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I've been a huge fan of this plugin for a few years now and I just noticed that the plugin is not working the way it had been previously when I upgraded to WordPress 3.5.1 which just recently came out.
I can still see the images on the sidebar where I uploaded all my images using this plugin, however, I used to be able to center them using the following CSS that I inserted into my theme <head> section using this:
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Hotels in London are pushing the boat out to accommodate Royal-watchers who want to commemorate the Royal Wedding. Here's a selection of our favourite packages...
Mandarin Oriental - for the Royal works
Historians and Royal enthusiasts will love Mandarin Oriental's new and exclusive Royal Wedding Tour. The six-day tour - guided by family members and associates of the royal family - takes in a number of royal landmarks across London, including Chartwell, Sir Winston Churchill's family home in Kent since 1924; the home of the Spencer Family; The British Museum and The Wallace Collection; the Institute of Contemporary Ar, where guests will have exclusive use of the venue and roof terrace overlooking The Mall, with views of the parade route, on the wedding day; Kensington Palace; Westminster Abbey; and Althorp, the ancestral home of Diana Princess of Wales' family since 1508, where guests will lunch with a member of the Spencer family. Price from £11,300 for one person and £18,800 for two people sharing the same accommodation. Valid between 26 April and 01 May only. To book call 0207 201 3618 or visit www.mandarinoriental.com/london
Dukes - for a spot of afternoon tea
Close to both Clarence House and Buckingham Palace, Dukes is the idea spot for afternoon tea on the day of the wedding - if you can pull yourself away from the procession. Whilst watching the ceremony on the Marlborough Suite's large flat screen TV, guests can enjoy a selection of finger sandwiches, warm fruit scones, buttered crumpets and teas. Price from £34.50 per person. To book call 0207 7491 4840 or visit www.dukeshotel.com
Four Seasons Park Lane - for spa-goers
The new rooftop spa at Four Seasons boasts a bird's eye view of Buckingham Palace, St James's Palace and the Royal Parks - and is the place to go for the ultimate spa treatment. Their Royal Rejuvenation package includes a Gold Omorovicza Hydrating Facial (80 minutes), A Princess Perfect Pedicure (60 minutes), and a spa lunch, served in the 10th floor lounge. Price £250; valid 20 April until 5 May 2011. To book call 0207 319 5480
Brown's Hotel - for princesses-in-waiting
Rocco Forte's Brown's Hotel has introduced 'The Little Princess for a Day' package for girls who dream of becoming princesses.. Accompanied by their parents, princesses-in-waiting (aged 3-10) are treated to a manicure before feasting on peach mocktails and pasties in the English Tea Room. When the fairytale comes to a close, girls can take home thePrincess and the frog DVD as a reminder of the day. 'The Little Princess for a Day' package is available from 31 March - 09 June 2011; price £116 per day, excluding VAT. To book visit www.brownshotel.com
The May Fair - for proposals
If you're thinking of popping the question yourself and your parnter is a Royal fanatic, then theAzure Suite and Sapphire package at the May Fair is the only one for you. The thre-night stay includes accommodation in the hotel's signature Azure Suite, and a sapphire engagement ring by Mayfair jeweller Jooal Fine Jewellery. Guests can choose from one-,two-, three-, eight-, or 18-carat sapphire ring set with a half carat of diamonds in white gold. Price from £9,500; may vary depending on final sapphire weight. For more information visit www.themayfairhotel.co.uk/viproyalwedding
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Since 1888, National Geographic has visited many strange, interesting, and exciting places, people, and animals on our planet. Within their published magazine, many people can enjoy nature and understand it through vivid pictures and informative texts. While that's nice and realistic in the 20th century, but come on this is the 21st century, technology can do better than magazines.
Enter in the portable hard drive filled with National Geographic's complete nature collection. A 160GB portable hard drive filled with all the high resolution images, and information that would normally be found in magazines. In addition, 100GB of the hard drive is free and available for personal use, but National Geographic could use that space for future content upgrades, so you can use it as you wish.
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As part of our goal to adding a little more personalization to RMD, featured artists now get exposure on the homepage.
Part of the initial motivation for featured artists was to help expose artists whose drawings deserve much more exposure than they get. Usually these are aspiring unique artists that are either new, or just not as socially active on the site as other members. Their artwork speaks to us in a unique way but they need a little help getting noticed.
The only real way to do this, was to hand-pick artists. This is a task that myself and some moderators have taken on with a list of strict guidance - the most important is to find artists who do not yet have as much fame as others but their drawings show something special or unique.
This is just one small step (an important one) into us helping find ways to even out the field of exposure that is otherwise driven by statistics and numbers - which as we all know isn't the perfect solution to finding good artwork.
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For most initial prostate cancer treatments, the answer is no. For instance, if your initial treatment is surgery to remove the prostate (prostatectomy), radiation therapy and hormone therapy may be options for you later, if necessary.
However, there is one exception. Prostatectomy isn't an option after radiation therapy for prostate cancer, except in very few specific cases.
Selecting the right treatment for prostate cancer depends on many factors. They include your overall health, your age, the size and spread of your cancer, the aggressiveness of your cancer, and how you feel about the potential side effects of treatment.
Treatment options include:
Talk to your doctor about the pros and cons of each option before making a decision. Which initial treatment you choose can affect a later treatment choice, should it be needed because of recurring cancer.
Prostatectomy after radiation therapy or cryosurgery (salvage prostatectomy) is performed in only very select cases because the effects of radiation on the prostate and surrounding tissues make the procedure very difficult. Salvage prostatectomy carries a significantly increased risk of fecal and urinary incontinence, as well as a risk of injury to nearby structures, such as your rectum.
How widespread the recurring cancer is also plays a role in considering salvage prostatectomy.
Although salvage prostatectomy can be performed at specialized medical centers, it is often an option of last resort and determined on a case-by-case basis. Your doctor may recommend other treatments, such as hormone therapy, before considering salvage prostatectomy.
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Pianist Kerry Baham, a native of Hammond and graduate of Southeastern Louisiana University, will return to his alma mater for a guest recital on April 2.
The 7:30 p.m. performance in the Pottle Music Building Auditorium is free and is part of the music and dramatic arts departments spring Encore! performing arts series.
Currently, Baham is performing a series of all Brahms recitals at colleges and universities in Louisiana, Texas, and Kansas. At Southeastern, he will perform Brahms Sonata No. 3 in F Minor, Op. 5, Six Piano Pieces, Op. 118, and Hungarian Dance No. 1 in G Minor.
Baham received his early musical training from David Evenson, head of Southeasterns music and dramatic arts department. He has won several awards in competitions, including the Louisiana Collegiate Artist Competition and the Wideman International Piano Competition.
As an artist on the Eroica label, Baham is involved in recording the complete piano sonatas of Mozart. His first compact disc of three Mozart piano sonatas has been heard on Texas and Missouri public radio.
In addition to his Southeastern degree in piano performance, Baham is also a graduate of the University of North Texas and has completed additional studies at the prestigious Mozarteum Conservatory in Salzburg, Austria. He has served as head of piano studies on the faculty of Tyler Junior College in Tyler, Texas, since 1997.
As a soloist, Baham has been heard with the Monroe Symphony Orchestra, the Jackson Symphony, and the New Orleans Junior Philharmonic. Also an active accompanist, he has collaborated with winners of the Metropolitan Opera Auditions in concerts in the United States and Europe.
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In Today's Notes: Chicago-born Medal of Honor Recipient at Arlington Park Saturday; Illinois-raised Medal of Honor Recipient Baker Returning Saturday; First Living Medal of Honor Recipient Since Vietnam Attending
Allen James Lynch, a former United States Army soldier born in Chicago in 1945 and now a resident of Gurnee, Illinois, will be one of more than 30 Medal of Honor recipients present at Arlington Park Saturday for Arlington's Military Appreciation Day – an afternoon designed in tribute to the men and women of all of the United States military branches and their families.
The Congressional Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government and is bestowed by the President of the United States in the name of Congress on members of the United States Armed Forces who distinguish themselves through "conspicuous gallantry at the risk of life and above and beyond the call of duty while engaged in an action against an enemy of the United States."
During a firefight on Dec. 15, 1967, while serving as a specialist four in the Republic of Vietnam, Lynch dashed across 50 meters of open ground through intense enemy fire three times to carry the three wounded men to a covered position. When his company was forced to withdraw because of the superior firepower of the enemy, Lynch stayed behind to protect the wounded men. Alone he defended the isolated position for two hours against enemy attack. Then he crossed 70 meters of exposed terrain five times to carry his wounded comrades to a more secure area until locating a friendly force which could evacuate them.
Lynch was subsequently promoted to sergeant and awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions. The medal was formerly presented to him by President Richard Nixon in 1970.
After the war, Lynch worked for the Department of Veterans Affairs where he advocated increased benefits for disabled veterans, and later served as chief of the Illinois Attorney General's Veteran Rights Bureau until his retirement in 2005.
John F. Baker Jr., raised in Moline, Illinois, may be the only Medal of Honor recipient to have a bridge named after him. The Interstate 280 bridge connecting Davenport, Iowa to Rock Island, Illinois, was renamed the Baker Bridge last year, and Baker, who was born in Davenport, will be one of a large gathering of Medal of Honor recipients present at Arlington Park Saturday for the Chicago oval's designated Military Appreciation Day.
Other features of Arlington's Military Appreciation Day include a dramatic demonstration by the Black Daggers and the 101st Airborne Division's Screaming Eagles parachute team.
Baker's Medal of Honor citation credits him with "selfless heroism, indomitable fighting spirit and extraordinary gallantry" while saving the lives of fellow soldiers while his company was under intense enemy fire in Vietnam on Nov. 5, 1966.
When Baker was awarded his citation in ceremonies in the East Room of the White House, President Lyndon Johnson said: "The battlefield is the scarred and the lonely landscape of man's greatest failure, but it is a place where heroes walk."
Former NFL star running back and Vietnam vet Rocky Bleier was the keynote speaker during the ceremonies dedicating the Baker Bridge. At the present time, Baker is recognized as the only Medal of Honor recipient from the Quad-Cities.
Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta is the first living person to receive the Medal of Honor, the United States Armed Forces' highest decoration for valor, for actions that occurred since the Vietnam War.
Born in Clinton, Iowa, immediately across the Mississippi River from East Clinton, Illinois, Giuinta will be in attendance at Arlington Park Saturday for Arlington's designated Military Appreciation Day in a designed tribute for the men and women of all branches of the United States military.
The afternoon will also feature a National Anthem performance by the 85th Army Band, the Marine Air Control Group 48 Color Guard, renowned tenor Steve Amerson of the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation and Society, and the Shannon Rovers bagpipe band.
Giunta received his Medal of Honor from President Barack Obama during a ceremony at the White House on Nov. 16, 2010, for saving the lives of members of his squad on Oct. 25, 2007, during the War in Afghanistan.
When he found out he was going to be recommended for the Medal of Honor, Giunta said, "If I'm a hero, every man that stands around me, every woman in the military, everyone who goes into the unknown is a hero.
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Hollywood Now: Chris Pine, Rachel Weisz & Ari Graynor, Plus So Many Babies!By Gerri Miller
New flicks with celebs in interfaith relationships and from interfaith backgrounds, plus their baby news!Go To Pop Culture
Facebook Is Not a Waste of Time
About four months ago, I signed up for Facebook. Several of my younger friends in the Jewish communal world had been clamoring for me to join. They had "tagged" photos of me in their profiles, whatever that meant. I was skeptical. I'd spent some time on MySpace. It was a disorganized mess. I had set up a profile there months before, never checked it again, and continued to receive friend requests from people with names like "Suzi" and "Candy." Would Facebook be any better?
Ultimately, it wasn't the clamor of friends that led me to enlist. It was work. IFF was, and is, considering doing something with online social networking. Having not been involved in any social networks up to that point–and being the youngest person in the office–I needed to get up to speed. Alongside Facebook, I signed up for Yelp! and Shoutlife, a Christian social network. I never look at my Yelp! page and plan to shut down my Shoutlife profile, but I've checked my Facebook homepage every day for at least the last two months. My name is Micah, and I am a Facebook junkie.
Facebook may have sapped some of my productivity at work (sorry, Ed), but it does have its benefits. A week or so ago, I started a group, Friends of InterfaithFamily.com, and we're up to 21 members. And today, in my friends feed–which lists updates to any of your friend's profiles–was the news that Andi Rosenthal, one of our best writers, had joined a group called Conversion to Judaism Resource Group. If you're on Facebook and a convert, or considering conversion, it's a pretty active resource. But scrolling through the discussion board turned me onto a terrific new blog called Jews by Choice. This group blog written by, and for, converts, is updated on a daily basis. It's home to the kinds of discussions that most born Jews never think about: How expensive are Tefillin? Is it OK to attend a life cycle event at your synagogue even if you don't know the congregants involved well? How does one do Shabbat? In responding to these questions, the site is a great information source for both Jews-by-choice and Jews who feel bashful to admit what they don't know.
So, yes, Facebook has its uses. (Although like all junkies, I may just be in denial.)
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While American folk bands expand their sounds with instruments like banjos, cellos, and melodicas -- Australian performer, Xavier Rudd will raise the stakes by playing bells, banjos, stomp boxes and three didgeridoos (among his many instruments), alone. It's hard to avoid the word "hippy" when the themes of his music are so socially conscious they leave you warm and fuzzy. He's not your average "burner," though expect to see some in the crowd. Rudd plays the second of his two night stint at the Belly Up.
Wednesday August 7:
- Xavier Rudd, Nehko, Medicine for the People @ Belly Up
- One I Red, Radios Silent, the Young Gents @ Casbah
- Solicit presents Greenhouse, Conspiracy Theorists, Sighphur One, Innate & EP, DJ Tramlife @ Soda Bar
- Andy Clockwise, Malta @ the Griffin
- John & the Time Travelling Bicycle, the Grownup Noise, Goldenboy featuring the New Familiar @ Tin Can Ale House
- The Soft White Sixties, Flaggs, Adam Bones @ the Void
- Teenage Burritos @ San Diego Museum of Art
- Willie Nelson & Family, Lily Meola @ Humphreys Concerts by the Bay
- Jeremy Morris, the Pops, True Stories @ Lestat's
- A Brief History of Rhyme, DJ Heather Hardcore @ Til-Two Club
- Sed Non Satiata, Carrion Spring, Lee Corey Oswald, Moxie Beat @ Ché Café
- DJ Grandmasta Rats @ Bar Pink
- Kice Simko & friends @ Riviera Supper Club
- The Farmers @ Humphreys Backstage Live
- Fuzzy @ Croce's
- Gilbert Castellanos Jazz Jam @ Seven Grand
- BLUSD presents Jammingout the House of Blues @ House of Blues Voodoo Stage
- New Best Thing @ Whistle Stop
- Coolrays @ Spreckels Organ Pavilion (6 p.m.)
- Club M.A.W. @ Henry's Pub
- Gino & the Lone Gunman @ Patrick's Gaslamp Pub
- Lady Dottie & the Diamonds @ Gallagher's Irish Pub
- Future Wednesdays @ Kava Lounge
- Pandora @ Coyote Bar & Grill
- JG Duo @ McP's Irish Pub
- Backwater Blues Band @ Kona Kai Resort
- Kayla Hope @ Beaumont's
- Matti Sand @ Lazy Hummingbird (OB)
- Firehouse Swing Night @ Queen Bee's
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"Glee" Star Cory Montieth Found Dead In Hotel Room
Cory Montieth who played Finn Hudson on the popular TV Series "Glee" was found dead in his hotel room in Vancouver, British Columbia. His body was discovered by hotel staff when he missed his check out time. Cory did admit he had a history of substance abuse. Although cause of death has not been determined yet…foul play is not expected. Cory was 31.


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The Calgary Flames have made a pair of deals on trade deadline day, sending forward Lee Stempniak to Pittsburgh and goalie Reto Berra to Colorado.
The Swiss goalie Berra netted a second-round pick in the upcoming draft, with a third-round pick in the same draft the yield from the Penguins.
Stempniak has 146 goals and 184 assists in 616 career regular-season games, with 229 penalty minutes. He potted 31 goals in 160 games in a Flames uniform.
The right-winger is in the final season off a contract that represents a salary cap hit of $2.5 million US.
Berra is in his first NHL season, going 9-17-2 in 29 appearances with an .895 save percentage and 2.95 goals-against average.
The Flames did not deal Mike Cammalleri, who is also a pending free agent.
Also Wednesday, the Flames recalled forwards Corban Knight, Max Reinhart and Ben Hanowski, as well as goalie Joey MacDonald, from the Abbotsford Heat of the American Hockey League.
MacDonald, a veteran of 129 NHL games, is 3-3 with Calgary in seven appearances this season.
The Flames announced that defenceman Derek Smith had been assigned to Abbotsford. He had one assist in 14 games with Calgary this season.
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3 cm dilated baby three
I was 3 cm dilated this past Tuesday my doc stripped membranes and I lost mucus plug. I have had contractions all day off and on some are pretty strong and it has made me nauseous could I be dilated more or should I go to the hospital?
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I'm 40 min from my hospital or should I call a l&d nurse?
by Bronze Member on Jul. 12, 2014 at 6:33 PM
Exciting, I'd start timing them. Then call l&d first.
I'd wait till they got more regular. And time them. If they was getting about 10 min apart I'd get them.
Once they are regularly 10 minutes apart for at least 40-60 minutes, call l&d and tell them. Since they are 40 minutes away, they may tell you to come in.
They have been coming about ten to eleven min apart and now I'm having bad pelvic pain that hurts when I walk. I just hate to go to hospital for hours and then be sent home
Time them. Typically, they don't want you coming in before your contractions are about 5 minutes apart because before that is just pre-labor. Were your previous two births fast?
Last two births were fast I went last night contractions were measuring in the fifties but they told me they was going to give meds to stop them. Even though I'm 3cm dilated 65% effaced and 38 weeks preg be 39 Monday.
by Silver Member on Jul. 13, 2014 at 3:41 PM
Why would they stop labor at 38 weeks!!!??? Hope all is ok
No clue I kept asking but never got a true answer I see my doctor Wednesday and I'm going to find out. I understand stopping before 36 but I'm past that.I hope I get to have him Wednesday and then my tubal I am done.
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Gary Thomas tells the story in his book, �Sacred Marriage,� about two brothers who worked together during the day in a field and in the evening at a mill. Each night they divided up the grain they had processed. One brother was single and one was married with a large family. The single brother decided that his married brother, with all those kids, certainly needed more than he did, so at night he secretly crept over to his brother�s granary and gave him an extra portion. The married brother realized that his single brother didn�t have any children to care for him in his old age, so he went up each night and secretly deposited some grain in his brother�s granary. One night they met halfway between the two granaries, and each brother realized what the other was doing. They embraced and as the old rabbinical story goes, God witnessed what happened and said, �This is a holy place � a place of love � and it is here that my temple shall be built.�
That�s a picture of what was happening in the first church in Jerusalem. The people were saved from sin and to a new way of life, even to the point that, �No one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own.� That seems to be a contradiction in terms, doesn�t it? If what belongs to me is not my own, then it doesn�t belong to me, does it? Well, no, it really doesn�t. It belongs to the Lord. But at the same time, he lets us choose what we are going to do with those things that belong to him and are in our hands. He gives us stewardship over much. That�s what was going on in the new church. They were living out the reality of what Jesus had told them when he said, �It is your Father�s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Sell your possessions, and give to the needy.� Because they believed this promise, that God would give them the kingdom, they were free to meet genuine needs in the church out of love.
I can imagine a conversation Peter might have had with an old friend he bumped into one day in Jerusalem. The friend says, �Hey, what�s this I hear about a � what do you call it, a church? What�s going on with all you people who are following this Galilean guy around? What�s his name, Jesus? The dead religious leader. I mean, he was crucified, right?�
�Yes,� Peter might say, �but haven�t you heard? God raised him from the dead on the third day, and I saw him. I talked to him. I ate with him. Jesus is alive! And do you know what he is doing now? He is changing lives. Thousands of them. He has given us salvation, the promise of eternal life, and he has given us peace with God and love for God�s people. In fact, just the other day, a believer named Barnabas sold a field, brought the money from the sale, and laid it at our feet. All of it. He did that so people in the church who need food and clothing and are just struggling with basic needs could be helped. Not because he had to, but because he wanted to.�
The radical love of Jesus Christ leads to radical giving. He loosens our grip on things, and tightens our embrace on people. It doesn�t mean that his followers never own anything. It simply means that their things don�t own them.
He does.
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HOBART, Australia, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- A French sailor who had been drifting on a life raft in the Southern Ocean off the coast of the Australian island Tasmania was rescued Sunday, officials said.
Sailor Alain Delord was picked up by the cruise ship Orion, the BBC reported.
Delord, 63, was attempting to make a solo round-the-world voyage in a yacht when mast on his vessel broke Friday, forcing him to abandon it, a spokesman for the Australian Maritime Safety Authority told the BBC.
The Orion was making its way back to Australia from the Antarctic when it answered Delord's distress call, changing its course to pick up the sailor.
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Quirks of the Ultima VII Engine
The Ultima VII engine was really advanced for its time. However, the technical limitations were still a challenge for the programmers at Origin. So they had to resort to tricks in order to create the game world. Tricks, that are quite interesting to reveal.
Where do the Dead go?[edit]
One very important distinction in the engine is between objects and NPCs. Objects (and monsters) can be created or destroyed. NPCs, however, cannot, or the game could break. Of course, during the events of Ultima VII and (especially) Serpent Isle, NPCs do in fact die, and often. This begs the question of exactly what does happen when an NPC dies.
When an NPC is killed, they don't actually "die". Instead, they are teleported away and replaced by a corpse-object with a pre-defined inventory. Casting Resurrect on the corpse-object destroys the object and teleports the corresponding NPC back into its place with full health; the NPC takes the inventory of the corpse-object upon its arrival. This happens so quickly within the game engine that it is barely perceptible to the player, thus creating the illusion of death and resurrection.
But if "dead" NPCs are simply teleported away, where do they actually go? On both Britannia and Serpent Isle, there is an area that is totally unreachable by normal means, where all the NPCs are stored. In Ultima VII, this is is a carpeted area deep inside the mountains just north of the Shrine of Compassion. In Ultima VII Part Two, the "House of the Dead" is located on the top left of the map.
There are some things of interest with this mechanism:
- The nature of the Ultima VII engine means these "Rooms of the Dead" must be somewhere on the world map, in an area where the player cannot access or even view by normal means. However, running Exult in higher resolutions may result in these areas becoming visible.
- NPCs who just vanish (such as Batlin after the Black Gate fight) also go to the Rooms of the Dead, since they can't be removed from the world but still have to become un-encounterable.
- Exult seems to break it, probably because the game engine can now store the NPCs in-program. In Ultima VII, only Batlin is found there after vanishing from the Black Gate fight. In Serpent Isle, only destroyed Automatons, Gwani, some pikemen, and the Banes of Chaos are found there.
- There is also the question of the Armageddon spell in Ultima VII. Armageddon doesn't actually kill anyone; rather, it causes NPCs to drop unconscious on the spot, with their AI destroyed. This is why Resurrect doesn't work — Resurrect only works on corpse objects, which these unconscious NPCs are not as far as the engine is concerned. But nothing you do will ever bring anyone out of their "vegetable" state. (The Ferryman, who is unaffected by Armageddon, is a special case that will be discussed below.)
- Lord British seems to hold executive power over death, since angering him by cheating (more below) kills even people in the room of the dead, this time for real! Since the game would already be broken anyway if the player triggered this event, the programmers felt justified in doing it here.
Looking into Alagner's crystal ball reveals what he has done last day and later shows his execution by Abraham, Elizabeth, Hook and Forskis.
How is this feat accomplished? After all, the Britannia of Ultima VII is one, single map.
It indeed is a single map, so to create this effect, the programmers had to use a trick. Looking at a computer-generated map of the Isle of the Avatar reveals two copies of Alagner's house hidden beneath the mountains. The southern one has a dummy NPC (using a monster slot, since there can be only one Alagner) doing exactly the same things as the real Alagner, providing the image for the crystal ball.
The northern house actually has another dummy and dummies of his assassins being frozen in motion, providing the scenery for the killing seen in the crystal ball. Walking into the scene causes them to come to life and attack the party.
Even more, this system was also used in Serpent Isle. In the north-western part of the map is a strangely unfinished structure in the ocean. Walking up the stairs reveals a copy of the upper floor of Shamino's Castle with strange lighting bolts and fireballs flying around.
Since the programmers were unable to use the real location for programming reasons, they created this little area and Batlin and Cantra teleport in to create the cutscene for the crystal ball in Harnna's house.
Not so ethereal[edit]Shrine of Spirituality.
They had ran out of mountains where they could hide this huge area (huge, because otherwise the limits would be obvious), so they had the idea to house it on the huge upper floor of an equally huge building on the Isle of the Avatar. The building is very prominent, you can't miss it.
Note that with Exult, this building loses its function with the Keyring Mod, since the new multi-map option allows for de-crowding the map. The current builds however haven't removed it yet.
Talking to an object[edit]
The Armageddon spell can't hurt the Ferryman. Indeed, it is totally impossible to do anything to him. However, to do this, the programmers had to trick the game. The Ferryman actually is an object which you can use to talk to. His weapon is part of his sprite, therefore unreachable and his object type has no inventory.
The whole issue with objects doubling for people becomes more interesting once you realise that the Time Lord also is an object! To add to the twist, the player normally thinks that the person locked into the time barrier is the Time Lord. However, this is totally wrong, it is just a plain statue. Moving the barrier to a different place with the hackmover and then using it reveals, that the barrier represents the Time Lord.
In Serpent Isle they had the problem that all NPC slots were used up when they created Silver Seed, so the NPCs in the expansion are actually modified monsters.
Map Mess[edit]
The reason for this mess however is simple. Since Ultima VII Part Two is a much more linear game, the Avatar never uses a ship to sail around, meaning that the player is restricted to walking on the land. This fact gave the programmers the chance to not only hide things under mountains. In practically every ocean area that is out of sight, there is some underground area placed.
These areas are usually reached via teleporter or stairs which have a hidden teleporter to this new place on the map. In normal gameplay this never becomes obvious. It did however create a programmer's nightmare (especially with the lost source code).
Note that with Exult and its multi-map support, this solution is no longer needed and there are mods that clean up the map, shifting everything to an underground map.
The teleport trick[edit]Teleport Storm. The game mechanism behind this is to take away objects from the inventory and add new ones. However, the programmers were faced with a problem.
The mechanism only worked for things in possession of the party, meaning that there was the danger of clever players putting everything on the ground (with exception of the Black Sword) and retrieve it after meeting Thoxa and the triggering of the events. To make this impossible, they used a trick. West of the beach are two copies of it. The game starts on the westernmost. When the lightning starts, the party starts to vanish. After that, the Avatar is for a second on the second beach, then the lightning strikes and the Avatar is teleported to the final beach, unable to reach the dropped objects on the first beach. In-game, the player doesn't notice these game mechanics, since a map and Sextant are only later available.
Indeed, the objects you "get back" are already on the map, meaning that every item actually exists two times on the map should they be dropped on the ground at the beginning!
One weakness of the engine is that objects that are supposed to be different can have the same properties, should the programmers miss something.
In Ultima VII this wasn't much of a problem. The only noticeable thing is that a filled bucket, regardless of what it is filled with — water, milk, alcohol, even blood! — always has the same property as a filled container of water for making bread. Only the blood from the Stone of Castambre has different properties.
It became a problem in Ultima VII Part Two. In the original game (that is, before the expansion), there was a serious problem with ghosts. The Chaos Hierophant ghost was accidentally used for all ghosts encountered on the Serpent Isle, which can be especially critical in the exploded powder mill early in the game. This is fixed in the Silver Seed, but it introduces another issue: The black-yellow pillars in the room with Isstanar actually are copies of the pillar from the test of purity in Furnace, which can lead to crashes.
There is a normally unreachable, small room with Fire Fields and cracked mirrors in the mountains just south of the Lost River (directly north of the Sphere Generator). Entering it will summon Lord British, who declares the Avatar a cheater before attacking. Everyone in the world has turned into a corpse and the NPCs were erased from the game. And the companions are now useless, spouting total gibberish.
Note that in Exult, one effect is lost: all other text was replaced with "oink!". It seems that removing the NPCs will break the game, something the programmers accepted, as this situation meant it was game over anyway.


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Randall has scored a new job! I am so elated for him. The pride beaming in his smile is something a picture couldn't capture, so I haven't even bothered (plus, I have bronchitis and taking a picture of anything right now is effort I can't muster up at this point).
He is finally getting to do what he has worked up to for the past decade. We are in awe at how all this came about and we are praising Jesus for all of it!
So, why the butter picture? Well, he is working for Land O' Lakes but he will not be making butter. Since this is the only thing most of us know about Land O' Lakes, I thought it was most fitting. I am still trying to figure out if there is an employee discount on butter, but I am doubting it real seriously.
P.S. Yes, the post title is the Land O' Lakes slogan. I am already drinking the Kool-Aid, so to speak.


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Results of the 2016 IAU HESD Survey
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Results of the 2016 IAU HESD Survey
The first edition of the IAU HESD Global Survey was developed in order to: connect with IAU Members; research and analyze what their approaches are to sustainable development; determine how IAU can exchange and enhance such initiatives; advocate for HESD worldwide.
The survey was opened from June 2016 to October 2016 and the results were presented by Hilligje Van't Land, IAU Deputy Secretary General, during the IAU 15th General Conference in Bangkok in November 2016.
We received 120 responses in total (97% from IAU Members), including 66 fully completed survey; 18% of our Members participated and all continents were represented.
Main findings:
- Awareness on sustainable development
> 70% know well or very well about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD).
58% know well or very well about the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
70% are familiar with the Whole Institution Approach.
Sustainable development (SD) is considered, in most cases, to be linked to environmental issues (84%), but also societal (68%) and cultural (60%) issues.
- Sustainable development is being integrated within Universities, including at the strategic level. Yet progress still needs to be made
45% adopted a Whole Institution Approach.
34% have a strategic plan related to SD, 38% are developing one.
Sustainability initiatives are mainly developed in faculty department, sustainability centres but also student organizations.
56 % have professional development programs related to SD.
- Universities are collaborating on sustainable development issues especially at local and national levels
70% are engaged with other Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) on SD.
Universities surveyed are also engaged in other HESD networks including COPERNICUS Alliance, HESI, SDNS, Gupes…
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This year homers again are on the rise. During the first week of the season, major-leaguers hit 186, compared with 128 last year, a 45 percent jump. Even weak hitters are pounding the ball alarming distances.
Rawlings, which moved its plant to Costa Rica, insists this year's balls are no different from those manufactured in years past.


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Teachers participated in DSAC summer mathematics and literacy courses with fall/winter follow-up sessions scheduled to take place on or after 9/1/11. (Appendix 1 lists all ESE-approved DSAC courses with fall/winter follow-up sessions; Appendix 2 lists districts that purchased spaces in courses with fall/winter follow-up sessions.)
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Copenhagen - A Danish cartoonist who sparked Muslim outrage with a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad said on Monday his life had become "full of angst" since the image was published five years ago.
"The drawing has taken on a life of its own, all around the world," Kurt Westergaard, 75, told reporters as he presented his new autobiography.
"It has become a kind of icon and it has given me the same sort of status, though unwillingly."
"I lead an existence that is full of angst, although I am protected," he said.
Westergaard's cartoon depicting Muhammad with a bomb-like turban with a lit fuse was one of a dozen first published in the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten in 2005 that caused violent and sometimes deadly protests the following year.
And the controversy, which has earned him numerous death threats and assassination attempts, has not gone away.
This January a Somali man broke into Westergaard's home and allegedly threatened to kill him with an axe and a knife, while a number of planned and attempted attacks on Jyllands-Posten have come to light over the past year.
Westergaard's autobiography, entitled The Man Behind the Line and written and published by John Lykkegaard, features a reworked version of the offending drawing.
It has been merged with a cartoon of Westergaard himself.
In the image the cartoonist wears a turban with "New York, Madrid, London" scrolled across it, and looks down at the famous turban-bomb drawing with an enigmatic, almost Mona Lisa smile on his face, and flanked by a small rabbit.
The animal, he explains in the book, "symbolises my personal courage, which is not very big".


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I'm pretty sure you'll lose root if you update.. Not 100% sure but almost.
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I think (and maybe it was just my phone) that MG2 wasn't compatible with KIES. It would never work for me (the firmware check through KIES) after upgrading to MG2, stating it was not supported.
Uploading the OTA right now. It will only work if you're on 4.1.2.
I'm going to remove everything but the system/kernel and create a flashable zip for everybody.
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LONDON Memory technology licensing company Rambus Inc. has appointed Mark Pinto, chief technology officer of Applied Materials Inc., to its board of directors.
At Applied (Santa Clara, Calif.) Pinto is a senior vice president, general manager of the New Business and New Products Group and he also serves as chairman of Applied's venture capital investment committee.
Pinto spent 19 years with Bell Laboratories and the Lucent Microelectronics Group, later to become Agere Systems, where he held the positions of vice president and general manager of a network product IC division and chief technology officer.
"Mark's wealth of experience in the semiconductor industry, and demonstrated technology and business leadership, make him ideally suited to join our board," said Geoff Tate, chairman of the board of directors of Rambus (Los Altos, Calif.), in a statement.


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As the last days of summer sublimely trickle away, a good portion of the population returns to school. But first, they must do the necessary shopping. New clothes, some unsharpened pencils, Binders, notebooks, and, for an increasing amount of students, e-readers and tablets.
Looking to cut down on the cost of textbooks, some parents have invested in e-readers. Some school districts have even taken the large step of buying e-readers for their entire student body, looking to spare themselves from buying textbooks that will either get lost or become outdated (here's a map of schools that are using tablet technology). But are school districts taking full advantage of this new technology? It was only two decades ago that we were wondering about the efficacy of computers in the classroom. Forbes has put together a list of four reasons why distributing tablets in classrooms can stumble. The reasons include theft, no new curriculum to go with the new technology, no available wi-fi, and glitchy products.
Here's a list of ideas of how educators and authors can help make tablets and e-readers a vital part of the classroom, and help the technology mature past its bumpy introduction.
1) Make sure e-readers are not only used for assigned reading or projects. Allow students to explore different books and media — a school's library doesn't have to become obsolete just because the school has gone digital. Libraries can be a place where students can borrow e-books from sites like Overdrive, or other companies that let you borrow books. School libraries can also be a place where a school employee can train students on how to use their new technology in diverse ways.


text: Is hard to bring assistants from other teams with no previous experience coaching in college or the nfl level and expect them to succeed. Some candidates have had previous experience at very small college level, and some others have been long time assistants. Guys like Manginni, Crenel, Daniels, Cam Cameron, Tony Sparano are the name of few. Will Phibin break the ice or are we expecting the same result from someone learning on the job as an nfl coach?


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Slouched in a patio chair wearing a beach-bum cap and a stylish windbreaker, the software engineer rubbed his eyes and tried to shake off his hangover. The sun was shining brightly...
LHASA, Tibet Slouched in a patio chair wearing a beach-bum cap and a stylish windbreaker, the software engineer rubbed his eyes and tried to shake off his hangover. The sun was shining brightly in a clear blue sky and it was already well past 1 p.m., but the 33-year-old Beijing native had just ordered breakfast.
Back home, he would have been sitting in his dreary cubicle by now, squinting at a computer screen in a windowless room illuminated by pale, fluorescent lights. But two months ago he quit his job, gathered his savings and departed for a faraway land he had heard was entirely different from the rest of China Tibet.
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He even adopted a Tibetan name, Nyima Tsering. Several young Chinese professionals lounging with him in the courtyard of a cheap hostel here in the Tibetan capital said they had taken Tibetan names, too.
"We came here to get away from our old lives, and to experiment with the Tibetan lifestyle," Tsering said, gesturing at a Tibetan woman who was singing as she hung laundry on a nearby balcony. "We don't want anything to remind us of our past, not even our names."
Idealistic young travelers
The inns of Lhasa are full of people like Tsering, young Chinese slackers who have traveled to Tibet in search of a romantic ideal, a land of natural beauty unspoiled by the materialism and competitiveness they see at home.
Some stay for months, others for as long as their money lasts. If they are China's hippies, then Tibet is their Berkeley.
They are an extreme example of a growing popular fascination with Tibet in China. Especially among young, college-educated Chinese in the prosperous cities in the east, Tibet is the cool place to visit, and all things Tibetan are hip: Tibetan music, Tibetan jewelry, Tibetan literature, even Tibetan spirituality.
These Chinese often are interested in Tibet for the same reasons so many Americans and Europeans are: They see this isolated region of snowcapped mountains as a simpler, untainted alternative to modern pressures.
"In Beijing, in Shanghai, it's all about materialism. Your neighbor buys a car, and then you have to buy a better one. Life is so stressful. But here, it's different," said Fei Tieren, 56, who gave up his job as an electrician in Shanghai to take a two-month journey through Tibet. "There's a different culture, with different values, and I think we can learn from it."
One result of this surge in interest is a remarkable boom in domestic tourism. Last year, officials said, more than 720,000 Chinese tourists visited Tibet, up nearly 30 percent from 2001. By comparison, about 140,000 foreign tourists visited the region in 2002, an increase of about 2.4 percent.
Of course, not all these Chinese visitors are disillusioned city dwellers seeking spiritual enlightenment. Most journey through Tibet with tour groups, busing from one attraction to another, buying trinkets, taking pictures and interacting very little with Tibetans. Some are government officials from other parts of China using state money to fund "inspection visits" that are essentially junkets for their friends and relatives.
"Why shouldn't we visit Tibet? It's part of Chinese territory," snapped one portly official after posing for a photograph in front of Tibetan pilgrims prostrating themselves before the Jokhang temple, Tibet's holiest shrine.
Li Shaoshan, a television producer who worked in Tibet for several years during the 1980s, said even the young Chinese who stay for months in Tibet are largely ignorant of Tibetan culture.
"They treat it as Disneyland," he said. "If they really cared about Tibet, they should work and try to help the Tibetan people instead of just playing around."
A Catch 22 for some
But at least some Chinese visitors leave Tibet a little more sympathetic to the local people and a little more worried about what is happening to their homeland. Though Tibet has drifted in and out of Chinese control for centuries, the unprecedented influx of Chinese settlers is transforming its cities, and government policies are weakening its unique culture.
"I came to Tibet to visit the temples and shrines, to feel my religion more deeply. I thought it would be a very different place, a very spiritual place," said Li Xin, 26, a finance student from northeastern China on a two-week trip through Tibet. "But now I can see how much it has changed, and I know it is people like me, from inland, who are changing it."
The Chinese government appears somewhat uncomfortable with the growing interest of its people in Tibet, especially in Tibetan Buddhism.
Two years ago, Chinese authorities cracked down on a huge monastic encampment in eastern Tibet known as Larung Gar, ordering the expulsion of most of the community's 7,000 to 8,000 monks and nuns. According to eyewitness reports, police made it a priority to expel all the Chinese postulants first.
China has also tried to ensure that both Chinese and foreign visitors to Tibet hear only Beijing's side of the international debate over Chinese rule of the region.
This year, the government dismissed more than 150 Tibetan tour guides because of suspicions about their political views, according to people in the tourism business here.
Every tour guide who had studied English in India, where the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, lives in exile, was fired, the sources said, to be replaced by more than 100 new tour guides trained in China.
Tranor, deputy director of Tibet's tourism bureau, acknowledged that "a few" Tibetan tour guides were dismissed. He said tourists complained that they had made remarks supporting independence for Tibet.
He also confirmed that police now check the "political background" of every Tibetan who applies to be a tour guide.
"As for who qualifies or not politically, it's not for us to decide," he said.


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Camden seeks volunteers to participate in comprehensive plan review
Camden — Camden is seeking individuals who would like to participate in the review of the town's comprehensive plan.
Lowrie Sargent, chairman of the Camden Comprehensive Planning Committee, said, in a news release, the town does "a review of comprehensive plan every 10 years. We often need a comprehensive plan when applying for grants and a comprehensive plan acts as a road map and guide for future town planning. Our last comprehensive plan was signed by the select board in 2005. We are aiming to have this review done and approved by voters by 2015."
"As a participant in the review of the comprehensive plan individuals can attend meetings of the groups or committees that are assigned to review specific chapters. You will be notified when and where these meetings will be held," said Sargent. "Each group or individual reviewing a chapter should come up with any changes, additions, deletions and updates and submit them to the comprehensive planning committee. Then we will have a public meeting with representatives from each of the groups and individuals reviewing the chapters. At this meeting the public will be invited to comment," he added.
People interested in participating in the review of any chapter of the town's comprehensive plan should contact Jean Freedman-White, comprehensive plan coordinator at 236-4885. For more information about the comprehensive plan please check the town's website at Camdenmaine.gov.
"Rather than having one comprehensive planning committee review all the chapters, we are asking town committees, local organizations and citizens to review chapters related to their areas of operations, interests or expertise," Sargent said.
Among the topics to be reviewed in the plan are: town history, population, the economy, downtown, natural resources, sewer and water utilities, solid waste, transportation, lane use patterns, housing, the harbor, recreation and open space, historic resources, public facilities, fiscal capacity, future land use plan, land use regulations, planning, capital improvements, regional cooperation, and other vehicles for implementation.
"We are currently reviewing the following chapters, "said Jean Freedman-White.
Chapter 1 relates to the history of Camden from the 1790s to the present.
Chapter 5 covers Natural Resources in Camden such as soil composition, topography and watersheds as well as potential problems that might impact them. Updates need to be made in the areas of land use patterns will be considered.
Chapter 6, Natural Opportunities and Constraints, evaluates naturally occurring development constraints such as steep slopes, wetlands and wildlife habitats. Based on these constraints areas of the town are then classified based on constraints or unconstrained so they may be developed.
Chapter 8, solid waste, considers the history of the operation and plans through 1999 of the Midcoast Solid Waste Facility which handles trash, garbage, construction debris and recycling for four area towns. One of the chief concerns is the capacity for debris which translates into the expected life of the facility. To be reviewed are the capacity consumption rate, the irregularity of the recycling secondary market and changing environmental laws and standards. The results of these studies will be shared with the other partner municipalities so that a coordinated effort is made to continue this vital service to Camden. Working groups should suggest alternatives to the current facility and the costs related to these alternatives should it be found that the facility will run out of capacity by 2025.
The Harbor, the subject of chapter 12, encompasses an inner and outer harbor, thousands of feet of shoreline, public and private facilities and Curtis Island. Issues to be considered are timely dredging, balancing the interests of commercial activities such as windjammers and fishermen with the interests of recreational boaters. To be considered: regulatory changes, weather changes, best use of public landing, enhancement of facilities for visiting boaters, enhancement of Curtis island facilities, importance of the land view from the harbor, the possibility of a marine history museum, upgrading facilities for commercial fisherman, and consideration of suggestions from the Downtown Master Plan.
The review of the historic resources, chapter 14, will look at Camden's historic buildings, the importance of preserving them and preserving the downtown historic commercial buildings. The only standards in the existing ordinance regarding historic districts are advisory and non-binding. Consideration will be given to adopting a historic preservation ordinance, which would make the town eligible for certain grants and would give the town control over state and federal projects in the historic district.


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Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia
The Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia (APEGBC) certifies engineers to practice professional engineering in BC.
Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of BC
The Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA) regulates the practices of engineering and geoscience in Alberta.
American Institute of Steel Construction
The official website of the American Institute of Steel Construction. This web site is your online resource for information about the structural steel design & construction industry.
American Society of Civil Engineers
The homepage of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
British Columbia Construction Roundtable
Non-profit organization that acts as a forum for sharing of experiences, ideas and knowledge in the BC construction industry. BCCR represents all sectors and interests of the construction industry and include engineers, architects, public and private owners in commercial and industrial sectors, large contractors, lawyers, financiers and major suppliers.
Canadian Institute of Steel Construction
The Canadian Institute of Steel Construction promotes good design and safety, as well as the efficient, economical and sustainable use of structural steel.
Canadian Society for Civil Engineering
The CSCE is a learned society intended to develop and maintain high standards of civil engineering practice in Canada and to enhance the public image of the civil engineering profession.
Canadian Wood Council
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Not sure this is the place but I have two puppies to find homes for. I wouldn't typically post here but the pups are actually a cool mix. The mom is a mix itilian greyhound, and the dad is a purebred papered belgian turveran. I don't want any money for them. I am only taking care of these puppies because a family member needed to focus more on school than dogs. I on the other hand have all the schooling that I need.
If you are unfamiliar with tervs they are special op dogs. The police and military use these dogs for special operations. They are highly intelligent and are extremely agile and always herding. If you have any questions please pm or email me. Pics soon to come.
Pups are 5 weeks old so next week can be taken or delivered to reasonable distances.


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BARNSLEY have intensified their efforts to prise Sheffield Wednesday's leading scorer Chris O'Grady away from Hillsborough.
Reds boss Keith Hill is a big admirer of O'Grady, having worked with the striker at his former club Rochdale.
Speaking exclusively to The Star, Hill revealed: "I'd love to get Chris [O'Grady]. He'd be a great signing for us.
"I've spoke to Chris's agent and we've discussed a potential move, but there's politics involved and we're just playing a waiting game to see if we can get him.
"He's their [Wednesday's] leading goalscorer and he's been playing quite a bit for them, so a lot depends on whether they'd be prepared to let us have him.
"I've love to get a deal done but at times we've thought we were close and other times not. Chris is always a player I've wanted to recruit."
Owls manager Dave Jones is on record as saying that somebody must go out of Hillsborough if he brings in someone to improve the team's firepower.
Wednesday have been strongly linked with Sunderland's Connor Wickham but last night a doubt emerged about whether or not the Black Cats are willing to let the England Under-21 striker go out on loan immediately.
If the Owls are able to do a loan deal for a striker then it could improve the Reds' chances of landing O'Grady on loan, perhaps with a view to a full deal in January.
O'Grady lost his starting place to Gary Madine for the game at Middlesbrough last Friday but did not play in a strong reserves side in a behind-closed-doors game against Huddersfield at Middlewood yesterday.
The team included Stephen Bywater, Martin Taylor, Kieran Lee, Chris Lines, Joe Mattock, Rhys McCabe, Jermaine Johnson, Rodri and Danny Mayor.
Wednesday won 3-1 with goals in the first half by Mayor and Johnson and one in the second half by Rodri.
Huddersfield too fielded an experienced line-up and their goal came from Danny Ward.
O'Grady has scored five goals but two of those were in the Capital One Cup at Oldham. The Owls' top league scorer is Ross Barkley with four.
Wickham, who scored the first goal in England's 2-0 win against Northern Ireland in Blackpool last night, started alongside Blackpool winger Tom Ince and Middlesbrough's on-loan Chelsea midfielder, Josh McEachran Both played against the Owls last week.


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May 10, 2013 - 12:35 pm
It has been quite the ordeal. It took a month and finally got somewhere thanks to Deb my case worker through the SHIP Program which is Medicares department of aging that works with claims and other issues that people are having trouble with.
She had a contact within SSA Regional office in Denver a Supervisor Kathy, who did aditional training for Medicare workers every year in Denver. Deb called me the week before and asked my permission to give my information to a contact that she had at a higher level in Denver. Kathy me a week, ago Thursday, asked questions, whom I spoke with in Medicare, dates, and information given. Told her I had an appointment with SSA in downtown office Friday am per the advanced resoution center with Medicare to turn in SSA Form 561 to resolve this.
She said more misinformation. That form has nothing to do with Part B. That was on Thursday, she said she would call me Tuesday morning. Sure enough, 8:01 Tuesday morning she called and had it all approved AND in the system, now just waiting for it to trickle down to the website so my insurance company can start processing the claims back to March 1 2013.
Said to tell everyone that if you are on SSDI and become eligible for Medicare Part B. Unless you are under a spouse/partners insurance plan and not on Your companies plan, take the Part B. The problem here was I was on a COBRA Plan, and 1 800-Medicare was giving me information as though my medical plan was based on a spouse/partner.
Now they will take 4 months of premiums out of my May SSDI check for Mar, Apr, May and June as it is paid one month in advance, even though SSI is paid one mone in arrears!
Cant tell you how much stress releif I feel. Now if I can get rid of a five day headache that is shooting pain from my neck and jaw up my head, and increased rib pain and tightening in the chest. I will be happy! But I am not having any trouble breathing, so that is a good thing.
Had chemo yesterday, celebrating Mother's Day today (going fishing with the boys and daughter-in-law), and then to see the Great Gatsby! Sundays are not good days for me. 2 chemos left and I am done with treatments then in 3-4 weeks I will have CT and Bone scan to see if this chemo even worked. He thought it would help with the pain, but it has increasingly gotten worse. Nurse says it could be worse due to cellular changes or continued growth. Will find out soon enough! Just the break will be good!
Happy Mother's Day to all!
May 10, 2013 - 6:26 pm
Hi Carol,
I am so happy everything is straightened out for you. I was furious when I read your posts last week. You should not have to deal with Medicare problems when you are trying to heal. I hope the pain subsides for you soon, but no matter what enjoy the day with your family. I hope the movie is good. I really want to see it.
Happy Mother's Day,
May 11, 2013 - 4:58 pm
I know it must feel wonderful to have that problem out of the way. I'm sorry you had to fight that battle but, hey, you won. That's certainly something to smile about. I'm so sorry your pain has gotten worse. You are fighting this battle so courageously and you deserve a break. I appreciate you always having a kind word of encouragement for me in the midst of what you are going through. I hope you enjoy your Mother's Day celebration!
May 11, 2013 - 5:10 pm
I am happy that the Medicare problem has been resolved. Now bill the government for causing you that awful headache and all that pain. You want a million if not more.
I am truly sorry for all the stress you have had to deal with during this whole ordeal. I do hope it goes away quickly. Maybe a little more pain medication and something extra for the headache.
Happy Mother's Day to you too and hoping Sunday will be a better day tomorrow.
May 11, 2013 - 5:33 pm
Congrats!!!! So glad you no longer have to worry about that along with fighting bc. Hugs to you!
May 13, 2013 - 10:51 am
One less thing for you to worry about -- and insurance and health care coverage is a BIGGIE! Fishing with your boy's and daughter in law - now, that is a great way to spend Mother"s Day. Your way, doing what you all love.
Let us know how you doing ... We are thinking and keeping you in good thoughts, and prayers.
Strength, Courage and HOPE for a Cure.
Vicki Sam
May 16, 2013 - 1:11 pm
Yes, congrats! You sure don't need to be worrying about this.
Hugs, Angie
May 16, 2013 - 1:49 pm
Happy for you..
May 16, 2013 - 11:12 pm
i hope you had good time
glad SSI and Medicare issue rresolved hugs
May 17, 2013 - 4:03 am
Am pretty nauseated just hoping no headache to follow. One more chemo. I have to be honest, As much as I am looking forward to no chemo, I am also afraid of not having anything other than pain meds, thyroid meds and evista as a hormone blocker. With already increased pain and sleeping so much I wonder how advanced the beast really is and how much of how I feel is cancer and how much is se from the tratment, then too how fast will it grow without any ouside agents to stop it? But I also know it is time to stop, I am worn out completely.
Got bills today. Amazing secondary was not even paying 10% on anything over about 75. Not worried as drs office said not to!
Hugs and sincere thanks for always listening when I vent and think. No sleeping tonight is forcing me to think more deeply, and that is always scarry as I usually keep my mind so busy that I don't go to these places.
Another Ativan to try to sleep tonights
May 17, 2013 - 9:05 am
Thank goodness!!! It is not enough to have cancer but to be so troubled by redtape is a crying shame. So happy for you my friend!!!
Now get better! Thinking positive thoughts for those scans!


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There were so many things that happened during my absence here. Most notable one was that we moved into our own home. After being renters for the past 8 years, its a nice feeling to move into our own home. We've been making do with simple and cheap furniture all these while, thinking that we'll get good ones once we move into our own home. So, we had fun shopping for new furniture that fits the new house. Being a crafter, it was natural for me to want to cover my home with handmade pieces, both practical and decorative. I had to reign in my urge to crochet a thousand doilies to cover my house with. lol So, I decided to tackle one project at a time and take it slowly. The first one up was the dining chair cushion cover. This is our dining table and chair setup.
Excuse the grainy cellphone picture. But, you get the idea of the seat color of the chairs. Beige!! and, I have two rambunctious boys in the house. I had visions of ketchup and curries smudged on my brand new dining chairs. cue Josie clutching her pearls I had to do something about it. I didn't like the commercial seat cushion covers available. So, I decided to make my own. I traced the shape of the seat cushion, added seam allowances and cut up some linen fabric I had in my stash. I've been hoarding this black and white linen print for about 4 years now. I bought this when we were living in Hyderabad. I used plain black cotton fabric(also from my stash) for the backing. I also added tie-ups to secure the covers to the chairs. so, here are the chairs all spruced up.
I love the tribal print on the linen fabric and I'm glad it found its purpose finally. Its truly a stash-buster project as I didn't have to buy anything new for it. Here is a close-up of the print.
Of course, Alan had to photo-bomb when I was clicking pictures. He is like a cat.. He'll show up at the right moment to photo-bomb your project. lol.
I'm having fun doing up my house. I'm picking up small projects here and there to do for my house to make it a home. :-) I came across this quote somewhere and it stuck with me. "A house is made of bricks and beams. A home is made of love and dreams!" Very true, isn't it?? Maybe I'll make this quote in embroidery or quilling and get it framed. Its a Friday today. So, I hope all you lovely peeps have a great weekend. I'm looking forward to some peace and quiet over this weekend.


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Kayakers in the Berkeley Marina told police Sunday they believe they found what they think is a decomposing body of a small child in the area where the 17-month-old son of a woman, found killed in Aquatic Park, was missing.
Police and investigators are converging on the southside of the Berkeley marina investigating and setting up crime scene tape for what people think is a dead body in the water. Police had been searching for Jashon Williams for the past two days.
A patrol officer in Berkeley found the body of Jashon's mother, Zoelina Williams, at about 4 a.m. Friday on the shoreline of Aquatic Park during a routine security check.
Information gathered from the homicide investigation suggests that Jashon was with his mother when she was killed, Oakland police Officer Jeff Thomason said.
Police arrested a suspect shortly after 1 p.m. that day, 38-year-old Oakland resident Curtis Martin III, Thomason said.
Police searched Martin's home, as well as the home where Zoelina and Jashon Williams were living in Oakland, he said.
Martin has been queried on Jashon's whereabouts, but "he is not cooperating with any part of the investigation," Thomason said.
Zoelina Williams' relatives contacted Oakland police to let them know about the missing child, he said.
Aquatic Park remained closed for most of the day Saturday while authorities searched the water for Jashon's body.
The search was assisted by members of the Alameda County Sheriff's Office, a volunteer dive team and search and rescue K-9's, and aircraft from the California Highway Patrol and East Bay Regional Parks District.
Thomason declined to say whether specific evidence indicated the infant might be in the water.
"It's a logical step in any investigation," he said. "You search the last known place" where the missing person was seen.
Oakland police are actively investigating Jashon's disappearance, Thomason said. Berkeley police are investigating the death of his mother.
Anyone who may have information on the whereabouts of Jashon Williams should call the Oakland Police Department's missing persons section at 510-238-3641.


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1The Lord is my shepherd. I will always have everything I need. 2He lets me lie down in green pastures. He leads me by calm pools of water. 3He gives new strength to my soul for the good of his name. He leads me on paths of goodness, to show he is truly good. 4Even if I walk through a valley as dark as the grave, I will not be afraid of any danger. Why? Because you are with me, Lord. Your rod and staff comfort me. 5Lord, you prepared my table in front of my enemies. You poured oil on my head. My cup is full and spilling over. 6Goodness and mercy will be with me the rest of my life. And I will sit in the Lord's temple for a long, long time.
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NZXT HALE82 850W 80Plus Bronze Power Supply Review
A Detailed Look
The steel enclosure of the NZXT HALE82 850W power supply features a black matte finish and incorporates a white fan. The enclosure measures only 160mm (6.3") long, which is nice and compact for an 850W PSU. The HALE82 series PSUs use a single 120mm fan on the bottom for cooling. The fan speed is automatically controlled by the internal component temperature (speeds up as the combined load and temperature increases) via an onboard speed controller. The Adda (AD1212UB-A70GL) fan is rated for 0.5A when operating on 12 VDC and incorporates dual ball-bearings. Note the plastic shroud that helps divert airflow thru the PSU and out the back.
The backside panel includes a power receptacle and On-Off switch along with an open grill structure that allows air to exhaust out of the power supply with minimal restriction and turbulence.
The NZXT HALE82 850W PSU comes with a good assortment of fixed and modular cables. The fixed cables are covered with plastic mesh sleeving while all of the modular cables are flat-ribbon style. The 850W model features six modular sockets that provide power to the peripheral devices and PCI-E cables.
Fixed Cable:
• (1) ATX 20/24-pin
• (1) EPS12V/ATX12V 4+4 pin
• (2) PCI Express with two 8-pin (6+2) connectors
Modular Flat-Ribbon Cables:
• (1) PCI Express with two 8-pin (6+2) connectors
• (1) EPS12V/ATX12V 8-pin
• (2) Peripheral Molex and FDD with 3 connectors each
• (2) Serial ATA with 3 connectors each
• (1) Serial ATA with 2 connectors
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This is a great, rock solid power supply. This PSU is capable of handling almost anything that you can throw at it, except for some extremely exotic setups.
Seasonic is my most trusted brand, and kudos to NZXT for going with flat black cables. Too bad they didn't go all black with the 24pin and motherboard cables. Good looking PSU too, stands out without being gaudy.
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Shakespeare in the Park auditions set
Auditions for the 2010 Shakespeare in the Park production of The Merry Wives of Windsor will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. on May 14-15 at the Historic Holmes Theatre in Detroit Lakes. There are roles for 11 men and eight women, ages 15 and up.
Anyone interested in the show is encouraged to come and try out, even if you've never acted before! With the success of the 2009 show, "Taming of the Shrew," director Nikki Caulfield hopes to grow the summer event's popularity.
"This is a great show with a lot of fun roles- every character in the show has a quirk of some type," she said. "There also are not a lot of the big speeches that we associate with Shakespeare -- most of the roles have shorter lines, making it easier to memorize."
"The Merry Wives of Windsor" is about two wily women who make a fool of Sir John Falstaff over and over again as he tries unsuccessfully to seduce them. It's a wild ride through dirty laundry, mistaken identities, a pair of antlers and a lot of crazy characters.
The show will be presented in the Detroit Lakes City Park on June 25-27 as well as July 1-3. It is produced through Summit Productions and the Detroit Lakes Community & Cultural Center.
Please contact director Nikki Caulfield at email@example.com with questions.


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Can You Believe Detroit Thieves Are Now Using AK-47 Rifles?
Detroit Police are combing the city for leads and information trying to break up what is believed to be a ring of robbers who have hit gas stations lately. The group of men have hit 11 different stations in a two-week period and recently robbed six businesses in just one hour! The men are described as black, in their 20s, wearing dark clothing and armed with AK-47 rifles.