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As heads of state from David Cameron to Barack Obama meet in New York for a UN climate summit hosted by Ban Ki-moon, expectations are high for bold commitments on cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Read more
Ecobank Transnational Incorporated ("Ecobank" or "theGroup"), the leading pan-African banking group, has further strengthened its international operations by opening a representative office in Beijing. Read more
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Kip Beckman is looking closer into a book that everyone with interest in China and the global economy should read. Read more
The Chinese government is planning a fresh start of the project, "One Thousand Foreign Experts Project," in order to attract new specialists from other countries. Read more
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David Mc Leod erased a ten-year-old record and Kristin Julien, a two-year mark, on their way to gold medals in their respective 15-17 age-group 50m backstroke on the third night of finals at the 20th Caribbean Islands Swimming Championship being held at the Aquatic Centre, Wildey, Barbados, on Saturday.
Overall, it was another productive night for T&T swimmers who added eight gold, seven silver and five bronze for a three-day total of 44 medals (15 gold, 16 silver and 13 bronze) to trail Puerto Rico 55 medals (19 gold, 20 silver, 16 bronze), while Aruba is third with 21 (ten gold, three silver, eight bronze) and Bahamas fourth with 26 (eight gold, eight silver and ten bronze).
Puerto Rico also lead the points table with 641, well clear of T&T (479), Barbados (390) and Bahamas (367) with last night and today's finals left to complete the championship.
One of three Mc Leod brothers on the T&T swim team, David, raced to the wall in a sizzling 26.96 seconds to better the previous record of Nicholas Bovell (27.01) set in 2004.
Second to the wall was Mc Leod's countryman Jabari Baptiste in 27.47, while Jamaican Timothy Wynter got bronze in 27.79.
It was the second gold of the night for Mc Leod (David) after he swam away with the 15-17 boys 50m freestyle in 24.17 followed by Aruban Mikel Shreuders (24.27) and Curacao's Jeremy Kostons (24.33).
Julien was not to be overshadowed as she won the 15-17 girls 50m backstroke in a CAC A standard time of 29.81, which was also faster than the 30.26 2012 CISC record of fellow T&T national Kimberlee John-Williams.
Jamaican Danielle Boothe was second in 31.48 and Puerto Rico's Maria Burgos third in 32.15.
However, the first to deliver gold on the night for T&T was Johnnya Ferdinand in the 15-17 girls 50m freestyle, with a 27.02 clocking, ahead of teammate Kristin Julien (27.08) and Aruba's Rebecca Maduro (27.14) in a race which saw the top five finishers all attain the Pan American B qualifying mark of 27.61.
Next to deliver precious metal for T&T on the night was Jada Chai in the 11-12 Girls' 100m butterfly 1:08.99 to beat teammate Vrisnelit Faure (1:10.10) and Aruba's Elisabeth Timmer (1:11.16) into the silver and bronze positions.
In the 13-14 boys 50m backstroke, T&T's Justin Samlalsingh outswam his rivals for gold in 28.43 with Bermudan Jesse Washington (28.82) and Aruba's Patrick Groters (28.94), completing the top three.
Two years ago, in Aruba, the host country emerged as overall champions with 1,411 points and 69 medals (26 gold, 22 silver and 21 bronze), to end T&T's run of two straight titles. T&T had to settle for second with 74 medals (26 gold, 26 silver and 22 bronze) for 911 points.


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The current U.S. economic crisis and resulting huge government bailout programs provide an unprecedented opportunity to test information technology solutions for government transparency.
Government officials at federal, state and local levels will suddenly find their programs funded beyond their normal run rates, and will face pressure to spend money quickly to achieve policy goals.
Information technology can help the bailouts succeed in several ways:
1. Federal, state, and local governments need to bridge their information systems so the flow of funding and its ultimate disposition can be tracked.
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4. Integration with mapping software can provide powerful visualization capabilities to help people assimilate the vast data inherent in these programs.
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Out with the fuzzy fro, Neymar unveils new semi-Mohawk at Barcelona training
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A microsimulation analysis of the 2006 regime change in the Dutch disability scheme
This paper introduces a microsimulation model that simulates the budgetary impact of the 2006 regime change in the Dutch disability scheme. A dynamic population model fits the case of the disability benefits the best. As opposed to macro forecasts, a microsimulation can answer questions about the individual or meso income effects, the exact distribution of expenses among different benefits and the time path of the savings. The introduction of the proposed system change decreases the number of disability benefits by more than 25 % from 2020 onwards and reduces total costs by almost € 2 billion or 20 %. Based on the better incentive structure, participation will increase and boost GDP. Microsimulation can be used to pick the winners and losers of the new system and give the time path of the savings. It is shown that for almost all partially disabled that are working, the total discounted income after the system change is as large as or larger than before the system change, for the non-working total discounted income is lower.
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Phils' NL-record sellout streak ends at 257 games
Phils' NL-record sellout streak ends at 257 games
"You kinda know it's gonna happen," said Jimmy Rollins, the longest-tenured Phillies player. "You would hope that it wouldn't. You would hope that one bad season wouldn't break it up, especially after the five winning seasons that we had and division championships. But that's the way it goes. People aren't gonna spend money and come to the game if they don't feel they're getting their money's worth. And this year we've been a little short."
Said manager Charlie Manuel, whose club fell to 49-60 on Monday night: "It's kind of up to us to make sure we get our team together and get better and get our crowd back. I'm sure we can. I know we still had 40,000 or something like that. I'm sorry we didn't sell out. That just goes to show you what kind of season we've had."
The streak started during a 4-3 loss to the Reds on July 7, 2009. From that game through Sunday's, the combined paid attendance was 11,585,952, with an average of 45,082 per game. During the streak, the Phillies went 154-103 at Citizens Bank Park in the midst of three NL East championship seasons.
"The number of sellouts could not have been possible without the tremendous loyalty of our fans who continue to lead all of Major League Baseball in average attendance this year," Phillies president David Montgomery said.
The paid attendance for Monday's game against the Braves was 41,665.
The Phillies' streak trails only the Red Sox's current string of 772 consecutive sellouts and the Indians' run of 455 in a row from 1995-2001.
"It was a heck of a run. We had fun. I know I go out every night, first thing I do is look up and see how many seats are empty at the beginning of the game, and by the third inning, see how many of those seats were filled. It was something we came to expect really. ... That's a lot of baseball games. There's been a lot of winning in that time. Hopefully, they enjoyed it as much as we did."


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WASHINGTON, April 19 (UPI) -- Congressional leaders have chosen two consultants to review the scandal-plagued page program in the U.S. House, officials said.
The Hill reported House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, have tapped former Congressional Management Foundation Executive Director Richard Shapiro and Philadelphia high school Principal William Weary.
The newspaper reported the two are charged with leading a comprehensive and independent review of the page program, created in 1827. They will release their findings this year.
Along with updated rules for the page program and the House Inspector General's report, the independent review is aimed at ensuring the program "effectively supports the operations of the House and serves the interests of the pages in 2008," Pelosi and Boehner said in a joint statement.


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SAN FRANCISCOClaiming an industry first, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said Thursday (Dec. 2) it has began sampling last month monolithic 4-gigabit (Gb), low power double-data-rate 2 (LPDDR2) DRAM using 30-nm class technology.
The chip will be used in high-end mobile applications such as smartphones and tablet PCs, Samsung (Seoul, South Korea) said.
The new 4Gb LPDDR2 DRAM can transfer up to 1,066 megabits per second (Mbps), which approaches the performance of memory solutions for PC applications, according to Samsung. It more than doubles the performance of the industry's previous mobile DRAM. MDDR, which operates between 333Mbps and 400Mbps, according to the firm.
The mobile device market is gaining momentum with the advent of tablet PCs, which is adding significantly to the already surging smartphone segment, said Jun-Young Jeon, vice president of Samsung'smemory product planning team, in a statement. Samsung will work closely with mobile device designers to bring high-performance, high-density mobile solutions to market as rapidly as possible.
Starting this month, Samsung said it will begin sampling 8Gb LPDDR2 DRAM by stacking two 4Gb chips in a single package. It is expected that 8Gb will become the mainstream density for the mobile DRAM market next year, Samsung said.
Until now, an 8Gb (1GB) LPDDR2 DRAM used four 2Gb chips, according to Samsung. With the new Green 4Gb LPDDR2, the 8Gb solution offers a 20 percent package height reduction (0.8mm vs. 1.0mm) and will save 25 percent of the power consumed by the previous 8Gb package that used four 2Gb chips, the company said.
Samsung developed a 2Gb LPDDR2 DRAM chip based on 40nm-class technology in February and has been providing that solution since April to cope with the rising demand for advanced mobile DRAMs. Samsung also plans to provide 16Gb (2GB) LPDDR2 DRAM by stacking four of the 4Gb chips, as capacity needs continue to grow, the company said. (Seoul, South Korea) said.


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Throughout this short series I will take you through five of the most powerful ways to begin earning money through your Affiliate Marketing efforts. The items that are included in this series are the pages and content types that are applicable to any online project.
The five I will cover include:
- Resource pages
- In-Depth reviews
- Checklist
- Translations
- Printouts
Each of these allow you to share valuable information and an affiliate link (or more). The pieces are built around trust and action so when you hold the position of a positive brand it increases the odds of conversions; people see that you use them, they trust you, and so they are likely to give them a shot.
Include each of one of these within your niche project work and you will certainly see an increase to your income within longevity of the efforts; here is what you need to know about…
Making money with in-depth reviews
In-depth reviews are the best ways to make money with your niche website because:
- Search engines love them because they are extremely helpful
- They are (obviously) in-depth so it gives all the appropriate information
- You have multiple moments to use a call-to-action
- It encourages you to expand on the media formats which help with conversions
The reviews I'm talking about aren't just your typical 500-750 word reviews you'd find on many sites (though sometimes, depending on the product/service, that's fine); these are the type of reviews where even after a few years you could take a look through it and know that it's (still) a great product.
Generally these are the type of reviews that go above and beyond, feature many rich interactivity elements, and tell a story. Look at the difference of a product you review you may find on a site like TheVerge.com versus your typical tech-blog; they are extremely in-depth versus quick write-ups.
The biggest elements of these reviews generally include the following:
- 2-3,000+ word examination
- Video (or other media formats)
- Plenty of pictures
- Quotes and other elements that add to trust
Ask yourself:
- Do I trust a 500 word review that just does an overview which most of the information I can find through the product page?
- Do I trust the review where I can see a hands-on preview, deep inspect of the item/service, and a large summary which targets whether it's right for you (or not)?
These reviews, obviously, take a lot of time but they are entirely worth it.
The best way to go about doing these type of reviews is to become a customer of the product/service so that you learn not just about the topic but the business/brand behind it.
In order to make money off your niche sites you really only need to do these to the most popular/frequently-used products (which generally show up on your resources pages as mentioned in the previous post).
Since you are so accustomed to these products/services you should have no trouble speaking your mind about them and talk about its intricacies.
In short: Start off by working on creating reviews about products/services you already readily use within your niche, take your sweet time so that you are able to put a great amount of effort into the depth/media, and then fill it with multiple call-to-actions to capture those interested at any moment.
Reviews aren't only there to present a product or service. The review is the experience.
When people invest their time into reading through your reviews they will feel as if they already have part ownership. The person projects the image of them using the product/service and all the rewards that come through it. When you can create that mental image, drive home on the value, and lead out with a strong call-to-action you leave the person with a trustful choice in making the purchase and a glow once it is processed.
Reviews can be short but they really do gain an advantage when they are in-depth. People are going to skim through and pick the points that matter to them but others need the full picture. By covering all aspects of the topic you cover all those questions and concerns that may block a person from completing the sale.
Try to write one new in-depth review each week (or at the very least each month) so that you may always have something solid to present to your audience (and link into your resource pages).
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Architect Magazine: Architects Shy From Truther 9/11 Conspiracy Theory
From Architect Magazine, this recent article on the distance the American Institute of Architects wisely puts between Richard Gage and AE911Truth:
What is more interesting than these bizarre and debunked conspiracy theories is the way that Gage places his AIA membership front and center in his presentations. He seems to be attempting to cloak his organization in the officialdom of the venerable 155-year-old professional institution, even as AIA wants nothing to do with his organization. At the start of his latest film, he explains that he is "a licensed architect of over 20 years and member of the American Institute of Architects."
Gage often seems to wield his AIA status in promoting his conspiracy theories. In making his case, he also regularly cites that more than 100 AIA members and at least six AIA Fellows have signed his petition calling for a new investigation. In total, Gage says that more than 1,700 of the petition's roughly 16,000 signatures are from architects and engineers.
During the screening, Gage was at the very least intimating that his organization had been invited to AIA officially.
…Aside from Gage, though, there was not a single other architect in the room, much less an official from AIA, or even another member. The 80-strong crowd was made up largely of members of the local 9/11 Truth movement and other political activists.
There is and never will be an AIA endorsement of these foolish and anti-rational theories of Richard Gage and AE911Truth. Buyer, beware.
It was rather nice of the author to point out the borderline anti-Semitic theories of some of Gage's followers, theories that Gage only half-heartedly holds away from himself and AE911Truth. Can't bite the hand that feeds you, right, Richard?
July 26, 2012
· Joseph Nobles · Comments Closed
Tags: AIA, Richard Gage, Scott Frank · Posted in: AE911Truth
Fantastic Engineering Basics Course from Teaching Company
Everybody needs some product placement in today's world, right?
Well, instead of sending cash to AE911Truth and their buddies, why not spend some money and actually learn something about how buildings work?
The Teaching Company's Great Courses are something I've enjoyed several of. Now they've released an engineering basics course that quite good. It's called Understanding the World's Greatest Structures: Science and Innovation from Antiquity to Modernity, and it's taught by Stephen Ressler, an instructor at West Point. Boy, you can't get any more government-sponsored than that, can you?
I'm on lecture 7 now, as Ressler works his way through the six basic structural pieces. Yes, he will eventually get to the World Trade Center buildings and even discuss their collapse, which I'm looking forward to. But he's such a great instructor that you'll be impressed by a late 19th century British textile mill as easily as the Brooklyn Bridge or the Great Pyramid of Giza. He occasionally wades out into the deep water, but not so far as to get completely esoteric. It's true: the better your advanced math skills, the more you will get out of it (I also recommend the Great Course calculus fundamentals class). But you don't have to know trigonometry to appreciate the way structures have grown and innovated over the years.
Anyone interested in the controlled demolition theories of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth will benefit immensely from this course. And if it's full price, just wait a couple of months. They always put every course on sale throughout the year at some point. But it's worth full price if you've got the room on your Visa!
March 28, 2012
· Joseph Nobles · Comments Closed
Posted in: Shoutout
Independent Study Confirms Red/Gray Chips in WTC Dust NOT Thermite
A thread at the James Randi Educational Foundation has previewed a new paper done by an accredited forensic scientist. After extensive study of the WTC dust and red-gray particles found within it, Dr. James Millette has conclusively demonstrated that the particles are not thermite in any shape, form, or function.
The red/gray chips found in the WTC dust at four sites in New York City are consistent with a carbon steel coated with an epoxy resin that contains primarily iron oxide and kaolin clay pigments.
There is no evidence of individual elemental aluminum particles of any size in the red/gray chips, therefore the red layer of the red/gray chips is not thermite or nano-thermite.
The red layer is an epoxy resin containing primarily iron oxide and kaolin clay pigments. Paint, in other words. The gray layer is the carbon steel.
Many thanks to Chris Mohr who went out on his own to get this work done.
March 27, 2012
· Joseph Nobles · Comments Closed
Posted in: AE911Truth's Arguments
Hey, wha' happened?
See, I leave this place alone for a long while and crazy things happen. Sorry about the broken site. I've no idea how long it was up, but it's fixed now.
September 8, 2011
· Joseph Nobles · 2 Comments
Posted in: Uncategorized
ATM Paper Reviewer: "Perhaps Victims on Planes Alive in Tahiti"
Pat Curley over at the Screw Loose Change blog points us toward the identity of a reviewer of the "Active Thermitic Material" paper touted by the 9/11 Truth Movement and AE911Truth. It's David L. Griscom, who revealed his identity on September 11 of this year, and as Curley shows us, he has had some interesting notions about how the 9/11 attacks went down:
I envision a similar 9/11 scheme, but one where the passengers boarded under their true names. Indeed, the seat occupancies on all four aircraft allegedly hijacked on 9/11 were very much lower that industry average (averaging 26% of capacity vis-à-vis 71% for all domestic flights in July 2001). So, here I extend my "all passengers survived" postulate to all four 9/11 "hijacked" flights on the notion that this small number of passengers might have been considered by conspirators as the minimum number for public credulity, while at the same time not exceeding the maximum number of "true believers in the cause" willing to accept long separations from their loved ones (sweetened by handsome Swiss bank accounts).
Griscom shows a predilection toward loopy theories, as his revelatory blog post links to Jim Hoffman's ceiling tile theory as a "very plausible scenario" of how the *therm*te could have gotten into the building.
It's Stephen Jones' reaction that is the most illuminating to me.
As one of the authors of this paper, I can say that Prof. Griscom's twelve pages of review were very well thought-out and required us to do considerable further work on the paper, which improved the final version significantly. This was one tough review, more challenging than any other review I have received, excepting perhaps peer-reviews of papers in Scientific American (1987) and Nature (1989) on which I was co-author. I should also add that I have never met Prof. Griscom personally and that I just learned of his blog disclosing himself as a peer-reviewer today (thanks to Dirk Gerhardt).
And yet Griscom says that he couldn't find anything to criticize about the ATM paper! 12 notes of suggestions he has that makes Harrit, et al. sweat and strain to meet (according to Jones), but none of these are criticisms? Just like the 9/11 Truth employs the famous Hush-a-Boom *therm*te whenever they wish to argue for explosive sounds or against them, we now have peer review that's both rigorous and non-critical at the same time.
The bias of this "referee" of the ATM paper is palpable. Jones says that he has never "met" Griscom, nor knew explicitly that Griscom was a reviewer of the piece, but the Bentley Open review process allows, indeed requests, that authors suggest reviewers for the piece. Jones has not categorically denied that Griscom was not one of the suggested reviewers by the authors of the paper, and I'm afraid such a categorical denial is required in this case. If it turns out that Jones and Griscom have communicated over the Internet, or if Griscom is well-known by other authors of the paper (like Harrit) and was suggested by them, this will be another blow to the objectivity of the review process beyond what has already been revealed.
And here's an idea! Why not have Griscom release his 12 pages of suggestions so that we can examine this rigorous non-critical review? It certainly would be interesting to read over.
(Please note: the term *therm*te is my own to keep from having to type out every iteration of thermite 9/11 Truth advocates employ in what I interprest as their shell game. We've seen nanothermite, super nanothermite, regular thermite, thermate, etc. It gets old qualifying every single statement about the thermite arguments.)
December 3, 2010
· Joseph Nobles · 2 Comments
Tags: ATM Paper, David Griscom, Jim Hoffman, living victims, Peer Review, Screw Loose Change, Steven Jones, Thermite · Posted in: AE911Truth, Other 9/11 Truth Advocates
Harley Guy Identified, Full Interview Now Available
One of AE911Truth's key talking points is a suggestion that the official story was inserted into the media with the use of people like this person. He's called the Harley Guy because of his T-shirt, and his very vivid and precise way of describing the attack is seen as suspicious. However, only a short clip of this interview has ever been displayed by AE911Truth or other 9/11 Truth advocates.
Now the full interview is available, and Harley Guy is identified as Matt Walsh, a "freelancer for Fox." So this is a person who has thought very carefully about how to describe the event he just witnessed because he works in the video news business and knows what is expected. His interview sounds like a sound bite because he works with sound bites all the time. There is nothing remotely suspicious about this, and suggestions that Mr. Walsh is a government plant dishing out the official story to fool the world are ludicrous.
ETA: A quick note – Mr. Walsh is used in the AE911Truth presentation. He's part of the first 911Mysteries clip. As I recall, he's also been used in other AE911Truth short videos, and that recently, like at the National Press Club vanity mock debate. I'll check into it.
November 30, 2010
· Joseph Nobles · 2 Comments
Tags: 911Mysteries, cherrypicking, government did it, Harley Guy, Twin Towers · Posted in: AE911Truth, Common Myths
Richard Gage's salary in 2009 from Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth. That's according to the 2009 Form 990-EZ available right now at Guidestar.org, an online organization that helps track non-profits.
The total revenue for 2009 – $344,570. Salaries for Gage and others topped out at $107,417. That means salaries constitute 31% of AE911Truth's expenses.
In other words, Richard Gage's salary is 21% of all revenue received by AE911Truth in 2009.
I'll post a more detailed analysis of this (and the 2008 Form 990-EZ) later.
ETA: My detailed look at the 2007 Form 990-EZ for AE911Truth is available at the link.
November 9, 2010
· Joseph Nobles · 9 Comments
Tags: Form 990, Richard Gage · Posted in: AE911Truth
Oh, No
Thanks to Orphia Nay at JREF!
November 9, 2010
· Joseph Nobles · Comments Closed
Tags: BuildingWhat? · Posted in: Uncategorized, WTC 7
Building What Ads Hitting the Air
A post at Democratic Underground says that the Building What? ad just played on MSNBC. So here's a couple of links at my site dealing with the issues raised at their site:
Building What is Up! – and it looks like a lie on every page.
7 Facts about Building 7 – and how cherrypicking gets you the answer you want every time.
Of course these family members deserve answers to their questions. However, they don't deserve the answers that they prefer. We owe it to all the victims of the 9/11 attacks to deal with the truth, and the presentations of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth and this front group simply are not dealing with the truth. Deception and craft followed by a way to donate money to promoting more deception and craft doesn't honor anyone's memory.
November 2, 2010
· Joseph Nobles · One Comment
Posted in: Other 9/11 Truth Advocates, WTC 7


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All of them suck, honestly. But if I have to choose, Revenge of the Sith is the least awful.
If you don't like them. Yeah you need to like episode 3. Watching Obi wan biting the dust. Know what is Darth Vader. Episode 3 rules actually.
*sigh* Since when is Jedi the opposite of invader? He's not a dark Jedi; he joined the Sith (at least according to the oh-so holy prequels -_-). Why would GL be German?
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NO. That's just in German. Jedi is the oppisite of invader. So he's a dark Jedi. George Lucas maybe German.
on March 17, 2016
You're confusing me. "Vader" means "father." Not Anakin.
on March 16, 2016
Episode 6 says it all. Vader is the oppisite of invader. Because there is no "in". And Anakin is a dark Jedi. Wait Anakin means Darth Vader? I just digged the mystery!
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And Darth actually means dark. And siths have that adjective to make people know that there a Sith.
on March 16, 2016
Did you know that "Darth Vader" means "Dark Father" in German?
Um, it's tragic, heartbreaking, and tear-worthy when Anakin turns into Darth Vader. But that's the only redeemable bit about it.
Um, it's tragic, heartbreaking, and tear-worthy when Anakin turns into Darth Vader. But that's the only redeemable bit about it.
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Eh, it's pretty bad. But it's not as bad as the other two, soo
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I've never seen them, so I don't have any room to talk. From what I've heard, they're not really worth watching...
You should. There have more action then the original!
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Who's got it, and playing it?
I got into the beta the other day after months of waiting. Never played the first one. Consider myself to be an adept game player but the learning curve seems fairly big. In around 2 hours of game time I've failed to kill a 'Hero' (either human player or bot) but died numerous (read: many) times. Lol.
Need tips!
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07-17-2012 #1
Dota 2
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07-18-2012 #2
Play with bots until you learn the mechanics of the game. If you want to play in MM stick with heroes you know and subscribe to DotaCinema and Purge for hero introductions, guides and how-tos. You can go to the Dota 2 subreddit plenty info there and join their newbie channel and play inhouse matches.
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08-11-2012 #3
Some good advice, vladTGS. Thank you.
After quite a lot of reading/watching on YouTube and Twitch as well as playing bot matches, I decided to give online another go. The good news is that not only did my team win but I managed to get myself 8 kills and 1 assist, with only 3 deaths. A personal best.
Two characters I found useful to learn with are Lich and Venomancer. Each time I learn more about the game, it just seems to get better.
08-12-2012 #4
It's good you started out with support heroes, that way you can work your way up the ladder more easily to semi carries, hard carries etc. learning to last hit, deny, position, initiate and gank along the way. When you random( I do that sometimes just for the fun of it) and you don't know how to build your hero just use this site : http://www.dota2alttab.com/ . You don't have to buy exactly those items or skill the hero that exact way, each game is different so you have to adapt, it's just to get a general ideea.
08-12-2012 #5
I'm up on last hit and denies, although my timing is off a little at some points. Haven't went anywhere near ganking yet, tend to stay in lane to learn the basics properly.
Thanks for the site, will have a look.
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I've only played a few matches since I got the invite several months back. Could do with playing with a few others.
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08-17-2012 #9
I think I've now officially elevated myself to matchmaking instead of playing just with bots (as much as that will irritate some online players, Lol). Capable enough to get some kills, even though there's still loads and loads (and loads...) to learn.
Also started taking the advice given by Icefrog to Gabe Newell to always play random. Better chance to learn the characters, although painfully; at times.
The game is turning into a little diamond. Can't wait to see the community explode when it hits full release.
08-18-2012 #10
08-18-2012 #11
I know, eh? Still in beta. Though the numbers are likely huge.
Currently the game I'm most motivated to play, by miles.
08-18-2012 #12
08-20-2012 #13
Starting to have a great time with Dota 2.
Current play time is around 19 hours but I've only just started to get more kills than I have deaths in most matches (though it's not consistent). Playing random to learn more about the Heroes and sticking to my lane unless someone directs elsewhere; such as a push - which can be awesome carnage when working as a team.
My focus is currently on a decent farm/support, last hits/denying and harassing without going too far towards the 'Don't feed, you noob' status.
Awesome game.
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08-26-2012 #14
Anyone watching The International 2?
You can get the spectator client to watch matches in-game from DotA 2's blog, website, etc : http://blog.dota2.com/ or you can watch someone broadcasting matches live @ http://www.joindota.com/en/live/tobiwan.
Happy viewing .
08-26-2012 #15
Yeah been catching it on and off, quality stuff.
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08-30-2012 #16
I just took the Dota survey, so hopefully I will get a invite thing before too long....
08-30-2012 #17
08-31-2012 #18
Hm... maybe I will...
09-02-2012 #19
Awesome IG versus DK game going on right now, can see it via Twitch. IG currently decimating, 19 kills to 2 at 24 minutes in.
09-03-2012 #20
09-03-2012 #21
Yeah, I caught most of the Na'Vi versus LGD. The second round was awesome.
09-12-2012 #22
If I read it correctly, Dota 2 now has a proper page on Steam with a 'coming soon' in the release date. Might be getting close!
Been frustrated with the game the last few nights, though. Two things becoming more common: matchmaking taking multiple attempts to get into a game and people dropping out shortly after 'first blood'. I played against 5 enemy Heroes on my own last night...
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Great stuff, it's easily one of the best games I've played this year. And upon release, the fact it's going to be free 2 play is amazing.
Word of advice is to start out by playing bots on easy and get a feel for the game, how it works etc. Jumping right into matchmaking may feel 'out of your depth'. Lots of resources on the web to help understand it, too. Get reading, Lol.
I'm really starting to get a good grasp of how to play well. Only 35 hours in so still lots and lots to learn but nearly every game is enjoyable and definitely educational.
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- found: Report of proceedings incidental to the erection and dedication of the Confederate monument, 1896: t.p. (Jno. C. Underwood, C.E., A.M., Major-General, U.C.V.) t.p. verso (John C. Underwood)
- found: OCLC, June 24, 2011 (hdgs.: Underwood, John Cox; Underwood, John Cox, 1840-; Underwood, John Cox, 1840-1913; Underwood, John Cox, b. 1840; Underwood, Jno. C. (John Cox), b. 1840; usage: John Cox Underwood; Jno. C. Underwood)
- found: Twentieth century biographical dictionary of notable Americans, 1968, v. 10: U section (John Cox Underwood; b. Georgetown, D.C., Sept. 12, 1840; graduated at the Rensselaer Polytech Institute, C.E., 1862; served in Confederate Army, advancing to rank of lieutenant-colonel of cavalry; civil engineer and architect at Bowling Green 1866-75, also mayor there 1870-72; lieutenant-governor of Kentucky 1875-79; degree of A.M. conferred to him by Centre College, Ky., 1876; major-general of the United Confederate Veterans 1891-96; superintendent and secretary of the Confederate Memorial Association 1896-1903)
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But first, a recipe update:
I added 1/8 tsp of vanilla to the Raw Cashew-Vanilla Bars, which took the flavor to a new level.
Plus, I wanted to show off the cute owl candle. When I was at Bryn Mawr (their mascot is the owl), we kinda went owl-overboard and bought everything owl-y we could find :).
Chocolate-Covered Meal of the Day
Kabocha was once again the star: Rich and creamy Pumpkin Pie Soup (used the Vita-Mix for this!!), toast with vegan butter, steamed green beans, side salad, and sautéed mushrooms and peppers
I made a double batch of the sautéed peppers and mushrooms.
The leftovers became Red Pepper Magic Soup.
Then later, I joined some friends for dessert.
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Regional pay for public sector staff bringing salaries in line with remuneration rates in the private sector could save taxpayers £6.3bn a year, according to Policy Exchange.
In its latest report, Local Pay, Local Growth, the rightwing thinktank claims that adjusting public sector salaries by region could create 288,000 new private sector jobs in areas of high unemployment.
The study analyses the pay gap between equivalent staff in both the private and public sectors. It found that workers in the public sector earn around 7% an hour more than their private sector counterparts. When pensions are taken into account, the average gap rises to nearly 14%.
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Ms. Blum is currently involved in sponsorship in the area of media and global social action in the arts and is a supporter of international conferences and exhibitions. She is a member of the Synergos Global Philanthropist Circle, the Artists and Educators Board at Center Theatre Group and The Educational Advisory Committee at the Geffen Playhouse.
In 2014, Blum Media will be co-producing Amedeo Fago's "Risotto" which will be making a United States debut at New York's La Mama theatre after thirty years of success abroad. We are also pleased to announce our collaboration with Creative TIme Reports at their summit in Stockholm.
In March 2013, she travelled to Qatar hosted by the Qatari Museum Authority and to UAE during Art Dubai to meet with socially engaged artists from the region and important private collections with New York based Creative Time, a foundation that commissions public art. She was on the Host Committee of By Kids 2012 in New York, supporting documentary films made by children on globally relevant issues.
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These lamb skewers are full of flavor, soaked in a tasty Greek marinade of lemon juice, cilantro, mint, and more. More
Chef Emeril Lagasse is the chef-proprietor of 13 restaurants, best-selling author of numerous cookbooks, and a well-known TV personality. The recognition and awards he has garnered have made him known to food-loving Americans everywhere.
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This feta spread is perfect when paired with Greek-style lamb kebabs. More
Talk about good and simple! Try this Thai classic that has been adapted for the grill and the American home cook. More
Straight from Chef Emeril's childhood memories, this twist on caldo verde uses crispy kale for added texture. More
Emeril Lagasse adds a nice little kick to this traditional fall soup with fresh ginger. More
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There has never been an athlete quite as polarizing as Tim Tebow. After a storied career at the University of Florida, he entered the NFL with his share of supporters, but also with many who doubted his ability to play quarterback at the professional level. He started last season as the fourth quarterback on the Denver Broncos, but ended up taking the team all the way into the playoffs and leading them to an upset playoff win over the heavily favored Pittsburgh Steelers.
Even with his team's success in Denver, he never had a strong grasp of the starting quarterback role. He was traded last offseason to the New York Jets, where he has been the backup quarterback for every game in the 2012 season.
Starter or not, there is still an immense amount of buzz about Tebow. His jersey is the third-best seller in the NFL this season, and he still carries a large legion of doubters, who believe his media coverage is excessive compared to that of other more deserving players.
This quandary provides a challenge to Dustin Cohn, Chief Marketing Officer for Jockey International. Jockey is heavily invested in Tebow, in fact Jockey signed Tebow before he was even drafted. Cohn believes that now isn't time to unveil their strategy about how to best capitalize on the attention surrounding Tebow.
"We have a great viral strategy ready to go," Cohn said at the IMG Sports Symposium last month. "Just waiting for the right time."
The right time in sports marketing is always the million dollar question. Will Tebow ever get the chance to become a full-time starting quarterback in the NFL? What if Tebow gets the starting quarterback job in New York and then doesn't succeed?
"We believe in him, he'll be a part of the conversation good or bad, said Cohn. "He's someone that transcends the sport, so he's going to be a role model and good in the community regardless."
It is a risk for sure, but Jockey has never wavered on its commitment to Tebow. They signed him even before he became a Bronco–when some predicted he wouldn't be anything more than a late-round pick and far from an NFL starter. With the unpredictability of sports, and the fragile nature of NFL careers, these marketing decisions are always very difficult, with no clear answer or strategy, regardless of past case studies.
Tebow's career so far is a good example of this rollercoaster ride. In just 18 months he has gone from fourth-string quarterback, to NFL starter, to playoff quarterback and back to second-string quarterback. Cohn is confident there will be better days, and there aren't many players better at defying the critics than Tim Tebow.
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KSAL Staff - June 4, 2015 12:52 pm
Salina Police are investigating a vehicle burglary that occurred sometime between Tuesday night at 6pm and Wednesday morning in the 500 block of Sun Street. Police say someone entered a locked Chevy pickup and stole a Ruger .45 caliber handgun valued at $649.
Police are looking for a known male suspect after a domestic dispute turned violent. Police say the suspect smashed a door and a table in a north Salina home and started a small fire in the kitchen. There were no injuries. Damage is listed at $575.


text: On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 04:42:53PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Heinz J. Mauelshagen wrote: > > I announced the holdup caused by the misalignment bugs we found. > > We'll need to release another Beta ASAP to get test feedback on that. > > I saw that, but there seems to have been a consensus on a fix > for that for over a week now already. Fixing it isn't the problem, ensuring people with existing VG's can use the new driver/tools *is* the problem. The pe positions weren't being stored in the metadata before beta8 :( So we have to upgrade peoples VG's. I understand that Heinz has written the upgrade tool, but I'm not sure how much testing he wants before we release. - Joe


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Vigilanti Cura
Encyclical of Pope Pius XI promulgated on June 29, 1936.
The Essential Purpose of Art:
Agreement, Then Broken:
Legion and Pledge:
Prediction by Critics:
National Power:
Cultural Influence of Cinema
Mental and Spiritual Influence of Cinema
Potential- Bad motion pictures:
Potential- Good motion pictures:
Actors and Actresses:
Bishops Duties:
Holding Industry to Account:
The Essential Purpose of Art:
• To assist in the perfection of the moral personality
• It is, in fact, urgently necessary to make provision that in this field also the progress of the arts, of the sciences, and of human technique and industry, since they are all true gifts of God, may be ordained to His glory and to the salvation of souls and may be made to serve in a practical way to promote the extension of the Kingdom of God upon earth. Thus, as the Church bids us pray, we may all profit by them but in such a manner as not to lose the goods eternal
• Now then, it is a certainty which can readily be verified that the more marvelous the progress of the motion picture art and industry, the more pernicious and deadly has it shown itself to morality and to religion and even to the very decencies of human society.
Agreement, Then Broken:
• The directors of the industry in the United States recognized this fact themselves when they confessed that the responsibility before the people and the world was their very own. In an agreement entered into by common accord in March, 1930, and solemnly sealed, signed, and published in the Press, they formally pledged themselves to safeguard for the future the moral welfare of the patrons of the cinema.
• It is promised in this agreement that no film which lowers the moral standard of the spectators, which casts discredit upon natural or human law or arouses sympathy for their violation, will be produced.
• Nevertheless, in spite of this wise and spontaneously taken decision, those responsible showed themselves incapable of carrying it into effect.
Legion and Pledge:
• In this crisis, you, Venerable Brethren, were among the first to study the means of safeguarding the souls entrusted to your care, and you launched the "Legion of Decency" as a crusade for public morality designed to revitalize the ideals of natural and Christian rectitude.
• Millions of American Catholics signed the pledge of the "Legion of Decency" binding themselves not to attend any motion picture which was offensive to Catholic moral principles or proper standards of living.
• Crime and vice are portrayed less frequently; sin is no longer so openly approved and acclaimed; false ideals of life are no longer presented in so flagrant a manner to the impressionable minds of youth.
Prediction by Critics:
• Although in certain quarters it was predicted that the artistic values of the motion picture would be seriously impaired by the reform insisted upon by the "Legion of Decency," it appears that quite the…it was said that your efforts would be of short duration and that the effects would not be lasting because, as the vigilance of Bishops and faithful gradually diminished, the producers would be free to return again to their former methods.
National Power:
• A people who, in time of repose, give themselves to diversions which violate decency, honor, or morality, to recreations which, especially to the young, constitute occasions of sin, are in grave danger of losing their greatness and even their national power.
Cultural Influence of Cinema:
• It admits of no discussion that the motion picture has achieved these last years a position of universal importance among modern means of diversion.
• At the same time, there does not exist today a means of influencing the masses more potent than the cinema. The reason for this is to be sought for in the very nature of the pictures projected upon the screen, in the popularity of motion picture plays, and in the circumstances which accompany them.
Mental and Spiritual Influence of Cinema:
• That it speaks by means of vivid and concrete imagery which the mind takes in with enjoyment and without fatigue.
• Even the crudest and most primitive minds which have neither the capacity nor the desire to make the efforts necessary for abstraction or deductive reasoning are captivated by the cinema.
• In place of the effort which reading or listening demands, there is the continued pleasure of a succession of concrete and, so to speak, living pictures.
• [And] the motion picture is viewed by people who are seated in a dark theatre and whose faculties, mental, physical, and often spiritual, are relaxed.
• One does not need to go far in search of these theatres: they are close to the home, to the church, and to the school and they thus bring the cinema into the very centre of popular life.
• This power is still greater in the talking picture for the reason that interpretation becomes even easier and the charm of music is added to the action of the drama.
• The cinema speaks not to individuals but to multitudes,
• For good or for evil, teaches the majority of men more effectively than abstract reasoning
• It must be elevated to conformity with the aims of a Christian conscience and saved from depraving and demoralizing effects.
Potential- Bad motion pictures:
• They are occasions of sin
• They seduce young people along the ways of evil by glorifying the passions
• They show life under a false light; they cloud ideals
• They destroy pure love, respect for marriage, affection for the family
• They are capable also of creating prejudices among individuals and misunderstandings among nations, among social classes, among entire races
• It is unfortunate that, in the present state of affairs, this influence is frequently exerted for evil. So much so that when one thinks of the havoc wrought in the souls of youth and of childhood, of the loss of innocence so often suffered in the motion picture theatres, there comes to mind the terrible condemnation pronounced by Our Lord upon the corrupters of little ones: "whosoever shall scandalize one of these little ones who believe in Me, it were better for him that a millstone be hanged about his neck and that he be drowned in the depths of the sea".
Potential- Good motion pictures:
• Exercising a profoundly moral influence upon those who see them.
• In addition to affording recreation, they are able to arouse noble ideals of life,
• To communicate valuable conceptions, to impart a better knowledge of the history and the beauties of the Fatherland and of other countries,
• To present truth and virtue under attractive forms,
• To create, or at least to favor understanding among nations, social classes, and races
• To champion the cause of justice, to give new life to the claims of virtue
• To contribute positively to the genesis of a just social order in the world.
• Thus at the very age when the moral sense is being formed and when the notions and sentiments of justice and rectitude, of duty and obligation and of ideals of life are being developed, the motion picture with its direct propaganda assumes a position of commanding influence.
Actors and Actresses:
• Moreover, stories and actions are presented, through the cinema, by men and women whose natural gifts are increased by training and embellished by every known art, in a manner which may possibly become an additional source of corruption, especially to the young.
Duty of Bishops:
• Watch and to labor to the end that the motion picture be no longer a school of corruption but that it be transformed into an effectual instrument for the education and the elevation of mankind.
• Venerable Brethren, should have exercised a special watchfulness over the motion picture
• It is equally the duty of the Bishops of the entire Catholic world to unite in vigilance over this universal and potent form of entertainment and instruction, to the end that they may be able to place a ban on bad motion pictures because they are an offence to the moral and religious sentiments and because they are in opposition to the Christian spirit and to its ethical principles. There must be no weariness in combating whatever contributes to the lessening of the people's sense of decency and of honor.
• This is an obligation which binds not only the Bishops but also the faithful
• Pastors of souls must exercise their vigilance over films wherever they may be produced and offered to Christian peoples.
Holding Industry to Account:
• An unceasing and universal vigilance must, on the contrary, convince the producers that the "Legion of Decency" has not been started as a crusade of short duration, soon to be neglected and forgotten, but that the Bishops of the United States are determined, at all times and at all costs, to safeguard the recreation of the people whatever form that recreation may take.
• Venerable Brethren, to address an appeal to those Catholics who hold important positions in this industry. Let them take serious thought of their duties and of the responsibility which they have as children of the Church
• Bishops will do well to recall to the motion picture industry that, amid the.
• The motion picture should not be simply a means of diversion, a light relaxation to occupy an idle hour; with its magnificent power, it can and must be a bearer of light and a positive guide to what is good.


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i just sent a ticket because i have been banned and i dont understand why and now this 'Reblocking as hacked due to petition from legitimate IP location.' is popping up above my ticket, anyone have an idea as to what it means?
thats the ban screen, that pops up for me
This is not a "ban" screen. You were suspended for unacceptable behavior, as explained in the screen you saw when trying to log into the game.
Whether there is a filter or not is immaterial. We do not and will not force people to use a filter — it's there as an imperfect means of trying to cull some offensive usage, but it's not there as a "license to swear."
You may not swear or use offensive language or names in our game. A real-life context is: I may or may not have a lock on my front door. But you cannot waltz into my house without my permission if I don't have a lock. Same thing — the user may or may not be using the word filter, but you can't use offensive chat.
Lastly, people don't get suspended because they are reported. They are reviewed when we note the behavior or when it is reported, but action is only taken when it's appropriate.


text: I want to wire 3 coils and a switch (either a 2 position DPDT switch or a push-pull pot), such that 2 coils are active at any one time, and one coil is always in the circuit. For example, take three coils, Coil 1, Coil 2, and Coil 3. With the switch in position 1, Coil 1 and Coil 2 are in parallel. In position 2, Coil 1 and Coil 3 are in parallel. Would either of these schematics work?


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The community art wing at the suburban Houston Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts has been renamed the Marilyn Morgan Hillery Community Gallery, in honor of the 73-year old artist's contributions as a founding board member and donor. The gallery displayed Hillery's art for it's inaugural show, from July 29-August 7. The Pearl Fincher Museum, which is in partnership with Houston's Museum of Fine Arts, doesn't collect, but borrows works from public and private sources to display in the former Barbara Bush library at 6815 Cypresswood Drive in Spring, which was converted and is supported by private donations and runs educational and community outreach programs.
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* Osaka looking for shale gas stake to support Freeport LNG
* In talks with JBIC, other banks to finance Freeport investment
* Eyes upstream stakes in Canada, Africa, including Mozambique
By Osamu Tsukimori
TOKYO, April 15 (Reuters) - Osaka Gas Co is looking to buy a stake in at least one U.S. shale gas project to help supply fuel to the Freeport LNG project in Texas, a senior company official said on Tuesday.
Japanese gas and power utilities have been looking for ways to cut fuel costs after their liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports and payments rose to records last year due to the second complete shutdown of the country's nuclear reactors since the 2011 Fukushima disaster.
One strategy has been to sign up for new LNG supplies from the United States, which is expected to grow to be the third largest exporter of the super-chilled gas by the end of 2020.
Osaka Gas and Chubu Electric, for instance, have signed 20-year tolling agreements with Freeport LNG for 2.2 million tonnes of LNG a year each from the project's first liquefaction unit. They have also invested in the plant.
"We are not considering acquiring a gas stake to cover all volumes (for Freeport)," Motoyuki Hirabayashi, general manager of energy development, told Reuters in an interview.
"But we have received many offers from sellers wanting us to buy their gas stakes partly because Henry Hub prices have still not risen sharply."
Some U.S. companies have halted development of shale gas projects amid uncertainties over profits as benchmark Henry Hub prices have dwindled with the U.S. shale gas boom, opting instead to sell their stakes, Osaka Gas officials said.
Osaka Gas wants to acquire a stake in a U.S. shale gas development by the time the Freeport project starts operations sometime in 2017-2018, company officials said.
The officials declined to name any of the potential sellers but said the gas stake does not have to have a direct pipeline feed to the Freeport plant.
Having a stake in a U.S. gas field would help Osaka Gas hedge its fuel expenses by offsetting the feedstock costs when Henry Hub prices rise, the officials said.
Freeport last May received permission from the U.S. Energy Department to export LNG at a rate of more than 10 million tonnes per annum from its first two trains but has been waiting for a final decision from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which assesses environmental impact.
Osaka Gas and Chubu Electric plan to invest about $600 million each for individual stakes of 25 percent in the liquefaction facility. The final investment decision is expected in the second half of 2014, and construction, which should take about four years, should begin soon after.
Osaka Gas is looking to secure project financing for its portion of the investment from Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) and Japanese megabanks among others, said Koichiro Age, senior general manager of Osaka Gas' Freeport Project Development Unit.
Osaka Gas, Japan's second-biggest city gas supplier behind Tokyo Gas, is also interested in procuring supplies from Africa, including Mozambique, Age said.
"We have never been involved in projects in Canada and Africa, and we're interested in both from the point of views of diversifying supplies," Age said.
"But we have to see if they can finalise the projects at attractive prices," he said.
Osaka Gas is also in talks on possible investments in gas fields in Canada, said Hirabayashi, the general manger of energy development.
"During the LNG offtake negotiations, the conversations could develop into possibly investing in an upstream stake or a liquefaction unit," Hirabayashi said. (Editing by Tom Hogue)


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goddess aphrodite troy helen
HELENA, daughter of Zeus and of Leda the wife of Tyndareus king of Sparta, was sister of Castor, Pollux, and Clytemnestra, and was married to Menelaus, According to Homer she was obliged by Aphrodite to flee with Paris to Troy; and after the Trojan War site returned with Menelaus and lived with him as queen in Sparta. She had only one child, a daughter named Hermione, who was married to Neoptolemus. In the Homeric poems her character is drawn with marvellous skill ; forced by the gods to do what she regrets, she seems to be separated from the wrong that she does, and remains always an object of interest and respect.' Goethe (Faust, part ii.) introduces Helena apparently to symbolize the Greek spirit acting on the modern mind. Among later poets the tales of Helen are much more complicated. She was carried off by Theseus to Attica in her childhood, but was recovered by her brothers. Her character often suffers much in the tales followed by lyric and tragic poets. Stesichorus and Euripides (Helena), however, relate that Paris on his homeward voyage was driven by stress of wind to Egypt. Proteus, king of Egypt, learning the facts, detained the real Helen in Egypt, while a shadowy Helen was taken to Troy and fought for. Menelaus on his way home from Troy v. as also driven to Egypt, and there found his true wife. After the death of Paris she is also said to have been married to his brother Deiphobus.
If we turn to the religious ceremonies and the genuine popular tales, we find traces of a more archaic Helen. At Elianums in Attica she was connected with the worship of Nemesis, whose daughter she was considered to be. In Argos she was counted mother of Iphigenia, and was said to have founded a temple of Eileithyia, the goddess of birth. At Sparta she was bottomed as presiding over the care of children, and festivals were celebrated in her honour by the maidens. A tree appears to have been connected with her worship there (see Theocr. , xviii.); and in Rhodes she was worshipped by maidens with the epithet SEvapirms, a relic of the very oldest kind of worship, where a sacred tree was worshil ped as the embodiment of the god. In most of these cults connexion with a moon-goddess, the most important of whose functions was the care over child-birth, is apparent; and we are led to regard iNr'vn as an epithet of the moon, which has gradually been severed from it and raised to an independent existence (cf. the account given of Gorgophone under GoncoN). Beauty is a specially common attribute of the moon and of moon-goddesses, such as Hera. This makes it most probable that the word, like 60.1,rn, ix connected with the root soar, to shine. The tales connecting Helena with Achilles, who is clearly a sun-god originally, which are known already to the writer of the Cypria, arc also very instructive. Over the Black Sea coasts Achilles and Helena were worshipped as united in the Elysian fields. With this we must compare the story of Cadmus and Barmonia (see )I AIZAIONIA), and of Hades and Persephone ; and we must remember that these colonies of Miletus were closely connected with Attica. We may then look on it as probable that the rape of Helena by Theseus is merely a device of harmonizing skill to connect the Helena cf Spartan religion with the Helena worshipped in Attica. Probably a similar reason has contributed to mould the tale which has form( d itself round the undoubtedly historical fact of the destruction of Troy by a Greek tribe or army. The worship of Aphrodite, the goddess whose influence in the story of Paris and Helena is so great, was common to Troy and Cythera. Many facts also point to a close connexion between Aphrodite and Helena. The swan fruit] whose egg she is born is the bird of Aphrodite. By the author of the Cypria and in Attic tradition Helen is made the daught(r cf Nemesis; but Nemesis as a goddess of fate is clearly a dawn-god. dens (see Kuhn, Zft., iii. 449), and therefore may lie identified iu origin with Aphrodite. We have here another instance of the intimate relation of the moon and dawn goddesses, and the impossibility of dividing them by any broad line (see 11E13E, It would be at once a most instructive and a most interesting task to trace the steps by which the antique pre-Greek goddess was gradually transformed into the charming heroine round whom the action of the Iliad revolves. The data for reconstructing the history of this figure are more than usually full, and are so clear that writers of the most opposite schools (as Welcker, Gerhard, Mannhardt, Maury, Roscher) have recognized in Helena the ancient goddess.
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St. Hugh's High School student wins Outstanding Child Researcher 2007 prize
Kingston, October 25, 2007.- Student of St. Hugh's High School in Kingston, 17 year old Danielle Edwards won the top prize from among seven child researchers who presented at the second Caribbean Child Research Conference held October 23-24 at the Jamaica Conference Centre. The conference was staged by the UNICEF Country Office for Jamaica in partnership with the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) and the Caribbean Child Development Centre (CCDC) of the University of the West Indies, the Early Childhood Commission, the Planning Institute of Jamaica, the Children Issues Coalition, the Child Development Agency and the Ministries of Health and Education.
Attended by policymakers, planners and researchers from across the English and Dutch-speaking Caribbean countries, Latin America and as far away as Nigeria and South Africa, the conference allowed researchers and non-researchers to discuss findings of the most recent studies and share recommendations for action focusing on improving the situation of children and fulfillment of their rights.
The inclusion of children in the conference was aimed at exposing them to high quality research undertaken during the past three years and to encourage their participation in researching of issues that of their concern and interest. This year the organizers supported the Ministry of Education to further promote Child Rights and research especially participatory action research among adolescents through a series of workshops organized by SALISES with technical and financial support of UNICEF Jamaica. As a result 15 research papers were submitted by students of which the best seven were presented during the Conference. All seven students were presented with gifts and they were awarded sectional prizes in oral presentations, excellence in written presentation and excellence in methodology. The top prize of a laptop computer to the 2007 Outstanding Child Researcher was provided by UNICEF whilst the sectional prizes were donated by Kingston and Sangster's Bookshops. Danielle was presented with a plaque and her prize of a laptop computer by Marta Santos Pais, Director, UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre.
Danielle's research on "The psychological effects of crime & violence on teenagers from an inner city community" revealed that 18 of 20 teenagers interviewed had been exposed to gun violence and had experienced a high amount of stress and fear. These students stated that thoughts about crime and violence were interfering with their studies and had become very aggressive and defensive. Approximately 45 per cent of the students interviewed stated that they did not feel safe at home and are often concerned about their safety.
The 2007 Outstanding Child Researcher recommended improvements in the justice system, group counselling in schools for students affected by violence, effective parenting and family life and the promotion of anger management and values and attitudes.
Professor Elsa Leo-Rhynie, first female principal of the University of the West Indies, Mona received the Distinguished Research Award for extensive research over many years in children's issues, especially in the area of education. She received a grant of J$500,000 to continued research in children's issues.
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Source: Rams to sign two-time Pro Bowl pick Davin Joseph
The St. Louis Rams are adding a two-time Pro Bowl selection to their offensive line.
FOX Sports has learned that former Tampa Bay right guard Davin Joseph is set to sign a free-agent contract with St. Louis. Contract details weren't immediately available.
Joseph, 30, had spent his entire career with Tampa Bay since becoming the team's 2006 first-round draft choice. Joseph reached the Pro Bowl in 2008 and 2011, but his play has declined since suffering a major knee injury in 2012.
The Buccaneers released the 6-foot-3, 313-pound Joseph before the March start of the free-agent signing period, a move that cleared $6 million in salary cap space. Joseph also made free-agent visits to Dallas and New England.
Joseph has 99 career starts but may be relegated to backup duty depending on how St. Louis configures its line. The Rams chose Auburn tackle Greg Robinson earlier this month with the No. 2 overall selection in the 2014 NFL draft but may initially use him at left guard. Rodger Saffold is projected to start at right guard but, like Robinson, he has the ability to play tackle as well.
Starting left tackle Jake Long is coming off reconstructive knee surgery, which may require St. Louis to shuffle personnel depending on how quickly he recovers.
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text: I have a real beater back, there's a crack on the hinge and a crack by the front latch. The hinge holds when it's closed and the latch bit could be epoxied. Or... and this is what I would do, you could stick the film in there and tape the back closed. It's missing the dark slide. Bottom line: 1)It will work 2)It is not pretty 3)Will need a dark slide 4)And glue 15$ shipped in the US.


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|The Make Co.'s Surfcomb
That plastic surfcomb tethered to your board shorts — upgrade it. Easily linking to your keychain, this new surf comb, fashioned from copper and walnut, will tarnish and wear nicely over time and comes with a Dominion Leather sheath. $98
|Horse Cycles X KM City Cruiser
Handcrafted in Brooklyn, this single-speed bike is the love child of Kaufmann Mercantile and Horse Cycles. Its strong yet lightweight frame is made with the same 4130 steel True Temper tubing once used in Tour de France racing bikes. Oh, and if you're investing this much in a cruiser, you're smart enough not to park it in an NYC bike rack (we hope). $1,895
|Recipe For Men's Ultra Sensitive Shaving Foam
If you've read GP's interview with Big T and you want to emulate him, this is the stuff he uses. Developed with the help of the tattooed ordic barber, it's different from regular shaving foams — full of air that'll dry/damage your skin. But (for Game of Thrones fans) just because you're swinging a Valyrian sword, doesn't mean you can slay a dragon. Shave carefully. $18
|BillyKirk's No. 361 Small Leather Box
Girls have their little black book. You need a little black box. This hand-sticked leather nesting box — 5″ x 3″ x 2 1/2″ — is a perfect hiding place for your manly trinkets. $110
|Maison Martin Margiela's "Replica" Jazz Club
Cologne is usually described in ridiculously verbose language. This one is supposed to have captured the "ambiance of a Brooklyn jazz club"; we simply like the way it smells. Spray some on and see if you can smell the saxophone jams. $125
|Thug Kitchen Cook Book
The explicitly blunt founders of the food blog Thug Kitchen are coming out with a cook book packed with inventive recipes, photos and cash-saving tips. Prepare yourself; it comes out in October. thugkitchen.com
|Inside Google's World Cup War Room
If the World Cup isn't about triumph or tragedy as eleven countrymen fight for national pride with illustrious skill, then dammit, it's about data. And where there is data, there is Google. Every match a team of analysts, writers, and artists are standing by holding their finger to the social pulse of the world, and when something big happens, Google's World Cup War Room responds. Read this story


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Xerces-C++ is a validating XML parser from the Apache XML Project.
It provides a shared library to parse, generate, mainpulate and
validate XML documents from within your own application.
For information on Xerces-C++ please see their homepage
WWW: http://xml.apache.org/xerces-c/
- Bjoern A. Zeeb
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PKGNAME: xerces-c2
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===> The following configuration options are available for xerces-c2-2.7.0_1:
THREADS=on (default) "Build a thread enabled shared library."
DEBUG=off (default) "Include debugging information, do not strip."
ICONVFBSD=on (default) "Use IconvFBSD transcoder."
ICU=off (default) "Use ICU transcoder."
NATIVE=off (default) "Use native transcoder."
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
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