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The 2.30 PS3 firmware update and redesigned PlayStation Store is now live for piano black console owners to download.
The redesigned store, which is currently streaming down our internet very slowly, features improved menus and functionality over the dodgy web browser-based original, a new preview option that lets you see videos of games before you buy them and other neat tweaks we've been waiting an age for.
Apparently the long talked-up update for Lair, which enables standard non-motion controls for the Factor 5 flight sim, is also up for download on the new store.
Just in case you're wondering, your current PSN account will follow you to the new store unharmed. Sony has also confirmed that another content update on April 17 will see the launch of the Metal Gear Solid Online Beta trial. Nice.
The latest Warhawk expansion, Operation Broken Mirror is also expected on the store any time now. Let's hope than can get more updates on there from now on.
And if you're away from the PS3, see the new store in actionhere.
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Each year, Michael "La MJC" Dupouy launches a new edition of the All Gone publication, which includes the most sought-after streetwear pieces of the year. The launch of 2019's issue was held at BEINGHUNTED. Gallery.
For Fall / Winter 2018, BEINGHUNTED. developed a interactive photo booth for the GORE-TEX Brand. The installation was used for various retailers and activations.
The Workshop program, which is part of adidas' top tier Consortium sneaker segment, was launched in 2017 to give more creative freedom to the in-house designers of the brand. BEINGHUNTED. created all communication assets for this adidas Consortium Workshop pack.
Jakob Hetzer and 97cm showcased their collaborative art exhibit "Conscious/Unconscious" at BEINGHUNTED. Gallery in August of 2018.
To strengthen its position as influential retailer in Shanghai but also across China and internationally, BEINGHUNTED. helped DOE to organize the third event in the Heatwave series.
BEINGHUNTED. created the communication assets for the release of Y-3's progressive new KAIWA silhouette. Based on the sculptural construction of the silhouette and its stark color contrasts, we created a creative brief with a highly architectural approach.
To announce and activate the important partnership between OFF-WHITE™ and GORE-TEX within the fashion world, BEINGHUNTED. created co-branded cross body bags that were released to attendees of OFF-WHITE™'s F/W 2018 runway show at Paris fashion week.
BEINGHUNTED. supported JXZ Agency in the execution and planning of a ten day activation for Patagonia in Berlin. The events that took place between October 12. and 21. ranged from panel talks & film screenings to more product centered activities like the Patagonia Worn Wear Repair Program and a temporary Second Hand Shop.
W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. and Norse Projects presented Six Stories of GORE-TEX® Products Vol. 2 at the Summer 2017 Copenhagen Fashion Week. During this highlight event, Norse Projects launched their latest products featuring GORE-TEX® fabric technology.
For Spring/Summer 2017 we took personal memories, long-lost favorite items, a masterpiece from London and turned them into T-shirt graphics. Our lookbook for this season is inspired by the same memories. We explored the idea of how even the glossiest high-fashion ads fade over the course of time, becoming artifacts themselves bearing witness to cultural change and progress and translated this aesthetic into our own imagery for the collection.
To carry on the very idea of combining progress and tradition, BEINGHUNTED. brought together two generations of Berlin counter culture for Carhartt WIP to model iconic vintage pieces from their legendary archive – for the veterans: electronic music legend Fetisch, and skate culture/indie fashion pioneer Dirk Bonn as well as the new generation: Staycore's very own Mobilegirl and Brussels-via-London transplant BØA.
BEINGHUNTED. developed the concept for the shoot, managed talent buying and production as well as the production of all media assets.
NikeLab asked us to put together a two-day guided tour as an experience for their guests from China to accompany the release of the NikeLab x ACRONYM® AF1 Downtown in Berlin.
The group of influential creatives and photographers consisted of MAEKAN co-founder Alex Maeland, photographers Jennifer Bin and Kuan Zhu and their host Jason Lam from NikeLab Shanghai.
The idea for a printed version of BEINGHUNTED. was originally drafted in 2006. It took 10 years for it to finally happen but – as with life in general – good things come to those who wait. Our first issue is the result of the combined efforts of people from all across the globe: Japan, Malaysia, The Netherlands, Denmark, the US and of course Germany. We met all of them over the last couple of years while either traveling or working on a variety of projects. It just made sense for us to bring everybody together to showcase the ideas and topics being discussed behind the scenes during and outside of our regular projects.
The BEINGHUNTED. look book is the result of a creative collaboration between stylist Shoko Kawaida who runs vintage boutique Townes in Berlin Mitte and photographer/model couple Joanna Krawczyk and Yosuke Kaneshiro.
Based on BEINGHUNTED.'s creative brief, aesthetics from 1960s b/w street scenes to 1980s fashion editorials were re-interpreted and re-fined for a contemporary look.
Multipart editorial and video feature produced for Bettery / smart Magazine on assignment for K-MB Berlin, on the subject of mobility in urban environments.
"Berlin based journalist Jörg Haas and filmmaker Jens Schwengel met up with locals to draw an intimate and inspiring portrait of Tokyo."
In a new series on modern functional fashion, Freunde von Freunden and GORE-TEX are talking to people from different fields of the industry regarding their take on the status quo as well as future developments.
For the first episode, FvF joined Jörg on his morning walk to the office through typical Berlin (aka the perfect GORE-TEX ~) weather.
The 770 was originally released back in 1984. For its re-issue in the fall of 2016, New Balance invited Jörg to its factory in Flimby, UK, the home of the 770, to explore and to talk about the project and his experiences.
As one of the first to visit Flimby some ten years ago, Jörg has kept a close relationship with New Balance ever since.
In order to facilitate marketing and PR activities for its partners as well as relevant media channels – digital and print – Consortium releases are accompanied by a comms toolkit. The package includes press text, studio shots as well as concept shots of the products and POS assets for window and/or interior setups.
The 2016 course on "Streetwear" was hosted by Vigil Abloh, creative advisor to Kanye West and founder of fashion labels PYREX and now Off-White. Jörg was invited to the program to share his experiences and knowledge in the publishing sector. Additionally, Jörg held a one-day Q&A session with students and offered insights into the business of fashion retail, marketing and communications.
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SSBBW Islander looking to meet! Hello … Bueno!
February 22nd, 2010
Wow … check out this stunner. She's from Guam, an island that I have yet to visit and yes I know Islanders and Polynesians don't strictly fit into the Asian grouping but as far as this website goes – to celebrate BBW Asian type chicks, then they do!
HelloBueno is a SSBBW who know's how beautiful she is and is proud of her looks and size. We need more girls like this! Gosh, if only she'd model and do some photoshoots somewhere.
Hello Bueno, my Polynesian Super Sized Big Beautiful Woman! Are you ready?
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Shopping in Historic Fairhaven
Today I met my good friend Betty for a day of shopping (mostly window style) and camaraderie. Betty and I met through my blog. In fact, she is my most faithful reader! We discovered we lived in the same town, so decided to get together in real life. It has been great fun.
One of our favourite places to meet is Historic Fairhaven. In 1889, the railroad was coming, and Fairhaven grew rapidly, hoping to become the west coast terminus. The railroad connection never worked out, so the new town turned to the sea and fishing for its economic base. In its heyday, Fairhaven was a bustling town of hotels, shops, saloons and brothels. Today, the brothels are gone, but the rich heritage of hotels, shops, restaurants and nightlife remains. And Fairhaven has achieved its original goal of becoming a tranportation center with its Alaska Ferry, Amtrak and bus terminal.
One stop in Fairhaven that we love to make is the Eclipse Bookstore at 1104 11th Street. The Eclipse Bookstore is amazing with its vast variety of books covering the two floors of the establishment. Because it's a used book store, the prices are also amazingly low. Today, I got three books by R.D. Lawrence, a renowned Canadian author.
To fortify ourselves before wandering the shelves, we stopped in at Avenue Bread at 1135 11th Street. Avenue Bread is across the street and within easy walking distance. In addition to their wonderful fresh breads (I chose the sourdough with rosemary - YUM), they have a small cafe. We could have chosen soup, salad or sandwiches to go with our coffee, but opted for some of the fresh baked treats. Betty had the ham and cheese croissant and I got the cinnamon twist (double YUM).
A trip to Fairhaven wouldn't be complete without a visit to Village Books at 1200 11th Street. They have mostly new books, but you will also find good used books among the collection. Stop by and check them out.
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Ostrich Leather Large Handbag
Crafted by the most capable and careful of hands, this genuine ostrich leather piece combines contemporary and classic styles in one unforgettable piece of accoutrement. Delicate leather tassels playfully invite the eyes to take a closer look. A beautifully stitched inner double pocket pouch and an inner zip pouch tenderly keep all precious items in place.
Length: 40cm
Width: 15cm
Bag height: 30cm
Total height (base to handle): 54cm
Genuine South African Ostrich leather
Genuine bovine leather interior
1x Inner double pocket pouch
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Returns Policy
We want you to be happy with your purchase. If you are not completely satisfied, you can return the product to us and we will either repair / replace it or credit your account, subject to the terms below.
Unwanted Products
In general, you can return an unwanted item to us at no charge, provided:
• it is undamaged and unused;
• it is in the original packaging, which must be undamaged and in its original condition;
• it is not missing any accessories or parts that came with the item; and
• you log a return by contacting us within 14 days of delivery arriving to you of the unwanted product.
We will collect the product from you at no charge. Our courier is entitled to refuse collection of a product that is not properly packaged for transport.
Preparing your products for a return
To ensure your request is processed as quickly as possible you are responsible for the following when returning your products;
• Package your products safely and securely for protection during transit.
Failure to adhere to any of these requirements could delay the processing of your request or result in its decline altogether.
Once we have inspected the product and validated your return, we will exchange the item, or credit your account with the purchase price of the product within 8 days of the return (or refund you if that is your preference).
Please bear in mind that refunds can take 1-4 working days to reflect in your account. We are entitled to refuse a return if the unwanted product is returned damaged, not in a re-saleable condition or missing any accessories.
We do our best to ensure that the products we deliver to you are of a high quality and without defects.
What is a defect? A defect is a material imperfection in the manufacture of a product or any characteristic of a product, which makes the product less acceptable than one would reasonably be entitled to expect in the circumstances.
The following will NOT be regarded as defects and will not entitle you to a return:
• faults resulting from normal wear and tear;
• damage arising from negligence, user abuse or incorrect usage of the product;
• damage arising from a failure to adequately care for the product;
• damage arising from unauthorised alterations to the product; and
• where the specifications of a product, although accurately described on the website and generally fit for its intended purpose, do not suit you.
If you have received a product which turns out to be defective or damaged from transit, please notify us as soon as reasonably possible after you become aware of the defect, but in any event within 14 days after delivery of the item.
If you return a defective product to us, but you fail to return all of the accessories that were sold with that product, we are entitled (subject to applicable law) to refuse the return, only to replace the item that you did return, or to estimate the value of the missing accessories and only to credit or refund you in respect of the returned item.
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2014 Buick Regal to Start at $30,615
Buick's midsize sport sedan is refreshed for 2014.
For 2014, Buick has refreshed its midsize Regal sedan to try to better compete in the entry-level luxury segment. We drove the updated Regal last week, and now GM has released full pricing for the 2014 Buick Regal. The lineup is rearranged for 2014, with the Regal Turbo now standing as the base model at its starting price of $30,615, the eAssist mild hybrid starting at $32,485, and the performance-oriented Regal GS starting at $37,830, all including destination. This base price is $705 higher than the 2013 Regal, when the eAssist served as the base model.
Major changes for 2014 include revised front and rear fascias, a new eight-inch touchscreen accompanying a reworked interior, an updated turbocharged engine, and newly-available all-wheel-drive. All-wheel-drive is a $2175 option on the Regal Turbo and a $2365 option on the Regal GS.
The 2014 Buick Regal Turbo and GS models feature a 2.0-liter turbocharged engine that is updated for 2014 to produce 259 hp, up from 220 hp in the 2013 Regal Turbo, but down from the 2013 Regal GS model's 270 hp. The 2014 GS model's 295 lb-ft of torque, though, remains the same. All Turbo models are equipped with a six-speed automatic transmission, and a six-speed manual is available on front-wheel-drive GS models for no cost.
Turbo and GS models receive higher EPA ratings of 21/30/24 mpg with the automatic and 20/31/24 mpg city/highway/combined with the manual, compared with 18/29/22 mpg for the 2013 Regal Turbo automatic. 2014 Buick Regal models with all-wheel-drive are rated at 19/27/22 mpg city/highway/combined. The eAssist powertrain is unchanged for 2014 and pairs a 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine with a small electric motor for increased fuel economy of 25/36/29 mpg city/highway/combined.
All 2014 Regals come standard with Buick's IntelliLink infotainment system, a backup camera, heated leather seats, and 18-inch alloy wheels. The GS adds HID headlights, sport seats, navigation, a Bose audio system, 19-inch aluminum wheels, and special Sport and GS driving modes. Option packages include a $1090 Driver Confidence I package, which includes active safety technologies like lane departure warning, blind spot alert, cross traffic alert, and forward collision alert. The $2295 Driver Confidence II package adds adaptive cruise control and collision preparation technologies.
The 2014 Buick Regal goes on sale later this year and will compete with sedans like the 2013 Acura TSX and 2014 Audi A4.
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CUTMR / Public Space / Collage Collective
Collage Collective is a group of artists, creative collaborators, and friends who gather at cultural venues and events around Toronto to show and make collage together.
Cut it OUT! Trinity Collage Fest at CUTMR will be one giant collage party in the Melody Bar. Collage Collective invites you to make a collaborative work of public art inspired by our beloved Trinity Bellwoods. Join Collage Collective in creating fantastical interpretations of the park using images collected from social media and historical photographs of the area. At the first sign of spring we'll hang the community's masterpiece in the park to welcome the fine weather and fun times!
Come Up To My Room (CUTMR) Toronto's largest alternative design show enters a new decade with new initiatives and a diverse lineup of local and national talent: 25 installations, 60 artists, and 4000 visitors, all in under 4 days. Gladstone Managing Director of Art, Britt Welter-Nolan is joined by three new curatorial forces: Jaclyn Blumas, Robert Cram and Elise Hodson.
CUTMR11: Thurs Jan 23 – Sun 26, 2014
- Opening Reception: Sat Jan 25, 2014 | 7-11pm
- Hours: Thurs 6-8pm, Fri 11am-8pm, Sat 11am-10pm, Sun 11am-5pm
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Venture Capital: Aiming to establish mobile search
Brian Lent could have been an Internet billionaire by now. As a graduate student in Stanford University's computer science department in the mid-1990s, Lent worked side-by-side with the founders of Google and Yahoo! as they tried to come up with new technologies to search the Web.
But while Lent missed out on those two home runs, the 35-year-old entrepreneur believes he has stumbled upon what could be a much bigger opportunity: bringing Internet search to the mobile phone.
Today, Lent's 17-month-old mobile search startup -- Seattle-based Medio Systems -- plans to announce $11 million in venture capital financing from Frazier Technology Ventures, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Dot Edu Ventures and others. The money will be used to grow the business, which now consists of about 40 employees at the headquarters in the Bank of America Tower and offices overseas.
Based upon the stampede of investors who tried to get into the deal, some believe that the third time will be the charm for Lent. The company entertained offers from a half-dozen venture capital firms -- including some of the top names in Silicon Valley.
"Medio attracted a lot of attention," said Sam Jadallah, a general partner at Mohr Davidow. "This company has all the money they need."
Still, cash in the bank will not solve the big challenges. After all, the mobile search space is full of deep-pocketed competitors -- including Lent's former grad school buddies at Google and Yahoo! Those companies -- along with additional competitors such as Bellevue-based InfoSpace and San Francisco-based Mforma -- want to help consumers find everything they may need on their cell phones, from maps and movie listings to restaurants and ring tones.
Asked about a possible collision course with Yahoo! and Google, Lent said he believes there is enough room for everyone.
"It is clearly a big space -- 2 billion phones versus 700 million PCs," said Lent, who shared the same adviser at Stanford as Sergey Brin. "There are a lot of new technologies to be born here, and every player is approaching it differently."
Jadallah, a former Microsoft Corp. vice president, thinks Medio has an advantage over the big search engines that are trying to transfer their technology to the mobile environment.
"Our approach is to do a clean sheet -- mobile is different enough and big enough that you are much better off going clean," he said.
Len Jordan, general partner at Frazier Technology Ventures, said that Medio's predictive analytics technology allows people to receive relevant search results on their mobile phones. That's critical because consumers usually want very specific information in a mobile environment -- the closest Starbucks, the Usher ring tone or the departure time for United Flight 386.
"This is a very different animal than Web search on the PC," said Medio Chairman David Bluhm, a wireless veteran who previously worked at Mforma and NearMe. "If I am looking for an Intel stock quote and I put Intel into my phone, I don't want to get a return of Fidelity, Yahoo! Finance and E*Trade where I can go and look for financial information. I want the price of Intel and maybe a trading chart of today."
In other words, Medio helps people "get exact answers to exact questions," Bluhm said.
In many respects, Jadallah, Jordan and the other investors are betting that Lent -- whose name is permanently linked to the birth of Internet search -- can revolutionize mobile search.
In 1994, Lent hooked up with Google co-founder Sergey Brin to create Mining Data at Stanford -- the laboratory that spawned the wildly successful search engine.
That same year Lent also reportedly turned down the No. 1 employee position at Yahoo!, grading the company's business plan a D-minus because the service at the time did not automatically index Web pages, according to an article in Stanford Magazine.
Lent, who studied at Stanford from 1993 to 1998, had several chances to join Google when it was in the research phase. But Lent said he chose not to because he "didn't really see a great business opportunity there."
"Back in the day, search was not really a business per se," he said. "I remember Sergey (Brin) and Larry (Page) trying to sell Google as a technology to Yahoo! and AltaVista and Novell for a million dollars or so, and no one wanted to buy it."
Instead, Lent joined Junglee as the first hire -- a better fit since his research dealt with Internet personalization and usage behavior.
In 1998, Junglee was sold to Amazon.com -- a transaction that led to him moving to Seattle and working at the online retailer.
In 2001, he founded Bellevue data mining startup Intelligent Results. Medio Systems, which was incubated in the offices of Mohr Davidow for several months, followed in May 2004.
Lent said he has huge respect for the Google founders, calling them "phenomenally smart people." He said he doesn't resent the fact that he missed out on the financial windfall -- adding that it is a "natural path that you pick." And he said Medio is not in any way trying to knock Google off its perch.
"My energy, my passion, my heart and soul is about helping people get access to information," said Lent, adding that the theme has run through his work from the early days with Google to the founding of his current startup.
To some degree, he views Medio as a "fourth-generation search company."
"It has taken a lot of core ideas that have been distilled down and baking for a long time," he said.


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Zaha Hadid, Iraq-born architect and darling of the deconstructivist movement (you know who you are) is not exactly best known as a car designer. In fact, most gearheads would be hard pressed to pick her out of a crowded newsroom at the BBC. Regardless, she's debuting her Z-car concept at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City this weekend. While some would say architects have as much business meddling in car design as Camillo Pardo does messing with buildings, artistes will do as they do. Plus, she's designed the central building for BMW's new plant in Leipzig, Germany, which gives her requisite cred points.
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By Radio.com Staff
Luke Bryan & Dierks Bentley will return as hosts for the 52nd annual ACM Awards.
Related: Chris Stapleton, Kelsea Ballerini & More to Play ACM Party for a Cause
The dynamic duo will team up for the second straight year. It will be Bentley's second time hosting and Bryan's fifth.
The ACM Awards will broadcast live from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas Sunday, April 2nd at 8pm ET on CBS.


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CLBRT Documentation
A setup guide and general information to help you get the most out of your new theme.
This document covers the installation, setup, and use of this theme and provides answers and solutions to common problems and issues. We encourage you to read this document thoroughly if you are experiencing any difficulties.
Theme Demo: http://demo.s5themes.com/?theme=clbrt
Theme Page: http://www.s5themes.com/theme/clbrt
Setup guide and general information.
1. Getting Started
To install this theme, you must have a working version of WordPress already installed. For information in regard to installing the WordPress platform, please see the WordPress Codex – http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress
When you are ready to install a theme, you must first upload the theme files and then activate the theme itself. The theme files can be uploaded in two ways:
- FTP Upload: Using your FTP program, upload the unzipped theme folder into the /wp-content/themes/ directory on your server.
- WordPress Upload: Navigate to Appearance > Add New Themes > Upload. Go to browse, and select the zipped theme file. Click "Install Now" and the theme will be uploaded and installed.
Once the theme is uploaded, you need to activate it. Go to Appearance > Themes and activate your chosen theme.
Once activated, a new menu item will appear on the left admin menu named "Theme Options". It's important to click that menu item and "Save" the default options.
2. Theme Features
This theme was designed with simplicity in mind, so setting it up should be a pretty straightforward process for everybody.
The theme comes with features that you can control easily via our user-friendly theme admin panel.. You can find these features below:
- Easy to setup, Theme Options Page
- Custom Logo and Favicon supported
- Typography, Google Web Fonts supported
- Built-in Pagination
- Simple SEO
- Stats code supported
- Custom Menu
3. Custom Menu
While the theme includes one custom menu location, you can also create custom menus for use within the custom menu widget.
To set up your custom menus, navigate to Appearance > Menus.
Give your menu a name and build it up using the available widgets. You can add a variety of items including pages, categories, and custom links. To extend the available widgets, click the screen options tab at the very top of the screen and configure your options. Once you have built your menu, save it, and use it on the Main Menu location or within a custom menu widget Appearance > Widgets (like the one in the footer)
4. Theme Options
The theme comes with an easy-to-use administration panel. You can access it by navigating to Admin > Theme Options. The theme options are conveniently spread over a number of tabs each containing the options that pertain to a particular area of the theme.
4.1 General
You can upload your own logo to use along with a text title, like on the theme demo, or enable only image logo to be displayed. If you choose to have only a text logo simply don't upload any image at all.
4.2 Homepage
You can configure the content elements that will be displayed on the homepage.
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Here you can configure special fonts to be used on the website. By default, Wanderlust uses Raleway for the body text and Merriweather for headers.
4.4 Contact
Here you can set the contact info for your website. Those will be displayed on a page that uses the Contact template.
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Fire Prevention
The Fire Prevention Bureau, overseen by Fire Marshal Kathy Schaefer, adopts and enforces codes and ordinances relative to fire and life safety issues, reviews plans and conducts inspections of construction projects, coordinates annual life safety inspections of all existing commercial buildings, and enforces brush clearance/weed abatement throughout the City of Brea.
Meet the Staff
Kathy Schaefer, Division Chief - Fire Marshal/PIO
Chief Kathy Schaefer began her career with the Brea Fire Department in May of 1990. She became a paramedic in 1995 and worked as a Firefighter/Paramedic until promoted to Captain in December of 2000. In July of 2015, Chief Schaefer was promoted to Battalion Chief. Just over a year later, she was chosen for the position of Division Chief of Administration/Fire Marshal for both Fullerton and Brea Fire Departments where she is currently overseeing the staff in both bureaus.
Peter Salgado, Fire Protection Analyst
Peter Salgado has almost 13 years of experience in Fire Prevention. He started working in 2005 as a Volunteer Inspector for Garden Grove Fire Department. Soon after, he worked for Los Angeles County Fire Department, Monterey Park Fire Department and the last 8 years for Brea Fire Department. He currently holds the position of Fire Protection Analyst and is responsible for plan review, new construction and fire protection system inspections; as well as code interpretation.
Nicole Pesqueira, Fire Prevention Specialist II/Fire Investigator
Nicole Pesqueira has worked in the fire service for over 9 years working for Orange City Fire, Pasadena Fire and now in her current role at the Brea Fire Department. Nicole is responsible for origin and cause investigations, annual fire life safety inspections, special event inspections, candle/open flame permits, complaint inspections, and public education. She serves on the Orange County Fire Prevention Officers' board as President, Fire Prevention Liaison for the California Conference of Fire Investigators and is Co-Chair for the Southern California Fire Prevention Officers' Association.
Ron Aristondo, Fire Prevention Specialist I
Ron Aristondo began his career with Orange County Fire Authority (OCFA) in March of 2010 as a Volunteer Firefighter. He was hired shortly thereafter as a New Construction Inspector with OCFA. He also worked for Fullerton Fire Department as a Fire Inspector. Ron is responsible for annual fire life safety inspections, weed abatement, complaint inspections, and new construction inspections.


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Falling prey to destructive patterns of substance abuse is easier than many believe. Even disciplined, responsible people sometimes find themselves realizing their lives have changed for the worse in this way.
Seeking help to overcome habitual substance abuse will almost always be the best policy. Unfortunately, financial considerations and fears lead some to put off or rule out this frequently important option.
As those who read more online will see, however, there are treatment options that can work with virtually any budget. Learning about the factors that tend to influence the cost of substance abuse rehabilitation will often make it easier to choose appropriately.
Many Factors Affect the Cost and Price of Providing Substance Abuse Treatment
There are many substance abuse rehabilitation programs to choose from today, and all have their own combinations of features, treatments, and approaches. As such, costs can also vary widely, with some free programs being open to all and certain very exclusive ones available only to the wealthiest people.
Fortunately, the costs associated with any program will almost always stem from fairly straightforward, concrete associated realities. Some of the issues that tend to affect the price of substance abuse treatment programs the most include:
- Residency. Programs that see patients checking into a facility for weeks or more of intensive treatment tend to be more expensive than those that revolve around therapy provided on a purely outpatient basis. That might be taken to attest to the superiority of the latter type of program, but this is generally not the case. In practice, inpatient programs are often so much more effective the additional costs associated with this type of treatment can almost always be justified where.
- Staffing. Some of the free, publicly available, meeting-focused programs that are available will include perhaps one staff member for each twenty or so participants. In many cases, inpatient, residency-based substance abuse programs will cut that ratio by several factors, and that costs money.
Cost Should Only Ever Be One Consideration
It will always be wise to choose a program where the cost can be borne without excessive difficulty. At the same time, recognizing a higher price will often correspond to more in the way of effectiveness will be valuable when choosing a substance abuse treatment program.


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Cotsen Library program nurtures young architects
The Cotsen Children's Library was filled with the sounds of crashing bricks, falling mortar and crumbling archways, but the noise had nothing to do with the construction around campus.
Eighteen local elementary school students were taking part in the library's "Toy Architecture" course on the history, basic principles and terminology of architecture, which featured many hands-on activities designed to let the children experience the science of building.
The children, ages 9 through 11, transformed wooden blocks and red clay into an archway and used materials such as Lego bricks, Lincoln Logs, toothpicks, marshmallows and Popsicle sticks for projects ranging from birdhouses to commercial building models. To learn how to develop floor plans, the students cut open green peppers and used the cross sections as models. They also used their bodies in a series of exercises to imitate various structural elements, such as flying buttresses, archways, tunnels and cantilevers.
Daniel Blazejewski, 11, an aspiring engineer, enjoyed the workshop. "I'm really good at building things. It's what I like to do, and I'm around people that like it as well," he said. "The best part is the free time, because we get to build stuff."
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Leica Geosystems partnership
Posted by Radu B. Rusu |
It is our immense pleasure to announce the beginning of a new partnership between Open Perception and Leica Geosystems, and a series of new code sprints: PCL-LGSCS!
We are looking for talented contributors that are willing to develop open source efficient compression mechanisms for organized and unorganized 3D point cloud data in two separate code sprint projects. In both cases, the ultimate goal is to achieve as much compression as possible, but we will require an analysis with respect to the de/compression speed that can be obtained. A requirement is to be able to process a few million points per second on a standard laptop. In addition we will analyze and compare different lossy vs lossless compression techniques.
The data sources are variate, from terrestrial to mobile and aerial point clouds. Besides XYZ coordinates we expect the datasets to contain an additional intensity and/or color per point. Each dataset will contain standard meta information, and in the case of lossy compression, we will need to specify certain error limits to be satisfied.
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Kent Online Parish Clerks
A View of the Parish
Your Online Parish Clerk for Sandwich, St. Peter is: VACANT.
Sandwich, St. Peter is, ecclesiastically, in the diocese of Canterbury, in the archdeaconry of Canterbury and in the deanery of Sandwich. The church is named for St. Peter with registers commencing 1538.
Sandwich is a town, three parishes, and a sub-district, in Eastry district, Kent. The town stands on the river Stour, and on the Ramsgate and Deal railway, 2 miles west of Pegwell Bay, and 4-1/2 miles northwest-by-north of Deal; grew out of the ruins of the Roman Rhutupis or Rutupiæ at Richborough; was known to the Saxons as Sandwic or Sondwych, signifying "sand town"; figured in the Saxon times also as Lundenwic, or out-port to London; appears first on record as the landing place of Wilfred in 665, after he had preached among the Frisians; was attacked, but not taken, by the Danes in 838 and 851; was atacked by them again, and pillaged, in 852, 994, and 1,007; stood, in these early times, on the margin of the sea, with a good and capacious haven;was the rendezvous of the fleet of Etheldred II, to oppose the Danes; suffered renewed attacks by the Danes in 1008, 1009, and 1013; became, about 1014, the most important of the English harbours; was visited, in that year, by Canute; was the landing place of Canute in 1016, on his way to the throne; was reconstructed by Canute, and given by him to Christ Church, Canterbury; was visited, in 1039, by Hardicanute; had 307 houses in the time of Edward the Confessor, and was then made a cinque port; was visited by Edward the Confessor in 1049, and again in 1052 to oppose Earl Godwin; had 383 houses at Domesday; was the embarking place of Thomas à Becket after his scene with the king at Northampton, and his landing place on his return in December 1170; was the landing place of Richard I in 1194 after his imprisonment in Austria; was burnt by the French in 1217; was the embarking place of Edward III for France and Flanders in 1342, 1345, 1347, 1349, 1359 and 1372; was the landing place of the Black Prince, with his prisoner the French king; was fortified against the French, in 1384, by Richard II, was the embarking place, in 1416, of Henry V; was plundered by the French in 1445, and burnt by them in 1457; made such speedy recovery from its disasters as to have 95 ships with 1,500 sailors in the time of Edward IV, and as then to yield customs to the yearly amount of £17,000; was the embarking place of Edward IV to France in 1475; began to suffer decay from the choking of its harbour with sand about 1500; experienced revival in 1561 and subsequent years, by immigration of Walloons, acting principally as barge workers and as gardeners; suffered a slight stroke of earthquake in 1579; was ravaged by plague in 1636, 1637, 1644 and 1666; was visited by Henry VIII, by Elizabeth in 1573, by Cromwell in 1651, by Charles II in 1660; numbers, among its natives, Bishop Henry deSandwich who died in 1273, Manwood the lawyer who died in 1592, Sir J. Mennes the mariner who was born in 1598, Sir J. Burroughs the herald who died in 1643, Sir H. Furnese who was born in 1658, Sir G. Ent the physician who died in 1689, Burchett the admiralty secretary in the time of Queen Anne, Dr. Simmons who was born in 1750, and Admiral Rainier who died in 1808; has given the title of Earl to the family of Montague since 1650; and had its name transferred, through the Earl of Sandwich who was minister of George III, to the group of South Sea Islands discovered by Cook in 1769.
The town had an ancient castle, which was held against Edward IV by Falconbridge, and is now quite gone; had also encompassing walls, partly of stone, partly of earth with five gates, one of which called Fishers-gate still stands; had likewise a Carmelite friary, founded in 1272 by Lord Clinton, vested with the privilege of sanctuary and given at the dissolution to the Ardens; retains interesting fragments of ancient domestic architecture, particularly in a house in Lucksboat Street seemingly of the time of Henry VIII, and in two houses in Strand Street, one of which is said to have been occupied by Queen Elizabeth at her visit in 1573; exhibits now a decayed, antique, crowded, and intricate appearance, more like that of a plain old weather-worn continental town than like that of most old towns in England; stands, with rectangular outline, on a platform about 15 feet above the level of an encompassing plain; is a seat of petty sessions and county courts; was made a borough by Edward III, with right of sending two members to parliament; is governed, under the new municipal act, by a mayor, 4 aldermen, and 12 councillors; and has a head post-office with a money order office and a savings bank; a railway station with telegraph, two banking offices, two chief inns, a guild hall of 1579, an assembly room at one of the inns, a town jail with capacity for 14 male and 4 female prisoners, a two-arched bridge with swing for transit of vessels, a custom house, three churches, three dissenting chapels, a grammar school, a national school, three alms-house-hospitals, a benefit building society, and charities, including those of the grammar school and the hospitals, £1,394.
St. Bartholomew's hospital was founded about 1200; gives lodging and maintenance to 16 persons; includes an interesting early English chapel; and has an endowed income of £766.
St. Thomas' hospital was founded in 1392 by T. Elys; maintains 12 persons; includes an ancient dining hall, with early perpendicular English window; and has an endowed income of £349.
St. John's hospital was founded before 1287, and afterwards rebuilt; and has an endowed income of £131.
A corn market is held on every Wednesday; a cattle market, on every alternate Monday; and a pleasure fair, on 4 December. Tanning, wool sorting, malting, brewing, seed crushing, iron founding, and ship building are carried on; coal is extensively imported, for the supply of much of the east of Kent; timber and iron also are imported; and corn, malt, flour, seeds, wool, fruit, and hops are exported.
The harbour became inaccessible to sea-borne vessels soon after 1500; suffered increasing injury from recession of the sea; could be entered till after 1847 only by small vessels, in a tortuous course up the Stour; began to undergo improvement under an act of parliament obtained in 1847, and continued to undergo increase of improvement in years up to 1868. The corporation revenue amounts to about £2,300.
The municipal borough comprises the parishes of St. Clement, St. Peter and St. Mary, and the extra parochial tract of St. Bartholomew's hospital; and the parliamentary borough includes also the parishes of Deal and Walmer.
Acres of St. Peter, 36; of St. Bartholomew extra-parochial, 6. Population in 1861, of St. Peter, 1,085; of St. Bartholomew, 51. Houses of St. Peter, 258; and of St. Bartholomew, 16.
The parish of St. Peter includes the hamlets of St. John and St. Thomas. The living of St. Peter is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury. Value of St. Peter, £144 with a habitable glebe house. Patron of St. Peter, alternatively the Lord Chancellor and W. Tringham, Esq..
St. Peter's church is mainly early English; and has a ruined south aisle, a hideously remodelled chancel, a modern tower of stone below and brick above, and numerous monuments hidden by pews.
Real property of the three parishes combined with St. Bartholomew's found in 1860, £10,031; of which £198 were in gas works. Real property of the parliamentary borough, £41,246. Amount of property and income tax charged in 1863, £2,188. Electors in 1833, 916; in 1868, 1,069. Population in 1851, 12,710; in 1861, 13,750. Houses, 2,672.
The sub-district contains also 6 other parishes and part of another. Acres, 24,870. Population, 8,759. Houses, 1,801.1 For further information regarding Sandwich, St. Clement, see the Kent OPC web page. For further information regarding Sandwich, St. Mary, see the Kent OPC web page.
The sub-district contains also 6 other parishes and part of another. Acres, 24,870. Population, 8,759. Houses, 1,801.1
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In the euphoric days after Vaclav Havel went from ex-prisoner to Czechoslovak President, he told friends, "I feel like an impostor." He kept dreaming that the old secret police showed up, stripped him of power and threw him back in jail.
It did seem unreal. Havel, a short, absurdist playwright, had led the bloodless 1989 Velvet Revolution that toppled one of Eastern Europe's coldest Cold War regimes. Now he was President of a democratic country, dining at the White House and welcoming the Rolling Stones, the Dalai lama and Prince Charles to Prague, the Czech capital city that had become the spiritual center of a new Eastern Europe.
Havel's death at age 75 was announced on Dec. 18. The man who wrote absurdist dramas that ridiculed the brutal communist flunkies who ruled his country indeed, the Soviet bloc had had severe health problems for years. In 1998 Havel battled lung cancer, a ruptured colon and a perforated ulcer and came close to dying. But he managed to hang on for 13 more years long enough to see the Prague Spring and his work as a dissident inspire Chinese activists like Liu Xiaobo and to see his experiences reincarnated in the Arab Spring, where beaten-down populations rose up against regimes almost as totalitarian and thuggishly imbecile as the one he helped overthrow. The cries of "The people want the regime to fall" in Cairo and Tunis were echoes of "Havel to the Castle," the roar of the crowds as they insisted that their playwright hero take the reins of power in Prague.
Havel was no longer President after the end of his term in 2003. But he remained iconic and relevant, even after reformers and other dissidents such as Mikhail Gorbachev in Russia and Lech Walesa in Poland lost their luster. The Czechs have lost an irreplaceable moral leader. He led them out of totalitarianism and into democracy. He made the world care about their country and became the conscience of a confused region searching for a postcommunist order.
Havel at first glance was an unlikely beacon of morality. He was not slick or square-jawed. He mumbled and moved with an odd, racing shuffle. He cheated on his wife Olga and smoked too much. But to a nation used to lies, he was an electrifyingly honest voice. When Havel told Czechs to live in truth, to resist becoming totalitarian cogs, he had credibility because he had backed up his words with his life.
Havel spent most of his life feeling like an outsider. As a child, he was a shy bookworm embarrassed by his family's real estate fortune. "Add to that," Havel said, "the fact that I was overweight, and the other children, as children will, laughed at my tubbiness." In 1948 Havel became a different kind of pariah when the communists seized power in postwar Czechoslovakia, confiscating his family's property and barring him from high school. Havel washed test tubes for a living and decided that life was absurd. From there, it was a short step to absurdist theater. Drafted into military service, Havel wrote a rousing drama for his battalion that army officials praised until they took a closer look and realized that this chubby, polite soldier was making fun of them. After the army, he got a job as a stagehand at Prague's Theater on the Balustrade. There he wooed and wed a sharp-tongued usher named Olga Splichalova and wrote acerbic plays that stuck audiences' noses in the ridiculousness of their totalitarian world. These were the relatively relaxed political days leading up to the 1968 Prague Spring, when the communists allowed some criticism. In The Memorandum (1965), for example, authorities introduce a language called Ptydepe and order everyone to speak it even though it's Orwellian nonsense.
Havel the playwright painted the world as absurd. But Havel the citizen had a solution: Don't repeat the nonsense. Those who live in truth, he declared, have tremendous power in a system supported by lies, simply because they threaten its foundation. Havel did. After invading Soviet tanks crushed the Prague Spring, the authorities banned Havel's writings and harassed friends who talked to him. Those were lonely years, but Havel beat back depression and wrote plays, started an underground press and founded the human-rights group Charter 77. That earned him prison time; the longest stretch began in 1979, when Havel received a 4½-year sentence.
The naturally nervous Havel was a difficult prisoner. He wrote petulant letters to his wife (later published as Letters to Olga) berating her for failing to make home repairs, to write him more letters or to improve her hairdo. But when authorities offered him visas abroad or chances to recant, he refused. When they released him, he kept being Havel and got arrested again; his last arrest came just months before the Velvet Revolution.
Havel didn't start the revolution that happened when police beat unarmed students on Nov. 17, 1989 but he masterminded it. He told the beaten-down Czechs they could prevail. They believed him and filled Wenceslas Square, giddy with their own courage. And Havel, backed by these people who had rediscovered their backbone, negotiated the communists out of power.


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Colorado Rapids host Columbus Crew in playoff match Thursday in MLS Cup playoffs
The Colorado Rapids will host the Columbus Crew in a wild card playoff match this Thursday at 8 p.m. at Dick's Sporting Goods Park as they begin their defense of the MLS Cup.
The Rapids secured the home match by virtue of a 2-1 comeback win on Saturday over Vancouver Whitecaps FC in British Columbia.
"It's a good win for us and it secures home field in the playoffs," midfielder Brian Mullan said Saturday after the win. "This win gives us a little confidence and means we don't have to travel as much in the playoffs."


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Head of production for Film Agency Wales joins IFB.
Keith Potter, head of production at the Film Agency for Wales, is to join the Irish Film Board's production and development team as project manager in April.
Potter will work closely with Rory Gilmartin who was appointed to the IFB as a project manager in November 2012 and will manage supported projects across all genres from development through to distribution.
Recent productions Potter oversaw from development through to production and distribution at the Film Agency for Wales include KelIy and Victor, Resistance, The Gospel of Us, We Went to War and Hunky Dory as well as Isabel Coixet's upcoming Panda Eyes.
From 2007-2010, Potter was the head of talent at the Film Agency for Wales and was previously head of development at Dan Films.
Commenting on the appointment James Hickey, chief executive of the Irish Film Board, said: "Keith is an important addition to the newly structured IFB Production and Development team. He brings with him excellent production experience and international contacts and has demonstrated a strong commitment to discovering and developing new film writing and directing talent throughout his career to date."


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1-1 1/2 lbs pork in bone(not ribs which have lots of fats)*ask butcher for pork in bone for soup if you have no idea which part*
3 canes of lotus root,peeled ,sliced and washed
1 handful pitted red date,about 1/2 cup,soaked
2 candy date
1 cup raw skinless peanut
1 large carrot,peeled and cut 1 inch
5 or more liter water
salt to taste
1:Washed and cut all ingredients,set aside.Prepare 5 quart or larger stock pot with some water at high heat.When water rolling boil add on pork in bone for 3-5 minutes to wash the excess fat away.Remove pork from heat and wash with cold water again.
2:Combine all ingredients and 5 liter water in the stock pot at high heat.Cover the stock pot with lid.When water rolling boil reduce heat to medium,let the soup simmer for 1 hour or until the color change to pinkness.Add 1-2 liter of water if necessary.Continue simmer for another 1 hour.
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McDonald's Is Serving Poutine in Chicago for a Limited Time
This spring, McDonald's opened a brand new 6,000-square-foot restaurant on the ground floor of its corporate headquarters in Chicago. Here, customers can order fan-favorite Big Macs or McNuggets, as well as a selection of rotating items from international McD's. The Golden Arches just introduced the latest slate of worldly offerings, and one looks like a tragic tribute to a beloved Canadian delicacy.
The Unhealthiest McDonald's Menu Items
McDonald's rendition of poutine features the chain's classic fries topped with cheese curds and gravy. In the promotional photo, the fries are merely drizzled with diluted-looking gravy and the curds look more like a ripped-up cheese stick.
This writer has strong feelings on poutine; I grew up in the North Country just miles from the Canadian border, and maple syrup practically runs through my veins. Correct me if I'm wrong (which I'm not), but proper poutine should be smothered in gravy and gobs of legitimate melty cheese curds, so help me Justin Trudeau.
Thankfully, an Instagram search shows plenty of real-life photos of McDonald's poutine that look a lot better than the promo shot. There is an ample amount of gravy, and the cheese looks bigger and chunkier.View this post on Instagram
Some diners have asserted that the fries don't match the dish (poutine is normally made with thicker fries) and that McDonald's "has nothing on 'real' poutine," but the general consensus is that their version is pretty freakin' good. One set of junk food Instagrammer twins even said the dish "bangs."
Here's what else Chicagoans will find on McDonald's global menu:
Morning WrapThis breakfast wrap hails from the U.K. It starts with a flour tortilla that's filled with bacon, eggs, a potato rosti (similar to the American hash brown), American cheese, sausage, and a choice of ketchup or brown sauce - a popular British condiment traditionally comprised of tomatoes, molasses, dates, apples, tamarind, spices, vinegar, and sometimes raisins.
Angus Maestro BurgerThis burger was selected from the Netherlands, and includes two Angus beef patties seasoned with a steak and butter sauce. It's topped with a slice of white cheddar cheese, two slices of bacon, lettuce, red onion, ketchup, and wild mustard.
Keep Calm and Caesar OnThis fresh take on a Caesar salad is from Canada, and is built with a mix of lettuces topped with shaved Parmesan cheese, bacon bites, roasted garlic focaccia croutons, a choice of sliced grilled or crispy chicken, and Caesar dressing.
I'm Greeking OutThis salad was also sourced from Canada, and uses a mix of lettuces topped with sliced cucumbers, red pepper strips, crumbled feta, seasoned couscous, herb and garlic pita chips, a choice of sliced grilled or crispy chicken, and Greek dressing.
Hershey's Cookies 'N' Crème McFlurryThis sweet treat is from Latin America. It features vanilla soft serve swirled with Hershey's Cookies 'N' Crème candy bars and hot fudge sauce.
Get these international menu items while they're hot, because when the next rotation rolls around, they'll be on menu boards abroad only. Then you'll never see them again, just like these failed McDonald's menu items.


text: Tonight is the 1000th episode of WWE Raw, which started life as an unassuming little weekly program based on the novel conceit that wrestling could be broadcast live, in primetime. It's easy to forget now, but they barely made it to 200 episodes. The upstart WCW, on the strength of poached talent and the NWO, routinely buried the WWF in the mid-to-late '90s—until the Attitude Era, which still remains the Raw's golden age. The Houston Press has a massive rundown of the Monday Night Wars, from the first shots to Vince McMahon emerging as the undisputed king of pro wrestling. Get ready to spend way too much time going down memory lane. [Houston Press]


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Earl Clements has been making and painting didgeridoos for over 15 years. Originally from New South Wales, he has spent the last 20 years in the Northern Territory (between Darwin and Arnhem Land) where he has been focusing on his artwork and didgeridoos.
Earl is a versatile maker who produces both natural finish didgeridoos and a variety of decorated style didgeridoos including painted, carved and burnt pokerwork.
He is one of those talented and unique didgeridoo craftsmen who are able to express their artwork on a didgeridoo while at the same time still producing a quality instrument.
Earl's Aboriginal heritage comes from his mothers side. His mother was born in Longreach, Queensland, of the local Iningai tribe.
A popular maker at Spirit Gallery with a wide range of styles and prices to suit everybody.
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You will find all you need to know about joining and visiting the club. If you want to try Table Tennis, whether new to the game or wanting to pick up where you left off, we have all the facilities and coaching you will need to get the best out of your game. It's fun, it's healthy and a great way to socialise and meet new friends.
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ATEX Zone 1 kilolab for chemical vacuum / pressure reactions
Glass Reactor miniPilot: 10 liter / -1.0 to +1.0 bar
Pressure Reactor kiloclave: 5liter / 60 bar
Hydrogenation system bpc
Glass Nutsch Filter: 10l
Gas scrubber: 6l
Temperature: -90°C to +200°C
Material: Borosilicate glass 3.3, Stainless steel, PTFE ,PFA
This compact and versatile kilolab shows the combination of different Buchi equipment in one plant.
Reactors, filters, gas scrubbers, dosing and control components, were installed in minimal space at the R+D kilo lab at Teva ratiopharm in Ulm, Germany.
Hydrogenations, low-temperature reactions (-80°), chemical processes with strong bases are executed in the system, which serves for Final Step processing also.


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Padres hope Cabrera shakes off spring struggles
SAN DIEGO -- Shortstop Everth Cabrera, who was suspended for the final 50 games of last season, got off to a slow start in Spring Training -- offensively and defensively.
Cabrera led the team with four errors and had contact issues at the top of the order, finishing the spring with 16 strikeouts in 61 at-bats.
"I attribute some of that to spring and maybe he was trying to hurry some things [defensively]," said San Diego manager Bud Black. "But overall, I think he had to get back on the field and play."
Cabrera was the team's lone All-Star representative last season, hitting .291 in the first half. But he did not play after Aug. 4 after he was suspended for the final 50 games of the regular season in relation to the Biogenesis investigation.
Black said it's imperative Cabrera play like he did in the first half of last season if the Padres are to be successful.
"He's got to get on base, the job of the leadoff hitter is to get on base and create havoc and put pressure on the other team," Black said.


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Otto Preminger's terrible Hurry Sundown (1967) gained some notoriety when it appeared in Harry Medved and Randy Dreyfuss's (and Michael Medved, uncredited) The Fifty Worst Films of All Time, the influential 1978 softcover that helped launch the so-bad-it's-good mode of movie-watching. Upon reflection, the authors would probably like to completely revise their book if they could. Not only are obvious favorites like Plan 9 from Outer Space omitted, in the case of Hurry Sundown it's not even Otto Preminger's worst film (most would agree Skidoo wins that honor), let alone truly ranking as one of the 50 all-time worst.
Hurry Sundown is still plenty bad, though disappointingly it's not all that amusingly bad, just tasteless, overwrought, miscast, wildly inauthentic, and overrun with stereotypes of the American South. As one critic put it, it's the bottom of the cracker barrel.
Nevertheless, I'm sure there are plenty of film buffs eager to see it. This reviewer is certainly delighted Olive Films licensed both it and Preminger's much better Such Good Friends (1971) from Paramount's classic film library. The disc is 16:9 enhanced and presented in its original Panavision aspect ratio.
The story is set in Georgia in 1946 though I found this confusing at first. In the opening scenes automobiles from the mid-1960s are clearly visible in the distance, as are television antennae on the tops of various houses. In any case, bigoted draft-dodging landowner Henry Warren (Michael Caine) and his unhappy, racist trophy wife, Julie Ann (Jane Fonda), are ready to celebrate a land deal that will make them filthy rich. Only two plots of as-yet-unpurchased farmland stand in their way. The first belongs to Rad McDowell (John Phillip Law), Henry's dirt-poor cousin, who's just returned from the war and into the arms of his devoted wife, Lou (Faye Dunaway), and their army of barefoot children. The second plot belongs to Julie Ann's former mammy, Rose Scott (Beah Richards), whose sharecropper son Reeve (Robert Hooks) is trying to work the land.
Most of the picture contrasts the unhappy Warren family with the poor-but-happy-if-struggling McDowells and Scotts. Julie Ann's mentally disturbed six-year-old hasn't spoken a word since stepfather Henry tied him up in his crib and abandoned him for the day. The kid screams a lot, usually when Henry and Julie Ann are about to have sex. (His ear-splitting screams are the only authentic thing about the film. Given Preminger's autocratic-sadistic reputation he might not be acting.) Provocateur Preminger is on display in Hurry Sundown's trashy and frequent sexual innuendo, most notoriously when Jane Fonda's Julie Ann turns on Michael Caine's Henry by essentially giving Henry's saxophone a blow-job.
Hurry Sundown makes a bit more sense when you realize Preminger originally conceived the project as a socially relevant melodrama set in the Deep South - Margaret Mitchell meets Harper Lee. Certainly Jane Fonda plays Julie Ann a lot like Scarlett O'Hara while Preminger hired To Kill a Mockingbird's screenwriter, Horton Foote, to adapt Katya and Bert Gilden's cheesy novel. In its early stages, Preminger conceived a four-and-a-half-hour roadshow with reserved-seat tickets as pricey as $25. And that was in 1965-66.
Filming in Louisiana, near the height of the civil rights movement, proved more harrowing than anything in the movie. Locals objected to the interracial socializing of the Hollywood cast and crew (sharing the same hotel swimming pool, etc.), threatening and reportedly even firing upon the unit, who eventually kept to their rooms guarded by armed state troopers.
Unfortunately, Hurry Sundown is itself singularly unreal, as ludicrous as Carol Burnett's celebrated spoof of Gone With the Wind. One look at the racial strife being reported almost daily on the evening news and Hurry Sundown was like a live-action cartoon.
Preminger directed lots of good, envelope-pushing movies that not only broke censorship barriers and addressed cultural taboos but which were also unusual and even daring in their structure and telling, and which explored settings and conflicts generally avoided by mainstream Hollywood. Consider Advise & Consent (1962), Preminger's best film, in which he not only dealt with homosexuality in politics in a frank (if somewhat dated) manner, but also the wheeling and dealing of Congress better than any fiction film before or since. That film was unusual as there was no central protagonist, and several actors were successfully cast against type, including a British actor (Charles Laughton) playing a southerner.
In Hurry Sundown Cockney Caine's attempt at a Georgian accent isn't so bad except that it's Michael Caine, for cryin' out loud, an instant pop icon as the singularly British Alfie and Harry Palmer; it's just hard to accept him playing a Simon Legree-type southerner. Fonda's undone by her ludicrous Southern Belle character; in some scenes she's terrible, but in others not bad. Burgess Meredith's racist judge probably comes off best because he lowers his performance to the level of the material, hamming it up outrageously: the Penguin as Col. Sanders. (Meredith, a Preminger regular, was fine in Advise & Consent, conversely quite subtle in that.)
John Phillip Law's association with Preminger (he's also in Skidoo) probably damaged a promising career. Law was outstanding as the handsome Russian sailor in The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming (1966) but mainly worked in Europe after Preminger's two films. A big courtroom scene near the end features Robert Reed in a kind of amusing flip-flop of his character from The Defenders, while Jim Backus, fresh from Gilligan's Island, is surprisingly good in a straight dramatic turn.
Why absolutely everything went so terribly wrong on Hurry Sundown is impossible to say, except that the project began heading south (so to speak) the moment the novel failed to set the world on fire as Gone With the Wind had. That, coupled with Preminger's fame as an abusive screamer-type, couldn't have helped.
Video & Audio
Filmed in Panavision, Hurry Sundown looks just fine in its 16:9 enhanced 2.35:1 presentation. Though bad in other ways the film was a big production and the literally explosive climax is an eye-opener on big screen TVs. The region 1 disc has no subtitle or alternate audio options, but the English mono track is totally fine. There are no Extra Features.
Parting Thoughts
If it catches one in just the right mood - and that apparently was true of DVD Savant - Hurry Sundown can be fairly entertaining, and it's worth seeing for its cast, but it's neither the unjustly-maligned masterpiece I was hoping for nor the laff-riot I was expecting. As such this is merely Recommended for the morbidly curious.
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It's that time of the year again... Time to celebrate holiday traditions and reconnect with family and friends, making a great theme for this week's news. GigaOM shared that telcos and cable companies added more than 500,000 US broadband subscribers in the third-quarter of 2013 alone, largely due to consumers' usage of video chat and mobile applications.
This week, Multichannel News shared that South Korea's SK Broadband will use our E6000 Converged Edge Router to help power its upcoming 1-Gig service. Looking ahead to 2014, Investor's Business Daily recently profiled ARRIS, discussing our role in supporting future opportunities for cable and telco TV companies by leveraging IPTV to deliver video and data through the most modern set-top devices.
Additionally, AllThingsD shared a new report from Nielsen suggesting Americans are watching more TV than ever, with increases in the number of viewers watching live TV and timeshifted TV. Finally, Business2Consumer offered projections for Social TV, noting that 2014 will be a year of more exact data and innovation in the field.
What are you watching for this next year? Let us know in the comments!
- The U.S. now has over 83 million broadband subscribers (Nov. 26) By Om Malik, GigaOM: Large phone and cable companies added nearly half-a-million broadband subscribers during the third quarter of 2013. The U.S. seems to be on its way to 100 million subscribers, and Comcast seems to be the big winner of the broadband sweepstakes.
- SK Broadband Taps Arris For Planned 1-Gig Service (Dec. 4) By Jeff Baumgartner, Multichannel News: SK Broadband of South Korea said it will tap the Arris E6000 Converged Edge Router to help it power a coming 1 Gbps broadband service and other "enhanced entertainment experiences."
- TV's Next Big Thing Turns Up Growth For Arris Group (Dec. 4) By Marie Beerens, Investor's Business Daily: Arris Group, an equipment provider to cable and telco television, is poised to benefit as those industries increasingly pipe programming to TVs by Internet protocol instead of more traditional means.
- Surprise! You're Watching More TV Than Ever. (Dec. 4) By Peter Kafka, AllThingsD: No one watches TV anymore. You don't, and no one you know does, and it's just a matter of time before the TV Industrial Complex folds in on itself and disappears. Except … it turns out that people are. Still. Watching. TV.
- Social TV: In 2013, Improved Reporting Accuracy and Increased Growth Internationally (Dec. 1) By Ron Mwangaguhunga, Business2Community: According to the recent report "Social TV Market: Global Advancements Forecasts and Analysis (2012-2017)", the social TV ecosystem is expected to grow from $151.14 billion in 2012 to $256.44 billion by 2017. Further, the pace of spending for TV ad dollars is slowing, while mobile video ad growth is rising.


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General Motors will roll out a refreshed 2013 Cadillac SRX in a bid to maintain the popular crossover's sales momentum.
GM will rely mostly on an improved interior and enhanced safety features to boost SRX sales, which have risen sharply since a redesigned model was introduced in 2009. GM will unveil the vehicle this week at the New York auto show.
The 2013 SRX gets Cadillac's new infotainment system, Cadillac User Experience, or CUE, which allows users to make swipe and drag motions on the 8-inch touch screen similar to operating a smartphone. GM is rolling out the system across the Cadillac lineup with plans to include it on the upcoming XTS large sedan and ATS compact sedan.
For the 2013 SRX, GM added a motorized faceplate that conceals a storage compartment for mobile devices and includes an illuminated USB port.
Other interior enhancements include a redesigned steering wheel and shift knob; a new instrument cluster to relay driver information via the CUE system; and active noise cancellation, which uses microphones and sound waves to counteract unwanted noise in the cabin.
Exterior changes include a restyled grille and the addition of front fender vents and LED headlights.
GM also is adding a package of safety features. They include an automatic braking system to avoid collisions, adaptive cruise control, lane departure warning and a "safety alert seat," which vibrates to warn the driver of a potential crash.
Over the last two years, brisk SRX sales have helped Cadillac offset a thin car lineup. GM recently phased out the Cadillac DTS and STS to make way for the upcoming ATS and XTS.
During the first generation of the SRX, from model years 2004 to 2009, sales were sluggish. In 2010, the first full year after the redesign, sales more than doubled to 51,094.
Last year, sales rose 11 percent from a year earlier to 56,905.


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Crews prep to shore up cracked San Francisco terminal beams
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - San Francisco transit officials say crews began work to shore up two cracked beams that shuttered a new $2 billion terminal.
The Transbay Joint Powers Authority said Thursday that crews removed ceiling panels and light fixtures at the Salesforce Transit Center ahead of installing a system to support the beams that could begin this weekend.
The authority, which operates the transit center, closed the center Tuesday evening.
Workers that morning had discovered a crack 2½ feet (less than 1 meter) long and 4 inches (10 centimeters) deep on a steel beam holding up the transit center's rooftop park.
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If you happen to be anywhere near Hong Kong on May 26th and $42,000 is a trifling amount to splash out on a watch, then you should make your leisurely way to the Shangri-La, for an auction of fine modern wristwatches by Bonhams.
Harry Winston Project Z3 Sport Tourbillon
Two highlights catch the eye. An ultra rare Harry Winston Project Z3 Sport Tourbillon – only 50 were ever made.
The watch was introduced in 2006, the third version in the Z platform features one of the most beautiful complications in horology – an automatic tourbillon with the frame's rotation system located within. With the Z3, a new complication entered the Zalium collection: the Tourbillon. And it was not a mere Tourbillon: it was an automatic one with a power reserve of more than 100 hours.
Project Z3 also includes another distinct attribute: a 'warning' system informing the wearer that the power reserve is spent and it is necessary to rewind the watch.
The movement was developed by Peter Speake-Marin, who has of course gone on to develop his own highly regarded manufacture. The watch is expected to fetch something in the region of US$42,000.
Patek Philippe Perpetual Calendar Chronograph Ref.5970J in 18k gold
Another highlight under the hammer is an exquisite Patek Philippe Perpetual Calendar Chronograph Ref.5970J in 18k gold.
The traditional chronograph with perpetual calendar was relaunched with a larger case in 2004 in yellow gold. Pure, timeless elegance from this complicated Patek Philippe icon. As is always the case with Patek Philippe, your pockets will need to be even deeper.
The watch is expected to fetch something in the region of US$120,000 to US$170,000 – and the bidding could go considerably higher. Happy bidding.
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Quote:That's interesting Fletch. So you don't see it as a valid or dependable response to a weapon disarm? There are some other variations from the same entries when (a botched) kote gaeshi can be turned into a kote mawashi (wrist return) or kote oroshi (wrist drop) - depending on the situation.Do you do the takedown and pins as well from kote gaeshi?
Quote:I have known this move for a long time, learned it in my karate class. When i started my mma training, i tried to no avail to get this off, it is effective if i can only get it off. Things are just happening to fast and everything is all slippery in the heat of battle. What is my problem?
Quote:Hello all.The Kote Gaeshi wristlock is one of the first locks I learned in Traditional JJ. For those not familiar, it is the compressing and twisting lock where your thumb(s) is on the back of their hand with your gripping fingers at the base of their wrist.The lock occurs as you rotate their own wrist up and inward. It becomes a throw when foot work is added as the lock has a way of pulling them out of balance. Of course, for SD the throw is more of a crumple as without proper ukemi, the uke just gets his wrist broken.
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Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Zion, Springdale, Utah
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Your photography is amazing! May i ask you what camera and lenses you use?
@ Angela: thanks! i use a canon 30d, and for these pictures, mostly a canon 10 - 22 and a canon 35 f2.0ReplyDelete
i'm hiking the grand canyon rim to rim in september and your pictures just got me so excited. wow! zion looks incredible.ReplyDelete
Your photos are stunning! I've never been to Utah and never knew it was such a beautiful place, and you've seriously inspired me to take a vacation! <3ReplyDelete
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Did I already tell you that your posts inspired me to write more about travel?
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oh my gosh absolutely amazing!!!!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
My favorite is the one of you walking into a "new world"! Amazing! :)ReplyDelete
Stunning photos, Michelle! Utah must be one of the many under-appreciated areas in the U.S. The Black Hills in South Dakota are beautiful, too, but so far away!ReplyDelete
These pictures are incredible. I would have never thought Utah had such awesome hiking! Thanks for posting about this. :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2011 at 11:24 PM
Your photos are amazing! Now I need to go to Utah.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 23, 2011 at 8:42 AM
Love that you featured somewhere in our own gorgeous country! There's so much beauty we forget about right here.ReplyDelete
Hi Michelle! It's olivia! I keep telling you I love your pictures hohoho! Your blog is so cute & your Utah pictures are fabulousssssssss! :DReplyDelete


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Some state agencies dealing with the lingering Texas drought have invited people to share their original photos online.
The coalition on Monday launched an interactive public awareness campaign on how the drought has impacted lives.
The Texas Department of Agriculture, the Texas Water Development Board and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department are sponsoring the effort.
The latest news from around North Texas.
Individuals are invited to share their original pictures of the drought on Flickr, Instagram and other social media platforms through Sept. 30.
State officials said more than 97 percent of Texas currently has drought conditions.
Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples said the agencies are working to collect and share people's stories for historical records, drought preparedness and to encourage water conservation. The Texas drought goes back to 2010.
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If you're a Flappy Bird player, we have some bad news for you. Are you sitting down? You might want to sit down for this. The wildly popular and notoriously difficult free mobile game has been removed from the app store. Though for now, people who've already downloaded it can still play.
Flappy Bird's Vietnamese creator, Dong Nguyen, announced Saturday on Twitter that he'd be taking the game—currently the most popular for both Android and Apple—down for good:
I am sorry 'Flappy Bird' users, 22 hours from now, I will take 'Flappy Bird' down. I cannot take this anymore.—
Dong Nguyen (@dongatory) February 08, 2014
Dong didn't add much further explanation, but he did clarify that the decision is not related to legal issues. "I just cannot keep it anymore," he said.
(MORE: Popular Flappy Bird Game Mysteriously Deleted)
Millions—yes, literally millions—of Flappy Bird fans will be disappointed when the game goes dark, but don't feel too bad if you've never heard of it. The game has flown relatively under the radar compared to its zeitgeist-dominating counterparts like Candy Crush and Angry Birds.
The game is simple, infuriatingly difficult, and apparently, rather addictive. The user must guide a bird through sets of green pipes by tapping the screen, earning one point for each set of pipes cleared.
You should also know that since its release last May, the app has been downloaded 50 million times. It has also accrued nearly 50,000 reviews in the App Store. Oh, and Flappy Bird also pulls in an average of $50,000 per day from in-app advertising revenue, the Verge reports.
If the game sounds like fun to you, well, you're too late. Oh, Flappy Bird, we hardly knew ye.
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Racine County Fairgrounds ( Racine )
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Racine County Fairgrounds is a place of kind Park belonging to the County of ( Racine ).
The closest populated place is that of Union Grove that is1.38 miles far from Racine County Fairgrounds.
Racine County Fairgrounds is also 9.58 miles far from the closest airport or heliport, the Valhalla Airport .
The weather forecasting are available for the town of Union Grove , that is 1.38 miles far from Racine County Fairgrounds .
The Zip Code of Racine County Fairgrounds is 53182.
Besides Racine County Fairgrounds in the County of ( Racine ) there are the following places of kind Park . These are reported in what follows in alphabetical order:
American Legion Memorial Park - Armstrong Park - Beaumont Field - Beaumont Park - Benson Park - Bushnell Park - Caledonia Wildlife Area - Caledonia-Mount Pleasant Park - Case-Harmon Field - Cherry Lake Sedge Meadow State Natural Area - Cookwood Park - Devor Park - Douglas Park - Eagle Lake Park - East Park - Echo Veterans Memorial Park - Elmwood Park - Evans County Park - Evans Park - Fischer Park - Green Ridge Park - Greencrest Park - Grove Street Park - Heg Memorial Park - Highridge Park - Horlick Park - Humble Park - Johnson Park - Karcher Springs State Natural Area - Lake Park - Lake View Park - Leider Park - Lincoln Park - McCanna Park - Meinhardt Park - Nestles Park - Old Settlers Park - Pershing Park - Pierce Grove Park - Pritchard Park - Renak-Polak Maple-Beech Woods State Natural Area - Reservoir Park - Riverside Park - Roosevelt Park - Sanders Park - Sander`s Park Hardwoods State Natural Area - Schamling Park - Sheridan Woods Park - Shoop Park - Skewes Park - Solbran Park - Steinhoff Park - Sunset Park - Tichigan State Wildlife Area - Wagner Park - Washington Park - Water Tower Park - Wehmhoff Jucker Park - Wehmhoff Square - West Park .
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This is a time when caps can be use to make a statement clearer: CA has no SCHOOL bar restriction, hence being technically able to take the bar exam after going to an online law school. Of course there are other restrictions. Please read the whole phrase before criticizing. Being so rude about something YOU misread makes you look the fool, btw.
Lets approach it from another angle rather than trying to prove a negative. What are the school restrictions? Do applicants need to go to an ABA accredited school? Do applicants need to go to a state accredited school? Can applicants go to an unaccredited online school and still sit for the CA bar? Are there any law school restrictions limiting who can sit for the CA bar? If the answer to any is yes, the OP really needs to know. The selling point of these various online schools is preparation for the CA bar, not fulfilling a requirement. Every other state requires a JD from either a state accredited or ABA law school to sit for the bar. CA does not. That is one reason the CA bar exam is so fricin hard.
Okay, I'll "prove" a negative by showing a positive. The only concrete education requirement in CA is two years of college, you do not even need a bachelor's degree. Other than that an applicant must show an understanding of the law through education, business or apprenticeship. So you are right there is an school requirement, but is is only two years undergrad not law school.http://rules.calbar.ca.gov/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=-2KV5j0w6Cw%3d&tabid=1227Look it up, sweet cheeks under Chapter 3.
What states still allow apprenticeship lawyers? You are right I do not know of any states that still allow apprenticed attorneys to practice. Are there any? If so, name it. Please be less vague and provide some specifics rather that say "did you know a state even..."- name the frickin state you weirdo, especially if you use words like "proof".