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We had another two hour weather delay this morning. I had the news on so I'd know if we closed but I really wasn't paying attention. I puttered around on my computer, working on a blog post and ignored my news feeds.
I started my elementary route right on time but fell a minute behind because several kids were at sitters or not ready because of the delay.
After picking up my first 13 kids I turned onto Main St. Just as student number 14 was boarding, the fire department's rescue truck pulled across and blocked off the next intersection - right at the corner where the funeral home is. Had I paid attention to the news I would have been prepared but since I hadn't I pulled up to about 50 feet from the intersection, parked in the middle of my lane and called in my situation to alert other drivers that the road was closed. My initial thought was that it must be a funeral for a local fire fighter.
My view was blocked by the truck but very quickly men from the VFW appeared holding American flags and flanked the side street. A procession of cars started around the corner between them. I was briefly distracted by traffic behind me and the kids getting out of their seatbelts to see what was going on - a big no-no on my bus. I was just about to order them back into their seats when members of the 10th Mountain Division started to line up on the porch of the funeral home. Waves of sadness washed over me as I realized what we were about to witness.
A line of Oswego County Sheriff's cars came around the truck on the other side and parked on the side of the road, even with and facing my bus. The officers got out and formed a line, which was quickly joined by NYS Troopers and local Officers who had parked somewhere out of my view. A line of men in blue was now standing at attention in the roadway right in front of the bus and facing the funeral home.
The kids were standing up and asking questions and I was doing my best to answer them. Some were impatient that we were being held up in this way. I told them that somebody important had died and pointed out the three honor guards that we could see from our vantage point. I told them that these men were here to honor a soldier and that we should also show our respect by waiting patiently. A couple were upset at the idea of anyone being dead and I tied to comfort them and not tear up myself. We talked about respect, honor, dignity and war. As we watched, several local residents came out from their homes to stand on the other three corners in the bitter weather.
Suddenly the officers in front of us started saluting and a few moments later we could see the casket being carried onto the porch by more soldiers. This was the first time most of the kids had ever seen a casket. I looked up in my mirror and my problem student, the one that is always in trouble for saying inappropriate things, picking on younger kids or for being just plain disruptive, this student was standing next to their seat and saluting. Despite the lump in my throat I suggested that anybody that wanted to show their respect for this fallen soldier should stand with their hands over their hearts just like the people standing on the corners were doing. The one student continued to salute and the rest of us placed our hands over our hearts and remained that way until the last of the mourners had been escorted into the funeral home.
If we hadn't had a delay we would not have been there. If I had listened to the news I might have rerouted and we would not have been there. If I had not been running one minute late we would not have been there. I believe that we were meant to be there with our hands over our hearts.
I now know that we witnessed the very sad homecoming of Army Sgt. Timothy Van Orman. Sgt. Van Orman served in Afghanistan from August 2003 to May 2004 and in Iraq from August 2005 to July 2006. In September he was deployed for the third time. Last week Sgt. Van Orman became a casualty of war, dying at the age of 24. He leaves behind a wife, infant daughter, his parents and three siblings. More on his homecoming can be found here and his obituary here.
Four of my friends have sons in the armed forces. I have never met Mike, who was wounded in Irag, but his mother is thankful that he is doing well and stationed in the US. Another friend's son is in the Air Force and will probably be deployed again. The other two young men are both in the Army and besides being the sons of friends they are two of "my" kids. Bob has finished basic and is continuing his training and will be deployed soon. Jim is still in basic training. I spent a lot of time today thinking about these four young men.
My heart felt sympathy goes out to the family of Sgt. Van Orman.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
With Our Hands Over Our Hearts
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You've done such a great job describing the solemness of this momentous occasion Apple. I can tell it made a lasting impression on you, and hope it did the same for the kids on the bus. It's important for them to see what our service men and women do for this country...and other less fortunate countries, to help us keep (or gain) our freedoms.ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing the moment. My heart goes out to this young man's family.
Wow, I almost felt like I was on the bus with you. I'm glad you let them out of their seats, that is probably a memory some of them will carry through their lifetime.ReplyDelete
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Side Braid: Lala Vasquez
If you have incredibly long hair, a side braid can help keep everything under control. After your gym session, undo the braid to reveal gorgeous, soft curls.
Ponytail with a Poof: Kim Kardashian
Whether your hair is long or short, a classic ponytail will never go out of style. Don't forget to give the top of your head a little poof for emphasis—and to avoid that not-so-sleek sweaty look.
Tight Ponytail: Emma Roberts
A tight ponytail is a favorite for gym goers. Keep the hairstyle really neat by running over your head with a toothbrush! Its bristles will keep flyaways in check.
Loose Ponytail with Layers: Julianne Hough
Keep the rest of your mane flowing in a loose ponytail. This hairstyle works best for girls with layers and bangs.
Braided Bangs: Sarah Connor
Have bangs that you can't (or don't want to) pull back? Try braiding it across to keep it off your sweaty forehead and face.
Braid and Bun: Alexandra Fulton
Want extra control? Braid your bangs and tie the rest of your mane into a bun. You'll be able to run, do Pilates, and head straight to happy hour with this hairstyle.
Crazy Curls: Teresa Palmer
Girls with curls, this hairstyle is for you! Create a super-natural 'do by bringing your hair into a ponytail at the top of your head. Then, wrap your curls around using bobby pins to secure the chunky strands.
High Bun: Jamie Chung
We love a high bun for special occasions, but you can also rock the easy, chic look while exercising. Flip your head over when you work your hair for best results.
Pigtails: Brittany Curran
Pigtails aren't just for kids. Try them for your next gym visit. Wear them high, low, or in the middle (as pictured).
Hat Head: Paris Hilton
Hello, hats! Don't forget—you can use accessories other than rubber bands when you're at the gym. Use a hat to keep your hair off of your face. Just beware of hat hair!
Lovely Waves: Vanessa Hudgens
Let it all hang loose. This hairstyle works best on girls with waves and curls. Flaunt those tresses, girlfriend!
Beautiful Bangs: Sofia Vergara
Don't worry about your bangs—showcase them on or off the courts. Tie your ponytail high, and worry about your bangs later.
Which hairstyle do you tend to wear the most when your working out at the gym?

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How Frequent is Cancer Treatment in a Pet
Last Reviewed: September 17, 2012
How frequently (number weeks or days per week?) will a dog have to get radiation or chemotherapy?
Erika Krick, VMD, DACVIM Veterinary Medical Oncologist, University of Pennsylvania, responds:
That depends on the type of cancer and treatment options. Learn more about treatment options for animals with cancer.
This question and answer was part of the OncoLink Brown Bag Chat Series. View the entire transcript from When a Beloved Pet has Cancer.


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On Sunday, I watched a highlight DVD of Judo championships. I won't mention the location.
Of course, the skill level of the competitors was extremely high. There were many amazing throws, pins, chokes, and submissions. But here is what really got me: many of the competitors would jump up and throw their arms up in victory as soon as they scored an ippon, and several of them stepped over their downed opponent. You have to remember that this is Judo, not football.
I was literally shocked. When I practiced Judo in Japan we would never think of doing such things. Our composure upon winning or losing would be the same. We did not show emotion and we would never step over our opponent (partner) -- we would step back and walk around them, never over them.
The competitors in the DVD had great techniques. I believe that some were world class Judoka. But how much harder would it have been for them to be composed and to show respect? It would have taken no effort at all.
If I was the judge, if a competitor scored one point for a clean throw and then threw up his arms in victory, I would take away two points. If he stepped over his opponent, I would expel him from the competition. That is just how I think. But then, I do not practice Judo.
In Karate, we would be extremely careful about stepping over a downed attacker. Throwing someone does not necessarily end the engagement. We would remain alert and vigilant until the threat was completely removed.
And if we showed happiness or cockiness upon scoring a point (delivering a technique), that might be the moment when the attacker's friend hits us in the back of the head with a brick!
Some people call this zanshin (lingering awareness). I only heard this term in Iaido. In Karate, we would simply remain aware. The fight is on until it is completely over.
Please make sure that you do not get me wrong. I think that world class Judoka have great techniques. They could throw me around like a rag doll. But composure and respect should be as much a part of any martial art as techniques. Otherwise it is just a sport... hmmmm.
Charles C. Goodin
Judo Etiquette
On Sunday, I watched a highlight DVD of Judo championships. I won't mention the location.
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For patients with certain heart conditions, the use of an Intra-aortic Balloon Pump is an effective way to help the heart do its work. The balloon pump helps by increasing the amount of oxygen to the heart, while decreasing the workload on the heart. If your doctor has prescribed Intra-aortic Balloon Pump therapy, you're in good company. More than 140,000 patients throughout the world receive this therapy each year.
Here are a few reasons why:
- To assist the heart during or after a heart attack
- To assist the heart during or after a procedure to open a blocked artery, such as the placement of a coronary stent
- To assist the heart during or after coronary artery bypass surgery
Generally, balloon pump therapy lasts anywhere from a couple of hours to several days, depending on how much help the heart needs.


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Congressman Chris Collins Encourages Small Business to Weigh In on Regulations
Congressman and small businessman Chris Collins is encouraging local small business owners to weigh in on proposed federal regulations through a new interactive website developed by the House Small Business Committee. Small Biz Reg Watch is an online resource for small business owners located on the House Small Business Committee website. It will detail proposed federal regulations that would impact small companies and give small business men and woman the ability to direct their comments on the proposals to the appropriate federal agency.
"As someone who has spent nearly 40 years in the small business world, I know the burden of having to comply with countless federal regulations, often with little or no advance warning," said Collins. "Small business owners are too busy running their business to keep up with the barrage of new federal regulations that are not only time consuming, but often cut into a company's bottom line. Since the people dreaming up these new rules have likely never spent a single day running a small business and employing people, they do not grasp the ramifications of these regulations. Small Biz Reg Watch will give small business owners an opportunity to monitor proposed regulations and speak out against them."
"In addition to recently raising their taxes, Washington continues to stick small businesses with more red tape each and every year," continued Collins. "How do we expect small businesses to grow and hire more Americans when Washington continues to take more of their hard-earned money and burden them with new and expensive regulations, including ObamaCare."
Collins is a member of the House Small Business Committee and is Chair of the Subcommittee on Health and Technology, which has direct oversight on healthcare costs for small businesses.
The website URL is: www.smallbusiness.house.gov/RegWatch


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A rare disorder where a person is so overwhelmed and blinded by their significant other that their indiviudality is diminished. The infected no longer recognize their friends and become so controlled they give up those they love. Early symptoms resemble immense bug loving and wearing edge hats. It is yet to be discovered if this disease is curable. Friends have been trying for a very long time. If you know somone suffering from these early symptons, they may still be savable if you get them help early, please contact a doctor. This disease not only hurts the infected, but causes plenty of hurt and sadness to those around them.
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Last week me and the Mr paid a visit over the weekend to to celebrate my Birthday!
This was my first ever real Spa visit – I have had massages and treatments before at salons but have so far remained largely unimpressed. There is also a real lack of Spas up North – Titanic Spa is located in Huddersfield, so its close to Manchester, Leeds and surrounding areas.
We arrived very late due to a number of annoying hold ups – luckily the Spa are were very flexible and moved everything around so we were having dinner when we arrived and the treatments the following day.
The Entrance!
The Spa itself used to be a textile mill – so its a great big thing nestled in the middle of the Pennines.
The drive there was a little….scary. Lots of windy, narrow, hilly, dark roads…Sat Nav is 100% necessary. (The photo you see above was taken the morning after, it was actually pitch black when we got there.) The Building:
As soon as we got there (very swish inside) we got a welcome Coffee:
The Apartment
We got slippers and a dressing gown, then got shown to our room which was a 2 storey apartment on the top floor. Anyway, we got shown in and it was just lovely…the kitchen:
The living area:
Audrey on the wall:
The Bathroom:
Upstairs, the bedroom (there was also a TV here and a large wardrobe):
Outside was a balcony –
The view:
The Apartment was very private – you can't hear anyone else so you are pretty much ensconsed.
The apartment was fabulous darlings – just fab. We chilled out that evening (not much time to try out the Heat Experience until the next day) so we just went down for dinner (which is included with our package).
This is me, so yes, you will be seeing what I ate!
The Dinner
I had Elderflower Fizzies! I liked the wonky glass:
The Bistro is lovely, quite small but it has an intimate feel. Service felt a bit slow at first (when getting our orders in) but then it picked up. The meal included was 2 courses and there were some pretty decent choices. I got Haddock Risotto to start:
Tuna Steak with Noodles as a main:
Quite tasty:
The Mr had Beef Stew:
I also had Chocolate Orange Pudding:
There's a supplement to pay on certain things (ie. my tuna steak was £2 more, the pudding was £5 – these charges are added on when you check out). There's no Cola or bad fizzies on the menu! For the best really.
Anyway, dinner was really lovely, our waiter was friendly and after din we mooched back to the apartment and watched some films then zzzzzz….
The next day we visited the which is one of of their special features.
They say:
The Titanic Heat Experiences are based on the ritual of bathing where the body is heated and then cooled by a series of experiences. The heat experience area guides your body through a sensory journey with the ultimate aim of inducing deep relaxation.
Its a darkened area with a number of rooms, each with their own heat experiences. You have to wear a cozzie in (no, I didn't take a camera in – do you want me to get evicted?).
Each room has instructions at the door (which were a little hard to read in the darkness) and you are supposed to shower in between each experience.
The rooms I tried in order:
1. Saunarium
This was a 'timber chamber' with little lights above us (like a Scandinavian sauna). As well as being hot, its very menthol-ly. As soon as you walk in in, its quite an overwhelming scent if you aren't used to it.
You start on the lower level then move to the higher seats. Clearly no one else bothered to read the instructions outside because they all went for the top decker!
Anyway this was actually a very enjoyable room once you get to the menthol – cleared up my sinus and was quite relaxing.
2. Foot Baths
Next up was 3 foot baths. You fill these up yourself and set the jets going. Problem. I poured (accidentally) half a bottle of Elemis bubble bath stuff in and before I knew it, there were bubbles overflowing all over the place.
Mr Candy found this hilarious, although he did help my try and flatten all the bubbles.
3. Crystal Steam Bath
This was my FAVOURITE room! This was a Turkish Steam bath – so hot and steamy it really cleared up my chest and made me sweat. Its difficult to adapt at first but it was just lovely – the humidity, for me, made it easier to bear than a traditional dry sauna.
4. Sauna Cabin
This was a typical Sauna, brightly lit with wooden seats. Didn't stay in here long as a guy came in with tiny orange shorts and decided to lay across an entire row of seats. I was not sat in a good place, and I was not looking at a good angle, that all I will say.
5. Plunge Pool
Not a room but there was a plunge pool here which was FREEZING. Good for refreshing yourself.
6. Ice Room
This was like a chiller! And there was plenty of Ice in there for people to rub over their bodies – good for cooling down after using one of the heat experiences. Also good for putting down and unsuspecting person's pants….
7. Aromatherapy Room
This room is apparently a Roman tradition. This is just a moderately heated 'dry' room – it was also lightly scented with aromatherapy oils. After being in the Steam Room though, this felt a bit mild, but it was actually lovely just for getting dry and relaxing.
There were also various showers and a water fountain within the heat experience.
It got pretty busy after an hour or so (although it never felt awkward or cramped) so we got dressed and went for lunch!
Yummm lunch was tasty. It was a buffet, so I stuffed my face with a vegetable thingy, rice, jacket potato and salad.
Finally in the afternoon we had two treatments booked in – me for a the Mr had the .
The treatment was great – relaxing without being too gentle or rough. The staff at Titanic Spa are extremely professional – I generally find body treatments quite traumatic because of unprofessional staff but they are really on the ball here, or at least the lady who did mine was.
We had to dash afterwards so I left, slightly oiled up (which I actually quite liked…..) and treated myself to some Jessica Nail Polish on the way out.
Although it was a fleeting visit I really enjoyed my time there (wish it was longer!) – I'm not one usually for treatments because I don't have time and because have been traumatised before, but if they were all of this standard when I would treat myself a lot more. I slept like a baby when I got home and my skin is glowing.
More than anything it was just nice to get away and stay in a swish apartment and be fed and watered for a day. The staff are excellent, approachable and were always quick to show us around when we got lost "Where's the toilets?", and I enjoyed all the meals.
If there was anything I would say Titanic Spa needs, its a general sitting around/relaxing area for people to just have tea and coffee. When we checked out of our room (at 11am) we didn't stay in our robes (you can keep using their services until 3pm but we chose to get dressed instead cos we're sort of….uptight) .
We ended up having a few hours to kill before our massages, but there was nowhere to sit apart from the Reception area and we felt guilty taking up the space when new guests were arriving so ended up going for a drive instead.
I would have also liked a clock in the Heat Experience – each room has a recommended time you should stay in for but without a watch it was difficult to work out. Perhaps its part of the experience to not be watching the clock but I really think it would have been helpful.
Overall – it was lovely, just lovely and me and the Mr will definitely be visiting again. You can view the website .


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greenID, an exchange forum,
on sustainable information design
Vienna, June-30, July-1, 2011
"We need greenID because it about designing effects and consequences."
"We need greenID because it is about creating the conditions for positive impact."
"We need greenID because it is about designing understanding and understanding precedes action, change, evolution and r-evolution." (Angela Morelli)
greenID will focus on sustainable communications and information design solutions, covering not only concerns of ecological production, recycling and disposal, but especially effective planning in the forefront. Sustainable design starts with a strategic concept, the right choice of media, and maximum reduction of information and communications that nevertheless meets the citizen's or customer's information needs.
greenID exchange forum sets out to discuss:
How to plan sustainable information design strategies?
How to adjust media-use?
How to (re)design information channels?
How to communicate improvements?
- in the design process?
- in individual projects and business?
How to influence users/customers behaviour, reactions and benefits?
How to evaluate reactions and users benefits?
The exchange forum is a format of IIID,
the International Institute for Information Design.
>> see the list of fantastic speakers
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Thank You
- all speakers sharing their knowledge and expertise
- all participants for the lively exchange and dialogue
- Angela for an amazing workshop
- all of you from the US, South America and Europe coming to Vienna
- Corinna, Caroline, Sophie and Laura
- Wiener Linien for the tickets
- ZIT for funding the forum
- Lena and Laurenz for the charming catering
- all of you for the good time we had together
- biorama, thegap and die presse for reporting on GreenID
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Jacob DOUB was the son of German and Swiss parents, John and Mary Eve DOUB. One of nine children, he was born October 15, 1785 in Bethania, Surry County and was baptized the next day.[1] Jacob grew up in a very religious household. Methodist preachings and camp meetings were often held at the Doub home. Jacob's father and three of his brothers were Methodist ministers. Though the family was Methodist, they lived in Bethania near the Moravian community and frequently interacted with the Moravians.
Jacob married Susannah HELSEBECK on March 6, 1809 in Stokes County.[2] Susannah was born in 1788 in Bethania, Stokes County.[3] Susannah is strongly believed to be the daughter of Jacob and Eva Marie HELSEBECK. Jacob and Susannah had nine children: a son (1810) Rebecca (1812), Daniel (1814), David Wesley (1816), John Boyd (1818), Susannah (1822), Elizabeth, William Thomas and Alvira Mary Eve.[4] On the 1810 census for Stokes County, the couple is listed as living in the Yadkin District with their first child, a boy.[5] He was deceased by the 1820 census.
Jacob died sometime between June and October 1837 at the age of 52. A secondary source lists his death date as June 27, 1837. He died of a sore leg with which he suffered for many years.[6] Jacob's will was written June 23, 1837. Here he left to his "beloved wife Susannah" the plantation "on which I now live" for her use until her death at which time it would pass to their son John Boyd. Also to Susannah went the "tract of land I bought of Jacob Schaul" which would pass to their son William Thomas at Susannah's death. Jacob left to Susannah his two mares, as much of his stock of cattle and hogs as she thinks she needs, all his sheep, "all the household and kitchen furniture with a sufficiency of grain and meat, table vegetables, and what else may be needed that is raised on the plantation, so much as is sufficient to raise all the children under age. I give her also my loom while she lives. I also give my wife the silver money say sixteen dollars".[7]
Jacob's will provided that his lower plantation be dived into two equal parts by a north and south line. One half went to Daniel who had first choice, the other half went to David Wesley. Also to Daniel went Jacob's young horse Jack and to David Wesley the gray mare's colt. To John Boyd and William Thomas each went a colt of the sorrel mare. Jacob's will also made arrangements for the sale of the remaining animal stock and plantation goods as well as his still with the money to be used to cover any debts of the estate. Any remaining money along with the fifty-three dollars now on hand was to be divided between his four daughters, Elizabeth, Rebecca, Susannah and Alvira Mary Eve.[8]
Jacob provided for his youngest children. "I will that my two sons under age John Boyd and William Thomas remain with their mother and work the farm until they are of age for which they with their two younger sisters Susannah and Alvira Mary Eve are to have schooling out of the farm so far as reading, writing and arithmetic sufficient to transact common business".[9]
Jacob also arranged that his executors choose three disinterested freeholders to divide the remaining land between his four sons. Each of the sons was then given five years to pay to a sister half the value of the land he received. The oldest son was to pay the oldest sister and so on. Jacob then declared his eight "beloved children heirs equal according to the principles expressed in this will". Jacob appointed his brother Michael and his four sons as executors of his last will and testament.Witnesses for the will were Joseph Doub, John T Holder, Jacob Spaenhour and Elijah Speanhour.[10]
The inventory of Jacob's estate sale, after the divisions to the family, lists; "8 head of cattle and Hogs and Pigs, 1 set of Smith tools, Whitfield's Life, 1 pocket knife, 6 ploughs, 2 axes, 2 mattocks, 1 still, 6½ lbs steel, 119 lbs iron, woodworks of a wagon, 1 chisel, collar block, 2 plough stocks, 1 old scythe, 4 old collars, wheelbarrow, wheel and bark peeler, 3 jointers, some old plunder, 2 iron hoops, 3 drawings, 2 knives, 3 augers and gouge, 1 broad axe, 1 screw cutter, 1 large compass, 1 hand axe, 1 vice, 3 planes, 1 tongue and groove". The amount of the sale was $220.72¾.[11]
Jacob's death left Susannah a widow with five children under the age of twenty. He and Susannah had been married for 28 years. On the 1840 Census, Susannah was listed as the head of a household including her four sons and one daughter.[12] The three oldest sons were working in agriculture. The family is shown as living south of High Rock and Hollow Road in Stokes County.
In September 1839, Jacob and Susannah's daughter Rebecca married William M. Beckham and moved with him to Iredell County. Rebecca died in 1845 leaving William a widower with four young children. In August 1847, William married another of John and Susannah's daughter's, Rebecca's sister Susannah and the couple had two more children.[13]
In 1850, the mother Susannah was 62 years old and living in the newly formed Forsyth County with her son Daniel and his wife Elizabeth and their two-year-old son John.[14] Ten years later, Susannah was still living in Old Town, Pfafftown District with Daniel and his three children but his wife had died.[15] Susannah is not listed on the 1870 census and so must have died sometime between 1860 and 1870. A secondary source lists her death date as September 12, 1865.


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Repairing Hubble with Specially Designed Tools (1997)
Astronaut Steve Smith works on Hubble during the second servicing mission in 1997 with a ratchet. NASA specially designed the power tool to withstand the harsh environment of space, making it an essential item during three different Hubble missions. Hubble was specifically built to be serviced in orbit with replaceable parts and instruments. Astronauts performed four days of spacewalks during the second servicing mission to replace instruments and repair the telescope.
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Caipirinha – Carioca for a Week
Sipping a Caipirinha truly makes you feel like a Brazilian, if only for a short time. The fresh lime flavor, sweetness and grassy flavor of the cachaça meld in to a truly wonderful drink. The flavor is extremely refreshing, not unlike a slightly alcoholic limeade. Not to mention these drinks are exceedingly drinkable. That said, as I discussed earlier in the week muddling this drink really is key to the flavor profile. As is granulated sugar rather than simple syrup. The muddling action extracts some of the oils from the lime peel which are then infused into the resulting cocktail. This changes the drink in the same way that a flamed orange peel or a lemon twist.
So, what about the choice of sugar? I began my week using plain white sugar which worked very well. Feeling that I might be able to change it up a bit I tried using demerara instead. This helped to deepen the natural sugar flavors that the cachaça brings to the party. There is one downside to this choice though. Since the demerara sugar adds additional flavor it can mask subtle flavors in the cachaça. So, given that I'd say give it a try but make sure you choose a cachaça with a bold enough flavor to stand up to the demerara.
Although there are a few recipes for the Caipirinha floating around most of them seem to follow the same general formula. Namely: 1 oz cachaca, 1/4 lime (cut in to two wedges), and 1 tsp sugar. Some recipes, Gary Regan's for example, call for three ounces of cachaça. That's going to make for a pretty hefty cocktail and since these go down very easy it could get out of hand pretty quickly. With that in mind my suggested recipe cuts back the cachaça to only two ounces, but keeps the formula the same. I highly suggest you mix one up and enjoy the carioca life. Even if it is fleeting.
Caipirinha (Cocktail Hacker)
2 oz Cachaça 1/2 Lime (4 wedges) 2 tsp Sugar
1) Muddle lime and sugar until sugar is dissolved 2) Add cachaça and cracked ice 3) Stir until well combined


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Jules Stewart Talks K-11, Kristen Stewart, Cook Offs, & Tabloids
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In the second part of our exclusive interview with Jules Stewart, Stewart discusses what it's like moving away from script supervisor and into the director's chair, reading tabloids, and her relationship with her daughter, Kristen. What is a risk for you to step away from being a script supervisor and step into the directing chair? JS: Anytime you do something that you have never done before, it's a risk. I really didn't have anything to lose. When the financiers said, "We want you to direct, or we are not going to give you the money" it was sort of a done deal. I had no choice. You mentioned casting is so important. How do you find the right actors for the part? JS: You can't be afraid of making mistakes because then you will never move forward. So you can take that and put that aside. For me, when you are doing a project that requires people to step outside of their comfort zone you have to find people that are engaged, that want to do it — that are not afraid of the material. You need to find people that want to go that extra mile and make the character even more intense. They have to have the ability to not just act, they have to transform that character. They have to be that character, and that's what makes the performances real. How hands-on were you with the film? JS. I was 100 percent involved. I did everything. The writing process was fun. It took us about a year to write this. You know you give it to people to read and they give you notes and this project was supposed to be funded three times. So when people are willing to give you money and they give you notes, you make the changes they want. So it went through a huge changing project, but ultimately, it came back to the original idea. It went full circle. How do the notes affect your progress on the film? JS: You take all the notes — this is my process. You take all the notes, you say okay, and then you don't do anything — then you think about them. At first you are inclined to say no and keep everything the way it is. But then you have to realize that other people have good ideas. When you start to make some of the changes you realize "Wow, this really works" or it doesn't work at all and you throw it away. I only took the notes that I thought were moving the project in a forward, positive notion. I didn't take bad ideas ever. Did you feel as a first-time director there was something to prove? JS: No. I was just out to tell a good story and just make a film. I had a job just like everyone else on the set. It was my job to orchestrate the choreography, the camera work, and the attitude of the performances. That was just my job. We filmed it all in 22 days. It went by so fast; it was like nothing. Who would you love to work with in the future? JS: Oh, that's a tough one. I love Gary Oldman and Sandra Bullock. There are so many great performers today that it's hard to just pick one. What's it like reading about your personal life and/or daughter's personal life in the tabloids? JS: If you read that you are crazy. People write things that aren't true all the time; they make things up to sell their papers. We don't buy into it. We don't care; they could write whatever they want. A couple of years ago, when I was in the grocery store I read that my daughter was having an alien baby. It's like, really? [laughs] You deal with it. It's rubbish and it's a desperate attempt to get people to spend their money. What do you like to do in your spare time when you are not working? JS: Well, I am a painter and I refurbish old cars. I like to rebuild old vintage automobiles. I paint them. I redo the interior. My friends work on the motors and stuff. I read that you did a cook-off with Kristen on your Twitter. Is that true? JS: Kristen loves a good challenge. We agreed to do a lasagna cook-off and we had all of our friends over and they were judges. Kristen won the cook-off and I was really proud of her. Do you like using Twitter to connect with your fans? JS: It's completely awesome. It's awesome to have people support you and make you feel like you are doing the right thing. It gives you that little something that helps you to keep going. Where can people check out K-11? JS: It's on cable television. So if you have that, you can see it now On Demand. We are releasing it on DVD, which is probably what I would do, is buy the DVD. It has special features. It has director commentary, music videos, etc. But if you really want to see it, like now, you can find it On Demand. Follow Jules Stewart on Twitter @RealJulesStew and read our part one of our interview here.
About the Author
Monica Gleberman began writing in 2000. She has been published on CNN and in the Suffolk Times, Examiner, The Daily Collegian, Demand Studios, Patch, and The Tattoo.


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The question was asked, and the answer was received; in the form of a tie. My thanks to all who participated in my poll for which class I should level up next.
As I asked my readers which class they would like to see me level up next, Druid and Shaman came out in a tie. Druid took on an early lead, and I was pretty sure that it was going to stay that way. But, the Shaman continued to fight that uphill battle until they tied neck and neck shortly before I called the poll complete.
Since we had a tie on two classes, I will go ahead and roll one of each and track the leveling of both classes here on the blog.
Beldinn (Tauren Druid 6) [BELL-din]
Herbalism X and Inscription X
I actually made Beldinn the day before I posted the poll, but did not do much of anything with him when I made him. I took the time to do all of his starting quests and move him on to the next area, and that was about as far as I got with him.
Beldinn is named after a character named Beldin from the Belgariad and Malloreon series written by David Eddings. In the books, Beldin is actually a deformed dwarf of a human that is rather ugly in both appearance and manners. He also happens to be a very powerful sorcerer, and when he shapeshifts into the form of animals he always turns into the most amazing, beautiful forms of those animals imaginable. He is frequently seen as a hawk, and since the druid is the only class with a flying form, it fit perfectly. He is one of my favorite characters in the book, and I decided to name a character after him because of it.
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Belgawrath (Orc Shaman 6) [BELL-guh-rath]
Skinning X and Leatherworking X
I made Belgawrath last night after seeing how quickly the shaman class was climbing up in the poll results, and having found a significant lack of blogs dedicated to shamans. As with Beldinn, I went ahead and did all of his starting area quests and moved him on to the next area.
Belgawrath is also named after a character in David Eddings' books, this time for Belgarath the Sorcerer. I pronounce the shaman's name differently than the character's name in the books, but I think it fits more with the character. In the books, Belgarath is the strongest sorcerer in the world save for the gods themselves, and was the first student ever to learn it. While all of the sorcerers can change their shape into whatever animal they might want to become, Belgarath is most often seen as a wolf. Since the shaman can become a spirit wolf, I found it only fitting.
Naming Convention
Since I made the characters based on a poll that resulted in a tie, I wanted their names to be somehow linked. Having them both come from characters in the same book was a good way to do that while also giving me, in a small way, an opportunity to pay a small tribute to an author and a story that are primarily responsible for my love of fantasy novels, which in turn is responsible for my love for RPG's.
Poll Bugs
I am not sure what I might have done wrong in setting up the poll, but if you chose the Other option, then your vote did not get counted, nor did your response that you put in the box (if any). This was my first Poll, so I am sure I messed something up. Maybe I can get it right the next time.
Again, my thanks to all who participated.


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Thomas More, in full Sir Thomas More, also called Saint Thomas More, (born February 7, 1478, London, England—died July 6, 1535, London; canonized May 19, 1935; feast day June 22), English humanist and statesman, chancellor of England (1529–32), who was beheaded for refusing to accept King Henry VIII as head of the Church of England. He is recognized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church.
Early life and career
Thomas—the eldest son of John More, a lawyer who was later knighted and made a judge of the King's Bench—was educated at one of London's best schools, St. Anthony's in Threadneedle Street, and in the household of John Morton, archbishop of Canterbury and chancellor of England. The future cardinal, a shrewd judge of character, predicted that the bright and winsome page would prove to be a "marvellous man." His interest sent the boy to the University of Oxford, where More seems to have spent two years, mastering Latin and undergoing a thorough drilling in formal logic.
About 1494 his father brought More back to London to study the common law. In February 1496 he was admitted to Lincoln's Inn, one of the four legal societies preparing for admission to the bar. In 1501 More became an "utter barrister," a full member of the profession. Thanks to his boundless curiosity and a prodigious capacity for work, he managed, along with the law, to keep up his literary pursuits. He read avidly from Holy Scripture, the Church Fathers, and the classics and tried his hand at all literary genres.
Although bowing to his father's decision that he should become a lawyer, More was prepared to be disowned rather than disobey God's will. To test his vocation to the priesthood, he resided for about four years in the Carthusian monastery adjoining Lincoln's Inn and shared as much of the monks' way of life as was practicable. Although attracted especially to the Franciscan order, More decided that he would best serve God and his fellowmen as a lay Christian. More, however, never discarded the habits of early rising, prolonged prayer, fasting, and wearing the hair shirt. God remained the centre of his life.
In late 1504 or early 1505, More married Joan Colt, the eldest daughter of an Essex gentleman farmer. She was a competent hostess for non-English visitors, such as the Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus, who was given permanent rooms in the Old Barge on the Thames side in Bucklersbury in the City of London, More's home for the first two decades of his married life. Erasmus wrote his Praise of Folly while staying there.
The important negotiations More conducted in 1509 on behalf of a number of London companies with the representative of the Antwerp merchants confirmed his competence in trade matters and his gifts as an interpreter and spokesman. From September 1510 to July 1518, when he resigned to be fully in the king's service, More was one of the two undersheriffs of London, "the pack-horses of the City government." He endeared himself to the Londoners—as an impartial judge, a disinterested consultant, and "the general patron of the poor."
More's domestic idyll came to a brutal end in the summer of 1511 with the death, perhaps in childbirth, of his wife. He was left a widower with four children, and within weeks of his first wife's death he married Alice Middleton, the widow of a London mercer. She was several years his senior and had a daughter of her own; she did not bear More any children.
More's History of King Richard III, written in Latin and in English between about 1513 and 1518, is the first masterpiece of English historiography. Though never finished, it influenced succeeding historians. William Shakespeare is indebted to More for his portrait of the tyrant.
The Utopia
In May 1515 More was appointed to a delegation to revise an Anglo-Flemish commercial treaty. The conference was held at Brugge, with long intervals that More used to visit other Belgian cities. He began in the Low Countries and completed after his return to London his Utopia, which was published at Leuven in December 1516. The book was an immediate success with the audience for which More wrote it: the humanists and an elite group of public officials.
Utopia is a Greek name of More's coining, from ou-topos ("no place"); a pun on eu-topos ("good place") is suggested in a prefatory poem. More's Utopia describes a pagan and communist city-state in which the institutions and policies are entirely governed by reason. The order and dignity of such a state provided a notable contrast with the unreasonable polity of Christian Europe, divided by self-interest and greed for power and riches, which More described in Book I, written in England in 1516. The description of Utopia is put in the mouth of a mysterious traveler, Raphael Hythloday, in support of his argument that communism is the only cure against egoism in private and public life. Through dialogue More speaks in favour of the mitigation of evil rather than its cure, human nature being fallible. Among the topics discussed by More in Utopia were penology, state-controlled education, religious pluralism, divorce, euthanasia, and women's rights. The resulting demonstration of his learning, invention, and wit established his reputation as one of the foremost humanists. Soon translated into most European languages, Utopia became the ancestor of a new literary genre, the utopian romance.
Career as king's servant
On May 1, 1517, a mob of London apprentices attacked foreign merchants in the city. More's role in quenching this Evil May Day riot inspired a scene, attributed to Shakespeare, in Sir Thomas More, a composite Elizabethan play. More's success in the thorny negotiations with the French at Calais and Boulogne (September to December 1517) over suits born of the recent war made it harder for him to dodge royal service. That year he became a member of the king's council and from October was known as master of requests. He resigned his City office in 1518. While yielding to pressure, he embraced the chance of furthering peace and reform. The lord chancellor, Thomas Wolsey, now looked ready to implement some of the political ideas of the Christian humanists.
Between 1515 and 1520 More campaigned spiritedly for Erasmus's religious and cultural program—Greek studies as the key to a theology renewed by a return to the Bible and the Church Fathers—in poems commending Erasmus's New Testament. More's Latin poems were published in 1518 under one cover between his Utopia and Erasmus's Epigrammata; they are extremely varied in metre and matter, their main topics being government, women, and death.
Erasmus offered his London friend as a model for the intelligentsia of Europe in letters to the German humanist Ulrich von Hutten (1519); the Paris scholar Germain de Brie (1520), with whom More had just engaged in a polemic; and Guillaume Budé, whom More had met in June 1520 at the Field of Cloth of Gold, the meeting ground, near Calais, between Henry VIII and Francis I. According to Erasmus, simplicity was More's mark in food and dress. He shrank from nothing that imparted an innocent pleasure, even of a bodily kind. He had a speaker's voice and a memory that served him well for extempore rejoinders. "Born for friendship," he could extract delight from the dullest people or things. His family affections were warm yet unobtrusive. He gave freely and gladly, expecting no thanks. Amid his intense professional activity, he found hours for prayer and for supervising his domestic school. Most of his charges were girls, to whom he provided the most refined Classical and Christian education.
In 1520 and 1521 More took part in talks, at Calais and Brugge, with the emperor Charles V and with the Hansa merchants. In 1521 he was made undertreasurer and knighted. His daughter Margaret married William Roper, a lawyer. For Henry VIII's Defense of the Seven Sacraments, More acted as "a sorter out and placer of the principal matters." When Martin Luther hit back, More vindicated the king in a learned, though scurrilous, Responsio ad Lutherum (1523). In addition to his routine duties at the Exchequer, More served throughout these years as "Henry's intellectual courtier," secretary, and confidant. He welcomed foreign envoys, delivered official speeches, drafted treaties, read the dispatches exchanged between the king and Wolsey, and answered in the king's name. Often he rode posthaste between the cardinal's headquarters at Westminster and Henry's various hunting residences. In April 1523 More was elected speaker of the House of Commons; while loyally striving to secure the government's ends, he made a plea for truer freedom of speech in Parliament. The universities—Oxford in 1524, Cambridge in 1525—made him their high steward.
By 1524 More had moved to Chelsea. The Great House he built there bore the stamp of his philosophy, its gallery, chapel, and library all geared toward studious and prayerful seclusion. In 1525 he was promoted to chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, which put a large portion of northern England under his judiciary and administrative control.
On More's return from an embassy to France in the summer of 1527, Henry VIII "laid the Bible open before him" as proof that his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, who had failed to produce a male heir, was void, even incestuous, because of her previous marriage to Henry's late brother. More tried in vain to share the king's scruples, but long study confirmed his view that Catherine was the king's true wife. After being commissioned in March 1528 by Bishop Tunstall of London to read all heretical writings in the English language in order to refute them for the sake of the unlearned, More published seven books of polemics between 1529 and 1533—the first and best being A Dialogue Concerning Heresies.
Years as chancellor of England
Together with Tunstall, More attended the congress of Cambrai at which peace was made between France and the Holy Roman Empire in 1529. Though the Treaty of Cambrai represented a rebuff to England and, more particularly, a devastating reverse for Cardinal Wolsey's policies, More managed to secure the inclusion of his country in the treaty and the settlement of mutual debts. When Wolsey fell from power, having failed in his foreign policy and in his efforts to procure the annulment of the king's marriage to Catherine, More succeeded him as lord chancellor on October 26, 1529.
On November 3, 1529, More opened the Parliament that was later to forge the legal instruments for his death. As the king's mouthpiece, More indicted Wolsey in his opening speech and, in 1531, proclaimed the opinions of universities favourable to the divorce; but he did not sign the letter of 1530 in which England's nobles and prelates, including Wolsey, pressured the pope to declare the first marriage void, and he tried to resign in 1531, when the clergy acknowledged the king as their supreme head, albeit with the clause "as far as the law of Christ allows."
More's longest book, The Confutation of Tyndale's Answer, in two volumes (1532 and 1533), centres on "what the church is." To the stress of stooping for hours over his manuscript More ascribed the sharp pain in his chest, perhaps angina, which he invoked when begging Henry to free him from the yoke of office. This was on May 16, 1532, the day when the governing body (synod) of the church in England delivered to the crown the document by which they promised never to legislate or so much as convene without royal assent, thus placing a layperson at the head of the spiritual order.
More meanwhile continued his campaign for the old faith, defending England's antiheresy laws and his own handling of heretics, both as magistrate and as writer, in two books of 1533: the Apology and the Debellacyon. He also laughs away the accusation of greed leveled by William Tyndale, translator of parts of the first printed English Bible. More's poverty was so notorious that the hierarchy collected £5,000 to recoup his polemical costs, but he refused this grant lest it be construed as a bribe.
Indictment, trial, and execution
More's refusal to attend the coronation of Anne Boleyn, whom Henry married after his divorce from Catherine in 1533, marked him out for vengeance. Several charges of accepting bribes recoiled on the heads of his accusers. In February 1534 More was included in a bill of attainder for alleged complicity with Elizabeth Barton, who had uttered prophecies against Henry's divorce, but he produced a letter in which he had warned the nun against meddling in affairs of state. He was summoned to appear before royal commissioners on April 13 to assent under oath to the Act of Succession, which declared the king's marriage with Catherine void and that with Anne valid. This More was willing to do, acknowledging that Anne was in fact anointed queen. But he refused the oath as then administered because it entailed a repudiation of papal supremacy. On April 17, 1534, he was imprisoned in the Tower. More welcomed prison life. But for his family responsibilities, he would have chosen for himself "as strait a room and straiter too," as he said to his daughter Margaret, who after some time took the oath and was then allowed to visit him. In prison, More wrote A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation, a masterpiece of Christian wisdom and of literature.
His trial took place on July 1, 1535. Richard Rich, the solicitor general, a creature of Thomas Cromwell, the unacknowledged head of the government, testified that the prisoner had, in his presence, denied the king's title as supreme head of the Church of England. Despite More's scathing denial of this perjured evidence, the jury's unanimous verdict was "guilty." Before the sentence was pronounced, More spoke "in discharge of his conscience." The unity of the church was the main motive of his martyrdom. His second objection was that "no temporal man may be head of the spirituality." Henry's marriage to Anne Boleyn, to which he also referred as the cause for which they "sought his blood," had been the occasion for the assaults on the church: among his judges were the new queen's father, brother, and uncle.
More was sentenced to the traitor's death—"to be drawn, hanged, and quartered"—which the king changed to beheading. During five days of suspense, More prepared his soul to meet "the great spouse" and wrote a beautiful prayer and several letters of farewell. He walked to the scaffold on Tower Hill. "See me safe up," he said to the lieutenant, "and for my coming down let me shift for myself." He told the onlookers to witness that he was dying "in the faith and for the faith of the Catholic Church, the king's good servant and God's first." He altered the ritual by blindfolding himself, playing "a part of his own" even on this awful stage.
The news of More's death shocked Europe. Erasmus mourned the man he had so often praised, "whose soul was more pure than any snow, whose genius was such that England never had and never again will have its like." The official image of More as a traitor did not gain credence even in Protestant lands.
Though the triumph of Anglicanism brought about a certain eclipse of Thomas More, the publication of the state papers restored a fuller and truer picture of More, preparing public opinion for his beatification (1886). He was canonized by Pius XI in May 1935. Though the man is greater than the writer and though nothing in his life "became him like the leaving of it," his "golden little book" Utopia has earned him greater fame than the crown of martyrdom or the million words of his English works.
Erasmus's phrase describing More as omnium horarum homo was rendered later as "a man for all seasons" and was given currency by Robert Bolt's play A Man for All Seasons (1960). Monuments to More have been placed in Westminster Hall, the Tower of London, and the Chelsea Embankment, all in London. In the words of the English Catholic apologist G.K. Chesterton, More "may come to be counted the greatest Englishman, or at least the greatest historical character in English History."Germain P. Marc'hadour
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education: The early English humanistsMore was both a distinguished humanist and a statesman. He was interested in pedagogy, to which he dedicated part of his work
Utopia(1516). In his Utopia, More saw the connection between educational, social, and political problems and the influence that society therefore has on…
Western philosophy: Humanism…citizen of the world, and Sir Thomas More (1477–1535), the learned but unfortunate chancellor of Henry VIII, as well as, in the next generation, the great French essayist Michel de Montaigne (1532–92). But the recovery of the Greek and Latin classics, which was the work of humanism, profoundly affected the…
William RastellWilliam Rastell, English printer, lawyer, and man of letters. He edited and published the works of his uncle, Thomas More. He also printed the only surviving plays of John Heywood, who married Rastell's sister, Eliza. The son of John Rastell, a playwright and, like him, a lawyer and printer, he…
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(HONG KONG) Dragonair held a one-day programme today to inaugurate the launch of the Dragonair Youth Aviation Academy as a tribute to celebrate the 100th anniversary of aviation development in Hong Kong. The Academy's event, entitled "Aviation Insights", was supported by 20 industry partners and attended by around 300 tertiary students.
As a people-focused airline, Dragonair places emphasis not only among customers and staff, but on the younger generation in society, too. Given the fact that young people in Hong Kong do not have so many chances to be exposed to aviation as those in the West, the Dragonair Youth Aviation Academy has been established to provide our young people with such opportunities, currently including key components such as Aviation Insights and the Dragonair Aviation Certificate Programme, which are a youth-oriented career talk and education programme respectively.
Speaking at the launch of the Academy, Captain Ross Taylor, Assistant General Manager (Flying), Dragonair, told the audience: "Through the initiative of the Dragonair Youth Aviation Academy we aim to inspire our younger generation by witnessing firsthand, the dynamism of Hong Kong's aviation sector. We also wish to contribute to the growth of the industry by stimulating and nurturing a new stream of young, talented, future aviation professionals."
Guest of honour at the Aviation Insights was Mr Matthew Cheung Kin-chung, Secretary for Labour and Welfare. Officiating guests at the inauguration ceremony of the Academy were Mr Matthew Cheung, Acting Director-General of Civil Aviation Mr YK Leung, Captain Ross Taylor and Group Captain Lee Kwok Wing, Commanding Officer of Hong Kong Air Cadet Corps.
Mr Cheung noted that the aviation industry provides a wide spectrum of quality and attractive careers with training and advancement opportunities. "For the enterprising youngsters, aviation not only provides jobs, but also launching pads for rewarding professional career development. In short, the aviation industry will enable one to fly high and be upwardly mobile, in both social and physical sense," he said.
"In a wider context, investing in human resources and ensuring the sustainable supply of quality workforce is a major policy anchor of the government's labour and manpower policy," Mr Cheung said, adding that a "through-train" programme is in place to provide comprehensive training and employment support to the youths.
Acting Director-General of Civil Aviation, Mr YK Leung, said that from the Government's perspective, the importance of partnership is vital for the sustainable growth of the aviation industry. "Today's event is clearly a joint venture of the aviation industry that requires the efforts and dedication of those involved," he said.
Group Captain Lee noted that Hong Kong is an aviation hub in Asia, characterised by the city's progressiveness and ability to forge partnerships, and provides many opportunities for aviation enthusiasts. "We thank all our partners here today - you have helped us reach for the sky and inspire young talents," he said. "I hope that all the participants today will soon become the backbone of the aviation industry."
The one-day Aviation Insights programme, organised in conjunction with the Civil Aviation Department and Hong Kong Air Cadet Corps, is aimed at inspiring youngsters by informing them about the dynamism and job opportunities the aviation industry can offer, providing them with first-hand, detailed information on different aspects of respective professions in this booming sector. It featured a keynote presentation by Mr Anthony Lai-hon Tam, Acting Deputy Director-General of Civil Aviation in Hong Kong, that introduced Hong Kong's air transport system, and highlighted factors that influence aviation development in general, as well as an outlook for future development.
Other interactive sessions covered specific aspects of the aviation profession, namely Cabin Crew, Customer Services and Ground Support, Professional Support covering aircraft engineering and maintenance, Cockpit Crew, and Disciplinary Forces including Government Flying Service, police, fire services, customs and immigration. More than 30 moderators and speakers joined the sessions, all of them professionals actively engaged in their relevant industry sectors.
The Academy also encompasses the Dragonair Aviation Certificate Programme. This is a mentorship scheme run by Dragonair in conjunction with the Hong Kong Air Cadet Corps, and has been running since 2006. It offers young people with the opportunity to explore their aviation dreams by providing in-depth information and instruction on all aspects of the industry, from cockpit and cabin operations to air traffic control, aircraft maintenance, meteorology, airport management and more. To date, more than 20% of the programme's graduates have gone on to pursue careers in the local aviation industry, including pilots, engineers and air traffic control officers.


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Mike Lowell Was A Bad Choice
Listen to my post-game interview with Mike Lowell here.
Before every game at Fifth Third Field in Toledo, a player from the visiting team is chosen to be the "Toft's Strikeout Player of the Game." Each time that player whiffs, Mud Hens fans who scream the loudest get free Toft's Ice Cream delivered to their seats.
(photo courtesy of Louriann Mardo-Zayat)
On Tuesday night, Toledo front office staffers chose Mike Lowell as the Toft's K-man. The four-time All-Star didn't strike out, so nobody got free ice cream.
Instead, Lowell belted three home runs in Pawtucket's 10-6 win.
"They basically screamed it in my face my first time up and when I got one strike, everybody was really rooting for me to strike out," Lowell said with a grin. "I feel sorry for the people of Toledo, but they were rooting for me to strike out so bad, that maybe the baseball Gods took care of me."
Lowell tied the PawSox single-game record with 3 HR, becoming the 18th player in Pawtucket history to accomplish the feat. The 36-year-old veteran also hit 3 HR in a major league game on April 21, 2004 with the Florida Marlins.
"I don't really care if it's Tee Ball or Little League, that's a good feeling," Lowell said. "Big picture – I'm happy that I'm swinging the bat well and I was seeing the ball very well, but it's still a thrill. A home run is good at any level, so this is still a special day for me. I've only done it one other time in my life, so it felt really good."
In four games on his rehab stint, Lowell is 8-for-18 (.444) with 3 doubles, 3 HR, and 7 RBI.
Is he already locked in at the plate?
"I think I would be a little arrogant to say after a few days that I'm locked in – that would be a little extreme – but I do feel good at the plate, that's for sure," Lowell said. "It isn't like I haven't seen any baseball in four or five months, so I've had something to build on and I know how to make adjustments. But it feels good without a doubt."
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Tuesday's game marked the first time that Lowell has played at third base with the PawSox and he had no trouble with the only ground ball that was hit in his direction.
"Selfishly I would have liked to get more action," Lowell said, "But you make quick movements when guys foul balls down the line, and I didn't feel any pain or any sharp grinding like I felt in '09. So that was positive."
Lowell says the big night doesn't change his rehab schedule and he expects to be back in Pawtucket's starting lineup on Wednesday in Toledo. Terry Francona told reporters in Anaheim on Monday that there's a good chance that Lowell will be activated by Boston on Friday when the team opens its next homestand.
He'll be missed in the PawSox clubhouse where Lowell has treated his minor league teammates to several postgame feasts. Despite that generosity, the players gave Mike the silent treatment after one of his blasts on Tuesday.
"They didn't want to shake my hand after the second home run, but I told them there would be no nice post-game spread tomorrow if they continued that," Lowell said. "After the third one I was greeted with a lot of high fives, so it worked out well."
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At a time when there has been plenty of talk regarding the possibility of Bill Parcells returning to the Jets and fixing what ails the franchise, Parcells says that will not happen.
"No I wouldn't listen," Parcells told The Michael Kay Show on Thursday, via the Newark Star-Ledger. "I'm done with football. I wish them well and everybody in New York well."
Even if Parcells was done with football, it's unknown whether he'd be interested in helping the Jets, given the current level of dysfunction in the organization.
And that's where Rex's newly-revealed tattoo could be a factor that benefits the incumbent head coach. If it's a coincidence that the photo of the body artwork of Rex's wife wearing a Mark Sanchez jersey (while also apparently Tebowing) emerged just as the Jets were getting ready to interview G.M. candidates, it's one hell of a good coincidence for Ryan.
That tattoo could scare away any G.M. who isn't already comfortable with working with Ryan, or it could compel any G.M. candidate who doesn't want to work with Ryan to insist that he's fired now.
Either way, Ryan wins.


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Very nice sidearm :)
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Finally got my new Sig Sauer P226 COMBAT variant out to my gun club and gave it it's first shake down cruise, and it performed flawlessly. Unlike the P226 I bought my son a couple of years ago this one did NOT come with the cheap/crappy Checkmate mags, but real-deal "Made in Italy" MecGar magazines. Sweet.
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Designed to meet, and exceed, rigorous military standards, the P226® Combat performs like no other 9mm available. Each pistol features the military's Flat Dark Earth finish on its alloy frame and SIG's Nitron® finish over a stainless slide. Internal parts and controls are phosphated for extreme corrosion resistance and reduced friction while the barrel is hard chromed and finished in Nitron® which easily passes the military's accuracy requirements. The P226 Combat also passes the military's 240-hour salt spray corrosion test. Additional features include a M1913 Picatinny rail, vertical front strap serrations and SIGLITE® night sights.
For more information, including detailed specifications, etc. go to:
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Item Number E26R-9-CBT
Caliber: 9mm
Action Type: DA/SA
Trigger Pull DA: 10.0 lbs
Trigger Pull SA: 4.4 lbs
Overall Length : 7.70 in
Overall Height: 5.5 in
Overall Width: 1.5 in
Barrel Length: 4.4 in
Sight Radius: 6.3 in
Weight w/Mag: 34.0 oz
Mag Capacity 10 or 15 Rounds
Sights SIGLITE® Night Sights
Grips Flat Dark Earth Polymer Factory
Frame Finish Flat Dark Earth
Slide Finish Nitron®
Accessory Rail Yes
Features Accessory Rail
CA Compliant No
MA Compliant No
My YouTube gun and shooting channel: VDMA VIDEOS.
Member of: NRA (Life/Endowment); GOA (Life); SAF (Life); NSSF (Media); NAGR; CCRTKBA
Very nice sidearm :)
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If I wanted a 9mm that would be what I get.
If I wanted a 9mm....
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Ever since Erin was born I've been talking to her in my head. And she's been talking back.
"Hi daddy."
"Show me how to pick up cheese."
"Can I drink bubble bath?"
"I love you."
She has a particular style of speaking when she is telepathizing with me; and sometimes Emily and I will vocalize those thoughts we are certain she is expressing with her infant ESP.
"Tryin' real hard to stand up here, guys."
"Sleepy now, guys."
"My foot tastes pretty good, guys."
She is always referring to the two of us as "guys". This is a correlate of her also insisting that both Emily and I are "da da". But it's just so damned cute that we don't correct her. She can call us "guys" all she wants.
Sunday afternoon we were waiting for her to nap. She had already insisted that she was "Hungry now, guys" and "Sleepy now, guys." So we gave her a bottle and settled in to enjoy our popcorn.
Oh. Right. We were at the movies. Together. I think the last movie Emily and I saw together was "27 Dresses". For some that might seem pretty recent; for me, who has seen every movie between then and now, it was a lifetime ago. So we had really high hopes for this afternoon out, with a baby who needed a nap and a well-timed film about to start.
But Erin wouldn't sleep. I think she hates to sleep in her fancy Mclaren umbrella stroller (something about her legs hanging down in front of her, I suspect). So, since I've seen many many movies, I took Erin out of the theater so Emily could watch Miss Pettrigrew doing something to help Amy Adams with her life.
I rolled Erin around, took her out of her stroller to play, put her back in to potentially drift off, studiously ignored her while I won 4 free games of Lord of the Rings pinball. Nothing. This kid was not going to sleep.
An hour and a half later Emily exited the theater and met us in the mezzanine of the cineplex. Erin was starting to fuss a bit in her stroller, so Emily took her out and let her crawl around. Erin apparently had had a mission in mind the entire time she was stuck in her stroller, because she crawled behind it, stood up against it, and started pushing.
Emily grabbed the handles and walked behind her so that Erin couldn't push the stroller too far out ahead of herself and faceplant. And after a few laps she picked Erin up so we could leave.
But Erin insisted, quite vocally, that she needed to get back to business.
"I have some deliveries to make, guys."
I walked behind her, holding the stroller handles as she pushed through the mezzanine; into the elevator, out of the elevator; through the lobby; out the front door; down the sidewalk; into another elevator; out of the elevator, through a parking garage; and finally to the car.
"Just needed to control a bit of the universe for a while, guys."
I love that kid. And I love that she delights in both controlling the world and being surprised by it.


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Several prominent Gaston County leaders and famous entertainers with North Carolina roots passed away in 2012, leaving behind a void in the hearts of many. Following are brief tributes to their lives and the talents they shared with others.
Several prominent Gaston County leaders and famous entertainers with North Carolina roots passed away in 2012, leaving behind a void in the hearts of many. Following are brief tributes to their lives and the talents they shared with others.
Sister Mary Michel Boulus
A nun who dedicated her life to public service and helping others died Dec. 9 at Sacred Heart Convent in Belmont. She was 86 years old.
Hailed for her tireless work in higher education and admired by former students, Sister Mary Michel Boulus was once president of Sacred Heart College in Belmont and served with the Sisters of Mercy administration for 11 years.
She worked as director of food services in the convent, retiring from that position last year. The Belmont chapter of Sisters of Mercy serves 18 states and hosts national and international guests.
Boulus was a familiar face in Gaston County, often helping with fundraising programs. She�s also remembered as a teacher and someone with a great sense of humor.
The recipient of numerous honorary degrees, Boulus� legacy includes helping provide college education to Lebanese children.
Earl Scruggs
He set the standard in bluegrass music and helped promote country music to a worldwide audience through his work in television and films.
Cleveland County native and banjoist extraordinaire Earl Scruggs died March 28 at age 88. He�s best known for collaboration with fellow musician Lester Flatt and their classic recordings including �Foggy Mountain Breakdown.�
Flatt and Scruggs, as they became known to fans, recorded toe-tapping bluegrass favorite �Foggy Mountain Breakdown� in 1949. The song was used in the 1967 movie �Bonnie and Clyde,� starring Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty.
But to television audiences, Flatt and Scruggs were known for their recording of �The Ballad of Jed Clampett� that became the popular theme song for �The Beverly Hillbillies.�
Scruggs enjoyed a career spanning more than five decades. In 2003, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Nearly two decades prior, he was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Doc Watson, another famous North Carolina guitarist with North Carolina roots, died May 29 in Winston-Salem. He was 89.
Andy Griffith
The boy from Mount Airy ultimately became a world-famous actor, noted for his extensive work in television series including �Matlock� and �The Andy Griffith Show.�
He served as longtime unofficial ambassador to North Carolina. Griffith�s welcoming voice, calm demeanor and homespun humor appealed to millions.
�The Andy Griffith Show� became immensely popular, airing on CBS from 1960-68. It featured citizens of Mayberry, a town where everyone knew everyone and all problems were resolved within a half-hour episode.
The show made big stars out of its cast members including Griffith, Don Knotts, Frances Bavier, Ron Howard and Jim Nabors. Knotts won five Emmy Awards for his portrayal of lovable deputy sheriff Barney Fife and Bavier took home Emmy gold in 1967 for her role as Aunt Bee.
Griffith was also a Grammy Award-winning singer. He died on July 3 on Roanoke Island at age 86.
William �Bill� Friday
The higher education giant raised in Gaston County worked three decades as president of the University of North Carolina system.
William �Bill� Friday died Oct. 12 in Chapel Hill. He was 92.
For more than 30 years, he hosted the weekly UNC-TV program �North Carolina People.� The show featured Friday�s talks with North Carolinians in the news.
W.C. Friday Middle School in Dallas is named in his honor. Friday is remembered as an advocate for higher education.
In 1997, President Bill Clinton awarded him with the National Humanities Medal. Friday served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Reserve from 1942-46 and received a law degree from UNC Chapel Hill in 1948. Prior to that, he attended Wake Forest College and graduated from N.C. State University with a bachelor�s degree.
Kevin Loftin
Former Belmont Mayor Kevin Loftin died on Feb. 22 after the car he was driving was struck by an SUV driven by a man running from police.
Officers say Loftin, 56, and his passenger, Donna Dietz, 60, were killed when their car was hit broadside by an SUV driven by Lester Norman Jr. The wreck happened at the intersection of Park Street and Wilkinson Boulevard in Belmont.
Norman was the subject of a high-speed chase after reportedly running through a police checkpoint. He was charged with two counts of second-degree murder.
Loftin and Dietz were killed traveling home from an Ash Wednesday church service. Loftin is remembered as a mentor and community advocate.
At the time of his death, he worked in management at Pharr Yarns. He grew up in Belmont and graduated from South Point High School. After earning a degree from N.C. State University, Loftin returned to Gaston County to work for Belmont Heritage Textile Corp.
Harley B. Gaston Jr.
He was involved in community activities and enjoyed being active in the life of Belmont, but to most Gaston County residents he�s remembered as a judge from District 27-A.
The Honorable Harley B. Gaston Jr. died Dec. 31, 2011, and was remembered at a funeral service attended by several hundred people at First United Methodist Church in Belmont.
Gaston practiced law in Belmont from 1956 to 1986 and worked as city attorney. He was then elected as judge for District 27-A and would go on to win re-election three times in 1990, 1994 and 1998. He retired as chief judge a decade ago.
He was a past president of the Belmont Chamber of Commerce, the Belmont United Fund and the Belmont Rotary Club. Gaston was a member and past commander of American Legion Post 144 in Belmont.
In 1976, Gaston was elected to the Gaston County Board of Commissioners where he served for eight years. During that time, he served as vice chairman and chairman.
Ron Harper
He gave millions of dollars to Gaston County Schools to support education locally and make sure classrooms were equipped with modern technology.
Ron Harper of Stanley died April 14 at the age of 79. In 2010, Harper and his wife Katherine Harper donated $2 million to ensure that all classrooms had a SMART Board, an interactive white board allowing students to write on them, move objects around and have a hands-on experience with a lesson.
The Harpers greatly supported higher education, also making gifts to Central Piedmont Community College, Clemson University and Appalachian State University.
They moved to Stanley in 2008. In the early 1970s, the Harpers began a flexography business in Charlotte in 1971. Flexography is a type of printing on a rotary press.
Harper�s goal in giving to schools was to reduce the dropout rate. He believed that SMART Boards made it interesting for kids to attend classes.
Leroy Russell
The beloved sheriff who kept law and order in Gaston County from 1982-2004 died July 5. He was 72.
Leroy Russell was a native of Gaston County and a licensed funeral director. He was a familiar face around town even before being elected sheriff. His career included stints as a Gaston County Schools employee, drivers� license examiner and county magistrate.
Russell was a member of the N.C. Sheriff Association, serving as president from 1990-91. He was admired by law enforcement officers across the state, many of whom attended a memorial service following his death. His funeral procession featured dozens of police cars, SUVs, and motorcycles.
He was a member of First United Methodist Church in Gastonia but attended Grace Anglican Church at the time of his death. Russell was also a U.S. Air Force veteran.


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March 12th 2012 | Jens C Brynildsen
When you look out through a window in your house, you only see what is visible from your point of view, not what is occluded by the walls. The viewable area is decided by the size and shape of the window, so you'll see a "cropped" view of what's outside. This is exactly how the View works in Away3D as well. It is the "window" that we view our 3D world through.
No matter what you want to do in Away3D, there's some things that you'll always need to set up. The "Basic" tutorials will explain the Scene, View, Camera, Primitives, Textures and explore some of the possibilities. Each example in the series will be organized as Actionscript Classes so they can be used in both Flash and Flex.
If you are new to 3D on computers, you might want to read our introduction that explains the core 3D concepts. This tutorial also contains the source for 6 other Away3D projects that may be worth checking out. To run the example files, you will first need to set up Away3D on your computer. When you have the Away3D source files and your software is set up, you can open, explore and export the examples in this tutorial by just placing them in your project directory.
To see your 3D content, we need two things. A Viewport (View) and a Scene. This tutorial explains how to use these.
The name of the View class in Away3D is View3D. To create a new View, we use this code:
var view:View3D = new View3D();
Note that the view is added to the stage like any other display object in Flash. This does however not mean that it acts as a DisplayObject. Since Away3D from version 4 and up are using Stage3D, all DisplayObjects in Flash will layer on top of it. In other words - you cannot place any graphics behind your 3D scene. This is usually not a problem though and if it's critical, you can just add that object to the 3D scene and stack it there.
By default, the View is not cropped in any way. It fills the entire Flash movie, so the size of your Flash movie is effectively the size of the View. You can adjust the size of the view by setting the x, y, width and height properties like this:
var view:View3D = new View3D();
view.x = 100;
view.y = 100;
view.width = 200;
view.height = 200;
view.backgroundColor = 0x336600;
You can also set the background color (as seen above) as well as a background image (view.background) and the alpha (view.backgroundAlpha).
Caution: setting the z position or rotation or scale along X/Y/Z has no effect even though modern tools like Flash Builder, FlashDevelop and IntelliJ will tell you that these exist. The same goes for many other methods inherited from the Sprite object such as addChild (that will actually crash your movie is you use it), so stick to the properties mentioned above.
By using the position and size properties on multiple Views, we can view the same scene from multiple angles. In the example below, we have four View3D's looking at the same Scene:
movie: MultipleViews_v4.as MultipleViewsView_v4.as
Every view comes with a default Scene and Camera. You can change / remove the defaults by setting the view.camera or view.scene properties, just as we do in the example above.
Note that nothing will be displayed in the View until you tell it to update using the render() method:
You will typically call this command from within an EnterFrame or Timer handler. Be careful though. If you set your movie to update too often (too short Timer interval or too high Framerate) the result will actually be reduced performance/speed. With the transition to Stage3D, there is less of a limit on how often you can call the render-command, especially for simple things like these tutorials. However, if you are building complex scenes with many thousand polygons, you should look carefully at how many frames per second your movie is able to achieve - especially on older machines.
To save some typing and follow general Object Oriented practice, we've created the View as a separate class in the example above. The Scene is created in the main class so we can pass it as a parameter to the four View's. This way, they can all show the same scene, but from different angles just as a 3D modeling software would. To get more View's, we just create a new MultipleViewsView_v4.as instance.
A brand new setting in version 4 is antiAliasing:
view.antiAlias = 4;
If you don't specify an antiAlias setting, the default setting of Zero will be used. You have probably already seen examples of Stage3D that looked "blocky", so do remember to set this. Values of 0, 2, 4 and 16 are valid settings. You can see the difference between 0 and 4 in the picture below (2x zoom on a rotated cube).
In general, a higher setting will require more from the graphics card but from what we've tested, it's little to none difference for normal scenes when using a setting of 4. For Stage3D on mobile, antaliasing is always off no matter what you set the property to.
The Scene works just like the Stage in Flash. Anything on the Scene can be displayed to the user and manipulated. Before you can use the scene, you must create it. You can do this two ways. The simplest is just to use the Default scene that comes with every view.
var view:View3D = new View3D();
This will create a new View with a Scene. You can access the scene using "view.scene". You can also create a scene and then pass that Scene to the view.
var myScene:Scene3D = new Scene3D;
var view:View3D = new View3D();
view.scene = myScene;
This is what we did in the example above showing multiple views of the same Scene3D, allowing multiple views to use the same Scene. This also makes for little less typing since you can reference the scene using the "myScene" variable directly rather than "view.scene".
Once you have your Scene in place, you'll want to add content to it. 3D objects in Away3D are either attached to the Scene or an ObjectContainer3D that is already/later put on the Scene. ObjectContainer3D allows you to group several objects together so you can move them together as well as separately.
To place an object on the Scene, we must first create it. Let's create a Sphere with a radius of 100:
var mySphere:SphereGeometry = new SphereGeometry( 100 );
Just as with DisplayObject's in Flash, 3D objects can be created without being added to the DisplayList. To make our Sphere visible, we have to add it to the stage using the addChild method. If we used the Default view, we'll do it this way:
view.scene.addChild( mySphere );
If we want to add this to the custom scene we created earlier, we do it this way:
myScene.addChild( mySphere );
If you want to remove an Object from the Scene, you use the removeChild method as you would for MovieClips or other DisplayObjects in Flash:
While the Scene3D object has the addChild and removeChild methods, it's not a DisplayObject. This means that you cannot move, rotate or scale it as you could in Away3D 3. You can also listen for changes to the scene and mouse clicks using EventListeners.
This is just about all you need to know about the Scene since it's so simple in use. Just treat the Scene as you would with the Stage in Flash and you are ready to go. Next up - Cameras in Away3D.
Jens has been working with Flash since version 3 came out. Since then, he's been an active member of the Flash community. He's created more than a hundred Flash games (thus the name of his blog) but he also creates web/standalone applications, does workshops and other consulting. He loves playing with new technology and he is convinced that the moment you stop learning you die (creatively speaking). Jens is also the Editor of this website.
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Thanks for the update to this gerat tutorial!
Do you have any advice on rendering two (or more) views on iOs with AIR 3.2? It apparently throws an error saying only one Stage3D instance is allowed. Is there a trick?
@lucidbard As far as I know, this is a limitation imposed by the platform, so I don't think it's doable. I'm sure they would allow it if it was feasible.
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