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My grandmother has been married four times, often to younger men, and was known throughout my mother's childhood, and much to the chagrin of my uncles, as the hottest mother on the block. Retiring from men in her 50s, she now quips that men are only good for two things: breeding and heavy lifting.
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Despite her cavalier attitude toward the less fair sex, she still bets me that if we went to a club together, she would walk home with more numbers. Sadly, I have to agree. My grandmother is willing to go up to anyone and start flirting – hot men in Beverly Hills, the women who sell us knock-off handbags in Chinatown, the checkout boy at Wal-Mart. She is filled with compliments, and loving pats on the shoulder, which often fall on the intended victim's chest. When I am faced with a prospective suitor, my first response is to freeze, so I have no doubt that if we got into a pick-up competition, she would easily come out on top. Plus, as I explain to her, she has age on her side, like Betty White, people find her novel, charming, like a Christmas ornament.
Though Nana, as she is known worldwide, is approaching octogenarian status, she looks far younger than the frosty-highlighted, pant-suited Ms. White. My grandmother wears Michael Stars knits and Prada heels. She loves Marc Jacobs, though she thinks some of his clothes are little dowdy. She can't stand anything that smacks of vintage, complaining that she's already worn that outfit in the 50s, 60, 70s, why would she want to wear it again? She hates old people and anything that's not on sale. And she loves to flirt.
"It's not that hard, Kristen," she snorts at me over Skype, videoconferencing having revolutionized her social life. "But then again, I'm like Charlie Sheen, I've got tigress blood."
So I figure that I'll take her up on her bravado, asking, "Alright then, Nana, what are your flirting secrets?" And this is what she said – the ABCs of picking up men:
1. Always Be Confident – "The problem with women these days," Nana shares, "is that they are too desperate. They are willing to put out, but they won't just go up to a guy and start talking to him, they want the guy to come to them. When I would go to clubs, I would say, 'Here I come, you lucky bastards,' because Miss Cool was walking into the club. Walk up and act like you're a buddy, you're just part of the group. Don't treat them like a stranger, treat them like Wendy Williams does, say, 'How ya doing?'"
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But Nana's advice doesn't end there (this is why I'm still in therapy): "You should always have tan legs because milk white legs are not appealing. I sound like Joan Rivers but that's true. Better your legs be tan than your face, honest to God! That's my theory. And bright pink toenail polish, that's another one. People notice, that's why when I go to Los Angeles, everyone says, 'Oh I love your toenail polish, even though they're gay.'"
2. Always Be Complimenting – Nana explains that nothing breaks the ice like a compliment, "Tell them, 'Gee, you're so cute,' or 'Oh, I love your hair.' Guys like it when you like their hair. Also, 'Boy, you're buff, do you work out a lot?' or 'If I were only fifty years younger, you'd be my type.' I say that one a lot."
I try to explain that this last one really doesn't work for my demographic, but Nana disagrees, "Why not? It will make them laugh." She explains that the compliment is just the conversation starter. I ask Nana if that's what she did to pick up her husbands. She snickers, "Oh, they picked me up. With my first husband, he had a garage and I worked in the record store and I used to walk by there real sexy. I was 12. I'm sure I complimented him too. I always loved men, even then." Ah, Nana Lolita, knocking them dead since pre-pubescence. No wonder I am so far behind her game, at 12, I could barely say hello to boys my age, let alone the local mechanic.
3. Always Be Curious – "You have to ask questions," Nana advises. "Did I tell you what happened with the electric company?" I am not sure what this has to do with picking up men, but I go along with it. Nana is pleased I haven't heard this one, "Well, my electric bill is so high that I usually only pay half of it, but this time, I got a disconnection notice, and so I got a guy on the phone and he said I wouldn't be disconnected. I told him that I wasn't sure I could trust him so I would need his name, his address, his phone number, I was just being funny, you know. And he told me his name was Vince Edwards. Do you remember Vince Edwards from Dr. Casey?"
Again, I don't what this has to do with picking up men, and I have no clue who she is talking about. She explains, "Dr. Casey was this real old TV show, it was one of the first medical dramas. Anyway, I ask the guy if he was named after the show, and he gets real excited because I guess he was, his mother loved the show, but nobody remembers it. So I asked him where he lives, and he told me Panama. Panama!! Why is my electric company in Panama? I couldn't believe it. So you see, you should always ask questions, especially if they are in a call center. Because of my electric bill being disconnected, I got to talk to Vince Edwards in Panama!"
My grandmother says that I can use her age in this article, but that I need to clarify that she is not like most 78-year-olds. "Don't worry, Nana, I think the fact that you compared yourself to Charlie Sheen will take care of that."
What I don't say is that I just learned more about flirting in our ten-minute call then I knew my whole life. Because being confident, offering compliments, and asking questions are all you need to approach the cute guy standing across the room, looking around like he would rather be anywhere else, but secretly wishing that some girl would come up to him, tell him she loves his hair, and ask him his name and where he's from. We are all Miss Cool, and it's about time, we let it out, declaring, "Here we come, you lucky bastards," and meeting some men in the process.
I still don't think I would ever refer to anyone as buff, but maybe now, I'll at least give Nana a run for her money.
Kristen McGuiness is the author of 51/50: The Magical Adventures of a Single Life.


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" Brand: Tobermory / Type: Single Malt Whisky "
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When we went on holiday to the island of Mull we brought back a bottle of Tobermory malt with us following a visit around the distillery. You can buy some of the various Tobermory single Malts on line and this 10 year old malt is available for around £29 from Amazon of all places.
The Tobermory distillery is one of the oldest distillery's in Scotland and makes all of its single malts by hand. They have two main malts one which is the 15 year old which has more peat notes and this lighter 10 year old.
The bottle itself is nice and interesting and made from green glass is old fashioned looking with embossed detailing which gives it a nice tactile feel to it.
The distillery describes the colour of the whisky as a "bright lemony gold" and I have to agree it is a nice light colour that reminds me of straw. It is not a deep colour and certainty looks nice and light which beguiles its strength. This style of whisky is sometimes called a breakfast whisky as it one you can drink all day and certainly from the colour and nose it is a lighter style of malt. Though if you did drink it all day you may stagger a bit as it is fairly strong at 46.3% proof.
The nose or scent is described as having hints of hints of "grass, malt, gingerbread, stewed fruit syrup and finely polished oak". I personally never get all of these notes and to me it does indeed smell of grass and strangely seaweed which is not a scent I generally think of with malt whisky but given this is an island malt that is very close to the sea perhaps that is not a surprise. I get very little by way of oak but this is I think more about me being used to more oak notes from the Aberlour 16 year old malt whisky that is my favourite malt at the moment. Comparing the two the Tobermory certainly is the poor cousin oak and taste wise but this is because it is a younger malt and hence not as much on the nose.
On to the all important taste it is a very smooth and velvet malt and there is no bitterness to the malt for me. It has a lot of spice and ginger notes to it and it does in some ways seem a bit Christmas like with these tones. There is also a nice smokiness and hint of almonds to the palate and these certainly I find are more noticeable for adding a drop of water to taste. The finish on the whisky is quite subtle and in some ways for me it is too subtle and doesn't linger long enough for me. You are left however with a hint of ginger and oak but they fade too fast.
Overall this is a nice lighter malt that I think is suited well to people who like a light malt without too much peat or oak, but for me I personally prefer the oak notes and caramel to linger and have more depth. So whilst I have enjoyed this one it is not a single malt I will return to. It is 4 stars from me for this malt I just think it needs more of longer finish and a deeper notes to be more satisfying.
Colour: Bright lemony gold. Nose: Rich island character with tantalising hints of grass, malt, gingerbread, stewed fruit syrup and finely polished oak. Palate: Smooth, velvety with fruity tangs and exquisitely spiced gingerbread and aniseed for a medium

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Every year at this time, we start thinking about no-bake desserts. What are you making this year to avoid the oven? Tell us about it, and be sure to shoot us a photo of your best no-bake dessert (along with a link to the recipe!) and we'll include it in this week's roundup. Be sure to send it in no later than Tuesday, July 30th so we can include it in the Share Your Sweets on Thursday August 1st.
If you're new to Share Your Sweets, take a peep at the rules here. A few notes: we can only take one submission per person, so pick your favorite (or the most recent shot) and send it in. Also, Share Your Sweets is just for the folks at home; no pros or companies! If you want to really impress us, crop your photo so it's 610 pixels wide and 458 pixels tall.


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BeeWatch Update
Great to see several BeeWatch submissions in the one day yesterday.
It's been a while since that happened- another sign of spring, I hope!
15 April 2013
A Buff-tailed and Tree bumblebee queen were spotted in Yorkshire.
Queens of both these species as well as Red-tailed bumblebee were also seen in Cambridgeshire.
A Tree bumblebee queen was also spotted in Somerset.
Another BeeWatcher emailed us with some photos of a Buff-tailed queen and a good potential Common Carder!
Thanks Sue and Peter, great news at last.
My first sightings were yesterday 2 B. Terrestris one large and one very small feeding on winter heather and pulmonaria.
Then today, garden temp. 15C 1 tree bumble large, 2 B. Terrestris and a B. Pratorum, i think, the early bubmblebee. What a joy to finally see some of my favourite insects. Today i am a very happy bunny! All todays bees were feeding from the pulmonaria as it's really the only thing flowering at the moment. My bluebells have no flowers yet and the late frosts last week killed off all my crocus.
My first sighting last year was 24th February!
Hi All,
Another rather big update.
It's been warm & dry down here again today, 15C+ and my soil thermometer is showing 9C this evening.
Plenty of bumblebee queens about too.
We saw a few BB queens in the garden during lunchtime, certain I/Ds of B. terrestris & B. pratorum.
About 13:30 my wife called me to rescue a BBQ that had entered the greenhouse and got trapped. She was crawling around on the ground and was a good-sized B. hypnorum, so I popped her in a 35mm cassette film tub and brought her indoors. She weighed 0.38g. I will give her a syrup feed later and probably pop her into a birdbox to see if she can be persuaded to set up home ! (See also the B. hyp 2013 thread.)
Mid afternoon I went looking at the Winter Heathers on our Allotment site, and later a bit further afield.
E carnea: 1 honey bee, later a B. hypnorum queen visited briefly, but mainly these flowers were very quiet again - probably because the bees were mainly working Willow.
Elsewhere on the allotments, the Red Deadnettle flowers were being worked by a B. pascuorum queen - my first of the year. Photo available. She was very rich coloured and very clean, but I could only see her from a distance, or zoomed-in photo.
A. plumipes males also around, with their characteristic darting flight - totally different to the pascuorum, who was taking her time and filling up with nectar.
On another plot with Red deadnettle there was a B. terrestris queen working the flowers - I guess a big queen has a long tongue, so can work these deep flowers OK !
A few 100metres away is another allotment site (semi-abandoned) with a good number of Sallow willow trees around the edges.
Male and female catkins out.
The male (pussy willow) catkins were quite busy, with BBQs, B terrestris mostly, but also a B hypnorum. Also honey bees. The catkins being worked mainly for nectar. One B. terrestris queen had pollen in her corbiculae, so must have started up a nest - my first pollen carrying BBQ this year.
Little insect activity on the female catkins today, but bees have worked them avidly in the past.
On the way back I spotted a B. hortorum queen working Violet flowers, and after a bit, she tucked herself in amongst the leaves and did some sunning. Photos available. I've been wondering which insects worked Violets for ages, but until today had only seen A. plumipes working them.
(This might well have been the same queen as I saw yesterday, working Red Deadnettle.)
So, it looks to me as though the cold March hasn't killed off too many of the hibernating bumblebee queens - which is a great relief so far !
Now I want to see more pollen carrying queens !
And still no sign of lapidarius: but that doesn't surprise me, they are usually later.
First sighting of the year today in Edinburgh! AT LAST!!!!!
Belated report from a newbies diary; 19th Feb. First Bom. Terr. Queen. Liskeard Cornwall. I've seen several B.T. Queens since, but no other species yet.
I had to go down to Kent yesterday - family funeral.
Since I don't think we've had any reports from Kent yet, I'll record that I saw two B. terrestris queens nest searching in the Shipbourne area, a few miles north of Tonbridge.
In some woodland we passed through on route there were masses of Wood Anemones in flower - very beautiful.
First sightings this week from Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk -
Hypnorum (several on heather) (15/4)
Pratorum queens (2) on flowering currant (18/4)
Pascuorum queen - looked dead on path, but started crawling and buzzed wings when put in the hedge.(18/4)
Also rescued a large terrestris queen which had flown (or been blown!) in through open bedroom window (15/4)
Great sightings thanks for sharing.
Today i swear i saw a red-tailed bumble but not sure if it was red-tailed or red shanked, only saw her briefly flying away but body was black with red tail. Surprised as i thought they emerged much later in the season.
Also saw a common carder working the pulmonaria yesterday and today.
As i write this i have an exhausted Hypnorum in my greenhouse, found on my path not moving in this gale force wind. I have fed her and she is hopefully warming up and i will let her go as soon as she attempts to fly but is currently sitting still and not moving.
I also think i saw a Lucorum this afternoon but it was a quick glance but her tail was whiter than white!
All in all i have seen many bees the last few days. Thanks for all your posts
Hi everyone,
Yet another FIRST for 2013 - a Bombus pratorum queen yesterday afternoon in the warm sunshine; and a Bombus terrestris queen checking out a log pile….
Quite a few bees about today but all at high level floating about the tops of the fir trees in the sun.
I took a look at several Sallow (Pussy Willow) trees at about 17:00 this afternoon.
I didn't think I'd see many bees, but was very wrong !
It was cloudy, breezy and not especially warm (~12C ?), but there were BB queens working almost all the trees I looked up into.
This is an area of flatish ground in the base of the wide valley of High Wycombe, in the Bucks Chilterns.
Both male (Pussy Willow) and female willow catkins were being worked.
There were 4 queens on some trees, maybe more - and a few honey bees and an A. plumipes male around too.
Most of the queens were large B. terrestris, but I saw several B. hypnorum and my first B. lucorum of the April active season.
One hypnorum was collecting pollen.
Later I checked the Winter heather patch as usual at the local allotments.
To my surprise, there were two queens there : a B. pratorum, collecting pollen; and a rather small B. lucorum queen, just feeding on nectar.
So, if you want to see some BB activity, I can thoroughly recommend checking the local willow trees !
I did see a red-tailed B. Lapidarius for certain today! Early i think.
I'm seeing a lot of Bees now…..................mainly on the Ribe a B.lapidarius B terrestris and B hortorum and on the Pulmonaria I'm seeing B pratorum.
I have to say there's still not much in flower yet but hopefully everything will spring into action soon with a few more sunny days
First B.pratorum I've seen today in West Yorkshire, is there a way of submitting records to beewatch without a photo? the queens are a bit fast to photo when not feeding
28.4.2013 - A Bombus hortorum bumble queen at last, foraging the variegated yellow archangel [Bombus hypnorum like to visit these flowers too]. Still waiting to see Bombus lucorum and Bombus lapidarius - and soon there should be the regular cuckoo bumbles.


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Modern parents who despair of their still-dependant adult children should spare a thought for Charles Dickens.
The great novelist sent two of his 10 children to Australia to make their fortunes, and was still sending large cheques in the post to keep them going shortly before he died in 1870.
One of these cheques, for £100 and made out to his sons Alfred and Edward, is now on display in the National Library's Treasures Gallery, as a symbol of the writer's significant links to Australia.
Alfred, who had always been a financial drain on his father, migrated here in 1865, while Edward, or "Plorn", the youngest and Dickens' favourite, followed in 1869.
The cheque is on display alongside a letter written in 1870 by Dickens to Alfred, expressing his worries that Plorn wasn't finding his feet.
Dickens died 19 days later, which meant the sons would have learned of their father's death before receiving the letter.
Curator Susannah Helman said the cheque, made out for a sum that would be worth about $13,000 in today's money, was bought by the library from a dealer earlier this year for about $10,000.
"We already have some great Dickens letter material relating to his family, [but] it's building our Australian connection," she said.
Director of exhibitions Nat Williams said the story of the cheque – one of many such financial missives but, mysteriously, never actually cashed – was tinged with pathos because of the ongoing strain Dickens children had placed on him.
He said the writer was particularly worried about his children's welfare because his own childhood had been so, well, Dickensian, growing up in poverty and working in a blacking factory as a child.
"They didn't succeed brilliantly, and when you have a father like Dickens, who was a stellar figure, it's very hard to compare yourself, especially when you have so many siblings," he said.
"Dickens felt that his children took a lot of husbanding and a lot of pushing and directing because they weren't naturally directed, with the exception of Henry who was an older son who did quite well. All the others dwindled a bit on the vine."
Mr Williams said the cheque and the letter were also potent reminders of Dickens' personal – and literary - connections to Australia.
Just as he sent several of his fictional characters to the colonies – such as the mysterious returned convict Magwitch in Great Expectations and the scoundrel Uriah Heap in David Copperfield – he had high hopes for his own sons as they crossed the great distance by boat.
"He was very interested in Australia and he was an optimist for how Australia would turn out. Other people saw it as a penal colony, and who cares, basically, but Dickens thought that, like America, it had a great future," he said.
"If you lived like Dickens did in the squalor of Victorian London, which was a filthy, depressed, difficult place if you didn't have money, to escape that to come out to a country at least where the weather was better and the food was easier to get and cheaper, you could have a better life."
His thoughts about Australia were not fleeting, "I think there was a sustained interest over a period of time in Australia, and then to commit to sending his boys here, especially his favourite son, was no mean feat."
The cheque and letter also emphasised the tyranny of distance in Victorian times, and the anxiety – familiar even today – that parents have for their children.
"As much as Dickens didn't want them to fall into the trap of being the spoilt children of a wealthy, eminent father, how do you not, if you've got money?" Mr Williams said.
"If you added up all the money that he sent to Plorn and to Alfred when they were in Australia, today it would be tens and tens of thousands of dollars. I guess he had the money … but he had that sadness. Were they ever going to amount to anything? He despaired about them."
As it turned out, Alfred lived in Australia for 45 years, and made a living speaking about his father's life in England and America. Plorn became a Member of Parliament in NSW.


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Steven Eppinger
General Motors Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management
Professor of Management Science and Engineering Systems
Co-Director, System Design and Management Program
Steven D. Eppinger has created an interdisciplinary product development course at the MIT Sloan School of Management, in which graduate students from engineering, management, and industrial design programs collaborate to develop new products. He also teaches MIT Executive Education programs in the areas of product development and complex project management. From July 2004 through June 2009, he served as deputy dean of MIT Sloan, and was acting dean from July 2007 to October 2007. From 2001 to 2003, he served as faculty co-director of the Leaders for Manufacturing (LFM) and the System Design and Management (SDM) programs. He served as co-director of the Center for Innovation in Product Development from 1999 to 2001. Before joining the MIT faculty in 1988, he worked as a machinist, a manufacturing engineer, a product designer, and a consultant in both prototype and production operations.
Eppinger's research efforts are applied to improving product design and development practices, with a focus on organizing complex design processes to accelerate industrial practices. He is a pioneer in the development of the widely used Design Structure Matrix (DSM) method for managing complex system design, which is applied primarily in the automotive, electronics, aerospace, and equipment industries. His current research explores the emerging practices of globally distributed product development processes.
In addition to coauthoring a leading textbook entitled, Product Design and Development (fourth edition, 2008), he has authored more than 50 articles in refereed academic journals and conferences. In 1993, Eppinger received both the MIT Graduate Student Council Teaching Award and the MIT Sloan Award for Innovation and Excellence in Management Education. He received the ASME Best Paper Award in Design Theory and Methodology in 1995 and again in 2001.
Eppinger lectures regularly for international corporations and in executive education programs, and has consulted for or conducted research with more than 100 firms. He serves on the advisory boards of several technology-based small businesses, on the editorial boards for a number of academic journals, on the research advisory council of the Design Management Institute, and on the advisory board of directors of the Society of Concurrent Product Development.
Eppinger earned SB, SM, and ScD degrees from MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering.


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The Downside of Checking Kids' Grades Constantly
August 22, 2017,
Blastomycosis is an infection caused by breathing in the Blastomyces dermatitidis fungus. The fungus is found in wood and soil.
North American blastomycosis; Gilchrist's disease
You can get blastomyocosis by contact with moist soil, most commonly where there is rotting wood and leaves. The fungus enters the body through the lungs, where the infection starts. The fungus then spreads to other parts of the body. The disease may affect the skin, bones and joints, and other areas.
Blastomycosis is rare. It is found in the central and southeastern United States, and in Canada, India, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Africa.
The key risk factor for the disease is contact with infected soil. It most often affects people with weakened immune systems, such as those with HIV or who have had an organ transplant. Men are more likely to be affected than women.
You may not have any symptoms if the infection remains in the lungs. The following symptoms can develop if the infection spreads to other parts of the body:
Lung infection may not cause any symptoms. Symptoms may be seen if the infection spreads. Symptoms may include:
Most people develop skin symptoms when infection spreads. You may get papules, pustules, or nodules on exposed body areas.
The pustules:
Over time, these skin lesions can lead to scarring and loss of skin color (pigment).
You may not need to take medicine for a mild blastomycosis infection that stays in the lungs. Your doctor recommend the following ant-fungal medicines when the disease is severe or spreads outside of the lungs.
Amphotericin B may be used for severe infections.
Follow-up regularly with your doctor to make sure the infection doesn't return.
People with minor skin sores (lesions) and relatively mild lung infections usually recover completely. The infection can lead to death if not treated.
Call your health care provider if you have symptoms of blastomycosis.
Avoiding travel to areas where the infection is known to occur may help prevent exposure to the fungus, but this may not always be possible.
Kauffman CA. Blastomycosis. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Cecil Medicine . 24th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 342.


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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 24/2/2012 (2007 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
In my neverending quest to make the iPhone a legitimate tool in our newsgathering arsenal, I may have found a device that finally resolves all audio concerns.
For anyone wh uses the iPhone for video, you'll know that the audio quality leaves something to be desired. For professional video newsgathering, you've got nothing without good audi
Enter the Fostex AR-4i, a lightweight battery powered device with all the bells and whistles to take audio to the next level.
After picking up the unit several months ago, I finally got an opportunity to test it out...and WOW.
It's got three input options with volume controller and a headphone jack with volume control.
I took it into the Jets dressing room recently and got in on some player scrums.
Using my wireless handheld microphone for the Andrew Ladd scrum, I was able to capture broadcast quality sound through the third input and secondary (backup) audio off one of the top mics.
On the Blake Wheeler scrum, I used both of the top mics (which came with the unit) and ditched the wireless. I had to boost the levels a bit which led to more background noise, but it was still more than usable.
The grand finale was the Claude Noel interview. He stands behind a podium and all broadcast media plug into a sound board which, up until now, was impossible with an iPhone. Not today.
The Fostex comes with a separate app which allows you to set inputs to mono or stereo and a few other options. Good times.


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Larry Warden serves as the primary trainer at the Amarillo TX terminal and organizes the six-day orientation sessions attended by every newly hired driver.
Two compressed gas simulators are used in the driver training program at Jack B Kelley Inc. Newly hired drivers spend many hours training on the simulators.
Newly hired drivers practice loading and unloading cryogenic liquids with this 9,000-gallon liquefied nitrogen storage tank. Jack B Kelley Inc spent $120,000 on specialized training equipment.
All of the tractors in the Jack B Kelley Inc fleet (including those belonging to owneroperators) have the Qualcomm satellite tracking and communication system.
Safety personnel use these pickup trucks to observe fleet operations across the United States. The Safety & Training Department includes seven trainers and one environmental and health manager.
Safety truly comes first at Jack B Kelley Inc, and it has since the company was started in 1946. The company's award-winning program sets high expectations, calling for zero accidents, zero incidents, and zero personal injuries. Drivers work hard to achieve those objectives while operating a fleet of 232 tractors and 250 tank trailers across much of North America.
On hand for the presentation of the NTTC 2008 Outstanding Performance Trophy for safety were [from left] Lee Drury, Jack B Kelley safety director; Mark Davis, Jack B Kelley president; and Sheldon Seaton, a driver based at Jack B Kelley's Ontario CA terminal. The trophy was presented to the Jack B Kelley team May 11 during the NTTC's 61st Annual Conference in San Diego CA.
Company founder Jack B Kelley developed the tube trailers that are still transported by the trucking company that bears his name. Initially intended for helium, the tube trailers have been used to transport a variety of compressed gases over the years.
Related story: Award-winning safety starts at the top at Jack B Kelley Inc
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We have been talking a lot about what gentle discipline means on the forum recently. What do you feel gentle discipline means and how does it work in practice?
Today I came across this letter on the Little Hearts Gentle Parenting website from a teenage son to his mum about the way he was disciplined as a child. The way we discipline, and parent, our children now will stay with them as they grow up.
It reminded me of this quote by Dr Sears:
'Discipline is more about building the right relationship with your child than using the right techniques. You want to put into place a guidance system that keeps the child in check at age four and keeps his behavior on track at age forty, and you want this system to be integrated into the child's whole personality, a part of him or her.'


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ROBOHELP 10: Resource Manager for Shared Text
RoboHelp 10's Resource Manager lets teams collaborate in authoring by using shared resources. Text and graphics may be saved to a central location (e.g. SharePoint) and be pulled from a convenient panel right into your project content. This simple demo shows how easy it is to manage shared TEXT "snippets" that must be the same between all authors on your project. Watch this brief video to discover how "You can do it too!"


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iPhone 5S and 5C Available on September 20thby Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/10/2013 2:03 PM EST
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leecbaker - Tuesday, September 10, 2013 - linkAny news on release date in other countries? Reply
SPLENDEUR - Tuesday, September 10, 2013 - link"The iPhone 5S and the lower-cost iPhone 5C that was also announced today will be available in stores in the US, Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, Singapore, and the UK" - MacRumors Reply
SPLENDEUR - Tuesday, September 10, 2013 - linkOops, forgot to add that (pre-order) release date is the same for all countries listed above (13th for 5C/20th for 5S). Reply
Impulses - Tuesday, September 10, 2013 - linkI don't give Apple credit for a lot of things, but their quick launch dates after a device announcement are admirable IMO. It's something that even the GPU industry quickly realized was important after years of paper launches...
Meanwhile, someone like Motorola is still squeezing out different versions and carrier options of the Moto X at a glacial pace, with no firm date announcements, for a phone that couldalready be perceived as kinda late compared to the One/SGS4...
Don't get me wrong, I really like the X, but c'mon... Reply


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Many Prayers for a miracle~Blessings Kim
This story has weighed heavy on me as well. I do not take my freedoms lightly. My prayers continue for this family.
Lord have mercy.
I am new to your blog. It's lovely. Thank you for writing about something so important. That many may not have heard about if not for reading it here.
I have been reading about that and I'm just flabbergasted that human beings are allowing that to happen! Just think if it was in our country. There would be such outrage! I'm so disgusted with the way our country is going and I'm a member of a minority religious group: Mormon. So you know how I'm treated sometimes. My heart goes out to that man and his family.
Still praying for a miracle and thanking God for the freedoms we still have.
I am newer to your blog. What a sad story indeed. My hubby is a pastor and I can't imagine that he would have to die for his faith. xo Diana
thanks for being willing to go here on your blog. fashion's fun, home decor is so fun, but it's so easy to forget that those are not what this life is really about. i've prayed for this man, and his dear family. it is so very tragic.
do you know that in ontario (?) they just passed a law that a homeschooling family is not allowed to teach homosexuality as a sin? {lifesitenews.com} pretty soon our pulpits and our homes are going to over run by idiots working for Satan. Jesus come soon!
One more reason I love to read your blog, Angela. So many people forget to be thankful that we have the freedom of Religion, here. Such as sad story.
Very sad. We forget the power that the evil one has so often. We think that we are so educated, so enlightened, so superior to the past generations…but we are not. Man has been and always will be fallen until the Lord returns. My kids think I'm SO strange when I warn them that Satan "goes about as a roaring lion, devouring those in his path". Evil is real and unfortunately, alive and well. But God has ultimate power and if He so chooses, can stop this….but we must remember that most of the greatest followers of Christ in the Bible suffered terrible deaths and we have learned greatness from them. If God allows this to proceed we must rest in His wisdom and know that there is a reason and that good will come forth from it. Mere mortals are unable to stop evil unless God empowers them….God could stop Satan anytime he chooses. He does not because the presence of evil causes goodness to flourish and Christians to grow (among other reasons). We find this hard knowledge because we live in a very comfortable world (relatively speaking). Earlier generations were well acquainted with death and evil. We like to pretend that it is not true and that we can stop evil so therefore evil constantly shocks us. I am praying that this man will be saved but if not, then that Christians will rise up and be strong against evil when they see it…in whatever form it takes. That is what God loves and Satan hates….
You did well to write about evil.
Thank you for writing about his. I have been praying for his family. So many suffer around the world for their faith in Christ.
Hi Angela,
I always say it's not about all things pretty and I salute you for bringing the not pretty issues to your readers.
My heart aches for this man and his family, they are all in my prayers.
thank you for making us aware of this. my prayers are with him and his family.
We have been praying many months for Pastor Youcef….
I ask myself if I would be so bold…to stand up for my Jesus in the face of torture and death. Yet he who denies Him before men will be denied before the Father. I pray I would be strong…
Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani was found guilty two years ago of 'apostasy', even though he was never a practising Muslim. His guilt was determined because he 'has Muslim ancestry' (which is a kind of convenient catch-all in a place like Iran), and he was sentenced to death
I have brought it to the attention of as many people as I can, but what an we do when those evil Iranians in the government are past reason.
We can only have faith that his ordeal of torture will be over soon and he will be with our Savior. I pray for his family. They have endured more we can imagine. The mother was also charged and condemned, but saved by appeal.
I've been following this story for awhile and I posted a link on my Facebook page from the American Center for Law & Justice. God knows and holds this man's life in His hands. I'm continuing to pray for him and his family!! Love and hugs from the ocean shores of California, Heather 😉
I've been folowing your blog for about a year now, but this is the first time I have commented. Thank you for blogging about this, it is important. I've been praying for Pastor Nadarkhani for some time now and wept bitter tears when the final sentence was issued. Still praying for God to deliver him back into the arms of his wife and sons (may the Lord surround them with His love and protection!), but if it cannot be, he will be delivered into the strong and loving arms of Jesus.
Thank you so much for posting this Angela! My heart breaks for him and his family. The only amazing thing to come out of this is knowing he will be with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
I have chills and my heart aches for him and his family.
xo, Rachel
One of the things I like about your Blog is the honesty of it.
Thank you for sharing this story. I will pray.
We do needa wake up call in this country. It's taken for granted that indeed…we WAKE up every morning. We hug our spouses, our children, even our dogs. Our lives are a gift from God. We must not forget that we were put here for HIS purpose, not our own. Thanks for reminding us!
Thank you for remembering this young pastor. Yes, we are spoiled in this country, but with the current direction our country is taking we may also one day suffer real persecution for our faith.
Dear Angie, Thank you for following this story about Yousef, I have been following, as well and alert everyone that I can. I wish to mention though, that our being "spoiled" Christians in America is coming sadly, to an end. Our RELIGIOUS FREEDOMS are UNDER ATTACK by our current government. Obama's HHS mandate not only forces all religious based organizations to pay for things against their core beliefs; but simultaneously strips away the "protection" given by our consitution for RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. That protection was meant to (in part) ensure that our government would NOT be able to force citizens to violate their religious consciousness. Currently, this is being done on 2 fronts, with mandatory childhood vaccines in several states (having removed religious exemption) as well as this nationwide HHS mandate. This affects ALL religious, not just Catholic-Christians. I hope that you will be able to cover Political Matters that affect the Family, continually in your new venture. Sorry for the long post! Thank you again, I am a BIG fan…and Best Wishes with the Magazine! oxoxox
Wouldn't it help if the US were to put pressure on Iran? At least make this go viral and call your senators and representative that at the very least this is a human rights violation. Perhaps Obama could take time out from stashing away the cash to protest. I know, expecting way to much from such a sick human being. But do call, even the White House takes calls.
Amen amen.
would I have the ssame courage? dont know, may I never have to find out
Annie v.
This is a terrible story, but I really do have to correct you on the comment that this man's sons will grow up "in a country that despises their faith". Iran has the right to religious freedom, explicitly for Christians, entrenched in their Constitution. I have not seen an instance of an Iranian who is hostile to someone because they are a Christian or treats them any differently because of it. Based on my observations, the way Muslims are treated in America on a day-to-day basis is much worse than Christians in Iran.
The dispicable punishment that has been placed on this poor man's head is due to a flaw in Iran's penal code which allows discretion by judges, in this case some who are obviously bigoted and cruel. Unfortunately, similar flagrant behaviour is found in the American legal system…just look at those sent to death row from a conviction based on solely circumstantial evidence. Justice should be sought afar and in one's own backyard.
I find comfort in knowing that our God is a Sovereign God and He knows the circumstances of the world in which we live…Christ himself warned us that if the world hates us it is because they hated him first. Will be lifting our brother in Christ up tonight in prayer.
My heart goes out to this man and his family. God bless him.
New follower to your blog.My heart aches for this family.My prayers will go out to them.I thank God everyday for our freedom of religion.
Another reason we should be grateful that we are living in America! Too many Americans take freedom for granted. Prayers for this family. Also, does your photo have to grace every aspect of your blog?? I don't see one of you and your husband. Let's hear how well your son is doing with the home schooling instead of another photo of you.
WOW….such sadness and courage…. you are so right that we "North American's" as well as free Christians around the globe take it for granted…..would we have the courage and strength to face what they face? I would like to think I would….
I am sickened at way the Muslims treat women and Christians. I thank God every day for the blessing of being an American Christian. I pray for Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani and his family.
Your Friend,
A true martyr for Christ, a true hero. Should he be executed, he will immediately be in his loving Saviour's arms. May God bless and give his family comfort.
It's a story beyond our comprehension since we are so fortunate to have so many freedoms in Canada and the US. How can a family, who have never hurt anyone, be treated in a way we don't even punish our murderers and rapists here, just because they worship Christ?
May Gods grace, and light fill his prison cell, may he have his chains loosed in Jesus name and may this family have peace beyond understanding. xx and prayers Corrina
I have been sharing this with the Young Marrieds bible study my husband & I mentor with…..all in their early 30's, busy with"life" and not paying much attention to the world. Can't say that I did much different at their age but praying that God would be glorified and the name of Jesus lifted above all names whatever happens. Thank you for posting it.
I've been subsribing to Voice of the Martyrs for some time now, and the more and more I read these stories about Christian missionaries abroad, the more I am humbled at their courage and willingness to lay their own lives down in order to spread the gospel and hopefully win, even if just one, souls to Christ.
I hope that I never grow complacent and that I can teach Amelia that kind of courage, that kind of sacrifice.


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A friend of Peter Holmes a Court's fiancee has provided new details about the moment a freight train slammed into the back of a tram carrying the couple and their wedding guests in Zimbabwe, killing one and injuring dozens of others.
The wedding of Mr Holmes a Court and his American fiancee Alissa Everett was postponed after the tragedy, which happened on a sunset tour of the Victoria Falls tourist spot in the southern African country.
Mr Holmes a Court was "swollen in a lot of places" but not badly injured, while his fiancee was unhurt, the friend said.
The man killed was an American, William Poovey, 44.
A photograph of Mr Poovey and his wife Kara inside the tram shows them looking happy and relaxed. Mr Holmes a Court is seated behind them.
Minutes after the snap was taken, the freight train ploughed into the back of the tram.
"There were screams of terror, everything went flying," said the friend, who asked not to be named. "The tram slid 200 to 300 yards, and people were thrown out."
Mr Poovey died from head injuries, while others sustained broken bones, sprains and severe bruising. Mrs Poovey received treatment for a broken jaw in Johannesburg in South Africa, and will be arriving in New York on Wednesday.
Mr Holmes a Court, a part-owner of the South Sydney Rabbitohs, was to have married Ms Everett, a photographer, in Botswana on Sunday.
"Alissa is heartbroken, and they're trying to be strong for her, trying to really be there for her."
Most of the 30 wedding guests were on the tram. According to local reports, 18 people were treated for injuries, including a young boy.
The open-air tourist tram takes visitors past Victoria Falls, the spectacular waterfall on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe.
It was struck about 5pm after it had stopped to change tracks, allafrica.com reported.
The operator had told the passengers to change trams, the bride's friend told Fairfax Media. The passengers were then instructed to return to the original tram.
"Everyone questioned it, it seemed a bit sketchy, and there were a lot of noises and clanging. Everyone raised their eyebrows, but they went with it," the friend said.
Mr Holmes a Court's late father, Robert, was born in South Africa before coming to Australia and becoming the country's first billionaire through investments in resources and media.
Mr Holmes a Court has been spending more time in Africa with Ms Everett. They had asked friends to donate money as gifts for their wedding, which would be spent on safe houses in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
"I will be joining to carry her [heavy] camera bags, to write on her work, raise the profile of the projects and because I am not prepared to let my bride out of my sight," Mr Holmes a Court wrote on their wedding gift registry site.
The best man was to have been Jason Gissing, a friend of Mr Holmes a Court from Oxford University.
The online grocery company Mr Gissing founded, Ocado, confirmed he was being treated for a broken arm and leg at a hospital in South Africa.
Mr Poovey, a father of two from California, waited for seven hours before he was transported to Johannesburg Airport, where he died on the tarmac, the friend said.
"They were at some rinky-dink medical centre first, and they didn't even have electricity. They had to make a tonne of calls, pull strings to try and get him out."
Fairfax Media has attempted to contact Mr Holmes a Court.
He has contacted Zimbabwean Senator David Coltart for legal assistance via Twitter.
The tram was operated by Victoria Falls Stream Train Company, which described the 20-minute journey on its website as a "gentle meander through the vibrant town of Victoria Falls, looping through classic African bush". It travels over a 111 metre-high bridge suspended between the borders of Zimbabwe and Zambia.
There are two journeys each day, one starting at 10am and the next at 4.45pm. The 5pm crash time makes it likely the guests were on the $65 per person "Champagne Sunset" tram tour.
The collision follows two derailments on the national railways in late June. There were no fatalities. Zimbabwe is notorious for its dangerous railways.
"I can't say for sure what caused the accident but we strongly suspect it was negligence," former Victoria Falls deputy mayor Million Moyo told SW Radio Africa.
"The whole NRZ [National Railways of Zimbabwe] system is in a shambles … whether it was a signals failure or someone did not change the lines … someone at NRZ is to blame."


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Greetings from below the equator!
My name is Brian (as you can tell from my user-name), and I live in Victoria, Australia. Currently I only speak English, although I did make a brief attempt to lean Italian (but lost interest before I got very far, mi dispiace).
Recently I've becoming interested in making my own conlang, and stumbled across this site while doing some research. (While it's far less useful than learning an existing language, the fact that I'm using my imagination to create something new makes it a more interesting endeavor.)
I intend to start a thread with what details I've come up with so far, and asking for suggestions in the "Conlangery" section in the next few days.
I've already wasted a couple of days making a true-type font for it. After the basic alphabet and numbers, I got a bit carried away with adding punctuation and miscellaneous symbols, and didn't stop until I ran out of printable characters in the standard ASCII character set I could replace.
I could continue adding symbols, but I've already got all I need, plus lots of symbols I'll probably never use, such as mathematical symbols for "not equal to" and "x root of". I'll take a break for a day or two before polishing it off, getting all the spacing right, and making up an easy-to-read chart for it in GIMP.
The place to introduce yourselves.
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I've now started a thread in the conlangery section.
Pixie Language. Suggestions?
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Waste group Transpacific Industries has posted an improved December half profit of $42 million, up from $16.5 million a year earlier, but with its key waste divisions a drag on the earnings recovery as it forecasts a flat outlook.
Revenue rose to $1.16 billion from $1.2 billion a year earlier with earnings a share at 2 cents from 0.7 cents.
"The operational performance of our waste management businesses is disappointing and we need to improve our performance markedly," the chief executive Mr Kevin Campbell said.
"We are taking concrete actions to improve efficiency, lower operating costs, sell or close unprofitable or uneconomic businesses, and generate organic growth.
In Australia, landfill volumes slumped 24 per cent which had a significant impact on margins, it said.
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"In Australia, where our Cleanaway landfill businesses have been significantly impacted by the variation in landfill levies between New South Wales and Queensland, we continue to make representations to the governments ... to resolve this untenable situation as soon as possible.
"We expect market conditions in the second half to remain similar to those experienced in the first half."
A review of the organisational structure has resulted in around 200 employees being retrenched, Transpacific said, saving $15 million a year in costs with $3 million of these savings expected to be realised in the second half, before approximately $7 million in restructuring charges.
During the December half, net proceeds from divestments totalled $10 million, and since then a further $15 million has been raised from property sales along with the divestment of the Australian and New Zealand metals manufacturing businesses.
It is targetting paying down debt by $10 million a month, with the aim of cutting the interest bill by $25 million over the year to June.
Transpacific did not declare an interim dividend.
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Well, thanks to Sabrage creating a gang of us to get through it, and an unusual free Sunday coming up, game no.5 will be... Gemini Rue. It's been a while since i ran through a point and click game but the setting/style looks good and supposedly the puzzles make sense (unusually, for this genre). I'll report back on how my sunday goes :-).
Update! A successful weekend. I kept away from sales ad bundles, and stuck to games from the list. With the addition of Gemini Rue, i spent a couple of hours pointing and clicking on things. My patience for the puzzles in point and click things wears thin these days, i think its the linearity of the solutions that bothers me, I'd like to be able to use my brain, rather than trying to second guess what the designer was going to ask for next. I'm not saying they are illogical, i think I just expect multiple, more realistic solutions using tools etc. I do like the atmosphere and retro style though (as an amiga fan of days gone by) so I think that will keep me going through to the end.
The other game I've spent time getting through on my backlog is Driver:SF. A few more hours got put into on Sunday. As an unashamed arcade racing fan, I've found this to be one of the best driving games I've played in a long while, the music is great (seriously - its leading me towards some album purchases - its a great mix of 70's soul/funk, blues and modern rock), the 60fps (on 360) is slick and the variety in missions and challenges is great. Its like burnout paradise without the long downtime getting to the start of races and without the need to read maps whilst racing (whilst I completed paradise, those 2 things in particular annoyed me).
The handling model, whilst loose and tending to make everything drive like a 70s muscle car regardless of pedigree/driving wheels/power, is accurate enough to have fun drifting through junctions. With enough practice, I'm up to fast-and-furious style drifting under lorries now, which is great fun when you pull it off (9/10 times I end up squashed by a lorry, but the game is fairly forgiving of such errors). The 'quantum leap' mechanic to let you possess any car becomes more fun as you go get used to it, you can be quite creative with it. Some of the missions really allow you to be creative and come up with your own solutions, winning races by jumping into the oncoming traffic and then plowing a bus into a race leader is quite satisfying, and unlike anything else, whilst still keeping it challenging.
Spoilers from Driver!
Having reached chapter 5, it now turns out the bad guy can do the same 'jumping' trick, leading to a pretty great chase with him jumping into any car he likes to take me down. It made for a pretty entertaining run and I'm intrigued to see where it goes. How can I take down an opponent with the same abilities as myself??
Great success! I finally can put Osmos behind me. I'm also close to wrapping up Braid (need puzzle pieces in Worlds 5 & 6); and about halfway through Mass Effect 1. Oh, and I've made it to the final island in Crayon Physics Deluxe.
Wow, good work SMiD, sounds like you've had more gaming time than me. I'm hoping to get on again at the weekend, evenings have been a bit hard to come by of late.What have you got lined up to play next?
Well I finished AC2 a couple of nights ago. I bought it quite some time ago and played it most of the way through, but never quite got around to finishing it. I decided it was probably worth playing from the start again as my muscle memory with respect to the controls was shot. Pretty enjoyable overall (I recommend Italian with subtitles Vs English 'mama mia' accents) as Ezio is much more likeable Vs Altair. Started up ACB now which is more of the same, but with some new features and challenges. Albeit the plot of the series if daft as brushes I do like how they tie everything into historical events.
Getting on the backlog-clearing (and no new game for a year buying) bandwagon. I'll be posting about it around the place, but also blogging... Link in sig if anyone cares.
Personally, I've been ill for the last week or so, so I haven't had much in the way of energy for gaming, instead finally watching some tv that I had been behind in. That said, when I have had time for gaming, I've put some time into Starcraft laddering and Skyrim, which means that I haven't actually finished anything at this point, for sure.
I don't really know what I should be finishing, I feel like I'm stuck in the games that I've been playing lately (Blur) and I haven't added anything else to the list yet. Hopefully I'll get around to doing something about adding a game to the list and getting time to play it that's going to be actually finishable soon (ie not Skyrim or Starcraft).
Gz on finishing AC2, I really enjoyed that game. One of these days I'm going to get a hold of the next ones in the series, but I decided to wait until they came down in price, since it's not like I don't have anything to play in the meantime.
SMiD, I really enjoyed Osmos, it was a fun game, though I never went all the way through it... it was definitely relaxing with the worlds that I did indeed play through. Maybe I should go back and see about finishing that up, perhaps.
On the upside, tonight is the last thing I have to do this week and then I have another four day weekend (hopefully uninterupted by homework if I'm really productive today) which will be fun to see if I can't get any more gaming in. I need to decide on what game to finish next. It is going to be either Overlord (part way into), Last Remnant (haven't started) , or Arcania: Gothic 4 (haven't started either). Any ideas?!
(That's between Starcraft and shout/sprinting myself off cliffs accidentally in Skyrim)
Well, so far, I've managed to play through two games this year (Shadowgrounds and Rochard) and I've only bought one game (Saint's Row The Third). I'm still committed to clearing out some of my backlog and I will try to avoid buying new games. In fact, with all the games I've got lying in my backlog, I don't really feel the need to buy more games right now. Saint's Row The Third being the exception though, since I loved the second game on 360 and I've been wanting to buy that since way before it was released.
I started using Backloggery about 6 months ago, and it has really improved my completion rate for games. I still buy a lot of games though, so my backlog isn't getting much smaller. I'm currently playing a bit of GRID while I wait for UPS to deliver my copy of Monster Hunter Tri for my new Wii.
I'm also in the process of actually playing through games instead of buying them and then buying more and then some more and barely finishing anything. Just finished the GTA: EFLC games (TLAD kinda sucked!). Not sure what to play next, I'm torn between Stalker:SOC, Bastion and Limbo.
I haven't touched Survivor yet, since I thought I'd save that for later.
I did this last year. I didn't use backloggery, but I made a separate "now playing" category with 5 games and only allowed myself to play those. It worked awesomely. I completed tons of games, and I'm still doing it (today I finally finished Fallout 2! Huzzah! Now I can start Fallout 3!).
You just have to kind of get yourself into a mindset where you view playing a new game as being a reward for finishing a previous one. Otherwise, you end up jumping from game to game and never finish anything.
Kudos to you for finishing it, though.
I wasn't a fan of AC1, but AC2 was really good... except for the final 'boss' encounter (which I'm not spoiling, just suffice to say that I wasn't impressed). In my opinion, it was stupid easy... and I walked through the entire thing in like... 15 minutes or less. Very anti-climatic ending in that sense.
That said, looking forward to getting around to Brotherhood (which I still have yet to purchase).
I played Osmos for a while, enjoyed it while I did, but not enough to really sit down and finish every level. It's a fun game though, pretty nice for a relaxing something to do. I need to finish Shadowgrounds apparently, I'm not very far in it... but I didn't think so far that it had any real depth yet. Not sure what you guys are seeing in it, so I'm going to have to put a bit more time into this one, apparently. Maybe that will be my other game right now, since I'm only really playing Skyrim/Starcraft2/Blur.
And now, I'm going to go play Shadowgrounds, it seems! Maybe I'll add it to my list of beaten games by the end of the weekend. ;)


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Game-winner comes in wild fashion for Cards
Miller denied victory, but St. Louis claims 12th win in last 14 contests
ST. LOUIS -- The Mets pieced together some of the best at-bats of the evening, extending rookie starter Shelby Miller early so that they wouldn't have to face him late. But it was the Cardinals who were opportunistic, taking advantage of three New York blunders en route to snagging a 4-2 victory on Wednesday.
On a night in which the first four in the lineup combined for only one hit, the bottom half of the Cardinals' order keyed a pair of two-out, run-scoring opportunities to push the Cardinals toward their 12th win in 14 games. This one came in front of 38,143 fans at Busch Stadium and sets St. Louis up for a potential four-game sweep.
Trending the other direction are the Mets, who have lost six straight.
"They've got good pitching. Don't let anybody kid you," New York manager Terry Collins said. "They've got real good pitching, and they come out of that bullpen roaring. So they're tough to beat. And when they're swinging like they're swinging, they're real tough to beat."
The Mets certainly didn't do themselves any favors, though, as the three innings in which the Cardinals scored were each compounded by a miscue. The game-changing one came in the seventh, when reliever Scott Rice uncorked a wild pitch to allow Daniel Descalso to score the go-ahead run from third.
Descalso had walked with two out against starter Shaun Marcum and aggressively taken third when Pete Kozma followed with a single. After a pitching change and two announced pinch-hitters, Ty Wigginton watched Rice throw a pitch to the backstop.
"You take whatever you can get," said Jon Jay.
It was Jay who had driven home the game's first run on a two-out, fourth-inning single and then extended the inning when he dislodged the ball from David Wright's glove as the third baseman went to tag him. That error allowed the inning to continue and scarcely-used catcher Tony Cruz delivered an RBI hit to push the Cardinals ahead, 2-0.
"Any of our guys who don't get to play very much, if they come in and contribute and don't look like fish out of water, it's 100 percent effort and how they're doing their extra work," manager Mike Matheny said. "You just have to fight and find a way and he's doing that."
Miller would hand that two-run lead over to the bullpen only to watch his chance at a sixth win dissolve with one seventh-inning swing by Rick Ankiel. The former Cardinal drove the seventh pitch he saw from rookie Seth Maness over the wall in center to tie the game.
Maness took the blown save but was also credited with a win, giving the Cardinals' rookie pitchers nine already this season. The lead was padded for closer Edward Mujica when Yadier Molina delivered a two-out RBI single to drive home an insurance run in an eighth inning that featured another error.
The Mets' best work all night came against Miller, though they had nothing in the run column to show how well they battled him. This would be no encore masterpiece for Miller in his first start since retiring 27 straight in a one-hit shutout. Yet he'll carry a scoreless innings streak of 14 2/3 innings into his next start.
"It was a battle out there for me," Miller said. "The fastball command wasn't nearly as good as it was the last start. I was leaving it up in the zone, which raised my pitch count up through the first three innings. I got away with some mistakes."
The right-hander's pitch count escalated to 63 by the end of the third. That was only 50 fewer pitches than Miller had thrown in his nine-inning outing on Friday.
Though the Mets weren't making solid contact against Miller's fastball, the repeated foul balls forced he and Cruz to alter the game plan as the night progressed. That included having Miller throw more changeups -- a pitch he had thrown sparingly this year -- in order to compensate for the so-so fastball command.
"Those guys on the other side, you have to give them credit," Cruz said. "They're out there competing, and they fouled off some good pitches. His command of the fastball wasn't quite what it's been, so we tried to get them off [of it] a little bit."
Though the volume of pitches quickly became a concern, Miller did not actually deal with much basepath traffic. He scattered three singles over the first five innings before allowing his first extra-base hit of the night in the sixth. Miller answered that with a strikeout of Wright, the last batter he'd face in his 96-pitch effort.
Randy Choate closed the inning with a runner on third, preserving Miller's scoreless outing. Taking into account that Miller had thrown 113 pitches his last time out, Matheny had no intention of pushing him nearly that deep on Wednesday.
"As we got into the 90s, we were really keeping our eye open," Matheny said. "When he strikes out Wright the way he did with a good strong fastball, he looks strong. But those at-bats where they keep fouling balls off, they get very little rest. Those can wear you out in a hurry. He was laboring today."
The challenge moving forward for Miller is to make his pitches go a little further. He is now averaging more than four pitches per plate appearance and 16.2 pitches per inning. That's one of the main reasons why Miller has finished seven innings only twice in eight starts.
Regardless, he continues to be as dominant as anyone else in the league. Over his last three starts (20 2/3 innings), Miller has allowed one run. His season ERA is down to 1.40, tying him with the Dodgers' Clayton Kershaw for the lowest of any National League starter.
"I feel really strong," Miller said. "I feel really good. I feel like I'm where I need to be."
Jenifer Langosch is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, By Gosh, It's Langosch, and follow her on Twitter @LangoschMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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|Overall, the article is well written, and is safely in the good or above average range. However, the article seems more witty than funny, if you know what I mean. I would compare it to my article Ussher: it doesn't have anything wrong with it, and is decent as satire of a legitimate subject, but isn't funny.
I can't quite put my finger on what is wrong with it. Maybe the introduction needs some work. The reader really doesn't get "into" the article. You basically start with the thesis statement of your article, which is basically a rouge punchline. Its not a stupid rouge punchline, but still could said better. You probably might want to add some set-up for that, so it comes across as a joke rather than a rouge punchline.
Your article is also shorter than it looks. It is only 3.5 kb long, which is very short for an article. If you expand the existent material, it might come across as less "choppy". As it sits, it is too dry rather than too random, so you may be able to add a little silliness. An article should be over 6 kb before it considered "not stubby." There really is no maximum length to an article, in fact, the 2nd longest article on the wiki, (behind an article that is long for the sake of being long) was recently featured.
Your article ends with a list. Normally, lists are discouraged, but this is a list in parody of an actual list, so it would be appropriate. You probably know that already though.
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|The first image is appropriate. The image of Pluto, however, seems somewhat out of place. You probably need at least two images. However, obvious nothing comes to mind at the moment. Another silhouette might work, it would be consistent, and picturing a specific generic dog ruins the joke. However, another silhouette might also come across as repetitive.
|This article, as I mentioned, is more witty than funny. Wikipedia articles are a valid subject to satirize, but not everyone reads wikipedia, and this site has long ago expanded beyond a simple Wikipedia parody.
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|I would suggest you expand on what you have, try to add a few sentence to each paragraph, especially a single-sentence paragraphs. This article is fairly good as it sits, so I would recommend you work on it, unless you have trouble expanding it. It probably has the potential to be featured.
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Hi,I just want to ask some help or ideas to you guys,I am a 4th yr student (course-I.T) and we have to propose our thesis,our group compose of 5 members...I just want to ask some good Titles for our thesis,I hope you can help us or share your ideas if you have some titles for the thesis.
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Do you guys have any areaa of interest or training? Surely you have some idea of what you might focus on.
Hi ralph, thank you for the reply...I just want to ask some help in choosing the titles for our thesis because we find difficulty and we don't have enough idea,but if you can share with us.that's a big help for us.
Does that mean you have the content, just not the title? I'm a bit confused. If you just want a name for the thesis, then tell us a bit about the subject. If you want us to choose a subject (that is, what the thesis is about) then you need to give us some idea of what you want to focus on.
Hi sorry for the late reply...what about web base system just any, i don't have yet the content...what about the project management system?i saw this in other website but i forgot...i think this is sounds good for our thesis.but i don't have idea what's in this project management system?..but if you don't like this, you can share another one.I do apologize i really don't have idea what to propose in our thesis.
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jemz, as a former classroom teacher, I must caution you here. This is not a good basis to be working on. Talk to your teacher, and disucss this situation properly. Whenever you find yourself in a course and in a dilemma like this, you need to talk with your teachers. You should not be in a dilemma like this. It is your teacher's job to guide you in these matters.
They said that we should look for a title...we are out of time to think,and we really don't have any idea...so if this is not the place for me to ask some help,where i can find people to help me.?
Go back to the teachers and tell them they are not doing a good enough job! They need to guide you in this if you are stuck.
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3DMark Fire Strike Trailerby Jarred Walton on 12/3/2012 3:20 PM EST
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haukionkannel - Monday, December 03, 2012 - linkIt will be nice to see how different mobile platforms can handle this test or actually part of it. If nothing else it will be guite suitable for feature check in tool. Allso it will interesting to see how different OS platforms can handle this compared to those Egypt test and other "game" like test that are out there. Reply
Iketh - Monday, December 03, 2012 - linkwhat? Reply
CZroe - Monday, December 03, 2012 - linkI watched the trailer: Nowhere did it say "First Strike."
I searched this page: Nowhere did it say "Fire Strike."
Something is amiss. Reply
JarredWalton - Monday, December 03, 2012 - linkAlready corrected -- sorry. My brain saw "First Strike" and that stuck, and it took an email from Futuremark before I noticed the mistake. LOL Reply
scook9 - Monday, December 03, 2012 - linkThey should also release an Xbox 360 and PS3 version so everyone can see how laughable that graphics technology really is..... Reply
tipoo - Monday, December 03, 2012 - linkI wish they did that. However that would likely require a big rewrite of the engine, so much so that the scores may not be comparable to PCs. I really do wish there was a test like that for consoles though. Reply
scook9 - Tuesday, December 04, 2012 - linkThey all run DX, isn't that the point, make the coding universal across hardware as long as it uses DX? Reply
Death666Angel - Tuesday, December 04, 2012 - linkDX belongs to Microsoft and thus doesn't run on PS3 or Wii hardware. They have similar effects etc. but that's not to be confused with DX on the Xbox/Windows side. Reply
JarredWalton - Tuesday, December 04, 2012 - linkDon't forget that consoles are now very old hardware -- DX9 era. Even a very basic graphics chip is already substantially faster than an Xbox 360 or PS3. Of course, writing code that works optimally on a wide range of hardware is part of the difficulty of PC gaming, which is why even with inferior graphics hardware the Xbox and PS3 can still look decent -- but nowhere near what a midrange GPU can manage, of course. Reply
tipoo - Tuesday, December 04, 2012 - linkThe Xenos was something of a prototype DX10 chip, or at least halfway between fixed function DX9 chips and DX10. It had tessellation and unified shaders before any shipping graphics card, for instance. Reply
JarredWalton - Tuesday, December 04, 2012 - linkYou can actually do tessellation with DX9 -- it was one of those features listed way back in the day. The hardware just wasn't really fast enough to make it practical. (And technically, displacement mapping isn't as "good" as the stuff you can do with DX11 -- or DX10 I suppose.) But really, no one is interested in benchmarking consoles I don't think, at least not Futuremark. They are what they are, and whether one console is faster or slower doesn't matter -- it's the games that dictate which console you should go with. Reply
tipoo - Wednesday, December 05, 2012 - linkI know it wouldn't be worth it for a company to develop that, as you would only need to benchmark one of each console and no one would buy it. It's just a vague interest I have. The hardware seems antiquated, but it constantly surprises me with how far they can push it, although a large part of that must be how much they have to optimize around consoles to get things to run well on them. But there are some unique things about them, ie the 360 having a crazy amount of SIMD registers (4 floats x 128 registers x 6 registers banks = 12K of registers) and the eDRAM with incredibly low latency to the GPU (why don't GPU makers do that? Haswells integrated gpu may be the first to it). Reply
Death666Angel - Monday, December 03, 2012 - linkWow, didn't know youtube had videos with that resolution. Not bad. :D Reply
JarredWalton - Monday, December 03, 2012 - linkYou can even do 4K videos on YouTube. Problem is, with their server-side re-encoding, it makes most such uploads look like crap compared to the original files. :'( Reply
tipoo - Tuesday, December 04, 2012 - linkThey should focus on making 720p and 1080p higher bitrate. Bitrate > resolution at this point. But I guess a few showcase 4k videos take less bandwidth on their part than all the 1080p videos being higher bitrate. Reply
Death666Angel - Tuesday, December 04, 2012 - linkNo argument against that from me. :D Watching 720p/1080p is still better than 240p - 480p on Youtube, but the quality isn't good enough that I would ever consider paying for anything. They will probably up the bitrate at some point. Reply
IanCutress - Monday, December 03, 2012 - linkPart of the OC community loves the fact that the new 3DMark should scale awesomely with GPU power. But some of us are also a bit miffed that there is no 'story' in the benchmark. 3DMark Vantage had a story, like Jane Nash, or the earlier 3DMarks with Deep Freeze and the other one with the monster jumping over the airship. Unigine Heaven and now the new 3DMark seems a little off in terms of 'story'. Reply
JarredWalton - Monday, December 03, 2012 - linkI just wish they could make an actual game using their tech -- and a good game, for that matter. Benchmarking stuff people don't actually use, other than for benchmarking, isn't as useful as real-world gaming tests in my book. Reply
Ryan Smith - Monday, December 03, 2012 - linkThey did make a game with their tech: Shattered Horizon. The concept was basically a zero-G "realistic" arena shooter. It was an interesting concept, but it didn't lend itself to much variety and never really caught on.
Since then Rovio bought Futuremark's game studio. It's a shame, since I would have liked to see them take on a space game (given what they did with 3DMark 05 and Vantage)
And I completely agree on the desire to see more story-like benchmarking. 3D Mark 05 was especially fun; they even had a Poets of the Fall song in the credits. I ran that in demo mode more than I ever ran it in benchmark mode. Reply
JarredWalton - Monday, December 03, 2012 - linkWhich is why I say "a good game". LOL. I actually got a copy of Shattered Horizon from Futuremark; couldn't be bothered to play it for more than an hour. Reply
tzhu07 - Tuesday, December 04, 2012 - linkThat was very underwhelming. Especially after that Final Fantasy tech demo running on a single GTX 680. I would love for them to release an exe file of just one of those scenes in the demo. Reply
tipoo - Tuesday, December 04, 2012 - linkBut in the light of the Final Fantasy Agni demo, the UE3 Samaritan Demo, the UE4 demos, heck even upcoming games like Watch Dogs, this doesn't impress me much. The last 3D mark I remember being impressed at was 06 I think. Pre-Crysis. Reply