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Acupuncture and Related Treatment Techniques
Needling Depths/angles: (derived from the classics)
• Distal yin meridian command points: 1/8 to 1/4" perpendicular or with/against flow
• Distal yang meridian command points 1/4 to 1/2" perpendicular or with/against flow
• Local front Mu points: 1/4 to 1/2" angled obliquely as per CAM and Deadman
• Local back Shu points: Bl 11-22: 1/4 to 1/2" oblique with flow of channel or toward spine; Bl 23-28: Perpendicular up to 1" inserted slowly with slight small rotation
• Local Ashi points: TCM-slowly into belly of muscle ashi point, and/or needles above, below or to either side of ashi point angled toward ashi point 1/2" or less
• Local joint points: as per CAM and Deadman
• Local Trigger Points: shallow subcutaneously over myofascial TrP or just into surface of muscle for APM with uneven rate sparrow pecking; into belly of muscle TrP for Travell dry-needle technique, with fanning/or fast-in/fast-out of belly of muscle TrP as per Dr. Hong
Needle Sizes and Types
At the college needles are never inserted more than one half their length into the tissue. Thus a one inch needle may be inserted up to one half inch, a two inch needle may be inserted up to one inch, and so on. Needle lengths are selected with this in mind. Needles over viscera are inserted obliquely at depths that do not run the risk of puncturing these viscera.
• Japanese # 3 1" for distal points; Japanese # 3 1" for Mu and Shu points; Japanese or Chinese # 3(34 gauge) 1 ½" for Joint points and # 3 or # 5 1 to 1 ½" for Ashi and Trigger Points
• Distal command points: shallow insertion into kori in direction that releases abdominal reflex with # 2 1" needles up to 1/2"
• Local Abdominal points: 1/2 to 1" with # 3 or thicker 1 ½"- 2" needle(metal handle for kyutoshin)
• Local back Shu and empirical points: oblique with flow of BL channel for Shu points and oblique for empirical points shallow into kori
Note: Precise needle count is recorded on the patient's chart for needles in and out, with specification of type and size of needle (Serein J; 3 guage x 30m, lot 5213), as well as lot # for tracking purposes should there ever be a recall or other event necessitating locating patients treated with specific lots/makes of needles.
• Techniques follow Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion (CAM) for TCM and Kiiko Matsumoto Style Acupuncture: In the Spirit of Nagano for KM style.
The clinic uses a ceiling mounted active ventilation system in the acupuncture clinic as well as air purifiers to reduce the impact of smoke on the air quality in the clinic. Initial studies of the air quality in the clinic while moxa was burning, revealed that air-borne particles from moxa smoke were present in the air in the clinic. These air-borne particles may prove irritating to susceptible individuals. Sensitive or susceptible individuals are recommended to wear facemasks to filter out those particles when moxa is in use in the clinic. Some sensitive individuals may not tolerate even this level of exposure or may wish to avoid moxa smoke altogether, so they should be scheduled on days or times when moxa does not have to be used.
Guasha and Stationary and Moving Cupping
Patients must be advised of the probability of purple skin discolorations after these techniques and oral advisement must be notated in the chart. Further details are enumerated in the Clinic Procedures Manual.
AOM lifestyle counseling
Recommendations, counseling on physical activity, diet, meditation and relaxation must be approved or administered by a clinic supervisor before administration
Herbal recommendations
Patients seeking herbal supplements or Chinese herbal treatment are referred to the college's Chinese herbal counseling clinics.
General and regional protocols are administered before acupuncture treatments by tui-na interns following zheng gu tui-na© protocols as taught at the college for 10-15 minutes to envigorate the Qi, relax the channels and collaterals and warm the areas to be needled.


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Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versions
But the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest Pirates of the Caribbean box-office hit.
A Korean company has built cinemas with seats which rock and special effects like wind, fog, strobe lights and scents are synchronised with the on-screen action.
The company, CJ 4DPlex, has opened an office in Los Angeles where computer programs are written for the action films.
It plans to build America's first 4-D screen multiplex in New York and if it is a success, they will expand into Europe.
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Award Recipients
The ASM International Board of Trustees has named award program recipients for 2017. The awards program recognizes achievements of members of the materials science and engineering community. Awards will be presented at ASM's Annual Awards Dinner, Tuesday October 10th in Pittsburgh PA, during Materials Science & Technology 2017 (MS&T '17). Tickets for the Awards Dinner are $90.00 each and can be ordered by using the MS&T registration form. Those interested in purchasing a table may contact Christine Hoover, Administrator, Awards Program, ASM International, Materials Park, Ohio 44073-0002; 440.338.5151 x 5509; fax: 440.338.6614; email: email@example.com.
Honorary Membership
Dr. Jeffrey Wadsworth, FASM, President and Chief Executive Officer, Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus
"For leadership of the World's largest independent research and development organization, for support of national technology initiative and materials society initiatives, and for pioneering research on superplasticity of alloys."
Honorary Membership in the Society was established in 1919. It recognizes distinguished service to the materials science and engineering profession, service in areas of ASM strategic plan/initiatives and to the progress of mankind.
Gold Medal
Prof. John H. Perepezko, FASM, IBM Bascom Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Madison, University of Wisconsin
"For outstanding innovations to the fundamental understanding and application of structural synthesis, kinetics and alloy phase stability during materials processing to obtain useful microstructures, nanostructures and amorphous materials."
The medal was established in 1943 to recognize outstanding knowledge and great versatility in the application of science to the field of materials science and engineering, as well as exceptional ability in the diagnosis and solution of diversified materials problems..
Medal for the Advancement of Research
Ms. Gwynne Shotwell, President and Chief Operating Officer, SpaceX, Hawthorne, CA
"For the research and development of advanced materials as a core strategy in the achievement of reusable launch systems, allowing the commercialization of space and enabling us to become a multiplanetary species."
The Medal for the Advancement of Research was established in 1943 to honor an executive in an organization, one of whose important activities is the production, fabrication, or use of metals and other materials. The recipient, over a period of years, will have consistently sponsored research or development, and by foresight and actions, will have helped substantially to advance the arts and sciences relating to materials science and engineering.
Engineering Materials Achievement Award (EMAA)
The Timken Company
"For the development of ES302 nanostructured thin film material that significantly increases service life, improves efficiency, and prevents many surface-initiated wear modes when applied to precision mechanical components such as rolling element bearings and gears.
Prof. Gary Doll, Timken Professor of Surface Engineering and Director of the Timken Engineered Surfaces Laboratories, University of Akron, Dr. Ryan D. Evans, Program Manager in Operations, The Timken Company, Mr. James R. Gnagy, Member of the R&D Engineering Fundamentals Group, The Timken Company, Mr. Thomas E. Springer, Program Manager, Large Bore Bearing Pipeline.
Established In 1969, this award recognizes an outstanding achievement in materials or materials systems relating to the application of knowledge of materials to an engineering structure or to the design and manufacture of a product.
Albert Sauveur Achievement Award
Prof. Raj N. Singh, FASM Professor, Oklahoma State University, Tulsa
"For pioneering and original scientific and technological contributions to science and technology of materials through innovative processing and in situ studies leading to commercialization for aircraft turbines and energy storage."
Established in 1934 in honor of a distinguished teacher, metallographer, and metallurgist, recognizes pioneering materials science and engineering achievements that have stimulated organized work along similar lines to such an extent that a marked basic advance has been made in the knowledge of materials science and engineering.
William Hunt Eisenman Award
Dr. Paul S. Gilman, FASM, Director of Technology, Deposition Materials, Praxair, Inc., Orangeburg, NY
"For outstanding technical leadership in industrial research and development of advanced copper metallization, sputtering targets, and mechanical alloyed products for, semiconductor, electronics, and aerospace industries."
The award was established in 1960, in memory of a founding member of ASM, and its first and only secretary for 40 years. It recognizes unusual achievements in industry in the practical application of materials science and engineering through production or engineering use.
J. Willard Gibbs Phase Equilibria Award
Dr. Ursula R. Kattner, FASM, Physical Scientist, Materials Science & Engineering Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
"For contributions to the thermodynamic assessment of metallic alloys and application to metallurgical processing."
The award was established in 2007 to recognize outstanding contributions to the field of Phase Equilibria. The award honors J. Willard Gibbs, one of America's greatest theoretical scientists. In addition to many other contributions, Gibbs laid the thermodynamic foundations of phase equilibria theory with his brilliant essay "On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances" published in 1876 and 1878 in the Transactions of the Connecticut Academy.
Allan Ray Putnam Service Award
Mr. Robert J. Gaster, Senior Staff Engineer, Deere & Company Technology Innovation Center, John Deere, Moline, IL
"For continuous and enthusiastic promotion of ASM membership and volunteerism at the local chapter and national society level, as well as his longstanding volunteerism for the Heat Treat Society."
Established in 1988, the award recognizes the exemplary efforts of various outstanding members of ASM International on behalf of the Society to further its objectives and goals. The purpose of this award is to recognize those individuals whose contributions have been especially noteworthy and to whom the Society owes a particularly great debt of appreciation.
Albert Easton White Distinguished Teacher Award
Prof. David K. Matlock, FASM, Armco Foundation Fogarty Professor, Colorado School of Mines
"For his accomplishments in materials education that have positively impacted generations of students and the research and industrial community over several decades."
The award was established in 1960 in memory of an outstanding teacher and research engineer, who was a founding member and president of ASM in 1921. It recognizes unusually long and devoted service in teaching, as well as significant accomplishments in materials science and engineering, and an unusual ability to inspire and impart enthusiasm to students.
Silver Medal Award
Dr. Mark A. Tschopp, Materials Engineer, US Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD
"For distinguished and sustained contributions in computational materials science, solid mechanics, processing-structure-property relationships, and materials design for integrated computational materials engineering (ICME); and for service to ASM International."
Established in 2010, the honor of Silver Medal of the Society is to provide recognition to members who are in mid-career positions (typically 5 to 15 years of experience), for distinguished contributions in the field of materials science and engineering, and the society. The purpose of this award is to recognize leadership at an early stage and encourage individuals to grow, nurture, and further contribute to the growth of the profession, as well as the society.
Bronze Medal Award
Ms. Margaret T. Flury, Senior Materials Engineer, Medtronic, PLC, Fridley, MN
"For contributions to advancements in medical devices, commitment to the failure analysis community, contributions to students and selfless participation in ASM."
Established in 2014, the honor of Bronze Medal of the Society recognizes ASM members who are in early-career positions, typically, 0 to 10 years of experience, for their significant contributions in the field of materials science & engineering through technical content and service to ASM and the materials science profession.
Bradley Stoughton Award for Young Teachers
Prof. Jennifer L.W. Carter, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering; Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
"For dedicated and effective instruction and mentoring of students at various stages of their educational experience in addition to impacting undergraduate engineering education."
This award accompanied by $3000, was established in 1952 in memory of an outstanding teacher in metallurgy and dean of engineering who was president of ASM in 1942. The award recognizes young teachers of materials science, materials engineering, and design and processing, by rewarding them for their ability to impart knowledge and enthusiasm to students. The recipient must be 35 years of age or younger by May 15th of the year in which the award is being made.
Henry Marion Howe Medal
Sung Bo Lee, Dong-Ik Kim, Yanghoo Kim, Seung Jo Yoo, Ji Young Byun, Heung Nam Han, and Dong Nyung Lee for their paper entitled "Effects of Film Stress and Geometry on Texture Evolution Before and After the Martensitic Transformation in a Nanocrystalline Co Thin Film" MetTrans Vol. 46A, 2015.
The Henry Marion Howe Award was established in 1923 and is awarded in memory of a distinguished teacher, metallurgist, and consultant, to honor the author (or authors) whose paper has been selected as the best of those published in a specific volume of Metallurgical and Materials Transactions.
Marcus A. Grossmann Young Author Award
Ming-Wei Wu for his paper entitled "The Influences of Carbon and Molybdenum on the Progress of Liquid Phase Sintering and the Microstructure of Boron-Containing Powder Metallurgy Steel" MetTrans Vol. 46A, 2015.
The Marcus A. Grossmann Young Author Award was established in 1960 in recognition of Dr. Grossmann's accomplishments and especially in recognition of his abiding interest in and encouragement of younger metallurgists and materials engineers whose paper has been selected as the best of those published in a specific volume of Metallurgical and Materials Transactions. The author must be under 40 years of age on January 1 of the year in which the paper was published.
ASM Historical Landmark Designation
Alcoa Inc., Tennessee Operations North Plant, Alcoa, TN has been selected as a 2016 Historical Landmark Awards, the citation reads, "For being the primary supplier of aluminum heat treated sheet and structural members for aircraft during World War II, and for playing a significant role in the sustainability and recycling of aluminum can sheet."
Quincy Smelting Works (QSW), Ripley, Franklin Township, MI has also been selected as a 2016 Historical Landmark Award, the citation reads, "The Quincy Smelting Works is uniquely capable of interpreting the final stage of copper production for one of the few native copper ore mining regions on earth."
In 1969, the ASM Historical Landmarks Designation was established to identify permanently the many sites and events that have played a prominent part in the discovery, development, and growth of metals and metalworking. In 1987, the scope of this award broadened to include all engineered materials.
ASM Student Paper Contest
Ms. Janet L. Gbur, Case Western University, Cleveland, OH for her paper entitled "Fatigue and Fracture of Wires and Cables for Biomedical Applications."
The ASM International Student Paper Contest was established in 1985, as a mechanism for student participation in Society affairs. The award recognizes the best technical paper with a graduate or undergraduate student as first author that is published in an ASM sponsored publication during the year.
Emerging Professional Achievement Award
Dr. Amit Pandey with Rolls Royce LG Fuel Cell System, is the 2016 recipient of the Emerging Professional Achievement Award. Established in 2010, recognizes and honors extraordinary ASM volunteers who are less senior individuals, i.e., 0-5 years of experience post-graduation, who have made a significant impact on ASM International through devoted service and dedication to the future of the Society.


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Stephanie Chadwick
Stephanie Chadwick received her B.A. in Humanities Summa Cum Laude from the University of Houston-Downtown. She earned her M.A. in Art History at Florida State University before returning to Houston to join the Rice Ph.D. program. She has held internships at the O'Kane Gallery, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Menil Collection and has received awards to conduct art historical research in the U.S. and France. She is a modernist specializing in early to mid twentieth-century European art and theory with an emphasis on French painting. Her research interests include intersections between art, literature, and coloniality; art and ideology; and art as cultural exchange. She has completed extensive projects dealing with French Exoticism, Ethnographic Surrealism, and Germany between the wars. She is currently researching multicultural contact and Southeast Asian sources in Jean Dubuffet's post WWII portraits.


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2010/9/9 Darren Duncan <darren(at)darrenduncan(dot)net>: > Kevin Grittner wrote: >> >> Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote: >>> >>> to my mind the main thing that would justify inventing a separate >>> PROCEDURE facility is if procedures were to execute outside the >>> transaction system, so that they could start and stop transactions >>> for themselves. >> >> That is the biggest distinction in my mind, too. Supporting >> multiple result sets just as if the queries were run as independent >> client-side statements would also be very important. I have seen >> implementations which support, for a single stored procedure, OUT >> parameters, a RETURN value, and multiple result sets -- all at the >> same time, as separate things. I haven't reviewed stored procedures >> in the SQL standard since an early draft proposal years ago, so I >> don't know what the current state of that is, but if PostgreSQL >> approaches this, it'd be nice to implement as many of the above as >> are not in conflict with requirements of the standard. > > If it was reasonable I would go further in splitting and have at least 4 > distinct kinds of routines, here listed in order of invocablility (each > routine kind can invoke anything above it on the list but not anything below > it): > > 1. Expression-invoked pure functions that only have IN parameters and can > not directly see the database or have any side-effects and are always in a > transaction. Most operators are of this kind. > > 2. Statement-invoked routines that are pure like #1 but also have OUT/INOUT > parameters instead of resulting in a value like a function. The assignment > operator is of this kind. > > 3. Routines that *can* see and update the database but are otherwise like > #2, and are always in a transaction. The general case of a SELECT or DML or > DDL are of this kind. > > 4. Routines that can cross transaction boundaries or control transactions > but are otherwise like #2 or #3. Transaction control statements are of this > kind. > > If I understand correctly, the existing Pg FUNCTION is essentially #3 and > the proposed PROCEDURE is essentially #4. > Immutable functions are very near to #1. Actually PostgreSQL OUT parameters are implemented as returned one composite value. Regards Pavel > Maybe I just have to RTFM but I don't know if it is possible now to declare > a Pg FUNCTION that it stays in the restrictions of #1 or #2. But if not, > then I think it would be valuable to do so, for assisting reliability and > performance. > > -- Darren Duncan > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers >
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(CNSNews.com) - "I don't think the president needs to come to Ferguson," Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Tuesday.
"It adds another distortion... We don't need any more people coming into Ferguson to help the poor people out during this time of trouble. What we need is a sense of calm, and anything other than that is going to be dangerous."
President Obama announced on Monday that he is sending Attorney General Eric Holder to Ferguson on Wednesday. Holder will be joined by members of Missouri's congressional delegation, including Cleaver.
Obama, asked if he would consider going, said he has to be "very careful about not prejudging these events before investigations are completed." He said he wants to make sure it doesn't look like "I'm putting my thumb on the scales one way or the other."
Cleaver told MSNBC that he served as mayor of St. Louis during the violence that followed Rodney King's beating by police in California. "Anything that you do successfully is probably by error. I mean, you just lucked up and did it.
"There is no book written on what you do or what you say. I think we put enormous pressure on anyone if we create the atmosphere that if this person comes to town, everything is going to be OK."
But Cleaver also said he expects the impact of "hoodlums" to be diminished in Ferguson when the Justice Department takes center stage in the investigation. In the meantime, the current turmoil is "interfering with what needs to be done," he said.


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When performing the weekly phantom image test must we monitor kVp and/or mAs?
No. The only requirements on the weekly phantom image test are that the phantom image achieve at least the minimum phantom scores established by the accreditation body and must be within the action limits established for the three optical density requirements. FDA is aware that many facilities are monitoring kVp and/or mAs as part of their weekly phantom QC testing. This is not required. If a facility uses the Full-Auto mode and monitors kVp and/or mAs, it will probably observe that, over time, the Full-Auto mode leads to small variations in the kVp selected by the unit for the phantom exposures. Even small variations in kVp may lead to significant variations in the mAs values obtained. While small variations in kVp are to be expected when using the Full-Auto mode, large variations in kVp (greater than 1 kVp of the value usually obtained) may indicate a problem and should be further evaluated. Facilities using the Full-Auto mode that wish to monitor kVp and/or mAs may want to establish baseline mAs values corresponding to the specific kVp values usually encountered during phantom testing. In this way, they can account for the mAs variability that may be caused by small changes in kVp.
Mobile facilities should be aware of the following if they are monitoring mAs as part of their post-move-pre-exam testing. Performing the post-move-pre-exam test in the Full-Auto mode may be problematic (due to the variability of kVp and mAs as previously mentioned). In these cases, the facility may:
1. Use the AEC mode to perform the post-move-pre-exam test, even if they use the Full-Auto mode for their patients with the standard breast. Note: The weekly phantom QC test must be performed using the same clinical conditions that the facility uses for its patients with the standard breast.
2. Use the Full-Auto mode and establish baseline mAs values corresponding to the specific kVp values usually encountered during phantom testing. If the mAs value is within 10% of the baseline value for the post exposure kVp value, the unit has passed that portion of the post-move-pre examination test.
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Ask a Mechanic Online and Get Answers to Your Car Questions
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When you say the key isn't electronic do you mean it isn't a push button remote fob style?
Let me know and I'll reply as soon as I can.
Thank you.
Yes Sean that's exactly what Imean . The main key is the remote type and then there
is this defeatured version which still operates the ignition
Hello again,
yes this is perfectly normal operation. The smaller key has a small electronic transponder inside it that is coded to the vehicle immobiliser system. If a key was used that wasn't coded to the vehicle then it wouldn't start. The code in the key changes every time the ignition is operated to prevent any form of electronic scanner been able to reproduce it.
The reason the other key is larger is due to the fact it contains the electronics for the locking system, this key also obviously has a transponder inside it.
The reason you don't get two fob type keys is just down to the cost to the manufacturer.
I hope this clarifies things for you but if I can assist further let me know and I'll reply as soon as I'm able to.
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Make Script
I own the intellectual copyright for the written tutorial. What you make is yours, but please do not take my tutorial. Share only my link.
This tutorial is intended for beginners to learn how to create a script for making buttons. If you have any questions, please feel free to Email me.
To do this tutorial you will also need Paint Shop Pro. I wrote this with Paint Shop Pro X2, but the steps may also be done in any version. You may download a free trial at Corel.
Remember to save as a psp file often!
1. If you cannot see the script toolbar at the top, you need to open it. View > toolbars > script
2. Click on the record button. Note: it doesn't matter how fast you go through the tutorial to make the script. It records the steps, not how much time you took.
3. Set your foreground to black, and your background to red. The colors do not matter here. We're going to fix the script so that someone can use the script to make their button any color or pattern.
4. Choose the Ellipse shape. Set it to circle, create on vector, stroke = 0.00
5. Open new, transparent image, size 500 x 500 pixels.
6. Start your cursor at 100, 100 on the image. You can tell where your cursor is at by looking for the black tick lines (see the arrows in the picture). Start at 100, 100 and then drag the circle out to SIZE 200 x 200
If you look at the bottom of the screen, you can see the locations
(101,101) represents where I started. (301, 301) represents where I stopped. After the = sign (200 x 200) represents the size of my selection. (301 - 101 = 200!) Release the mouse when you have that size.
7. Right-click on the circle and choose Convert to Raster Layer.
8. Choose the Selection tool and choose the layer opaque icon. This will put a selection box around your button with little space left.
9. Image > Crop to Selection
10. Effects > 3D Effects > Inner Bevel. Apply: Bevel = pie shape, width = 25, smoothness = 10, depth = 10 - 20, ambience = 0, shininess = 30, color = white, angle = 156, intensity = 67, elevation = 30
11. Layers > Arrange > Move Down
12. Choose the paintbrush tool. Set size = 18, hardness = 100, step = 1, density = 100
13. In the layer palette, click on the top blank layer. On the image, Hover the mouse over (100, 100) -- the center-- and left-click once.
14. Effects > Image Effects > Offset. Horizontal - 20 (NEGATIVE) and vertical = 20 (POSITIVE), Custom, Transparent
15. In the layer palette, right-click and choose Duplicate
16. Image > Mirror
17. Right-click on top layer and choose Duplicate.
18. Image > Flip
19. Right-click on top layer and choose Duplicate
20. Image > Mirror
21. Right-click on top layer, Merge > Merge Down.
22. Repeat Step 21 until all BLACK circle layers are merged. You should be left with 2 layers -- 4 black circles on top layer, one big button layer on bottom.
23. Selections > Select All. Selection > Float . Selections > Defloat
24. In the layer palette, click on the BOTTOM layer.
25. Press the DELETE key on keyboard.
26. Selection > Modify > Expand Selection -- expand by 3 pixels
27. Effects > 3D Effects > Inner Bevel. apply same settings
28. Selections > Select None
29. Right-click on TOP layer and choose DELETE
30. Click on the Save Script Recording Button
31. In the Save AS box: Set the Save In folder to the Scripts-Trusted folder in PSP
give it
a filename,
Click on the Save.
Now your script is ready for making buttons of any color/pattern you want Test it out!
Set the foreground to any color. Then set it to NULL
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Editor's note: Inside the Golden Bubble is an occasional column about the intersection between politics and policy at the Vermont Statehouse.
This is a complicated story to tell. It's complicated because it features elements of intrigue, a lot of hubris, equal measures of political wiliness and naivete, and one of those pesky core value issues that has divided Vermont's Grand Old Liberal Coalition of Democrats and Progressives in the Statehouse this year.
The issue in question is whether to put limits on Reach Up, the state's welfare-to-work program. Gov. Peter Shumlin has proposed a three-year cap on benefits, with a total limit of five years for recipients. A number of prominent House Democrats hated the idea from the start, and perhaps no one has been more opposed to the cap than Rep. Ann Pugh, chair of the House Human Services Committee.
Pugh, a social work professional who teaches at UVM, has made her views known to her committee. She says the research shows caps can hurt single mothers who are following the welfare-to-work rules but who cannot find work, or cannot hold down a job for a variety of reasons, including psychological trauma caused by domestic abuse.
She was visibly disappointed last week when her committee approved a plan similar to that of the governor's.
What followed, some lawmakers on the committee say, was a subversion of the committee process.
The committee process can seem like just another of those old-fashioned formalities inside the Golden Bubble, comparable to calling the names of representatives by hometown; the arcane polity on the floor torn from the pages of a 19th century legislative playbook; the requirement that members wear semi-formal attire in the House and Senate chambers (i.e. ties and jackets for the men; anything but jeans and T-shirts for the women).
The unspoken rules of the committee process that define the conduct of lawmakers is more than just another quirk of the Legislature, however. It's a kind of social glue, and it serves as a framework for the flow of bills through the Statehouse that can prevent the abuse of power by individuals and parties. At bottom, it is a commitment by committee members and their leader — the chair — to work together in an atmosphere of fairness and trust, regardless of political views or affiliation.
Lawmakers in Human Services lost that trust late Tuesday afternoon when they realized that Pugh didn't act in good faith on behalf of the majority of the committee.
When the House Appropriations Committee approved a plan to moderate a five-year cap on the state's welfare-to-work program on Monday, lawmakers on the budget-writing committee were under the impression that the language they were voting on came from the Human Services Committee.
The trouble was, it didn't.
That's because the committee's formally approved recommendation was never sent to Appropriations. Instead, another set of provisions were presented from an ad hoc subgroup as though they had come from Human Services.
The majority of House Human Services Committee members actually approved a very different recommendation on Friday that would have put a straight five-year limit on benefits for all Reach Up recipients. They voted twice on the proposal last week, and each time the committee split down the middle. The first time in a 7-4 vote; the second in a 6-5 vote on Friday.
In that last vote, four Republicans and two Democrats supported a five-year cap, and Rep. Mike Mrowicki, a Democrat from Putney, changed his mind and went with the minority. He was joined by four other dissenting Democrats, including Pugh and vice chair, Rep. Sandy Haas, P-Rochester, and Rep. Jill Krowinski, D-Chittenden.
The votes were the culmination of weeks of testimony and debate about the merits and drawbacks of different approaches to limits on the program that provides cash benefits to more than 6,000 needy families in Vermont and eligibility for a variety of other services including access to affordable housing and food stamps.
In the past, Human Services has issued a formal memorandum to House Appropriations with recommendations in response to a range of budget proposals from the governor's office. This year the memo was sent in February with the caveat that the committee was still deliberating on Reach Up, along with mental health and substance abuse programs. Those recommendations, according to the memo, would be sent later.
On Friday lawmakers approved a recommendation for a five-year Reach Up cap. Committee members expected Pugh to send an addendum to the February memo formalizing the committee's decision, along with draft language for the budget bill, to House Appropriations.
Pugh, however, said she never asked legislative council to send the Reach Up language the committee voted on to House Appropriations, nor did she put it in the form of a memo, because she said Rep. Anne O'Brien, from House Appropriations, was present during the vote on Friday.
"It was my mistake," Pugh said. "I didn't take it that next step."
On Monday, the budget-writing committee instead approved a proposal that was developed by an ad hoc group not affiliated with House Human Services. That group, led by Rep. Willem Jewett, D-Ripton, the House Majority Leader, consisted of two other lawmakers who are not on Human Services — Rep. Tim Jerman and Rep. Barbara Rachelson, both Democrats from Chittenden County — and Krowinski, the lone member from Human Services. O'Brien was also part of the group. The lawmakers asked stakeholders from affordable housing programs, community action councils, Vermont Legal Aid and the Vermont Low-Income Advocacy Council for more information over the weekend.
The ad hoc group developed a new plan that automatically extends child only grants for families after the five-year limit, waives the cap on benefits for 18- to 22-year-olds, and gives the commissioner of the Department for Children and Families the discretion to waive the time limit for any family in extenuating circumstances.
When O'Brien presented the proposal to House Appropriations, lawmakers on the committee believed that the language came from the House Human Services Committee. It wasn't until Tuesday afternoon that key members of both committees realized that the proposal from House Human Services had not been considered in the deliberations for the Big Bill.
A majority of House Human Services members say the new language guts the five-year cap proposal they approved last week.
Rep. Anne Donahue, R-Northfield, checked with David Yacovone, commissioner of the Department for Children and Families, about the financial impact of the extension of the child-only grant. A household of two on Reach Up (a parent and child) with a monthly rent of $400 is eligible to receive a grant of $536 to $560. Under the child only grant proposal, that total amount would decrease by about $100 per month.
Lawmakers from Human Services became aware of the discrepancy from news reports, and on Tuesday, Rep. Martha Heath, chair of House Appropriations, and Rep. Kitty Toll, also a member of the budget committee, were grilled by the committee about who knew what when. Toll told lawmakers, in a recording of the discussion, that she thought O'Brien's proposal had been developed by Human Services, and she was unaware that another group had made the recommendations.
By Wednesday morning, the committee was in disarray. Rep. Topper McFaun, R/D-Barre, eventually turned up the truth: Pugh had neglected to inform the committee that their recommendations had not been sent to House Appropriations, and she had given the ad hoc group the go ahead to develop a new proposal that would supplant the one from House Human Services.
For an hour, lawmakers took turns venting, and several said they felt they couldn't trust Pugh. Their votes didn't count. The weeks of testimony was all for naught. In short, they wondered: What was the point of serving on a committee if the process of putting together a bill is ignored? Couldn't the ad hoc group have proposed amendments to the bill on the floor?
Pugh shed tears as she apologized to the committee. She explained that she knew the Majority Leader wanted to keep working on the bill, and that she should have notified the committee that he wanted to form a subgroup.
Rep. Lynn Batchelor, R-Orleans, said she has no faith anymore.
"Why vote if someone can go round the back of us and do anything they darn well please? Why bother?" Batchelor said. "I guess I'm new enough that it really surprises me that we play Washington, D.C., politics in the state of Vermont."
Pugh said she took responsibility for not sending out the memo.
"I feel shitty, I feel like I failed the committee," Pugh said.
"You feel shitty because you got caught," Donahue retorted. "There are some people who feel screwed."
"I get as emotional about this as you get about mental health, this is my mental health issue, this is something I feel passionate about," Pugh said. "I feel that I have let the committee down, and I have not been a good chair because we work well together. We don't always agree and there are things that happen outside the committee in terms of what's important to various people. All I can say is No. 1, I'm sorry. No. 2, there was no overt/covert intention for appropriations members to think anything about where changes or nonchanges came from."
Pugh said she was worried about the Reach Up cap causing an uproar in the Democratic caucus.
"I knew there were going to be 110 amendments from the left wing of the party," Pugh said.
"That's fine," Donahue countered. "That's a legitimate process, but you participated in the subversion of the process."
"We've had votes on the floor where the law of the state was determined by one person and to demean that and say this had no value because it was one person violates the core of how we function as a democracy and to decide because we were split it's fine to create a committee and ask people to participate, to come up with alternative language is very different from appropriations deciding whether to take a recommendation," Donahue said.
Jewett said the ad hoc group did not undermine the committee. "It's just our democratic process," he said. "We continue to discuss things you know forever, after we adjourn even."
"I think the committee ought to turn to the substance of the changes," Jewett said. "We're not going to kick kids to the curb."
CORRECTION: Reach Up advocates did not meet with lawmakers last weekend. The story originally suggested that could have been the case.


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(Los Angeles, September 6, 2012) Blumhouse Productions, the multi-media production company behind highly-successful and terrifying movies like the Paranormal Activity franchise, Insidious and the upcoming Sinister, announced today The Blumhouse of Horrors (www.BlumhouseOfHorrors.com), an innovative and frightening haunted house experience in the heart of downtown Los Angeles.
Blumhouse's Los Angeles-based movie production team is using its expertise in horror film production, storytelling, and movie set design to transform the Variety Arts Theater into a fully-immersive and chillingly intense Halloween attraction. The Blumhouse of Horrors will be open to the public Thursday through Saturday
throughout October, and the entire week of Halloween.
Jason Blum, founder and CEO of Blumhouse said: "Blumhouse is passionate about telling scary stories in entirely new ways and we are taking everything we have learned from our film production experience to create a one-of-a-kind Haunted House in downtown L.A. We are excited to kick-off October with The Blumhouse of
In addition to The Blumhouse of Horrors, premiering later that month from Blumhouse are Sinister, directed and co-written by Scott Derrickson and starring Ethan Hawke for Lionsgate/Summit on October 5th, and Paranormal Activity 4 on October 19th for Paramount Pictures.
Visitors will tour the twisting corridors of an eerily haunted theater whose stage was home to one of the world's most deranged, dark art magicians during the heyday of 1920s vaudeville. That is, until one tragic performance when his assistant climbed into a magical box and vanished forever. The theater was shut down instantly and permanently closed to the public … until now.
Filled with terrifying sights, sounds and smells, The Blumhouse of Horrors will bring visitors face-to-face with the ghostly spirits of the magician and his disciples -all of whom continue to hone their craft, on the lookout for volunteers for tricks that could end in disappearance or death.
The Blumhouse of Horrors is taking over the 88-year-old Variety Arts Theater building, located at 940 South Figueroa Street, between 9th and 10th Streets. Once known as "The Playhouse," the building hosted performances by industry greats like Laurel & Hardy and Clark Gable and featured speeches by historical figures like Eleanor Roosevelt and Dorothy Parker. The event provides rare access for visitors to explore one of Los Angeles' most historic and well-preserved cultural sites.
'Paranormal Activity' Producer Scares Up New Haunted House Business
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Sounds like the set-up for a new film. Likely everyone will be signing on-camera releases to enter the premises and they'll be wrapping a new movie around the visitors to combine with the "legend" in the above press release.
Too bad BLUM can't admit he'd be nowhere without OREN and OREN'S original creation: P.A.
OREN and cast of 2 did it on their own and Oren's coin.
That movie bounced around town for a long time before Blum paid to finish it correctly (with his own "coin") then pounded on every door in town before he finally convinced someone to release it. None of us saw what he saw in it. The rest is literally history.
It's even more interesting that OREN'S follow-up film, "Area 51," has been sitting on the shelf for years now, and nobody in the press has touched what is likely to be a juicy behind-the-scenes story on the making of a trainwreck.
why the hate?
The two like each other, and have had a lot of success together?
OREN is responsible for Chernobyl Diaries. That movie sucked.
don't be so cynical. take a step back: a producer of paranormal activity is making a haunted house. this is unequivocally awesome.
agree! can't wait!
It was actually Steven Schneider who found PA and brought it to Blum. Blum was making the Accidental Husband at the time and had no experience with horror. He then went on to screw SS over and kick him to the curb. As for Oren. Nice guy but no filmmaker. He got lucky with the first PA. Area 51 is unreleasable. Everything he's done since has either been rewritten or failed. The River anyone? Oren has had nothing to do with PA ever since except hit the red carpet and show his mug.
Schneider's role is what's called "development executive"(aka employee). He was hired by Blum to find projects. He did his job. He wasn't kicked to the curb, he left to try it on his own. We can all see how that worked out.
jason Blum is one of the good guys. This is an awesome idea and very much in keeping with everything he's trying to do in film and televison.
True Steven Schneider deserves the credit for PA not Jason one way ticket BLUM. he works the agents at CAA but has no clue how to make a film. Only thing he dies us make em for cheap.
Funny, we never heard of nor met Schneider when Jason was pushing PA all over town. I've never met anyone more passionate than Jason was with Paranormal.


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Less than a month ago, industry stakeholders joined the conversation surrounding the future size and location of Outdoor Retailer, the growing semi-annual tradeshow for the outdoor industry. Today, more than 2,100 people have logged into a dedicated online forum to view and/or participate in the swelling conversation.
The opportunity to participate came through the launch of the Collective Voice website, a destination to learn about the event's history, discuss growth trajectory, and examine the pros and cons for a small list of potential venues that could host the current show, with room to add exhibits and features that serve the business needs of a growing audience.
Continuing its efforts to connect and assess the position of the industry on these topics, Outdoor Retailer will be rolling out an online survey in mid-late June. The Collective Voice forums are currently open to show stakeholders and will remain open during the survey period.
"The combined results of our upcoming survey and the Collective Voice forums will absolutely steer our decision to hunker down in Salt Lake or make the move to a bigger city," said Kenji Haroutunian, vice president at Nielsen Expositions and Outdoor Retailer show director. "I encourage all stakeholders to lend their voice and thoughts to the Collective Voice site; this tool gives final decision makers the why, the comparative assessments, and further insight to the passion and cultural elements that live between each survey question."
Since the Collective Voice Forum opened in mid-May, more than 170 comments have been received. A small sampling includes:
"If you need more room, make some of the mega-booths reduce their space. Some of the booths are way too big."
"New items are what excite the retailers and the space in Salt Lake City is totally inadequate…Get over yourselves and let's make the move. Feel blessed that your industry is growing and you are part of it!!!"
"I'd rather the OR show shrink than grow. There are far too many exhibitors that have little to do with outdoor recreation."
"As much as I love SLC, it is ridiculous that as an exhibitor, nine months in advance I could not get a hotel room, can I sleep in my booth?"
"I would like to see the venue moved to a venue that has plenty of hotels, space, food and entertainment options. I think Vegas would be the perfect place for this event."
"OR has grown, and will continue to grow if it is handled well. It has been handled well. The real question now is where."
"As a retailer I find that there are too many unrelated exhibitors. If we keep OR focused there should be plenty of room in Salt Lake."
Invitations to participate in the Collective Voice website were emailed to outdoor industry members who have registered for or attended Outdoor Retailer trade shows as an exhibitor, sales rep, retailer or distributor in the last three years.
If you meet the criteria outlined above but have not received an invitation to join the conversation, email Collective Voice Project Manager and Ambassador Michael Hodgson at email@example.com.
To read last month's Collective Voice announcement, please visit Outdoor Retailer's online press release page.
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As America grieved, 1000 people gathered in memory of the Australians whose lives were cut short far from home. Caroline Overington reports from New York.
Late last night in New York, grief gave way. It was as if the day had been too sad: too many readings, too many prayers, too many tears. And so, in Central Park, they held a concert. Good for them: it made people feel better.
Billy Joel was there, sitting at the piano, looking plump and happy. A boys' gospel choir from Harlem sang America the Beautiful, but not mournfully. There was joy in their voices.
People in the audience,who bought candles, found themselves swaying, with a bit of a wriggle in their hips.
The tide, from grief to hope, seemed to turn at the end of the official reading of the names of the dead. It took much longer than anybody had expected, and so, when it was finally over, the last two readers looked out at the crowd and said: "May God bless the victims. We love you all. May God Bless America." And then they turned, beamed at each other, and embraced.
Also yesterday, there was a church service for the 10 Australian and two New Zealand victims of the attacks on the World Trade Centre.
The consul-general in New York, Ken Allen, who has been a rock of support for local families affected by the disaster, said the Australian victims had come from "all walks of life".
"Some married, some single, some young, and some older," he said. "They were hard-working, decent people, pursuing their dreams, their careers, their holidays, but their lives were cut short, far from home. We cherish and pay tribute to their memory. We will never forget them."
Mr Allen also read a message from Prime Minister John Howard, who said: "On this first anniversary of September 11, the government and people of Australia wish to express our deepest condolences to the families and loved ones of the victims of the terrorist attacks. I know that many of you have travelled long distances to be present at this service today. My thoughts are with you."
The 10 Australians who died in New York were Kevin Dennis, Alberto Dominquez, Elisa Ferraina, Craig Gibson, Peter Gyulavary, Yvonne Kennedy, Andrew Knox, Lesley Thomas, Stephen Tompsett and Leanne Whiteside. The New Zealand victims were Alan Beavan and John Lozowksy.
The service included a performance by Aboriginal artist Cameron McCarthy, whose didgeridoo filled the church with the sound of mourning.
Foreign Minister Alexander Downer told the mourners that the service was an opportunity to remember those who were killed, "but also to think of the tens of thousands of people directly affected".
He said the "full turn of seasons since that fateful day" was an opportunity for renewal, and a reminder that the attacks had been "on the lifestyles and values that we hold dear".
The Australian families were asked if they would like to address the service, which attracted almost 1000 people, but all declined.
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This performance was that bad, when watching the game live, whenever the camera panned to the manager's area I was half expecting to see Roy Hodgson barking orders to the team. I'm not going to analyse the game in depth, as this would just depress the most passionate of fans. The bottom line is the side's performance resembled 11 men who had the ingenious idea to go and have a kickabout after ten pints only having just met each other. Some may think that harsh but the camel's back was broken much earlier in the season. The most interesting thing for any Liverpool fan to take note of relating to Saturday's game was most definitely the aftermath of the shambolic display. I personally had told myself prior to the game that anything but 3 points against Bolton meant our feint hopes of Champions League qualification were over.
After the game in the post match media interviews King Kenny questioned the players' attitude and said if there are players at the club who think they can pick and choose games they try in, they won't be at the football club for long. The question is, has Kenny only noticed this is this latest game? Defeat against the team with the worst home record in all 92 clubs in the Football League is shocking and may have caused his outburst. It may also have been showmanship to get fans on side after such a defeat. The thing is this situation hasn't appeared on the horizon in the blink of an eye this started with Sunderland at Anfield in the first fixture of the Premier League. Players were forgiven then due rustiness, needing to bed as a team, new players settling in etc etc. When I hear these things now I just hear white noise and go to my 'happy place'. It started with the first game and with a few exceptions has continued over the season. On a positive note if Kenny really did snap as a result of this performance, reading the riot act to these under-achieving players may be the defining moment of the club's season. Only time will tell with this but every player will be under the microscope against Man City on Wednesday.
The fact that Kenny thinks this only first happened at the Reebok Stadium and his statement there is no need for 'knee jerk reaction signings' is a little worrying for Liverpool fans. The current squad is not good enough to challenge for the title and maybe even a top 4 spot. Additions are essential but don't seem to be forthcoming with us almost into the last 7 days of the transfer window. Players who just aren't cutting the mustard must be held accountable and Kenny's suggestion of dropping them isn't going to help the club. They still earn a wage whether on the bench or in the reserves. With this being a January transfer window prices are over inflated and that is the problem with FSG investing at this time. We all knew we paid over the top for Andy Carroll, the only way we could justify the price tag was due to the length of the contract. Let's face facts, we approached Newcastle, they weren't inviting offers for their star striker but they still stitched us up better than the world's most skilled surgeon. The only way Andy Carroll is worth £35m would be if had £25m in his pockets at the time. But that has gone and due to the price tag we are going to have to grin and bear this one.
Stepping off the Andy Carroll bandwagon now, there is lot more to consider. In my opinion Dirk Kuyt, Maxi Rodriguez, Stewart Downing, Charlie Adam, Jay Spearing and Jordan Henderson are not good enough to be regular starters on current form. Now three of those players won't be going anywhere having only arrived in the summer but is it time for the other three to move on to pastures new? We need to get a defensive midfielder in pronto as Spearing would struggle to get in the Bolton side and there is no time for sentiment for 'local lads' now. If FSG don't want to buy one as Lucas is first choice then why aren't we making moves to loan a player for this position? A striker is also a must, preferably two, but it doesn't even seem as though one will be coming through the door. We need a creative centre midfielder to add that 'va va voom' to our dull midfield. We thought we had acquired a winger in the summer which left the need to bring in another but it is questionable as to whether we have any, Craig Bellamy aside. Even Newcastle are strengthening their attack which so far has been far more prolific this season. What makes all this worse for Liverpool fans is that the side are constantly being linked to sensational signings for the last 22 days and there is no movement at all in the Anfield boardroom.
Facts are at the moment the only hope of silverware we have is the Carling Cup and FA Cup. With games against Man City and Man Utd in those respective tournaments in the space of 7 days, that could be a realistic dream come Sunday but we also have the harsh reality that our season could be over before the end of January. A lot of media sources are even starting to give odds for who will be the next Liverpool manager, I think this is unnecessary as Kenny has enough respect from the club that no change would be made mid-season as that is not how Liverpool have done things unless their hand is forced. Without investment I can't see change but this next 7 days will be defining for players and their manager and unless Kenny can flog the current crop into shape, players he has shown faith in could ultimately cost The King his job. Interesting times ahead but again for all the wrong reasons. However wins over both Manchester clubs will take people's minds off the Premier League situation, for a short time at least.


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Peshawar, Pakistan (AFP) Aug 4, 2010
Pakistan issued new flood warnings Tuesday as the country battled to cope with the worst floods in living memory, which have affected 3.2 million people and killed up to 1,500.
A week into the crisis and as more monsoon rains lashed the country, anger was reaching boiling point among impoverished survivors complaining that they have been abandoned by the government after their livelihoods were swept away.
Bedraggled victims walked behind donkey carts stacked with luggage or crammed into cars, trying to reach safer ground as others sheltered in mosques from downpours that threaten to deepen the misery of hundreds of thousands.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani was to chair an emergency cabinet meeting Wednesday to estimate the damages, expected to run into billions of rupees (millions of dollars) and expedite the relief work.
"This is a serious humanitarian disaster," the UN humanitarian coordinator for Pakistan, Martin Mogwanja, told AFP, saying that discussions were under way to determine whether the crisis warranted a fresh appeal for donor aid.
The United Nations said clean drinking water and sanitation were urgently needed to stop diseases spreading after Pakistan's worst floods in 80 years.
Nadeem Ahmad, chairman of Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority, estimated that roughly three million people were affected -- 1.5 million in the northwest and the same number in central province Punjab.
Of around 3.2 million people affected, 1.4 million were children, said Marco Jimenez Rodriguez, a spokesman for UNICEF.
"People immediately need food, water, shelter, health facilities, medicines and sanitation," UN World Food Programme spokesman Amjad Jamal told AFP.
In one of the worst affected villages, Majuky Faqirabad, most of the homes had been destroyed, an AFP reporter said.
The rest lay in disarray with belongings littered under open skies. Villagers said 10 bodies had been recovered but at least 100 people were still missing.
The military, Pakistan's most powerful institution, said more than 54,000 people had been rescued from flood-hit areas and moved to safer places, with 40 helicopters and 450 army boats mobilised as part of the rescue effort.
Anger was growing among survivors as President Asif Ali Zardari pressed on with a visit to Europe.
"Zardari should visit the flood-hit areas and take steps for the welfare of the stranded people instead of taking joy rides to France and the UK," said villager Sher Khan, 40, in Majuky Faqirabad.
The president made a trip to his family's stately home in the French countryside Tuesday before travelling on to London to begin a five-day visit.
Zardari is due to hold talks with Prime Minister David Cameron on Friday, but some British lawmakers of Pakistani origin pulled out of a planned lunch with the president on Thursday, saying he should be back home.
A crowd of protesters gave Zardari an angry reception as he arrived at his central London hotel, saying the trip was a waste of money that could be better spent on flood relief.
Authorities in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa issued an alert to people living around Warsak Dam, one of the country's biggest dams and lying outside Peshawar, as water levels rose.
Pakistan's meteorological service forecast widespread rains in the southern province of Sindh, Punjab in the centre, Pakistani-held Kashmir, the northwest and southwestern Baluchistan over the next three days.
Flash flooding was expected in parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab and Baluchistan, it warned, with heavy thunderstorms in Islamabad.
The local government in Khyber Pakhtunkwa has said up to 1,500 people have died, although there are fears the toll could rise further.
Record rain last week triggered floods and landslides that obliterated entire villages and ruined farmland in one of the country's most impoverished and volatile regions, already hard hit by Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked violence.
The United Nations said around 980,000 people had lost their homes or been temporarily displaced, and that the figure was likely to rise above a million.
The United States is sending American pilots with six helicopters to help with the relief effort in areas inaccessible by road, the Pentagon said.
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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Two more public hearings are planned this month on the state's deer herd.
The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department is holding the hearings to evaluate the impact that hunting rules and antler point regulation have had on hunters.
The evaluation will include surveys from hunters, three regional working groups and five public meetings to be held around the state this spring.
Two public hearings will be held at the Kehoe Conservation Camp in Castleton on January 30 and at Spaulding High School in Barre on January 31.
A deer biologist will talk about the department's new deer management planning process at each meeting. Hunters will be asked to fill out surveys and will have the opportunity to ask questions. Both meetings will be held from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
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Borderlands 2 - Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt Review
Eurogamer reviews the latest Borderlands 2 DLC, Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt, with a score of 8/10:
The storyline that unfolds is fairly compact compared to those of the previous two add-on episodes, but it's still stuffed with a series of decent boss battles, a truly stellar final joke, and an armory to raid that, for me at least, offered some of the best loot I've ever netted in a single session. (It's worth noting, incidentally, that although the narrative takes place after the end of Borderlands 2, you won't need to finish the game to access it. You will need to have at least a level 30 character to have fun, though.)
The campaign might be ever so slightly on the short side, but more than any previous DLC, this one's about the side quests. These send you racing around the game's new areas tracking down legendary creatures to kill, collecting giant eggs and even cleaning up pools of animal urine. There are a couple of bosses who come with neat gimmicks - one's bulletproof unless you turn your back on him, for example, while another has to be finished off in under a minute - and there's also a high-level monster who will require a party to take down.
Information aboutBorderlands 2
SP/MP: Single + MP
Setting: Post-Apoc
Genre: Shooter-RPG
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huge coffee mugs with cool vintage coffee advertising designs, and love the matching canister to keep my coffee super fresh!
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exit (system call)
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exit in computing means to terminate a task or program. On many computer operating systems, a process is stopped by making a system call, called exit. An exit in a multithreading environment means that a thread of execution has stopped running. The operating system reclaims memory that was used by the process. The process is said to be a dead process after it terminates.


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Last year's severe drought in the U.S. corn belt caused Ag Growth International's fourth quarter results to drop, with EBITDA down 44.7 per cent and total revenue down seven per cent.
For the full year the Winnipeg-based company that makes a number of different varieties of portable grain handling equipment reported total revenue of $314.6 million, an increase of 4.5 per cent and EBITDA of $49.5 million, a decrease of seven per cent.
The company reported a net loss of $3.4 million for the quarter compared to a profit of $3.3 million during the fourth quarter last year.
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The name of one of the cardinals is being kept secret, a formula used when an announcement could endanger him - for example in a country where the church faces oppression.
All but a handful of the new cardinals are under 80, so would be eligible to vote on the pontiff's successor.
The pontiff has come under increasing pressure to get the papal electoral college in order following the death and ageing of some of its members, says BBC correspondent in Rome David Willey.
Boston excluded
The appointments were announced by the Pope to pilgrims gathered in St Peter's Square.
Correspondents say that with many coming from the developing world, the announcement will add to speculation that the next Pope could come from there.
The list did not include Archbishop Sean
Patrick O'Malley, recently called to head the Boston archdiocese
in the wake of a child sex scandal.
He had been widely expected
to be made a cardinal.
The cardinals will get their red hats at a special service, known as
a consistory, to be held on 21 October, at the end of
ceremonies marking the 25th anniversary of the pontiff's election.
The new cardinals include top Vatican officials - such as the Vatican's foreign minister - as well
as prelates from Italy, Nigeria, France, Spain, Brazil, Ghana,
India, Croatia, Guatemala, Hungary, Canada, Switzerland,
Belgium, the Czech Republic and the pontiff's native Poland.
It is the ninth time the frail 83-year-old Pope has named new cardinals and is perhaps his last chance to influence the group of men that will choose the next
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Red Book
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Red Book, Redbooks, Little Red Book or Big Red Book may refer to:
Political or ideological pamphlets[edit]
- Mao's Little Red Book, the name commonly known in the West for the pocket-size edition of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
- The Little Red Schoolbook, published in Denmark in 1969
- Red Book (Liberal Party of Canada), the policy platform of the Liberal Party of Canada in the 1993 election
- Red Book (Albania), memorandum for the autonomy of Albania
- The Charter of the Malagasy Socialist Revolution (the Red Book, Malagasy: Boky Mena), published in 1975 by Didier Ratsiraka
Reference manuals, handbooks and standards[edit]
- The Little Red Book (Alcoholics Anonymous) to The Big Book (Alcoholics Anonymous)
- AAP Red Book, a reference on pediatric infectious diseases
- Red Book Compact Disc Digital Audio (CD-DA), an audio CD standard (IEC 908, IEC 60908) and the first member of the Rainbow Books Compact Disc format specification series
- IBM Redbooks, named for their red covers, are technical how-to books written by IBM professionals
- IUPAC Red Book: Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry
- IUPAP Red Book: Handbook of Symbols, Units, Nomenclature and Fundamental Constants in Physics published/revised by the SUNAMCO Commission of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics
- Iowa Official Register, a biannual publication of Iowa government, politics, and history. Called the "Redbook" for its red covers.
- Personal Child Health Record, a child health record as used by the National Health Service of the United Kingdom, popularly known as the "Red Book."
- Red Book, alternate name for NTIA Manual of Regulations and Procedures for Federal Radio Frequency Management, a publication of the United States Office of Spectrum Management of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration or NTIA, the official source for all technical regulations relating to the use of the electromagnetic frequency spectrum
- Red Book, nickname for A Guide Book of United States Coins by R. S. Yeoman, an overview of and pricing guide for coins from the United States and the colonies before the U.S. was formed
- Red Book, a drug reference published by Thomson Reuters
- Red Book, a series of recommendations published by the CCITT (now ITU-T) in 1984. Among them was the first publication of the X.400 standard. Preceded by the "Yellow book" and succeeded by the "Blue book". The covers of the publications were red.
- Red Book, a British computer networking protocol from the 1980s, one of the Coloured Book standards
- Red Book, nickname for the Statement of Fees and Allowances, adopted by the UK General medical services in 1990 and abolished in 2004
- Red Book, US guide to prescription medicines published by Thomson, including data such as Average Wholesale Price
- Red Book, otherwise known as Trusted Network Interpretation, part of the Rainbow Series of books from the National Computer Security Center
- Red Books, books illustrating the plans for landscape gardens by Humphry Repton
- Redbooks, another name for the firefighter training manuals published by the International Fire Service Training Association (IFSTA). Historically, these books have had red covers
- The Red Book, alternate name for the RICS Appraisal and Valuation Standards, the professional guidelines for real estate valuers in the United Kingdom
- The Red Book, alternate name for the 8th edition of the OpenGL Programming Guide
- The Red Book, alternate name for the 3rd edition of the PostScript Language Reference
- The Redbook: A Manual on Legal Style by Bryan A. Garner
- AAUP Policy Documents and Reports, also known as the Redbook, by the American Association of University Professors.
- Red Book (album), the eighth album released by Texas in 2005
- "My Little Red Book," a song by Burt Bacharach and Hal David
- "My Little Red Book", cover version of the song by Love in 1966
- My Little Red Book of Winners, studio album by Manfred Mann
- "My Little Red Book", song recorded by Manfred Mann and featured in the 1965 film What's New, Pussycat?
- Little Red Songbook, song book published by the Industrial Workers of the World
Lists of endangered entities[edit]
- Red Book of Endangered Species, international listing (since 1948)
- Regional Red List, regional or country equivalents
- Red Data Book of the Russian Federation, a list of endangered and protected species, prohibited for hunting, in Russia and most CIS states
- The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire (1991)
- Red Book of Endangered Languages, a comprehensive list of the world's languages currently facing extinction (2009)
- Red Book of Ukraine, a list of endangered animals and plants that live in Ukraine
- Red Book of the Exchequer, a 13th-century manuscript
- Red Book of Hergest, a medieval Welsh manuscript
- The Red Book (Jung), manuscript of Carl Gustav Jung
Other uses[edit]
- Redbook, a women's magazine
- Red Book of Westmarch, a fictional manuscript written by Hobbits, a conceit of author J. R. R. Tolkien to explain the source of his stories
- Monty Python's Big Red Book, a humour book first published in 1971
- The Red Book (film), 1994 experimental film
- Red Book (C&S), nickname for the 1st edition of the Chivalry & Sorcery role-playing game
- Red Book of Varieties and Schemes a series of lecture notes by mathematician David Mumford on the theory of schemes
- The Red Fairy Book, in the collection of fairy tales by Andrew Lang
- The Mentalist (season 4)#Episodes
See also[edit]
- Black book (disambiguation)
- Blue book
- Green Book (disambiguation)
- Orange Book (disambiguation)
- Pink Book (disambiguation)
- Plum Book
- White book (disambiguation)
- Yellow Book (disambiguation)
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By Rebecca LaFlure
Fort Hood Herald
When single soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team return from Iraq this month, they'll sleep in rooms transformed from stark living quarters into cozy homes.
On a chilly Thursday morning, dozens of volunteers arrived at Fort Hood with truckloads of snacks, toiletries, bedding to make over 320 barracks rooms.
"I hope they'll be surprised," said Gina Bowman, an Army spouse who volunteered to help Thursday.
They fluffed pillows, hung up fresh towels, stocked kitchen cabinets and posted sparkling "Welcome Home" signs in each room.
"We try to set it up like a little hotel, and show that we appreciate the fact that they were gone for a year," said Kelly Lesperance, wife of battalion commander Lt. Col. David Lesperance.
Family Readiness Groups at Army installations around the world make it a tradition to decorate barracks rooms for single soldiers returning home from deployments.
"They really don't have family here. It's good to make them feel special, too, because they are," said Bowman, whose husband is scheduled to return this month from his third deployment.
People and businesses from 17 states donated the bedding, snacks and toiletries so the soldiers' could feel comfortable during their first night back.
"Last time I did this was in Germany," said Tina Fugate, whose husband is also set to return this month from Iraq.
"We're really excited. This is kind of our ceremony for the end of our husband's deployments."
She brought her 14-year-old son along to help decorate. Both of them sat on the floor and dumped handfuls of chocolate hugs into plastic bags. Each bag had a small welcome message inside.
"My daughter came up with the idea, 'Hugs for Heroes,'" Fugate said. "She had to be in school today, but she wanted to do something special for them too."
After Fugate completed the goody bags, she and other volunteers flooded the barracks rooms. One was in charge of the kitchen; the other went straight for the bathroom and lined the counter with new razors, shampoo and shaving cream.
Many of the Army spouses who volunteered Wednesday said they stay involved in Family Readiness Groups while their husbands and wives are overseas. It gives them the opportunity to help other soldiers, they said.
"It's fun, and I enjoy helping. … I try to keep busy," Bowman said.
Fugate began to put fresh sheets and blankets on the barracks bed."Wow. these are so soft. I'm so excited," she said.
When the makeover was complete, Fugate scanned the room before she went on to decorate the next one.
The bed was made, the towels were hung up, and a sign rested on the wall.
"Looks like home," she said.
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Hammer may refer to:
- The recurring ability.
- The recurring weapon.
- The recurring weapon type.
- The Limit from Final Fantasy VII.
- The ability from Bravely Second: End Layer.
- The ability from Final Fantasy Record Keeper.
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Ladies and gentlemen, start your browsers. Tickets for Electric Daisy Carnival's 2012 edition at Las Vegas Motor Speedway June 8-10 go on sale today at noon PST at electricdaisycarnival.com.
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The epic electronic dance music festival, known for delivering marquee DJs and imaginative, otherworldly productions, sold out its Friday and Saturday nights last year even before the majority of the lineup was announced. Over its three-night run, the annual party brought in more than 200,000 partiers to see DJs like Avicii, Swedish House Mafia and Paul Oakenfold. Back for a second year in Las Vegas in 2012, the event will once again be open to anyone 18+ and will once again set up shop at the Speedway with multiple stages, carnival rides and roving performers rounding out the all-night offerings.
Today's sale will start at $215 for three-day general admission passes and $500 for three-day VIP tickets. Single-day tickets will be sold at a later date.
Check back for lineup updates and event details as EDC 2012 approaches.


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Java Refreshable Objects is an implementation of a proposed architectural pattern called "refreshable caching". It is an alternative to the "publish/subscribe" pattern and an addition to the MVC (Model-View-Controller) architectural pattern. The refreshable object library allows programmers to avoid definition of caching variables and programming use of them. The core purpose of the mechanism to save a programmer from the tedium of programming different object property caching aspects while retaining the possibility to define what properties to cache in a declarative manner.
Knights is an action game for two players involving two knights who must explore randomly generated dungeons and complete various quests. Each game revolves around a quest. A typical quest would involve finding some items and carrying them back to your starting point. This may sound easy, but as there are only enough items in the dungeon for one player to win, you may end up having to kill your opponent to get his stuff! Other quests involve escaping from the dungeon, fighting a duel to the death against the enemy knight, or destroying an ancient Book using a special Wand. While exploring the dungeon, you will find aid in the form of weapons, potions, and magical spells, but beware, for there are also deadly traps, bloodthirsty vampire bats, and zombies who exist only to kill living knights! This is a remake of an Amiga game by Kalle Marjola from 1994. This version has generally smoother gameplay than the original, and has full support for online play.
Bigasoft YouTube Downloader Pro for Mac is a tool for ripping and converting YouTube videos. It supports YouTube playlists for batch operations, and converts to MP3, MP4, MOV, MKV, AVI, MPEG, Xvid, DivX, H.264, 3GP, WMV, FLV, MOD, TOD, WTV, and more. It also features volume adjustments, simultaneous download and conversion, actions upon completion, and more.
Slam Soccer 2006 is a funny 3D comic-style football game. You begin in the muddy village league and work your way up to the international top class of football and build up your own stadium! Now it's up to you: If you also find your way in the dubious business of football and if you get your finances under control, it's just a matter of skill until you win the cup and are the Slam Soccer World Champion 2006!
smupcheck, which stands for Smart Update Checker, checks Web sites for updates automatically, even if they don't offer an RSS feed. It is a very basic tool, and does not offer advanced features such as checking password-protected Web sites, highlighting changes, or filtering results.
A simple RAID checker.
A Mozilla-based browser.


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SAINT LEO, Fla. – The Saint Leo University softball team (28-22, 7-12 SSC) scored three times in the first inning, en route to a 4-0 win over Eckerd College (20-34, 3-16 SSC) in Tuesday night's Sunshine State Conference series opener at University Field.
Elysha Agen set the tone early for the Lions as she led the game off with a booming home run over the rightfield fence to give the Lions an early 1-0 lead. The blast was her first of the 2009 campaign.
It was just the first of five hits in the inning for Saint Leo as Tiffinee Harvey and Ashley Urbanik peppered the left centerfield fence with consecutive doubles. With the score 2-0 and Urbanik at second Brittany Yates delivered her first of three hits on the night, doubling to left centerfield bringing home the Lions third run of the inning.
That was all the offense the Lions needed as Urbanik (17-18) was nearly untouchable in the circle. The Lions ace hurled seven innings of three-hit ball, while striking out 10 Tritons and not allowing a base on balls.
Yates culminated the night by providing an insurance run in the sixth inning, as she connected on her 12th home run of the 2009 season. Yates stands first in the SSC with home runs by a freshman.
Of the Lions nine hits on the night, six of which were for extra bases and stands just one home run shy of the all-time team record set in 2008.
Urbanik closed the deal in the seventh with two of her seven strikeouts looking as SLU picked up their second conference victory in the last three attempts.
In Urbanik's last four outings she has surrendered only two earned runs in 24 and one-third innings pitched.
Saint Leo returns to University one last time on Wednesday, April 22 for a doubleheader against the very same Tritons. The softball program will also bid farewell to four seniors tomorrow night as Stephanie Discepolo, Tatiana Casis, Ally Maddox and Ashley Urbanik run out onto University Field one last time. First pitch for the game is scheduled for 6:00 pm with senior day presentations coming in between games.


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Yes! The WoT Quad is continuing The Wheel of Time madness with Book 6 in the epic fantasy series by Robert Jordan. First, let me thank my fellow Rand-land cohorts for carrying this read along on. They have been absolutely wonderful readers to pick this series apart and analyze every little bit with me. I know my personal reviews of the books have sometimes been luke warm, but I have thoroughly enjoyed the read along adventure because of these people: Liesel of Musings on Fantasia (always thoughtfully digs up spoiler free fan art for us newbies to enjoy); Eivind of the Awesome Commentators (giving us just enough hints of what is to come to send us rushing back to read the next section); and Sue from Coffee, Cookies, and Chili Peppers (who always has the best analysis and wickedly accurate predictions of where the story is going).
With that said, below is the schedule for Lord of Chaos. If you would like to join and receive the questions a few days ahead of post date, leave a comment with your email address or email me directly (nrlymrtl at gmail dot com).
The Schedule:
Week 1 Prologue – Chapter 2 102 pages Oct.20th CCCP
Week 2 Chapters 3-6 88 pages Oct. 27th Eivind
Week 3 Chapters 7-11 105 pages Nov. 3rd DoD
Week 4 Chapters 12-16 93 pages Nov. 10th MoF
Week 5 Chapters 17-24 107 pages Nov. 17th CCCP
Week 6 Chapters 25-30 109 pages Nov 24th Eivind
Week 7 Chapters 31-38 100 pages Dec. 1st DoD
Week 8 Chapters 39-45 90 pages Dec. 8th MoF
Week 9 Chapters 46-51 97 pages Dec. 15th CCCP
Week 10 Chapter 52-END 86 pages Dec. 22nd Eivind