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|3D Slicer (MIT AI Lab; Surgical Planning Lab, Brigham and Women's Hospital)
|3DViewnix (The University of Pennsylvania)
|AIR 5.0 (Automated Image Registration)
|AMIDE (Amide's a Medical Image Data Examiner)
|Amira* (Visual Concepts GmbH)
|(Soft Imaging System)
|Analyze* (Mayo Clinic)
|Anatomist (Neurospin, I2BM, CEA)
|AngioCalc (Cerebral Aneurysm Calculator)
|arivis Vision4D (arivis AG, Germany) (arivis AG)
|Atrophy Simulation Package (SBIA Radiology, University of Pennsylvania)
|Autoaligner (Bitplane Inc.)
|b3d (Center for Neuroscience, University of California, Davis)
|BAMM (University of Cambridge, King's College London and the Wellcome Trust)
|bioelectromagnetism (matlab tools for eeg/meg/mri)
|BIRN Human Imaging Database (HID) (Biomedical Informatics Research Network)
|Blox (Kennedy Krieger Institute & Johns Hopkins Hospital)
|Brain Atlas for Functional Imaging (Theime Medical Publishers)
|BrainGraph Editor 1.0 Beta (The BrainGraph Editor 1.0 Beta is a JAVA application designed to create taxonomies or hierarchies.)
|Brain Image (Stanford Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory)
|BrainInfo (University of Washington, Seattle)
|BrainMagix (Imagilys)
|BrainMaps.org (High-Resolution Brain Maps and Brain Atlases)
|BRAINS (Brain Research: Analysis of Images, Networks, and Systems) (Iowa Mental Helath Clinical Research Center)
|BrainStorm (University of Southern California; CNRS LENA Paris; Los Alamos National Lab.)
|BrainVISA (IFR 49 Paris/I2BM CEA)
|BrainVoyager (Brain Innovation B.V.)
|Brede Toolbox (IMM, Techical University of Denmark)
|btrack (National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research)
|BYU2Vox (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Psychiatry and computer sciences departments)
|Camino (Department of Computer Science, University College London)
|cardviews (Center for Morphometric Analysis, Massachusetts General Hospital)
|CARET (Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine)
|CATNAP (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)
|CellProfiler cell image analysis software (Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT)
|COMKAT: Compartment Model Kinetic Analysis Tool (University Hospitals of Cleveland)
|Conexus (Center for Neuroscience, University of California Davis)
|Corner_Cube (University of Minnesota)
|DC Harvester* (fMRI Data Center, Dartmouth College)
|DCMTK (OFFIS DICOM Toolkit)
|DCSearch (fMRI Data Center, Dartmouth College)
|DCViewer (fMRI Data Center, Dartmouth College)
|Dend (National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research)
|DiatrackPro 3.04 (Powerful particle tracking )
|DICOMscope (DICOM Viewer)
|DicomWorks (Universities of Lille and Lyon, France)
|diffusion_smoothing_tool (Draper Lab & MGH)
|diffusion TENSOR Visualizer (Image Computing & Analysis Lab., Radiology, The Univ. of Tokyo Hospital)
|DPTools ()
|DTI Gradient Table Creator (F.M. Kirby Research Center, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Johns Hopkins University)
|DtiStudio (Laboratory of Brain Anatomical MRI, Johns Hopkins Radiology)
|DTI Track 2005 (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France)
|Edgewarp3D* (The University of Michigan/Visible Human Project)
|EM3D (Uel J. McMahan Laboratory, Stanford University, Dept. of Neurobiology, Dept. of Structural Biology)
|EMS (Expectation-Maximization Segmentation) (Medical Image Computing, Leuven, Belgium)
|EvIdent(r) (National Research Council, Institute for Biodiagnostics)
|ezDICOM (University of Nottingham)
|FACT (Interdisciplinary MRI/MRS Lab, National Taiwan University)
|FIASCO (Functional Image Analysis Software Computational Olio) (CMU Statistics Department)
|Fiber Tracking (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Psychiatry and computer sciences departments)
|Fiber Viewer (UNC at Chapel Hill, Psychiatry and computer sciences departments)
|Fido (National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research)
|FilamentTracer (Bitplane Inc.)
|FisWidgets (University of Pittsburgh)
|fMRIstat (Montreal Neurological Institute )
|form*Z* (auto*des*sys)
|Free-D (INRA, France)
|FreeSurfer (NMR Center, Massachusetts General Hospital)
|FSL - The FMRIB Software Library (FMRIB, Oxford University)
|geWorkbench (Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Columbia University)
|Gimp* (Peter Mattis and Spencer Kimball)
|gpetview (Gtk-base Analyze image viewer)
|Gradient non-linearity distortion correction (Martinos Center, MGH, Boston)
|Group ICA Toolbox (GIFT and EEGIFT) (The MIND Research Network)
|HAMMER (SBIA, Department of Radiology, Upenn )
|Head Circumference (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Psychiatry and computer sciences departments)
|IHCorr (IDeA Lab, Center for Neuroscience, UC Davis)
|iiV (internet image Viewer) (Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, VA Medical Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis)
|ImageJ (Research Services Branch, NIMH)
|ImageMagick* (ImageMagick Studio LLC)
|Image-Pro Plus 5.0 (Media Cybernetics, Inc.)
|ImageTrak (Fluorescence image visualization and analysis for Macintosh OS X)
|Imaris (Bitplane Inc.)
|ImarisColoc (Bitplane Inc.)
|Imaris InPress (Bitplane Inc.)
|ImarisMeasurementPro (Bitplane Inc.)
|ImarisTrack (Bitplane Inc.)
|ImarisXT (Bitplane Inc.)
|Imconverter (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Psychiatry and computer sciences departments)
|Imread (University of Colorado Health Sciences Center)
|InsightSNAP (Penn Image Computing and Science Lab, University of Pennsylvania, CS dept UNC Chapel Hill)
|Intensity Rescaler (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Psychiatry and computer sciences departments)
|Intramodal registration
|IrfanView (by Irfan Skiljan)
|ISI-Distance - Measure for Spike Train Synchrony (Institute for Nonlinear Science, University of California San Diego)
|ITK (Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit)
|JDTI (Duke University Medical Center)
|Jim (Xinapse Systems)
|JIV (Java Image Viewer) (A 3D Image Data Visualization and Comparison Tool)
|JViewer (A Java-based 2D and 3D image viewer)
|L-Measure (Krasnow Institute, George Mason university)
|L-Neuron (Krasnow Institute, George Mason University)
|LONI Debabeler (The LONI Debabeler manages the conversion of imaging data between multiple file fomats)
|LONI De-Identification Debablet (The LONI Debablet de-identifies medical image files.)
|LONI ICE (Generates seed points for image processing applications)
|LONI Inspector (The LONI Inspector is an application for displaying, searching, comparing, and exporting metadata.)
|LONI Pipeline (Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, UCLA)
|LONI Visualization Environment (LOVE)
|LORETA (low resolution brain electromagnetic tomography) (The KEY Institute for Brain-Mind Research, University Hospital of Psychiatry, Zurich, Switzerland)
|Lyngby (Matlab functional neuroimaging analysis toolbox)
|Mango (Research Imaging Institute, UTHSC San Antonio)
|match-colors (Center for Neuroscience, University of California, Davis)
|MATITK (Call ITK from MATLAB)
|MedINRIA (Asclepios Research Team, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France)
|MEDx* (Sensor Systems, Inc.)
|MeVisLab* (MeVis)
|MINC - core (Medical Image NetCDF)
|MINC - EMMA (A MATLAB interface for MINC)
|MINC - mni_autoreg (A highly customisable Linear and Non-Linear registration Package)
|MINC - N3 (An automated tool for correction of intensity nonuniformity in MRI data)
|MINC - volume_io (A simplified API for the MINC file format)
|MIPAV (Medical Image Processing, Analysis and Visualization - NIH)
|MIView (gbooksoft.com)
|MOUSE BIRN ATLASING TOOLKIT (MBAT) 2.0 Beta (This is a collaborative effort of six laboratories. See other information section below for detail.)
|Mouse Brain Atlas Web References (The Mouse Brain Library)
|mri3dX* (Aston University School of Life and Health Science)
|MRIcro (University of South Carolina)
|mri_toolbox (matlab functions for Analyze 7.5)
|MRIVIEW (Biophysics Group (P-21), Los Alamos National Laboratory )
|MRI Watcher (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Psychiatry and computer sciences departments)
|NeuroLens (A.A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital)
|Neurolucida (System for neuron tracing, brain mapping and neuroImaging)
|NeuronMetrics (Developmental Neurogenetics Laboratory, University of Arizona)
|NeuroServ (The MITRE Corporation)
|NeuroTerrain Atlas Server (Laboratory for Bioimaging & Anatomical Informatics, Dept. Neurobio. & Anat., Drexel U. Coll. of Med.)
|NeuroTerrain NetOStat Atlas Browser (+ NT-SDK) (Laboratory for Bioimaging & Anatomical Informatics, Dept. Neurobio. & Anat., Drexel U. Coll. of Med.)
|NIH Image (Research Services Branch, NIMH)
|NIS (NeuroImaging Statistics) (University of Pittsburgh)
|Non-linear normalization of MRI brain scans
|Northern Eclipse 6.0
|NPAIRS (University of Minnesota)
|NVM (Neuromorphometrics)
|Olfactory Glomerular Response Mapping (University of California, Irvine)
|Partial Least Squares GUI for PET, fMRI & EEG/MEG (Rotman Res Inst - Baycrest Centre, Univ of Toronto)
|PMOD (PMOD Technologies)
|PV-Wave* (Visual Numerics)
|RAVENS (Regional volumetric analysis of brain images)
|Reconstruct (Boston University and Medical College of Georgia)
|scanSTAT (Mark Cohen)
|Scion Image* (Scion Corporation)
|seg (Center for Neuroscience, University of California, Davis)
|ShapeLogic (Sami Badawi)
|SHIVA (Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, UCLA)
|siViewer (Soft Imaging System)
|Skandha4 and Brain Mapper (University of Washington)
|SnPM - Statistical Nonparametric Mapping (Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan)
|SPM5 (Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, 12 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AR, UK.)
|SPM8 (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL Institute of Neurology)
|StackVis (Center for Neuroscience, University of California, Davis)
|STASSIS (International Center for Neurological Restoration)
|Statistically-based Simulation of Deformations (SBIA, Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania)
|Stereo Investigator (Stereology System for brightfield, fluorescence and confocal microscopy)
|Stimulate (CMRR - University of Minnesota)
|STRFPAK (Theunissen Lab and Gallant Lab, UC-Berkeley)
|stroketool (Digital Image Solutions)
|stroketool-CT (Digital Image Solutions)
|SuMS (Washington University School of Medicine)
|SureFit (Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine)
|Surface-Based Atlases (Washington University School of Medicine)
|SurfRelax (Software for surface analysis; Biomedicon/New York University)
|Synu (National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research)
|Talairach Daemon (Research Imaging Institute, UTHSC San Antonio)
|TetSplit (SBIA, Department of Radiology, Upenn)
|TOPPCAT (Duke University Medical Center)
|TurtleSeg (MIAL, Simon Fraser University and BiSICL, University of British Columbia)
|Valmet (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Psychiatry and computer sciences departments)
|VA_SLICER (University of Minnesota)
|Videoscribbler (Live video stereology overlay for Macintosh)
|ViPAR (Image Analysis and Communications Lab (IACL), Johns Hopkins University )
|VOLUME-ONE (VOLUME-ONE developers group)
|VoxBo (Center for Functional Neuroimaging, University of Pennsylvania)
|Voxtrace (National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research)
|VR-Render (IRCAD, Research Institute against Cancer of the Digestive Tract)
|VTK CISG Registration Toolkit ()
|VVNT (Medical Imaging Solutions)
|Wavelet Analysis of Image Registrattion (WAIR)
|WFU_BPM (Advanced Neuroscience Imaging Research Core, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center )
|WFU_PickAtlas (Advanced Neuroscience Imaging Research Core, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center)
|XNAT (Washington University School of Medicine)
|XnView (Gougelet Pierre)
|xv* (John Bradley)
|xvol (Center for Morphometric Analysis, Massachusetts General Hospital)
|ZFIQ (Center for Biomedical Informatics, TMHRI-Weill Cornell)


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After the Civil War, three amendments were added to the United States Constitution to address the new reality for free blacks. The 13th forbidding slavery, the 14th guaranteeing all people the same rights and privileges as everyone else and finally the 15th, the right to vote without regard to race or color or previous condition of servitude.
The right to vote proved to be elusive for blacks especially in the South. States and local governments, ignored the federal government and devised numerous schemes to stop blacks from a federal guaranteed right. Of course law enforcement, state troopers, sheriff departments and local police worked on behalf of whites, to uphold the local laws that were direct violation of federal law. For the nearly 100 years from the 15th Amendment's ratification to the voting Rights Act of 1965, a "half-hearted" or non-existed commitment to the right to vote for African-Americans existed.
White only voting registrations, literacy tests, grandfather clauses, and many seeming silly stumbling blocks to registration was a normal part of life in the South. How many jelly beans in the jar at the county voter registration office? A fee for all of the years since a potential black registrant was eligible but didn't register. By the 1950's in rural Alabama as in any number of other communities, voter registration was such a challenge most blacks just didn't bother. However, the majority black counties in Alabama had the good fortune of leaders in their community like Rev. Shuttlesworth in Birmingham and James Orange in Selma, Alabama.
James Orange was arrested for using high school students to help register blacks in Perry, Dallas and surrounding counties in Alabama. He was arrested and held in the county jail in Selma, Dallas county in 1955 for contributing to the delinquency of minors. The fear of Orange being taken from the county jail and lynched was real. So a march and protest was launched. Of course, the Alabama State Patrol did what they could to stop the march. During the protest, Jimmie Lee Jackson was killed by a State Trooper.
Local leaders made a call to a dynamic leader and his team of brilliant strategists. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and others visited Jimmie Lee in the hospital. He died 8 days after he was shot. It was time for a major action. The March from Selma to the State Capitol in Montgomery was scheduled for March 7, 1965. Shortly after Jimmie Lee's funeral and coincidentally shortly after Malcolm X's funeral in New York.
Dr. King called on a unique soldier to lead the campaign, Hosea Williams. He had been imprisoned often for protesting and would guide the process. Assisting him was the young John Lewis. It took 3 tries to get the march completed. The original march, the followup march (Turn Around Tuesday) and then the federal protected march 2 weeks later. President Lyndon Johnson was moved. Attorney General Robert Kennedy couldn't believe the reports of the violence directed at unarmed, peaceful protesters and later marchers.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965, a landmark piece of legislation was signed into law by President Johnson on August 6, 1965. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. orchestrated an action that took nearly 100 years of federal law to come into reality. His soldiers, John Lewis, Hosea Williams, Andrew Young and others navigated the difficult waters to demonstrate to the world the plight of blacks in the Southern United States.
The legacy of all of the murdered activists, marchers and protesters are threatened today. Recent United States Supreme Court rulings, have allowed the very states that fought to deny voting rights the option to change or weaken the structures put in place to ensure those rights. Many states today consider voting as a "privilege" not a "right". Creating an identification system to vote under the guise of voter integrity can't be justified or explained. Just think, Oregon voters vote by mail. In 13 years with only a few people prosecuted for voter fraud with nearly 40 million votes cast. What a contrast to North Carolina, Texas and other Southern states.
The legacy and genius of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was so overwhelming that the forces that attempted to deny or alter the outcome of elections remain strong, determined and in many cases control state legislatures. We owe it to our posterity to work as Dr. King and his soldiers did in 1965.
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THEY are every law firm's dream – loyal clients who continue to provide them with work at good rates, who include them in their thinking when new areas of work arise and pay their bills without protest. In today's intensely competitive market, realising that dream is more and more pressing. Yet according to the main author of this volume, the skill of good client management is an area neglected by many professional services firms. Lawyers are no exception.
Any illusions you may have about your firm are quickly stripped away at the start of the book in the Key Client Management Health-check. See how closely your firm matches 60 glowing descriptions, including: "Our professional staff are really inquisitive. They love to really get inside their clients' organisations and to understand their business in depth."
With that painful part over, it is time to learn the fundamentals of effective client management. There is no room for mumbo jumbo "psycho think" here. Walker, Denvir and Ferguson are intensely practical and straight to the point.
They acknowledge that practices and processes for managing high value clients have been defined before, they are relevant and practical and are supported by the latest technology. What is missing, say these experts, is the will and motivation to put them into practice.
Chapter 1: Finding the Motivation, addresses that problem and points to leadership as the key to changing the way a firm looks after its clients. "The recognition that key client management is an essential element of the future of the business must be made by a person who is at the top – or very close to the top – of the firm."
Individual professionals are also catered for. Each chapter ends with a brief section on "First Steps", aimed at any professional who wants to improve their way of handling clients.
The book offers a menu of initiatives to choose from. Themes from the authors' first book, Creating New Clients, are developed and new concepts for sustaining strong relationships introduced. The book takes readers through setting and meeting client expectations, marketing, and selling and cross-selling, before offering a structured but flexible approach to key client planning.
If the challenge seems daunting, take heart with the book's advice that progress should be gradual. Trying to introduce a host of new and additional ways of working simultaneously will burden staff and lead to revolt against the new regime. "How do you eat an elephant? Answer: piece by piece," say the authors. For those who take up the challenge, the rewards will be worth the long haul. "Our clients will get better when we do." It is a message no forward-looking firm can afford to ignore.


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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- More than 100,000 people are expected to attend at least one of four major events happening in Forsyth County this weekend.
Rock the Block, the Bethabara Park Apple Festival, the Winston-Salem Air Show and Carolina Oktoberfest at Tanglewood Park are all happening this weekend.
"It's a big weekend. From 11 to 7 on Saturday we will have three stages in downtown full of great entertainment. There will be food around and lots of attractions we think folks will have a great time," said Ed McNeal, Rock the Block organizer.
Steve Flippin the organizer of the Winston-Salem Air Show also said, "We expect over 40,000 this weekend. It's a fantastic air show, a great event for the Triad and great event for the family."
Carolina Oktoberfest promises tastings from more than 30 breweries and live music.
The Apple Festival will have representatives from several local orchards, apple tastings, food of all kinds and games for the children.
When asked how possible rain showers could impact the events, all organizers said the events are so large they can't be rescheduled or moved. So unless there is severe weather, plan to have fun rain or shine.
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The Lobby Bar Address - 61 Phillip St, Sydney
Sydney Clubs
About The Lobby Bar
The Lobby Bar
61 Phillip St , (Cnr Bent St), Sydney
Sydney, NSW, 2000
Website: www.thewentworth.rydges.com
The Lobby has a big upstairs bar with red décor and dimly lite which is for the before and after movie drink. The bar is a stunning place for relaxing drink, snack and for wonderful chat with friends.
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Why get hybrid car? One reason is because it can save you lots of money on gasoline.
It also is very fuel efficient. And better yet, if the battery breaks ( which is supposedly going to last for the lifetime of the car) you will be able to get it replaced, free of any charge. (plus, it would be cool to have a hybrid Challenger)
Well, global warming has been a BIG problem for a while. Wouldn't you want your children living in a nice place?(ahem, it's us) Maybe so you wouldn't have to have to wear dust masks to keep out pollutants? Well, start now! Start making hybrid vehicles. I have noticed that Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, AND (well, Fiat did) Ferrari really hasn't made anything hybrid. Doesn't it make you feel kinda bad that you drive a gasoline car, putting smog and other bad pollutants (CO2 and such) in the air you BREATHE?! 33% of CO2 comes from transportation.
Electric cars can save up 2000-4000 $ every year on gasoline fuels. But, of course, the car itself is very expensive. Take a Tesla for instance. It's about $70,000 worth of money. It's pretty expensive. Then take a Toyota Prius hybrid. It's $24,000 dollars. Pretty cheap compared to Tesla. It sounds like it isn't much to make the car. And plus, the hybrid Prius gets 51/48 mpg, while the gasoline only gets 24 mpg. Big difference. And financially, hybrids save money. People take trains and bikes to work, but, insurance companies reward people for driving.
But, hybrids and electric cars alike, are known to not make any noise, and so pedestrians are likely to be hit. But, people are making a sound prototype that can make the car audible. Maybe also make a fake sports car sound. Otherwise, I wouldn't even be writing about this.
Hybrids can save you lots of money with gasoline, and help with global warming. You want a better environment, don't you? If we don't take action, the Earth will become very polluted, more than it already is. So if we do make them, everyone will be happy, right?
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At Avondale Bible Church we believe that tithing and offering align with Paul's writings in 2 Corinthians 9:7
"Each one must give as he has decided in his heart,
not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver."
To make giving easier, we have many different ways for you to give:
Give at church
You can always give more traditionally by dropping off your gift in the offering box near the church office, or by putting your gift in the offering basket as it passes during the service. Even though we're living in a technological age, you can still mail a check straight to us.
Give Online
We've made gifting easy! You can give quickly and securely online by using any major credit card or checking account by simply clicking on the below button. Our system allows for you to give one time or set up recurring gifts.
Text to Give
We've made gifting even easier! Text any dollar amount to (425)310-GIVE (425-310-4483). Simply register the first time around, your mobile phone number will be linked to your credit/debit card for quick, simple and secure text giving. It's that easy!


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Rokeh Consulting is a civil engineering and consulting company that specializes in
project management and permitting services. We are committed to delivering quality
professional services by administering innovative and cost effective engineering and
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Geraldine Ferraro was a far better qualified candidate than Sarah Palin. But the Alaska governor does have one thing in common with the first female vice presidential candidate for a major political party: the ability to tap into a noxious strain of populist resentment that has been one of the most powerfully corrosive forces in American politics for more than a century. Both have channeled George C. Wallace.
Since the late 19th and early 20th centuries, populist movements that pitted the so-called people against so-called elites have had both positive and negative consequences. They helped to bring about a plethora of progressive reforms—the graduated income tax, the spread of the secret ballot, and the regulation of banks and corporations. Theodore Roosevelt, whom John McCain claims is his hero, is perhaps the best example of that kind of progressive populism.
But populism has always had a dark side, symbolized in recent decades by Wallace, the late segregationist governor of Alabama. In this brand of populism, the resentment of "big shots" who control the banks, the media and the country is inextricably mixed with a hatred of blacks and other minorities, whom the government supposedly favors—with public largesse—over the silent white majority. And it's this branch of populism, the ugly impulse that made Wallace the most terrifying figure on the political scene during the late 1960s and early 1970s, to which both Ferarro and Palin seem to belong.
I'm familiar with Ferraro's record from having been part of the panel of journalists who questioned her and then-Vice President George H.W. Bush when they debated in 1984. Her resentful streak surfaced during the years that she served as the congressional representative from the district in Queens, N.Y., known as the home of the bigoted TV character Archie Bunker. As such, she was a champion of opposition to affirmative action and an advocate of school vouchers for parochial schools—stances that would have pleased the "All in the Family" character but were anathema to more liberal Democrats, including Walter Mondale, the Democratic nominee who picked Ferraro as his running mate.
In deference to Mondale, she downplayed those attitudes during the campaign. But they resurfaced during the current primary season when Ferraro offered a controversial explanation for Barack Obama's triumph over her candidate, Hillary Clinton: "If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is."
When reporters questioned her about the remarks, she opined that "racism works in two different directions. I really think they're attacking me because I'm white. How's that?" Not even Wallace could have said it better.
In Palin's case, the Wallace connection is through a shared resentment at supposed elitists whose academic, intellectual and professional achievements are far superior to her own. In his rhetorical assaults on federal government officials pushing for desegregation, Wallace denounced "pointy-headed intellectuals who can't park a bicycle straight."
That's the same angry sentiment Palin expressed in her interview with ABC's Charles Gibson, when she said, "We've got to remember what the desire is in this nation at this time. It is for no more politics as usual and somebody's big, fat résumé maybe that shows decades and decades in that Washington establishment, where, yes, they've had opportunities to meet heads of state."
In subsequent talks with CBS's Katie Couric, Palin smiled while sneering at "those who maybe came from a background of, you know, kids who perhaps graduate college and their parents give them a passport and give them a backpack and say go off and travel the world."
Her Wallace-style contempt for Washington insiders came through again in a telephone interview with conservative talk-radio host Hugh Hewitt, in which she declared that the current financial crisis is a reason to " put government back on the side of the people [like] Joe Six-Pack."
The key phrase in these interviews is "big, fat résumé," a disdainful putdown of what is more commonly known as credentials and experience, and which Palin's Democrat opponent, Joe Biden, has in abundance. If this were a contest based on qualifications and fitness for the office, there would be no question about the outcome.
But in American politics, as George Wallace proved, a big mouth and a load of resentment can go a long way. They can mask the fact that Palin's Republican Party actually does far more to benefit the "fat cats" it claims to revile than it does for average people. Richard Nixon won the White House four decades ago in part by co-opting Wallace's message. It remains to be seen how far his message will get Palin.
Jack White is a frequent contributor to The Root.
is a former columnist for TIME magazine and a regular contributor to The Root.


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Brownworks is a leatherworking shop and store. It is not much to look at from the outside. You know it is a leather shop the moment you open the door. The smell reminds you. It is sweet, it is sour, it is natural, is is acidic. The dim inside is filled with racks, poles with pegs, tables, and more table, and boxes under the tables. On and about these are odd piles and groupings of tack, saddles, hats, vests, boots, belts, whips, bolas, scabbards, slings, quivers, pot holders, gloves, work gloves, crystal holders, and just about anything that can be made out of leather. If you look long enough, you will find what you need. The two daughters of Eshmel are very helpful and can make sense of the seemingly random piles and pegs, cubbyholes, and drawers. They should, they have been doing such for 15 to 18 years.
That which they don't have in stock, they can make. There is a huge selection of conventional hides in the back, in a variety of colors. They also have some exotic leathers as well. If it is not a leather, they will not have it… so nothing with fur or scales.
Esmel Brownman is the third generation to run the shop. His hair is thinning and his middle is growing a bit round, but he is the spitting image of his father at his age. (His son Ericus, 13, is the spitting image of him at his age). His apron seems to be part of him and had dozens of loops for all his tools. The scent of the shop follows him everywhere, even when he goes down the street for a cup of klah or a few pints.
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Magic User's Club
Magic User's Club (魔法使いTai! Mahō Tsukai Tai!) is a magical girl/boy anime, released as a six-part OVA in 1996 and then a 13-episode TV series in 1999, which was broadcast by WOWOW, and then by the anime television network, Animax, across its respective networks worldwide, including Southeast Asia, South Asia and other regions. The original plan was done by anime director Junichi Sato, with animation produced by Triangle Staff and Bandai Visual. There were also two manga series made, a shōjo manga version by Tammy Ohta (太田 多美 Ōta Tami) and shōnen manga version by Shamneko (紗夢猫). The Magic User's Club anime was released in North America by Media Blasters.
|Magic User's Club
(Mahō Tsukai Tai!)
|Magical girl/boy
|Original video animation
|Directed by
|Junichi Sato
|Written by
|Akinori Endo (ep. 1)
Junichi Sato (ep. 1)
Chiaki J. Konaka (eps. 2-6)
|Music by
|Michiru Ōshima
|Triangle Staff
|Licensed by
|May 25, 1996 – October 25, 1997
|Written by
|Junichi Sato
|Illustrated by
|Tami Oota
|Published by
|Kadokawa Shoten
|Asuka Fantasy DX
|Original run
|1996 – 1998
|Light novel
|Written by
|Junichi Sato
Chiaki Konaka
|Published by
|Fujimi Shobo
|Fujimi Fantasia Bunko
|Original run
|1996 – 1998
|Written by
|Junichi Sato
|Illustrated by
|Published by
|Fujimi Shobo
|Dragon Junior
|Original run
|1999 – 2000
|Anime television series
|Directed by
|Junichi Sato
|Written by
|Chiaki J. Konaka
|Music by
|Michiru Ōshima
Triangle Staff
|Licensed by
|Original network
|Original run
|July 7, 1999 – October 6, 1999
OVA seriesEdit
An enormous cylindrical alien spaceship, which people call "the Bell" (釣り鐘 Tsurigane), descends upon Earth one day. Multinational military forces attack it, but the Bell's defenses easily vaporize all human weaponry. The story takes place one year afterwards. The Bell, which seems to have no living crew, is using robotic probes to explore and analyze human civilization. It soon became apparent that the Bell's defenses and its probes only destroy whatever attacks them first. As such, most people have adapted to the Bell's presence on Earth and are once again going about with their everyday lives, just making sure to stay out of the way of the probes when they pass by. For most of the series, the Bell hovers quietly above the ocean, several miles from Tokyo. A lot of people, however, due to a message sent by the Bell, believe the Bell may eventually attack and conquer Earth, and are working to figure out a way to stop it.
Kitanohashi High School has a small group of students called "The Magic Users Club". Most people think the five club members only learn how to do regular parlor tricks, but only its members know that they learn how to do real magic. The president of the club, Takeo Takakura, started it when he found a box containing a grimoire in a cave by the ocean. Using the knowledge from the book, he was able to teach the other club members to perform magic. Takeo himself believes that the Bell will eventually attack Earth, and decides to combat the alien "menace" using this magic, despite inadvertently revealing the secret of the Magic Users Club's performing of real magic to a pair of journalists, who also want to stop the Bell, when they witness the club's first foray against it. These two become the only people on the outside to know about the club's secret.
A young girl named Sae Sawanoguchi goes to Kitanohashi High School and belongs to the Magic Users Club, where she learns how to use magic that will soon become trade. The town that she lives in has never exactly been attacked, being in place in the city for a year to date. She has yet to discover the true strength of her magical ability, and because of her unintentional clumsiness, none of her friends realize it either. What would be really helpful to Sae would be that if something were to happen that would let her fine tune her talent, and the club's mission to stop the Bell may be her chance to do that.
TV seriesEdit
The Bell has been defeated, its "crew" having retreated into space, but a massive cherry tree stands in its place above the city. The Magic Club must meet once again to solve the problem of the giant tree, which is blocking off sunlight for the city. A mysterious figure descends from the tree and watches over the members of the club as they continue to deal with magic in their daily lives.
Magic ClubEdit
Sae Sawanoguchi (沢野口 沙絵 Sawanoguchi Sae)
- Voiced by: Hiroko Konishi (Japanese); Misty Daniels (English)
- A second-year student at Kitanohashi High School and a new member of the Magic Club, Sae is eager to learn magic, but often has setbacks due to her clumsy nature. She looks up to Takakura as a great mentor. Although she actually has feelings for him beyond that, she is too shy to express them. Of the five members, Sae has the greatest amount of power to utilize, but lacks the training and concentration to fully tap into this potential.
- Sae displays a clear ineptitude to flying on a broomstick in the OVA series, but her skills progress and by the TV series, she can fly on different pole-sized items without any problems, even without using her wand.
- According to character designer Ikuko Itoh, her own mother was an influence for the character of Sae, who has a similar klutzy nature.[1]
Nanaka Nakatomi (中富 七香 Nakatomi Nanaka)
- Voiced by: Mayumi Iizuka (Japanese); Lisa Ortiz (English)
- A second year and a friend of Sae since childhood. She just wants to be a normal high school girl and gets frustrated with Sae's obsession with the Magic Club, although she is proficient in magic herself. Nanaka has a crush on Aburatsubo but is afraid to admit her feelings because she knows they won't be returned. She describes her family as "all over the place", and though often embarrassed and aggravated by their antics, she loves them dearly.
Akane Aikawa (愛川 茜 Aikawa Akane)
- Voiced by: Junko Iwao (Japanese), Nicole Tieri and Stacey Williams (English)
- A first year and another new member of the Magic Club. Akane is a spoiled rich girl who often misses going to club meetings in order to go on dates with boyfriends. Using magic comes easily to her. Such is her innate skill that she is able to produce makeshift wands out of ordinary objects, though they are rather primitive and weak compared to her regular wand,.[2][3] The same can't be said for her flying.[4] Akane often uses magic for selfish reasons against what Takakura has taught, which causes Sae to lecture her in several instances. Anything affected solely by her magic "spins" before the spell's true effect come to pass, something which she has no control over.
- In the TV series, Akane works as a model and appears in clothing advertisements throughout the city. Her mother is a famous actress.
Takeo Takakura (高倉 武男 Takakura Takeo)
- Voiced by: Masaya Onosaka (Japanese); Jamie McGonnigal (English)
- President of the Magic Club and third-year student at Kitanohashi High School. Takakura often has a tendency to show off in front of the girls and has perverted daydreams at inopportune times. He loves Sae, but will not admit his feelings because he is nervous and self-conscious of his position as Sae's mentor and upperclassman.
- Hiding from his childhood nemesis, Miyama, Takeo found a magical textbook called the Grimoire, along with the magic wand he later replicated.
Ayanojyo Aburatsubo (油壷 綾之丞 Aburatsubo Ayanojō)
- Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu (Japanese); Kevin T. Collins (English)
- A third year and the vice president of the Magic Club. Aburatsubo is homosexual, but only shows affection toward Takakura; he never shows signs of being interested in any other boy. Takakura is uncomfortable with Aburatsubo's flirting, but doesn't think much of it; though Aburatsubo continuously flirts with Takakura, he understands that Takakura will never return his feelings.[5] He has a variety of talents and is involved in many other clubs besides the Magic Club, such as the tennis team and drama club.
- The television series establishes that he doesn't have a very good standing towards his mother, who constantly babies him, though he does love her.
Other MagiciansEdit
Jeff (ジェフくん Jefu-kun)
- Voiced by: Satoru Nakano (Japanese); Michelle Medlin (English)
- Jeff is both the name of a mysterious silhouetted magician Sae met when she was a child and a stuffed teddy bear that he gave her. When Sae gets in tough situations, Jeff-kun the teddy bear aids Sae's magic powers. She meets the real Jeff again (only as a silhouette) when the rest of the club are trapped inside the Bell and he gives her the confidence to rescue them. Appears in the OVA, and at the end of the TV series.
Jurika Jinno (仁乃 樹里加 Jinno Jurika)
- Voiced by: Nami Miyahara (Japanese); Michelle Newman (English)
- Jurika is a magician that seems interested in the members of the Magic Club and the use of magic, for reasons that are not clear at first. Jurika is highly androgynous, officially male as a student but having a very feminine look for the most part. He has the ability to read and translate the Grimoire that Takeo uses to teach the other Club members, going so far as to identify the Club's copy as "an older version that has mistakes in it".
- Jurika is actually a magical construct given life and personality by Sae's fondest wishes and ideals about magic. As a being of pure magic, he has the ability to manipulate his appearance, exist in multiple times and places, read minds, interact in the dreams of others and other numerous abilities. Since he is a byproduct of Sae's mind, he is aware of the personalities and relationships between the Magic User's Club members and utilizes this knowledge to manipulate them into using more magic. At the end of the TV series, he is absorbed back into his creator, Sae. Appears only in the TV series.
Miki Mizusawa (水沢 美樹 Mizusawa Miki)
- Voiced by: Miho Yamada (Japanese); Carrie Keranen (English)
- Nicknamed "Miki-senpai" (ミッキー先輩 Mikkī-senpai) by Sae. Miki is a friend and former mentor of Sae who lives in England. She was in the Magic User's Club for an unknown amount of time before leaving to England. Sae writes her constantly in the TV series, telling her what has been going on. Miki's father is a "grandmaster" sorcerer/magician based in England and she presumably has trained under him. She has enough magic training to fly without using a broom and can summon a magical serpent to aid her. Appears only in the TV series.
Mitsuru Minowa (箕輪 充 Minowa Mitsuru)
- Voiced by: Akio Ōtsuka (Japanese); Mike Pollock (English)
- Minowa is a journalist bent on learning the truth behind the Bell. He investigates the Magic Club to find out if they have any connection with the Bell.
Yoshito Yoshimoto (吉本 吉人 Yoshimoto Yoshito)
- Voiced by: Tomohiro Nishimura (Japanese); Michael Sinterniklaas (English)
- Yoshimoto is a photographer and constant sidekick of Minowa, though he doesn't take the Bell issue as seriously as his boss.
Manga ClubEdit
Mizuha Miyama (深山 瑞葉 Miyama Mizuha)
- Voiced by: Rei Sakuma (Japanese); Suzanne Gilad (English)
- Miyama is the bossy President of the Manga Club, which is right next door to the Magic Club. She uses her enormous breasts to intimidate Takakura, and she's been teasing him since childhood. Miyama is constantly trying to dissolve the Magic Club and keeps taking back the space that was loaned to the club.
- In the OVA series, Miyama's experience from being examined by the Bell (due to a spell cast on her by Akane) goes completely to her head and makes her declare herself as the planet Earth's "representative".
- She secretly harbors feelings for Takakura, despite her incessant tormenting of him. When a truth spell was cast on her, she confessed her true feelings about him, as well as the fact that she didn't actually enjoy tormenting him as a child. Also, in the TV series, she devotes a manga project with allegories to Takakura.
Katsuhito Kubo (久保 克人 Kubo Katsuhito)
- Voiced by: Akira Shirai
- Kubo only appears in the OVA series and is a faculty member who is club supervisor of the Magic Club and the Manga Club. He doesn't try to resolve any issues between the students, saying "Education is love". Kubo has a habit of giving his business card to everyone he talks to.
Rinpun (リンプン Rinpun) & Kojin (コージン Kōjin)
- Voiced by: Kazuya Ichijou (Japanese (OVA)), Yasuhiro Takato (Japanese (TV)), Michelle Newman (English)
- They are two boys who are Miyama's constant lackeys. Rinpun & Kojin do all kinds of menial tasks for Miyama and are sometimes called to spy on others for her.
Saki Sawanoguchi (沢野口 早紀 Sawanoguchi Saki)
- Voice by: Atsuko Tanaka (Japanese (OVA)), Kazusa Murai (Japanese (TV)), Shannon Conley (English)
- Sae's older sister who looks after her in Tokyo. Saki has problems with a boyfriend in the TV series, though they reconcile near the end. It's never defined whether or not she has any knowledge of the goings on in the Magic User's Club.
Sawako Sawanoguchi (沢野口 佐和子 Sawanoguchi Sawako)
- Voiced by: Kumiko Takizawa (Japanese); Suzanne Gilad (English)
- She is Sae's mother, a woman with an energetic personality. Sae's parents own a ranch in Hokkaidō.
Sakae Sawanoguchi (沢野口 栄 Sawanoguchi Sakae)
- Voiced by: Kouji Kurose
- He is Sae's father, seemingly a man of few words. Sae's hairstyle was inherited from him.
Naoki Nakatomi (中富 直紀 Nakatomi Naoki)
- Voiced by: Kouki Miyata (Japanese); Michelle Newman (English)
- He is Nanaka's younger brother, who is bratty and tends to annoy her.
Naoko Nakatomi (中富 菜緒子 Nakatomi Naoko)
- Voiced by: Urara Takano (Japanese); Camille Diamond (English)
- She is Nanaka's mother who runs a health food store. She also grows her own vegetables. Nanaka is frustrated when she doesn't seem to care about attending parent-teacher meetings, and when she acts in an embarrassing fashion when she does.
Azusa Amano (天野 梓 Amano Azusa)
- Voiced by: Gara Takashima (Japanese); Lisa Zlotnick (English)
- She is Akane's mother who is a famous actress. Though somewhat critical of her daughter's acting, the two seem to genuinely enjoy each other's company.
Takako Takakura (高倉 貴子 Takakura Takako)
- Voiced by: Sawa Ishige (Japanese); Amy Fitts (English)
- She is Takeo's younger sister. Takako seems annoyed by her brother's eccentricities and makes sure he does regular exercise routines.
Akiko Aburatsubo (油壺 亜希子 Aburatsubo Akiko)
- Voiced by: You Inoue (Japanese); Deborah S. Craig (English)
- She is Aburatsubo's mother, who treats Aburatsubo very childishly and affectionately. Aburatsubo can't stand her.
Aburatsubo Safety CommitteeEdit
Michiko Mikote (御小手 ミチコ Mikote Michiko)
- Voiced by: Umi Tenjin (Japanese); Amy Fitts (English)
- She is the President of the "Aburatsubo Safety Committee", a group of girls who are obsessively devoted to Aburatsubo in the TV series. Michiko is the most confrontational and jealous of the girls, and she arrogantly insists that only she may call Aburatsubo "Aya-sama" ("His Ayaness" in the English dub).
Madoka Masuko (増子 まどか Masuko Madoka)
- Voiced by: Nanae Katou (Japanese); Camille Diamond (English)
- Madoka is another member of the committee who is highly obsessed with Aburatsubo. She has the habit of breaking the rule against calling Aburatsubo "Aya-sama" and gets physically assaulted by Michiko when she does so.
Hikaru Hirasaka (平坂 光 Hirasaka Hikaru)
- Voiced by: Momoyo Kodama (Japanese); Elizabeth Wood (English)
- Hikaru is another member of the committee who has long bangs. She sometimes goes on small tasks for Michiko, like checking in the men's bathroom whenever Aburatsubo can't be found. She often dodges Michiko's back swings when she assaults Madoka.
OVA seriesEdit
- I'll Follow You
- We Leave a Magic Club
- Magic Is So Easy, Isn't It?
- I Wish You... Wh... What?
- I See We Are the Same
- Well, Believe Yourself
TV seriesEdit
- Sae, the Magic Club, and the Cherry Blossom Tree
- Nanaka, a Cake, and the Dangerous Evening
- Aburatsubo, Morning Face, and the Parent Teacher Meetings
- Sae, The Bathroom, and the Door
- Akane, the Hiccups, and a Strange Relationship
- Takakura, Origami, and the Secret Date
- Sae, a Tomato, and the Dance of the Paint Brush
- Alice, Railroad Tracks, and the Cracker
- Kimonos, Short Shorts, and the Age of Joy
- Snow, the Colt, and a First Kiss
- Akane, the Mirror, and the End of the Year Sale
- The Kite, the Whirlwind, and Micky
- Sae's Magic, Sae's Feelings, Forever
External linksEdit
- Sae's Magic Hat - Fan site with information on anime, manga, and CDs (no longer updated)
- Magic User's Club (OVA) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Animerica review


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Submitting patches to Imprudence
Want to change something?
In looking over our How You Can Contribute page, it occurred to me that we've never formalized our patch submission guidelines. To rectify this, I created a new page on the wiki for submitting patches.
There are three ways to submit a patch to Imprudence:
- (preferred!) Clone Imprudence on GitHub.com and push a branch containing your patch, then let us know about it either on the ImpDev mailing list or on the forums. This allows other developers to cherry pick your change and include it faster (see git tutorial).
- Attach your patch in our forums. If you're solving a bug or implementing a feature, attach it to the appropriate post. Letting us know on ImpDev it exists will also help get it applied faster.
- Submit your patch directly to the ImpDev mailing list.
I understand not everyone's keen on mailing lists, but posting on ImpDev is the best way to bring your patch to our attention (bonus points for having a git repository we can follow!). I've also included some guidelines for what we like to see in patches, mainly UI-related things.
If you've never generated a patch before, that's okay. There's a section on that, and I'm always available inworld to help, even if it's just a one line xml fix.
We've got a bunch of cool stuff coming up in the next version of Imprudence. I hope to see some of your names in our release notes!


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Issue of Hot/Dead Pixels of the K20D
Reports of the hot/dead pixels found in images produced by different K20D units continue and lately it has been reported by a DPR technical writer, who is responsible to review the K20D:-
"During testing we have encountered the same problems with hot pixels that have been reported elsewhere. We have continued to experience the same difficulties with a second production body and are currently awaiting a response from Pentax before proceeding with further testing."
So, where's the "elsewhere" as mentioned? Here it is:-
Since the above review is in Polish, someone had summarised some of the key points and posted it below:-
K20D not recommended, inconsistent hot pixels issue
And, some of the key statements are quoted:-
"main issue was inconsistent quality between K20D samples, which they consider to be 'unusual development for Pentax products, and sad to see '. They tried a few different K20Ds, all had hot pixels, but was was particularly worrying was that hot pixels changed in each sessions, disappearing and appearing in different places. This appears to indicate production issues with the latest 14.6 megapixels sensor (made by Samsung)."
"See the above URL and go to section 7 for samples of noise and hot pixels. The site also found that there are many hot pixels (more than in other equipment they tested), and that the hot pixels are permanently mapped and excluded in JPEGs during in camera processing, thus there is more and more excluded hot pixels due to their unpredictable and changing appearance. It was unclear is there a way of resetting this mapping, but this would be fixable (if Pentax decides to do so) in future firmware."For those who has limited bandwidth in accessing the Internet, a direct link of a sample picture showing many random hot pixels is here:-
"The test had many other criticisms and discovered inconsistent quality issues. The very first K20D they purchased produced loud focusing noises, exposed badly, and was assembled badly -- it was replaced by a local distributor, and many issues were not present in the replacement... but some came back in the third K20D they tested."
Well, is there any report from real K20D end-users (not reviewers) for the hot pixel issue then? Yes, I've seen two new K20D reported about the hot pixels found in pictures produced by their K20D in a thread opened one month ago:-
(Post in Traditional Chinese, use BabelFish is required)
Direct link to a sample "hot" picture can be seen here.
The thread open person also reported that he had tried the K20D "pixel re-mapping" function, which is essentially a method to rule out known hot or dead pixel(s) by disabling particular pixel with problem and instructing the camera to use the neighbourhood pixel values to calculate (aka interpolate) a new value to insert into that dead pixel. However, he wrote that the problem could not be resolved even using this available function. So, finally, as the local Pentax service centre was unable to resolve the problem, they sent his unit back to Pentax Japan. The user has finally got back his K20D unit and he has made a quick post in telling us that the problem "has been resolved", with a small downsized sample picture posted too. But however, I am not sure if he has thoroughly tested his unit or not as he has not reported back further in details since then, despite he promised that there would be a more detailed "final" report ...
Afterall, it seems to me that it is just a hardware bug of the Samsung new CMOS sensor (for which Pentax was naive enough to hope that the firmware could eliminate the problem all). It might be that the pixel density are just too high as too many pixels are packed in a too small area with a too large photo site per pixel and with too little isolation/separation between pixels too such that the whole sensor/image may become just too hot for the inside temperature when it is working. As such, the accumulated thermal energy, which possibly could not be drained away properly physically, has caused electrical signal noise got out of control somehow at certain areas and finally those physically heated up pixels are recorded in the final image as hot pixels or even dead ones (if it constantly appeared red or green, usually).


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New DVDs For Aug. 16 Including Something Borrowed and Jane Eyre
What to Rent: New DVDs This Week
In this romantic comedy, Ginnifer Goodwin plays Rachel, an unhappily single 30-year-old attorney, who has always been overshadowed by her obnoxious best friend Darcy (Kate Hudson). After one too many birthday drinks, Rachel reveals to Darcy's fiancé Dex (Colin Egglesfield) that she harbored a secret crush on him throughout their law school years, and the pair end up in bed together. In the weeks leading up to the wedding, Rachel and Dex continue their secret relationship. The film feels like a teenage soap opera, but John Krasinski provides some laughs as Rachel's confidante. The DVD extras include a gag reel and deleted scenes.
In this adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's classic book, Mia Wasikowska stars as Jane Eyre, a woman who becomes a governess at Thornfield Hall after spending a hard childhood in boarding school. Once at Thornfield, Jane begins to notice mysterious events and catches the eye of its owner, Edward Rochester (Michael Fassbender). The two begin a relationship, but the secrets that emerge prove too much for Jane to handle. The relationship between Jane and Edward could have been developed a bit more, but the film nevertheless manages to capture the novel's gothic vibe. DVD extras include deleted scenes and commentary from the director.
One more DVD when you read more.
In this Robert Redford film set in post-Civil War Washington, Frederick Aiken (James McAvoy) plays a lawyer who is charged with defending Mary Surratt (Robin Wright), the only woman accused of participating in the plot to assassinate Lincoln. Aiken, who is initially reluctant to take on the case, soon begins to uncover evidence that suggests his client is not only innocent, but also may be a pawn in a plan to lure the actual conspirator. While the film highlights a little-known historical event, its pacing is pretty slow. The extras on the DVD include segments about Mary Surratt's real trial and deleted scenes.


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We love it when we find a great new idea for date nights. Having a regular date night is such an important part of a romantic marriage and you can't have a happy marriage without a regular, healthy dose of romance.
We found the idea for the Date Night Jar accidentally, from blogger Julie Kobe. She found the idea on Pinterest but hasn't been able to identify the creator. Apparently, the idea has taken off like wildfire, because I found it on plenty of other blogs, but no one seems to know who originated the Date Night Jar. That's too bad, because he or she really deserves a high five.
Julie has some great pics of her Date Night Jar in her blog post, but we also found lots of others all over the internet.
The purpose of the Date Night Jar is to provide you with plenty of new ideas for date night (or day) and take the stress of deciding what to do out of the picture entirely. It keeps things fresh and also prevents you from doing the same old thing again and again. The idea is to write date night ideas on individual popsicle sticks and either draw one together or take turns. There's just one rule: whatever stick you draw, you have to do.
Here are the general instructions:
1. Get an inexpensive package of popsicle sticks from the dollar store or craft store.
2. Use a marker to write one date idea on each stick. Do this together, so that you each have input.
3. Place the sticks in a large, clear jar.
Now here are some tips from Julie and from around the web:
1. Color code your sticks, either by buying colored sticks or coloring them yourselves with a highlighter. You can choose colors for budget (say, $20 and under or even free), time (a few hours, one hour, etc.) or even at home/out on the town. Color code for any factor that goes into your date nights. This can make it a bit more certain that you're able to do the date you draw when you draw it.
2. Keep a marker and some blank Popsicle sticks near the jar so that you can add ideas you get from a magazine, website or ad.
3. Be sure to add a few things you've never done.
We think this is a fabulous way to inject some fun into planning your date nights! Please try it and let us know how it goes!


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Another compelling reason not to breathe in L.A.
Piper (English/Univ. of Missouri) grew up 50 miles from Owens Lake, Calif., "currently the worst source of dust pollution in the nation." The lake, on the eastern flank of the Sierra Nevada, had ample water until the 1920s, when Los Angeles began to divert it to serve metropolitan needs 200 miles away, the subject of Roman Polanski's classic film Chinatown. Piper examines how that film's makers denatured it for fear of the city's omnipotent utility department, which could not have found a more suitable source of water, politically speaking, since most of the residents of the Owens Lake area were poor Paiute Indians, who were easily displaced and powerless. The parched conditions unveiled fine dust particles that defy dust masks and grout, causing nightmarish autoimmune illnesses, asthma and other woes that are epidemic around the lake, affecting Anglos, Mexicans and Paiutes alike, to say nothing of the Japanese Americans interned during WWII at nearby Manzanar, locally famous as a place where "reduced visibility due to the dust led to the deaths of dozens of people in car crashes" and even prevented the military from tracking missiles fired during tests in the Mojave Desert. Challenged to undo some of the environmental damage it had wrought, L.A.'s Department of Water and Power proposed that Owens Lake be declared a "national 'sacrifice area' in order to overrule public trust law." DWP was unsuccessful, so that parts of the lake are slowly being rehabilitated even as a similar disaster looms at the Salton Sea, closer still to the crowded metropolis. Throughout, Piper writes with prickly, if controlled, anger, much in the kindred spirit of Mark Davis's City of Quartz, which bookends this neatly. The tone is fitting.
Readers who admire Davis's work and that of the late Marc Reisner will find this fine entry in the library of apocalyptic Californiana of urgent interest.


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America's second richest man, Warren Buffett, announced on 60 Minutes tonight that his son Howard would succeed him as chairman of
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I watched the interview with Leslie Stahl to learn more about Buffett's middle child but also to get a glimpse into the personal life of one of the world's most successful men. It was at times quite revealing. Asked by Stahl about his father's decision to tap him, Howard, 57, a corn and soybean farmer who still likes to get his hands dirty and spends hours on his tractor, admitted he was surprised.
So too was most of America. So what did we learn about his qualifications and the Buffett family? For starters, the three children had little idea growing up just how successful their father was. "We knew he was a security analyst," recalls Howard, but says they didn't understand what that meant. His sister once told her class that their father was a security guard, not knowing the difference.
Buffett also apparently never pressured his children to finish college or go into business, encouraging them instead to find something they loved to do as much as he loved to make money. "In the world's eyes, I could never be seen as successful as him. My dad and mom always made that clear that was okay," Howard (whose middle name is Graham, as in legendary value investor Benjamin Graham) told Stahl. None of the three graduated from college; Howard, who is the only one of the children to ever sit on Berkshire Hathaway's board, dropped out of three colleges. But he did find his passion in farming.
At age 5, he turned the family's Omaha backyard into a corn field. Warren later bought land for him and charged him rent, tying the amount to Howard's bodyweight. The higher it was, the higher the rent; it didn't evidently help Howard, who is overweight, keep his weight down. Today he is a successful farmer who owns 15,000 acres in Illinois, Nebraska and South Africa. Warren said of his son: "He likes machinery, moving dirt. He is happiest when he's working hard. I am happiest when I am sitting around watching football."
Howard is also a philanthropist who apparently gets $1 billion of his father's money to spend on charitable giving, as do his sister and brother. (Earlier articles had stated that his father had set up a foundation a couple of decades ago so each of his children could give away $100,000 a year. Howard reportedly used it to initially support bear rehabilitation center and mountain lion research, among other things. Then later on his father had given them $35 million apiece.)
Established in 1999, his Howard G. Buffett Foundation's (HGBF) primary mission is to improve the standard of living and quality of life for the world's most impoverished and marginalized populations. It apparently spends $50 million a year on various programs around the world, particularly in Africa.
Not surprisingly one of his biggest projects is improving lives of poor farmers, themselves often starving. His goal is to help teach them methods that they can afford to implement after his programs end. He also insists they learn accounting.
This is apparently in contrast to the approach used by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the organization to which his father has pledged more than $30 billion, which relies more heavily on introducing technology to third world farming. "He's really pushing a system that is similar to what we have outside this door in America," explained Howard to Stahl, "I told him that we have got to stop doing it like we did."
"Your father gives money to Gates. You come out and say it's all wrong. Is this sibling rivalry?" asked Stahl. Gates and Buffett, the country's two richest men, have become good friends, often playing bridge, celebrating birthdays and traveling together on vacations. Howard responded that Bill, who they call brother Bill, is the smartest guy in the world besides his dad, but pointed out that he understands agriculture quite well and had used a similar approach unsuccessfully when first starting to give away money.
Some details about Howard that Stahl didn't cover include the fact that Buffett's son is a writer of more than half a dozen books; sits on the board of Sloan Implement, a privately owned distributor of John Deere agricultural equipment; and also previously served on the boards of food processor
It could be a long time before Howard succeeds his father - "He won't leave until he's buried in the ground," Howard told Stahl - and even longer before anyone knows if he proves to be a decent successor. Still he's certainly proven himself to be a worthy scion of an admirable man, one who has his feet firmly planted in the earth.
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360 Test Review | Top Testosterone Supplements
360 Test is a testosterone booster that can help people who suffer from Low T get their sex drive and athletic performance back on track. Low T is something that will almost inevitably come about in every man's life, but fortunately, it's easily treatable through the use of products like 360 Test. With that said, read this 360 Test review to find out why we chose not to rank it as one of the Top 10 Testosterone Booster Supplements.
About Supplement Review Rankings
It is important to realize that we review a lot of supplements on our site. Not all of them can make our top list, but often, that's due to the volume of supplements we have reviewed more than the low-quality of the product itself. We also have a bias for products that disclose all ingredient amounts as well as use natural herbs and have public reviews. In some cases, a new product may get passed over due to lower instances of authentic consumer reviews. Always feel free to message us if you feel we've been erroneous in any way with any review. We LOVE our readers, we take all your messages to heart (even the mean ones).
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What Is 360 Test?
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Epimedium Herb Extract: This ingredient is also known as horny goat weed and is actually better for treating some of the symptoms of Low T like low libido, and difficulty achieving an erection.
Mucuna Pruriens Seed Extract: This seed extract is known for containing high quantities of the amino acid L-Dopa. L-Dopa can help improve mood and boost cognitive functioning by boosting the amount of dopamine in the brain. Dopamine is the neurotransmitter that is responsible for mood and controls the brains reward and pleasure centers.
Long Jack Root Extract: This natural ingredient is available for muscle growth and increasing the levels of free testosterone in the body. It is also an aphrodisiac that can help treat some of the symptoms of low testosterone. (study)
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- Contains many herbal ingredients that work as aphrodisiacs
- Uses adaptogens that help control stress
- Pretty affordable
The Cons
- The formula focuses mainly on only one issue (virility)
- It is more of a male enhancement supplement than a testosterone booster
- Not all these ingredients have proven testosterone boosting effects
360 Test Conclusion
360 Test is a solid supplement if your main concern is your libido, but we don't it being able to accomplish much more than a sex drive boost. There are a couple of proven testosterone boosters in the blend, but we don't believe there are enough to make a true difference. To find out about several T boosters we prefer over this one, see our list of the Top 10 Testosterone Booster Supplements.


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1st match- Beth Phoenix vs Eve Torres with special ref. Santino
Bella Twins were at ringside distracted Santino and Beth got the W. Otunga came out told santino he needs to go back to wrestling school and decked him with a right hook.
Mcguillicuty and some swedish guy vs A-Ry and Mason Ryan
Went to concession stand and came back to see A-Ry and Ryan to get the W.
Air Boom vs The Colons
Air Boom with the W.
Jack Swagger vs Zack Ryder
Swagger dominated most of the match caught a boot to the face and Ryder put finisher and then Zack Ryder with the W.
Lights go out. Loud BOOM!!! Jericho Music hits 2nd loudest POP of the night Y2J chants everywhere.
No Promo from Jericho cut off by Otunga who told him to take off that "monstrausity of a jacket" Jericho removes jacket decks Otunga and puts him in walls of Jericho.
Next up,
John Cena vs Kane. Without a doubt loudest POP of the night went to Cena. BTW they were selling t shirts that look like his "Rise Above Hate" shirt, but instead it says "CENA SUCKS" I think that Cena is way too over to turn heel by Wrestlemania, if that's the plan for him to play the heel to The Rock's babyface.
Kane gets disqualified for a chair to the midsection choke slam and then leaves. Cena selling the chokeslam is laying there and Kane returns to the ring to finish him. Cena playing possum hits the AA and Kane rolls out while Cena plays to the crowd.
Main Event
CM Punk vs The Miz
Typical match everyone hits their signatures and CM Punk gets the W with a GTS.
R Truth runs out from crowd attacks the miz and faces off with Punk. Punk extends handshake Truth excepts and he raises punk's hand.


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My regular visitors will probably be pleased to see that today's make is NOT a Christmas card! Been on a bit of a roll with them! A pal was setting a challenge on a private blog and came up with a fall themed challenge and here's my make for it ....
|The front and back of my card and the front of my envelope
|The reverse of my envelope and the inside of my card
- 10cm square, white, 250gsm card blank and matching sized envelope
- Two pieces of white card, one cut to 9cm square and the other to 9½cm square
- Two pieces of chocolate brown card - for matting with a 1.6mm border
- Piece of copier paper with a die cut circle ... to use as a mask
- Distress Inks: fossilised amber, carved pumpkin, candied apple and vintage photo applied to masked area using a Tim Holtz mini blender, spritzed with water and then blotted with a paper towel
- Petaluma large (wood mounted) maple image stamped using Ranger Archival sepia ink
- Petaluma small (also wood mounted - I don't tend to use wood mounted so much these days, not quite sure why but ...) maple image stamped using Ranger Archival sepia and Memento rich cocoa inks
- PaperMania sentiment stamped using Ranger Archival jet black ink
- Crafters Companion sprayed over the image panel in order to seal, protect and give a nice sheen to the water based inks
- DRS Designs - October 1st challenge - AUTUMN SPLENDOUR
- CardzforGalz - challenge No. 32 - FALL/AUTUMN COLOURS
- Craftbubble2½ (membership required) - Quarterly challenge - AUTUMNAL COLOURS + SENTIMENT
- Stamping Sensations - October challenge - AUTUMN
- Amusing challenges - October challenge - FALL COLOURS
|Froggy in the shade
|Froggy in the sun
|Froggy making his escape!!! Admittedly, not the best frog shot ever but .....


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Sculptured pillar and sculptured slabs in the grounds of the Bihar Museum. 1003201
Photographer: Simpson, Sir Benjamin
Medium: Photographic print
Date: 1870
Photograph of some sculptures in the grounds of the Bihar museum taken by Sir Benjamin Simpson in the 1870s. The photograph is part of the Archaeological Survey of India Collections: Indian Museum Series. To the right is a highly ornamented sculpture pillar whilst behind it, set in niches are a number of sculptured slabs. A note written by Bloch concerning the Bihar museum states that, "The sculptures photographed while exhibited in the Bihar Museum were collected from various places in Bihar, and are now in the Indian Museum. A paper by Mr Broadley, dealing with this collection, was published in Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. XLI, part I, 1872, pp. 209-311."


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Why Nina Agdal is all about a good steak—and what she eats on days she sports a crop top
If you were to peek inside the fridge of a Victoria's Secret model, you might not expect to find big hunks of meat and cases of Muscle Milk, but (refreshingly) protein has taken center stage in the model diet.
"I eat a lot of steak—a lot," Nina Agdal shared, after getting some punches in at Overthrow boxing studio. "Besides that, I eat a lot of chicken. I make sure to eat lots of lean protein."
In the past, women—particularly models—would have rather reached for a coconut water than a high-protein drink, but Agdal is all about it. "I think all women are a little scared of high-protein drinks at first until they actually learn about it," she says. "Everyone needs protein. You need it especially if you work out a lot, but even if you don't, it's still really important because it keeps you full and tones your muscles. A lot of women think they're going to bulk up if they have too much, but you won't. I'm telling you, you won't!"
Agdal says on an average day, she'll have Muscle Milk Coffeehouse in the morning or yogurt and honey (her fave is Chobani). For lunch, she typically goes for a salad. "I love going to Sweetgreen," she says. "But I always get too excited and end up spending, like, $30—I just want every single topping!" For dinner, it's back to her staples: chicken or steak.
So what about those days when she throws on a crop top—knowing full well she'll be photographed in it, or has to wear a teeny tiny bikini for a photo shoot? Would she still order a rib-eye before hitting the beach? Okay, on those days, not so much. "If I'm going to be in a crop top and know I'm going to be photographed, I stick with juices, shakes, and protein bars," she says. But even then, she's still all about that protein.
Wondering what studios celebs like to hit up? Check out these buzzy workouts to see how stars are getting their sweat on. Or for some social media-friendly fitness intel, check out these 10 Snapchat users—they're serving up seriously awesome workouts.
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Have a lovely break, Michelle. I look forward to the day when our children are old enough to take on a family holiday like that. J xReplyDelete
What a gorgeous light-filled home.ReplyDelete
Shame we're not in the market to move to Tassie, as I'm sure I'd find something to put into every one of those kitchen cupboards.
x Felicity
PS Enjoy the spring holidays!!!
Augh, thats the house I've had my eye on for when we move down that way - I could so picture living there, crafting up a storm in the studio and planting veggies in the big garden! It is gorgeous! :)ReplyDelete
Right! I'm packing up now! The kitchen is amazing. xReplyDelete
Have a well deserved holiday at the beach. xxReplyDelete
what a dream home! love that blue.ReplyDelete
Have a great holiday! I can't wait to hear about it.ReplyDelete
As for the house - HOW CRUEL!? I love it. I FREAKING LOVE IT!!! That studio is SO perfect for Matt to paint in. I am loving the kitchen, the light, the vegie patch, the EVERYTHING!! What a steal. Is it close to you?
I want that kitchen..so bad!ReplyDelete
I want that kitchen. I want that garage ... too gorgeous. Maybe we should move south ...ReplyDelete
Beautiful!! We'll be in Tassie next week.ReplyDelete
To think people rip out those kitchens and replace them with modern ones. :-( I hope someone buys it who will appreciate it.


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Overview Totally
Totally is a brand new music Add-on from Supremacy Repository. All the music lovers should have this awesome add-on, great video & audio quality music videos of all the major music genres. It has great section for Now Music UK, Music US Collections and Music Various Albums.
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Steps to Install Totally Kodi Add-on with Screenshots
Step 1) From Home Screen go to Settings
Step 2) Click File Manager
Step 3) Click Add Source
Step 4) Click None
Step 5) Enter the following Address: http://supremacy.org.uk/zip/repo/
Step 6) Name it supremacy
Step 7) The boxes should match the picture below
Step 8) Go back to Home Screen and click Add-ons
Step 9) Click the add-on installer from the top left
Step 10) Click install from zip file
Step 11) A box will open click supremacy
Step 12) Click repository.supremacy-2.6.zip
Step 13) Wait for the top right to popup Supremacy Repository Installed
Step 14) Click install from repository
Step 15) Click Supremacy
Step 16) Click Video Add-ons
Step 17) Click Totally
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Manual Download and Install
The above method is the most common way to install an addon, but if it does not work for you it can also be manually downloaded and installed.
Basically the file is downloaded and installed from internal storage.
Where the file is stored after downloading depends on the hardware being used.
For Android TV box users it will be located in Download.
Windows users will need to copy the file from the Download Folder to the C: Drive. Kodi can not see the Desktop on a Windows PC.
Step 1. Open a Browser and go to http://supremacy.org.uk/zip/repo/
Step 2. Click on and download repository.supremacy-2.5.zip
Step 3. Open Kodi and go to Install From Zip File
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Step 5. Click repository.supremacy-2.5.zip and the Repo will install.
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A drink driver almost smashed head-on into a police car as he drove on the wrong side of the road at Kirkham.
Dmitrijs Tolstovs carried on driving at a very slow speed after the near miss and was found to be more than three times over the limit.
I am very sorry for what I did
Tolstovs, a 31-year-old factory worker from Latvia, of Firfield Close, Kirkham, pleaded guilty to driving with excess alcohol.
He was sentenced to 150 hours' unpaid work for the community, banned from the road for two years and ordered to pay £85 costs with £60 victims' surcharge by District Judge Jeff Brailsford sitting at Blackpool Magistrates' Court.
Scott Ainge, prosecuting, said a police driver on Poulton Street, Kirkham, saw a Citroen C2 on the wrong side of the road heading straight for him on December 18 at 11.45pm.
The prosecutor said: "At one stage the officer thought it was going to collide with him."
Tolstovs' breath test showed 110 microgrammes of alcohol – 35 is the limit.
Tolstovs, who had no previous convictions, told the judge via an interpreter: "I am very sorry for what I did."


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Cathay Pacific Airways welcomes the announcement that it has been named Airline of the Year in the World Airline Awards run by the London-based Skytrax research organisation the third time it has taken the honour in the past 10 years. The airline was also named Best Airline Asia in 2009.
The awards were presented to Cathay Pacific at the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg , Germany , where Skytrax was c elebrating the 10th anniversary of the World Airline Awards. The 2009 awards were based on the annual World Airline Survey run by Skytrax, which was conducted between August 2008 and March 2009.
Skytrax Chief Executive Officer Edward Plaisted said: In a global study that proved to be our largest-ever passenger survey, it is truly a great achievement for Cathay Pacific to have secured the world's best airline title in 2009. With over 16.2 million completed interviews, drawn from more than 97 nationalities around the world, we pay credit to the fact that Cathay Pacific is clearly delivering a quality of product and service that its customers really appreciate.
Cathay Pacific has been a consistent winner in the World Airline Awards, taking the Airline of the Year honour in 2003 and 2005 and winning plaudits for its Hong Kong lounges and in-flight products. In the 2008 awards the airline took the Best First Class title following the introduction of its groundbreaking new cabins.
Commenting on the latest honour, Cathay Pacific Chief Executive Tony Tyler said: We are delighted to once again be named Airline of the Year in the Skytrax awards. This award is very meaningful because it was voted for by the travelling public and it's a real tribute to the dedication and professionalism shown by our whole team. At Cathay Pacific we have worked hard to develop a world-class international network from our Hong Kong home, offering passengers top-notch products and the best service in the air, and it's very pleasing to receive this kind of global recognition.
Dragonair Launches New Holiday Packages
Hong Kong Super City from Dhaka & Hong Kong Disneyland Magical Tour:
Dragonair has launched two new packages valid till March 31, 2010 . The 3 days and 2 nights Hong Kong Super City from Dhaka package includes round trip economy class ticket between Dhaka and Hong Kong , 2 nights hotel accommodation, daily breakfast at hotel, round trip coach transfers between the airport and hotel and last but not the least a free half day Hong Kong Island tour. 10kg excess baggage for Hong Kong Dhaka sector is also included in the Package.
The 2 days and 1 night Hong Kong Disneyland Magical Tour package includes round trip economy class ticket between Dhaka and Hong Kong , 1 night hotel accommodation with breakfast in Hong Kong Disneyland resort, 1 single-day Hong Kong Disneyland park ticket and round trip coach transfers between the airport and hotel.
More information for the packages is available at local office and www.dragonair.com/bd


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I've been playing World of Warcraft for almost two years now. I started about a year and a half before the release of Cataclysm and have focused my attention primarily on my Night Elf Druid (Gooseigaly).
I am starting this blog to talk about my musings, my thoughts on the game and the players it contains, and whatever topics the wind may blow my way. I will very clear in stating that I read a couple of other blogs (Restodruid.info and The Big Bear Butt) and combine the thoughts contained within them with my own experience to derive what will be posted on this site. You may agree with me, you may disagree; I have be known to be wrong in the past. Not often, mind you; "from…time to time….oh dear" – C3P0
Comments are, of course, welcome. I only ask that comments be kept relatively clean and if a disagreement should arise simply state the disagreement and move on. I am not in the business of making war through text. A full-time job prevents me from having the time to bicker on such menial things as a game.
That said, welcome to my site. I look forward to posting here and reading the replies that you leave.
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Celtic Seas 2050: Developing Scenarios for the Celtic Seas
We held an event on September 19th in London which explored how different scenarios (economic/social/environmental) would interact with and influence development and marine planning in the Celtic Seas.
View or download the presentations from the day below
Stephen Jay Scenarios Workshop Intro
Lynne McGowan Scenarios Introduction
Stephen Hull Thinking about the Future
Ivana Lukic MSP Platform and Blue Growth
As part of our work on Spatial Demands and Scenarios, which explores future development of different maritime sectors in the context of the Celtic Seas, sector briefing notes are being developed covering:
- Aquaculture
- Cables and Pipelines
- Offshore Wind Energy
- Ports and Shipping
- Wave and Tidal Energy
Alongside the development of these briefing notes, French partner AFB are conducting work on the MPA network in the Celtic Seas reviewing how management and designation processes operate now and in the future.
Representatives from the above sectors as well as people from a research, conservation and public policy background took part in the workshop, where they were able to share their experience and insights on how the future might look in the Celtic Seas.
First delegates discussed the likely future trends and developments in the sectors they were familiar with. How will the economic climate or politics affect offshore renewable energy deployment? How might our future approach to managing MPAs change in light of the UK being a non-member state?
Then they explored how their sector would interact with others and whether there was likely to be conflict or novel ways of sharing space could be found. Finally, specific issues with a transnational element were discussed and potential solutions or pathways to resolution were put forward. The findings from this workshop will be used to shape a final report on Future Spatial Demand Scenarios in the Celtic Seas which will be published in December.


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Hugh S. Calverley - A Man at War...
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SealeLetter – I got your letter – October 23, 1914 9282 2 Coy 3 Batt. 1 Bde, Bustard Camp
Dear Gran,
I got your letter and have been fixing up my leave. It is quite a job to get it when so many wanted to get away. I saw Seale and he says he can come, but does not know anyone in London, so could I use the floor if you have a couple of spare blankets. Then we both could use the same room. We have been sleeping on boards and ground with nothing to soften them for so many weeks that we are used to it. We would be no trouble to you and Viola. He wants to see the National Gallery, and Westminster Abbey and Mde. Tousaud. I t hink we can get off next Saturday afternoon or Sunday morning for 72 hours from the time we start, and I will tell you later if it can be managed. I put in for the leave then. We will get paid Monday so there will be all kinds of money to burn.
Seale is a tall red headed Irishman, and a good sort. He was in Moose Jaw with me all last summer and next door at Trinity and he often came to Oakville.
Dad is in England and I must see him. So is Uncle Horace. I got a letter from him from Southsea. Lord Roberts reviewed us from his motor today, and complimented us on our appearance. We will help Viola make clothes for the Belgians as long as they are here.
Your loving Hugh.
Photo – Seale
To my friend "Cav" at the end of a glorious day, at least one to be remembered. i.e. The Duke's visit, 2/3/15
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In Canada the Humane Society and police work continually to find puppy mills and shut them down. Dogfighting and cockfighting activities are similarly banned. In Ontario the penalties for persons guilty of such offences can vary from $1,000 to $60,000 with possible imprisonment of up to two years. Learn more by reading the Ontario Animal Welfare Act.
A puppy mill's primary goal is to make money. Regardless of what price they set on selling these pets (often sold via pet stores with dubious reputations) their goal is to make as many pets as they can in a hurry in an effort to maximize profit and very little overhead.
We won't go into the details of some of the horrific treatment cats and dogs endure at puppy mills, but we can show you a few photos of animals which have been rescued from puppy mills by the Humane Society.
"Don't ever buy a dog unless you have personally visited where the dog was born and raised."
Now you could buy a rescued animal from the Humane Society... but buying any pet which may have been subjected to violence is risky, especially if you have children. Abused animals can sometimes respond violently without warning.
No, its far better to buy a pet from a dedicated breeder. It may cost you a lot more money, but over time it will be a wise investment. ie. Toronto Maltese Puppies cost $2,000 to $3,000, but over a 10 or 15 year period the financial sting isn't so bad. Especially as you grow to love and adore your pets.


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Seahawks Insider Blog
Morning links: Curry in focus
Dan Pompei of the National Football Post writes that the Seattle Seahawks will make a more concerted effort to get linebacker Aaron Curry moving forward in the team's defensive scheme.
The Seahawks were pleased with the way Curry played the run over the tight end last season, and likely will attempt to use the Wake Forest product even more as a pass rusher.
Pompei: "Seahawks coaches want to tweak the way they use linebacker Aaron Curry. They want to have him drop less, especially in space. When Curry does drop in the future, it likely will mostly be on hooks to the flat. The fourth pick in the 2009 draft is a more effective defender on the line with his hands on the tight end. That way, he can use his strength and length to his advantage, and he doesn't have to think as much. Curry is a strong point of attack player who also could be an effective pass rusher. It's possible he will get more chances to chase the QB as well."
ESPN's Mike Sando debates the pros and cons of Seattle bringing back Matt Hasselbeck.
Jason La Canfora of the NFL Network says the Seahawks could be a landing spot for Minnesota Vikings free agent quarterback Tarvaris Jackson. Something to keep an eye on.
Derek Stephens of The Blue Bird Herd takes a look at Seattle's defensive line play in general, and specifically Brandon Mebane's contribution. His verdict is that if re-signed, Mebane should return back to nose guard, where he was more productive.
St. Louis Rams fan blog The Turf Show Times takes an in-depth look back at the Rams 20-3 win over Seattle in St. Louis last year.
Clare Farnsworth of Seahawks.com catches up with former Seahawks defensive end Jacob Green during his golf charity event at the Golf Course at Redmond Ridge. Green has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to help beat cancer.
Andrew Brandt of the National Football Post takes a look at some of the final things that need to be resolved in order to make sure there is an agreement this week.
In honor of Deion Branch, who turns 32 today, NFL.com's data points takes a look at all six receivers who won the Super Bowl and their individual performances that led to the award. The list includes some great ones, including Jerry Rice, Lynn Swan, Fred Biletnikoff, Hines Ward and Santonio Holmes.
Clark Judge of CBS Sports offers a blueprint on how the new season should begin once an agreement is reached this week.
Al Michaels steps in for Peter King of Sports Illustrated in his weekly Monday Morning Quarterback feature, offering his thoughts on the opening of football season.