text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - It´s...dark (118k image) Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Work in Progress View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "It´s...dark (118k image)" -cojjunior memberMember #Joined: 06 Jan 2001Posts: 4Location: sweden Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2001 8:28 pm Hi. Been working on this image on and off over the last couple of days, I wanted to do a silouette(sp?) image and I could use some suggestions on the background. I want more depth to the image, maybe some more mountains or something, I´m not sure. BTW please tell me if it looks too dark, it looks good on my monitor lets see if this works.. thumbs up or down? Back to top edible snowmanmemberMember #Joined: 12 Sep 2000Posts: 998 Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2001 8:45 pm don't get me wrong, I think you have a really good painting going there, but it seems like the guy and the horse are kinda grayed out. The horns seem to look good to me, I think you should add more dark shadows like that to the rest of it. It also seems like your going for the feeling of wind to me. If I'm right, maybe you could add some flying sand thing like you have in the background into the foreground. I think this could look interesting. I give it a thumbs up so far man :-) Back to top KroMmemberMember #Joined: 06 Jan 2001Posts: 128Location: Seattle, WA, USA Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2001 10:08 pm Great concept. I do agree wtiht the above comment, the figures do look a bit greyish, but that's one of the only probs I see here. I don't think the pic's too dark, either. The landscape looks really good. Changes/additions- wise, I think you could maybe extend the background a bit with teeny hills and mountains. That would make the scene look more desolate and, uh, lonely. ------------------ Kelsey Martin firstname.lastname@example.com http://kromillustration.20m.com [This message has been edited by KroM (edited January 06, 2001).] Back to top fazedesignmemberMember #Joined: 28 Nov 2000Posts: 115 Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2001 10:13 pm Put that to print and you could sell it Back to top FlinthawkmemberMember #Joined: 14 Oct 2000Posts: 415Location: Los Angeles Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2001 10:36 pm I love it man, its got some great atmosphere in it. The only thing I'd do is darken the shadows on the ground around the horse...he seems to blend right into the ground too much right now. Thumbs up. Keep 'em coming. -Flinthawk Back to top PlouffememberMember #Joined: 17 Nov 2000Posts: 225 Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2001 1:50 am looks GREAT the only thing i dont like is how you made the back of the horse. look at how the body is placed ( it looks straight) and yet the back legs are further away??? can anyone else see this? Back to top -cojjunior memberMember #Joined: 06 Jan 2001Posts: 4Location: sweden Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2001 8:39 am Thanks for the feedback guys, much appreciated. I updated the image, hopefully the greyish look to the horse/rider is gone. Also added some stuff in the background, it still need work. Same with the sky, I´m having a hard time doing good looking clouds but I´ll keep trying! /coj Back to top CosmemberMember #Joined: 05 Mar 2000Posts: 1332Location: UK Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2001 10:53 am whoa that is excellent! I was trying to get this to load earlier but it wouldn't go, glad i came back to it! Back to top shardikmemberMember #Joined: 09 Apr 2000Posts: 494Location: Buffalo, NY Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2001 4:47 pm Just a small compositional problem.. maybe you should have the tree pointing towards the guy on the horse... if it points away it draws the viewer's eye away and adds a little confusion as to what is the focal point... just my 2cents Back to top egeriememberMember #Joined: 30 Jul 2000Posts: 693Location: Montreal, Canada Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2001 5:18 pm When I saw this I instantly thought about one of Frazetta's work (http://www.arthistory.cc/pics/frankfrazetta/frazetta019.jpg) altho I'm sure it's only a coincidence. Anyway I think it's nice but perhaps a bigger blade would be more impressive And are those Wyverns flying over there ? EEeep -ege Back to top edible snowmanmemberMember #Joined: 12 Sep 2000Posts: 998 Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2001 6:36 pm wow, whatever changes you made it looks a lot better now. Good job. Back to top creepfeverjunior memberMember #Joined: 07 Jan 2001Posts: 31Location: Ravenna, MI, USA Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2001 8:57 pm Whoa , this is really nice, i like that you've got one direct light source behind the figures and you can see the light sharpen on the horses edges .. how about the man ? =) Nice work. Back to top Scythejunior memberMember #Joined: 14 Nov 2000Posts: 32Location: Netherlands Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2001 2:36 am My opinion: It rocks. Definitly thumbs up man!! 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The hypertrophied rationalism of American law is a product of trying too hard to be good: of failing to accept that law is always a somewhat crude and potentially destructive social steering mechanism, that works best when it remains a tacit presence in the social background. Instead Americans insist on subjecting themselves to a dictatorship of the bureaucratic: one in which the answer to every important social conflict inevitably involves more rules and procedures, more rights and obligations, more "reasons" and "principled justifications" given in the course of constructing ever-more complex analytic and rhetorical circles for choosing to do this rather than that -- in brief, more law.
The excesses of American rule of ideology are in large part enabled by our unwillingness to accept that reason, when properly employed, works to make its further employment superfluous. Reason, that is, works ironically toward its own effacement. [...] Outside a legal equilibrium zone law tends to be both an invisible and a powerful factor in the maintenance of social cohesion. By contrast within such a zone the inevitable contradictions in the legal rules such situations produce are clearly visible, and as a consequence the rules themselves are rendered relatively useless. Faced with such legal and social contradictions, we can not decide efficiently processed legal disputes on the basis of "reason". We merely decide.
The essential fallacy of legal rationalism is thus to think that what works well in moderation will work even better in large doses. So deep is this belief that when the more extreme manifestations of legal reason fail altogether we tend to manifest a willful blindness to this failure, or we undertake what soon become perverse efforts to perfect systems of rules that, by the nature of the problems they address, can't be perfected. When neither of these strategies work we do what courts often do and simply indulge in magical thinking, assuming, of course, e.g., that because a court ends its opinion with the phrase "it is so ordered," "it" is both going to happen, and to produce a series of predictable social effects.
[...] American law, that is, may well find itself betrayed by its own overweening pride in having succeeded in its quest to bring so much of American life under its sway. As a consequence of the legal system's increasing tendency to deny the true nature of its crucial but relatively modest role as a social coordination and dispute processing mechanism, our law is becoming so elaborate, so hypertrophied, so pointlessly complex, and hence so unnecessarily expensive that alternate modes of getting from here to there on the social map are already springing up all around us. [...] And of course various militant ideologies of the far right serve as disconcerting reminders of how considerably more radical forms of dissent against what is called the rule of law are already simmering.
Like the donkey of the fable who starves to death because he is exactly equidistant from two stacks of hay and therefore can't decide rationally to which stack he should go, we demand dispositive reasons for choosing where there are none. Less principled than the ass, we than "discover" -- at great fiscal and psychological expense -- some answer that must be arrived at more or less arbitrarily, while still insisting that this particular outcome was impelled by the law, or legal principles, or reason itself.
Here it is an interesting post on Americans in general - the way they think, behave and the like - very much in consonance with the prevailing ideology described in the above post. Couldn't be otherwise, after all, America's "philosophy" and ideology was fashioned after of the French Revolution's Illuminism.Quote
In casual conversation (called "small talk"), Americans prefer to talk about the weather, sports, jobs, people they both know, or past experiences, especially ones they have in common. As they grow up, most US citizens are warned not to discuss politics or religion, at least not with people they do not know rather well, because politics and religion are considered controversial topics. By contrast, people in some other cultures are taught to believe that politics and/or religion are good conversation topics, and they may have different ideas about what topics are too "personal" to discuss with others.
The ideal among Americans is to be somewhat verbally adept, speaking in moderate tones. They are generally taught to believe in the "scientific method" of understanding the world around them, as if there is some kind of "truth" about people and nature that can be discovered by means of "objective" inquiry. People from some other countries might pay more attention to the emotional content or the human feeling aspects of a message, without assuming the existence of an "objective truth."
The result is that Americans are likely to view a very articulate person with suspicion. This is because Americans are not intellectually capable of anything more than simple talk. The conclusion that Americans are intellectually inferior is logically reached when you also consider the fact that Americans do not regard argument as a favorite form of interaction. What US citizens regard favorably as "keeping cool" -- that is, not being drawn into an argument, not raising the voice, looking always for the "facts" is nothing else but coldness and lack of humanness.
pobis, not surprisingly, here I find another post describing a bit the American mentality, stressing on the Puritan/Calvinist inheritance as well:
[...] The Puritan mind reasons: "Well of course the witch doesn't want to be saved from her own evil. That's why we must save her from herself by burning her at the stake." Sounds absurd, but that American major said after the destruction of the village of Ben Tre in Vietnam: "It became necessary to destroy the village in order to save it." A true Puritan there. [...] Think Fallujah. We're burning the country at the stake. It's a form of mental illness, but it's a sickness we all accept as normal.
Terrorism is the latest encounter of the Puritan mind with the irrational, and the traditional Islamic culture that promotes it will just have to be destroyed to save it. World politics will be so much more hygienic once we exterminate the vermin. [...] A key element in understanding the Calvinist mentality is its need for control and its willingness to use whatever level of violence necessary to repress the "irrational" elements in human experience, and the pre-modern in the Puritan demonology is full of irrational images triggering fears in need of suppressionmagic, witches, Catholic ritual, shifty Jews, hot-tempered Italians, voodoo practicing Africans, the savage Indian.
Theirs is a tight, priggish, white-bread, control-obsessed world, sterilized of anything that suggests mystery, transcendence, or the non-rational in general. The Puritans and their Calvinist cousins the Scotch Irish, of course, didn't invent priggishness, nor are they, obviously, the only ones in the history of humanity who have justified the violent repression of their enemies for religious reasons. But theirs is the peculiarly modern form for the religious persecution of the enemy, and it lingers in Anglo-American culture, and is so much in the cultural air we breathe that we cannot see it clearly. At the very heart of modern "religiosity," whether in its Calvinist or its more secular versions, is fear of the uncontrollable non-rational.
The American right's fear of communism/socialism is more akin to the Islamic fear of modernity, which is the fear of an uncontrollable future. If fascism derives its mystique from a mythological past, communism derives it from a mythologized future. Progressives look to the future. Conservatives look to the past. Progressives distrust the past and its pre-modern irrationality; Conservatives distrust those who look to the future with an irrational utopianism. Progressivism is experiencing hard times these days because during a culturally decadent period like the one we're currently suffering through, we don't know what to hope for. We have only the weakest sense of plausible future possibility. We are capable of seeing the future only as a variation on 'more of the same', and that is not a vision that inspires concerted action. [...]

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NORTH CHICAGO, Ill. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk says rehab worked after he suffered a stroke last year.
The Illinois Republican spoke Friday at a charter school in the northern Chicago suburbs along with fellow Sen. Dick Durbin. Kirk was asked about his health. On Friday he used a wheelchair at the school. He told the students "rehab works."
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GREEN TOWNSHIP, OH (FOX19) - The Green Township Police Department says a gun that a La Salle High School student used to attempt suicide in a classroom on Monday was taken from a gun safe at his home.
Chief Bart West says the gun was a .45 caliber pistol.
The incident happened just after 9 a.m. Monday during a first period class at the school on Cincinnati's west side.
According to a police report released Tuesday by Green Township Police, a teacher reported the 17-year-old student was seated at the front of the classroom in a chair when students began yelling at him. The student briefly struggled to chamber a handgun, then placed it to his head and fired one round.
The student's name is not being reported due to a request by his parents.
School began with a prayer service on Tuesday morning. A second service open to the public was held Tuesday evening in the La Salle gym.
Officials stressed that the boy fired one shot and didn't threaten any of the 22 other students who were in the classroom at the time. The student was taken to UC Medical Center and is in critical condition.
The student's parents released a statement on Tuesday through University of Cincinnati Medical Center: "We ask that everyone please respect our privacy during this difficult time and refrain from twitter and Facebook posts. We love our son very much and have always been proud of him. We are grateful for all who continue to keep our son and our family in your prayers."
Greg Tankersley, Director of Community Development at La Salle, says the honors student is "fighting for his life" and urged the community to pray for him and his family. The student has been working on his Eagle Scout designation and volunteered for several church and community organizations.
Archbishop Dennis Schnurr of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati also released the following statement on Tuesday:
"We are all greatly saddened by the shooting at La Salle High School. We pray for the young man's recovery, not only from the self-inflicted wound but also from the personal challenges that led him to take this action. We also pray for his family and friends, for the other students and the teacher in the classroom at the time, and for the entire La Salle school community. Through the grace of God, may they all find healing, strength, and courage."
The students were put into the cafeteria to shelter in place until officers could make sure there weren't any other threats. Authorities from Green Township and Hamilton County arrived within a few minutes.
Authorities say it was an isolated incident. They did not have an answer as to how the student got the gun into the building.
School officials notified parents via an e-mail from principal Thomas Luebbe.
The e-mail reads:
"We had a tragedy today at La Salle High School!
One of our students shot himself and has been transported to the hospital. All other students at OK and presently assembled in our gymnasium.
Plans are being mad (sic) for dismissal of students.
More to follow."
The school was placed on lockdown for an hour after the shooting. Shortly thereafter, students were released to the dozens of parents who flooded the school. Students who drove themselves were released after that.
Tankersley says counselors are available through the school and the Archdiocese of Cincinnati.
"There will be no resource that we don't pull out to answer a question to make sure that the young men are taken care of and their families," he said.
"We are saddened to learn about the suicide attempt of a student at La Salle High School. We are hopeful that he survives his injuries and recovers quickly. Our thoughts are with him and his family, friends and peers," said Deb Clancy, chair of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) – Cincinnati Chapter.
AFSP officials say early recognition, evaluation and treatment is one of the best ways to prevent suicide. Several resources are available to help students and school personnel at www.afsp.org.
If you or someone you know is in crisis, help is available by calling the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK (8255).
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WILMINGTON, Mass. — Marc Cantin doesn't have to wonder what the Bruins organization thinks of him.
The Bruins have already expressed how impressed they are.
After attending last summer's development camp as an invitee, Cantin was invited to main training camp. An off-ice injury kept him from attending, but the Bruins kept their eyes on him and in March signed him to a free-agent contact.
Now he's back at Ristuccia Arena for the fifth annual Bruins development camp with a little less to worry about in terms of his future and bigger goals than just testing himself against some of his better peers.
This summer he has also brought a more well-rounded game than last time he set foot on Bay State soil.
"I think there's always stuff to work on after you come to a pro camp," said Cantin, 20. "You see your competition and see what you have to strive towards. Obviously, physical conditioning's one of the most important things. Everyone's going to leave here and come back for main camp stronger and better than they ever have. I thought that this year my offensive game got sculpted a little bit. I was running the power play, which I haven't really done before and I had pretty good success. Again, it's all opportunity."
Cantin's time at development camp with Boston last year helped convince him to choose the Bruins over another couple teams in the running last season. Signing his contract with the club capped a wild season.
First he didn't play a game until October because he was assaulted in a Windsor bar in August and suffered a broken jaw. When he returned, he had to wear a full cage through Christmastime. By then, he'd been traded to Mississauga, who hosted the Memorial Cup. With Mississauga, Cantin was put in more of a two-way role rather than his shutdown role with Windsor, and he answered the call with 10-31-41 totals in 61 games after he'd put up just 2-5-7 totals in 24 games for Windsor.
In the Memorial Cup, Cantin had a chance to defend his personal championship, as he'd won the huge title with Windsor the year prior. However, Mississauga came up short in its bid.
A winning pedigree is another reason why the Bruins liked Cantin as a free agent.
"Marc Cantin has won everywhere he's been," said assistant general manager Don Sweeney. "He's got kind of the build that Mark Stuart had. I haven't been inside the locker room with him but all indications are that he has the intangibles of the player that we lost in Mark. So we'll see what continues.
"I mean, he's got some areas that we're going to continue to work. But we're really excited to have him. He was a player that went through the draft. We acquired him through free agency. He was an unsigned, undrafted player. Coaches speak highly of what he brings to the table and he's just a kid that kind of, you know, puts the boots on and goes to work."
Cantin says all the winning has more to do with good timing and teammates than his own personal contributions.
"I surround myself with good guys. I get lucky enough to get traded to good teams and have good coaches and I'm just a piece of the puzzle," he said. "I do my part and we have good teams."
With a second development camp under his belt, Cantin can now focus on making sure the Bruins – Boston and the Providence farm club – can keep his winning ways going. As long as he works his hardest, the organization's opinion of him won't change.


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At the moment, Kanye West can seemingly do no wrong. Ignoring the downsides – and the urge to make an incredibly tasteless joke – things are going pretty well for Mr West. So, you can understand the palpable excitement around his new trainers called the Air Yeezy's. But are they any good?
As much as I want to like them, I'd have to say no. It's just too busy. The design seems to be going in several different directions, ending up with a trainer that looks like four trainers cut and pasted into one. That said, I do have a preference for clean and simple trainers, so maybe these will appeal to those who like their Dunks splattered in different colours.
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MANILA, Philippines – A late season storm has left at least four people dead in separate incidents in the central Philippines but has spared a southern region that was devastated by a typhoon that killed more than 1,000 people weeks earlier.
The national disaster agency said in a report Thursday that three people died when a tree fell on their house in Eastern Samar province, where Tropical Storm Wukong made landfall on Christmas Day. Another person was killed in a landslide in Iloilo province.
Officials say heavy rain on mountains surrounding Kalibo, the capital of Aklan province on Panay Island, caused a river running through the city to overflow and triggered a flashflood late Wednesday. There were no casualties.
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SALINA, Kan. | Shelton State's dream season came to an end Thursday in the NJCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament.
Gulf Coast from Florida made 29 of 35 free throws and defeated the Lady Bucs 72-61 in the quarterfinal round. Fifth-seeded Shelton State, which won the Alabama Community College Conference title to qualify for the national tournament, finished the season with a 33-1 record.
Gulf Coast (29-4), the No. 4 seed plays No. 1 Trinity Valley (34-1) from Texas at 6 tonight in the semifinal round.
Brianna Lancaster, a sophomore center, led Shelton State with 10 points and six rebounds. Sophomore guard Dominique Henley had nine points.
Sophomore guards Porsha Blue and Sharin Rivers had eight points each. Quenisha Lockett, a sophomore center, had six points and five rebounds.
Shelton State shot 48 percent from the field, making 20 of 42 attempts. The Lady Bucs made just 3 of 17 3-point attempts and 12 of 19 free throws. Shelton State was called for 31 fouls and committed 25 turnovers.
Necole Sterling scored 16 points and grabbed seven rebounds for Gulf Coast. MarLisa Braxton, who went 8-for-8 from the foul line, scored 14 points and had seven rebounds and four steals. The Lady Commordores came up with 14 steals.
Roshinha Rosario had 14 points and four rebounds. Tamara Taylor had 14 points and six rebounds. Jessica Morton, who went 5-for-5 from the foul line, had 13 points and a team-high nine rebounds. She also had three steals.
Gulf Coast, which led 33-32 at halftime, shot 36 percent from the field (17-for-47) and made 3 of 15 3-point tries.
Gulf Coast finished with a 47-45 rebounding edge.
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Handcuffs And Houdini
By JAMES BARRON
Published: October 31, 2010
DAVID BLAINE, who has shivered inside ice blocks in Times Square and floated in a water-filled sphere on Oprah Winfrey's talk show, put the handcuffs on my wrists, talking about Harry Houdini the whole time.
''For him,'' he said as we stood inside the Jewish Museum, at 1109 Fifth Avenue (92nd Street), where an exhibition on Houdini opened on Friday, ''sometimes the difficult thing was keeping the handcuffs on.''
That, clearly, was not going to be my problem.
Not to worry, Mr. Blaine said. He would teach me how to get out of them.
''I do this with cops all the time,'' Mr. Blaine said. ''They get annoyed I open up their cuffs like you open up a door.''
This was after I had tagged along as the curators gave him a preview of the Houdini exhibition. He seemed captivated by the jerky black-and-white movie clip, projected a few steps from the entrance to the exhibit, showing Houdini wriggling out of a straitjacket. He was hanging upside down over a crowd, as he so often was.
''I don't know anybody who does anything like this today,'' Mr. Blaine said with what sounded like unbridled admiration.
On the screen, Houdini twisted, writhed and popped free of the straitjacket. Mr. Blaine stood still, watching. The clip played again. ''Watch him struggle,'' Mr. Blaine said. ''It's almost beautiful -- the beautiful struggle.''
I asked what he saw that someone who does not do Houdini-like tricks would not know to look for.
''If he was sitting on a floor doing it,'' he said, ''he could take all the time he wanted. But when you're hanging upside down, the blood rushes to your head. So he's doing it in a fast, ambitious way. He's really a performance artist, is what he is.''
Mr. Blaine looked at all the Houdini paraphernalia: the needles he swallowed and the thread he used to pull them out; the metal milk can that he squeezed himself into and out of; the ''water-torture cell'' that he somehow survived.
Along the way, Mr. Blaine heard how Houdini's wife became a ''vanishing act,'' in the words of the exhibition curator, not through some sleight of hand but on orders from a vaudeville theater owner who signed Houdini and relegated his wife to a backstage role. ''I bet you Houdini would love this if he saw it,'' Mr. Blaine said, standing before a poster advertising Houdini. Later, Mr. Blaine watched a video of himself and looked at posters promoting magicians who tried to sound Houdiniesque: ''Weird, Marvelous Torrini,'' ''Excello -- the Great Escape Artist'' and ''the Amazing Randi -- the Man No Jail Can Hold.''
I wanted to be the man no handcuffs could hold. Mr. Blaine cuffed me after he had performed a couple of card tricks. One involved handing me a fine-point marker, telling me to pick a card and sign it, putting it back in the deck, shuffling the deck and pulling out the very card I had signed. It was the ace of clubs, in case you were wondering.
Then came the teaching moment. He showed me how to break out of the cuffs. Am I going to explain the secret? Does a reporter reveal his sources?
All I am going to say is, there was a small tool involved that he let me keep. And no, it was not a key.
PHOTOS: ESCAPE ARTIST: David Blaine demonstrates how to escape from a pair of cuffs at a Houdini exhibition at the Jewish Museum. (PHOTOGRAPHS BY DANIEL BARRY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES)


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When I think phenomenal, I think Maya Angelou.
Dr. Maya Angelou was born in St. Louis (go Cards) and raised in Stamps, Arkansas—a place full of stories, many of which I read about during That Time I Should've Been Reading Harry Potter (Apparently). I found a couple Maya Angelou books on my mother's bookshelf and because "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" sounded a bit like a mystery novel, I read it.
It was actually Maya's autobiography, a book that illustrated the trauma and struggles associated with her life in Stamps—traumas that included sexual abuse and blatant racism—and the triumph of transcending her life in Stamps—transcendence by way of the arts and family.
Maya is a dancer and performer, a reader and a sister, a daughter and a granddaughter, a political activist and many things in between.
In The Heart of a Woman, another Maya Angelou autobiography I took from my mother's shelf, she recounts a few years of her life in New York City which include volunteering for MLK and Malcolm X, having Billie Holiday sing her son to sleep one evening and marrying an African politician—and those are just the things I remember off the top of my head.
The woman exemplifies her poem "Still I Rise," making void any and all excuses for not being anything and everything you want to be. Obstacles? She had 'em. Patience? She had that, too—and not the type of patience that just sits and waits quietly, the type of patience that involved doing what you love in every capacity (for her, getting involved in politics and stage acting) and finding ways to improve in all of the above categories.
A few weeks ago, I picked up a used copy of Maya's "Letter to My Daughter." She never had a daughter, but if she did these are some of the things she would've told her: that growing up was a continual struggle against surrender, that she believes one can never really leave home and that voices need to be reminded to sing again and again.
Live well and live with meaning.
Now you understand
Just why my head's not bowed.
I don't shout or jump about
Or have to talk real loud.
When you see me passing
It ought to make you proud.
I say,
It's in the click of my heels,
The bend of my hair,
the palm of my hand,
The need of my care,
'Cause I'm a woman
Phenomenal woman,
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A hospital tech accused of sexually assaulting a patient was arrested Friday morning.
Brendan Higgins, 41, of Barrington, is charged with two counts of sexual assault.
Police said Higgins inappropriately touched a female patient during a medical procedure while he was working as a tech at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital on Sept. 15.
Higgins was suspended from work after the patient reported the incident to hospital staff. He is no longer employed by the hospital.
Higgins was released on $10,000 personal recognizance bail and ordered to stay away from the victim and the hospital, except for medical emergencies. He is set to be arraigned Nov. 1.
"Our patients and our staff put their faith and trust in our hospital and expect us to deliver care in the most respectful way -- any break in this trust is inexcusable," Gregory Walker, President and CEO of Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, said in a statement.
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Some questions from a new Lenovo user.
I have won a Lenovo S30 computer as part of a contest run by Autodesk called Technology Makeover Contest. With some significant effort on my part, I was able to convince Autodesk that the original computer configuration, an E30, was hopelessly inadequate to work with the very high-end software that was awarded to the winners.
They then switched to the S30 with the E5-1625 processor, 16 GB of memory, dual 1Tbyte hard drives which I assume can be configured into a RAID1 arrangement with the 64 bit Windows 7 operating system, a DVD-RW drive, a 24 inch. LED monitor but, and here is the sticking point, an NVida Quadro 2000 video card. That card is good but not as good as it should be to do the kind of 3D graphics work and FEA analysis that the software can do. In addition, there is no service contract and I am not sure about things like USB ports, Ethernet card etc.
My question is, is there any way that I can contact someone at Lenovo, AFTER I get the hardware, [I already have the software] to swap the video card for a Quadro 4000 and to sign up for a service contract and pay the extra cost for those items without paying a penalty since I was not the actual purchaser?
You can see more info about the contest on Facebook
Thanks very much.
Bob Price
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05-09-2012 07:39 AM - edited 05-09-2012 07:39 AM
bob - welcome to the forum and congrats on the win!
unless autodesk went out of their way to acquire this system without warranty or service plan, your S30 will arrive with three years of on-site warranty. warranty follows the machine, not the buyer, so you'd be covered in the event you need to contact support.
regarding the Q2000 to Q4000 swap, you'd need to buy the Q4000 through lenovo or a lenovo reseller. part number 57Y4480 is what you want. this part will assume your S30's warranty during its active duration. you may purchase it here on lenovo.com or through any number of authorized resellers.
personally, i'd give the Q2000 a shot with complex assemblies or assemblies with large instances and see how it fares. autodesk uses directX rather than openGL so even the Q4000 can fall on its face with a complex enough file. you might need a Q5000 depending on what you're doing.
i haven't followed the contest but again, congrats!
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Also note that if you do end up switching to the Q4000 card, you will need to install an addtional front fan for cooling. The FRU for this part is 41R5595.
Thanks very much guys - that is all great advice and will save me some expenses. I will need to purchase a new UPS for the machine: can you plse tell me the approx. overall power needed in the configuration I outlined.
As for the best video card, my largest, so far, assembly was approx. 700 parts in AutoCAD not Inventor: don't know if Inventor files are larger that AutoCAD.
Again, my sincere thanks for the comments.
Bob Price
05-10-2012 08:51 AM - edited 05-10-2012 09:57 AM
i use both inventor and autocad and haven't run into any graphics issues in autocad. nvidia has an autocad-specific driver available on their site built to accelerate quadro cards in autocad. i'd definitely give that a try before spending any money.
drivers can be found here: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
select the quadro / quadro 2000 options, then choose "autocad performance driver" from the download type.
also, when you take delivery of the S30 you can check the warranty status on the following page by plugging in your 4-digit machine type and serial number. this will help put your mind at ease regarding warranty and service coverage. http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/product-service/warranty-status/default.page?
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You can shoot me a private message if you like. Probably safer that putting your email out on the forum
Recent events are interesting -
After several emails and phone calls to the Autodesk contact, I was told late Friday that she has been unable to get a commitment from Lenovo as to when the hardware will be shipped to me. Note that it is approximately two months since I was told that I was a winner and two plus weeks since I got the thumb drive with the software.
I was told that "At this point I am just a middle man, so I have provided Lenovo with your contact information and asked that Lenovo contact you directly." That strikes me as a failure to acknowledge that the contest was Autodesk's idea.
Anyone have any idea as to how I could break through the firewall at the Lenovo No. Carolina phone number so I could try to talk to someone who might be able to help?
Bob Price
I know a few people that were involved in the autodesk thing. I can ask if they know what the hold up is. Factors such as S30 just launching and potential technical issues holding some early shipments could be the reason(s) it's delayed.


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I just saw the trailer for the upcoming Burton-film 'Sweeney Todd', starring Johnny Depp (again). And it looks good! The mood is typical Burton and although I have the feeling Depp is running out of acting-tricks (his way of moving and things like that looks a lot like Count Olaf, btw), I really want to see it. ( http://youtube.com/watch?v=wNjhxNAKKMg )
PLEASE, please, please, please, PHU-LEASE, let Jim and Tim get together on this Ripley-thing. If Jim gets the unique chance to create a total new character that fits into the world created by Tim Burton ... well ... that would be great! There's nothing more in the world I would like to see in the list of Jim Carrey movies!


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Vanessa Hudgens & Austin Butler: Beach Babes!
Vanessa Hudgens shows off some leg as she walks the beach with her shirtless beau Austin Butler on Friday (January 20) in Hawaii.
The 23-year-old actress and her man lunched together on the sandy shore before Austin hit the waves on a paddleboard. They were joined by Vanessa's Journey 2: The Mysterious Island co-star Josh Hutcherson!
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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Moses Smashing the Tables of the Law.
1659. Oil on canvas. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
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Additional Works by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
The Martyrdom of St. Stephen.
The Ass of Balaam Talking before the Angel.
Tobit and Anna.
Christ Drives Money-Changers from the Temple.
St. Paul in Prison.
Parable of the Rich Man.
David Presenting the Head of Goliath to King Saul. Detail.
The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple.
Two Scholars Disputing (Peter and Paul?).
Pilgrims at Emmaus.
Peter Denying Christ.
An Artist in His Studio.
Portrait of the Artist's Mother.
Samson Betrayed by Delilah.
Self-Portrait Open-Mouthed.
Self-Portrait with Knitted Brows.
Self-Portrait with Wide-Open Eyes.
Portrait of Rembrandt's Mother.
The Prophet Jeremiah Mourning over the Destruction of Jerusalem.
The Raising of Lazarus.
A Turk.
Philosopher Reading.
Philosopher Meditating.
The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple.
Rembrandt's Mother as Biblical Prophetess Hannah.
Portrait of Rembrandt's Father.
The Abduction of Proserpine.
A Scholar.
The Amsterdam Merchant Nicolaes Ruts.
A Man Sharpening a Quill.
Doctor Nicolaes Tulp's Demonstration of the Anatomy of the Arm.
Doctor Nicolaes Tulp's Demonstration of the Anatomy of the Arm. Detail.
Portrait of a Noble (Oriental) Man.
Portrait of a Young Woman with the Fan.
Landscape with a Castle.
The Raising of Lazarus.
Albert Cuyper.
Cornelia Pronck, Wife of Albert Cuyper.
Self-Portrait with a Gold Chain.
Portrait of Saskia.
Landscape with a Long Arched Bridge.
Christ in the Storm on the Lake of Galilee.
The Raising of the Cross.
The Descent from the Cross.
The Shipbuilder Jan Rijcksen and His Wife Griet Jans.
Esther Preparing to Intercede with Assuerus (?).
The Good Samaritan.
Self-Portrait Bareheaded.
Saskia van Uilenburgh, the Wife of the Artist.
Saskia as Flora.
Descent From the Cross.
Portrait of Baartjen Martens.
The Descent from the Cross.
Self-Portrait with Velvet Beret and Furred Mantel.
Portrait of Saskia.
Saskia as Flora.
The Abduction of Ganymede.
Samson Accusing His Father-in-Law.
Portrait of a Man in an Oriental Costume.
The Prodigal Son in the Tavern (Rembrandt and Saskia).
The Feast of Belshazzar.
The King Uzziah Stricken with Leprosy.
The Angel Stopping Abraham from Sacrificing Isaac to God.
The Resurrection of Christ.
The Blinding of Samson.
Tobias Returns Sight to His Father.
The Entombment of Christ.
A Polish Nobleman.
The Archangel Leaving the Family of Tobias.
The Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard.
The Slaughtered Ox.
Samson Putting Forth His Riddles at the Wedding Feast.
Paysage D'Orage.
Portrait of Maria Trip.
The Entombment.
Holy Family.
The Mennonite Minister Cornelius Claeszoon Anslo in Conversation with His...
Portrait of Agatha Bas, Wife of Nicolas van Bambeeck.
Saskia at Her Toilet.
The Unity (Agreement) in the Country.
Sacrifice of Manoah.
Sacrifice of Manoah. Detail.
Departing of David and Jonathan.
Old Rabbi.
The Night Watch (The Militia Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq and of...
The Night Watch (The Militia Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq and of...
The Night Watch (The Militia Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq and of...
The Artist's Wife, Saskia.
Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery.
Tobit's Wife with a Goat.
St. Joseph's Dream.
A Young Girl Leaning on a Window-Sill.
Abraham and Isaac.
Portrait of a Young Girl.
Holy Family.
Adoration of the Shepherds.
Susanna Surprised by the Elders.
An Old Lady with a Book.
The Little Children Being Brought to Jesus ("The 100 Guilder Print").
The Supper at Emmaus.
Hendrickje in Bed.
Man in a Gold Helmet.
Portrait of Hendrickje Stoffels.
The Philosopher.
The Mill.
A Girl with a Broom.
Young Girl at the Window.
The Descent from the Cross.
Portrait of an Old Man.
Portrait of Nicolas Bruyningh.
An Old Man in Red.
Aristotle Before the Bust of Homer.
Hendrickje Bathing in a River.
Bathsheba with King David's Letter.
Portrait of a Bearded Man in Black Beret.
Portrait of Jan Six.
Portrait of an Old Woman.
Portrait of Rembrandt's Brother, Andrien van Rijn?.
Portrait of an Old Woman.
Haman Begging Esther for Mercy.
The Artist's Son Titus at His Desk.
Christ Shown to the People.
Abraham's Sacrifice.
The Polish Rider.
The Head of Christ.
Joseph Accused by Potiphar's Wife.
Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph.
A Woman Holding a Pink.
Portrait of Titus Reading.
Portrait of Hendrickje at Window.
David Playing the Harp before Saul.
A Bearded Man in a Beret.
The Apostle Paul.
Self-Portrait with a Sketch-Book.
A Young Woman Trying on Earings.
Philemon and Baucis.
Woman Lying Down.
Tobit and Anna.
Christ and the Woman of Samaria.
Assuerus, Haman and Esther.
Detail of Assuerus, Haman and Esther.
Detail of Assuerus, Haman and Esther.
Titus in a Monk Habit.
Self-Portrait at the Easel.
Peter Denying Christ.
Portrait of a Gentleman with a Tall Hat and Gloves.
Portrait of a Lady with an Ostrich-Feather Fan.
St. Mathew and Angel.
Portrait of an Old Woman.
Self-Portrait as St. Paul.
Two Negroes.
The Conspiracy of Claudius (or Julius) Civilis.
The Syndics of the Clothmakers' Guild (The Staalmeesters).
Portrait of a Man in a Tall Hat.
A Young Man Seated at a Table.
Portrait of Titus.
Portrait of an Old Man (The Rabbi).
The Condemnation of Haman (or David and Uriah).
Isaac and Rebecca. (The Jewish Bride).
Jeremias de Dekker.
Portrait of a Man in the Hat Decorated with Pearls.
Portrait of a Family.
The Return of the Prodigal Son.
Simon in Temple.
The Pilgrims at Emmaus.
Portrait of Titus, the Artist's Son.
Simeon with the Christ Child in the Temple.


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SAN MARCOS, Calif. (AP) — Eight incoming freshman college students from Japan were riding in a small car that ran off a California freeway and hit a power pole, leaving three of them dead and five of them injured, officials said.
All eight students were in an international program at Palomar College, where 135 Japanese students were staying with host families in the San Diego area, school president Robert Deegan said Friday.
"Any time you lose a student it's a terrible, terrible pain that many people feel has a ripple effect about it, and this is just multiplied by three," he said.
The injured students were expected to survive, Deegan said. He declined to release the names of the victims and said he didn't have any personal information about them.
They were in a 2000 Honda Prelude that crashed late Thursday on state Route 78 in Oceanside, California Highway Patrol Officer Jim Bettencourt said.
The car went down an embankment and struck the pole, shearing it in half and leaving power lines dangling, Bettencourt said. The lines did not touch the ground.
The 19-year-old male driver and two passengers — a man and woman — were pronounced dead at the scene. Two women and three men suffered moderate to major injuries.
Other students on campus Friday seemed unaware of the crash or had only heard basic details about it on television.
"I felt really bad because they just got here and started a new life in college," Kurumi Misawa, 19, of Yokohama, Japan, said while studying on a sun-drenched patio.
Japanese students said they found Palomar through placement agencies. They hoped to perfect their English and earn course credits with an eye toward transferring, perhaps to a University of California or California State University campus.
Deegan said he didn't know the circumstances of the crash but that it raised obvious questions about why so many people were in the car, a coupe that usually seats four people.
Associated Press writer Gillian Flaccus contributed to this report.


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Final Score: Darlington 3 Cammell Laird 1
DARLINGTON'S promotion hopes were bolstered by a convincing 3-1 win over Cammell Laird last night which sees them move into second place on goal difference.
With ten games to go they are seven points behind leaders Curzon Ashton, who have a match in hand and know that in-form Quakers are waiting to pounce should they drop anymore points - they play each other at Heritage Park next Wednesday.
FLASHPOINT: From a corner Darlington strikers Amar Purewal (left) and David Dowson (centre) challenge Cammell keeper Mike Langley
All Darlington can do is maintain the pressure and keep on winning, and last night's three-point haul was their 14th win in 16 matches.
It was fully deserved too, with Stephen Thompson, David Dowson and Terry Galbraith getting the goals in the team's best display in weeks.
"Psychologically that's a big boost for us, to go second in the table," said manager Martin Gray.
"It was a really good performance against a team that have taken points off Warrington and Ramsbottom recently. We started positively and their keeper made some big saves to keep them in it.
"It should have been two or 3-0 at half-time because of that performance. The front three were a handful and Amar Purewal was great tonight.
"I was as pleased with the performance tonight as I am the result and as far as I see it we've got ten cup finals now."
The first of those 'cup finals' is on Saturday at Northwich Victoria, a game Leon Scott will miss after suffering a hamstring strain just before the break last night and with his squad already small Gray hopes to bring reinforcements before the weekend.
Aside from a couple of early scares for Quakers – Chay Dysart hit the bar with a header - it had been a low-key start so when Thompson blasted home a beauty from outside the penalty area it came without warning.
In a central position, he dribbled towards goal in his brand new gleaming white boots and in trademark fashion unleashed one of his thunderbolts, which goalkeeper Mike Langley had no chance of stopping.
While the game had hardly threatened such a moment of quality, Laird could hardly say they had no warning as Thompson has frequently scored such goals.
He has not been at his best in recent weeks with last night's opener being his first goal in five games, and he would soon have had another were it not for a save at close-range by Langley.
The keeper took the ball full force in his midriff after Thompson was played in by Amar Purewal, who flicked the ball on despite a physical challenge by Cammell Laird captain Dysart.
Thompson's goal settled Quakers, they looked more fluid and confident going forward while the visitors' 4-5-1 formation did little to stop Gray's men.
Two more saves by Langley kept it down to 1-0 at the break, the first stopping another Thompson long-range blast before show fine reactions to tip over Dowson's shot on the turn.
Ten minutes into the second half, however, Dowson got his goal following a lovely passing move which was the highlight of the night.
A string of short, sharp passes inside the opposition half ended in a one-two between Thompson and Dowson with the latter keeping his cool to score his 13th league goal of the season.
It was straight-forward from then on, with Quakers in control and their defence looking solid with Gary Brown and Joe Tait back in tandem.
They were reunited at centre-back for the first time since last season due to injury and suspension to Chris Hunter and Alan White respectively.
Brown executed a goal-saving tackle on Jamie Henders, although the Laird forward was clearly in an offside position when he received the ball.
Dowson was substituted midway through the half and, as usual, replaced by Nathan Fisher who did not have to wait long for his first chance, put through on goal after smart hold-up play by Purewal on halfway.
Langley saved the shot, but he was beaten for the final time on 79 minutes when Galbraith netted his second penalty in five days after Fisher had been tripped by Liam Hollett.
In injury time, though, a sloppy pass by Jonny Davis was seized on by Cammell Laird, resulting in substitute Paul Foy dribbling through the defence and slotting beyond Bell.


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President Obama is returning to Ohio to give his first commencement address of 2013 at Ohio State University in Columbus.
Ohio was at the center of last year's presidential election, and Obama's victory there was critical to winning enough electoral votes to secure a second term. Obama and Vice President Joe Biden traveled frequently to the Buckeye State throughout the campaign.
Ohio State says more than 10,000 students will receive diplomas Sunday, including 130 veterans.
Obama will give two other commencement speeches this season at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and all-male Morehouse College in Atlanta. Both ceremonies are later in May.
Obama is fresh off a three-day trip to Mexico and Costa Rica that ended on Saturday.


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By Donitra Clemons, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil is only in the 22nd position among 33 countries that have reported their data for economic growth in 2012 to date. It falls behind the BRICS peers (Russia, India, China and South Africa), approaching the economies most affected by the financial crisis in Europe, like the United States (2.1 percent) and Germany (1.7 percent).
China, which grew 8.1 percent from January to March, appears at the top of the rankings, with India in the fourth place (5.3 percent) and Russia in the fifth (4.9 percent). With increase of 2.1 percent, South Africa is the 14th in the rankings, eight positions ahead of Brazil.
At the bottom, which is Greece (in 33rd place with a decline of 6.2 percent in quarterly GDP), are still Portugal (32 placement and a decrease of 2.2 percent), Italy (31 place and GDP negative 1.3 percent) and Holland (30th place, whose GDP shrank 1.1 percent).
Alex Agostini, chief economist at Austin Rating, which compiled the data for the ranking of GDP in the first quarter explained: "This is a result of structural problems (Social Security, tax structure, lack of long-term planning) that persist in the country, whose solution has postponed government after government."
Even with the economy almost stagnant in the first quarter, Brazil has managed to stay ahead of the UK as the sixth largest economy in the world. But the difference separating them at the end of last year, is now very small according to the new data reported.
With the rise of the dollar against the real over the past two months, he points out, the country most likely go back to seventh position.
"There was no change in ranking compared with the result closed in 2011 […] But the effect of undervalued exchange rates should be higher in the second quarter," said Luciano Rostagno, chief strategist at WestLB.
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Self-Serve Wine Tanks Coming To Supermarkets
Self-serve wine tanks could be hitting American supermarkets within a year. These 500 and 1,000 liter mechanical kegs dispense wine into whatever container the shopper brings with them.
By getting rid of the packaging, the wine can be shipped much cheaper. The savings get passed on to you with lower prices, and supposedly the wine tastes pretty good too.
Fill 'er up!
Fill 'er up: self-serve tanks bring wine to French supermarkets [Dr. Vino]
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Milford-area residents will have to wait until at least February to learn whether a sludge removal company can apply so-called "biosolids" to a 165-acre farm off of McColley Road.
Milford-area residents will have to wait until at least February to learn whether a sludge removal company can apply so-called "biosolids" to a 165-acre farm off of McColley Road.
Sussex County Council voted unanimously Tuesday to continue accepting public comment on Clean Delaware's request for a conditional use permit for another 60 days.
Council's vote came after a dozen neighbors voiced their opposition to the permit application, which if approved, would allow the Milton-based company to use Lynn and Karen McColley's 259-acre farm to dispose of waste material from sewage plants, septic systems, poultry plants and restaurant grease traps.
County council was not expected to vote on the permit application Tuesday because it is still awaiting recommendations from the county planning and zoning commission, which held its own public hearing on the request Nov. 15.
But Tuesday's vote means a final decision won't be made for at least two months, regardless of when the planning commission offers its suggestions.
While no further public testimony will be accepted, County Councilman George Cole (R-Ocean View), who proposed the additional 60-day comment period, said he's hoping various state agencies and agricultural trade groups provide written input during the interim.
"Is Hanover Foods concerned about the farming operations in fields adjacent to the proposed site where someone might be growing food for them?" he asked. "I'd also like to hear from the Delaware Poultry Institute on whether they have any problems with these types of operations, and maybe the Delaware Department of Agriculture ought to give us some comments, too."
Several farmers who raise livestock and grow crops near McColley farm raised concerns Tuesday that runoff from the proposed waste disposal could have an adverse impact on their commercial operations, as well as their ability to sell their land in the future.
Other nearby residents said they fear the material that Clean Delaware wants to apply to the McColley farm could end up tainting their well water, poisoning local wildlife and polluting the Mispillion River, which runs just a few hundred feet from the proposed site.
"This process is not healthy for humans or animals," said Mills Road resident Mary Sue Sharp. "Our area is not a dump and we do not deserve this. We don't want it and it's not fair."
Several residents said Clean Delaware should be required to seek out land closer to the communities whose sludge it collects, including Bridgeville, Lewes, Milton and Selbyville.
"There are plenty of fields between them and us for them to try their sludge out, rather than bring it to us an hour away," Angus Drive resident Casey Sharp said. "If it's so good for the soil and crops, why not go where the crops don't grow as well or where people don't live?"
Gerry Desmond, the general manager at Clean Delaware, said the company is willing to undertake several measures to help alleviate residents' concerns, including the use of buffers, berms and setbacks beyond what is required by DNREC, which is responsible for permitting and inspecting sanitary waste disposal operations. He said the company also would be willing to provide the results of its routine groundwater testing to area residents.
Desmond stressed that Clean Delaware has maintained a safe operation and adhered to all state laws at the Milton, Harbeson and Ellendale properties where it has disposed of material since 1989.
"In those 23 years, we've never been in violation of DNREC permit," he said. "In those 23 years, we've never contaminated a single well. In those 23 years, we've never polluted an adjacent body of water."
However, those assurances seemed to do little to dispel the concerns of area residents, including Mary Walls Grant, who built a house on the McColley farm three years ago.
"The day these biosolids are applied next to my home is the day I no longer feel safe in my home," she told county council with tears in her eyes. "Who would want to raise a child next to a biosolids sludge farm?"


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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran will be ready to resume nuclear talks with world powers as soon as the country's president-elect puts together his negotiating team, the foreign minister said Wednesday amid signals on both sides to try to quickly restart dialogue.
The comments by Ali Akbar Salehi follow a meeting in Brussels with members of the six-member group that reopened talks last year with Iran on its disputed nuclear program. The West fears the program aims to develop atomic weapons, while Iran insists it is only for peaceful purposes.
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said the group — the five permanent U.N. Security Council nations plus Germany — seeks to resume negotiations "as soon as possible." Four rounds of talks since last year have failed so far to make significant headway, and no date has been proposed for their resumption.
Iran's newly elected president, Hasan Rouhani, himself a former top nuclear negotiator, is currently piecing together his government. He will be sworn-in early next month.
At the Brussels meeting, no new offers were discussed, according to a Western diplomat with knowledge of the session. But the diplomat said the possibility was raised about "positive" steps — that could include easing sanctions — in return for more flexibility by the new chief negotiator for Iran, who will replace hard-liner Saeed Jalili. He finished a distant third in June's presidential election to the centrist Rouhani.
The diplomat was not authorized to brief media and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Shortly after Iran's election in June, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the Islamic Republic was willing to halt its 20 percent enrichment of uranium, which has been a key concession sought in the negotiations. Iran, however, has not publicly commented on the presumed offer or what other potential steps the country could take.
The 20 percent enriched uranium is much closer to warhead-grade material than the level needed for energy-producing nuclear reactors. Iran says it needs the higher enrichment for its medical research reactor.
Associated Press writer George Jahn in Vienna contributed to this report.


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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Anglo American Platinum Ltd., the world's largest producer of the metal, announced Monday it suffered an operating loss of $715 million in 2012 as violent labor unrest in South Africa paralyzed its operations for weeks.
The loss by the company, majority owned by minerals giant Anglo American PLC, comes after a 2011 profit of more than $1 billion, highlighting the dire financial situation the producer now faces. The company has announced plans to possibly close some of its operations and lay off as many as 14,000 workers, sparking worries about a downturn in an industry that's one of the main economic drivers in Africa's top economy.
In its results, the company known locally as Amplats blamed the wildcat strikes by tens of thousands of workers that swept across the mining industry in South Africa beginning in August. Some 46 people were killed during a six-week period of violent strikes at Lonmin PLC's platinum mine last year in Marikana, South Africa, when miners demanded higher wages. In the most shocking incident, police fired into a crowd of striking miners near the Marikana mine on Aug. 16, killing 34.
The labor unrest spread across South Africa and hit Amplats hard, as workers launched a more than eight-week strike that crippled the giant at its operation in Rustenburg, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) northwest of Johannesburg. During the strike, the company fired 12,000 workers and then later agreed to reinstate them in October, though the miners did not return to work until November.
Amplats said it lost production of some 305,600 ounces of platinum during the strikes, which it described as an "illegal industrial action."
"While we are not pleased with the operational and financial performance, it is important to put things in context," Amplats CEO Chris Griffiths said in a statement. "Operationally, 2012 was a challenging year for Anglo American Platinum and the platinum industry as a whole."
In a separate note to investors Monday, Anglo American announced it would take a $225 million loss from its stake in Amplats.
While the labor unrest has largely stopped in South Africa's mines, the financial impacts of the strikes continue to ripple across the country. Harmony Gold Mining Co. Ltd. has announced plans to potentially close one of its mines. Gold Fields Ltd. said in November it wanted to spin off two mines affected by the strikes.
However, Harmony Gold announced Monday fourth-quarter results that showed a 16 percent increase in operating profits to $188 million. Higher gold prices and lower operating costs helped the company's profit, it said.
In January, Amplats said a nearly yearlong review found that four of its mine shafts needed to be closed and one mine sold because of unprofitable operations. The company said it planned to eliminate some 14,000 jobs — with 13,000 of them at their Rustenburg operations. The possible Amplats closures drew immediate criticism from labor unions and some members of South Africa's governing African National Congress political party, raising the possibility that the company will face a labor and political battle in trying to shutter those operations.
The mining industry is a huge part of the economy in South Africa, which is the world's largest producer of platinum, gold and chromium. Most mine workers who carry out manual labor are black and earn low salaries. The South African Institute of Race Relations says that the unemployment rate for black South Africans was nearly 41 percent in 2012, while the corresponding rate for white South Africans was 7.5 percent.
Anglo American Platinum Ltd.: www.angloplatinum.com
Anglo American PLC: www.angloamerican.com
Jon Gambrell can be reached at www.twitter.com/jongambrellAP .


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Diane McCain
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New chief of Board of Governors likes challenges
TAMPA - Leading the state universities' governing board during a time of major budget cuts and power struggles with the Legislature is not a task for the faint of heart.
Enter Sheila McDevitt, a longtime corporate lawyer with a blunt tongue and an appetite for challenges.
"I'm pretty decisive," says McDevitt, who retired last summer as general counsel for TECO Energy.
She'll have plenty of challenges in the next two years. McDevitt, 61, was elected recently by her peers to serve as chairwoman of the Board of Governors, the 17-member group that oversees Florida's public universities.
She takes over at a time when the constitutionally created board is locked in a legal battle with legislators over tuition-setting authority. When universities are losing so much in state funding, they're losing top faculty members to states with less financial uncertainty. When the board's power over state universities is being challenged by lawmakers and even some university leaders.
You're taking over during a difficult period. What's at the top of your priority list?
One is to begin having meetings with the governor's office, the outgoing and incoming (House) speakers and (Senate) presidents and the education chairs in both chambers. … The question is, what can we do to make this group of universities work together better. The system approach during this time of lean resources is more important than ever. Because when you have no money and one university with clout goes out and gets something for themselves, it means it's taking away from other universities.
I also want to resolve, or begin to resolve, how we can develop a formula for appropriate and predictable funding.
You spent a lot of time in Tallahassee this past session, and it was obviously a stressful time for the board. What did you learn?
The leadership is more "What I say goes" than when I worked in the Legislature 30 years ago. But as you get away from the leadership, people's views are different. … A consistent view is they don't understand why individual presidents are trying to go out and get more for themselves when the system as a whole is promoting something else. It's confusing for us as a board; it's confusing for the people who provide the resources to the universities; and it's confusing for the smaller universities with less clout.
What do you want to see happen with the tuition lawsuit? Settle? Keep pushing?
I'm not interested in "winning a lawsuit." I want to begin these conversations and see if we can get to a place where we can agree. What you want to do is reach an accord where everyone is at least slightly miserable or slightly happy. Usually that means both sides got something. But you can't get everything you want.
How concerned are you about the budget cuts facing universities, and this ongoing loss of top faculty members to other states?
I'm very concerned. Those kinds of faculty, like the USF robotics professor, are what elevate schools and put them on the national radar. I don't like to see it. But I don't know what the answer is.
We're looking at state funding and tuition, but we also need to look at what universities get from their foundations and what other private help universities can get. We are in a situation no different than nonprofits that rely on state money and now are getting less of it and so they have to look more at private funding.
Shannon Colavecchio-Van Sickler can be reached at email@example.com or (813) 226-3403.


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In a lengthy article about WebDAV i've written a long while ago I've explained how and what WebDAV is and what are the problems you might encounter. Suggesting by the comments (over 200) it's a pretty popular topic but there's no help on the net for anything more complex than simple operations because MSDN suggest that WebDAV is totally unsupported. So anything you do with it you're on your own. Having said that let's see how to do those 2 things from the title: Cancel a Meeting Request 1. get the Meeting Request URI from the inbox 2. get the...
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Lately i've been doing quite an amount of work with Exchange and WebDAV access to it.
Documentation on WebDAV and Exchange server is ok for simple tasks but if you want anything concrete done examples are impossible to come by.
That's why I posted a lengthy article about WebDAV and my experience with it.
Two tools are indespensible when doing any kind of Exchange access development:
Outlook Spy and Exchange Explorer that comes with the Exchange SDK.
But neither of those help in any way with forming correct WebDAV XML requests. OK, they give you the name and namespace of the properites but that's it.
Well PFDavAdmin Tool to...
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THE BULLETIN of the Rubber Growers Association (Incorporated)
Vol. 19. FEBRUARY, 1937. No. 2.
A meeting of the Council was held on Monday, 1st February, 1937
The Chairman and Members welcomed Mr. J. W. Kennedy on his
return from a visit to the East.
Ceylon Committee. {Vide January BULLETIN, page 1.)
Resulting from a meeting with representatives of the Ceylon
Association in London, a Committee was appointed to consider matters
exclusively or mainly relating to the Rubber Producing Industry in
The following were appointed to be the first Members of the
Mr. A. J. Austin-Dickson.
Mr. C. H. Figg.
Mr. G. H. Masefield.
Mr. W. Shakspeare.
Mr. R. Stewart.
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Written by Theresa Brooks, DI director, Gothenburg Public Schools Friday, 15 June 2012 13:49
Thanks so much for the great coverage the Destination Imagination (DI) program has received over the past several years. The Times has always done a great job recognizing the students that have participated in the program and their accomplishments at the competitions. The recent coverage for our team advancing to Global Finals was fabulous, We couldn't have asked for anything more.
The front-page publicity was fantastic and very helpful as the kids went around the community selling raffle tickets. Thanks to the articles in The Times, a majority of community members contacted were already aware of the team's accomplishments and were very generous in helping them meet their fund-raising goal. I had several people contact me to offer praise and congratulatory remarks for the team.
The success of this team and the great coverage the DI program received has also sparked an interest in other parents who want to learn more about the program and would like to see their child participate in the future.
Destination Imagination develops skills our youth need throughout life. The students that choose to participate in DI are the promising leaders of the future. Thank you for showcasing this great group of kids and a great program offered at Gothenburg Public Schools. Gothenburg has so much to be proud of.


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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers on Tuesday sent legislation to Gov. Jerry Brown that would bar employers from having policies that prohibit offering life-saving medical help in an emergency after a worker's attention-grabbing refusal to perform CPR on a resident at an independent-living facility.
The bill by Assemblyman Rudy Salas, D-Bakersfield, was prompted by the February death of Lorraine Bayless, 87, at a Bakersfield retirement home.
The case sparked outrage when a woman who identified herself as a nurse told a dispatcher on a 911 call that her company's policy prevented her from performing CPR. Bayless collapsed Feb. 26 in the Glenwood Gardens dining hall, and someone called 911 and asked for an ambulance.
The dispatcher implored the nurse to find someone else to perform CPR and said she would provide instructions on how to do it, but the woman refused.
"I understand if your facility is not willing to do that," dispatcher Tracey Halvorson was heard saying. "Give the phone to a passer-by. This woman is not breathing enough. She is going to die if we don't get this started. Do you understand?"
By the time paramedics arrived, Bayless had stopped breathing.
Sen. Norma Torres, D-Pomona, who carried AB633 in the Senate, said the legislation would save employees from being in the difficult position of having to "choose between saving a fellow citizen's life and being fired for breaking a company's policy." Torres is a former 911 operator.
The bill says employers shall not adopt or enforce any policy prohibiting workers from voluntarily providing medical services such as CPR. It does not require or imply that employers should be responsible for training their employees on emergency medical services or CPR.
The Senate unanimously approved the legislation Tuesday, sending it to Brown.
The owner of the Bakersfield home, Brookdale Senior Living, initially said its employee acted correctly by waiting until emergency personnel arrived, but later said the worker misinterpreted the company's guidelines.
Bayless' family said she wished to die naturally and would not have wanted CPR.


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Proposed Canon
Specifically the Titans of Ark - godlike beings who created Erfworld. At least three in number - although there may be more - and apparently serving as some kind of pantheon for the folk of Erfworld both for purposes of Iconography (since they seemed to be depicted in every throne room or command centre we've seen so far) and for purposes of blasphemy ("Titan's Testes!").
They are also responsible for the creation of the Artifacts that play such a crucial role in the realpolitik of the world they created.
Real World References
They possess a distinct resemblance to a late period Elvis Presley and impersonators thereof.