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City Breaks Ground on 26-Acre Hudson Yards Project
Tuesday, December 04, 2012
Mayor Michael Bloomberg calls it "the future of New York City."
NYPD Talking to Person of Interest in Deadly Subway Push
Tuesday, December 04, 2012
Police say they have a person of interest in custody in the death of a man who was pushed onto the subway tracks at 49th Street in Manhattan Monday.
Feds Release First FEMA Funds for New York City
Tuesday, December 04, 2012
New York City is getting nearly $190 million in the first round of federal money to help recover from Superstorm Sandy, U.S. senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand said Tuesday.
Cuomo, Bloomberg Did Well After Sandy: Poll
Monday, December 03, 2012
New Yorkers give high marks to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Michael Bloomberg for their reaction to Superstorm Sandy, but are far less happy with the Long Island Power Authority.
NFL Player From Long Island Kills Self, Girlfriend: Police
Saturday, December 01, 2012
Police say Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Javon Belcher fatally shot his girlfriend early Saturday, then drove to Arrowhead Stadium and committed suicide in front of his coach and general manager.
LIPA Chairman Resigns in Wake of Sandy Criticism
Friday, November 30, 2012
Long Island Power Authority chairman Howard Steinberg has resigned from the board of directors.
Attorneys for Strauss-Kahn Deny Settlement Reached
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Attorneys for Dominique Strauss-Kahn deny that the former International Monetary Fund chief has reached a settlement with a New York City hotel maid who accused him of trying to rape her.
CNN Names Jeff Zucker as New Chief
Thursday, November 29, 2012
CNN has named former NBC Universal chief Jeff Zucker as its new top executive.
Runaway Zebra Corralled on Staten Island
Thursday, November 29, 2012
New York City can be like a zoo sometimes, but a zebra running wild through the streets is not something you ordinarily see.
Utilities Get Subpoenas Over Sandy Response In NY
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
New York's powerful Moreland Commission has issued subpoenas to utilities in its investigation of their response and recovery operations during Superstorm Sandy.
Bloomberg Seeks More Disaster Aid for Sandy Victims
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is seeking to inject some urgency into getting tens of billions of dollars in new federal aid flowing to victims of Sandy, but Congress seems reluctant to move quickly as it wrestles with the nation's budget crisis.
UWS Nanny Pleads Not Guilty in Child Deaths
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
A nanny accused in the stabbing deaths of two children at their upscale Manhattan home pleaded not guilty Wednesday at a hospital where she's been treated for self-inflicted stab wounds.
6-Year-Old Among 2 Killed in Separate LI Bus Crashes
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
A bus driver trying to avoid hitting a pedestrian slammed into a multi-family house on Long Island, killing a 6-year-old boy inside and injuring his older brother, Nassau County police said.
Schneiderman Tells Nonprofits to Reveal Storm Aid
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has sent letters to 72 nonprofits asking them to disclose their fundraising and relief efforts for Superstorm Sandy victims.
Top LIPA Exec, Trustee Announce Resignations
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Another top executive and a trustee of the Long Island Power Authority have announced their resignations.
Christie Files Papers to Run for Second Term
Monday, November 26, 2012
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has announced he will seek re-election to a second term.
Ethics Panel Investigating New York Republican
Monday, November 26, 2012
The House Ethics Committee says it's investigating Republican Rep. Michael Grimm for possible campaign finance violations, but is deferring its inquiry because of a separate Justice Department probe.
Bloomberg Says $19B in Public, Private Sandy Losses
Monday, November 26, 2012
Mayor Michael Bloomberg estimates Sandy caused a whopping $19 billion in losses in New York City. He's asking federal lawmakers to put up nearly $10 billion to reimburse both government agencies and private businesses.
Egypt's Political Foes Dig in Their Heels
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Supporters and opponents of Egypt's president on Sunday grew more entrenched in their potentially destabilizing battle over the Islamist leader's move to assume near absolute powers, with neither side appearing willing to back down as the stock market plunged amid the fresh turmoil.
NY Gets Funds to Hire Sandy Cleanup Workers
Sunday, November 25, 2012
New York has gotten a $27 million federal grant that will go toward hiring people to help Sandy cleanup efforts.


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All utilities other than your electricity are included in the rent. The landlord pays for the cold water, hot water, heat, sewer and trash.
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Great income and great credit would require only first month's rent, security deposit (equal to one month's rent) and move in fee ($120).
Okay income and okay credit would require first month's rent, last month's rent, security deposit (equal to one month's rent) and move in fee ($120).
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ArchstoneAcquired by Equity Residential
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ArchstoneAcquired by Equity Residential
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I worked at Archstone full-time (More than 3 years)
Good health benefits and decent time off
There is no upward mobility no matter how hard you work
Advice to Management
As a former employee, I have seen time and time again good, hardworking employees leave the company. While a Leasing Consultant at the same community for three years, I EXCEEDED what was required via management to move up: paying bills, DOING ACTUAL SERVICE REQUESTS (this includes caulking a bathtub at 10:00 at night since your service team failed to get turn ready for the next day), scheduling all outside contractors for a community-wide two year project, training new employees on the side, maintaining a 96% occupancy rate at the worst time of the year, should I go on? Unfortunately, this is not enough for Archstone as they as even more of their employees.
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My final straw was when three of the managers in my area somehow "disappeared" into the sky and were no longer with the company. Within three weeks of that, two of my other friends left and then I put in my hat too. The funny thing is though is that the residents at my old community see me often and are begging for me to come back. The other day at the grocery store, I was approached by one and they told me how bad things have gotten since I left. They said that they would contact corporate to hire me back on and I simply said, "no thanks".
I just found out today that the head of HR had their last today today (not surprised) and that the concierge training manager is gone as well. I guess I can count my blessings since I got out a the right time and didn't waste my time, nor hard effort with this crazy and dysfunctional company.
I have been working at Archstone full-time (Less than a year)
Overall, a positive environment and opportunity for growth
It appears that those holding an administrative role aren't viewed/treated the same as those in other roles. Also, if they don't like someone, you're won't last with the company.
Advice to Management
Be transparent - if someone isn't a fit, tell them! Communication is key. Stop wasting their time and yours and stop pretending you'll help them advance. Give them the opportunity to fix it, find another position or just move on.
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I have been working at Archstone full-time (More than 3 years)
Benefits are great
health and wellness
HR Reps
Some not all managers
Advice to Management
Just to take a look at HR and Managment team. If your manager does not like you they can hold you back from transfering or moving forward by writing you up for ANY little thing that you do. after writing you up they sit there with that FAKE smile on there face saying we really want you to Succeed and move forward BUT....... And HR just supports the managers decision no matter how Crazy it sounds


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CNRS Montpellier Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics and Microelectronics
CNRS Montpellier Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics and Microelectronics
Gouttefarde M.,CNRS Montpellier Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics and Microelectronics |
Daney D.,French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation |
Merlet J.-P.,French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation
IEEE Transactions on Robotics | Year: 2011
This paper deals with the wrench-feasible workspace (WFW) of n-degree-of-freedom parallel robots driven by n or more than n cables. The WFW is the set of mobile platform poses for which the cables can balance any wrench of a given set of wrenches, such that the tension in each cable remains within a prescribed range. Requirements of nonnegative cable tensions, as well as maximum admissible tensions, are thus satisfied. The determination of the WFW is an important issue since its size and shape are highly dependent on the geometry of the robot and on the ranges of allowed cable tensions. The approach proposed in this paper is mainly based on interval analysis. Two sufficient conditions are presented, namely, a sufficient condition for a box of poses to be fully inside the WFW and a sufficient condition for a box of poses to be fully outside the WFW. These sufficient conditions are relevant since they can be tested, with the means to test them being discussed in the paper. Used within usual branch-and-prune algorithms, these tests enable WFW determinations in which full-dimensional sets of poses (volumes) are found to lie within or, on the contrary, to lie outside the WFW. This provides a useful alternative to a basic discretization, the latter consisting of testing a discrete (zero-dimensional) finite set of poses. In order to improve the efficiency of the computations, a means to mitigate the undesirable effects of the so-called wrapping effect is introduced. The paper also illustrates how the proposed approach is capable of dealing with small uncertainties on the geometric design parameters of a parallel cable-driven robot. © 2010 IEEE.
Richa R.,CNRS Montpellier Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics and Microelectronics
Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention : MICCAI ... International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention | Year: 2010
In the context of minimally invasive cardiac surgery, active vision-based motion compensation schemes have been proposed for mitigating problems related to physiological motion. However, robust and accurate visual tracking is a difficult task. The purpose of this paper is to present a hybrid tracker that estimates the heart surface deformation using the outputs of multiple visual tracking techniques. In the proposed method, the failure of an individual technique can be circumvented by the success of others, enabling the robust estimation of the heart surface deformation with increased spatial resolution. In addition, for coping with the absence of visual information due to motion blur or occlusions, a temporal heart motion model is incorporated as an additional support for the visual tracking task. The superior performance of the proposed technique compared to existing techniques individually is demonstrated through experiments conducted on recorded images of an in vivo minimally invasive CABG using the DaVinci robotic platform.
Lartillot N.,University of Montréal |
Lartillot N.,CNRS Montpellier Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics and Microelectronics |
Rodrigue N.,Agriculture and Agri Food Canada |
Rodrigue N.,University of Ottawa |
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Systematic Biology | Year: 2013
Modeling across site variation of the substitution process is increasingly recognized as important for obtaining more accurate phylogenetic reconstructions. Both finite and infinite mixture models have been proposed and have been shown to significantly improve on classical single-matrix models. Compared with their finite counterparts, infinite mixtures have a greater expressivity.However, they are computationally more challenging. This has resulted in practical compromises in the design of infinite mixture models. In particular, a fast but simplified version of a Dirichlet process model over equilibrium frequency profiles implemented in PhyloBayes has often been used in recent phylogenomics studies, while more refined model structures, more realistic and empirically more fit, have been practically out of reach. We introduce a message passing interface version ofPhyloBayes,implementing the Dirichletprocess mixture models aswell as more classical empirical matrices and finite mixtures. The parallelization is made efficient thanks to the combination of two algorithmic strategies: a partial Gibbs sampling update of the tree topology and the use of a truncated stick-breaking representation for the Dirichlet process prior. The implementation shows close to linear gains in computational speed for up to 64 cores, thus allowing faster phylogenetic reconstruction under complex mixture models. PhyloBayes MPI is freely available from our website www.phylobayes.org. [Bayesian inference; Dirichlet process; mixture models; phylogenetics; phylogenomics.] © The Author(s) 2013.
Gascuel O.,CNRS Montpellier Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics and Microelectronics |
Steel M.,University of Canterbury
Systematic Biology | Year: 2014
Predicting the ancestral sequences of a group of homologous sequences related by a phylogenetic tree has been the subject of many studies, and numerous methods have been proposed for this purpose. Theoretical results are available that show that when the substitution rates become too large, reconstructing the ancestral state at the tree root is no longer feasible. Here, we also study the reconstruction of the ancestral changes that occurred along the tree edges. We show that, that, depending on the tree and branch length distribution, reconstructing these changes (i.e., reconstructing the ancestral state of all internal nodes in the tree) may be easier or harder than reconstructing the ancestral root state. However, results from information theory indicate that for the standard Yule tree, the task of reconstructing internal node states remains feasible, even for very high substitution rates. Moreover, computer simulations demonstrate that for more complex trees and scenarios, this result still holds. For a large variety of counting, parsimony- and likelihood-based methods, the predictive accuracy of a randomly selected internal node in the tree is indeed much higher than the accuracy of the same method when applied to the tree root. Moreover, parsimony- and likelihood-based methods appear to be remarkably robust to sampling bias and model mis-specification. [Ancestral state prediction; character evolution; majority rule; Markov model; maximum likelihood; parsimony; phylogenetic tree.] © The Author(s) 2014.
Lartillot N.,University of Montréal |
Lartillot N.,CNRS Montpellier Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics and Microelectronics
Molecular Biology and Evolution | Year: 2013
According to the nearly-neutral model, variation in long-term effective population size among species should result in correlated variation in the ratio of nonsynonymous over synonymous substitution rates (dN/dS). Previous empirical investigations in mammals have been consistent with this prediction, suggesting an important role for nearly-neutral effects on protein-coding sequence evolution. GC-biased gene conversion (gBGC), on the other hand, is increasingly recognized as a major evolutionary force shaping genome nucleotide composition. When sufficiently strong compared with random drift, gBGC may significantly interfere with a nearly-neutral regime and impact dN/dS in a complex manner. Here, we investigate the phylogenetic correlations between dN/dS, the equilibrium GC composition (GC*), and several life-history and karyotypic traits in placental mammals. We show that the equilibrium GC composition decreases with body mass and increases with the number of chromosomes, suggesting a modulation of the strength of biased gene conversion due to changes in effective population size and genome-wide recombination rate. The variation in dN/dS is complex and only partially fits the prediction of the nearly-neutral theory. However, specifically restricting estimation of the dN/dS ratio on GC-conservative transversions, which are immune from gBGC, results in correlations that are more compatible with a nearly-neutral interpretation. Our investigation indicates the presence of complex interactions between selection and biased gene conversion and suggests that further mechanistic development is warranted, to tease out mutation, selection, drift, and conversion. © The Author 2012.
Gouy M.,CNRS Biometry and Evolutionary Biology Laboratory |
Guindon S.,CNRS Montpellier Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics and Microelectronics |
Guindon S.,University of Auckland |
Gascuel O.,CNRS Montpellier Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics and Microelectronics
Molecular Biology and Evolution | Year: 2010
We present SeaView version 4, a multiplatform program designed to facilitate multiple alignment and phylogenetic tree building from molecular sequence data through the use of a graphical user interface. SeaView version 4 combines all the functions of the widely used programs SeaView (in its previous versions) and Phylo-win, and expands them by adding network access to sequence databases, alignment with arbitrary algorithm, maximum-likelihood tree building with PhyML, and display, printing, and copy-to-clipboard of rooted or unrooted, binary or multifurcating phylogenetic trees. In relation to the wide present offer of tools and algorithms for phylogenetic analyses, SeaView is especially useful for teaching and for occasional users of such software. SeaView is freely available at http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/software/seaview.
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AIDS | Year: 2016
OBJECTIVE:: In resource-limited countries (RLC), antiretroviral therapy (ART) has been scaled up, but individual monitoring is still sub-optimal. Here we studied whether or not ART had an impact on the frequency and selection of drug resistance mutations (DRMs) under these settings. We also examined whether differences exist between HIV-1 genetic variants. DESIGN:: A total of 3,736 sequences from individuals failing standard first-line ART (n?=?1,599, AZT/d4T+3TC+NVP/EFV) were analyzed and compared to sequences from reverse transcriptase inhibitor (RTI)-naïve individuals (n?=?2,137) from 10 West and Central Africa countries. METHODS:: Fisher exact tests and corrections for multiple comparisons were used to assess the significance of associations. RESULTS:: All RTI-DRM from the 2015-IAS list, except F227C, and nine mutations from other expert lists were observed to confer extensive resistance and cross-resistance. Five additional independently-selected mutations (I94L, L109I, V111L, T139R, T165L) were statistically associated with treatment. The proportion of sequences with multiple mutations, and the frequency of all TAMs, M184V, certain NNRTIS, I94L and L109I showed substantial increase with time on ART. Only one nucleoside and two non-nucleoside RTI-DRMs differed by subtype/CRF. CONCLUSIONS:: This study validates the global robustness of the actual DRM repertoire, in particular for CRF-02 predominating in West and Central Africa, despite our finding of five additional selected mutations. However, long-term ART without virological monitoring clearly leads to the accumulation of mutations and the emergence of additional variations, which limit drug options for treatment and can be transmitted. Improved monitoring and optimization of ART are necessary for the long-term effectiveness of ART. Copyright © 2016 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.
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Guindon S.,CNRS Montpellier Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics and Microelectronics
Systematic Biology | Year: 2013
The accuracy and precision of species divergence date estimation from molecular data strongly depend on the models describing the variation of substitution rates along a phylogeny. These models generally assume that rates randomly fluctuate along branches from one node to the next. However, for mathematical convenience, the stochasticity of such a process is ignored when translating these rate trajectories into branch lengths. This study addresses this shortcoming. A new approach is described that explicitly considers the average substitution rates along branches as random quantities, resulting in a more realistic description of the variations of evolutionary rates along lineages. The proposed method provides more precise estimates of the rate autocorrelation parameter as well as divergence times. Also, simulation results indicate that ignoring the stochastic variation of rates along edges can lead to significant overestimation of specific node ages. Altogether, the new approach introduced in this study is a step forward to designing biologically relevant models of rate evolution that are well suited to data sets with dense taxon sampling which are likely to present rate autocorrelation. © 2012 The Author(s).
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Lu A.,The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Ltd |
Guindon S.,University of Auckland |
Guindon S.,CNRS Montpellier Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics and Microelectronics
Molecular Biology and Evolution | Year: 2014
The branch-site model is a widely popular approach that accommodates for the lineage-and the site-specific heterogeneity of natural selection regimes among coding sequences. This model relies on prior knowledge of the (foreground) lineage(s) evolving under positive selection at some sites. Unfortunately, such prior information is not always available in practice. A more recent technique (Guindon S, Rodrigo A, Dyer K, Huelsenbeck J. 2004. Modeling the site-specific variation of selection patterns along lineages. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 101:12957-12962) alleviates this issue by explicitly modeling the variability of selection patterns using a stochastic process. However, the performance of this approach for deciding whether a set of homologous sequences evolved under positive selection at some point has not been assessed yet. This study compares the sensitivity and specificity of tests for positive selection derived from both the standard and the stochastic approaches using extensive simulations. We show that the two methods have low proportions of type I errors, that is, they tend to be conservative when testing the null hypothesis of no positive selection if sequences truly evolve under neutral or negative selection regimes. Also, the standard approach is more powerful than the stochastic one when the prior knowledge on foreground lineages is correct. When this prior is incorrect, however, the stochastic approach outperforms the standard model in a broad range of conditions. Additional comparisons also suggest that the stochastic branch-site method compares favorably with the recently proposed mixed-effects model of evolution of Murrell et al. (Murrell B, Wertheim JO, Moola S, Weighill T, Scheffler K, Pond SLK. 2012. Detecting individual sites subject to episodic diversifying selection. PLoS Genet. 8:e1002764). Altogether, our results show that the standard branch-site model is well suited to confirmatory analyses, whereas the stochastic approach should be preferred over the standard or the mixed-effects ones for exploratory studies. © 2013 The Author.
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Theory of Computing Systems | Year: 2014
We study probabilistic bit-probe schemes for the membership problem. Given a set A of at most n elements from the universe of size m we organize such a structure that queries of type "x∈A?" can be answered very quickly. H. Buhrman, P.B. Miltersen, J. Radhakrishnan, and S. Venkatesh proposed a randomized bit-probe scheme that needs space of O(nlogm) bits. That scheme has a randomized algorithm processing queries; it needs to read only one randomly chosen bit from the memory to answer a query. For every x the answer is correct with high probability (with two-sided errors). In this paper we slightly modify the bit-probe model of Buhrman et al. and consider schemes with a small auxiliary information in "cache" memory. In this model, we show that for the membership problem there exists a bit-probe scheme with one-sided error that needs space of O(nlog2 m+poly(logm)) bits, which cannot be achieved in the model without cache. We also obtain a slightly weaker result (space of size n 1+δpoly(logm) bits and two bit probes for every query) for a scheme that is effectively encodable. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.


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English National Opera is founded on the belief that opera of the highest quality should be accessible to everyone.
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The Development Co-ordinator is responsible for running the day-to-day administration of the Development Department, focussing on individual giving, client servicing, gift and Gift Aid processing, data management and financial administration. Duties include: liaising with ENO's most valuable donors, administrating donations, donor and supporter communications, ticketing and catering requests, assisting with events and general administration.
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CLIFFHANGER Reboot… why?
According to Variety, I Am Legend & Fast and the Furious producer Neal Mortiz has announced that he, along with StudioCanal, will team up to develop a reboot of the 1993 Renny Harlin action thriller "Cliffhanger", which starred Sylvester Stallone. "Just as they rebooted Star Trek we're going to do the same with Cliffhanger," said Mortiz, who will produce. Unlike the original, where Italy stood in for the Colorado Rockies, the new redo looks set to feature multiple cliff-face locations. Reportedly the story will focus in on a group of young climbers but nothing else has been mentioned about any official plotline.
Personally I just don't get it. Cliffhanger is not really what I would call a franchise property unless you continue to use Stallone and his Gabe Walker character. Once fans of the original find out that Stallone will not be involved, interest will be nil. Considering Stallone continues to make good action films (I really liked Rambo – and he's currently filming The Expendables) why not bring him back for a sequel. I really enjoyed Cliffhanger and consider it to be the best non-Rocky/Rambo vehicle Stallone ever appeared in. The movie's opening scene where the girl falls to her death is still was extremely suspenseful and one of the best openings I can remember. I saw Cliffhanger in NYC Memorial Day weekend when I took my girlfriend Laurel, now my wife, into the city for a 3 day holiday weekend. We had a blast, although I still get nightmares about my American Express bill which was $1400 at the time. Hotels in Manhattan are expensive!
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Scotland's newest darlings are infiltrating the mainstream with their melodic single 'Stitches'. The track is an anthemic and uplifting look back at the bands childhoods and has sparked mass sing-a-longs at recent gigs. However, the band aren't breaking any new boundaries and as such their sound soon become repetitive and middle of the road. This is not to say that the album will be the same, its just a shame the sound is nothing fresh.
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Laberinto dificil
Rated 0 / 5 stars
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Frog Rage Beta
Rated 2 / 5 stars
needs more work
you can cheat by right clicking and moving to target
i noticed that right after i released it. thanx for the help
Rock, Paper, Scissors!
Rated 2.5 / 5 stars
A couple of things
you're adding 1 to a string variable not a numerical one so instead of having 4 wins you have 01111 wins, the hands shaking (actually the whole game) seems slow and lacking sound makes it even blander.
You should work a little more on it
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When falling
The ball travels horizontally and the whale moves awkwardly.
Rated 2.5 / 5 stars
Wierd ass game
It needs a little more work, (the controls and the physics are a little awkward but if that gets fixed it'll be awesome)
Find the egg
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Mute button
And a shitload more of work is needed
Space Shooter 1
Rated 3 / 5 stars
Include them, "B" is a weird key for firing, having to hit the key repeatedly is a pain in the ass, your firing makes little damage preventing you to keep up with the amount of stuff on screen and the enemies have way too much health.
Survival Engine Alpha
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Sometimes when you shoot you see a flash of the bullet in the wrong angle and you can get attacked while buying stuff, other than that the game was ok.
The flash of the bullet isn't really a bug, its just that the game was lagging so that you could see it being created before the angle was fixed. Sadly TGF2 exporting the game makes it lag for some reason, but if I export it in MMF2 it works fine. For this compo I had to export it in TGF2 so its fine for now I guess. I wanted to add a sense of insecurity when you go to the shop. Quick dash in, buy it, and get out. It's best to do this in between rounds and remember to use the Escape key to quickly leave the stores. Thanks for the comment!
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Needs more work on the code
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Do you love spikes? Would you do anything for spikes? I would, but that's just me. I recently found the most amazing black shoulder spiked pleather jacket. It was so much DRAMA to get it, but I bought it and it's mine forever! Literally, it's from Forever 21. I spotted it while on my lunch break. Dazzling on a mannequin in the center of a window. I fell in love. Unfortunately I was running late back to work and had to leave it behind. I was starting to feel guilty for not buying it, so I grabbed my wallet and headed back. Knowing that they never take items down from windows. But for some reason I was feeling determined. Once inside Forever 21 it took me 10 min just to find somebody who could help me take it down. Well apparently only managers can take product off mannequins. That took me another 5 minutes to find a manager. When I found her she was super dramatic about taking down the jacket for me. But I begged and begged and finally she gave in. #puppyeyes The best thing was that it was the last one left and it was only about thirty dollars. #winning Anyways this is my first fashion post hope you enjoy!
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Now that you've experienced the Urban Safari, hop back on board to explore the Cape Point tour reaching the most south western point of Africa.
Imagine driving in an old school Kombi along the most scenic drive in the world while your favourite song is playing. We get goosebumps every time. Keep a look out for zebra, eland, ostriches, baboons, seals, whales and the crowd favourite… the African Penguin colony at Boulder's Beach.
We then stop at the Kalk Bay strip, famous for its quirky vibe and amazing restaurants. Take your pick of the many restaurants on offer, whatever you choose it won't disappoint, with the options being endless. From here we take you to the home of South African surfing, Muizenberg, where you can take that perfect Instagram photo of the colourful beach houses. This Cape Point Tour will awaken your senses, so sit back, relax while our iconic Kombi takes you on an unforgettable journey around the Cape.
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This is the latest article in our yoga central series and today we will be looking at a pose known as staff pose or Dandasana. We will look at how to properly carry out the pose, the benefits you can get from it and anything that you need to consider before beginning. Please read the entire article before trying the pose.
How to Carry Out the Pose
We have put together instructions on how to carry out the pose correctly however there are also a number of modifications that can be done to make the pose easier as well as deeper. These modifications will be found lower in the article.
1. Sit on the floor with your legs stretched out in front of you. It is important to keep your back upright and you can test this by running your hand down your lower spine to see if any vertebrae are protruding. If they are then you should sit on a folded blanket or cushion in order to help keep you upright.
2. If you are still having difficulties keeping a straight back you can try sitting against a wall. The sacrum and the shoulder blades should be against the wall and the lower back should be away from it. In order to help you place a rolled up blanket or bolster between your lower back and the wall.
3. You should sit on the front of your sitting bones and adjust your body so that your tailbone and pubis are an equal distance from the floor. You should now firm your thighs by pressing them down against the floor and turn them slightly inwards and draw the inner groins towards the sacrum. While you do this you should also ensure that you keep your belly soft and do not tense it. Keep the legs active by flexing the feet and pushing away through the heels.
4. You should now lengthen your upper body. You can do this by imagining an energy force pulling up from the pubis to the sternum and then down from the shoulder blades to the tailbone.
5. Remain in this pose for at least one minute before coming out to a simple cross legged position. While holding the pose it important to remember to breath. You should also ensure that your in breath is as long as your out breath.
Tips and Precautions
This is a relatively simple pose to practise and often one that will be done in order to help you move into other poses. However if you have any injuries to your lower back then you should avoid practising this pose until the injury fully heals.
If you are new to this pose you may find it difficult to firm your thighs against the floor and so may want to consider using a prop to help. You can place some light sandbags along your thighs in order to help weigh them down and keep them firm.
Benefits and Focus
Due to the fact that this is more of a preparatory pose than anything else the therapeutic benefits are very small. However it is something that can be of a significant benefit to your posture. Regular practise of this pose can help to firm the muscles in the thighs, hamstrings and back in order to help you improve your posture. In addition it can aid in stretching out the shoulders and the chest. Also practising this pose can help to quieten the mind which can have benefits for people suffering from both stress and anxiety. It is also a good idea to get good at this pose so you are able to move on to more complex pose at a later date.
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Lovely and cosy, comfortable lounge with wood burning stove, smart TV, bluetooth speaker and lots of local information books, games, puzzles, some children's toys and great choice of DVD's for both adults and children.
Adjoining the lounge is the well equipped open plan kitchen and dining room plus bathroom. The kitchen has a washing machine, microwave & Nespresso machine. I provide some essentials such as tea, coffee and sugar, tea towels, kitchen roll, dishcloth, washing up liquid and a basket of logs for the wood burner. In the bathroom are soft fresh towels, hand soap and toilet roll.
First Floor Description
Upstairs there are three light and airy bedrooms, two doubles and one single. The first bedroom has a cupboard with hanging space and other two bedrooms have hanging space on the walls and cupboard space.
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The strings are key to Night Thoughts' power, making a fanfare of opener When You Are Young (later reprised, elegiacally, as When You Were Young as the album completes a life well spent) and waving it all away on histrionic but affecting closer The Fur And The Feathers. Orchestras suit this mature, weather-beaten Suede.
Suede find their old swagger when they plug the electrics in
There are pitfalls in all this strung-out splendour, with one or two extraneous ballads (Tightrope, Pale Snow) dragging the flow, but Suede find their old swagger when they plug the electrics in. Outsiders marries some quintessential Anderson poetry ("There's a place selling bouquets of sellophane/That's where they meet in this desolate place") with a dynamic, taut jangle, while Like Kids ("The silent mannequins/The crumpled mothers ") has a real lick about its glam stomp.
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Yesterday I went to Youtube and watched a few videos. A while later I went back to watch some more.
But when I clicked on a video it took me to a page that looked like a youtube page but everything was slightly different and exaggerated.
I have clicktoflash so I normally get a blank window until I load the video.
This time I got a blank window and text in "big blue and red letters" saying I needed to update my flash.
I have SWF and Flv player which is up to date as are all my apps.
I did not click the link to upgrade as it looked like a scam.
I shut down the computer overnight and today youtube is back to normal.
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Sabbath - an example to follow (Genesis 2:1-3)Hugh Bourne, March 12, 2017
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2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. 3 So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. (ESV)
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Jim Grant: We're in an Era of 'Central Bank Worship' by Henry Bonner, Sprott Global.
Jim Grant is the publisher and editor of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, a bi-monthly newsletter that he founded in 1983, around the time when bonds were considered some of the worst investments – when they yielded 13 to 15 percent.
Rick Rule, Chairman of Sprott US Holdings Inc., often quotes Jim Grant's description of government bonds as 'return-free risk.' (Rick sees US Treasuries as the 'anti-gold').
Jim Grant took my questions on interest rates and the bond market – including Bill Gross' recent departure from PIMCO – via phone from his Manhattan office.
Jim Grant, you argue that companies whose share prices are rising should be becoming more efficient – hence driving down the costs of consumer goods and services.
The Fed is succeeding in keeping both stock market prices and consumer goods prices moving higher – which look like contradictory goals. Do you think this situation is sustainable going forward?
Jim Grant: Many years ago, falling prices were a sign of improved efficiency and expanding wealth, and of widening consumer choice. Thanks to the spread of electricity and other such wonders in the final quarter of the 19th century, prices dwindled year by year at a rate of 1.5% to 2% per year. People didn't call it deflation – they called it progress. Similarly, in the 1920's there were advances in production techniques. The prices didn't decline and didn't rise. They were stable. Looking back on the 20's from the vantage point of the 30's, many people wondered why prices had not fallen. They concluded that it was because the central banks were emitting too much credit, and that credit had served to inflate asset values. It had also pushed the world into a very imbalanced credit and monetary situation towards the close of the 20's.
Fast forward many generations and here we are today with a world-wide labor market linked through digital technology. We are the beneficiaries of Moore's law. Nearly every day we see new, wonderful, labor-enhancing machinery coming into the workplace – including new software. And yet, prices don't fall. They tend to rise, albeit by 1% or 2% per year. Central banks seem to want more than that. You do wonder – I wonder – what would be wrong with what Wall Mart calls 'everyday low and lower prices.' People seem to rather relish that – certainly when shopping on the weekends. Central banks want no part of it. So, I see that as a contradiction. What central banking policy has done is to inflate consumer prices that, if the laws of supply and demand were properly functioning, would have tended to fall. At the same time, central bank policy has tended to inflate the prices of stocks, bonds, and income-producing real-estate. Why it is that these immense emissions of new credit by the central banks have not been inflationary? Well, it seems to me that they have been inflationary, because prices are rising not falling.
Do you think that the situation will continue going forward – rising consumer prices along with rising stock prices?
Jim Grant: What I don't know about the future, we don't have the time to go into. I dare say that stock prices will not continue to rise uninterrupted at the same pace. That's not a very interesting prediction, but the stock market is certainly a cyclical thing. Stock prices will pull back in the fullness of time, whether it starts 5 minutes, 5 months, or 5 years from now. I think it's fair to observe that today's ultra-low interest rates flatter stock market valuations. Stock prices are partly valued based on a discounted flow of dividend income. To the extent that the discount rate you use to value that stream of dividend income, which depends on interest rates, is artificially low, stock prices are artificially high. I think that the burden of proof is on anyone who would assert that we are in a new age of persistently and steadily rising stock prices.
On the subject of bond markets, you've said: "does it not seem incongruous to chase low-yielding fixed-income securities denominated in a currency that the central bank is vowing to inflate?" Why do you think that investors go into bonds despite the Fed's intention to devalue them over time?
Jim Grant: Well, I can't explain it. I can try to piece together what might be driving people to do that, but, to me, it's a mystery. One thing to bear in mind is that bond prices have been rising and yields have been falling since fall of 1981. That's a long time and there's something in financial markets that we might call 'muscle memory.' Long-running trends tend to gather force, just as a rock rolling down a hill tends to pick up speed. There's something about the persistence and age of this bull market that leads more people to think that it will continue. That said, fixed-income investors are intelligent and reasoning people. That can't be the entire explanation. I see that in Europe money market interest rates are trending below zero. You have to search long and hard over the globe to find government securities in developed countries yielding more than 2%. In Ireland, some short-term securities are yielding less than 0%. Why would people buy them? I simply don't know – I can't fathom it –, but they certainly are, hand over fist.
You've also said that Treasury investors may 'repent at their leisure' for buying US Securities, and that corporate investors will one day wish they had not invested so heavily in corporate bonds. Do you see a bear market coming imminently for bonds?
Jim Grant: Yes – starting about 2002…
Henry, now, that's meant to be a laugh line.
I have wholly been way out of step with the bond market for a long time, and everything that I say with regards to the future of interest rates deserves to be written in something like invisible ink. You know, in a work entitled 'Security Analysis,' a work about value investing written by Benjamin Graham and David Dodd, this approximate phrase appears: "bond selection is a negative art." Well, what Graham and Dodd meant by that is that, because the buyer of a bond at par can do no better than getting his money back and earning some interest along the way, the prospect for gain is inherently limited. Risk ought to be at the front of the mind of the creditor. There are no 2 or 3-baggers in investment-grade bond investing. You have to be mindful of what can go wrong, and it seems that the world over, thanks to these policies by central banks, bond investors are not looking at risk, or feel they can't afford to look at risk. Rather, they are grasping at the few straws of yield that remain and I think that posterity will look back at this with wonder.
"Think of it" – I'm now putting words in posterity's mouth. "Think of it, people were buying as if the supply were limited. They were buying government securities, which yielded practically nothing. They were buying bonds denominated in currencies that the central banks


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It's all about George
George Groves tells skysports.com he is ready to get his career going again after some testing times...
By Tim Hobbs
Last Updated: 03/03/11 1:18pm
George Groves is used to things happening quickly.
A Commonwealth champion after only nine professional fights, Hayemaker Promotions' risk-and-reward philosophy brought titles and recognition to match his reputation as one of British boxing's brightest talents.
But when he climbs through the ropes in Huddersfield on Saturday night to face Ghana's Daniel Adotey Allotey, it will be the first time the Londoner has seen meaningful action in three months.
That period of inactivity was brought about by injury and last-minute changes to schedules that have left Groves not exactly kicking his heels but now ready, in his first outing of 2011, to kick-start his career.
Having already seen his first headline fight fall through at the last minute when James Obede Toney's deteriorating eyesight prevented them doing battle at the York Hall at the start of December, Groves then suffered the first knockdown of his professional career against Kenny Anderson two weeks later.
The first chance he had to right those wrongs was supposed to be in Liverpool in February, only for his own health to put paid to that days before the contest. He was then looking to box on the undercard of Matthew Hatton's world-title tilt with Saul Alvarez this weekend only for another late change to leave him heading to Yorkshire as part of a Matchroom Show.
It has been a frustrating time for the 22-year-old and a far cry from his rise through the super-middleweight rankings last year. It is no wonder, then, that Saturday cannot come quickly enough.
"It feels like it has been coming for a long time," Groves told skysports.com.
"I was supposed to box on February 12 but that got bumped because of injury. It was an accumulation of things really; in my last spar there was a clash of heads that led to a perforated eardrum and I'm one of those people that sometimes gets the feeling someone somewhere is trying to tell me something.
"I didn't want to go into a fight that wasn't really that important when I wasn't 100 per cent and risk blowing it.
"It's all part of it, it happens in boxing. Having the show cancelled at two days' notice was devastating, but considering it was the first defence of my Commonwealth title it was probably better it happened then than for the first defence of a world title. And if it does happen again in the future, I've had the experience of dealing with it all."
He has also had to live with, for the past three months, the indignation of suffering his first professional knockdown at the hands of Anderson.
It led to plenty of pundits, including Sky Sports' own Glenn McCrory, suggesting Groves and Adam Booth needed to work out just what style would not only suit him best, but sustain a career that promises much and, of course, survive a collision course with long-time rival James DeGale.
Groves, though, has not been idle in his time away from the ring. There was no crisis of confidence after the Anderson fight - which he won after all - and those that have seen him close-up will never question his commitment or talent. But there has been plenty of stylistic assessment and even a little soul-searching as he looks to the future.
"That's a fair comment, I can understand where they're coming from," he says of those that questioned him, without an ounce of indignation.
"What makes it a whole lot better is I am not really in two ways about what I want to be; I know what I'm good at at present and we're just adding to it all the time so when I do get to the toughest level I am not just a one-trick pony, I can change and adapt.
"It's a long process doing it against good fighters and there have been a few hurdles to overcome lately, but I would rather it happened earlier in my career.
"I know the reason it (the knockdown) happened; I let my heart rule my head. People might not realise what was going on but I know what I did and I know it was wrong. I needed to get back to who I am as a person instead of being worried about my ego and my pride.
"My pride embarrassed me, made me get put down; I was getting hit but tried to hit back and be flashy to frustrate him but I was caught by Anderson and I tried to punch my way out of the situation - that led to me making mistakes and getting knocked down.
"Then I tried to get up straight away and that was another ego thing, not something I needed to be doing."
Groves and Booth have not headed back to the drawing board by any means. Like any young fighter he is far from the finished product and is the first to admit that. But refinement rather than redesign has been taking place under the arches in south London, where he, David Haye and Booth draw out their battle plans and put them into practice.
It is easy to forget that less than two-and-a-half years ago he was still plying his trade behind the headguard and over three three-minute rounds. He might have a Commonwealth belt on the mantelpiece in his Hammersmith home but those amateur traits might just be as hard to shake off as professional trinkets are to snare.
But for Groves, it might just be a question of getting back to the basics that he brought into the paid ranks and then re-applying what he has learned since.
"I don't really have a one-punch knockout and I'm trying to develop that," he said. "But I want the ability to go on the back foot too, be essentially what I was as an amateur - an aggressive box-fighter.
"I've got a good boxing brain, good punch variety, good handspeed and it's better now that I know that style, it's what I'm getting back to trying.
"I used to overwhelm people with aggression and tenacity but make mistakes at the same time - amateurish mistakes - so I am just correcting those things and adding more things. I'd never throw a left hook as an amateur but now I am throwing it; I'm not going to be knocking people out like (Sugar) Ray Leonard, but it's coming."
Just as Groves knows little or nothing of Saturday's opponent, if Allotey thinks he will learn much from watching the Anderson fight, he could be making the sorest mistake of his own eight-year career.
Since then Groves has taken in a trip to Miami and the fabled Fifth Street Gym to work alongside Haye and a variety of sparring partners - southpaws like Allotey - that only a visit to the States can provide. A typically audacious Hayemaker bid to share those being used by IBF super-middleweight king Lucien Bute was politely declined, but in the gyms of America, doors open as quickly as they close.
"One day you walk into a gym and there's a 6ft 5in southpaw on the pads so you spar with him," he says.
"You just wouldn't get that in gyms over here but over there they've got sparring partners everywhere - and they are not frightened to get in the ring; they don't care who you are or what you've done. A couple of dollars can secure what you need and they're happy to oblige.
"I got some really good sparring in - although I can't actually remember any of their names."
For George Groves right now, one boxing identity matters. It is not that of the beanpole on the pads, not the name that it has become all but British boxing law to mention in any interview - for the record he expects the DeGale fight will happen "this side of the year" - and it is not even the man in the opposite corner on Saturday night.
If the public is waiting to see what George Groves can do when he finally returns to the ring, then so too is the man himself.
"It's better for me to get in there with someone I don't know, use my ability to break them down," he says. "He could be slightly worse than his record suggests or he could be the next best thing to come out of Africa.
"Hopefully he does come and ask a few questions of me. I've been in the gym doing stuff for a long time now, trying out new things, adding new strings to the bow and now we're bringing it all together.
"Right now, it's all about me."


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