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Definitions of Stress
Stress: Everybody knows what it is, no one knows what it is.
The nonspecific response of the body to any demand put upon it.
Stress is the spice of life. - Hans Selye
That confusion created when one's mind overrides the body's desire to choke the living shit out of some asshole who desperately needs it. - Author Unknown
Stress and Perceptions
Rule 1. Don't sweat the small stuff.
If you don't mind, it don't matter - Author Unknown
Man's troubles are rooted in extreme attention to senses, thoughts, and imagination. Attention should be focused internally to experience a quiet body and a calm mind. - Buddha
Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life. - Grenville Kleiser
What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens. - Thaddeus Golas
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt
He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality. - Anwar Sadat
Day by day in every way I am getting better and better. - Emile Coué
Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. - Confucius
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? - Michel De Saint-Pierre
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. - Proverbs 23:7 of the bible
The world is such-and-such or so-and-so only because we tell ourselves that that is the way it is. - Carlos Castaneda
If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm. - Cicero
Its not what you think you are - but what you think, you are. - Author Unknown
The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven." -John Milton
I'm an old man and I've had many troubles, most of which never happened. - Mark Twain
When it rains, I let it. - 113 year old man in response to a question about the secret of his longevity
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. - Marcus Annaeus Seneca
People see the world not as it is, but as they are. - Al Lee
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. -William James
Stress and Work
No one dies from working too hard. But when people don't get any recognition in their work, the stress of that lack of control can kill them. - Barrie S. Greiff
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. - Mother Teresa
It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop. - Confucius
The only difference between a diamond and a lump of coal is that the diamond had a little more pressure put on it. - Anonymous
What isn't tried won't work. - Claude McDonald
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistance and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. - Calvin Coolidge
Time Management
I wasted time, and now time doth waste me. - Richard II
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death. - Leonardo Da Vinci
Time management' is really a misnomer - the challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.
The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. - Stephen Covey: author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
You may delay, but time will not. - Benjamin Franklin
Live always, my friend, as if there is world enough and time. - Meyer Friedman
The best way to get something done is to begin. - Anonymous
Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in. - Confucius
Goal Setting
If you don't know where you're going any road will take you there and it doesn't matter how long it takes. - Author Unknown
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: The only ones among you who will be truly happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. - Albert Schweitzer
A journey of a thousand miles begins with but a single step. - Chinese proverb
The greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. Anonymous
Happiness, wealth, and success are the by-products of goal-setting; they cannot be the goal themselves. - John Condry
You've got to think about 'big things' while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. - Alvin Toffler
In the long run, men only hit what they aim at. - Henry David Thoreau
The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing. - Michael Gerber Think & Grow Rich
Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. - Doug Larson
The thing always happens that you really belive in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. - Frank Lloyd Wright
Self Esteem
Self love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting. - William Shakespear
Until I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues. - Hugh Prather
Stop being humble, you are not that great. - Golda Meir
Man's self-concept is enhanced when he takes responsibility for himself. - William C. Shutz
I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character! - Theodore Roosevelt
You're good enough, you're smart enough and gosh darn it people like you. - Stuart Smalley
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. - Mark Twain
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. - Thomas Jefferson
People are as happy as they make up their minds to be. - Abe Lincoln
I've have had many troubles in my life but the worst of them never came. - James A. Garfield
The Constitution of America only guarantees the pursuit of happiness--- you have to catch up with it yourself. Fortunately, happiness is something that depends not on position but on disposition, and life is what you make it.- Gill Robb Wilson
The Arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than the arrival of twenty asses laden with drugs. - Thomas Sydenham, Seventeenth-Century Physician . Jack Handey: "Deep Thoughts"
Crisis & Adversity
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity. - John F. Kennedy LEMONS/LEMONAIDE
Cripple him, and you have a Sir Walter Scott. Lock him in a prison cell, and you have a John Bunyan. Bury him in the snows of Valley Forge, and you have a George Washington. Raise him in abject poverty and you have an Abraham Lincoln. Srike him down with infantile paralysis, and he becomes Franklin Roosevelt. Burn him so severely that the doctors say he'll never walk again, and you have a Glenn Cunningham -- who set the world's one mile record in 1934. Deafen him and you have a Ludwig van Beethoven. Have him or her born black in a society filled with racial discrimination, and you have a Booker T. Washington, a Marian Anderson, a George Washington Carver. Call him a slow learner, "retarded," and write him off as uneducable, and you have an Albert Einstein. As one man summed it up: Life is about 20% in what happens to us and 80% in the way we respond to the events. - Ted Engstrom
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable. - Helen Keller
Obstacles cannot crush me, every obstacle yields to stern resolve. - Leonardo da Vinci
He who limps still walks. - Stanislaw Lec
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso
When all else is lost, the future still remains. - Christian Bovee
Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first, and the lesson afterward. - Anonymous
The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles ... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance. - William Matthews
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is. - Ernest Hemingway
It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls. - Unknown
The only cure for grief is action. - George Henry Lewis
Negative Emotions
Anyone can become angry---that is easy.? But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way---this is not easy. - Aristotle
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities, and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. - Harry Truman
Holding on to anger is like holding on to a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. - Buddha
Emotions and Health
Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it. - Hans Selye
"Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? Since you can not do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?" - Luke 12:25-26
Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined. - Samuel Goldwyn
Success and Performance
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. - Abraham Lincoln
The most vital aspect of winning is mental attitude. - Phil Mahre, 3 time World Cup, Olympic Gold Medalist
Excellence is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. - Thomas Jefferson
Success has a price tag on it, and the tag reads courage, determination, discipline, risk taking, perseverance, and consistency --- doing the right things for the right reasons and not just when we feel like it. - James M. Meston
My formula for success? Rise early, work late, strike oil. - John Paul Getty
Failure isn't failing at the project at hand. Failure is giving up on yourself. - Donna deVerona
I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work. - Ben Franklin
The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it. - Roger Babson
Life is not a matter of having good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. - Robert Louis Stevenson
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all. - Michelangelo
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence. - Vince Lombardi
Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is. - Catfish Hunter
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen. - Leonardo Da Vinci
Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value. - Albert Einstein
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. - Thomas Watson, Sr.
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Graduate Record Examination (GRE) is a computer-based test that is administered by the Educational Testing Services (ETS) for admission to graduate schools and fellowship programs in universities primarily in the U.S. This exam is an absolute requirement in the English-speaking countries globally. The exam score determines a candidate's aptitude and ability for admission. The ETS administers the test on behalf of the College Board. The exam is offered as a computer-based test at most locations globally. In places, where computer access is not available, it is offered as a paper-based test. The paper-based tests are administered 3 times in a year whereas computer-based tests are offered 5 times in a given year.
Registration for both paper-based and computer-based tests can be done by logging into your My GRE account and paying for the exam with your credit or debit card. Though one thing to be noted is that online registration is not available for disabled candidates who request accommodation, or test-takers who request a fee reduction or want to reschedule the tests due to religious beliefs, or others who request a change in the test centers, or Nigerian candidates.
There are 3 ways in which you can register for the GRE test. These are applicable to English-speaking candidates. The methods of registering for the exam are:
For test takers outside the United States, there are 4 methods by which you can register for the GRE.
Before registering for the test, you need to find out what test format is offered in your location and the particular test dates and time. GRE tests can be taken as and when you prefer. Disabled candidates need to go through information available on the official website of the test to understand the particular registration procedures available. ETS provides accommodation to physically handicapped examinees provided they meet the eligibility requirements by the ETS. They can also contact ETS Disability Services for further details on registration and accommodation procedures.
Registering for GRE test is not very easy because the test taking policies of test centers in America and in other locations vary. The candidates might have their own preferences for taking up tests on a particular date with a testing center which is convenient to them. The best thing is to register early for the test and familiarize yourself with the registration policies well in advance.

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posted by mikil .
Reflect the point (-3,1) over the y axis. What is the new coordinate. Give explanation.
First, try plotting (-3,1) on a graphing paper. You'll see it's in the 2nd Quadrant. When you reflect it on the y-axis, the new point will be on the third quadrant (where both x & y coordinates are negative). Therefore the new point is at (-3,-1).
Hope this helps~ :)
excuse me? reflection in the y-axis changes only the x-coordinate. Using the y-axis as an "axle" rotate the point 1/2 turn, to wind up at (3,1)
(x,y) -> (-x,y)
OMG I'm sorry I'm thinking about x-axis!
Sorry about that.
It's easy to mis-read problems. been there, done that. One reason why it's good that we check each other's work.


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Police are appealing for information after a female cyclist was knocked off her bike on a road near Ponteland.
The motor vehicle involved is described as a faded or pinky red coloured old style farmers' 4x4, which was pulling a large green horse box. The incident took place at about 10am on Friday, April 18, on the Dinnington to Berwick Hill Road where it emerges at Horton Grange.
Anyone with details should contact police on 101.


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A Surprise Visit
For Janet from Walkertown, North Carolina, yesterday's neighborhood team meeting in Winston-Salem started off like any other. Running late since she was out registering voters at a bus stop, Janet made it to the office to hear Regional Field Director Punya firing up her fellow volunteers.
After the group shared the highlights from their recent voter registration events, a surprise guest entered the team meeting—Vice President Joe Biden. The Vice President met with team members and talked with them about the importance of the work they are doing in their neighborhoods and across North Carolina. Vice President Biden knows that North Carolina is key to victory in November, and he shared his appreciation for the hours that our volunteers put in knocking on doors, registering voters, and talking to their neighbors.
The Vice President's visit came at the perfect time to fire up our volunteers as they prepare for this weekend's Yes! Weekend of Action. For Janet, who is setting up a voter registration drive at a local shopping center this weekend, hearing from the Vice President was the perfect inspiration for all the hard work she is doing out in her neighborhood and across North Carolina.
"I love volunteering and am so thrilled to be able to contribute my time to such an important cause, it's a real joy, and hearing from Vice President Biden about how important our efforts are to the campaign is really uplifting!"
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Gabe Newell playing WoW in Bellevue, Washington office in 2008. Photo by Eric Iles.
I was reading a list of the richest geeks in the world on Forbes the other day, and who should be at the number-one spot but Gabe Newell, the CEO of Valve, which is the owner of Steam, the gamers' community where Second Life is now going to be offered. We knew that there are some big hitters in the gaming industry; he's the biggest. "With an estimated net worth of $1.5 billion dollars, he ranks 854th out of 1,226 global billionaires," says Forbes.
$1.5 billion doesn't seem like much in the world of Russian oligarchs and Soros and the Koch Brothers so on. But it's still a lot, and more is coming!
Remember that scene in Bonfire of the Vanities where the Daddy explains to his little girl what his job on Wall Street involves, which is passing around pieces of pie and taking a little crumb of each one for himself? That's what gaming distribution is -- and it's big. Although...it can get really big, like Zynga on Facebook, and then collapse, like Zynga on Facebook.
Gwyn Llewelyn has an excellent article on her blog about Steam that explains also more of the Lindens' possible motivations. Gwyn has always been an interesting explicator of the Lindens, virtually one of them as a gold developer and early insider in their pet free sim contest for building a Better World, Neualtenberg. Gwyn herself will likely tell you that she doesn't talk to Lindens much any more -- she's not like Uri and Tizzers, able to drink with them on ships or hang out in waterfront bars in San Francisco etc.
But she's very methodical and original in her thinking, and I think she's made an excellent point: that while Zynga forces you to bother your non-gaming friends on Facebook and irritate them with endless pleas to come and save puppies or take jobs in your little stupid games in order for you to advance, Steam creates a social network around existing game players who don't mind game notices because they are already gamers. Eureka! On G+, I blocked all game messages, and on Facebook, a quick path to friend deletion these days can be spamming me with games after I quit them. Oh, but see, that's the problem -- the way Zynga succeeds *is* by tapping into irritable non-gamers, and that's how it grows.
But Valve may be on to a better idea -- skim a little bit off each download and offer community, prizes, news of new games, etc.
Say, I wonder what the tolerance on Valve is for meta-game critics and meta-meta-critics who criticize the devs? For some, that *is* the fun of their game, and some game companies tolerate this, along with modding, to keep their populations healthy. Will the move of Second Life to the Steam ecosphere also come with whatever rules Valve has about third-party blogging? Anybody know what that is?
Gwyn thinks that Rodvik has figured out that "modders" -- those people who create modified versions of whatever company game they are playing -- will like Second Life and draw some of them in. Maybe? I remember the first thing that my son and all his friends did when they got on to the Teen Grid was to make the costumes and swords and such that they had in Runescape and World of Warcraft. They made then hybrid games like a fun game of galactic basketball with different rules in which they were in their costumes from the other medieval war games, or appearing as robots, with weapons that could do damages during the basketball game as well. They also began a brisk inter-game trade in currencies -- trading for Lindens or World of Warcraft gold the Runescape loot they were tired of and ready to hand on to younger brothers to others in Second Life with younger brothers.
Gwyn says she will be fascinated to see what kind of registration or log-on there will be. I remember when the Lindens signed up thousands of CSI detectives, Podcast picklers, Suicide Girls and Gossip Girls, they gave them their own last names. Rodvik got rid of last names. Gwyn is wondering if we will now all be moved to Steam to log on. Then we'll be able to tell what intergalactic game-god regime we are in, something still resembling "your world, your imagination" with a sense of some minimally democratic society, or the totalitarianism of a game platform.
It could be the latter, judging from today's article about Gabe Newell in The New York Times, describing his tyrannical office habits.
First -- beware -- they have that awful hippie San Francisco/Portland fake culture of "no titles" or "no management" -- when in fact they really do. (It's like the myth of the collective in communism where "everyone" is in charge but in fact only a few people rule -- "the cadres decide everything" as Stalin put it).
We all remember these "open workplace" notions that Philip tried to install, with open seating in a big warehouse, and The Big List of Things to Do -- where nobody ever got to the real scut work -- and where people set their own priorities and then rate themselves or gave each others points on the Love Machine. This was all ridiculous tripe that was a terrible way to try to run an office, and in fact only led to more totalitarianism -- as you can read on Glass Door, horrid little controlling HR people, aribrary lay-offs, strange job description shifts.
And you can see it even more vividly at Valve. Valve pretends that you can "pick your own job" and not have a boring old-fashioned title. You come and look around and then move your desk (conveniently on wheels) to the group you want to work with.
When one former Hollywood designer balked at moving his desk, Gabe himself came and picked it up and moved it -- and that guy is also now no longer with the company. So...so much for freedom and de-centralization. Loosey-goosey systems like this without clear rules and even hierarchies in fact lead to *more* authoritarianism, as you can see vividly with this desk scene.
Valve features all the horrid culture we've come to dislike in Linden Lab -- only more so, and more successful, obviously -- Philip isn't on the billionaires' list. One guy was hired because he was a graffiti artist -- that casual attitude toward vandalism so characteristic of the gaming world. Then getting 2,000 teachers to take the games -- that Better Worldism and avid zeal to get into education, get into kids' heads, and sell more games and gamification. Awful stuff, culturally, and politically.
When you log on to Second Life via Steam's services (they handle 40 million gamers), does that mean all that streaming data go into Valve's coffers? And you worried about Emerald phoning home or the Lindens keeping chat logs!
And look at this horror.
This year, Mr. Newell hired Yanis Varoufakis, a Greek economist, after being impressed with Mr. Varoufakis's personal blog, which he fills with commentary on the European financial crisis. Mr. Varoufakis, who had never heard of Valve and is not a gamer, is studying the workings of the virtual economies of Valve games, in which players can barter and sell items like hats and armor. He said he was drawn to the job partly by Valve's "completely anti-authoritarian" culture that, to his surprise, seemed to be working.
But Valve is as authoritarian as they come, if they have a guy who forcibly moves the desk of someone who won't move and he is then forced out of the company. Sure, you get to hire and fire people you want. Then...have criteria for it and, you know, job descriptions and job titles. Those things evolved not for the sake of corporate evil, but for the sake of fairness and democratic communication -- things aren't, like they are for the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland, what they are because you say so, but because they have a commonality of meaning.
There isn't anything more fake and authoritarian than game gods, totalitarian at root in their game mechanics and social relationships between game maker and player, pretending that they are building newfangled "more democratic" societies. At what it spawns most is the Big Lie.
And Varoufakis leans towards anti-Americanism (the American economy, never the Russian or Chinese economies, much less the European socialist economies, are to blame for the world's ills) and boosting socialism in his commentary. Look out Ted Castronova, there's a new technocommunist economist guru on the game block. And from from 2004 to 2007 he served as an economic advisor to former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou -- did he help advise Greek right into a crisis?
Of course, it's classic Silicon Valley utopianism that the richest geek in the world, who made his fortune from the American way, hires a European socialist who believes that the American economy is a "minotaur" that is a "beast" that "had to be fed" by the world's financial systems and that caused the global recession. Of course, unexamined is the notion that Clinton's social justice ideas of a house and a college education for everyone, regardless of ability to pay, had a lot to do with fueling the savings and loans crisis and the predatory Wall Street practices. It's always evil capitalists with bloody fangs to blame, right? China's failure to standardize its currency conversation wouldn't have anything to do with it, and it's buying US debt is never a factor, right? Oh, and Russia's oil cartel and energy hold over Europe!
The main thing that a prominent economist who fled Greece's failures involving the virtuality of Greek communism and socialsm to now studying game currencies in technocommunist settings is that he lends credibility to Newell's fake anti-authoritarianism:
"What does Valve have to add to our perception of the evolution of corporate structures in the future?" he said in a Skype interview from the Greek island of Aegina. "Let's face it, the current state of that culture leaves a lot to be desired."
Like the current state of technological and gaming culture too, you know?
And while Newell, like Philip Rosedale, may have aspirations to influence the entire world of work and the entire real-life economy, perhaps to start he will focus on something that my son and his friends focused on, as soon as they got in that Star Wars Bar of Second Life, in a world between their games: changing game currencies. Could the LindEx be the real prize on which Newell has set his gleaming billionaire's eye, not "modding"?
Like other Silicon Valley Better Worlders, Newell is not content to addict millions of peoples to games and drain them of their cash, not providing a lot of jobs in the process like traditional businesses of the past. He does want to influence economic policy at least in the world of digital sales, and change the nature of life in the workplace (like Philip) at least in his industry and even re-make the computer hardware industry -- we haven't involved since keyboards and mouses were designed, he says, and we need innovation.
Where Philip just tinkered around with welding goggles to which the world of Second Life was created as a sidebar to test the goggles, Newell is willing to put in a one-million hardware lab to thinker with 3D computing and he wants to get into "wearables" -- which of course starts with 3D world game goggles. Well, at least Larry Page will now have some competition in the race to who can make humans more dependent on technology in this century. And he may win, because people are willing to absorb change and even discomfort on the way to playing games and immersing in virtual worlds, and might be early adapters of the whole goggles thing. Although we've seen this fad before, as c3 will tell us, and it didn't catch on. Maybe when you have millions, and an audience of 40 million in your pockets, and are willing to pick up the desks of people who won't move and forcibly move them, you can do it.
If you follow Second Life and the JIRA, after reading this New York Times article, do you have any doubt in your mind why the JIRA is being crippled now? It was likely far more the desire of this "anti-authoritarian" Gabe Newell and his people than of Rodvik -- as Rodvik didn't remove it when he first came in, although he did remove voting. Show 'em who's boss!
There are all kinds of excuses Valve may have given for removing JIRA voting -- lack of "uniformity" and "symmetry" with all the other game worlds (those "non-rule-book" gamers playing without rules love uniformity!); negativity in the comments that harm the brand; inefficiency; lack of conviction that the thousand tongues that come with the thousand eyes really solve bugs; the notion that only insider professionals should be discussing bugs, etc.
Fortunately, there is some competition to Gabe as well -- Microsoft is going to create a system for downloading games and software, too. Good!
Gabe Newell responds to this rivalry by complaining, in true gamer-geek fashion, about Microsoft's "control" -- the old hatred of proprietary systems. The New York Times, enough, still, of a real newspaper and not the supine tech press, says that's pretty funny, coming from Valve, when Valve had a split with EA over this issue.
Look at this:
SOME game executives say it's ironic that such concerns come from Valve, which has become a gatekeeper with Steam. Last year, the company had a dust-up with Electronic Arts over Steam's policy of taking a cut of all revenue generated from a game, like the sale of virtual goods, even after a player has bought the game. As a result, E.A. is not selling a number of its latest games through Steam.
Did your heart just stop like mine did when you read that?
Taking a cut of all revenue generated from a game, like the sale of virtual goods, even after a player has bought the game.
Does this mean that all of us selling virtual goods and services in Second Life are now going to have to yield a cut to Valve, just because Second Life is registered with Steam?!
Say, what exactly *is* Rodvik's deal?! Funny, that Rodvik, as ex-EA, could make a deal with Steam *after* Valve's deal with EA fell through on this issue.
"Valve says that without such a policy, developers could easily game the Steam system by making all their software free and charging consumers for additional content later."
Hmm. I'd like to think that through, but it really will come down to where the log is in and who runs the asset server as Gwyn points out, eh?
And now, in case you were thinking that some grownups might show up sometime and fix these authoritarian cultisms, here's this:
Valve can do without many formalities of a traditional company because it's privately held and controlled by Mr. Newell. He and Mike Harrington, who is no longer with the company, founded Valve in 1996 with the wealth they accumulated in Microsoft's early days. The company has never raised money from outside investors, so it is under no external pressure to sell itself or go public
So remember, Gwyn, as you are giddy with all the wonderful possibilities of Steam sign-ups and interaction with Second Life, just what you may be signing up for -- giving away a cut of your revenue, giving away your world autonomy, such as it is. Loss of the JIRA interactivity because this new "anti-authoritarian" regime of the unregulated Valve can just do whatever the fuck it wants and can't allow player autonomy.


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Frequently when I go to switch a view from Wireframe mode to a Shaded mode, it defaults to showing me Realistic mode. Is there a way to make views default to Shaded mode instead?
Obviously, I can set all viewports to be Shaded via the Viewport Configuration dialog. I'm just wondering if Shaded can be set to be the default choice when switching rather than Realistic.


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PAPI_add_named_event adds one event to a PAPI EventSet.
A hardware event can be either a PAPI preset or a native hardware event code. For a list of PAPI preset events, see PAPI_presets or run the avail test case in the PAPI distribution. PAPI presets can be passed to PAPI_query_event to see if they exist on the underlying architecture. For a list of native events available on current platform, run the papi_native_avail utility in the PAPI distribution.
|An integer handle for a PAPI Event Set as created by PAPI_create_eventset.
|A defined event such as PAPI_TOT_INS.
|The number of consecutive elements that succeeded before the error.
|One or more of the arguments is invalid.
|The PAPI library has not been initialized.
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char EventName = "PAPI_TOT_INS"; int EventSet = PAPI_NULL; unsigned int native = 0x0; if ( PAPI_create_eventset( &EventSet ) != PAPI_OK ) handle_error( 1 ); // Add Total Instructions Executed to our EventSet if ( PAPI_add_named_event( EventSet, EventName ) != PAPI_OK ) handle_error( 1 ); // Add native event PM_CYC to EventSet if ( PAPI_add_named_event( EventSet, "PM_CYC" ) != PAPI_OK ) handle_error( 1 );


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edit Brian Vickers
|There's not much funny in this, dude. There's plenty of stereotypes, but that's not the same thing.
|Another NASCAR article. There doesn't seem to be a concept to this beyond "call him a redneck/cracker/ricer/whatever".
|Prose and formatting:
|Formatting is fine, no red links. But not hugely readable. Spelling is OK, but sentence construction might need some attention.
|A couple of images, and at least they have some relevance. But neither of them are particularly good.
|I hate this box.
|Final Score:
|Right, this is not great, but don't despair - there are plenty of articles that started out bad and blossomed. You need to figure out if you really want to write a good Uncyclopedia article, or just write some NASCAR fanboy stuff. If the former, read the comments below. If the latter, find a NASCAR forum.
|--Sir Under User (Hi, How Are You?) VFH KUN 11:56, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
A couple of comments, somewhat edited from the first version, as I realized they were a tad harsh and a bit crap:
Read HTBFANJS. It's not prescriptive, but it does give you a good idea of how to create funny articles.
Also, try to write for everyone, not just NASCAR fans - a lot of the stuff in this article is limited to those not in the know. You don't have to remove any of it necessarily, just explain it in a way that outsiders can understand.
Inserting vaguely offensive stereotypes is rarely funny, unless it's ironic or intended to satirize in some way.
And random stuff isn't funny - how would a redneck and Lindsay Lohan produce a half-Chinese baby?
Don't take this personally - I'm trying to help. I'm sure you've seen the stuff that does badly on VFD, so try to take this away from that territory. However, at least there aren't any lists, and generally speaking it can be tidied up quite easily.
There are always ways to write about sports - you can focus on their competitive streak, and their need to be the best at everything they do. Or maybe if he did start out well, then hit a lean spell, maybe he was planning his career along the lines of a feel-good sports movie, eventually aiming to wind up with a successful comeback, and then sell the movie rights for a fortune? That could be a fun angle. Basically, find a decent angle for the article, and write more consistently. Try to be a little more original - accusing a NASCAR driver of being a redneck/cracker/whatever is hardly new, unless you can find an interesting spin to put on it.
Basically, try to lift this up with a coherent central concept and some good writing. If you want some specific suggestions, give me a yell on my talk page, and I'll try to give a few constructive ideas.
Finally, this is only my opinion - others are available. And good luck! --Sir Under User (Hi, How Are You?) VFH KUN 11:56, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
edit Cracker/Redneck
I am a NASCAR fan, and they aren't crackers or rednecks, but my friend wrote it and gave it to me to be pee reviewed.


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u-he teases Dark Zebra – Custom Zebra with sounds from Hans Zimmer's Dark Knight soundtracks
u-he has posted a screenshot of the "Dark Zebra", a collection of 400 Zebra patches from Hans Zimmer's Dark Knight soundtracks, bundled with a customized version of the Zebra software synthesizer.
Urs Heckmann writes:
Second image shows Diva filters in this pimped version. All parameters are visible, even if a specific filter type does not use them. As I said, it's provisionary.
As for the soundset, it really is very special. Loads of cinematic effects and ambiences, many instruments that need to be discovered to be fully exploited – which will be ultimately rewarding!
Everyone, set up a knob on your controller keyboard that sends CC#2 for Breath Control, because this is used extensively in many patches.
Howie through in a few refined drafts so we reach 400.
The Dark Zebra is scheduled for release on Monday, July 23rd.
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This should be great! :) Can't wait to check it out!
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On tor, 2012-02-23 at 10:17 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes: > > Fixing most of this is not difficult, see attached patch. The only > > ugliness is in pg_backup_archiver.h > > > FILE *FH; /* General purpose file handle */ > > > which is used throughout pg_dump as sometimes a real FILE* and sometimes > > a gzFile handle. There are also some fileno() calls on this, so just > > replacing this with an #ifdef isn't going to work. This might need some > > more restructuring to make the code truly type-safe. My quick patch > > replaces the type with void*, thus sort of restoring the original > > situation that allowed this to work. > > void * seems entirely reasonable given the two different usages, but > I would be happier if the patch added explicit casts whereever FH is > set to or used as one of these two types. That would add about 70 casts all over the place. I don't think that will make things clearer or more robust. I think we either leave it as my first patch for now or find a more robust solution with a union or something.
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Massachusetts Health Reform Plan Offers Great Benefits, But Significant Challenges Remain
Policy Innovations, Political Consensus May
Point The Way To Reforms Elsewhere
Bethesda, MD -- Massachusetts' plan to move toward universal coverage represents an impressive political achievement, and the plan's policy innovations offer important lessons to other states. However, the true significance of the Massachusetts experiment will become clear only after the state addresses daunting implementation challenges over the next several years.
That's the verdict delivered by the two lead papers of a six-paper package on the Massachusetts experience published today on the Health Affairs Web site. John McDonough, executive director of the Boston-based Health Care For All, teams with three colleagues from that organization to provide a comprehensive look at the important events and key players involved in the plan's package. John Holahan and Linda Blumberg (Urban Institute) survey the issues Massachusetts will have to address as it seeks to turn its path-breaking plan into reality. Four additional papers offer perspectives on these lead studies.
Massachusetts' plan, passed in April 2006 as Chapter 58 of the Acts of 2006, "is a complex mix of Medicaid changes, subsidized insurance offerings, insurance market reforms, safety-net alterations, individual and employer responsibility provisions, and more," according to McDonough and coauthors. They explain that the Massachusetts plan includes the following:
-- The Commonwealth Care Health Insurance Program. Commonwealth Care will provide subsidized health insurance coverage for uninsured adults with incomes below 300 percent of poverty ($29,400 for an individual and $60,000 for a family of four). Those below 100 percent of poverty will pay no premiums, and those at relatively higher incomes will receive income-based subsidies on a sliding scale.
-- The Insurance Connector. The Connector is an independent state authority that will serve as a marketplace for insurance offered to individuals without employer-sponsored coverage, enabling them to purchase coverage with pretax dollars. Companies with fifty or fewer employees may also purchase coverage for their employers through the Connector. In addition, the Connector will manage Commonwealth Care.
-- Individual Mandate. The law requires all adults to purchase insurance, subject to the availability of "affordable" insurance. In 2007 the penalty for violating the individual mandate will be the loss of the Massachusetts state personal income tax exemption -- about $218 for an individual and $418 for a family. In 2008 and thereafter, the penalty increases to up to half the cost of the least expensive available insurance policy. The Connector board will set the definition of "affordable" and determine what types of coverage satisfy the individual mandate.
-- Medicaid Expansion. The plan expands MassHealth, the state's Medicaid program, to children in families with incomes up to 300 percent of poverty.
-- Employer Mandate. At a minimum, employers are required to set up a Section 125 plan for their employees. Under these plans, workers can buy insurance with pretax dollars through the Connector, even if their employer contributes nothing to the coverage. If employers with more than ten employees do not make a "fair and reasonable" contribution to their workers' insurance coverage -- with the definition of "fair and reasonable" to be defined administratively -- they will be subject to a per worker per year assessment not to exceed $295, prorated for part-time and seasonal workers.
The Potential Impact Of The Massachusetts Plan Is Large,
But So Are Its Implementation Challenges
Holahan and Blumberg say that the Massachusetts plan "is potentially of enormous consequence." The two authors say that the plan could bring Massachusetts economic gains from improved health with a present value of $1.5 billion dollars, but they also caution that the state faces major challenges in implementing its reform plan, including the following:
-- Affordability. "Ideally, the subsidy schedule [offered to low-income state residents] would be directly linked to the affordability standard," so that "each family would be subsidized to an extent that would allow them to purchase coverage within the standard of affordability," the authors say. However, "nothing in the Massachusetts legislation requires such a linkage, and revenue constraints could make doing so difficult."
-- The Connector. "The most likely approach for insurers to offer lower-cost plans" through the Connector is by requiring "much higher out-of-pocket spending than is typical today," say Holahan and Blumberg. They warn, however, that policies with high out-of-pocket spending could segment the Connector's risk pool, attracting healthier enrollees and leaving only those with high medical costs in more-comprehensive policies, thus driving up premiums in these policies. On the other hand, "if such high-cost-sharing policies do not prove attractive, it is difficult to see how plans in the Connector would be able to hold down premiums," since "the Connector as envisioned does not seem equipped to use other mechanisms to control increases in health care spending."
-- Employer Response. Under the Massachusetts plan, large firms are not likely to drop coverage, but "allowing workers to purchase coverage on a pretax basis using Section 125 plans reduces the incentive for small employers to offer coverage to their workers independently," the authors say.
Can The Massachusetts Approach To Universal Coverage
Work For Other States Or For The Nation?
"There has been much discussion nationally over whether the Massachusetts reform offers lessons for other states or perhaps even for the country as a whole," say Holahan and Blumberg. Both these two authors and McDonough and colleagues acknowledge that the Bay State started with a low uninsurance rate and additional advantages lacked by other states in moving toward universal coverage. They say, however, that Massachusetts' innovative approaches, such as the merging of the individual and small-group markets through the Connector, provide a new policy kit for other states, and perhaps the federal government, to use.
In the end, the most significant aspect of the Massachusetts reform plan "is its merger of right and left, Republican and Democratic, conservative and progressive approaches to building a fairer, smarter health care system," McDonough and coauthors say. "Individual responsibility is favored by the political right and disliked by the political left, and the reverse holds for employer responsibility. The default position for politicians is to do neither. Massachusetts' willingness to attempt both is evidence of unusual political maturity."
Perspectives Include A Call For Combining Chapter 58 With Bush Tax Credits, And A Skeptic's Take On The Massachusetts Reform
Lynn Etheredge, consultant, Health Insurance Reform Project, George Washington University. Etheredge calls for a demonstration program in Massachusetts that would combine the state's health reform plan with the tax credits President George W. Bush has proposed to assist uninsured people in purchasing coverage. He says that the tax credits could help ensure that participants in Commonwealth Care would be able to afford high-quality coverage.
The combined plan would include Medicaid expansions, offer workers affordable coverage through competitive insurance markets, and provide federal, state, employer, and individual financing, Etheredge points out. He says that such a demonstration "could produce important practical lessons" for federal, state, and private actors, which could facilitate "taking similar models 'to scale' for national coverage of forty-five million uninsured Americans."
Elizabeth McGlynn, associate director, RAND Health. McGlynn and her coauthor, RAND senior policy researcher Jeffrey Wasserman, point out that where a state ends up after health reform depends on where it starts out: "Massachusetts is unique in its relatively low rate of uninsured residents, its relatively long history and tradition of tightly regulating the health insurance market, the existence of a large federal subsidy, and a state Uncompensated Care Pool. So even if another state were able to pass comparable legislation, the cost and outcomes would likely be quite different."
"A better understanding of the starting conditions and the expectations for the future in the absence of major policy change would contribute to making explicit the relative gains and losses likely to be achieved from any proposed change," McGlynn and Wasserman say. "Today we have no such comprehensive framework for analyzing competing reform options."
Tom Miller, resident fellow, American Enterprise Institute. Miller expresses the most skeptical view of the Massachusetts plan. He labels as "vastly overstated" the argument used by plan backers that taxpayers and privately insured Massachusetts residents would pay less "if purported free riders were forced to purchase insurance and reduce their use of uncompensated care." In 2004, the maximum plausible cost-shift from the uninsured to the privately insured across the entire country was only about $6 billion, or less than 5 percent of total medical care costs for the uninsured, Miller says.
In the end, Miller argues, Massachusetts' fundamental problem is that it "is a very high-cost state for health care, with a concentrated market of relatively inefficient providers already swimming in a sea of dysfunctional public subsidies and crippling overregulation." The "cosmetic nips and tucks" in the Massachusetts plan "simply amount to too little and too late of a challenge to the existing cost structure."
Nancy Turnbull, president, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation. "The most difficult group to cover [under Chapter 58] will be the 30 percent of the uninsured who do not qualify for Medicaid or [Commonwealth Care] subsidies and have incomes between 300 and 500 percent of poverty, likely not high enough to easily afford health coverage at existing prices," Turnbull notes. She also emphasizes the importance of building and sustaining public support for the individual mandate and other elements of the Massachusetts plan.
"Massachusetts is one of only a handful of states that is losing population -- particularly middle-class families. If the individual mandate is perceived, rightly or wrongly, as worsening this problem, legislative and employer support for the mandate could erode," she warns. Turnbull urges the Connector's board, in setting the affordability standard, to be "highly attuned to the political as well as policy implications of its decisions. A relatively low affordability standard would limit the reach of the new mandate, but it would help ease the transition to the new 'culture of insurance'," she suggests.
You can read the six articles at http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/hlthaff.25.w420/DC2
Health Affairs, published by Project HOPE, is the leading journal of health policy. The peer-reviewed journal appears bimonthly in print with additional online-only papers published weekly as Health Affairs Web Exclusives at www.healthaffairs.org.
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Eggs labeled top restaurant trend for 2014
Eggs are popping out all over — and not just from spring chickens.
They're showing up fried on burgers, baked atop casseroles and poached on pasta. Any time has become egg time as this versatile ingredient has gone far beyond breakfast.
It's enough to make the Easter Bunny's head spin.
"Actually, eggs have been labeled the top trend for restaurants; they've declared 2014 the 'Year of the Egg,'" said Jenny Englert, representing the American Egg Board. "We're seeing lots of eggs in dishes you would never think of — like on top of pizza — but it's really good."
Restaurant.com president Christopher Krohn echoed that sentiment. He put eggs atop his current trends report.
"You won't be asking which came first, the chicken or the egg," Krohn said. "If you're like many Americans, you'll be seeing and eating a lot more huevos in restaurants in 2014."
Krohn credited chefs with starting this trend by topping favorite foods with eggs, such as burgers, pizza, sandwiches, casseroles, pasta, salads and stir-fries. Eggs also moved onto the dinner menus of America's top-tier restaurants as comfort food with a twist.
"The 'breakfast for dinner' craze and increasing popularity of regional specialties such as Korean bibimbop and Mexican huevos rancheros will accelerate this trend," he said. "Plus, there's an emerging sense from the scientific crowd that eggs are healthier than perhaps you previously thought, which will feed consumer interest in this farm-fresh favorite."
With its hard-boiled egg traditions, Easter ranks as the apex of egg time. Egg purchases nearly double the week before Easter, which this year is Sunday. Last year, Americans bought 161 million eggs that week.
"For several years, we were seeing Easter egg (popularity) declining," Englert noted. "People had turned to plastic eggs (for egg hunts). But in the last two years, egg sales have skyrocketed for Easter."
Egg experts credit that comeback to renewed interest in crafting — and sharing: There's been a resurgence in creatively decorating eggs, then posting the results online for others to see.
As for recipes, pre-Easter downloads trend toward brunch favorites — make-ahead meal makers such as frittatas and quiche.
"There's also a lot of interest in deviled eggs with a twist," Englert said.
But eggs go way beyond Easter.
About 9 out of every 10 households regularly buys eggs. On average, we each eat nearly 252 eggs a year. And there are plenty to go around. American chickens produce more than 77 billion eggs a year. With almost 19 million laying hens, California egg production ranks behind (in order) Iowa, Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania.
Once scorned for high cholesterol content, eggs now are much more favorably viewed by nutritionists.
"Eggs are lower in cholesterol than previously thought," Englert said. "According to the USDA, people even at risk of heart disease can safely consume two a day. Their protein content is really important, too."
But it's eggs' culinary assets that have cooks cracking.
Sacramento, Calif., food expert and author Elaine Corn has been cooking eggs for all meals for decades. Among her cookbooks is "365 Ways to Cook Eggs" (HarperCollins, 1996). This classic is still available on Amazon.com. For dinner, she cites two old favorites: spaghetti carbonara and egg flower soup.
"Eggs are the acrobats of cuisine," said Corn, who also writes the World Eats column in The Sacramento Bee's new Feast section. "They perform feats no other food can claim. They emulsify, thicken, poof, puff and fluff — from the appetizer course to dessert."
Corn always has eggs on hand and notes it's easier now that more of her neighbors have chickens.
She sees eggs' nutritional profile as a bonus.
"One egg has all nine amino acids," she said. "It's a perfect food. It's great that they're nutritious, but I eat them because I love them and they're simple to cook."
About a quarter-million egg recipes are featured on Foodily, the popular recipe website and app.
"That number is not surprising to me at all," said Foodily co-founder Hillary Mickell. "… What's surprising is the changing dynamic; there's definitely a shifting dynamic of eggs where it's moving across all meals. Breakfast, lunch, dinner; people are getting really creative."
With more than a half-million regular users, Foodily usually sees a surge in egg searches right before Easter, Mickell noted. "Those usually break down into breakfast and what I'd call 'fancy eggs' (brunch recipes). But now, the emerging (egg) trend is everyday meals beyond breakfast. Eggs in sandwiches are way up. We're seeing a lot of savory egg recipes such as baked eggs for dinner."
Among the most popular recent recipe downloads from Foodily: a chickpea, kale and sausage casserole baked with an egg on top.
Added Mickell, "As an egg lover, I think (this trend) is fabulous."
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It appeared to be Kim Jong Un's first reported meeting with South Koreans since his father's death Dec. 17.
Seoul's Unification Ministry says the South Koreans paid respects at the Kumsusan Memorial Palace where Kim Jong Il's body is lying in state and met with Kim Jong Un there.
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- 2 tablespoons maple syrup
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Preheat oven to 400°. Line a baking pan with parchment paper.
In a skillet, cook the bacon pieces until lightly crisped. Remove bacon from the skillet, drain on a paper towels and set aside.
Take skillet off of the heat, and stir the maple syrup and salt into the bacon juices. Coat the acorn squash pieces with the maple syrup mixture. Place the acorn squash on the prepared pan.
Roast for 30 minutes, and then turn the squash over, brush with juices from the pan and mix the bacon pieces with the acorn squash. Continue roasting for 10 minutes or until tender.


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Our Memphis Man
In loving memory of our Memphis who we love so much. Memphis will be greatly missed and be in our hearts forever.
Where do I begin about Memphis Man....He was one of a kind that is no secret. I had, had a black lab named Lady Bug who my dad rescued from a truck stop (he was a truck driver on a long trip from texas) when i was 4yrs old in Seattle Washinton when she jumped over a fence when the owner was beating her. She was the most amazing dog God had ever made..or so I thought. I lost that beautiful girl 13yrs later at the age of 17. I never had another dog that i got close to or even loved like her. Memphis came into our lives from a poker game! lol Yes a poker game. You see..my dad had diabetes and almost died from congestive heart failure/toe amputations.double bypass in both legs and double bypass in his heart. My dad would play poker once a week at his friends house..the original owner of memphis. The man fell on hard times and thought my dad could use a good friend. So dad and memphis already had a bond from those poker nights lol. coinsidence fast forward a few months...my husband was a trucker and we had just arrived home when my father met us at the truck with memphis in hand. I was too scared when i saw memphis i thought he was a pit bull lol..as you can see he is not! once i got out i understood the love in his eyes..the same eyes my black lab used to have. After a few months my father started having hip issues and was no longer to care for memphis...so he was given to my son and i. I got very ill after that and spent 6yts in and out of hospitals and surgeries and memphis?...he would NOT leave my side and even wimpered if I left the room. he always had a smile on his face and I know he still does only bigger! He was my sidekick on the couch..he was the buddy that slept in bed with my son..the one who was there my sons frist day of kinder and jr high last year...the protector..our little dogs big brother and a best friend anyone would love to have. Over the last 2 yrs we noticed Memphis was getting slower and losing weight. He was becoming covered in fatty tissue tumors but would still run and chase our little dog. He never showed pain and only showed love. Then one day he was outside and running and jumping and smiling.....his usual self. That night after we arrived home with our son, memphis went to his usual spot nect to my sons bed and slowly lay down.. About 10min later my son starts screaming. Memphis was standing up and started shaking and collapsed. I ran in and he was trying to standup again this time he collapsed in my arms. My son freaked out crying as did i...memphis had no look in his eyes just a blank stare. his breathing became shallow and he was puttering with each breath. All of a sudden he went still in my arms and lost bodily functions. My son screamed hes dying and so my dad rushed over and picked him up so he would not witness the worst. We made him comfortable all night not leaving his side. At daybreak my boyfriend rushed him to the hospital. They did bloodwork and liver and kidney funtion (which all came back GREAT!) amazing for his age they said..they said he had a seizure and gave us some meds. When we got him home he was weak as expected but was standing and even used the bathroom outside.. a big improvement from the night. About 20 min after he was home I was laying next to him and his gums went white and pale...and his breathing became very shallow again and i noticed half of his face was drooped like from a stroke..i screamed out to my boyfriend and picked him up to take him outside and see if he needed to potty....he collapsed instantly. So off to the hospital he went. This time the phone call was not good.....somehow his stomach swelled up and was exploding inside. The hardest thing I ever did was tell them go ahead....As we put hiim in the truck for the last time.. i got in the truck for a min and lay next to him holding him tight....telling him thank you for the love and the memories and all the joy he gave me...that i was sorry to please not hate me...but i dont want you in pain...i just kept saying im sorry baby im sorry...he lifted his head for the first time looked at me with those eyes and down his head went...the vet put him down and he passed away in my boyfriends arms at 437pm october 17, 2011. There will never be another Memphis Man..I love you baby.
GUESS WHAT BUBBA!!!??? YOU ARE A FUR-UNCLE!!! AND GUESS WHAT ELSE?! They were born on OCTOBER 17!!!! Your 1yr angelversary!! Thank you bubba..you gave me,mama and daddy and human brother blake 2 amazing gifts!!! I accidentally got my gf "lil girl" pregnant! It wasnt mommys fault I snuck behind her back literally lol! On your 1yr angel-versary mommy and daddy cried so much they miss you like crazy! Mommy said she wanted a girl dog if she ever got another one...but daddy wanted a boy lol. Wellllll...lil girl had 5 puppies! One solid white...3 brown white and tan...and one who looks JUST LIKE YOU!!!!!!! He doesnt look like any of the other puppies! He has the white and tan face with the black painted eyes!!!! Daddy fell in love with him and started calling him memphis jr lol...but guess what?! Daddy named him BUBBA!!! And wanna know the other special gift??? Lil girl only had ONE GIRL!!! and she looks just like me!! So mommy got her girl! I havent met them yet..they are only 2 1/2 weeks old....but soon they get to come home!!! They are so special to all of us already and sharing your your day with their birthday?...and one looks just like you??? and nothing like the others? and only one girl in the whole litter...you gave mommy and daddy a special thiing. Now and forever they will see you in bubba...and mommy named my daughter minnow lol. remember i am marlin bc we live on an island so mommy thought it was cute....she wanted to name bubba mako..but bubba just fits :) Oh bubba i miss you and mommy still cries everyday. But she loves you so much! did you know she bought this crazy expensive coach purse but still put your collar on the end?! She said she will never take it off :) Here is a picture of you new fur niece and nephew :))
hey honey your brother marlin has become the man of the house. .and see your fur niece and nephew. .bo Memphis looked nothing like his litter mates..instead he looks so much like you! And minnow..shes the princess of the house lol. Love u baby boy!
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To quell the frustration and annoyance of traffic in the Phoenix area, the city of Glendale built a new park-and-ride facility across the street from the Arizona Cardinals' football stadium. The city's goal was to use as much of the available space as possible and do so in an environmentally friendly way.
Glendale wanted to keep costs low and explore using pervious concrete as a sustainable stormwater management solution. At the time of bidding, Progressive Concrete Works was the only Arizona-based company with experience installing pervious concrete.
The contractor installed 144,000 square feet of its trademark DrainScape pervious concrete as the primary paving system at the facility, making it the largest installation of pervious concrete in the Southwest. Pervious concrete provides first-flush pollution mitigation by eliminating runoff and directing surface water into the subgrade below, where it recharges groundwater aquifers beneath the site. Pervious concrete also reduces the lot's urban heat island effect.
DrainScape's mix design allows for a 15% to 30% void structure, through which up to eight gallons of water per square foot can pass through in a minute. USGBC's LEED program recognizes it as integrating paving and drainage to manage onsite stormwater, thereby allowing a smaller development footprint.
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The first smash hit of the 2007-2008 Broadway season turned out to be one of the biggest surprises in Broadway history: XANADU, which roller-skated its way into the hearts of critics and audiences alike. A hilariously reinvented send-up of the 1980's Olivia Newton-John film flop, this irreverent musical adventure, about following your dreams when others say you shouldn't, spins along to the addictive original hit film score by pop-rock legends Jeff Lynne and John Farrar. XANADU follows the beautiful Greek muse Kira as she visits Venice Beach, CA in 1980 to induce an uninspired artist, Sonny, to build the first roller disco (yes!). When she accidentally falls in love with him, much to her jealous sister muses' dismay, chaos and fun abound, skate wheels turn and disco balls twirl. The updated script by Douglas Carter Beane takes the plot and dialogue to knee-slapping extremes, while the legendary chart-topping tunes get a musical theatre makeover via a stellar company of performers. This original Broadway cast recording will keep XANADU in your head, and heart, forever.
At first glance, turning Olivia Newton-John's 1980 flop musical into a Broadway show looked like a pretty bad idea. Yet the stage version of Xanadu is thrilling and appropriately ridiculous fun. Adapter Douglas Carter Beane went for the camp jugular (thankfully, this CD includes lots of lines from his book), and the cast rises to the occasion, milking every lyric line. Kerry Butler and Cheyenne Jackson bring irrepressible humor and charm to the roles played by Newton-John and Michael Beck, while Mary Testa and Jackie Hoffman provide outsize comic relief as muses. The movie's songs, penned either by John Farrar or E.L.O.'s Jeff Lynne, are insanely catchy, one sing-along hit after another: "I'm Alive," "Magic," "Suddenly," "All Over the World," "Xanadu." All are huge treats, but the craziest track may well be "Evil Woman," which doesn't appear in the movie, but during which Testa and Hoffman let loose shamelessly over-the-top vocal effects. --Elisabeth Vincentelli


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From Virginia to Georgia, district attorneys and local police are stepping up their enforcement campaigns against Internet cafés that feature casino-style videogame entertainment linked to sweepstakes with cash prizes.
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Garden is an invaluable guide to maintaining a garden - from the plants to the paving - all year round. Starting with the vital task of watering, Australian gardening expert Jennifer Stackhouse provides detailed advice and insights on fertilising, weeding, pruning, looking after pots, lawns, keeping an organic garden and even how best to maintain outdoor areas, including paving, furniture, swimming pools and ponds.
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Bordering the Mosi-Oa-Tunya National Park, the Stanley Safari Lodge will transport you back to the Africa of the 1920s. Ideal for adventurous travellers as well as those who savour peace and quiet, this beautiful lodge is set on a hill, only a short a distance from Victoria Falls, and offers incredible views over the Zambezi River with the spray of the Falls in the distance.
If you are feeling adventurous, you can head to the Falls and enjoy exhilirating sports like bungee jumping, white-water rafting and helicopter flights. Explore the area on an elephant-back safari on simply marvel at this magnificent natural wonder. Return to the lodge to explore the Mosi-ao-Tunya National Park, take a stroll in the garden or enjoy sundowners on the deck while the sun sets over the horizon.


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The firm was organized in 1947 in Dallas, Texas, under the name Mullinax, Barbaria, and Ball. It conducted a general law practice and engaged in political and community services. It was general counsel to the Texas State Federation of Labor. Senior partners in the firm were Otto B. Mullinax (1912-) and L.N.D. Wells, Jr. (1914-). Oscar H. Mauzy was a partner in the 1950s.
Name changes through the years, insofar as it was possible to determine them, are listed below. They are correct to February, 1969. For more information, see AR9, 9-3-12.
Correspondence, legal documents, notes, clippings, booklets, misc. printed material. Cases involved labor unions and/or union members vs. corporations, cases which challenged state anti-labor legislation, and cases which questioned the application of federal labor laws. Includes cases handled for the Texas State Federation of Labor and the charter for its library.
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A majority of Iowa voters oppose prohibiting whistleblowers from taking photographs or video footage at animal facilities, according to a survey funded by a lobbying group.
Sixty-five percent of voters oppose the bill before the Iowa Legislature, while 21 percent support it, says a survey conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc.
The survey was paid for by the Humane Society of the United States, a Washington, D.C.-based animal protection group that is lobbying against the bill.
Fourteen percent of Iowa voters are undecided about the secret-footage bill, House File 589, the survey found.
The opposition holds true regardless of political party, according to the survey. Among Democrats, 70 percent oppose it; 62 percent of Republicans oppose it; and 64 percent of independents oppose it, the survey says.
The survey question was: The Iowa Legislature is currently considering a bill that would prohibit whistleblowers from taking photographs or video footage at factory farms, puppy mills and other animal use facilities. Do you support or oppose this legislation?
Farmers are pushing for such a law, saying activists have deliberately cast their operations in a negative light and let cameras roll rather than reporting abuse immediately.
It was introduced after animal rights groups nationally released undercover video footage of cows being shocked, pigs being beaten and male chicks being ground alive.
The Republican-led House approved the bill, 65-27, last week. The Senate will give it further consideration.
First conviction for animal facility fraud would be an aggravated misdemeanor; a second would be a Class D felony. A variety of Iowa agribusiness groups are in favor of the bill.
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Suryanarayana, BG (1974) Design of a sidewall-mounted model incidence system for the N.A.L. l' X l' Trisonic Wind Tunnel. Technical Report. National Aeronautical Laboratory, Bangalore, India.Full text available as:
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This report describes the design features of a semi-automatic electro-hydraulic model incidence system for Sidewall-mounted models in the NAL 1'X l' Trisonic Wind Tunnel.13; Detailed design calculations are included in the Appendix in order to bring out the salient design features of the hydraulic system. The experience gained in the design and operation of this system would be a valuable guide in designing similar systems for the NAL 4' X 4' Trisonic Wind Tunnel and other high speed tunnels proposed to be built in the Laboratory.
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Jazma Online interviews War's Chosen creator Arthur BellfieldFriday, April 27th, 2012
Jazma Online recently did an interview with War's Chosen creator Arthur Bellfield about the book, its history, etc… You can read the entire interview by CLICKING HERE, but see below for a sampling from it.
"Rich: How did you come up with the idea for "War's Chosen"?
Arthur: I was in high school and I wanted to create my own X-Men team to be honest with you. Over the years the characters stuck with me and I decided to go for it!
Rich: What do you think of J.C. Grande's art?
Arthur: J.C.'s art is fantastic! He's a great storyteller and knows how to bring characters and scenes alive. His style is a bit sketchy at times to create a certain emotion and that at other times his line work comes alive and makes you say "Damn!" He was perfect for this type of action story!
Rich: What do you think is the main selling point of "War's Chosen"?
Arthur: The main selling point for War's Chosen is that this is your chance to read a comic that isn't watered down or made to be a movie or a toyline..it was made with the readers in mind who want something from a comic that is a mixture of everything that loved about comics growing up! The storyline is fantastic, the characters have their own voices, plus the ending will give you chills! If anything buy this book for the ending, and for the discussion that this book will open up! Plus, Ceara Tags is in it, and she'll be a breakout character along with Pulserat!"
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To save the life of his granddaughter, retired superhero James Cummings must face not only the mistakes of his past, bus also a rogue government agency called Black Messiah that's determined to preserve their own perverted version of the American Dream! A dream that may explain why so many mutilated men, women, and children are turning up on the United States/Mexico border!


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Box Office: "Brave" Easily Beats Out the Competition
With one animated film replacing another, "Brave" easily shot atop the box office over the movie-going weekend of June 22-24, 2012.
In what's their thirteenth straight first place release, the Pixar/Disney created action/adventure tale about Princess Merida churned out a $24.5 million opening day followed up with $23.6 million on Saturday which places debut weekend estimates at a respectable $66.5 million.
Continuing forth with its solid performance while being bumped to the runner-up ranking is last weekend's top earner "Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted", as DreamWorks Animation's family friendly adventure took in another $7 million on Friday while pacing towards a projected third weekend pull of $19.2 million.
Rounding out the top five at the box office in estimated totals are the newly released and under-performing Benjamin Walker/ Mary Elizabeth Winstead/ Dominic Cooper starring horror/fantasy flick "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" ($16.7 million), followed by Ridley Scott's Charlize Theron and Michael Fassbender spearheaded Sci-Fi caper "Prometheus" ($12.3 million) and the Tom Cruise/Julianne Hough fronted musical disappointment "Rock of Ages" ($7.9 million).
On a sidenote, this weekend's other big name boasting newcomer "Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World" (starring Keira Knightley and Steve Carell) landed in 10th place with an anticipated total of $3.8 million - with the numbers coming as the Lorene Scafaria directed movie is only being shown in 1,618 theaters.


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well, it is expensive to control the whole planet, is it not? it may happen that the will to rule the globe against all nations leads into bancruptcy.Quoting: Anonymous Coward 910164
Better bankrupt than under a Global leadership.
Oh you'll be both, make no mistake....because that's the plan!
Told ya - ya'll need to stop fighting over ridiculous issues & wake up to your own delusions.
This has been "in the works" longer than most of us are old.
Marc Faber is an old Swiss fart & who's as much a 'crying $hill' than Alex Jones or Ron Paul - a very 'certified' Illuminati - 'Brotherhood' member of the Freemasons.
The worst of 'em is of course Alex Jones. Horrible disinformant - paid $hill by the Zionist financial cabal.
As long as you listen to these guys you're missing the big picture.
The Greeks are screwed - it doesn't matter how much fake money they will receive from the ECB or any other 'monetary institution' - a $ham is a $ham is a $ham.
Greece is bankrupt & the supposed 'oil' they're sitting on seems to exist only in the minds of the self-deluded Greeks who up until April insisted that they didn't "need" any help!
Yeah right!
My suspicion that too much sun isn't good for clarity of thought & severly impacts intelligent decisions is getting firmed up with every other 'sunshine' nation - California is a great 'show-case' for the American 'equivalent' of the PIGS countries Portugal, Italy, Spain & Greece!
The World Bank will eventually be the Global Central Bank under the United Nations.
The sooner you get your head around this 'matter-of-fact' "work-in-progress", the better for your "reality check" 'update', eh?
|Trump just removed America from The Globalist Socialist Plan to Loot America.
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Life is simple. We just choose to make it complicated.
Throughout your life, there are mysteries to unravel. Fortunately, life leaves you clues all the time, subtle signs like a gentle push on the back, nudging you in the direction you are meant to go. This is a collection of clues I've uncovered along my journey so far. Most made their appearance in unexpected times spent far from my reading lamp and daily journal. This should come as no surprise, because we all know it's when we stop looking for those missing keys when they magically reappear. May an observation contained within serve as a tiny alarm clock that awakens something in you...
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MSNBC journalist Chris Hayes brings us a memo written by a Washington lobbying firm staffed with former aides of Republican Speaker John Boehner offering American bankers a near $1 million publicity blitz against Occupy Wall Street and its congressional supporters.
The firm warns executives with the American Bankers Association that the Democratic Party's adoption of the movement "would mean more than just short-term political discomfort for Wall Street. … It has the potential to have very long-lasting political, policy and financial impacts on the companies in the center of the bull's-eye," including the possibility that "Republicans will no longer defend Wall Street companies."
The memo alone does not prove that the banking barons are running scared, yet. It was written by seasoned businessmen attempting to stir up and capitalize on the fear that OWS could become a viable political force and a genuine threat to the banking community. But as Hayes says, there are likely many more of these documents being passed around, and that fact should both encourage and terrify the Occupiers. —ARK
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