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Anthony Thorne Warlow AM (born 18 November 1961 in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian opera and musical theatre performer, noted for his character acting and considerable vocal range. He is a classically trained lyric baritone.
Anthony Warlow
Warlow in Sydney in 2008
Last Phantom of the Opera performance
|Background information
|18 November 1961
Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
|Opera, musical theatre
|Opera singer, actor
|Years active
|Associated acts
|John Farnham,
Olivia Newton John
Notable musical roles include lead roles in The Phantom of the Opera (as "The Phantom"), The Secret Garden (as "Archibald Craven"), Annie (as Daddy Warbucks), Guys and Dolls (as "Sky Masterson"), My Fair Lady (as "Henry Higgins"), Jekyll and Hyde (original gothic thriller cast recording and, for the 25th anniversary, as "Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde"), Man of La Mancha (as Don Quixote), and A Little Night Music (as Frederik Egerman), as well as a significant supporting role in Les Misérables (as Enjolras). Circa 1988, he was internationally regarded as the best Enjolras and was honoured by being selected for the Complete Symphonic Recording, along with leading Les Misérables performers from around the world along with fellow Australian actor Philip Quast as Javert. This was arguably his break-through role, as he was cast as the Phantom as the Australian tour of Les Misérables was ending. He performed the role of Doctor Yuri Zhivago in the new musical adaptation of Boris Pasternak's novel, Doctor Zhivago. In 2012, Anthony reprised his role as Daddy Warbucks in Annie at the Lyric Theatre, Star City for a strictly limited season of 12 weeks. Anthony made his debut on Broadway, New York, in the James Lapine directed role of Daddy Warbucks in Annie at the Palace Theatre. In July 2015, he was playing Charles Frohman/James Hook in Finding Neverland on Broadway. In December 2015 he returned to Australia playing the part of Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof.[1]
His opera roles include major roles in Die Fledermaus (as "Gabriel Eisenstein"), The Magic Flute (as "Papageno"), A Midsummer Night's Dream (as "Puck") and The Tales of Hoffman.
Gilbert and SullivanEdit
His Gilbert and Sullivan roles for Opera Australia include the featured comedic role of "Ko-Ko" in The Mikado (2004/2009), "Archibald Grosvenor" in Patience (1996), "Pirate King" in The Pirates of Penzance (2006-2007/2010) and in the 2005 double-bill of Trial by Jury (as the "Learned Judge") and H.M.S. Pinafore (as "Captain Corcoran"). Apart from The Mikado, these Gilbert and Sullivan productions are available on DVD. In 1987, Warlow also performed a one-man show originally written for John Reed, called A Song to Sing, O, about George Grossmith, the comedian who originated the principal comic roles for Gilbert and Sullivan from 1877 through the 1880s.
Other performancesEdit
Warlow performed Advance Australia Fair at the 2008 NRL Grand Final on 5 October 2008.
Phantom of the Opera: 2007-2009Edit
Warlow first portrayed the Phantom in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera in the original Australian production, circa 1990 alongside Marina Prior as Christine Daae.
It was announced in October 2006 that Phantom would reopen in Melbourne the following year and that Warlow had agreed to reprise his role as "The Phantom".[2]
Phantom reopened in Melbourne at the Princess Theatre, its original home, on 19 July 2007. Alongside Warlow, Australia's Ana Marina and Alexander Lewis were cast as Christine Daae and Raoul, the Vicomte de Chagny. Although he performed for the industry opening night, Warlow was struck down by a bout of influenza that had also claimed many of the other cast and crew and he missed the first two and a half weeks of the show's Melbourne season. Understudy Simon Pryce performed in his place[3] until Warlow made a return on 9 August 2007.[4]
Unlike the original Australian Phantom, Warlow played the Phantom for the two-year tour of Australia and New Zealand. The Phantom of the Opera opened at Melbourne's Princess Theatre on 28 July 2007, then at Brisbane's Lyric Theatre in February 2008 followed by Sydney's Lyric Theatre in May 2008. After closing in Sydney on 14 September, the production moved to Auckland, New Zealand and following a holiday break, subsequently opened in Perth in February 2009. The last stop on the tour was Adelaide where Warlow donned the mask for the final time on 23 May 2009. Warlow appeared as a guest at the 25th anniversary production of The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
The Pirates of Penzance tour: 2006–2007Edit
Between 2 August 2006 and 2 June 2007, Warlow appeared in the Opera Australia production of The Pirates of Penzance(a popular Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera), in which he played the role of the "Pirate King" — with performances during 2006 in Sydney, New South Wales (at the Sydney Opera House), in Canberra, ACT and in Brisbane, Queensland (at the Lyric Theatre, Queensland Performing Arts Centre), as well as enjoying full houses in Melbourne, Victoria in 2007.
Warlow's Pirate King appeared in dress, voice and mannerism very similar to Captain Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean. In a press interview in Brisbane, Warlow said that he had deliberately based his Pirate King on Johnny Depp's character from Pirates of the Caribbean so that people who may not know the opera but are aware of the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy of movies could enjoy the opera more.[5] David Hobson (as "Frederic") and Suzanne Johnston (as "Ruth") also appeared in this production. The lead female role of Mabel, initially played by Emma Matthews was taken over by soprano Taryn Fiebig for most of the tour. John Bolton-Wood, originally cast as "Major-General Stanley" was replaced by Reg Livermore for the Melbourne season, and the role of the "Sergeant of Police" in Melbourne given to Shane Lowrencev after the departure of bass Richard Alexander, the original "Sergeant".
This production of The Pirates of Penzance was shown on television by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on 9 December 2006. A DVD of the production was subsequently released.
Awards and nominationsEdit
Green Room Awards, Melbourne
- Winner (1990): Male Actor in a Featured Role - Music Theatre ("Enjolras" in Les Misérables)
- Winner (1991): Male Actor in a Leading Role - Music Theatre ("Phantom" in The Phantom of the Opera)
- Nominee (2001): Male Actor in a Leading Role - Music Theatre ("Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks" in Annie)
Helpmann Awards, Australia
- Nominee (2001): Best Male Actor in a Musical ("Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks" in Annie)
- Nominee (2003): Best Male Actor in a Musical ("Don Quixote" in Man of La Mancha)
- Nominee (2008): Best Male Actor in a Musical ("Phantom" in The Phantom of the Opera)
- Nominee (2011): Best Male Actor in a Musical ("Yuri Zhivago" in Doctor Zhivago)
- Nominee (2012): Best Male Actor in a Musical ("Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks" in Annie)
- Nominee (2016): Best Male Actor in a Musical ("Tevye" in Fiddler on the Roof)
Drama Desk Award, New York
- Nominee (2013): Outstanding Actor in a Musical "Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks" in Annie
Personal lifeEdit
He is married to Celia and they have a daughter, Phoebe Rose.
Warlow was found to be suffering from Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma in 1992, during the early publicity for the arena production of Jesus Christ Superstar where he was to appear as Pilate. He had to put his career on hold for about a year while he dealt with the disease, and his role in the production was given to John Waters. He returned to the performance circuit in the second half of 1993 with a national concert tour for the launch of his Back In The Swing album. He has since done promotional work for the Leukaemia Foundation of Australia.
His fourth solo album, Midnight Dreaming, reached the top ten of the Australian Aria Charts. Warlow also briefly appeared on the ARIA Singles Chart in 1998 with the double A-side single "Beauty School Dropout/My Prayer". Warlow was back on television, in a concert performance, on the night of 24 December 2006 (the concert was shown by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation).
On Doctor Zhivago's opening night in Sydney (February 2011), Warlow tore a calf muscle four hours before the show was due to start, and was thus cut short. Understudy Anton Berezin covered the role and after about a week's worth of rest, Warlow was back on the boards performing to critical acclaim.
- The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall (2012)
- The Pirates of Penzance — Opera Australia production (2006)
- H.M.S. Pinafore / Trial by Jury — Opera Australia production (2005)
- Die Fledermaus — Opera Australia production (1997)
- Patience — Opera Australia production (1996)
- The Main Event — with John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John (1998)
Solo and collaborative albumsEdit
- Tenor and Baritone (2005) — with David Hobson
- The Snow Goose (2005)
- Face the Music (2003)
- Highlights from The Main Event — with John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John (1998)
- Best of Act One (1996)
- Midnight Dreaming (1994)
- Back in the Swing (1993)
- On the Boards conducted by Brian Stacey (1992)
- Centre Stageconducted by Brian Stacey (1990)
Cast albumsEdit
- Annie — New Broadway Cast Recording (2013)
- Annie — Australian Cast Recording (2012)
- Patience — The Australian Opera (1995)
- The Secret Garden — Australian Cast Recording (1995)
- Jekyll and Hyde — Concept Recording (1994)
- Les Misérables — Complete Symphonic Recording (1988)
Audio samples can be found on his official website.
- ^ "Anthony Warlow returns to Australian stage for Fiddler on the Roof". Herald-Sun. 13 September 2015.
- ^ New day dawning for Music of the Night
- ^ Simon covers Phantom illness
- ^ Warlow back from Phantom Illness
- ^ Warlow interview published in Brisbane News during November 2006
External linksEdit
- Official website
- Anthony Warlow on IMDb
- Anthony Warlow at the Internet Broadway Database
- Anthony manages success alone - "The Age"


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It is difficult to make a connection between these riots and those of the past. The riots in the 1980s revolved around the black community who had experienced disadvantage, discrimination and harsh policing over many years. The riots ten years ago in Bradford, Burnley and Oldham had also been simmering for some time with little understanding between Asian and white communities who both felt that the other were getting a better deal. Both these previous riots had a racial element and both could be linked to disadvantage.
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Professor Ted Cantle CBE is Chair of the Institute of Community Cohesion (iCoCo). In August 2001, he was appointed by the Home Secretary to lead the review on the causes of the summer disturbances in a number of northern towns and cities.


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When to Distribute Promotional GiftsPromotional items have stormed the advertising world with a bang, ubiquitous in every business strategy. They provide personalised options showing the customer that the company or the organisation values their continued sustenance in helping the business bloom. The customer also feels special in being given such valued treatment. Promotional items used as business and corporate gifts compliment and improve the efficiency of other advertising media. These products give prolonged exposure to the company's products and services for a long period of time. With the result the customer internalises the company's name, message, logo and its products. Promotional gifts are mainly distributed in specific events, product launches and promoting new schemes, achieving new targets and public celebrations. These gift items include promotional pens, promotional mouse mats, promotional mugs, promotional clocks, promotional umbrellas, promotional folders and more. Promotional gifts create a no
Wholesale Drop ShippingWhat is wholesale drop shipping? First of all, Wholesale drop shipping should be explained. It's basically a middleman operation, because it eliminates the function of housing and distributing any inventory. In drop shipping, an e-commerce Web site retails products that its wholesaler sells. Once a consumer places an order on the e-commerce Web site, the order information is relayed from the e-commerce Web site to the wholesaler. Then, the wholesaler packages the ordered goods and ships them directly to the consumer, who placed the order. The wholesaler will even attach the E-commerce Web site's packing slip and label to the package being sent. This is the process that is called drop shipping. Disadvantages of wholesale drop shipping Now that we have broken down drop shipping, let's examine the major cons. Although drop shipping allows e-commerce Web sites to open up and function withou
Promotional Yardsticks - A Winning Trade Show Give AwayPromotional products are a necessary part of the whole trade show experience. As a participant, you want to excel at building new clients, networking, increasing sales, circulating your brand, and marketing your business. The marketing experts have performed numerous studies time and again proving that promotional gifts enhance these exact tasks. When planning your next trade show experience, you should not be asking yourself, "Am I giving away promotional products at this event?" Rather, you should pose the question, "WHAT promotional items am I giving away for this trade show event?" While any knowledgeable promotions professional can assist you with the decision making process, choosing an item like promotional yardstick would be wise. First of all, the implications during the show are enormously wide. This is a larger quality item - one that visually begs for more attention than smaller items like stress balls, key chains, or
Promotional Gifts Don't Have to Break Your Promotional Budget!If there is one thing you have to do consistently when you own a business, it is advertise and promote. When your name is unknown, so are your products and services. No one will come looking for you if that is the case. However, when you give promotional gifts, you get your name out there to prospective customers and clients. Once your business's name is known, people will seek what you specialize in and allow you to work for them. The first thing to remember about a gift is you have to make it seem like something other than a token give away item. To do this, you need to make it look like a present. The easy way to do this is to place any promotional products into a promotional bag! Bags with tissue paper are currently a common form of "gift wrap", and when you have your business name right on the paper bag, it will put your company's name and logo in the mind of the gift recipient and anyone in their vicinity. With paper promotional bags starting at as little as £0.45, the c
Wholesale Lot - Learn the Good Side and the Bad Side About Wholesale Lot BusinessBuy and sell is not at all a difficult business. Likewise, this is one of the best business ideas these days. To make it easier for you to decide, ask yourself first if you want and willing to invest in this business before actually entering it or else it will be harder for you to be successful on this business. I have been in this business several years now and based on my experience, just like everything else, there is a good side and a bad side about this business. Let me discuss here with you what these are. Wholesale lot can be found online with a simple know how and a click of the mouse. But this is not advisable way to get it. If you purchase wholesale lots online, there is the possibility that you get less quality products or you the items that have already gone through and not passed other people's taste or inspection. The best way is to actually visit their warehouses in different cities. I will assure you that their inventory will be


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Sometimes the wise choice is to go to sleep.
Writing a Friday edition of Thankful Thursday is somewhat disappointing to me. I've been working hard at consistency and somehow posting a Thursday post on Friday just seems wrong. (And posting late on Friday to boot!)
Struggling to put the finishing touches on what I had already written I realized I was TIRED. In order for me to enjoy my upcoming weekend activities a good night's rest was in order.
I tell you this because I had a profound (in my mind) thought. Wouldn't a late offering be better than something thrown together for the sake of my pride and self imposed expectations? A reminder to self that because I don't follow a routine one time does not a slacker make.
Like one of the line dancing teachers says, "Don't give up. Catch up!"
I'd like to encourage you to rest if you need it! Thank you for reading.


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Name: The Blue Monkey Fumoir
Location: Zurich Old Town, Switzerland
Designer: Dyer-Smith & Frey
We are loving the vintage feel or this space mixed with the modern accents. Ultimately the concept is truly what roped us in. A smoking room, like you would have had back in the 20's in Switzerland, updated for modern times. ( Think English pubs meets modern gentleman's club) Despite the smoking bans in Zurich, the Blue Monkey wanted to offer its guests a place to smoke and what they accomplished with the interior, we picture, will easily accommodate the men in suits that head in for a drink after work.
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While Prince William and Kate Middleton were being married,millions of viewers wondered what their royal whispers meant. Now professional lip reader Tina Lannin has deciphered their words for the rest of us.
Here is a transcript:
10:20--William (to brother Harry): "Quite big, isn't it? This wedding."
Harry: "Uh, yes. Now let's get on with it.
10:35--William (to Kate): "You look nice." (to lady in audience) "Hello, toots. You look pretty fit too."
10:55--William (to Kate): "You okay?"
Kate: "Yes."
William: "I'm quite dull you know. I talk about polo a lot."
Kate: "Umm."
Willaim: "Also, the doctor says my hair has only six months."
Kate: (smiles)
William: "I'm thinking of buying a hairpiece. I've found one that looks like Donald Trump's. He's a personal hero of mine."
Kate: (smiles a little weakly)
William: "Also, I plan on letting myself go. I've eaten too healthy for too long. I plan on getting very fat and laying around all day. That's my privelege, is it not?"
11:10: William: "Did I mention you'll be walking the Corgis two hours a day? Everyone has to do it, Her Majesty demands it. Don't worry, you won't have to clean up the poop. We have a Scotchwoman who does that."
11:20: William: Did you know I'm not just the Prince, I'm also the Duke of Cambridge? Pretty nifty, eh?
11:40: (as the choir sings) William: Some of these boys look like Harry Potter.
11:50--William: "Charlie Sheen belled me last night. I'll be visiting him for long periods of time."
Kate: (no longer smiling)
12:00--Queen Elizabeth (to Prince Philip): "Quite good, I thought."
Prince Philip: "What's that?"
Elizabeth: "The wedding."
Philip: "Was there a wedding?"
Elizabeth: "Of course there was! Were you napping?"
Philip: "Sorry."
Elizabeth: "Remember when we were young and happy?"
Philip: "No."
Elizabeth: "Nor do I."


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The first British troops scheduled to fly into Bagram airbase outside Kabul in November 2001 nearly didn't make it. Northern Alliance (NA) leaders, who had driven the Taliban out of the city with the help of US Special Forces a few days earlier, refused to allow the British plane to land. Their leader, Abdullah Abdullah, was furious that London was sending troops without asking permission first. He telephoned the head of the UN mission to Afghanistan, Francesc Vendrell, and informed him with some alarm that "the British are invading!"—as they had, twice, in the 19th century. Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, recalled that "all hell broke loose." Eventually, the NA leadership calmed down and allowed the Brits to land.
The first British soldiers had next to no warning of their deployment, no strategic plan and were lacking the right equipment. Coming just two months after 9/11, such confusion and lack of preparation was perhaps understandable. But Whitehall was repeatedly unprepared in the years ahead, too. It was a grim opening salvo.
Theo Farrell's book is entitled Unwinnable, and with good reason: what followed for the next 13 years was an unremitting tale of miscalculation, confusion, overstretch, poor planning and political paralysis. The British were caught between high-minded promises made to Afghanistan and backroom deals with America and Pakistan. The US had its eyes on Iraq, which always seemed a more important prize. And the Afghans, sensitive to imperial meddling, had conflicting priorities of their own. Winning here was all but impossible: as Farrell suggests near the opening of the book, "in retrospect, Britain should have probably quit while it was ahead" in late 2002. By the time UK forces formally withdrew in 2014 (some personnel are still there in an "advisory capacity") 453 British soldiers had been killed and 2,000 wounded, 600 receiving "lifechanging" injuries. The estimated cost was £37bn.


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: Eyes May Be Window Into Future Memory Loss
Posted March 6, 2018
By Dennis Thompson
HealthDay Reporter
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 28, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- By looking deeply into your eyes, doctors might be able to predict your future risk for dementia and memory loss.
Unhealthy changes to the blood vessels of the retina could mirror changes taking place in the brain's blood vessels, and that could contribute to a decline in mental ability, a new study suggests.
People with moderate to severe retinal damage are more likely to have bigger declines in memory and thinking over two decades than those with healthy eyes, researchers discovered.
"The eyes are the windows to the brain, because the vasculature within the retina and within the brain is so similar," explained lead researcher Jennifer Deal. She's an assistant scientist with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.
Doctors know that small blood vessel blockages and ruptures in the brain contribute to both dementia and Alzheimer's, said Dr. Sam Gandy, director of the Mount Sinai Center for Cognitive Health and NFL Neurological Care in New York City.
Unfortunately, these brain blood vessels are so small that they can't be viewed in a living person with existing technology, Gandy and Deal explained.
"Even using something like MRI, we actually can't see those very small changes in those small blood vessels in the brain," Deal said.
However, very similar blood vessels are examined every day by ophthalmologists when they conduct routine examinations of patients' eye health.
"Blood vessels in the eye are very similar to those in the brain. They're similar both anatomically and physiologically," Deal said. "We think by looking at these blood vessels in the eye, that's actually giving us an idea about changes that might be occurring in the blood vessels of the brain."
To see whether eye health might predict brain health, Deal and her colleagues pulled data from a long-term study of heart risk factors.
People involved in the large study were recruited between 1987 and 1989, at ages 45 to 64, and were asked to take tests of their memory, language skills and planning ability at regular intervals.
The researchers also found over 12,300 of the participants had had a photograph taken of one retina in the early 1990s. The team compared the health of the participants' retinas to their ongoing brain health, to see if those with more blood vessel damage in their eyes wound up with greater mental decline over the course of two decades.
The retinas are the light-sensitive lining along the back wall of the eye. Blood vessel blockages and bleeding can damage the retina, threatening a person's sight.
Researchers examined the photographs for signs of micro-aneurysms and hemorrhages in the retinas, Deal said. They also looked for "cotton wool spots," fluffy white patches on the retina that suggest blocked blood vessels.
"We found that retinopathy (retinal damage) and measures associated with retinopathy were associated with faster rates of decline over 20 years," Deal said.
Gandy said the potential of this screening technique is "exciting" because it could provide doctors with an easy way to assess a person's future risk for dementia.
"If this holds up under independent replication, this could be incredibly useful to researchers and clinicians, both for diagnosis and potentially as an endpoint for clinical trials of drugs aimed at improving cerebrovascular circulation," Gandy said.
Deal pointed out that retinal examinations are noninvasive and done on a daily basis by eye doctors everywhere, making them an easy way to look at blood vessel health.
But she added that "it is probably premature to say we should be conducting these eye exams and using that to predict who will have cognitive decline."
Newer technologies are coming along that provide an even better look at the blood vessels of the retina, and those will be even more accurate at finding retinal damage, Deal added.
In the meantime, she suggested that people who are told by their ophthalmologist that they've suffered retinopathy should share the news with their family doctor.
Such eye damage indicates a chronic health condition like diabetes or high blood pressure that might need to be more tightly controlled, Deal said. Clamping down on these chronic illnesses could help a person's overall health, including their future brain health.
The study was published online Feb. 28 in the journal Neurology.
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I already feel weird going to the bathroom with other people nearby, but this experience took the cake.
Day in the Life: Ultimate Discomfiture in a Public Restroom
I've been on a kick to drink more glasses of water per day, in an effort to be more healthy and have better skin. Consequently, I find myself having to piss pretty frequently. And when the need hits, I gotta go, 'cuz I gotta go, know what I mean?
At Costco this afternoon, the need hit hard while I was refilling prescriptions for my arthritis meds and monthly contraception. I rushed immediately to the women's loos to let it out.
Midstream, I hear grunting in the next stall over.
Pause. My pee stops. Um…?
The lady starts moaning and grunting. I hear shifting. More loud moaning.
Is she having a particularly satisfying number two? A simply good pee? I hear no evidence of anything going into the toilet, no noises of anything hitting water, only inappropriate noises emanating from my toilet neighbor.
I force my piss out as fast as I can and wash my hands, uncomfortable as hell, while the moans, oohing and low grunting continues from the stall next door. I speed through the hand dryer, frantically shooting glances over my shoulder, half expecting the woman to fall out of the stall. The bathroom exit feels yards away. My hands are still damp as I speed-walk the heck out of there.
I still have no idea if she was experiencing discomfort or if she was getting herself off.
Talk about awkward toilet experiences. I may never feel the same about that Costco restroom.
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Im writing this one for those in need;
Who i cant feed.
Yet, im sending them my love
Cause we all came from above.
Some got more..
Cause there life wasnt on shore.
Some got less;
Cause their life wasnt a mess.
Its jus a tear in anothers eye
Make me sink low and sigh
I feel YOUR pain
Yet theres nothing more to gain.
This isa world of greed
In which some do and some dont succeed.
I think about you sometimes;
Money, drugs, guns and other crimes.
Id want my kids to be safe
Live ina nice place.
Have intentions to please-
Wondering wether the world will cease
Hunger and poverty
With issues of dishonesty
Truths of tears in their eyes:
Shallow lullabuys-
Unstoppable crimes
Reminds me of those in need
Desperate forone good feed!
Our selfish deeds.
While people die in their dreams
Whilst war rips them apart
& Life asks them to depart
Conflict raging their houses down
We dont hear a sound
So today i freely accrue
& Ask you to break through
To give as much as you take
To give others a break!
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When attending a movie award show that includes prizes for "Best WTF Moment" and "Best Shirtless Performance" – cough, MTV Movie Awards, cough – you know your look's got to be on point. This past Sunday, Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi stepped up to the plate in a glamorous, strapless, floor-length, pale pink gown. The icing on the cake? The dress was from her own clothing collection, Snooki Couture by Nicole Polizzi. That's right, Snooki has officially introduced her "cheap, affordable, like Forever 21, but Snooki" foray into designer-dom. Of course, this isn't her first step into the world of fashion. With experience creating slippers and handbags, Snooki is no stranger to sequins, studs, and the like. Head over to MTV Style for behind-the-scenes images and more. (MTV)
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Penguin Restores E-Book Access Amidst Amazon Negotiations
The Penguin Group said Wednesday that it will restore library lending access to older e-books while it negotiates with Amazon and e-book provider OverDrive on security issues.
As a result, customers will continue to have access to Penguin titles via the Amazon Kindle library lending program at least until the end of the year, though new titles will not be added.
Earlier this week, Penguin announced that it would temporarily stop releasing its new titles in a digital format and pull its books from Amazon's library e-book lending program due to security concerns.
Today, however, Penguin said that Amazon had "not been consulted by OverDrive about the terms of Penguin's agreement with OverDrive." That deal required library e-book suppliers to make sure the files were protected by their firewalls.
"Amazon has undertaken to work with Penguin and Overdrive between now and the end of the year to address Penguin's concerns," Penguin said. "Penguin will, as a result, restore the supply of these titles until the end of the year in order to return the availability of older titles to all its digital customers."
"'Get for Kindle' for all Penguin eBooks in your catalog has been restored as of this morning," OverDrive said in a blog post. "Penguin titles are available for check out by Kindle users and the Kindle format will be available for patrons who are currently on a waiting list for a Penguin title. Upcoming releases remain unavailable."
"We apologize for the inconvenience this caused for your library and patrons," OverDrive continued. "At this time, no further information is available. We hope to share more details in the near future."
Amazon formally launched its library book lending program in September, which allows Kindle and Kindle app users to borrow e-books from more than 11,000 libraries in the United States.
To borrow e-books, Kindle users visit their local library's Web site and search for the book they want. They check out using a valid library card, and then select the "Send to Kindle" option. At that point, users are re-directed to Amazon.com, where they must sign in with their Amazon account. The book is then transferred via Wi-Fi or USB (not 3G).
Earlier this month, Amazon also launched the Kindle Owners' Lending Library, which lets customers with an Amazon Prime membership borrow e-books for free, but Penguin is reportedly not a participating publisher.
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Welcome to the AIMMSlinks home page
Note that these project webpages are based on Wiki, which allows webusers to modify the content to correct typos, add information, or share their experience and tips with other users. You are welcome to contribute to these project webpages. To edit these pages or submit a ticket you must first register and login.
We encourage users to report bugs by creating a ticket and to ask questions using the mailing list instead of contacting AIMMS Support.
The AIMMSlinks project is dedicated to the development of links between the modeling language AIMMS and solvers that are hosted at COIN-OR. It is written in C++ and released as open source code under the Eclipse Public License (EPL). The links use the AIMMS Open Solver Interface API. The code has been written by Yidong Lang, Lorenz T. Biegler, Chuck Teeter and Marcel Hunting, who is the COIN project leader for AIMMSlinks.
Currently the following links are available:
The Cbc and Ipopt links are available for Windows and Linux, both 32 and 64 bits, and can only be used in AIMMS 3.10 and higher. Please note that to use Ipopt in AIMMS you also need to download the Ipopt DLL binaries as explained in the installation instructions (for binaries).
Download and installation
You can download AIMMSlinks via subversion by typing
svn co https://projects.coin-or.org/svn/AIMMSlinks/releases/1.1.0 AIMMSlinks
See also the COIN-OR documentation for using subversion. Alternatively you can obtain the source code from the tarball directory, and download a file of the form AIMMSlinks-x.y.z.tgz or AIMMSlinks-x.y.z.zip. The latest release is: 1.1.0.
The AIMMSlinks installation can be built using Microsoft Visual Studio, version 10 or higher, as explained in the detailed installation instructions.
The AIMMS 4 installation contains Cbc and Ipopt binaries. AIMMS 4 supports Cbc 2.9 and Ipopt 3.11.
Project Links
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Agricultural Land Management (ALM) including soil carbon sequestration are rapidly emerging components of the overall ecosystem and sustainability marketplace. Over the last few years, the number of ALM methodologies available to project developers/landowners has been increasing. The American Carbon Registry (ACR), Climate Action Reserve (Reserve) and Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) have all added to agricultural project opportunities, including methodologies for reducing nitrous oxide emissions from nitrogen fertilizers, reducing methane emissions from rice cultivation, introduction of sustainable agricultural land management, grassland management and a modular soil carbon quantification methodology. For additional information on the various methodologies, please read our ALM Opportunities Expanding article.
The most commonly requested soil carbon services in the United States and abroad include:
- Third-party validation and/or verification of ALM offset projects;
- Third-party ALM methodology assessments;
- Soil carbon sampling methodology review and implementation;
- Soil mapping from large scale (high intensity soil survey) to smaller scales;
- Soil suitability studies for a wide range of land uses;
- Soil suitability studies for habitat and wetland restoration project;.
- Management and implementation of wetlands and habitat restoration plans;
- Consultation on soil carbon project (conservation tillage, sustainably managed rangelands, etc.) development and establishment; and
- Consultation with soil carbon offset project landowners to provide agricultural recommendations for projects to maximize soil carbon sequestration benefits.
Predictive Modeling services:
- Site specific allometric equation development and validation [(i.e. site specific equations that can predict tree (or crop) height, biomass and growth overtime]
- Parameterize models such as 3-PG that physiologically predict carbon growth in plant communities; accounting for changes in temperature or rainfall that may result from climate change.
- Review the viability of plant communities such agricultural crops or forest in the future climate scenarios.
- Plan for permanence of carbon projects given future projected climates


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Once upon a time, Rubicon Development had been scratching a living doing contract work for various clients for several years. It put food on the table, but it was hardly a commercial easy street, and the work itself was usually uninteresting jobs we wouldn't have picked given the choice. Such is the life of contract developers – you take what's offered because that's all there is.
Great Little War Game
Developer: Rubicon Development
Publisher: Rubicon Development
Release date: April 27, 2011
Platforms: iOS, Android, PlayBook, PC, Chrome OS
Number of developers: 5
Budget: £120,000 [about $190,000] (Game and tech)
Length of development:
About 12 months
However, one hot summer's morning back in 2009, I realized I just didn't want to go to the office that day — or for the rest of the year, for that matter. OK, everyone gets days like those, but you know there's a real problem when you don't want to go and work at your own company. I mentioned this to my business partner and found he felt exactly the same.
Just having that brief conversation polarized us. We would finish the current job, which Murphy's Law of course dictated would be our biggest and longest, and then we would stop taking new work in and go indie — no matter what.
We didn't make a business plan; we didn't even decide right then and there what we'd make or for what platforms or any of that stuff. We simply knew we had to go indie or shrivel up and die (of boredom).
As we reached the end of that last work-for-hire gig around February 2010, Apple's App Store was becoming a serious draw for us, and by the time we were ready to make a start, we'd decided that's what we'd specialize in. Android gaming showed imminent promise, too.
That just left picking a game to make. This was actually pretty simple, as my favorite handheld game of all time was Advance Wars for the Gameboy Advance. It became a classic, so obviously there was a market for those sorts of games, and because I'd played it to death I knew where I could make a bunch of solid improvements to the formula.
And that was that. We hoisted the indie flag one day and never looked back.
What went right:
There is only one piece of program code in the entirety of Great Little War Game that's not written by us, and that's a public domain ZIP file loader.
In my view, to be truly independent, you have to not just get out from under the thumb of a publisher or other controlling body but also avoid being beholden in other areas, too, such as tools and technology. To that end we wrote all our own game-specific tools and tech: renderers, animation systems, sound engine — the works.
In the indie world where time really is money, this probably sounds like madness to a lot of people, but because of this ethos, we can write games quicker than most, as our tools have been designed to work the way we do and we understand them forward and backward. We can also fix bugs the same hour we hear about them, without waiting for a middleware provider to "get back to you." As you'll see later, this was important.
But most of all it just feels like it's all our own work. When I point at Great Little War Game and say "our studio made that," I really mean all of it. This may not have any importance from a business perspective, but it's why I write games and not banking software — it's important to me.
App Store spotlights
We released Great Little War Game on iOS only to begin with. Back then, the whole Android scene was pretty new, and we didn't have the staff for two major jobs at once regardless.
Anyway, within a few days of release we got a front page New and Noteworthy feature from Apple. We didn't know anyone there or any of that stuff; they just plucked us out of nowhere. As a new nobody studio with an unknown brand and zero track record, we hadn't even had that "what if" conversation in the office, so you can imagine we were ecstatic to see the feature show up when it did.
I'm sure this was more luck than judgment (probably 100/0), but this feature turned out to be vital to our company, as those first few days of sales beforehand were looking truly grim. Had we not had that feature, I'd probably be keeping my nose down in Barclays' IT department by now and not writing this.
We'd designed our tech to work in a platform independent manner, but we'd still not gotten around to making the game run on Android yet, so this was our next task. A few months later we had that box ticked and rolled out our first ever Android game.
And boom, another featured spot. We couldn't believe it.
And then some time later, Google hit their magic 10 billion downloads milestone and included Great Little War Game in its big promotion for that as well. If anyone wants to know the true power of PR, get Google to do an announcement with your name on it. Although we were only making 10 cents gross on every sale, we were shifting about 400 copies a minute for almost 24 hours. That netted us about £20,000 [about $32,000] in a single day. If only they were all like that!
At some point later on, we ported the game to Blackberry Playbook. And sure enough … you get the picture.
I think in the whole history of everything, the attention Great Little War Game got from the platform holders was beyond our wildest dreams, and we're eternally grateful to them. We would not be in business today without them.
Look and Feel
It will come as a surprise to nobody that Advance Wars was our main inspiration. We had a bunch of new ideas to put in, but the first difference anyone sees is in the display, so we had to bring that up to modern standards.
Maps: We wanted to go with hexagons for gameplay, as diagonal movement in square grid-based games just doesn't work properly. The problem here, though, was that this is much harder to make map geometry for – you can't just line up a load of squares or cubes because the hex shapes intersect with each other and it looks awful. We solved this by writing our own tool to extrude 3D meshes from height-difference contours found on a 2D tile map that the designer could lay out quickly.
Performance in-game was also a key issue, so we had to ensure these meshes were uniform manifolds without intersections and overdraw. This processing takes ages even on a beefy PC and is the sole reason we've not put a map editor into the actual game, despite many requests for it. (The reason we didn't supply the PC tool to do it is that it's buggy and not written with the player in mind. I still feel guilty about not addressing this.)
Men and machines: We needed a fairly unique style to make the game stand out and we discussed many ways to go with drawing the units. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker was the aesthetic I had in my head from the beginning, but then our artist showed us "Choro Q," a Japanese toy line sold in the West as "Takara Penny Racers." We were all instantly sold on the big rounded look and took that styling to the world of tanks and armor.
Game controls: We thought long and hard about how the game controls should work – or more specifically how the viewpoint should work. The control method was always going to be "tap and drag," as that's what touchscreens were invented for.
We tried putting the camera down among the action, like you see in a first-person shooter, and this made for some excellent-looking screenshots. The problem with that though was it made the game much harder control. Gameplay always comes first, so we binned this idea completely and went with a bird's-eye view for the main display. Later on, we made the camera zoom in on fights as they play out which gave us the best of both worlds.
If you've played it (if no, why not?), you'll see right away that we went for a quirky and irreverent air throughout, as we didn't want the game to be taken too seriously.
We pick up some occasional flak for the thinness of the unfolding "story" running through the game, but most players realize this was deliberate. I have a particular dislike for games trying to cram a story in where none is needed, so this was our jibe at all that. I think on balance we got it right — but we didn't clearly 100 percent nail it.
Also key to this irreverence was the music. We had to keep this upbeat and jaunty whilst still sounding like a military march, and again that went perfectly. We have no in-house audio capability, so we had to contract this out. Luckily, the very first person we tried turned out to be extremely good and understood our needs perfectly. Most of the audio in the whole game was done in one take.
Show me the money
Great Little War Game has been out on various platforms for a little over two years now. The Android and iOS versions are by far and away the best performers, and between those two formats they've earned us about half a million dollars. It might surprise many to see that Android isn't that far behind iOS, which goes against the grain of much perceived wisdom in the trade. Android is great!
- Total earnings to date, iOS: $283,760.53
- Total earnings to date, Android: $216,424.23
You can clearly see the effect of our New and Noteworthy and the rather telling figures just before it. I didn't include more time in this image as the remainder of the sales graph just looks like a cut and paste of the rightmost inch of this one, but even less high. The "long tail" on mobile seems long indeed.
I put some interesting labels on for you.
- Launch day
- When we nearly quit mobile development and filed. Just two days in, initial sales had more than halved to about $400, with no indication of putting the brakes on by tomorrow.
- Salvation! Can you spot when the new and noteworthy started?
- Interestingly, this is where it ended. Back then you got a month in the spotlight, losing prominence each week along. To be frank, I do find it a bit depressing that most of our sales are based not on game quality but on how easy it is to find and tap an icon.
The bad news for us is that before we switched to mobile development and began Great Little War Game, we had been stitched up by a former client we did a lot of that contracting work for. We'd lost our personal savings and got into some debt and had even got to the point of phoning the tax man for clemency on our mounting unpaid bills.
When that first mammoth post-feature paycheck came in from Apple, my biz partner and I took most of it straight back out and used the money to dig ourselves out of our respective financial holes. It saved our business, and our homes, but we were left in a state where there still wasn't much new money coming in after the feature period had expired and sales settled down to a background level.
There were five people to pay out of all this, three of us in the office and two contractors on a backend royalty deal, and the income just about managed to pay us all a living wage, barely. Not exactly an auspicious start to our new business, but we'd basically made it and decided to continue onward to see what the future would bring.
After we'd launched on Android, we got to the point where we actually had a workable income and didn't live in permanent fear of having to close next month. And that's about where we've stayed right up until time of postmortem. There are no Ferraris in our car park, but we can at least stand proud and say we operate a viable small business in a very challenging marketplace. That makes me happy.


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Hello folks, Gus Givens here with the latest reports live from Cinq Port in Kelsey.
As you no doubt heard, the new galactic president was elected earlier today in a landslide, the new inhabitant of the octangular office, as it's known, is none other than Rexx Shredd, famous model and superstar who won in a landslide victory, when interviewed about why he wanted to be president he replied that the universe deserved a face as beautiful as his on its currency.
His first duty as president was the attend the launch of the Gal Feds new experimental ship, the Head of Iron, which features a revolutionary new propulsion technology, however in a shocking turn of events it appears that the new galactic president has been kidnapped, by... himself?
Yes folks, that's the word I'm getting apparently galactic president Rexx Shredd has kidnapped himself, stealing the Head of Iron and making good his escape, he is reported to have been seen earlier admiring himself in a mirror in a potentially threatening manner.
There were also two other individuals aboard the ship at the time of his escape WFNN reporter Katherine Freemann and a new brand of maintenance robot that was working on the ship at the time, it has not gone into mass production yet as its new AI chip appears to suffer from a bug that inflicts it with extreme pessimism.
The whereabouts' of Rexx Shredd are currently unknown, while authorities are searching for him it is believed with the new ships experimental drive he could be anywhere within the known or unknown universe at any time, we will keep you updated as the situation unfolds, this is Gus Givens signing off.
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This Show is ideal for big events such as holiday camps or were there is a big family audience. For this performance, we would need a stage. However, we are completely self-contained with everything else if required.
The show can be constructed to go with any situation on request
UNDER 4s SHOW
This show lasts about 45minutes and features colourful magic, music, singing and actions. In the show there is audience participation with chances for the children to take part in the magic and become a magician. Plus juggling plate spinning and lots of funny balloon modelling. This is all presented in a very soft and warm manner, which makes this show ideal for nurseries and Pre School groups.
The 1-hour package is a non-stop comedy show featuring a modern blend of audience participation, magic, music, and balloon modelling. This show is ideal for any occasion big or small from a house to a hall.
If this show is booked for a birthday then the show is constructed to make the birthday boy or girl the star of the show.
If you want that little bit extra than we can add balloon modelling for ALL the children at the end of the show or while they have their party food. This lasts about 30mins depending on how many children (please say when booking).
The 2 hour party package is the most popular package we offer. This show has to take place in a hall or big venue.
The 2 hour party is designed to take care of all your entertainment from the start of the party to the end. The show features a mix of comedy magic, balloon modelling, audience participation and music with lots of dancing.
This package is ideal for birthdays because it can be split into two parts, with a break in the middle for the party food.
All shows are constructed to fit the age and occasion of each individual party and are designed to make the birthday boy or girl the star.
This package can only be performed on a full size stage a theatre or a working mans club etc. If on arrival to the venue to find there is not a good sized working stage the show will NOT be performed.
This package is ideal for christenings and communion parties. The package consists of a family cabaret show that is hosted by Mr Stix and Peanut who run your whole afternoon for you. Featuring music, comedy, magic, audience participation and games including many prizes a circus workshop to learn the art of plate spinning and your disco for the afternoon that gets everybody dancing. In the last 30mins of the afternoon, Mr Stix will do balloon modelling for all the children. (This is dependent on the amount of children and the time left.)
Be In To Win It is a family fun game show which can run for around 45 minutes to 1 hour. It is full of fresh and fun games suitable for all ages and consists of team games and a lot of audience participation. The show is fast and fun featuring high-energy music and colourful entertainment. This can be booked as a show on its own or in conjunction with a magic show or package.
Extra balloon modelling for all the children at any party can be added just ask.
Mr Stix is highly skilled at balloon modelling and is available for any event big or small indoor or out he can produce top class balloons at very high speed.
Ideal for:
- Shop promotions
- Openings
- Fun days
- Shopping centres
- And lots more just ask
Also available are balloon modelling workshops where you learn the trade.
Some of Mr Stix clients include Pontins Holidays, Halifax Bank, Sure Start, Asda, The Variety Club, Woolworths, Sony, Pizza Hut, Southport Flower Show, Merseyside Ambulance, plus hundreds of parties. The format and length of show are subject to change at any time. All performances are CRB Police Cleared and covered with full public liability insurance.
Mr Stix is magic on a microphone and with years of compering and radio experience he can make your day one to remember from events in the arena to the raffle. Mr Stix will make it fun for all the family. He can build a package to fit your needs featuring things such as Magic Shows, Games Shows, Circus School, Music and much more.
This package is most popular and ideal for school summer fairs, Fun Days, BBQs, Garden Parties or any big outdoor event.
What Can You Have At Your Fun Day?
- The Stix Truck featuring full PA/disco System for announcements and music for the whole event compared by Mr Stix himself
- The Stix Circus School with the 25ft inflatable circus ring and full circus team. For full details on the circus school, see the circus school page.
- Balloon Modelling Workshops round the edge of the circus ring.
- General entertainment all day from Mr Stix and a number of the team Featuring Balloon Modelling, Juggling and Magic
- Inflatable Golf or Penalty Shout Out 10ft x 10ft Contact Mr Stix to find the package for you
The Mr Stix Circus School is a fantastic activity that is ideal for any age and occasion indoor or out.
The Circus School is a chance for the children and adults to have hands on experience with Spinning Plates, Juggling, Stilt Walking, Diablo's and even a trainee Unicycle, plus lots more. Mr Stix and Peanut are always on hand throughout the workshops to help and show you how to be the next circus superstar.
The workshop can be constructed in any way you wish to go with the occasion and the age of the people taking part. It is educational, keeping fit and fun all at the same time.
The fun informative workshops are ideal for schools, arts festivals, after school clubs, themed events and uniform groups.
The Circus School for Fun Days & Outdoor Events
When the circus school is booked for a big outdoor event such as a school fun day, it takes place in a big red and yellow 25ft inflatable circus ring. This is an ideal way to keep all the equipment together and make the activity stand out from the crowd.
The circus school can last all day if you like because once you pick something up you will not want to put it down.
Fun for all the family!
If you are planning a special occasion and you want that little bit extra then look no further because Mr Stix and his disco can do the job for you.
We play any type of music you require from the good old sing-a-longs right up to the present day. We have a top of the range sound system and laser lighting featuring smoke, bubbles and flame effects.
We work closely with you to make your night one to remember.
Weddings, birthdays, charity nights and more
Junior Discos
The junior disco is deigned for 8 to 12 years and we recommend they should be no longer than about 2 hours in length.
The junior disco is a non-stop mix of fun, games and party music. Mr Stix runs the whole party. Some of the games you will play are Bike Bonkers, The Rowing Race and the famous Mr Stix Toilet Roll Challenge. Plus an array of action and latest chart songs.
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It's a special someone's birthday today!! My dear friend TAMMY! Go check out her blog, Stamp Happy, and wish her HB! I am sure she already received the card I sent her, so I am going to show it to you now!
I just love this card, even though I know IRL there are probably NOT violets in this color! But I needed some fresh springy colors to play with, so this was my choice! The Flourishes image was stamped on Shimmery White paper and watercolored with an aquapainter and reinkers. The background was embossed with a CB folder and I only added a ribbon & dew drops as my embellishments since the image is large. Here's the inside, using a PTI sentiment:
Have a GREAT birthday, Tammy!


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Feb. 16, 2007
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State men's swimming and diving team is in first place with 186 points after the first day at the Big Ten Men's Swimming and Diving Championships Friday at the Bill and Mae McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion.
Columbus native Burkley Showe (Fr., Worthington, Ohio/Thomas Worthington) led four Ohio State divers in the finals to a 1-2-4-7 finish on the 1-meter springboard. Showe won his first Big Ten title in a score of 379.80. Ryan Jefferson (Fr., Madison, Wis./Madison Edgewood) followed as the runner-up with 336.30 points. Kellen Harkness (Sr., Puyallup, Wash./Cascade Christian) placed fourth in the event with a score of 329.35. Wes Wieser (So., Chesterfield, Mo./Parkway Central) took seventh when he dove a score of 309.95.
"All four of our divers did great today," Vince Panzano, Ohio State diving coach, said. "It was great to see Berkley (Showe) win. They've been training hard all year and hopefully they'll continue to do well through the next two days."
Minnesota is in second place in the team standings with 173 points and Michigan sits in third with 172 points. The Buckeyes recorded nine NCAA `B' times throughout the day, as well as 14 lifetime best times.
Nate King (Sr., Youngstown, Ohio/Warren Harding) bettered his Ohio State record he set during preliminaries earlier in the day on Friday to finish second in 1:46.29. The time is the ninth fastest collegiate time this year and is a NCAA `B' standard. Wildcat Mike Alexandrov was responsible for the win, swimming the event in an NCAA automatic qualifying time of 1:45.11. Niksa Roki swam the 200-yard individual medley two seconds faster than he did earlier today to finish 19th in a time of 1:50.99.
Joe Doyle (Sr., Centerburg, Ohio/Centerburg) followed King's example, finishing second in the 50-yard freestyle in a NCAA `B' time of 19.70. The place is Doyle's highest career finish at the Big Ten championships. Matt Voelker (Jr., Columbus, Ohio/Upper Arlington) completed the sprint in 19.97 to place sixth. Wildcat Matt Greevers became the first swimmer in the history of the Big Ten to win the event four consecutive times when he stopped the clock first at 19.53.
Ohio State opened the meet with a third-place finish and an Ohio State record in the 200-yard freestyle relay. The team of Doyle, Voelker, Joel Elber (Fr., Brunswick, Ohio/Brunswick) and R.J. Lemyre (Sr., Columbus, Ohio/Upper Arlington) swam the event in 1:18.86 to qualify for a NCAA provisional standard. The time is just 0.39 seconds away from automatically qualifying for the NCAA championships. Northwestern erased its own Big Ten conference record, winning the event in 1:17.21. The time is the second fastest in the country this year.
George Markovic (Fr., Sydney, Australia/St. Ives) broke the Ohio State record teammate Mark Neiman (Fr., Cherry Hill, N.J./Cherry Hill) set earlier in the day in the 500-yard freestyle to win the consolation finals. His time of 4:21.34 is three seconds under the previous record and qualifies as a NCAA `B' standard. Neiman finished behind Markovic in 10th place. He also swam a time under his previous record, completing the event in 4:22.92. Matt Patton of Michigan secured his ticket to the NCAA championships when he won the event in an automatic time of 4:17.16. His time also is a pool record.
Stefan Sigrist (Fr., Schaffhausen, Switzerland/Schaffhausen) posted his first career NCAA `B' qualifying time of 4:24.18 to win the bonus heat of the 500-yard freestyle. Jake Busch (So., Toldeo, Ohio/Toledo Christiansen) fell from his preliminary placing of 12th to 16th, hitting the wall in 4:27.18.
The Buckeyes ended the night with a sixth-place finish in the 400-yard medley relay. The quad of Lemyre, Felipe Travesso (So., Belo Horizonte, Brazil/Lawrences North), Doyle and Voelker swam the event in a NCAA `B' time of 3:13.25. Northwestern set its second conference record to win the relay in 3:06.99, becoming the fastest team in the country in the event.
"We have to give credit to our head diving coach Vince Panzano and our divers for their work today," Bill Wadley, head swimming coach, said. "We broke school records on every event but the final relay today so our swimmers are swimming up a storm. It's only two sessions of six but it is still nice to be on top going into the second day."
The championships continue Saturday with prelims beginning at noon and at finals at 7 p.m. Events Saturday include the 200-yard medley relay, the 400-yard individual medley, the 100-yard butterfly, the 200-yard freestyle, the 100-yard breaststroke, the 100-yard backstroke, the 800-yard freestyle relay and the 3-meter springboard. Single session tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for students.
Team Standings (official through day one)
1. Ohio State 186; 2. Minnesota 173; 3. Michigan 172; 4. Northwestern 168; 5. Indiana 131; 6. Purdue 103.50; 7. Penn State 82; 8. Wisconsin 74.50; 9. Michigan State 34; 10. Iowa 32.
Individual Event Winners
200-yard Freestyle Relay
1. Northwestern – 1:17.21
3. Ohio State – 1:18.86
500-Yard Freestyle
1. Matt Patton (Michigan) – 4:17.16
9. George Markovic – 4:21.34
10. Mark Neiman – 4:22.92
16. Jake Busch – 4:27.18
17. Stefan Sigrist – 4:24.18
30. Alex Chen – 4:30.30
48. Ryan Stoneburg – 4:35.49
200-yard Individual Medley
1. Mike Alexandrov (Northwestern) – 1:45.11
2. Nate King – 1:46.29
19. Niksa Roki – 1:50.99
39. Sam Pelkey – 1:52.28
45. Andrew Olson – 1:53.25
53. Daniel Malnik – 1:55.94
50-yard Freestyle
1. Matt Grevers (Northwestern) – 19.57
2. Joe Doyle – 19.70
6. Matt Voelker – 19.97
33. Felipe Travesso – 20.80
40. Joel Elber – 20.93
51. Mike Kordel – 21.31
1-meter Diving
1. Burkley Showe
2. Ryan Jefferson
4. Kellen Harkness
7. Wes Weiser
24. Nick Hanneman – 229.50
400-yard Medley Relay
1. Northwestern – 3:06.99
6. Ohio State – 3:13.25


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Google Create Shared Commitment to Fight SpamFriday, February 17th, 2012
Google, Microsoft, Facebook, AOL and Yahoo! to do a shared commitment to combat email spam and phishing attacks, and has worked with Bank of America, PayPal and others.
After 18 months of collaboration, the companies announced the formation of giant akhrinya of the technical team to handle the issue, which is known by the name DMARC.org.
Brett McDowell, Chairman at DMARCH said any phishing attacks that happened to millions of users and the company each month, generating a huge advantage in the mobile ecosystem as a whole.


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Second Saturday Gallery Night This Weekend in Hannibal
This Saturday, downtown art galleries in Hannibal will be hosting the monthly Second Saturday Gallery Night. Visitors are encouraged to wander from gallery to gallery and enjoy special guest artists, food, friends and extended hours.
In addition, the Hannibal Arts Council will also be hosting the opening reception of 'Art From the Parks,' a new exhibit co-sponsored by the Hannibal Arts Council and Hannibal Department of Parks and Recreation, showcasing local art that features Hannibal's parks. The reception will be from 5 p.m. - 8 p.m. with awards being presented at 7 p.m.
Second Saturday Gallery Night schedule
· Hannibal Arts Council, 105 S. Main , 5-8pm
· Hannibal Alliance Art Gallery , 112 North Main , 5-8pm
· Fresh Ayers, 209 North Main , 5-8pm
· Gallery 310, 310 North Main , 5-8pm
· Main Street Wine Stoppe, 303 N. Main


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This list was compiled by Stephanie A. Squicciarini, Teen Services Librarian, Fairport Public Library.
November 2009
Artemis Fowl Series, Eoin Colfer
Book 1: Artemis Fowl: When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.
The Squad Series, Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Book 1: Perfect Cover: As if it were not bad enough that sophomore computer hacker Toby Klein has to be a cheerleader to be part of the elite group of government operatives called the Squad, now she is part of the Homecoming court and has agreed to attend the dance with the most popular boy in school.
N.E.R.D.S. Series, Michael Buckley
While running a spy network from their elementary school, five unpopular misfits combine their talents and use cutting-edge gadgetry to fight evil around the world.
Spy High Series, A.J. Butcher
Book 1: Mission 1: As students at a special high school that trains them to be secret agents, six teenagers struggle to complete the training exercises as a team before being sent out into the field to sink or swim.
Danger Zone Series, David Gilman
Book 1: Devil's Breath: When fifteen-year-old Max Gordon's environmentalist-adventurer father goes missing while working in Namibia and Max becomes the target of a would-be assassin at his school in England, he decides he must follow his father to Africa and find him before they both are killed.
The Specialists Series, Shannon Greenland
Book 1: Model Spy: Sixteen-year-old Kelly, a beautiful but socially awkward orphan with an IQ of 190, is recruited by a secret government spy agency to go undercover as a model and rescue the kidnapped father of the boy she has a huge crush on.
Rich and Jade Series, Jack Higgins
Book 1: Sure Fire: Resentful of having to go and live with their estranged father, fifteen-year-old twins, Rich and Jade, soon find they have more complicated problems when their father is kidnapped and their attempts to rescue him involve them in a dangerous international plot to control the world's oil.
Young Bond Series, Charles Higson
Book 1: SilverFin: This prequel to the adventures of James Bond, 007, introduces us to the young James when he's just started boarding school in England and is about to become involved in his first adventure.
Alex Rider Series, Anthony Horowitz
Book 1: Stormbreaker: After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.
Guild of Specialists Series, Joshua Mowll
Book 1: Operation Red Jericho: The posthumous papers of Rebecca MacKenzie document her adventures, along with her brother Doug, in 1920s China as the teenaged siblings are sent to live aboard their uncle's ship where they become involved in the dangerous activities of a mysterious secret society called the Honorable Guild of Specialists.
Cherub Series: Robert Muchamore
Book 1: The Recruit: James is recruited into CHERUB, a secret division of MI5 which consists of teenage spies. He successfully completes his training and goes on his first mission.
The Boxer and the Spy: Robert Parker
Fifteen-year-old Terry, an aspiring boxer, uncovers the mystery behind the unexpected death of a classmate.
Fearless FBI Series, Francine Pascal
Book 1: Kill Game: Gaia faces new challenges as an FBI-trainee and learns the hard way that she will have to adjust to becoming a team player if she plans to have any success as an agent who hunts down serial killers.
Kingdom Keepers Series, Ridley Pearson
Finn Whitman, an Orlando teen, is hired to be hologramed as a Disney World park "guide" but soon finds himself being transported into the Magic Kingdom in the dead of night to help fight a group of Disney villains, led by Maleficent, who want to take over Disney World–and maybe more.
Simon Bloom Series, Michael Reisman
Book 1: The Gravity Keeper: Nerdy sixth-grader Simon Bloom finds a book that enables him to control the laws of physics, but when two thugs come after him, he needs the formulas in the book to save himself.
Spy Goddess Series, Michael P. Spradlin
Book 1: Live and Let Shop: Beverly Hills teenager Rachel Buchanan gets in trouble with the law and winds up at mysterious Blackthorn Academy in Pennsylvania, where she uncovers secrets about the school and becomes entangled in a case of international espionage.
H.I.V.E. Series, Mark Walden
Swept away to a hidden academy for training budding evil geniuses, Otto, a brilliant orphan, Wing, a sensitive warrior, Laura, a shy computer specialist, and Shelby, an infamous jewel thief, plot to beat the odds and escape the prison known as H.I.V.E.
Alfred Kropp Series, Rick Yancey
Book 1: The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp: Through a series of dangerous and violent misadventures, teenage loser Alfred Kropp rescues King Arthur's legendary sword Excalibur from the forces of evil.
STORM Series, E. L. Young
Book 1: The Infinity Code: In London, the teenaged geniuses of STORM, a secret organization dedicated to eliminating the world's misery through science and technology, uncover plans for a deadly weapon and race to find and dismantle it, then confront the corrupt scientist behind the scheme.