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Taking antioxidants and zinc may slow the progression of age-related macular degeneration, a very specific eye condition that affects the macula of the eye and leads to central vision loss. Research studies confirm that people with macular degeneration may benefit from the following combination:
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|09 Sep 2013
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hello every one, can some one help me out here please,,,,, i have about 20 computer 18 of them got win7 2 of them with win xp.....and i just got NETGEAR ProSafe 24 Port. i want to connect all of them together... when i use the NETGEAR ProSafe 24 Port i see only 2 computers. am i doing something wrong or do i have to assign ip add to each computer. thanks oh and no internet only file shearing
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You still need to assign all devices with an IP address no matter what. Should be one of the private address ranges.
As for only seeing 2 computers, do they both have IP addresses? Also where abouts do you see them? On the switch management or in the network tab on windows?
Many thanks,
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no none of them have IP add and i see them under network tab on windows.
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Well that is your issue there, every device needs an IP address on the same subnet. Since the switch is a layer 2 switch you will have to manually assign them rather than using DHCP.
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Chill out Hongkongers, the economy in the Year of the Snake will be better than it was last year.
That is the verdict of fung shui masters as the city bids farewell to the dragon and greets the snake tomorrow morning.
The fung shui masters differ in their forecasts of what lies ahead for Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying and the government.
"The economy will be better than last year, although it will still not be very bustling," master Mak Ling-ling said. "But for C.Y., his Chinese zodiac sign is the horse, and that is not a good thing in the Year of the Snake. In Chinese we have a saying that the snake winds around the legs of the horse when the horse tries to move."
Master Ma Lai-wah forecast the economy would continue to grow but cautioned that people would not have more money in their pockets until August.
The key is to invest in exports and avoid speculation in property, as prices will rise and fall about 10 per cent several times, he predicted. "And be ready for more disharmony between Hongkongers and mainlanders, because the cultural differences will get deeper."
Ma said Leung had the characteristics of an eagle, which do not get along well with snakes.
But Raymond Lo, popularly known as "Fung Shui Lo", predicted an easier year ahead for Leung. "The Year of the Snake is symbolised this year by water sitting on top of fire," Lo said. "The animal sign for horse does not directly clash with the snake. So it will be a comparatively more stable year for Mr Leung.
"For people born in the Year of the Horse, a snake year brings the flower of romance, so they can expect a more sociable year. In short, Mr Leung will still face challenges but he will remain OK."
As for Hong Kong's economy, Lo said the fire symbol attached to a year often generated optimism, and the economy should turn more stable compared with the dragon year.
"Banking is [associated with the element of] metal and it needs fire to melt it into useful tools. And finance and stock market are more related to fire," he said. "We may expect improvements in the economy."
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Rates for the subsidised LPG cylinders was on Thursday hiked by Rs 2.07 per cylinder, the seventh increase in cooking gas price in six months, while ATF (jet fuel) price was cut by 3.7 per cent.
According to a PTI report, jet fuel price was cut by Rs 1,881 per kilolitre(kl), or 3.7 per cent, to Rs 48,379.63 per kl in Delhi. The reduction comes after two rounds of hikes, the last one being on November 1 by a steep 7.3 per cent.
Wherein, the rate of subsidised LPG rate was hiked and it will now cost Rs 432.71 per 14.2-kg cylinder as against Rs 430.64 previously.
This is the seventh increase in price since July when the government decided to go in for a small hikes of up to Rs 2 per bottle every month to cut down its subsidy outgo.
LPG rates were last hiked on November 1 by Rs 2.05 per cylinder. Prior to that rate was hiked on October 28 by Rs 1.5 per cylinder on account of hike in commission paid to dealers.
Rates went up by Rs 2.03 per cylinder on October 1 to Rs 427.09.
The government had earlier this month decided to take the diesel route for eliminating subsidies on LPG and kerosene.
Diesel price was deregulated in November 2014 after the previous UPA government effected 50 paise hikes every month to eliminate subsidies.
The near Rs 2 per cylinder hike in LPG every month is also aimed at achieving the same purpose. In case of kerosene, the government has allowed state-owned oil companies to raise the price by 25 paise a litre every fortnight for 10 months.
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Premiumisation and indulgence trends continued to influence cheese in 2016. The strongest-performing categories within cheese in 2016 were soft cheese and unpackaged hard cheese, categories in which new product development activity focused on indulgence, whilst artisanally positioned brands such as Fonterra Brands' Kapiti continued to grow. New Zealanders have increasingly taken to consuming more varied styles of cheeses in the home, with flavour and style development a key tenet of new product development activity occurring in the market.
Fonterra Brands (NZ) Ltd led cheese with a 46% value share in 2016, comparable to 2015, with the company a top three player in every category within cheese. Within the fastest-growing category, Fonterra Brands had the fastest-growing brand, with its Kapiti brand growing its value share in soft cheese to 7%. Kapiti targets the cheese connoisseur, through exclusive events and the roll-out of the Kapiti Cheese Society, which has already attracted more than 12,000 followers. Additionally, Kapiti won 18 medals at the 2015 New Zealand Champions of Cheese Awards. Other brands maintained by Fonterra Brands included Mainland, Valumetric, Ferndale, Bega and Galaxy.
Premiumisation and indulgence are expected to be the key trends influencing the category during the forecast period. Niche local operators focusing on soft cheese are expected to benefit from increased distribution in line with this trend, whilst the major players in the category, Fonterra Brands and Goodman Fielder, are expected to focus on their artisanal brands Kapiti and Puhoi Valley respectively, as the focal points for new product development activity in the category.
The key trends influencing the category in 2016 were the increased popularity of natural and traditional milk, resulting in increased demand for organic milk products, and increased new product development activity focusing on the segment. Additionally, following on from the successful launch of Lewis Road Creamery's Whittakers Chocolate Milk during the review period, drinking milk products has been reinvigorated on the back of the premiumisation and indulgence trends.
Fonterra Brands (NZ) Ltd led drinking milk products in 2016 with a 35% value share. The company's new product development activity focused on the better-for-you segment, firstly following the launch of Anchor Organic milk in late 2015, with the company positioning the product as a more affordable organic milk product than its premium-orientated competitors. Additionally, the company launched Mammoth's new protein range in chocolate and vanilla variants. With the company's Anchor brand long established in the category and enjoying strong brand recognition and consumer loyalty, as part of the brand sponsorship of NZ Rugby and the All Blacks rugby team, the company launched a limited edition black milk bottle across its standard Anchor milk range, as a tie-in with the Rugby World Cup in late 2015.
With dairy commodity prices expected to remain low during at least the beginning stages of the forecast period, strong new product development activity and innovation are expected to characterise drinking milk products during the forecast period, as manufacturers look for ways to drive value sales growth in light of stagnating volume growth in a mature category. With private label firmly established in drinking milk products, the onus is on the major branded players to provide points of differentiation to consumers as they will continue to struggle to compete on price with private label products.
The key trend influencing yoghurt and sour milk products in 2016 was the growth in popularity of Greek-style yoghurt and also in premium indulgent yoghurts. Greek-style yoghurt found favour amongst consumers due to its health and wellness credentials, as well as the indulgent taste and flavour it delivers. Indulgence trends were evident by a number of new product launches in 2016, including Puhoi Valley's Special Batch range.
Fonterra Brands (NZ) Ltd led yoghurt and sour milk products in 2016 with a 43% value share. Through its Anchor and Fresh 'n' Fruity brands, the company was the leading player across all constituent categories within yoghurt and sour milk products in 2016.
Product innovation focusing on premiumisation and indulgence is expected to influence yoghurt and sour milk products over the forecast period, with niche local players utilising this as a point of differentiation and driving this trend. A key focus area for manufacturers is expected to be probiotic yoghurts over the forecast period due to their associated health and wellness benefits.
Health and wellness was the major trend influencing other dairy in New Zealand in 2016, largely through a lack of association with this trend relative to other categories. Minimal new product development activity further compounded this; however, a newcomer to the category, Lewis Road Creamery, launched an organic cream product in 2016. Consequently, whilst cream, plain fromage frais and quark and chilled and shelf stable desserts exhibited positive value growth, the rest of the categories remained stagnant or declined.
Fonterra Brands (NZ) Ltd was the leading player in other dairy in 2016, with a 39% value share. The company was present in the category largely through its Anchor brand, which dominated cream with a 51% value share. During the review period, the company consolidated its category offerings under the popular Anchor brand to offer a unified look to its stable of products.
Other dairy is expected to exhibit a 2% value CAGR at constant 2016 prices during the forecast period, with value sales expected to reach NZ$196 million by 2021. This is expected to be about the same as the 2% constant value CAGR observed during the review period, but higher than the 1% constant value growth observed in 2015. Volume growth at a 1% CAGR is expected during the forecast period, comparable to both 2015 volume growth and the review period volume CAGR.
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Very cool video you found, VG!
111 Murray St with its tiny footprint will be topped out in no time. Looks to be around 1/4 of its total height already!
And, looking at the camera, this thing looks like it's already at 200 feet! So 1/4 done!
You're right!
And can anyone in the 5 boroughs do me a favor, can you get me a panorama that looks up at the building into the air, like this:
56 leonard looks sooooo much better with the construction elevator down!
I count 12-13 floors out of 58. Closer to 20%.
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Awesome shots dude! Can I work with that 2nd one?
Very good pictures, streetscaper!Well done! ^^
Dang! Nice work!
Thanks guys!!
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This is now visible from several blocks east. There will be a dramatic view of this building from all the way over at City Hall Park.
Nice photos, gents.
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A legacy of bullying and insecurity has left its mark on Troy, affecting all his interactions in the present. Adam is an ex-hocky player turned tattoo artist who knows what he wants and isn't afraid to go after it. But no matter how hard he tried, time and again he sends the easily scared Troy running.
Though both are nearly convinced it could never work between them, they agree to give it one more try. But then bad luck and fate conspire to leave Adam floundering to reach Troy while Troy worries over losing touch with Adam.
Okay, first I've not read the first one's in this series and in fact when I said yes I did not realize it was a series book. However, reading this, you definitely got the feeling that you are missing something. Not enough for me to take the enjoyment away, but enough that I actually thought that maybe it was a part something of something.
In this one, we have Troy, a late twenties guy that through out his school and probably beyond has been damaged and then plagued by insecurities. The author does a wonderful job giving us his back story while staying in the present story. We do get flash backs of some hard times while he was a kid in school and those are hard to read, but to understand the man he is you need them.
Adam, is a harder character, we really didn't get much from him. Maybe he had a charming childhood into adulthood? We did get a little but overall Adam is an enigma. This is my only complaint, wish we had more Adam.
These two are interesting, Troy basically a damaged scared man and Adam over confidant yet insecure in his owe right. I really enjoyed watching these two fumble along until they could get on the same page and work it out.
I will be looking up the previous ones and hoping for G and M book in the future.
Troy knows he is mentally broken in his mind. He had been bullied to the point that just going to school was a major event. He has major problems that still date back to the harrowing life he led during those years. On a night out with some of the few friends he does have he meets Adam. A large, tattooed man who had a very severe look. Troy closed off towards him, yet was still intrigued by him. When Troy opens up he finds Adam is what he wants, he just doesn't believe he is good enough for him.
Adam has had a lot of disappointment in his life, he has picked up and started over. He has a productive and happy if lonely life. When he meets a shy handsome man. He is immediately attracted but Adam is cold and withdrawn with him, his feelings are hurt. Adam just can't seem to forget him, so they go on a date. Things are ok, not perfect but ok. Will they be able to work through the rough times that come with a relationship? Can Adam trust Troy not run away?
This book is entertaining and kinda weird, funny, yet what happens to Troy is not. Adam is the man who Troy has been looking for. Now Troy just has to accept that he is what Adam really wants.


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Note that Spaniards typically to go to a bar or café for a mid-morning snack of tostada con mermelada or jamón (toast with marmalade or ham) and café con leche. This is not included as one of your meals, but you may find that this is a custom you adapt to easily.
Most of the indoor activities or sessions will be held at the CIEE Seville Study Center. The CIEE Study Center, located in a beautifully renovated Sevillian palace, was built in 1725. It is centrally located in Barrio Santa Cruz, the former Jewish quarter of the medieval city. The old Jewish quarter is full of picturesque narrow streets and houses painted in lively colors. A walk in this district, located in the heart of Seville, lends the impression of traveling back in time (The Legend of Don Juan, for example, took place in Santa Cruz Quarter). Classrooms, a computer room, student services, and administration are housed in the CIEE Study Center.
Lunch is also included for students in Seville. El Almuerzo / La Comida (lunch) is the heaviest meal of the day and its usually served between 2pm and 3pm. You should discuss this mealtime with your host. It usually consists of two plates: the first is usually a salad, soup or legume dish, and the second, meat or fish. Dessert is often only fruit. Coffee may sometimes follow lunch.
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Like last Monday, this review and breakdown of Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn will be a bit different than my usual reads. Rather than giving a reader and writer response--as I've read this book so many times that I've forgotten my initial reactions--this read will focus deeply on the makeup of the book itself. What does Beagle do to fashion an engaging and successful story that has endured as a classic of fantasy fiction?
As a reminder, we'd last left the unicorn on her quest to discover if she really is the last of her kind, but a witch named Mommy Fortuna had captured her as a creature for Mommy Fortuna's Midnight Carnival.
To catch up or review the previous part of this read, click here.
Chapter 2
Summary: The next day, Rukh, the man who works for Mommy Fortuna, gives a crowd of villages a tour of the legends caged in the carnival: a manticore, a satyr, Cerberus, the Midgard Serpent, Arachne, a harpy, the unicorn, and the demon of old age. The magician, Schmendrick, stands with the unicorn and bids her see beyond Mommy Fortuna's illusions. The unicorn sees the truth, that the creatures are nothing but common animals the witch has given the appearance of monsters. But not everything is illusion.
The harpy is real. Schmendrick names her as one of the three mistakes Mommy Fortuna has made, the third her capture of the unicorn. Mommy Fortuna barely holds the harpy, and when she escapes, death will come with her, and the unicorn must not be caged. Schmendrick promises to help the unicorn, but flees before he can give details.
Too, Mommy Fortuna's illusions have some power, even on the unicorn. When Rukh shows the crowd the demon, actually Mommy Fortuna herself, even the unicorn feels old age and death come upon her. For the first time, she feel ugly and frail. She much concentrate to shake herself free, and this fact pleases Mommy Fortuna, who takes it to mean that, despite Schmendrick's assessment of her "twopenny spells," she indeed has power.
But the unicorn warns her of the harpy, insisting she much let both the harpy and her go. The harpy will be Mommy Fortuna's death. And in the course of this conversation, the Red Bull comes up, and Mommy Fortuna identifies him as belonging to King Haggard.
Writing Comments: For this chapter, rather than analyzing plot and character, let's take a closer look at specific techniques within Beagle's style.
To begin, Beagle's style is laden with imagery, simile, metaphor, and other literary techniques. Such things generally exist in fiction, but these days, authors often lean more toward a starker, more direct style that uses far less of them. However, part of the magic Beagle weaves in his lyrical prose comes from the use of simile and metaphor. Here are some examples. Consider how Beagle's choices impact the images he draws.
The nine black wagons of the Midnight Carnival seemed smaller by daylight and not menacing at all, but flimsy and fragile as dead leaves. (page 19)
Dead leaves make a vivid and disturbing simile that, like much of Beagle's style, subtly plays on the reader's subconscious. Dead leaves imply brittleness, something easily strewn and scattered, something that crunches and crumbles at the slightest pressure, but also something irreversible, as harsh and undoable as death.
No creature of man's night loves cold iron, and while the unicorn could endure its presence, the murderous smell of it seemed to turn her bones to sand and her blood to rain. (page 20)
There are many great things in this sentence. Consider how original and visceral "the murderous smell" of cold iron is. Not only does it help us see how the unicorn perceives, but the description easily slips under our skin and wrinkles our noses. But go to the simile at the end, "bones to sand" and "blood to rain." Sand cannot support the weight of a unicorn, surely, and like the dead leaves, it is easily scattered in the wind and dispersed to nothing but dust. It too holds a suggestion of death. Rain as an image of blood has as many possible suggested meanings a water, which is rampant with imagery. Water can represent anything from purity to death, but coupling it with a unicorn's blood brings whole new meaning to it, coupling her immortality and life and the darker suggestions of blood and death. Notice, death is a frequent reference in this story.
mingling with the bright knives of her plumage (page 25)
This refers to the harpy, who is by far the harshest creature int he carnival and eager to murder Mommy Fortuna.
Rukh grinned like a cage himself. (page 25)
The key word here is "cage." It implies much in this instance. Cage suggests he's containing his true feelings and thoughts, but it also references his part in keeping these creatures trapped. It also gives a harsh impression of his teeth.
She sat in the dark and croaked a song to herself in a voice that sounded like a saw going through a tree, and like a tree getting ready to fall. (page 28)
This is how Beagle describes Mommy Fortuna appearing as the demon of old age. He uses words that are often associated with aging and death: croak, the image of a tree falling.
"You better check on that damn harpy," Ruhk said. "I could feel her working loose this time. It was like I was a rope holding her, and she was untying me." (page 30)
Can you imagine the sensation of being undone as if someone evil were untying your very being? It's a distinctly unsettling sensation. And that's why this simile works so well.
Alone in the moonlight, the old woman glided from cage to cage, rattling locks and prodding her enchantments as a housewife squeezes melons in the market. (page 30)
It's strange to think of the evil witch, Mommy Fortuna, as like an unthreatening housewife, yet Beagle uses this to convey her manner and dutifulness. It's also a reference that is universal.
She laughed with a sound like snakes hurrying through mud, (page 31)
Ick, but a very effective image full of sensory detail in so few words.
Similes, metaphors, and images, not to mention other literary devices, should be rich, effective, stark, wrenching, sweet, subtle; in essence, whatever they need to be to capture the emotion, sensation, and deeper essence of the events, characters, settings, and props in a story. Don't worry too much over them in a first draft, but fine tune them in revisions to create depth and precision.
Going beyond typical literary devices, Beagle does something in this chapter that, at first, threw me. It took me a few pages of consideration and analysis to realize why he did it. At times, when Schmendrick speaks to the unicorn, Beagle doesn't break paragraphs the way they are typically broken for dialogue. Take a look.
The man named Rukh was leading a straggling crowd of country folk slowly from one cage to the next, commenting somberly on the beasts within. "This here's the manticore. Man's head, lion's body, tail of a scorpion. Captured at midnight, eating werewolves to sweeten its breath. Creatures of night brought to light. Here's the dragon. Breathes fire now and then--usually at people who poke it, little boy. Its inside is an inferno, but its skin is so cold it burns. The dragon speaks seventeen languages badly, and is subject to gout. The satyr. Ladies keep back. A real troublemaker. Captured under curious circumstances revealed to gentlemen only, for a token fee after the show. Creatures of night." Standing by the unicorn's cage, which was one of the inner three, the tall magician watched the procession proceeding around the pentacle. "I shouldn't be here," he said to the unicorn. "The old woman warned me to stay away from you." He chuckled pleasantly. "She has mocked me from the day I joined her, but I have made her nervous all that time." (pages 19-20)
"It's got the whole world in its coils," Rukh was droning. And once more the magician said, "Look again." (page 21)
Normally, Schmendrick and Rukh would get separate paragraphs to designate each of their speech's. But Beagle chooses to keep them together in a single paragraph, almost as if they were running over each other. If you look at this next passage, you can see that there is indeed an effort to blend these characters and have run over.
His [the magician's] voice grew hard and secret. "She's made her third mistake now," he said, "and that's at least two too many for a tired old trickster like herself. The time draws near." "The time draws near," Rukh was telling the crowd as though he had overheard the magician. "Ragnarok." (page 22)
But why do this? Simply put, it allows the illusion that Schmendrick and Rukh are acting and speaking simultaneously. In a book, where a writer cannot normally accomplish that without stating something like, "They said at the same time," another technique can more deftly accomplish this feat. In this instance, Beagle has created on subtle enough that I didn't catch it until this readthrough.
Before we move onto my final point of this chapter, take another look at that first paragraph where Rukh describes the carnivals legends.
The man named Rukh was leading a straggling crowd of country folk slowly from one cage to the next, commenting somberly on the beasts within. "This here's the manticore. Man's head, lion's body, tail of a scorpion. Captured at midnight, eating werewolves to sweeten its breath. Creatures of night brought to light. Here's the dragon. Breathes fire now and then--usually at people who poke it, little boy. Its inside is an inferno, but its skin is so cold it burns. The dragon speaks seventeen languages badly, and is subject to gout. The satyr. Ladies keep back. A real troublemaker. Captured under curious circumstances revealed to gentlemen only, for a token fee after the show. Creatures of night." (pages 19-20)
Beagle has Rukh use a lot of incomplete sentences. Now, this could simply be a characteristic of Rukh's speech, but normally, Rukh uses full sentences in his dialogue with Mommy Fortuna. So why use this method now? It accomplishes a number of things:
1) The difference from his normal speech helps signal readers that he is playing a different role than usual. Here, he is entertainer, not just Mommy Fortuna's grunt.
2) The broken nature of the speech helps highlight the dramatic nature of his job and adds to the crowd and readers that added sense of mystery and horror.
3) The broken nature also mirrors and emphasizes the flaws of the carnival and Mommy Fortuna herself. This is, of course, not obvious or conscious, but it's another of those subtle qualities to helps set mood for the reader. Mommy Fortuna's spells are fragile, especially with the harpy eager to escape and slaughter her. The broken sentences and hanging phrases lend themselves to an atmosphere strained and uncertain.
Lastly, Beagle uses an oddity of Schmendrick's action, based on what he's established with practically no one recognizing the unicorn, to set up a change in the story. Even while Schmendrick speaks to the unicorn, Beagle has a conversation with his readers, tipping them off that Schmendrick is different than all other characters in this story. First, he speaks to the unicorn at all and carries on a conversation, which no one else has done so far. In fact, until now, no human has seemed to be able to hear the unicorn's speech. Then, Schmendrick tips her off to his knowledge, and the unicorn realizes that he has managed the impossible for humans these days: he has recognized her as a true unicorn.
"She can't turn cream into butter, but she can give a lion the semblance of a manticore to eyes that want to see a manticore there--eyes that would take a real manticore for a lion, a dragon for a lizard, and the Midgard Serpent for an earthquake. And a unicorn for a white mare." The unicorn halted in her slow, desperate round of the cage, realizing for the first time that the magician understood her speech. He smiled, and she saw that his face was frighteningly young for a grown man--untraveled by time, unvisited by grief or wisdom. "I know you," he said. (pages 23-24)
This oddity and break from what Beagle has already established launches Schmendrick into prominence. Generally, writers should adhere to what they establish in earlier chapters to maintain internal consistancy. However, there are times when breaking established conventions is effective and necessary. Just make sure that you do it on purpose and with consideration.
Thank you for joining me for this chapter of Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn. We'll resume this read next Monday. Until then, swing back by on Friday for further forays into fiction, the speculative, and life.
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Sir, Richard Morrison asks how the "brilliant" Playing Shakespeare scheme at Shakespeare's Globe could be brought to schools outside London. A simple answer already exists in the filmed performances of the Globe's main productions currently being screened at (regrettably few) cinemas around the country. Here in south Devon our small but enterprising independent three-screen cinema in Kingsbridge has screened in the past four months Henry IV parts I and II, and The Merry Wives of Windsor, cleverly filmed so that you are not only made aware of being part of the Globe audience but also able to see frequent close-ups of the actors.
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DULUTH, Ga. – Forwards Brock Higgs and Thomas Frazee have agreed to terms for the 2015-16 season, the Gwinnett Gladiators announced.
The Gladiators are the ECHL affiliate of the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League and the Norfolk Admirals of the American Hockey League.
Higgs, 23, had 18 points (6g-12a) in 41 ECHL games last year, his first full professional season. He began his rookie campaign with the Reading Royals, and spent time with the South Carolina Stingrays and the Fort Wayne Komets, before finding a home with the Gladiators in mid-March via a trade-deadline deal. In just 11 games with Gwinnett, Higgs notched eight points (1g-7a).
The Kingston, Ontario native's first taste of professional hockey came late in the 2013-14 season when he signed an ATO contract with the Worcester Sharks of the AHL. Higgs registered six points (3g-3a) in 16 games for the Sharks. Prior to turning pro, Higgs played for four years at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from 2010-14, serving as captain of the Engineers for his final year at the school.
The Gladiators acquired the rights to Frazee in June from the Greenville Road Warriors, completing an earlier trade that saw forward Scott Arnold come to Gwinnett in exchange for forward Anthony Luciani. The 6-foot-3 210-pound forward scored 41 points (18g-23a) in 67 ECHL games played in 2014-15 with Greenville, Evansville and Fort Wayne. He also spent time in the American Hockey League with the Charlotte Checkers.


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Alia Bhatt turns 22 today so we decided to take the walk down the memory lane and revisit some rare pictures of Alia Bhatt. Trust us on seeing these pictures you will go for aww. Thats right ! little Alia made so adorable clicks.
In her childhood and teens, Alia looks naughty, blame it on her curly hair and mischievous smile.One more thing she hasn't lose in many years is her innocence. She looks exactly the way she used to look in her childhood and teen days.
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White Noise
"Also after our incident, we started reading a lot. If you have not been a victim of embezzlement, it's just white noise. But once you start paying attention, it's clearly an epidemic." That quote came from a victim of a pink collar criminal who stole over $200k+ from their medical practice. Getting to hear real stories from the victims is part of my job. It's the part that is the hardest but also very rewarding. Listening to this doctor's story is like a record with a scratch: she was my friend, we socialized together, she handled everything, she was a long time trusted employee. I hear these stories each time I go to investigate.
I am trying to get the word out about these long time trusted employees who steal victim's innocence and joy from their work. This victim has been devastated by the theft. Paying back taxes, reconstructing the books, and of course trying to rebuild trust with your employees and clients. And it continues. It continues because many of these women live in the victim's community. This victim sees their former employee at the grocery store. She is not in jail. She is actually working for a new medical practice. Justice is slow. But luckily this victim is also trying to get the word out about medical embezzlement. It can happen to you and then it won't be "white noise."
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One degree of separation
I recently was at a holiday party with a diverse group of people. The one thing they all had in common was Pink Collar Crime. It is the relatable crime. Every group at the party had either been personally embezzled in their business or knew someone directly who had been embezzled. It is like the dirty little secret in business. Also, it is like Kevin Bacon's 6 degrees of separation but actually in pink collar crime only one degree.
No one wants to admit they have been stolen from. No one wants to admit they were duped daily for sometimes years by their most trusted employee. It hurts. From Jean Le Carre: "The capacity to love is proportionate to the capacity to be betrayed." I read this in articles about people who have been stolen from. The people who stole often are like family members. They know their target inside and out and often use that to their advantage.
When people find out what I do they start speaking quietly to me. "I want to tell you what happened to me…" and they pour their hearts out to me. From Betrayal (written by Jed Block on the Goodwill NCW $500k theft) "On a personal level, I felt shame, embarrassment and anger. I also experienced a profound sense of loss of innocence and a challenge to my fundamental capacity to trust. Before the embezzlement was discovered, I was an ardent fan of the employee who committed the fraud against us."
That is the hardest part of my job. I want to restore their trust but they need to understand trust is not an internal control.
You can trust your employees with many things but be very careful when you are trusting them with your finances.
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I am not a bad person
Bonnie Brannock Davis was a longtime volunteer for the Giles County Lifesaving and Rescue Squad. She also had a good paying, $120k per year, job at The Chemical Lime Company in Ripplemead until she was laid off.
She just was sentenced to two months in jail for a $65k theft from the Giles County Lifesaving and Rescue Squad. She was facing up to 100 years. She had no previous criminal history and had volunteered decades as a medic for Giles County Lifesaving and Rescue Squad.
She apologized over and over to the Giles County Lifesaving and Rescue Squad, which she called "the love of my life," and to her family and the community at large.
Davis repaid the $65k to the non-profit. She stated that she made "anonymous" donations to repay over time. Davis told investigators that she had tried to repay the rescue squad by making anonymous donations. That is what many embezzlers do not understand. It is easier to steal money but much harder to replace the stolen funds. They may have intentions to repay but the mechanics of it are much more difficult to do. However, she did make 2 payments before sentencing to cover the $65k theft.
There was no "extravagant" spending on Davis' part according to her attorney. I've seen this before. They start stealing because of a pressure and it snowballs. In this case Davis was a lifetime member of the non-profit.
People like Davis don't wake up in the morning and say they are going to steal but at some point something triggers it. In Davis' case the loss of a good paying job was most likely the trigger.
Davis is on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/bonnie-davis-7b57b76 and from her information was a Deputy a long time ago. After she was let go it appears she started her own business which it seems did not replace her salary.
You just never know. Pay attention to your volunteers and their situations.
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Get out of jail free card
What is a get out of jail free card? Unfortunately for some, it's the card your employee has when you catch them stealing from you. The panic from the moment you find out you have been stolen from can become even greater. This is when you confront your employee (remember you need legal and HR help for that) and they turn the whole debacle around to possibly get out of jail and threaten you with disclosure of your dirty little secrets.
What are those dirty little secrets? Do you have two sets of books? Do you write off inappropriate expenses? Do you hire and fire illegally? This is just the start of what the desperate thief will try.
What do you do when this happens? Again, (insert legal advice here from a good attorney who has worked these cases before-not your golfing buddy) you need to process your own personal situation. I never tell someone directly not to file with law enforcement. But as your "fraud coach" I will tell you to take a step back and analyze all the angles.
I had a client once who, as so many do, wanted the perp hung in the town square. The client generally needs to be talked off the ledge. You need to prepare for the process. The process is long and hard and not cheap. You need to think about the potential PR crisis. You need to be ready to take responsibility for your business and other employees.
Tone at the top of course is part of the equation. While there is NEVER a reason for stealing you need to understand the rationalization part of the fraud triangle. When you give your assistant your credit card bill or expense report that is filled with personal expenses realize what you are doing. You are possibly chipping away at their own set of values. When they see you expense a family vacation to ski while attending a work conference they see you cheating and stealing. This can start a slippery slope (pun intended) for them to start stealing.
Most people, in my opinion, do not wake up and say I am going to steal from my boss or my employer. What does happen is they go to work and get a call from a bill collector stating they are late and their car is going to be repossessed, their husband or partner leaves them with a mortgage, their kid texts them about the school ski team they can't afford and then they start down that path.
So when they get caught they are desperate to not go to jail and break up a family. Everything they have seen taking place at work becomes fair game for them to defend themselves. You need to be prepared for this. How do you prepare for this? Tone at the top. I can't say that enough. What your employees see in your behavior is incredibly important.
I can't tell you how hard it is for an employer to go through this. They want to do the right thing but they also feel the need to protect themselves and their business. So what happens is that sweet, conniving little Mary gets off and then goes to the next business. Eventually she will get caught but sometimes it takes awhile.
You set the example for your employees. Be the best example you can be. Set the right tone at the top and maybe she won't have the get out of jail free card.
If this has happened to you I would love to hear from you. Please email me at email@example.com.
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Non profit fraud Executive Director helped by twin brothers!
The former executive director of an East Orange-based non-profit developer of low-income housing was arrested today on charges she had embezzled more than $380,000 from the corporation, the Essex County Prosecutor's Office said in a statement this evening.
Lancie Marchan, 64, who headed the East Orange Revitalization and Development Corporation, used the money for trips, hotel stays, visits to casinos and gifts, among other things, the statement said.
An indictment unsealed today alleges that Marchan, who was being paid an annual salary of $93,163.50, embezzled the money between 2005 and 2010.
At the time, EORDC was partnering with a private corporation to build a low-income development, called the Princeton Estates Phase II Project, with partial funding from HUD.
The indictment also alleges that Marchan's twin 66-year-old brothers, Arthur Werts, of Chesterfield, Va., and Artemus Werts, of Plainfield – both of whom have experience in the financial and non-profit industries – helped their sister embezzle and launder the funds.
Marchan was arrested at her home in North Brunswick by officers from the prosecutor's office and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
All three are charged with conspiracy, theft by unlawful taking and financial facilitation of criminal activity. They could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted of the charges, the prosecutor's office said.
Marchan is being held on $50,000 bail at the county jail. Her brothers have not yet been arrested.
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Ciaran Hinds as the Devil in 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance'
by Alex Billington
October 1, 2010
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Now this is some casting I'm very happy to report on. Heat Vision announces that Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, the fresh new sequel being directed by Crank's Neveldine/Taylor, has gained a few great cast members. We already know that Nicolas Cage will be returning as the dark Marvel comics anti-hero, but in addition to him, Irish actor Ciarán Hinds (There Will Be Blood, The Eclipse, Harry Potter) has joined as the devil (the villain in this; Peter Fonda played Mephistopheles in the first flick) and Italian actress-singer Violante Placido (The American) has joined as the mother of a boy who is also key in the plot. Read on!
The story in Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, originally written by David S. Goyer, sees Johnny Blaze, aka Ghost Rider, hiding out in remote Eastern Europe and struggling to repress his curse. Blaze is recruited by a sect to take on the devil (Hinds), who wants to take over his mortal son's body on the boy's birthday. That's an intriguing plot for this sequel, I just hope it's as dark and violent as we're hoping it'll be. Shooting starts in Eastern Europe later this fall. Even though I've heard that Sony is currently fighting with Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor over issues with the project (always seems to be the case with those guys) apparently they're still pushing forward as best they can. Let's hope they don't get replaced last minute like with Jonah Hex.
I know there aren't many people excited for this sequel, considering how many hated that first Ghost Rider, but if Neveldine/Taylor can make the movie they want with a great cast, there is a chance they can recover this comic book franchise in a big way. We'll keep you updated on anything we hear, including details about the creative struggle between Sony and Neveldine/Taylor, if more gets out. Anyone warming up to this?
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The BBC wants you to control iPlayer with your mind
The battle over the television remote may soon be settled once and for all, as the BBC trial a new technology that would allow you to change the channel with YOUR MIND. Like a wizard.
The broadcaster's head of business development Cyrus Saihan explained the project in an official BBC blog post, explaining how it used a low-cost brainwave-reading headset to create the 'Mind Control TV' prototype. No, it's not April 1st, and experimenting with mind control tech is actually more common than you might think.
"Our first trial run saw 10 BBC staff members try out the app," says Saihan. "All were able to launch BBC iPlayer and start viewing a programme simply by using their minds. It was much easier for some than it was for others, but they all managed to get it to work."
Struggling to get your mind around mind control? It's actually more logical than you might think. The EEG-brainwave headset works by measuring your brain power and responding to how relaxed you are. With a list of programs in front of the viewer, they can cycle through the shows by meditating – or relaxing their brain power – to move down in the list. Gizmodo likens it to using a power bar in a golf game – only, y'know, with your brain.
Saihan continues: "The idea of being able to simply think about something and then magically make it happen has fascinated people for many years. Whether it's using 'the Force' in Star Wars, spoon bending on stage or The Matrix, controlling objects simply with your brain has a unique appeal and could open up a whole world of possibilities."
Learn more about the BBC's mind control experiments and how we may all soon be ditching the remote over on the BBC's blog.


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Squash and lentil leftovers soup
I've been away for a few days in the Eastern Townships and am only getting around to posting this now. I had some leftovers I needed to clear out of the fridge at the end of last week and wondered … Continue reading
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The Great Pumpkin Beer
You know its fall in Montreal when…. St. Ambroise brews up their Great Pumpkin Ale. A spicy blend of malt, wheat, hops, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves and .. yes.. pumpkin.
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On living with the omnis
On any given day my household can have anywhere from two to five inhabitants: Me and four male omnivores. Our home is blended in more ways than one 🙂 When it comes time for making tasty vittles, this usually means … Continue reading
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Toxic Spices??
Oh great.. what next?? My favorite spices.. that's what. Its a good thing my son doesn't like a lot of spice to begin with. Imported spices reported to have double the lead content found in U.S. brands: http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/03/15/spices-lead-children.html
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Realignment Today: 3:27 p.m. - The latest on where Mizzou stands. Didn't you miss this?
Good afternoon and welcome to another week of conference realignment madness.
While things have calmed substantially in terms of where Kansas University might be headed — it's clear that the Jayhawks are staying in the Big 12 — the threat of realignment still looms and currently seems to be affecting at least three other conferences, perhaps more.
Just as they like it, the Missouri Tigers are at the center of this latest round and they have been for quite some time. In case you haven't cared, haven't paid close attention or simply haven't noticed, here's a quick recap of what Mizzou has been up to.
• Summer 2010 — The Tigers openly flirt with their dream league, the Big Ten, sparking a string of realignment unlike any we've ever seen. The end result sent Colorado to the Pac-10 and Nebraska to the Big Ten and left the Big 12 with 10 teams.
• Early August 2011 — After talk of Texas A&M to the SEC turned serious, the Tigers were rumored to be one of the SEC's targets for a 14th school.
• Late August 2011 — Despite the rumors continuing to fly, Missouri chancellor Brady Deaton and athletic director Mike Alden remain committed to the Big 12 and, in many ways, serve as the face of the fight to save the league.
• Mid-September 2011 — The Big 12 is saved, thanks largely to the Pac-12 deciding against expansion and everyone believes it's time to move on with a new commissioner and a unified league. Everyone except Missouri.
• Early October 2011 — After Deaton resigns his post as the chairman of the Big 12 board of directors, Missouri curators authorize Deaton to act on behalf of the university in any future realignment discussions.
And, with that, we're caught up. Taking last summer's episode out of the equation, the prevailing thought from those I've spoken with throughout the league has been that Missouri was going to stay and was simply just soaking up its time in the spotlight. As the days and weeks went by, however, those feelings, which started out close to 100 percent, slowly weakened. After each move or announcement Missouri made, the percentage would dip.
It reached its lowest point during conversations last week, in which multiple sources said it's now 50-50 for the Tigers to stay or go.
Although that news seems to be ominous for the future of the KU-MU rivalry, it actually won't do much to harm the league. Is the Big 12 better with Missouri in it? Perhaps. But will the league be crippled if the Tigers leave? Nope. They proved that by adding TCU despite Missouri's uncertainty. And, if MU leaves, they'll add another team or three and be just fine.
That's the part of this whole equation that doesn't quite add up. Sure, Missouri is a valued member of the Big 12 and one that the league would like to keep. But it seems to me — and to others — that the Tigers are overvaluing their place in all this.
Maybe that comes from the SEC reaching out and asking them to join. Maybe the Tigers got big heads when they heard that someone else wanted them and they haven't been thinking right ever since.
Forget what the Tigers' departure would do to the Border War or the rest of the conference. Kansas City stands to be the biggest loser in all this, and it's quite clear that the Tigers — at least the ones who are making this decision — don't really care. No more Big 12 tournament, no more conference affiliation, no more city divided. Just a bunch of KU fans, with a smattering of purple and a handful of misplaced and abandoned supporters of the black and gold.
Those who cover Mizzou a lot more closely than I do seem to think it's only a matter of time now.
This report, from Mr. SEC, quotes Mizzou's Rivals.com site, PowerMizzou.com, as saying the ball could be rolling on a move by the end of the week.
And here's a good take from The Oklahoman's Berry Tramel on how Mizzou's decision impacts future Big 12 expansion.
The bottom line is this: We've reached the point where people are ready for Missouri to do whatever it's going to do. If they're leaving, great, get on with it, go. If they're staying, stop making this about you and jump on board with the rest of the league in its effort to move forward.
The official paperwork on the granting of television rights is expected to be signed soon. After the nine schools on board in the Big 12 sign it, it will be sent to Columbia, Mo., and will act as an ultimatum of sorts.
It's not the strongest move the Big 12 could make. But it may be the smartest.
The question that now lingers is if the Tigers will make a move before they even receive the paperwork.
Stay tuned....
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It was dark and stormy outside, just as it had been since the Kyubi returned. I can remember the bloodcurdling scream issuing from Naruto as the demon ripped out of its twelve year imprisonment from Naruto's belly. First, everyone and everything seemed normal as we were going back to Konohagukare from a mission we just completed when everything went quiet.
Sasuke, Kakashi-sensei, and I were up in front, neither of us noticing that Naruto had fallen behind. Kakashi-sensei noticed when he heard a gagging noise from behind. When we turned around, we saw Naruto crouched on the ground clutching his stomach; his face was twisted with agony and pain. Kakashi-sensei had recently warned us about this and I attempted to look away but I kept on looking at the wretched form and the event that was about to take place.
Kakashi-sensei ran over to hold Naruto down as a ripping noise issued from his stomach. He cried out in pain as claws tore through, blood already soaking the ground. Next appeared the snout and the long muzzle, teeth tearing through him. After what seemed an hour, the Kyubi was finally out, and jumped out into the horizon, heading to areas unbeknownst to me, or the rest of us.
Kakashi-sensei stood up, shaking his head. "Is he going to be all right?" I asked eagerly hoping for the best, "I'm afraid not, the demon tore through vital organs on his… way out…." He looked away from us, back at Naruto, and picked him up. He walked away towards the forest, on his way, I heard him muttering to him self these words, "No, not another one… I'm sorry… Naruto…so, so sorry…."
I looked away from the window and sighed, the sounds of the burial were still ringing in my ears. Everyone was sitting in the memorial building, the casket in place, some people were even crying on his behalf. I walked over to see him one last time, tears springing in my eyes, but I didn't let them fall, he probably wouldn't like that.
When I got to the side, he looked so calm, so peaceful, like he didn't have a care in the world, or at least, that's what he looks like when he fall asleep during class, this is much different, the sereneness on his face was dissimilar, eyes lightly closed, mouth forming just a small frown but nothing to noticeable, it just seemed… wrong. Sasuke stepped up beside me and put his hand on my shoulder, even he was a little distraught, his face wrought with worry. "Come on Sakura, we better go…."
He turned to leave, but my legs felt leaden. "I can't just leave him Sasuke-kun, I mustn't…." He pulled at my arm, dragging my outside. We went to go sit outside on the hill, over-looking the sea, looking at the blood-red sunset. The wolves and coyotes were howling in the distance, all most as if in a farewell song, with lyrics too sad too sing. The birds also joined in on the chorus, when my tears began to fall.
Sasuke wrapped his arm around me as I wept, but stared into the distance grimly, knowing what soon will occur. All the anguish and sorrow that will follow, and also, what will happen to us….


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