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After something of a debacle over creative direction at FX, Powers, based off of the original comic series by Brian Michael Bendis, has found it's home on the Playstation Network's streaming TV service. Acclaimed comic book creator Brian Michael Bendis took the stage during Sony's E3 press conference on Monday to announce the series release on PSN in December, leading Sony's new efforts to bring streaming television to consoles against competitors such as Netflix and Hulu.
The story, by Bendis and Michael Avon Deming, follows two homicide detectives assigned to investigate cases involving people with superhuman powers. Back in 2011, the series was slated to air on FX with a full pilot shot, before it was canned over stated creative differences. On stage at E3, Bendis seemed highly enthused about the series, which falls in line with other comic-centric series on streaming platforms such as the upcoming Daredevil series from Marvel.
Along with Bendis, the creative team is composed of seasoned players such as Remi Aubuchon ( [Falling Skies](series:755885) ) and renowned crime novelist, Charlie Huston. More updates such as changes in casting are expected throughout summer.
While not a well-known title, Powers takes on a rare form of storytelling as a crime drama with superpowers - something that [DC](channel:932255) comics has taken on with their title GCPD (which, for some reason, wasn't chosen over a series pitch like [Gotham](series:1127075)).
Something interesting to note is that Sony's direct rival within the gaming space, Microsoft, plans on airing it's own original series based on their popular Halo franchise, titled Halo Nightfall. On mobile and online, YouTube original shows such as Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist are also at the height of popularity. It's no surprise that new players to the TV game such as Bendis' self-published comic series are taking the same route that's proven to be highly successful for their peers within the geekspace, such as The Guild.
Do you think Netflix, Hulu and other streaming services are giving TV a run for its' money these days?
Powers kicks off this December on the Playstation Network - the first episode will be free for all Playstation Network users, while the full series will be available for all PS Plus users.


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There will be 2 candlelight vigils tonight, Saturday 13 September 2008 in support of the three arrested under the draconian ISA (Internal Security Act) which allows for unjust detention without a court trail. The 3 are RPK (Raja Petra Kamaruddin), Teresa Kok and Tan Hoon Cheng, a Sin Chew journalist who reported the racist comments by Ahmad Ismail. It is grossly unfair that the one who uttered racist remarks is not arrested, but the one who reported it is. What kind of justice is this????
The 2 candlelight vigils are as follows:
Candlelight Vigil at Entrance of Bukit Aman Police Headquarter organized by GMI (Gerakan Mansuh ISA or Abolish ISA Movement)
Time: 8pm
Location map below (click map to enlarge):
Candlelight Vigil organized by DAP (Democratic Action Party or Rocket)
DAP Headquarter
No 24, Jalan 20/9, Paramount Garden,
46300, Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
Tel: 603-79578022/79578127
Fax: 603-79575718
Location map below (click map to enlarge):
The Paramount Garden LRT Station is also in Paramount Garden, for me, it is within walking distance, for the majority, the DAP Headquarter is too far to walk. It is very near to Seaview Restaurant and the 2 Caltex petrol station in Paramount Garden.

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Friday means fabulous in my books and this morning I have the gorgeous Night & Day wedding dress collection from Stephanie Allin Couture to share with you. Inspired by colours from Morocco, hints of soft nude chiffon, pale blue tulle and pose pink lace, these dresses were shared in New York during bridal market last year and are now online for you to drool over. I'm keeping it short and sweet today so have a bit of a browse below and then head on over to the Stephanie Allin Couture website for more details. Also noteworthy is the new evening wear collection – perfect for bridesmaids, mums and more.
Night & Day Wedding Dress Collection by Stephanie Allin Couture
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Pavilion Given Reprieve and Escapes Bulldozers
5:35pm 5th February 2013
(Updated 6:54am 6th February 2013)
The Pavilion will close at the end of May, but it won't be bulldozed!
The Management Committee at Weymouth and Portland Borough Council has backed plans to lease the venue for community use.
Councillors voted unanimously in favour of putting the site up for tender following its closure.
The news was welcomed by campaign groups in the Council Chamber's public gallery who clapped and cheered when the verdict was announced this morning (Tuesday 5th February).
Dozens of people who've been fighting to save the seaside theatre spoke freely at the Committee meeting, calling on the Borough to save the Pavilion from being knocked down.
The famous landmark opened in 1960.
Community groups willing to take it over will now start negotiations with the Council before recommendations go before full council on the 21st February.
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Titans gaining strength in Region 7
The amount of quality volleyball teams in Region 7 is growing every week.
Yet, one team stands at the top. It is the Dickinson Trinity volleyball team.
The Titans have a perfect 5-0 record in Region 7 play after defeating Beulah -- in a rematch of last year's Region 7 championship game -- in four sets on Tuesday night.
"I feel like the competition is really close," Trinity head coach Rayma Braaten said. "It's kind of like it how it has been every year, whoever wants it the most is going to come out with the win at the end."
Trinity, which returned a majority of its players from last year's state tournament team, is continuing to gain experience and momentum.
One Titans player who continues to play more and more is sophomore outside hitter Kennedy Keator. Last year, Keator was used mainly as a serving specialist.
"I've learned a lot already from hitting, defense and playing all the way around," Keator said.
Keator said it's always a learning process to where every game and set might not work out in her favor. Yet, she's happy with how junior setter Katie Dockter isn't afraid to keep dishing her the ball.
"The Hazen game, I kind of struggled," Keator said with a smile. "It's good to know that she trusts me."
The Titans played in the two-day Dickinson High Invitational last weekend and return to tournament style of play at the two-day Des Lacs-Burlington Invitational beginning on Friday.
During the DHS tournament, Trinity finished with a 2-5 with wins over Hardin, Mont., and Watford City. The Titans also played and lost to Billings Senior, which won the gold tournament, during pool play.
"It seems like we play very well in pool play and then once we get to bracket play we are very inconsistent," Braaten said. "When it comes to tournaments, I haven't been as satisfied with them, but I think they also play more relaxed. I feel like every region game we have played pretty well."
Keator feels the team is progressing each time it steps onto the court.
"Every game we've been improving a lot," she said. "(On Tuesday night) it was probably one the best games that we played all season."
Heart River is looking for consistent play
When the Heart River volleyball team is clicking on all cylinders, it has the ability to defeat Class A teams.
When the Cougars are struggling, they have a tough time putting a match together.
During the DHS tournament, Heart River defeated Mandan 19-25, 25-19, 25-19 in the silver bracket. The Cougars turned around and nearly defeated Minot High, but lost 26-24, 19-25, 25-19.
"We did play well," Heart River head coach Hope Volesky said. "That's the thing with volleyball is that you play at the same level as your competitor. This weekend was some of our best playing of the season thus far. If our heads are in the game, we can compete with anybody."
After pushing Minot, the Cougars returned to the court at the tournament and lost to Region 7 opponent Hettinger-Scranton in straight sets, 25-18, 25-16.
Heart River is hoping to continue its consistent play after defeating Region 7 opponent Hebron-Glen Ullin 23-25, 25-15, 25-17, 25-7 on Tuesday. The Cougars were led by Desiree Johnson with eight kills and five blocks.
The Cougars host Mott-Regent, a Region 7 opponent, at 7 p.m. today.
"It seems like every game we've been improving, but we aren't to that point to where I know we can be and where we have to be at the end of the year," Volesky said.
New England gaining confidence after wake-up call
On Sept. 19, the New England volleyball team was swept by Richardton-Taylor.
Two weeks later, the Tigers finished as consolation champions in the gold bracket of the Dickinson tournament and picked up multiple wins over Region 7 teams.
"I feel like our team has definitely gotten better," New England head coach Taylor Brown said. "I think we came into this knowing that they would be good, but they just didn't really fully get how good they could be. After we lost to Richardton, I think that was a big wake-up call that they have to work hard to get where they want to go."
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"It's whatever team shows up will definitely be the team that walks away with it," she said. "It's also motivation for the girls to work harder."


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The central government would take all possible steps to increase production and productivity of agriculture in North-East region, said Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Radha Mohan Singh.
"The central government would undertake all possible steps to increase production and productivity of agriculture in hilly northeastern region," he said at Thenzawl on the outskirts of the Mizoram capital.
The minister further added that the northeastern region comprising eight states have huge potentiality to boost agriculture, horticulture and other crops as its climate and soil are favourable.
Singh also met Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla and discussed prospects and planning of agricultural development in Mizoram and other northeastern states, farmers' welfare and technology inputs to agriculture and allied sectors.
An official release said that the Union Agriculture Minister apprised the Chief Minister that a Vocational Training Institute and a Multi-Technology Testing Centre would be established in Mizoram in collaboration with his ministry within three months.
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An alternate for Bloodthirster can be The Black Cleaver as it gives much needed attack speed as well. Also, when you've completed the item build, sell the Doran's Blade for Infinity Edge.
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Davis Center Student in the News for Chess Skills Published on Tuesday, Apr. 18, 2017
Santa Fe College Student, James Wnek is an accomplished Chess player. James is enrolled at the SF Davis Center in Archer in the high-school dual enrollment program. He was featured in an article published by the Gainesville Sun, April 16, about Gainesville's competitive chess scene. Keep up the great work James!


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A simple idea plus passionate people can have great impact. Innovation and Quality Circle (IQC) teams FineTuners and MathWit proved that at the recent Learning Institutions Quality Conference (LIQC). The LIQC is a conference organised by the National University of Singapore to celebrate administrative best practices in the education industry.
FineTurners, made up of staff from School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering (EEE), clinched a gold with their project titled "How do we maximise the potential of students in School of EEE" while School of Mathematics & Science (MS)'s MathWit's project "Improving the MS Formulae Reference" took the silver.
SPicy caught up with team leaders Toh Ser Khoon, Deputy Director at EEE and Quek Wei Ching, Senior Lecturer at MS, to find out more about their success.
In fine form (from left): Ser Khoon, Jolyon P Caplin, Ng Kai Meng, Fauziah Bte Othman, Rosa Tan-Wong Ah Hoon and Yuan Zhongxuan are constantly fine-tuning solutions to provide a holistic education, which encompass community activities, for their students.
Project: How do we maximise the potential of students in School of EEE (Gold Award)
SPicy: Tell us more about the project.
Ser Khoon: Our project seeks to find ways to maximise the potential of students in EEE. After much findings from our students and staff, together with the deliberation and understanding of the various conflicting issues, we came up with a three-tiered solution called the Learning-Plus (L+) Program that identified three tiers of students: Top 20%; Middle 65%; and Next 15%.
For each tier, a programme was put together which caters specifically to the characteristics of the students in that tier. For instance, for the top 20% whom we identified as the more capable students, we wanted to "energise" them so that they go beyond academic and CCA excellence and develop a passion to care for and make a difference to the community, and to be involved in higher level engineering work of their choice.
SPicy: What sparked off this project?
Ser Khoon: Our vision is to make our students work-ready, life-ready and world-ready. The team strongly felt that we should focus more on the intrinsic motivation for learning and not emphasise on extrinsic motivation. That way, we would have a better chance of equipping and helping our students acquire the ability to learn the core knowledge and skills needed for immediate employment and further studies. So the solution we came up with had to be purpose-driven, passion-driven and staff-student-driven.
SPicy: How does it feel to have won the Gold Award?
Ser Khoon: We entered the competition to share ideas and better our learning. Winning is secondary but of course, nice. Besides clinching the Gold Award, the team also won the ancillary Best Impact on Innovation Award. Above all, this is a testament to SP's and EEE's commitment in contributing towards a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
Lecturers Sharon Quek and Wei Ching from MathWit team with the new and improved MS Formulae Reference.
Project: Improving the MS Formulae Reference (Silver Award)
SPicy: What is the project about?
Wei Ching: Each time there is an examination, an invigilator has to carry at least 45 of the A4-sized MS Formulae Reference booklets, and 50 answer booklets, weighing a total of 5kg. This can be a burden. Hence, the team came up with an idea to turn the bulky booklet into an A3-sized card, which is lightweight yet durable.
SPicy: Are there future plans for the project?
Wei Ching: An iOS mobile application has been developed to accompany the reference card with Android and Windows versions on the way. There are also plans to extend the formulae to other subjects.
(This is part of our 'Organisational Excellence' series where we showcase our excellent award-winning staff teams.)


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British-born Leonora Carrington, the Surrealist artist who ran off with Max Ernst and escaped from a mental hospital before fleeing Nazi Europe, has died in Mexico at age 94, officials said Thursday.
Carrington, who became a national treasure in Mexico where her sculptures adorn the capital's largest avenue, had suffered from a respiratory illness, according to the National Council for Culture and Arts.
Born in Lancashire, England into an aristocratic industrial family on April 6, 1917 at the cusp of the Surrealist movement, Carrington pitched herself headlong into painting at a young age, and survived her contemporaries to become one of the last Surrealists of the era.
At 20 she moved to Paris where she struck up a love affair with Surrealist painter Max Ernst, 26 years her senior. Ernst introduced her to major figures of the art and cultural movement including Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Joan Miro and Surrealism's founder Andre Breton.
After Ernst was arrested by the Gestapo in Nazi-occupied France in 1939 -- he escaped and eventually made his way to the United States -- Carrington fell into a deep depression before being committed to a psychiatric hospital in Santander, Spain.
She recounts the experience, in which she was administered powerful drugs that were later banned, in her book 1972 book "Down Below."
Carrington managed to escape, and in Lisbon she married the Mexican poet and journalist Renato Leduc, who in 1942 took her to Mexico -- a place Breton once described as "the most surrealist country in the world."
She settled there permanently, befriending painter Frida Kahlo and future Nobel laureate Octavio Paz.
Last month in Madrid, the Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska published "Leonora," a fictionalized account of Carrington's life.
"She was never insane," Poniatowska told AFP. "She was faced with war and the fools she met who did not understand the dangers of war."
In 2008 The Guardian posted on its website clips from an interview with Carrington in which she dismissed the idea that artistic ability is something passed from generation to generation.
"It's not hereditary. It comes from somewhere else," she told the English daily.
For those intent on intellectualizing her art work, "you're wasting your time," she said.
A retrospective exhibition of paintings by Carrington recently opened in Mexico City.


text: "To start charging kids for swimming, for books, for movies, for whatever, it constitutes a war on children in this city… is that what this city has come down to? We're going to ding kids because we're afraid to tax adults?"—Councillor Adam Vaughan blasts a proposal to start charging a $2-drop in fee at outdoor swimming pools, and another to look at charging a fee to borrow movies at the library. He juxtaposes that against the decision to cancel the vehicle registration tax.


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Our Region 7 EPA Urban Waters team has and will continue to collaborate with Green Works in Kansas City because we value their work in engaging urban youth in not only understanding their environment better, but in developing as people and professionals through informal and formal mentoring, and internship placement. The student's eagerness to learn and participate is inspiring, and the liklihood that regardless of the career they choose, they will be good stewards is encouraging. One important aspect of successful collaboration is the degree of organization, preparedness, and commitment on the part of our partners. We can always count on Green Works KC's director, Kate Corwin, to plan well, follow through, and be creative, responsive, and visionary.
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The Human Web : A Bird's-Eye View of World History Paperback
by J.R. McNeil, William H. McNeill
World-historical questions such as these, the subjects of major works by Jared Diamond, David Landes, and others, are now of great moment as global frictions increase.
In a spirited and original contribution to this quickening discussion, two renowned historians, father and son, explore the webs that have drawn humans together in patterns of interaction and exchange, cooperation and competition, since earliest times.
Whether small or large, loose or dense, these webs have provided the medium for the movement of ideas, goods, power, and money within and across cultures, societies, and nations.
From the thin, localized webs that characterized agricultural communities twelve thousand years ago, through the denser, more interactive metropolitan webs that surrounded ancient Sumer, Athens, and Timbuktu, to the electrified global web that today envelops virtually the entire world in a maelstrom of cooperation and competition, J.
R. McNeill and William H. McNeill show human webs to be a key component of world history and a revealing framework of analysis.
Avoiding any determinism, environmental or cultural, the McNeills give us a synthesizing picture of the big patterns of world history in a rich, open-ended, concise account.
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- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Publication Date: 01/12/2003
- Category: General & world history
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Awful would be the one word I would use to describe this book. Painful would be the one word I would use to describe the experience of reading this book. There's really not too much more I can say. Of course it was extremely important... It was a textbook. I was truly upset to have this book assigned to me as a summer reading assignment. Why not just make me read the textbook? This book was so filled to the brim with facts and histories that on a scale of 1 to 10 of how interested I was, 10 being so unbelievably interested, I would probably be within the range of 0 to -5. I made constant attempts to choke the information down my throat page by page, page by page. Initially my goals were to read a chapter in one sitting. This quickly changed to 10 pages in a sitting, which quickly changed to 7, to 5, and so on until I found myself almost unable to read it at all. Now, some might say, first and foremost the McNeill's, that the point of the book was not to be interesting. Well, if given the opportunity to refute this point to them, I would probably say that a little bit of interest may have given me the ability to actually take in some of the information. From words to sentences to paragraphs to pages, all the book gave was events, people, and cold facts. There was nothing remotely enjoyable, so none of the information stuck. The only reason I gave it half a star is that I didn't know how to make it clear that I'd given it a 0... I have never learned less from a book in my life, and I hope that the McNeill's look at random review on book websites so they can take in what I have written here.
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I was required to read this book for my ap world history class, and I have to admit it is more dry and tedious than our textbook was. The McNeill brothers do a great job of researching and compiling information about world history, however at times I like they were just droning on about some event that happened years ago. They fail to create an engaging and appealing book. In my opinion, history has the capability of being very interesting, one can get lost in a story about a great ruler or battle. However, The Human Web is so monotonous that one could fall asleep reading it (I did). To be honest, I do not think that even a quarter of the students in my class actually read the book in its entirety. This book has so much potential, because the authors came up with the ingeneous idea that all aspects of world history are connected. Every development, between every society, is some how connected over time, hence the title The Human Web, These webs can be organized into several sub categories including technological webs, religious webs, territorial webs etc...If you are looking for a boring read, this is it. I am not surprised that I am the first person to write a review on this book, the only people who would ever need to read it would be historians, or individuals researching information. In my opinion the McNeill's book should not even be classified as a book at all.


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Philip Luna has joined Amec Foster Wheeler PLC as senior vice-president, business development for its Americas business, effective immediately.
Based in Houston, Luna will oversee business development activities for the firm's oil and gas market in the Americas, which includes assisting clients in the upstream, midstream, and downstream sectors from Canada to Argentina.
With 35 years of engineering and construction management experience, he joins Amec Foster Wheeler from UniversalPegasus International (UPI) having served most recently as president and chief executive officer. Prior to joining UPI, he held various positions at international engineering and construction companies, including vice-president of business development, vice-president of projects, and vice-president of operations.
Luna began his career as a project engineer at Exxon Corp. and has spent equivalent time working in the owner-operator and services side of the oil and gas industry.


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Cave Story came out on WiiWare last week. You can play it on the PC for free, but the Wii version is worth the purchase, both for the joy of playing the 8-bit homage on a console with a proper controller, and because it is really a solid piece of work, made with love and care, and it's nice to see people make money off of something so well done.
Important note: Cave Story is not an easy game.
Responding to one of many curses emanating from the couch whilst I played it, Red wondered aloud why I regularly subject my ageing reflexes to these paeans to the days of "Nintendo Hard." (Her actual words were more like "so you died again. And you're surprised? Why are you playing this, again?")
She acted like she did not understand. But she has her own games, and over the next few days, as I worked at my computer, I would hear the occasional howl of agonized profanity coming from the living room couch. And then one evening, she turned to me with glowing eyes and pointed proudly to the final screen from Greed Corp., shimmering on our TV, and I rather think that she understands, after all.


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Investigation and Comparison of State-of-the-Art Approaches in Underwater Localization. Supervisor : Dr. Oleksandr Artemenko Description: Underwater Networks became very interesting for research in the last time. Tasks Literature study on robust algorithms for underwater localization
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[1] DibaMirza, Curt Schurgers, and Ryan Kastner. 2012. Real-time collaborative tracking for underwater networked systems. In Proceedings of the Seventh ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks and Systems (WUWNet '12). ACM
[2] DibaMirza , Curt Schurgers, Collaborative tracking in mobile underwater networks, Proceedings of the Fourth ACM International Workshop on UnderWater Networks, p.1-8, November 03-03, 2009, Berkeley, California
[3] Artemenko, O.; Mitschele-Thiel, A.; Schorcht, G., "Improvement of localization results in wireless networks using estimation of distances between unknown nodes: Simulation and real testbed evaluation," Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2012 IEEE 23rd International Symposium on , vol., no., pp.693,697, 9-12 Sept. 2012
In case of redundant reference data (anchors) available for the localization, smart selection strategy can be applied to provide more accurate localization results. The main idea of this project is to compare different approaches using measurement data collected from UAV missions.
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Social media is an important aspect of Internet marketing and ranking on Google and other search engines. By using social media as a marketing tool, you will have additional outlets to direct people to your website and increase your Google ranking. With install bases in the millions, popular social networks are a great way to gain and communicate with your audience.
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A weekly post of healthy-intention goals for the sake of accountability; [inspired long ago by Jess and her #sayitdoit style]
For the month-of-April I kept it simple with my mission to #make1healthydecision at a time. At the start of each week, instead of recapping my intention successes and setting a new list of goals for the week ahead, I simply shared a list of some of the healthy decisions I made the week prior.
It was a nice change to scale back and look at the big picture during a month when my 9-to-5 job takes on an especially high priority for me day to day. Shifting my focus from mega-detailed tasks to complete and milestones to reach to a broader [and honestly easier] point of view was such a refreshing way to face days that may otherwise seem like a struggle. [Hello long office hours and thoughts like, "oh…I'm sore…this is what aging feels like."]
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Speaking of, these are my May goals:
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- Do a simple strength training workout 3X a week.
I'm focusing in on these goals as I set my healthy intentions for this week.
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Daily lunch break away from my desk with a book. Lunch breaks and time for reading were both few and far between in April, and I'm eager to get back to both healthy habits in May.
Living room yoga sessions. No pressure on length or specific workouts to conquer, this week I want to prioritize time on my mat daily. Maybe I'll choose a Yoga with Adriene practice or I might play music and guide my own flow to find what feels good.
Limit sweets. Ideally I'm going for a "one sweet treat a day" attitude, but if I stepped it to 2 sweets a day it would be progress. My sweet tooth has been in full force the past several weeks and it's time to reel it back.
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It is hard to imagine the thoughts and decisions facing a mother newly diagnosed with lymphoma, from a family already struggling with other cancers, who finds herself newly pregnant. Yuliya, this mother, had to make the decision to halt her own chemotherapy for the sake of her unborn baby. Yuliya's baby, Viktor, was subsequently born with severe breathing difficulties, poor motor control of his limbs and likely mental impairments. With a new baby and 11 year old Dmitry to care for and little family or partner support, the Belarusian Children's Hospice became a lifeline of care provision, understanding and education that enables the family to stay together at home.


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Conventional Wisdom is a different kind of advice column. Your questions will be answered by people from all walks of life rather than by advice experts. This week, our fabulous new intern dispenses advice to a woman who is beginning to wonder if her boyfriend's female friend is "just a friend." If you have a question, you can submit them here.
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I've been dating this wonderful guy for two years now. Lately, though, I've gotten really insecure about myself and the relationship.
During the last six months, there's been a girl that he has started hanging out with more frequently. They go to school together and often have breakfast or go to sporting events. (I see him about twice a week.) I feel like I should relax and let him have his female friends, but I can't get over the fact that they might not just be friends. (He told me once he didn't think men and women could be platonic friends.) I get this awful sick feeling every time he mentions her name, I don't know if its jealousy or insecurity, but I just feel bad!
I tried talking to him about it a few months ago, and all he said was that I'm the one for him and he can't help it if his friends are hot. (That didn't help me feel much better!) I know we are in an adult relationship and he is allowed to choose his friends, so how can I change the way I think and feel so that I'm OK with it? Help!
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I often shy away from confronting people with my insecurities and worries, but I have come to realize that if I am having a dilemma then it's best to just talk about it. Have you asked your boyfriend if he is romantically interested in this other woman? If not, then you should. It's a legitimate question and don't be afraid to ask him what their relationship is and how he feels about her. It's good to talk about things and get them in the open.
If you're not ready to talk, maybe ask him if you can join them on their outings and then use the power of observation to see what their relationship is like. But remember, it's good to be direct. I'm personally tired of playing games and while the natural inclination may be to find yourself a new cute guy friend to stir jealousy, I doubt that will work. Good luck!


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The number of new HIV cases registered in Estonia has increased slightly this year, ending a six year run of decline.
As of December 27, 324 new cases had been registered since the beginning of the year, bringing the total official number of infected people to 8,701, of whom 413 have been diagnosed with AIDS. Last year, 315 new HIV cases were registered, which was the lowest figure since 2000.
Experts say, however, that the official figures don't tell the whole story and estimate that a third of infections remain unrecorded.
Infections were mainly concentrated in Tallinn and Ida-Viru County, although the capital received the bulk of this year's increase, with most other areas recording fewer new cases than last year.
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Prosecutors have been given more time to prepare their case against a man accused of deliberately lighting a fatal fire in a western Sydney nursing home.
Registered nurse Roger Kingsley Dean chose not to appear as his case was mentioned in Central Local Court this morning.
The 35-year-old remains in custody charged with 10 counts of murder over the fire at Quakers Hill in November.
Police have formally linked 11 deaths to the fire, but since November several other residents have died and further charges could be laid.
Today in court prosecutors were given another six weeks to prepare their case.
The court heard investigators are sifting through 2,700 pages of material and images.
The evidence in the case was described as "a literal mountain of material".
Relatives of one of the victims, 73-year-old Alma Smith, were in the public gallery.
Outside court her daughter Donna Austin said she is still coming to terms with the tragedy.
"We're just confused, frustrated, hurt," she said.
A spokesman for Domain Principal, the company that runs the home, was also in the public gallery.
He handed out copies of a statement confirming that the company's board determined last month to install sprinkler systems in the homes it runs that do not already have them
Sprinklers were not installed when the Quakers Hill home was built in the 1980s.
The statement says the company has decided retrofitting the homes is the "right thing to do".
Systems are now required in new nursing homes in New South Wales, and the State Government is considering making them compulsory.
They have been mandatory in nursing homes in Queensland and Victoria for a decade.
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Did Watson Really Beat Ken Jennings?
Earlier this month, Watson, a computer built by IBM, faced off against Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, the two greatest Jeopardy players of all time and trounced them. In a two day match, Watson earned $77,174 to Ken Jennings' $24,000 and Brad Rutter's $21,600. While the results seem to show that the human race's crown as Jeopardy masters has been passed, a deeper analysis of the facts tell a different story. I have no doubt that one day a computer will be Jeopardy champion, but that day isn't today. What you saw wasn't a fair match among opponents but rather something that was closer to an infomercial demonstration where the product produces "too good to be true" results based on a tilted playing field.
We'll get to how the game was rigged in Watson's favor in a moment, but first we'll look at the Watson backstory. When the project was approved, management explicitly required that the technology could be commercialized. Back in the 1990's IBM invested heavily in a project that resulted in Deep Blue, a chess playing phenomenon that went on to beat the best human player, Gary Kasparov. While the company won bragging rights, it turned out that there were no commercial applications for the technology. IBM didn't want to make that mistake again. When Watson was approved, it was done so with the belief that its question answering technology could be applied to many fields including healthcare, as an expert diagnostic assistant to help doctors, and retail, as a next-generation recommendation engine.
Over the years, I have seen many mind blowing demonstrations of gee-whiz technologies that never achieved commercial success. Each time investors got frustrated with the progress of the business, the management team would cook up another demo which promised that a breakthrough was just around the corner…and in the process, relieved the investors of several million more dollars. The most egregious cases are the ones that have created some of the most high profile public flops (think the Apple Newton). My analysis is that IBM execs just witnessed one of the best gee-whiz demos of all time and before they sink in any more money, they should have independent market and technology due diligence performed on Watson's commercial prospects. The critical question they need to answer is: Can this generalized question-answering technology actually provide enough value over the purpose-build expert systems that already exist in fields like medicine to justify its cost? It's a question that the Watson team cannot answer. They have too much personally invested in the program to come up with any answer other than 'Yes'.
Now back to the game…In Jeopardy, you're not allowed to push the buzzer right away. You have to wait until Alex finishes reading the question. At that point, a light goes off and then you can ring in to answer. If you try and anticipate the light and ring in too early, you are locked out for a quarter second, meaning that there is next to no chance to win the buzzer race. This is where Watson's unfair advantage comes in. If during the period Alex is reading the question, Watson comes up with an answer that it thinks is right (based on my observation, that would be an answer that it has scored as having an 80% or more probability), it can ring in just 10 milliseconds after the light goes off – enabling it beat the human contestants, with their mere mortal reflexes, to the buzzer every time. So, even when the human contestants know the answers, Watson gets all of the points. The Jeopardy results didn't accurately reflect Watson's question answering ability, they reflected the combination of its question-answering ability plus its superhuman reflexes.
So how would Watson have fared if it had to rely on just its question-answering ability? To answer that question, we analyzed the results of Game 2 of the two-game series (Ideally we would have analyzed both games, but since we only TIVO'ed Game 2 and the match isn't available online, it'll have to do). In Game 2, the three contestants scored as follows:
- Watson: $41,413
- Ken Jennings: $19,200
- Brad Rutter: $11,200
However, final scores aren't necessarily a good measure of how each player fared. They are highly dependent on how players bet in the Final Jeopardy, who gets Daily Doubles and how much they bet on Daily Doubles. Taking out Final Jeopardy and Daily Doubles, the players scored as follows:
- Watson: $25,200
- Ken Jennings: $14,600
- Brad Rutter: $5,600
In watching the game, it was pretty easy to tell when Ken Jennings wanted to ring in but was beaten to the buzzer by Watson. He held the buzzer chest high and you could see when he pressed the trigger and lost. Since Brad Rutter kept his buzzer below the podium, it wasn't possible to tell when he tried to ring in. But, the data from Ken Jennings is enough to figure out the impact of reflexes. Of Watson's $25,200, $19,200, all but $6,000 worth, was won on questions where Ken Jennings tried to ring in. Had Watson and Ken had equal reflexes, it stands to reason that Ken would have buzzed in first in half those cases. Adjusting for reflexes (including the possibility that Ken would have rung in first and gotten it wrong, hurting him instead of helping him) would add $9,088 to Ken's score and taken off $9,344 from Watson, giving revised scores for those two players of:
- Watson: $15,856
- Ken Jennings: $23,688
Since both Watson and Ken Jennings got the Final Jeopardy question right, instead of losing, Ken would have had a sizable victory over Watson. In conclusion, we'll end this post with our own game of Jeopardy.
Category: Man vs. Machine
$1,000 Clue: As of February 16, 2011, although not the fastest to the buzzer, these biological beings were still the best at answering Jeopardy questions.
Question: What are Humans?
I expect that there are many folks out there who will challenge our analysis. I've anticipated some of the objections and have addressed what I think are the three major ones below.
1. Shouldn't some of the points that we reallocated from Watson to Ken have gone to Brad, lowering Ken's revised total? While that is true, Brad would have also taken additional points from Watson. If we had data from Brad, we expect that the gap between Watson and Ken would be narrower, but that Ken would still enjoy a solid lead.
2. What about Game 1? Watson did even better in Game 1 than it did in Game 2. Wouldn't that have kept Watson the winner? Probably not. The reason Watson racked up such a huge total on Game 1 was that it answered 29 of 32 questions correctly in Double Jeopardy. I didn't have a tape, but I believe Ken and Brad also knew many of those answers and were shut out by the buzzer. Allocating those responses across players would have put one or both players within striking distance when they got to Final Jeopardy. Watson blew Final Jeopardy with a comically bad answer to an easy question. So, what would likely have happened is it would have been in second if not third place heading into Game 2
3. What about the humans' own "unfair advantage". Humans tend to ring in before they know the answer and then have several seconds to figure it out. If they had to answer right away like Watson, wouldn't Watson cream them? While this is true, I take exception to the notion that this represents an advantage for the humans. Instead, this represents a fundamental difference in how computers and humans process information. While it can take humans a few seconds to work out the right answer, we can intuit nearly instantaneously whether or not we will be able answer the question. Great Jeopardy players have great intuition and rarely get questions wrong after they ring in, as Ken Jennings demonstrated by getting just 1 question wrong in Game 2. Watson on the other hand seemed to either come to an answer very quickly or never got there. It doesn't have intuition and more time didn't appear to help it significantly. Changing the rules to take out the intuition factor would shift the advantage to Watson but would be counter the goal of the contest – figuring who is better at answering questions.


text: Today i was on the phone with a sprint employee who deals with employee acounts. He was having a conversation with my father the employee of sprint when I said i had a few questions of my own to ask. So i get the phone and i ask him "the moment is running android 1.5 correct" he replies "yes its running 1.5" then I proceed to ask that "ve been seeing the date the 26th of march being thrown around for the 2.1 update" and he interupts saying that "they are searching on sites to see what people are saying and that he to has seen the 26th date come up as well" so then i ask if i will have to bring it in to the store to update it then. he says no "that date is false and he continued to say that the update will be coming middle of april or may 1st he said and the way he thinks they will do it is OTA but he also thinks they will be doing them at sprint stores as well. Thanks Austin


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Making the move. To move.
The choice to haul yourself permanently from South Africa to Great Britain is a monumental one. No matter the premise behind your decision, there are a million factors to take into consideration. I've consolidated a few of my own that I weighed up prior to bowing before UK Visas & Immigration.SA Pros (as a Durbanite):The weather. The diverse culture, languages, colourful lifestyle and heritage. R15 for a Savanna Dry. Umhlanga to Drakensberg in 3 hours. The weather. Braaing in winter. Domestic workers. Gareth Cliff. Rusks. Kings Park Stadium. Bunny chow. The weather.GB Pros (as previously experienced in the Isle of Man):Public transport that works. Service providers who work. Internet that works. Free health care that works (on a small Island in the Irish Sea. Can't speak with too much knowledge re the mainland). Prince Harry. Amazon.co.uk. The possibility of snow in the back garden. Castles! Gareth Cliff is now on internet radio. Twickenham Stadium. Fish and chips.Right. The above may not include safety, job opportunities and cost of living factors, but we are all aware of their many attributes and arguments. I wanted to know that I'd simply be happy in my surrounds. Content. Thriving in a new homeland, and making a life that mattered within the British Islands.With a 33 month Spousal Visa in hand, I booked a one way trip and arrived in the Isle of Man last week. Having 'lived' here 3 years ago on a Visitor's Visa, the place wasn't altogether new to me. What was, however, was the constant reminder that this was now my home. My husband has lived here for some time already, and now I am to settle in as a resident of this cold, beautiful, windy yet magical little island with its vague indeterminate Northern English and lilting Irish accent. A proper fairy fridge, cats without tails, the oldest continuous parliament in the world, the birthplace of the Bee Gees, and the famous annual Isle of Man TT motorbike race. What a peculiar yet enchanting place to be.Quite a number of South Africans migrated like lemmings to the Isle of Man a few years ago when South African online gaming company Derivco set up an office in the main town of Douglas. Derek 'the Bandit' from 5fm lives on the island now but still plays on SA airwaves on 93.8fm mix.Within my first day, I'd found a FB page for South Africans living on the island (530 fans. Encouraging.) and we discovered biltong and droëwors whilst grocery shopping yesterday. At R150 a handful, but let's not get bogged down with details.I mean, sjoe. It's a mighty change and I expect waves of homesickeness. Just this weekend, I've been overwhelmed numerous times with the simplest of tasks.But I trust that I will adapt, evolve and flourish. Because if you're a follower of Charles Darwin, that is what we were built to do.Written by: Amy Fisher.


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This class is designed to take you through the strength and skill components that are necessary to compete at any obstacle endurance event. We will be climbing, running, pushing, dragging, wall climbing and more. Upper and lower body strength will be developed.


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Accused remanded in custody over Wide Bay murder
The case against a woman accused of murdering a man in the Wide Bay region of southern Queensland has been heard in the Toowoomba Magistrates Court.
The body of Robin Behrendorff, 62, was found in a house in Burnett Heads last month.
Samantha-Ann Brownlow, 43, was arrested in Toowoomba yesterday.
She was not in court today but was remanded in custody and ordered to appear next month.
A 19-year-old man, who is also charged over the murder, is expected to appear in court later today.
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The vessels are 38' 2" long X 6'9" wide, and draw 14". They row ten oars, 5 of which are over 18' long. Mast steps in the original indicate a sailing rig, but with no original sail information available from the museum, the rig has been adapted from comtemporary craft of this period. The sails are dippings lugs, which means that the yards must be lowered and dipped to the other side when tacking, and the halyard transferred to the weather rail as a shroud. The halyards are never cleated, but dory hitched with the bight held live in the hand of a crew member. Sheets to the loose footed sails are never cleated at all, but held ready for instant release by crew members in case of a gust.
Training vessels
The gigs are elegant, exhilarating vessels. They can be rowed at 6 knots in calm water, and sailing have been known to top 10 knots on a reach in a good wind. In operation they require 1st rate teamwork. Tacking requires the whole crew working in unison, as yards must be dipped, the fore backed, and a tacking oar often brought out to bring her round. The long keels do not allow the boats to turn easily. The crew is often required to alternate between rowing and sailing, as the boats do not make good progress to weather, and are often rowed into the wind. All this teamwork makes a wonderful training vessel, and the crews, usually consisting of 10 to 12 young people, are always busy. The many positions aboard, including coxswain, mast captains, bow watch, etc., make the gigs excellent vessels for teaching leadership and responsibility. In two countries at least, the gig is used in local programs for expeditions, with crew members sleeping and eating aboard.


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Making the decision to detox from Percocet is incredibly brave, and could potentially save your life. We here at Malibu Beach Recovery Centers are ready to make your dream of a happy and sober life a reality, by providing top-notch care at our state of the art facility. We will equip you with all of the tools and resources you need to detox safely and have long-term success. Percocet addiction can be dangerous, and therefore detox is critical.
The use of this drug is on the rise, and abuse is at an all time high. In fact, approximately 6.5 million people reported taking a prescription medication like Percocet for a non-medical reason in 2014, according to a national survey. Painkillers in particular are leaders among drugs that are being misused.
Understanding Percocet Use
Abuse of the prescription medication Percocet has increased in recent years for a number of reasons. For one, it is incredibly easy to access because of its legality. Many individuals are given legitimate prescriptions from a physician, and grow to become dependent on the medication. In other cases, people will take the drug from family members with a prescription and will start to abuse it.
Percocet is a legal drug that belongs to the opioid analgesic family. It is a narcotic painkiller that is prescribed to treat moderate to severe pain. When taken properly and under the care of a doctor, it is highly affective and helps individuals live a productive and pain-free life. This medication is usually only prescribed for short periods of time because of its highly addictive nature. This drug works by changing the way the brain perceives pain, bringing about a dopamine response to response in the areas of the brain that give users a pleasurable feeling. The high brought on by Percocet use is often compared to that of heroin or morphine. When taken in big doses, it reportedly causes feelings of intense euphoria, feelings of relaxation and calm, and heightened sense of pleasure.
Risk Factors for Percocet Addiction
Over time, people who are abusing Percocet will need to take more and more of the drug in order to reach the same pleasurable state they previously did. This tolerance will occur even in people who received a legal prescription from their doctor. Addiction alters the brain chemically and physiologically, needing the medication just to function normally.
An addiction to this powerful drug can be incredibly dangerous and even life threatening. There are a number of side effects that can occur when someone is under the influence of this medication, some of which can be particularly severe. The most common side effects of Percocet use include headaches, sweating, sleepiness, constipation, confusion, light-headedness, and slowed breathing.
People who are suffering from an addiction will also typically display behaviors that indicate abuse of the drug. Such behaviors include visiting multiple doctors in order to secure additional prescriptions. Another indication of addiction is the way in which someone consumes Percocet. This medication is intended to be swallowed in pill form. People who are misusing the drug will often snort, chew, or inject it.
How Percocet Addiction Develops
Percocet addiction does not discriminate. Regardless of age, race, socioeconomic status, occupation, and gender, addiction can occur. People from all different walks of life and different backgrounds can suffer from an addiction to this medication. Despite the ability for so many individuals to suffer from a Percocet addiction, there are risk factors that make certain people more susceptible. A leading factor in determining who will develop an addiction is genetics. Individuals with a relative are significantly more likely to develop an addiction themselves. Another major risk factor for developing an addiction to Percocet is one's environment. Individuals who have experience trauma in their lives, who experienced neglect from their parents, or who have been abused, are more likely to suffer from an addiction.
Other risk factors include a fear of withdrawal as well as mental illness. People suffering from an addiction to Percocet often suffer form such an intense dependence on the medication that stopping use will result in incredibly severe withdrawal symptoms. For this reason, they are driven to continue using for fear of how the withdrawal symptoms will impact their body. Other individuals may become addicted to Percocet because they suffer from a mental illness, and decide to self-medicate in an attempt to quell their negative symptoms.
Percocet Detox at Malibu Beach Recovery Centers
Because of the dangers that come with an addiction to Percocet, it is crucial that individuals suffering from dependence go through the detoxification process and remove it from their system once their addiction has been identified. At Malibu Beach Recovery Centers, our highly skilled medical professionals are trained to work with each patient through all phases of detoxification.
Supervised detox is incredibly effective in treating a Percocet addiction. It is highly recommended that those starting the detox process from Percocet do not stop taking the medication all at once, as this can be incredibly dangerous for the body and lead to health complications. Instead, patients should be taken off of the drug gradually over time. This is not only a much safer way to detox, but it will also help lessen the severity of withdrawal symptoms, which can be particularly uncomfortable. There are a number of detox options available to our clients, and patients can decide if they'd like to go through an inpatient or outpatient program. We typically recommend that individuals detoxing from a strong medication like Percocet do so under the care of physicians so that their vital signs can be constantly monitored should complications take place.
Percocet Withdrawal Symptoms
During detoxification, patients should expect to experience withdrawal symptoms that are similar to those brought on by the flu. These symptoms include tremors, irregular heartbeat, vomiting, muscle aches, abdominal cramping, nausea, diarrhea, and yawning. Additionally, there are various psychological symptoms that could be present. These psychological symptoms can include mood swings, anxiety, depression, irritability, and intense drug cravings. For the majority of detox patients, withdrawal symptoms will start to set in after 24 hours of the last dose of Percocet.
Symptoms will usually start to peak within the first couple of weeks of detox. Some of the stronger psychological symptoms, including depression and cravings, may persist for weeks or even months. The overall duration and severity of detox will differ between patients, depends on a variety of factors. Such factors that contribute to the intensity of withdrawal include a person's health, genetic makeup, history of Percocet use, and duration of addiction. Those with a higher tolerance to Percocet will typically endure a prolonged and more severe detox.
Working Together to End Percocet Addiction
Detoxification can be intimidating, however there is no need to worry when you enter Malibu Beach Detox Centers for treatment. We aim to support you while you overcome your addiction, offering the guidance and resources you need to get clean. We are here for you at every step of your journey to a sober and healthy life. If you or someone you know is suffering from an addiction to Percocet, please do not hesitate to call us immediately. It's time to take back your life once and for all.


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Pumpkin Bread
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- Pumpkin Bread
- 2 cups (15 oz.) canned/purée pumpkin
- 4 eggs
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- ½ cup applesauce
- 2/3 cup water
- 3 cups white sugar
- 3 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp. baking soda
- 1 ½ tsp. salt
- 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp. ground nutmeg
- ½ tsp. ground cloves
- ¼ tsp. ground ginger
- orange food coloring
- Pound Cake
- 2 cups butter
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 3 cups white sugar
- 6 eggs
- 2/3 cup milk
- Icing
- 8 tbsps. (1 stick) butter
- 3-1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 3 tbsps. evaporated milk
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans (optional)
- Pumpkin Bread
- Preheat oven to 350º F (175º C). Grease and flour two 9" x 5" inch loaf pans.
- In a large bowl, mix together pumpkin purée, eggs, oil, applesauce, water, food coloring and sugar until well blended. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and ginger. Stir the dry ingredients into the pumpkin mixture until just blended. Pour into the prepared pans. Bake for about 40 minutes in the preheated oven. Bread will not be completely done.
- Let cool, remove from pan and refrigerate for up to four hours. Cut cold pumpkin bread into large slices. Cut pumpkin shapes from slices using a pumpkin cookie cutter. Align them down the center of a lightly greased and floured 9 x 5-inch loaf pan.
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- Preheat oven to 350º F (175º C). In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time. Beat in the flour alternately with the milk, mixing just until blended.
- Pour over your pumpkin bread cutouts in the pan, making sure to cover the tops of the pumpkins. You may have more pound cake batter than you need. Try not to overfill the pan. Bake in the preheated oven for 70 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cakes comes out clean. After removing them from the oven, immediately loosen cake edges with a knife. Allow to cool in pans for 10 minutes.
- Icing
- While the pound cake is baking, put the powdered sugar in a mixing bowl. In a saucepan, melt butter to a boil, stirring until it starts to brown and form dark flecks on the sides and bottom.
- Remove from heat. Pour the melted brown butter and flecks over the powdered sugar. Add the evaporated milk and vanilla. Stir until combined and creamy. Add more powdered sugar if it appears too runny or more evaporated milk if it seems too stiff.
- Remove baked and cooled pound cake from pan and top with brown butter icing. Add chopped pecans, if desired.
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Microsoft Outlook 2003 Beginner (Available in French and English)
The Objective of this instructor-led course is to use the range of Outlook features, from the mailbox to managing tasks.
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The Objective of this instructor-led course is to use the range of Outlook features, from the mailbox to managing tasks.
Course Outline Basic Concepts :
* Starting Outlook 2003;
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* Managing the address book;
* Modifying the current display;
* Printing messages.
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* Creating sub-folders;
* Moving elements to folders;
* Copying elements to folders;
* Selecting several items;
* Deleting a folder.
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* Identifying the calendar window components;
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* Scheduling a meeting;
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* Understanding the task environment;
* Using tasks;
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Here you will find the latest up to date information to help plan your trip and get the most out of your visit to Newcastle for the Coates Hire Newcastle 500 in November 2017.
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Snow is dreaded by adults everywhere. Snow means bad driving conditions, and for some people, a lot of shoveling. Bring the magic back to a fresh snowfall by wrangling up your friends and family, going outside, and doing something fun for a change: Go build a snowman! We'll give you some ideas to get started.
Traditional snowmen are made of two to three balls of snow, with the biggest ball on the bottom and stacked until the smallest ball is on top. To decorate snowmen, people often use Frosty the Snowman's famous song as a blueprint, including coal for eyes, a corncob pipe, a button nose, and a top hat and a scarf. Sometimes coal isn't the easiest to come by (unless you happen to find yourself on Santa's Naughty list every year), so rocks easily make good substitutions for eyes. If you and your family have been enchanted by Disney's Frozen, you might know about the snowman, Olaf, and you can take a leaf from Olaf's book and use a carrot for the nose instead of a button. Sticks can be used for arms, eyes, smiles, and even hair.
You can easily break away from the boring and the traditional, and do something whimsical and fun for your snowman. One idea that's been seen more and more in recent years is to add a splash of color with food coloring, which won't be toxic when the snow melts and the ground absorbs it. You can create anything with the food coloring, from the basic eyes and mouth to entire wardrobes! Outfit your snowman with some outdoor equipment, like a tennis racket or a baseball bat, or even some toys like a prop guns and swords. Take it further by adding costume pieces instead of regular winter wear, like a pirate hat and an eyepatch to make your snowman a frosty swashbuckler. Build two or more snowmen and have them interacting with each other in some way, like dueling or having a snowball fight.
The imagination is the limit with snowmen, so you can go as far away from traditional as you'd like. Build your snowman with the smallest ball on the bottom and the biggest ball on top, making it an upside down snowman. Build the snowman with a hollowed out head and fill it with bird seed to watch some wintry birds make a pit stop in your yard. Don't build a snowman at all and opt for sculpting a snow animal instead. It's as easy as making a two-ball snowman and sticking a small snowball on the "face" to make the muzzle for a snowpuppy or snowkitten, using food coloring and more snow to sculpt some ears and whiskers.
What's your favorite idea for crafting a snowman? Share it in the comments!


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Ramtron International Corporation (Nasdaq: RMTR), a leading developer and supplier of nonvolatile ferroelectric random access memory (F-RAM) and integrated semiconductor products, has announced that Aewin Technologies Co., Ltd., Taiwan's leading applied industrial computing platform manufacturer, has designed Ramtron's FM22L16 4-megabit (Mb) nonvolatile F-RAM memory into its Intel-based GA-2000 and AMD-based GA-3000 gaming and high-definition multimedia PC boards. The 4Mb F-RAM — with its fast writes, high endurance, and low power — has replaced battery-backed SRAM (BBSRAM) in Aewin's gaming solution to guarantee data integrity with a lower component count, less mechanical contact, higher reliability, and higher security.
Casinos are increasingly replacing traditional slot machines and table games with advanced electronic gaming solutions that offer high-performance computing, graphics technology and embedded security to protect system integrity and prevent hacking. In addition to electronic gaming, the gambling industry is adopting electronics technology to provide real-time player tracking, surveillance, security, data analysis, and accounting. Electronic gaming today accounts for 70 per cent to 80 percent of casino revenue, which reduces operating costs, increases profitability, and eases product development.
"We have replaced BBSRAM with F-RAM in our GA-2000 and GA-3000 designs," explains Aewin Project Manager, Ken Huang. "F-RAM is widely recognized as the memory of choice in industrial PC designs for casino video gaming."
Today's casinos are based on a network of embedded, server-based systems that communicate seamlessly with one another from gaming devices and their peripherals, to the host systems that track player activity, and the hospitality transactions and kiosks where players cash out. Each server can control networks at a single casino or at multiple sites to provide software updates, schedule maintenance, or change the mix of games. The GA-2000 and GA-3000 are Gaming Standards Association (GSA)-compliant, meeting advanced communication standards and providing a computer platform to evaluate many types of gaming and amusement machine applications.
The GA-2000/3000 are full-featured, all-in-one boards containing the CPU, system memory, F-RAM, solid-state disk storage, I/O functions, and an audio amplifier to enable gaming or amusement machines that consume little power and provide superior 2D/3D graphic performance. Low-power F-RAM memory is used in the GA-2000/3000 as a unified memory to buffer game settings, system status, logged transactions, and winning records among other functions.
F-RAM's fast writes and high endurance are essential for the continuous storing of configurable parameters such as betting behavior, odds, transaction records, and won or collected credits, as well as restoring data after a power outage. F-RAM also stores security parameters such as the number of times a logic area or cash door is accessed, enabling the casino to monitor and record events that identify unauthorized access to the machine.
About the FM22L16 and F-RAM
F-RAM memory offers the benefits of RAM technology, but is nonvolatile. F-RAM provides NoDelay[tm] write access, virtually unlimited write endurance (approximately 1e14 write cycles), and low power consumption. Compared to EEPROM and Flash, F-RAM writes faster and many more times with less power. F-RAM also consumes much lower power than MRAM and is already commercially proven in demanding applications.
The FM22L16 is a 4Mb, 3-volt, parallel F-RAM device based on a groundbreaking 130nm CMOS manufacturing process. Available in a 44-pin TSOP package, this high-density F-RAM is a drop-in replacement for asynchronous SRAM, but does not need a battery to back up data, making F-RAM inherently more reliable with a smaller footprint. Boasting a fast access time of 55 nanoseconds (ns) and a 110ns cycle time, the FM22L16 draws 18mA at full speed, 150µA in standby, and below 5µA in ultra-low-current sleep mode. The FM22L16 includes hardware write protection to prevent inadvertent writes and data corruption.
About Ramtron
Ramtron International Corporation, headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is a fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops and markets specialised semiconductor memory and integrated semiconductor solutions used in a wide range of product applications and markets worldwide.
About Aewin Technologies
AEWIN, based in Taiwan, was founded in 2000 by a team of R&D engineers with more than 15 years of experience in industrial PC design and manufacturing. AEWIN manufactures and markets a wide range of OEM/ODM Industrial PCs worldwide including single board computers, embedded board computers, system on module (SOM), PC/104 CPU modules, control boards, and networking appliance products.