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All my photos that are all the products for sale where taken on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska. Kenai Alaska cook inlet and Kachemak Bay. Homer Alaska, Homer Alaska Spit, Russian River at Coppers Landing, and may other ares of the peninsula. April 2010 and May 2011. May 2011 I saw a lot of Golden Eagles all over the peninsula. I hope you love the pictures and products as much as I loved taking the pictures.


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What Makes a Leader Great?
Great leadership to me is not about being perfect or never making a mistake. It's about relating, understanding, and accepting others well enough that it makes them better. When people sense their leader is doing something motivated by personal gains, they start to question the leader's integrity. A leader should be wise, kind, ambitious, and a voice of the people he/she leads.
What is Your Leadership Style?
I am highly competitive; I want to win fairly because I dislike hollow victories and asterisks. I like to strategize; I like to outsmart, outthink, and think outside the box to accomplish my goals. I use kindness; comfort, encouragement, understanding and acceptance do wonders for how people trust you and view you as a leader. I see the potential of things; a vision of the end result. I like to make sure everyone sees it too if I'm in charge.
What Inspires You to Lead Others?
People have their insecurities, which is a powerful deterrent from giving the world their talents and potential. I lead people because some people need to be encouraged to be the best they can be. I am inspired to lead because I'm already confident I can do a great job.
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About Primrose Cottage
Primrose Cottage, such a quaint name that is both deceptive and at the same time revealing, has enchanted visitors with its presence in charming Historic Roswell since 1839. Nestled on the edge of a stately front lawn, much of the three-story home and ballroom are hidden from view. Primrose Cottage reveals its secrets slowly in a manner that leads to a quest of discovery. From the upper veranda, a bird's eye view compels visitors down the stairs for a one on one encounter with the garden below. Once inside the glass enclosed Overlook Ballroom, guests get a commanding view of the captivating forest that is the source of serenity and calmness. Primrose Cottage and garden have grown as one with the land, each nurturing the other until it is impossible to separate the two.
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Magic Moments owns and operates five award-winning special event venues: Flint Hill and The Atrium in Norcross, Primrose Cottage in Roswell, Little Gardens in Lawrenceville and our newest addition, Cloverleaf Farm just outside of Athens. A Divine Event, a division of Magic Moments, supplies all the event services for these premier properties including catering, floral design, decor and event planning.


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ALVA, Okla. – After 50 hits between Northwestern Oklahoma State and Oklahoma Christian on Saturday, the Eagles of Oklahoma Christian swept the Rangers in doubleheader action at Myers Stadium in Alva, 12-1 and 15-12.
In game one, Oklahoma Christian struck first with a solo home run from its third batter, but Northwestern's Juan Natal knotted the ball game at 1-1 as he deposited the first pitch he saw over the right centerfield fence.
The Eagles added two more runs with a two-run home run in the third inning and added six runs in the fourth inning to hold a 9-1 lead. OC tacked on three more runs in the sixth inning to force the 12-1 run-rule.
Ben Dorman (1-6) took the loss, pitching 3.1 innings. He was relieved by Garry Thomas, who threw 2.1 innings and Zac Floyd, pitching an out.
Northwestern had seven hits and gave up 15 to the Eagles. Michael Ciombor and Quinton Haynes picked up two hits, while Valdez hit his 10th double of the season and Natal's home run was his sixth of the year.
The Rangers had 11 hits in the second game, while OC scored 12 runs through the third, fourth and fifth innings.
Northwestern jumped out to a 7-0 lead after the first inning, but found itself down 13-12 after five innings. The Eagles crossed the plate twice in the seventh inning to end the scoring and advance to the 15-12 win.
Wade Schwerdtfeger went 3-for-3 with two runs batted in, while Joe Cervantes, Haynes and Ciombor all had two-hit games.
Jordan Flittie (0-1) took the loss in 1.1 innings of relief of Mario Carrasco, who lasted 3.1 innings as a starter. Josh Swain threw 1.1 innings and Danny Santiago closed out the seventh.
Northwestern (21-15, 6-13) will head to Sterling, Kan. to take on Sterling College on Monday, Apr. 1 at 1 p.m. in a nine inning game.
MISSION STATEMENT: Northwestern Oklahoma State University provides quality educational and cultural opportunities to learners with diverse needs by cultivating ethical leadership and service, critical thinking and fiscal responsibility.


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A new study shows that there may be a link between taking birth control pills and developing glaucoma later in life.
International Business Times reports that the research was conducted by surveying 3,406 women over the age of 40 and those who used pills for three or more years had a 205% higher chance of being diagnosed with the illness. Researcher Elaine Wang believes that birth control could lead to the eye disease because of how the pills affect hormones. This assumption would only be true if a link is found between hormone levels and glaucoma.
The study was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Ophtalmology held in New Orleans on Monday.


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Plans are now moving through the bureaucratic pipeline to allow the Wal-Mart store on Highway 93 to buy out its closest neighbor, the Missoula Southern Baptist Church, re-zone the two-acre parcel to a "neighborhood commercial" designation (the same designation used for a corner bakery or pizza parlor), tear down the existing structure and add some 97,000 square feet of supermarket and 300 more parking spaces to an area already supersaturated with supermarkets.
If the plan is approved by City Council on August 14, the expanded Wal-Mart will come in addition to the 200,000 plus square-foot Wal-Mart Superstore slated for construction at Mullan Road and Reserve Street less than five miles away. In corporate parlance, this is the process of the "unquestioned ubiquity" of the world's largest retailer, whose annual sales revenues exceed the Gross Domestic Product of Israel, Greece, Ireland and Egypt.
Plans for Wal-Mart's expansion were spelled out on July 18 during a marathon session of the Missoula Consolidated Planning Board, which ran from 7:30 p.m. until midnight. Much of the discussion centered around assuaging the particular concerns of Wal-Mart's immediate neighbors about trucks and trash compactors, landscaping buffers, sidewalk improvements, traffic snarls, the persistent nuisance of overnight RV camping in Wal-Mart's parking lot, and the like.
The meeting also focused on 16 "conditions of approval" spelled out by the Office of Planning and Grants (OPG), which include the widening, reconstruction and street lighting of Miller Creek Road, the addition of an ADA-compliant Mountain Line bus stop, a bike path through the property, and other reconfigurations and redesigns.
The meeting featured its share of expansion proponents. Among them was Webb Harrington, a Linda Vista resident and the principal of nearby Cold Springs Elementary School. Harrington commended Wal-Mart for its ongoing business partnership with Cold Springs School, providing the school not only with monetary donations but also classroom volunteers, as well as an outdoor classroom area for students.
"They have been a good neighbor for our school and our neighborhood and have been willing to work with us on almost any point," Webb says.
Similarly, Pete Hathaway, director of vocational services at Opportunity Resources offered his support for the expansion, saying that Wal-Mart has been a good employer of people with disabilities.
"Wal-Mart has donated thousands [of dollars] to Opportunity Resource—clothing, furniture, cleaning supplies—and we have distributed those items to people we provide services to, many of whom are economically disadvantaged," says Hathaway. "We think that Wal-Mart is a good asset to our community and we support their expansion."
However, not everyone in attendance was as enthralled with the expansion idea. Nikolai Cocergine challenged the notion that this expansion qualifies as a "neighborhood commercial use," since Wal-Mart draws from at least a 50- to 75-mile radius.
"This [store] is going to draw from the entire Bitterroot area," says Cocergine. "If they think that traffic is going to be kept at a minimum, I think that's absurd."
Cocergine's comments highlight a section of the OPG's findings of fact, which states, "Although the traffic study shows that the expanded store will generate additional total trips to this destination, the end result should be a net reduction in the number of total vehicle trips in the community due to the provision of multiple shopping services at one location."
This raises an interesting question as to what role OPG, the Planning Board and City Council can—or should—play in evaluating the broader economic ramifications of a zoning change. Although OPG does not typically ask for a marketing study or economic impact survey from its applicants, such a practice was once required for some new shopping centers, such as Southgate Mall.
As Jeff Stevens, a member of the South 39th Street Neighborhood Council notes, there are already six supermarkets within a five-minute drive of Wal-Mart, which means that if the expansion does not induce additional traffic from the Bitterroot, then it must take business away from existing supermarkets.
"One of the things that's going to be a big problem with this particular proposed expansion is that you're going to be pitting unionized, well-paid, health-benefited workers against little-better-than minimum-wage, non-benefited, part-time workers, which would be a very sad thing for the economy of Missoula," says neighborhood activist Judy Smith. "This severe negative impact on existing stores, many of them Main Street mom and pops, has earned Wal-Mart a reputation for killing small downtowns."
As Smith notes, several studies have shown that for every two jobs created by a new Wal-Mart, three are lost, most of which tend to be higher wage or locally owned positions. In fact, San Francisco's city council was so concerned about the loss of business to its downtown (and predominantly locally owned) businesses, which were losing an estimate $11-24 million annually to box stores, that it imposed a moratorium on their construction.
As for what can "be done" about the expansion of Wal-Mart in Missoula (as I've been asked about recently), one provision of the zoning law considers whether the proposed zoning "promotes the health and general welfare" of the community. Whether City Council will interpret those words to include retail redundancy, the exportation of dollars and jobs and the homogenization of the Missoula landscape is anyone's guess.
However, it should be noted that with three property owners within 150 feet of Wal-Mart having submitted "letters of concern" about the expansion, approval of Wal-Mart's zoning change will require a two-thirds majority of City Council.


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Vasant Kunj case: locals heard her scream but didn't have courage to help
Residents of Vasant Kunj used to hear her scream but could do little to help her. The domestic helps who used to work in the area tried to talk to her too but she was too scared to speak.delhi Updated: Oct 02, 2013 00:26 IST
Residents of Vasant Kunj used to hear her scream but could do little to help her. The domestic helps who used to work in the area tried to talk to her too but she was too scared to speak.
Finally, it was an RWA member who mustered courage and informed the NGO, Shakti Vahini, about the suspected abuse of a domestic help at flat number 1178 of Pocket B of Sector A in Vasant Kunj.
The NGO members said they cried when they first saw the girl's condition.
"We had to wait for four hours to gain entry to the house. The girl has three-inch deep wounds on her head. The injuries on her body were beyond description," said a member of the NGO.
Neighbours claimed her employer, Vandana Dhir, who has been arrested, used to shout at them whenever they tried to intervene. "People were scared of talking to her. She was very rude," said Amit Aggarwal, a resident of the area.
"My domestic help used to tell me that Dhir's domestic help was not allowed to go outside and they used to hear her scream time and again. The domestic helps of the area were even planning to rescue her," said Achla Bhandari, a neighbour.
Representatives from the social welfare department of the Delhi government, National Commission for Protection of Child Rights and the labour department visited the girl and assured her of all possible support.
Due to confusion over her age, the police have requested for a bone ossification test to confirm if the rescued domestic help is a minor.
Sources said Dhir hired the girl through a placement agency at Kotla Mubarakpur. She was in Delhi for the past three years and earlier used to work at Lajpat Nagar.


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I don't watch the network evening news shows. Really. But for whatever perverse reason, I decided to flip among ABC, NBC and CBS tonight, and hit some morally relativistic pay dirt. CBS Evening News equated attempted murder with the exercise of basic First Amendment freedoms.
Readers here are familiar with the incident in which the Iranian Mohammed Reza Taheri, with the reportedly admitted intent of avenging the mistreatment of Muslims, drove an SUV into a crowd on the campus of the University of North Carolina.
Introducing a segment on the incident, CBS stated: "It is the second skirmish over religion on campus in a few weeks."
Really? "Second" skirmish? And just what was the other "skirmish"? Turns out, according to CBS, it was the the fact that the Daily Tar Heel, the UNC campus newspaper, recently "published its own controversial cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed, touching off protests."
So, as per CBS News, attempted murder and exercise of freedom of the press are just two equatable "skirmishes." Check.
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In announcing the award, Dr. W. Lance Haworth, director of the Office of Integrative Activities at NSF said, "I am delighted to announce this award from NSF to accelerate research and education and to expand collaborations among the constellation of South Carolina colleges and universities represented here today. This five-year award combines world class science with expertise from medicine to engineering to computer science to mathematics to journalism."
The University of South Carolina's Columbia campus will receive approximately $5 million to enhance its emerging biomedical research program. The award will fund the hiring of nine new faculty in biomathematics and bioengineering and the establishment of laboratories to support their research.
"This award has the potential to significantly advance scientific research in the Palmetto State and improve the lives of people here and around the nation," said university President Harris Pastides, "The University of South Carolina will use this award to attract top scientists who will develop research programs that will lead to discovery and impact the economic development of our state and nation."
The university's Beaufort campus will use the award to enhance its research infrastructure and expand research opportunities in computational science.
USCB Chancellor Jane T. Upshaw said. "Our computational science undergraduate degree program will place USCB students on the cutting edge of sciences and mathematics for the future. Our students, our faculty, our region and the state will be the beneficiary."


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The American Lung Association Health House program is training Native American housing directors, environmental professionals and public health professionals how to build new homes and remediate existing homes on tribal lands according to the stringent Health House builder guidelines, recognized as some of the industry's toughest and best for health indoor air quality, energy efficiency and sustainability.
Why? In part because the Indian Nations are located in some of the most unforgiving terrains in the United States, hot and dry, cold and wet, remote and isolated, the housing there has often proved to be sub-standard. After only a few years, whole housing projects are demolished and rebuilt, only to be demolished again, at owners, tribe and taxpayers expense.
The initiative, made possible by a grant from the National Environmental Protection Agency, aims to break this wasteful and unhealthy cycle by passing on the considerable knowledge we have acquired on building healthier homes at the lowest possible cost. This is the same knowledge and technology used to build Jackson Street Village in the North End neighborhood of Saint Paul, a low-income family community that has been cited as a model by Gov. Tim Pawlenty and other legislative leaders as a model of how Minnesota can solve its own problems with low income-housing.


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1The burglar who got stuck in the vents
2The 18 people who got stuck upside down on a roller coaster
Strong winds brought a roller coaster to a halt at the top of its loop at a fun park in Anhui, province in east China, leaving 18 people hanging upside down for about half an hour with six of them falling ill. All the six persons were sent to a hospital and were discharged later.
The equipment was in good condition and the weather was suitable when the coaster began its journey but a sudden gust halted it, which was then locked to the loop by safety devices, with the passengers hanging upside down. Zhang Shengying, Deputy Director of the Wuhu Municipal Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision, said investigation showed that the accident had been caused by "extreme weather" at the amusement park. (Source | Via)
3The man whose wheelchair got stuck to a truck and got a 4-mile ride
Carpenter had started to cross at an intersection in Paw Paw, about 140 miles west of Detroit. The light changed to green while his son was in front of a semi, which started moving. The wheelchair's handles became lodged in the grille, the father said, and the wild ride started.
Motorists called police on their cell phones, and a pair of undercover police officers who happened to be nearby saw what was happening. They pulled the truck over and told the disbelieving driver, Donald Carpenter said. The chair was undamaged except for losing most of the rubber on its wheels. (Source)
4The man who got stuck in mud for 4 hours because he was too embarrassed to call for help
It then took emergency services a further seven hours to actually get him free. Their task was made more difficult due to further embarrassment on Xiao's part – despite the fact that a crew of firemen all stripped down to their underwear to help in the rescue, he refused to undo his own trousers so that he could be more easily pulled free from the mud. (Source | Via)
5The man who got stuck in a toilet trying to retrieve his cell phone
After 10 minutes of work, the man was able to slowly remove his cut and bruised arm from the bowl and retrieve his waterlogged phone. (Source | Via)
6The prisoner who got stuck in bars while trying to escape
7The daredevil who got stuck 610 ft up in the air with his motorcycle
The wire, strung between the 43rd floors of the Tossal de La Cala and the Gran Hotel Bali, unfortunately proved too much for Danger to complete on his first attempt. After coming within feet of his target, Danger shuddered to a halt, before he and his assistant - suspended on a frame below the bike to act as ballast - were towed to safety. Danger eventually succeeded on his second attempt. (Source | Via)
8The boy who got stuck inside an arcade machine
And when his mother Elaine took the three-year-old to the games on the family's holiday in Skegness, he just wanted to get his hands on the winnings. For a while, he had been playing happily on the crane machine, trying to pick up a teddy bear with its mechanical arm. But he wasn't having any success. And as Mrs Air went to change a £20 note so he could try again, Christopher took matters into his own hands. Rather like a scene in the film Toy Story, he spotted the flap on the machine, from where the prizes are delivered, and squeezed inside. But it proved more difficult to get out than in - especially as the arcade owner couldn't locate the keys. Mrs Air, 33, of Grangetown, Sunderland, added: 'Initially, Christopher was laughing. But then a crowd started to gather and he got upset and started crying.' After 30 minutes, he was released - and is sure to have learned his lesson. (Source)
9The grandmother who got trapped in her own bathroom for 3 weeks
10The French woman who got stuck in an elevator for 3 days
The following day the missing woman's father, who had told police of her disappearance, filed a complaint of non-assistance to a person in danger - a crime in France. Despite this, it was not until 3 days later, when a technician returned to complete repair work, that a soft cry was heard and the woman was found. It is apparently unclear why Safiatou did not cry out for help earlier. (Source)


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TEWKESBURY will step back in time this Easter to offer a variety of vintage themed activities for all of the family.
There will be a leisurely vintage trail which can be enjoyed on foot or by car, a Vintage Fair complete with pop up tearoom and for the style conscious, a vintage fashion show.
Visitors are invited to discover Tewkesbury's vintage and antiques trail, a gentle circular walk, to find hidden gems as well as quirky finds, treasurers and collectables available in the town's antique shops and independent boutiques.
There's an optional leaflet which can be picked up from the Tourist Information Centre at no cost with a suggested route, which also marks out the town's main attractions including the ancient Abbey, and all three town centre museums are all en route.
The highlight of the weekend is the Vintage Fair being held on Saturday in the George Watson Hall.
With more than 20 stalls packed with vintage clothing, accessories and jewellery plus gifts for the home the fair is sure to satisfy even the most avid vintage fan.
Cream teas and homemade cake will be offer from the pop up vintage tearoom decorated with bunting and flags.
The vintage fashion show starts at 2 pm with a catwalk to showcase authentic clothing from a bygone era as well as replica vintage clothing and accessories.
Hairdresser Nigel Humphryson, proprietor of high street hair salon, Rage, will be running vintage hair styling demonstrations so fans can pick up top tips for perfect pin ups as well as essential skills to replicate glamorous vintage waves at home.
Live musical entertainment is being provided by the beautiful vintage belle, Betsy Harmony, singing all of your old time favourites from the big band sounds through to the swinging 60's.
A free leaflet is available to pick up from the Tourist Information Centre or for details visit VisitTewkesbury.info.


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Classifying manifolds and spaces similar to manifolds up to homeomorphism is a major goal of topology.
For lines and surfaces this classification is available.
It can be described very reliably using pictures on paper.
A lot of work in three-dimensional and even higher-dimensional topology is
also very pictorial.
A potentially more powerful approach is by using functors from
algebraic topology such as the fundamental group or homology.
Unfortunately, most of the known functors cannot distinguish between homotopy
equivalent spaces.
The general purpose of topological surgery theory
is to address this point.
Suppose it is known that the two manifolds are homotopy equivalent,
what can be done to further distinguish between them?
The procedure is very constructive:
try to manipulate one manifold into the other via special operations
through several stages while watching out for obstructions to doing that.
The potential obstructions are themselves organized into groups.
Now if the appropriate group can be shown to be trivial,
there is no obstruction to surgery.
If the group is not trivial, there is still hope since the actual obstructions
in the group might be trivial but that kind of treatment usually
requires agressive intervention with an experienced surgeon at hand.
The rigidity conjecture is about a class of manifolds which should never
require surgery.
They are the closed aspherical manifolds, that is, compact manifolds without
boundary whose universal cover is contractible.
Whether two such manifolds are homotopy equivalent can be detected already
by comparing the fundamental groups.
Topological Rigidity a.k.a. Borel Conjecture.
If two closed aspherical manifolds are homotopy equivalent
then they are, in fact, homeomorphic.
This is true for lines and surfacesall of them are aspherical except for
the sphere and the projective plane.
For higher-dimensional manifolds this conjecture is actually stronger
than the celebrated Poincare conjecture which states that any
closed manifold homotopy equivalent to a sphere must be homeomorphic to the
There are many examples of aspherical manifolds such as
closed nonpositively curved Riemannian manifolds,
nilmanifolds and solvmanifolds,
Davis' manifolds not covered by Euclidean spaces,
asphericalizations of arbitrary closed manifolds a la Gromov.
Many more important examples of aspherical manifolds come with boundary
or with corners such as compactified arithmetic quotients of symmetric
spaces, and there are relative rigidity conjectures for such manifolds.
There are more refined versions of the Novikov and Borel conjectures
stated in R. Kirby's List of Problems in Low-dimensional Topology,
in Geometric Topology (W.H. Kazez, ed.), Studies in Adv. Math., Vol.2,
Part 2, AMS (1997), pp. 355-358.
This refers to the very last problem 5.29, one of several which are
This 380 page list is available in PostScript from
Kirby's web page at Berkeley.
Here is the PDF file of the relevant pages 278-281.
For a brief discussion of topology of manifolds which is the context for
the conjectures, including more refined statements, see Shmuel Weinberger's
review [Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 33 (1996), pp. 93-99]
of the book by Andrew Ranicki, Algebraic L-theory and topological manifolds,
Cambridge Tracts in Math., Vol. 102, Cambridge Univ. Press (1992).
The review is available
on-line from AMS.
Here is the link to the search of the AMS Math Reviews database for
Novikov conjecture.
The search for
Borel conjecture
returns an amusing mixture of topology and set theory.
A very useful resource are the two volumes of proceedings on
"Novikov conjectures, index theorems and rigidity"
including papers from the conference held at the Mathematisches
Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Oberwolfach,
September 6-10, 1993.
Edited by Steven C. Ferry, Andrew Ranicki and Jonathan Rosenberg.
London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series, 226-227.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995.
Links to the contents:
Vol. 1 and
Vol. 2.
Another good survey is by S. Weinberger, Aspects of the Novikov Conjecture, Contemp. Math. 105 (1990), 281-297.
The recent book by F.T. Farrell, Surgical methods in rigidity,
Tata Institute lecture notes (1998), is very readable and gets to recent
results in just 60 pages.
Links? The only other web page I know which is directly related to NC is the
Novikov Conjecture Home Page of Jonathan Rosenberg. One might expect the address www.novikov.com to lead to the mystical "primal Novikov site"; disappointingly, the site is in fact the home page of a Moscow based design studio. It is pretty cool in its own way though. And a telltale sign of the coming ubiquity of real-life applications of the two conjectures is www.borel.com. It inappropriately touts "flexibility" betraying the idea behind their success.


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Philipe Lins made quick work of Austen Heidlage in the main event of Bellator 121 on Friday night in Thackerville, Okla., winning by first-round submission as part of the opening round of the light-heavyweight tournament
Lins (9-0) used a rear-naked choke, forcing Heidlage (7-1) to tap out 2:45 into the opening round.
The victory sends Lins into the tournament semifinals.
"Even when you're on the ground, you use your body weight when you're holding (each other)," Lins was quoted on MMAjunkie.com. "It's a big advantage."
In the co-main event, James Thompson (20-14) made his Bellator debut a successful one.
The English heavyweight ran his fight winning streak to five after defeating Eric Prindle (8-6) by first-round stoppage 1:55 into the match.
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Floyd Mayweather Takes Back T.I. Shade
TMZ Sports reports that Floyd Mayweather told them that he said "he thinks I f*** his b***." The press conference video that was leaked over the weekend sounds like he's saying "I f*** his b***."
What do you think of Floyd now, is he back peddling his comments?
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Champagne chef wins coveted three Michelin stars
A chef from France's Champagne region whose restaurant offers 600 of the sparkling wines was admitted Monday into the exclusive club of establishments with three Michelin stars.
Arnaud Lallement, of the family-run L'Assiette Champenoise near Reims -- where house specialities include roasted Brittany langoustines -- received a standing ovation from his fellow three-star chefs at a ceremony in Paris.
The chef was the only new addition to the top ranking in this year's France Michelin Guide, gastronomy's bible and restaurant-reviewing institution, which praised Lallement for his use of "ingredients of exceptional quality" and "recipes full of character".
Lallement, 39, told AFP that his first reaction on hearing he had been awarded a third star was to think of his father, Jean-Pierre, who died at the age of 50 in 2002.
His father opened a restaurant near Reims in the Champagne heartland of northeastern France in 1975 before moving in 1987 to the table now run by his son at Tinqueux, also near Reims.
Lallement trained under his father before going to work with chefs Roger Verge, Michel Guerard and Alain Chapel, rejoining his father in 1997.
Today, the restaurant is still very much a family affair with his wife working in the eatery and his mother and sister in a hotel that is also part of the family business.
And in a tribute to his father, blue lobster is never off the menu. The dish was one of his father's signatures and Lallement likes to reinterpret it regularly.
Michael Ellis, director of international guides for Michelin, said this year's selection was also notable for the number of young chefs included.
In the one-star category, young chefs were particularly well represented with seven under the age of 30 alone, he said.
Ellis attributed the increase in younger chefs to more opportunities for them to set up on their own without taking huge financial risks.
"Young chefs now are able to find smaller structures, they are able to go out and find a place that might have 20 or 25 covers," he said.
"They are able to get started with just maybe one other person and to progress themselves and their cuisine very rapidly and gain a following."
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Ellis said smaller restaurants also represented a way of eating that particularly appealed to young people and that the trend was pushing standards up.
"It's bringing the level of food up generally," he said.
"There are people out there who want to eat well and these young chefs generally speaking have very good value for money.
"So it's creating a great dynamic on the gastronomic scene because it's giving people a chance to go out and eat well for not a lot of money," he said.
The world's best-known food guide, Michelin has also been dogged by controversy with critics acusing it of promoting overly-complex, labour-intensive cuisine that is unsustainable for many restaurants, and costly for diners.
It has also been accused of favouring big-name chefs like Alain Ducasse or Joel Robuchon, whose global restaurant empires have notched up stars across Michelin's different editions.
Michelin's France 2014 edition lists just 27 establishments with three stars, 10 of which are in Paris.
Some 79 restaurants have two stars, including six new ones, and 504 have one star, 57 of which are new.
According to Michelin, restaurants are selected on four criteria, namely "the quality of the produce, the expertise of the chef, the originality of the dishes and consistency throughout the meal and across the seasons".
Of those included in the guide, 115 starred restaurants could offer a meal for 30 euros ($41) or less, it said.


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When the idea of a comic book reviews magazine popped into Joel Meadows' head, he thought it would be a good way of exercising his passion and hobby.
But 21 years later, Tripwire has grown from a publication of just 200 hand-made copies to an annual release that sells more than 6,000 editions worldwide.
And on the anniversary of its creation, Hendon-based Joel is looking to put together a commemorative annual for fans of the now-glossy magazine he still puts together in his living room.
The 40-year-old needs to raise £10,000 and is running a Kickstarter campaign online, which fans can log on to and contribute some cash in exchange for classic editions of the magazine.
Joel, of Sunningfield Crescent, said: "I want to be looking forward as well as back and this will hopefully give the readers a chance to contribute.
"It has given me a lot of satisfaction over the last 21 years. I have built up a lot of friendships over the decades and I still enjoy it."
Joel has interviewed big names from the comic book world, including Batman: The Dark Knight writer Frank Miller and Guillermo Del Toro, perhaps most commonly known for directing the film Pan's Labyrinth.
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written debating the role of BPM in SOA some concluding that they should be considered separately. One could say the same thing about event driven architecture and complex event processing as well - how do these technologies play with SOA? There are also arguments about SOA software solutions referred to as so called "SOA software stack" - for example some argue that the ESB is a SOA anti-pattern and that the major vendor delivered SOA software stacks are too complex.
The first thing to keep in mind while addressing these arguments is that SOA is not an application, SOA is architecture. SOA itself does not solve business problems, services have to be designed to support applications, which is really what the business cares about. To create a user application takes a lot of technology - infrastructure, a user interface, state management, control logic and so on. There are many choices about how to build the system around your services, but most of the components of the solution are not going to be service oriented. A service is an interface with a great deal of complexity abstracted - legacy systems, packages, and components.
To generalize and say a SOA stack is too complex or an ESB is not needed is to trivialize the complexities of the problems we face in the vast diversity of corporate IT. Keep in mind that most IT organizations are not in the business of writing net new applications; therefore they cannot start SOA top-down with a clean slate. For the most part, IT maintains legacy systems and customizes packaged applications. SOA for integration is a predominate pattern in such organizations where the role of BPM is to provide more flexible automated business process out of a heterogeneous mess. Once these services are orchestrated together they can become extremely high-value to the business by eliminating costly latency in what were individual silo'ed applications. To say that ESBs or BPM are not a part of any good SOA implementation is to short sell what can be huge potential payoff solutions. The beauty of standards based SOA is that many technologies can be brought together to create a service oriented composite application.
Common standards and best practices for event processing such as canonical data objects, publish-subscribe messaging, complex event processing and event modeling have been around for years and can be a part of an overall SOA solution. Without business events driving automated business processes SOA is nothing more than IT plumbing that will bring little to no value to the business. It also hurts IT's reputation by delivering self serving solutions.
A set of services, no matter how well conceived, is not an application. BPM is a very good tool that can be used to automated human tasks and orchestrate services to create a composite application. You could do this with JAVA, but it is much easier and flexible to model business processes than to hard code them. BPM tools now can consume as well a produce services in a standards based execution model. BPM is a technology that not only coordinates business processes, including orchestration of services, but can also measure and help optimize the overall process, monitor KPIs, assign task to user pools, notify and escalate tasks and most importantly for SOA, consume services and produce courser grained services. Organizations can gain a lot of functionally out-of-the-box that can radically change business processes. Contrary to what many say about SOA ROI, it is not unusual for one innovative, high-value business process to pay for all the SOA software you will need for the entire SOA migration. I've seen this in several of the implementations delivered by my team.
Part of the confusion around BPM is from a purest viewpoint that SOA can only be created from a top-down view. While I promote a top-down strategic approach to SOA, it is possible and sometimes necessary to restrict your view to a particular business domain or set of business processes. And, it is possible to build well designed services and follow best practices in the context of a business domain.
When looking for candidates services you don't "start with BPM" but you should care about business processes. Business processes that should be strategic but are poorly supported by inflexible systems are great places look for high value services. It does little good to decompose business functions for non-strategic business domains or for business domains where systems investments cannot be justified. Looking at business processes can help determine where to start the SOA migration. You start with high-value processes that need systems investment.
You clearly should not create a service for each business process step defined in a BPM tool. Many of these steps will not even have a system interface nor be supported by any underlying system. Many BPM steps are just tracking human interactions. The steps in a business process do not have a strong correlation to candidate services. However, events within a business process do have a strong correlation to candidate services. Something has to record state changes in the business processes and that is typically associated with a system and system interface.
You must consider multiple views (top-down, middle-out and bottom up) to realize SOA. The top-down view is strategic, the bottom-up view is the reality of the existing IT assets, and the middle-out is the key business processes that need flexibility and innovation. A pure top-down view without considering the value of business processes, how to improve or better yet innovate processes will not lead you to quick ROI. In fact, a top-down view often cannot be realized in a reasonable timeframe. For example, a top-down view might envision a set of services that are hard-coded in a legacy system or packaged application that is best left for last in the SOA migration.
You must not only consider multiple views of SOA, but also consider events across multiple business processes to expose reusable services and the opportunity to correlate cross-process events using tools such as complex event processing. You can model business process, events, service and the underlying connectivity (also candidate fine-grain services) to legacy and packaged systems in one high level diagram to show the interrelationships.
SOA is complex and every IT organization will have a different approach in terms of technology, people and processes. Generalizations about approach and technology bias are more harmful than the technology itself.
As Chief Technologist and National Practice Director for SOA with Perficient, Inc., I get the opportunity to work with a lot of customers implementing SOA and transformational architectures such as cloud computing. See my
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Awesome job of summarizing these debates. I have written several times that there is no "one approach fits all" answer to this debate. In my last post I mentioned some of the many factors that help define which approach to take
I have been reading all the experts views on this topic but this is by far the best explanation.
Thanks Eric.
Eric Roch
Aug 7, 2007
Thanks Mike,
I am plenty of time on the plane yesterday to think about the topic.
Aug 7, 2007
Thank you! This is a refreshing breath of honest fresh air, in contrast to the ongoing marketing hype that has taken over discussion of SOA.
The dilemma I see in this is that few organizations seem to be really committed to working with Business Processes, even if they say they are - and of course most organizations aren't that far along. (One scary quote from an IT manager: "Our customers don't even know what business processes *are*")
I know that a full top-down, extensive business process review is nearly impossible for any organization - but if IT is asked to "take care of" figuring out the business processes while they are assembling small scale SOA pilots, how can we possibly hope to properly implement SOA on a large scale?
I have found case studies very helpful in learning some of the options in "muddling through" this catch-22, but there haven't been many. Any of these you can share from your practice would be most appreciated...
Eric Roch
Aug 7, 2007
Glad you liked the post…
I do get push back from some companies on a top down study, although we have done quite a few. Where I get push back I try to look for shorter term payback and quick wins. It is usually not hard to find broken business processes that have big paybacks. I ask a lot of questions and an outside view often helps.
Also SOA for integration often has quick paybacks. When a company makes a big application software purchase then it is easy to make a business case for SOA to do the integration of the application. We have worked with lots of SOA roll outs for example.
Some business processes that I have worked on recently that had short term paybacks include:
For a brokerage using BPM and services to automate front office (broker-client) and back office paperwork and compliance this also used document management versus paper
For retailers several cases of improving supply chain management with real-time integration POS, warehouse management and ERP (materials management and purchasing)
One retailer had supplier backorder problems and we automated a business process to check stock from multiple vendors and business rules for ordering and allocating stock to stores, this in evolved B2B, BPM and internal integration. Also business rules around store stock transfers.
For a wireless telco we created a set of common services for ordering and provision services that worked across their call center, external web site and partner interactions
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West Shamokin, Ford City boys volleyball teams strive for same goal
The challenges are different for West Shamokin's and Ford City's boys volleyball teams, but both hope to raise the level of their program in 2014.
The Wolves are coming off a third-place finish in Section 2-AA, with only a few returning faces in the lineup. Their section rival, the Sabers, hope growing interest in the team will make them a playoff contender this season and in years to come.
West Shamokin graduated nine seniors, a large number for any Class AA program. Second-year coach Scott Craig is working to rebuild his lineup, but he admits there are things he has to learn about so many new players.
"I'm the kind of coach that always wants more, but I've had to learn to become a little more patient," Craig said. "Last year, the team was mostly kids that I'd had for four years here and as an assistant at Elderton. It was definitely easier to coach that group, but the kids have surprised me with how quickly they've picked some things up."
Craig has a limited cast of returning players. Outside hitters Chris Schenk and Ryan Dean earned letters last season. Middle hitter Brendon Glover is also back for the Wolves after missing last season with an injury.
Adding to the Wolves' mix are setter/right side Adam Crise, libero D.J. Hough and right side Brady Cornman.
"We have a couple first-year guys who have really stepped up and played well for only having three weeks of experience," Craig said. "I think this group is starting to jell."
Ford City also has a limited number of returning players, but the overall number is a positive step for the Sabers.
Casey Cousins is in his second year as coach of the Sabers after moving from Elderton, and the start of his second season has been much smoother.
"I'm a lot more optimistic than I was last year," Cousins said. "Last March, we had to worry about the possibility of folding the program because of not getting enough players. This year, we have some experience back, and we have plenty of players to have a JV and varsity team."
Most of Ford City's experience comes in the form of their middle hitters, Andrew Burkett and Josh Barnett. Dakota Fickes also returns after primarily playing outside hitter last season, but this season he'll be splitting time between the outside and as one of the team's setters in Cousins' 6-2 attack.
"Those guys kind of anchor what we do, but our lineup changed a lot last year, so most of the guys have experience," Cousins said. "We started competing better in the second half of last year. We still lost most of the matches 3-0, but our guys would start winning more points and blocking the big hitters for other teams. They're moving in the right direction."
Both teams face the challenge of Section 2-AA's powerhouse programs, Derry and Deer Lakes. Behind those two lies an opening. West Shamokin, Ford City and Summit Academy will jockey for third and fourth, with one of the playoff teams from last year, St. Joseph, dropping from the section.
"Derry and Deer Lakes have ruled this section forever," Craig said. "They're the top two, and I see us working to come in third place. That has seemed to be our spot the last couple of years."
Matt Grubba is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com or via Twitter @Grubba_Trib.


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RESIDENTS are being told to expect low-flying military helicopters to continue until later in the week.
Many residents were woken by the sound of Apache Attack helicopters flying above the town in the early hours of this morning.
An Army spokesman confirmed the Apaches, based at RAF Wattisham, are in training before being deployed to Afghanistan and will be flying in the area until Thursday.
He added: "All military low flying is conducted in accordance with the Military Aviation Authority's UK Low Flying Handbook.
"Every effort is made to minimise disruption to the local community by using open areas and crews are briefed to avoid built-up areas where possible.
"The Attack Helicopter Force has been on continuous operations in Afghanistan since 2006 and to deliver this commitment, we have to conduct demanding training within our local low flying area."


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Bethesda has unveiled the collector's edition for their upcoming role-playing game, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The limited collector's edition will be available for the 360, PC, and PS3, and can be pre-ordered now at select retailers.
The $149.99 package includes, in addition to a copy of the game, a 12″ statue of Alduin the World Eater from IP Factory; a 200-page, full-color official art book, The Art of Skyrim, with a forward by game director Todd Howard and commentary from various Bethesda artists; and lastly, The Making of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim DVD, which includes behind-the-scenes footage and interviews discussing not only Skyrim but also the legacy of the Elder Scrolls franchise.
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A consolidation of polling places in the county apparently resulted in quite a bit of confusion Tuesday among voters who were trying to cast ballots in the runoff elections for both political parties.
In one case, voters in boxes 1-A and 1 were directed to go to "City Hall, 125 South Davis," which is the old city hall building. Instead, some voters were going to the new city hall on Davis at Connally streets to vote and were mistakenly told to go to the Public Library, where early voting was conducted.
Voting in the runoff elections for both the Republican and Democratic parties ends at 7 p.m. today.
The list of consolidated polling places, published on Hopkins County Clerk's website are:
n Voting boxes 1A - City Hall and 1-Lutheran Church vote in the City Municipal Building [old City Hall], 125 South Davis St.
n Voting boxes 2-VFW, 2A-Senior Citizens Building and 8-Reilly Springs vote at VFW Women's Building, 1 Veterans Drive.
n Voting boxes 3-New Beginnings Church, 3A-Grace Family, 5-Saltillo, 12-Sulphur Bluff, 23-Weaver and 24-Dike vote at New Beginnings Church, 155 North Jackson St.
n Voting boxes 4A-League Street Church of Christ, 4-Professional Ag Workers Building, 11-Cumby, 17-North Hopkins ISD and 20-Ridgeway vote at League Street Church of Christ.
n Voting boxes 13-Como and 14 Pickton vote at Como Community Center, 200 Gaskins St. in Como.
n Voting boxes 16-Miller Grove and 25-Brashear vote at Miller Grove Community Center.
n Voting Box 36-Arbala vote at Arbala Community Center.
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NEA Big Read is a national program that offers grants to support organizations in developing community-wide programs which encourage reading and participation by diverse audiences.Learn More
Are you in need reading recommendations or discusion questions? Check out our online library with accompanying resources for each book.Learn More
See and read more about how the NEA Big Read grant has positively impacted one grantee community.Learn More
Learn more about the overall impact of the NEA Big Read in this video featuring the National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu.Learn More
Organizations of all types are participating in the NEA Big Read in communities as diverse as Enterprise in rural Oregon and Staten Island in New York.Learn More
In this contemporary western novel, three men work a construction job out in the Idaho Rocky Mountains to build a motorcycle ramp over a gorge for an Evel Knievel-like publicity stunt. Read more
A Native American boy on the Ojibwa reservation in North Dakota seeks justice for an attack on his mother in this coming-of-age mystery novel about tribal jurisdiction that helped spark the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. Read more
Poetry about nature, spirituality, violence, reservation life, and Native American culture and mythology, including poems from She Had Some Horses, make up this collection from Oklahoma Muscogee (Creek) Nation writer and musician Joy Harjo. Read more
An influential book in China, Yu Hua's epic novel To Live tells the story of a spoiled son of a rich landlord who transforms into a kind-hearted peasant as he and his family endure the ravages of war and starvation. Read more
Targeting both adult and YA audiences, Kelly Link's humorous fantasy short story collection has teenagers confronting angst and awkwardness amidst ghosts, monsters, aliens, wizards and even stranger beings. Read more
In this post-apocalyptic novel about the power of art and relationships, a violent prophet threatens a band of traveling actors after a devastating flu pandemic wipes out civilization as we know it. Read more
The oldest daughter of a Chinese American, biracial couple in 1970s small-town Ohio is found drowned in a lake, leaving her family to solve the mystery of her death and grapple with buried secrets. Read more
Combining poetry, commentary, visual art, quotations, slogans, and film scripts, Claudia Rankine's Citizen lays bare moments of racism that can surface in everyday encounters, in sports, and in the media. Read more
A Midwestern preacher in 1950s Iowa nearing his death writes a letter to his son about religion, faith, beauty, his abolitionist grandfather and pacifist father, and his love for life. Read more
A mother and son travel out west to Washington state where a young Tobias Wolff endures the bullying of an abusive stepfather in this 1950s coming-of-age memoir. Read more
A memoir written by a Hmong-American with national distribution, The Latehomecomer is a first-hand account of the journey many Hmong families made from the jungles of Laos during the Vietnam War to a crowded refugee camp in Thailand to a life in public housing in St. Paul, Minnesota. Read more
Kevin Young's poetry of grief and loss, and then renewal and joy, chronicles the day-to-day experiences of two profound events: the death of his father and the birth of his son. Read more
Alejandro Zambra is part of a generation shielded from reality by parents who were victims of, or accomplices to, brutal human rights violations in Chile under the Pinochet dictatorship, which he explores in his novella about a young boy and the writer who's writing the boy's story. Read more


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T'nalak Festival 2012 Blog Writing Contest
Title: An Open Letter to South Cotabato
Submitted by: Grace Nidoy from Columbio, Sultan Kudarat
"Dear South Cotabato,
There are so many things I wanted to tell you before we ended our four year relationship. Ours was not a conventional run-of-the-mill kind of story so you can imagine how painful it was for me when I left. But rest assured that I did not write this letter to destroy your reputation. I wrote this as a celebration of my undying love for you.
Let me run down some things that I've always wanted to say.
- I thank you for teaching me how to speak Ilonggo. Sure, there are many Ilonggo speaking locals in my hometown but it was you who made me realize that it is a romantic language I'd rather use than French and Spanish. My friends are always fond of hearing me speak your language when I try to express the malambing side of me..." [read the whole entry..]
"The T'nalak Festival 2012 Blog Writing Contest, is made possible with the support of our sponsors: Hon. Governor Arthur Y. Pingoy, Jr and the province of South Cotabato, Sun Cellular - get two days of unlimited text to all networks for only ₱15 with SUN TEXTALL15, Dole Philippines, Representative Teddy Casiño & Bayan Muna Party-List, KCC Malls, SouthCotabato.Org and South Cotabato News."


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Fraud report. 2:34 p.m. 0 block of Falabella Drive.
Suspicious person in vehicle. 9:34 a.m. 0 block of Half Moon Trail.
Court order violation. 10:27 p.m. 0 block of Cerner Court.
Disturbance. 8:39 p.m. 0 block of Main Street. The caller and the roommate were in a verbal argument.
Fraud report. 6:32 p.m. 0 block of Elmhurst Street.
Assist outside agency. 10:48 a.m. 0 block of Tarleton Lane. A caller wanted a welfare check on a 6-year-old and a 3-year-old because the mother had not let the children visit their father since they had been ill.
Shots heard-no suspect information. 7:15 a.m. 0 block of St Mays Road. A woman said she heard a gunshot from the right side of the location.
Traffic hazard. 8:31 p.m. Antonio Parkway and O'Neill Drive. A dog was running around in traffic.
Shots heard-no suspect information. 8:02 p.m. 0 block of Smoke Tree Drive. A daughter heard a gunshot coming from close by in the direction of the front of the house. She said it sounded like a shotgun because she heard it being racked. She said the neighbor also heard something.
Disturbance. 6:56 p.m. 0 block of Platinum Circle. A woman reported that her neighbor came to her house, forced her way in and was verbally abusive.
Disturbance. 6:30 p.m. Crown Valley Parkway and Sienna Parkway. A caller said someone was flying a remote controlled plane, lit up with led lights, over Crown Valley Parkway.
Suspicious person in vehicle. 2:37 p.m. 0 block of Flintridge Avenue. A woman said a man with a computer in a white Prius had followed her home.
Disturbance. 1:23 a.m. 0 block of Main Street. The desk requested a welfare check on a confused sounding woman who kept saying she was not OK but didn't need help. The woman said she had problems breathing and that her dog was sick.
Disturbance-music or party. 10:33 p.m. 0 block of Downing Street.
Vandalism report. 9:58 p.m. 27700 block of Crown Valley Parkway.
Petty theft. 4:27 p.m. 27700 block of Antonio Parkway.
Burglary alarm-audible. 5:03 p.m. 25600 block of Crown Valley Parkway.
Disturbance-music or party. 11:39 p.m. 0 block of Mercantile Way. A caller reported a loud party with underage drinking.
Suspicious person/circumstances. 4:45 p.m. 0 block of Galaxy Isle. A woman said she heard someone in her house who said hello and came in. But she said no one should be inside. The woman locked herself in the bathroom with her son.
This blotter was compiled for the Register by Marie Ekberg Padilla from the Orange County's Sheriff's Department website. The outcome of calls often differs from what was initially reported. For more crime news, go to ocregister.com/crime.


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Home / how-tos / Software / Windows / Upgrading or flashing your dead or active nokia mobile phone via USB
WARNING: Phone flashing is a double-edged sword; it may be useful and dangerous at the same time. It may brick/damage your phone for good (if not done carefully), so please DO NOT flash your device if you don't know what the hell flashing a phone means.
In this post I will explain the use of Phoenix (Nokia service software) to flash a Nokia (Symbian) mobile (taking Nokia N8 as an example). Flashing means re-installing phones firmware (Operating system) files. There are many situations when it becomes necessary to flash a mobile deletion/corruption of system files, phone is dead/bricked or any other method to format the phone is not working etc. Besides, flashing can also be used to update to latest (or any available) firmware or to flash a custom/cooked firmware.
Have you ever wondered that whenever your phone is dead or it giving a white screen and switches OFF.At that time you want to get your mobile phone to a service center and spend money on it for repairing.Instead of that RevealedTricks4U will help you.
So if you have any of the above issue, here goes the process, carefully follow the instructions given below as such:
First up, note down your phones Software/firmware version (find by pressing *#0000# at standby screen, not applicable if the phone is dead), product code (on the sticker under battery in the form of 0XXXXXX) and type (look at the sticker under the battery, it is in the form of RM-xxx). Product code and type of N8 are not under battery, you can find them at the stickers on the box.
1. Download and install latest version of Phoenix Service Software (2011) in your Windows PC from www.4shared.com or elsewhere (search Google)
2. Download latest version of Navifirm from here. Navifirm is a free software, used to download official firmware files from Nokia servers
3. Run Navifirm and wait until it loads the Products list (Phone model names/types). A fast internet connection is recommended
4. Find your phone model in the list and select it (For example, select RM-596 for Nokia N8)
5. Wait for a while until Navifirm loads Releases/firmware version list in the adjacent pane. Select the desired release – the software version must be the latest one or the one that is already installed in your phone, remember do not select the release/SW version that is older than the one your device already have. If you do not know which firmware version is installed in your phone (like in case the phone is not in working condition) then it is recommended to select the latest version (usually the last one in the list) to be on the safer side.
6. Wait until Navifirm loads "Variants" in the next adjacent pane (Variants are Product codes of the phone – you can find yours at the sticker usually below battery or at the package box). Search and select yours from the list and wait until Navifirm shows firmware files in the last pane.
7. Check all the boxes (in the last pane), choose the save to/download location and click "Download" button. After download is complete, go to the download folder and copy all the files.
8. Now go to "C:/Program Files/Nokia/Phoenix/Products" and create a new folder in the last folder ("Products") of the above path and name it RM-xxx (which is your phone type code that you noted earlier, replace "xxx" with your phones actual code numbers, for example it will be RM-596 for N8). Now paste the downloaded files (copied in the Step 7 above) to the newly created folder "C:/Program Files/Nokia/Phoenix/Products/RM-xxx″. Phoenix will look for the files in the above folder when flashing the phone.
9. Launch "Phoenix" in PC and connect your mobile via Data/USB cable in PC Suite/Nokia Suite mode. In Phoenix, Go to "File/Scan Product", Phoenix will detect the phone. Now select "Flashing/Firmware Update"
10. At the firmware update window, Phoenix will automatically look up and find the official firmware files earlier downloaded via Navifirm. However if it doesn't find the files then -
a. Check that the directory "C:/Program Files/Nokia/Phoenix/Products/RM-xxx" exists, (create if it does not and place the firmware files into it – Step 8 above)
b. Check that the above path is present in all the three boxes in "Tools/Options/Product Location" (in Phoenix), set it if it does not and repeat steps 9 onwards.
If everything upto step 10 goes successful, click "Refurbish" button, ignore all the warning boxes that appear during the process. Wait for the process to complete – DO NOT touch or disconnect the phone or USB cable during the process. Phoenix will inform you of successful completion of the process, when it does, disconnect and reboot the phone. Thank God that everything went well….hopefully….best of luck
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Slim Looking Snooki Sports Cleavage at the Palms for New Year's Eve (PHOTOS)
Snooki look?!How good does
The pint-sized Jersey Shore star was seen having a blast in Las Vegas on New Year's Eve, and showed off her very slim figure as she posed for some pics. In true Snooks style, she was showing plenty of skin in a tight top and short skirt.
Work it, girl!
Snooki tweeted about her NYE festivities and said:
"Happy New Year everyone!! Can't believe it's 2012 already! I wonder how many people are hungover today"
We were just thinking the same thing!
Check out the rest of the photos of Snooki's year end party in the gallery!


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I am a total geek and make no apologies for that. I knew I wanted to be a computer programmer at age four, after seeing Tron when it was released in '82. This likely also explains my love for all games and technologies that call back to that era.
Oh, also something of a science buff, particularly astronomy, so I REALLY dig stargazing, and can always be found out with my camera on a clear night if there's a meteor shower or eclipse.
My musical tastes are as eclectic as it gets, though I'm currently consumed by a years-long obsession with Lindsey Stirling and Fever Ray. I do also have a penchant for world music artists such as Loreena McKennitt, and electronica groups like Information Society and Daft Punk. Of course, anything that Maynard James Keenan or Mike Patton have done (Tool/APC/Puscifer, and Faith No More/Mr Bungle, respectively) will always stay on heavy rotation in my playlists as well.
As far as food goes, I am a pretty hardcore foodie, and usually my second or third date will end up starting in my kitchen, as I love to cook. I was Paleo for a few years, although not as maniacal about it as some. I've put on a few pounds since leaving it and will likely be back on by the time this is being read. One of my favorite things to do is introduce people to my latest culinary masterpiece which fits that lifestyle and is actually, you know.. PALATABLE!
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So, my peppermint plant has really taken off and is growing beautifully. I live in Arizona, and I'm not sure it will survive the summer. What can I do to preserve the peppermint leaves I have now in terms of harvesting? I've never been successful at growing peppermint before. A friend of mine mentioned putting all the leaves in the freezer, and I'm wondering if there are other or similar suggestions out there. Thanks.
Do you plan to use the mint in drinks? If so, I would suggest picking and washing some smaller leaves, then freezing them with water in ice cube trays. That will keep them from freezer burn, and you can just add to tea or drinks to use. Or defrost the cubes.
I also make mint pestos and a mint/parsley/lemon/garlic/olive oil sauce in the blender that I serve with roast pork chops or chicken. Once you make either, you can freeze in zip locks.
My experience with mint is that it does well in partial shade. If the temp gets really hot you might want to cut it back to just a few inches. It should come back when the weather cools.
Here in zone 7 it grows so prolifically that you need to contain it. I plant it in large plastic pots, then sink them into the herb garden with just an inch of rim above the ground. This way the roots can't get to far and take over everywhere. When it gets too root-bound I pull out the pot, divide it with a sharp knife, and start again.
Good luck.
I'm sure your AZ climate is very different from mine here in VA but all I know is that mint is TOUGH! For us, anyway, I wish I'd originally done as MonarchMom mentioned as the mint sent out runners and spread all over the backyard. And it loved our hot summer (so did the bees - it seems to be a great bee and butterfly plant once it flowers!). I'm sure AZ is still quite different but maybe just see how it does?! :)
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I do the sunken-pot trick with any creeping herb or grass.
I have some gorgeous lyme-grass clumps sunk into 5 gallon containers I picked up at the recycle center. Left on it's own it spreads though underground runners and takes over the yard - especially in sandy soil like I have here at the beach. But sunk into pots it formed a beautiful round clump for an accent planting. You can just see the rim of the pot in the photo.
I also use this technique to over-winter plants from my window boxes. I dig them out, pot them and sink them up to the rim in my dormant veg garden (blue fescue grasses, cone flowers, corral bells, vincas, etc.) for the winter. Come spring, I just lift out the pot, pop out the plants, and back into the boxes they go.
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Picture yourself in Madrid, Spain in the fall of 2017 experiencing this capital city and studying Spanish language and culture, film, and communication and potentially interning at a Spanish company or non-profit organization!
Madrid is the largest city in Spain with a population of roughly 3.3 million. While Madrid possesses a modern infrastructure, it has preserved the look and feel of many of its historic neighborhoods and streets. Its landmarks include the Royal Palace of Madrid; the Teatro Real (Royal Theatre) with its restored 1850 Opera House; the Buen Retiro Park, founded in 1631, and the 19th-century National Library building which contains some of Spain's historical archives.
You will also have the opportunity to visit the Golden Triangle of Art, that comprises three art museums: the Prado Museum, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum. Included in the program are excursions to Barcelona and the Basque country.
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On 8/11/05, Paul Taylor <ptaylor at addressplus dot net> wrote:
> How does one go about submitting patch files for monowall?
post them here. Manuel will see them, and if he doesn't use them for
whatever reason, they're available in the archives for anyone that
wants to use them in their own image.
But if it's bigger than 30 KB, the list will bounce it back to you.
If that's the case, post it on a website somewhere.