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The Ewa Plain is a hot market
In this month's issue of HONOLULU Magazine, I named three of the hottest Oahu neighborhoods—Kakaako, for its up-and-coming potential; Kaimuki/Diamond Head, as people previously living in rural areas try to move back to town; and the Ewa Plain, for those that want a new home and to live in the Second City.
Well, lo and behold, the Honolulu Board of Realtors (HBR) just released neighborhood residential resales figures for August 2012 using data collected from its computerized Multiple Listing Service (MLS) system, and the neighborhood with the most closed sales was the Ewa Plain.
A total of 58 single-family homes sold in the Ewa Plain area, an increase of 45 percent compared to the same month last year. Year to date, this area also showed the largest number of closed sales for single-family homes, with 315 units sold.
In the condo market, 77 units sold in the Waikiki area, which is an increase of 22 percent over the same time last year. Year to date, 597 condo unit sales closed in Waikiki, which was also the highest number for the island. Of course, Waikiki is one of the most densely populated condo markets on Oahu.
What is making these neighborhoods so desirable to live in? Get a copy of this month's magazine, or check out the article here.
In the meantime, to see the rest of HBR's neighborhood stats for August 2012, visit HiCentral.com. The report will also show comparisons of median prices: Waialae-Kahala had the highest median price for single-family homes at $1,679,470, an increase of 21 percent compared to last year. Hawaii Kai had the highest median sales price for condos at $469,000, an increase of 13 percent.
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The Xtreem DDR3-2000 and Xtreem DDR3-1800 use the premium 8-layer PCB design and the genuine 128x8 chips in BGA package. With the exclusive screening technology and repeated QA tests from Team, it is absolutely necessary that every Xtreem module can meet the strictest demands of worldwide overclockers with the manufacturers uncompromising production and quality control. Moreover, every module must pass the burn-in test for at least 24 hours on a wide range of overclocking platforms made by Asus and Gigabyte to ensure flawless compatibility, reliability and performance of every module. Both models are equipped with built-in EPP (Enhance performance profiles) and XMP (Extreme memory profiles) features to ensure that beginners can also enjoy the high-speed performance of the modules. The black aluminum heatsink that comes together with the modules marks the unearthly power of the Xtreem Series.
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The one of the two last surviving members of the original Revolution commanding council of 1952 and the founder of Egyptian intelligence Zakaria Mohy El Din "1918-2012" has passed away today after very busy and interesting political career and even longer time in silence away from public political life after retirement in 1968.
You can read his biography in Wikipedia , still I can tell you that since meeting Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1940 his role in shaping the political history of Egypt began to take place. Among the positions he occupied in his considerable short yet crowded political life were : Head of military intelligence , minister of interior , head of high dam committee , prime minister of Egypt and the vice president of Gamal Abdel Nasser.
OF course for those who know the history of Zakaria Mohi El Din very well , the first thing comes to their mind wen they hear their name is that who founded the Egyptian intelligence "GIS" in 1954. {He was 36 years old then}
In 1967 after the humiliating defeat of the six days war Nasser announced that he was going to step down leaving presidency to his first vice-president Zakaria Mohi El Din but millions of Egyptians refused that step down and in 1968 Mohi El Din suddenly resigned and decided to quit politics altogether. In the same year he had sent a letter to Gamal Abdel Nasser asking him to adopt democratic policies in the country.
In a Pro-Eastern regime in 1960s , Mohy El Din was known to leaning towards the West and thus according to some it was not surprising that Nasser though of stepping down from rule after the six days war defeat in 1967 and assigning presidency to his first VP known for his good relations to the West in order to ease the tension between Egypt and the States.
Since 1968 Mohy El Din rarely spoke in public till his death, there was very rare and short interview with BBC from decades ago but other than that , he was the black box no one managed to open for real. He had his ups and downs , he made political mistakes and sins just like the rest of the Free officers that we are paying their prices now but like everyone on this earth he was a human.
The last time Mohy El Din appeared in public was in 2002 in the jubilee anniversary when he was decorated by Mubarak some medallion remarking the anniversary.
My only wish is that this man has left us some memories or anything because his testimony is by far very important from historical perspective. I think my wish is shared by all the journalists in town who want to open that box Mohy El Din kept in his mind. I believe he owed as some answers , some explanation for many things when it comes to Nasser , the defeat , the intelligence , the police state and the relation with the West.
Now the last surviving top member of the Revolution commandeering council is Khaled Mohy El Din , his cousin who chose democracy in 1953. Unlike his silent middle right wing Pro-West cousin , leftist Khaled was outspoken to the level I wonder if he had kept any secret from us.
I feel sad today that many young Egyptians did not know who Zackaria Mohi El Din was today including activists and revolutionaries. Our history is not read in 140 characters or Facebook Post or One side version of the history , our history should be read carefully.
I also feel sad that I did not pay my respect to another Free officer who passed away earlier this year , late Tharwet Okasha who no one can't deny contributions to the Egyptian cultural life.
I do not know if there is some kind of symbolism but we are on the verge of a new republic and Mohi El Din departs today like that. I just feel sad that he left without speaking up.
He was a true spy chief ,he was the true black box. I can't stop comparing between him and Omar Suleiman , how he left rule and politics altogether in 1968 when he had a golden opportunity.
Fact : Zackaria Mohy El Din quitted politics altogether in 1968 when he was only 44 years , only 44 years old and he remained silent for the rest of his life
May Allah bless your soul Zackaria Mohy El Din as well Tharwat Okasha.
Now only 3 presidential candidates paid their condolences and express their sorrow for the death of Mohi El Din and they are : Hamdeen Sabbahi , Amr Moussa and Ahmed Shafik.
It is no surprise that Sabbahi " A Nasserite" , Shafik "a military man" and Moussa " former diplomat" to present their condolences in extremely wise , the surprise is from the rest of the presidential candidates !!
I wish I can share an interview for him , all what I have got some old photos from several websites. I used to have a rare photo scan for him but unfortunately I got it on an old hard drive which I forgot to transfer its files because of the revolution in the past 2 years !!!!!


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Haines was sane
Your cover story about Haines Fullerton ["Dave, Fame & Haines," September 16, 2004] was far from fair, balanced, and accurate. It's clearly no more than the latest installment in Mark Roebuck's public attack on Haines' character.
I was a fairly close friend of both Mark and David McNair in the early '90s, and a very close friend of Haines from '93 until his passing. I speak from grounded experience, not speculation, nor projection– nor reckless, unfounded attack.
According to a longer version of the article currently posted on McNair's website, Mark had repeatedly encouraged his good friend McNair to write about Haines. Who was the main source of information for the article? Mark, who admits he had not spoken with Haines for years before his death, and that he had "hated him for years."
The article was about Mark and David McNair's feelings of unworthiness and envy, not about Haines. McNair never knew Haines well (contrary to the impression given in your paper), and Mark was simply out of the loop for years. They are in no position to understand what Haines was going through during his final years, let alone offer their explanations.
Yet, instead of admitting that they can't understand, they have invented a believable story to explain it all– that Haines was crazy. And many of those who also can't understand appear to have accepted this explanation without question.
Anyone who knew Haines well during his final years would find Mark's assertions laughable, except that his aggressive assault on Haines' character, which began well before his death and continues to this day, is in no way funny.
These attacks and lies have effects, at a minimum on Haines' beautiful children who deserve respect and care regarding their father. Wouldn't a "health professional," a social worker, wish to uphold a higher standard than this? This public campaign of slander is part of the reason why I chose to move Haines' and my daughter out of Charlottesville.
Amazingly, McNair has never bothered to ask me directly about Haines. Hawes Spencer chose to use an article based on such a questionable source for his cover story, while he barely used the information he spent hours collecting from family and friends close to Haines.
This type of "journalism" is beyond sloppy. It is recklessly irresponsible. Truth has not been served.
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Footage Of A Truck And Jeep Crashing Has People Divided
Footage of a truck and jeep trying and spectacularly failing to merge on a Sydney road has people debating who exactly is in the wrong.
The dashcam video taken by a motorcycle behind the competing vehicles shows them going head to head at a merge point.
The Jeep, which was in the far left lane on Parramatta Road in Concord, ended up losing a mirror as the truck scraped along its side.
The footage shows the driver beeping his horn as the truck closes in the gap.
Posted on the Dash Cam Owners Australia Facebook page, the footage has people debating who is at fault in the low speed incident.
Some pointed the finger at the Jeep driver, claiming the driver's decision to persist in moving forward and not giving the truck a chance to merge was to blame.
Others pointed out the truck shouldn't have merged when he wasn't sure if the lane was clear.
Either way, we're thinking they both could do with watching the footage for themselves!


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In conjunction with the National Girls and Women in Sports Day sponsored by the Women's Sports Foundation, Hope College will feature "When Women Played Hard Ball," hosting two guest speakers from the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL), on Tuesday, Feb. 5, at 11 a.m. in the Maas Center auditorium.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
Doris Cook and Rosemary Stevenson overcame gender ideologies and psycho-social gender norms to play organized professional sport in the AAGPBL during the 1940s and 1950s, a time when women were not considered athletic let alone professional athletes. They will share their experiences of playing professional baseball in pre-Title IX days as well as offer insights into current and future trends of women in sports.
Cook joined the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in 1949 at the age of 17. She remained in the league until 1953, having played pitcher and outfielder for the Springfield Sallies, the Kalamazoo Lassies, and the South Bend Blue Sox. Also at the age of 17, Stevenson started her career with the Grand Rapids Chicks, playing outfield in 1954. Her career in the AAGPBL was cut short when the league folded in that same year.
Immortalized in the film "A League of Their Own," which was fictional but based on true-life stories, the AAGPBL was founded by Philip K. Wrigley in 1943. During the league's history, more 600 women played professional baseball in about a half a dozen Midwest cities. These women's years in the league was full of memorable experiences, marked by playing the game in uniformed skirts, attending charm school during spring training, and using equipment and rules that had been previously reserved for men. In particular, it was friendships that became most meaningful. Cook and Stevenson have often relived those friendships and games to audiences in Michigan. Now they bring their stories to Hope.
This event, as well as a sports clinic for middle-school girls also held in conjunction with the National Girls and Women in Sports Day, is sponsored by the Hope College Athletic Department and the NCAA Strategic Initiative Grant program.
The Maas Center is located at 264 Columbia Ave., on Columbia Avenue at 11th Street.


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text: "The Long Beach Football League is for kids ages five to 12. According to its website, the league's mission is 'to instill the fundamental values of self-discipline, teamwork, leadership, sportsmanship, and mutual respect to the youth of our community.'" And for padding the pockets of 51-year-old James Graham Brown, the league treasurer who stands accused of embezzling $24,000 from 2006 to 2011. Hide ya kids' football checks. [WLBT]


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We recently came across the article Top 31 Super Smart DIY Storage Solutions For Your Home Improvement on architectureartdesigns.com and was impressed by how simple but genius some of their home improvement ideas are. Here are 5 of my favorite budget friendly ideas that will help you get more organized.
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Bookshelf + Baskets= Stylish Playroom Organization
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Is your garage or tool room inundated with piles of loose screws, nuts, bolts and other loose items? This simple idea will help you to get organized and find items you need with ease.
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Create a convenient and safe storage place for your hair essentials.
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An inexpensive and sweet way to store books.
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After about 100 dives with the setup, I've decided to sell off my Canon D60 and Sea & Sea Dx-3060 housing.
What I've got:
Canon D60 (7k pics, 2 batteries, double charger, all original parts / manuals).
Sea & Sea Dx-3060 Housing
S&S Compact Dome Port w/ Neoprene Cover and rear port cover
S&S Extension Ring (to support Canon 17-40L lens with Dome)
S&S Nx Zoom Port (works with multiple lenses including Canon 100mm macro) w/ Rear port cover
Zoom gear for Canon 28-80mm lens
Zoom gear modified to work with Canon 17-40L lens
Body cover for housing
Extra o-ring (slightly used)
Miscellaneous other bits
As would be expected, there's some wear and tear on the housing. The dome port has some minor scratches on the exterior, but nothing you can see in any images. Check out some of my galleries here. Everything from February 2003 on was done with this setup.
New the setup and the camera cost close to $6k (did we really ever pay $2300 for a 6Mp camera?). I'll sell either the camera or the whole housing setup or both, but I won't part out the housing.
Housing setup - $1500
Camera - $650
Make me an offer, I'm getting ready to move and would like to carry a couple less items. I'll probably list it on eBay shortly if I don't get any response here.
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Posted 28 February 2005 - 02:44 PM
you're about 2 weeks to late to catch me, although I could do with the damn manual and the cd's that came with it as mine were all destroyed in hurricane ivan and i don't have any of that anymore. both at the same time
let me know if you still haven't got rid of it all and it comes to crunch time I may have mroe money then.
let me know if you still haven't got rid of it all and it comes to crunch time I may have mroe money then.
Posted 04 March 2005 - 08:07 AM
Yeah, I'm about 12 months too late to catch any real interest, at least at any decent price. I'll probably see what eBay has to offer then just keep the whole setup and start over.
Email me with which manuals you are missing, if I can find them easily I might be able to scan them if you want.
Email me with which manuals you are missing, if I can find them easily I might be able to scan them if you want.


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Meet the author at a Moline Public Library on June 3rd at 1:00, where she will be signing copies of her new book, Home Safe.
My favorite Berg novel is The Year of Pleasures. If you like books in which the protagonist has faced tragedy and must rebuild her life, this is a classic starting-over story.
You'll enjoy reading how Betta moves to a new town, buys a house, and reconnects with old college friends. Immersing herself in her new surroundsings, she also makes new friends, finds romance and opens a store called "What a Woman Wants." It sounds a little incredible, but Berg writes so lyrically, the journey seems completely logical and enjoyable. One of Berg's strengthes is her depiction of the small joys of daily life; you'll not want to leave the world she has created.


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The rains recede.
I don't have a rain gauge at present, so I can't provide a personal report on how much it rained at my house during the recent storms. Instead, I'll report the rainfall measured by the Christian County Wx Operations Center for Hopkinsville, KY:
- 4.41 inches last week
- 3.39 inches during the first three days of this week
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One of our favorite looks from last night's SAG Awards Red Carpet was Lea Michele in Atelier Versace. The slit was DARING, and she just totally killed it. The makeup and hair complemented the dress perfectly, too. The man responsible for Lea Michele's soft and sultry hairstyle was Dove Celebrity Stylist Mark Townsend. Mark used several products from the new, nine-piece Dove Style+Care collection to get the look. This line officially launches March 1, and is designed to help nourish and protect hair for long-lasting style.
"I started by applying a large dollop of the new Dove Style+Care Nourishing Amplifier Mousse to Lea's damp hair and blow dried with a large round brush for volume.
Next, I took a dime-size amount of the new Dove Frizz-Free Shine Cream-Serum in my hands and rubbed them together to warm up the product, and then raked my hands through her hair. I am obsessed with this cream; it gives the hair amazing shine and separation, and also nourishes the hair too so it's like having a styling product and a conditioner in one bottle.
I pulled her hair into a loose bun while Lea had her makeup done to set a loose wave in her hair. Then, I let the hair down and sprayed Oribe Après Beach Spray all over to give the hair that great sexy "second-day" hair.
Just before Lea left for the red carpet, I finished her hairstyle by spraying the new Dove Style+Care Extra Hold Hairspray all over to keep her hair in place without it looking stiff or crunchy."
And, we're giving away the three Dove Style+Care products used to create Lea Michele's SAG look! Leave us a comment and tell us what you thought about the SAG styles. Did you like Lea's look? Who was your favorite! We'll pick one winner* end of day Thursday, February 2.
Update: Congrats to Jennifer, the winner of the Dove Style + Care giveaway!


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'Rose' perfume can smell green, spicy, powdery, sparkly, fruity or more.
The ubiquity of roses in early to mid-February can be overwhelming (their prices, shocking), but their association with love and romance — and perfume — is hardly a modern convention.
Roses are referenced in Greek and Roman mythology, and humans have distilled fragrant oils from rose petals for millennia. Rosewater colognes were popular with both sexes in the 19th century.
But it's only recently that scientists discovered that essential rose oil contains more than 400 individual components. Which means that anyone who shops for rose scents before Valentine's Day would do well to give it some thought. Depending on which aspect the perfumer emphasizes, "rose" can smell green, spicy, powdery, sparkly, sweet, fruity, woody, earthy, dark or richly boozy.
One of the most beautiful rose soliflores (a one-note perfume) is Yosh Han's Sottile, which evokes a delicate tea rose opening its dewy petals at dawn.
Other virtual roses: CB I Hate Perfume Tea Rose; Frederic Malle's Une Rose, Jo Malone's Red Roses and Creed's Fleur de Thé (Rose Bulgare.
If you favor Victorian gentlemen's cologne, explore Penhaligon's Elizabethan Rose and Czech & Speake's No. 88. For a leather jacket sprinkled with petals, try on Kerosene's Whips and Roses.
For bargains, you can't beat Perfumer's Workshop's Tea Rose. Kuumba Made,
sold at Whole Foods and online, offers reasonably priced tea, honeysuckle and Arabian rose perfumes. Other great values? Yves Rocher's underrated Rose Absolue, Jean Charles Brosseau's powdery woodsy Ombre Rose and Rochas Tocade, a creamy, well-constructed vanilla rose in a whimsical bottle.
Caron's Parfum Sacre's blend of rose, musk and incense is cozy and meditative for cold February days.
In summer, try lighter, sheer, 21st century roses: the cool incense of Eau d'Italie's Paestum Rose or the cracked black pepper of Le Labo Rose 31. Atelier's Rose Anonyme pops with citrus and vanilla, and Rose Poivre by the Different Company is cumin-kissed.
Stella by Stella McCartney balances among fresh, floral, amber, green and sweet rose. (The frosted purple bottle is a bonus.)
Annick Goutal's classic French compositions Rose Absolute and Ce Soir Ou Jamais are bursting-ripe sweet rose scents, while Ineke's fruity Briar Rose and Royal Apothia's powdery English Rose are demure yet sexy enough for Snow White. For naughty roses, Vivienne Westwood's aptly named Boudoir is thick sweet rose syrup.
To channel your inner Marie Antoinette, try Frederic Malle's Portrait of a Lady (spices, patchouli, sandalwood, berries, incense) or Moroccan-inspired Serge Lutens. His Sa Majeste La Rose smells like rose liqueur, while Rose de Nuit is dark and sexy and the brand new Fille de Berlin is a cool retro rose floriental.
When only classic, old school French perfumery will do, Guerlain is your house, with Rose Barbare (jammy, honeyed) and Nahema (plummy, woodsy) set off by the famous Guerlinade base of vanilla, orris, dark animalics and resins.
For all-natural opulence, Mandy Aftel's new Wild Roses (boozy, spicy, resinous) will have you anointing yourself like Cleopatra awaiting Marc Antony. Lalun Naturals' Quajar Rose is a stroll through ancient Persian rose gardens.
Three of Andy Tauer's fragrances are rose-centric: Une Rose Vermeille (candied scarlet), Une Rose Chypre (resins and oakmoss) and Une Rose Incense (incense).
Rosine's 50-plus perfumes all feature prominent rose notes, and the note also runs through many Montales and Juliette Has a Gun perfumes.
For rose candy pastille perfume, you
cannot beat L'Artisan's powdery Drole de Rose. For exotic dessert perfume, try Neela Vermeire's Mohur (cardamom, coriander, rose, almond, vanilla), Amouage's Lyric Woman (opulent spices, saffron, incense), Parfumerie Generale's Brulure de Rose 13, L'Artisan's Saffran Troublant and Ormond Jayne Ta'if.
The moody vetiver-rose pairing in L'Artisan's Voleur de Roses will have you humming Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart." On the dark end of the spectrum, try Czech & Speake's Dark Rose, By Kilian's Rose Aoud and Montale's Black Aoud, the subterranean goblin queen of all rose perfumes. It's not for everyone, so sample first.
Hamilton writes about perfume for The Times.


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I am curious to see what people think of the abiotic theory of oil deposit formation versus the traditional theory.
I have long wondered how enough organic material became trapped underground to degrade and form oil deposits. Especially when you consider the shear amount of oil that we have found underground over the decades. And considering how much oil we use. If you think about it, when most critters die the tend to decompose mostly or fully above ground. So I have trouble believing that such large amounts of oil, especially in such large concentrations, have formed from dying plants and animals over the centuries.
Recently I heard about the theory of abiotic oil. My understanding of the theory is that oil deposits are actually chemicals and material that is formed at the mantle boundary that seeps up further into the crust where it is consumed by micro-organisms that process it and turn it into what we know as oil. My understanding may be a bit off I realize.
But some evidence of this has been presented in the form of old, capped oil wells that after a few decades, when re-examined, seem to be full once more and are now run at full pumping capacity once more. There are other things I have read as evidence. It seems to me that this would be a better explanation for the large amounts of oil deep underground.
Does anyone know enough about these subjects to say that one theory holds more water than the other? Has there been any new evidence pointing to one or the other theory more?


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NJ's Christie apologizes again for payback scheme
TRENTON, N.J. — Faced with a widening political scandal that threatens to undermine his second term and a possible 2016 presidential run, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie apologized again Tuesday, saying his administration "let down the people we are entrusted to serve" but that it doesn't define his team or the state.
On the eve of his second term, the governor opened his annual State of the State address by touching only briefly on the issue before moving on to take credit for the state's improving economy.
"The last week has certainly tested this administration," he told lawmakers and others gathered at the Statehouse. "Mistakes were clearly made. And as a result, we let down the people we are entrusted to serve. I know our citizens deserve better."
The scandal broke wide open last week with the release of documents showing the involvement of Christie aides and appointees in apparently politically orchestrated traffic lane closings in September that caused massive gridlock. He has fired one close aide and others on his team have resigned.
Christie first apologized last week during a nearly two-hour news conference, saying he was blindsided by his staff's involvement. Christie has denied any knowledge in the planning or execution of the plot, and there is no evidence linking him to it.
A popular figure in the Republican Party, Christie won re-election by 22 points in November after earning high marks from New Jerseyans for his handling of the state's recovery from Superstorm Sandy, and his stock had been rising as a potential candidate for president in 2016.
Now, he is hoping his State of the State address will help him rebound from the apparent political payback scheme that could damage his second term and cut short any ambitions to run for president.
In addition to discussing the economy, he was also to propose extending the public school calendar and lengthening the school day, though details will be left for another day, according to prepared remarks provided by the governor's office.
Wendell Steinhauer, president of New Jersey's largest and most powerful teachers union and a frequent adversary of Christie, said in a statement ahead of the speech that the group would welcome discussion of the proposal with Christie. But Steinhauer also criticized Christie for his veto Monday of a bill that would have implemented full-day kindergarten statewide.
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Hello one and all,
I am very new to this board and coin world. I have over 400 1966 Canadian quarters which I am looking to sell. I did my own search and have gotten so confused with so many different values. From a local coin collector saying it was just $2.50 per coin last week and it just today went down to $2.00.
I don't need to sell them right away and can wait for a fair price or when the silver goes back up.
On this site it states "25 cents 1966 prices and values"
The minimum value of a 25 cents 1966 is $3.83, due to the value of the metal that composes it.
From what I take from this is that it's $3.83 ... am I missing something? Is this site updated daily?
Any input is greatly appreciated as to where I get the true value. There isn't any that have a collecting value as they are all pretty run down.
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$3,50-$3,89 CAN currency.
$3,50-$3,89 CAN currency.
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Melt value is around $2.50US right now (3,35$CAN)
If your local store is in Canada, the buyer want to make large profit.
If your local store is in Canada, the buyer want to make large profit.
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A dollar face value of 1920-67 coinage (.800 silver) is equal to .6 oz Au. Look up the posted price for silver and that's usually listed in US dollars. If the coins are worn, you will get 80% or so of scrap silver price, maybe less if real worn. If they are UNC, then expect about 90%. IE, you have 4 quarters equals .6 ozs. If silver is $15 per oz, you have $9 or $2.25 US each FULL value. You can expect 80% or a little more as scrap. They have no collector value, so watch the silver prices.
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And, thank goodness, the character options don't include those absolutely nutty mushroom heads and paeans to Super Mario that Aion has.
That said, the game is a lot closer to Aion and other Asian RPGs than American/European RPGs than you'd think.
For starters, there's the issue with NPC clothing.
While issues with PC gear --and particularly female PC gear-- have been around for ages, typically in the Western RPG you'd find NPCs wearing appropriate clothing for the task at hand: armor for guards, work clothes for grunts, dresses and poofy shirts for nobility, etc. Yes, Alexstrasza and Ysera (and Sylvannas) may wear bikinis, but they've got recognizably Frazetta style armor on.
But GW2 and Aion both have issues where you find female NPCs wearing wildly inappropriate clothing for their work.
And pigtails. These dresses always are worn by women in pigtails.
Just in case you didn't think the visual cues for some of the women were taken from JRPGs, here's the pic when you select a female Necromancer:
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I'm heading straight to the Dance!
Ironically enough, you can find plenty of NPC women out and about wearing practical clothing --pants, full armor, etc.-- but the "short dress" NPCs (and PCs) were enough to throw you completely out of immersion from time to time.
That leads into another distinction between GW2 and WoW/SWTOR/AoC/LOTRO/etc.: the toons themselves.
Have you stopped to watch some of the NPCs around a town or village? I mean not just look at them, but watch their behavior. Normally, I don't think much of the NPCs in the background --they're the background, right?-- but when I saw a female guard stick her toe in the dirt and twist her leg as if she were talking to a crush, that kind of threw me for a loop. She was standing at attention in Shaemoor, and then she did that, so it's part of the NPC's standard movement routine. While it wasn't like the Night Elf's breast bounce, it was so unlike what a guard's behavior --while on the job-- ought to be that it left me scratching my head.
Finally, I noticed that for all toons --NPC and PC-- everybody is perfect. Smooth, flawless skin, perfect complexion, unchanging and unflappable facial expressions, and immaculate clothing were the hallmarks of all toons. I thought of the toons as "being on botox for the entire body", and I'd probably not be too far off. The toon graphics were such that even the NPCs stood out as being a little more perfect than the background graphics, so when I passed by a wounded Seraph*** it looked more like he was lying on the ground having a picnic lunch instead of looking, well, hurt.
You'd think I'd not be so enamored of GW2 after all that, but I did like it. I do like the change from the traditional "kill ten rats" questline. I also like what I've seen of the main questline so far, and moreover, I really enjoy how they went about customizing the main questline.
When you create your character, after the typical graphical adjustments (which includes a nice height slider) you are then asked a series of questions. These questions include personal motivations, including things like a regret you have. The answers to these questions provide the particular path your character will follow in their main/personal storyline.
While to the average player this seems like a need customization option, I saw it in a somewhat different light: as an attempt to bring aspects of pencil-and-paper RPGs into a computer RPG format.
Games that follow the FATE system, such as FATE Core, FATE Accelerated Edition, the Dresden Files RPG****, and Spirit of the Century RPG, have a similar mechanic. To take the simplest of the bunch, FATE Accelerated (or FAE for short), you start of a character by creating a "high concept" and a "trouble": two items that you write down to describe some of the motivation your character has. High concept is pretty straightforward, as it can be anything from "Captain of the last outpost on the edge of the Great Wasteland" to "Mechanical genius who wants to be a superspy". It's the "trouble" aspect that is what might throw people at first, because it's something that causes issues for your character, such as the following: "The Necromancer won't leave me alone", "Ooo, will you look at THAT!", or "I will not be outdone by those punks at XXY Corporation!"
These aspects are used to help drive the RPG's story forward by enabling the GM and the player to use them for both campaign hooks and to add flavor to the campaign itself. For example, a character with "Ooo, will you look at THAT!" as a trouble has issues with being distracted at inopportune times. Like, say, when your character is trying to find a bomb hidden in a lab. A GM can use such an aspect to make things a bit more difficult for a character, but also allow the character to catch little details that other, more focused characters might miss.
When I saw in the Human creation the question "What is your greatest regret?" my first thought was "Hey, they took the Trouble aspect and stuck it in an MMO!" And, surprise surprise, GW2 actually uses this aspect in the main questline, too. It's a great idea that somebody finally added into an MMO.
One other item of note that I absolutely wanted to point out was that there was no gen chat spam whatsoever in game. I see that on SWTOR, but WoW, Age of Conan, and especially Aion have gold spammers in abundance. Aion is so bad that I felt the need to have to actually turn Gen Chat off, and to be honest contributed to my decision to abandon the game.
But I do have to give kudos to ArenaNet for their job at keeping GW2 spam free.
Now, for the big question: will I play GW2 again?
Yes, but not immediately. I've got other things to take care of --outside of gaming-- before I can pick up yet another MMO.
I do like what I see overall. The story is good and not too cheesy, although Scarlet Briar has the overall feel of a Supervillan from a Superhero comic, but in general there's enough for me to like --and ignore the immersion issues-- for me to want to continue playing. I don't think I'll proceed at the same pace as I did this past weekend, since I had a limited amount of time to take the game for a test drive, but I can see it filling in some time between other MMOs I play.
If you're curious about FATE but don't want to plunk down any money on it at first, you can visit the publisher of FATE Core and FAE --Evil Hat Productions-- and download the electronic versions of both FATE Core and FAE on a pay what you like basis. (I helped fund the Kickstarter for FATE Core, so that's how I got my print copies.) Even if you're an avid roleplayer and don't end up playing FATE, it makes for very good reading.
***I found it interesting that the Seraphs --and even the Ascended in Aion-- have those wings on them that are hallmarks of some JRPGs. Considering that the Seraphs are an obvious derivation from the Seraphim of Judaic and Christian tradition, I'm still pondering how the angelic imagery managed to sneak into JRPGs (and JRPG inspired RPGs) so much.
****Yes, an RPG based on Jim Butcher's Dresden Files books. The game allows you to "Dresdenize" your local community, so that you've got a game world that you can work with without having to necessarily play in the world of Harry Dresden's Chicago. Of course, if you really wanted to play in Harry Dresden's hometown, you can by picking up the companion volume to the RPG.
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Lenten Series 2010: "Sacred Music and Sacred Words"
February 5, 2010
Loyola University New Orleans' Jesuit Center and the Alumni Association present "Sacred Music and Sacred Words," a series of concerts and lectures in February and March to observe the season of Lent.
The series is headlined by Ignatian spirituality expert the Rev. Joe Tetlow, S.J., and popular New Orleans priest, the Rev. Tony Ricard '87. The series kicks off Friday, Feb. 26, with "Ayiti Cheri," a Haitian benefit concert and dance performance.
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The 2010 Lenten Series schedule:
Friday, Feb. 26: "Ayiti Cheri," Haitian Benefit Concert and Dance Performance, 7 p.m., Roussel Hall. The concert will feature Loyola Director of Orchestras Jean Montès and his string quartet and Haitian performers, art and food.
Wed., March 3: "What is Sacred about Rock and Roll?," 7 p.m., Ignatius Chapel in Bobet Hall. A concert by a liturgical choir and musicians' group comprised of both Loyola students and alumni.
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A successful and growing Hope College service project focused on water quality and community health in the village of Nkuv in Cameroon has been named one of four finalists for Michigan's 2008 Carter Partnership Award.
A successful and growing Hope College service project focused on water quality and community health in the village of Nkuv in Cameroon has been named one of four finalists for Michigan's 2008 Carter Partnership Award.
The Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Partnership Award for Campus-Community Collaboration is given annually by Michigan Campus Compact (MCC) to one partnership involving a Michigan college or university and a community group, with its $10,000 prize divided equally between the campus and community partners for working together in exceptional ways to improve people's lives and enhance learning in the process. The winner from among the four finalists will be announced and the award will be presented during the annual Governor's Service Awards this spring, on a date yet to be determined.
The Hope program, which is partnered with the Life and Water Development Group of Cameroon, began during the 2005-06 school year as a service project for the college's then-new student chapter of Engineers Without Borders-USA (EWB-USA), with an emphasis on providing the remote village with purified water. During the first year the effort expanded to include the college's department of nursing, which surveyed the villagers' health and began working with them to improve hygiene, sanitation and nutrition.
Although the established water filtration and health education projects remain, new projects are being developed for implementation this May. The team is focusing on a piping system to bring water closer to the village from a river that is up to an hour's hike away. The team is also emphasizing providing the training so that the villagers can help themselves and train other remote communities as well. The villagers now build their own filters based on the initial design brought to them by Hope College.
Starting last year, the college's department of education became involved in helping to develop instructional materials that the people of Nkuv can use to teach themselves and others the health and hygiene lessons needed to improve health. The department of communication is becoming part of the project this year, with faculty member Ji Hoon Park and a communication student accompanying the team to film the work and training in action. Ultimately, the health and hygiene training materials and an instructional video will be posted online, available at no cost to anyone worldwide seeking to address similar needs in other villages.
"We don't want people to be dependent on outside aid or expertise for clean water," said Amanda Barton, an assistant professor of nursing who is part of the team leading the effort. "We want to say, 'Here are all the materials, here's what you need to do, let's break it down step-by-step and show you what each step looks like at the village level. We want to have an interactive relationship based on meeting the priority needs of the village while empowering them to make the decisions, build the filters, and teach the health and hygiene lessons.'"
The Hope team has so far made four trips to Cameroon - in March, May and December of 2006, and in May of 2007, with a fifth planned for this May that will include four members of the college's faculty and staff and 22 students.
Back on campus in between the trips, the team has been determining how best to meet the needs identified during the visits. The need for a piping system, for example, became the focus of a senior engineering design project. On a warm day this past summer, the children of the Children's After School Achievement (CASA) program tried out the "tippy-tap" handwashing instructional unit, in a literal field test that not only included learning about hygiene but also involved pouring water from plastic jugs tied between trees in Holland's Centennial Park.
The team has found the results rewarding. Nursing's initial survey of the population found that many of the children in Nkuv had some form of water-related disease, often manifested through diarrhea or even bloody diarrhea. The problem was so acute that experience had shown that four to six children under the age of five could be expected to die in any given six-month period.
That has since changed.
"We were able to cut the rate of diarrhea and bloody diarrhea by more than 50 percent within six months," Barton said. "Probably most significant is that we have had no deaths - we haven't had any child die from diarrhea or dehydration since we started the filter project."
The Carter Partnership Award was originally established in Georgia as a tribute to the lifelong efforts of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter to build and strengthen safe, healthy and caring communities in the U.S. and throughout the world.
MCC is a coalition of college and university presidents who are committed to fulfilling the public purpose of higher education. The compact promotes the education and commitment of Michigan college students to be civically engaged citizens, through creating and expanding academic, co-curricular and campus-wide opportunities for community service, service-learning and civic engagement. Some 41 Michigan colleges and universities are members of MCC.
MCC was chosen by the award founders to host the award in Michigan because the purpose of the award mirrors the purpose of the Michigan Campus Compact.
A selection panel composed of representatives from community, higher education, business and government organizations independent of MCC selected the four finalists and will choose the winner of the Michigan award. The committee chose the four finalists based on the combined merits of each program and gave careful consideration to how closely the applicants matched the award guidelines, which include: collaboration between a Michigan college or university (public or private) and the community for at least two years; a history of shared power and decision-making; impact on the lives of families and communities through increased economic opportunity, resourceful social and civic networks, or responsive public systems; data-informed planning and decision-making; an optimal blend of learning, research and/or service for higher-education participants; efforts to enlist other collaborators (such as businesses, civic organizations, government agencies, and faith-based institutions); documentation of measurable outcomes; and promise of sustainability.
In addition to Hope's Cameroon program, the finalists are: Alma College - Pine River Superfund Citizen Task Force; Central Michigan University - Communicative Programming for Prisoner Success; and Partners in Preparing Community Centered Leaders: The Student Leader Fellowship Program at Northern Michigan University and the Community of Marquette.


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Lot 23 (Toys & Models, 18th May 2019)
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Late 19th century album containing between 2-300 black & white pictures cut from magazines, covering British and overseas locomotives, red hardback cover with leather spine
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It's already that time of year. As my little blue-gray Jeep skidded closer and closer to the telephone pole on the side of South Street — literally the only telephone pole for about a mile — it struck me that winter had arrived.
Luckily, though, I managed to avoid striking that particular pole. My car stopped sliding just in time and I proceeded to ease my way into my ice-covered driveway and slow to a stop. The whole incident seemed as though it were in slow motion, perhaps because I had literally been driving 5 miles an hour in anticipation of such a slippery occurrence. But caution, I've learned, doesn't always cut it when it comes to Mother Nature.
Sometimes, you just cannot avoid slip sliding down the driveway, just as you cannot avoid sliding from one month into the next — it's already nearly the middle of November, for heaven sakes. And with Thanksgiving only weeks away, everyone, of course, is already thinking about Christmas.
This bothers me for a wide variety of reasons, one being that I have always been of the no-Christmas-until-after-Turkey-Day camp. As soon as we've cleared the dishes, though, I take on holiday cheer in full force. Ask any of my friends or family and they'll tell you that I love the holiday season way, way more than is normal (and in some cases, acceptable). For the past three years I have hosted Christmas music specials on the college radio station starting the first week of December and have snipped tiny white snowflakes out of eight-and-a-half by elevens to tape onto every window in sight. I could go on and on about my favorite holiday activities, but I'll spare you pain and get to my point, instead.
Four years ago, right around this time, I found a loophole in my self-inflicted, anti-early-Christmas regulations. My boss at the Henry Sheldon Museum (where I worked throughout my time at the college) asked me to take a lead in decorating the museum for Christmas. That's right — I was given an excuse, no, an order to hang garlands, to make bright red bows and to decorate trees. It was a dream come true.
And decorating the Sheldon has become somewhat of a new holiday tradition for me. In the time since I was first named "Christmas Queen" of the museum, another team of superb decorators has taken a lead in dressing up the space, but I have still managed to decorate a doorframe or two. This year, I secretly despaired at the thought of not being able to participate in making Henry's place holly and jolly when, to my great surprise, my editor asked me to write a story on the Sheldon's holiday trains and other decorations. Once again, Christmas has become my job — and I can't believe my luck!
But aside from this brief blog and my hours inside the museum spent checking twinkle lights with the special twinkle-light-checking device, I will continue to keep my vow of no pre-pumpkin-pie Christmasing — though, to be honest, thoughts of the holiday season are really the only things that make this gosh darn snow acceptable.


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Option 3: Accept an Event or Callback (to "Push" to Caller)
Both of the alternatives we've just seen let the callee return a "future," which by default delivers a "pull" notification the caller can wait for. So far, we've left it to the caller to turn that "future" into a "push" notification (event or message) if it wants to be proactively notified when the result is available.
What if we want our callee to always offer proactive "push" notifications? The most general way to do that is to accept a callback to be invoked when the result is available:
// Example 3: Return value, using a callback class Backgrounder { public: void Save( string filename, function<void(bool)> returnCallback ) { a.Send( [=] { // … do the saving work … returnCallback( didItSucceed() ? true : false ); } ); }
This is especially useful if the caller is itself an active object and gives a callback that is one of its own (asynchronous) methods. For example, this might be used from a GUI thread as follows:
class MyGUI { public: // … // When the user clicks [Save] void OnSaveClick() { // … // … turn on saving icon, etc. … // … // pass a continuation to be called to give // us the result once it's available shared_future<bool> result; result = backgrounder.Save( filename, [=] { SendSaveComplete( result->get() ); } ); } void OnSaveComplete( bool returnedValue ) { // … turn off saving icon, etc. … }
Since Example 3 uses a callback, it's worth mentioning a drawback common to all callback styles, namely: The callback runs on the callee's thread. In the aforementioned code that's not a problem because all the callback does is launch an asynchronous message event that gets queued up for the caller. But remember, it's always a good idea to do as little work as possible in the callee, and just firing off an asynchronous method call and immediately returning is a good practice for callbacks.


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WASHINGTON – Republican senators gave President Obama's Buffalo-born nominee for labor secretary a grilling Thursday over his work as assistant attorney general, but Thomas E. Perez stood strong in insisting that politics never played a role in his job at the Justice Department, and that it wouldn't at the Labor Department, either.
"You will always have a person who has an open and balanced approach," Perez said in his confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
Perez, 51, refused to be rattled despite repeated questions over his actions as assistant attorney general for civil rights.
Most notably, Republicans protested Perez's involvement in a deal in which the City of St. Paul, Minn., agreed to withdraw a housing-discrimination case that it could have appealed to the Supreme Court – potentially leading to a result that would have made it harder for the government to bring such cases.
In return for that agreement, the Justice Department vowed not to join two whistle-blower cases against St. Paul that, Republicans said, could have saved $200 million for U.S. taxpayers.
The top Republican on the committee, Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, said the deal smelled like an improper quid pro quo.
"It seems you have a duty to the government to collect the money [owed to the taxpayers], a duty to protect the whistle-blower who is left hanging in the wind – and at the same time it seems to me that you are manipulating the legal process to get the result you want in the Supreme Court in a way that seems inappropriate for the assistant attorney aeneral of the U.S.," Alexander said.
In response, Perez said the head of the Justice Department's Civil Division made the decision to not join the whistle-blower cases, perceiving them as too weak.
"The value to the U.S. of losing a case is zero," Perez said.
Hearing that, the committee chairman, Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, voiced support for the nominee.
"From everything I can see, you acted ethically and appropriately to advance the interests of the United States," Harkin said.
Perez vowed to act exactly in that fashion if confirmed as labor secretary.
Asked what his top priority would be, Perez said: "Jobs, jobs and jobs.
"I believe it's critically important to get Americans back to work, and I believe the Labor Department can play a role in that."
In particular, he said he would work to streamline federal job-training programs much as he did as labor secretary in the State of Maryland, making sure that people are being trained for jobs that actually exist.
"You can't train and pray," he said. "You should only train in programs that you know are going to produce a job."
In addition, Perez vowed to work with Democrats and Republicans alike and to bring together business and labor for the best solutions for the nation's workforce problems.
"While I am currently a political appointee in the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, I spent the bulk of my 13-year tenure there as a career criminal prosecutor," he said. "I have had the privilege of working under four presidents: Ronald Reagan, George Herbert Walker Bush, Bill Clinton and now President Obama."
In his opening remarks, Perez stressed his Buffalo roots. He noted that his father, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic, chose to work as a doctor at the Buffalo VA Medical Center because he wanted to give back to the country that had rescued his family from political turmoil back home.
His father died when Perez was 12, and he acknowledged that resulted in difficulties for his family.
But he said he pulled through because "my mother was a rock," because of the support of his siblings and because "we lived in a place like Buffalo, where neighbors always looked after neighbors."
The committee will vote on Perez's nomination Thursday. If approved, the nomination will go to the full Senate, where Sen. David Vitter, R-La., is threatening to try to block it.
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STOCKTON - The Weston Ranch Cougars delivered their first win of the season to first-year coach Seth Davis after fending off a late scoring threat by Bear Creek on Friday night at Weston Ranch.
STOCKTON - The Weston Ranch Cougars delivered their first win of the season to first-year coach Seth Davis after fending off a late scoring threat by Bear Creek on Friday night at Weston Ranch.
A potential game-tying touchdown drive by the Bruins was cut short when Quamante Battle intercepted Bear Creek quarterback Zach Merseth's pass at the Cougars' 20-yard line with 24 seconds remaining, giving Weston Ranch a 26-18 nonleague victory.
"I'm so happy for our players and our staff to get that first W, especially at home," Davis said. "All good football teams can run it in the fourth quarter, and we did that. We hadn't been able to do it all year."
Weston Ranch (1-2) opened the game by allowing Bear Creek to drive 39 yards on four plays for a 7-0 lead. Bruins quarterback Brice Weber connected with Devin Wyman on a 28-yard touchdown pass.
Weston Ranch answered on the next play from scrimmage when junior John McDonald took a handoff up the middle and raced untouched 80 yards for a touchdown. A two-point pass play failed, and Bear Creek (1-2) led 7-6.
The Bruins increased their lead to 10-6 when Joel Chavez made a 32-yard field goal early in the first quarter. However, that would be the last scoring drive for Bear Creek until its 32-yard touchdown pass from Zach Merseth to Jason Sigman midway through the fourth quarter.
That only closed the Cougars' lead to 26-17. Quamante Battle's 2-yard touchdown run, Erron Duncan's 21-yard touchdown pass from Marcus Moore and Marcus Gammage's 48-yard punt return for a touchdown had given the Cougars a 16-point lead.
Bear Creek coach Reggie Camp said the Bruins couldn't overcome four turnovers.
"We made some critical errors, and it was a tough loss," Camp said. "But they had the spirit to come back and fight. That's what I'm most proud of."
The Cougars had 247 yards of offense compared to 230 for Bear Creek.


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NHL Game Night: 11/7 Lightning at Canadiens
Niitty is so gangsta.
Antero Niittymaki has been a revelation. He stopped 36 of 37 tonight to give his Lightning team a chance to get the win. Ride him 'til the wheels come off.
First Period
TB 10:09, Malone 10 (St. Louis, Lecavalier)(PP)
TB 19:13, Tanguay 3 (Malone, Lecavalier)
Second Period
MTL 9:44, Gionta 7 (Spacek, Gomez)(PP)
TB 18:01, Wright 2 (Tanguay, Halpern)
Third Period
This fell somewhere between the Toronto and Ottawa games in terms of how the Lightning played. The offensive flow and continuity is still absent (21 shots), and they were slightly tighter defensively than in Toronto but not quite as good as in Ottawa. Nitty has collected 4 of 6 points in these past 3 games and the team hasn't played to its potential.
Steve Downie had 1 hit in 12:36. This was his quietest game in a Lightning uniform in a long while.
Drew Miller played 9:16.
Zenon Konopka had 2 penalty minutes, 1 shot, 1 hit, and 1 blocked shot in 8:58.
James Wright scored the big insurance marker in the game and was +1 with 2 shots, 2 hits, and 1 blocked shot in 12:39.
Box score and extended statistics from NHL.com.
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Viewpoint: Robots are moving to greater interaction with people
Over the past decade, astute tech watchers may have noticed two new waves of robots intersecting our lives.
The first is the quickest growing segment of the vacuum cleaning market: robotic vacuum cleaners.
Second is the newest weapon group in our militaries - air drones, ground robots for dealing with explosive devices, and underwater robots to map out what is going on in our oceans.
But there has also been a less obvious set of academic robot research going on - one that will impact many aspects of business.
It is research which began over 20 years ago, in 1990, with a concept named Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (Slam).
As small mobile robots were starting to be built by research robot makers, academics around the world began working on robots that could build maps from visual, sonar, laser range and other data sources.
Since the robots were mobile and didn't know exactly where they were, the challenge was to simultaneously figure out the relative positions and orientations of a robot as it made different observations about its situation.
This would be an easy task for a robot if it already had an accurate map to work with - but at the same time it was making decisions it was also having to build a picture of its surroundings.
Hence the word "simultaneous" in the name.
Today, Slam algorithms are exceptionally good, and the sensors that can be used to collect data are now very low-cost.
The computation needed to run the algorithms now fits in tiny embedded processors, which are more powerful computationally than the entire mainframes we used a generation ago.
These Slam algorithms are at the core of Google's self-driving cars.
The techniques they rely on are also at the core of the capabilities being introduced into high-end cars.
In the next few years this technology will allow for automatic lane following and changing, automatic driving in stop-go traffic, and even automobile navigation systems which will become pervasive over the next decade.
In short, our cars are becoming robots.
But more rapidly than that so are our agricultural tractors, our construction vehicles, our mining vehicles, and even our warehousing and manufacturing plant vehicles. All types of vehicles, becoming roboticised.
And now the next wave of robots in ordinary life are being enabled by the incredible success of a computer gaming system, the Microsoft Kinect, a three-dimensional vision system designed primarily for gaming.
The Kinect is seen as a significant breakthrough, particularly given its cost.
While academics have been working on computer vision for over 50 years, they have not been able to produce systems that see the world with anything like the capabilities of the human eye.
The fundamental issue here is another sort of "simultaneous" problem.
When humans see the world, they see reflected light from objects that they wish to recognise, but that light comes with brightness, colour and distribution that is simultaneously unknown.
The human vision system miraculously (and for a computer vision researcher, it does seem miraculous) figures out the structure of the light.
It can recognise shadows and how they affect colours - and the identity and three-dimensional location of objects, including objects that have never been seen before.
Next wave
The Kinect solves a simpler problem.
It projects infrared light - which is invisible to humans - with a known intensity and distribution pattern, and from the reflection builds a three-dimensional reconstruction of what is in the world.
It encompasses special software that can match a moving three-dimensional pattern to a generic human body so that the system can "see" people and what they are doing with their arms and head.
This technology is simply revolutionary for robots.
It allows them to be aware of people nearby, and at the gross level, to be aware of what those people are doing.
So now researchers all over the world are starting to have their robots interact with people in new and interesting ways.
This is where the next wave of robots is starting to come from.
Their exact applications are not yet known, but I will be very surprised if we do not start seeing new robots in health care and care for the elderly, and have them move into service industries in general.
At my own company, we're building a new sort of industrial robot that ordinary factory workers can train to do simple tasks.
We're going to see more and more robots, not just robot vacuum cleaners and robot cars, in our everyday lives.
Rodney Brooks is the founder of Rethink Robotics, the company behind Baxter the factory robot. He is a former professor of robotics at MIT, and author of Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us.


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When the Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973 with its historic Roe v. Wade decision, it wasn't concerned with protecting women's rights so much as it wanted to protect doctors.
Or so argues longtime Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse in an op-ed for The New York Times.
"[T]o the justices who decided the case, Roe v. Wade really was about abortion, nothing more or less," Greenhouse wrote. "To read the actual opinion, as almost no one ever does, is to understand that the seven middle-aged to elderly men in the majority certainly didn't think they were making a statement about women's rights: women and their voices are nearly absent from the opinion."
After reading the actual opinion ourselves, it seems Greenhouse has a point.
The concept of women's rights is not mentioned anywhere in the opinion syllabus, but the justices do make a point to mention they're protecting doctors' right to make decisions.
The justices ruled that "the abortion decision and its effectuation must be left to the medical judgment of the pregnant woman's attending physician."
So, according to the ruling, the decision shouldn't be left to the woman herself, but to her doctor.
While Roe v. Wade has become an important symbol in the fight for women's rights, it doesn't seem that was the justices' original intent.
They seemed much more concerned with protecting doctors, a fellow class of professionals, rather than protecting a woman's right to choose.
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Portland, Ore. -- At the O'Reilly Open Source Convention today, Software Freedom Law Center director Eben Moglen threw down the gauntlet to O'Reilly founder and CEO Tim O'Reilly. Saying that O'Reilly had spent 10 years making money and building the O'Reilly name, Moglen invited O'Reilly to stop being "frivolous" and to join the conversation about software freedom.
During today's executive briefing, Moglen was given a half hour to discuss "licensing in the Web 2.0 era" with O'Reilly. Earlier in the session, the exchanges between O'Reilly and other guests had been genial and fairly superficial, focusing on Facebook and Firefox extensions. However, Moglen took O'Reilly to task about promoting open source over free software, and got rather heated at several points during the exchange, telling O'Reilly that his premise that Web 2.0 had rendered software licenses unimportant was faulty.
Instead, Moglen says that the Web 2.0 era is "a bunch of hooey" and the "revolution we've been through hasn't been the centralization of processing capacity, it's been the distribution of processing capacity." He invited everyone to "look around the room" and pointed out that there were 150 to 200 computers in the room with "more opportunity to make software than IBM had in 1965."
In the long term, Moglen says that people will tell Google and other providers "we'll store it [data] ourselves ... and we'll do what we want with it."
According to Moglen, "on the 10-year timescale, this [Web 2.0] is thermal noise." When O'Reilly countered that one could claim that Linux was also "thermal noise," Moglen shot back "you could, but you'd be wrong" and that Linux would continue to be important on the long-term timescale.
Moglen also says that this is not a new problem, and says that he faced the same issue when he started with the Free Software Foundation in 1993 over a situation with a hosted version of an optimized GCC. He dismissed the idea that the Web 2.0 companies are the long haul. "Facebook is a question of what the kids are doing this week; it's not my problem," says Moglen, and suggested that the kids will be doing something else next week.
The idea that Google and other "Web 2.0" providers are somehow making licenses irrelevant is wrong, says Moglen, because those companies are exercising freedoms that Richard M. Stallman sought to protect with the GPL -- namely, the right to run software for any purpose, and the right to make private modifications. While those rights may conflict with others -- namely the right to study modifications -- Moglen says that "binary thinking" won't solve the problem. Instead we need diplomacy to protect and ensure the rights of all parties. "We've got to conclude that what Google does, they have a right to do in freedom. They shouldn't need permission to run programs. If you need permission to run programs, you can't have freedom."
The concern over Web 2.0 companies and software licensing, says Moglen, is "spending 90% of your time worrying about 2% of activity."
Next, Moglen took O'Reilly to task over supporting "open source" rather than free software. "If we'd been worrying about principle instead of open source ... You guys were wasting time talking about open source.... We still have serious problems to correct in public policies made by people propping up business models that were dying and wasting time promoting commercial products."
At that point, Moglen issued O'Reilly an "invitation to do the thing you know to be important. Stop worrying about a little bit of money" and join the conversation about free software instead of open source.
Moglen also took several questions from the audience. One attendee asked how we could take Moglen seriously when the GPLv3 didn't close the software-as-a-service loophole. Moglen says that the GPLv3 could have closed the "loophole" but then it would have violated two of the fundamental freedoms: the freedom to run code for any purpose, and the right to private modifications. Moglen says that he's not interested in legal work that removes people's rights, but that he is more interested in doing work that finds a way to support the rights of both parties. When rights are in conflict, he says that lawyers need to find ways to protect the rights of both parties.
At the close of the session, just before the midday break, Moglen told O'Reilly to "use this 10 years" for less frivolous purposes, and that he'd "just bought you enough time with GPLv3 to address this [free software] like a grownup." When O'Reilly suggested that Moglen had made a personal attack, Moglen replied, "I invited you to a conversation you'd been avoiding."