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I'm busy with a real differential pre-amp design. In fact four amplifier stages. one plus and one minus per channel.
If I fed a real balanced signaal through those stages, the real common mode happen at the poweramplifier side and not in the pre-amp.
I want to have a common mode already at the input of my pre amplifer. So what to do. I don't want a opamp in the input that's makes the signal unbalanced to make it balanced later. So I was thinking about (for example) a Jensen input tranformer direct after the balanced input, direct followed by the amplifer stages.
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Local renters finally got a dose of good news Tuesday -- there were more new rental units under construction last year than in any year since the late 1980s.
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC) said in its 2010 year-end housing-starts report released Tuesday construction began on 807 rental units in the Winnipeg Census Metropolitan Area (CMA).
Dianne Himbeault, the corporation's senior market analyst for Manitoba, said that's the highest yearly total since 1988, when CMHC began keeping electronic records.
"More than half of the multi-family starts in 2010 were for the rental market," she said, "(which is) good news for Winnipeg renters who are facing a vacancy rate that has dipped below one per cent."
CMHC reported last month Winnipeg's overall apartment vacancy rate had fallen to its lowest level on record -- 0.8 per cent -- from 1.1 per cent a year earlier.
Although 807 more units won't have a big impact on the overall vacancy rate -- Winnipeg has more than 52,000 units in its rental apartment universe -- it's a clear sign developers recognize the need for more apartments and are more willing to build them.
The only other times in the last 22 years Winnipeg saw anywhere close to that many rental starts were 2006 (619) and 2007 (803).
Local developers and property managers have long complained decades of rent controls have discouraged new apartment construction because they've kept rents in existing apartments artificially low. They've said that in an era of soaring construction costs, it's hard to keep rents for new suites low enough to compete with existing ones, which increases the risk of them sitting vacant after they're built.
But a spokesman for one of the most active apartment developers in the city -- B.C.-based Broadstreet Properties Ltd. -- said it's had no trouble finding tenants for most of the 957 new units it has built over the last three or four years.
"We're fully rented right now in all of our existing properties," said Broadstreet vice-president Bill Thomson, including its 172-unit East Concordia Manor complex that was competed last year.
He admitted leasing activity at its newest project -- the five-building, 957-unit Creekside Terrace development in Sage Creek -- is going a little slower than expected. But he attributed that to people being reluctant to move in the winter.
Thomson said the company plans to continue building about 500 new rental apartments or townhouses per year for the foreseeable future.
"We'd like to get up to 3,500 (total units in the city)," he added. "We really like Winnipeg."
CMHC said local homebuilders sprinted to the finish line in 2010, banging out twice as many new housing starts last month as in December 2009 -- 263 compared to 126. The 807 rental units were among 1,323 new multi-family units started last year in the Winnipeg CMA. That was two and a half times the number started in 2009. That, coupled with a 27.6 per cent jump in single-family starts, boosted total starts for the year by 60 per cent to 3,244 units -- the highest yearly total since 2007's 3,371.
Manitoba's 2010 numbers were even more impressive. Its seven largest urban centres combined had the highest annual number of total starts (3,966) and multi-family starts (1,644) since 1988. They also had the second highest number of single-detached starts (2,322).
"It was an excellent year. Everybody was busy... " said Manitoba Home Builders Association president Mike Moore.
A look at CMHC's housing-starts report
Key numbers from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp.'s December and 2010 year-end housing-starts report:
Winnipeg Census Metropolitan Area*:
263: total starts in December
108.7: percentage increase from December 2009's total of 124
143: number of single-detached starts
15.3: percentage increase from a year earlier, when there were 124
120: number of multi-family starts
2: number in December 2009
3,244: total starts for 2010
59.6: percentage increase from 2009's 2,033
1,921: number of single-detached starts
27.6: percentage increase from 2009's 1,505
1,323: number of multi-family starts
150.6: percentage increase from 2009's 528
Manitoba urban starts**
3,966: total starts in 2010
42.2: percentage increase from 2009's 2,789
2,322: number of single starts
23.9: percentage gain from 2009's 1,874
1,644: number of multi-starts
79.7: percentage increase from 2009's 915
Canada's urban starts:
171,500: seasonally adjusted annual rate of housing starts in December
13.5: percentage decline from November's seasonally adjusted rate of 198,200
* Winnipeg and 10 surrounding municipalities
** Total starts in Manitoba's seven largest urban areas: Winnipeg, Brandon, Portage la Prairie, Thompson, Steinbach, St. Andrews and Hanover.


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It was the Henriques and Hazlewood show at Manuka Oval as NSW moved into a totally dominant position in the Sheffield Shield final in Canberra.
Only a miracle will save Western Australia after the Warriors were reduced to a ''train wreck'' at 4-15 in reply to the Blues' first innings of 447 after the second day on Saturday.
Blues all-rounder Moises Henriques crafted a magnificent knock of 140 before lanky fast bowler Josh Hazlewood claimed three wickets, including two off the first two balls of the WA innings, and a run-out to leave NSW on the brink of its first Shield title since 2007-08.
Hazlewood's heroics at the end of the day when he was on a hat-trick should not diminish the performance of Henriques, who played superbly on his way to his third first-class century.
It was his first Shield game since November after he spent the past seven weeks with the Australian Test team in South Africa, staying in touch with net sessions facing fringe bowlers Jackson Bird and James Pattinson.
"It hasn't quite sunk in yet, still caught up in the emotion of trying to win this game and what we need to do,'' Henriques said.
"We knew we wanted the intent of scoring runs rather than just try to bat time.
"It's one of the best centuries I've made – in a Shield final as well it's a great feeling – but it doesn't really mean anything if we don't come out tomorrow and tick the boxes we need to tick.''
After watching the Blues bat for more than 168 overs and almost 11 hours, the Canberra crowd of 3232 was brought to life as Hazlewood livened up the party.
He knocked over Cameron Bancroft and Marcus Harris for golden ducks with the first two balls, Adam Voges in his second over and threw down the stumps to leave Marcus North short of his ground.
"I don't think anyone else needed to be on the field. He took three wickets then the direct hit run-out; he was on fire,'' Henriques said.
"He had a chance to steam in and not worry about being on the field for too long, and he did that brilliantly.''
Hazlewood used the swing with the new ball to perfection and could not believe his luck when his throw to get rid of North was on target.
"We were only out there for 10 minutes so I was still pretty fresh,'' Hazlewood said.
"Probably wouldn't have got that run-out if it was tomorrow or the next day.
"We've got to attack early and knock them over because once the batter gets in, it's quite hard to get them out.''
WA coach Justin Langer did his best to remain positive with Test batsman Shaun Marsh and younger brother Mitch at the crease.
However, it was impossible to disguise his disappointment after the Warriors were all but wiped out of the contest.
"It was a pretty painful day, probably couldn't have had a worse day,'' Langer said.
"How do you explain the last half an hour? It was a bit of a train wreck.
"There's still hope. I've been around long enough to know funny things can happen in five-day cricket, and it's a very flat wicket.''
Henriques played with plenty of patience after helping rescue NSW from 6-189 on the opening day on Friday.
He received great support from the Blues' tailenders on a slow and dry pitch.
Stephen O'Keefe (41), Trent Copeland (35) and Nathan Lyon (36 not out) all made substantial contributions to push the Warriors out of the contest.


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Recently I had the opportunity to send 5 questions to Karine Walther about her new book Sacred Interests: The United States and the Islamic World, 1821-1921. Karine is an Assistant Professor of History at Georgetown Univeristy's School of Foreign Service in Qatar and fellow participant in the Religion and US Empire Seminar. She holds a PhD in history from Columbia University, a Maîtrise and Licence in Sociology from the University of Paris VIII and a BA in American Studies from the University of Texas, Austin. She is currently working on her next manuscript, entitled The American Mission: God, Oil and Modernity in the Arabian Gulf, 1889-1950, which is also under contract with UNC Press and you'll get a chance to read about below.
1. Sacred Interests draws attention to long-standing interactions between the United States and Islamic nations and territories. You focus on the history of American Islamophobia and how it has affected U.S. foreign policy. Can you explain this central idea?
Whether we like it or not, in the last few decades, many of us who work on American relations with the Middle East and other Muslim-majority areas have had to "talk back" to Samuel Huntington's influential, yet controversial theory of a "Clash of Civilizations," which he first published as an article in 1993. According to Huntington, international relations in the post-Cold War world would be driven by this alleged "Clash of Civilizations" between a simplistically defined "Islamic Civilization" against an equally simplistic construction of the "West," broadly understood as Euro-American civilization.
As a graduate student in New York City witnessing the American response to 9/11, I was particularly struck by how Huntington's arguments rose to prominence both in public discourse, and even amongst some academics. Indeed, the Bush administration's "Global War on Terror" borrowed heavily from such theories to explain its emerging ideological conceptualizations. And yet, having previously worked on the history of European Orientalism, I was struck by how much Huntington's theory – and much of the public discourse that emerged after 9/11, recalled so powerfully nineteenth century Orientalist tropes about the Islamic world.
In my first year of graduate coursework, we had also been asked to read Daniel Rodgers brilliant study, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age, which analyzes the intellectual and cultural exchanges between Europe and the United States in the period between 1870 and 1945. As a result, I put these two intellectual currents together to think about how ideas about Islam had "crossed the Atlantic," to shape American understandings of the Islamic world. What I realized in researching this topic, however, was that although Europeans played an important role in shaping American ideas about the Islamic world, American attitudes about Islam and Muslims were also deeply shaped by its own historical contingencies and its understandings of domestic minorities.
For this reason, my work has also been deeply influenced by the "cultural turn" in American diplomatic history, which has led scholars to focus on how domestic ideas about gender, race, and to a more limited extent, religion, have shaped American foreign relations abroad. This new focus has also pushed scholars to examine the roles played by non-official actors, including American missionaries, religious organizations, academics, and business interests in shaping American foreign relations. As a result, in addition to understanding how European Orientalism(s) shaped American ideas about Islam and Muslims, my book engages with both official and non-official actors in thinking about the impact of domestic ideas about religion and race on American Islamophobia and American foreign relations in the long nineteenth century.
2. You trace a history from the Greek War of Independence to the establishment of the mandate system. How has this transnational and international history shaped American perceptions of the world and of the U.S. nation?
As I argue in the book, we must reinsert the United States within the larger global history of the nineteenth-century, including the global history of empire. Moreover, in order to understand the history of American Islamophobia, we must study the exchange of transnational discourses about Islam and Muslims between Americans, Europeans, and Islamic nations and territories themselves, while also recognizing the domestic particularities that distinguished American discourses from those of European powers.
In the past, many of the grand narratives of American history often advanced the idea of the United States as an exceptional nation, one that cannot be understood in relationship to the history of other nation-states. Until recently, many diplomatic historians have also emphasized the Monroe Doctrine's idea of non-interference in European affairs to define American foreign relations in the long nineteenth century. What I argue in the book is that this "isolationist" focus has blinded us to seeing the ways in which Americans understood their identity in ways that transcended the American nation-state, including a powerful affiliation with what many American Christians understood as the Christian "Family of Nations." Official insistence on neutrality, isolationism, or American exceptionalism, did not always function as a hegemonic, determinant forces in governing American actions abroad. Nonstate actors, including journalists, missionaries, religious activists, immigrants, philanthropists, academics, and other Americans contributed to important transatlantic activities that directly involved these individuals in diplomatic crises in Islamic lands. Mounting frustrations over lack of U.S. action also prompted official state actors to cooperate both overtly and covertly with private American interests in these areas. American foreign relations were thus complicated by messy ideological and religious sympathies that led both state and nonstate actors to circumvent official neutrality. In the process, the diverse actions of these state and nonstate actors led to discursive exchanges among these various groups as they worked, at times in parallel and at other times in concert, to shape American foreign relations.
At the same time, as I mentioned earlier, Americans' understandings of ethnic and civic nationalism, including who could and could not be incorporated into the nation-state, played a powerful role in shaping how Americans understood non-Christians both at home and abroad. In this way, American understandings of Islam and Muslims were shaped by their own historical circumstances that differed from those of Europe. With regards to its specific relationships with the Islamic world, we must also take into account that American missionaries were the largest group of Christian missionaries in the Ottoman Empire, far surpassing the number of European missionaries and diplomats in the Ottoman Empire. This also shaped American attitudes towards the Muslim world in distinct and important ways.
3. Since your work highlights the persistence of ideologies, and since the blog has often discussed these concepts (e.g. here and here), can you explain to readers how you conceptualized both "the Islamic World" and "America" for this project?
I'm so glad that you asked me this question, because this has been one of the most difficult and frustrating processes in coming up with a title that reflects the subject I cover in the book and that does not mimic the reductiveness of American Orientalist thought! The term "Islamic world," which I use in the title, is incredibly reductive and in many ways goes diametrically against the central arguments my book is trying to advance. What I argue in the book is that many Americans understood Muslims as similar across time and space, whether they were living in the Ottoman Empire, Morocco or the Philippines, despite the fact that these were very distinct societies. In the process, Americans who tried to conceptualize these areas as part of a homogeneous "Islamic world" ignored the historical, cultural and religious differences between and even within these very societies.
Even the term "Islamic society" is incredibly problematic because in many ways it ignores the important role non-Muslims played in areas such as the Ottoman Empire and Morocco, or the massive cultural, religious and ethnic differences that existed within these societies. Marshall Hodgson, the scholar of Islam, coined the term "Islamicate" to address these very limitations and to describe practices and beliefs that emerged from areas where Muslims were culturally dominant but not necessarily linked to the Islamic religion. Unfortunately, his term has not gained wide usage. My hope is that scholars who read the book will understand that my intent is not to reduce these societies to a homogeneous "Islamic world" entity, much to the contrary, but instead, to understand how Americans in the nineteenth century conceived of this societies and the misunderstandings this entailed.
Similarly, the term "American" is also incredibly reductive. Although I study Americans from many different segments of society, including missionaries, journalists, diplomats, etc., many of these actors were elites. As I argue in the book, many of the narratives advanced by these historical actors were strongly contested both at home and abroad. One of the reasons I included the actions of Jewish Americans in this book was also to counter grand narratives of American identity that sought to define the United States as a Christian nation.
4. This project focuses a great deal on U.S. foreign policy, but it also draws readers' attention to the development of national culture and politics. How do you see these two areas in relationship to one another? And how do your ideas of domestic and foreign politics shape the way you teach the U.S. survey course?
My book begins in 1821 (although the introduction traces the earlier history of American Islamophobia from the colonial era up to this point). As other scholars of American Islamophobia have argued, including Timothy Marr and Robert Allison, the Young Republic was striving to define itself on the world stage, and this often entailed explicitly comparing its political project to Europe and the alleged political despotism of Islamic societies.
But as I mentioned earlier, ideas of American exceptionalism, which helped shape American national identity, coexisted with other forms of identity. Many Americans also saw themselves as the political and religious leader of the Christian "Family of Nations." Although highly critical of European political systems, Americans placed them on the same civilizational ladder of political development as Americans—albeit many rungs down. In contrast, many Americans framed Muslims and Islamic societies in an entirely different political and civilizational universe that featured no rungs, as presumably they were incapable of civilizational advancement. Both of these ideologies would play an important role in shaping American national identity – but also their role in global politics and their relations with Muslim majority countries around the world.
Indeed, when European strategic interests led politicians to retain the status quo in the Ottoman Empire, many Americans denounced European policies as a blatant expression of the political and religious corruption that had weakened their natural and divinely ordained allegiance to global Christendom and the civilized, Christian "Family of Nations." This righteous indignation fueled both public and official demands for greater U.S. intervention in the Islamic lands. At these moments, American attitudes toward Islamic societies diverged with Europeans in affirming a new, exceptional role for the United States in global affairs.
When I teach the US history survey course, I make it a point to analyze how ideas about American exceptionalism have helped to shape American national identity and US foreign relations – but I also make it a point to analyze how contested these national narratives have been throughout history, particularly by the people these narratives have often excluded. For example, one of the things I love to talk about with my students is how recent scholarship has documented the existence of Muslims on American shores from its very colonial origins. The fact that many African slaves were Muslim – and that they helped build this country from its very beginnings – has challenged post-9/11 discourse that have attempted to portray Muslims as "interlopers" in American society. This scholarship contributes to the attempts to reintroduce the contributions of immigrants, African Americans, women and other groups in shaping American culture from its very origins.
5. Finally, what are you working on next? We'd love to know!
Since I am based in Georgetown University's branch campus in Qatar, one of the things that has fascinated me is the historic relationship between the United States and the Arabian Gulf. For good reason, most of the work that has been done on this topic has focused on oil. While conducting research for my previous book, however, I learned that the first Americans in the Gulf were not oil executives, but American missionaries who worked for the Reformed Church of America and who arrived here in the 1890s. There has been very little scholarship on this subject. My next project seeks to bridge the history of these American missionaries with the arrival of American oil interests, notably the Arab American Oil Company (ARAMCO). My next project, which is also under contract with UNC Press, entitled The American Mission: God, Oil and Modernity in the Gulf, 1889-1950, analyzes how American missionary discourse of development overlapped with the public discourse of American oil executives. I analyze how these two entities worked, at times hand in hand, to advance their goals of "modernizing" local Gulf Arabs. In the process, I hope to analyze how the legacy of American Orientalism and the discourse of American missionaries and ARAMCO shaped what would emerge as "modernization theory" in the 1950s and 1960s.
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It was made quite clear to me during a recent visit to the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia that our farm communities are not happy with the flood of regulations that the current administration is trying to force down their throats. Whether I was visiting the hog pens or the cattle barns, folks were angry and wanted answers. One of the topics at the top of folks' lists was the Guidance Document that the EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released in April, 2011, that is supposed to clarify protection of waters under the Clean Water Act.
Put simply, if this Guidance Document goes through, it would mean a serious change in policy including allowing the EPA to regulate any or all waters found within a state, no matter how small or seemingly unconnected to a federal interest. The Guidance Document would allow the EPA and Corps to make many decisions that are traditionally made by states and localities, such as the regulation of ephemeral drainages, small and isolated depressional wetlands and roadside ditches. This would be a major federal overreach, and what I believe is a clear violation of the limits within the Clean Water Act.
As farmers and ranchers at the fair continued to raise their concerns, I pointed out that I have co-sponsored House Resolution 4965 that would stop this Guidance Document from being enforced. I am hopeful that this kind of support will prevent the Guidance Document from becoming reality.
There were, of course, many other issues that I discussed as I made my way through the fair. For example, on river issues, I made it clear that there is a significant disparity of funding for habitat restoration and land acquisition, and funding dedicated to operations and maintenance on the river. I explained that in an effort to change the focus of river discussions, I offered several amendments to the Fiscal Year 2013 Energy and Water Appropriations bill that would have limited funding for fish and wildlife and habitat programs. I believe that the Corps of Engineers should stick to their original mission of protecting life and property along our rivers.
Another area of concern that led to a lot of discussion was the U.S. Department of Labor's proposed revisions to the Fair Labor Standards Act that would have changed the way that young workers can work in agriculture. After seeing all the young people at the fair and understanding the importance of keeping the next generation involved in our agricultural future, this issue remains a top priority for me. Because of an overwhelming amount of pushback from farmers, the agriculture industry and Members of Congress, the Labor Department has announced that it would not implement their proposed revisions. Earlier this summer, the House passed the Preserving America's Family Farms Act to ensure that the current or future administration does not attempt to impose burdensome restrictions on the manner in which young people work on farms. I was proud to support this legislation.
Finally, I also had discussions with fair attendees about legislation sponsored by myself and fellow Missouri Congressman Sam Graves to amend the Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999 to make permanent the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)'s exemptions relating to the transportation of agricultural commodities. Congressional intent demonstrated in previous sessions clearly allows the transportation of all farm supplies from any distribution point to a local farm retailer or to the ultimate consumer -- in other words, from source to retail, source to farm and retail to farm.
Unfortunately, in 2009, FMCSA began to misinterpret Congressional intent and impose burdensome rules that were never meant to be imposed on the transportation and agriculture industries. FMCSA has only been allowing for the transportation of a single farm supply -- anhydrous ammonia -- from any distribution point to a local farm retailer or to the ultimate consumer. However, we were able to include a clarifying provision to solve this issue in the recently passed highway bill.
I am always impressed by the depth of understanding that our family farmers and ranchers have for exactly what is going on in Washington D.C. when it comes to issues affecting agriculture, and I would not expect anything less. The fair always provides with me with a real opportunity to hear from a variety of people about their issues facing our farm communities. It was great to hear everyone and I look forward to sharing their concerns when I return to Washington D.C., especially as Congress continues to consider the new Farm Bill this fall.
Source: http://luetkemeyer.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=306554


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In line with Oman Liquefied Natural Gas L.L.C policies and its strong commitment to provide a high level of education to the children of its staff, OLNG constructed a school at its existing housing complex (Hay Al Sharooq) at Sur. The school opened its doors in the academic year 2002/2003 and from a modest student population of 50 students enrolled in KG to Grade 6 classes in its first year of operation, the numbers have grown to 400 students in 2012/2013. Since its inception, the school added one class every year and the first batch of students graduated from Grade 12 in 2009/2010.
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Here's a recording in a mystery language.
Can you identify the language, and do you know where it's spoken?
Here's a recording in a mystery language.
Can you identify the language, and do you know where it's spoken?
Not much of a clue but I would guess a minority language from the phillopines,
I live where this language is spoken. I'll give the others a chance to guess though, so here's a clue. It's an Austronesian language spoken in the South Pacific.
Sounds Polynesian, yes? But I guess that's the easy part.
Rapa Nui, spoken on Easter Island?
Tahitian?? Interesting to hear the almost Spanish-sounding lilt and frequent use of the alveolar trill.
Boy, I can't think of any Polynesian language that has that trill or /ð/, let alone both. There are plenty I don't know anything about, though…
My first impression was of an Australian aboriginal language but pronounced with a non-native accent. But then it seemed to me it might possibly be a Malayo-Polynesian language of eastern Indonesia, where their phonology starts to shade into the open syllables of the Oceanic languages.
But the trilled [r] and [ð] do sound like this could be Rapa Nui spoken by someone whose first language is Spanish. Only problem is that /d/ is not a typical consonant of any Polynesian language, and a quick look at the Rapa Nui Language entry in Wikipedia confirms that it doesn't have that sound. So I'm still at a bit of a loss to figure out where this language fits in the grand scheme of things.
chamorro? just a shot in the dark
My first thought was Tahitian (I don't know why), but I was struck by the Spanish character, so I agree with those who said Rapa Nui.
I can only figure out this much:
In the middle of the file he says: "Tu conoveir a una tomata" (You know a tomato). Later he states the same thing about a clown, who is mentioned several times. Noah has a big role in the story, as well.
Yes, I am joking. But that's what it sounds like. Honestly, I thought it was Basque.
I have no idea, definitely not one of the most spoken languages, my guess at in is a north African dialect. But it does sound a little Portuguese. But it could be from North Europe as well
Fijian was my second guess after Tahitian because I heard the word 'levu', as in the islands Vanua Levu/Viti Levu. Knew I should have submitted this too…!
Not at all what I thought it would sound like.
@Simon, I should add that the sample recording of Fijian (Na vosa vakaviti) on this site really needs an update. It would make anyone familiar with the language cringe.


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Flying into theaters on July 18, 2014 is the follow up to the hit Disney film, Planes. The new feature film is titled Planes: Fire & Rescue.
From the world of "Cars" soars "Planes: Fire & Rescue," a new comedy-adventure featuring a quirky crew of elite firefighting aircraft devoted to protecting historic Piston Peak National Park from raging wildfire. When world famous air racer Dusty (Dane Cook) learns that his engine is damaged and he may never race again, he must shift gears and is launched into the world of wildfire air attack. Dusty joins forces with veteran fire and rescue helicopter Blade Ranger and his courageous air attack team, including spirited super scooper Lil' Dipper (Julie Bowen), heavy-lift helicopter Windlifter, ex-military transport Cabbie and a lively bunch of brave all-terrain vehicles known as The Smokejumpers. Together, the fearless team battles a massive wildfire, and Dusty learns what it takes to become a true hero. Directed by Bobs Gannaway ("Secret of the Wings"), "Planes: Fire & Rescue" ignites July 18, 2014.
Here is one of the film's trailers for your enjoyment.
It looks really good. I especially like how realistic the background looks.
If you would like to learn more about the film you can check out the official Facebook page, Facebook.com/DisneyPlanes. You can also follow Disney Pictures on Twitter (@DisneyPictures).
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Brain on Sports Podcast: Cricketers Sachin Tendulkar and Shane Warne
"This is Your Brain on Sports" is a weekly podcast from Sports Illustrated in which SI executive editor Jon Wertheim and Tufts University psychology professor Sam Sommers explore the intersection of sports and human nature—what the world of sports has to teach us about who we are, what we care about and the forces that shape our behavior.
On this week's episode, Wertheim talks with cricket titans Sachin Tendulkar and Shane Warne in New York City, where the pair is for the launch of the Cricket All-Stars series at MLB stadiums around the country. Wertheim, Tendulkar and Warne discuss retirement: How does an athlete know that it's time to quit and how does one cope with life afterwards? Tendulkar and Warne also talk about bringing the sport of cricket to the U.S., what makes an athlete great, the mental side of sports and more.
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Moscow (Mar. 13)
Several hundred Polish Jews who have been working in factories near Moscow since they fled here to escape the Nazis left today for Poland.
Prior to leaving, they attended a mass meeting here addressed by high Soviet and Polish officials. Speaking on behalf of the Committee of Polish Jews in the USSR, Dr. M. Sfard thanked the Soviet Government for the slyer it gave the Polish Jews, and stressed that all Polish Jews in Russia have been offered Soviet citizenship, if they so desire.
He urged those who choose to be repatriated to Poland to settle in Silesia, western Poland, where, he said, the Polish Government would help them rebuild their lives.


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Charles Dunoyer and the Emergence of the Idea of an Economic Cycle
This article shows that Charles Dunoyer sought to reinterpret Sismondi's theory of crises in a manner that would render it compatible with Say's political economy. While Sismondi considered that crises of overproduction proved the dysfunctionality of an economy founded upon free competition and called for legislative intervention, Dunoyer drew the conclusion that such economies were naturally subject to alternating periods of "activity" and "relapse." Using the innovative idea of the cycle, Dunoyer incorporated Sismondi's theory into the Sayardian conception of political economy in which men have to adapt their behaviour to the nature of things, or suffer the consequences.
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On this day in history, December 12, 2000
The U.S. Supreme Court put an end to the Presidential election Florida recount between George Bush and Al Gore.
Many American were asking themselves if they would ever vote again. Was the right to vote taken away during the weeks leading up to the Supreme Court's decision? Maybe it was, maybe it was not. But ironically, the same thing happened in the State of Alabama Governor election two years later. While the apparent winner was celebrating his victory, the votes were still being tallied. Again, people went through a long time period wondering who won the election. Several days later, the other gentleman won the election.


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Dumbledore's Badass Army Shirtby Harry Potter Alliance
This one speaks for itself: Dumbledore has an Army. It's Farping Totally Badass. We made up the word "farping" in order to avoid saying a naughty word. However, spellcheck isn't showing farping as a misspelled word, so now we're going to google farping. OMG. Do not google farping. Buy this ethically produced, locally printed t-shirt instead!
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itemRenderers that change data
I recently had the pleasure of working with one of our customers, Ryan Green of Davita, who agreed to share this bit of code. I like it because it is straightforward, yet contains many interesting bits. I've made some alterations from Ryan's original code for this example.
I've had questions from people who have put Buttons or some other interactive component into a cell of a DataGrid and wanted to know how to get the button to change the DataGrid. A common use is a trashcan to delete the record. Here's one approach which shows a simple order catalog. Clicking on the "add to cart" link on a row decrements the quantity in stock. When the quantity reaches zero the link becomes disabled and changes to "out of stock".
Let's start with the DataGrid definition. You'll see an in-line itemRenderer, which for this case is a neat solution. You can also use a custom component with the same code.
<mx:DataGrid id="grid" dataProvider="{dp}" selectable="false" y="45" horizontalCenter="0"
width="390" height="169">
<mx:DataGridColumn headerText="Product" dataField="product"/>
<mx:DataGridColumn headerText="Quantity" dataField="quantity"/>
<mx:DataGridColumn headerText="Order" dataField="action" >
<mx:LinkButton label="{data.action}"
enabled="{data.quantity > 0}"
private function sendEvent() : void
dispatchEvent( new CustomEvent(data) );
This looks like:
The itemRenderer for the last column is a LinkButton. The label for the LinkButton is taken from the value of the record's "action" field. The LinkButton is enabled only when the value in the "quantity" field is greater than zero. When clicked, the LinkButton calls the sendEvent() method in its Script block.
Note: The itemRenderer is a LinkButton but you can also use a Container, such as Canvas, and place the LinkButton inside it plus any other components that are relevant to your data.
The click event handler, sendEvent, dispatches ChartEvent (a custom event). The CartEvent is given the data record from the row.
Note: In case itemRenderers are new for you, most Flex components, including those used for itemRenderers, have a data property. This property is set with the current record of the dataProvider corresponding to the row of the itemRenderer instance.
This is the CartEvent class:
public class CartEvent extends Event
static public const ADD_TO_CART:String = "addToChart";
public function CartEvent(data:Object, bubbles:Boolean=true, cancelable:Boolean=false)
super(ADD_TO_CART, bubbles, cancelable);
this.data = data;
public var data:Object;
Not much to it really. The event type is "addToCart". This is not an event the DataGrid dispatches. So how do you listen for this event and use it? The key is the bubbles value of the event: it is set to true by default in the CartEvent constructor function. This means you can set an event listener on any component "above" the itemRenderer – the DataGrid or the Application – whichever makes sense for you.
Since the DataGrid does not it offically support "addToCart" you cannot put it as an attribute on the <mx:DataGrid> tag. But you can assign an event handler for it in ActionScript:
grid.addEventListener(CartEvent.ADD_TO_CART, customHandler);
with the customHander() function:
private function customHandler( event:CartEvent ) : void
// the data record is included in the event; it can be modified and
// put back into the dataProvider where it will be picked up by the
// DataGrid
event.data.quantity -= 1;
if( event.data.quantity <= 0 ) {
event.data.action = "out of stock";
When the LinkButton in a row is clicked, it dispatches the CartEvent which is handled by the customHandler() function. The function decrements the value in "quantity" of the given data record and the dataProvider is updated. Should the value hit zero, the text in the "action" field is changed to "out of stock" and also updated in the dataProvider.
Clicking on the "add to cart" link for the Sprokets product enough times reduces its count to zero, changing the LinkButton to "out of stock" and disabling it.
Notice that when the data is being updated the property name is also given to the itemUpdated() method. By doing this you ensure that only that field is changed. Should the dataProvider collection have a Sort on it, and that field is not part of the sort, updating the dataProvider will not cause a sort to occur.
There are a number of variations on this example. For instance, the CartEvent could pass the row index instead of the data itself. Then the customHandler has to extract the data from the dataProvider using the index. In some circumstances the index will probably be more useful than the data. Or maybe you'll need both.
What about itemClick?
Now you might think that you can just do all this with the itemClick event. And you are right. Using itemClick you can get which row and which field was clicked. You can update the data and the change will be reflected in the DataGrid.
But the beauty of the approach shown here is that you have an interactive cell – a LinkButton in this case, but it could be more complex. Consider this approach if you have the need for a custom itemRenderer.


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Mitt Romney defends Mormons, slams atheists
Radley Balko observes: "Romney and his supporters have already deflected as religious bigotry (correctly, in my view) the idea (supported by polls) that America isn't ready for a Mormon in the White House. But Romney has no problem declaring that America isn't ready for an atheist or agnostic in the White House. Frankly, that's offensive."
I agree, but also note this comment from the above video link:
As a Mormon, here are some more of Mitt's specific covenants:
1. God was once a man. He is currently living on a planet near the star Kolob with his wives. 2. Jesus and Lucifer were once spirit brothers. 3. In the afterlife Mormon men will live as kings their own planets and rule over all their heirs. 4. The Book of Mormon was written on gold tablets revealed to Joseph Smith by the angel Moroni. These tablets are now lost. Joseph Smith translated the tablets by putting a magic rock in his hat and sticking in face in it. 5. American Indians are the lost tribe of Israel. Jesus ministered to them in his trips to America. 6. Donny and Marie Osmond were great musicians.
But seriously folks, all you people who are trying to pretend Mormonism is just another branch of Christianity, like being a Presbyterian or a Baptist, are fooling yourselves. Someday maybe Republicans will be making excuses for a Scientologist candidate - they're even more nuts than Mormons, but only slightly.
Hail Xenu!


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Llevant Apartments
Puerto Pollensa, Majorca, Balearic Islands
Llevant Apartments Introduction
A friendly, easy-going complex, the Llevant Apartments is a delightful holiday haven situated 300 metres from the picturesque Puerto Pollensa Bay. Located in a quiet area that is surrounded by a stunning mountainous backdrop of the Boquer valley, you're also just 200 metres away from the town square where you'll find shops, cafés and restaurants. Accommodation here is comfortable and laid-back, and days can simply be spent unwinding on a sunlounger around the swimming pool, reading a good book and deciding on what to do next.
- Bed and Breakfast
- Half Board
- Self Catering
Llevant Apartments Facilities
• One bedroom apartments for up to 4 adults consists of • Twin bedroom • Lounge area with sofa beds • Kitchenette • Fridge • Microwave • 2 cooking rings • Washing machine • Bath, shower and wc • TV • Fan (to hire, charge) • Balcony or terrace
• Swimming pool • FREE sunbeds and parasols • FREE WiFi access
For Children
• FREE cots
Key Facts
• Nearest beach: 300 metres • Main resort area: 200 metres • Nearest supermarket: 200 metres • 24 apartments • Child age: 2-16 years • Official rating: 2 key • Some facilities and activities may incur a local charge
Meals and Drinks
• Buffet-style restaurant available for Bed and Breakfast and Half Board are offered at the neighbouring property Flora Aparthotel


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Earnest, candid, honest, and direct (but not rudely so, for reasonable values of "rude"); I actually care about things -- sometimes, too much. I value trust and mature, reciprocative dealings. I'm rational and thoughtful, self-aware and self-consistent, but also plenty emotional: I see many sides of things, many futures, and with distinct empathy. I can be a rock or an ocean. I can be at once bitter and/or sarcastic (generally playfully) as well as the most caring and kind hearted. I fall amusingly out of touch with common culture, and have little skill in small-talk, which means I want to talk about something, not that I won't talk easily. I don't care for make-up, but I use grammar, spelling, AND capital letters (more personal hygiene than make-up).
I'm open to many things, but my decisions are not all unmade. I can reconsider, but I don't really argue for fun. I value quality, but not pretense. I try not to look down on things just because they don't follow what I want (although some things demand derision). I still pick at things that undermine what I value, especially when pointlessly so. I'm low key, but still passionate. Friendship and dating don't have hard boundaries with me: I can handle a friendship/intimate relationship, and I consider friends commitments, so "dating" is more just labeling something as going well. Callings seem to include programming (but not enamored by technology) and teaching. Forests and mountains beat cities, though cities do have tastier restaurants, and a larger hope for kindred spirits, or at least activity friends. I don't seem to want to just be--I need to do, to make, to engage. Hope keeps me alive. Literally.
I favor polyamory: the idea that responsible, committed multi-partner relationships are not just possible, but worth the effort. Personally, I feel that the monogamous world-view, while a nice simplification, is generally more an unfortunate and insecure denial of people's value. Real connections to people are rare and very important to me -- I couldn't see limiting someone else's finding them just because I like their attention. Practically speaking, my mate (VioletChimaera) and I have an open, sex-/touch-/ogle-positive relationship, and we figure things out as opportunities arise. Of course, this is only relevant for people that might like to step outside friendship to one degree or another. Note that while her profile is here, it may not be visible to you right now, as she sometimes seeks peace from the barrage of straight dudes that lurch towards anything with some nice pictures.
I am a gamer, which is to say that I seek interesting decisions and actively engaging challenges, and the various avenues of gaming do more for me than anything else I've found. I don't require everyone to have experience here, but someone that has no interest at all lacks something I need and expect in people.
There are a lot of negative views of gaming, but I stand far from the obsessive, obnoxious, or militant prototypes and have no real interest in gambling or manipulating for gain. I interact with people directly: they are neither tools to explore a fantasy nor dumping grounds for trivia. I enjoy doing things with people because I enjoy people enjoying things, and games provide more engaging situations and frameworks for opposition. I also like sharing the things I enjoy, and I know how to teach and deal with the inexperienced so they feel involved. I don't teach people to play games just to squish them, and I don't play by alternating between doing nothing and wiping the floor with them. I try to keep things interesting. My video games, card games, and board games (mostly European games, wargames, and such strategic fare) are carefully chosen for things I value: you won't find Cards Against Humanity, Poker, Pictionary, Trivial Pursuit, Fluxx, Munchkin, or their ilk here. Such casual games don't do enough with my time.
Similarly, I value role playing games for making interesting characters, doing interesting things, and building stories. RPGs--the pen and paper kind, not computer RPGs or LARP--are good for people less satisfied by just taking things in, but they still usually get played by people who want to kill things and take their stuff, or those who just glory in themselves. This also makes it difficult to find much opportunity to play.
I also like Japanese animation (anime), and when I say that, I mean good anime and not the insipid stuff or the tentacle-/bimbo-heavy genres (redundant, but worth noting). There is probably too much bad anime out there for mentioning this interest to be as helpful as I'd like, especially as weak and poorly dubbed anime has become increasingly available, but even as dreck flows ever upward and outward, anime is still where I can most reliably turn for longer and more engaging stories, for interesting settings, and for meaningful emotions. Also, just because I like a fair bit of anime does not mean I am a Japanophile. I rarely favor things just for their relation to something else I like, except perhaps people, and I really don't do the excitable fan thing.
I enjoy being outside, walking/hiking around pretty places and taking pictures, although left to myself I don't get out too much. I would probably enjoy other such things, like maybe kayaking. Biking and skating are fun ways to get around.
So. I am decidedly not for everyone. Yet, someone might want to know me because I am a rare caring and emotionally available individual, mature and irreverent, flawed and accepting, intense and authentic, interesting and attentive, searching and reaching... I've been told a number of times that no one's really like I am, which confuses me because, well, there I am.
I've dealt with severe depression for a long time now, and both improvement and fortune come fleetingly, something I have to accept about my life, even as I work against it. Sometimes the losses come particularly harshly, and even as resilient as I am, it can be difficult to mask properly (especially, I've found, while e-mailing and attempting to be personal). That said, it has been less obvious of late, and I am thankful for the respite and always work towards keeping it like that; I just think it important to mention.
Myers-Brigs-Jung tests call me an INFJ which has some accuracy, if you care about that. Some say I am practically dead even on the F/T, J/P, and I/E axes; others skew me way, *way* towards I and N as well as being pretty far into the F and J. The latter claim better testing, but it's hard to tell which has the less horridly invalid world-view projecting questions. The "best type for you" test says I want an INFJ, which I suspect as pretty accurate, because I consider the best judge for myself to be how I would feel as my own friend/partner, and I don't accept being someone I wouldn't want. That leads to who I am, and I'm definitely not the type to view my own flaws more harshly in someone else. Rather, I sympathize and enjoy teaming up.
I long for those who can stand steadily by and say truly, "I know you. You are welcome here." I imagine someone like me will appreciate that I can and will return the favor. Even so, each new friend to share favorite games, stories, or ideas enriches my life, even the ones that can't really know me. So it goes.
I'm not, however, good at life in this world, wonder, or even always functioning. I'm getting by still, and it surely helped develop some of the better qualities, but package deal and all...
After asking a rare person that did notice me offline: apparently my "nerdish charm" and that I "seem smart and disaffected" are my front line items, so far. Eh, could be worse.
Authors/Books Roger Zelazny (Amber), Guy Gavriel Kay (Fionavar Tapestry), Nathaniel Hawthorne (Twice-Told Tales), Percy Bysshe Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Robin Hobb (Liveship Traders only), Lois McMaster Bujold (Curse of Chalion), Elizabeth Boyer, Walter Jon Williams (Aristoi), C.S. Friedman (Black Sun Rising), Greg Bear (Songs of Earth and Power), C.J. Cherryh, Edward Gorey (The Gashlycrumb Tinies). Yeah, so I read mostly fantasy/sci-fi--at least it's more interesting than here. I hate the pseudo-word "blog" and am none too fond of what it entails either. The popularity of Harry Potter makes me sad.
Movies The Dark Crystal, Ladyhawke, Time Bandits, Highlander (original/first only), The Brotherhood of the Wolf, Brazil, Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail, The Great Race, Big Trouble in Little China, Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, Some Kind of Wonderful, Tron (original), Hero, Pirates of the Carribean (first only), The Princess Bride, The Incredibles, The Adventures of the Amazing Screw-On Head, City of Lost Children, A Tale of Two Sisters (Janghwa, Hongryeon), V for Vendetta, The Man with Two Brains, Robocop (original). I still don't see why people fawn over Clerks and the like, and shocking as this may be, one can find Kill Bill weak and unlikable without falling under the "didn't get it" excuse blanket. Seems like most movies make me want to strangle the characters or the writers, usually both. Eg, Avatar, Pacific Rim. Scenic, but ick.
Music Loreena McKennitt, Clannad, David Arkenstone, Cusco, Mannheim Steamroller, Rasa, Krishna Das, Pink Floyd, Queensryche, Harry Chapin, Lacuna Coil, Tangerine Dream, Dmitry Shostakovitch, Anton Dvorak, Bela Bartok, Igor Stravinsky... I enjoy music much, especially Celtic, New Age (when not soulless, boring and/or overly smooth jazz), and Classical. Pounding, thrashing, or piercing things bother me, often even physically so.
Foods Thai, Indian, Mexican (pref. Tex-Mex), Chinese, Italian (apologies to all those cultures for making them food keywords :). I should probably also mention potatoes specifically: I'm known to order potatoes with potatoes. I dislike Sushi on principle and have always found Buffalo wings reeking with nastiness. I'm not much more against eating animals than animals are, although I do prefer them in more unrecognizable forms, and I tend away from red meat. We should be past our cruel ways of getting meat--growing it in vats, rather than mangling creatures--and I look forward to that day. I also dislike alcohol, coffee, and rarely drink soda, and don't feed me some line about things being an acquired taste just because you can't grasp how noxious they are to me.
Anime The Five Star Stories, Laputa, Twelve Kingdoms, X, His and Her Circumstances, Memories, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni (and "... Kai"), Angel Sanctuary, Nausicaa, Crest of the Stars, Haibane-Renmei, El-Hazard, Read or Die (the OAVs), Kino's Journey, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Ranma 1/2 (first season), Escaflowne, Vampire Princess Miyu (the OAVs). Distasteful: Gurren Lagann, Code Geas, Ponyo, Fruits Basket, Attack on Titan, Dragon Ball Z, and oh so much more.
Games Board/Card games: Age of Steam, Tigris and Euphrates, Carcassonne, El Grande, Die Macher, Glory to Rome, Tichu, Indonesia, Friedrich, Sword of Rome, Tikal/Java, Doppelkopf, Durak, Kaivai, Yinsh. Role-Playing/Story games: Ars Magica, Earthdawn, Microscope. Video games: Soul Calibur, Virtual On, Total Annihilation, Kohan: Ahriman's Gift, Master of Orion, Blur, Trials: Evolution, Outland, Zero Gunner 2, and AtomHex. I don't go for live-action RPG (LARP), and computer RPGs are a travesty, especially the online (MMO) variety.
TV Doctor Who (old series, not new), Venture Brothers (s1-s3), Archer (1st season), Monty Python, Kids in the Hall, Red Dwarf (early), The Tick, Duckman, Frisky Dingo (1st season only), Police Squad (the TV series), Daybreak, Angie Tribeca. What passes for TV generally just fills me with loathing. Anti-favorites: Buffy, X-Files, Farscape, Lexx, Law and Order (and all the rest of those), Battlestar Galactica, Alias, every "reality" show, King of the Hill, sitcoms (yes, Big Bang Theory too), gameshows, soap operas (including Game of Thrones), sports programs...
Yeah, I can be a curmudgeon. Shocking, that. I also don't describe myself or things I like/do using derivatives of "geek," "nerd" or "dork" -- especially as verbs. That trend has been almost as annoying as "blogging" and "podcasting". Useless, desperate words.
You'd also think that pointing out we can--and do--easily do without these would be irritatingly unnecessary. C'mon people, don't live in such tiny, literal boxes: communication means both minds bridging the gaps to share meanings.
For example: I wonder how people can be so desperate for new/outside groups/reinforcement that paganism looks useful (What does religion offer that doesn't come as easily from simply being part of the world and touching others? Is it just the greater pandering to the self?). I wonder why people put holes/doodads in themselves just to make a statement (What statement? "I stick things in myself to make a statement." ... Yes, congratulations.). I wonder why people don't see that "extreme" things implies never "enough." I wonder why women let the fashion industry exist, especially when it seems trying to make them look like horrifically painted little boys, and similarly, why women wear low-hip stuff when it destroys so many of their beautiful curved lines--so much beauty lost for a little more skin. I wonder how power/violation gets so intrinsically tied into some people that they go for BDSM, when there are already such deeply savorable depths in pleasure (probably the "extreme" again). I wonder how people's vision narrows to the confinement of a "scene." I wonder why, when I come to a "scene", I never feel as others do. I'm just not a scene person, I suppose.
I've marked my profile as bisexual. I'm confident my sexuality does span the gender spectrum, but I've been reluctant to mark myself that way because I don't yet have actual experience to "prove" it, and there's no denying my attraction and interest are so heavily slanted towards womanly aspects as to leave one wondering how much others might matter. But it would be fun, were I to get involved with the right person.
Also, I have a tendency to show people themselves without illusions, especially their own... More likely the closer I become to someone or the more we do emotional work together (where it is often pretty much necessary to such work succeeding). Even though I don't need these illusions to value someone, and I remain clear that I do value them and my connection with them, somehow this often leads to their tearing down the relationship between us and I lose them. I do not yet entirely understand the process there, nor do I know whether I should expect change in myself for it, beyond being more cautious on whom I trust with handling such interaction.
We would especially like to find couple friends. Obviously, two interesting, connected people are better than one, but there's also more balance, and four is a perfect number for so many games. Lots of advantages.
Anyway, this section is for describing my kind of person. Let us get to that, but remember, friends do not need as deep of a connection or close of a match as partners do.
Not a cookie cutter person, but a kindred spirit. Someone with whom to build our own twisted castles in the sky -- and maybe one or two that touch the ground if we can find a high enough spot. Not a drone, and independent enough that the being independent itself isn't important either. That is, neither convention nor unconvention drive your choices (although convention may sometimes have a time tested value). "Hip" and fashion live by the herd, for or against. Preferably, herding annoys you.
You are intelligent enough that you aren't impressed with your intelligence. You actively and by choice think, and will talk and write with (that's "with," not "at") me about this world and others. You enjoy sarcasm, irony, and a bitter wit tempered by genuine caring (because I have those in spades). You are not content with a stunted attention span and prefer things of an engaging nature.
You have more interest in books than in bars or clubbing, and know that music is made to be heard, not felt jarring bones. You likely don't get much from watching sports either, but might be passably athletic, and perhaps have some interest in martial arts, or occasional biking or rollerblading. At least, walking in a park or hiking some trail should be welcome. Maybe you can teach me to be someone who dances, at least when we are alone.
You can understand that the severe clinical depression I generally suffer from has hindered me doing much of what I want--or hope--to do, and places many unwelcome burdens on me. I simply will never be a happy all the time, easily amused type. You might have some similar problems of your own, which I would gladly accept and help you endure in turn. I really mean that too. That seems only fair, after all, but also is something I am genuinely pretty able to deal with--more so than many. Not that I am just seeking someone to fix, but I know the loneliness of hurting, and it's important to me to take the opportunities to break such isolation in others, as I wished others might have done for me. I live as I feel the world ought to be. I can teach you to trust; bring me your broken dreams. I can weather your despair; come and know safety. Have a wonderful life? I'll cheer you on (well, quietly).
You can put up with occasional rants about how everything moves away from what I value about it, and similar wishing for redeemable attributes in the world. We probably help each other not to care about what the rest of the world does with itself (or we can figure out how to change it).
You don't have to have a deep interest in computers, but I doubt it's really good for me to suppress all computer related conversations, so it would be best if you could care about my concerns. You also don't have to feel a similar need to make things, but you do need to take part in, or have some interest in, my projects, because my own interest is not generally enough for me to actually work (sad but true). This does not mean you need to (or should) feed my ego (or anything like that--ever): just care and be interested. I need that. I hope you can let me find what you need. I can do things for others that I cannot for myself.
Preferably someone in my area, but finding someone really like me outweighs degrees of separation.
Someone who realizes that these answers take effort and time for both our benefits, rather than "just spouting off" or other such projected self-aggrandizing: it's lengthy because I've tried to produce what needs to be here to connect and to draw out certain kinds of people, not because I love typing (or myself). Really, you hardly need to be all these things either. If you are or would want to be many of them, then we should at least try contact...
On the other hand, you could always just message me because I know the meaning of life. I hear there's some minor value in that.


text: 6 February 2009 SFTW: Closure Iain Simons selects another game so you can while away a few hours. This week it's Closure. Enjoy wi Sign up for our weekly email * From Tyler Glaiel the co-creator of Aether comes a new work that surely represents a new high-watermark in browser based gaming. Closure is both a vivid meditation on sickness and the mental states it produces *and* an inventive 2d platform puzzle. It's all about illumination. Each level requires your character to find and then enter a single door, leading to the next. The challenge lies in finding your pathway in the darkness. If a surface isn't lit, then for the purposes of the game it doesn't exist; the puzzles are thus created from the strategic arrangement of orbs of light around the environment, each glowing a finite radius. The rough art design of the piece lends it an intimate, hand-drawn feeling which amplifies the discomfort at its centre. It's reminiscent of a lino-illustration, with the action feeling scratched into the screen rather than drawn. You shouldn't take any of this however to mean that the game isn't an engaging and fun challenge, it really is. What's remarkable is that Closure manages to sustain its 'gameness' whilst illustrating as much as any title yet the potential that the form has to express something more interesting. Get illuminated. Play Closure. Iain Simons writes, talks and tweets about videogames and technology. His new book, Play Britannia, is to be published in 2009. He is the director of the GameCity festival at Nottingham Trent University. Subscribe from just £1 per issue More


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Just outside Dominion space near the Obatta Cluster, the Teplan system was a planetary system in the Gamma Quadrant containing at least one Class M planet, homeworld of the Teplan people. (DS9: "The Quickening")
A mural depicting the homeworld seen in the episode shows what might be two suns, thus suggesting that the Teplan system may be a binary system. Only one sun is ever visible in the sky, but one scene shows the sky going from night to day even as that sun remains in essentially the same position, which would also be consistent with an unseen second sun providing most of the light.


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LG Cosmos 3 and Revere 2 quietly introduced by Verizon
0. phoneArena posted on 16 Apr 2013, 23:53
The LG Cosmos 3 comes in at free with a 2-year contract, and features a 2" 320x240 pixel display, 1.3 MP camera, social networking apps built-in, mobile web & email, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, and supports microSD memory cards up to 32GB. Also on board is a similar sliding design that is the Cosmos tradition, that opens to reveal a 4-row physical QWERTY keyboard.
This is a discussion for a news. To read the whole news, click here
1. alpinejason (Posts: 262; Member since: 06 Sep 2011)
So what.does anybody care?
2. ˇಠ_ಠˇ (Posts: 40; Member since: 29 Aug 2012)
Why is this a featured article?
3. kellkeezy (Posts: 57; Member since: 17 Dec 2011)
oh look at these panty droppin phones right here ladies and gents. Verizon Reps line up because these bad boys are going to pay out like a oiled up rattlesnake. BUT HOLD ON THERES MORE! just look at that cosmos 3 and samsung gusto 2...
(wait what its a LG Revere 2? but it looks like a samsu... wow)
anyways look a those work horse specs you wont sell a phone with better battery life then these bad boys atleast.
4. ardent1 (Posts: 2000; Member since: 16 Apr 2011)
It would be nice if Phonearena does some value-added reporting by listing the updated or enhanced features in these basic phones, respectively.
5. downphoenix (Posts: 3165; Member since: 19 Jun 2010)
the improvements are so incremental that it probably isnt worth adding those bytes to the article.


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The obstetrics department of any hospital is supposed to be the happy place in a building that so often has to deal with sickness and death.
It's a place where parents-to-be come anticipating a beautiful addition to their lives, a place where hope springs eternal, and nothing bad should ever happen ...
But it does. And when a mother loses a baby, be it stillborn, a miscarriage or any other infant death, it is, as one mother put it, "the ultimate loss."
"Who plans to bury a baby?" asks Jill Spidell, a mother who lost a son just one week before the due date.
"When you bury a parent, you bury history," said Terrie Koch, who also lost an infant. "When you bury a baby, you bury your future."
Both Spidell and Koch, who is also a registered nurse at the Wooster Clinic's Women's Health Center, are playing large roles in giving hope to parents who have had similar experiences.
They, along with Barb Miller, a Wooster Community Hospital obstetrics nurse and grief coordinator, and several other women with the hospital and the Wooster Clinic, are creating the grief support group HOPE, or Helping Other Parents Emotionally.
"Basically, we want to offer the emotional support that parents don't often get from the community when they lose an infant," Miller said. "It is going to be offered by other parents in similar situations that have lost children of their own."
Often times, society downplays the loss of a baby due to miscarriage or stillbirth, says Koch.
"Society doesn't allow people to grieve," she said. "They want you right back at work right away."
Dr. Mary Stockton is a clinical psychologist who also works with the Women's Health Center. She has lent her expertise to the coordinators of HOPE.
"So often, there is no support for early loss," Stockton said. "Really, empirically, we know the timing of the loss is not a good predictor for how women will adjust afterward, but it is a good predictor in what kind of support people receive."
Or don't receive, says Spidell.
Both she and Koch said that when someone does try to offer support, they often do not know how to go about it.
"People who haven't been through it don't know what to say," Spidell said. "And even if they are well meaning, they can say some really hurtful things."
Like: "You're young. You can have another child," Koch said.
Spidell and Koch said those kind of comments are extremely painful.
"That is why I'm interested in working with Barb on this group," Spidell said. "I went through this four years ago and entered a group. After a year, I started helping lead that group. There is a real need for parents to have a place to come and talk about their babies regardless of how old they were when they died."
The group will also offer guidance to families that need it.
"You have to guide them," said Rebecca Yoder, a nurse at the Wooster Clinic. "They have no clue what to do. They just need help. They just want their baby."
Previously, the only such support groups were in Canton and Akron. Many parents just didn't want to drive that far. Others are intimidated by the larger cities, Miller said.
"It's a great distance to Akron," said Vickie Kelling, a bereavement counselor at the hospital. "They just don't do it. With people in a group locally, they feel more comfortable."
HOPE will meet for the first time April 10 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the United Way of Wooster building, 215 S. Walnut St. Meetings will be held on the second Monday of every month.
There is no fee or registration required. Any questions regarding HOPE can be directed to Miller at (330) 263-8431.


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Many famous people were associated with the C&O Canal. Their names are easily recognized. However, most people involved with the canal were common laborers and families. Many of their names are now lost to history, but their legacy continues to live in the form of NPS interpretive living history programs and the historic structures of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park.
The diversity of people and jobs on the canal was significant. The canal became a new home for people looking for work and a chance at a new way of life. Employment opportunities for different ethnic groups would have been available. They might include:
Women on the Canal
Native Americans
Construction Laborers
Whether you were man or woman, boy or girl, the canal was not a respector of persons. Everyone had to work the same jobs to allow a family to make a living and survive.