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Responsible for successfully leading product development planning and execution activities to launch branded products to support the Company's business strategy including leading designers through the creative and technical process from research, concepting, proving of concepts and product specifications. Champion team collaboration to make effective decisions and meet deadlines in all phases of the product development process.
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Interaction and environment
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Work areas are inside in a climate-controlled environment with light background noise. Position involves occasional extended work hours and travel to multiple worksites. Some international travel overseas may be required to work with vendors. Additional travel may be required to attend trade shows (both domestic and international).
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If you're not a fan of Bleach, arguably the world's most popular manga and anime series (next to Naruto and One Piece), then the PS3-exclusive Soul Resurreccion isn't going to hold your hand and introduce you to the extensive cast. Sure, this game is an easy pick-up-and-play affair, but even those loosely familiar with the series will likely be lost in the shuffle. Despite all that, Bleach: Soul Resurreccion isn't bad -- just poorly executed.
Bleach: Soul Resurreccion excels at action, but not much else. Kicking things off with the Story Mode, the 14 missions attempt to condense over 100 episodes of the anime series, as main character
Ichigo Kurosaki and his Soul Reaper friends attempt to prevent the evil Sosuke Aizen from invading the world of the living. Over the last two weeks, I've summarized the series as "Dragon Ball Z with swords," but that's far from the truth. Bleach, while inviting many of the same tropes as DBZ, actually has really interesting characters and dynamic fight scenes.
What's wrong is that you don't see any of it, as the game cuts down the Hueco Mondo and Fake Karakura Town arcs to a bare minimum. Only a handful of the fights are shown, the banter between characters is reduced to irritating one-liners, and huge confrontations in the show are largely skipped.
By contrast, Dragon Ball: Raging Blast and Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 manage to hit all their series' high notes, and look good doing it. Here, it just feels like SCEI didn't even try. Sure, the graphics look damn good, but the developers really didn't do anything with them.
Plus, while Bleach: Soul Resurreccion gets the visual and fight scenes right -- boss battles in particular are pretty fun brawls, especially on Hard Mode -- the rest of the game is sorely lacking. After blitzing though the main story (about three hours of gameplay), the extra side missions (another three hours) don't add much variety to the rest of the disc. In all the modes, you simply kill waves of similar, dumb-as-a-stump enemies en route to the boss battles, with no incentive to repeat levels simply than to see other characters' special attacks.
In fact, the gameplay's so one-note that I didn't even use the level-up system -- a grid of stats bonuses ripped wholesale from the Final Fantasy X Sphere Grid -- during my review playthrough. After you've played Story Mode, you've essentially seen all the game really has to offer, outside of collectible figurines and an unlockable character even I don't recognize. For a full-price title, that's an unfair amount of gameplay.
Bleach: Soul Resurreccion: Specs
- Age rating: 12
- Age rating: 12
Overall, the slightness of the package is a shame, because the combat is actually pretty solid. Bleach: Soul Resurreccion would benefit hugely from multiplayer, especially co-op or a versus mode, but no such addition exists. Even if you're a Bleach fan, just rent it and have a fun afternoon releasing your Bankai.

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Singer Kelly Clarkson made the surprise announcement that she is "totally pregnant" during her show at Staples Center in Los Angeles on Wednesday night, CNN and other news outlets have reported.
Clarkson made the announcement while performing the song "Piece by Piece" about her relationship with her dad. Overcome by the emotion of the song, she broke down and told the audience she's expecting.
This will be the second child for the 33-year-old singer and her husband Brandon Blackstock.


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Wednesday, September 8, 1999 Published at 01:24 GMT 02:24 UK
Specialists declare war on malaria
Mosquitoes transmit the disease
Specialists are converging on London to discuss ways to beat malaria, a disease that strikes one person in 20 worldwide each year and causes a number of deaths equal to the population of Birmingham.
They say that although incidence of the disease continues to grow each year, governments from around the world do not do enough to combat it.
This is particularly galling as it is an easier condition to treat than Aids or TB, even though in many countries those diseases are given higher priority.
Specialists from various fields - including charities, drug companies and researchers - are meeting for the first time to discuss the issues at a seminar in London on Wednesday.
Research money
Researchers seeking a malaria vaccine have warned in recent months that although they are on the verge of success, continued governmental support is essential if they are to take the crucial final steps.
Wednesday's meeting will bring together specialists to discuss how this can be achieved, as well as highlighting the extent of the disease and the measures needed to control it.
It follows on from the launch of the World Health Organization's Roll Back Malaria campaign, which seeks to eradicate the disease by the year 2010.
David Nabarro, head of the project, will address the meeting on how the campaign is progressing, as well as outlining the challenges facing it.
These include things such as climate change - leading to the insects that carry the disease moving to new countries - and increasing resistance to the drugs used to treat it.
However, he is expected to say that continued investment and political commitment is essential if these obstacles are to be overcome.
His position is likely to be supported by Dr Brian Greenwood of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, a specialist who has studied the effectiveness of various approaches to the disease.
Although Dr Greenwood believes present techniques can be refined to be more effective, the disease is so rampant in some areas that only new approaches will defeat it - and this will require more funding for research.
Cost of disease
Merlin, the international medical relief agency, is organising the conference.
It points to figures showing that:
"In the UK, we already have the medical capabilities to bring lasting change to the lives of many."
The meeting takes place at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society at 14.00 BST.
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Dave Weigel at the end of the Feingold era
Somehow Weigel didn't want to miss it. Writing at Slate Magazine, Weigel comments on the last appeals of a desperate party:
"Citizens United is hurting us," says Michael Turner, a Democratic activist running for sheriff in Eau Claire. "We've got loads and gobs of undisclosed money on issue ads. Because there's no disclosure, there's no reason to tell the truth. The incentive to be credible is completely gone. You can pay for a huge smear campaign and have nobody know where it came from."
Of course, this isn't why Feingold is stubbornly behind in the polls to Johnson, or why Democrats are in danger of losing three House seats, the governorship, and control of the state legislature. Democrats are in trouble in Wisconsin, first and foremost, because voters are not happy with the party's efforts to combat the recession. And Democrats do get this.
And then there's the entire injustice of losing to that man.
If voters are benefiting, then why don't they know it? "The rhetoric of the Republicans here is to pretend that it did absolutely nothing," said Feingold. "I don't think the issue is decisive—I think that in the end, people know we had to do it. It didn't solve the whole problem. They're looking for the belief that things will get better more quickly. The question is who is more likely to get that done."
Feingold has an advantage that some endangered Democrats are lacking: He's genuinely adored by his base. The idea that he could lose is not just shocking but also cosmically unfair. Eighteen years working on campaign finance reform and the Supreme Court unspools his legislation? A lifetime of public service that's kept him poor, and he's being out-man-of-the-peopled by a wealthy industrialist? It doesn't matter that Democrats are actually withstanding the "secret money" onslaught with money of their own—it just doesn't seem fair. In Rhinelander, a local activist named Kay Hoff, who stressed that she's the winner of the "Eleanor Roosevelt award" for political activism, hoisted a sign that read, "I Don't Want My Government Run Like a Plastics Factory."
"Call me foolish," says Rep. Ron Kind, who is in a dogfight to keep representing Eau Claire. "But I think it's important that we still have one poor person serving in the Senate. If Johnson buys this election, he'd be the 72nd multimillionaire in the Senate."
The intellectual disconnect between what they're saying and what Wisconsinites want is really just amazing. Most Wisconsinites would rather have the government run like a plastics factory than have the government run the plastics factory. As for millionaires in the senate, nobody has ever objected to Senator Herb Kohl's wealth. He actually makes it a campaign asset with his slogan, "Nobody's senator but yours."
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Militant group joins peace process in Herat
Militant group joins peace process in Herat
HERAT CITY (PAN): A Taliban leader joined the peace process along with 18 associates in the Chesht-i-Sharif district of western Herat province, officials said on Monday.
The group members, all residents of the district, turned in 17 weapons to intelligence officials, Muhiuddin Noori, the governor's spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News.
Led by Syed Zia, the insurgents renounced violence as a result of joint efforts by locals and security forces.
The district, where the Salma dam is being reconstructed with financial support from India, is located 160 kilometers from Herat City, the provincial capital.
The surrender of Taliban fighters would help improve security in the district, the governor's spokesman said. The district has not been included in the list of areas changing hands as part of the second phase of transition.
There has been a spike in insecurity in recent years in eastern parts of the province, with local officials attributing the unrest to infiltration of militants fleeing operations in other provinces.
Last year, 10 insurgents were killed, as many wounded and 13 others, including three Taliban leaders, arrested in Herat during joint security operations.
A large number of militants have joined the reconciliation programme, Noori said. He added 34 groups, comprised of 420 members, joined the process in Herat last year.
Ghulam Sarwar, the provincial high peace council chief, said all surrendering insurgents had been provided cash assistance, with each group leader receiving $608.766, and member $304.383.
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New Transfer Student Academic Advisement
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Justice Major
Department Website
Welcome to the Criminal Justice
major at the University at Albany.
The School of Criminal Justice focuses
on with the study of all aspects of
crime and societal reactions to crime.
We examine political, economic and
cultural patterns that shape
definitions of crime and influence the
policy choices about how to respond to
certain criminal and deviant
behaviors. Specifically, we explore
three main "areas" related to crime
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Criminal Justice (organizations,
process, policy); Criminology
(theories of crime); and Law (the
societal definition of crime and
delinquency). This program offers
education with a high level of
abstraction which prepares students
for advanced study in the field of
Criminal Justice as well as direct
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Because criminal justice is
interdisciplinary by nature, students
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MAP (Major Academic Pathway) shows
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Students who meet the following
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A bill that would define life as starting at conception is dead for this year in Virginia.
With no debate, the Senate voted 24-14 Thursday to send the so-called "personhood" bill back to committee and carry it over to 2013.
Senate Republican Leader Tommy Norment of James City County made the motion to shelve the bill, saying more study is needed.
The vote came hours after the Senate Education and Health Committee endorsed the measure on an 8-7 party-line vote, with Democrats voting against it. The bill passed after an amendment clarifying that no provision in it would restrict the use of federally approved contraception.
At least three times, the committee chairman, Sen. Steve Martin, threatened to have police remove opponents of the bill after they spoke out during debate.
The committee earlier approved a bill requiring pre-abortion external ultrasound exams. It was amended to eliminate ultrasounds requiring an invasive ultrasound probe.
The "personhood" bill would give embryos the full legal protection of personhood and criminalize their destruction, outlawing almost all abortions and, critics say, some forms of contraception. It would take effect only if the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortions is overturned.
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When: Jan. 8-11 2014
This multi-day birthday party for Elvis kicks off with the Elvis Birthday Proclamation Ceremony at 9:30 a.m. on the grounds of Graceland. There will be cake.
The day also includes a stable tour, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., and a Graceland trivia tour, starting 4:30 p.m.
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Enjoying the drool on my pillow
Like many people, I drool on my pillow in my sleep. I love the smell of the little hardened patch of fabric when the saliva dries up. I will cuddle my pillow like a security blanket, bury my face in the drool spot and inhale deeply. I will even go to lengths to avoid washing my pillow case so my drool spot can become layered and have a stronger smell. I realise this is probably horribly unhygienic and abnormal...just wondering if anyone out there does this too.


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A Spring Sky Full Of Sunshine
That's how chapter 20 begins in Lenore McKelvey Puhek's "No Time for Tears" & that the chapter we'll be starting tonight (Tuesday) at Montana History up at the Heritage Center. Letters, diaries, photographs, souvenir programs, carefully preserved over the years, has provided the research as Lenore dove headfirst into a family heirloom trunk to bring us this splendid sequel to "Forever Friends." We're more than half way through "No Time for Tears" at the Heritage & already 5 years have passed quickly. Dr. Amelia has pulled up stakes in Montana & returned to her roots in Virginia. These years of separation will stretch to 25 years (!) before it's all over. There remain many questions to be answered: Will Joseph learn how to milk a cow? Will he return to his "Virginia life" or will he decide to return to his roots? Will the Mutchniks have any half price sales at their mercantile store? AND, will Lenore forgive me for the crazy picture I posted on my previous blog on "No Time for Tears?" We'll find out more tonight when I read more Montana History at the Marias Heritage Center. I'll see you at 6 o'clock sharp. Lenore Pukek's "No Time for Tears" is available by writing to Lenore mcKelvey Puhek at P.O.Box 6002 in Helena, 59601 or calling 406 443 2552. Visit Lenore on email at: firstname.lastname@example.com (she's IS available for public speaking).She'll answer you as soon as she gets out of her family heirloom trunk!


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AMD slashes the price on its flagship dual-Tahiti based Radeon 7990 by $300 from $999 to $699.
The Radeon 7990 packs two GCN based Tahiti GPUs on board with a total of 2 x 2048 shaders and 6 GB GDDR5 memory (3GB for each GPU) . The default core clock is 950 MHz and is able to boost up to 1000 MHz under PowerTune. The GDDR5 memory clock runs at 6 GHz and along with the wide 384-bit memory, ensures no memory bandwidth bottleneck.
With the price tag of $999 at launch, the Radeon 7990 is currently the highest-performing AMD's single-card product. The main competition for the Radeon 7990 in the market is from Nvidia, specifically the single-GPU based Geforce GTX Titan and the dual-GPU based Geforce GTX 690, both priced the same at $999. Performance wise, the Radeon 7990 currently tops the Geforce GTX Titan and is able to trade blows with Geforce GTX 690, depending on benchmarks and games.
Although the performance of the Radeon 7990 is generally good, the issue of micro-stutter in AMD's dual-GPU implementation has prevented the card to be the top-seller among performance enthusiasts. However, with its new price of $699 and the new Catalyst 13.8 Beta driver that fixes micro-stutter, the Radeon 7990 is much more competitive than it previously does.
AMD is eyeing at the Gefore GTX 780 with the new price. Being only $50 more expensive than the GTX 780, the Radeon 7990 offers ~20 percent more performance on average in benchmarks and games. Furthermore, this move by AMD puts Geforce Titan and Geforce GTX 690 in bad positions as the Radeon 7990 is able to offer equal performance, while being a full $300 cheaper.
Besides, all Radeon 7990 purchase comes complete with Never Settle bundle that includes eight free games. If titles like Crysis 3, Far Cry 3, Sleeping Dogs, Hitman Absolution, TombRaider, Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon, Bioshock Infinite and Deus Ex Human Revolution interest you, the Radeon 7990 value is currently unrivalled.
With the new $699 price point and the Never Settle: Ultimate Reload bundle, the Radeon 7990 is definitely an attractive product. The only drawback is the power consumption.
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> Consider a course_students col family which gives a list of students for a course I would use two CF's: Course CF: * Each row is one course * Columns are the properties and values of the course CourseEnrolements CF * Each row is one course * Column name is the student ID. * Column value may be blank or some useful value. Hope that helps. ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 14/09/2012, at 3:19 PM, Michael Morris <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > I'm fairly new to Cassandra myself, but had to solve a similar problem. If ordering of the student number values is not important to you, you can store them as UTF8 values (Ascii would work too, may be a better choice?), and the resulting columns would be sorted by the lexical ordering of the numeric values (as opposed to numeric sorting), so it would be 1, 10, 11, 2, 3, 31, 5... > > In my situation, I had a document, composed of digitized images of the pages. My row key is the doc id number, and there were document level attributes, as well as page level attributes I wanted to capture in the row. So in my model, I used composite columns of 3 UTF8 values. The first is an attribute descriptor, I used 'a' to indicate a document level attribute, and 'p' as a page level attribute. The second composite value depends on the 1st, for 'a' types, the 2nd value is the actual attribute identifier (ex, form type, scanner number, etc...). For 'p' types, it refers to the page number. Having Cassandra preserve the order of the page numbers is not a priority for me, so I can deal with the page number being sorted in String order in the database, I'll deal with numerical sorting that in the app logic (since the largest documents we process are only about 100 pages long). The 3rd composite value is empty for all 'a' types, and for 'p' types, it refers to a page level attribute (page landmark information, image skew angle, location on disk, etc...). > > As an example: > > key1 => a:form=x, a:scanner=1425436, p:1:skew=0.0042142, p:1:file=page1.png, p:2:skew=0.0042412, p:2:file=page2.png > key2 => a:form=q, a:scanner=935625, p:1:skew=0.00032352, p:1:file=other1.png, p:2:skew=:0.0002355, p:2:file=other2.png > > It's been working well for me when using the Hector client. > > Thanks, > > Mike > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Soumya Acharya <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > I just started learning Cassandra any suggestion where to start with ?? > > > Thanks > Soumya > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Roshni Rajagopal <email@example.com> wrote: > I want to learn how we can model a mix of static and dynamic columns in a family. > > Consider a course_students col family which gives a list of students for a course > with row key- Course Id > Columns - Name, Teach_Nm, StudID1, StudID2, StudID3 > Values - Maths, Prof. Abc, 20,21,25 > where 20,21,25 are IDs of students. > > We have > fixed columns like Course Name, Teacher Name, and a dynamic number of > > columns like 'StudID1', 'StudID2' etc, and my thoughts were that we could > > look for 'StudID' and get all the columns with the student Ids in Hector. But the > > question was how would we determine the number for the column, like to add > > StudID3 we need to read the row and identify that 2 students are there, > > and this is the third one. > > > > So we can remove the number in the column name, altogether and keep > > columns like Course Name, Teacher Name, Student:20,Student:21, Student:25, > > where the second part is the actual student id. However here we run into > > the second issue that we cannot have some columns of a composite format > > and some of another format, when we use static column families- all > > columns would need to be in the format UTF8:integer We may want to treat > > it as a composite column key and not use a delimiter- to get sorting, > > validate the types of the parts of the key, not have to search for the > > delimiter and separate the 2 components manually etc. > > > > A third option is to put only data in the column name for students like > > Course Name, Teacher Name, 20,21,25 - it would be difficult to identify > > that columns with name 20, 21, 25 actually stand for student names - a bit > > unreadable. > > > > I hope this is not confusing, and would like to hear your thoughts on this.The question is > > around when you de-normalize & want to have some static info like name , > > and a dynamic list - whats the best way to model this. > > > > Regards, > > Roshni > > > > > -- > Regards and Thanks > Soumya Kanti Acharya >
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Which Setting Should I Use When Broiling?
Q: My broiler has two settings: Lo and Hi. When I see recipes that just say "broil", I never know which setting to use. Any thoughts?
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Editor: I have also been confused by these two settings and tend to just use the "Hi" setting. Since the purpose of the broiler is usually for quick cooking — melting cheese until bubbly, searing the outside of meat, quick-roasting vegetables — we mostly just need a really high burst of heat. Hence, the "Hi" setting!
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Less than 1 hour
It's starting to feel time to have a dog to share my home with. I would enjoy the companionship and teaching those poodle smarts fun and practical tricks. I would also find brushing that gorgeous hair very soothing. I've already done research on their clipping needs and plan on subscribing to a grooming plan at Petsmart.


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Entry #1
Wow, userpages... SNAZZY!
Soooo, yeah... news? Well, I'm making the Impossible Quiz 2 at the moment seeing as loads of you liked the first one so much. Hopefully, it'll be so stupidly difficult that it'll make your kidneys fail. Won't be ready for a while yet though... struggling a bit with question ideas! Any suggestions? =p
Ah well, to celebrate i'm going away for 2 weeks to Portugal. Byeeeeee!
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2007-07-18 07:58:39
Ohhhhhh yeahhh; more addictive flash from splapp-me-do on its way :)
I'm liking badly drawn dog at the moment too, its great XD
Keep up the awesome flash from Hull :P
2007-07-18 12:15:36
i'v completed ur first quiz really w8in 4 the nxt 1 now u mentioned it. ... sorry can't think of any questions.... z i'll try 2 though
2007-07-19 18:58:56
Hopefully it'll still be as original as the first, and it won't ruin it. I completed the first. :D
You have to make more movies, Sonic Breaks His Neck is still one of the funniest things on NG, the voices are awesome (and british! :D)
2007-07-22 09:29:58
Another one? Oh god... I'm not sure if it's possible to top the first, as far as originality (read: How the fuck is THAT the answer?!?!), but I'll be damned if I pass on it when it comes out.
Maybe you should add in more window tricks? The first two "Don't Touch *color*" questions were genius in that respect.
Anywho, I'll shut up. Enjoy your trip... or something like that.
2007-07-27 08:13:15
how do u get passed number 56
2007-07-28 08:41:31
Another Quiz! You're bound to have run out of ideas by now, any normal human would have. Good luck with it though. :)
: Portuguese people don't know how to speak portuguese, their accent is hideous!
2007-07-31 05:39:03
Make it, like, 200+ questions long! :D
... So I can finish the first one before the second one comes out...
2007-07-31 14:33:17
I like my kidneys though. T_T hahah jkjk. OMG WHOOOOOT! thank you. finally! im getting tired of those retarded fake impossible quiz 2's. so lame.. ;p YAY CAN'T WAIT!
2007-08-05 01:31:29
R U back yet???
Yes. Yes I am
2007-08-05 03:09:10
He is vack, check his site.
2007-08-11 19:03:29
2007-08-11 19:06:58
YOU, SIR, are the best NG user ever.
No, YOU are!
2007-08-17 04:28:55
I got a few ideas for quiz #2. PM me if u want to hear them. ;)
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Download here: http://cashload.org/5fcdf00e
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CodePlexProject Hosting for Open Source Software
When I logged on, I saw there were coming some updates (in the near future).
This includes:
PVP.net v1.36.14
Yes, we saw this news.
We're glad Riot finally made a system for users to maintain more masteries.
We're sad to see this makes AutoLoL a lot less usefull.
However, we still think AutoLoL is a lot better in managing masteries (and builds in 2.0!) and we've noticed a lot of people are managing 20 to up to 70 (!) mastery builds in the current version. So we still have faith in AutoLoL. I guess time will
Yeah but you get like up to 10 mastery pages..
But riot probably will ask money for it (like with the rune pages)
But autolol has many different functions, including mastery managing!
So don't be sad!
Importing builds (in 2.0) shall be fantastic! (for the lazy people).
Well less useful is exaggerated, I have faith in autolol!
Time will tell: autolol 2.0
I've seen the mastery pages with my own eyes.
You can have up to 10 mastery pages (as they told you)
And you don't have to pay for it....
But Autolol can be used as an build tool, and autochat tool ;)
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Le Tour de France: the vocab of le vélo
Spectators are expected to line the streets in their millions over the next few days as men in Lycra descend on Yorkshire. No, this is not a terrifying new reboot of Last of the Summer Wine, but the Grand Départ of the largest annual sporting event in the world – the Tour de France. Over the next three weeks the world's top cyclists will battle it out over 3,500km of the most brutal French terrain, this year commencing with 549km in Britain. Such is the popularity of cycling that some of the new words added to the Oxford Dictionary Online this May were bike-related, including sportive and its Italian brother, gran fondo. So to further get you in the mood, why not strap on that helmet, shave those legs, and let us embark on a Tour de la langue du cyclisme.
Le vélo
First things first, we will need a trusty steed to ride upon. The Oxford English Dictionary's first recorded use for the term bicycle is from 1868, according to current research. It originally referred to a kind of two-wheeled velocipede (from Latin velox, meaning 'swift', and pes, meaning 'foot'), with pedals fitted directly to the slightly larger front wheel. Bicycle was more generally used in the 1870s for the high-wheeled ordinary or penny farthing, which, having solid rubber tyres and one very large wheel at the front, was more comfortable than the velocipede with its iron tyres, and required less effort to achieve faster speeds. The low-wheeled safety bicycle, similar in design to most bicycles today – with two equal-sized wheels, a diamond-shaped frame, chain-driven rear wheel, and pneumatic tyres – followed in the late 1870s and led to a huge worldwide boom in cycling.
Once you've got a bike, these days preferably made of lightweight materials such as carbon fibre or chromoly, you need a team, or équipe, around you. The Tour de France features twenty-two teams of nine men, each team featuring one captain and eight domestiques. A domestique, literally translating from French as 'servant', is a support rider. Their main aim is to protect the captain from the competition, and help him reserve as much energy as possible so that it can all be used at the vital moments of the race.
La formation
When are cyclists like geese? No it's nothing to do with their thighs, it's the way they both travel in echelon formation. Echelon comes from the French word for ladder, and was originally used as a military term referring to the formation of troops. In geology if something is en echelon it is in approximately parallel formation at an oblique angle to a particular direction; in French literally meaning 'in rung formation'. Coming back to cycling, in simple terms it means that the riders position themselves in a 'v' shape, just like when geese fly together. The riders in the echelon will rotate through from the sheltered side to the front and then pull off back on the windward side, this method being the most efficient way of using the group's energy to cut through the wind and maintain a high average speed.
La rapidité
We're powering along in echelon formation, but why does someone keep shouting 'cadence!'? The word originates in late Middle English, meaning 'rhythm or metrical beat', and comes via Old French from Italian cadenza, which in its turn is based on Latin cadere meaning 'to fall'. In cycling it refers to pedal rhythm, measured by the number of revolutions of the crank per minute. The optimal cycling cadence should perfectly balance power with endurance.
Le peloton
Optimal cycling cadence is achieved, riding en echelon is helping us to cope with the crosswinds, and we have found ourselves in the leading group, known as the peloton. The word has had an interesting journey: in fifteenth-century France peloton meant little ball, especially of thread. By 1616 it referred to a small body of soldiers, by 1855 it referred to a group of sporting competitors, and then by 1884 it began to refer specifically to cycling.
La fatigue
The only thing that can stop us now is if we bonk. I'll leave you to make your own jokes. While runners hit the wall, cyclists bonk. It refers to a state of utter exhaustion, and can leave riders feeling weak and giddy.
La victoire
If we manage not to bonk, we may be in line for one of les maillots, the famous jerseys. The maillot jaune, or yellow jersey, is the most famous, which is worn by the overall leader of the race. The maillot a pois is also rather fetching – the wearer of this red and white polka dot jersey is deemed 'King of the Mountains', the rider who has performed the best at the mountain stages.
La fin
As we recover at the end of the race, happy with our strong performance, our fellow riders may say "chapeau" to us. They are not complimenting us on our stylish headwear, but are indicating respect for our achievements, much like someone may doff (a Middle English contraction of 'do off') one's cap.
Consider your Tour de France cycling proficiency test complete. Oxford Words wishes you swiftness of foot in all your bicycling endeavours. Now where's my domestique, I need to conserve some energy.


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Jewish school disputes "excessive" city property violations
A Cottage Grove Jewish boys' school that has faced its share of hard luck since it opened in 2006 now faces a new challenge - charges from city inspectors that it hasn't kept up its property to city standards.
As the Yeshiva High School of the Twin Cities fought tooth and nail to stay afloat the past two years, the city of Cottage Grove says a litany of small, property-related violations accumulated at the school on Indahl Avenue. The list includes things like improper exterior storage, the accumulation of loose trash on the edges of the property, the failure to build a brick enclosure around its trash receptacles and an unpaid, $100 fine.
But Rabbi Moshe Weiss, Yeshiva's development director, disputes the city's claims, saying the school has corrected code violations presented by city inspectors, including cleaning up a fallen basketball hoop and removing three inoperable vehicles that had been donated to the school from the parking lot.
Only the garbage enclosure was not addressed, because Weiss said it would cost an estimated $6,000 to build a brick enclosure as required by city code. For a school stretched thin financially, that was simply too much, he said.
This week, the rabbi is scheduled to appear in Washington County District Court in Stillwater in connection with misdemeanor charges stemming from the accumulated violations alleged by the city.
"It's excessive," Weiss said. "It's an abuse."
Ben Pierson, the city's code enforcement officer, says the school's violations have gone on so long - roughly two years - without being corrected that he had no choice other than to forward the case to the county court system.
Four complaints from neighbors over the past two years led to the situation, he said.
Weiss said he had only spoken to the city a few times regarding the alleged violations.
"As an enforcement tool, that is one of the last tools in our toolbox," Pierson said. Cottage Grove took administrative court action against 19 properties in 2010.
Weiss said last week he didn't think the violations were a serious situation until he was notified in mid-June that he was being criminally charged; the rabbi also said he was uncertain why he was charged with the misdemeanors on behalf of the school.
Weiss, who lives in St. Paul, is the only one of three rabbis at the school who does not reside in Cottage Grove.
Bob LaBrosse, the city's chief building inspector, said the city typically charges the owner of a property with misdemeanors stemming from unresolved compliance issues at that address. He said city inspectors had typically dealt with Weiss on matters of code compliance and inspections.
But, Weiss isn't the building's owner -- it's still in the hands of the Minnesota Baptist Conference, to whom the Yeshiva school has been making payments. Nor is he listed as the school's property manager.
Despite the disagreement, Weiss said Yeshiva has "had a great relationship with the city of Cottage Grove from day one." But he called the current situation "a waste of the city's very valuable resources."
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Authorities in five countries have arrested 565 people in fraud schemes that netted more than $1 billion. Many of those arrested are west Africans who were attempting variations of the notorious Nigerian Internet scam, the Justice Department said.
Many of the victims were elderly or immigrants. One scam consisted of telephone calls to Spanish-speaking U.S. residents who were seeking to establish credit and were promised credit cards in return for a couple of hundred dollars. The cards didn't exist, said Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Deborah Platt Majoras.
Those that prey on consumers know their vulnerabilities, Majoras said at a Justice Department news conference with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. They zero in on those who will actually believe them.
The scams were carried out through telemarketing, mass mailings and the Internet and included bogus lottery, prize and sweepstakes offerings, invitations to pour money into nonexistent investments and supposedly legal enticements to avoid paying taxes, officials said.
In the Nigerian scam, criminals send junk e-mail to thousands of unsuspecting people offering them a share in a large fortune in exchange for a smaller amount of money up front. The con artist takes the money and then disappears.
Gonzales called the 14-month investigation, dubbed Operation Global Con, the largest enforcement operation of its kind. It has so far resulted in 139 arrests and 61 convictions in the United States and another 426 arrests in Canada, Costa Rica, the Netherlands and Spain.
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If you know me, you know I have a slight obsession with the New Orleans Saints, and I am a huge fan of Drew Brees. This is quite comical to me, because my husband calls him my boyfriend, and is totally jealous of the guy. On Sundays, he will say: "hey Heather, what time does your boyfriend play?" and things of that nature. he jokes about it, but he really is jealous and doesn't like me to talk about Drew in his presence, which makes me giggle. I like Drew because not only is he a great football player, but he is a strong Christian with great morals and a lot of integrity, which is hard to find in our Tiger Woods and Tony Parker day and age. He and his wife Brittany came to new Orleans after hurricane Katrina, while the city was still in shambles. He felt a calling to come play for the Saints and be a part of a great city and help form a great team. (I get teary eyed just thinking about it all!)
I have been reading the book he wrote after the Saints won the super bowl last year.
I think I started reading this book at just the right time in my life. Not only am I facing sports related adversity with my injuries, but also life adversity. I recently wrote this post about it, in case you missed it. I highly recommend this book to any athlete. It has some great back story on Drew's life as well as his two major sports injuries he had to come back from. It also talks about the city of New Orleans and a bit about hurricane Katrina. There is great wisdom in this book, and some one liner tips and quotes I really needed to hear. This is my favorite paragraph of the book so far:
"One of the most significant things I learned during that period of injury and rehab is this: if God leads you to it, He will lead you through it. Everything happens for a reason, and everything is part of His master plan. If you let adversity do it's work in you, it will make you stronger.(emphasis mine) When you come out on the other side, you just may be amazed at the things God has allowed you to accomplish—things you might not have believed were possible."
WOW. It's like a breath of fresh air to me. During this time I am struggling with my injuries, I CANNOT let the adversity overpower me. I can control my attitude, and how I handle the problems I face, and if I learn all I can from the trials I am going through, it will make me stronger. I cannot help but smile!
I am not finished with the book yet, I have a couple more chapters…but I know how it turns out. If Drew can have 11 anchors put in his shoulder and come back to be the super bowl MVP, then I can overcome my injuries and be a better runner than I ever thought possible.
This book is a very easy read, and it has a section in the middle of some great photos of Drew, his family, the city of New Orleans, etc. It is highly motivational and inspirational, so if you are looking for a good comeback story, go pick it up!
I am EXTREMLY sore from the workout video I did yesterday. This just proves my point that JUST running is not going to put me in the best shape of my life. I would think right now, after running a marathon, I would be in great shape. But do a 20 minutes video with some squats and lunges, and nope, I guess I'm not!
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Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez Call it Quits
Say it ain't so. This relationship started off hard and heavy, but I imagine life on the road and apart was just too much for this VERY young couple.
Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez have broken up. A source close to the celebrity pair has confirmed that they've gone their separate ways.
Busy schedules and long periods away from one another are reportedly the primary reasons for the split, which happened about a week ago.
Bieber, who's 18, and 20-year-old Gomez confirmed they were a couple in early 2011, though they'd been rumored to be an item for several months beforehand.
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With the film's release a little over a week away, it comes as no surprise that there have been many reveals regarding the plot of Suicide Squad. Up until San Diego Comic-Con, no one had any idea what the plot entailed — or who exactly would be making a surprise appearance in the film — so it comes as a shock that DC would release the official cast list for the movie as it spoils many characters' reveals.
Among the revelation of Scott Eastwood's "secret character" and Robin Atkin Downes appearing in his second DCEU role (the English actor provided the voice of Doomsday in Batman v Superman), the cast list reveals that a second Justice League cast member will be joining Ben Affleck's Batman in the star studded anti-hero blockbuster.
Obvious spoilers lie ahead!
The official cast list confirms the rumors that Ezra Miller will be speeding into Suicide Squad as everyone's favorite Speedster, The Flash. This has been heavily speculated on for months and his appearance in the film was even teased in the final Suicide Squad trailer at Comic Con.
We are yet to find out in what capacity he will be appearing, but we can take an educated guess that it revolves around capturing Jai Courtney's Captain Boomerang in a flashback scene. It is a shame that DC have spoiled his appearance but it's more than likely that they are trying to promote the film by marketing the appearance of both The Flash and Batman, similar to how they leaned heavily on the inclusion of Batman to promote Batman V Superman.
Interestingly, Ben Affleck does not appear on the official cast list, even though we already know he's going to make an appearance and we've seen him in the trailers. With Batman confirmed to appear in the film it is very intriguing as to why he has been left out. Could Affleck just be portraying Batman and not Bruce Wayne?
The cast list also reveals the official name of Scott Eastwood's character which is sure to disappoint. Eastwood's character has been kept under wraps from the start of filming, a move that prompted many fans to speculate (and hope) that he could be playing Agent Dick Grayson, a.k.a. Nightwing, or a young Deathstroke. This also rules out the rumor that he was playing Nemesis.
To hype up the actors role and keep it a secret, only to reveal him as a character made for the film, is a bad move on the marketing team's behalf.
Other reveals from the cast list include Robin Atkin Downes being cast in his second DCEU role. Downes provided the voice for Doomsday in Batman v Superman and will be portraying a character called "Angelo" in Suicide Squad. Angelo has no comic book counterpart so it will be interesting to see who he exactly is. With a name such as Angelo, it's worth an educated guess that he could be portraying a metahuman or a very flamboyant crime boss.
The casting of a "Missing Hand Guard" could be a nice throwback and nod to the Arkham Asylum character Aaron Cash, who had his hand bitten off by Killer Croc. With Croc confirmed to be contained in Arkham, this would be a great reference to the Arkham games.
Other cast reveals include Deadshot's daughter, Zoe Lawton, as well as El Diablo's family. David Harbour has been cast as Dexter Tolliver, who in the comics is the Squad's liaison to the NSC.
It still remains a mystery to me why DC would release the official cast list a week before the film's release, especially when the list reveals so many spoilers about the film. Though, as I stated before, they will want to promote The Flash's appearance, along with Batman's, to gain as much box office returns as possible.
Catch The Flash in Suicide Squad when the film is released August 5th.
Do you think they made the right call to reveal the cast list, or would you have preferred to be surprised?


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To think the UK is germ ridden?(85 Posts)
Genuine question. I have not lived in the UK for more than 10 years and I am surprised at how often I read on here about people/kids in the UK getting sick.
For comparison I have a 5 year old DD in kindergarten, she has never had lice, worms, D&V bug, noro virus, chicken pox etc (touch wood). I also know lots of children this age and none of them have had any of these illnesses either. Usually kids here get colds, ear infections, coughs that type of thing.
There has never been an outbreak (in last 4 years) of any of these illnesses in her school or before that pre-school.
So are there children in the UK have also avoided these germs/bugs/viruses or would that be highly unusual?
I am not a germaphobe by the way and I know kids can't help catching these things, but I was just wondering if the UK has become a bit of a breeding ground for bugs over the last few years?
My children were rarely ill in primary school, or nursery. I think not being too neurotic about ultra-hygiene helped.
My US friend, whose children are primary school aged, always has one or the other of them off with viruses. And it's doctors' appointments all the time. Over here we just keep them at home and give them Calpol if they really need it.
'I conclude that the UK is not as germ ridden as I thought and my opinion was definitely skewed by reading about various bugs and illnesses on here.'
The thing is though, people are hardly likely to start threads entitled 'my childn isn't ill', so of course you get a skewed perspective from reading mumsnet.
when I moved to the us (to work as au pair) I had every bug going in the winter. I think I had a cold from sept to march non stop.
and we had one memorable norovirus incident that had the whole family (including me) down at the same time.
I think if you move to a different country there are different strains about and your body has to get used to them.
Havnt read through everything! Apologies.
I wonder if its the climate.
Bugs always seem to increase at the hange of season time, I think!
It may have been an odd post but all the replies made for interesting reading, good to hear a wide range of experiences.
I conclude that the UK is not as germ ridden as I thought and my opinion was definitely skewed by reading about various bugs and illnesses on here.
I am neither sanctimonious or naive - just curious.
Germs aren't generally country specific other than those caused by specific parasites and neither is immunity. My son hasn't had any of the infections you mention. What an odd post.
Both my ds's have had chicken pox. But other than that, are very rarely ill. Other than CP, I have had to take about 5 days off, to look after them, when they have a bad cough or cold, in the last say 3 years or so.
Ds1 has over 90% attendance for every year he has been at school.
Just one of those things.
Some kids are really sickly. Some in ds1's class seem to be off all the time.
Op sounds a bit sanctimonious and naieve. It has nothing to do with it being the UK, as a country. Her views just seem odd.
DS is three and has never required antibiotics, at most has fallen victim to a snuffly nose once or twice.
It's pure luck.
We've lived in a few different countries and my kids have been just as sick in all of them. Nit/worms notes came home from school just as frequently as well. The only difference that we found were CP obviously didn't do the rounds in the countries that vaccinate.
You have just been lucky. I don't live in the UK either and all of my children have had virtually everything possible - nits, chicken pox, they have been hosptalised for rota virus and croup. And they are generally considered healthy children.
Mine did have chest infection when babies and toddlers but once we finally could move out the damp rental house that did seem to stop happening.
Colds and allergies have been linked to poor ventilation in homes and corresponding poor air quality - its mold spores and their density particularly bad in homes where washing is dried inside. You can see why that might be an issue in UK homes with all the wet weather.
If by lice you mean head lice then yes my 3 DC have had all that you've listed but that over 8 years and I did take they out a lot as DC to toddler groups plus we've moved areas and traveled round UK fair bit on public transport.
The main source of illness though is from their school. It's not just the working parents that ignore the 48 hours guild lines all seem to.
Last winter the nearly had more DC off at one point down to D & V than in the school. Having hand sanitizers in school would help reduce that - many DC that winter took their own in.
OP I think you are just lucky.
My DD is almsot 5, she has had coughs and colds, chicken pox aged 2, headlice once caught from older school kids at the childminders, and one virus in the spring that made her vomit loads. Sounds alot, BUT she has never had an ear or chest infection, slapped cheek, hand foot and mouth, worms etc. Swings and roundabouts
Head lice, yep! CP, yes.
D&V, worms, endless colds, nope.
I think you must know some very unlucky people.
My DCs were born in Japan and went to nursery/kindergarten/school there until they were aged 8 and 4. They both got chicken pox, even though some people in Japan vaccinate against it. Norovirus-style D&V bugs regularly did the rounds. We never got lice there, though I did hear of one outbreak at DS's school; they did get lice when they were at primary school in the UK, also threadworms, which they had never had in Japan. However, they must have been around, as DS's state-run Japanese nursery got parents to test for threadworms every year before the children were allowed to use the swimming/paddling pools.
I think you may just have been lucky, OP, though it may also make a difference if you are living somewhere with a low population density - we were in Tokyo, where things like norovirus and flu spread very rapidly due to crowded public transport etc, and we are now in a large-ish city in the UK with a lot of movement of people, which must mean that new viruses are constantly in circulation.
I think the way out children in the uk makes a huge difference. I know very few parents that have proper rain/snow suits for children so they are getting wet and often getting changed at home. I imagine this helps with catching colds!
I don't live in the UK and I frequently go to toddler groups where every child seems to have a runny nose. My DS had had two vomiting bugs, once in the UK on holiday and once where we live. It seems no different to me.
When i lived in the US we had outbreaks of nits and pinkeye. Conjunctivitus in particular seemed to lead to mass hysteria and isolation rooms.
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people dont tend to post 'just thought iwould mention that my dd is totes healthy today'
FYI - a child can have worms and not really exhibit any noticeable symptoms. I've lived in 3 different countries including the UK and have not noticed more sickness here than anywhere else. My child is almost never ill. His peers don't seem to be sicker here than elsewhere. In contrast I've never had so many stomach bugs as during my first 5 years in the USA...
To be honest, public places do tend to feel a bit cleaner/tidier in the U.S. vs the U.K. I think it has more to do with the age of structures and level of upkeep than anything. I remember how grossed out I was when my son started school nursery a few months after we moved over from the U.S. It was in a very old Victorian school building that stunk of damp, old drafty windows and seemed very, very dirty. I had come from teaching in schools where anything built before 1970 was considered "old", so this was a major eye-opener for me.
The lack of space and extremely close quarters of structures in the U.K. also helps with germ distribution. Crammed in like sardines...cough-cough...
I wouldn't say it was more germ ridden than anywhere else.
I was reading up on d&v or the winter vomiting bug and its not so much (this is colds as well) the weather being damp in winter, it's more to do with windows not being opened and stale air carrying around airborne germs. In summer we are out more and windows are opened at home and school so germs don't have the chance to get in our systems.
When ds was 4 he'd never had worms, chickenpox. D&v, lice, anything other than chest and ear infections.
He's 6 now (and dd is 3) And since 4 he's had chickenpox, worms, d&v, slapped cheek, hand foot and mouth, swine flu and pneumonia.
So I suppose I could've assumed where we live isn't germ ridden initially but then been proven wrong!
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- Royal Dutch Shell won't pay compensation for the thousands of oil spills in Nigeria caused by oil bandits, company executives said at The Hague.
Shell faced Dutch lawmakers at The Hague to answer questions about their safety record in Nigeria. Amnesty International and Friends of the Earth International announced they had filed formal complaints with the British and Dutch governments over Shell's failure to take responsibility for the majority of the oil pollution in the region.
Shell executives said Nigerian militants were responsible for more than half of the oil spills in the Niger Delta. They said they would pay for damages caused by pipeline corrosion and other issues but not for sabotage, London's The Daily Telegraph newspaper reports.
"When it comes to issues of the safety of people and crime, it's the responsibility of the government," Peter de Wit, director of Shell Netherlands, was quoted as saying. "That's not happening. But you can't lay it on our doorstep."
Shell said it would appeal a $100 million fine from a Nigerian court ruling on a 40-year-old oil spill.
The advocacy groups said Shell in the 1990s took responsibility for much of the oil pollution in the Niger Delta.


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A Savannah man was indicted Wednesday on murder and related charges in the February slaying of a forklift driver in a Pooler warehouse.
Christopher Jesse Lema, 23, caused the death of Nickifor "Nicky" Jabbar Zephyrine by shooting him in the head on Feb. 24, the Chatham County grand jury determined.
The indictment sends the case to Chatham County Superior Court for trial or plea.
The victim, 29, of Savannah, was slain in the warehouse of OA Logistics after Lema allegedly attempted to sexually assault a female employee in a small office in the middle of the warehouse, Pooler police said.
After the woman pushed him off and told him to leave, the defendant shot him twice in the head with a .22-cal. pistol, police said.
The indictment included charges of felony murder by killing Zephyrine during the commission of the felony of aggravated assault, and/or possession of a firearm by a convicted felon; possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, aggravated assault, criminal attempt to commit rape and simple battery.


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Every week I get several phone calls from publicists eager to promote some hot new artist or band in the hopes that I'll write about them. They usually try to pitch me by trumpeting the client's achievements -- an appearance on Mun2's The Roof, perhaps, or a couple of spins on a local radio station -- as proof of their impending takeover of the pop world.
I'm not afraid to admit that I forget about most of these tips as soon as I hear them, no matter how annoying or persistent the publicists become. But this past April I got a call about an emerging R&B singer from New Jersey, Akon, who had recently been signed to SRC/Universal (which is also home to David Banner). Akon was on a radio promo tour and was going to be in Miami in a few days, the publicist told me; did I want to interview him?
I don't know why I agreed to it, since I can be notoriously hesitant and lazy when it comes to meeting with artists. I've slept through more than my fair share of golden opportunities, from interviews with Lumidee (who went on to have a novelty pop hit last year with "Never Leave You") to Pitbull (whom I eventually caught up with this spring).
But when I listened to his album, Trouble, and its opening track, "Locked Up," I was glad I agreed to meet with him. The song is a lament that chronicles the loneliness and despair inmates often feel. "Everybody's forgotten about me," Akon sings in a voice reminiscent of R&B singer Joe. "Can't wait to get out and move forward with my life." The lyrics were a surprise; it is not often that I hear radio pop songs about life in jail.
When I met up with Akon at the Kent Hotel in Miami Beach, he had just wrapped up a day full of meetings with DJs and interviews with other journalists. Later that night, he planned to take a few of them out on the Beach. "Party with the DJs, free drinks on me, you know what I mean? VIP, whatever you want. It's all a part of butterin' them up," he said, smiling. The process seemingly has little to do with music, but he explained that it helps the people who he hopes will play his record get better acquainted with him. "That's the process of breaking the record," he said.
Trouble, Akon explained, is full of autobiographical stories. A Senegalese African born in St. Louis, Missouri, who spent time in Coral Gables as a teen, Akon moved to New Jersey and got caught up in street life. While there he was arrested and convicted for being, in his words, "the ringleader of a car theft operation, like [the movie] Gone in 60 Seconds," and sentenced to ten years in prison.
It was while he was incarcerated that Akon, who declines to give his age, began writing songs about his experiences. After serving three years, he was released when he appealed his sentence and won. He tried to start a company, Upfront Entertainment. But his conviction made it difficult for him to get the business off the ground. "When you're convicted of a felony, you really can't get no decent job," he said. "The little money I had, I tried to open up a club, but because I was a convicted felon they wouldn't give me a liquor license."
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Meanwhile Akon was "making music as a diary," recording his life in his home studio. "I didn't plan on being no artist," he said. "I'd go through something, and then I'd go and record it. Instead of wilding out, I'd go in the studio and just sit and rap or sing or do whatever I gotta do just to [get the feelings] out. Then I'd put them records aside. Whenever I'd be driving in the car, I'd just listen to it.
"I don't listen to the radio that much," he continued. "There wasn't too much on the radio that I really like. So I would just go and make something that I feel like I would want to hear, do it myself, and just play it."
Akon's cousin, Devyne Stephens, heard the tracks and began shopping them to record labels before SRC picked them up. But Akon said the label didn't commission any outside producers to rework the songs, which he had recorded completely on his own. Indeed Trouble feels as if it were made in somebody's bedroom. The album is uneven, some of the material is weak, and Akon's performances aren't always on point. But at his best, from "Locked Up" to the sweet, guitar-inflected "Don't Let Up," he conveys an honesty and charm that most urban music, with all its glittery ProTools-generated bells and whistles, often lacks.
Released on June 29, Trouble charted at number 52 on the Billboard album charts, and "Locked Up" is getting heavy spins on New York's Hot 97 (WQHT-FM 97.1), the number-one urban station in the country. Whether Akon goes on to be a major artist or not, this summer he's providing a breath of fresh air in a sea of artifice.


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KAMLOOPS – The Kamloops Blazers have signed 1998 born goaltender Dylan Ferguson to a standard Western Hockey League education contract.
Ferguson was selected by the Blazers in the eighth round of the 2013 WHL Bantam Draft.
Ferguson, who will turn 17 on Sept. 20, is from Lantzville, B.C. He has played the past two seasons with the Notre Dame Hounds in Wilcox, Sask., part of the Saskatchewan Midget AAA Hockey League.
This season, Ferguson suited up for 25 games and was 17-7-0-0 with a 2.70 goals against average, a .907 save percentage and three shutouts.
In four playoff games, he posted a 2.02 goals against average and a .918 save percentage.
"Dylan is an important piece of what we believe is a strong group of 1998-born players," commented General Manager, Craig Bonner. "He has had two strong seasons at Notre Dame and is ready to compete for a spot with our hockey club this upcoming season."
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Pascale J.wrote a review of KUHL Splash Roll-Up Pant - Women's on December 21, 2012
Nice pants
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I like these pants, but they don't seem to run as large as some people say. I'm 5 6", 127 lbs, and went up a size to size 8, based on previous reviews. Have to totally cinch my belt. Will be getting 6's for now on for Kuhl.


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In the second LA-area gun buyback event since the tragedy in Newtown, Conn., hundreds of Angelenos surrendered their weapons in exchange for gift cards. The LA County Sheriff's event netted far fewer guns than LAPD's Dec. 26 event, held shortly after the Connecticut mass shooting. John Cádiz Klemack reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Jan. 21, 2013.
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text: This is inspired by the "Oprah/Minimum Wage" thread. I didn't want to post there and hijack that thread. I just found out last night from my MIL that my husband's cousin recently moved back to our area. She is working at a nursing home making around $11 an hour and living with a girlfriend (who also works with her) in one of those extended stay motels. At first I felt so bad/sad to hear that she was having to live in a "motel." Then my MIL proceeds to tell me, oh, no, they LOVE it. They were going to live there temporarily, and now don't want to leave! It costs $180-$200 a week, so they are each paying only $90-$100 a week. They have two beds (not sure if twin or double, but that wouldn't matter), a bathroom, SMALL sitting area and SMALL kitchenette. Unlike an apartment, they didn't need a deposit, which saved them money they didn't have. For that $90-$100 a week each they are getting a safe place to stay (I know where it is, and it's pretty nice), maid service, clean towels and bed linens that they don't have to wash. Maid service might be weekly, not daily, but still. They have NO utility bills, as, like with any hotel, water, electric and phone (local calls only) are included. (Keep the room as cool as you want in the summer, take a hot shower for as long as you want). They also have free basic cable, and of course, a free TV to watch. They can use the pool and have a community laundry room on the premises. My MIL (her aunt) asked this cousin how long she could stay there and she said some of her "neighbors" had been there for years. She and the friend/roommate don't always work the same shift, which gives them some alone time. In watching the Oprah show on minimum wage and discussing housing costs in that thread, this seemed like a great solution to the housing problem FOR SOME. I KNOW this wouldn't work for everyone and wouldn't work forever, but is an idea. I find it very interesting, and perhaps ingenious. No deposit, no utility bills, lots of perks. Interesting.


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Conrad Smith ruled out with thumb injury
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All Blacks centre Conrad Smith has been ruled out of the final Test against England in Hamilton, and will be unavailable for at least a month, after breaking his right thumb.
Smith finished the second Test in Dunedin with his right hand strapped after taking a knock early in the second half, and he had described the thumb as sore before learning the extent of the injury.
All Blacks head coach Steve Hansen said Smith would be out of action for five to six weeks with the injury, which he said was similar but not exactly the same as that suffered earlier in the season by Chiefs and All Blacks fly-half Aaron Cruden.
''What we thought was only a muscle injury has turned out to be a broken bone for Conrad Smith in his thumb so he won't be considered for Saturday unfortunately,'' Hansen said.
Malakai Fekitoa or Ryan Crotty will replace Smith in the starting side at Waikato Stadium, with Hansen saying "we'll make that decision on Thursday".
"[We have an idea] but we don't need to tell England which one we're going to go for," Hansen said.
Fekitoa was chosen ahead of Crotty for a spot among the replacements for the Tests in Auckland and Dunedin, and he debuted at Eden Park,but Hansen said he had not forgotten Crotty's experiences in the All Blacks jumper. "[Fekitoa] been playing well and it's just whether we think he's ready to start. Ryan's been there and done that, and been in the atmosphere. That's what it'll come down to - whether we think Malakai's ready to start or not."
Hansen also would not be drawn on speculation that Beauden Barrett would start at fly-half, instead of Cruden, or whether Kieran Read was in his thinking after concussion.
"I'm not going to talk about that until Thursday," Hansen said. "We've got all week to get through. Part of the reason why we don't want to talk about it is England have got to do their homework on everybody rather than just 15 blokes.
"I'd like to tell you but I can't."
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Valley Humane Society
Click and Clack, about 5 years old, are looking for a friend to provide them with a warm lap to curl up in, and a soothing voice to speak to them. Having been together since birth, these two have formed an inseparable bond and must go home together.
Valley Humane Society is at 3670 Nevada St. in Pleasanton. Hours are 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, noon to 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. For details, call 925-426-8656 or visit www.valleyhumane.org or www.facebook.com/ValleyHumaneSociety.
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More than 6000 children participated in the 5th Children's Rights Festival in Croatia
ZAGREB, 21 November 2013 - More than 6000 children, including children with disabilities, participated in the 5th edition of Children's Rights Festival in 10 Croatian cities from 17-20 November 2013.
The fully inclusive festival is traditionally supported by UNICEF, Croatian Film Association and Office of the Ombudsperson for Children. More than 30 films about child rights produced by children, young persons and adults from 13 countries have been shown during inclusive screenings of the Children's Rights Festival. This year's theme reflected the importance of books in the lives of children and literature in the creation of films.
Koprivnica, the center of the Koprivnicko-krizevacka County hosted majority of Festival's activities during the 4 days including film and reportage workshops, storytelling session for pre-school children and the very popular "Meet the author" session organised for schoolchildren with the children's book writer Irena Sajatovic and Festival's host, actor Sven Sestak.
During the Festival's opening ceremony, group of children with disabilities from the Center for education and rehabilitation Podravsko sunce, teamed up with UNICEF National Ambassador Maja Vucic in singing their Center's song "Green is beautiful". Festival was officially opened by the Mayor of Koprivnica, Vesna Zeljeznjak.
Popular Croatian actors traditionally support this biggest event celebrating children's rights and creativity in audio-visual arts. For the third year, theatre and film actors in cooperation with blind editors prepared video descriptions in the studio, so that blind or visually impaired children can enjoy films of their peers, on a big screen.
Festival also reached out to the library in Gornja Rijeka, the smallest and the poorest municipality in the Koprivnicko-krizevacka county with books and support. Local library in this municipality acts as the only place for young child development programmes, hosting 30 children 3 times a week in education and play as there are no other services for young children available.
During the inclusive screening in Cinestar cinema in Zagreb, more than 1200 schoolchildren were greeted by UNICEF Programme Coordinator and Officer in Charge Djurdjica Ivkovic, Assistant Minister of Social Policy and Youth Maja Sporis and Assistant Minister of Education Ankica Njezic and the leading theatre actor Goran Grgic.
Special guest of this year's Festival was Ajay Singh, film director of the awarded film about rural children's experience of big city, title Upside Down.
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Broken Sword is a point and click adventure game series starring unwilling hero George Stobbart, an intrepid American lawyer, and Nico Collard, a sassy French freelance journalist. Through the series George and Nico are unwittingly drawn into sinister and terrifying conspiracies, requiring them to uncover ancient mysteries and unravel myths across the globe. Nerve, cunning and guile are essential in order to conquer these compelling adventures.
The four games in the series have won or been nominated for many awards, including: 4 BAFTAs (Best Adventure, Best Story, Best PC Game, Best Design)
Best European Adventure - European Game Awards
Best Video Game Script - Writer's Guild of Great Britain
Pocket Gamer Gold Award - Pocket Gamer Awards
Excellence in Writing - Game Developers Choice Awards
The games are regularly awarded exceptional review scores: for example Broken Sword: Director's Cut (iPhone) currently has a Metacritic (average) score of 91%!


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Further to Alex Orr's criticism of Michael Moore's dismissal of Bank of England assistance to an independent Scotland (Letters, 20 December), Moore's bizarrely hostile attitude towards his area of responsibility is not the worst feature of his service.
The post of Secretary of State had direct relevance before devolution of government to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, but maintaining the post merely reinforces the notion of colonial control by Westminster.
This has formal roots in the fact that there has never been a similar office for England. Instead, they have the Home Office, a title rich in emotive overtone and, of course, indicative of superiority to, and authority over, the three others: England equals UK.
In the present days of seemingly endless austerity it would make economic sense to dispose of such redundant administration.
In bygone days of "basso profundo" Willie Ross, the Scottish secretary, promoted Scotland's interests at Westminster; Moore clearly sees his role as being to preserve London's influence over us.
If any such a post is necessary, it should be operated by a member from each of the devolved governments, and should be a low-key affair – and England should have its own counterpart.
Incidentally, the Bank of England was nationalised; shouldn't it be Bank of UK?
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MnDOT reminds motorists to use safe driving skills
The Minnesota Department of Transportation reminds motorists to use safe driving skills at all times, especially during extreme winter weather and difficult road conditions.
The northwest area of the state is currently under a wind chill advisory with temperatures dropping throughout the day. The wind is causing blowing, drifting and reduced visibility in some areas of the district. These conditions create snowdrifts, snow clouds, and slippery roads.
Motorists should remember to:
Slow down, be patient -- allow more travel time to your destination.
Buckle up -- it's the law and it could save your life.
Turn on your headlights -- increase your visibility to other motorists.
Check road conditions -- Go to www.511mn.org or call 511.
Stay back -- Keep a safe distance from snowplows and other vehicles.
Stay alert -- Snowplows turn or exit frequently and often with little warning; they may also travel over centerlines or partially in traffic to further improve road conditions.
Travel prepared -- If you must travel in difficult conditions, fill your gas tank, take your cell phone and charger, and carry a winter survival kit.


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Cullen of England and Cummins from Queens County Port Laoise Ireland
John Cullen from Lincoln England .Mother Elizabeth Hilton.
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Thank you for your kind and speedy reply. Have been researching for 10 years but cannot find those 2 marriages hence I am stuck in the twilight zone. Will continue to hope there is a link somewhere. Kind regards


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Here Are the Winners of the 2012 Saxxys for Excellence in Team Fortress 2 Movie-Making
Two weeks ago Valve opened voting on the second annual Saxxy Awards, celebrating cinematography in Team Fortress 2 and the Source Filmmaker tool released earlier in the year. Last night, voting ended, and winners in four categories were crowned. You may see them here in this gallery.