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Fluorescence is a phenomenon that takes place when a substance absorbs light at a given wavelength and emits light at another wavelength. Fluorescence occurs as an electron, which has been excited to a higher, and more unstable energy state, relaxes to its ground state and gives off a photon of light. The light that is responsible for excitation, or moving the electron to a higher energy state, is of shorter wavelength and higher energy than the fluorescence emission, which has a longer wavelength, lower energy, and different color.
Fluorescence microscopy combines the magnifying properties of the light microscope with fluorescence technology that allows the excitation of- and detection of emissions from- fluorophores - fluorescent chemical compounds. With fluorescence microscopy, scientists can observe the location of specific cell types within tissues or molecules within cells.
The main components of the fluorescent microscope overlap greatly with the traditional light microscope. However the 2 main differences are the type of light source and the use of the specialized filter elements.
Fluorescence microscopy requires a very powerful light source such as a xenon or mercury arch lamp like the one shown here. The light emitted from the mercury arc lamp is 10-100 times brighter than most incandescent lamps and provides light in a wide range of wavelengths, from ultra-violet to the infrared. This high-powered light source is the most dangerous part of the fluorescence microscope setup as looking directly into unfiltered light can seriously damage your retinas and mishandling the bulbs can cause them to explode.
The principle behind fluorescence microscopy is simple. As light leaves the arc lamp it is directed through an exciter filter, which selects the excitation wavelength.
This light is reflected toward the sample by a special mirror called a dichroic mirror, which is designed to reflect light only at the excitation wavelength. The reflected light passes through the objective where it is focused onto the fluorescent specimen. The emissions from the specimen are in turn, passed back up through the objective – where magnification of the image occurs –and now through the dichroic mirror.
This light is filtered by the barrier filter, which selects for the emission wavelength and filters out contaminating light from the arc lamp or other sources that are reflected off of the microscope components. Finally, the filtered fluorescent emission is sent to a detector where the image can be digitized, or it's transmitted to the eyepiece for optical viewing.
The exciter filter, dichroic mirror, and barrier filter can be assembled together into a component known as the filter cube. Different filter cubes can be changed during specimen viewing to change the excitation wavelength, and a series of diaphrams can be used to modify the intensity of excitation.
When it comes to performing fluorescence microscopy, the fluorophore can be just as important as the microscope itself, and the type of fluorophore being imaged dictates the excitation wavelength used and emission wavelength that's detected. The excitation wavelengths contain a small range of energies that can be absorbed by the fluorophore and cause it to transition into an excited state. Once excited, a wide range of emissions, or transitions back to the lower energy state, are possible resulting in an emission spectrum.
The difference between the peak of the absorption, or excitation curve and the peak of the emission curve is known as Stoke's Shift. The greater the distance in this shift, the easier it is to separate the two different wavelengths. Additionally, any overlapping spectrum needs to be removed by the components of the filter cube for reduced background and improved image quality.
Exposure of the fluorophore to prolonged excitation will cause it to photobleach, which is a weakening or loss of fluorescence. To reduce photobleaching, you can add an anti-fade mounting medium to the slide and seal the edges with nail polish. The slide should also be kept in the dark when not being imaged.
To begin fluorescence imaging, turn on the xenon or mercury light source and allow it to warm up for as long as 15 minutes in order for it to reach constant illumination.
Next, place your sample on the stage and secure it in place. Then, turn on the white light source of your microscope. Focus on your sample using the lowest powered objective by adjusting the coarse and fine focus knobs. Then, use the stage adjustment knobs to find your area of interest.
Next, turn off the white light source, as well as any unnecessary room lights to reduce background.
Select the correct filter cube for the dye you are imaging and open the shutter to illuminate your sample.
Finally, make fine focus adjustments and direct the output light to the imaging camera. You will likely need to make adjustments to the exposure time for each different fluorophore or fluorescent dye used. However, it is important to keep the exposure time constant when comparing features with the same dye on different samples.
To image multiple dyes on the same sample, change the filter cube to match each fluorophore and record the new image.
After each dye in the sample has been imaged, individual images can be overlaid and merged.
Many different types of experiments can make use of fluorescent microscopy and involve different types of fluorophores One of the most common applications of fluorescent microscopy is the imaging of proteins that have been labeled with antibodies that are attached to, or "conjugated" to fluorescent compounds.. Here, an antibody towards leptospiral surface proteins was detected using a secondary antibody conjugated to alexafluor-488, which fluoresces green when excited.
Another way to highlight a specific feature with fluorescence is to integrate the code for a fluorescent protein such as green fluorescent protein, or GFP, into the DNA of an organism. The gene for GFP was originally isolated from jellyfish and can be expressed, or produced, by cultured cells in response to specific triggers or as part of a specific cell type like the tumor cells shown glowing in this image
Another application of fluorescence imaging is Fluorescence Speckle Microscopy which is a technology that uses fluorescently labeled macromolecular assemblies such as the F-actin network seen here, to study movement and turnover kinetics of this important cytoskeletal protein.
An advanced technique known as Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching, or FRAP, is performed by intentionally photobleaching a small region of a sample in order to monitor the diffusion rate of fluorescently labeled molecules back into the photobleached region.
You've just watched JoVE's introduction to Fluorescence Microscopy.
In this video we learned about the concept of fluorescence, how fluorescence microscopy differs from light microscopy, and how to take a fluorescence image through the scope. We also learned about some basic and advanced applications that use fluorescence. Thanks for watching and don't forget while photobleaching looks great on your teeth it's not so good for your samples.
Fluorescence microscopy is a very powerful analytical tool that combines the magnifying properties of light microscopy with visualization of fluorescence. Fluorescence is a phenomenon that involves absorbance and emission of a small range of light wavelengths by a fluorescent molecule known as a fluorophore. Fluorescence microscopy is accomplished in conjunction with the basic light microscope by the addition of a powerful light source, specialized filters, and a means of fluorescently labeling a sample. This video describes the basic principles behind fluorescence microscopy including the mechanism of fluorescence, the Stoke's shift, and photobleaching. It also gives examples of the numerous ways to fluorescently label a sample including the use of fluorescently tagged antibodies and proteins, nucleic acid fluorescent dyes with, and the addition of naturally fluorescent proteins to a specimen. The major components of the fluorescence microscope including a xenon or mercury light source, light filters, the dichroic mirror, and use of the shutter to illuminate the sample are all described. Finally, examples of some of the many applications for fluorescence microscopy are shown.
JoVE Science Education Database. General Laboratory Techniques. Introduction to Fluorescence Microscopy. JoVE, Cambridge, MA, (2017).
1Department of Cell Biology, Scripps Institute
This video describes the use of Fluorescent Speckle Microscopy (FSM) to capture high-resolution images of actin dynamics in PtK1 cells. To accomplish this, fluorescently labeled actin probes were microinjected into living cells and the macomolecular assemblies imaged with microscopy.
1Department of Molecular Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 2Department of Molecular Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Green-Fluorescent-Protein is used in this video as a marker of T-cells with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in zebrafish. The fluorescent protein is inserted into the DNA of the cells which are then transplanted into the zebrafish where the disease can be studied.
1Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, 2Research service, 151, Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, 3Departments of Medicine, Urology at David Geffen School of Medicine and Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Gentics, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), 4Division of Infectious Diseases, 111F, Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Health Care System
This video uses two different fluorescently tagged secondary antibodies each with specificity towards a different primary antibody to accurately measure cell division in tissue samples. In addition, each cell is labeled with a fluorescent nuclear counterstain, DAPI, so overall cell number can be measured.
1MRC Centre for Synaptic Plasticity, University of Bristol
FRAP (fluorescence recovery after photobleaching) is a technique utilized in this video where fluorescent proteins are photobleached and the diffusion of other fluorescently labeled proteins into the photobleached region are measured by the change in fluorescent intensity.
1National Exposure Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, US Environmental Protection Agency, 2Shaw Environmental & Infrastructure, 3Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water, US Environmental Protection Agency
Concentrated water borne pathogens are visualized in this video by labeling them with a 2 different fluorescent dyes including a fluorescently labeled antibody and a fluorescent nuclear stain. The fluorescent staining in this video is helpful in differentiating different types of pathogens.


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Stockdale 5K set in memory of California University student
In 2011, Chaley Knight organized the initial For the Love of Lindsey Memorial Race in memory of her sister, Lindsey Popelas, who died Jan. 3, 2006, during a courageous battle with Hodgkin's disease.
The event, though, is held to celebrate her sister's life. Thus, it is held within the week of Lindsay's birthday.
So when the third annual staging of the race kicks off Aug. 31 from in front of the Stockdale Fire Hall, it will have the feel of a birthday party.
"My sister's birthday was Sept. 6, so it will always fall around her birthday," Knight said. "We picked this date mainly for that reason.
"We're going to celebrate my sister's birthday," Knight said. "We're going to have a cake and more food at the end of the race this year."
This would have been Popelus' 30th birthday. Photos of her will also be displayed inside the Stockdale Fire Hall.
The 5K race begins each year at the Stockdale Fire Hall and proceeds through the streets of Roscoe and Elco.
A Roscoe native, Lindsey Popelas was a California University of Pennsylvania student at the time of her death.
Last year, nearly 300 runners participated. About half of those registered the day of the race.
Knight said she plans to make some additions to the event each year.
Water stations will be set up at each mile marker. Residents in the neighborhoods will spray hoses and sprinklers to cool off runners.
Live bands will play along the route.
A silent auction is also being staged.
This year, runners will receive a race bag along with their T-shirt if they register by Aug. 17.
Jon DiFilippo will DJ the event and serve as emcee again this year. In 2011, DiFilippo was a Lindsey Marie Popelas Scholarship recipient.
Proceeds from the event benefit two scholarships. One is awarded to a California Area High School graduate who will attend California University of Pennsylvania to pursue a degree in education, like Popelas was doing at the time of her death.
This year, a scholarship will be awarded to a nursing student who plans to specialize in oncology. Both are $1,000 scholarships.
Online registration will continue through Aug. 29 at http://fortheloveoflindsey.info. Otherwise, registration will be conducted race day. Registration is $15 until Aug 17 and $20 after.
Chris Buckley is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 724-684-2642 or email@example.com.


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*The Community Portal is too cluttered. Is it even being monitored?
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We need your feedback! Our goal is to make wiki.familysearch.org a friendly, welcoming place that is easy for you to use and make contributions. Please leave your comments regarding the ease of use and/or contributing to the wiki. What is your experience? What challenges do you face in doing what you want to do? Where do you find help? This is the page for making comments on the problems.
To post comments for the answers you recommend, please go to What New Users and Contributors Want to Make Wiki Easier. Then, please add your "Vote" for what you feel is most urgent and important at Newbies Priorities. Experienced user/contributor feedback on early, new user experiences is also needed. This page is not placed on forums.familysearch.org to simplify access for newbies.
Written and verbal feedback already received has been posted below. Please feel free to sign your comments or leave them annonymous. Thanks! Kara aka CK Whipple 17:40, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
- "There's no way to know if my feedback is heard, so why bother?" I am in total agreement with you! I plan to create a page where users can view the progress of issues that have been submitted. At least you will be able to see what is in progress and the date things are finished. Communication isn't communication if it isn't two-way. I will do my best to get information out to you.Kara aka CK Whipple 02:34, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
- The Community Portal is too cluttered. Is it even being monitored?
- I'm embarrassed to suggest that my professional colleagues contribute.
- Why do we need forums separate from the wiki? And a separate sign-in?
- It would be nice if there was a central "bank" from which we could copy and paste references when we edit. Many are used frequently and the only format that I've found is within "footnotes"--which doesn't work.
- I'm discouraged by the complexities: discussion pages on multiple levels, forums, creating columns/tables, importing images, placing signatures on a discussion page is different than doing so in forums, sandboxes, user pages, why there can't be one editing tool instead of two that do two different things.
- The wiki is hard to use because it is hard to figure out the best way to search. Perhaps add a few tips on how to search.
- Don't like having to sign in again to link to the forum.
- The wiki is not easy to use and it is a complicated editing process with wikitext.
- There is a steep learning curve to editing the wiki. Tools need to be simple. Adding photos easiers.
- You really need to dumb it down. It is like computer geeks don't know how to talk to everyday people.
- Have to hunt for things. Can't find what I'm looking for.
- Professionals won't be drawn to the wiki unless there are tools that we need to use.
- Professionals want to make money and not have their articles edited. If we publish we want credit for our work.
- People are intimidated by it.
- The front page is very cluttered.
- Need to be able to connect with someone that can help me.
- Discussion pages need to be template and threaded and make it easier to add and respond topics for discussion.
- Is the wiki mature enough to be valuable to people? Why would I, as a genealogist, care the wiki is there? The colors are bland.
- The wiki is not very friendly - how do you connect with other contributors or see if someone else is working on what you want to do?
- LDSphilanthropies.org has more color. It is a church website.
- Creating columns is sooo hard. I try to avoid them.
- There needs to be a place for people who don't know how to do it.
- What value is the wiki? It doesn't seem organized. The home page needs to be simplified, attractive and clear.
- Genealogy tool like soundex, dictionaries, word lists, census forms perpetual calendar, age calculator, relationship calculator, and calendar converters or a tool for autocitations would be useful. Put all of this under tools. Need space and images more and less lists.(prof)
- Home is hard to find.
- The site is too crowded and disorganized. I have to scroll to find the navigation. Home should be on top.
- Requests for fixes are not responded to. There is serious lack of communication.
- You need a place on wiki for feedback.
- I don't know what to put in there so I use information from others. You need a format that we help fill in. It is too hard to create it ourselves.
- I would like to contribute but it is so hard that I resent the time I have to put in on it. People around me don't want to be intruded upon.
- If I have trouble on other sites I write them and they respond to me.
- The first screen (home page) needs to be more user friendly and inviting.
- We need contact with a person who knows it to help us learn.
- I would like to see more edit options on the tool bar and less working in wikitext. (techie person)
- The help feature on the home page needs to stand out. Currently it blends in with all of the other material on the Home Page
- I'll be honest, I feel like contributing to the wiki is boring. I have passion about genealogy but can't see how that translates to contributing to the wiki.
- The wiki is beige and boring.
- Hard to find "how to topics"
- I liked how easy it is to edit what other contributors have done. But it is hard to make brand new contributions yourself.
- Wiki needs easily creatable formats for new pages.
- Wiki is bland - it needs to look more creative.
- The wiki has incomplete and cryptic information and unsure lead-in to it. Needs to open with 10-15 research categories to stimulate and direct the user.
- Too complicated and circurtous.
- Too much training required to even start - discouraging. Needs to be 1 2 3 done.
- Need clear meaningful categories of real interest up front. Step-by-step, simple and attractive. Don't bury links in sentences or paragraphs. The countries are good, especialy USA but general and incomplete. The map to the States is great!
- Wiki needs to start out with a better opening. One in a country or category it gets better.
- The wiki needs a "Here's what you will love" opening matrix, if possible.
- It's too hard to figure out what to put in the search box without suggestions.
- The site needs color.
- I couldn't figure out the rules and was afraid to contribute and break one.
- When I first tried to explore the site I got lost or was refused entry.
- You need training to use it.
- The "Help" needs to be more visible and more helpful.
- I had a hard time finding "Home". Most sites have it on top center or left to easily get back to the home page.
- Editing is hard. I couldn't find training or support. The wiki really needs quick guides on how to edit.
- The wiki could use a video to help train on how to use it.
- If I want to contribute but it is too hard, could I email the information to someone and they could enter it for me?
- As far as foreign language research goes, other websits are more thorough like genealogy.net. Most serious contributors are outside of the USA and are not capable to contribute in English. Societies or individuals who want to contribute something usually have their own sites or contibute through societies.
- To introduce a new person to this wiki, if you are familiar with computers, this is still a problem. It takes a long time to learn how to do this program. Originally it was a little easier with the portal pages. Now, as I introduce others to this program, they still have difficulty finding what they want. A specific research problem, or area both involved.
- It's hard to figure out if something is already there.
- Adding to the wiki - some of it is straight forward and some of it is hard to figure out.
- Where does a particular piece of information go. It is hard to figure out.
- What information can be added from where? What about copyright issues?
- Where is the 'creative' team? A real Home Page is needed to attract people to this web-site. Put buttons on there that help people navigate or find instructions on how to input their own information. In English please and not computerese! Also a 'contact' button where people can sent e-mails and have them answered!
- For every country have a file where people can put copies of pictures in (plus the link where it was taken from), so that when they want to add a picture they can go to that file and copy and paste it instead of having to follow so many steps to add a picture - that will also assure that people can check on the copyright of that picture.
- Columns - an absolute nightmare!!!
- Why 'wiki-text' and not just the 'copy and paste' possibility?
- When you minimize your screen on your monitor, the navigation on the right side of the page (or anything that is on that side) should not disappear to the bottom of the screen where people can't find it.
- Sorry, I just find it a pain to work with and postpone it as long as I can!!!
- Great application!!! Fun to use. Keep text on the left instead of RHS. Better to scroll to navigation rather than for every line of text. It's time to nail down the place naming policy. Glitz and colour are unimportant.


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A DIESEL spill has polluted the River Irwell — leading to concerns from Bury anglers.
The spill at a Tesco petrol station in Haslingden has contaminated the river, and the Environment Agency and the fire service have been on the scene.
Tesco said the underground leak has been stopped yesterday morning, and that there is no immediate danger to the public.
But Eric Owen, of Little Britain Angling, a new club which fishes in the river near his home in Keswick Drive, Radcliffe, says the river has turned green, and has concerns for nearby wildlife.
He said: "We won't be able to tell how it has affected wildlife until it has become clear again, but hopefully with the rain it will disperse it and not have too much of an impact.
A spokesman for the Environment Agency said: "Environment Agency officers are at the scene of a diesel spill in Haslingden near Rossendale.
"We are providing advice on how to minimise the risk to the environment during the clean-up process, and we are monitoring the impact to local waterways and groundwater."
A Tesco spokesman added: "We stopped the leak yesterday morning and the fire service has advised us that there is no immediate danger to the public.
"The Environment Agency is now working with our engineers and other partner agencies to ensure the ground is cleaned up.
" Our store colleagues have been in touch with local residents to apologise for any smells caused by the leak and are keeping them closely updated as the clean-up progresses."


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English in Multilingual Classrooms (EDMT5533)
Many primary aged students born in Australia or overseas need support in developing English language. The type of support depends on the learners' needs. For example, some young children entering school with fluency in their first language, but not English will need intensive classroom support in social and school English as will some older students who arrive in Australia during their school years. Other students may be fluent and literate in their first language but others may have missed several years of schooling and may not be literate in any language. The aim of this unit of study is to provide you with both a foundation and a framework for the successful teaching of English as an additional language in a mainstream classroom. You will be encouraged to build on what you are discovering about the development of literacy in English 1 K-6 and how you may build on this knowledge and make decisions about an appropriate pedagogy for supporting students learning English as an additional language or dialect (EALD).
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The atmospheric lakeside city of Udaipur is full of surprises, especially for the first-time traveler in India. I'd long heard about the reputed fame of Rajasthani cuisine, known for its extensive use of a myriad of spices and condiments, so naturally I was curious to embark on a culinary tour here. From our lakeside hotel, we hopped onto a tuktuk (auto rickshaw) towards downtown Udaipur, 15 minutes away from Lake Picchola (where the old town is located).
Fine Dining with a Modern Twist
Stepping through its giant brass door, we were transported to an Eden of some sort – a garden setting dimly lit up with candle lights and decked out in European flair. Families and couples dine under beautiful silk canopies, illuminated by the moonlight. Victorian-style fountains and wooden outdoor furnishing create an intimate setting.
The main restaurant is housed in an impressive white building that resembles an old-style haveli (palace-like mansion). A live band sits on its patio, playing mellow Hindi music in the background. The overall design of the restaurant is sophisticated, rustic yet stylish.
Over at its wine bar, Winos, the decor is even more elegant, with grey bricked walls, chic furnishing and polished flooring. On a Saturday night, the lounge was filled to the brim with young urbanites and professionals.
The restaurant's marketing manager, Archana Shaktawat tells me, "Lal Bagh emphasizes on a complete dining experience, so we make sure not only the food but the ambiance and service are immaculate."
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Besides using farm-fresh ingredients and homegrown vegetables, head chef Mangi Lal Kumhar adopts unusual cooking styles for his innovative creations. He takes traditional recipes and gives them a fresh spin, making his menu one of a kind.
Our experience started with a traditional welcome drink, Aam Panna: a refreshing salty beverage made from green mangoes and mint leaves. Next came a series of delectable snacks, each looking colorful and spicy. My favorite pick is the paneer kundwada, cottage cheese deep-fried in vegetable masala.
Unlike western way of eating, Indian cuisine is usually enjoyed all at once – no separation of appetizers and main course. So you could easily imagine the spread on our table as the dishes were served up one by one, not for the faint-hearted.
Of all the meat stews, curries and rice dishes, the mutton soyta (mutton chunks simmered in fresh corn and curd gravy) stood out for its rich, lathery gravy and tender cooked-to-perfection meat. Its rajwadi safed murgh (chicken in a white cashew nut gravy) is also another crowd-puller, complimented immaculately with the garlic naan.
Like they say, let's save the best for last. Lal Bagh's signature dessert, phirni, is a traditional North Indian creamy rice pudding prepared like in the olden days, in old earthern pots to soak up its flavor.
A contemporary restaurant in the historical town of Udaipur is hard to find, but Lal Bagh manages to pull it off pretty well. The only downside to the restaurant would be its location. It might be centrally located in the new part of Udaipur (which is great for locals who work downtown), it's quite a distance from the old town, where most hotels are located.
But check out the restaurants in the tourist area and you'll realize there isn't much of a selection in both quality and variety, so you are still better off catching a 15-minute tuktuk ride to Lal Bagh for great food and atmosphere.
Disclaimer: My experience at Lal Bagh was sponsored by the restaurant, but all the opinions above are my own.
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What's more likely: adolescents too young to care about politics egging the Pitkin County Republican headquarters, or adults too old for such a prank being the culprits?
The local GOP is faced with that question, as its campaign office at Aspen's S-curves was tagged by egg-throwing vandals Friday night for at the third time in the last month, said party Chair Frieda Wallison.
This weekend's incident was the worst, she said, with egg covering all the windows and each side of the Victorian home that serves as the party's base.
"This is the worst it's been, and it seems to be escalating," Wallison said.
The latest incident was reported to Aspen police Saturday. Republican volunteers found an empty egg carton on the premises — the guilty party used the large grade-A variety from City Market — and turned it over to the cops as evidence.
Aspen police said they would keep an eye out for after-hours suspicious activity around the GOP house, Wallison said.
And while she doesn't know if the incidents are connected, Wallison said local Republicans were subject to more shenanigans this weekend. While staffing the booth at the Saturday farmer's market, Wallison said she was approached by a group of kids she estimated to be around 13 years old. They asked about the Romney/Ryan T-shirts the booth stocks, and if they were available for free. Wallison told the boys the shirts typically required a $15 donation. The boys appeared dejected, and said they didn't have the cash.
This tugged at Wallison's heart a bit, so she decided the local GOP could spare a T-shirt for one of the kids.
After she handed the shirt over, "He walked away toward his friends, who were sort of giggling, so I should have known," Wallison said.
According to reports passed onto Wallison, one of the boys was later seen walking around the farmer's market wearing the T-shirt, to which he had made his own editorial additions with a marker. On the back, he had written "Save Big Bird," presumably referencing GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney's promise to cut federal funding for PBS. On the front, under the Romney/Ryan logo, he had written "is hate."
Wallison said she spent the rest of the afternoon looking for the group of boys around the market, but to no avail.
"I would've yanked the T-shirt right off of him," Wallison said. "It was very disheartening. You're trying to be magnanimous, but you are repaid in a way that is very disheartening."
Wallison was trying to decide Sunday whether to hire a professional cleaning service to deal with the egg residue that still covered her building, or to leave it to her volunteers. Despite the mess, normal activity at the headquarters such as phone banking continued through the weekend.
"The fact that we are covered in egg is not turning anybody away," she said.


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David Rodgers wrote:
> OK ... I didn't really like the captive portal idea but since it's already
> this far how about the next logical step .....
Luckily it can be disabled (indeed this is the default state). As I
understand it, there is no overhead or possibility of security issues
when the portal feature is disabled.
> How about an authentication option that can be enabled for the portal to allow
> you to controls users via a radius server? Just a click box that adds a
> userid and password field to the aup form and uses radius authentication.
This can already be achieved (more or less) by pasting in the right
HTML code. That being said, I think Manuel et.al. is already working
on something along these lines, albeit in a more flexible way:
If I remember correctly, the plan is to remove the auto-generated
button, and instead preload the HTML box with the code for the button.
This way you can either choose to elaborate on the HTML code, or you
can simply do a redirect to some auth. page (such as radius). It
should then be possible to authorize a user by throwing a HTTP
response at m0n0wall (similar to that generated by the preloaded code
for the button i guess?)
While perhaps not as easy to set up, this should provide for a more
flexible system, allowing you to do more or less whatever you fancy
with the portal page.
Additionally, I got the impression that a white-list feature is also
under way, in the form of a list where you can enter a number of MAC
addresses which are allowed to bypass the portal page entirely.
I hope this fits your bill? It certainly does mine, but then again,
I'm not really in need of a portal, I'm just playing around with it
for my WLAN guests at home, mainly for the coolness factor ;)


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MULTIPLE EXPOSURES: JEWELRY AND PHOTOGRAPHY to Open 5/13 at Museum of Arts and Design
On view at the Museum of Arts and Design from May 13 to September 14, 2014, Multiple Exposures: Jewelry and Photography is the first museum exhibition to examine how contemporary jewelry artists are using photography to explore issues central to contemporary experience, including changing views of beauty and the human body; social, political, and cultural issues; memory and desire; and the relationship of jewelry to society and personal identity.
Today's revolution in image creation, manipulation, and transmission has served as a catalyst for the artists featured in Multiple Exposures to take a serious look at the pictures in our lives-the Daguerreotypes, tintypes, and Kodachromes we have inherited from earlier times, as well as the digital images currently streaming from our cameras, computers, and smart phones. Focusing on contemporary works and featuring 170 objects, Multiple Exposures not only provides historical context for this evolving 150-year-old relationship, but also delves into recent developments in contemporary photo-jewelry through cutting-edge videos and installations.
More than 80 renowned artists from over 20 countries are represented in the exhibition, including Gijs Bakker, Wafaa Bilal, Mari Ishikawa, Jiro Kamata, Sooyeon Kim, Otto Künzli, Iris Nieuwenburg, Kara Ross, Gabriela Sánchez y Sánchez de la Barquera, Bernard Schobinger, Bettina Speckner, Joyce Scott, Kiff Slemmons, Andy Warhol, and Noa Zilberman.
"Multiple Exposures: Jewelry and Photography offers the first rigorous survey and exploration of the deep and multifaceted relationship between these two mediums," says Glenn Adamson, MAD's Nanette L. Laitman Director. "The exhibition gives viewers the opportunity to engage with contemporary artists who push the boundaries of one field using the other, reinvigorating familiar forms while inventing new ones."
"In spite of their distinct histories and traits, or perhaps because of them, the fusion of these two mediums has resulted in a potent synergy that has reshaped jewelry," observes Ilse-Neuman. "Multiple Exposures: Jewelry and Photography captures the artistic strength embodied in this dynamic combination of object and image."
The exhibition is loosely organized around the following thematic threads: Identity and Representation, in which artists push the boundaries of portrait jewelry using images of family and friends, the celebrated and notorious, as well as anonymous individuals whose histories have been lost in time; The Body, featuring the changing concepts of beauty and imperfection of the human form as well as its interior; Landscape, architecture and their symbolic content; Appropriation, in which artists hijack and transform iconic imagery from the fine arts and popular culture as a way to comment on contemporary concerns; Tributes to cameras and photographic paraphernalia, featuring the imaginative and unexpectedly wearable pieces of jewelry created from dismantled camera components; and finally Jewelry Beyond the Object-its social and cultural significance beyond function and conventions-expressed through cutting-edge videos and photographs.
Context for the contemporary pieces in the exhibition is provided by 19th-century photo-jewelry featuring Daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes, as well as trench jewelry from the First and Second World Wars, many exhibited for the first time.
Highlights from the exhibition include:
Gijs Bakker's transformation of a Bruce Weber photograph of an athletic male nude pouring a bucket of water over his back into his sensuous and luxurious Waterman brooch (1991) by replacing the water drops with diamonds, encasing the image in PVC, and attaching a pin.
Jiro Kamata believes old lenses contain the history of all that has passed through them, and his Arboresque brooch (2010) blends colorfully painted lenses with lyrical forms to conjure rich associations with time, spirit, and mortality.
In Piece X (2011), Gabriela Sánchez y Sánchez de la Barquera subverts the refined aesthetics of cameos by using the form to frame close-up photographs of blemishes and body parts her friends consider to be unattractive and embarrassing.
Lauren Kalman's photographs and videos examine the grotesque aspects of body ornamentation. As her Tongue Gilding (2009) video progresses, what initially appears to be beautiful gilding can be seen as an instrument of torture as the tongue trembles and drips saliva in near asphyxiation.
Otto Künzli, one of the most provocative and influential jewelry artists of the last 40 years, experimented with the essential qualities of jewelry in a photo booth in Munich's central train station. His groundbreaking Automatenfotos (1976) document the process, as he tries out every imaginable combination of tape, wires, laces, and wooden rods on his own torso. The simple black-and-white photo strips he used to record his ideas set contemporary jewelry on a revolutionary path.
Bettina Speckner, one of the leading contemporary photo-jewelry artists, often obscures the faces in 19th-century portrait ferrotypes to transport the subjects into the existential ambiguity of the 21st century. In Untitled (2004), she uses her own bucolic landscape photographs and a complex photo-enameling technique to create a familiar pastoral atmosphere, but one devoid of nostalgia and decidedly of our time.
Sooyeon Kim's beautifully fragile neckpiece House on Benefit Street (2010) deconstructs a beloved house in Providence, Rhode Island, reflecting on Walter Benjamin's assertion that "photographs can act as a window on the architecture they depict."
In Hindsight (1997), Kiff Slemmons frames eyes with a lorgnette made from a clock-hand, creating a contemporary reinterpretation of earlier sentimental "lover's eyes" miniatures, in a collage that unifies the juxtaposed images to form the face of the brooch.
Bernard Schobinger retrieved discarded photographs from the rubbish for his Zerrissene Photographie (1985) neckpiece, weaving the torn images together into a fragmented glimpse of a lost family history he re-invented.
Dutch jeweler Ruudt Peters' Ritual (2007) reworks a family tradition of protecting a child with a religious medallion by replacing that revered image with his own smiling face.
In Minnesota Fats (1971) Don Tompkins depicts the notorious pool shark popularized in the film The Hustler, incorporating such symbolic attributes as a billiard ball rack and a cultured pearl cue ball.
Multiple Exposures: Jewelry and Photography is organized by MAD's Curator of Jewelry, Ursula Ilse-Neuman, assisted by Sophia Merkin, curatorial assistant and project manager for the exhibition, and Barbara Paris Gifford, curatorial resident. The remarkable exhibition design is by Rupert Deese.
A full color, illustrated, 288-page catalogue accompanies the exhibition and includes Curator of Jewelry Ursula Ilse-Neuman's lead essay, "The Image Transformed: Contemporary Photo-Jewelry" on the dramatic transformations in both media that are reflected in the burst of creative energy captured in the exhibition. It is followed by seven essays by prominent experts on a range of topics: photography historian and critic Lyle Rexer discusses the significance of historic photo jewelry in "Science, Sentiment, and Status: Early Photo Jewelry;" author, curator and editor of Metalsmith magazine Suzanne Ramljak analyzes the role of photographic portraiture in contemporary art jewelry in "Saving Face: Photo Portrait Jewelry;" MAD's William and Mildred Lasdon Chief Curator Lowery Sims addresses the manipulation and beautification of the human figure in "Wearing the Body;" author and critic Ellen Maurer-Zilioli focuses on landscapes and cityscapes-both real and imagined-"Remembered Places-Imagined Spaces;" Curator of Decorative Arts at the Toledo Museum of Art Jutta Page considers the ways in which jewelry artists co-opt well-known artworks and pop culture icons in their work in "The Appropriated Image in Contemporary Jewelry;" photography expert Mark Durant examines the use of cameras and photographic paraphernalia as raw materials for art jewelry in "Lost Lenses and Orphaned Apertures: Apparatus Transformed;" and Dutch author and jewelry curator Liesbeth den Besten examines jewelry beyond the physical object and other cutting-edge concepts in "Jewelry through the Lens."


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N.H. Employees and Citizens Receive Gulf of Maine Council Awards
Concord, NH – Two New Hampshire state employees and three citizens were honored today for their environmental work at a ceremony at the Governor and Council meeting at the State House. Governor John Lynch and the Department of Environmental Services Commissioner Tom Burack presented the Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment awards, which recognize the important contributions made by these individuals to the health of the Gulf of Maine, of which New Hampshire's coastal watershed is an integral part.
Each year the Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment, a U.S.-Canadian partnership dedicated to protecting environmental quality in the Gulf of Maine, recognizes exemplary work in each of its five jurisdictions, which include the states of Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts as well as the Canadian provinces New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
The following New Hampshire recipients received Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment awards at the State House ceremony:
Distinguished Service Award
The Distinguished Service Awards recognize dedication and commitment to marine environmental quality and sustainable resource use in the Gulf of Maine. The awards are given to participants from the jurisdictions who are retiring from working with the Council.
Ted Diers - New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services
Ted Diers, DES Watershed Management Bureau Administrator, served as manager of the New Hampshire Coastal Program at DES, the state's coastal zone management program. Over the past 15 years, he has focused his work on state and federal ocean policy, salt marsh and river restoration projects, and efforts to protect clean water throughout New Hampshire's coastal watershed.
Peter Lamb - New Hampshire
Peter Lamb has served as New Hampshire's private sector member to the Gulf of Maine Council since 2009. He has been invaluable in helping better understand how regional organizations like the Gulf of Maine Council can interact with Foundations and other charitable organizations.
Visionary Awards
The Gulf of Maine Visionary Awards recognize innovation, creativity, and commitment to marine protection by businesses, environmental organizations, or individuals who are making a difference to the health of the Gulf of Maine. The award is given to two individuals, businesses, or organizations within each state and province bordering the Gulf.
Stephen C. Landry - New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services
As Merrimack Watershed Supervisor at the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services as well as his numerous volunteer efforts, Steve has shown the utmost dedication to the protection and restoration of New Hampshire waters.
Ann Smith is a retired grade school teacher who has worked tirelessly to connect her students and citizens of Portsmouth to the environment by engaging them in environmental stewardship activities. Ann was the President of the Advocates for the North Mill Pond from 2005-2011 and helped the organization with numerous community stewardship and educational activities.
Susan Snow-Cotter Leadership Award
The Susan Snow-Cotter Leadership Award is bestowed in memory of Susan Snow-Cotter, a long-time friend of the Council. The Award honors those coastal management professionals who exemplify outstanding leadership or exceptional mentoring in the Gulf of Maine watershed. The award is given to an individual from one of the five sites and provinces. This year New Hampshire's Dr. David M. Burdick earned this prestigious honor.
Dr. David M. Burdick – New Hampshire
For the past 14 years, Dr. David M. Burdick has involved public school students and college level students in cooperative efforts centered on the restoration of tidal estuary ecosystems. The changes resulting from these cooperative efforts are visibly apparent in the Portsmouth tidal wetlands. Participants in Dr. Burdick's projects are able to view these wetlands with pride, knowing that their efforts have made a lasting, positive impact.
The Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment is a Canada/U.S. partnership of government agencies, non-government organizations and business interests which exchange information and engage in long-term planning to protect and enhance the environmental quality in the Gulf of Maine and its watersheds. Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts participate in the Council.
More information on the Council can be found at www.gulfofmaine.org.
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I have a Linksys/Cisco BEFSR81 cable/DSL router with 8 port switch. I need to add wireless capability to the system so I can connect up to 11 computers in my home. Is it possible to attach a Cisco WRT400N dual band wireless N router to one of my ports on the BEFSR81?
If this is possible, would there be anything else I need to do to make this happen. This will allow all of our computers and laptops to share the internet connection.


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Join the Bridport Twinning Association in celebrating a double anniversary when they gather at Home Farm, Bradpole on July 12.
The event will be held in honour of National Day in Bridport's twin town, St Vaast la Hougue in Normandy, together with the 35th anniversary of the twinning association.
Singer Julie Dunn will be performing and there will also be a wine bar, barbeque, a boules competition and raffle.
Entry is £5 and the event will be held from 6pm at Home Farm, opposite the post office in Bradpole


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Het Volkspark was designed as park for the people in 1872. It was a gift of factory tycoon H.J. van Heek who intended to give his employees an place to relax. It is one of the first public parks in holland and, at that time, it was situated outside the city. Since 1888 fairs are organised in the Volkspark. The profits from the fairs, a eastern-fair and a autumnfair, are used to maintain the park.


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In May, to celebrate Older Americans Month, we asked our followers on Facebook to send us pictures that fit the theme: "Never too old to..." Karen Miller's photo of her parents dancing at Graceland was one of the top picks. Recently, Karen sat down with Boomerang's Pete Tamburro to talk about the picture, her parents and her family.
Karen Miller never dreamed that when her parents, Earl and Betty Miller, took a turn on the dance floor on a trip to Graceland, it would end up being a second-place photo selection in the Department of Aging's third annual Older Americans Month photo project. For Karen, dancing is just something Mom and Dad always did. The Millers, of Wheelersburg, have been married for 63 years and are also 2010 Joined Hearts in Giving honorees.
To help them celebrate their years together, 36 family members tagged along for a week-long vacation to Myrtle Beach this past spring. Karen fondly recalls, "The lifeguard set up umbrella chairs in a horseshoe shape for us every morning to create our own 'family compound' on the beach. One night, all the family members ate together at a restaurant of Grandpa's choice, so we went to a buffet and had our own room. What a great time we all had being together. Their condo was always open, especially from 12 to 1 each day for lunch. Later, we would meet at the cabana close to our condo and watch them dance. The children and grandchildren would join them.
"They still go dancing three or four times a week wherever there is a DJ or live band that plays some music they enjoy. Dad likes to request the Brad Paisley song 'Today.' On one particular occasion, Dad requested that song, and everyone cleared the dance floor to watch them dance. There were many young people there that began crying while watching them and saying how wonderful it was to watch them and how they hoped for that same thing in their marriage. If there is no dance floor, they have been known to make one as they did at Graceland."
Karen continues about her parents' marriage, "The secret to their successful marriage is their love for each other that still shows today, their commitment to their children and grandchildren, their faith in their church and just their enjoyment of being with and doing things with each other. They still live in the same home Dad helped build 63 years ago. With a family of nine, we always ate our meals together and had no TV during that time. Dad had a huge garden and Mom was a great cook. Their Catholic faith was central in our lives. Their devotion to the parish life was and still is inspirational. Mom was a 4-H leader where she taught my sisters, myself and many others the value of work and fun combined. They were always such hard workers and self-sacrificing for us seven kids.
"And about the Graceland trip," Karen muses, "Mom and Dad did enjoy dancing to the whole song at Graceland. I believe Mom enjoyed all of Elvis's outfits and the tour of his home while Dad talks about the cars in the museum. We all enjoyed the music and sights of Memphis. Dad was surprised that Elvis' home wasn't bigger and what a family person he was." Back to Mom and Dad, "Mom takes great pride in her flowers, and she is happy to share them and her canned goods with others. People go out of their way to see Dad's Christmas lights each year. Dad donates his home made wine and Mom makes quilts for various fund raising auctions. Neither one of them knows a stranger."


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Carnage in the global equity markets could hardly have come in a worse week for the United States economy, weighed down as it is by fears of a double dip recession and having narrowly averted a debt crisis and possible default.
Spreading contagion from a potential euro-zone debt meltdown may serve as a reality check for American politicians who took their country to the brink in the debt crisis, but no one believes this marks the end of rancorous argument about taxes, spending cuts and, indeed, the future of the republic itself.
Americans, who have been on a wild ride, will need to keep their seatbelts fastened irrespective of what happens on Wall Street or on Europe's bourses. These are perilous times.
What is likely – even certain – is that before the year is over the country will find itself enmeshed once again in maudlin discussion about an ungovernable America even as its elected representatives pursue interests at a tangent from each other.
This bodes ill for global economic health. America's damaged economic engine is stalling as Europe's sovereign debt crisis escalates from the periphery to the centre.
Leadership has never been more needed – for America, as well as for a world that will reap any whirlwind delivered by intransigent US legislators.
Yet presiding over all of this – if you can use the word "preside" in
As former Clinton-era official William Galston put it: "He needs to plant a flag somewhere. I don't care what colour it is. But periodically planting a flag and then lowering it is no way to inspire confidence."
American liberals were dismayed by Obama's failure to insist on closing tax loopholes for industry and other such revenue-enhancing measures in the face of determined Republican opposition.
In the end he retreated without much to show for what he had described as a "grand bargain" with his Republican opponents, but which turned out to be no bargain at all from the standpoint of many of his supporters.
These are dispiriting moments for America's friends and allies, and no doubt for the American people, if the opinion polls of a disgusted populace are a guide.
What we witnessed during the week is a temporary respite in hostilities that will resume within days as a "super-committee" of 12 legislators from the House of Representatives and the Senate – six Democrats and six Republicans – comes together to thrash out $US1.5 trillion in spending cuts over 10 years.
The operative phrase here is "thrash out".
The deadline for this wish-list of cuts is November 23 and it is to be voted on in an "up-and-down" vote no later than December 23. The "up-and-down" vote refers to no amendments, no filibusters and simple majorities in both houses.
Failing that, $US1.2 trilling in cuts on top of the $US917 billion already enacted under the debt-ceiling enabling legislation would kick in automatically by the end of the year. This is the incentive for squabbling legislators to reach a compromise – if that is possible.
In the background lurks the vexed issue of the George Bush tax cuts due to expire at midnight on December 31, unless they are renewed. Ending tax breaks for families earning more than $US250,000 annually would go a long way towards restoring budgetary equilibrium but the Republicans are obdurate.
This is shaping up as a huge source of contention and possible breakdown in a fragile amity that accompanied agreement about raising the debt ceiling.
Former Treasury secretary Lawrence Summers wrote in The Washington Post: "Soon relief will give way to alarm about the United States' economic future.
"Two issues stand out: First the single largest and easiest method of deficit reduction available is the non-extension of the Bush tax cuts for upper incomes.
"President Obama should make it clear that he will not accept their extension on any terms. Clarity on that trillion-dollar point, along with very modest entitlement reform, will be sufficient to hit current targets for deficit reduction.
"Second, it is essential that the payroll tax cut be extended and that further measures, such as infrastructure maintenance and extension of unemployment insurance, be taken to spur demand.
"There is still time to confirm Churchill's maxim that the United States always does the right thing after exhausting all the alternatives."
The latter has become an article of faith among Americans and non-Americans alike, but it takes a leap of imagination in this environment to assume that a rational outcome will eventuate in a presidential election year when the Republican opposition smells blood.
What Summers and others among liberal economists are arguing is the need for continued stimulus measures in an economy that is in danger of stalling, with growth in the first half of the year at the near stalling speed of less than 1 per cent.
Summers warns that the economy has a one in three chance of falling back into recession if nothing new is done to raise demand and spur growth.
Among his concerns is that expiration of payroll tax cuts at the end of the year would remove one of the last pillars of fiscal stimulus in the economy when all the signs are pointing to a continued slowdown.
However, a Republican Party in the thrall of the Tea Party movement and seemingly insouciant about the consequences of its actions is not in the mood for compromise, and seemingly resistant to warnings about the perilous economic circumstances in which America finds itself.
But having yielded the high ground in the debate about America's economic trajectory, the White House finds itself scrambling to assert itself in the face of a determined opponent that can read and interpret the polls.
How Obama came to allow the initiative to slip from his grasp on issues such as deficit reduction and management of the debt ceiling crisis in particular reflects a wider narrative about a president who is in danger of going the way of Jimmy Carter, who lost spectacularly to Ronald Reagan.
Obama would have saved himself a lot of trouble if he had used Democratic majorities available to him in both houses in December during the "lame duck" session of Congress to raise the debt ceiling, and avoid the need for a protracted and ultimately destructive process from his standpoint and that of US confidence generally.
He might also have embraced the recommendations of two blue ribbon debt-reduction panels, one a presidential commission, but in the event chose not to do so in order to avoid contentious political issues.
This is part of a pattern of presidential behaviour that suggests an unwillingness to confront problems, rather than a predisposition to avoid them if possible until they become unavoidable.
Veteran Iowa senator Tom Harkin was quoted as comparing Obama unfavourably with Harry Truman, who nationalised the steel industry in 1952 in the face of a steel strike, or John F. Kennedy, who threatened steel executives with an anti-trust investigation to discourage price increases.
"He went wobbly in the knees," Harkin said.
The spectacle of Obama being reduced to the role of virtual bystander during the concluding stages of the debt-ceiling negotiations will have dispirited his supporters, including those who might be expected to be his foot soldiers during the 2012 presidential election.
Obama's re-election prospects have not been enhanced by the events of the past several weeks, and might be expected to worsen if the economy continues to soften and unemployment remains at or near double digits.
These are precarious times for the Obama presidency, no less for the country he leads.
Obama's personal approval ratings are slipping to the low 40s and public endorsement of his economic management is in the 30s. A vast majority of Americans believe the country is on the wrong track, according to the polls.
The President will be drawing little comfort from battleground state polls such as those in Pennsylvania which show him neck-and-neck with Republican front-runner Mitt Romney.
Former Bill Clinton adviser-turned-rabid-critic of Democrats, Dick Morris, contrasts the bump his former boss got in the polls during the 1995-96 budget crisis with Obama's slippage. Clinton went from an approval rating of 40 per cent to 55 per cent over the course of 1995. Ratings for Obama, on the other hand, have declined from 55 per cent in May, when Osama bin Laden was killed, to 40 per cent.
Clinton's deft handling of the budget crisis in which he faced down threats by Republicans to shut down the government was rewarded in the polls. Obama's ineffectiveness has been penalised.
Commentators from left and right have lined up to express their misgiving about America's 44th and first black president, from George Wills on the right to Paul Krugman on the left.
If there is a theme that joins the two streams it is that Obama lacks definition and is in danger of being overwhelmed by the challenges he faces.
Comparing Obama's situation with that of Reagan in 1982, when 10.8 per cent unemployment pushed his poll number into the 30s, Galston writes: "Even when Reagan's approval rating dipped below 40 per cent, the people knew who he was and where he wanted to take the country, and to an extent that is surprising, even in hindsight, they stuck with him.
"Obama has 15 months left to convince people that he is that kind of president. "The odds are getting longer, and the time is getting shorter."
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"Really? Are you listening to yourself? Think about what the fuck you just said. Maybe it's already gotten into you."
"Fuck you! I never touched it! Where's the fucking dog?" He turned away and headed for the patio door. That annoying yapping thing was gone. I hated that dog ever since Jim saved it from the shelter. It was always barking and pissing on my carpet, if it ran away- good riddance. "Maybe it ate it."
He came back in the room with rubber gloves and a bucket. "Yeah, well maybe fuck you Adam." Wow he's pissed at something, I thought. But then, the moment he touched it I blinked and he was gone. Poof, just vanished. But the thing got bigger.
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Ram Truck today unveiled a new commercial van, the 2012 Ram C/V cargo van. If that photo of it looks familiar, it should -- the Ram C/V is repackaged, beefed-up version of the just-redone Dodge Caravan minivan we featured last Friday in Test Drive.
The C/V, rolled out at the National Truck Equipment Association's show in Indianapolis, comes with all, some or none of the minivan's rear windows.
And it has a utilitarian interior that can swallow 4-x-8-foot sheets of plywood and features a structural aluminum load floor that comes as a flat expanse or, optionally, with underfloor bins and tie-downs.
Upgraded suspension bits, brakes, tires and other pieces raise the cargo and towing capacity to acceptable commercial levels.
"It's been modified inside and out to handle the hard-life duty of a delivery and utility hauler. It's also a quick way for Ram to tackle competition from the Ford Transit Connect while Chrysler works on importing the Fiat Doblo small van into North America," our friend Mike Levine of PickupTrucks.com, wrote from the show today (see his coverage of the show under "Latest News" here).
The Pentastar V6-powered Class 1 commercial van will carry up to a 1,800-lb. cargo payload in 144.4 cu. ft. of space and will tow up to 3,600 lbs. Ram says it will deliver 25 mpg on the highway and will have a 20-gal. fuel tank for greater range.
The C/V will go on sale in the third quarter and Ram said pricing will be announced closer to the launch.
Ram -- which lost the popular, bigger Sprinter van when former owner Daimler took it back and is seeing the small commercial van success Ford is having with the Transit Connect -- may have more commercial vans coming:
Fiat-controlled Chrysler has reportedly been looking at importing a Ram version of the Fiat Doblo from Europe (where it competes with the Transit Connect), as well as the larger Fiat Ducato.
And Ram CEO Fred Diaz told Levine that the company hasn't ruled out selling a version of the Sprinter-like Iveco Daily in North America.
"The Daily is something we're also looking at," Diaz said. "It's part of what we're considering. We just have to make the business case for it."
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Dec. 14, 2004 -- Good news: The Empty Stocking program has enough toys this year to ensure an estimated 1,400 children in Hopkins County won't go without Christmas gifts.
Bad news: Next Christmas isn't looking so promising.
And that's really bad news.
While generous donations of toys have helped Empty Stocking meet its ambitious goal of making sure no child has to go without a Christmas present, monetary contributions have fallen well short of the norm this season.
"I've never finished a Christmas season with less than $10,000," Empty Stocking board member Gena Watson said of the project's bank account. "This year we only have $6,100."
That's especially troubling because Empty Stocking depends on donations of money in December to buy the vast majority of the toys it distributes at wholesale toy market shows in the spring.
"Most of the money gets spent in March, and most of it is donated in December," Watson said. "Nobody gives us money in March."
The ability to buy the gifts in bulk may be more important now than ever due to the ever-rising number of families in need. Consider that two years ago Empty Stocking brought toys to more than 1,100 children in the community who might otherwise have gone without Christmas gifts. This year, Watson said, the number is closer to 1,400.
"And there will be a lot of people show up on Saturday that we don't know about," she said.
A donation box has been set up for Empty Stocking at Community Bank, located at 1404 South Broadway St., or tellers will accept the donations at the bank for the project.
Monetary donations can also be made year 'round to: Project Empty Stocking, P.O. Box 2218, Sulphur Springs, TX 75483.
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SquareEnix is really dumb and gonna go bankrupt soon unless they remake FF7
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Think about the Wall Market scenes...
Yes, in 1080p with an adjustable camera. Don't forget the scene where Hojo tries to breed Nanaki and Aerith. And Cloud making out with Priscilla.
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ZakielKugel 4 years ago#72
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Bankrupt are you kidding me?
It's entirely possible. Which is why S-E keeps diversifying hoping to minimize their losses.
At this rate, S-E is going to be almost entirely a publisher of Western IPs from studios they've bought. S-E doesn't seem to be able to make a good original IP no matter how many times they try.
They're dominating JRPGs on the 360 because they are only company that still makes them
Well, assuming these sales numbers are correct.
As of Nov 10th 2012, 360 sales only.
Final Fantasy XIII: 1.91 Million (S-E)
Blue Dragon: 0.86 Million (Mistwalker)
Lost Odyssey: 0.84 Million (Mistwalker)
Star Ocean: The Last Hope: 0.72 Million (Tri-Ace)
Infinite Undiscovery: 0.65 Million (Tri-Ace)
The Last Remnant: 0.65 Million (S-E)
Tales of Vesperia: 0.63 Million (Namco Tales Studio)
Final Fantasy XIII-2: 0.57 Million (S-E)
Eternal Sonata: 0.26 Million (tri-Crescendo (Namco)
A good lead, sure, but I don't know about domination. In the US, possibly. Europe? Not so much. Japan? Not at all. If FF-13 was a 360 exclusive, it would have dominated JRPG sales though on the 360.
Also, certainly not the only company.
This list above leaves out many games by many other companies.
Let's not even get into other Japanese developed games on the 360 that aren't your typical JRPGs.
As a bonus, Magna Carta 2: 0.27 Million (Softmax) Oh, South Korea.
Unbridled9 4 years ago#73
Coming into FF as an outsider who didn't play any games prior to X and then went back and replayed them all...
FFVII really isn't all that outstanding. Okay, that's a bit harsh but, imagine what a remake would do for the people who weren't introduced to FFVII in the PS1 era. It's somewhat clunky compared to other FF games, it's story could do with some smoothing out, but otherwise, it's just... A good game. But nowhere near as epic as the lovers seem to think it is. About all they could do is update the graphics and add in VA, but that's not as huge a thing as people seem to think it is.
Really? I'd rather see them remake a bad FF so that they can make it good or re-release IX into a market that might actually play it than see VII get re-released. Sides, if they made any actual changes to the game on anything more than a cosmetic/almost insignificant level the fans would outrage, especially since the number one change would probably be allowing a certain character to rejoin the party (likely in a post-game thing) which would elicit outcries from almost everyone who played the original.
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Too bad FF7 was a pain to play and is only spoken of in a good way by fanboys. I remember playing it years ago when my friend convinced me too. I got about half way done and just said "okay..I'm quitting this". The game was extremely easy, poor story line, the main boss was not memorable, and the main characters were just plain dull. FF7 will always remain a good game for fanboys only.
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Reason they don't remake it, they can't.
Basically they only have 5% of the people who worked on it still with the company.
The biggest problem, this entire series is trash now. Turned it into a stupid cartoon series, they did to FF what the phantom menace did to star wars.
But forget about their latest failures, look at FF7's spin offs. Advent children was one of the worst sequels I've seen, full of plot holes and the main plot couldn't have occured if you finished FF7. Crisis core was a complete abortion that butchered FF7's story. Gameplay was alright in it, but it certainly wasn't worth crap like "I'm afraid of the sky!"
I mean come on that wing **** with those of soldier it's like some 10 year old fanboy wrote that crap in. Only person who could "fly" was sephiroth and that's because in FF7 he was basically a ghost. But you have seen so many nerdgasms over that one winged angel theme that SE's lowsy writers are throwing that into the story.
FF in the mid/late 90s was brutal (when FF was at it's peak), FF7 had straight up acts of terrorism, midgar snake impaled by a tree, bloody trails left by sephiroth. FF8 had an assassination, and at that same place a country's president basically gets melted on stage. Tactics had people getting impaled with swords.
Modern FF has humanoid rabits and lines like "moms are tough", it's a ridiculous cartoon they're expecting adults to like.
Read that **** in that link, that's who SE is making games for now.
its a bird, its a plane, its...
another fanboyish FFVII topic!
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CadilacDon 4 years ago#77
I mean seriously why would they go broke FFXIII-2 sold quite well around the world. Sleeping Dogs sold incredibily well for a first launch title. The Did really well with Deus Ex HR which was pretty amazing. Then you have them lauching another succesful Kingdom Hearts Game and then they are follwing all this up with the new Hitman game and Tomb Raider Game. Dude just stop they aren't making what they used to make but they aren't going bankrupt any time soon
Given how awful they've been in recent years i actually hope SE stay the heck away from remaking FF7. They'd probably change it into a hack n slash bore-a-thon to "update" it
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ArcFan10000 4 years ago#79
FF7 wasnt a bad game, but it's nowhere near FF6 in gaming and sidequests and quality.
FF7 is easy yeah I got a gold chocobo in under 8 hours. Sometimes it takes people longer than that.
Once you get knights of the round the game is pretty much over. A few extra bosses here and there, but none of them are required.
The cast of characters was alright but nowhere near as good a cast as Final Fantasy 4 or Final Fantasy 6.
I would say I liked FF5 better than FF7 because that game was way more of a challenge to me.
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Too many homosexuals in the community for FF than in the 90s, thats why they sway the developers in making the characters "fabulous". I mean look at FF12 rofl Every single male in that game, I mean EVERY single male, was feminine...excuse me "fabulous". Now take those characters and compare them to Cyan and Locke.
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Sempra Energy (NYSE:SRE) Given Average Rating of "Hold" by Brokerages
Shares of Sempra Energy (NYSE:SRE) have earned a consensus recommendation of "Hold" from the seven research firms that are currently covering the firm, MarketBeat.com reports. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, three have assigned a hold rating and three have assigned a buy rating to the company. The average 12 month target price among brokerages that have updated their coverage on the stock in the last year is $121.75.
Several analysts recently commented on SRE shares. Barclays PLC cut Sempra Energy from an "overweight" rating to an "equal weight" rating and set a $121.00 target price on the stock. in a report on Thursday, June 8th. BidaskClub upgraded Sempra Energy from a "sell" rating to a "hold" rating in a report on Wednesday, June 21st. BMO Capital Markets reiterated a "hold" rating and issued a $115.00 target price on shares of Sempra Energy in a report on Wednesday, May 10th. Finally, Morgan Stanley upped their target price on Sempra Energy from $129.00 to $130.00 and gave the company an "overweight" rating in a report on Monday, May 8th.
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Shares of Sempra Energy (NYSE:SRE) traded up 0.48% on Friday, hitting $112.15. 792,862 shares of the stock traded hands. The stock has a market cap of $28.13 billion, a PE ratio of 19.30 and a beta of 0.54. The stock has a 50 day moving average of $114.20 and a 200-day moving average of $108.83. Sempra Energy has a 1-year low of $92.95 and a 1-year high of $117.97.
Sempra Energy (NYSE:SRE) last announced its earnings results on Tuesday, May 9th. The utilities provider reported $1.74 EPS for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.59 by $0.15. Sempra Energy had a return on equity of 9.06% and a net margin of 13.77%. The business had revenue of $3.03 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $2.87 billion. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted $1.27 earnings per share. The firm's revenue was up 15.6% on a year-over-year basis. On average, equities research analysts expect that Sempra Energy will post $5.10 EPS for the current year.
The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Saturday, July 15th. Shareholders of record on Friday, July 7th will be issued a dividend of $0.8225 per share. This represents a $3.29 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.93%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, July 5th. Sempra Energy's payout ratio is 56.92%.
In other Sempra Energy news, CEO Debra L. Reed sold 23,000 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, May 23rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $113.43, for a total transaction of $2,608,890.00. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer now directly owns 112,345 shares in the company, valued at approximately $12,743,293.35. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this link. 0.17% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.
Several institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of the company. Guardian Life Insurance Co. of America boosted its position in Sempra Energy by 0.6% in the first quarter. Guardian Life Insurance Co. of America now owns 964 shares of the utilities provider's stock worth $107,000 after buying an additional 6 shares during the last quarter. Financial Architects Inc boosted its position in Sempra Energy by 0.5% in the first quarter. Financial Architects Inc now owns 1,359 shares of the utilities provider's stock worth $150,000 after buying an additional 7 shares during the last quarter. Oppenheimer Asset Management Inc. acquired a new position in Sempra Energy during the first quarter worth about $170,000. Signaturefd LLC acquired a new position in Sempra Energy during the first quarter worth about $201,000. Finally, Pacific Center for Financial Services boosted its position in Sempra Energy by 265.1% in the first quarter. Pacific Center for Financial Services now owns 1,829 shares of the utilities provider's stock worth $202,000 after buying an additional 1,328 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 82.04% of the company's stock.
Sempra Energy Company Profile
Sempra Energy is a holding company. The Company's principal operating units are Sempra Utilities, which includes its San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E), Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) and Sempra South American Utilities segments, and Sempra Infrastructure, which includes its Sempra Mexico, Sempra Renewables and Sempra LNG & Midstream segments.
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