to produce mobile phones because as long as a high-end mobile phone is produced, they can produce mobile phone manufacturer with little change.
China Telecom's mobile phone can be divided into customized machine and the non-customized machine, and all mobile phones are built with double nets double stay way. China Telecom hopes to drive the development of non-customized machine through the customized machine. So, in the early stage, the customization users are almost high-end users. This method can drive the development of low-end users through the high-end users' role function. Secondly, custom high-end machines can also ensure that China Telecom have a certain profit space.
Based on the above two points, loose coupling customization mode broke the deadlock caused by the fact that mobile phone manufacturers do not want to produce CDMA mobile phones. At the same time, mobile phone manufacturers can gain profits through low-end phones while making high-end phones. Therefore, the CDMA phones are becoming more and more various. China Telecom develops users through the promotion whereby users get free phones by paying a communication fee in advance.
This method makes high-end users guide low-end users experience special services, and retain the original number at the same time. This method drives the development of non-customized users through the development of customized users. China Telecom gradually gets rid of China's small market scale and the unreasonable users' structure, and the positive feedback situation is formed (see
In short, the loose coupling model of mobile phone customization can solve the problem of customer needs and market sales of mobile phone manufacturers, and it increases the willingness to produce kinds of customized machine and the non-customized machine. For China Telecom, this cooperation model makes high-end users willing to use telecom service and then forms the demonstration and reputation effect to the low-end users. It helps to guide the user scale and structured development.
Flow chart of mobile phone customization cooperation pattern of China Telecom.
Since China telecom and mobile phone manufacturers form loose coupling cooperation, the internal mechanism is rational and scientific, and its users scale develops very fast. In three years its scale of mobile users grows from 27 million to 100 million from the end of 2008 to 2011, and the growth rate as high as 365% (see
3G customization mobile users' scale of China Telecom from 2008 to 2011.
Market share of mobile users of three major telecom operators in China.
Loose coupling model of mobile phone customization improves the transparency of information between mobile phone manufacturers and operators, and reduce the cost and risk of cell phone maker. The success of loose coupling model makes the traditional cooperation pattern hard to get chance. Along with the improvement of information communication, knowledge sharing between manufacturers and operators, LCA pattern with positive feedback effect has advantage such as flexibility and rapid reaction. So China Telecom has grown from 20 million to 100 million CDMA mobile users.
In short, the loose coupling model of mobile phone customization breaks the deadlock of telecom from mobile phone style, user scale and so on. Moreover, it is quite good to form a positive feedback effect, and thus lead towards sustainable development.
By comparing LCA and ECTA mode, we have shown that LCA has great advantage in terms of cooperation and flexibility of cooperation. However, if compared with ECTA, the combination among organizational members in LCA mode is loose and not tight. Hence, we can conclude that under cooperative business environment where mature cooperation and work mode are relatively stable, it is suitable to adopt ECTA mode, for the information transparency is low at this time and task smooth feature is weak so that they can be adjusted by tacit relationship formed long-term and low requirement on cooperative flexibility. However, under the cooperative environment where product cooperation is strong, work mode life cycle is short and cooperative partners are not fixed, it is more suitable to adopt LCA mode and improve it through positive feedback system.
With the improvement of information exchange ways, the enhancement of knowledge sharing between enterprises, the cooperative business chief's control and coordination towards business operation and the trust relationship established by many cooperations between enterprises, the disadvantages of LAC mode on many aspects in the workflow operation process, such as the task complexity, the transparency of information and deficiency on working controllability, will be improved effectively by the positive feedback effects of the above factors. Therefore, the advantages of LAC mode on flexibility and fast-response will be better exerted, and this mode will become the best workflow design method of cross-organization to support cooperative business platform. In applying positive feedback system to coordinate with LCA mode, enterprises can apply strategies in
The real issue to support cross-organizational workflow is not the simple systematic interconnection but to design new concepts and structural system to promote centralization of enterprise. The ideal cross-organizational workflow managing system should be established on a uniform workflow model and the tightly-coupled cooperative environment of people-centric, which is also the hot spot for the future research on workflow. The cooperative environment supports cross-organizational management, including building relation model among partners and organizations, various organizational workflow definitions based on this uniform model and distributed workflow execution and supervisory coordination. As a kind of information-centralized technology, whether the workflow system of cross-organization can match the centralization has become the major measurement to evaluate its ability. Only by integrating all characters, which includes organizational internal users, external clients, customers and suppliers into the operation of cross-organizational flow through some certain portals, making use of various intercommunicating information of fulfilled application, can the workflow managing system of cross-organization completely realize integral integrated utility.
Coordinative strategy adopted by LCA mode.
|Optimizing methods
|Information transparency
|Make the best of the information technology to complete information exchange ways among enterprises;
|Business controllability
|Emphasize core enterprise's control and coordination towards overall business;
|Task complexity
|The continuous enhancement of the above methods will definitely reduce the task complexity;
|The cooperative cost will be reduced, the cooperative efficiency will be improved, the cooperative opportunity will be increased, and those who disobey the principle will be gradually eliminated by the union.
This work is partly supported by Project 70901009 of National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars and Project 11BGL041 of National Social Science Foundation of China.


text: Hi Tom, I don't know your design specifics. Sometimes people put AC coupling caps in device application notes assuming the signal will go off the board. But if the signal stays on the board, and the dc levels of the signal driver and receiver are met, then the AC coupling cap can be left out; the signals can be connected directly. I have no idea if this is the case for your design, but I have seen similar extra caps in signal paths, so I thought it worth mentioning. good luck with your design, Stephanie si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 03/19/2006 05:12:10 PM: > Hi, > > I have designed a component into my system that does not behave as > advertised. The input capacitance of the part, as I am told by the > manufacturer, is far higher than was listed in the specification. > They now claim that it is around 6 pF instead of 2 pF. This, they > claim, is why driver with an 80 ps rising edge causes > such "excessive ringing" on the input. > > There are no alternative parts on the market that are common mode > compatible with all of the components in the signal chain. Because > of the density of this system, in terms of layout, I need to use > LVDS or CML parts with internal differential terminations (source > and load). Also, I am running at 1.5 Gb/s, so the parts need to have > both high bandwidth and low input capacitance. > > The only other part on the market that might do the job needs to > have a 10 uF AC coupling cap in the signal path and I can not > afford the space in the layout nor the extra AC coupling due to > bandwidth issues (we also need to pass lower BW signals). > > My best option, I feel, is to somehow soften the rising edge of the > signal so as to reduce the ringing on the input to the troublesome > component. > > How best to do this? I have done some spice analysis on a circuit > that is known as the "constant resistance termination". I read about > this at the Dr. Howard Johnson website. I even have the original > book by Bode that describes it (although Bode did not use the same > name for it). One leg of this termination is inductive and one leg > is capacitive. The idea is that overall impedance of the termination > remains constant during the rising/falling edge transition but the > effect is to soften the edges. This works good in Spice. One > resistor is placed in series with the input capacitance of the > device and there is another leg, with an inductor and resistor, > placed from the far end of the resistor to ground. > > However, this involves the use of three extra components for each > leg of the differential pair. It would require 2 resistors and and > inductor, calculated to be in the neighborhood of 7 pH. For a signal > pair this is 6 new components at the receiving end. > > Even if I eliminated one leg of the differential pair for short > distances, layout space is still an issue (3 extra components). For > the constant resistance termination I could use 402 size resistors > but the Inductor is still a problem. > > 1) For the constant resistance termination, how do you all feel > about using spiral wound Inductors in a PCB? I, personally, have no > experience with them. > > 2) What other options are out there for an inductance? I thought of > using a Ferrite chip but their reactance curves are not linear. I > suppose that I could "tune" the design until I got to something > close.... > > 3) Is there an all together differenct aproach that I have not > thought of? > > I would love some input from the group. I am sure that someone out > there has faced similar difficulties. > > Tom > tom_cip_11551@xxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe from si-list: > si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field > > or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: > http://www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list > > For help: > si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field > > List FAQ wiki page is located at: > http://si-list.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Si-List_FAQ > > List technical documents are available at: > http://www.si-list.org > > List archives are viewable at: > http://www.freelists.org/archives/si-list > or at our remote archives: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages > Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: > http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: http://www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List FAQ wiki page is located at: http://si-list.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Si-List_FAQ List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.org List archives are viewable at: http://www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu


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Scotty McCreery & Lauren Alaina: 'American Idol' Couple?
Was she caught up in the moment, or is there more to her affections? The 16-year-old from Rossville, GA, told Entertainment Tonight:
"He might be my boyfriend … ask him."
Oh-la-la! Love "might be" in the air! Wait, what? It appears the young lady may be more media savvy than anyone expected! Without officially confirming the relationship, gossips are left to speculate. Scotty, however, played his part too.
With a giant grin from ear to ear, he said that he's "still single," adding, [We've] gotten really close, but I don't know about the more than friends stuff."
Quit playing, you two! One thing is for sure, the pair is forever linked in AI history — and they'll be spending a lot of time together in the coming months doing promotions and the Idol tour. Scotty may not be able to stick with one lady friend due to all the newfound attention he's getting, so watch out Lauren!
How did AI alums feel about the finale? Peep their reactions over on Idolator!


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Jessica Allen, LCSW, ACT
Cognitive Behavioral Therapist
125 E 23rd Street, New York, New York 10010
Couples therapy is a means of resolving conflict or communication struggles that couples may not have been able to manage as effectively on their own. This type of treatment involves both partners coming in for treatment and discussing the issues in a way that allows for possible change. The aim is to help couples gain a better understanding of themselves, their partner, and the typical issues that arise to help them make changes that can bring them closer together.
Diane Davis, L.C.S.W.
Licensed Psychotherapist
49 West 24th Street, New York, New York 10010
Relationship can bring great joy as well and great challenges. Many problems stem from difficulty communicating with your partner. I can assist you in finding the way to express yourself, as well as the capacity to listen; to find the appropriate boundaries that enable you to feel free while staying connected. Working through conflicts in relationships often not only preserves the relationship, but also empowers each individual to be more confident and open in their own life.
Stephanie Vanden Bos, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
156 Fifth Ave., Suite 1223, New York, New York 10010
Most couples struggle to figure out how to make their relationships work at one time or another. Couples therapy can be an effective means of managing conflicts, deepening intimacy and friendship and making difficult but important decisions in and about your relationship. Each relationship is unique but most can benefit from making improvements in communication, learning more about what each partner needs and from working to most effectively negotiate differences. I have been working towards these goals with couples for over 10 years and would be happy to talk with you about whether I can be helpful to you and your partner.
Rev. Christopher Smith, LCAC, LMHC, LMFT
Helping you find wholeness...
124 East 40th Street, Ste 404, New York, New York 10016
Christopher sees couples (married, re-marriage or otherwise) understanding that close relationships are important in our lives. We are also all human, and at times these relationships do not live up to what we had hoped for. Together, with different techniques and appropriate help, issues can be addressed and the relationship can be continued (or, if desired, terminated) so that everyone has a sense of wholeness and peace within this important dimension of their lives. Christopher will guide your as you explore what is going on and though the journey to wholeness.
Annie Block Pearl, M.S.
185 Madison Avenue, 15th Floor Office #1, New York, New York 10016
I believe that our love relationships are the most powerful mirror to reflect back to us the condition of our psyches. Love provides us with the courage to face our faults, weaknesses and misapprehensions and creates the impetus to change that which stands in the way of our peace, happiness and personal evolution. In my work with couples, together we view the family systems that form each partner and then we envision and create the new system of the couple relationship. Our work together fosters intimacy, communication, empathy, and most importantly, mutual respect. Whatever the outcome, honesty and love are able to flow in the safety of this environment.
Joan Warren, LMFT
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
280 Madison Avenue Suite 208, New York City, New York 10016
I am a relationship expert, trained in Imago Relationship Therapy. In working with couples at all stages of partnership, I focus on: * improving communication * resolving conflict * meeting each others' needs while maintaining individuality * healing wounds and building trust and connection I offer premarital counseling to explore expectations and habits to keep or change, and help established couples maintain romance and intimacy, effectively communicate, address issues of infidelity and other relationship exits. By using proven, beneficial methods we will explore your individual points of view, while strengthening your loving bond, in and out of session.
Jean Fitzpatrick, L.P.
Psychotherapist and Couples Counselor
35 East 35th Street (between Park and Madison), New York, New York 10016
Relationship problems? Learn how to turn conflicts into lasting love. Experienced, caring counseling for couples. I work actively in the session to listen to each partner and to teach more effective communication, based on the most authoritative research. Recovering from an infidelity? New parents wanting to find each other again? Tired of bickering? Marital, premarital, straight, gay. To ask questions about couples counseling or to make an appointment, email or call me and I will respond within 24 hours.
Gerald Schoenewolf, Ph.D.
Licensed Psychoanalyst
207 East 15th Street, New York, New York 10003
Each couple is unhappy in its own way, but the core of the unhappiness is always miscommunication. Generally each member of a couple brings bad communication habits to the relationship and these habits clash. I use an eclectic approach to couples therapy that combines the latest research, utilizing psychoanalysis, role playing, role reversal, video and practice in constructive communication skills. In time, couples learn to communicate in a way that leads to resolution, not conflict.
Michael Picucci, PhD, MAC, SEP
Holistic Psychologist, Author, Focalizer
44 East 12 Street, New York, New York 10003
In working with couples and conflicts, I approach it more as an organic facilitation process rather than traditional therapy. Utilizing new human technologies, we come to understand that there is no right or wrong or good and bad. Yet, there are insidious unconscious dynamics that are powerful and can cause blind spots. Our process together will tease apart these dynamics while working on resolving them, thereby uncovering new fields of possibilities.
Heidi Seifert, LCSW-R, MA
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
85 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10003
The first step is to do a free couple's assessment. In this session we'll get clear on what has been difficult for both of you and how have you have been feeling. We will look at what the most important things that you have not been getting from your relationship. Then we will determine what makes a relationship for you and what would potentially break up a relationship. In closing we will go over what does work about the relationship and I will teach you a method that will help a woman learn to speak to men and for men to know how to speak to a woman.
Philip Kolba, MA
New York, New York 10011
There are countless models of healthy romantic relationships, from monogamous to polyamorous, and unique variations between partners. The scripts for dating and longterm relationships of our parents' generations may not be applicable to your relationship, and there is no formal education in how to be a good partner or how to identify unhealthy relationships. But there is psychological research that shows that effective communication, emotional openness, intimacy, and other factors contribute to healthy relationships. Creating these conditions are skills that can be learned. I practice brief humanistic and emotion-focused therapy (EFT) to help my LGBTQ and hetero clients learn these skills.
Lois Horowitz, Ph.D, LCSW
London Terrace Gardens/ Chelsea/ West 23rd Street, New York, New York 10011
Are you and your partner stuck in an unhealthy power struggle? Do you cycle through the same arguments? Do you point the finger of blame rather than take responsibility for the role you play in an unhealthy dynamic? Let's create a warm and supportive environment to explore the triggers that lead to your dysfunctional attitudes and behaviors. I work with all kinds of couples, married, living together, gay and straight. Please visit my website lhorowitz.com for more information.
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Fall Willeboordse, LCSW-R
244 5th Ave. Suite 9G, New York, New York 10001
Every couple is unique in the way the partners relate, communicate, and approach conflict---or fail to do so. For that reason I treat every couple according to its own very specific issues. If you feel you've been coming up against the same problems with no resolution, or have had a new crisis emerge in your relationship, getting help sooner rather than waiting can often repair and strengthen the relationship. I work short term and am solution-focused.


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It may have been a short week, but, boy, between the Democratic National Convention, smartphone-unveiling-palooza, the NFL season kickoff, and the Kindle-a-thon, it was a busy one! While we get ready for Friday Happy Hour and next week's big Apple announcement(s) (do you have a Golden Ticket?), let's review this week's big tech news:
Twitter released the new, more restrictive version of its API on Wednesday. Here's how restrictive it is: every single API call will now have to be made via telephone.
Facebook's purchase of Instagram became official on Thursday. The Instagram staff will soon move to Facebook headquarters, where they'll work in washed-out, sepia-colored office space with a white border.
On Wednesday Nokia unveiled new versions of their Lumia Windows 8 phones, while later that day Motorola announced new versions of their Droid Razr smartphones. Nobody was more excited about these announcements than smartphone junkies - except possibly Apple's IP lawyers.
Microsoft will allow users of Windows 8 Pro to downgrade their new PCs to Windows 7 or Vista, if they choose. Users choosing to downgrade will be responsible for getting the installation media and, for those choosing Vista, paying to have their heads examined.
This Wednesday marked the 35th anniversary of the launch of the Voyager 1 spacecraft. Voyager 1 is fitted out in classic 1970's style including a computer with only 68kB of memory, an 8-track tape recorder and shag rugs.
Gottfrid Svartholm, co-founder of Swedish file-sharing web site Pirate Bay, was arrested in Cambodia late last week. After being arrested he demanded to see his lawyer and to make a quick visit to Ecuador's embassy.
A new survey of 1,000 Americans found that more than half believed that stormy weather can cause cloud computing problems. They also found that 100% of those people are planning to make iPhone pie this Thanksgiving.
Earlier this week Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer predicted that 400 million Windows 8 phone and tablet devices would be sold. In response, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell ordered Ballmer to undergo a concussion evaluation.
A hacker group released the IDs of 1 million Apple devices this week after they were hacked from an FBI laptop. The FBI denied having such a list, which is hard to believe since the list contains IDs for Apple devices belonging to Jimmy Hoffa.
Amazon on Thursday announced new HD versions of it's Kindle Fire tablet, including one with an 8.9-inch screen. They were originally going to go with a 10-inch screen, but apparently the marketers thought 8.9-inch sounded "sexier".


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Sarkozy: Anti-Semitic motive in Toulouse shooting obvious (TIMES OF ISRAEL) By RAPHAEL AHREN 03/19/12)
Source: http://www.timesofisrael.com/four-gunned-down-at-jewish-school-in-toulouse-sarkozy-mourns-national-tragedy/
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Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, his two sons and another girl gunned down; All four were dual Israeli-French citizens; initial reports point to member of neo-Nazi gang
A rabbi, his two young sons and another young girl were shot and killed at a Jewish school in the French city of Toulouse on Monday morning.
Several more people were injured in the shooting, which police indicated last night might have been carried out by a member of a neo- Nazi gang.
At around 8 a.m., with more than 100 students and other worshippers inside a synagogue adjoining the Ozar Hatorah school, the gunman coolly got off his motorbike. He opened fire at 30-year-old Jonathan Sandler, a rabbi who taught at the school, and his sons, 4-year-old Gabriel and 5-year-old Arieh, while they waited for a bus to a Jewish primary school across town.
As the shots rang out, panicked students darted inside the school grounds and the attacker chased them, witnesses said. At one point, he grabbed the principals 7-year-old daughter, Miriam Monsonego, by her hair, shot her in the head and fled.
Cries of, There are shots! there are shots! rang out in the synagogue, recalled a 29-year-old neighbor who gave only his first name, Baroukh. He said some children took refuge in a basement.
Nicole Yardeni, a local Jewish official who saw security video of the attack, described the shooter as determined, athletic and well- toned. She said he wore a helmet with the visor down.
The gunman was still at large on Monday night. Frances Ambassador in Israel, Christophe Bigot, said the crazy killer may have been involved in two previous fatal shootings.
All of the dead were dual Israeli-French citizens, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said. By 8 p.m., as a dozen police blocked access to the school, cries again echoed from within as community members mourned over the victims bodies before they were to be flown to Israel for burial.
The bodies of the four victims were brought to the school Monday night for a vigil service where thousands of community members and others gathered to recite Psalms.
French President Nicholas Sarkozy, his Prime Minister François Fillon and other senior officials attended a ceremony at Pariss Nazareth Synagogue on Monday evening, reciting Psalms in honor of the victims.
Sarkozy ordered all French schools to observe a moment of silence on Tuesday in memory of the victims of the deadly shooting spree, which he called a national tragedy.
He vowed on Monday night to use all available resources to bring the perpetrators to justice, and said he was utilizing Frances anti- terror mechanisms, raising the national security alert level, and bolstering security at all Jewish and Muslim facilities.
Of course, by attacking children and a teacher who were Jewish, the anti-Semitic motivation appears obvious, Sarkozy said. Regarding our soldiers, we can imagine that racism and murderous madness are in this case linked.
Also Monday night, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned the attack in the strongest possible terms, according to the Agence France Presse. He added that he was saddened by the deaths.
Aryeh Bensemoun, the head of Toulouses Jewish community, said the community was still in shock, Monday night.
We are having a very hard time coming to terms with what happened, he told The Times of Israel by phone. Its a tragedy, its a catastrophe. Its still hard to imagine that someone just came to the school and shot and killed children, he said. But we need to recognize and internalize that this really did happen, otherwise its going to become a nightmare that will never end.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu led international condemnation of the attack. The Palestinian Authority also condemned it as an act of terrorism, and its President Mahmoud Abbas sent a message of condolence to the victims via Sarkozy.
Otzer Hatorah is located in the Jolimont part of the city, in the northeastern section of Toulouse. Ozar Hatorah has a junior high, a high school and a kollel, or yeshiva for married men.
The school was cordoned off Monday by police, who then escorted other children out. One officer held a distraught girl, her face in her hands. A mother and son wearing a yarmulke walked away from the site, their faces visibly pained. A video camera was visible at the schools entrance.
Were very sad, but no one is panicking, said Yves Bounan, the president of Gan Rachi, the primary school the victims attended, a few hours after the shooting. The parents are slowly picking up their children. We dont know yet how to react to this.
The drama occurred a bit before 8 a.m. A man arrived in front of the school on a motorcycle or scooter, prosecutor Michel Valet said, adding that the man got off his scooter outside the school and opened fire.
He shot at everything he had in front of him, children and adults, he said. The children were chased inside the school.
Marc Sztulman, a leader of the Jewish community in Toulouse, confirmed that some students were severely wounded and are still in critical condition.
We are left in disillusion and despair, he told The Times of Israel in a phone interview from Toulouse. We are still in utter shock and disbelief. We dont know what happened exactly. He said he had absolutely no idea who could be behind the shooting.
Sarkozy and Interior Minister Claude Guéant visited the French city shortly after noon.
Its a tragedy. And its a tragedy that there are insane people who are capable of doing such a thing, Sarkozy told French TV. I cant accept this idea that one can massacre Jewish children in front of their school.
Sarkozy visited the school accompanied by Richard Prasquier, the president of CRIF, the umbrella group representing Jewish organizations.
Its a day of national tragedy, Sarkozy said after arriving. The barbarianism, the savagery, the cruelty cannot win. Hate cannot win. The nation is much stronger.
The chief rabbi of France, Gilles Bernheim, told French news channel BFN he was horrified and upset by the shooting. He said he planned to visit the site immediately.
World ORT representative in France Guy Seniak said: This shows that Jewish institutions have to be very cautious and I expect that we will now see a period where security is prioritized. The important thing is to be aware and not to panic. Its an old problem: not to make ourselves live in a ghetto while, at the same time, to ensure we have the best security.
In Jerusalem, Netanyahu condemned the killings and branded them an apparent consequence of murderous anti-Semitism. Defense Minister Ehud Barak said whether it was a terror attack or a hate crime, the loss of life is unacceptable.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry said it was horrified by the shooting. (© 2012 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL 03/19/12)
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Training for Intervention Procedures (TIPS) | Reducing Ottawa Area Drunk Driving (ROADD) Coalition | Legal Consequences for Minors | Talk Sooner | Medication Disposal | Contact | Related Websites
TiPS Training Brochure
Ottawa County offers a low cost alcohol service training called TiPS (Training for Intervention Procedures). TiPS is nationally recognized and suggested by the Michigan Liquor Control Commission. The training prepares retailers and servers to minimize the legal and safety risks associated with alcohol misuse that pose a threat to our community. The course provides information, skills training and practices customized to each establishment. Certification lasts for three years, after completion of the course.
The cost of the training is $20 per person and includes a workbook, all materials and a black light (to help identify fake IDs) for each establishment. To register, contact Becky Young, Health Promotion Supervisor, at (616) 393-5791 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Reducing Ottawa Area Drunk Driving (ROADD) Coalition
ROADD is a community coalition (a part of the OSAP Coalition), which seeks to reduce underage drinking and alcohol involved crashes in Ottawa County by reducing underage access to alcohol, increasing the perception of the consequences of drunk driving and encouraging responsible beverage service practices. For more information contact Becky Young, Health Promotion Supervisor, at (616) 393-5791 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Alcohol-Related Legal Consequences for Minors in Ottawa County
Alcohol-related offenses cause serious consequences for minors as described below:
Minor in Possession (MIP)
Possess, consume, purchase or have any bodily alcohol content.
- First Offense: Misdemeanor
- $100 fine
- Community service
- Substance abuse treatment services
Furnishing to a Minor
- First offense: Misdemeanor
- $1,000 fine, 60 days in jail
- Community service
If resulting in death,
- Felony, 10 years in prison and $5,000 fine
Social Host Law: To knowingly allow possession or consumption of an alcoholic beverage or controlled substance by an underage person.
Social gathering is defined as an assembly of two or more individuals for any purpose, unless all of the individuals attending the assembly are members of the same household or immediate family.
- First Offense: Misdemeanor
- $1,000 fine, 30 days in jail
Fraudulent ID to purchase alcohol
- First Offense: Misdemeanor
- $100 fine, 93 days in jail
OWI (Operating While Intoxicated)
- First Offense: Misdemeanor
- $500 fine, 93 days in jail
- 360 hours community service
- Driver's license suspension
- Six points added to driving record
- Driver Responsibility Fee: $1,000 for 2 years
Zero Tolerance Law
Under the age of 21 and operating with any Bodily Alcohol Content (BAC), means having a BAC of 0.02 to 0.07 or any presence of alcohol in your body other than alcohol that is consumed at a generally recognized religious ceremony.
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Impact on the Future
Having an alcohol fine or conviction could affect acceptance to competitive programs and future job offers in fields such as medicine, health, engineering, veterinary medicine, education, law and the military. Involvement in school activities, college admission, financial aid and scholarships could also be affected.
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Talk Sooner CampaignYouth Substance Abuse Prevention
Ottawa County Youth are using more than just alcohol at the age of 14. Find out how to talk to your kids about drugs and help prevent youth substance abuse.
TALK EARLY. TALK OFTEN. GET THE APP! The Talk Sooner campaign now has an app for iPhone and Android! This app will give you tips and tricks for how to talk to your kids about not using alcohol and other drugs. www.talksooner.org
Becky Young
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For Parents
Alcohol Rehab Guide provides information to alcohol addiction programs and confidential help.
National Council on Alcoholism & Drug Dependence, Inc. provides straightforward information about how to address alcohol issues with your children.
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism provides information, publications and news. Did you know 1 in 4 children will grow up in a home where someone drinks too much? (Also available in Spanish)
National Institute on Drug Abuse provides the "Science of Drug Abuse & Addiction".
Ottawa Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition (OSAP) is a group of community members, human service professionals, businesses, law enforcement, government officials, schools and school personnel who are working together to create change regarding youth substance use.
The Partnership at Drugfree.org is a nonprofit organization dedicated to solving the problem of teen substance abuse. Their website allows parents to connect with each other, tap into expert advice and find support in their role as heroes to their kids.
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Richard Lloyd Parry wrote in yesterday's Independent:
"Sami Ullah was asleep when it happened, and so his friends and neighbours had to tell him about the bomb that struckhis house and what it did to him and his family. How the American planes, which had been over earlier in the evening,had returned after everyone went to bed and how, instead of the Taliban base two miles away, they dropped their bombson a residential area of the town of Tarin Kot.
"Mr. Ullah's injuries are obvious enough even now–deep cuts caused by the collapsing house and the fragment ofsomething in his belly that might be bomb shrapnel. One of his cousins was also pulled alive from the rubble but noone else was. In the 11 hours between the explosion and the moment when he finally regained consciousness, the bodiesof Mr Ullah's wife, his four children, his parents, and five of his brothers and sisters had been lifted from therubble of their home and buried. What do you say to a stranger who tells you he has just lost every member of hisimmediate family? All you can decently do is ask questions.
"When did it happen? On Friday night or early Saturday morning. Where? In a suburb of Tarin Kot, capital of theAfghan province of Oruzgan. And why? But Mr. Ullah, who is not familiar with the phrase "collateral damage" or "justwar" does not have an answer.
"In the 19 days of the bombing campaign, many terrible things have been reported but the scenes at the Al-KhidmatAl-Hajeri hospital, where Mr. Ullah lay last night, are the most pathetic I have seen. In one ward lay a woman namedDery Gul, about 30 years old, with her 10-year-old daughter, Najimu, and a baby named Hameed Ullah. The little girlshave bruised and cut faces; the cheek of the baby is cut neatly in a T shape, as if by a knife. But to understand howlucky they were you only have to look at their mother.
"Her face is half-covered with bandages, her arm wrapped in plaster. "The bomb burned her eyes," says the doctor."The whole right side of her body is burned." The reason Ms. Gul is so battered and her daughters so lightly injured,they say, is because she cradled them."Guest:
- Richard Lloyd Parry, correspondent for The Independent.


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"The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Selections from the Collection of the Ancient Near East Department," MOA Museum of Art, Atami, Japan, The Aiche Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan, 1983.
Mesopotamia, 8000–2000 B.C.
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The club that dropped Tom Rogic off at Sydney Airport a year ago to embark on his foreign foray is hoping to pick him up from the arrivals gate later this month.
Central Coast Mariners will urge Rogic to value game time, rather than potential earnings, when he decides his next move as they hope to secure his signature before A-League rivals Sydney FC and Melbourne Victory do during the January transfer window.
The Socceroos star is exploring offers to return to the A-League in search of more game time before the World Cup. Fairfax Media understands the Mariners' pitch to sign their former playmaker will be built around the promise of a minimum of 18 domestic and continental games at a club that has a system of play tailored to his skill set.
A senior official at the club said the Mariners might struggle to compete with the marquee wages Sydney FC is said to be preparing to offer Rogic, but believed they would present the 21-year-old the best chance to earn a spot in the World Cup squad if fit and in form. Should Rogic join the Mariners next week, he will be eligible to play a minimum of 12 A-League games, six Asian Champions League games, including two matches against Japanese champions Sanfrecce Hiroshima, and up to three more games in the A-League finals series.
At worst, the Mariners' season will finish on April 23 after their final group game of the Asian Champions League and, at best, on May 4 after the A-League grand final before players will be required to join the Socceroos on May 17.
Furthermore, they hope the familiarity of the Gosford club and a system of play built around a creative No.10 will be enough to persuade Rogic to return to where his promising career began.
Mariners coach Phil Moss has had informal discussions with Rogic and it is understood the club is set to make a formal bid to sign him on-loan from Scottish giants Celtic.
Their quiet yet confident hopes are hinged on the fact that rival bidders can offer no such cast-iron guarantees of games.
Melbourne Victory will have to qualify for the Asian Champions League by winning a final play-off game and Sydney FC will take no part in the competition, and their hopes of reaching the A-League finals series are fading.
The Victory will play a one-off qualifier against one of three Asian clubs: Indian team Pune, Vietnamese club Ha Noi and Thai outfit Muangthong United.
Victory must get through that encounter, which will be held at AFL club Geelong's Kardinia Park in February, to guarantee more matches.
Victory, however, is optimistic that it will get over the qualifying hurdle at Geelong.
''There are high expectations from the club, as well as our fans, for us to qualify and, if we are successful, we will take on some of Asia's best teams,'' Victory coach Kevin Muscat said.
''In a World Cup year, we've got several players who are putting their hand up for Socceroos selection, and strong performances in the Champions League, as well as the A-League, will do their chances no harm at all.''
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The Art of Falling In Love
by Mark Baham
About the Book
Makumi is a children's fairy tale based on a true story of love. It's the story of a dragon and a rooster and how they became friends and eventually fell in love. The illustrations in this book are the artworks of the two this story is about.
Features & Details
- Category Children
Standard Portrait, 7.75×9.75 in, 20×25 cm
56 Pages
- Publish Date Feb 17, 2012
- Tags art book, fairy tale, illustration, children, love, folklore, makumi
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The Federation Against Copyright Theft radided more than 750 locations across the country between 16-18 March.
The raids in Munich, Frankfurt am Main, Bremen, Cologne and the Ruhr region follow two years of investigation by the organisation.
The operation is directed against groups believed to have pirated films such as The Return Of The King.
Investigators say they seized 19 servers, 40,000 CD-Rs and DVD-Rs and more than 200 PCs during this week's series of raids.
Around 15 people were detained for questioning in connection with the finds.
Global film industry body the Motion Picture Association welcomed the development.
Vice president Mara MacGreevy said the achievements of the German authorities were "truly outstanding and deal a major blow against piracy in Germany".
"It is also an indication that the authorities are taking the issue of digital piracy very seriously," she added.


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Sheffield Steelers beat Coventry Blaze 7-2 in Challenge Cup Group B
Coventry Blaze saw their 100 per cent record in the Challenge Cup come to an end following a 7-2 defeat to Sheffield.
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Blaze were given a pre-match boost when Benn Olson was cleared to play after his match penalty against Cardiff Devils was rescinded. Jerramie Domish, yet to ice this season, was also back, with Mike Bayrack injured.
Colin Shields put Steelers ahead at 2.49 but Blaze captain Shea Guthrie, with his third goal in as many games, levelled on the powerplay at 18.08.
Shields restored Steelers' lead 32 seconds into the middle season only for Greg Leeb to tie it up at 2-2 with a five-on-three powerplay marker at 30.04.
But powerplay goals from Shawn Limpright (34.54) and Jeff Legue (35.57) handed Steelers a two-goal cushion by the end of the second period.
Blaze replaced goaltender Peter Hirsch with back-up Adam Goss at 51.21 and he was beaten three times by Matt Stephenson (56.32 powerplay), Shields (59.06) and Limpright (59.22).


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The Story of Ellington Memorial Clinic
In 1936, Dr. Joe D. Nichols established and built Ellington Memorial Hospital to serve the medical needs of Atlanta, Texas and the surrounding area. Dr. Nichols was joined by his younger brother, Dr. T.K. Nichols, in 1948. Together the two physicians continued making improvements to the hospital and practiced quailty, compassionate medicine. Babies were delivered, surgeries were performed and office consultations were often complimented by house calls. As the years passed, "Dr. Joe" and "Dr. T.K" strived to always be alert to improvements in medicine. The hospital was continually updated, partners were added, and the staff increased.
In 1972 in cooperation with the community, the physicians saw the opening of Atlanta Memorial Hospital. The day the hospital opened, Ellington Memorial Clinic transferred it patients to Atlanta Memorial Hospital. Ellington Memorial Hospital became Ellington Memorial Clinic.
Today Ellington Memorial Clinic strives to provide the same quailty, compassionate medicine as Dr Joe Nichols did in 1936. We offer a full staff of five family practice doctors, five nurse practitioners, a licensed social worker, and a nurse with a bachelors of nursing certified in Texas Health Steps.


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I'd like to ask if anybody knows of any free video players that is capable of playing quicktime movies (playblast movies) with an overlay effect?
As in, I'd like to compare my current animation take with my previous animation take. Instead of watching them side by side or after one another, I'd like to watch them at the same time, on top of each other/overlaid.
I know there should be some player with this function but I don't know what the name is and if it requires some kind of license? Free is definitely preferable
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Anyone who enjoys selling real estate may also enjoy owning a brokerage. With multiple agents splitting their commissions with you, owning your own brokerage makes it easier to ride out fluctuations in the market, an appealing benefit of brokerage ownership. Of course, as a broker you will also take on supervisory duties that you don't have as an agent, and you will also have to carry the overhead of running an office. But if you enjoy mentoring and have cash-flow management skills, the rewards can be great, psychologically and financially.
1. Save up enough money to cover your startup costs, which will include renting or buying space, office equipment, logo design, an office sign, yard signs, website design, insurance. You also need to set aside enough funds to cover operating expenses for at least three to four months, advises Tom Pleimling, broker-owner of Tom Pleimling Realty in Alexandria, Virginia. Operating expenses will include rent, advertising, dues, online fees, utilities and other miscellaneous items.
2. Learn what broker-licensing requirements are in your state, and obtain your real estate broker's license. In most states you must take a state-approved course, be 21 years old and have practiced real estate as a salesperson for two years.
3. Choose a location for your office. Consider zoning restrictions, visibility and parking for your agents and clients, as well as square footage.
4. Set up a professional-looking website, and employ a service which allows you to display all the listings in the Multiple Listing Service as well as your own. Approximately 80 percent of home shoppers now begin their home search online, according to a Forbes.com article titled "How To Run A Real Estate Brokerage: Technology," which cites a REAL Trends and Harris Interactive survey.
5. Buy errors and omissions insurance. As a broker, you legally take on vicarious liability for the actions of your agents. Errors and omissions insurance will cover you in the event that an unhappy client sues the brokerage.
6. Develop an independent contractor agreement that outlines your expectations of agent behavior and includes provisions for commission splits with individual agents. As independent contractors, you cannot require office time of agents, but you can expect that they will adhere to a code of ethics, and you can also describe your policies on the use of office space and when agents may take unsolicited incoming calls.
7. Equip your office. Essentials will include waiting area and conference room furniture, a reception desk and chair, fax, copier, phone system and at least one office computer. As independent contractors, agents can provide their own individual computers. If you provide desks for agents, you may choose to charge them a desk fee to offset operating costs.
8. Recruit agents. Established agents will have a following that will benefit you. New agents might bring a lot of energy and excitement to your brokerage, but you must carefully train them to ensure that they not make legal mistakes. They may also need sales training.
9. Develop clientèle. Each agent you take in will probably bring some clients. But in addition, advertise your brokerage in newspapers, real estate publications, and on television and radio. Realtor.org also recommends conducting an office open-house, sending direct mail and raising your profile through publicity. Publicity might include sponsoring a charitable function or a Little League baseball team, for example. In addition, consider hiring a search-engine optimization company to boost your website's visibility in the search engines.
Things Needed
- Broker's license
- Office equipment
- Office furniture
- Yard signs
- To maintain your profit margin, consider charging agents an office fee for the use of the copier and fax. Agents can also contribute to the cost of errors and omissions insurance.
- Don't skimp on professional help. Have a lawyer look over all your independent contractor agreement, contracts and addenda..
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Run time 116 minutes.
Not for children.
I generally like time warp movies. To give this one credit, it is ingenious, but entirely too cold-bloodedly violent. Written and directed by Rian Johnson it is set inKansasin the year 2044. The idea is that time travel has been invented but it is illegal and only used by the mob. When the mob wants to get rid of someone they send that person 30 years into the past (to 2044) where a "Looper" dispatches him and dumps his body.
Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a Looper who discovers that one of the people he is required to kill (Bruce Willis) is actually Joe himself (called letting theLooprun). This sends Joe's life into a tailspin, especially when Bruce lets him in on what happens and why he's there.
As I said, this is ingenious, one of the better crafted time warp stories I've seen. But recent movies paint the future as dark and depressing. There seems to be no joy in the future. Joe lives in a mechanized apartment that looks like a slum, even though he's well paid for what he does. Apparently modern film makers don't hold out much hope for the future.
The movie picks up when Emily Blunt appears. She's a mother of a strange son who lives alone on a farm surrounded by corn stalks. While Willis and Gordon-Levitt give fine performances, the one who really makes the movie come alive is Blunt.
Although like most films directed by the writer this runs far too long, there are some interesting dialogues, especially those between Joe now and Joe in the future. Paul Dano makes a short, but effective appearance as a Looper who refuses to let his loop run. The creation of life in 2044, while bleak, does look futuristic but distinctly unappealing.
Pitch Perfect
Run time 113 minutes.
Not for children.
This is a musical that is more annoying than entertaining. Starring Anna Kendrick and Brittany Snow, it's the story of a bunch of freshmen in college, misfits who attend college but devote every waking moment to an a cappella singing contest.
Like Glee, the film encourages sexual promiscuity by making light of it. Since the film is obviously aimed at teenaged girls (it's unlikely anybody older than 15 could be entertained by this), it is irresponsible to show young people having sex willy-nilly without consequences. The way Glee and movies like this wink their collective eyes at teenaged sexual promiscuity is deplorable.
The setup scenes are ludicrous, featuring a campus where the various singing teams hang around the campus as groups, breaking out into song with the least possible provocation. Some of the characters are equally ludicrous. One, in particular, is an Asian girl who speaks with such a low voice that basically all she does is move her lips. I guess this is intended to be funny when it is only irritating. There are a couple of vomiting scenes that are more disgusting than funny.
The movie is supposed to be about singing and music but there are only a couple of production numbers that are worth watching. In fact, the most entertaining song was a short rendition of the Miley Cyrus 2009 hit, "Party in theUSA" (written by Jessie J, Dr. Luke, and Claude Kelley). Alas, it was not only far too short, the way it was presented, the girls singing it on a bus on the way to a performance competition, made no sense.
Brittany Snow's character as the group leader was so over-the-top, it led the list of annoyances, although Kendrick's character and performance weren't far behind. Those deficiencies should properly be laid at the feet of director Jason Moore, though, than blaming the two actresses. It's hard to believe, at least it is for me, but this is based on a book by Mickey Rapkin. A whole book on this? There isn't enough story here to make a half hour sitcom. How could somebody write a whole book on this? Can you spell "flimsy premise?"
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Richard Lowenberg
Cache-Putah Bioregion
"Bioregionalism" had been a part of my thought and practice for some time. Extending this ecological sense of place to include the 'information environment' has been a long term context for my creative art works. To my delight, I applied for and was selected as a UC Davis Artist in Bioregional Residence for 2000. The project provoked me to drive, bicycle, hike and walk around this area, from Clear Lake to The Sacramento River, from the Capay Valley to Lake Berryessa, from Boggs Mountain to the Putah Sink, and around my own back yard.
During the year, using a small 35mm camera, I extensively photographed every colorful aspect and detail of the bioregion I encountered: landscapes, plants, clouds, water, people, livestock, signs, fields, gravestones, the moon, trees, fire, cracked mud, vehicles, fences, birds, buildings, trains, insects, chairs, garbage, and archeological relics. Inspired by printed poetry, I eventually decided on the resulting format; a series of vertical visual poems created with overlayed photographic images. Color and black and white reprographic copies and enlargements were made from my original small photographic prints. These images were than arranged, cut and pasted in 'variations on a theme' of five vertical images within images. Additional collage and hand coloring accented each piece. Twenty four original "Visual Poems" were ultimately composed.
Upon completion, I decided to produce a limited edition set of these works for exhibition and sale. The relatively new Iris (archival quality, digital ink jet) printing technology seemed the appropriate way for me to do this. Six of the original 24 panels were selected and exquisitely reproduced by dear, long time friends, Richard and Noah Lang (and crew) at Trillium Graphics.
I hope that the intended simple beauty of these pieces inspires viewers to more deeply explore their own creative sense of place.
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Firetrucks provide a water arch for the Frontier Airlines jet Wednesday, June 15, 2005, its first day of nonstop service between Akron-Canton Airport and Denver. (Akron Beacon Journal / Paul Tople)
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Wishes Design Solomon Seal Bracelet Judaica Gift by Mizze
Standard Women Size 7″, Standard Men Size 8″
Wishes amulet - is believed to help fulfill one's most secret wishes
The Solomon Seals symbolize a harmony of opposites, whose significance is manifold as much as it is multicultural. It reflects the cosmic order, the skies, the movement of the stars in their spheres, and the perpetual flow between heaven and earth, between the elements of air and fire.
Combining various geometric, astrologic and combinations of Hebrew, Greek, Latin and Arabic phrases, these symbols emphasize the harmony of both heavenly and earthly domains, and are used to assist people in their personal lives.


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The Lodi Art Center held its 50th Art Annual at Woodbridge Winery on March 20 and 21. Here are the winners.
Best in Show: Crazy Legs, a metal sculpture by Jarrod Mays
3-D: Squished by Samuel Bassett and Pepe Pool, first place; Spring Vessel by Cliff Johnson, second place; Water's Law by Mira Woodworth, Spur Clock by Mike Vukovish and Blue Dream by Joel Blum, all honorable mentions.
Acrylics: Northern California Coast by Bob DeMent, first place; Cruising the VA Hospital, Livermore by Vincent Walsh, second place; Last Light by Henrietta Sparkman, Hubble Fix by Mary Lois Thompson, Camarque Barn by William Hamblin and Hot Spot by Rochelle Tietze, all honorable mentions.
Graphics: Glenda by Don Hall, first place; Master and Servant by Ken Woodworth, second place; Geometry by Patti Kennedy, Bixby Bridge II by Katherine Stutz Taylor, Eternal Bliss by Aura Skugariene and Inked Up by Ken Woodworth, all honorable mentions.
Mixed media: Around the corner by William Hamblin, first place; Space Time by Mary Louis Thompson, second place; Springtime Banquet by Gretchen Ryan, Eclipse by Sandra Warddrip, Lost Colony by Mira Woodworth and Chinese Opera Masks by Gretchen Ryan, all honorable mentions.
Oils: San Francisco Dusk by Marilyn Eger, first place; Goldolas by Marilyn Eger, second place; Ernie by Leland Choy, Folsom Moonlight by Loretta Armstrong, Wave II by Kara Schmidt and The Fire Fighters by Eliseo Contreras, all honorable mentions.
Pastels: Shadow Life II by C.J. Myers, first place; Summertime at Knight's Ferry by Janet Hardie, second place; Cynthia by C.J. Myers, Two Guys Camping by Sue Cannistraci and Quiet Moment by Tina Moore, all honorable mentions.
Photography: Onion Fields by Michael Randolph, first place; Pentimento Cafe by Sydney Thompson, second place; Stop the Violins by Anthony Toth-Fejel, Encore in Solitude by Glenda McBride, Garden of Eden by Anna Barber and Lighthouse by Michael Randolph, all honorable mentions.
Water media: Monterey by Edwin Haas, first place; Flowering Quince by Jeannie Vodden, second place; Musee d' Orsay by Sharon Galligan, Crusin' by Patti Wallace, Reeds and Waterlillies by Karen Baugh and La Routa Treno by Sharon Galligan, all honorable mentions.
Best Golden Jubilee Theme Entry: Yosemite's Golden Jubilee by Kara Schmidt
People Choice Award: Dubrovik Croatia photography by Cindy Voorhies


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Europa League: USA's Maurice Edu helps Rangers advance
British sides Liverpool and Rangers grabbed late goals to sneak into the last 16 of the Europa League on Thursday, while Villarreal eliminated Napoli to end Italian representation in the competition.
Liverpool, which has won Europe's second-tier cup competition three times, required an 86th-minute header by Netherlands forward Dirk Kuyt to beat Sparta Prague 1-0 in their last-32 second leg and progress by the same scoreline on aggregate.
United States midfielder Maurice Edu's close-range finish in injury time earned Rangers a 2-2 draw at Sporting Lisbon, with the Scottish champions going through on away goals after the first leg finished 1-1 at Ibrox.
Rangers will next play Dutch league leader PSV Eindhoven, which defeated Lille 3-1 to advance 5-3 on aggregate.
Italy striker Giuseppe Rossi scored the winner for Villarreal in its 2-1 second-leg victory over Napoli, with the Spanish club going through by the same score.
Other leading sides to advance on Thursday were Manchester City, Ajax, Zenit St. Petersburg and Bayer Leverkusen. FC Porto and CSKA Moscow qualified for the last 16 earlier this week.
Kuyt glanced home an inswinging corner from Raul Meireles, sparing Liverpool the need for extra time at Anfield.
"It took us a while to score but 1-0 is enough to go through so we're happy with that," Kuyt said. "It was a hard game and we should have finished it off earlier, but at the end of the day a win is all that counts."
Liverpool, which will play Braga in the second knockout round, dominated the second leg but could not find a way past goalkeeper Jaromir Blazek until Kuyt's late strike.
Yannick Djalo's goal seven minutes from time put Sporting 3-2 ahead on aggregate in its entertaining match against Rangers.
Substitute David Healy, though, slid in a cross that Edu couldn't fail to finish off from one meter out, allowing the the 2008 finalists to progress.
"There wasn't much between the teams in the second half at all," Rangers manager Walter Smith said. "With the circumstances of getting the goal, we are pleased to progress."
Second-half goals from Balazs Dzsudzsak, Jeremain Lens and Marcelo put PSV through at the expense of French league leader Lille, which took a 3-2 aggregate lead when Pierre-Alain Frau opened the scoring in the 22nd minute.
After a goalless first leg between Villarreal and Napoli, the Italian side went ahead after 22 minutes of the return match when Marek Hamsik headed underneath goalkeeper Diego Lopez. Napoli's fans spilled onto the field at El Madrigal Stadium when a barrier collapsed in the ensuing celebrations.
Borja Valero set up Nilmar's equalizer for Villarreal in the 43rd before feeding Rossi for the winner in the second minute of first-half added time.
Bosnia striker Edin Dzeko scored twice and midfielder Yaya Toure added a third as emerging English giant Man City eased past Aris 3-0 in the second leg and on aggregate.
"I am very happy, it's the first time I have scored two goals in one game for Manchester City," said Dzeko, who has netted four in total since joining the big-spending northwest club from Wolfsburg in the January transfer window.
Dynamo Kiev was next for City after the Ukrainian side breezed to an impressive 8-1 win over Besiktas over the two legs.
Serbia forward Miralem Sulejmani grabbed a brace for Dutch club Ajax — a four-time European champion — in its 2-0 victory over Anderlecht, sealing a 5-0 win overall. Ajax next plays Spartak Moscow, which went through at the expense of Basel.
Zenit, which beat Rangers in the 2008 final in Manchester, rallied from a two-goal aggregate deficit to eliminate Swiss side Young Boys 4-3 and stay on course for a second Europa League title in four years.
Ammar Jemal put the visitors 3-1 up in the two-leg series but Danko Lazovic and Sergei Semak scored on either side of the break and Roman Shirokov added a third in the 76th to ease the Russian side through.
Simon Rolfes and Michael Ballack scored second-half goals for German side Leverkusen in a 2-0 win over Metalist Kharkiv that completed a 6-0 aggregate win.
FC Twente, Paris Saint-Germain and Benfica also went through to the last 16 on Thursday.
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Located in the South Bay area of Greater Los Angeles, El Porto is part of Manhattan Beach. It can be found between Dockweiler and Manhattan Beach, and is protected as part of California's state parks system. Its boundary to the north is 45th Street, bordering El Segundo, and runs south to 38th Street. It gets its name from the Spanish and Portuguese languages and is loosely translated as "The Port". Beside surfing, the beach itself offers several other amenities, including metered parking, volleyball courts, and roller skate/bicycle rentals for use along the adjacent bike trail.
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Queer Women's Identity Collective - Potluck Meeting
Friday Feb 22, 2013
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Join us for the second QWIC meeting of the semester this Friday at 6:30pm. Come with or without a dish to share at our potluck meeting.
Macalester's Queer Women's Identity Collective is a space for self-identified queer women to celebrate our identities, discuss issues, and strive for mutual empowerment.
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