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I haven't confirmed my theory with Google, but as far as I can tell as long as you enter a first and last name that seem relatively normal, don't use numbers or weird punctuation, only represent a single individual, and don't try to claim that you are Ashton Kutcher or Lady Gaga (unless you are--no offense to Ashton Kutcher or Lady Gaga), you should be fine.
"Real" to Who?
Speaking of Ashton Kutcher and Lady Gaga, though, those two pose a problem for the Google policy on names--as do many famous personalities. Kutcher's name is actually "Christopher Ashton Kutcher", and Lady Gaga is really "Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta". The Daily Show's Jon Stewart's real name is "Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz", the entertainer known as Pink is "Alecia Beth Moore", and Gene Simmons of KISS fame was born "Chaim Weitz".
According to Google policy, these people should use their real full first and last name, and enter alternate nicknames, maiden names, and other "pseudonyms" in the "Other names" section of the Google+ profile. Google's Bradley Horowitz explains, "If you add nicknames, maiden names, etc. to the "Other names" portion of your G+ profile, those with permission to view those fields can search for you using that term. For example: some of my colleagues call me "elatable," a pseudonym I've used on many services, so I've added it to my list of other names."
I highly doubt that Google will shut down Ashton Kutcher's or Lady Gaga's Google+ profiles just because they don't use the names written on their birth certificates. They each have a full first and last name (although "Lady" and "Gaga" could be debated) that don't use any numbers, punctuation or special characters. They are only representing themselves as an individual, and they are not impersonating anyone else. Technically, it passes the Google "real name" test.
The bottom line is that there is really nothing stopping the political dissidents of the world--or anyone else who may have some reason to choose to hide their true identity--from using a pseudonym. The pseudonym just needs to conform to the "real name" rules.
As a quick side note: Ashton Kutcher does, in fact, have a Google+ profile, and it seems that he has followed Horowitz' advice, but in reverse. His primary profile seems to be "Ashton Kutcher", but if you search for "Christopher Kutcher" you will also find his profile which suggests that Kutcher has included "Christopher Kutcher" in the "Other names" section of his Google+ profile.
As for Lady Gaga--Google should do a search for that name and get to work policing the "real names" policy.
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The new Xbox Live downloadable game Shadow Complex (out Wednesday, $15) developed by Chair Entertainment (Undertow) and produced by Epic Games, is not simply a repurposing of content, in this case Orson Scott Card's 2006 book Empire. Our story here breaks down the basics of the creative process that went into the book and the game. But Card and Chair Entertainment creative director Donald Mustard had more to talk about their collaborative efforts.
Tell me about how you joined forces.
Card: We started out when (Chair) were working on the game Advent Rising. I did some writing on that and we were planning on novelizing that one. That was the point where Chair went on their own and they were starting to develop Empire. I was coming to talk to them about what I would need to have from them in order to write the Advent Rising novel and they said, well, what we are actually working on now is Empire. This was at such an early stage that I realized I would have much more of a free hand. I have got to tell you how great of a publisher I have. I called (Tor Books publisher Tom Doherty) up and Iasked him if I could switch projects. I explained what we were doing with Empire and on the spot he said, 'OK, we will do that novel instead.'
Where did this idea of a civil war come from?
Mustard: You want me to tell you the truth? I grew up loving G.I. Joe. Looking back as an adult, what I loved was the dichotomy of the military versus Cobra, this super high tech bad guy. That got us thinking, that and the general thought that there hasn't been a really cool bad guy since the Berlin Wall fell. Russia makes an awesome bad guy. Nazis make good bad guys. Terrorists, eh, they are ok. But they are not the global enigmatic threat that a superpower poses -- clearly from an entertainment standpoint, not from real life. We thought, 'How could we create a fiction where we could have a plausible bad guy that would have the power and the reach to really be something new and cool?' That pretty quickly led us to thinking that the only real bad guy we would be interested in creating would be the United States. So we started thinking about how we could turn the United States into a true bad guy. Going through that thought process led us to 'What about a new civil war?'
Card: When (Mustard and Chair) first said it was a red state-blue state civil war. I said, 'Couldn't happen.' It's not really red state-blue state, it's red counties versus blue counties. It's urban versus rural and suburban. I just couldn't see a geographical way I could make it work. That was my instant response. But then I thought that's what they thought in Yugoslavia, too, before that broke apart and genocide started. It looked like they could never have a civil war because everybody was so intermarried and living among each other. Well, when the shooting starts they sorted themselves out rather quickly. So I thought how could this be plausible? And I didn't want to have the story be about people who were on one side or the other. I wanted my heroes to be trying to stop the war, to nip it in the bud and make it go away and try to keep the country united. I thought that could be a way I could make it plausible without adding to the divisiveness of the country. Basically, the novel takes place in the equivalent of after Fort Sumter and before the really big battles start.
Divisiveness in politics has not gone away since you wrote 'Empire;? What were you thinking during the 2008 campaign?
Card: What made me really buy into (divisiveness as a plot device) was between 2005 and the 2008 election, the hate rhetoric directed against George W. Bush reached insane levels. Even if you disagreed with everything he did, the rhetoric was very much like the insane things said about Abraham Lincoln, in the run up to the 1860 election and throughout his time in office. The hate rhetoric makes civil war seem to me to be far more plausible. Obviously, my book did not take into account the election of President Obama, but what I do deal with that I think still applies is that no matter who the president he still has to deal with a constituency that no matter what he does somebody hates him. Yet you still have to govern. What I am actually doing is commenting on presidency in general, on how you govern a democracy that is as large and as unwieldy as ours is and as cantankerous and as stubborn as the American people can be. Which, by the way, I think of as praise of the American people, not criticism.
There's a new 'Empire' book in the works. Is this developing into a series? And can the game be a series, too?
Card: That is the plan from the start. We want an infinite number of Empire books and games. I'm sure we won't achieve it, but.
Mustard: Games' greatest strengths are creating a universe and a place you can go to explore and interact with. We want to let the book do what books do really well and let the game do what games do really well. What we can do in a game that you can't do in a novel is put you there, we can put you in that universe and let you be a part of it.
Card: The nice thing in the way we are collaborating here is I don't have to write a novelization of the game, which is really almost impossible because the hero of the game is the player. That's not a good novel. I get to write novels that are the kind I write (and are) game-able novels. So I leave a lot of gaps for missions and adventures and so forth that can be put into the overarching story. And it works both ways. In the third book, I'm going to use the character (Jason Fleming) that they have created for this game. He's got to show up. I've got to use him. Part of the reason is because by the end of the second book a lot of the guys I've created are dead. So I got to have a good character. They have created one for me.
Can you give us a hint of where the book sequel 'Hidden Empire' takes readers?
Card: This takes place several years later. The man who becomes president, Torrent has been president several years. The world is still a dangerous place. But a lot of the dangers are not human. It's easy when you are playing war games to start thinking the most terrible thing is always going to be the enemy. But remember as devastating and bloody as World War I was the death toll did not even begin to approach the death toll worldwide of the influenza epidemic of 1918 that took place right on the heels of that war. So what we start with is the president with all that maneuvering he's doing with these other countries, suddenly he's faced with this new epidemic arising out of Africa. And his first response is the traditional one, to quarantine if you possibly can, to keep the disease from reaching outside of Africa. But it also means a collapse into chaos. We have some characters, even though they forbidden to go to Africa are determined to go there on an humanitarian mission to try to treat the sick and we have others who are there on military missions to try to prevent the worst sort of genocide from happening in this now devastated continent. So the moral quagmire here is: is it even morally right to quarantine a country like this?
It's just all very complicated and good people reach opposite conclusions and end up in combat with each other but through it all they have to deal with the fact that disease is an enemy that wears no uniform. I don't think I'm giving anything away here in saying that all the major characters get sick. Some live some don't. Meanwhile there's a lot of shooting.
By Mike Snider
Mike Snider began covering the video game industry during the Super Nintendo-Sega Genesis clash in 1992. An original pinball wizard, he eventually was seduced by Robotron: 2084 and Tempest. These days he is a fan of action/shooters and lives out his Keith Moon fantasies playing a mean drum kit on music games. More about Mike.
Brett Molina has been writing about video games for USA TODAY since 2005. He is well-versed in Madden NFL, the fighting genre and first-person shooters. The first video game he played was Asteroids at a local arcade. He has been hooked ever since. More about Brett.

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Morris Greenhut, 22, received the Avery Hopwood award of $1,000 at the University of Michigan, where he is preparing for his doctorate. Although previously the major Hopwood awards have gone to poets, playwrights and novelists, the judges considered two of Greenhut's essays of such excellence that they decided to honor an essayist this year.
Greenhut is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Greenhut. He was graduated from Northwestern High School in 1927.


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Author has written 5 stories for Vampire Diaries, Twilight, and Sailor Moon.
Welcome to the my world,
A world of villains and supernatural creatures.
If thy is thinkin'
If I am insane
I'm tellin'
Thy, I am sane
Why do I like villains better,
I think the main characters are too good,
They are patethic so I choose the latter,
Adding on I think villains are cool,
I know I'm a fool,
But I am not,
I won't give up my adoration for,
From TVD: Katherine Pierce, Rebekah Mikaelson and Klaus Mikaelson
From Twilight: Victoria, Jane and the Volturi
From Bleach: Tier Harribel and All Arrancar
From Blood Plus: Diva, Karl, Amshel, Nathan
Instead I'll make it grow even more
Although I do have a liking for some good ones,
From TVD: Anna, Lexi Branson, Damon, Elena (vampire)
From Twilight: Rosalie Hale, Isabella Marie Swan, the Denali Sisters
From Bleach: Rangiku Matsumoto, Yoruichi, Toshiro Hitsugaya, Ichigo Kurosaki
From Blood Plus: Saya, Irene, Riku, Haji, Solomon
So don't hate me, I mean the following shows' fans
I'm sorry for the poem but I'm practising for my school's upcoming event. I had been chosen as the representative of my section at the poem writing contest. I admit I'm scared, I asked to go for essay writing instead since I was better at that but my name was already on list.
Wish me luck and help me out by PMing tips to improve my poem-writing. I've stopped the poem writing months ago but I had no choice, nobody would volunteer so I did, I'm a thrid honor so I've been looked up at and my classmates weren't surprised and encouraged me. Anyway, enough with the rant.
I just wanted to tell you that I am discontinuing my stories, I'm having a hard time continuing them. I actually have a lot of finished stories in my laptop but I'm too shy to post it and most of them are actually FanFics.
The only problem is I can't think of titles until I finish the story, I'm planning to go to writing workshops at summer to improve my writing so I hope this writer's block will go away.
Here's a few more things about me:
> I'm from the Philippines
> I was born the 19th of February in Singapore
> I'm pretty smart only in school but I do have lack of imagination
> I am totally not fit and absolutely thin and tall
> I'm really clumsy but I'm currently getting over it by playing badminton and believe it or not, I got into the varsity team =)
> I love travelling and I don't mean to brag but I've been to Hong Kong, London, Ireland and Singapore.
> I love reading
> My favourite book series are: The 39 Clues, Geronimo Stilton, Twilight, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The Hunger Games
> My favourite shows/movies are: Twilight Saga, The Vampire Diaries, Resident Evil, Bleach, Blood Plus, Naruto, Walking Dead
> My favorite games are: Surviving High School, Pokémon, Resident Evil 5, Left 4 Dead 2
> I love music
> I hate wearing dresses
> I love everything Taylor Swift and Avril Lavigne
So that's sums it up, I hope you can get an idea of what I look like. I also hope if you can PM me links of awesome stories were there is a good character and villain pairing from the above mentioned movies, films and books. If you think I'm tomboy from what I mentioned, I am not but I do always wear casual. Anyway, I'm done ranting so so long.
Message to Everyone:
I don't think I'll write anymore stories... I'm feeling a little down and it's affecting the ending of my stories. I wrote a one-shot today and it ended up with the main character dying a tragic death and yesterday, I finished a story but quickly changed the ending since it ended up with the character's loved ones dying and in the end, she committed suicide. So I'm sorry to my few readerss =(


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Templating Aerogels for Tunable Nanoporosity
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The engineering of porosity, particularly at the meso-level, is expected to be of great scientific and technological significance in the 21st century where advances in nanoscience and technology are projected to catalyze major breakthroughs in biosciences and materials.
Aerogels are a class of highly porous buoyant materials that find use or show promise in many key products such as catalysts, thermal insulators, chemical adsorbers, sensors, fuel storage, energy absorbers, and aero capacitors. They may be in the form of particles, thin films, fibers, or monoliths. Some of the remarkable properties for the aerogels are high porosity, large pore volume, high surface area, and very good morphological stability during heat treatment at high temperatures. Recent discovery of surfactant-templated pathways enables better control over the properties of the porous materials. The advantages of the templating include high porosity, tunable unimodal or multimodal nanoporosity, and directional control. The new evaporation-induced self-assembly method that enables production of aerogel-like materials using soft chemistry and lower pressures further expands the spate of products that are possible in economically promising fashion. This porous structure can be further functionalized through doping and impregnation to host catalytic sites, conducting phases, or magnetic phases.
This review aims to address the issues of preparation of templated gels, removal of the solvent and template material, and subsequent functionalization of the surfactant-templated aerogels to further tune the porous structures.


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Your News Source for the Hilltop
May 2, 2003
U.S. District Judge U.W. Clemon to deliver Birmingham-Southern
Commencement address
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—U.S. District
Judge U.W. Clemon, chief judge of the Northern District of
Alabama, will address the Birmingham-Southern class of 2003
during the college's 144th Commencement ceremonies
Saturday, May 24.
Clemon will keynote the 3:30 p.m. event
in the Boutwell Auditorium in downtown Birmingham. More than
4,000 family members and friends are expected to attend Commencement,
where Birmingham-Southern will confer some 315 bachelor's
and master's degrees.
Clemon also will be awarded
an Honorary Doctor of Humanities degree from Birmingham-Southern
during the Commencement ceremonies. The honorary degree recognizes
Clemon's distinguished career and service to the college.
In addition to his tenure as a U.S. district
judge, Clemon has served as a lawyer and a member of the
state Legislature. He also devotes a great deal of his time
to civic organizations.
Last year, Birmingham-Southern established
the Judge U.W. Clemon Endowed Honors Pre-Law Scholarship
to honor him for his contributions to his profession and
the community. The scholarship assists deserving minority
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For the First Time Ever, We'll Have Two Black Senators Serving at the Same Time
By David Weigel | Posted Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, at 10:04 AM ET
Gov. Deval Patrick will appoint Mo Cowan to fill the Senate seat vacated by Secretary of State John Kerry. When the news broke, all of self-involved Washington asked the same thing: "Is it quicker to Google 'Mo Cowan' on my phone or on my laptop?"
It's quicker on the phone. Cowan, an attorney, was Gov. Patrick's chief of staff for most of his current, second term. Like Patrick, he's African-American. Thus, for the first time ever, the Senate will include more than one black member at the same time Cowan and South Carolina's Tim Scott. I'd thought that the Reconstruction era produced multiple black senators, and it did, but they served a few years apart. And since senators were appointed by legislatures until 1914, that means only three of the eight black senators were elected by voters.
That could change. Scott's a pretty sound bet for re-election in 2014, and Cory Booker keeps ignoring the shade thrown his way and running for Senate against Frank Lautenberg. But for now, we have made history, sort of Cowan is the first black senator appointed by a black governor.
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Wed Jan 30, 2013, 06:21 PM
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1. It's just a shame that one of them is a tea-bagging whack job!
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Thu Jan 31, 2013, 12:09 AM
libdem4life (12,715 posts)
2. And our current state of politics and culture...as noted above...both were appointed, not elected.
Three up for election went down. Guess it's the good news vs. the bad news.
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Oil prices firm on Middle East
The oil complex is starting the week cautiously firm as the fighting between Israel and Hamas continues for another day. Both side are continuing to lob missiles at each other with the possibility of ground force activity as Israel has called up thousands of reservists. As this part of the Middle East is not an oil producing area the current activity has not resulted in any lost supply of oil. However, the instability in the region is growing from the current activity along with the evolving situation in Syria which has seen its civil war spreading outside of its borders. If the uncertainty and instability spreads to the southern part or oil producing part of the Middle East it could certainly result in a supply disruption and thus a further firming in oil prices... which is the last thing the faltering global economy needs at this point in time.
At the moment the market is building a modest risk premium into the price of oil even though oil is well supplied. There is no shortage of oil anyplace in the world as supply has continued to outstrip demand. Demand has been suppressed by the slowing of the global economy and likely to continue to remain under pressure as it does not look like the global economy is ready for a growth spurt anytime soon... based on the macroeconomic data that has been released from all corners of the world over the last month or so. Even China... the main economic and oil consumption growth engine of the world does not look like it is ready for any major resurgence in the short to even medium term. In fact based on the latest EIA STEO report China is only expected to see an increase of about 400,000 bpd in its oil consumption in 2013 (versus 2012). With total non-OPEC supply expected to increase by about 1.2 million barrels per day China is not going to be able to reverse the evolving trend of supply outstripping demand all by itself.
For now the firming of oil prices is primarily being driven by the evolving situation in the Middle East and the perception that it could ultimately lead to a supply disruption at some point down the road. There is currently no shortage of oil any place in the world and thus the current fundamentals are biased to the bearish side. On the demand side of the equation there is no reason to believe that there will be a surge in oil demand anytime soon as the major economies of the world... US, Europe and China are all going nowhere quick. Thus for now we have to focus on the geopolitics for directional guidance for oil in the short term.
On the economic front there may be a ray of hope coming from the first round of talks that took place on Friday between the President of the US and Congress regarding a solution to the pending fiscal cliff. Both sides expressed optimism that a deal will be negotiated before the end of the year. This gave the global financial markets a bit of a boost as many equity markets are being hit with a light round of short covering. This will be a roller coaster ride insofar as the 30 second news snippets that hit the media airwaves over the next two to four weeks. However, as I have been indicating for quite some time in the newsletter I still expect a deal to be put in place as neither side will be willing to risk sending the US economy back into another recession. If the global equity markets begin to rally in anticipation of a deal in the US it could also serve to firm oil prices over and above what is taking place from a geopolitical perspective.
The oil complex ended the week mostly higher... with the exception of Nymex HO... mostly on the growing geopolitical risk in the Middle East. WTI and Brent gained about the same amount on the week. WTI increased by 0.70% or $0.60/bbl as Brent gained about 0.49% or $0.53/bbl. Crude oil stocks in PADD 2 and Cushing were modestly higher on the week. The Jan Brent/WTI spread was relatively flat widening by just $0.16/bbl as the normalization process is only slowly proceeding. In fact the Jan spread is currently trading at the highest level in months as the North Sea is still experiencing a slow recovery from maintenance.
On the distillate fuel front the Nymex Nov HO contract decreased by 0.62% or $0.0187/gal on the week even as distillate fuel inventories decreased modestly on the week. Gasoline prices increased on the week. The Dec Nymex gasoline price increased by 0.40% or $0.0109/gal this past week.
Nat Gas futures put in another strong performance ending the week in positive territory. The December Nat Gas futures contract increased by 8.19% or $0.287/mmbtu on the week and is now approaching the key psychological level of $4.00/mmbtu as the market continues to be focusing on the upcoming winter heating season.
As I have mentioned on several occasions the Nat Gas market is now primarily being driven by the current and expected temperatures across the major areas of the US that consume Nat Gas for heating. In addition the net outcome of the level of heating related demand over the next several months will directly translate to the level of Nat Gas in inventory. With the first net withdrawal from inventory (Thursday's EIA report) the surplus in inventory is now just 1.8% above last year at this time... a significant reduction from where it was back in early April of this year.
The very near term temperatures across most of the northeast is a bit colder than normal and will result in a modest level of Nat Gas heating related demand over the short term. However, the latest NOAA six to ten day and eight to fourteen day forecasts are still calling for above normal temperatures across a significant portion of the US for the period November 18 through the end of the month (at least). The only part of the country shown in the forecast that is expecting below normal temperatures will be Florida. If the actual temperatures do in fact come in as projected we could see one of two more small injections into inventory before hitting the main part of the winter heating season and the part of the season that the forecasters are expecting much colder temperatures than last year.
On the financial front equity markets around the world were mostly lower for the week as market participants continued to look at the many signs that suggest that the global economy is likely to slow even further. Europe is now in recession. The decrease in equities were mostly a result of the view that all of the money printing by central banks around the globe have not had much of a positive impact on the global equity markets. Global equity values decreased as shown in the EMI Global Equity Index table below but are still marginally in positive territory for the year.
The EMI Index decreased by 1.3% on the week with the Index now showing a year to date gain of just 2.8%. Over the last week the Index decreased in value in most all of bourses with three bourses now in negative territory for the year... China, Brazil and Canada. Over the last several months the global equity markets have been struggling to stay in positive territory and have been consistently losing value over this timeframe. The Index is now trading at the lowest level since the second half of July.
The euro was higher on the week as was the US dollar. Last week the global equity markets were a bearish price driver for oil and most commodity markets for most of the week's trading sessions.
I am keeping my view at neutral with a bias to the bullish side for today primarily due to the evolving geopolitical situation in the Middle East. At the moment there is no shortage of oil anyplace in the world but the market is slowly building a risk premium into the price of oil in anticipation of a spreading of the fighting taking place between Israel and Hamas as well as the civil war in Syria. The geopolitical risk is currently the only bullish price driver for oil as the current fundamentals as well as the slowing of the global economy are both bearish price drivers for oil. In the short term the price of oil will move based on the evolution of the situation in the Middle East. This is an event driven move in the price of oil at the moment.
I am keeping my Nat Gas price view at neutral as the fundamentals and technicals are once again keeping suggesting that the market may have topped out for the short term. I anticipate that the market will remain in a trading range until it becomes clearer as to how the heating season will evolve.
Markets are mostly higher into the US trading session as shown in the following table.
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1 pre-made thick crust pizza
1/2 lb. of thin sliced deli roast beef, as rare as you dare
2 cups of fine shred colby jack cheese
1 cup of milk steeped with sliced onion, peppercorns/one bay leaf
2 tbsp of butter
2 tbsp of flour
4 tbsp of horseradish
1 tsp of caraway seeds divided use-half in sauce/half for crust
1/2 tsp of garlic powder
2 tsp of melted butter
1/2 tsp of coarse pretzel salt
Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Put your pizza stone in the oven to heat blistering hot while you make the sauce.
Heat milk in small saucepan with one onion sliced in half, a few peppercorns and a bay leaf. Keep just below the scald point. Melt butter, add flour, whisking well in a separate pan. Strain hot milk, adding slowly to roux and stir until sauce thickens.
Add the horseradish and 1/2 of the caraway seeds...crush the seeds slightly to release their aroma and flavor.
Spread the horseradish sauce over the prepared crust.
Top with rare roast beef, torn into shreds over the prepared pizza. Top with the shredded cheese. Brush edge of crust with melted butter and sprinkle with remaining caraway seeds and pretzel salt. (as much as you like, caraway is the flavor that makes the difference!)
Bake in hot oven for 20-25 minutes. (ten minute preheat time for pizza stone-immeasurably improves the pre-made crust).


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Alan Pardew knows that Jonas Gutierrez, the Argentine International, who has become a permanent fixture in Newcastle's side since Alan Pardew arrived, has picked up four yellow cards and he is just one caution away from a one match ban.
Jonas Gutierrez – one yellow card away from one match ban
A number of other Newcastle players are also edging towards their fifth yellow card, and with the squad so small, that's got to be some concern for the manager.
But in Jose's case we have a number of wingers only too willing to take their chance if Jonas is suspended, and they include Gabby Obertan, Sammy Ameobi, Sylvain Marveaux and Romain Amalfitano.
James Perch also has four yellow cards this season, and James is becoming a solid member of the side, and plays in multiple different positions in the first team, currently filling in for Cheick Tiote in defensive midifeld.
Cheick Tiote and Yohan Cabaye have picked up three cautions, and of course Cheick is serving a three match ban in the Premier League for being sent off against Sunderland.
Here's the stats on discipline so far this season for each Newcastle player, and this is how Alan addressed the cautions:
"There's nothing I can do about that." "That's not in our thinking. I will cope with the suspensions when they arrive."
Alan's right about that, all he can do is to tell Newcastle's players not to pick up silly yellow cards, but to tell them to pull back in their aggression and tackles on the pitch is a dangerous thing to do.
The lads have to have that bite in the tackle and controlled aggression on the field, but they also need to be sensible and not do daft things that gets them a caution.
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The British motoring show 'Fifth Gear' staged one of the world's most horrific looking and sounding car crash tests by running a Ford Focus head-on into a concrete wall at 120 mph.
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Mike Millian, known to his friends as "Corvette Mike," is selling the 1978 Chevrolet Corvette pictured above. Don't let the years of dust fool you. It's in cherry condition with only 13 miles on the odometer.
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Join the DePaul Alliance for Free Thought, in association with the Secular Student Alliance, Center for Inquiry, African Americans for Humanism, and the Women's Center at DePaul as they host a panel of some of the best minds in the secular movement to talk about the state of atheism, its current predicaments regarding discrimination, and attempt to chart a path towards greater involvement in the world at large.
This event is free and open to the public.
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- First African American to hold an Endowed Chair at Rice University
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- Writer and activist, blogger at FreethoughtBlogs
- Currently getting PhD in Mass Communications, focusing on Women's Studies and Reality TV
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- Assistant President of Minnesota Atheists
- Blogger at FreethoughtBlogs
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Bankruptcy Law Questions? Ask a Bankruptcy Lawyer.
Hi - my name is XXXXX XXXXX I'm a Bankruptcy litigation attorney. Thanks for the post.
I have a few questions - -
1. What happened with the first unlawful detainer?
2. What is your adversary case about?
Do I get another answer or do I have to pay more? I thought I get to ask as many questions as I need?
The eviction came after the BK7 and was the based on the unlawful detainer from the BK 13 from October. The adversary is the lawsuit claiming we are sueing for securities fruad, harasment and elder abuse. But the adversary is over because they did not respond to the summons. we then entered in a Notice of defualt. the next step would be a quiet title process recovering the title of the home. i dont understand why I got evicted and how the were able to obtain legal possesion when my FEDERAL Case is in motion. I thought that since we are in federal court a stay would superceed the local level. Also isnt a motion of defualt act as a BK chapter. And lastly the title of the property is clouded. so many things the new bank who bought the property cant sell because of the clouded title right?
Their were two evictions one was no good do to the Ch 7 that was filed. The second eviction was followed through after the ch 7 was over and the motion of default was entered. because i didnt enter in another ch then I have no chance or do you think i can still appeal the detainer?
is the detainer/ eviction the same. Because the eviction was on thusday last week but the detainer was from october. it doesnt seem right that i dont have any rights as of now considering ive been taking all proper and legal channels.I mean if I would of known that the unlawful detainer didnt need to be renewed then I would of entered a nmew BK. This is my home I was born and raised in and I have to keep it. Its been in the family for 35 years
I appriciate your advice. Infact the network of people I am useing are writing that up as we speek. The term judgment is something I heard along with 35 pages of something. Do you think I can take my case to the local court house here and ask to speak with a judge and present my case to get a stay till this is ironed out? and if I could negotiate a settlement price ofthe home in our judgement, like ad their listing price into the law suite? I think im a little un clear about the release of judgement too
But there are two companies in this the original loan is from american home, and the new owner of the title is Duetche bank who evicted us. so if I understand you correctly your telling me that if I realese the judgment agains american home then deutche bank will Back off? Sorry if im not getting it I am a window cleaner not an attorney
Ok now that sounds promising and seems to be inline with whats going on. Last week the house was on auctions.com and we had to jump through hoops and fire rings to get them to stop it. what the banks are doing to the general public is criminal! I cant let them make me another statistic. But this sounds promising! Thank you so much for your time sir, I am very greatful of your knowledge.


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What did the article you read state? And where did they get their information?
Besides being a mechanic which is the family business I also have been a firefighter paramedic for over 20 years and have seen more accidents than I can even remember, and I agree based on my experience that the safest place for an unrestrained dog would be in the floor board. Of course nothing is 100% but a dog in the back seat is either going to be ejected or thrown forward into the windsheild and dash area, the front seats will usually not stop them from flying all the way to the dash in a head on collision.
Again this is based on my experience and is not based on any scienticic study, this is just what I have seen from real world experience with accidents with and without dogs involved.
With all due respect, to the car expert, the safest place for a dog depends on the size of the dog. An unrestrained dog on the floorboard of a car is more likely to recieve blunt force trauma to the body, which can be fatal to dogs.
A medium or small dog should be in a crate/kennel in the middle of the backseat or restrained in a dog-approved seatbelt/harness. There are literally thousands of possible ways to restrain small to medium sized dogs in a car that range from the inexpensive harnesses to more expensive metal sided crates that bolt into the car itself.A large dog should be restrained in the kennel in the backseat or in the cargo part of a van or SUV.
Dogs on floor boards get killed either due to impact or injury from the car being out of control. Additionally, the person driving the car can be injured due to the unrestrained dog flying about the vehicle during an accident.


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In the third and last episode of Nike SB's Texture Tour video series, the team hits the island of Sardegna to grab some great skating footage. With hours of filming and even more hours of traveling under their belt, the Texture Tour proved to be a lengthy expedition that traversed three regions, eight cities and nine days. This installment features appearances from Mark Lambertucci, Luca Crestani, Mauro Caruso, Jacopo Korahn Carozzi and Gayle, along with Sergio Minnich, Andrea Caputo and David Biondani capturing the trip. Enjoy!
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that when you join CSU-ERFA you are not automatically a member of CSUN-ARF or vice-versa , you are not a member of CSU-ERFA when you join ARF but that a portion of your CSU-ERFA dues is returned to ARF?
that CSU-ERFA keeps its members informed about impending changes in health plan benefits. The Association is especially active in working with CalPERS to control the costs of medical plans and pharmaceuticals.
that CSU-ERFA worked with CalPERS to establish its Long-Term Care Insurance Program?
that CSU-ERFA provided assistance and effective representation for retirees in FERP who were threatened with layoffs during periods of budget exigency?
that CSU-ERFA has developed a "Survivor's Guide" that identifies details that should be considered in advance of death and matters of concern when death occurs?
that CSU-ERFA convinced the CSU Board of Trustees to adopt the resolution (RFSR -06-87-03) which established that emeritus faculty shall be deemed to be continuing members of the academic community with the same privileges as enjoyed by the general faculty?
that CSU-ERFA was effective in protecting employee retirement funds—Proposition 162, The California Pension Protection Act of 1992. Which provides protection against the use of pension funds for general budget purposes?
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"I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation: And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, 'What doest thou?'" (Daniel 4:34-35)
Hunter and Cammie were playing on the dirt pile in the back yard. "I'm the king of the mountain!" yelled Hunter from the top of the pile, his arms raised high in the air.
"Not so fast, there!" yelled Cammie as she charged up toward him and attempted to take his place. As she pushed him out of the way, she exclaimed, "Now I'm the queen of the mountain!"
Laughing and out of breath, Hunter gasped, "So what does the queen of the mountain actually rule over?"
"Whatever she wants, of course!" replied Cammie, grinning.
Maybe, like Hunter and Cammie, you might like to be a ruler of some kind, in control of something – if only over something as small as a dirt pile. But do you remember Who is really in charge of everything? In Scripture, God is called "the Most High God." Do you know why He is called that? He is called "the Most High God" because He is the most high! He has more authority and power than anyone else. He created the universe, and He controls the universe He created! He does whatever He sees fit to do. No one is in a position to question Him!
The truth that God is the Most High God should be encouraging, if you belong to Him. He has all things under perfect control. But at the same time, this truth should be a reminder that you are not the one in charge; God is. He has the right to "call the shots" when it comes to your life, and He carries out His own plans in His own way and in His own good time – because He is the Most High God.
God rules over everything and does everything He knows to be best for His glory and for our good.
My Response: » Do I thank the Most High God that He rules over everything – even situations that are hard for me to understand? » Do I submit in spirit when the Most High God controls things in my life, or am I trying to "call the shots" myself?
He That Cometh
Matthew 11:14 "And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come."
He praised God! Psalms 139:14 -- I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
The word "infallible" means that it cannot have a mistake. It is never wrong. We say that the Word of God is infallible. God's word has no mistakes and it is total truth. (Psalm 33:4) "For the word of the Lord is right; and all his works are done in truth."
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Tired sight gags only
part of what doesn't 'Click'
June 24, 2006
General Audiences: C+
Great premise: What if you could use
your TV universal remote to control your
universe. Our imaginations swim with
ideas. Adam Sandler experiments with the
possibilities with mixed results. Lots
of laughs in the beginning, but soon
bathroom humor overkill and 11th hour
sentimentality ends the fun.
Family Audiences: Not appropriate
Although rated PG-13 for language, crude
and sex-related humor, and some drug
references, the ratings folks often
exaggerate undesirable content. Not in
this case. When a seven-year-old boy
swears like a drunken sailor and his
six-year-old sister asks dad if he's
doing drugs while the family dog is
having its way with a stuffed toy for
the umpteenth time in the background,
PG-13 doesn't look strong enough.
When it comes to the target audience,
the trailers for Click are
deceptive. They're designed to appeal to
children based on a comical out-take
from the film involving two boys ages
seven and 10 playing catch.
You may have seen the sketch. The older
boy is an obnoxious bully ridiculing the
younger one for constantly dropping the
ball. Using a magical TV remote, Michael
Newman (Adam Sandler) hits "pause,"
which freezes the ball in mid-air, then
lowers the baseball glove on the naughty
boy and hits "pause" again.
Predictably the ball strikes the bully
in the face. Kids who see this trailer
laugh out loud and can't wait to see the
movie. Problem is, this is definitely
not family fare.
In spite of the presence of two very
young and endearing children (Joseph
Castanon and Tatum McCann), who
comprise architect Michael Newman's
nuclear family, college-age audiences
are the real target audience for the
crude, sophomoric humor that permeates
this film.
Those tired sight gags involving big
breasts, flatulence and dogs doing
stereotypical dog things stand in
(poorly, I should add) for original
humor. They appear to be lifted
wholesale from recent films like Meet
the Folkers and
At least the writers in Meet
the Folkers were kind enough
to limit screen time to just to one dog
procreation scene. In Click we're
subjected to 10 such episodes.
Fortunately, there is a plot that ties
familiar bathroom humor together.
Michael Newman is a brilliant
mild-mannered architect married to the
beautiful and sexy Donna (Kate
Beckinsale). They have two wonderful and
witty children. Unfortunately for the
wife and kids, Michael is an ambitious,
workaholic father with little time for
the family.
In one scene, after staying up all night
to work, a tired Michael becomes
frustrated because he can't figure out
which of his assortment of gadgets will
turn on the TV set. He jumps in the car
and prowls the nearby retail chain
stores in search of a universal remote.
Instead of choosing the more promising
Circuit City store, he strolls into Bed,
Bath & Beyond and enters a door at the
back that reads "Beyond." There he meets
Mort (Christopher Walken), an eccentric
employee repairman, who gives him an
unusual remote device with the power to
send its user back into the past,
forward into the future or simply to
freeze the present.
Michael takes the thing home and begins
experimenting with its magical powers,
discovering that it will allow him to
silence his barking dog, fast forward
through arguments with his wife or
bypass traffic on the way to work.
Everything he perceives as unpleasant,
including massage as an integral part of
sex with his wife, is simply eliminated
by a click of the remote. This selfish
sap is so fast on the trigger (the TV
remote, that is) that he leaves his wife
repeatedly unsatisfied.
Predictably, of course, the remote
starts doing things Michael doesn't want
it to do, like racing forward in time 10
years at a pop. Michael takes the device
back to Mort, however is told it is
non-returnable and can't be destroyed.
starts out as a comedy for the first
hour, sustaining our interest with the
intriguing premise of going back to
one's past or doing naughty things in
the present to people we don't like.
Sadly, the second half begins to run out
of good ideas and suddenly transforms
into a seriously sentimental montage
evoking memories of It's A
Wonderful Life.
At this point the laughter subsides,
doom and gloom set in and you're left
wondering what's the moral of the story.
Second thought: I went to see this film
for a good laugh, not moral inspiration.
Who cares what the moral is. At the
beginning of the second half of Click
I should have hit fast forward on my own
remote and left it while I was still
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Wesley Biblical Seminary grew out of the need for adequately prepared pastors within the Methodist tradition in the Deep South. It has since become global in its perspective and mission. In 1974, after two years of study, the Association of Independent Methodists voted to establish an interdenominational seminary committed to historic Methodist theology, namely, the authoritative Word of God and the doctrine of transformation by His grace.
Dr. Ivan C. Howard became the seminary's first president. The facilities of Wesley College in Florence, Mississippi, provided temporary housing for the seminary's opening semester in September 1974. On July 22, 1975, Wesley Biblical Seminary was incorporated as an independent, non-denominational, non-profit educational institution with its charter, by-laws, and doctrinal statement duly adopted at the first Board of Trustees meeting on September 20, 1975. Subsequent to the death of Dr. Howard, Dr. Eldon R. Fuhrman was elected president in 1977. Dr. Fuhrman served the seminary as president for eight years, and returned to full-time teaching in 1985. Dr. Harold G. Spann assumed presidential leadership July 1, 1985. WBS became an accredited seminary through the Association of Theological Schools (ATS) in 1991. Dr. Robert Lawrence succeeded Dr. Spann as president in 1996. On January 15, 1998, Dr. Ronald E. Smith was elected as the fifth president of Wesley Biblical Seminary. He was followed in July 2010 by Dr. James L. Porter. The current president, Dr. John E. Neihof, Jr. has served since July 2013.
The seminary is governed by a Board of Trustees composed of ministerial and lay leaders. Financially, the seminary depends primarily upon gifts and pledges of individuals, groups, and churches for operational capital and endowment funding. The generous giving of those aligned with the WBS mission allows the seminary to keep tuition affordable.


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About the Book
John and Michele were married in April of 2014 at the Georgetown Ballroom
Features & Details
- Category Wedding
Large Square, 12×12 in, 30×30 cm
110 Pages
- Publish Date Aug 01, 2014
- Language English
About the Creator
What I love most about photography is expressing how I view people without words. Each and every one of us has a light shining within. It takes someone who cares enough to discover it…to see it. You can listen to people with more then your ears, you can hear what they are trying to say with your eyes. To be able to catch it on film - that is the reason that I am a photographer. My job could not possibly get old because every experience is a new story. I moved to Seattle at the age of 18 with the goal of creating the person that I wanted to be. I have been a freelance photographer, shooting weddings and portraits for roughly 7 years. I received my degree for Commercial Photography from Seattle Central Community College. I have also been able to travel to different countries to get to know their culture and people. I love traveling, and photographing all that I see and experience. I love to paint a picture in a viewer's mind of what it felt like to be there.
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3 months to go and so much to do!
Beginning a blog.
So excited my first backpacking trip! Me and Andi (the hunk of a boyfriend ;P) have wangled a month off work to go see a bit of the world. Here's our itinerary : -
Newcastle, to Thailand (Bangkok, Kanchanaburi, Lobpuri)
overland to Cambodia (Siem Reap, Phnom Phen)
flying to Malaysia (Kuala lumpar)
back to Thailand (Krabi and islands)
then into Borneo (Sabah.....and finally a few night in Hong Kong before flying home
At 27 years old i'm feeling the dreaded loom of my thirties and i'm desperate to get a little bit of adventure before i reach it! As is always the case with life it has got in the way of this dream, mortgages, university, marriage, divorce, death of loved ones and full time work all ate into the days, months and years of my time in my twenties....then i met Andi. So relaxed he is almost horizontal! He has the amazing ability to make everything seem okay and pushes me to go for what i love to do in life. He fell in love with South East Asia after previous trips and knew of my dream to see the world, so we just went for it! Probably not the best timing to book a holiday as we had just bought a house and had no furniture to speak of, but hey! waiting for the 'right time' to arrive gets you nowhere in life. I think being on such a tight budget for the trip is going to add to the excitement of it all (at least i hope it will)...we have £60 a day (with extra for a temple pass each in cambodia) between the 2 of us for accomodation, food and fun!
I have been ready for the big trip for almost a year now, happy in the knowledge that things are slowly getting ticked off the 'to do list'.
Flights booked and paid...check
New passport received...check
Backpacks bought....check
Tiger temple tour booked...check
and probably the most important thing on the list...make sure you've made another list so you know what you need to take......check.
This is where i'm struggling. I have no clue what to take with me! I think i better do some research and take some advice on this...i'll post later with a list of what i've decided to pack. In the mean time i'm off to find out what injection we will need before we go! yikes!
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The Jack Beckley Lawn Bowling Tournament at the Santa Monica Lawn Bowling Club is highlighted. This beautiful, full-color book shows the 2010 Tournament, the participants and winners.
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- Category Sports & Adventure
Standard Landscape, 10×8 in, 25×20 cm
62 Pages
- Publish Date Mar 16, 2011
- Tags Lawn Bowling, photography, sports
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Brady Art
Santa Monica, California
"YOUR JOURNEY / YOUR COFFEE TABLE BOOK" Providing complete book design from concept through completion including design consultation, production and image retouching. Since 1995 we have been creating award winning projects for small companies, non-profits, artists and photographers.
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My day began at 5:15 a.m. My attire had been preselected, my purse packed, and I had visited the salon for a hair appointment the night before. I was preparing to go to the White House for the second time this month.
I was among those chosen to meet with senior staff of the Obama Administration for the "White House African American Clergy Forum: Pastors and the White House Partnering for the Common Good." The only thing I was confident of was my clothing. At least I would look good.
The visit would reveal many unexpected lessons, some of which I have no words to explain right now.
We were greeted by Paul Monteiro, who leads the White House's religious outreach, and Joshua DuBois, leader of the president's faith-based initiatives.
We heard from: Valerie Jarrett, senior adviser to the president; Arne Duncan, secretary of education; Shaun Donovan, secretary of housing and urban development; Attorney General Eric Holder, who talked briefly about the Department of Justice's independent investigation of the murder of Trayvon Martin; Lisa Jackson, the nation's top environmental official; and a host of others representing various federal agencies.
After lunch, we were greeted by Heather Foster, the White House African American outreach director, and Kevin Lewis, the African American communications director.
Then, we were invited to attend various breakout sessions on health care, education, fatherhood, jobs and economic development, re-entry and disconnected youth.
We returned to the South Court Auditorium hoping that President Obama would be there to speak to us.
Instead, Michael Strautmanis, deputy assistant to the president, stood up to the podium and gave closing remarks as scheduled. He joked with us that he didn't know how to close his presentation, having said all he needed to say.
Some persons suggested that the Christian experience as practiced by African Americans is filled with music, so we began to sing "We've Come This Far By Faith," which led to another song and another.
"We might as well pray" became the sentiment as Rev. Warnock of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Ga., stood behind the podium and asked us to join hands in prayer.
It seemed only fitting that after a song and a word of prayer that a sermon be delivered. Enter Chaplain Barry Black. The Word of the Lord came from his mouth without effort.
Afterward, he took his seat while many of those gathered were now raised from theirs. We came for a White House briefing and ended up having a worship service, transforming the South Court Auditorium into a sanctuary.
"The President of the United States, President Barack Obama."
Yes, President Obama did speak to us, and it is a moment I will never forget. He chided DuBois for having him speak after Chaplain Black. He thanked us for our prayers, asked that they continue and shared about his personal prayer life.
He talked about the importance of education and the results of his administration these past three years. Afterward, he shook hands.
Yes, he shook my hand. I joked with attendees that I would never wash my hand again. "I don't know how I'm going to get home because I can't use this hand to drive," I continued. And then he was gone.
So, what's the lesson in all of this? All of the persons who spoke to us today were well-educated, highly qualified and hold very senior positions within our nation's government and almost all of them would be considered socially colored black.
Stereotypes lose their voice and prejudice its foothold in their presence. The expectation that they are going to think, behave or sound like all the other socially colored black people is irrational, useless even. The rules of race simply don't apply.
I learned that there are some places where it is possible for one to have to lower their "racial expectation" and for this, I am grateful.
Starlette McNeill is the Coordinator for the Center for Ministerial Leadership at the District of Columbia Baptist Convention. A version of this column appeared previously on her blog, The Daily Race.
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Get Your Rocks Off: Gringo Star Rocks On
Atlanta-based quartet Gringo Star released their debut album All Y'all last month, and it's a good thing they did because our iPod needed an injection of "Big Beat/Psychedelic/Southern Rock" music, as they classify their sound on MySpace. We're not really sure what that means, but we're fans of it. Not only will their jangly music charm your ears, but the guys were nice enough to provide you with a playlist so large we had to break it into two installments. After the jump, Gringo Star's favorite tunes vol. 1…
The Falcons — "I Found A Love"
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Grizzly Gathering at Calihan Hall
Oakland v. Univ. of Detroit Mercy
Saturday, January 11, 2014
4:30 - 6 p.m. dinner
Buffalo Wild Wings, Ferndale
Join OU alumni and friends on Saturday, January 11 to cheer on the women's and men's basketball teams as they take on conference rival University of Detroit Mercy in Detroit. The Oakland University Alumni Association will host a dinner gathering between games at the Buffalo Wild Wings in Ferndale to keep the OU spirit strong in "enemy territory"!
The women's game begins at 2 p.m. in Calihan Hall on UDM's campus. The OUAA dinner is scheduled from 4:30 to 6 p.m., just a short drive away near the corner of Woodward and 9 mile. The men's game will follow at 7 p.m. at Calihan Hall.
The cost is $15 per person and includes a game ticket to the men's game as well as dinner and non-alcoholic beverages at Buffalo Wild Wings. Space is limited. Pending availability, the deadline to register is Monday, January 6, 2014.
Information on when and where the game tickets will be distributed will be posted online soon and included in your event confirmation the week prior to the game.
Parking at Calihan Hall is $5 per vehicle. Tickets to the women's game may be purchased separately through the UDM ticket office at (313) 993-1700 or detroittitans.com/tix.


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Bliy Skup Ductosnore, from Ultima Underworld II
The Bliy Skup Ductosnore is the Talorid with the most important job on Talorus: the creation of new Taloroids.
The Guardian's manipulations had resulted in a Bliy Skup who created Talorids who were mono-gendered and streamlined for very exacting singular functions. The Avatar was told by the Futurian in Ultima Underworld II to change this, so that the Talorids could again develop qualities such as emotions and individuality.
When first meeting the Bliy Skup, the creature displayed a great deal more individuality than the other Taloroid. Normally a Bliy Skup had such a demanding job that there was extra memory built into its body. The Guardian's simplified Taloroid programming freed this memory and the Bliy Skup had additional time for contemplation and developed an eccentric personality as a result. It claimed to have crafted a sense of humor, and pointed out that it intentionally didn't replace a letter which had fallen from its sign, finding it humorous.
The Avatar, after receiving instructions from the Futurian and the Data Integrator, killed the corrupted Bliy Skup to gain access to the machine where a new one was skupped (made). The Avatar then re-programmed it to create a Bliy Skup from a pre-Guardian template. The new Bliy Skup was shocked by the changes that had been made to the skupping chamber and went to work on the task of altering his people.
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The storm that struck 75 years ago this month is often called the "Okeechobee Hurricane," for the Florida lake that rose and swallowed surrounding farms. (Related story: Fla., Bermuda prepare for heavy storms)
The National Hurricane Center is expected to increase the storm's official death toll to 2,500, from 1,836, in time for the anniversary Sept. 16. That makes it the nation's second-deadliest hurricane; a storm in Galveston, Texas, in 1900 killed 8,000. The revised toll is part of a project to re-evaluate historic storms using modern research.
Today, researchers believe that the 1928 storm was a powerful category-4 hurricane that packed winds of 145 mph. (The strongest hurricanes, category-5 storms, have winds above 155 mph.)
The Okeechobee storm's impact can still be seen — in the South Florida landscape and in the divisions between black and white.
Farrington's mother, who was pregnant with Vera when the hurricane hit, lost almost her whole family. Her parents and four brothers and sisters drowned, as did so many others who picked crops in a region that remains agricultural and poor.
As she fled the flooded area after the storm, the body of one victim floated toward her. Another hurricane survivor turned the corpse over, and the young woman stared into the face of her older brother.
"It really haunted her," says Farrington, 74. "Can you imagine what a time that was? All those dead bodies on the land."
The devastation and death toll spurred construction of a 35-foot-high dike around 730-square-mile Lake Okeechobee. The levee tamed the lake for farming. But it also contributed to environmental problems that continue to endanger the Florida Everglades.
The storm also cemented flood-control policies that enable 5 million people to live in hurricane-prone South Florida. They take their chances against future storms in former swampland.
"Our ability to forecast storms isn't improving as fast as the coastal population is growing," says Jack Beven of the National Hurricane Center near Miami.
As the 1928 storm spun inland from the Atlantic coast, its path revealed extreme contrasts still apparent today. At the shore, Palm Beach remains a playground for the wealthy, where dogs sip from tiled fountains and the median asking price for homes is $1 million-plus. Inland along the lake are impoverished towns such as Pahokee and Belle Glade, where one-third of households earn less than $15,000 annually. Blacks still comprise Belle Glade's majority: 52% of 14,906 residents. In Palm Beach, 95% of 10,468 residents are white.
In Palm Beach County, resentment lingers over a storm recovery effort that was tainted by racism.
Though the storm destroyed both white and black neighborhoods, the death toll was greatest in the farming communities to the west, in the Everglades. About three-fourths of the dead were black. Many, like Farrington's family, were migrant farm workers. They had come from the Bahamas and elsewhere to pick beans, citrus and other crops.
Black survivors of the hurricane were forced to handle much of the task of recovering victims' bodies. Those who had lost entire families pulled bodies from the muck and floodwaters still covering the Everglades. As the death toll mounted, caskets grew scarce. They were reserved for white settlers killed by the storm.
The water was contaminated from bodies decomposing in Florida's sweltering heat. About 8,000 typhoid shots were given, and officials soon ordered bodies taken to drier land and buried in mass graves, or burned.
Smoke from the pyres rose across the flat 'Glades. Author Eliot Kleinberg took that compelling image for the title of his new book about the storm, Black Cloud. He chronicles the storm's path and writes of its racial legacy.
Anger has simmered for decades in West Palm Beach's African-American community over disparate memorials for black and white storm victims. In the segregated cemetery of the time, 69 white victims in a mass grave received a proper marker. A mass grave in a pauper's cemetery for 674 black victims was never marked and was forgotten. It has shared space at various times with a dump, a sewage plant and a street extension.
"These were people who lived and worked in this county — who gave their lives. It's not right," says Robert Hazard, 55, who heads the Storm of '28 Memorial Coalition.
Finally, last year, a historical marker was placed at the mass grave. Hazard continues to lobby for a city park. To mark the storm's anniversary, he plans a funeral-style processional from Lake Okeechobee to the grave site.
The Historical Society of Palm Beach County is trying to merge the myriad experiences of the hurricane into a cohesive whole for events marking the anniversary. The toll was so terrible that some who survived the hurricane and its aftermath are said to have gone mad.
"It had such a dramatic impact on the way we live today," says Harvey Oyer, 35, the society's president. "You wonder: Could I have survived this? Would I have nightmares for the rest of my life?"
In Florida, as in other hurricane-prone states, the nightmare of a similar storm could well occur again. Better warnings and evacuations probably mean the death toll would not be so high. But researchers caution against complacency, especially because a climate cycle portending more powerful storms has already begun.
"There are lessons to be learned from history," says Beven, the hurricane specialist.


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5VDC, RF receiver module, SC2272-T4 315MHZ
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Product Name: 5 VDC high-frequency four super-regenerative receiver module ,
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Product characteristics :
Super-regenerative receiver module using LC oscillator circuit , containing amplification shaping, the data signal output is high signal decoded , extremely easy to use and inexpensive, it is widely used. With four decoded outputs ( also can be changed to six-way jog or interlocking output ) , easy to use ; frequency debugging easy , short lead times ; product quality, consistency, and cost-effective.
Receiver module has a wide receiver bandwidth, typically ± 10MHz, 315MHz factory usually tune in or 433.92MHZ ( if any special requirements to adjust the frequency adjustment range , the frequency of 266MHz ~ 433MHz.). Receiver module generally use DC5V power supply, adjustable voltage range of any special requirements .
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Receiving a total of eight external interface module , above the English said . "5V" indicates positive power supply , "D0, D1, D2, D3" represents the output , "GND" represents negative one , "ANT" means an antenna connection terminal .
Before use to connect a 50 ohm 1 / 4 wavelength antenna , and the antenna should be straight , in order to achieve the best reception, wavelength = speed of light / frequency .
The application environment ( applications )
Wireless remote control switch , remote control socket , data transmission, remote control toys , burglar alarm host , garage doors, gates , road gates, retractable doors gated industry and its remote audio fields.
Optional accessories
With the company launch series , supporting the use of remote control products .
VCC voltage to be consistent with the module operating voltage, and power to do the filtering ;
Impact on the reception antenna module is large, then the best 1/ 4 wavelength antenna , generally use 50 ohm single wire antenna length 315M is about 23cm, 433M of about 17cm;
Also affect the position of the antenna reception module , install the antenna stretched as far as possible away from the shield , high pressure, and local sources of interference ;
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Re: st: Finding xi3
Steve Samuels <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Re: st: Finding xi3
Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:23:54 -0400
Indeed it does, as I reported in 2007. Late night searches...I probably didn't scroll down far enough.
Thanks for the correction.
On Jul 17, 2012, at 10:57 AM, Richard Williams wrote:
At 08:40 AM 7/17/2012, Steve Samuels wrote:
> -xi3- is an enhanced "interaction-expansion" prefix command, written by Phil Ender.
> The reference is to a 2007 Statalist thread about how to find -xi3-. (http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2007-03/msg00964.html). For some
> reason, -findit- still does not do the job. I just now located -xi3- by starting
> from a search box on the UCLA Academic Technology Services web site.
> (http://statistics.ats.ucla.edu/stat/)
-findit- finds it for me. When I click on the link for it, I get
net describe xi3, from(http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ado/analysis)
> In Stata 11+, factor variables provide much of the utility of -xi3-. However
> -xi3- and the contributed command -desmat- (findit) have capabilities that
> have not yet been duplicated in official Stata: options to generate
> Helmert and other special coding schemes.
In Stata 12, the new -contrast- command seems to provide much if not all of the utility provided by -xi3-, including Helmert and reverse Helmert. See
help contrast
help contrast##operators
> I want to thank again Phil Ender and ATS for providing such a wonderful
> resource for data analysts.
I agree. Besides programs, UCLA has some very nice tutorials and examples.
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I strongly recommend anyone replacing the FSU on an E46 buy the following:
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That set contains a magnet on an telescoping handle that is perfect for removing the 4 Torx screws so they don't drop into a black hole, never to return. The kit also includes a Phillips/Torx screw starter that made reinstalling the Torx screws a breeze. I also used the bent end of the scriber to help me release the clips on the FSU wire harness plug (although maybe I could have released the plug easier after sliding the FSU out).
If you don't already have Torx screwdrivers, Craftsman has an inexpensive set for about $10 but I recommend that you instead buy their better quality drivers.
The handle gives a much better grip and the shank is much longer, which also was a help on this job. You can buy the set of 5 drivers for about $35 or just the T20 for about $7.
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