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National environmental leader endorses Pramila Jayapal for Congress
I've spent most of my life fighting to protect our environment because I know that it is the greatest challenge we face today. And I know that it is going to take a movement to stop global warming and address climate change. That's why I started Step It Up and 350.org—because change at the scale we are talking about is going to require building a broader, more diverse movement of people who create the political space that demands Congress take action on policy change.
That's why I am so proud to support Pramila Jayapal in her campaign for the U.S. Congress. Pramila and I met more than 15 years ago at the Bioneers Conference. Even then, she was working to help broaden the movement and bring new voices in. She and I both believe in nonviolent action and civil disobedience, and in 2003 she was one of a group of women who led a hunger strike outside Dow Chemical's offices in Seadrift, Texas to protest the dumping of chemicals into the bay. Years later, she trained environmental organizers from six states across the West on how to engage and broaden the environmental movement to speak to diverse communities.
As the founder and leader of the largest immigrant advocacy organization in Washington, Pramila brought new voices into the climate justice conversation and helped build the bridges between labor, community and environmentalists that is now producing some of the most innovative partnerships in the country. She has the deep relationships in multiple different communities both in Washington state and nationally to help navigate the complexities of a transition to a clean energy economy that protects our environment and protects jobs.
Make no mistake—this race for who represents the 7th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives is absolutely critical. The Puget Sound is one of the most beautiful natural areas in our country—and at the forefront of what is possible in renewable energy technologies, with access to hydro and wind and innovative research and development. It is also leading the country on the kind of activism it takes to make bold policy change happen—from increasing the minimum wage to transitioning away from coal.
Pramila is the single standout candidate in this race and my clear choice: a bold visionary who is unafraid to tackle our most complex problems—like climate change. She has a track record of working on issues long before they were popular and building the movement that created space for policy change to happen.
In the State Senate, she helped lead the fight to strip the worst environmental provisions from a transportation package so that we did not have to choose between clean air and transit. She has consistently opposed unfair trade agreements like the TPP because she knows that, as constructed, they undermine environmental and worker protections. As a member of the transportation committee, she also helped secure investments in the electric vehicle infrastructure.
In Congress, she will lead the fight to ensure that we end the fossil fuel subsidies, put a price on carbon, accelerate the transition to a renewable energy and green economy future and completely revolutionize our transportation and electric infrastructure. As a mom, Pramila knows that protecting our environment for our future generations is a moral responsibility.
Pramila and I both believe that by 2050, America can get to a 100% renewable energy goal—but we both know that is going to take leaders in Congress who can organize on the inside and on the outside. Pramila has led fights for immigration reform, civil liberties, racial justice—producing results every step of the way that made our world a better place. Long before she ran for office, Pramila's work for justice has inspired tens of thousands of people to get engaged in our democracy, to have a different vision of the future and to work collectively for change.
Pramila is the bold, progressive leader we need in Congress who will get real results and take our democracy back from the fossil fuel industry.


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A DRIVER has told how she had to swerve and skid to a halt to avoid hitting George Michael after he fell from a car travelling at more than 110km/h on a motorway.
Katherine Fox said she didn't know how the singer survived the rush-hour fall which left him dazed, covered in blood and with his tracksuit top ripped to shreds.
Michael, a passenger in the silver Range Rover, slammed into the carriageway after apparently opening his door to shut it properly.
Miss Fox, 23, who was driving behind in her Mini, braked before reversing to shield the star from other vehicles. An off-duty policeman directed traffic around the scene.
Michael, 49, was airlifted to hospital where he was said by his spokesman last night to be "making good progress" five days after the drama.
But Miss Fox, a children's nanny, said: "I honestly don't know how he survived. He had a bad cut on his face and the blood was running down over his mouth and teeth. He was in shock, breathing and conscious, but looked terrible. There was so much blood on his face that I didn't recognise him."
Michael hit the third of four lanes on a northbound stretch of the motorway near St Albans, Hertfordshire. His trainers and trademark designer sunglasses were flung into another lane by the impact.
Miss Fox said: "I saw blood everywhere and he was on the ground. I thought someone had run across the road and been hit until I was told what happened.
"Someone said he tried to open the car door and shut it again because it wasn't shut properly and apparently fell out. I was told the car wasn't speeding and was doing 70mp/h (approx 113km/h).
"I was on the phone to the ambulance and said, "You'd better come quick. This doesn't look good". An off-duty policeman was telling me what to say and re-directing the traffic which had slowed down.
"George was wearing a black and gold Adidas tracksuit that was ripped all down the arm and shoulder. He had no trainers on. I grabbed one from the second lane because cars were swerving to avoid it. His sunglasses were also in the road. I could hear the crunch as cars drove over them."
The two friends who were travelling with Michael pulled on to the hard shoulder and ran back across two lanes of traffic to help.
Miss Fox added: "George didn't say anything, he just seemed in shock. He was sitting down against a car and in the arms of his friend.
"The guy holding him was quite scared. He kept saying to George, "Are you alright mate?" I think George was lucky he didn't die.
"If he'd landed in the second lane he would have been hit by a car without a doubt. He was in the middle of the M1. I could have run him over."
Paramedics arrived quickly and the singer was airlifted to hospital just after 6pm last Thursday.
Miss Fox, from Luton, said: "I didn't know it was George Michael until the next day when I saw it on the television. There was so much blood over his face. It was so shocking at the time I just focused on making sure he was alright."
Michael's spokesman said last night that he was in hospital for observation after suffering "cuts and bumps" to his head. She added that he was "looking forward to getting back to his home soon".
At the singer's home in Highgate, North London, his boyfriend Fadi Fawaz, 39, said on the day after the incident: "He is perfectly fine. Of course I was worried, but I have spoken to him and he is good. I have no idea what happened, I wasn't there."
A Hertfordshire Police spokesman said officers were still investigating the incident.
Michael, who has enjoyed a successful solo career since finding fame in the 1980s duo Wham!, was close to death only 18 months ago after being struck down with pneumonia in Vienna.
He is currently banned from driving. Three years ago he was jailed for eight weeks for crashing a Range Rover into a shop in North London while under the influence of drugs.
He was also disqualified from driving for five years, having served a two-year ban imposed in 2006 when he was convicted of driving while on drugs after being found slumped in his Mercedes.

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A recent article in Fortune magazine about Apple CEO Steve Jobs showed that the brilliant visionary also bullies his employees. He parks his Mercedes in handicapped spaces, periodically reduces subordinates to tears, and fires employees in angry tantrums, it reads.
This raises the question of whether a manager should exercise patience and sensitivity or skip the niceties and just demand compliance and yell at will.
A trio of pundits on CNBC debated this issue and agreed that if a leader produces great bottom-line results (as Jobs has done), then the end justifies the means, and it's OK to push people and rebuke them harshly.
But the pundits neglected to consider how we respond to a dictator. We may retain less than 50 percent of what we read and hear. But we remember 100 percent of what we feel.
If an abrasive manager makes a worker feel worthless, you can bet those feelings will not evaporate quickly. An employee's pent-up bitterness can explode at the worst possible moment.
Even if he accepts his boss's punishing insults meekly, he will operate out of fear. That's hardly a recipe for workplace harmony.
Manage effectively by choosing what you want people to feel. Then nurture those feelings. By fostering a sense of belonging and an excitement about the organization's mission, you can set high standards and demand excellence without breeding a fear-based culture.


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When Pets Attack – Sort Of
Mans best friend sure doesn't act like it sometimes!
Whether you are at work today or school or just being a bum at home, you've earned a break! Here are a couple of videos for you to waste some time with. It's even more fun when it's company time you're wasting! Just sayin …
The first one is 53 seconds worth of animal misbehavior. The one at about :35 seconds in and the double whammy at around :19 seconds are my favorites!
Funny stuff huh? If you think those were great, watch this little guy get "gang dropped" by a bunch of puppies.
You just know the kid isn't going to grow up to be a veterinarian after that.
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It's not only dogs that are sometimes out to get us.
Elephants get in on the action to sometimes!
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So, we now all know that Russell Brand is going to channel Dudley Moore in a brand new version of "Arthur." (Read our original story about the "Arthur" remake right here)
Then, back in February, we heard rumors that Meryl Streep was in talks to star as Arthur's foil -- the great John Gielgud was the foil in the original as Arthur's valet. (Check out our Meryl Streep rumor right here)
Apparently, the supposed talks between Streep and the producers were just that...talks, because now, Helen Mirren, the Queen herself, is in negotiations to star opposite Brand according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Let's face it, Gielgud's Academy Award-winning performance is hard to beat, but honestly, either Streep or Mirren could give the part its much needed heart. So if the original was a valet, and of course, a man, the new role is reconstructed to be played by a woman as Arthur's nanny. Perfect!
Production is set to begin shooting in New York in July.
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Exactly one year ago today, April 22, 2009 to be exact, we told you about Vanessa Hudgens' participation in a retelling of the "Beauty and the Beast" called "Beastly" based on the fantasy novel by Alex Flinn. (Check out our original story right here)
Now, production is done, the movie is set to open July 30th, and we have the trailer! Take a look, it's actually kind of intriguing, come on, Mary-Kate Olsen as a witch? Camp! I'm soooo there!
Here's more info on the movie courtesy of Yahoo:
Kyle Kingson has it all - looks, intelligence, wealth and opportunity - and a wicked cruel streak. Prone to mocking and humiliating "aggressively unattractive" classmates, he zeroes in on Goth classmate Kendra, inviting her to the school's extravagant environmental bash.
Kendra accepts, and, true to form, Kyle blows her off in a particularly savage fashion. She retaliates by casting a spell that physically transforms him into everything he despises. Enraged by his horrible and unrecognizable appearance he confronts Kendra and learns that the only solution to the curse is to find someone that will love him as he is - a task he considers impossible.
Repulsed by his appearance, Kyle's callous father banishes him to Brooklyn with a sympathetic housekeeper and blind tutor. As Kyle ponders how to overcome the curse and get his old life back, he chances upon a drug addict in the act of killing a threatening dealer.
Seizing the opportunity, Kyle promises the addict freedom and safety for his daughter, Lindy if she will consent to live in Kyle's Brooklyn home. Thus begins Kyle's journey to discover true love in this hyper-modern retelling of the classic "Beauty and the Beast" story.
Logline: A retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" set in modern-day New York City.
Genres: Drama and Romance
Release Date: July 30th, 2010 (wide)
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for language including some crude comments, drug references and brief violence.
Distributors: CBS Films
Production Co.: CBS Films, Storefront Pictures
Filming Locations: Montreal, Canada
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Produced in: United States
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Starring: Vanessa Hudgens, Mary-Kate Olsen, Alex Pettyfer, Neil Patrick Harris, Peter Krause
Directed by: Daniel Barnz
Produced by: Susan Cartsonis, Roz Weisberg
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Everyone and their family were buzzing about the possibility of Robert Downey Jr. starring as the Wizard in the "Wizard of Oz" prequel. The LA Times reported that Disney has put the project on a fast track, and Sam Mendez and "Hairspray" director Adam Shankman are both on the short list to direct.
But wait, isn't this the kind of roles that Johnny Depp is known for? So, is Downey Jr. stepping into Depp territory? If you flip-flop the two actors, can you imagine Depp in the role of Iron Man? But I digress...
According to EW.com:
The project, scripted by "Whole Nine Yards" writer Mitchell Kapner based on L. Frank Baums Oz books, tells the pre-Emerald City story of the Great and Powerful Oz, back when he was a charlatan in Kansas working in a traveling circus.
This is supposed to be darker than the beloved MGM musical where the Wizard part was played by Frank Morgan.
So now, we'll have the fabled story of Oz told from the prequel point-of-view of the Wizard, and then we have the fantastic musical "Wicked" as told from the perspective of the Wicked Witch of the West.
Here's my challenge to Universal which owns the rights to "Wicked" -- Disney seems to be putting this "Oz" project on fast track, when will we finally see the big screen adaptation of "Wicked?" I'm dying to see that one! Please?
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Universal Pictures has found a director and a new writer for their big-screen toy extravaganza "Stretch Armstrong!"
Rob Letterman is set to direct the live-action 3D superhero flick while Nick Stoller, the writer-director of the super-funny "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" is attached to rewrite. Steve Oedekerk wrote the original script.
Letterman previously co-directed "Monsters vs. Aliens." He and Stoller met working for the comedy "Gulliver's Travels" starring Jack Black. Letterman directed the film while Stoller wrote the script. "Gulliver's Travels" will serve as the live action debut of Letterman since it will come out before "Stretch Armstrong."
Lautner will play the title role of a man who can stretch his arms and legs up to four feet. Yes, I did own the 1970s Kenner toy
Universal seems to be putting its faith on this project. Brian Grazer is producing, and I admire both "Monsters vs. Aliens" and "Forgetting Sarah Marshall." "Armstrong" is shaping up to be a good, entertaining superhero film...for now, at least.
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As we told you last February, "Dear John's" Amanda Seyfried will star as Red Riding Hood in a visualized Gothic version of the popular fairy tale. David Leslie Johnson, the guy who wrote "Orphan," is penning the screenplay for "Twilight" director Catherine Hardwicke.
Now, Shiloh Fernandez (pictured above) is set to star as the male romantic lead of Seyfried who will play a woman in a medieval village being terrorized by a werewolf according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Apparently, Fernandez auditioned for the role seven times before landing the part of Peter, an orphaned woodcutter who falls for Seyfried.
Fernandez also screen-tested for the role of Edward for "Twilight" that eventually went to Robert Pattinson. The actor also tried for the lead role in "Speed Racer" that Emile Hirsch portrayed.
Leonardo DiCaprio is producing through his Appian Way shingle. Warner Bros. will be distributing the film.
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So I'm still doing my daughters floor quilt/play mat and I've pieced the top, basted my layers and started stitching. 1st time I had my stitch settings wrong, as it's the first time using a walking foot, lesson learnt, so I unpicked and started again, it then puckered terribly on the top, so I unpicked and re basted, trimmed my boarders as I wasn't happy with the size while I was at it. Quilted again, and it's puckered badly again, I was very careful using safety pins to baste it was lovely and flat :(
I think my problem is I'm trying to do too large a pattern, I was just stitching in the ditch but my top only has 6 30x40cm rectangles, so the quilting was very far apart. I didn't want to do anything intricate because it's large and im inexperienced.
So my question is, should I be quilting a closer pattern? I have a darning foot so could do some free motion but I'm not 100% confident, but then again in still learning all aspects.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Gov. Martin O'Malley and Maryland lawmakers have formally announced legislation to put utility reliability standards into the law.
The measure, which will be introduced Thursday, will require the Public Service Commission to adopt enhanced reliability standards by July 2012. The bill also will allow the PSC to fine utilities for poor performance. Fines would be directed back to affected ratepayers.
The legislation is being sponsored by Delegate Brian Feldman, D-Montgomery, and Sen. Thomas "Mac" Middleton, D-Charles.
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CALGARY - It was trade-deadline day in 2000 and Brendan Morrison was enjoying lunch in New York with his brother-in-law Daryl Reaugh.
While they were dining, Reaugh, the colour commentator for the Dallas Stars broadcasts, got a call.
He was on the phone with a radio station in Canada and they were asking him about certain trades, Morrison recalled. Just before he was going to hang up, he asked about any other rumours or things happening, and they said Well, we just had something come across the wire that (Alexander) Mogilny got traded to Vancouver for Morrison and (Denis) Pederson. He said, Im sitting with Brendan right now. Ill let him know.
He hangs up and said, Apparently you just got traded. I hadnt heard anything. I actually found out an hour after the deadline from the Devils it went through.
Morrison was expecting a deal to come down, and now has a trade-deadline day tale to tell.
He fully expects many more players to be in the same boat when the deadline comes Monday afternoon.
Its a day everybodys interested in, but this year it seems weve been talking about this day a month before its even come. Theres commercials on TV, and that might be going a little bit overboard, said the Calgary Flames forward. But everybodys interested.
The Flames have played themselves into a position where acting GM Jay Feaster admits he doesnt want to eliminate players from the room, as a reward for pulling from 14th place in the Western Conference in mid-January to a spot in the playoff picture.
The players are thankful.
It means they have faith in us. Were one of the hottest teams right now and everyone believes in us, said left winger Curtis Glencross.
With the way things are going right now, the chemistry in the room and the way things are and the way were all feeling, I dont think well be much of a seller. Were getting production from every line, everybodys getting utilized and thats what you want from a hockey club.
But you cant even think about it. We cant worry about the deadline or whats going to happen. Weve just got to win hockey games.
The Flames have two more games before the deadline, Friday at home against San Jose and the St. Louis Blues come calling Sunday.
On deadline day, theyll head to St. Louis for the second half of a home-and-home series.
Between now and then, the quest is to let the off-ice aspects play out, and concentrate solely on the quest to earn a playoff spot.
Ive been through a lot of them and rumoured in a lot of them. A lot of years in Edmonton, when we were struggling to make the playoffs, there would be rumours, said defenceman Steve Staios, who the Flames acquired at last years deadline. You learn to deal with it. You see the situation and a lot of times its not surprising to guys.
When I was traded, it didnt surprise me because of the situation the Oilers were in and the direction they were going with it, I knew there was a handful of guys probably going to get moved.
A couple of months ago, expectations were the Flames would be looking to deal away some or all of their pending unrestricted free agents, which includes Morrison, Glencross, Staios, Anton Babchuk and Alex Tanguay.
Of course, a new contract would change that.
Not even thinking about it right now, Glencross said. Our goal is to make the playoffs. Contracts are between the agents and the owners and the team. Theres nothing I can do right now and if I sat and thought about it, that would drive you nuts.
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|Wireless communication systems have become very successful in the market place and it is expected that this success will continue when various interactive services and applications such as the Internet are introduced. The next generation of wireless networks will support multiple classes of traffic with different quality of service requirements such as data rate and bit error rate [l, 2]. In particular, Wideband CDMA has been selected as the air interface standard for third generation systems such as IMT-2000 proposed by ETSI/ARIB, and cdma2000 proposed by TIA, due to their various technical advantages. In addition, it has been recently shown that the use of MIMO systems in a rich scattering wireless channel is capable of enormous theoretical capacity improvement provided the scattering is properly exploited through the use of an appropriate processing architecture [3, 4]. The vertical layered space-time architecture proposed by Foschini [5], known as V-BLAST, is one such approach. In this thesis, we investigate the use of layered space-time scheme for multiuser detection over the uplink of a DS/CDMA communication system. The multiple transmit antennas in V-BLAST are treated as individual mobile station transmitters, while the base station consists of multiple receive antennas. The layered space-time algorithm is then invoked to detect the signals from all users. In addition, CDMA is also applied. Users are organized in different groups and users in a particular group are allocated the same spreading code. Therefore, CDMA spreading technique will remove the interference between the groups and the layered space-time scheme will further remove the remaining interference. A decorrelator-type CDMA receiver based layered space-time detection is proposed for both complex and real constellations. For the latter case, we derive our receiver after evaluating and comparing the performance of two decorrelators based on the V-BLAST scheme. It is demonstrated that a significant performance improvement and increase in system capacity is obtained with very low spreading factors. Further results are also introduced by considering reduced complexity receivers based on Serial Layered Space-Time Group Multiuser detection, and Parallel Layered Space-Time Group Multiuser detection. We are also interested in packet transmission mode. The wireless networks will then present packet radio mobile stations transmitting to a single base station. Our primary aim is to assess the impact of the proposed layered space-time multiuser detection technique, over a packetized random access system based on Slotted ALOHA protocol. A significant improvement in system throughput, delay and capacity are achieved. Finally, we considered wireless circuit switched and packet switched modes integrated CDMA systems. The effect of packet mode users on system performance is considered. Throughput and BER performances of packet and circuit mode users are hence investigated, respectively. The robustness of the proposed detection technique is also demonstrated against transmission power variation of packet mode users.
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You refer glowingly to Ken Russell's creative decade at the BBC (In praise of..., 29 November). But, shamefully, not one of the 35 BBC films he made between 1958 and 1970 is available to the public, which funded them through the licence fee. Elgar (which I produced) and the Delius film A Song of Summer could be bought for a time on DVD from the BFI, but were withdrawn years ago. The titles include Pop Goes the Easel, The Debussy Film, The Dance of the Seven Veils (made just after Women in Love) and early essays on the guitar craze, piano players and John Betjeman's London ladies. Ken should have been knighted, not suppressed.
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• In last Saturday's Guardian there was an advert for travel to Israel featuring a map where Israel appears to have absorbed the entire occupied Palestinian territories and the Golan Heights. The Israeli Board of Tourism has been censured three times for breaches of advertising standards, but seems unable to correct its behaviour. Perhaps you should now just refuse to offer any advertising space to the Israeli government, which repeatedly claims that land illegally acquired by conquest is theirs.
Alexei Sayle
• According to the World Bank, disabled people in developing countries are over-represented among the poorest people and have been largely been overlooked in the development agenda. On this, International Day of Persons with Disabilities, ADD calls on the Department for International Development to ensure that disabled people are included in all overseas aid.
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• Bishop's Stortford de-twinned (Report, 2 December). Europe isolated.
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• I can keep the Scottish islands going (Letters, 2 December) – Iona gazetteer.
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• Snowdrops and raspberries in my Welwyn Garden City garden – Isle of the Blessed (Letters, 1 December).
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Blast rocks Syria's capital near government building
In this image taken from AP video, thick black smoke rises over the Damascus skyline after a powerful explosion rocked the Syrian capital near a busy market and the country's highest court, Thursday, June 28, 2012. (AP)
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DAMASCUS - A strong explosion rocked the Syrian capital Thursday, sending black smoke billowing into the sky.
The state TV said the explosion was in the parking lot of the Palace of Justice, a compound that houses several courts. The nature of Thursday's blast was not immediately clear.Syria has been hit by a wave of massive explosions in recent months, killing dozens of people. Most of the explosions targeted the security agencies of President Bashar Assad, who is fighting to end a 15-month-old uprising against his rule.
Last month, an explosion targeted a military intelligence compound south of Damascus killing 55 people. It was Syria's deadliest blast.
Much of the violence that has gripped Syria since the uprising began has been sanctioned by the government to crush dissent. But rebel fighters are launching increasingly deadly attacks on regime targets, and several massive suicide attacks this year suggest al-Qaida or other extremists are joining the fray.
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The Hitmen finally fed the hungry masses.
Calgary fans have been starving for awhile now -- for goals, for intensity, for a win.
And for those tasty burgers that come with every five-goal game by the home team. But the club's recent offensive famine has left fans' bellies as bare as Old Mother Hubbard's cupboards.
The Hitmen, led by Tyrel Lucas' pair of goals, sent the crowd home happy and content with last night's 5-1 win over the Moose Jaw Warriors.
Lucas, who played his best game since arriving at the WHL trade deadline Jan. 10, scored Calgary's second and third goals to spark what had been a listless attack.
He threw in a third-period scrap just to cement his status as the game's first star.
"It was nice to get those goals and the fight," Lucas said, showing a few battle scars from a hard night's work.
"I thought everyone battled good. It was a total team effort. We had a lot of guys going to the net, getting greasy and going after those rebounds. That was the difference."
Darryl Moscaluk, Ryan Getzlaf and Andrew Ladd also lit the lamp as Calgary improved to 31-21-8-3 and moved three points clear of fourth-place Red Deer in the Central Division.
With Hitmen GM/head coach Kelly Kisio threatening mass benchings, the home side came out with increased intensity in a scoreless opening period.
Calgary dominated the opening frame, outshooting the visitors 12-3 but couldn't solve Josh Lepp, who made his best stops late on Konstantin Pushkarev and Lucas.
Kisio was in a much better mood following last night's victory, even though it came against a weak opponent.
"We did a lot of good things tonight and didn't allow Moose Jaw much," Kisio said. "We did a lot of good work in the first period and carried it over into the second and third."
The Hitmen have gripped their sticks into sawdust -- or at least a pile of graphite shavings -- in recent outings, scoring just three even-strength goals while going winless in their past five.
But the futility finally came to an end and it was from an unlikely source as grinder Moscaluk put Calgary on the board at the 2:45 mark of the middle frame.
Riley Merkley sent a harmless wrister off Lepp's stick but Moscaluk banged it out of mid air and into the back of the net.
The Hitmen were back for more two minutes later when, during a wild scramble, they fired at least a half-dozen shots at the Moose Jaw net.
Lucas finally ended the suspense when he snapped a shot through a traffic wreck in front of the net.
Calgary's powerplay went to work at the midway point and Merkley sent a doorstep feed to Lucas, who fanned on his original offering before shovelling the leftovers five-hole for a 3-0 lead.
Troy Brouwer scored Moose Jaw's only goal, on the powerplay, early in the third.
But the Hitmen didn't allow the Warriors to gain any momentum as, less than a minute later, Getzlaf picked off an errant Dan Ehrman pass, waltzed in alone and deked Lepp for his 25th goal of the season.
Ladd finished the damage with a powerplay goal when he neatly deflected Dustin Kohn's point shot between his legs.
The Hitmen outshot Moose Jaw 42-19.
BIG HONOUR: Calgarian Ryan Stone of Brandon was named the CHL player of the week yesterday after recording six goals and six assists to lead the Wheat Kings to a 4-0 record last week.


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Stamp files for Tux Paint, a paint program for children
Tux Paint is meant to be a simple drawing program for young children. It is not meant as a general-purpose drawing tool. It IS meant to be fun and easy to use. Sound effects and a cartoon character help let the user know what's going on, and keeps them entertained.
Tux Paint is extensible. Brushes and "rubber stamp" shapes can be dropped in and pulled out. For example, a teacher can drop in a collection of animal shapes and ask their students to draw an ecosystem. Each shape can have a sound which is played, and textual facts which are displayed, when the child selects the shape.
There is no direct access to the computer's underlying intricacies. The current image is kept when the program quits, and reappears when it is restarted. Saving images requires no need to create filenames or use the keyboard. Opening an image is done by selecting it from a collection of thumbnails.
This package contains sounds, images and other data for Tux Paint.
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Thursday, January 17, 2013
In this 2009 file photo, Lance Armstrong speaks during the opening session of the Livestrong Global Cancer Summit in Dublin, Ireland. In a televised interview with Oprah Winfrey that aired Thursday, Armstrong finally admitted to what had become abundantly clear: that he doped during each of his seven Tour de France victories.
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XZ-1 underwater videos
Ben O Connor wrote:
Hello all,
I' ve been in Turkey since 2nd of July and keep stay here for a while. I finally got chance to make my PT-050 wet ! The results looks very staisfying on the XZ-1 ' s screen. But when I uploaded to Flickr it seemed not as good.
The focus was locked, and it was shallow water as 50cm. And sun was strong enought to make it bright.
I even try to watch it at HD (not full HD its 720p as you know) but result still dissapointment.
What you folks recommend about sharper ımages underwater ?
Thanks for all recommendations.
To me it looks like the inbuild codec is trying to keep the bitrate low no matter that eveyrhing in the scene is moving. This leads soft and somewhat blurry video. So I claim the softness is just result of too low bitrate and high video compression. Sad part is that there ain't much settings to choose with XZ-1 when shooting video.
I would downscale and apply sight sharpening so it would give the impressions it's more detailed video than it really is.
RAW video would be nice
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Courtois free to play against us, says Chelsea chief-executive
Chelsea's own goalkeeper is poised to stand between them and a place in the Champions League final after the 2012 winners were drawn to play Thibaut Courtois' Atletico Madrid.
The 21-year-old Belgium goalkeeper is on loan at Atletico for a third successive season and Chelsea insist he will be free to play against them, in line with UEFA rules, as the clubs compete for a place in the May 24 final in Lisbon against Real Madrid or defending champions Bayern Munich.
It was reported that Chelsea would allow the Spanish side to play the Belgian in both legs of the semi, provided they paid a fee of around 3million euros for each game.
However, UEFA moved to clarify that it expects Courtois to be free to face the Blues in both legs.
Chelsea chief executive Ron Gourlay told chelseafc.com: "The loan was arranged at the start of the season and it is quite simple, Courtois can play against Chelsea, that was never in doubt.
"Regarding the UEFA statement, we will evaluate that over the course of the next 24 or 48 hours and we will comply with the rules, and he can play against Chelsea in both games."
UEFA's statement, made in advance of the draw, read: "The integrity of sporting competition is a fundamental principle for UEFA.
"Both the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA disciplinary regulations contain clear provisions which strictly forbid any club to exert, or attempt to exert, any influence whatsoever over the players that another club may (or may not) field in a match.
"It follows that any provision in a private contract between clubs which might function in such a way as to influence who a club fields in a match is null, void and unenforceable so far as UEFA is concerned.
"Furthermore, any attempt to enforce such a provision would be a clear violation of both the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA disciplinary regulations and would therefore be sanctioned accordingly."
Courtois played against his parent club in the 2012 Super Cup, when Atletico were 4-1 winners. The match also pits Chelsea striker Fernando Torres against his former club.
Jose Mourinho's Chelsea, who beat Paris St Germain on Tuesday night to advance, play in Madrid on April 22, with the return at Stamford Bridge on April 30.
Should Chelsea prevail, Mourinho's men will meet either Real Madrid or Bayern Munich - the side the Blues beat in the 2012 final - in the Portuguese capital next month.
Mourinho had good and bad moments during three years at Real, where he regularly found himself up against Pep Guardiola, now the Bayern boss.
Mourinho has won only three of his 16 meetings with Guardiola, with the most recent encounter coming when Europa League winners Chelsea lost the Super Cup to the Germans in Prague last August.
Real's pairing against Bayern brings together two clubs who have won the competition 14 times between them.
Five-times winners Bayern, quarter-final conquerors of Manchester United, are the defending champions. They beat fellow German side Borussia Dortmund at Wembley last May, and want to become the first team in the Champions League era to defend the European Cup.
Real, who booked their place in the last four with a win over Dortmund, have won European club football's top prize nine times - but not since 2002 - and host the first leg on April 23.
Bayern's chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said on his club's website: "It's going to be a duel that both Bayern and Real fans can look forward to.
"I'm sure Pep (Guardiola)'s looking forward to it too. We're up against one of the best sides in the world, a really great team.
"We respect Real, but we have a big chance of writing history, which would be to defend our title, and we believe in that."
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Going ape with Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
Is this the era of Donkey Kong for Nintendo or what? Sure, Mario's getting plenty of attention with his own games, but as of late, the big "N" is bringing back the big ape's Donkey Kong Country franchise. Last month, we got a taste of handheld goodness with the tough yet thoroughly entertaining Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D. And later this year, we'll get yet another adventure on the Wii U with Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze.
This isn't just the same DKC adventure, though. This is an all-new game being put together by the folks at Retro Studios, who worked on the original Wii game and the 3DS port. In it, DK finds himself once again chasing down banana hoarders and other enemies, while calling upon his younger buddy Diddy Kong – and returning series favorite Dixie Kong – to lend a hand.
Like previous games, Donkey Kong can hop on enemies and roll through them with a somersault attack. But he can also use Dixie or Diddy to get an extra rocket boost, ideal for getting to out-of-reach treasures, such as collectible letters, banana coins and barrels that blast you off to bonus areas. From what we played, the gameplay feels just about right, and you can use either the GamePad or Wii remotes for two-player action. The game also supports off-TV play, though we didn't get to see that in action with the demo.
Seeing Donkey Kong Country in high-definition is a nice sight, even if the territory is a bit familiar. The new ice levels actually look quite impressive, and add an extra degree of challenge as you slip and slide across platforms, trying to avoid falling into the bottomless pits scattered about. The animations are cute, and the new dynamic camera, which swoops around levels as you travel through them, is a neat idea, though some are bound to find it distracting.
The sound is about on par with what you'd expect from Donkey Kong. There's plenty of monkey chatter between him and his friends, and the music has that perfect tropical groove to it, with familiar tones taken from the original Donkey Kong Country theme. It's too bad we didn't get the chance to hear Cranky Kong complain, though. Maybe next time.
One huge addition this time around is the ability to have two players take part. You can work together using Wii remotes, teaming up to solve puzzles or collecting bananas that you might have missed the first time around. It's a bit chaotic, but certainly good fun if you have the right partner to watch your back. This is also a good chance to play along with your kids, while at the same time savoring the platforming joy you had with the original SNES or Wii game. Nothing like reliving the banana-grabbing past, eh?
Finally, the game is loaded with bonuses. You'll find countless hidden areas, hidden puzzle pieces, and so much more by digging into the game. We didn't even find half the stuff we wanted to in our time with the demo, but that's okay – we'll get back to digging soon enough.
Though Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze leans a bit on familiarity, it's bound to be a hit when it ships for the Wii U later this year. You'd be bananas not to give it a try.


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Endometriosis: The Painful Toll of a Quiet Condition
Like millions of other women, Jennifer Bozeman thought her debilitating period pain was normal.
One afternoon in the fall of 2014, Jennifer Bozeman was teaching her elementary Spanish students when crippling pain shot through her pelvis. "I was in the middle of a lesson," she says. "I broke into a cold sweat."
Unfortunately, this wasn't unusual for Bozeman, now 26, who had terrible periods growing up. "I used to have to go home from school on the first day [of] each month," she says. "I had horrible cramps, I'd have trouble with the bathroom, fatigue, cold sweats, and insomnia."
For her, that was normal. But after years of enduring painful and embarrassing symptoms that regularly kept her from enjoying her life, Bozeman finally went to the ER in January 2015 when the pain struck again — hard. This time it was so intense that she threw up in a restaurant parking lot just before heading to the hospital.
After a CT scan, pelvic exam, and ultrasound didn't provide answers, the doctor ordered an MRI and finally gave Bozeman a diagnosis: endometriosis.
The Pain of 1 in 10 American Women
Also referred to as endo, endometriosis is a condition that causes tissue similar to the lining of the uterus (aka the endometrium, which is shed during menstruation each month) to grow outside of the uterus and attach to nearby organs, such as the ovaries, fallopian tubes, bladder, and even colon. The buildup of this tissue over time can lead to the development of lesions, cysts, inflammation, and scarring – so it's no wonder Bozeman was in so much pain.
Although many people have never heard of it, endometriosis is not uncommon. It's estimated that up to 10 percent of reproductive-age women suffer from endometriosis in the United States; however, because there's no easy way to diagnose endometriosis and not all women display symptoms, it's possible this number is much higher.
Endometriosis is a very common cause of unexplained pelvic pain, says Mamta M. Mamik, MD, assistant professor in the department of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive science at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Symptoms are varied, but whatever symptoms an endometriosis patient experiences, they're likely to be severe.
"She is usually in a lot of pain," Dr. Mamik explains. "The pelvic pain could be just before or during a menstrual period; between menstrual periods, with worsened pain during her period; or pain during or after sexual intercourse, with bowel movements or while urinating."
When 'Deal With It' Is Your Main Option
There is no quick fix for endometriosis, so symptom management is key. Bozeman has had to learn ways to manage and work around the painful symptoms that come with her period. She's become a student of her body, and knows what works for her — including over-the-counter pain meds, heating pads, and rest on her worst days.
She's become a student of her body, and knows what works for her.
She says she tries to exercise as much as possible, even if she has pain, and eat a diet low in sugar. "Both help reduce inflammation in the body," she explains, "and inflammation worsens my symptoms. Cells feed off sugar especially, and since the endometriosis is an overgrowth of cells, reducing the sugar in my diet helps a lot."
But — like any woman who's ever had a chocolate craving during her period knows — making those healthier decisions can be easier said than done. "Sometimes, you really do just want to eat whatever you want," Bozeman says.
Depression, Infertility, and Beyond
If endometriosis is severe or a woman is having difficulty conceiving, surgery to stage and remove the excess tissue can be performed, Mamik says. Doctors typically try to remove as much of the tissue as possible while keeping ovaries and uterus intact.
"A doctor makes small cuts to place instruments inside the abdomen and pelvis," Mamik explains. "One of these instruments has a light and camera, which allows the doctor to see the organs on a screen and remove the endometriosis through the small incisions. Patients usually go home the same day and go back to work within a week or two."
The other side of endometriosis is the emotional one. According to Mamik, patients can experience anxiety and depression as a result of their frequent bouts of pain and other symptoms.
Bozeman knows this firsthand. "It's exhausting," she says. "I have endo, and other issues (ovarian cysts and uterine fibroids), as well. I have to visit my OB often, and sometimes take time off work."
Some endometriosis patients also deal with infertility issues. "I'm single and 26," Bozeman says. "To have to think about possibly having trouble conceiving down the road, or having surgery, it's hard — and then even if you do have the surgery, there's no guarantee the endometriosis won't come back."
For now, Bozeman plans to stick with symptom management, but she may consider surgery later on if she has trouble getting pregnant. It's been a long, painful journey to understanding her own body, but Bozeman knows now that she has the strength to push forward.
"I think I've learned to manage it all pretty well," she says with a satisfied smile.
For more information on endometriosis, visit the Endometriosis Foundation of America's website at www.endofound.org.


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AISB opportunities Bulletin Item
PhD position on scientific reasoning, Tilburg, THE NETHERLANDS
The Tilburg Center for Logic, General Ethics and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS; http://www.uvt.nl/tilps) at Tilburg University invites applications for a four-year PhD position (full time), commencing 1 November 2013. http://erec.uvt.nl/vacancy?inc=UVT-EXT-2013-0219 The successful candidate is expected to work on a topic in philosophy of science that relates to scientific reasoning. For more information, follow the above link. The position is open to candidates with a Master's degree in philosophy or a related discipline and an interest in working in a very active international and interdisciplinary research environment. The PhD position is fully funded, with a salary increasing from 2.042 Euro gross a month in the first year to 2.492 Euro gross a month in the last year. The only way to apply is via the link at the bottom of the vacancy description website. http://erec.uvt.nl/vacancy?inc=UVT-EXT-2013-0219 Candidates should supply a letter of interest, a curriculum vitae, a research proposal of 1000--1500 words (excluding references), certificates, a transcript of courses taken (including grades) and two letters of recommendation. Please merge all documents into a single pdf file. The deadline for applications is 31 August 2013. Informal enquiries may be directed to Dr. Jan Sprenger


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Time is our greatest obsession. Who has not dreamed of returning to the past, of changing the future? Imagine the power. To see how our choices affect our lives, and then return to undo them. Endless possibilities. Imagine the freedom to cross time and journey through the ages. The freedom to change the past, and bend history to your will.
Time travel is a recurring motif in the Final Fantasy series which focuses on carrying people through time and possibly allowing them to change their fate.
Final FantasyEdit
Garland makes a pact with the Four Fiends to be sent through time to become an immensely powerful being known as Chaos. After the Warriors of Light have defeated the Four Fiends and saved the crystals, the Fiends create an archdemon, Chaos, using Garland's body, and send him 2,000 years into the past.
Following Chaos into the past the Warriors discover it was Chaos who had sent the Four Fiends into the future, creating a time loop paradox. Defeating Chaos in the past breaks the time loop and the Warriors are sent back to their own time, but they have altered the timeline and nobody has any memories of the events.
Final Fantasy IIEdit
Deumion's past is experienced firsthand in the Arcane Labyrinth.
Final Fantasy VIIIEdit
The ability to time travel revolves around the desire to change the past and the wish to preserve a single moment in time and avoid an unwanted future. Ellone is a young woman with the power to transfer people's consciousnesses into other people's from the past. Although limited to people she has had contact with, Ellone hopes to change the past and prevent a series of events from happening. She discovers, however, that her attempted manipulations were a part of the causes that lead to the events she wishes to erase, and learns that attempting to change the past in such a way is futile. She acknowledges that the information and new perspective gained by witnessing the past events can help one to alter the present and future.
Ultimecia, a sorceress who lives far in the future, knows of a coming "prophecy" of her being defeated by a "Legendary SeeD". To prevent this, Ultimecia intends to compress time into a singularity with a form of magic known as time compression and absorb all that ever had and ever would exist, including all time and space, to become "a living god".
Using the Junction Machine Ellone, Ultimecia sends her consciousness back in time to possess and control past sorceresses. She controls Edea Kramer and pursues Ellone because the Junction Machine has a limit to get even further back in time to start the time compression. After Edea is freed from her control, she possesses Rinoa Heartilly and then Adel. Adel is killed and Ultimecia possesses Rinoa at which point Ellone sends Ultimecia's and Rinoa's consciousnesses back into the Adel of the past, and then brings only Rinoa back.
Ultimecia casts the time compression spell but when Ellone severs the mental link she cuts Ultimecia off from the earlier time periods and leaves the spell incomplete. This allows a group of SeeDs from the present to travel through time, encounter Ultimecia in her realm, and kill her. As the time compression spell is broken and time begins to revert back into its original form, one of the SeeDs, Squall Leonhart, ends up too far back in time and meets himself as a child and plants the idea of forming the SeeD organization that would one day defeat Ultimecia, thus becoming the "Legendary SeeD" Ultimecia plans to avoid facing in the future.
Final Fantasy X-2.5 ~Eien no Daishō~Edit
The novel focuses on Yuna and Tidus being transported to a Besaid of 1000 years ago that greatly differs from the Besaid they know from their time.
Final Fantasy XIEdit
Scattered throughout Vana'diel are numerous statues that resemble Atomos, called the "Cavernous Maws", which act portals to twenty years into the past, around the time of the Crystal War's end. Lilisette uses the portals to prevent the events that would lead to her father's death, while Lady Lilith, a version of Lilisette who hails from a reality in which the Crystal War never ended, used them to ensure the continuation of her future by erasing Lilisette's future.
Despite the efforts of the both of them, neither erase the other future and instead only achieve a balance between the two realities. However, it is also revealed that the goddess Altana had once rewritten the timeline to prevent its ruin.
Final Fantasy XIII-2Edit
The universe is divided in two halves; what could be called the mortal world, or the world of Gran Pulse and Cocoon, and the world of the dead, the unseen realm. Valhalla is the middle realm that exists in-between. Whereas beings are born, live, and die in the mortal world, Valhalla is a world of entropy that exists outside the timeline of the world of Gran Pulse, a world without a past or future. Those who reside in Valhalla can see the span of the entire timeline by gazing into the mortal world.
The ability to travel in time originates from the goddess Etro who resides in Valhalla. The legends state that Etro places a piece of chaos, a malevolent energy that seeks to return everything to entropy, into every human, giving them a "heart". Certain people possess more "heart" as a gift from the goddess than others, giving them greater affinity to chaos, and can enter the Historia Crux and travel in time. As Yeul explains to Serah in the Void Beyond: "The power to step outside the timeline. The power to witness the future. These gifts come from Etro. Her servants are known by her blessings."
Lead scenario writer for Final Fantasy XIII-2, Daisuke Watanabe, has explained in an interview[1] that because the goddess Etro saved Serah by releasing her from her crystal stasis she acquired powers normally inaccessible to humans, and this is why she can time-travel when passing through the Time Gates. Other people, namely Lightning, Sazh, and Snow, who were also saved from crystal stasis by Etro, also have the power to use the Historia Crux to travel in time; however, Hope appears not to have this power.
Noel Kreiss hails from 700 AF, an era where humanity is extinct except for him. He prays for the goddess to grant him the gift of chaos so he may follow Caius Ballad to Valhalla. His prayer is answered and he is taken to Valhalla where he meets Lightning, Etro's champion who fights to protect Etro's temple from Caius. Lightning asks for Noel to find her sister Serah, and sends him through a Time Gate to New Bodhum 3 AF.
For Noel and Serah to travel in time they use Time Gates and artefacts to open them. The Historia Crux is the crossroads of history, "the ability to step outside of the timeline" as Yeul puts it. Whenever a Time Gate to the Historia Crux is opened with an artefact writing in Etro's script briefly floats in the air, indicating a link to the goddess.
It may well be that the Time Gates are consciously created by the goddess, rather than things that arise out of paradoxes, as Snow Villiers is unable to follow Serah and Noel through a Time Gate despite being a time traveler himself, because the gate in question was not "meant for him". Because Lightning resides in Valhalla she can keep an eye on Serah and Noel's journey to solve the paradoxes in the timeline, and eventually leaves Valhalla through a Time Gate to meet them in New Bodhum 700 AF, although their encounter is brief.
Caius, who possesses the Heart of Chaos, wants to bring about the end of history. Because of the Heart of Chaos Caius can travel to Valhalla from where he creates paradoxes in the timeline to set the stage for a mass sacrifice to open Etro's gate. This would allow chaos seep into the mortal world, and transform the world into Valhalla. Caius cannot travel in time like Noel and Serah do, but he sends messages from Valhalla to his past self; this is why the Caius of 200 AF knows Noel.[2]
After manipulating the timeline to suit his needs the city of Academia in 500 AF becomes so affected by chaos Caius is able to enter there from Valhalla. When he is about to destroy both the old and New Cocoons his plans are foiled by Serah and Noel and he opens a portal to Valhalla. After a gruesome battle on Valhalla's shores Noel's sword pierces Caius's Heart of Chaos. The paradox comes to an end and the Time Gates begin to vanish one by one, marking the end of Serah and Noel's time-traveling journey.
Another method of time travel is invented by Hope Estheim who is unable to use Time Gates: a suspended animation capsule that can be used to travel forward in time.
Final Fantasy XVEdit
From Chapter 9 onwards, the party can use Umbra to "travel back in time" to Lucis or, later, to Altissia. This is purely a gameplay feature, however. If the player is having Cid upgrade their weapons, Cid will not call the party to come pick them up if they "travel to the future" to rest. When going back to Lucis, the day and night cycle is restored to what it was at the beginning of the game.
Final Fantasy TacticsEdit
In the The War of the Lions version, Ramza Beoulve encounters Balthier from Final Fantasy XII. Although Balthier only explains he needs to return to the Cache of Glabados to put things back as they were, it can be assumed he was displaced in time. Ramza also meets Luso Clemens from Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift, still with his Gran Grimoire.
Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the RiftEdit
Luso Clemens finds the Grimoire of the Rift which enables him to travel hundreds of years into the past to a time where Ivalice possessed all sorts of magicks, different races and technologies.
Luso joins a clan and makes several friends in this magickal time, doing errands in every location and saving Jylland from the supremacy of clan Duelhorn and the dark ambitions of the Khamja organization. Every time an important event occurs the Grimoire writes down, in itself, the essential facts, creating something of a journal that fills its own pages.
The great sage Lezaford tells Luso the only way he can return home is by completing his story at the time he finds himself in; that is, he should live life to the fullest while in this Ivalice until his "job" is done. Upon defeating Illua and the monster from the Rift, Luso returns to his era, keeping the Grimoire.
Final Fantasy Legend IIIEdit
The party can travel through time with the Talon and possessing the correct Talon Units, but they can only go to a specific eras. The effects of the flooding and its threat can be seen upon the world of the past, present and future.
Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of LightEdit
After the Heroes of Light meet up with Rolan in Spelvia they find him consumed by monsters. They release him, but along with it the darkness trapped within Rolan is unleashed upon the world, plunging it into darkness and the party is sent over a decade into the past to a time where they are just being born.
The party travels the world uncovering many mysteries that explain the events that took place in the original world, and the reasons why the cities were tainted. The heroes defeat Chaos's minions, and Chaos himself reverting the timeline back into normal, and the heroes are sent back to their own world.
Bravely Second: End LayerEdit
Time travel can be performed using the Compass of Space and Time invented by Altair. Kaiser Oblivion attempts to use the Compass to travel into the past and undo his own family's history, but is instead tricked into being sent into the distant future. In the second timeline, he uses the Compass to go to the future again, this time to banish the immortal Diamante.
The Adventurer and the player can both travel through time without any visible form of aid, manifesting as the player's ability to save and load the game. At the end of Chapter 4, the player travels back in time using the New Game Plus feature, allowing them to repeat the first four chapters for any missed asterisk jobs or to alter the timeline. At the end of the game, the Adventurer travels back in time to give Tiz the hourglass at the start of Bravely Default and returns to the present afterward, forming a stable time loop. While traveling into the past, the Adventurer's clothes temporarily become green instead of their usual red.
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Time is suspended while Reynn and Lann are within Nine Wood Hills or the Coliseum connected with it, allowing them to spend as much time there as they like before returning to the world of Grymoire with no time having passed there since they left. By visiting The Girl's Tearoom, Reynn and Lann may travel throughout time to intervene in battles, taking the place of those who would normally fight them. Following the battle, those whom the two intervened for might have limited awareness of the aid they had been granted, though the opponent will have no knowledge of anything unusual having happened.
Following the release of the Cogna into Grymoire, Reynn and Lann use this ability to great effect, intervening repeatedly throughout Grymoire on mass scale before the Cogna can wreak devastation upon the world. Following the game's ending, a shouted "No!" from Reynn reveals that she will not accept events as they happened and the sacrifice of her brother, Lann. Tama uses her remaining power to rewind time to the party's entry in the final dungeon, in the process altering events to a timeline in which she was never a part of their journey and Serafie handles all of the tasks that were set to her in the original timeline. The player then continues events in the altered timeline, working towards a better resolution for the world of Grymoire. The party is later able to restore Tama with the aid of the Girl Who Forgot Her Name from The Girls' Tearoom.
- Although not strictly time traveling, the Phantom Village in Final Fantasy V can be visited in the present time even though the point of view of the inhabitants is 1,000 years in the past due to being locked between dimensions for that long. In the Interdimensional Rift, the same village appears frozen in time altogether.
- ↑ http://finalfantasy-xiii.net/forums/archive/index.php/t-15139.html
- ↑ Final Fantasy XIII-2 Ultimania Omega Scenario Interview with Toriyama and Watanabe


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She was a woman of uncompromising beauty who had come to Los Angeles to seek fame and fortune. Her quest ended in an abandoned lot on the outskirts of the city. First on the crime scene is newshound Bill Fowley, and at his side is Chicago private eye Nathan Heller, in town to help launch the West Coast branch of his famed detective agency. The police arrive at the brutal scene of the crime and suddenly the postwar world of Hollywood is plunged into the terror that is the Black Dahlia case. Only one problem persists: uncovering the woman's identity.
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Held at London's Savoy Hotel, the London Evening Standard Awards are selected by a panel of theater critics, including Evening Standard editor Sarah Sands, Broadway.com London correspondent Matt Wolf (The International Herald Tribune), Henry Hitchings (London Evening Standard), Georgina Brown (Mail on Sunday), Susannah Clapp (The Observer), Libby Purves (The Times) and Charles Spencer (The Daily Telegraph).
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He has been trying to reach a suitable agreement about the future of DEI with his mother and DEI president Theresa Earnhardt.
"After a year of intense negotiation, we decided its time for us to move on and seek other opportunities for 2008," Earnhardt Jr. said at news conference. "We both want to get to the same place, but we have different visions on how to get there. At 32 years of age, the same age my father was when he made his final and most important career decision, it's time for me to compete on a consistent basis."
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text: Farkon 192 Report post Posted November 16, 2012 After an extensive reading of the T-Machine articles about entity/components design i've decided to move part of my code to that. It's *working* right now but i still have some questions : [b]Networking :[/b] Not really a problem here but i'm still wondering if i'm doing it "right", I'm currently having a NetworkSystem which is filling components with network datas and then other systems will do their job. Basically my filling-datas pattern looks like that : [CODE] *New data is arriving with item ID* allNetEntities = getAllEntitiesPossessingComponent(CNet); for netEntity in allNetEntities { net = getComponent(netEntity, CNet) if net.id == itemID { pos = getComponent(netEntity, CPosition) pos.x = itemX pos.y = itemY } } [/CODE] I'm not into performances optimizations yet but it's a bit ugly, i guess the way to go would be add a NetworkSystem method like addNetEntity(entity, ID) populating a collection of some sort and then getting the item through that list. It seems totally logical but i'm mainly trying to see if i'm going to hit a wall of anti-e/s patterns at some point. [b]Events :[/b] I'm not comfortable with using an event system here and i don't really know how to handle that myself. Let's say i'm having a CHealthBar component which contains hp datas and i want to add a little animation when a player is losing health. An idea that come to mind is just to update that hp data and let the system throws an animation when it detects that newHp < oldHp but it means that the system will always check for that condition. Again it looks like premature optimization but i'm more looking for nice habits. Another idea would be to play with components which might be a bit more elegant : If the client is receiving new hp data he could update the CHealthBar component and adding a new CNewHp component, which will be handled by the HealthBarSystem and then removed. i'm still having that constant check to do in my loop though. [b]HealthBar parent/child:[/b] Still with that HealthBar i'm wondering how you attach entities together. That's what i'm doing right now. [source lang="jscript"] // Player var playerSprite = DrawableSystem.getBitmapFromFile("player_healer_walking1"); var player = this.game.em.createEntity(); this.game.em.addComponent(player, new CPosition(netx, nety)); this.game.em.addComponent(player, new CNet(id, netx, nety)); var pdrawable = this.game.em.addComponent(player, new CDrawable(playerSprite, this.game)); // Healthbar var barSprite = new Bar(0x6CF048, 50, 8); var healthbar = this.game.em.createEntity(); this.game.em.addComponent(healthbar, new CHealthBar(player)); // Reference to parent player entity this.game.em.addComponent(healthbar, new CDrawable(barSprite, pdrawable.sprite)); this.game.em.addComponent(healthbar, new CPosition(-25, -40)); [/source] [u]Graphically :[/u] Right now my CDrawable takes two arguments, the sprite object and the parent sprite object. Here i don't really respect the rule of data-only components since the constructor is actually doing parent.addChild(child), that's an exception I made and i'm not really proud of it since i will eventually need a method to remove that component from the screen; I used to do that differently by just calling drawableSystem.addOnScreen(component), is that better ? [u]Events/Graphic datas :[/u] Since i don't really know how to handle events i'm a bit stuck on where to put initialization code. In the snippet above i'm writing new Bar() and passing it to my CDrawable component but Adam (from T-Machine) doesn't seem to talk about sad and lonely classes going around your code. I want to put that in the component constructor since it doesn't contain any logic code and is actually *datas* even if i'm initializing stuff in it but i'm not sure about that. Or it could be a method in the system but would need to be abstracted IMO. [u]Relationship :[/u] When the client is receiving new hp datas i need to update that component. I'm having an ID for each player so i need to reach that hp entity starting from the player entity. In my example above the player component doesn't know about the hp component whereas the hp component does know who's its owner, it works, but it's a bit weird to update that hp component. Pseudo-code : [code] allHpComponents = getComponents(CHealthBar) for hpComponent in allHpComponents { id = getComponentFromEntity(hpComponent.parent, CNet) if id == netId { hpComponent.hp = newHp } } [/code] I'm having the same kind of code than my network one, the only workaround i can see is to have another component called CHealthBarEntity added to the player entity and redirecting to the healthBar entity, how dirty does that look ? 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Sep 03, 2011 - 11:57 am
How long prior to diagnosis did the pain between the shoulder blades show up? Anyone remember? I do remember my husband complaining for a long time about pain between his shoulder blades before diagnosis, but he just thought it was our bed . . . I can't remember how long before though . .
Sep 03, 2011 - 12:04 pm
My mom started complaining about pain radiating to her back between shoulder blades 3-4 years ago. Doctors must be stupid because we went in and no one could figure it out. She was having this problem in combination with acid reflux. And then in January of this year she had trouble swallowing and last Friday diagnosed with Squmous Cell. A year ago, the doctor even recommended removing her gall bladder to see if that's the cause. The health care system is definitely not perfect.
Sep 03, 2011 - 1:04 pm
This is an excerpt of a post I made to Heeran.....didn't know if you saw it or not.
"About 3-4 years ago I began experiencing pain between my shoulder blades and I would have chest pain intermittently. I was a heavy smoker so I kind of blew it off since the chest pain only would come occasionally and then when I had been smoking heavily......more of a tightness rather than pain. My doctor recommended I do a stress test and had me see a cardiologist who immediately inserted 3 stents in my right coronary (70% blockage). But the pains didn't go away. When I researched pain between the shoulder blades on Dr Google, esophaegal cancer was listed as one of the causes. Then I began to have trouble swallowing....not all the time, mainly on breadstuff. In any case that EC remained in the back of my mind. When I did my followup with the cardiologist I explained I was still having the same pains. He checked me out and said, "Well, it's not your heart." I went to my primary doc and asked him to refer me for an endoscope. Suspecting the worse, I had the endoscope done at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa and the rest, as they say, is history. They found a tumor near the junction that had penetrated the outer wall of my esophagus. The EUS didn't indicate any nodal involvement. (Let's pray for that to be the case with your mother). I was staged at T3N0M0 (Stage IIA) so I'm able to have surgery. I know that they won't have the complete picture until after and they check the removed nodes but I'm optimistic."
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Sep 03, 2011 - 3:03 pm
It was this post that lit the light bulb for me :) I put it together after I read this. My husband used to get so upset, saying that our bed was 'junk' :) It is a fairly new top of the line pillow top and I used to disagree with him. He used to say that he wanted to buy a new mattress and I would be so bummed because I love our mattress!!
Sep 03, 2011 - 11:31 pm
I used to get this pain starting about 3 years ago. The pain would usually start in my chest and radiate into my back. Drinking some water and getting someone to smack me on the back usually helped. I believe the pain was caused by tumours on both sides of my esophageous making contact and "sticking together". The pain usually struck during hot days or other times when I tended to be dehydrated. The water would flow and unstick them.. just my theory.
Sep 04, 2011 - 6:26 pm
I know it was at least two years. I did'nt have reflux and didn't realize this was caused from reflux. I had this hurting a lot, but thought it was artheritis. Twice during this time I also hurt real bad in my chest, so the dr. had my heart checked. By the time I was checked ok, I would feel better and not follow through with other test.I was lucky! Because of my and my doctors negligence I was only stage 111 with three lymph nodes positive.
Sep 04, 2011 - 6:54 pm
I started with pain in the left side of my chest radiating to the center of my back between the shoulder blades for about three years before my diagnosis last summer (July 2010). Every year at my physical I would complain of this pain, twice I had stress tests that showed no heart problem. Finally by spring 2010 the pain was getting so bad I was avoiding certain foods. Finally after over three years I was sent in for the scope and diagnosed with stage 2B EC. I had the MIE 11/18/10 and had 15 nodes removed during the surgery and now find I have an active node in my neck. I believe in both the diagnosis and surgery the doctors did me a dis-service. Do you ever get the feeling that health care is more about the doctors and them making money and less about the patient? I know I certainly do.
Sep 04, 2011 - 10:29 pm
This post just hit my like a ton of bricks falling on my head. I think I am going to start crying, John slipped and fell in the shower in Jan of 2010. He was still having balance issues (due to stroke he had in Nov. of 2006). He fractured two ribs (10 & 11) on the right. He complained all of the time about pain. He said the pain was in the area of the ribs and radiated to his back between his shoulder blades. I kept telling him that rib fractures are very painful and it was probably from the fractured ribs. John has a very high tolerance for pain so I did think it was curious that he was having so much pain for so long. Then last year around the holidays he would point to his epigastic area and state the pain wrapped around his ribs and into to his back. He went to primary care in late Jan. Doctor told him to start Prilosec and go back in two weeks. John did not go back until he started having difficulty swallowing in mid May. All that time wasted; well here I go what if, what if. I cannot go there now, most move forward toward surgery on Friday but…
Sep 05, 2011 - 11:36 am
Don't let yourself go there, it is just too painful and it can't help fix this problem our loved ones are facing. Jeff was diagnosed with a hiatal hernia last year and actually had the surgery to correct it. This all started with chest pains, we were told it was caused by the hernia. They did biopsies and didn't even find barrets, and then BAM 8 months later stage 2 EC. I didn't go with Jeff to the doctor's last year as once the hernia was diagnosed we both though that was fairly common and I was in the middle of a huge project at work. He saw the surgeon and all of the GI docs himself. I can't help but think if I had gone I would have pried more into all of this, as I am the kind of person that has 1,001 questions all of the time. I can't help but think I could have pried something some bit of buried knowledge about EC out of one of them. But, Jeff has asked me not to blame myself, as that doesn't fix anything now, plus he also says he places no blame on anyone.
We can't go back, only forward!! Good luck with the surgery, ours is tomorrow and I am starting to get anxious now....
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Hall Funeral Home welcomes new office staff
Thomaston — Hall Funeral Home and Cremation Services welcomes Ron Gamage as its office administrator.
Gamage grew up in the Midcoast and has always been proud of his maritime heritage, having come from a large line of master shipbuilders. After graduating from Rockland District High School, he embarked on a career in retail and started working at a local supermarket. He then entered a 15-year successful career in the real estate business. After 15 years, one of his listings got he and his wife thinking about being store owners, so they embarked on a 14-year job as convenience store owners. That property was later purchased by the state of Maine and will be raised to make room for a new bridge, which will replace the aging one.
Gamage came to Hall Funeral Home as a licensed attendant in 2012 and has recently added more duties to his employment taking on administration work in the Thomaston office. He will continue to make the Thomaston building shine by attending to the landscaping.
In addition to his work life, Gamage served on the school board in Thomaston for 10 years along with many other town committees and boards. He is a member of the Orient Lodge of Masons in Thomaston and has been the treasurer for many years. Gamage and his wife Jackie have two children. A daughter, Krystal, is a high school history teacher at Oceanside High School East in Rockland and a son, Dylan, is a junior at Oceanside East.
Gamage's outside interests include working on his lawn and gardens at home, stock car racing, collecting black and white photography, spending time with his family, as well as enjoying the love of his two Boston Terriers — Willie and Sadie.
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If you are in the Philadelphia area, join Vision 2020's first Junior Delegate, Ying Ying Shang, in her final showing of "Miss Represenation," on Friday, August 3 at 7 PM (EST) at Tredyffrin Public Library in Strafford, PA. This event is free and open to the public. Also learn more about her "Real Worth" campaign here: www.realworthcampaign.tumblr.com.
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Tomato and potaoes are baked along with cheese and thyme
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English: Potato
tamil: Uralaikilangu
malayalam: Urulakizhangu / Kizhangu
telugu: Bangaala Dumpa / Urlagadda / Alu Gadda
kannada: Aalugadde
hindi: Aloo / Batata
Bengali: Aloo
Gujarati: Batata
Konkani: Kook / Batato
Marathi: Batate
Oriya: Alu
Punjabi: Aloo
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English: Tomato
tamil: Takkali
malayalam: Takkali
telugu: Tametokai / Ramamulaga (Pandu/Kaya)
kannada: Tomaato Hannu
hindi: Tameta
Bengali: Toamaatar
Gujarati: Tameta
Konkani: Tomato
Marathi: Tamoto
Oriya: Bilati Baigana
Punjabi: Tamatar
Kashmiri: Ruwangum
English: Thyme
malayalam: Thottathulasi
hindi: Ajwain
Marathi: Owaa
Punjabi: Marizha / Masho / Rangsbur
Urudu: Hasha
English: Salt
tamil: Uppu
malayalam: Uppu
telugu: Uppu
kannada: Uppu
hindi: Namak
Bengali: Laban / Noone
Gujarati: Meethu
Konkani: Meet
Marathi: Mith
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Patient Day 2016
Guthy Jackson NMO Patient day is always a special day for me. It's the one-day a year I get to connect with my NMO family. This year marked my 5th time attending this special day, this year I brought my mom. I wanted her to meet my NMO family and some of the doctors that I have talked with. Every year at Patient day Ms. Jackson does a fabulous job putting on this event for patients. It is such a great opportunity for patients to connect with each other and talk to some of the top NMO doctors. It is so nice to talk to another person that has NMO and talk about what you are feeling and they completely understand. This event is so special Ms. Jackson has doctors all over the world to come talk to us patients about whatever questions we might have. Also patients get to find out what's happening new in the medical world of NMO.
The big topic this year was researchers talking to us patients about trying medical trials for new drugs for NMO. It was very interesting and there were some good points made about this topic. If you are interested to learn more about the clinical trials please visit the Guthy Jackson website there are some great resources there. The also had several breakout sessions this year from asking the Docs, nutrition, mediation, navigating insurance, managing pain and simplifying the science of NMO. It is a day where you can learn as much as you can about having NMO or being a caregiver for a NMO patient.
The other big thing is donating the blood to the Circles program that hopefully helps a cure for NMO. I strongly encourage you to do this if you are a NMO patient and your family. We all have a piece in this very large puzzle and we need to work together to help find the cure.
When the conference is all over with the patients gather around and have dinner and just talk to each other and have a good time. We are all like one big family and we really enjoy spending time with each other and like I said this is a one-day thing we get to bond like this. Its hard to say goodbye at the end of the night to each other. But we know in 364 more days we will be reunited together again.
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Parents have a new danger to watch out for: a return of whooping cough. The sickness is on the rise in California, and claimed nearly a dozen lives. Hundreds of children were hospitalized.
Vaccines rendered whooping cough a rarity for many years, but a recent uptick has researchers baffled. It's unclear why exactly there's been an increase in diagnosis. It could be a new strain of bacteria, or it could simply be better diagnostic tools, according to the CC Times.
Whooping cough may be hard to catch, particularly in infants. It will present as a simple cold at first, but will persist for weeks with respiratory congestion and frequent coughing. Babies lack the ability to cough, so their symptoms may be hidden.
These days, kids need to be vaccinated before attending California schools. Children entering 7th through 12th grade need to provide proof of vaccinations, which can be provided at low or no cost. But many parents have yet to comply.
Some parents have opted out of vaccines due to unfounded rumors about their safety. But those opt-outs are rare enough that they couldn't solely account for the surge in new cases.
For now, parents are recommended to keep infants away from any adult that has not been vaccinated.