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Modern wind turbines are very reliable and the installed wind power capacity in the US now exceeds 46,000MW, a total that is second only to China's 62,000MW
Sir, Professor Michael Kelly (letter, Feb 28) gives a misleading impression of America's wind power progress. The abandoned windmills that he refers to were both built and abandoned in the 1980s, when modern wind turbine technology was in its infancy, and the total capacity of the relatively small machines that were abandoned was less than 500MW.
The ill-conceived and over-generous capital cost subsidies that triggered the deployment of wind turbines in the US in the early 1980s were legislated in response to the 1979 oil crisis, and have since been replaced — in the US as elsewhere — by a stimulus mechanism for renewables that only gives payment for the electricity generated. Modern wind turbines are very reliable and the installed wind power capacity in the US…


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There is no country or economy participating in PISA 2012 that can claim that all of its 15-year-old students have achieved a baseline level of proficiency in mathematics, reading and science. Poor performance at school has long-term consequences, both for the individual and for society as a whole. Reducing the number of low-performing students is not only a goal in its own right but also an effective way to improve an education system's overall performance – and equity, since low performers are disproportionately from socio-economically disadvantaged families.
Low-performing Students: Why they Fall Behind and How to Help them Succeed examines low performance at school by looking at low performers' family background, education career and attitudes towards school. The report also analyses the school practices and educational policies that are more strongly associated with poor student performance. Most important, the evidence provided in the report reveals what policy makers, educators, parents and students themselves can do to tackle low performance and succeed in school.
School leaders are calling the PISA-based Test for Schools one of the better indicators out there of how well students are prepared for 21st century learning.
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|26 Jul 2009
W7 downloads corrupt
Has anyone else had a problem with the RC downloads from Microsoft's official d-load page being corrupted?
I have tried a few times, it gets all the way through the download and right at the end says it's corrupted and unuseable and such.
Or is there a better, official download other than build 7100?
Thanks for help, and apologies if this has been gone over already
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Windows 7 7600 RTM x86 untouched
If you insist on getting the official RC, you should try a Microsoft http direct link for the RC ISO instead of their own downloader, I also had problems with their Java download thingy.
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64-bit Windows 8.1 Pro
I would think that with millions of successful downloads, the problem is definately on your end. As far as I know that is the only place that you can legally download the RC.
You might consider going to a friends house and re-download the image file..
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I could roll with my end being the issue, but I had successful d-loads in the past, with the same setup.
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TEXT OF STORYBOB MOON: Texas may soon be the latest state to require steroid testing of high school athletes. Lawmakers are arguing not over whether it's a good idea to subject teenagers to random drug tests, the scrap is about who should pay for it. Jill Barshay reports.
JILL BARSHAY: The Texas State House wants to authorize a new fee on high school football and basketball games.
Now, this is Texas, where football is religion. Opponents call it a ticket tax.
D.W. Rutledge is head of the Texas High School Coaches Association. He prefers a Senate version, which would pay for testing with taxpayer dollars. He says a ticket tax may not raise enough cash, and parents could end up footing the bill.
D.W. RUTLEDGE: We don't want the kids that are from financially-challenged families not to have the opportunity to play athletics because they can't afford it.
Texas law maker Dan Flynn wrote the ticket fee bill.
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A floatplane pilot and passenger were rescued on Tuesday afternoon after their plane went down while flying from Niblack, about 30 miles southwest of Ketchikan in Southeast Alaska. According to the U.S. Coast Guard, the call came in at about 11:17 Tuesday morning that a plane was being reported overdue and a signal from an Emergency Locator Transmitter was being picked up by another aircraft in the area.
The Coast Guard dispatched a Jayhawk helicopter from Sitka as well as a life boat from Ketchikan and redirected the cutter Naushon to investigate. Less than an hour after the report came in and before the Coast Guard or troopers were able to respond to the scene, the good Samaritan vessel Niblack spotted the two survivors on a beach northeast of Niblack Mine. According to Ketchikan radio station KRBD, crew members aboard the Niblack spotted the plane, a de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver operated by Southeast Aviation, in the water near the beach.
The Niblack picked up the two survivors of the crash -- the only occupants of the plane -- and returned them to the Niblack Mine, where they were later picked up by two Temsco helicopters with coordination by the Coast Guard. The Alaska State Troopers identified the two occupants of the plane as 64-year-old Ernest Robb of Ketchikan and 56-year-old Murray Richardson of Vancouer, British Columbia.
Coast Guard Petty Officer Jeremy Dawkins, who is based in Juneau but helped coordinate the rescue efforts, told KRBD that the two were injured, but mobile and in stable condition. The troopers reported that they were first transported to a Ketchikan hospital before being airlifted to Seattle for further treatment.
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Though the Coast Guard and state troopers both responded to the initial report of the downed aircraft, the rescue operation was carried out by civilians and good Samaritans. Dawkins praised the work done by the unofficial rescue crew.
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King's Bounty: Armored Princess does more of the same really well. The stand-alone expansion to 2008's cult hit King's Bounty: The Legend adds virtually nothing to the original's strategy role-playing game formula, but the game does all of the by-the-numbers stuff so perfectly that you can't help but love the deja vu. While developer Katauri Interactive isn't going to win any awards for innovation here, this is still a must-play for anyone who loves this genre.
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Surviving, enduring, accepting – these actions take a degree of bravery but we often romanticize our instinct to simply carry on as something more noble. It can take tremendous courage to do the opposite, to accept change and to throw yourself head-first into a whole new situation. As our previous guest, the police officer Steven Sadate, explained, change will only occur when people are ready to embrace that change. This week in the Archive, we bring you an incredible story of accepting even leaping into change. Our good friend Ciza left Imagine Burundi when the opportunity to pursue his dream arrived out of nowhere. Listen in to hear how he handled that news and what he did to prepare for the massive changes in his life.
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Formula 1 world champ Jenson Button has come up with a new sideline: By buying a sports car, seemingly at any price, he can drive it for a year or so and sell it at auction at a profit. His latest is a real cracker, a 1978 Ferrari 512BB he bought last April at H&H for £82,500 ($127,050, with p ... Read more
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YORK TWP. — Brandyn Sittinger was point blank — Keystone didn't come to play.
That was the senior's take after the Wildcats weren't able to get their bats going until the seventh inning of a disappointing 3-1 loss to Buckeye in Patriot Athletic Conference Stars Division play.
In failing to figure out Bucks sophomore Eli Kraus (2-2), two-time division champion Keystone (8-6, 6-2 PAC) not only trails newcomer Firelands (11-6, 6-1) by a half-game in the standings, it allowed Buckeye (7-6, 5-2) to creep back into the hunt.
"It's just one of those days," Sittinger said. "We seemed like we were really lethargic. We didn't come out strong to start it off.
"It just seemed like none of us wanted to play until the sixth inning. We were all dead."
Sittinger did all he could on the mound with an outstanding 68 strikes on 90 pitches. The hard-throwing Marshall recruit went the distance, allowing just six hits and one earned run while striking out 10.
The problem was Kraus was even better.
The left-hander was dialed in from the start. Following a one-out, first-inning single by Tyler Young, Kraus didn't allow a hit until the seventh, when the Wildcats pushed across their run.
Keystone's rally came on a walk and seeing-eye singles by Kendall Stiner and Jake Twining. Second baseman Troy Piazza represented the go-ahead run with two outs, but Buckeye counterpart Shane Miller made a diving stop to throw out Piazza and end the game.
"A lot of them played JV last year and I pitched against them, so I knew what their hitters liked and didn't like," Kraus said. "I got it done, I guess.
"I knew how big of a game this was and had to put a little extra on it. I had to get a little nasty on my curveball and changeup especially. I threw a lot of those."
Buckeye took a 1-0 lead in the first inning on an RBI single by first baseman Tyler Nichols (2-for-3, 2 RBIs) that brought in Sam Kraus, who doubled on Sittinger's first offering of the game. Sittinger settled in from there, allowing just an infield single to No. 9 hitter Ben Szustak until the bottom of the fifth inning.
That's when the normally sound Wildcats defense fell apart.
Buckeye right fielder Griffin Hornyak began the inning with a double that short-hopped the right-center field fence. Sam Kraus reached on an error by shortstop and Toledo recruit Caleb Schillace to set up the sequence of the game.
With Hornyak on third, Kraus attempted a steal of second as Miller squared for a safety squeeze. The ball dribbled down the third base side and Sittinger's hurried throw home, which was well in time to nab Hornyak, was wide right of catcher Pierce Young.
Five pitches later, Nichols poked his second hotshot RBI single to right and Buckeye held a 3-0 lead that, for all intents and purposes, was the dagger.
"This is a game we circled before the beginning of the year and it was one we wanted," Nichols said. "We went out and got it today."
Keystone showed grit with its last-ditch rally in front of the school's top-ranked softball team, which was cheering on its classmates following a 17-0 pasting of Buckeye across campus, but that wasn't even a consolation prize to Sittinger.
Suffice it say, Keystone won't be coming out flat Saturday vs. Lorain during the Fritz Hazlett Memorial Invitational at Penfield Community Park.
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StarCraft II Performance Review - Even your mom can play (UPDATED)
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Our GPU performance testing was pretty straight forward: use our existing GPU test bed with StarCraft II installed and swap out different graphics cards to gauge performance. The rig was configured as normal:
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Jumping right into the action, StarCraft II isn't going to be very hard on most gamers' machines, and so we only tested a pair of resolutions: 1920x1200 and 2560x1600. The 19x12 configuration is likely the most common for PC gamers today and we wanted to see the 30-in panel performance in order to get as many pixels processed as possible on these new graphics cards.
Because the StarCraft II engine doesn't support AA (anti-aliasing) natively you will see our NVIDIA versus AMD battles run at 1xAA only. However, NVIDIA has been able to enable AA in the game with the override setting in its driver so we will look at AA comparisons on the following page.
For the contenders, again because the game was much less strenuous on our system than we hoped, I limited testing on new cards to the GeForce GTX 460 and GTX 480 as well as the Radeon HD 5830 and HD 5870. For users with somewhat older cards I also threw in a GeForce GTX 260 896MB and a Radeon HD 4850 512MB for a well-rounded group.
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If you are lucky enough to have a 30-in panel you should be able to run StarCraft II at 2560x1600 fairly comfortably with anything from a GeForce GTX 260 or even HD 5830 though performance is much improved with the GTX 480 and HD 5870. In fact, both of those high end cards are hitting that CPU-limited FPS barrier of around 100 again.
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Ahahahahaa, I knew it!
Check my posts from a year ago or so where I said go watch Headhunters before Hollywood remakes it.
But for some I really can't understand the "need" for remake, for example Escape from NY, who needs a remake of that cult classic? Or Argento's Suspiria, hell are they normal? The catch of that horror was not horror elements but the movie style, and you can't copy or remake that. Timecrimes? For god's sakes there are so much better timetravel loop/paradox movies (an example: Triangle, I think it's australian movie and is definetly not widely known about for whatever reason), this one is good, but definetly doesn't deserve a remake.
Whatever, I wish good luck to Hollywood and am pretty sure I won't watch most of those remakes.
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Witt's 43 points fuel Husky victory
Taylor Witt scored 43 points to help St. Cloud State defeat Midwestern State 92-88 in Wednesday's NCAA Division II Men's Elite Eight quarterfinal game.
The junior guard is a 2007 Morris Area High School graduate.
Witt was 22 for 23 at the free-throw line and hit nine of 17 from the field.
His teammate, Matt Schneck, scored 16 points and grabbed 13 rebounds.
The Central Region Champion Huskies (29-5) advance to the semifinal game on Thursday at the Mass Mutual Center in Springfield, Mass. The Huskies will play the winner of Wednesday's Atlantic Division versus South Division game.
Witt went off for the fourth highest scoring total in an Elite Eight game with 43 points, including 38 in the second half. He also set a NCAA tournament record with 22 free throws made and 23 attempted.
"I just started to feel it. I was trying to take it to the hoop and pull up to get to the free throw line. In a big game like this, it's going to come down to free throws," Witt said of his attack on the Mustang defense.
Witt's 43 points were the third highest in school history, after scoring just five points in nine minutes of play in the first half.
"I think every kid's dream is to play in March ... deep into March. We definitely wouldn't have been able to do it without the team," Witt said.
The last time a player scored 43 points in an Elite Eight game was when Jack Sullivan of Mount Saint Mary's scored 43 in 1957 and it amounts to the fourth highest total in an NCAA tournament game.
"It didn't surprise me (Witt's performance). He's a gamer and when he gets on a role like this, we just get into our sets and let him go," said Schlagel.
The championship game will be broadcast on CBS Saturday at 12 p.m. central time.
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Oreo Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies aka Inception Cookies II
Author: Cookie Madness
Oreos stuffed into chocolate chip cookies
8 ounces (two sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 cups (13.5 ounces) all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
2 cups extra dark chocolate chips or miniature semisweet chocolate chips
20 Oreos
In a mixing bowl, beat the butter until creamy. Beat in the sugar, brown sugar and vanilla, then beat in the eggs and vanilla, beating only until blended.
Mix the flour, baking soda and salt together in a separate bowl, then add to the batter and stir until mixed. Stir in the chocolate chips. Chill the dough until it's easy enough to handle.
Spray 20 paper muffin cups with cooking spray or use the foil type and skip the spray. Put the dough wrapped cookies in cups, set the cups in a muffin tin and bake at 350 for 17-20 minutes or until cookies appear set and the edges are nicely browned. Let cool completely. Remove muffin papers.
Perfect for bake sales.
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Texas Tech President David Schmidly presented a set of goals Monday that he hopes will transform the university into one of the top research and educational institutions in the country.
At a town hall-style meeting that drew about 100 people, Schmidly said the goals are part of a strategic planning process, examining all phases of the university.
''I became president of Texas Tech on Aug. 1,'' Schmidly said. ''On Aug. 2, I started thinking about strategic planning.''
Schmidly said a steering committee analyzed an initial survey of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Future phases of the planning process include a review of the university's colleges and other departments.
''I hope when we're completed, every unit on campus will have a plan for that unit for the next five years,'' Schmidly said. ''It's our goal to be one of the top 75 research-education facilities in the country ... the university of choice for undergraduate students in the state of Texas, (and) finally, we want Texas Tech to be a driving force in economic development in West Texas.''
Among goals currently identified:
n Boost enrollment to 27,000 students (currently at 24,558)
n Enroll 75 National Merit Scholars (currently has 51)
n Increase graduation rate to 55 percent (currently at 47 percent)
n Rank in the top 75 among research universities (currently 91)
n Achieve $600 in endowments (currently $376 million).
Eric Williams, economic development director of the Reese Technology Center, asked Schmidly how the school plans to increase development at the former U.S. Air Force Base.
''When I came here in 1996, there were a lot of concerns that people came here to get a degree and then moved out,'' Schmidly said. ''There were not a lot of high-tech jobs to keep people here ...
''We believe the best interest for Lubbock is private-sector growth and development at Reese Center, but we feel like we have been a magnet.''
Tech occupies 19 buildings at Reese, including the Institute for Environmental and Human Health, which includes a supercomputer capable of simulating natural or man-made chemical and toxic threats to the environment.
A second public hearing begins at 3 p.m. today in the Matador Room of the University Center on the Tech campus.
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I watched AMC's new reality series The Pitch, which just premiered on April 30. It's a competition show–every week they will show two advertising agencies competing to win a corporate account. (I also watched the trailer on AMC On Demand, and based on that, it seems possible that we will be seeing certain agencies–McKinney, for instance–on more than one episode over the course of the show.)
The first hour introduces us to Las Vegas-based agency SK+G, and New York-based agency The Ad Store. Jerry Kramer, Founder/Managing Partner of SK+G, talks about how ultra-competitive the advertising industry is, and he adds, "If you're not committed, if you're not passionate, you're not going to be here a long time." SK+G is widely known as a hospitality agency, and they're trying to diversify. Kramer says their selling point isn't hospitality, it's the intelligence they bring to the table and how hard they work. "You can't teach passion," he says. "You have to hire passion. I can't understand why you'd want to be in this business and not do the very best you can do."
We also meet Paul Cappelli, Founder/Chairman of The Ad Store, who has been working in advertising for more than 30 years. (It's also mentioned at one point that he won his first Clio at BBDO.) One of his copywriters, Steven, describes him as "the Real Mad Man. He comes in, he commands the room." He's had some huge accounts in the past, but things have been more challenging lately. He talks about how his business has been struggling, and his hopes that the Waste Management account (if they win it) could be their rebirth.
The two agencies are competing for Waste Management's business. (At the briefing meeting, both agencies meet with their potential client in the same conference room) The Waste Management (WM) executives tell them that the campaign should show how WM turns trash into energy. SK + G later works on a campaign that will be as viral as possible, inspired by the Statue of Liberty wording and using a lot of social media where you download Instagram videos. The Ad Store comes up with the simple slogan "Trash Can" and works on guerilla marketing. They also come up with a bunch of eco-friendly questions that can be placed online.
Along the way, we see both agencies struggle to come up with the best idea through several brainstorming sessions, and some occasional arguments. We also see a little bit of Cappelli's personal life–he and Steven, a copywriter, are also a couple. An old-school New Yorker, Cappelli comes across with a lot of heart and authenticity. I felt like I was rooting for him. We also see a little bit of the SK+G executives' personal lives too, as one of the execs, Doug, sneaks home for a few minutes in the middle of a deadline so he can spend a little time with his kids.
At the end of the episode, the client reveals which agency won their business.
The second hour of The Pitch opens up with Tracy Wong, founding partner of WDCW Advertising. We also meet Liz Paradise, Group Creative Director at McKinney Advertising, and Jonathan Cude, McKinney's Chief Creative Officer. Both agencies are competing for the chance to do business for Subway, and we see them all sitting in the same conference room together. "It's always awkward being in the same room with the competition," Cude says. "You're always sizing them up, and I'm sure the same thing is happening on the other side."
WDCW's offices in Los Angeles are shown (some of their previous campaigns have included Quizno), and Wong says, "We don't like playing it safe. It's about doing things that no one has ever seen before."
McKinney is based in Durham, North Carolina, and we actually get a screen shot of Lucky Strike!!! (There is a close-up of their old headquarters. No sign of Lee Garner though.)
Subway started offering breakfast in 2010 and they are now going after the 18-24 demographic, so they want a fresh edgy campaign that will get young people interested. WDCW's Wong comes across like an idealist, talking about, "…the power of creativity and inspiration that comes from the soul." He also says he'd rather do a bold campaign that might not work than play it too safe.
We see both agencies working on their pitch, and a few of McKinney's copywriters and art directors are featured. (Jenny, a pretty, young blonde, comes across a bit Peggy Olson-like in her quirkiness and enthusiasm.)
It's interesting to see the differences in today's advertising compared to the kinds of things we see on Mad Men. In 2012, YouTube is a huge way to market. One of McKinney's copywriters introduces the team to a clever YouTube rapper, MACLethal, and McKinney ends up using some of his rap in their campaign. They also decide to bring MACLethal with them to Connecticut, so he can do a freestyle rap at the end of the pitch.
We see a little of Liz's family life, and she talks about balancing the wife/mother role with that of careerwoman. She says as a woman in this industry she's definitely made sacrifices, and "For me, that's a balancing act that I've been working on perfecting for 18 years, and I still don't have it down."
Going forward, both agencies get several ideas from their creatives, and then decide which ideas to use for the pitch. We see both agencies do their pitch for the executives of Subway. WDCW's team has a campaign involving zombies known as "zAMbies"–trying to get out of their comatose breakfast rut. McKinney utilizes MACLethal and also presents a couple of different ideas/taglines.
Subway ultimately decides which agency has the most strategically effective pitch, and there is rejoicing from those executives in the room and as they head home. For anyone (like me) who's watched Mad Men and felt bad that the copywriters don't get more glory, at least on The Pitch we do get to see that they're not totally overlooked. One of the executives from the winning agency voiceovers that, "There were instrumental people in every discipline back at [our agency] who aren't getting to share this moment today, but they are the backbone of what made us win."
I'm enjoying the show so far, and I think it has a lot of potential. Will it bring in the Mad Men-loving audience? Hard to say. The modern-day executives come across very different from what we see on Mad Men. Jonathan Cude has a laconic way of saying "'Kay…." when a copywriter brings him an idea that doesn't quite thrill him, and it's hard to say if any of these people will come across nearly as charismatic as Don Draper. I liked Liz Paradise and Paul Cappelli though. This show is focusing on the business, not the characters' personal lives, but I did enjoy the little glimpses of their home life that I did see.
The Subway episode came across somewhat more interesting than the Waste Management episode, for me. Going forward, I'm sure each individual episode will be different, and some more riveting than others. For the moment, I'll definitely keep watching.
For those of you who watched it, what did you think of it?
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We watched the preview episode (the Subway one) and much as we love MM, it just did not grab us. It wasn't badly done, but did not keep our attention.
I like some reality shows–this one seems well-done but it may end up having a limited audience. I think it is clever of AMC to try it because with the advertising tie-in it will attract some viewers initially. However, keeping them is always a trickier thing.
I also hear it is the same producers of "Undercover Boss," but I haven't watched that one.
All these shows suffer from the same problem: episode formula. They don't change the order of things. They don't alter the way they approach each element. I don't understand why anyone would think that would be a good idea. I'm sure it is easy on the production and editing crews, but after a few episodes, you know everything that is going to happen…except which one wins. And if you're going to spotlight jerks, they better be more interesting than the ugly perspective from which they approach business and life. I don't need to watch another business man with ill priorities. I would have liked to see more from the guy who was struggling with work and family. That conflict would have been a lot more interesting than watching goatee and Hawaiian shirt boss puff out his business chest one more time. This show comes from the people at Undercover Boss, and that program was interesting for an episode or two. Everything was predictable thereafter. Switch things up. Ask new questions and set new scenarios each episode. Nobody is fooling anybody. This show has writers setting every moment. How about they do their job and do some writing? The only way most of us are going to weather more than a handful of episodes is if they ask intelligent, creative people intelligent, creative questions where they at least have a chance to say something interesting. The boss bravado is old hat. Snore.
Being sick and unable to sleep, I watched it…one time was too many. MM is a brilliantly written show for grown ups. "The Pitch" is down there with "The Apprentice" and similar fare. Note to AMC: stick with your original programming brand, "Story Matters Here".
I saw the Subway shoot out a few weeks back. I was bored to death. It took me two and a half weeks to figure out what "zAMbie" was. I wouldn't watch again.
As the 'junior partner' in my spouse's small-city ad agency, I was bored… too formulaic, as others have pointed out…I'm not a reality TV person, I guess.
Episode one was worth watching only once. The leaders spouted different versions of the same platitudes that many utter on competition shows – it seemed like I'd heard them before.
This competition was a study in contrasts.
(spoilers-by-inference follow)
The Ad Store is small, old school, message oriented, not really current with multi-media, on it's last legs (unless, as the proprietor says, they score a major new account). This is much like SCDP, small and struggling, despite having long experience.
SK+G is larg(er), loaded for bear with multi-media and the means to produce it under pressure and short notice, able to throw many bodies and minds at a problem, and oddly has two leaders – one of which will unashamedly walk on the other and anybody else on the team. I imagine to play in that environment one would have to have confidence and a thick skin. One might say that SK+G is more like McCann Erickson in that they have the "firepower" that SCDP doesn't have.
I'm old-school, I suppose. I distrust flash (which SK+G has in spades). I actually found the Ad Store idea to be the more appealing – but realize that I'm almost certainly not in Waste Management's target audience.
I'm afraid this is a show mostly watched by people in the industry- who love to watch a train wreck. Both episodes have shown us that:
Advertising isn't fun.
Jerks work in advertising.
Clients aren't very sophisticated.
Women are discounted.
Our small agency is doing a "The Pitch" review every week, where we watch, then discuss for 30 minutes- then edit down a small 3 minute review
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We also studied the two agnecy sites and the client site before the show- and had picked SK+G to win-
However- we really think that the Ad Store was far and away the better choice- and most polls we've seen online agree.
We'll keep watching- but this is one show where the viewers would probably make the better judges.
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Or wait. Maybe the dirt on their upper lips is actually six-day stubble. The same guys who prided themselves on their appearance enough to produce a beefcake calendar are now spending the month of May growing mustaches as part of a fundraiser for the Idaho Fallen Firefighter Memorial foundation. Participants in the second annual Mustache Ride pledged clean-shaven status on April 29, paid $30 and entered a month-long mustache-growing contest which will culminate in a bike ride and celebratory beverages following mustache-judging on Saturday, May 29.
The event is open to the public, and although the regular entry deadline has passed, those heroes whose super power is super-fast growing facial hair may still participate. A fee of $40 will get you in, and you'll get a commemorative T-shirt and plastic beer mug. Women are encouraged to join the fun, although they're expected to wear a fake mustache (even though some of us spend several minutes each day trying to eradicate facial hair).
Mustache Ride 2010 even has a group you can "like" on Facebook. But be advised: if you click "like," your wall will inform everyone that you are "attending Mustache Ride 2010," which may bring a few chuckles and sideways smiles from your Facebook "friends."
While some guys need Miracle-Gro, others are already sporting baby caterpillars. But it's not really about the contest. It's about fundraising. So even if you don't want to sculpt your own Fu Manchu or have handlebars on your mug as well as your bike, consider joining the Mustache Ride for fallen firefighters.
For more information, call the Idaho Fallen Firefighter Memorial at 208-570-6540.


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The UK Sport agency has unveiled a series of sensors that could help optimise British athletes' performance at the London 2012 Olympics.
Researchers from Imperial College London, Loughborough and Queen Mary universities have been working for a year to develop devices for a variety of sports that will aid athletes and their coaches by measuring performance in the field.
As part of the four-year Elite Sport Performance Research in Training (ESPRIT) programme, the sensors will collect real-time information about athletes' biomechanics, physiology and genetic blueprint that can be related to their actions when playing sport.
This will give teams a better understanding of how the body operates and allow them to more quickly adapt techniques and training routines so athletes can perform at their peak, both for London 2012 and in the future.
'Most of our knowledge about performance is from lab tests on non-high-performance athletes but most of what we see in high-performance athletes is very different,' UK Sport's head of research and innovation, Dr Scott Drawer, told The Engineer.
'We're also trying to get away from the snapshot approach. Typically people would take a host of measures at the start of training and six weeks later. We want a continual stream of data from the athletes on a day-to-day basis, which gives us much more insight.'
The first prototype devices unveiled this month by UK Sport include:
- small accelerometers built at Imperial for able-bodied athletes and wheelchair users to measure low-impact speeds;
- ergometers developed by Loughborough that measure the work cyclists exert, replicating various forces and capabilities;
- underwater sensors, also from Loughborough, to understand forces involved in swimming; and
- devices embedded in the skin, built at Queen Mary, to measure oxygen and lactate in the body.
'We can begin to understand some of the basic measures and metabolism and do that on a continuous basis,' said Drawer.
'We can also begin to see what the difference between upper and lower body functions are, which have particular implications in a sport such as rowing.'
The sensors will be further developed and trialled over the next year and then used with athletes from Team GB in the lead-up to London 2012.
The project has funding from the EPSRC and UK Sport to take it up to the Olympics, after which further public and private investment will be sought.
'We're trying to develop those platforms we can use immediately and roll out,' said Drawer. 'But as this develops over time we should have a platform that puts all that together. That's a 20-year vision.'
The platform could be applied to other sectors, such as the military and industries operating in extreme environments such as oil and gas.
'The applications in society for things such as reducing the healthcare bill could be massive,' said Drawer. 'I'm sure there would be massive interest from apparel companies through to health-related companies. You would expect the NHS and the military to be intrigued.'


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Gentiva Health Services to Acquire Harden Healthcare for $408.8M
Gentiva Health Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: GTIV) ("Gentiva" or "the Company"), the largest provider of home health and hospice services in the United States based on revenue, and Harden Healthcare Holdings, Inc. ("Harden"), a leading provider of home health, hospice and community care services, announced today that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement whereby Gentiva will acquire Harden.
Under the terms of the merger agreement, Gentiva will acquire Harden's home health, hospice and community care businesses. Harden's existing shareholders will retain the company's long-term care business. The purchase price to be paid by Gentiva is approximately $408.8 million, consisting of $355 million in cash and approximately $53.8 million in Gentiva common stock. Gentiva expects to fund the cash portion of the purchase price through available cash and a new credit facility. The Company expects to raise a new $855 million term loan facility to fund the transaction and refinance its existing term loans.
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RichNwrote a review of The North Face Varius Guide Jacket - Women's on December 2, 2011
Correction on my review.
Bought this as my wife needs a new waterproof shell. There are so many different types out there, but this one was a nice design. Also learning that it's also zip-in compatible was a huge plus. All the jackets and vests (north face) zips in! I posted earlier that it didn't. I tried again, and it zips in perfectly. So for those who are looking for a good shell, try the Varius Guide.


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From: "Alan O'Neill" <>
Subject: Re: Montreal Irish
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 11:34:03 -0500
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"Sue Martinson" <> wrote in message
> Has anyone found any good websites about the emigration to Canada of the
> Irish in 1780 ? ... Why would Irishmen continually marry French women in
Canada ?
> It seems like they were living in a French community or working in an
> industry dominated by the French.
Below is a snip from our web pages on the Wild Geese. Possibly your family
was in Canada Slightly prior to 1780.
You might find this interesting...
"The Irish Brigade, pride of the French Army, served under General Montcalm
in the French - English Wars in North America. The first battle was on the
8th of September 1755 between 3,000 of the Irish Brigade and 9,000 of the
British General William Johnson's forces. The British were left demoralized
by their loss. Incidentally, Johnson was himself an O'Neill descended from a
Shane O'Neill whose son adopted the surname MacShane which was eventually
changed to Johnson (see our Tyrone O'Neill Clan genealogy page). A small
group had fought in the decisive Battle of the Plains of Abraham, though
their 'colours' were not present (possibly because they weren't suppose to
be there "by treaty"). General Wolfe's army recognized them by their
distinctive red and green uniform jackets. Unfortunately Montcalm did not
wait for the full force of the Irish Brigade to assemble before going into
this battle. If he had, the outcome may have been quite different. Members
of the Irish Brigade in Quebec are recorded with such names as "de Macarti
(MacCarthy), de Patrice (FitzPatrick), Forcet (Forsyth), de Harennes
(O'Hearn) de Klerec (O'Cleary), Sylvain (O'Sullivan) and Riel
(Rielly/O'Rielly as in Louis Riel who was descended from Jack "Devil may
care" Rielly, one of Patrick Sarsfield's Wild Geese). These families have
since been absorbed into French Canadian communities and today, many do not
know their Irish roots. One name that seems to not have changed was
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Beshear, Rogers Announce Appalachian Initiative
Kentucky political leaders have rolled out another initiative intended to find ways to bolster the economy in Appalachia.
Gov. Steve Beshear and U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers held a joint press conference in Hazard on Monday to unveil the latest effort, which they dubbed SOAR, Shaping Our Appalachian Region.
Beshear said the economic woes of recent years have hurt Appalachia and intensified the hardships of families in the mountain region. He and Rogers have scheduled a summit of public and private sector leaders to find solutions to problems the region faces.
Beshear and Rogers cited the loss of thousands of coal jobs in eastern Kentucky as one of the reasons for calling the summit, which will be held on Dec. 9 at the Eastern Kentucky Exposition Center in Pikeville.


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Encyclopedia of Child Behavior and Development
pp 410-411
Constructivist Psychotherapy
- Bernadette Hassan SolórzanoAffiliated withDepartment of Psychology, Our Lady of the Lake University Community Counseling Service
Constructivist family therapy; Developmental constructivism; Narrative therapy; Personal constructs; Postmodernism; Relativistic philosophy; Social constructivism; Systemic therapy
Constructivist therapies are theories of change that place clients in the role of meaning makers and active participants in their own lives. There are multiple ways of understanding any one given situation [1]. How each person interprets a situation is influenced by their previous life's experiences. Even then, it is possible to focus on one piece of a situation and apply meaning, but if you change focus, a completely different meaning may be discovered. Constructivist therapies moved away from the deficit model that labels and pathologizes. The therapist's role shifted from an expert, didactic position to one of collaboration and exploring to assist the client in uncovering their strengths and resources. The role of language and meaning making is a large part of the therap ...
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Quick Roast Chicken + Pinterest Pass or FailIt's a rushed Tuesday night. You have baseball practice, guitar lessons, and a baby shower to plan...do you have time for a Roasted Chicken Dinner? Yes!
I discovered the beauty of butterflying the bird last week and I roasted a 5 lb. chicken in 40 minutes!
The key is flattening out the chicken so it cooks more quickly and evenly, and you do this by removing the backbone.
Get your sharpest pair of kitchen shears and turn the chicken breast side down, girl! Now, beginning at the neck hole, cut along either side of the backbone. Come on, put some elbow grease into it!
You will end up with a bony strip of chicken you can use later for broth. Why don't you just roast it alongside your chicken, then pop it in some water with veggies for soup tomorrow?
Open up the chicken with the inside facing down and press down firmly to crack the breast bone and it will lay flat on the baking sheet.
Rub with oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper and pop it into a preheated 450 degree oven for about 40 minutes, or until the breast reads 160 degrees and the thigh reads 180 degrees.
Throw in some Swedish Baked Potatoes from my Cookin' Mama Pinterest board beside the chicken along with some baby carrots and you will have a meal lickety split!
These potatoes are my Pinterest Pass or Fail this week, the recipe originated at Sea Salt With Food blog and they passed with flying colors! They were simple to prepare, pretty on the plate, and delicious. They had a nice crunch around the edges and were tender inside.
What Pins have YOU tried this week? Drop me a link so I can check it out!
Posted by Jennifer Juniper at 9:51 AM
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In this week's video, we offer up a fun proposition, and L.E. expounds his thoughts on Halo 4. Yes, he's taking his Halo 4 to video. Why? Because there's just way too much to cover in just 100 words. So click the link to watch!
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text: I've been playing around with gum bichromate a lot, with most of the time directed to what will and what wont work as a pigment. I've got 2 recipes ready for sharing. All of my gum bichromates use this formula (which covered two 4x5): 3ml Gum Arabic 3ml 10% Potassium Dichromate 3/16th inch cube pigment Powdered Graphite Powdered graphite gives great tonality and a very neutral black. It responds well to brush development. The brand I am using is General's Pure Powdered Graphite and costs about 9 USD for 6oz. That works out to about five to ten cents a mix. 5 by alexfredhill, on Flickr 4 by alexfredhill, on Flickr Mull 2 grams of powdered graphite with a minimal amount of Gum Arabic (about 1ml) to make a stiff paste. I mull for about 5 minutes, to get a fairly even distribution of pigment. (I've mulled for 15 without any apparent change in draw down quality. I'm still a noobie with mulling). This should give you enough for one or two 3/16th pigment cubes. Jacquard Pearl Ex 3 by alexfredhill, on Flickr 2 by alexfredhill, on Flickr 1 by alexfredhill, on Flickr There are so many different Pearl Ex pigments. I have played with most of the duo colors, as well as the macropearl and micropearl powders. Because the particle size of the pigment, mulling doesn't seem to be necessary or have much of an effect. The duo colors are most impressive over a dark color. I have found doing a cyanotype with a duo color (or macropearl) over it to be very pretty. Use a pallet knife (or muller) to mix a minimal ammount of gum arabic to .5 gram of Jacquard Peal Ex pigment. Once it's well mixed take a 3/16th inch cube and combine with above formula.


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Money removed from my mother's account on April 13, 2012. Called number on ACH check and talked to Third Party Billing. I'm sure they are part of this scam. They offered to let me hear the recording of my 92 year old mother confirming purchase of this "package". I listened, it was her, but obviously dubbed. I cancelled "package" on April 15, and after calling them every week, the money was finally refunded on July 10. They told my mom she was going to lose her health insurance if she didn't give them the information they were requesting. I recorded name and id number of each person I spoke with at Third Party whatever!! I am almost positive these people rely on the fact that elderly folks have bad memories and will never miss the money! My mom has orders now to never give any information over the phone except to have them call me if they have questions! She told someone that this week and they hung up on her!!!
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Can we start a thread on Lithium battery capabilities?
I will give all the links I have found relevant.
Li seems to be a kinda unknown, everyone seems tantalized, but a little intimidated.
It kinda reminds me of gas guys, looking at electrics for the first time. It looks cool, but you have suspicions of them being "weak" and "underpowered"
Can we start a thread to dispel the myths about Li and get some usable hard data about them instead?
Lithiums are not up to the tast of anything but Slow Fly and RX packs for now. There are new cells coming out but availibilty and price are still the questions. EFI has covered a few of them.
NIMH are the best option now for duration and modest power.
This also may belong in the Science Forum, but this is just a general question and answer so far.
But don't give up, it will happen.
Many people have been using lithium cells in e-flight applications for many years. Most of the discussions have been in the Slow Flyers section, because slow flying has lower current requirements that are compatible with lithium cells. If you do an E Zone search for "lithium" you will find hundreds of messages with lots of useful information.
I read all the posts about Li.
I want to talk about new and exciting Li.
Cost is marginalized by use. If there are some cool new higher capacity cells, or if its possible to use cells for ultra-light or slowflyers, lets get some "facts" on the board.
It would be nice to have some figures and estimates in one thread, so newbies didnt have to spen 4 days pouring over old history to find a few gems of info.
What new and exciting Li batteries are you referring to? The ones I know about share the same major characteristic as the more commonly used Lithium Metal Tadiran brand cells. That characteristic being that they can only handle a very low amp draw and therefore are mainly practical for use in very small/low amp draw motors/applications. They can be used in parallel for higher amp draw applications like Speed 400 but most find this impractical due to charging considerations. The lithium cells I know of (and use) can only be charged at a very slow rate which means that they can't be recharged at the the field (this of course is partially compensated by the great duration to weight advantage that they offer for slowflyer/microflyer class models)like nimhs or nicads. If you know of new and exciting Li technology please fill us all in as we would be interested to know about it. Li to me means Lithium Ion - are you referring to something different or just lithium batteries in general?
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err, actually I was obliquely referring to Fred's new batteries, of which I was interested in hearing more.
I have heard( read ) at several sources about people using Li at 2.5-3.5A draws.
If you used parallel packs ( email@example.com) it may be possible to pull 6-7A out of a pack.
This may be enough to power a AF 010 at sufficient RPM to push a Red Flame Blaster in a Styro A-7.
Problem is, if you use parallel packs, you lose the weight advantage of lithiums. Double up the lithiums to get more current, and you might as well be using NiMH, which would offer about the same weight and capacity, but with faster charge rates and lower costs. There really aren't many facts available about the next-generation lithium cells that Fred mentions, or you would have already found something about them posted on the E Zone. When a new technology becomes available, someone on the E Zone is usually right on top of it. In the meantime, NiMH and NiCd technologies are also advancing.
Just so I get this straight.
A 6v 4 cell pack of 1600mah Li weighs 68g
A 9v 6 cell pack of 1600mah Li weighs 102g
A 7 cell 850mah pack of the lightest Nicads I can find. 177.6g
Most are saying it is best to go with the 1100mahAA or the 1400mahAA non-Li cell.
3 packs of 2 Li cells, pulling from 1.5A to 2.5A per 2 cell pack. I believe it may be possible to pull as much as 3.2A per pack. ( 1.6A per cell) For a total energy budget of 4.5A-9.6A possible. Pretty big span. But if a 1.5-1.6A draw is feasable....
Motocalc claims a 8.4A draw on 6 Li-ion 3v cells for the 010 in a Red Flame DF unit. And a good duration.
Here is my latest Motocalc, check it to see if you think I am way off.
AF 010, 6-3V 800Mah Li, Dry weight 3.5oz, ( entered as 1.8oz on motor, and 5.5oz on airframe.) 2x.3oz servo, 1x.3oz rx, misc glue, hardware( 1.5oz) .5oz ESC. AUW estimated 11.6oz. 9.1oz thrust, with 8.4A draw.
At the high end of the draw scale, I meet my amperage requirement for the 010 motor with the 6 cell parallel pack, while maintaining a " not lunacy" draw rate. And I still save 77g over the 7 cell Nicad.
what do you think?
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Well Cue, it really comes down to power vs. weight.
The Li cells provide about twice the power, at about half the weight.
Several people have mentioned that Li cells are $$. But have you seen the price if a matched pack from SR? Plus the Li cells are much higher voltage per cell, meaning I can carry fewer of the lighter batterys, equalling lower AUW.
Isnt that the craft? Making it fly on less and lighter than the one before? It was mentioned that the AF 010 cant make the rpms to fly the jet. It only needs 12k, which seems fairly reasonable, not outrageous.
I realize that none of this is a BARF. But how many of you would leap on a 30 min flight time small jet? This does not seem to be completely unattainable. It may take some real tweaking to do it, but it doesnt seem impossible.
And who knows, if its doable, it might be BARF-able.
I mean, what if you could get the empty airframe down to 3.5, from 5.5.
And the Li's would push 2.6A per 2 cell pack (34g a pack)
Now I just need a 1-2 oz motor, that can push 12kRPM @ less than 9A. Thats not fusion technology. How can it be done? maybe a higer pitch fan could do it. If the EJF or WeMoTec small fans are even slightly more efficient than the Red Flame, it might be doable at 10k RPM and 8A. I want to go ligher/efficient, rather than bigger/more power.
Think Tim Taylor, with a bent for the small.
[This message has been edited by Cue (edited 08-02-2001).]
I stand corrected.
The proper wording is:
About twice the capacity at half the weight.
My bad.
It seems like you have an intriguing idea here.
True, LI do have a higher capacity to weight ratio, which is usually a good thing. But the problem is the max amp draw. To get 9 volts and 1000mah of capacity, LI will be the lightest weight, no question. But if you need 9 volts and 8 amps worth of juice, then that 1000mah capacity doesn't mean squat if you can't support the amp draw.
This is where the comparison comes into play - for a given needed AMP DRAW, what cells are the lightest? Nicad, NIMH, LI, Smurf juice, whatever.
I know that LI technology is advancing, but seems to have "plateaued" somewhat. The basic technology has not changed, and it seems that the energy discharge limits have been reached.
I am not trying to discourage you or be a "naysayer", but just pointing out the traditional problems with LI technology. Yes, the capacity-to-weight ratio is superior to anything else, but what about current delivery (amp draw). This is why they have been only used in park and slowflyers - due to limited current delivery.
Question is, how do you overcome that problem?
If you figure out how to get those little LI to pull a C10 discharge rate, you'll make a million. I know "they" are working on this as we speak, but public information in this area is lacking.
Trust me, big power tool companies want this as bad as you do.
The Tadiran LiMetal batteries provide the most current for the weight of any Li. You'd need 3 800 mAh LiM to get the same voltage at 50g and $50 but you'd only get 2-3A. If you parallel another 3 cell pack, you're now up to a substantial weight and a phenomanal cost.
Worse yet, one severe over-discharge or over-charge and your Lithium investment is ruined.
You're approaching this completely wrong. If you desparately want to use lithium cells, an EDF is the worst place to start. You could use an aerobatic slow flier like a Long Tiny or IFO. But lithiums are best for long flights at low currents. Sorry but that's the state of the technology.
If you want to fly the Flying Styro A-7, a Flame Blaster fan is almost certainly too weak, and there is no way you can then add the performance penalty of lithium cells.
If you need convincing, buy the LiM from Magellan and see if you can get them to work in a Blaster.
If you want to fly the A-7, use an EDF 400 fan, 020 brushless motor and 8 600AE NiCd. I think you'll find it challenging enough to be successful. Then you can experiment with something else.
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Issue No. 06 - November/December (2008 vol. 10)
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DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MITP.2008.117
Upkar Varshney , Georgia State University
Mobile-commerce (m-commerce) is generating considerable interest because of its potential for revolutionizing businesses, empowering consumers, and creating new and untapped consumer markets. This has led to the design and development of many new services, including location-based, mobile financial, and mobile content services. Even with some early success, m-commerce faces a lack of suitable business models and varying quality and reliability of wireless infrastructure. With near-future improvements in the wireless infrastructure, the business model's role will become even more important. This article presents business model requirements, existing business models, and ways to design effective business models for emerging m-commerce services.
mobile commerce, business model, wireless carriers, location service providers, and content service providers
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LXer: Mozilla plugs Thunderbird security hole
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Mozilla is certainly having a nightmarish security week. Late yesterday, it released a security-fix version 126.96.36.199 of its Thunderbird email client, after updating its Firefox browser, a Firefox Google toolbar extension, and its SeaMonkey web application suite -- all within the last six days.
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text: Chicagos Bailiwick Repertory, which often showcases gay- and lesbian-themed productions, is holding the 2001 Larry Osburn Trailblazer Awards on Sunday, May 20, at Hotel Allegro. The awards, which have been renamed to acknowledge the contribution of past board president Larry Osburn, are given to those who have moved the GLBT community forward in the areas of sports, culture, journalism, and community affairs. Olympic ice skater Rudy Galindo will be receiving an award both for his athletic achievements and for being an openly gay role model in the closeted field of professional sports. Awards will also go to journalist Achy Obejas, theater critic Jeff Rossen, and the Rev. Gregory Dell, among others. Proceeds from the event will benefit the 13 productions of Pride 2001 at Bailiwick as well as the Chicago premieres of Terrence McNallys Corpus Christi and the ever-popular Naked Boys Singing. Hotel Allegro is in downtown Chicago at 171 West Randolph; call (773) 883-1090 for further information.


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Back Clinics of Canada Hosts Online "Cure My Back Pain" Campaign
Back Clinics of Canada, Toronto's premiere back pain clinic, launched an online "Cure My Back Pain" sweepstakes on January 7.
January 10, 2013 (Newswire.com) - Back Clinics of Canada, Toronto's premiere back pain clinic, launched an online "Cure My Back Pain" sweepstakes on January 7. The contest is open to adult residents of Ontario. Entrants are asked to answer the question "If you could Cure Your Back Pain tomorrow, how would it change your life?" The online sweepstakes will run for 7 weeks. One grand-prize winner will receive a gift package from Foot Levelers worth $1900CDN. Thirty additional prizes are also available, as well.
Foot Levelers is a global leader in postural support products. They design products to improve quality of life - stabilizing orthotics, customized orthotic footwear, custom support pillows, and more.
"This is our second online sweepstakes. The first was very revealing in the responses we got. There are thousands of people who are suffering with serious back pain or neck pain," says Dr. Nusbaum, founder and director of Back Clinics of Canada. "We hope to reach people through an exciting sweepstakes, and reveal to them that they can truly heal and regain an active life with our care."
Back Clinics of Canada helps patients who are suffering with serious, debilitating low back pain and neck pain, with the goal to once again live "pain-free." The High Performance Healing SystemTM, developed by Dr. Nusbaum and available only at Back Clinics of Canada, is helping patients achieve great success in healing and pain relief. This integrated approach to care delivers Class IV K-laser therapy, non-surgical spinal decompression and Disc Renewal PlusTM nutrition supplementation. "We offer patients a combination of breakthrough technology, products and cutting-edge care that is safe, non-invasive, non-surgical and drug-free," says Dr. Nusbaum.
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text: XCELLENCE WINS THE GROUP 3 PRIX IMPRUDENCE Xcellence - from the first crop of CHAMPS ELYSEES - made her 2014 debut in style when winning the hotly contested Prix Imprudence Gr.3 at Maisons-Laffitte on Thursday (3rd April).Talk before the race was of 1000 Guineas favourites Vorda and Miss France, but it was Xcellence who stepped up to win this 7-furlong Classic trial.The Francois Doumen-trained filly was one of 13 first-crop two-year-old winners for CHAMPS ELYSEES last season. She was last seen finishing second (beaten only a short head) in the Prix Miesque Gr.3 in November. Date: 03 April 2014


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Album Rating: 4.5I've only heard three of his but this and Bone Machine are both excellent.
Album Rating: 4.5Anyone know if Tom made up the phrase "rain dogs"?
Album Rating: 4.5ok so I have had a lot of Tom Waits thrown at me, and I really just couldn't get into it at all. Rain Dogs, for anyone, should be the starting point because it's when his voice is at his absolute best and it's just a fucking solid record.
Album Rating: 4.5yeah!
Album Rating: 5.0
Anyone know if Tom made up the phrase "rain dogs"?
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off"Clap Hands" is the coolest song ever.
Album Rating: 4.5I'd like to think that "Walking Spanish" is the coolest song ever, but "Clap Hands" is pretty bitchin aswell.
Album Rating: 4.5this should probably be a 5
Album Rating: 4.5chan that is such a MediocreAtBest thing to say man
Album Rating: 4.5except i've been listening to this for a year as opposed to a day
Album Rating: 4.5but yeah this album is creeping towards 5, definitely.
Album Rating: 5.0i love how no one is seeing the complete Beefheartness of the album. Trout Mask is one of his favorite albums and you can tell when he got into it. People are recommending Sigur Ros but not Beefheart, wow.
Album Rating: 5.0Stewart's version of "Downtown Train" is blasphemous. Waits performed "Time" on the Letterman show, but time ran out and half the song was cut off. Neverless, Waits performed "Innocent When You Dream" and "Goin' Out West" on late-night television show later.This Message Edited On 06.15.08
Album Rating: 5.0Isn't the chorus of "Clap Hands" derived from a children's song? Waits's live performances often inserted snippets of old songs in this manner; perhaps those songs provided the original idea for the song in question, or perhaps the connection emerged in performance. Stewart also butchered the content of "Downtown Train" by switching the "they" and the "you" (the original was "I am nothing that will every win your heart..."). "Rain Dogs" is indeed a classic.
It's about time I starting to listen to this album. Very enjoyable so far.
Album Rating: 5.0still rules
album is excellent ya know
Album Rating: 4.5more like superb.
imo not really, i love it n' all but hey
Album Rating: 4.5amazing album
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Palatial style accommodation fit for a...doll
Some of Europe's largest and most treasured dolls' houses are set to go on display in an exhibition which has been several years in the making.
Dolls' houses spanning the last 300 years and designed in the style of country mansions, Georgian town houses, suburban villas, council housing and high-rise apartments will go on show at the V&A Museum Of Childhood.
Opening in December, the exhibition will feature about 1,900 objects, such as furniture and dolls, which have been restored over the last two years by the V&A conservation department.
The exhibition, which tracks developments in architecture and design, is set to tour the UK, Europe and the US after it finishes its run at the east London museum.
The oldest house in the exhibition dates from 1712, and the largest one is 160cm tall with many of the dolls' houses built for adults rather than children.
Highlights will include The Tate Baby House, which dates from 1760 and was passed down through five generations of a family and includes original wallpapers, painted panelling and a lying-in room for a pregnant doll.
Another, from the 1830s, features a Chinese-style cabinet with gilded wallpapers, a four-poster bed and liveried servants.
The Hopkinson House shows a Second World War-era family in a council house preparing for an air-raid, with gas masks, ration books and torches.
A modernist villa from the 1930s comes complete with chrome furniture, a cocktail bar, futurist artworks and a swimming pool, while another - the most contemporary, from 2001, includes a modern step-family.
Curator Alice Sage said: "Dolls' houses are uncanny things, full of strangely familiar objects and funny little characters. The experience of peeking into the tiny rooms and seeing all the meticulous detail is fascinating for children and adults, and hopefully everyone will discover something new.
"Our research for the exhibition uncovered new characters and stories in the histories of these objects, and now we are using them to bring the houses to life in a fun and imaginative way."
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Feb 14th 2012 This is a review in an ongoing series that highlights each hostel that Beth and Randy stayed in during Their Hazy Shade of Autumn Tour.Read more
Entrevista Jose Manuel Montalvo, Feb 14th 2012 nos cuenta qué proyectos profesionales tiene. Ahora, el ex concursante de Supervivientes está montando un negocio de coctelería en Málaga- el Oasis Lounge- que abre sus puertas el dia 16 de Febrero 2012 en el Oasis Backpackers' Hostel Málaga, Calle San Telmo 14.Read more
No 12 – Lisbon, Portugal. Its out-of-the-way location seems to keep tourism well below the levels that the city otherwise deserves, but those who go to the trouble to reach Lisbon will find an extremely handsome and charming city that is a great bargain as well. The city is particularly known for excellent and cheap hostels that are always in a race to outdo each other, with visitors being the ultimate winners.Read more
Possibly the best hostel I have ever stayed at is the Oasis Backpackers Palace Seville (not to be confused with Oasis Backpackers Hostel Seville which is also a really good hostel owned by the same company, but is not the hostel I am referring to here!) Either way, if you stay at either hostel you will be able to take part in their free walking tours of the city.Read more
Located in the heart of Granada's city center, The Oasis Backpacker's Hostel came highly recommended to me by Nellie, who runs the fabulous WildJunket blog. Although The Oasis benefits greatly from its location, which places it at walking distance from the majority of attractions, bars and restaurants in Granada, there is far more to love about this little gem of a hostel.Read more
Juan García Postigo, Míster España 2006 y Míster Mundo 2007 va a promover un nuevo concepto de negocio que va a venir primero a Málaga. Es un proyecto con la cadena Hostel Oasis. Vamos a montar un espacio de coctelería, copas, lujo y a un precio muy asequible. Serán en la calle San Telmo, en Cerrado de Calderón y en la calle Alcazabilla, donde estará el buque insignia de esta aventura profesional. Estoy muy ilusionado.Read more
As soon as I walked into "the Oasis Palace" I felt like I was staying in 5 star accommodation. Everything is spotlessly clean, the interior design was amazing, they had free wifi & free computers to use, a beautiful terrace area, a cool bar area, and a swimming pool! Oasis Hostels also regularly schedule live independent bands to play on their terrace areas, which is something I have never seen another hostel do before, and created some spectacular nights for the hostel guests while I was there!Read more
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Lose Weight Fast Without a Lot of Effort With These 5 Tips
Losing weight is one of those things that doesn't take as much energy as you think. If fact, you're likely overthinking the whole weight-loss thing and ending up getting larger every year. Here are just a couple of tips to help.