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For years, Zelda confused me. Even though it said Legend of Zelda on the box, all of the promotional material featured Link, so I wrongly assumed Link was actually Zelda. Granted, my exposure to Nintendo was limited until the days of the N64 and Goldeneye, so once I actually got to play the game I realized my grievous error. Since then I've come to appreciate the numerous incarnations of the princess of Hyrule, and I don't seem to be alone in that regard. Whether heir to the throne, fun-loving pirate, or no-nonsense ninja, Zelda is always intriguing and someone worth paying attention to. With that, here are some of the most captivating Zelda cosplays around.


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Later that same afternoon I enjoyed a superb walk along the "path of the gods" in golden sunshine, finally descending endless flights of steps, past lemon groves to Positano for an ice cream on the beach. Even the return trip in the local bus was impressive, a bit different from my local 131 to Tooting, as the driver nonchalantly wove his way along the narrow corniche road winding its way back up into the hills to San Lazzaro village.
Staying in an Agriturismo was the icing on the cake. It was the first time I have stayed in one and it will certainly not be the last. A combination of the words for agriculture and tourism in Italian, an agriturismo offers an insight into local life, a rural setting and locally produced food. I was made to feel really welcome by our host family who have worked their small-holding for generations, only recently opening up to tourism with a modest number of rooms which retain its character. As with most Italians the kitchen was clearly the centre of their household as they proudly presented delicious locally produced dishes. The family's locally made red wine is not so strong and slightly fizzy - which is apparently achieved by bottling on a full moon! Whatever they do, it's a taste all too easily acquired.
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My experiences here inspired me to put together Explore's Amalfi Coast Walking tour. Each of the day walks on the tour departs from the hotel and offers a different perspective, view and feeling from the day before. The journeys include some boat journeys, including one out to chic Capri island and time cruising along the Amalfi coast. The walks are all relatively easy - just enough to work up a hunger and justify the ice creams! Every day at the end of the walk, after some freetime for a coffee or walk around a historic town, the group will be returned by local bus weaving our way along with the locals.
The new Amalfi Coast Walking tour complements perfectly our other tour in the region the Bay of Naples and Amalfi Coast. This delightful 1 week tour spends time not only on the Amalfi coast, where the gentle walks are all optional but also on the beautiful Sorrento peninsular. From here we visit the incredible city of Pompeii, hike to the summit of Mt Vesuvius and take a boat to the idyllic island of Capri.
The only problem with this region is deciding which tour to do. To experience my favourite place for yourself, join our Bay of Naples and Amalfi Coast tour.

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>Racing>Sub-20 Goal for 5k (2012)
2016 Goals
2000 miles
Get ready for my 2nd Boston Marathon
No race goals, just stay healthy and work on flexibility and strength.
Thanks for the new thread Troy. Count me in. Done 19:38 in February but just got back to fitness after
3 months off. My workouts say i'm in better shape now, so i'm gunning for closer to 19 mins. At the very
least i want to beat Michigan Flyers 19:35
I'm not doing much real speedwork. Just a weekly tempo run of 7 - 8 miles around 6:50 - 7:00 pace, and the
odd progressive run. Also sometimes throw in a faster last mile on slow runs. Nothing quicker than 6:20 tho.
Just trying to get my miles up to consistently over 40mpw is the key thing for me right now. Just about there.
Good luck all.
I am setting this as a goal too. I doubt I will get it until late summer or even near the end of 2012 though.
I'm in.
I ran a 20:03 last March. Course was rumored short. 2nd fastest is a 20:19.
As of right now I do not have a target 5k. I am in training to set a new 4 mile pr on Feb 4th. Current is 27:16. Under 27 would be pretty sweet.
Count me in - I got down to 19:33 earlier in the year, but I've had a break (injury enforced) since then and I'm now at around 20:50, so it would be good to get back down below 20.
I'm Betty if you're Al
Include me please. 20:27 for 2011...what a slap in the face.
"I would rather have high expectations and fail then have low expectations and succeed." DB
I'm in. I think I ran a 20:12 in May. Man that bugged me.
Did a first attempt at some treadmill intervals today:
800 m @ 8:30 pace
800 m @ 6:40 pace
400 m @ 8:30 pace
400 m @ 6:20 pace
400 m @ 6:40 pace
400 m @ 7:00 pace
Total was 3 miles in 22:10 but that included some slow cool downs and a half mile warmup.
Felt good. Actually felt like I could probably hold that 6:40 pace for quite a long time but I always find treadmills deceivingly easier than running on the road!
Will shoot for 1 mile repeats next week
This week for me was
M - 8x( 400 @6:00 + 400 easy), 10 min warmup and cool down
T- strength
W- 45 easy w strides
Th- 4 x (1200@6:30 + 4 min easy) with 15 min warmup and cool down
Tomorrow will be weights, then 90 min
Saturday (@8:45) and hopefully 60 on Sunday @8:45.
I'm doing the Daniels blue plan, and I think I'm a believer --- the long runs feel slow, but he knows more than me. And the intervals are definitely getting easier - I'm feeling much more relaxed at a fast pace, even doing some of them faster than planned, which is new. Three weeks ago they were kicking my ass. This should be about 35 miles, which feels like enough for the time being. What are others doing?
Count me in as well. Best effort last year was 20:17 before knee issues sidelined me for a spell. No 5K races planned as of yet. Next major event will be a half, followed by a full Marathon in the spring. Good Luck to the others here in their effort to do the same.
What was I chasing again?
Here's my plan:Now to mid February - BaseRun 40 minutes six days a week. The seventh day build to 100 to 120 minutes. No planned quality, but I think the cold and icy Maine conditions will toughen me up.Mid February to mid March - TempoRun 40 minutes six days a week, with one of the runs having 15 minutes at tempo pace. The seventh day 100 to 120 minutes, with last 20 minutes at tempo pace. Probably have to build to the 15/20 minute tempo miles. I may increase the number of tempo minutes if I am able. Mid March to the mid April race - SpeedRun 40 minutes six days a week, with one of the runs having 20 minutes at tempo pace. The seventh day 100 to 120 minutes, building to three miles at race pace broken into 400 to 800 meter segments with jogging rest periods in the middle of the longish run.
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Last Race: Portland Maine Half Marathon October 5 2014
Count me in.
(Do I have to do anything other than reply to this thread to be added?)
Count me in.
(Do I have to do anything other than reply to this thread to be added?)
Nope, that's it.
Except that you have to run sub-20 this year.
It should be mathematical, but it's not.
Put me in for this too. I was thinking I could have gotten there in 2011, but not quite. Definitely 2012 though.


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If a woman knows how to suck a Popsicle, she's halfway to being a fellatio expert. But what prepares a man for going down on a woman? Like most women, we've had the unfortunate experience of being with a guy who is willing to go down but has no idea what he's doing when he gets there. Tell him? Well, we didn't want to hurt his feelings. It's hard to talk about sex when you're in the middle of it. After the jump, women reveal what they really want.1. Forget everything you've seen in porn.
"I hate when guys go at you like dogs just out of the desert slobbering frantically away at their first bowl of water. Tone it down! It's a freaking parfait, not a pie-eating contest!" – Rebecca
2. Get wet.
"What makes it good? A really wet tongue that is constantly replenished. So many guys 'dry out and then keep going, and it's painful!" – Victoria
3. It's not all about the tongue.
"The biggest mistake seems to be thinking oral sex is a purely a tongue thing. It's not. They should think of it like kissing. Just a little bit of tongue." – Kate
4. Your tongue isn't an extension of your member.
"Too much tongue in the wrong way made me feel like I was at the gynecologist. It was bad business." – Jai
5. Don't forget the surrounding real estate.
"Kissing around the inner thighs is a MUST. It isn't just about getting in and getting out, it's about the whole area." – Victoria
6. Come hither with your hands.
"Nothing makes an orgasm from oral sex more intense than when he sticks in even just one of his finger and makes a 'come here' motion, rubbing what I guess is my g-spot." – Andi
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So, um, yeah. --Black Flamingo 19:01, February 25, 2012 (UTC)
|Understated nicely, yet suitably ludicrous. Lovely.
|The 98% of people who've never heard of one may become confused....
|Prose and formatting:
|Looks like the real thing...should stick it on WP and see how long before they notice...
|apt images...the photo of one could use explaining, considering the first bit...
|apology points. never review hammered.
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|Now that ive actually seen the article and am (relatively) sober, I am amused.
|--Dorianin says never play leapfrog with a unicorn. 00:29, March 1, 2012 (UTC)
Heres a better review...hope its a little more acceptable....:D
- Just for something a little different, I'm also going to review this. This may take a while, as I'm going to attempt to explain how I review at the same time as writing the review.
- Before I start, I'll explain my set-up here. On one page I have the review page open and ready to edit. I'll often add a signature at the bottom of it so I can preview the look of it. Second page is the article. Third page is HTBFANJS as it is a good reference guide to what does and doesn't work in an article. Also, if the article is a spork (or direct parody) of the Wikipedia article, or from another source, I may have that open. This is especially useful if I know almost nothing about the topic. Of course, knowing nothing about the topic is how I would read this as a normal user, but there may be something there that will help to add more funny to the article. If the topic is non-sensical, I probably don't have a reference to use. In that case I'm buggered.
- I may save this as I go through. Normally I don't, but time constraints are against me, and it may help build up an idea of how I work.
- Pup 09:45 04 Mar '12
|Okay, so reading through this section by section, let's look at the humour. Humour, as a general rule, is the gags or one-liners. Most articles will have a joke per paragraph, which is a good ratio. Subtle humour does add to an article, but too subtle and the humour may be lost.
No quotes. Good. I hate intro quotes.
Nice set-up of main premise. Jeffrey being an alien in the middle of the first paragraph tells me that I'm about to get some random humour. Dropping into first person means that I'm ready for the remainder to be in first person, and the fact that the narrator seems to be an idiot who believes in aliens, as well as knowing nothing with any form of authority on the topic that he is covering.
This is quickly backed up by the claim that ocelots have seven legs and the hint that they shoot laser beams from their eyes.
Now my major concern with the lede is that random can very quickly degenerate into stupid. Of course, this isn't always the case, but it is always a concern for me when I'm reading. And given the lede is where you need to capture your audience, this can be off putting. Given the overall concept, however, it's a good start.
One thing I would do is break the paragraph at about it... Ocelots are. Leave the Jeffery thought in the mind for a half second before going elsewhere.
Short section, but two good jokes there, and probably can't really be extended any further. I would italicise ōcēlōtl. About the only thing that could be added is something like ōcēlōtl (rhymes with xocholotl), which means... It's again a little random for me, but works within the context here.
Again nice and short, and not much that can be added. The only issue, if it is an issue, is in the lede you refer to them as having 7 legs. Here it's not mentioned at all, and the photos of course give that away. For consistency I'd either remove the seven leg reference from the start, or mention that they have up to 7 legs, or something else like that here.
I'm going to come back to this in concept, as there are a few other options. So don't make a change yet. Maybe.
And we become very random again. As I have said, random can degenerate into stupid fairly easily, but you teeter on the edge here fairly well. The Archbishop of Canterbury mention maybe a little over the line, but I actually like the joke, so I wouldn't mess with that too much.
Now one thing that happens here is that you mention the smell of urine in a bedroom, but at this stage we haven't take about them living under beds. This is okay, as it makes more sense once the latter fact is known, but reading it progressively it seems a little odd. Unless the idea is simply trying to state that the person who sleeps in the room is not a bed wetter but is marking their territory, but without being a little clearer the joke feels a little odd at this stage.
I love the idea of Ocelots hiding under the bed. As random as this article is, it's a very cool aspect, and takes this up a notch. This is where it pushes well outside of the realms of sanity. The mastubation joke is okay, but maybe there should be a little more paranoia here. . The underneath of beds is a perfect place for the ocelot because they love dark, dusty places where they can masturbate without any interruption, and it gives them the perfect vantage point to watch people in the room as they undress. Although this doesn't refer to the narrator, it shows a bit more depth on the narrators loose grip on reality. The more we understand the foibles of the narrator the more we will follow them down the rabbit hole, so to speak. Crossbow is a fantastic example of this kind of narrative done well.
The bit about the Ocelots being endangered is a little off concept, assuming the concept of Ocelots being under beds and never being able to be observed is accurate. If we turn the Ocelot into a bogeyman type of character, then saying they are dying out doesn't quite for in with the narrator's paranoia. Depending on how you play with the concept, you may want to lose this part. It doesn't add a huge amount of funny. (Although it would fit in well in an article that is more encyclopaedic about Pandas, for example.)
As pets
The mention of Dali works well, and good humour here. Bringing Jefferey back at the end works well, as does his rather unusual qualifications. The part about the Moche people has a misspelling. Prey instead of pray. It made me think of the line The Moche people would all gather and pray to the tribe's ocelot, offering it jewellery and fabric. The ocelot deity would then prey on them with its laser vision as a reward. I love the little bit of wordplay there. Not a huge laugh, but a subtle one. Maybe a link to Homophones (grammar) would fit in well.
Capturing the Ocelot
A bit of a mild ending. There is nothing wrong with it, but you should bring in a reference to Jefferey again at least as an instigator to this. Something about how Jefferey has become filthy rich as a result of his work in capturing ocelots, maybe.
I do love Barry (if that happens to be your name)... Good line.
|Okay, there are a couple of concepts that are at work here. I'm going to break it down into what I feel are the main ones:
There's probably a little more that I missed, but these are the ones that stick out to me.
I've talked a bit about the first and third concept. The second one comes in at the start of the article and kind of drifts off into nothingness. This is a shame, as it's a good concept that works well with the remainder of your topic.
Now what I'm thinking of is historical scientific documents. The first thing that comes to mind is Dürer's Rhinoceros. The idea that a drawing based on a sketch and a brief description became a scientifically accepted image is fantastic. This happened, of course, because there was nothing to contradict this in the eyes of the European scientific community.
Another one is Physiologus. A bestiary that was considered as fact but included mythical animals.
Playing with something like this would work in your favour. If I was using this idea I'd remove all images of ocelots from the article - despite the fact that they are very cute. I'd replace them with deliberately blurry cat photos - think of Loch Ness monster or Yeti photos - and pictures of habitat - the dark underside of a bed, for instance.
Give them seven legs, or however many you like, and have an artist's impression of an ocelot. This should actually be done by hand, maybe on lined paper, and as amateurishly as possible without looking deliberately amateurish (ie, do it yourself). Make it out that this was drawn by your narrator.
Avoid bad potatochops (photoshopped) images though. Random and bad potatochops equals stupid.
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|Spelling and grammar are fine, other than the one I pointed out earlier. (I'm too lazy to go through a full spell check though. Make sure you do that.
Format is fairly standard. I would, however, create a template similar to the Wikipedia one (like on here) as it gives you the opportunity to play with faux Latin and make a few dumb translation jokes. Also a stylised image of a bed with the underside shaded in green for the habitat (as a parody of the map). It just has a slightly more Wikipedia feel and can add a bit of funny.
|I really like your images, but if you decide to extend the concept I mentioned above, they won't work. Which is a shame - they're kinda cute.
The dead sister joke just fell flat for me. Otherwise captioning was well done. Especially the added mention of Jefferey.
|BF11, you're probably already aware that I pay absolutely no attention to the scores as I write these - they're only a rough feeling of like or dislike toward an article. As an overall though, 7 means that this is a good article, and possibly a feature. A bit of work and it's a fantastic article and definite feature. Dorianin, I hope you can get a better understanding of how a review works. For the moment, I'd make sure you have read HTBFANJS and the review guidelines (link at the top of this page). Don't worry if you don't read them enough to memorise them - you just need enough to have an idea of what your resources are, and how to get to them.
If I was reviewing this for a newer user, I'd refer back to HTBFANJS a fair bit more. BF is aware of what it says, mostly, and knows how to find it. You'll also notice that I mentioned a few other articles (including one Aleister still hasn't moved out of his user space by the look of it), so knowing what makes a featured article, and what doesn't, is really valuable. Read through some of the features that we've had - especially the 2010 onwards ones - as that gives you an idea of what works well.
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|And now Mattsnow or Chief will read this and hopefully tell me it's in depth. BlackFlamingo11 will be grateful but will probably not add a {{Golden Shower Award}} to my talkpage. (Did my guilt trip work?)
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How was a bug of the magnitude of Heartbleed introduced in the first place – and why did it take over two years to find?
It's easy to jump to nefarious conclusions – that intelligence agencies or ill-intentioned attackers surreptitiously slipped in the requisite code. But, the reality is, "writing security software, cryptographic libraries, and programs that secure Internet traffic, it's really difficult," said Seth Hardy, senior security researcher with the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab.
"A lot of people don't really understand the incredible amount of detail and attention to every possible outcome that needs to be made, because one mistake in the entire library can bring a system down. And that's a flaw of the type we're seeing with Heartbleed."
How do Internet security experts explain the recently discovered security nightmare? "It's like if your water company said 'All of our water is poisoned – and by the way, the only thing you can do is not drink water,' " says Matthew Green, an assistant research professor at the Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute specializing in cryptography.
"It's a pretty nasty kind of thing to hear. It's not something that's wrong in your house, it's not something you can even fix. It's something you just have to wait until the people who are in control of it get around to fixing it."
For most people, the Internet is Google, or Facebook, or the Yahoo homepage. It's an icon on a desktop, a menu bar or a dock. Software, services, protocols and servers – that's the invisible Internet: integral to making everything work, of course, but hard to fathom from within the confines of a browser.
The only glimpse of that side the general public gets is when something goes wrong.
The Heartbleed bug, made public Monday, is about as wrong as wrong gets. It turns out an important piece of software used to secure connections between users and websites was broken – and had been that way for two whole years. If left unpatched and exploited, the Heartbleed bug has the potential to expose usernames, passwords, and even cryptographic keys – the latter crucial to scrambling and descrambling all of the data a website sends or receives.
It may alarm some people that much of the Internet's most crucial software – the stuff that giants like Google, Facebook or Yahoo use – is actually developed by volunteers, non-profits and organizations kept alive on the goodwill of what small donations pour in each year. Companies big and small can use such software because it is freely available, or open source – and they aren't required to contribute changes or donations in return, although it is encouraged.
The OpenSSL Software Foundation, which funds the widely used software affected by the Heartbleed bug, "made less than $1-million last year, almost entirely in consulting contracts," according to The Wall Street Journal's Danny Yardon.
"$2,000 in outright donations, received in small increments mainly from overseas supporters of encryption, was not nearly enough to initiate a deeper revamping of the underlying code."
The project is managed by just four core European programmers, Yardon writes – and only one works on the project full time.
The thinking has long been that, since such open source projects as OpenSSL have hundreds or thousands of contributors over the project's lifetime, there are always eyes watching the code. But in practice, just because anyone can look deep into a piece of software's code, doesn't mean they will.
In fact, at many companies, it would be a full-time job. "But money and support still tend to flow to the newest and sexiest projects, while boring but essential elements like OpenSSL limp along as volunteer efforts," writes Rusty Foster in The New Yorker.
One thing that could make work on OpenSSL sexier are the reports of mass electronic surveillance by government intelligence agencies. As a result, more researchers are scouring the Internet's most crucial, underlying code – and, according to Green, it's one reason why bugs such as Heartbleed have been found.
"There's a huge new effort by researchers to look for exactly this kind of thing. So it seems like security getting worse, but security is actually getting better as a result," he explains.
And perhaps it's a good thing when a disaster like Heartbleed makes the public aware of the chaotic, hodgepodge underpinnings on which the entire Internet is built – largely on the backs of volunteer coders and developers who, given the importance of their work in our day to day lives, aren't paid nearly enough.
"It's a very easy way of thinking to say something like that is so major it must have been intentionally introduced, or must have been known about by those governments – like there's no way they could have missed this," says Hardy.
"But the reality of it is, it's easy to miss something like this, because doing this sort of work is incredibly hard."Report Typo/Error
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Life sciences-focused investment firm Texo Ventures has raised $15.4 million of a planned $25 million fund.
The Austin-based firm collected the capital from 30 investors, according to a Wednesday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Texo Ventures, which was launched in 2010, operates as a hybrid of the angel investor and venture capital models. Founders Randall Crowder, Jerry DeVries and Dr. Phil Sanger established the firm to generate revenue from portfolio company milestones instead of relying on the conventional management fee model used by most VC firms.
Texo Ventures lists 12 portfolio companies on its website. Active investments include Wenzel Spine Inc., an Austin-based medical device manufacturer, Waldo Networks, an Austin developer of remote patient-monitoring systems, and Alafair Biosciences Inc., an Austin company that last month reported receiving $702,000 of a planned $1.5 million financing.


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I rise today in strong support of the amendment to protect the military's ability to purchase American-made fuels.
Powering our military with American-made energy makes our country safer and our economy stronger. Tying our hands and forcing the American military to depend on foreign oil is short-sighted and dangerous. Instead, we need to give our commanders the flexibility to power our military with home-grown energy, like Montana camelina that supports jobs right here in America.
The Department of Defense (DOD) is the largest single user of oil in the world --consuming more than 355,000 barrels of oil per day last year. Despite increased domestic production of fossil fuels, rising global prices and market volatility caused DOD's fuel bill to rise by more than $19Bil in 2011. The trend is expected to continue.
This is why I strongly support the efforts of our military leaders to develop and employ alternative fuels. Our military leaders recognize the problem of rising fuel costs and dependence on foreign oil. The Pentagon's largest energy user, the Air Force, has established a goal of purchasing half of its domestically consumed aviation fuel from alternative sources by the end of 2016. The Navy has also invested in the F-18 Green Hornet program- a fighter jet powered by a biofuel blend.
The DOD relies on a sustainable biofuel market to meet its goal of lessening the nation's dependence on foreign oil.
Section 313 of the 2012 NDAA will limit our military's ability to develop alternative fuels.
Members on both sides of the aisle are concerned that this section of the Committee-passed bill regarding the use of alternative fuels by the DOD, could cause harm to our national security and military readiness.
That's why I am fighting to allow the Pentagon to enter into long-term deals to buy biofuels, as long as they're made right here in the USA.
Montana is in the perfect position to provide the homegrown fuels our nation needs to move toward energy security. There is clearly a demand from both the military and the private sector to use American-made biofuels.
In 2011, the Navy, the Department of Energy and the Department of Agriculture aimed to assist the development and support of a sustainable commercial biofuels industry. They investigated the development biofuels as alternatives to diesel and jet fuels.
The agreement included Montana farmers and corporations. Limitations placed on our military's procurement of alternative fuel would be detrimental to Montana's alternative fuel industry.
As a result of investing in biofuels, renewable Montana-grown crops like camelina have been used by our military as the predominate feedstock for biofuel blends. I call these freedom fuels, because they help get us off of foreign oil and help bring good paying jobs to Montana.
Researchers at Montana State University Northern in Havre, Montana showed early that camelina to be a promising dryland crop for use in biodiesel and other bioproducts. Camelina, also known as "Gold of Pleasure," is an oilseed crop that includes canola, mustard and broccoli. The small-seeded, cool-climate crop has been grown in Europe and the Northern plains of the United States.
Since its initial production, the cost per gallon of camelina based fuel in Montana has dropped annually by half.
That's why I'm fighting to ramp up our domestic energy production, whether it's biofuels, wind, coal, oil, natural gas, or hydropower. We need an energy policy that puts America back in control. We must reduce our dependence on foreign oil and work to develop all of our domestic resources - just like we have in Montana.
Alternative fuels will not replace fossils fuels all-together; however, replacing even a small fraction of fuel consumed by our military with alternative fuels made here in the United States can improve strategic flexibility, insulate the defense budget from spikes in the cost fossil fuels, create good-paying jobs for Americans, and make the United States a more secure nation.
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Family members of two unarmed black residents fatally shot by Chicago police called for answers Sunday at a press conference in which they accused officers of using excessive force. Continue reading
In our news wrap Tuesday, five former New Orleans policemen were granted a new trial in the shooting deaths of unarmed civilians on the city's Danziger Bridge following Hurricane Katrina. Also, investigators ruled a fire that destroyed 50 businesses on the New Jersey boardwalk was due to wiring damaged by Hurricane Sandy. Continue reading


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Hudson -- The city will spend $2 million on road reconstruction in 2014 and $600,000 on repaving roads.
In 2013 Council approved borrowing $5 million, which will be financed for $600,000 per year for 10 years, for road reconstruction projects. They spent $1 million in 2013, have the before mentioned $2 million designated for this year and plans to spend the remaining $2 million in 2015.
With road reconstruction, the contractor mills out 7 inches of the existing pavement down to the ground. Cement is mixed with the dirt to create a road base and is cured for five days. An intermediate layer of asphalt is put down. Then boxes and manholes are cut into the asphalt and a top layer is installed.
The city's Asphalt Resurfacing and Reconstruction Program is a yearly project to rebuild or repave roads. The city evaluates the roads in the spring and selects the worst ones based on a rating system.
The city of Hudson utilizes the Ohio Department of Transportation Pavement Condition Rating System to rate the streets from 1 to 100 with 100 the best. The city attempts to rate all asphalt streets every two years. Most streets in the city that are scheduled to be resurfaced or reconstructed fall within a range of a 30-55 rating. Streets with the worst ratings are placed at the top of the list.
Residents are notified before work begins if their street is involved in the project. For questions, call the engineering department at 330-342-1770 during business hours.
Roads scheduled for resurfacing in 2014 include:
College Street from Aurora Street to East Prospect Street; Darrow Road from southern border to south of Corporate Parkway; East Sapphire Drive from Norton Road to the cul-de-sac; North Main Street patching from state Route 303 to High Street; Red Fox Trail from Woodbridge Road to #7713; and Topaz Drive from Sapphire Drive to cul-de-sac.
Roads to be reconstructed involve Alsace Court from Weston to cul-de-sac; Deacon Court from Weston to cul-de-sac; Hemingway Court from Weston to cul-de-sac; Independence Drive from state Route 303 to Jamestown Court; Inverness Court from Heather Lane to cul-de-sac; Jamestown Court from Nicholson Drive to cul-de-sac; Lauren Drive from Londonairy Blvd. to cul-de-sac; Longfellow Lane from Weston Drive to cul-de-sac; Nicholson Drive from West Streetsboro Street to Leslie Drive; Paderbourne Drive from curbed area to south of #6191; Patriot Court from Independence Drive to cul-de-sac; Pickerington Way from Paderbourne Drive to end of roadway; Southwick Court from Londonairy Blvd. to cul-de-sac; Thackery Lane from Hammontree Drive to new pavement; Union Drive from Nicholson Drive to new pavement; Virginia Court from Virginia Drive to cul-de-sac; Virginia Drive from Williamsburg Circle to Nicholson Drive; Weston Drive from Norton Road to Alsace Court; and Westchester Court from Weston Drive to cul-de-sac.
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NATION/Lucas Barasa - The government wants to pay a whopping Sh125 billion for the controversial Anglo-Leasing projects.
This, says Attorney-General Githu Muigai, will enable it to borrow money for day-to-day operations.
Prof Muigai told the Budget and Appropriations committee that this was the only way Kenya could access cheap money from abroad.
He said the money should be paid quickly to avoid accruing high interest.
The committee is headed by the Rev Mutava Musyimi ."The payments need to be made, if not they will attract high interest. The assets of Kenya may also be impounded," the Rev Musyimi quoted the AG as having told his committee on Tuesday.
The payments, the Mbeere South MP said, would also enable the government to access cheap money from overseas through sovereign bonds.
"It would be difficult to access this money if we have this thing hanging on our neck," the Rev Musyimi said.
Asked on Wednesday why the Anglo-Leasing contracts have to be paid, Prof Muigai said it had to be done because the country kept on losing the cases.
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At Howland, Molly McGinn posted 14 points, seven rebounds and three assists to lead the Howlers to their third win in a row.
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October 28th, 2016
Held in the once infamous submarine base of Bordeaux, the electro concert organized by iBoat shook the city with basses. We were there, and gave the keys to our interactive video projection "Gravity" to the partygoers
Bordeaux Cité du Vin
June 1st, 2016
Back in may 2015, we were awarded a contract for producing "lot 6 " for the Cité du Vin in Bordeaux. While our group mates from Grand Angle Production + Moving Stars handled all the videos in the project, we were responsible for developing as many as 35 interactive applications of the Permanent Tour exhibition, upon a design by London-based agency Casson Mann.
Textopolis @ base sous-marine in Bordeaux
September 18th, 2015
"Petite Poucette", an artistic, digital journey through Amiens city
April 20th, 2015
In the framework of "Connexions" event organized by the Conseil Régional of Picardie, the studio was chosen for its artistic project named "Petite Poucette" after the book by french philosopher Michel Serres. A series of connected installations has occupied a neighborhood of Amiens during 3 days.
Murmur Whispers
February 14th, 2015
Murmur Whispers is an interactive performance based on Murmur that was custom made for the ALB 's show at the "Victoires de la musique 2015". 2Roqs developed the technical aspects while Chevalvert worked on the art direction.
Publication in "Interactive design - Panorama of french realisations 2015"
December 29th, 2014
Identified as one amongst the 21 french agencies that pioneered the interactive design, 2Roqs studio appears in the book
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"Design d'interaction - Panorama des réalisations françaises 2015" ("Interactive design - Panorama of french realizations 2015") published by the association *designers interactifs*.
Internet of things
November 15th, 2014
This workshop took place from 5th to the 7th of November 2014 at Bordeaux University III. It was organized as part of the Master Pro Design course in which students' research focused on the creation of services to help senior citizens gain better living conditions in a retirement home.
October 17th, 2014
The "tricodeur" is a project dedicated to the hacking of a knitting machine in order to explore stitch design with computer programming techniques. This project is the result of a collaboration between 2Roqs, Louis Eveillard, searcher at EnsadLab, and Sew&Laine, a Bordeaux textile-related association.
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August 22nd, 2014
We teamed up with Studio Dada to develop Château Calon-Ségur's website / Recently Murmur was in Rio for the FILE festival after winning a gold prize at European Design Awards / Projects were featured in Etapes Magazine #220 and in the book Type Spaces - Typography in three-dimensional spaces / Our augmented reality app Cordier Vintaged Collection Box was updated / Michaël Zancan is pursuing his 3D exploration of paintings with Enter : Canvas /
Augmented Postcards at Cap Ferret's Lighthouse
May 20th, 2014
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- Composer: James Parry (1841 - 1903)
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You can download the free MP3 recording of Aberystwyth for use in Worship by clicking on the Download arrow next to the recording(s), this can then be burned to a CD or used from a computer, in an MP3 player or IPod & etc..
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A barn fire over the weekend at a Pennsylvania dairy killed four animals and destroyed part of a barn.
According to The Danville News, owner Tim Baumert was able to call fire crews immediately once the fire started. It took fire crews from seven stations around two hours to control the fire.
Despite their efforts, part of the barn was destroyed and four of the dairy's animals killed.
Baumert believes that hay likely ignited, causing the fire. He believes that hay stacked in the barn warmed up and went through a heat cycle.
"All it takes is one bale and poof, it's gone," he said
This summer has been especially disastrous for dairies in both the U.S. and Canada. In July, barn fires killed more than 231 animals in Vermont, Wisconsin and Ontario, Canada.


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I am starting Beta test of the Update that can update Miranda core automatically.
If you would like to try get it here: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B8e...ERTNDB0VVl5bEE
It works good :) But is there a way to make the changelog button working?
Does it only notify for the stable builds or also for alpha/beta builds?
borkra, did you also add support for the custom langpacks?
Updated from 9.49 to 9.52 flawlessly; though the IEView avatar problem is still there. Going back to 9.49, hehe.
First - thanks for your awesome work :) but it will be better if we could select, what exactly will be used from the miranda-updatepackage. It overwrites everything without asking and installs addons which I dont use.


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Farrah Abraham Moves On From Sex Tape To Pole Dancing Exercise Video For New Moms
- It's not enough that Farrah Abraham has got a sex tape with James Deen. She just so happened to take a stripper pole dance class and a photographer just so happened to be there snapping pics. Apparently it's to promotoe a pole-dancing exercise video she wants to do for new moms. [TMZ]
- Did you catch last week's episode of "The Real Housewives Of Orange County" when Tamra Barney called her husband a racial slur for Mexicans? [Feministing]
- The soundtrack from Baz Luhrmann's "The Great Gatsby" is streaming on NPR and it's dope. You. Must. Listen. [NPR]
- How to put a man in his place like Olivia Pope on "Scandal." [Cosmopolitan]
- Comedienne Margaret Cho on "outing" gay celebs. [Huffington Post]
- 11 reasons to actually like Kim Kardashian, according to this blogger's adorable, happily married, 52-year-old father. [PopDust]
- Rihanna's RiRi Woo lipstick collab with MAC sold out in three hours. [Racked]
- What we talk about when we talk about hating Zach Braff and "Garden State." [NYmag.com]
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The Las Vegas pool scene is getting splashier all the time.It wasn't long ago that it was dominated by toddlers wearing inflatable floatation devices and teenagers doing their splashiest cannonballs next to your rickety metal lounger. But over the last five years, Vegas resorts have created an adult oasis of glamorous pools and beach clubs that rival most of America's actual beach resorts. From the margarita-induced chicken fight of the Hard Rock Hotel to the beach club of Mandalay Bay, here are our picks for summer's best poolside hotspots. WET Republic
Where: MGM Grand
When to Go: Weekend concert series New for 2008, MGM Grand's ( MGM) Wet Republic is Vegas' most ambitious poolside social scene to date. The pool lounge is an adults-only outdoor sanctuary. It's equipped with two salt-water pools surrounded by extravagant waterfalls and a sexy ultra-lounge featuring amateur go-go booths and a white marble-topped bar. It also boasts VIP amenities such as private cabanas, Veuve Clicquot snowcones and Red Bull vodka popsicles. Guests sprawl out on a deck of teak loungers or in VIP bungalows and cabanas offering oversize daybeds, plasma TVs and sheer drapery for extra privacy. There's also a tanning ledge within the pool that ensures an all-day shimmer for those booking one of the water loungers. A stage area hosts a summer concert series by revolving DJs and pop artists. Moorea Beach Club and Ultra Lounge
Where: Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino
When to Go: Midweek afternoons It's Vegas' version of the South of France. On a concrete terrace off Mandalay Bay's wave pool, this beach club offers Tahitian styling for long afternoons in the desert sun. With a never-ending beat of electronic dance music, a bustling lounge offers minimalist décor, low-flung red loungers and a be-seen crowd of well-sculpted singles pounding high-end mixes of Grey Goose. Moorea Beach Club offers all-day revolving DJs and cocktail service by one of Vegas' sexiest pool staffs. Tao Beach
Where: Venetian Hotel and Casino
When to Go: Sunset session on Sundays from 5 p.m. Buddha meets bikinis at the rooftop pool and lounge spinoff of Venetian's Tao. The adult-theme pool complex includes a full-service restaurant, VIP Lounge and outside terrace with strip views. A smaller-than-expected pool is surrounded by stylish wooden loungers of sprawling singles in colorful board shorts and string bikinis.
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Where: Mirage Hotel and Casino
When to Go: Best on weekends Vegas' only pool scene operated by an actual nightclub, Bare is a pool lounge and "beach" club by Light Group -- owners of Bank and Caramel Lounge. The intimate pool and lounge deliver a tropical vibe of towering palm trees, orangey fabrics and teak cabanas that mix Asian and South Florida design. A crowd of Mirage guests and bikini-clad goddesses descend on the pool lounge for all-day DJ mixes from 11 a.m. till 7 p.m.


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Home Made Gun PlansFebruary 23rd, 2011
Jun 17, 2010 .22 Caliber Gatling Gun Prints and Plans (PDF 6.07M) Colt 1900 Homemade .22 Pen Gun! – Video. A DIY Submachine gun. A reader emailed me these photos of a homemade submachine gun built by man in Romania from the plans of Luty's infamous book. Sep 16, 2007 Some home-movies of ppl shooting barbaric their machine guns. From time to time, members here inquire about plans for rifle racks. Don't make a silencer without reading this first. Homemade submachine gun plans are available on the net for around 8 bucks. According to this plan you can build one for under 30 dollars.
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- This site provides many detailed plans and instructions on how to build your own machine gun (many different versions), pistol, and zip guns.
- The Making of a Homemade Zip Gun: Most Zip Guns are simple to make.
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Our Mother's Thoughts
The Poems of Miriam Wagenhals
de With The Photography of Her Son, Joseph Wagenhals
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Miriam Wagenhals loved God, her family, her friends and life. Her gift of being able to express those feelings with the written word as poetry is before you in the remaining pages. Only a person who truly loved life could express it well as in "LOVING THOUGHTS". Too, her wit and candor shows in the "LIFE'S LESSONS " pages with some humor and light hearted expressions and then some serious thought provoking poems that will make you think and reflect. The pages "TO THE GLORY OF GOD" echo our mother's true love of God and her faith in his loving presence. Her compassion and feelings for the sorrow, hurt, and uncertainties felt by others is shown in "REFLECTIONS" as many of the pieces there were tributes to those who were going or called away.
Her husband Joseph and three sons Joe, Jerry and John were the love and purpose she exhibited throughout her life. Mother kept and shared her poems with others by writing some as tribute to friends who were sick, moving away or retiring and for those who lost loved ones.
My gift to my mother is to offer her poems with the God given talent I have received in the photographs that accompany mother's thoughts.
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Vertical estándar, 20×25 cm
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- Fecha de publicación feb. 06, 2008
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I am retired from teaching in Public Education but still teaching Photography, and computer graphics with classes in Photoshop and Elements. I also work in the travel industry coordinating group trips and organizing/teaching photography workshops. The books that I have published reflect my vision of God's daily gifts of light, shadows and things that surround me and provide a way for me to express my thoughts.
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Back when Microsoft bought aQuantive in order to get its hands on Atlas and other technologies the software giant also picked up the ad agency Avenue A/Razorfish.
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Microsoft are hoping for as much as $700m for Razorfish. The aQuantive deal was huge and set Microsoft back a staggering $6b but nevertheless, getting a full $700m back for the advertising agency bit isn't bad.
That's if they manage to get that much. The sale of Razorfish has been long rumoured. Back in October 08 we saw headlines like Razorfish buys Wysiwyg – WPP denies it's buying Razorfish.
In fact, back in 2007 we saw the Tribbble Ad Agency run articles like Avenue A | Razorfish employees get screwed by Microsoft. That article had the brilliant quote from an anonymous employee.
"If they are not going to treat us like Microsoft Employees, then what's the point of working for Microsoft"
Razorfish has huge clients. People like Kraft, Coca-Cola and Disney. People are talking up either WPP or Publicis as buyers. Heck; people are even discussing Omnicom as a potential buyer but as PepsiCo is an important client for Omnicom I suspect there may be an issue there.
My money is currently on Publicis simply because they recently announced a partnership/joint venture with Microsoft last week (which sparked thoughts of a Razorfish sale in my mind then; as I'm sure it did for other people too).
Razorfish didn't simply design the Bing logo. It is a healthy part of the impressive advertising campaign for Microsoft's decision engine.
I doubt the sale of Razorfish will impact Bing at all. If anything it removes conflict of interest concerns. People didn't like Google owning the advertising agency bits of DoubleClick but I suspect too few people in the Search Industry knew to trace Razorfish back to Microsoft.
Who bought the advertising agency bits of DoubleClick from Google? It was Publicis.


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Eric Taylor is one of Canada's newest up and coming alternative rock projects. Eric's strength in songwriting has found him an audience with Grammy Award winning producer Garth Richardson (RATM, RHCP, Rise Against) and a project at his personal studio resulting in the first single from his debut album "Dreams in Colour" titled "Caught Me". This track was selected alongside the best music in Saskatchewan for SaskMusic's 2015 InTune compilation CD. Eric then won $10,000 through the province-wide Rawlco Radio 10K20 contest to produce the rest of his debut EP released officially on May 23rd 2016. Eric was selected to play alongside Canada's best at the 2016 Regina Folk Festival and has been featured on multiple local news outlets including CTV Regina and Saskatoon Morning Live and Global Regina. Eric has been featured on CBC Radio 1 Saskatchewan Weekend twice as well as Rock 102FM, CFCR and CJTR. Eric has made it to the regional top ten of the CBC Searchlight Contest twice. Eric draws from a strong music community in Saskatchewan and attends every workshop seminar and conference that is available to him. He continues to work hard at his craft and strives to be Canada's newest success story.
Eric Taylor's music video for 'Dreams in Colour'.
Shot by Eric and his friend Jarred Aasen while adventuring the West Coast of North America.
Eric Taylor's music video for 'Big Night' Produced by Souldatta Productions
Big thanks to all of the actors and extras that helped us out with this project! I love you guys!
Eric Taylor's music video for 'Caught Me'.
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Asda pledges to source an additional £30m produce from African farmers (At Brown's millennium goals summit)
Andy Bond, President and CEO of ASDA will today (Tuesday 6th May) pledge to source an additional £30 million worth of fresh produce from African farmers over the next five years at the Africa Millennium Goals Summit hosted by Prime Minister, Gordon Brown.
ASDA's announcement marks a significant step change in the way the supermarket procures fresh produce from the African continent, creating sustained employment with trading partners in South Africa, Kenya, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Ghana and Burkino Faso.
As part of its pledge, the retailer will increase the amount of Kenyan flowers it sources by 20% by the end of 2008. It will also purchase significantly more bananas, citrus fruits, mangoes, and avocadoes from African farms.
Bond is one of 80 industry leaders, including CEOs of leading global companies, senior ministers from the UK and leaders of global business associations, who are involved in the 'call to action' to help develop trade in Africa.
The debate, facilitated by Zeinab Badawi from BBC World, will focus on various new initiatives companies are undertaking to help reach the United Nation's Millennium development goals.
Andy Bond, ASDA CEO commented:
"We are integrating Africa more and more into our business plans in order to increase trade with the Continent. Our pledge of an extra £30 million investment in fresh produce will help cement long-term relationships with African farmers and growers.
"We don't claim to have all the answers, but we believe signing the Millennium Development Pledge is an important step. Whilst the vast majority of our produce will always be sourced locally, as a major UK retailer we can help address poverty in Africa through the procurement of more of its goods. This in turn will provide much needed jobs and opportunities for thousands of people across the Continent."


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Missions beat RockHounds 4-1
Published 11:44 pm, Thursday, April 17, 2014
Missions 4,
Midland 1
MIDLAND — Devin Jones bobbed and weaved through early trouble on the mound, but the Missions used the long ball and strong relief to capture the series opener Thursday night in front of 5,228 at Security Bank Ballpark.
Jones stranded the bases loaded in the opening inning and left two runners in the next frame before settling down and working a total of five innings.
Three Missions relievers combined on four innings of one-hit ball with seven strikeouts. Johnny Barbato notched his Texas League-leading fifth save.
Jason Hagerty, who started the season on the DL, homered in his 2014 debut for San Antonio while Bridger Hunt added a two-run shot.
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Notebook: Reliever Jeff Ibarra was placed on the DL (hamstring) to make room for Hagerty. ... INF Cory Spangenberg did not play Thursday. He is suffering concussion-like symptoms stemming from Tuesday when he was briefly shaken up after sliding into second base.
Next up: Missions (RHP Justin Hancock, 1-1, 3.60) @Midland (RHP Paul Alcantara, 2-0, 1.23), 7 p.m. today
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The badly damaged Christ Church Cathedral in New Zealand will be pulled down, it has been announced.
Bishop Victoria Matthews (pictured below) confirmed the decision for Christchurch's icon at a press conference yesterday.
The cathedral was badly damaged during last February's earthquake, which killed 185 people.
Bishop Matthews said the building would be deconstructed down to a level of two to three metres so heritage items could be removed and stored until decisions about a new cathedral were confirmed.
''There will be no bulldozers or wrecking balls on the job,'' she said.
''We acknowledge the high level of community interest and sense of ownership as the cathedral was both an iconic building and a place of regular worship by many.
''However, this is now a very dangerous building that needs to be made safe.''
City councillor Aaron Keown has already threatened to chain himself to the cathedral to prevent any demolition.
''I would be in there chaining myself to the building to stop that and I know lots of other volunteers would come in to do that. Forget Lucy Lawless' little eight-person campaign, this would be a big one,'' he said. ''We'd form a ring around the building and not let them in. It shouldn't even be a discussion.''


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Flaw / Potential Security Issue with WordPress User Front End
Users who are not permitted to publish or edit published posts can, infact view and edit published posts via the WPUF dashboard.
If WPUF is configured so that new posts are submitted as pending, then posts are not published until an admin approves the content and publishes the posts from the wp backend. However, once the post has been published the person who initially submitted the post can view, edit, and delete the post via the WPUF dashboard and, potentially, replace all of the content with unapproved content before an admin has an opportunity see it. This is the case even if the user has not been granted capabilities to publish or edit published posts. This creates a liability that undoubtedly prevents many from being able to use the plugin.
The posts that appear in the WPUF dashboard should be determined by the capabilities that have been granted to the user.
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MOUNT GILEAD, Ohio (AP) -- Hanna, Hayes and Ryan Bentley have been looking forward to this birthday for years. The Ohio triplets are turning 12 on 12/12/12.
The Mansfield News Journal (http://ohne.ws/YZrdVR ) reports that the trio of Mount Gilead sixth-graders didn't know what their parents have in store for their special birthday Wednesday. But they know they'll be making a weekend trip to a resort in Sandusky to celebrate this weekend.
The triplets were born Dec. 12, 2000, at The Ohio State Medical Center in Columbus. They have a younger brother who's 6.
Hanna said she's "always been looking forward to this birthday and how cool it is."
Their mother, Traci Bentley, said they've been anticipating the landmark birthday since they read a newspaper story about a boy turning 10 on 10/10/10.
Information from: News Journal, http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com


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University of Wisconsin Stout | Wisconsin's Polytechnic University
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At UW-Stout, Wisconsin's Polytechnic University, we are inspiring innovation.
At UW-Stout, Wisconsin's Polytechnic University, we are inspiring innovation.
Under the auspices of the Menomonie Public Schools, James Huff Stout funded various educational enterprises. In 1891, manual training and domestic science training was introduced through the Stout Manual Training School. 1894 brought the introduction of kindergarten classes. In 1899, the Kindergarten Training School began to prepare kindergarten teachers. A School of Physical Culture opened in 1901, which provided physical training. In 1903, training schools for manual training teachers and domestic science teachers were added. By 1907, a Homemaker's School had opened and a trade school was planned.
To simplify administration and clarify ownership of and responsibility for the various public and Stout Training Schools, The Stout Institute was formed in 1908. The institute was designed to "provide facilities in the way of buildings, equipment, and teachers, through which young people of both sexes may secure such instruction and training in industrial and related lines of educational effort as will enable them to become efficient industrial, social, and economic units within their environment." In 1911, following Senator Stout's death, ownership transferred to the State of Wisconsin.
The Stout Institute Board of Trustees was abolished, and the institution came under the jurisdiction of the Board of Regents of the State Colleges, a move that the institute board resisted, fearing a loss of prestige from being a special college. In retrospect, joining the "League," as President Fryklund expressed it, proved to be a distinct advantage to the school and its faculty.
The name change was authorized by the Board of Regents who believed that the "state colleges had reached another plateau in their development." Increased enrollment brought new and enlarged facilities. A traditional focus was maintained even while new majors were added and new directions were given to established majors.
The Wisconsin State Universities and the University of Wisconsin campuses merged to form the University of Wisconsin System. Stout was designated by the Board of Regents as one of only two special mission universities in the UW System. Stout was to offer focused programs "related to professional careers in industry, technology, home economics, applied art and the helping professions." In March 2007, UW-Stout was designated "Wisconsin's Polytechnic University" by the UW System Board of Regents.
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Fayette County Officials Will See If They Can Save Troubled Nursing Home
Fayette County Commissioners plan to meet Tuesday to see what they can do to save Carlton Manor.
Last week, the state says it found numerous issues and proposed revoking its license.
"Some of the people I take care, I've known forever", says Shiloh Raypole a Nursing Assistant at The Manor.
It's a job she'll lose next month, if the state shuts it down.
"Morale has gone down - residents are upset", she says
The Ohio Department of Health says the health and safety of residents are at risk.
Investigators say there were reports of sexual assaults and abuse in the home, but workers say those claims were never substantiated.
"I feel like there's a huge misconception about the whole place", she says.
That's why one of the nurses started a Facebook page called "Save the Manor."
She asked 10TV not reveal her identity because she still works here.
"This site was designed to let them hear the other side of the story," she says.
The other story, she says, is the unique care this nursing home provides - something she says is rare in Ohio.
"These are people that no one is willing to take care of, she says because many suffer from psychiatric problems and some are sex offenders.
What's next for Carlton Manor is to appeal the state's decision, workers here say what forced this facility to close wasn't about the level of care-- it was about the lack of financial support from the former property owner.
"I've seen a group of people who did everything in their power to change but didn't have the support to do it," says a nurse who asked reveal her identity
As for people like Shilo Raypole, she wants to one thing.
"Why can't somebody help us?" she says.
She says she can't imagine not coming to work here. Here she says, people aren't just residents…
"They're your family," says Raypole.
Last week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) told Carlton that they are terminating the provider agreement and will no longer reimburse for Medicare or Medicaid residents after February 16 on the federal level. Also last week, the Ohio Department of Health proposed to revoke the facility's license on the state level.
These actions come after months of very serious and repeated violations of state rules and federal regulations for nursing facilities.
There is a relocation team made up of multiple state agencies working to ensure that residents can choose a new facility that provides the level of care they deserve.


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Attack of the 'art house'
Sanjay Gupta's White Feather Films branches out to a banner meant for independent, experimental, "art house" cinema with two films, The Great Indian Butterfly and Pankh. Both films, under the banner of White Feather Arthouse Films, have been directed by debutants and are unlike anything that Gupta has produced before. As producer, Gupta has never really been a maverick. His own films, such as Kaante (2002), Zinda (2006) and Acid Factory (2009), have been similar in look and treatment—he manufactures cosmetic grunge, a poor imitation of Tarantino-esque visual flair.
The Great Indian Butterfly and Pankh are different, though not necessarily better. The first, directed by Sarthak Dasgupta, is a marital drama—an urban Indian marriage in the throes of a meltdown—set partly on the road, and partly in Goa. He finally ties the conflicts between the two into a neat knot, with a pseudo-philosophical end (a message). The second is an awkward, indulgent and symbolism-ridden story of a child artiste's thorny voyage to self-discovery.
The Great Indian Butterfly
The mythical butterfly in question is mentioned in the Mahabharat. It's said to be fluttering somewhere in the wild of the Cardiguez valley in Goa. It's the harbinger of peace, something that the two protagonists of the film, Meera (Sandhya Mridul) and Krish (Aamir Bashir), are frenetically in search of.
From the first scene, we realize it's a marriage going sour. Both are busy professionals mired in the highs and lows of a successful profession—the writer-director is convinced that being an ambitious professional is an antidote to personal happiness, the road to madness. The office is the demon that hovers around Meera and Krish as they drive to Goa for a holiday.
Two's not company: Bashir and Mridul play the stressed couple in The Great Indian Butterfly.
The?journey is punctuated?by bursts of anger and bitter verbal attacks which are supposed to reveal their dissatisfaction with each other. "You will never understand me", is almost a verbal refrain in the script.
The story does have a ring of truth. There are scenes and moments in the film that ooze genuine existential tension. There is a Meera and a Krish that we all perhaps know—the director certainly does. But despite the verisimilitude (only for young, urban audiences), the story doesn't hold up.
The film is entirely in English, and some of the dialogues sound contrived in the attempt to be conversational. To begin with, there are too many dialogues—Meera and Krish talk, talk and talk more; there is no respite. When a writer depends entirely on dialogues to propel the plot and convey emotions, the film is bound to put the viewer off—perhaps even insult him. The film has little of that great tool which works wonderfully in enhancing the interpretation of urban existential issues—humour.
Mridul overemphasizes the weaknesses of Meera, who is anyway a bundle of frazzled nerves, as if to make the audience understand her better. The woman is ultimately shown to be the bane of this relationship, but it turns out to be an overacted role.
Bashir is awkward and restrained in turns. The story of the couple is intercut by monologues and soliloquies of a white man (Barry John) who seems to know a great deal about the butterfly.
The Great Indian Butterfly has honesty; the director's only strength is his engagement with his characters. He stays with them and tries very hard to make them believable, but unfortunately, they end up creating more noise than beauty.
Sudipto Chattopadhyay's Pankh, and Gupta's second art-house offering this week, is a difficult film to explain. The story is about a child artiste in Mumbai's film world whose mother, a failed actor, forces him to play roles of little girls. The mother (Lilette Dubey) is hopeful that one day, her son Jerry (Maradona Rebello) will become a superstar. But Jerry's psyche is scarred beyond repair. He talks to turtles. He talks to a fantasy—the apparition of a famous film star named Nandini (Bipasha Basu).
Chattopadhyay is trying to say too much and do too much in his debut film—most of it driven by faux intellectual drivel and a servile love of everything "European artsy". He uses trite symbolism (a scene of Jerry's altercation with his mother is followed by a black and white scene of Jesus stumbling across a barren forest with a huge cross on his shoulders) and non-linear, jarring storytelling. There are biblical references, references to the Oedipus complex, even Shakespeare. In a moment of extreme empathy, a film director quotes King Lear to describe Jerry: "He is more sinned against than sinning." I laughed out loud.
Other-worldly: Basu is an elaborately-styled fantasy in Pankh.
Basu appears in nine avatars styled elaborately—gawdy, feathery costumes, fiery red lipstick and clunky jewellery that looks like metal gear.
It's easy to react strongly to a film like Pankh simply because it does not facilitate a critique—it begs to be taken seriously, but fails to engage. Often the most difficult job of a film-maker is to forget who he is to make the story breathe and live on screen. Chattopadhyay is too absorbed in movie textbooks to be a real film-maker.
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