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This Just In: Todd McFarlane at SDCC 2011
Plenty of Panels and Signings to Get Your McFarlane fix
So it turns out the 2011 San Diego Comic Con just isn't the same without Todd McFarlane! For one day only, Thursday, July 21, Todd will be meeting & greeting with fans, signing swag, and talking about his latest projects! Whether you are a comic fanatic, gaming junkie, an action figure connoisseur, or an international rock'n'roller, you will find Todd's name tied to all the coolest names and products at this year's con.
So grab your signature books, SDCC badge & authentic movie costumes, as we look at where you can catch a glimpse of McFarlane this year: Toys "R" Us Halo: Reach Figure Launch Signing: Todd McFarlane
Thursday, July 21
Entertainment Earth booth #2343
Toys "R" Us is excited to announce that they will be previewing the Halo: Anniversary Master Chief Platinum action figure from McFarlane Toys at the SDCC, weeks before the line hits store in August! So make sure to pick up your platinum-painted version of John-117, because Toys "R" Us and Entertainment Earth will be hosting an autograph session with Todd McFarlane Thursday morning from 10 to 11:30 am at the Entertainment Earth booth #2343. The event is limited to 150 people. Two autographs per person, limited to the SDCC exclusive figure and one additional item.
Fans not attending the show can still purchase the figure online at Toysrus.com starting Sunday, July 24. Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning "Bringing Worlds to Life, From Concept to Pixel" Panel: McFarlane, Tim Coman, Reckoning video game designers
Thursday, July 21
Room 25ABC
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning—one of the most nominated video games at the 2011 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3)—is brought to life through the trademark visceral style of creative art director and concept artist Todd McFarlane. Listen as Todd, Big Huge Games art director Tim Coman, and a panel of Reckoning designers discuss the artistic process of creating a massive fantasy epic role-playing videogame in "Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning: Bringing Worlds to Life, From Concept to Pixel," from 12 to 1 PM in Room 25ABC.
For more information and to see the full trailer for Reckoning, visit www.reckoning.com. Blood Red Dragon Comic Panel: McFarlane, Stan Lee, Yoshiki, and Goff
Thursday, July 21
Indigo Ballroom, Hilton San Diego Bayfront (SDCC attendee badge required)
Working with the legendary creator Stan Lee and rock superstar Yoshiki (X Japan), Todd and his creative cohorts Jon Goff (writer) and Carlo Soriano (pencils/concept art) have created the ultimate hero from the east in Blood Red Dragon. Come listen to these creative minds as they talk about combining the worlds of music and comics in this awesome new project. This captivating panel and Q&A session is from 1 to 2 PM in the Indigo Ballroom at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront. Haunt Creative Team Signing: Todd McFarlane, Nathan Fox and Joe Casey
Thursday, July 21
Image Comics Booth #2729
Free Limited-Edition Haunt Signing Litho
Meet Todd and the new Haunt creative team, Nathan Fox (BLUE ESTATE, Fluorescent Black and Pigeons From Hell) and Joe Casey (BUTCHER BAKER, THE RIGHTEOUS MAKER and GODLAND), as they join forces for their first public appearance. Also receive a free limited-edition Haunt signing litho designed by Nathan Fox. Two autographs per person, limited to the Haunt signing litho and one additional item. Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Signing: Todd McFarlane
Thursday, July 21
Bioware Experience
Hilton Gaslamp (No SDCC Badge Required)
Free Limited-Edition McFarlane designed mini-poster of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. Two autographs per person, limited to the Reckoning limited poster and one additional item.
Other Todd McFarlane Productions SDCC events that you don't won't to miss: Blood Red Dragon Comic Creative Team Signing: Yoshiki (X Japan), Jon Goff and Carlo Soriano
Friday, July 22
Image Comic Booth# 2729
Join rock superstar Yoshiki (X Japan), writer Jon Goff (Spawn, Halo Evolutions) and artist Carlo Soriano (Star Wars Adventures) at their first-ever public signing. Two autographs per person, limited to the Blood Red Dragon comic and one additional item.
For complete information on this pop-culture powerhouse, visit www.McFarlane.com; Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Todd-McFarlane/160535290657228 and Twitter: Todd_McFarlane.


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I was on the Cross Check last night and it rode well. Brakes seemed a little loose, but I can't think of any reason why bad brakes would cause me any problems. Down, up, and down Massachusetts to 23rd. Massachusetts between the entrance to Rock Creek Park and Dupont Circle is a nice stretch, except for when one of the foreign diplomatic corps elects to avail himself of the opportunity to leave his car parked on the street, reducing sporadically the number of travel lanes from two to one. This creates an interesting bit of havoc for drivers and cyclists, but such is the small cost associated with living in the capital of the free world.
South of Massachusetts Avenue, there are no North-South bike lanes between 34th Street and 15th Street. That's most of Georgetown, the West End and Foggy Bottom. Yes, there's the Rock Creek Park trail, but that's a different thing entirely. I'm not an bike lane planner guy (technical name for job description), but I'd suggest that this is a problem. There are many people who might like to use a bike lane to get many places in this general zone of the city. I'm reminded up this when I ride down 23rd or try to ride down 23rd and find myself without a place on the street and either stuck in traffic or choosing the sidewalk as the next least worst option.
L Street! Stuff happened. I don't remember exactly. I have some pictures, though, for some reason:
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L gives way to Massachusetts and I rode down that street to the other side of Mount Vernon Polygon (I can never remember if it's Triangle or Square or both) and eventually turned right at 6th, through Chinatown, through Judiciary Square or whatever they call E street between 6th and 3rd, dodged a cab a 3rd, rode up the hill and past the train stration, was passed too closely while approaching Stanton Park while I rode behind a woman who had no lights on her bike and was also wearing headphones, two things I think are bad ideas. I rounded the square park (is this even possible?) and then it was nearly home and then it was home and then it was a quick turnaround to get back to BicycleSpace for the first meeting of The Assembly. I very much enjoyed this meeting. Look for big things to come from this group. I also enjoyed meeting there some #bikeDC tweeps and some blog readers and you're all just such nice people and I look forward to advocating/agitating/"action"-ing with you in the future to make this sleepy little burg the
This morning I rode the Brompton down my new now usual route of Massachusetts Avenue to Columbus Circle to First NE. Still don't know if First NE is one-way or two-way across from the Postal Museum. There are two yellow stripes in the middle of the street, so I would think two-way, but drivers, especially those of very large trucks, seem to think (and drive) otherwise. A bit hairy, that.
Warm ears are happy ears. It wasn't even that cold this morning, but I still kept my ears covered. They'll come again some time in February and if they hear their shadow, then six more weeks of cold ears or something.
First NE to Eckington Place to R. There's a sign that indicates Bicycles May Use Full Lane. That's a lot more lane that I actually need, but thanks anyway.
I was in a group of 7 or 8 bicyclists on R and I watched 7 or 8 of them ride through the red at 15th. That's fine- I have no problems with people riding through red lights. But in order to do so, they had to ride past the first person who got there and had stopped and was waiting for the light to change. I stopped too. I'll run a ride through a red light, but I'm steadfastly committed to not passing someone who is stopped. Pass while moving. Some principles are inviolate. ("Violet, you're turning inviolate, Violet")
On the final stretch of the climb into work, I was passed by two other bike commuters. I think they were both undergrad students. Bike commuting is a young man's game.
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Adam Sandler's first picture for Netflix is taking shape. Sandler is set to star in Ridiculous 6 with Taylor Lautner, Rob Schneider, Luke Wilson, and Terry Crews. Also appearing will be Nick Nolte, Steve Buscemi, and Dan Aykroyd. More on the Adam Sandler Ridiculous 6 movie after the jump. Read More »


text: On June 24, we welcomed the arrival of a puffin hatchling! This was just the second successful puffin chick to hatch at the National Aquarium. During breeding season, puffins lay only one egg in a clutch. If that egg is crushed or infertile, they may replace the egg, but generally puffins lay just one egg and raise one chick a year. The Atlantic puffin hatched after a 37-day incubation period. During that time, the parents--named Victor and Vixen--took turns incubating the egg by nestling it between their body and wing to keep it warm. Upon hatching, the chick weighed just 40 grams. For the first month, the parents cared for the chick in their burrow, while the Aquarium aviculturists monitored the chick's growth and health carefully. It is always best to keep young animals with their parents whenever possible. In this case, the parents did a great job helping the young chick grow and learn how to be a puffin! After one month, the chick weighed more than 350 grams and was eating 10-15 fish a day. The puffin chick is now leaving the burrow, testing the water and finding fish on its own. It has lost all of its down feathers and is beginning to look like the adult puffins! Just last week, the Aquarium aviculturists sent a few of the chick's feathers to a DNA testing lab. Results confirmed suspicions that the chick is a boy! Now that we know the sex of the puffin, we're asking the public to vote on his name. You can submit your idea for a name in the comments section below! You can also TXT "puffin" and your name suggestion to 30644 (message and data rates may apply). We will accept name submissions through this Sunday, August 22, at 11:59 p.m. EDT. We will collect the suggestions and launch an official voting period here on the blog in the next couple of weeks. Thanks for your help in naming our new feathered friend! Tags: animal-babies, baby-animals, birds, puffins Categories: Animals, News Previous Post Next Post


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Exhibit - Multimedia | February 11 – May 13, 2017 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
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Cinemas radical streak goes back to its earliest beginnings, but the period explored in Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia was an unusually fertile time for politically charged, aesthetically innovative filmmaking. Encompassing documentary, fiction, and experimental cinemaoften in the course of a single featurethe films in this series intersected with and actively participated in emerging counterculture movements, taking the pulse of the social, political, and aesthetic upheavals that defined the Vietnam era.
While mass media and commercial movies frequently portrayed the counterculture as naive and ineffectual or violent and dangerousa distinction often drawn along class and color linessome filmmakers offered alternative perspectives. For In the Year of the Pig, Emile de Antonio used archival film and news footage to construct a cinematic argument against US participation in the war in Vietnam. Haskell Wexlers Medium Cool, shot in the midst of violent protests surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention, and William Greavess genre-defying Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One exemplified new narrative forms propelled by cinema verité, documentary film, and television news. European auteurs such as Michelangelo Antonioni, Jean-Luc Godard, William Klein, and Agnès Varda, swept up in the zeitgeist, contributed their own depictions of the era. Blaxspoitation combined with Afro-Futurism in John Coneys Space is the Place starring the visionary composer Sun Ra. In the Bay Area, Canyon Cinema launched a generation of experimental filmmakers. From intricate avant-garde animations to critical portraits of pop stars and freedom fighters, this series is replete with images that remain as vital and compelling today as they were some fifty years ago.
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Two state senators complained Friday that lucrative deals for private operation of LSU public hospitals lack provisions that guarantee public accountability.
State Sens. Ed Murray and Dan Claitor made their comments as the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget reviewed not-yet-finalized agreements for private operation of LSU hospitals in Lafayette and New Orleans as well as the $1.2 billion academic medical center under construction.
The deals help the state close a LSU hospital budget gap in the current budget year with the private entities providing $125 million in up-front payments for lease on the facilities they are taking over June 24 — most related to the New Orleans takeover.
Meanwhile, committee Chairman Sen. Jack Donahue, R-Mandeville, pressed the Jindal administration for details on the short- and long-term state financial obligation for all LSU hospital takeovers including another six that are still in the works.
Louisiana's Medicaid program earmarks a maximum of $286 million to the Louisiana Children's Medical Center for New Orleans hospital patient care during the fiscal year that begins July 1. Another $126 million is reserved for Lafayette General Medical Center takeover of the University Medical Center.
The first cooperative endeavor involving Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge involved a potential $198 million in Medicaid dollars.
"You are a private enterprise taking over a major public purpose," Murray, D-New Orleans, told hospital executives. "How do we audit those dollars?"
Division of Administration executive counsel Liz Murrill said language will be added to provide for legislative auditors' access for financial review purposes. She said the legislative auditor noticed the omission.
"All public audit functions will be accomplished," Murrill said.
Murray said the entities for purposes of the state deals should be considered public bodies and as such subject to public records and open meetings laws as their management boards deal with decisions that affect patient care and medical education.
Murray reminded officials that an LSU-affiliated nonprofit board once scheduled to operate the New Orleans medical development operated under public records and open meetings laws.
Claitor, R-Baton Rouge, said the administration could have avoided a lot of dissatisfaction over the public-private partnership move "if there had been more communication and more information."
"In this scheme I don't see that there's going to be any additional access as we go along," Claitor said, noting that the agreements spell out confidentiality.
Lafayette General chief executive officer David Callecod said the nonprofit had agreed to legislative audit and the contract ensures that LSU monitors that the "public purpose" is being met.
Callecod said a community advisory board would be set up for the hospital.
But Murray said the advisory board wouldn't have decision-making authority like the Lafayette General Health Systems board over University Medical Center matters.
"No, sir," Callecod said.
Greg Feirn, chief financial officer of Louisiana Children's Medical Center, said entities' board meetings that tackle New Orleans hospital operations would not be public.
Feirn said the public accountability will come through patients and teaching programs. If the public purpose is not met, "we will have breached" the agreement and stand to lose $250 million in up-front payments., he said.
Callecod and Feirn assured committee members that efforts are being made to hire state employees who work at the LSU Lafayette and New Orleans hospitals.
"We believe a little over 600 employees are there now. We would like to retain as many of them who would want to stay," Lafayette General's Callecod said. "We have opportunities for them."
Callecod said the hospital has a daily census of 30 to 35 patients now. "We want to see it comfortably running between 50 and 60," he said. Also planned is a doubling to four emergency room beds and out-patient clinic expansions.
Children's Feirn said there are some 2,100 employees at LSU's Interim Hospital and 97 percent of them have filled out employment applications. "We have every intent to hire as many of them as we can."
Both Callecod and Feirn said their organizations will be ready to take over the LSU hospitals on June 24.


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- 1 The ARC Standard
- 2 Endianess
- 3 32-bit vs. 64-bit
- 4 ECOFF and ELF support
- 5 Milo
- 6 Booting the kernel fails with PROM error messages
- 7 Arcdiag
- 8 Network Booting
- 9 Machine doesn't download the kernel when I try to netboot
- 10 The kernel download from the TFTP server stops and times out
- 11 Bug in DHCP version 2
The ARC Standard
was born in the early 90s as part of the Advanced Computing Environment (ACE) initiative. It standardized certain hardware features and the ARC firmware environment. What all ARC implementations have in common is their strict non-compliance to the ARC standard, so the ARC Standard document should be taken with a shovel of salt.
For the ease of Microsoft's Windows NT effort the ARC standard defines the byte order to be little endian only. SGI systems where ARC is called ARCS violate that by being big endian.
32-bit vs. 64-bit
The ARC standard understands itself as an environment for a 32-bit operating system. With the R4000 and DEC Alpha already being around back then a short sighted decission but good enough for another few years on small to medium sized systems.
As the result most MIPS ARC firmware implementations are 32-bit but a few more recent ones are 64-bit only; the exact way this was done was never published anywhere. The ARC firmware on Power Indigo 2, Indigo 2 R10000, Origin, Onyx 2, Octane systems is known to be 64-bit.
ECOFF and ELF support
The ARC standard mandates ECOFF support only. While appropriate for the UNIX flavours of the time which often still based on ECOFF and convenient for Windows NT which is using PECOFF, an variant of ECOFF with an MSDOS .exe header added it wasn't appropriate for any modern flavor of UNIX which usually are based on the ELF binary format. Depending on the age and operating systems offered by a particular vendor many ARC firmware variants only support ECOFF.
In the early days of Linux/MIPS Milo was the bootloader for little endian ARC systems. It's considered obsolete and there are no systems that rely on it.
Booting the kernel fails with PROM error messages
>> boot bootp()/vmlinux 73264+592+11520+331680+27848d+3628+5792 entry: 0x8df9a960 Setting $netaddres to 192.168.1.5 (from server deadmoon) Obtaining /vmlinux from server deadmoon Cannot load bootp()/vmlinux Illegal f_magic number 0x7f45, expected MIPSELMAGIC or MIPSEBMAGIC.
This problem has been observed with Indys and with RM200. The elf2ecoff utility which is part of the kernel source allows conversion of an ELF kernel binary into a bootable ECOFF binary as the bootfile. There is also the arcboot utility which is shipping with recent Indy distributions and which as first stage bootloader is able to boot an ELF kernel of an ext2 or ext3 filesystem. Usually arcboot is the preferable solution.
The arcdiag diagnostic utility is an example of the ARC MIPS standalone application.
- arcdiag sourcecode.
- arcdiag binary for the little endian ARC systems.
- arcdiag.ip22 binary for the big endian 320bit SGI ARCS systems.
Network Booting
The ARC Standard mandates network booting of an operating system via BOOTP/TFTP or alternatively DCL/RIPL. Most implementations comply to that with a varying degree of buggyness; the exception is the Olivetti M700-10 where network booting is not supported at all.
Machine doesn't download the kernel when I try to netboot
This problem has been observed with the ARC firmware of SNI RM200 and SGI IP22.
The boot client is replying to the BOOTP packets (may be verified using a packet sniffer like tcpdump or ethereal), but doesn't download the kernel from your BOOTP server. This happens if your boot server is running a kernel of the 2.3 series or higher. The problem may be circumvented by doing an
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_no_pmtu_disc"
as root on the boot server. Alternatively you can also add this setting to /etc/sysctl.conf.
The kernel download from the TFTP server stops and times out
This may happen if the TFTP server is using a local port number of 32768 or higher which usually happens if the TFTP server is running Linux 2.3 or higher. This problem may be circumvented by doing a "echo 2048 32767 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range" on the server. This problem has been observed on SGI IP22 and Siemens-Nixdorf RM200 systems.
Bug in DHCP version 2
When using DHCP version 2 you might see the following problem: Your machines receives it's BOOTP reply 3 times but refuses to start TFTP. You can fix this by doing a "unsetenv netaddr" in the PROM command monitor before you boot your system. DHCP version 3 fixes this problem.


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Pradel: Naperville aiming to set bar higher
The State of the City address Naperville Mayor George Pradel delivered Monday was part flashback and part forecast, highlighting accomplishments of a year Pradel called "outstanding," and looking forward to another year of development, excitement and "setting the bar higher."
Pradel said Naperville completed 2013 in a state that is "strong and getting stronger." He said the city has developed into the standard-setting community it is through leadership, partnerships, economic development and financial stewardship -- all things he expects to continue into this year and beyond.
"We have a strong, stable foundation, great partnerships and a will to always improve the quality of life for all of our residents," Pradel said.
As Naperville's mayor of 19 years took the stage Monday afternoon in front of a crowd of about 400 at the Marriott hotel, a video screen played clips from events and activities such as Ribfest, the Naperville Marathon and the Festival of Colors.
Pradel used video clips throughout his speech to bring more voices to the annual update on city business given at a Naperville Area Chamber of Commerce luncheon.
Each member of the city council got to make an on-screen cameo to tout a favorite program that will carry into this year. Plans to build an environmental collection center, install a traffic management system and continue funding programs that help prevent heroin abuse and suicide were among efforts council members highlighted.
City staff members and community members also appeared in video clips explaining the top 13 reasons 2013 was, as Pradel said, "such a great year for Naperville."
Among them were the beginning of construction to expand and resurface Route 59; the creation of Chinese and Indian volunteer community outreach positions; the maintenance of a AAA bond rating; and Naperville's ranking as the top U.S. city in which to retire early, one of the top mid-size cities to move to and the nation's fourth-safest mid-size city.
Pradel said he attended 62 ribbon-cuttings in 2013 and even one toilet paper-tearing and ceremonial first flush, the latter as the city unveiled new permanent washrooms at the Community Concert Center in Central Park last May.
"We realize that even minor projects mean a lot to people because they improve Naperville's quality of life," Pradel said.
As 2014 continues, the city is anticipating the scheduled March opening of a new Wal-Mart on 75th Street near Route 59 and the April opening of a new grocery store Pradel called "trendy," Standard Market on Aurora Avenue just east of Ogden Avenue.
"We are so excited to see so many great developments coming to Naperville," Pradel said before he wrapped up his speech with a reminder of his constant pride in his community. "I'm proud to call Naperville home and to be a public servant to the greatest community I have ever known. Let's keep setting the bar higher every year and striving to create a better tomorrow."


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The day begins at 10.00am and consists of a one hour stable management session (covering practical and theory topics) and a one hour class riding lesson. Following by an hour break for lunch. The afternoon session consists of another hour of stable management and another class riding session. Its a fun, friendly and informal day. £42 per person, half day sessions also available £25 per person.
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The challenge for No Croutons Required back in 2008 was to recreate a soup or salad from a restaurant that has left a lasting impression. My contribution to the copycat round is this tomato corn chowder that I would always order when I visited Under the Volcano here in London Ontario. Unfortunately, this delicious soup is no longer on their menu, but thankfully, I was able to get a basic idea of the ingredients thanks to my friend Mike and have come up with my own creamy version. I have made it before, but this time I was able to replicate this Mexican soup more to my liking.
|Tomato Corn Chowder
|Recipe by Lisa Turner
Cuisine: Mexican
Published on February 18, 2010
Simple, fresh tasting and full-flavored homemade Mexican-style tomato corn chowder
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More Mexican recipes from Lisa's Vegetarian Kitchen:
Roasted Corn and Jalapeño Cheese Soup
Baked Cheese and Tortilla Pie with Jalapeños, Corn and Pinto Beans
Black Bean & Corn Bake with Cheese Topping
Lisa's Refried Beans
On the top of the reading stack: Complete Stories Flannery O'Connor by Flannery O' Connor
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The Houston Dynamo posed an early-season test for the Galaxy as the two Western Conference powers met for a tilt at Robertson Stadium.
If this was a test, then someone provided the Galaxy with the answers. Houston was no match for Los Angeles as the visitors silenced the hosts with a pair of first-half strikes by Edson Buddle in the Galaxy's 2-0 victory.
Watch the full match highlights.
The Dynamo had some bite and were active, but overall the game was all Galaxy.
Just how were the defending Western champs able to dismantle Houston?
Elegant Edson: Once again, Buddle was the focal point of the attack. If the Galaxy are preparing for life without Landon Donovan, then Buddle is showing he is ready to shoulder the offensive load. Buddle's finishes were each splendid in their own way.
Offense was a question mark entering the season, and the need for a second scorer was obvious. Donovan will be gone come mid-May as World Cup duty looms for the Galaxy skipper, but Buddle seems to be answering the call loud and clear.
The Landín Factor: Brian Ching typically gives Galaxy defenders reason to worry but on Saturday, the club didn't need to fear the U.S. international. Ching hurt his hamstring against Real Salt Lake and Luis Ángel Landín started in his place. The Mexican designated player did nothing to make anyone forget about Ching. Instead he chopped down LA defender Omar Gonzalez from behind and was sent off.
Landín wasn't much of a factor before the red card and he left Houston in a hole. Buddle scored moments after the sending-off and the match was essentially over.
Too Tight? Not Quite: Another non-factor was Houston's tight field. Robertson Stadium is about five yards narrower than the Home Depot Center and the dimensions concerned the Galaxy so much that the club moved in the lines on their training field to simulate the size. Turns out the tight field wasn't tight enough to constrict the Galaxy's attack.
Franklin Factor: Sean Franklin moved into the midfield at the end of the Galaxy's 2-0 win over Chivas USA. Earlier that game, he sent a pinpoint cross to Buddle, who buried the ball into the back of the net. On Saturday, he started the game at right midfield, with second-year man A.J. DeLaGarza slotted at right back. Franklin was just as strong in the midfield as he has been at right back. His versatility gives the team another weapon, as long as DeLaGarza continues developing.
Injured Returns: Galaxy coach Bruce Arena may not have all of his players at his disposal quite yet, but two players made their returns in Houston. Alan Gordon and Jovan Kirovski had been training with the team at full speed but didn't dress until Saturday's match. Both two players made late-game appearances against the Dynamo.
Neither contributed much to the game, which was already well in hand by the time both stepped onto the field as substitutes. But having two healthy bodies back on the bench will be a welcome sight for the coaching staff. The two players could be in the mix to start against Real Salt Lake next weekend.


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Jun 12, 2012 | ISBN 9780385740562 | Young Adult
Starred Review, Publishers Weekly, April 25, 2011:
"Hubbard has a superb handle on her boarding school setting…A powerful, ambitious debut."
Starred Review, School Library Journal, June 2011:
"The story builds to a climax that will have readers on edge. It could be read alongside many of the classics that deal with friendship and loyalty, as well as deceit…Those who are looking for something to ponder will enjoy this compelling read."
Starred Review, The Horn Book Magazine, July/August 2011:
"Hubbard's characters are confounding and intriguing…The traditional, buttoned-up boarding school setting makes the perfect backdrop to this tense dictation of secrets, lies, manipulation, and the ambiguity of honor."
Starred Review, Booklist, July 1, 2011:
"Both plotting and characters are thoroughly crafted in this stellar first novel. The poetry that Hubbard produces from Alex's pen is brilliant, and the prose throughout is elegant in its simplicity. Reminiscent of John Knowles' classic coming-of-age story, A Separate Peace (1959), this novel introduces Hubbard as a bright light to watch on the YA literary scene."


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by Josh Weinstein, KF9 Philippines
I spent the last three days in "the field," a term used to describe the front lines of microfinance where the money is distributed to the clients of the MFI. Beginning early Tuesday morning, I set out for the town of Valladolid, a rural municipality about 50 km from Bacolod City. The road snakes along the coast through increasingly less urban communities, until reaching Pontevedra, where the NWTF (Negros Women for Tomorrow Foundation) Valladolid branch is located. The branch manager, Linda Saraet, took me to see the first of 15 borrowers we would try to track down over the course of the three-day trip (with a 67% success rate). Riding in the metal grates on the back of a tricycle, where I'd spend most of my trip, we rode to a small village called a barangay to interview several women about their business and loan. The community here is small, and stopping for directions usually produced a friendly guide that brought us directly to the home of the borrower. Home constructions vary from 2-3 room nipa huts – bamboo structures with thatched roofs and dirt floors – to cement frames with roofs of corrugated aluminum. Sometimes the house has electricity and running water, sometimes not. Over the course of the week, I'd see all types represented. Housing loans are popular among borrowers, and many homes have been built with loans from NWTF.
In the afternoon, we stopped by a center meeting to observe the weekly loan collection process. NWTF is patterned after Muhammad Yunus' Grameen Bank, utilizing the solidarity lending methodology pioneered in Bangladesh. Women organize into groups of five, typically according to friendship and family ties. These groups agree to guarantee one another's loans, so it is important that they are close. Five or six of these groups come together to form a center, which range from 25-50 women. Each branch covers 50-80 centers, for a total of ~250,000 clients nationwide. The members elect a center chief and deputy center chief, who are responsible for ensuring attendance at the meetings and guaranteeing weekly repayment. NWTF offers an incentive of 1,200 pesos (~$300) per month to groups with perfect attendance and repayment. This money can be redistributed to the group, or put toward building a meeting center, which is typically an open-air bamboo structure with rows of benches for the women to sit and a table to conduct business. Each center is assigned a loan officer. The loan officer collects and verifies repayment, runs the center meetings, approves new loans, and generally keeps the group on track. Each branch is run by a former loan officer – in the case of Valladolid branch, our guide, Linda.
At each meeting we attended, the women took turns introducing themselves, explaining their businesses, and discussing their dreams. 80% of the businesses are either sari-sari stores, pig-fattening, or owning a motorcycle. Some women grow rice, others have more extensive farming operations. For most, the dream is to send their children to college. One after another, the borrowers expressed their desire to send their 3, 4, 5, or more children to university in the city. And for the most part, these women were successful, with the help of a loan from Project Dungganon, NWTF's microcredit loan program. With financial assistance through a special loan, these women have built homes, sent their children to school, expanded their businesses, and put other members of the community to work.
In August of 2009, the Boston Globe had an article on microfinance in its Ideas section titled "Small Change," which highlighted studies from several prominent economists about the efficacy of microcredit in alleviating poverty. The basic premise of the article is that, while the narrative of innate entrepreneurial spirit and success through discipline in microfinance is appealing, it actually has a marginal impact on sustained poverty alleviation, and belies the truth about the "economic ladder." The article discusses the findings of MIT's Jameel Action Poverty Lab:
What they find is that, by most measures, microcredit does not offer a way out of poverty. It helps a few of the more entrepreneurial poor to start up businesses, and at the margins it may boost the profits of existing microenterprises, but that doesn't translate into gains for the borrowers, as measured by indicators like income, spending, health, or education.
In other words, microfinance may empower entrepreneurs, but it doesn't create the small- and medium-sized enterprises that produce steady jobs. When I asked some folks at Kiva their thoughts on the article, the answer was always the same: "they've never been to the field." The answer always felt like a cop-out, as if there should be an empirical rebuttal to the argument. But I understand now what they meant. At the final center meeting I attended, three women were reduced to tears recounting how Project Dungganon and NWTF had changed their lives; how their children were in Bacolod or Manila or some other faraway city studying information management or computer science. More than half had children in college, or were saving for the future. What I realized is that the key to sustainable poverty alleviation is education. To the women of NWTF, it is the children who reap the benefits of a Dungannon loans, directly and indirectly. It may take a generation before the lasting impacts of microfinance become evident. Perhaps they never truly will. But the last three days have given me faith that, 20 years from now, when the children are grown, the landscape of the communities I visited will look very different, the sweet fruits of microfinance finally on full display.
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I think I see the superiority of ESEM and yet wonder about its potential use beyond factor structure exploration and construct testing.
More specifically, I understand ESEM to be a powerful EFA based on the SEM framework. Thus, as has been published, one may use it to explore the number of sensible factors for new constructs, evaluate item cross loadings, test construct invariance etc.
I still like to better understand the power of ESEM for e.g. path models that test IV-DV relationships.
1) For instance, example 5.25 from the manual, when would one employ such a model?
2) Many 'established' measures in psychology were developed 'before' SEM became popular. Often these measures do not show ideal psychometric properties: i.e. conceptually distinct latent constructs show insufficient divergent validity (e.g. items overlap and tap into the same mental phenomenon).
Assuming a CFA measurement model shows inadmissible fit due to those existing measures employed as IVs, would one use ESEM to explore the construct nature of the IVs? And next estimate paths to DVs at the same time? (again example 5.25 from the manual) If so, would this be accepted practice, working backwards and re-interpreting what substantively may constitutes these revised factors that 'predict' an outcome?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Thursday, August 01, 2013 - 8:18 am
1) You may for instance have a new measurement instrument y1-y6 which you don't have enough experience with to formulate a CFA, but can instead use EFA. And it can be related to the CFAs of y7-y9 and y10-y12, representing more established instruments for which CFA can be formulated. So here the predictive validity of the new instrument y1-y6 can be explored.
2) Answers to all 3 of your questions would be Yes.
Note also the existence of BSEM methodology as a companion technique to ESEM. With BSEM you assume that there is a bit more knowledge than with ESEM, so that BSEM is a bit closer to CFA. See the discussion in
Muthén, B. & Asparouhov, T. (2012). Bayesian SEM: A more flexible representation of substantive theory. Psychological Methods, 17, 313-335.
which is available on our website.
I think ESEM and BSEM represent big steps forward for SEM and should find increasing use.
Dominique W
posted on Friday, August 02, 2013 - 1:55 am
Thank you Benqt! While I still need time to digest the BSEM paper, some follow-up questions already, please.
I agree that ESEM represents a big step forward for SEM. Let's be honest, many items don't exclusively reflect just one construct because constructs are often interrelated.
Now, if relating overlapping latent constructs as IVs via ESEM to some DVs modelled via CFA ..
1) How 'established' should those DV constructs be? Even established constructs show cross-loadings.
2) Returning to my question 2) from the prior post: using ESEM in a path model. Has this been published? Especially, working backwards and re-interpreting what substantively may constitutes these revised IV factors?
3) Who has experience or views on what justifies an ESEM (for reviewers)?
Does the conceptual overlap of constructs suffice or must it be established that a conventional CFA does not fit the data?
And if the latter, how would one argue that it is not a function of given study design or newly developed measure?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, August 02, 2013 - 6:16 am
1) Researchers should have found a well-fitting and substantively acceptable CFA for the constructs, preferably using many different samples so that the measurement model is not in question in the SEM analysis. That may include a limited number of cross-loadings assuming they are substantively motivated.
2) Not sure it has been published. You may want to search the papers under Applications on our ESEM page:
3) Also see the applied articles just referred to.
I look forward to seeing your contributions to the ESEM (and BSEM) literature.
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Hi good people! I have a unicode problem; I have created a ISAPI DLL in C++ that takes in a filename and then sends a file to the requesting client. (The DLL is executed from a browser.)
Problem is that when I send in a Japanese filename (where each character need two bytes) the application believes the file doesn't exist.
I'm trying to get a file named "日本語.jpg".
This is turned into ANSI characters in the application: "日本語.jpg".
Then when I try to open the file:
...it doesn't find the file since it checks for the ANSI version of the Unicode file name. If I rename the file to "日本語.jpg" and then try to get "日本語.jpg" I can get the file (but that means I have to rename the files to weird symbols).Code:HANDLE fileHandle = CreateFile( filePath, //the file path, char *filePath GENERIC_READ, FILE_SHARE_READ, NULL, OPEN_EXISTING, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, NULL );
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Can I make it so that the CreateFile function understands that "filePath" is Unicode and not ANSI? Or is there some other way to get a HANDLE to the correct file?
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text: UACC-812 (ATCC® CRL-1897™) Organism: Homo sapiens, human / Tissue: mammary gland; breast / Disease: ductal carcinoma General Information Characteristics Culture Method Specifications History Documentation Print Email Share Share this product Facebook Twitter Google+ Permits and Restrictions View Permits View Restrictions Organism Homo sapiens, human Tissue mammary gland; breast Product Format frozen Morphology epithelial Culture Properties adherent Biosafety Level 1 Biosafety classification is based on U.S. Public Health Service Guidelines, it is the responsibility of the customer to ensure that their facilities comply with biosafety regulations for their own country. Disease ductal carcinoma Age 43 years Gender female Storage Conditions liquid nitrogen vapor phase Karyotype range = 58 to 64; abnormal banding region in 3p Derivation This cell line was established by A. Liebovitz and associates in 1986 from breast tissue removed at mastectomy to remove a ductal carcinoma (stage II, grade IV). Clinical Data femalePrior to surgery, the patient had received extensive chemotherapy. Receptor Expression estrogen receptor (negative), progesterone receptor (negative) Comments Prior to surgery, the patient had received extensive chemotherapy.The cells exhibit a 15 fold amplification of the HER-2/neu oncogene sequence.They are negative for estrogen receptors, progesterone receptors and P glycoprotein. Complete Growth Medium Leibovitz's L-15 medium with 2 mM L-glutamine supplemented with 20 ng/ml human EGF and 20% fetal bovine serum. (Note: The L-15 medium formulation was devised for use in a free gas exchange with atmospheric air. A CO2 and air mixture is detrimental to cells when using this medium for cultivation) Subculturing Volumes used in this protocol are for 75 cm2 flask; proportionally reduce or increase amount of dissociation medium for culture vessels of other sizes. Remove and discard culture medium. Briefly rinse the cell layer with 0.25% (w/v) Trypsin- 0.53 mM EDTA solution to remove all traces of serum that contains trypsin inhibitor. Add 2.0 to 3.0 mL of Trypsin-EDTA solution to flask and observe cells under an inverted microscope until cell layer is dispersed (usually within 5 to 15 minutes). Note: To avoid clumping do not agitate the cells by hitting or shaking the flask while waiting for the cells to detach. Cells that are difficult to detach may be placed at 37°C to facilitate dispersal. Add 6.0 to 8.0 mL of complete growth medium and aspirate cells by gently pipetting. Add appropriate aliquots of the cell suspension to new culture vessels. Incubate cultures at 37°C. Subcultivation Ratio: A subcultivation ratio of 1:2 to 1:3 is recommended Medium Renewal: Every 2 to 3 days Note: The cells grow very slowly, and growth is enhanced by using 20% fetal bovine serum and adding epidermal growth factor (20 ng/mL) to the medium. Cryopreservation Freeze medium: Complete growth medium supplemented with 5% (v/v) DMSOStorage temperature: liquid nitrogen vapor phase Culture Conditions Atmosphere: air, 100% Temperature: 37°C STR Profile Amelogenin: X CSF1PO: 11 D13S317: 12 D16S539: 8, 11 D5S818: 11, 12 D7S820: 9 TH01: 9 TPOX: 8, 11 vWA: 16 Population Doubling Time 100 hrs Name of Depositor A Liebovitz, J Trent Deposited As Homo sapiens Year of Origin 1986 References Proc. Am. Assoc. Cancer Res. 29: 24, 1988. Meltzer P, et al. Establishment of two new cell lines derived from human breast carcinomas with HER-2/neu amplification. Br. J. Cancer 63: 727-735, 1991. PubMed: 1674877 Permits These permits may be required for shipping this product: Customers located in the state of Hawaii will need to contact the Hawaii Department of Agriculture to determine if an Import Permit is required. A copy of the permit or documentation that a permit is not required must be sent to ATCC in advance of shipment. Basic Documentation Product Sheet Certificate of Analysis SDS Other Documentation Breast Cancer Cell Biomarkers Information Restrictions The breast carcinoma UACC-812 was deposited in the ATCC by Albert Leibovitz and Jeffrey M. Trent, Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. The cells are distributed for research purposes only. The University of Arizona has released the line subject to the following: 1. UACC-812 or their products MUST NOT BE DISTRIBUTED to third parties. Commercial interests are the exclusive property of the University of Arizona. 2. 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'The Amazing Spider-Man 2' review: Emotions over explosions
Amid all the special effects of an action blockbuster, this 'Spider-Man' has heart
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Science fiction. Starring Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone and Jamie Foxx. Directed by Marc Webb. (PG-13. 142 minutes.)
All the usual hedges and qualifications don't apply to "The Amazing Spider-Man 2," that it's good if you like comic book movies, or fantasy action movies. Instead we find a very modern blockbuster that mixes the best of old and new. It has action sequences that will appeal to people looking for the usual pyrotechnics, but the core of the movie - and the source of the audience's interest - is emotion.
This is the case from the movie's first minute, which grabs the audience and plunges it into a high-stakes situation in which all the big emotional buttons are pressed - the love between parent and child, the love between wife and husband. In a flashback, we follow Peter Parker's parents in their first hours on the run from the law. They leave Peter with his aunt and uncle and soon find themselves fighting for their lives on board a private plane.
This is followed by another splashy action sequence, set in the present, involving a heist of plutonium, which gives us a chance to see Peter/Spider-Man in action, fighting crime on the streets of New York. The special effects have improved just in the last 10 years, so that when Spider-Man dives off a skyscraper and swings from building to building, he no longer looks like a stick figure bobbing around a computer screen. Instead the plummets bring on a feeling of vertigo.
Even here, with back-to-back action scenes, there's no sense of the arbitrary about "The Amazing Spider-Man 2," no feeling as if the narrative is standing still while the filmmakers blow things up. The story is always moving forward, and it's always the story of a person - a young man who wants to do the right thing but finds himself dealing with unusual pressures and responsibilities. If he doesn't fight crime, the city falls apart. If he does, the police and press criticize him.
His most intense anxiety surrounds his girlfriend, Gwen (Emma Stone). At the end of the previous installment, he agreed to her father's last request - that for her safety, Peter should stay away from her. But their bond and their attraction are too intense to ignore, and anybody in the audience can see that this relationship just seems right. Garfield and Stone's rapport is appealing and unmistakable. They're physically at home with each other, and their conversations feel extemporaneous. Garfield and Stone are a couple offscreen, and here's a case where a real-life romance enhances the performances and benefits the movie.
The idea of two young people who desperately want to be together - who can't stay away from each other and yet somehow probably should - this situation has been engaging the passions and sympathies of audiences for at least 2,000 years. When Stone and Garfield are together onscreen, they practically glow. At the same time, the movie deftly reminds us, at every turn, that their relationship could be dangerous, and Peter's anxiety becomes ours. How rare it is with an action blockbuster to come out talking about the characters and the actors and not about explosions.
Even apart from the two leads, the acting is notably good, which means that director Marc Webb deserves praise. Embeth Davidtz probably doesn't have 10 lines in the entire movie, but she lingers in the mind as Peter's mother, as does Campbell Scott as her husband. Sally Field brings the full Sally package to her role as Peter's aunt, playing the character's emotional circumstances with the same intensity that she brought to Mary Lincoln.
Jamie Foxx makes an interesting character of Max Dillon/Electro, an electrical whiz whose needy nerdiness turns dangerous when he takes on superpowers. It's on Foxx's face, even as he's blasting dozens of police cars with electricity: He just wants to be loved.
Most promising of all, given where the story must go, is Dane DeHaan as the young billionaire Harry Osborn. He's charming, damaged and arrogant, vulnerable but vindictive, potentially a fine fellow, and yet one with just enough of a skew in his character to allow for horrible possibilities.
The special effects are seamless, so that the effects are felt without any notice of their being special. It just seems natural that Foxx should be able to go from a solid to an electrostatic state and back again, and that this should look as normal as anything else. As for the 3-D, see it that way if you particularly like 3-D, but it's not important to the movie. The plunges off buildings will work just as well in two dimensions.
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It's going to be summery in Denver this weekend. It's also going to be Mother's Day. That makes two good reasons to fire up the grill, finally.
Grill Mom a skirt steak, slice it thinly after it rests, and serve it with this savory spring salad, a plate of salted radishes and a bottle (or box) of whatever she likes to drink. And if she has a sweet tooth, follow up with Helen Dollaghan's Perfect Fudge Brownies.
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Product Description
Extruded automatic poultry feed installations
ABC.High speed
ABC.Flexible design
ABC.Overseas service
Extruded automatic animal feed device / poultry feed installations / dog food machine
Product Description
Pet food is plant or animal material intended for consumption by dogs or other canines. In extruder, the ingredients are cooked under intense heat and pressure as it moves toward the open end of the extruder where ingredients pass through a shaping die and knife.
ABC.Machines Configuration:
ABC. Pet food raw material mixer.
ABC. Screw Conveyor
ABC. Animal feed extruder machine
4. Belt Conveyor(Air Conveyor)
5. Roasting Oven(Fryer Machine)
6. Flavoring Machine
ABC Production Advantage:
ABC. The motor of our poultry feed installations is Siemens Motor.
ABC. The raw material of poultry feed installations is Stainless Steel.
ABC. Dry cat food machine are controled by frequency changer, it is easy to operate.
4. Our factory will send our engineer to install machines for you.
5. Poultry feed installations have the ABCABC months guarantee time.
6. Poultry feed installations is multi-function. Many types of snacks can be manufactured by changing the die head and model. animal feed
Flow Chart :
Mixer -Screw conveyer -Extruder-Air conveyer -Multilayer Oven -Sifter -Hoister -Double roller, Oil-sprayer -(Packing machine)
Technical Parameter:
|Installed capacity
|80 kw
|ABCABC0 kw
|ABC50 kw
|Real power
|50 kw
|80 kw
|ABC00 kw
|ABC00-ABC50 kg/h
|ABC00-ABC60 kg/h
|400-500 kg/h
The poultry feed installations
Twin-screw extruder:
The products in deffierent shape:
stainless steel.
Voltage in China
Three phases: ABC80V/50Hz, Single phase: ABCABC0V/50Hz, we can make it according to customers' Local voltage according to different countries.
This machine can be used to produce dog food, cat food ; meanwhile it can produce fish pellets, the pellets size can be from ABC.0mm to 9.0mm by adjusting the moulds from extruder .
Our Services
ABC.Technical support online service provided
ABC.Technical file service provided
ABC.On-site training service provided
4.Spare parts replacement and repair service provided
Packaging & Shipping
We always test the machine before packing.
Company Information
Jinan Sunward Machinery Co., Ltd is an industry and trade integrated enterprise. The company is committed to R & D extrusion machinery and related ancillary equipments. It is covering mainly machinery and equipment for corn meal milling system, corn flakes/breakfast cereal system, baby food system, corn puff snacks system, pellets system, artificial rice system,soy nuggets system; as well as pet food/fish food system.
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Shandong Leader Machinery Co.,Ltd.
Tel:+86 0531 85064681
Fax:+ 86 0531 85064682
Skype: taishan0072
WhatsApp:+86 15315573781
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Factory : No.15, Lanxiang Road, Tianqiao District, Ji'nan, Shandong, China
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Sarena Khan is what happens when you mix the Taj Mahal and the Kremlin. This Indian/Russian actress from Massachusetts is already winning lead film roles despite just recently switching from her focus on studying to working. Her difficult to identify exotic looks, 5-10 bombshell frame, and chilling dramatic edge, fuel descriptions of this rising star as the Millennials' answer to Laura Croft.
Given that Sarena's father is one of the most innovative directors to come out of Bollywood -- most famous for the first Indian-American crossover film shot in English -- it is easy to chalk up his daughter's achievements to the possibility she was literally built for film and creative expression.
When Sarena isn't working or auditioning, she can be found in class. Her extensive and elite training includes the USC Conservatory (where she completed her BFA), the Royal Shakespeare Company, Larry Moss, Stephanie Feury Studio, and currently John Rosenfeld Studios.
Her hard work and constant studying paid off when the lead actress on a thriller produced by Annaperna co-founder Aaron Harvey fell out of the project several days before shooting. While suffering from a terrible winter cold, Sarena -- who had won a smaller role on the project -- had less than 24 hours to convince the filmmakers she could convincingly play British. Her strategy was not to speak a word in American English until the film wrapped. When shooting was complete and the film cast and crew celebrated, many of the people she had spent weeks filming with were bowled over when they heard her speak without an accent. She had to explain numerous times that she wasn't British.
Playing a strong European executive haunted by a long distance relationship spoke to Sarena's passion for the unconventional and versatile. During her first year of representation, she secured a recurring on a BET pilot, a prominent female part in a tribe of famous warriors in a soon to be shot epic, a supporting role in a Wayans' brothers film, and a sexy cameo alongisde Chad Michael Murray in "Cavemen."
When not working on her craft, Sarena can be found playing with her dog Jasper and listening to her favorite music, including the likes of The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Illumination Road, Otis Redding and Nina Simone.... or planning her trip for next year to Thailand where she hopes to learn about the care taking of Elephants and spending a week doing just that.
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Bucs ready to bounce back from Davidson, still No. 8 in NSCAA South Region
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 18, 2012) – The ETSU men's soccer team continues its four-game road swing against a second clutter of Wildcats, as it travels to the UK Soccer Complex for its first all-time meeting with Kentucky on Wednesday at 7 p.m.
For the third week in a row, ETSU (4-2-0) has appeared in the NSCAA/Continental Tire South Region Poll, maintaining their No. 8 spot despite Saturday's loss at Davidson. The Bucs entered the regional rankings Sept. 4 at No. 6 following the win against then-No. 17 UAB.
David Geno (Kingsport, Tenn.) heads the ETSU attack, leading both the team and Atlantic Sun Conference in goals, points and shots. The junior striker has scored four times off 19 shots, accumulating nine points with the help of one assist. His 1.50 points per game and 0.67 goals per game also lead the conference.
Redshirt junior goalkeeper Ryan Coulter (Dublin, Ireland) has been the A-Sun's best in terms of GAA, holding opponents to an average of 0.77. The Irish keeper is also second in save percentage at .828, with two clean sheets to his credit.
ETSU's Last Outing
ETSU (4-2-0) began its 13-day stretch of road games on Saturday, dropping a double-overtime decision to Davidson, 2-1. The Bucs held a 1-0 lead for most of the game following Geno's 16th-minute goal, but let it slip away in the late stages by conceding the equalizer with 10 minutes to play. Davidson put the game away in the second overtime, as Peter Paras drove in a free kick from 20 yards despite the Wildcats playing a man down after Ryan Malden received his second caution in the 86th minute.
The loss snapped ETSU's four-game winning streak, along with its four-game non-conference winning and unbeaten streaks. The four consecutive non-conference wins over UNC Greensboro, Presbyterian, UAB and Radford tied the program record.
Scouting Kentucky
Kentucky (2-4-0) is coming off its biggest win of the season, taking down state-rival Louisville, 1-0, on the road. Matt Lodge scored the game's only goal in the 38th minute, as Kentucky held on despite being outshot 11-5 for the game, including 8-1 in the second half.
The Wildcats have faced a tough schedule through its first six games, squaring up against the likes of Northwestern, St. John's Charlotte and Louisville. All four of those teams have been inside the NSCAA National Rankings at some point this season, with Charlotte having been ranked No. 4 at the time of its meeting with UK.
Live stats will be provided for Wednesday night's game courtesy of Stat Broadcast through ETSUBucs.com. Fans following with ETSU's newest partner in live stat software will be able to follow the Bucs with up-to-the-second statistics, while also being able to view the latest Tweets from @ETSUAthletics. To view these Tweets, simply click the Twitter tab located at the bottom of the screen.
Live video will be available on UKAthletics.com, with a premium charge for fans wishing to watch the game.
- Wednesday night's matchup is the first all-time between ETSU and UK.
- The Bucs have faced one other Conference USA opponent this season, taking down 17th-ranked UAB, 1-0, at Summers-Taylor Stadium.
- This is the second of four consecutive road games for ETSU. The stretch began on Saturday with a loss to Davidson, and ends next Thursday at Furman.
- ETSU's loss to Davidson snapped its four-game winning streak, along with its four-game winning and unbeaten streaks against non-conference opponents. The Buccaneers' longest winning streak in program history is five.
- David Geno (Kingsport, Tenn.) leads the A-Sun in goals, goals per game, points and points per game. He has scored four goals and accumulated nine points.
- Ryan Coulter (Dublin, Ireland) leads the A-Sun in GAA at 0.77. He has two shutouts to his credit this season.
For more information on ETSU men's soccer please visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the men's soccer links.


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Visit Vocations Toronto at www.vocationstoronto.ca, a resourceful site in answering these questions.
The second reading, from the Letter to the Romans, speaks also about the
origins of sin and sinful tendencies in our lives, but it moves forward to
the love that God has shown us in Jesus, who has overcome all sin and
destroyed death. We no longer need fear sin and death. They have been
overcome. Our challenge is to come to know this reality of salvation and
to begin to live as people who are saved.
The Gospel of Matthew which is given to us today speaks of the temptations
of Christ. This image of Christ in the desert being tempted by the devil
is very powerful. We are invited to reflect on our own deserts, the places
in our lives where nothing is growing and nothing is cared for. It is in
those areas of our lives, which are in need of the living waters of
salvation, that we are invited to spend at least a part of this Lenten
Christ is an image of this battle against all that is broken within us.
Christ has brought healing and wholeness. Christ invites us to share in
that healing and wholeness in this time of Lent.
What is it in our lives that we are longing for? What is the food that we
crave? What are the realities for which we are willing to die? Right now,
what do we want in our lives? The answer to each of these questions must
then be placed in the context of this first temptation. We must ask
ourselves this: am I first seeking God and the food that God gives to me?
If I desire these other things more than God, then I am no longer walking
the way of salvation!
The second temptation is, for Jesus, to cast Himself down from the parapet
of the temple and thus to test if God really loves Him. For us, it is a
question of whether we put ourselves into moral dangers and believe somehow
that God will watch over us. The answer of Jesus is clear: don't test
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but which appeal to us. We don't like suffering or to have to put up with
inconveniences, so we end up casting ourselves over the parapet and
believing that God will save us. The miracle is that God does always save
us. On the other hand, God invites to learn to live without testing Him.
The third temptation is to worship that which is not God in order that we
can have dominion and power in this world. This is not necessary to become
a great leader but to have power over whatever we want. Jesus is once more
very clear: we must serve God alone.
My sisters and brothers, Lent is a wonderful time to be honest with
ourselves and to recognize that which is not yet transformed within us. We
are then invited to place our lives more completely in the hands and the
heart of a God who loves us infinitely! Come, let us walk with God in this
time of Lent.
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text: Updated 2016 Albania has come late to the party of former Eastern countries now attracting Western visitors, but things are quickly moving in the right direction. After decades of corruption and neglect, Albania is now on track to join its European neighbors in becoming a hotspot for international tourists ready to take advantage of the relatively low prices in a scenic new frontier. Right now Albania is mainly for the more adventurous, but it's not likely to stay that way for long. Start with Eight Reasons to Move Albania to the Top of Your Travel List.


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Massenet Cendrillon
With a stage framed by the old-fashioned text of Perrault's original Cinderella story, Laurent Pelly's production has a style all of its own. Pelly designed the riotous red costumes as well, working in tandem with Barbara de Limburg's ingenious sets. Yet he's also versatile at keeping tabs on Massenet's cornucopia of styles – from Baroque pastiche to Wagnerian passion – in this underrated if overextended charmer of an opera. Amid the French fripperies, the heart is undeniably there in the two gorgeous duets for Cendrillon and her Prince Charming. Joyce DiDonato is winning in Cinderella's smiles and tears, though vocally a little edgy. But she's well ballasted by another mezzo-soprano in the trousers role, Alice Coote, who is intense and incandescent: the star performance. Also in a class of her own is Ewa Podlés, as a suitably parodic stepmother. A notch below are Jean-Philippe Lafont's initially blustery father Pandolphe and Eglise Gutierrez's blowsy courtesan of a Fairy Godmother.
Much of the magic and inventiveness go on the first half, featuring multiple Cinderellas as spirits in a bewitchingly lit transformation scene and a ballroom ballet, sometimes cut, choreographed as a wickedly funny freak-show fashion parade of noble ladies anxious to get their hands on the prince. Only one scene doesn't work for me: the relocation of the exquisitely sung second duet from a natural landscape to chimney-potted roofscape; the key point that the lovers can't at first see each other, thanks to a tree, is unclear. In the extras we get generous interviews with DiDonato, Coote, Pelly and Bertrand de Billy.
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Oh Now, Looky Here…Thursday, December 25th, 2008
Look what we got for Christmas!
Addison Grace Elizabeth Marable was born at 9:15 am on Christmas Eve to The Kid and Baby Boy thus officially making me Aunt Deb The Great! How cool is that?
This is a shot of Mother & Daughter. The hand on Addison's head is my Mama's.
This one is Addison with her Grandmother (my sister Brenda). She's Brenda's first grandchild.
And now with her Great Grandmama (my Mother). Mama's first great grandchild too.
Plus one of all three of them. Steph wasn't allowing any shots of her just yet. Can't blame her there. Keep an eye out here for more to come of our little addition!


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Make sure and check out our review of Sony's Internet TV with Google TV (NSX-46GT1).
Sony literally took the wraps off of the first HDTVs featuring Google TV on Tuesday. And by literally, we mean Sony execs took a cloth off a 46-inch Internet TV to show it to the assembled press in Manhattan.
Sony stressed this is the first HDTV that's seamlessly integrated to the Internet. You can watch a show, tap the split-screen button on the PS3-inspired remote, hit the search button and the Chrome browser appears — and you can surf to your heart's content. You're not limited to sites as is the case with many other "Internet-enabled" HDTVs.
Digital Trends got a chance to play with it, and the demo units were clearly ready for prime time. There were no Blue Screens of Death during demos, or embarrassed suits making excuses for flawed gear. In fact, the sets are available for pre-order on SonyStyle.com now and will be available this weekend. Best Buy will have them the week of October 24. There are four screen sizes available: 24, 32, 40 and 46 inches. The model numbers are NSX-24GT1 ($599), NSX-32GT1 ($799), HSX-40GT1 ($999) and NSX-46GT1 ($1,399).
The three larger screens feature edge-lit LED backlighting but they only have 60Hz refresh rates, not the 120 Hz of sets that handle motion so well. Sony specifically said these sets are not for hard-core videophiles, just younger consumers who live on the Internet while watching TV. That's why they have Intel Atom processors and 8GB of storage, to help them surf more quickly. Since the HDTVs feature Google TV with the Android OS, there are several apps available now, and many more are expected in early 2011 when the Android Market is up and running. All of the HDTVs have built-in Wi-Fi to easily connect to your router. As noted, the remote has a PS3 controller feel to it, but it also has a built-in QWERTY keyboard, and an optical mouse.
The sets have Sony's Video On Demand service, Qriocity, as well as pre-installed apps such as Netflix, Twitter, YouTube, Pandora and others. Many more are expected next year, and Sony said they're extending an invitation to all developers for the platform.
Sony NSZ-GT1 Blu-ray Player with Google TV
While the sets did work very seamlessly watching TV, the system falls down on the job with the new Internet Blu-ray player with Google TV built-in also announced today (NSZ-GT1, $399). When you're watching a BD movie, you cannot search, or use the split-screen. This seems foolish as it seems you'd want to search while a movie is playing, not leaving it entirely to a separate screen. Guess things aren't so seamless…
Still this is the best integration of the Web and HDTV we've seen, and the real key is you're not limited in any way as to the content you can access. We'll still keep using our iPad while watching our plasma TV, thank you very much, but this is a major step forward.
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RIP Vincent Harding: A Light Shines in the Darkness
by: New Monastic -- Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove on May 27th, 2014 | 2 Comments »
Dr. Vincent Harding, great keeper of the Southern Freedom Movement flame, died May 19th, 2014. He was 82 years old.
A graduate student in history during the late 1950s, Harding took an integrated road trip through the deep South with fellow Mennonites. They were welcomed at the Dexter Ave Baptist Church parsonage in Montgomery, Alabama, where Coretta King informed them that her husband Martin was home recovering from a stab wound he had received at a book signing in New York. After conversation about nonviolence and the struggle for human dignity in the Jim Crow South, Dr. King said to Harding, "You're a Mennonite. You know something about nonviolence. We need you down here."
Harding and his wife, Rosemarie, moved to Atlanta in 1960, ending up neighbors to the Kings through the turbulent years most often referred to as the "Civil Rights Movement." But, as Dr. Harding often said, "I never heard anyone sing, 'I woke up this morning with my mind stayed on civil rights.'" Harding knew well the great tradition of struggle which he chronicled in his monumental work, There Is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom In America. The resistance that began when the first slave ships set sail from Africa was a river that ebbed and flowed through history. When it surged forward in the 1960s, Harding was there, paying attention. Rarely out front at the rallies, he was neither a lieutenant of King nor a "Freedom Rider" with SNCC. Harding was, instead, a friend and teacher to all in the struggle.


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Frozen Fuel Causes Delays At MSP AirportWhile cars had trouble starting Monday, dozens of planes didn't get off the ground at all. Some airlines had to cancel flights after jet fuel actually froze at airports across the Midwest. There were 50 flights cancelled and more than two dozen delays at MSP Monday. But almost none of them had to do with the local weather, according to airport spokesman Patrick Hogan.