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Judge OKs $41 Million Deal With 'Central Park Five'A federal judge has signed off on New York City's $41 million settlement with the five men who were wrongly convicted in the vicious 1989 rape and beating of a Central Park jogger.
'Central Park 5' Speak Out About $40 Million SettlementThey spent six to 13 years in jail, but their convictions were tossed out in 2002 after Matias Reyes, an incarcerated serial rapist and murderer, confessed to the attack.
Comptroller Stringer OK's Settlement For Exonerated Central Park 5 DefendantsNew York City Comptroller Scott Stringer on Thursday approved a settlement of $40 million for the five men wrongly convicted in the infamous 1989 Central Park jogger attack.
Report: City Agrees To Settlement With Exonerated Central Park 5 DefendantsA published report Thursday said the city has agreed to a $40 million settlement to the five men whose convictions were overturned in the rape and beating of a woman in Central Park in 1989.
Documentary Provides New Look At Infamous Central Park Jogger CaseDistinguished documentary maker Ken Burns and his daughter have developed a new look at the infamous Central Park Jogger case that rocked New York City back in 1989.
Men Falsely Accused In 1989 'Central Park Jogger' Attack Seek JusticeCouncilman Charles Barron led a demonstration insisting the city compensate the "Central Park 5," who were exonerated in the attack nearly 8 years ago, for their lost years and wrongful imprisonment.

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Single cask single grain whiskey from the Edinburgh distillery North British. Bottled by the Award Winning Berry Bros & Rudd.
Tasting Notes
A pale golden hue, this fresh and lively Single Grain hasa sweet aromatic nose with tropical fruit and butterscotch. The palate isdelicate and creamy. The light clean finish makes this a fantastic aperitif whiskey.
North British Distillery
North British Single Grain Whisky
North British Distillery was established on farmland to the west of Edinburgh in 1885 by Andrew Usher, John M. Crabbie and William Sanderson. Since then the city has expanded ever outwards and now the distillery resides in the Gorgie area of Edinburgh. North British opened in 1887 to guarantee supplies of grain whisky for its owner's cordials and scotch whisky blending businesses. It is equipped with four Coffey stills to produce grain spirit at 94.5% alcohol and multi-million litres of spirit annually. Whilst most of its whisky matures in racked warehouses in the central Lowlands, a small number of casks spend at least eight years at the distillery in dunnage Warehouse No.1. Official releases are very few but excellent independent ones are available from Hart Brothers and Hunter Laing.


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Bowling meets twice a month on the first and third Thursday. Participants bowl, socialize, and encourage others at this popular game. Bowling takes place at Bowl-O-Rama in Portsmouth from 6:00-7:30. Participants bowl as many games as possible during this time with four people to a lane. The cost includes shoes and bowling at $7.50 per person


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Baseball's baaack and it's fan favorite, Opening Day
Baseball fans welcome Opening Day each year. Why? Well, it isn't complicated. Fans love the game. The opening day of a new season holds promise every time. Colorado Rockies fans have weathered their team's ups and downs and still sigh dreamily over 2007. Hey, it could happen again, right?
Today, Opening Day for the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field in Denver, a balmy 70 degrees is forecast. The game may draw huge crowds and complicate the traffic grid, but here's what you need to know about navigating the bustle.
Also, a sunny day out of the office calls for refreshment extraordinaire. Some foods just taste better in a stadium or on a patio. Here are some dining options near Coors Field.
Just for grins, take a swing through the best Opening Days of the Rockies' past, compiled by Joe Nguyen.


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Five keys for Braves to return to postseason
On six-game slide, Atlanta seeking answers in quest to defend NL East title
SAN DIEGO -- After a second consecutive extra-innings loss forced the Braves to face the reality that they had just been swept by the Padres, Freddie Freeman uttered these words, "We're not out of this."
Though Freeman's assessment is obviously true, those who have watched the Braves drop each of their past six games have no choice but to wonder if they are destined to continue sinking. Yes, they have lost to All-Star starting pitchers -- Zack Greinke, Clayton Kershaw and Tyson Ross -- in three of these games. But they were positioned to potentially conquer Kershaw until the final out and they handed both Greinke and Ross no-decisions.
More concerning is the fact that during this six-game skid, the Braves lost a game started by a guy -- Eric Stults -- who entered with a 5.22 ERA and another in which they chased Josh Beckett before the end of the fifth inning. This maddening offense recorded nine hits against Kershaw on Thursday night and then combined for that same amount against the three San Diego starters they faced this past weekend.
"It's not from a lack of effort," Braves catcher Gerald Laird said. "I think maybe the guys are pressing and trying to do too much. The bottom line is we need to play better or we could fall out of this thing real quick."
With Tuesday night's matchup against Mariners ace Felix Hernandez up next, the Braves entered Monday's off-day sitting 3 1/2 games behind the first-place Nationals in the National League East. They also stand two games back in the chase to grab the NL's second Wild Card spot.
If the Braves are going to defend their division crown or at least gain a third consecutive postseason berth, they will have to quickly escape a slide in which they've lost 10 of their past 14 games. Since the All-Star break, they rank eighth in the NL in ERA (3.51) and 10th in runs scored (59).
These statistics certainly do not provide much reason to get excited about potential October baseball in Atlanta. But this trend has been developing for a while. Since starting the season 17-7, the Braves have gone 41-47, which equates to the NL's 10th-best winning percentage dating to April 29.
Here is a look at five key issues the Braves need to happen to turn things around and return to the postseason.
Major improvement from Minor: It is often said that it all begins with pitching and that certainly has often been the case for the Braves, who can credit their April success to the incredible numbers produced by the starting rotation they were forced to reconstruct during Spring Training. As April neared its end, there was hope that this quintet would be strengthened by the addition of Mike Minor, who was on the disabled list for the season's first month. But Minor has been one of this season's disappointments as he has not come close to resembling the guy who had posted a 2.90 ERA in the 47 previous starts he made entering this season. While Ervin Santana has bounced back from the ugly stretch he had earlier this year, Minor has extended his troubles, posting a 7.33 ERA in his past 10 starts. The Braves can only hope skipping the left-hander's next start proves to be therapeutic because with Kris Medlen, Brandon Beachy and Gavin Floyd already sidelined with season-ending elbow injuries, they're essentially out of options in the rotation.
A decision about who truly should hit leadoff: When manager Fredi Gonzalez placed B.J. Upton in the leadoff spot on June 24, there was reason to believe he was joking or at least toying with an experiment that would last a week or two. Six weeks later, Upton remains at the top of the lineup. He has batted .227 with a .292 on-base percentage and 3.31 plate appearance/strikeout rate.
Yes, this is an improvement compared with the .192 batting average, .270 OBP and the 3.07 PA/K rate he had compiled in the previous 197 games he had played as a Brave. But these numbers still aren't fit for this role. The Padres' Everth Cabrera (.282 OBP) is the only other player who has played at least 34 games as a leadoff hitter this year and recorded a lower OBP than Upton's .292.
Recently acquired Emilio Bonifacio stands as a candidate to be occasionally used as a leadoff hitter and center fielder. Jason Heyward's struggles against left-handed pitchers is concerning. But he could serve as the leadoff hitter in games started by righties and Bonifacio, who has hit .403 against lefties, could fill that role in the other games.
Freddie Freeman needs to become Freddie Freeman again: When Freeman hit .397 with a 1.202 OPS in this season's first 18 games, it looked like he was determined to justify the franchise-record eight-year contract he had just received. But in the 94 games since, he has hit .260 with a .773 OPS. To put that in perspective, his OPS ranks sixth among qualified first basemen dating to April 21.
Given that he is just 24 years old, it might not seem right to put great pressure on Freeman. But this is his fourth full Major League season and there is no doubt that he is the one player capable of providing the consistent production needed in the middle of the lineup.
A power resurgence: After going 6-for-34 with runners in scoring position against the Padres this past weekend, many of the Braves said one of the club's primary problems has been squandering far too many scoring opportunities. But even with these woeful numbers within a small sample size, they have still hit .239 with runners in scoring position during their 4-10 skid. This jibes with the .243 RISP average they carried into the All-Star break.
What has truly been missing from this offense has been the power this group displayed when it led the NL in homers last year.
When the Braves produced an NL-worst 4.43 PA/K last year, the club attempted to justify the mark by pointing out the team also led the Senior Circuit with a 30.06 at-bat-per-home run ratio. This year the Braves rank eighth in the NL with a 42.84 AB/HR ratio and 12th with a 4.53 PA/K mark.
Survive these next two weeks: As the Braves came out of the All-Star break, they knew the challenge that was awaiting them when they began their current eight-game road trip. It seemed they'd deal with the Dodgers, get healthy against the Padres and then try to bruise Seattle's postseason hopes. Never did they envision beginning this trip 0-6.
Things will not get any easier as the next homestand includes a series against three first-place clubs: the Nationals, Dodgers and A's. Then the Braves will hit the road for a three-game set in Pittsburgh. By the time Aug. 21 arrives, they will have a strong understanding of whether they truly are a legitimate postseason contender.
"You've just got to bear down and get it done," said Laird, a three-time World Series participant. "The good teams do that."


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The national agreements between the U.S. Postal Service and two of its unions give the Postal Service greater flexibility to use non-career employees for clerk and mail handler duties. The Postal Service pressed for the new employee categories in its separate labor negotiations with the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) and the National Mail Handlers Union, because it wanted greater workforce flexibility in scheduling and aligning employees with the work available. The Postal Service expects this will allow it to reduce labor costs, which currently make up about 80 percent of total costs.
With the APWU, the Postal Service has already begun to utilize the two new employee categories created under their National Agreement, which include postal support employees and non-traditional full-time employees. The provision on new employee categories in the National Mail Handlers Union's agreement does not take effect until August, but it will allow for similar type of workers to be used. These workers will start at a lower hourly wage and will have limited benefits.
The number of Postal Service career employees has declined steadily over the past decade. As of early 2013 the Postal Service had just over 500,000 career employees, down from 729,000 in Fiscal Year 2003. Recent buyout offers have spurred a wave of retirements and moved the Postal Service closer to its goal of further reducing its workforce by 150,000 employees by 2015. Unlike previous reduction-in-workforce efforts, the Postal Service now has the flexibility to hire part-time employees. By shifting more work to lower-paid employees with less expensive benefits, the Postal Service is hoping to move the needle on its labor costs.
A recent OIG audit report on the use of part-time employees in processing operations found that the Postal Service is increasing its use of these part-time positions, but it has not hired them to the fullest extent allowed by the contract. It could have saved more than $30 million in labor costs last year if it had hired postal support employees up to contract limits.
Time will tell if the new workforce flexibility significantly reduces labor costs. But our early audit work suggests savings are available. What is your experience with the changes in the types of employees and how they are used? Is mail processed as efficiently, more efficiently, or less efficiently using postal support employees and non-traditional full-time employees? Have there been any unexpected effects (positive or negative) of the changes? Has overtime usage increased or decreased as a result of using part-time and non-traditional full-time employees?


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Are you looking for environmentally-friendly, natural cleaning products? You can find safe, non-toxic products available commercially from companies like Ecover, Seventh Generation, Nellie's All-Natural, and Green Works, or you can make your own cleaners from items already in your pantry. Check out our short list of home remedies and the standard recipes for homemade cleaning solutions.


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Designed with comfort in mind, Frankie4 LiLLi will be your go-to choice for off-duty days. She features a rubber sole keeping her lightweight with a unique toe loop silhouette.
Heel height: 5mm
Upper: Leather
Lining: Leather
Sole: Rubber
This chart is meant as a guide only, and is by no means definitive. Sizing can vary across styles and brands, and if you have any queries regarding the fit please do not hesitate to contact us. Click here for Birkenstock size chart.
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|4 - 4.5
|20.8 - 21.3
|5 - 5.5
|21.6 - 22.2
|6 - 6.5
|22.5 - 23
|7 - 7.5
|23.5 - 23.8
|8 - 8.5
|24.1 - 24.6
|9 - 9.5
|25.1 - 25.4
|10 - 10.5
|25.9 - 26.2
|11 - 11.5
|26.7 - 27.1
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Sizes can vary by style, but generally sizing tends to be standard across brands.
What is the material?
Leather tends to stretch more than synthetics or fabric and will usually stretch to mould to your foot (mostly in the width, less in the length).
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Certain brands are known for running a size larger or smaller and we do our best to advise you of sizing variances where we can.
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We're happy to offer an online credit note or refund for most footwear bought via our online store, within 14 days of receiving the order, provided they are in an as-new condition. Customers will be responsible for shipping costs for any returns.
Sale Item Returns
Please choose carefully as we do not refund sale items. Exchanges and online store credits are available for products discounted up to 50% OFF their recommended retail price. Customers will be able to purchase a $13 Express returns label by contacting our store.
Products discounted further than 50% OFF are not eligible for return, (this includes purchasing the wrong size). If you are unsure about your size or fit, this might not be the sale for you.
Please refer to our Returns Policy for more information.
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This is perhaps too broad or vague (or silly) a question, but here it is anyway: why should I care about constructing line bundles on a moduli space? This comes up all of the time, but I seem to be missing the (probably obvious) motivation.
Ideally, it would be nice to attach to this question a particular moduli space (vector bundles on a curve, instantons, etc.), but I think I will leave the task of finding an efficient yet instructive example to someone with more knowledge.


text: November 15th is America Recycles Day! This national celebration gives us the chance to reflect on the wise use of our planet's resources and reminds us that we need to take greater responsibility for our daily actions and choices. At the National Aquarium, we're continually challenging ourselves to improve our efforts to reduce, reuse and recycle. It's especially important to us because the positive results are directly linked to the health of the animals and ecosystems we care about! Over the last few years, we've implemented a composting program for our staff and visitors, improved our single-stream recycling efforts and identified common items that could be recycled through alternative methods (kitchen grease, batteries, corks, shoes, e-waste, etc.). As a result, we sent more than 100 tons of materials to the recycling center and composted more than 22 tons of organic material in 2012 alone! By simply looking at what we were putting in our trash, we were able to find better ways reduce the amount we sent to the curb each week. Sometimes that meant changing our consumer habits (i.e. buying products with recyclable or less packaging) and sometimes it meant looking at our waste in a new way - as a resource, rather than a nuisance. For example, empty paper towel tubes can be used as enrichment for our animals, old wet-suits can be made into drink cozies and street banners can be re-purposed into tote bags! Limiting the amount of stuff we purchase is important, but it is only part of the answer. As hosts to several clean-up events every year, we see first-hand how destructive it can be when we dispose of our waste improperly. In fact, over the years, we've removed more than 660,000 pieces of debris for the small wetland adjacent to Fort McHenry. Close to half of that was made up of plastic bottles. Today, plastic bottles can be recycled into a wide variety of amazing products – including park benches, fleece clothing, construction materials, floating islands, etc. It is our responsibility to extend the life of the products we use through recycling. The good news is, there are lots of resources out there to make it easier for you. Earth 911 has a great search tool for recycling options in your area. They even have an app for smartphones! Together, we can work to create healthy communities. Join me (and 47,000 of my friends) and take the pledge to increase your recycling efforts! Tags: america-recycles-day, composting, Conservation, day, laura-baneky, national-aquarium-experts, recycling, thoughtful-thursday Categories: Conservation, News Previous Post Next Post


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Smart phone is for notification, tablet is for entertainment and laptop are for creating products.
Teach children to create rather than consume. Lived by the four principles of learn for yourself, teach to others, create product together and share product to everyone.


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We have commissioned videos to demonstrate and explain key features of the Paal range of balers. There are 3 separate videos :
1. Konti auto-tie channel baler (for recyclables)
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Champ Bailey's mother didn't vote for him for the Pro Bowl this season.
"Because," Elaine Bailey explained, "I knew we were going to the Super Bowl."
This was the first time she didn't vote for him. But what was the point of doing so? Super Bowl participants, after all, don't play in the Pro Bowl. As it happened, the cornerback was not elected to his 13th Pro Bowl after a season spent mostly on the sideline because of a nagging foot injury, but he is headed to his first Super Bowl.
Near the end of the Broncos' AFC championship game victory Sunday, Bailey waved a towel while standing a few feet onto the sun-splashed field. His helmet was off, as if he wanted fans to see his elation. The Broncos had just picked up their game-clinching first down — Elaine Bailey was proven right — and her son squeezed his close friend Demaryius Thomas like he was wrapping up a Patriots receiver.
Denver 26, New England 16.
This one's for Champ.
The soul of Denver's defense for nearly a decade, Bailey never has played in a Super Bowl. With a lingering foot injury, he missed 11 games, and when he did play, we saw more Roland Bailey than we did Champ Bailey. But when the team needed him most, he was valiant, starting at cornerback and also playing some nickel back.
Afterward, in the winning locker room, in their oversized championship T-shirts, teammates praised his performance defending New England's stingy slot receivers. He didn't make a game-changing play. He didn't make a drive-ending tackle. He just played solid football, which is what Denver needed.
"This is what it's all about, get yourself a chance to get in the big one," Bailey said. "That's where we are now. I knew I would come back — you might not have known — but I knew I'd be back at some point. My coaches and teammates never gave up on me. And here I am, playing my best football of the year. I'm just looking forward to the next one, man."
A generation of Broncos fans has grown up with Champ. Players come and go, but Bailey is a Broncos staple, ubiquitous. He's part of Denverites' lives, he's your guy, and now, with him finally going to the big one, you feel genuine happiness for him. This is what sports do to us. This feeling, this connection, is what makes it fun being a fan.
Perhaps Bailey's biggest fan actually did get to meet him. While a college student, he proudly wore a BAILEY 24 jersey around the campus of Tennessee State. And sure enough, Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie went on to the NFL, and after a game with the Arizona Cardinals, he met Bailey.
"He told me he liked the way I played and to keep pushing, and that's what I did," Rodgers-Cromartie said. "I always tried to model myself after him."
Now, they have a locker next to each other at Sports Authority Field. They're Denver teammates, and "DRC" is the new Champ, the cornerback assigned to the opponent's top receiver, the guy Tom Brady tried to stay away from.
"Anytime you have a guy like that, a true pro, you want to win it for him," Rodgers-Cromartie said. "If you're a cornerback in this league, I think you had to watch Champ Bailey and look up to him. And to see him go out on top, get to the Super Bowl, is just an honor."
Sitting outside the winning locker room, Elaine Bailey proudly wore a Broncos jersey with MOM BAILEY above the 24 on her back. She had flown up from Folkston, Ga., the home of Champ Bailey, and watched the game in a box with about 35 family members.
"Even with his injury, I said — God is going to reserve him for this time of the season," she said in her sweet Southern accent. "And it worked."
Champ Bailey finally is going to the Super Bowl. Elaine Bailey knew all along.
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Each institution in the S. Daniel Abraham Israel Program establishes its own tuition and fees. Yeshiva University collects that amount on behalf of the institution. Yeshiva University begins sending invoices to students in June each year. The institution in Israel will collect a deposit directly along with other miscellaneous fees such as those for medical insurance and tourism. These fees will not be reflected on Yeshiva University invoice. The Israel institutional will detail the total tuition and fees you are expected to pay.
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CJ Creative brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 236 Designs von 32 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
*** added 9/3 - I spoke with our dealership executive team...they would also like to see some designs WITHOUT the small "Folsom, California" and without "Harley-Davidson" texts. We may just go with the HD logo, in a design with the FOLSOM large
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*** added 8/31 - JUST FYI: We have 3 dealerships and a NHRA race team. We are trying this approach out and depending on results may have a lot more contests.
Folsom Harley-Davidson is looking for a nice tribal back logo for use on tshirts and in some cases, watermarking photos and web pages online.
Our dealerships logo are very vertical and we would like to have another logo that is wider for some use.
Folsom Harley-Davidson. Folsom, California
We are a family owned, full service Harley-Davidson dealership located in Folsom, CA. We sell new and pre-owned Harley-Davidson and Buell motorcycles as well as Service, Parts & Accessories, Motorclothes & Riding gear, rentals and we also own a NHRA race team. (Rocklin Motorsports)
- Tribal or Tribal and Flame logo that will be clear and distinctive, especially on colored shirts and black/and or white backgrounds
- "FOLSOM" in large all cap letters, with distinct styling, text with depth. Font is very importan. Run of the mill text pasted on will not work.
- HARLEY-DAVDISON logo located in the design, must include the (r) exactly where it is located on the example: example here Size and location open to you.
- Tribal design is to most likely be a gray color - if flames are used they can be "tribal flame design" (not natural flame) and use up to 3-4 variances of flame colors
- some examples we really like are HERE and HERE.
- Please do not copy the exact design of the examples we like
- Pantone 165 is Harley Orange - FYI
- Please contact email@example.com with any questions
- Seeking a design that would fit nicely in a 6 inch tall by 10 inch wide space.
- Final design needs to be delivered in vector format, preferably Adobe Illustrator
- The "Non flame tribal" portion of design may be the key here. You don't have to focus on flames being predominate. Please incorporate the tribal design into the FOLSOM if possible. The overall logo request initially was to have a definitive tribal design but nessasary to have flames. Open to logos that just have tribal designs. Sharp corners on the tribal design is a must. Tribal does not need to be flame shaped
- We are enthusiastic that the talent is above and beyond our expectations, no we just need to bring it home...
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- generic text and font design
- unprofessional appearance
- white outlines or lettering in white. needs to work on both colored and white material
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Getting back into the swing of things following bariatric surgery was fairly easy given that I was well prepared. The nutritional classes I'd attended at Emory Healthcare prior to surgery, as well as the vast amount of information I'd collected from all the support group meetings I'd gone to really helped take out as many unknowns as possible. I'd even seen a psychologist regularly who specialized in helping weight loss surgery patients prepare for what to expect after surgery.
I thought I had done the entire course of the weight loss surgery's version of "What to Expect When You're Expecting" but I still wasn't fully prepared for what life would be like emotionally after surgery. This wasn't anyone's fault; this was because life is weird and people are strange and there was absolutely no way to predict how each and every person was going to respond to me after I began losing weight, and I couldn't know how I was going to handle the huge variance in responses. Finding my center and staying grounded was one of the most challenging things I faced as a post-op gastric bypass patient.
Because hormones are stored in fat cells, as the fat cells begin to rapidly shrink those hormones are released in very quick bursts. This can lead to mood swings or depression in some people. Others may not notice any change in mood whatsoever. Some people in our support group spoke of mourning the loss of their best friend: food! Before my surgery, food was a great companion, a loyal consoler to whom I could always turn during times of stress and pain as well as during times of great happiness and celebration. I could always count on food to be there for me. After my procedure, that was no longer the case. I had to cultivate new tools in order to move smoothly into my new life as a person whose tiny new pouch could only accommodate enough to maintain nutrition – certainly not emotional eating.
As I alluded to earlier, dealing with others around you can be a little tricky, as well. Those who know you have had surgery may feel the need to scrutinize every individual thing you put on your plate or in your mouth (even if they never went through a weight loss surgery nutritional class in their life). They could be concerned, they may wish to help or support you, or they may just be downright nosey. This might be a good time to whisper a personal mantra to yourself, something like, "I am surrounded by many good people who want only the best for me." Well, at least something close to that worked for me so I wouldn't go crazy every time I had to explain to people that yes, I actually could have cheese grits for breakfast if I wanted to and still lose weight!
One of the most poignant moments I remember concerning the topic of my impending bypass surgery took place in my favorite fondue restaurant. I and dear friend of mine (whom I had known since I was thirteen) were there along with our another close friend and her husband. The four of us were chatting when the theme of the conversation moved to my surgery which was just a few weeks away. The friend I'd known since I was thirteen suddenly became very concerned, not about the surgery itself and how I might fare during the procedure or anything of that nature. She was quite concerned about my losing weight and therefore losing the real "me" in the process. I remember so vividly her saying that she loved me just the way I was and that she didn't want me to change who I was in this process. I had to assure her that I was, indeed, going to change, but only in the best of ways. I knew in my heart that this surgery was the right thing for me to do. And I still feel that way more than six years later.
Next up: A handful of the countless miracles I have experienced on this journey.


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Pamela Anderson is hitting back at rumors she is in financial trouble.
"That's all garbage," Pamela told Access Hollywood affiliate WTVJ in Miami over the weekend.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Hollywood's Hottest Moms & Their Loveable Little Ones
In fact, Pamela said she owns quite a bit of property in her native Canada.
"I have a beautiful home in Canada, nine little cabins on the dock that I'm building and a store in the front," she said. "That's going to be kind of my sanctuary. I think eventually I'll be out of LA and I'll be living more on Vancouver Island. And Malibu, I can't get away from Malibu… I'm all over the place."
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Reports surfaced in September that Pamela was in debt over $1 million. She later denied the rumors, claiming she is not in debt, but rather in a dispute with some contractors who filed liens against her over issues related to the renovations on her Malibu home.
And Pamela told WTVJ she is living in a trailer in order to go back through the work that was performed on her Southern California property.
"I've had a trailer for a long time. I'm building a house in the colony, so I have a house in the [fancy] area that I'm trying to build and people redo houses all the time, so I got into a little bit of a contractor dispute," she said. "I don't want to be ripped off, so I'm going back to the very beginning of a job and go through it all, now that I have new business management.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Pam's Wedding Day With Kid Rock (2006)
When it comes to other personal matters in her life, Pamela, who has two sons with rocker Tommy Lee, said her young ones – Brandon, 13 and Dylan, 11 — are discovering girls.
"Yeah they have. [There's] a lot of texting," she said. "I think they text, kiss, kiss.
"They're real gentlemen," she added of her sons. "They're real wild little boys and they're very compassionate and sweet, so I couldn't ask for anything more."
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May 21, 2002 | ISBN 9780767904148
May 08, 2001 | 360 Minutes
"A remarkable read . . . a flash photo of the moment when our fascination with sharks transformed from awe into mortal dread."
—Entertainment Weekly
"The most perfect beach book ever. Better than Jaws–an amazing story, terrific writing, and the Gilded Age setting is fascinating. I loved it."
—Linda Marotta, Shakespeare & Company, New York City
"Popular history meets popular science in this thrilling shark story. As in Seabiscuit, the author interweaves social history with a suspenseful story told from different characters' points of view, including that most fascinating character of all: the shark itself."
—Arsen Kashkashian, Boulder Book Store, Boulder, Colorado
"This riveting book skillfully combines historical fact with shark science and lore. A first-rate thriller that's all the more spine-tingling because it really happened."
—Anne Edkins, Vroman's Bookstore, Pasadena, California
"A riveting account of the terrorizing shark attacks [of 1916]. Meticulously researched, it provides fascinating information about the history of the great white shark as well as a social commentary of America during World War I. Informative, entertaining, enthralling."
—Tova Beiser, Brown University Bookstore, Providence, Rhode Island


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I need some help here. I have a java program which reads text from website(Prog1), now in order create a webpage to display the output, I created an applet (Prog2).
What I actually want is to populate the output of Prog1 onto the display fields in Prog2? Does anyone has any idea how to do this? I know its very simple but I am new to Java so thats why I dont know how to proceed with this.
My thought is that Prog1 should run first and have some data, and then Prog 2 runs to display the data (they are in the same project).
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Release: Wagic 0.14.1
I'm always excited to announce a new release of Wagic. This new release is packed with new features and I want to thank all the devs, designers, testers, who helped making this game so great.
What is Wagic?
Is it still necessary to introduce Wagic? Often compared to commercial games for its replay value and quality, Wagic is a heroic fantasy card game, in which you fight as a wizard against the computer. As you win battles, you unlock new game modes and earn credits that allow you to improve your army. Wagic is community driven, entirely customizable (you can create themes, mods, even new rules), available in several languages (English, French, German, spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese), and open source. It currently runs on the Sony PSP, Windows, Linux, and N900 (maemo). Developer Xawotihs also started working on an iOs port for iPhone and iPad, but I'll talk about that later 🙂
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So, what's new in this version? Well, a pile of stuff, as every time we do a release 🙂 The most visible change is probably the new menus for deck selection. They make the "tasks" accessible directly from the menu (no need to go to the shopkeeper anymore to see what tasks would give you more credits), and we implemented an "AI Deck unlock" mechanism to smoothe the difficulty curve of the game.
- Hundreds of new cards (and new sets), mostly thanks to the work of Zethfox and Dr. Solomat. Wagic now allows you to play with more than 12'000 cards (more than 6700 unique cards)
- (PSP) Improved performance with firmwares 5.5x and 6.xx. TN Hen users should see a major improvement when running the game from the XMB. In worst cases, Wagic 0.13 used to take 20 seconds to launch from the XMB, this should now be instant.
- New deck selection menus in "classic" game mode, and in the deck editor (Mnguyen, abrasax)
- Opponents decks now need to be unlocked. Just play normally, and they will be naturally and progressively unlocked 🙂
- Mouse support in windows and Linux (We now have two windows versions, check the Download section for details) (Xawotihs)
- Various AI improvements by Zethfox
- Added Japanese font support (we need translators!) and improved Chinese font support (J, linshier)
- 6 new AI opponents (Zethfox)
- New wallpaper by Kaioshin
- Possibility to save as "AI Deck" in the deck editor so that you can easily play against new opponents without having to create the decks on a PC (mnguyen)
- Many, Many, many bug fixes, including some performance improvements (thanks to all devs but especially Mootpoint!)
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Remember that in addition to the news in this blog, you can find more Wagic news on twitter and facebook thanks to Leungclj
As usual, enjoy this new release of Wagic! This release is (of course!) compatible with HBL and the TN Hen.


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I watched the liveblogs of the Sony Playstation 4 event. Interesting that the hardware specs are essentially a moderately beefy PC (8 core AMD processor, Radeon GPU, 8GB RAM).
The games they demoed looked ok, but nothing groundbreaking. I'm really looking forward to Witness and Destiny, but more because they look like great games from developers I admire than because they're on a next gen console.
I can't shake the feeling that PS4 is going to be underwhelming (so will the next Xbox), but I can't articulate why. I don't know what I expect a next gen console to be capable of. It feels like we've hit a wall with regard to how "advanced" graphics (and other horsepower-driven factors) can be.
No doubt there will be pockets of amazing creativity and art, just like always. And I'll continue to gravitate toward those. But maybe after 32+ years as a gamer, I've "seen it all". That makes me kind of sad. I want to be amazed.
I want to be amazed. But nothing shown at the event amazed me. I spent an hour this evening watching high quality videos of the games shown today, on the same TV I play my PS3 on. Not perfect, but close enough. And nothing amazed me.
Sure, there are a few games I really want now (Witness, Drive Club, Destiny). But if developers had something capable of amazement, they didn't show it. And I guess that's what worries me.
Maybe it's early days still. But the closer to reality games become (I like the analogy that games are becoming more like a movie, with fewer constraints), the harder it is to actually create something amazing. Maybe it will just take time. Maybe it will take indie developers getting in there and doing something different. But I'm not seeing it yet.
I wonder if this is the last generation of "big" gaming consoles we'll see? Mobile gaming has already had seismic effects. The length of a "generation" for consoles has gotten longer and longer. We can't predict what gaming on our personal devices will look like in 6-7 years, but by then, will the "big" consoles still be viable? I'm now sowing doom and gloom – I love gaming in all its forms – but I could totally see this being the end for consoles as we know them. The landscape could very easily shatter.


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Kids These Days: BRETT BOOTH Talks DCnU TEEN TITANS Costumes
[DCnU Revamp Index Page: ALL the News, Images, Interviews and Columns]When the new cover image for the upcoming Teen Titans #1 hit the internet, the thing that stuck out most was not only the characters that would make up this group, but also the change to their costumes.
In fact, among DC's 52 new #1 issues in September, Teen Titans has some of the most drastic changes in its new costume designs.
DC had already announced that Jim Lee was redesigning the costumes for the DCnU, so fans had expected to see some new looks. In Teen Titans, which will launch in September with writer Scott Lobdell and penciler Brett Booth, the looks got quite a reaction.
To find out more about the new costumes on Teen Titans and who these new characters are, Newsarama talked to Booth.
Newsarama: First of all, as an artist, I imagine your starting point is what input you''re given from DC Editorial and your writer Scott Lobdell on what they want to achieve with the looks of this team and these characters?
Brett Booth: The initial designs I did were for the newer characters: the Charcoal Girl, and who we're calling Bugg right now. I was sort of told they wanted the new designs to be different. Their silhouettes needed to be different from the standard guy or gal in tights. So I took that to heart.
Nrama: Can you take fans into the process of how you were first approached about this version of Teen Titans, and what input you got from Scott and DC to inform your approach to the redesigns?
Booth: Let's see. I talked with Scott a bunch. Our battles were epic! Scott wanted really different, and so I went about attempting to do that. DC was really open about what we turned in. I have a feeling we could
have done any of the number of costume designs we did. And we did a lot. We even brought Jim [Lee] and Cully Hamner in to help with the Kid Flash and Wonder Girls designs.
Nrama: Is there a particular overarching theme or idea that influenced all of the designs? Or were you given ideas and notes about each individually?
Booth: Each character sort of evolved on its own. We had toyed with the idea of matching outfits but quickly abandoned that. There was a lot of back and forth about everything.
Nrama: How much back and forth was there between everyone before you came up with the final designs and was there anything particularly interesting or memorable about the process?
Booth: Wonder Girl had me, Jim, Cully , Scott, Bobbie [Chase] and Bob [Harras] going back and forth. That was the toughest one. I think I did like 8 or 9 designs or variations on her. Cully did three or four and Jim did two. We then decided to just keep her in regular clothes for a bit to get a feel for the character, so we concentrated on her bracelets and lasso.
Nrama: Can you maybe walk through each character and tell what you were hoping to achieve with each and what stands out for you as either the trickiest or your favorite part of the redesign? Let's start with Red Robin? I think fans certainly want to know how the wings came to be and why? And what do they do?
Booth: Scott wanted wings; he wanted the character to actually not get left behind all the time. I did a few designs up, more Hawkman-like, but with the cowl he looked like.. well... Hawkman. So then I got the idea
of a cape with notches cut out so it would look like feathers in a silhouette. But I was told, "No capes!" So I toyed around with the ones he has now. They are sort of both cape and wings. They can be both hard and flexible when needed. I don't want to give too much away.
The wings are more for gliding. He has some small jets on his back that can give him short bursts of power. They can become rigid and deflect bullets if needed — a Batman family staple.
Nrama: Superboy?
Booth: This was really Scott and I just wanting him to be Superboy, since he's not into spandex, The gloves are a nod to his 90's outfit. The "S" on his back is a joke — Bart put it there because on the original, he didn't
have the tattoo on that side, so it was ambiguous who it was. He's just wearing a muscle shirt and some pants and boots. Just not the traditional "S" shirt and jeans. I added the tattoo as to his design because of a misread email, but everyone liked it so we kept it. The bar code idea was added a bit later but was genius!
Nrama: Wonder Girl?
Booth: Once we decided to make Cassie not quite the super nice girl her designs sort of popped up. I was told to make the bracelets different. I wanted to keep her ties to Greece to I sort of made a set, the lasso
is more like thorny vines or barbed wire. It comes out of the armband and basically gets everywhere so she ties it off at her waist. Scott came up with the modified version of an older design I did and the star field, a nod to Donna Troy's Wonder Girl outfit.
And the shin guards are the only part of Jim's original design that survived. Bobbie Chase and Katie Kubert liked them so much I kept them on.
Nrama: Kid Flash?
Booth: This one was interesting, Jim basically took a design I did and reworked it. I frickin' loved it. But it was a bit older looking, something an older more adult superhero would wear, so Cully came in and modified the headpiece a bit to look more like Kid Flash.
Nrama: The new characters? What can you tell us about then?
Booth: The Bugg girl was originally supposed to be more tech, but I do like organic, so I drew sort of an exo-skeleton. Everyone seemed to like it so we kept it. She's got extra legs and arms she can retract to look more
human. She's in issue #2.
The other one is still under wraps for now. But when Scott mentioned to me what he wanted, I knew exactly what I was going to do. I sort of modified the smoke hair a bit for this image.
Nrama: Anything else you can tell us about designs and characters fans will see in #1 and beyond?
Booth: Bart and Conner have different outfits in issue #1 than these. There are Easter eggs here and there in the first issue so look for them!
Nrama: How do you go about "researching" or finding influences for the way teens dress today, that you think will resonate and feel true to this generation?
Booth: Google helps out. Plus Scott and I haven't completely forgotten what it was like to be a teen. But TV and movies help. I might have to suffer through some horrible, horrible things, but I will do it, especially if I can't find the remote.
Nrama: Have you seen the reaction to these costumes from fans?
Booth: I've only seen a bit, but man people can be nasty. Most has been positive, so thank you. I think we might have gone a bit farther out there than some of the other books, but the story is strong and fun and not the Teen Titans norm, so I'm hoping the art is up to snuff. But I'm sure I'll have my detractors.
Nrama: Then to finish up is there anything else you want to tell fans about the image they've seen of the new costumes in Teen Titans?
Booth: I just want to give a shout out to my partners in crime on the art side, Norm [Rapmund] and Andrew [Dalhouse]. And note this was originally just a promo piece for a meeting so it hasn't been inked and Andrew colored this up with blazing speed so this is sort of a rough piece for us.Visit Newsarama on FACEBOOK and TWITTER and tell us what you think! More on DCnU:
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