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Renovating a home can be a costly and time-consuming job, but that's where one local organization comes in. The Impact Project spends one day repairing a chosen home. As our Elyse Mickalonis tells us, the group spent their time in Binghamton on Saturday, renovating its 49th home with almost 80 volunteers.
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"You just feel awesome when you're done. You know you've made a huge contribution to a family. The families that apply are hurting, these are tough times," said Jim Willard, Impact Project Director.
Jim and Darlene Kittle needed some help renovating their Binghamton home this spring. A job the Impact Project gladly took on.
"I have to pinch myself sometimes. Looking back, we have had almost 800 people volunteer for this organization," said Willard.
The Impact Project is a Greene-based Christian group that uses one day to repair homes for people who can't afford high-cost contracting work. The Kittle home is the 49th home the group has helped fix up. Almost 80 people from six different churches in Broome, Chenango and Tioga counties volunteered to landscape, as well as replace a roof, windows, and a furnace for the Kittle family on Saturday.
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I find my usage of WPG declining, in fact checking rankings overall, i find on the decline. The other engines say they don't like automated rankings queries, but they haven't banned anyone . . . Typically, for Google, i'll check the position manually for a "real" report of where i stand, rather than use software.
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Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel | |
Location | 7000 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood, California |
Coordinates | 34°6′4″N 118°20′30″W / 34.10111°N 118.34167°WCoordinates: 34°6′4″N 118°20′30″W / 34.10111°N 118.34167°W |
Built | 1927 |
Architect | Fisher, Lake & Traver |
Architectural style(s) | Spanish Colonial Revival |
Governing body | Private |
Designated | 1991[1] |
Reference No. | 545 |
The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel is a historic Spanish-style hotel located at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. Named after Theodore Roosevelt and financed by a group including Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and Louis B. Mayer, it first opened its doors on May 15, 1927. It cost $2.5 million ($33.6 million in today's money or dollars) to complete this twelve-story building which holds 300 rooms and suites. It is now managed by Thompson Hotels.
Following a major renovation in 2005 which was overseen by Dodd Mitchell, The Hollywood Roosevelt has been more prominently featured in films and in Hollywood nightlife. There has been a recent surge in popularity within young Hollywood in the last few years, thanks to trendy nightclub Teddy's, which is located in the main lobby of the hotel.[2]
Place in Hollywood History[edit]
The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel hosted the presentation of the 1st Academy Awards in 1929 inside its Blossom ballroom. Later ceremonies were much larger than this banquet for 250, so there was never an attempt to host the awards at the hotel a third time.
Frances Farmer was the guest of honor in the early 1950s after appearing on This Is Your Life. Marilyn Monroe was a resident at the Hollywood Roosevelt for two years when her modeling career took off. Her first magazine shoot was taken on the diving board on the pool behind the hotel, which was recently removed.[when?] The hotel's remodeled pool contains an underwater mural painted by David Hockney.[3]
Alleged hauntings[edit]
There have been many rumors of hauntings at this hotel. Some involve celebrities, such as Marilyn Monroe[4] and Montgomery Clift, who lived at the hotel in the past. Others involve a little girl in a blue dress.[5] There have also been reports of cold spots, photographic "orbs", and mysterious phone calls to the hotel operator.[6]
The hotel in popular culture[edit]
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- It is the location for the finale of the 1988 film Sunset, with a recreation of the first Academy Awards, which were held at the hotel.
- A lengthy sequence in the film Catch Me If You Can, involving Leonardo DiCaprio's character hiding out in a motel, was shot in the hotel's low-rise cabana wing and by its pool.
- It is featured in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
- In Curb your Enthusiasm, Larry David spars with an inlaw in the lobby of the Roosevelt Hotel after not being able to book a room.
- Carl Kolchak from the television series Kolchak: The Night Stalker spends a few nights in Room 212 while on assignment in Los Angeles. Episode 4: The Vampire. Aired October 4, 1974
- "Hotel Roosevelt" is the title of the third track on the album All the Stars and Boulevards by the California-based rock band Augustana.
- In the first season of Great American Road Trip, the final two families spend the night at the hotel.
- The hotel was featured in the opening of The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien. Andy Richter began the introductions as the hotel appeared on screen.
- In the final episode of the seventh season of Entourage, Vince ends his meltdown with a fistfight at Eminem's party at the hotel.
- In the 2010 action/thriller film Takers, there is a shootout in one of the suites at the hotel.
- It is featured in the 2005 music video for Lifehouse's You and Me.
- It was the setting of the 2010 music video for Millionaires's Party Like A Millionaire
- It is a location and landmark in the 2011 game L.A. Noire.
Notable residents (past and present)[edit]
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Clark Gable and Carole Lombard paid five dollars a night for their penthouse;[7] it is now named the Gable & Lombard Penthouse. There is also a Marilyn Monroe Suite at the hotel.
Other notable residents and guests of the hotel have included Marilyn Monroe, Shirley Temple, Elizabeth Taylor, Mary Pickford, Gloria Swanson, Clara Bow, Johnny Grant, Charlie Chaplin, Judy Garland, Clara Blandick, Hugh Hefner, David Niven, Lew Ayres, Kirsten Dunst, Douglas Fairbanks, Errol Flynn, Topher Grace, Cary Grant,[8][not in citation given] Jake Gyllenhaal, Lola The Vamp, Paris Hilton, Scarlett Johansson, Al Jolson, Harold Lloyd, Lindsay Lohan, Eva Longoria, Courtney Love, Mary Martin, Eva Mendes, Marilyn Manson, Chris Jericho, Prince, Nicole Richie, Bill Robinson, Will Rogers, Frank Sinatra, Will Smith, Bruce Willis, Christopher Bennett, Will Ferrell, Ryan Adams,[9][not in citation given] Miranda Cosgrove, Ryan Avery, Demi Lovato, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.
See also[edit]
- ^ Los Angeles Department of City Planning (February 28, 2009). Historic - Cultural Monuments (HCM) Listing: City Declared Monuments. City of Los Angeles. Retrieved 2000-03-02.
- ^ "Hollywood Roosevelt: Where Old and New Hollywood Converge in Luxury". LosAngeles.com. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
- ^ "Mobius Awards Site Hosted First 'Oscars'".
- ^ Lovgren, Stefan (December 4, 2003). "Do Real Haunted Mansions Hold Sway in Hollywood?". National Geographic News. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
- ^ Kern, Will (Halloween 2004). "Hotel has glut of ghosts". Denver Post, cited at wilkern.com. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
- ^ "This old hotel is a Hollywood haunt, in every sense of the word". Philadelphia Inquirer. November 26, 2000. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
- ^ Lord, Rosemary (2002). Los Angeles: Then and Now. San Diego, CA: Thunder Bay Press. pp. 94–95. ISBN 1-57145-794-1.
- ^ Coca, Rick (2008-01-09). "Johnny Grant, Honorary Mayor of Hollywood, Dead at 84.". Los Angeles Daily News. Retrieved 2008-01-09.
- ^ "The Answering Bell - Tomorrow (from Uncut Magazine)". 2008-02-09.
External links[edit]
- Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel Official Website
- Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel @ Seeing-Stars.com
- Haunted Hotel: Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
- Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel's Bowling Alley: The Spare Room


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Deadline's reporting that Chronicle director Josh Trank has signed on to direct the Shadow of the Colossus film from Sony Pictures, after requesting the position. The report states writers are currently being interviewed. Trank, is apparently a very busy man: he's supposedly discussing developing Fantastic Four for Fox and Spider-Man spinoff Venom for Sony Pictures, and is also reported to be working with Warner Bros on an adaptation of Red Star, so who knows how long it will be before SotC is released. A movie based on the Team ICO masterpiece has been in the pipeline Joystiq.
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Shadow of the Colossus movie writer asks fans to give him a chance
Justin Marks, the writer for the movie adaptation of Shadow of the Colossus, has asked fans of the game to give his film a chance, Risky Biz reports.
"I think many of the games haven't worked as movies because it's hard to find the right game. There are very few that lend themselves to movies," said Marks.
"If we started thinking that anything that worked in one medium shouldn't be adapted for another we wouldn't have a lot of the great movies we've had, because so many of them came from novels."
He added that's he's at an advantage with this adaptation because the main character is unhindered by extra plot-lines or characters.
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"This is a game that catches you unaware — it catches you on an emotional and experiential level, not just for the puzzles you solve," he added.
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Is there any evidence that the verses composed in Gaelic by the Maigue Poets were similar in form to the limerick as we know it today i.e. 5 lines and rhyming aabba? This was the metre chosen by James Mangan when he translated them into English, but did his choice reflect the originals? An American scholar, George N Belknap, maintains that Mangan had no Irish and that he worked on prose versions of the original verses, supplied by his contemporary, John O'Daly, who was an Irish speaker. According to Belknap 'Mangan's verses [which of course are proper limericks] owe little in form to the Irish language'. Is he right?
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Tuesday, Dec 1012:37 PM
Monday, Dec 212:22 PMHeavy criticism for GSE recap proposal
- "In the long history of bailout deals, no heist of the U.S. taxpayer would approach this one in cynicism and chutzpah," writes Jonathan Laing of Bruce Berkowitz's buyout plan for Fannie (FNMA +5.7%) and Freddie (FMCC +5%). One analyst calls it a "three-card monte" scheme in which the preferred holders want taxpayers to pay them off at par, or turn over the keys to the companies wildly valuable operations for little more than a $17B rights offering.
- Yes, Treasury will have realized $187B in dividends from the GSEs by year end - equal to the amount of the bailout - but that's "merely fair recompense for the enormous risks taxpayers took." Also, more than $80B of the $187B is the write-up of deferred tax assets - it will only be realized if the companies operate profitably for many years, says Laing.
Monday, Dec 212:22 PM| 7 Comments -
Friday, Nov 222:43 PMFrannie bets a puzzle to many
- "When you talk to anybody in Washington, there is an almost universal view that Fannie (FNMA -3.1%) and Freddie (FMCC -1.5%) should be a part of the past, that it is a broken model, and also that private investors in Fannie and Freddie shouldn't realize any returns from those investments," says PIne River's Colin Teiccholtz, scratching his head over anyone owning stock in the two as a play on them being privatized.
- "We've looked at it," says Avenue Capital's Marc Lasry. "I think you're making a bet that you're going to be able to force the government to do something."
- It's "a puzzle to me," says an investor in Bill Ackman's Pershing Square. "If you think the Target board is hard to convince of a policy change, you have got to believe you're really taking on a tall job to try and influence the government."
- Taking a break from talking Herbalife, Ackman - who recently disclosed near-10% stakes in the common of both Fannie and Freddie - says he's not supportive of Bruce Berkowitz's recap plan (which would be of benefit to preferred owners like Berokowitz, but not so much for owners of the common)
- MBS trader Deepak Narula calls the common stock of Frannie an option which should rise any time chatter about privatization picks up. "Whether the option is worth anything in the short run is immaterial."
Friday, Nov 222:43 PM| 8 Comments -
Wednesday, Nov 203:53 PMSperling: WH not interested in GSE recap plan
- "I want to make clear our administration believes the risks are simply too great, that this would re-create the problems of the past," says the president's chief economic adviser Gene Sperling of any recapitalization plan for Fannie Mae (FNMA +7.5%) and Freddie Mac (FMCC +6.4%).
- Speaking at an industry conference in D.C., Sperling says the administration is interested in rebuilding a stronger mortgage market not dominated by two mammoth institutions, and Frannie - even if restructured - would retain a large advantage over newer entrants.
- Needless to say, Sperling's remarks come in wake of Bruce Berkowitz's buyout and recap proposal for the GSEs from last week.
Wednesday, Nov 203:53 PM| 22 Comments -
Friday, Nov 153:28 PMCatches aside, plan for Frannie could just work
- Bruce Berkowitz's presentation of his plan to purchase and recapitalize the mortgage insurance business of Fannie Mae (FNMA +10.5%) and Freddie Mac (FMCC +8.6%) cleverly leads off with quotes from politicians - including the president and FHFA chief Ed DeMarco - calling for private capital to play a larger role in the mortgage market.
- Presentation slides here.
- Bloomberg's Matt Levine's review here.
- His plan actually makes pretty good sense, but with one catch: The conversion of preferred stock for equity in a new, debt-free company with $52B in assets represents somewhere in the area of a $20B-$30B windfall for those owning the preferred.
- The plan also talks about bringing competition to the business even as it creates a new cheaply-capitalized company $52B in size. Far smaller competitors can hardly hope to match.
- Earlier: Ackman joins the fray
Friday, Nov 153:28 PM| 11 Comments -
Friday, Nov 159:03 AMAckman takes big stakes in the GSEs
- Pershing Square discloses a 9.98% stake in the common stock of Fannie Mae (FNMA) and a 9.77% stake in the common of Freddie Mac (FMCC), and its intention to get involved in the reorganization discussions.
- "In light of the proposed Fairholme transaction on behalf of certain holders of preferred stock of the Issuer which was reported in the financial press, the Reporting Persons have determined that they may engage in discussions with management, the board, other stockholders of the Issuer, representatives of the Federal government, and other relevant parties ..."
Friday, Nov 159:03 AM| 28 Comments -
Thursday, Nov 1410:02 AMBerkowitz pitches GSE plan
- Fannie Mae (FNMA +6.1%) and Freddie Mac (FMCC +6.1%) preferred shares are up sharply as Bruce Berkowitz takes to CNBC to talk up his recapitalization plans for the GSEs. The Fannie Mae Preferred S series (the most popular vehicle) is ahead 9.7% to $9.70 - in a recap, these would get paid at par, or $25, and Berkowitz is talking about a time frame of June 2014.
- "We helped before with AIG, it can work with Fannie and Freddie."
- Other preferred shareholders with whom Berkowitz is trying to garner support include Blackstone, Perry Capital and GSO Capital. His plan is to purchase and recapitalize the mortgage-guarantee business of the GSEs and turn them into state-regulated bond insurers with no federal perks. The nearly $5T in assets and liabilities currently managed by Fannie and Freddie would remain with the government.
- Treasury and FHFA officials have previously said such ideas are DOA. "Some people are forgetting a little history," chides FHFA chief Ed DeMarco to those who assume recent nice results from Frannie mean their problems are solved.
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Wednesday, Nov 139:00 PMFairholme proposes $52B recap for GSEs: WSJ
- Fairholme Capital Management offers to spearhead a move by a consortium of investors aimed at "purchasing, recapitalizing, and operating the mortgage-guarantee businesses" of Fannie Mae (FNMA) and Freddie Mac (FMCC) as state-regulated bond insurers, WSJ says.
- The offer was reportedly outlined by Bruce Berkowitz in a letter sent Wednesday evening to federal regulators.
- Earlier: Hedge funds pitch takeover of Frannie
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Wednesday, Nov 137:46 AMHedge funds pitch takeover of Frannie
- The closest thing to a cash offer from the private sector to help reorganize housing finance in this country, a number of hedge funds have proposed converting their $34.6B of preferred stock of Fannie Mae (FNMA) and Freddie Mac (FMCC) and helping to underwrite a $17.3B rights issue.
- "We plan to put up real money, this is not just a trade," says one member of the group, which says the plan brings in private capital while leaving taxpayers with legacy mortgage guarantees from which they can profit as housing continues to recover.
- It remains to be seen if politicians agree that a group of hedge funds taking over the GSEs meets their idea of private capital.
- "This trade reminds me of the adage, buy them for a good time but not a long time," says one skeptical hedge fund chief. "The guarantee business is a great business," says one of the group. "You can't get rid of Fannie and Freddie."
Wednesday, Nov 137:46 AM| 2 Comments -
Thursday, Nov 712:56 PMOTC Bulletin Board trading halted
- Finra halts OTC stock trading due to a "lack of current quote information." Among the names traded OTC are Fannie Mae (FNMA +4.3%) and Freddie Mac (FMCC +3.6%) - both the common and the preferred.
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Thursday, Nov 78:23 AMFannie Mae earns $8.7B in Q3
- Fannie Mae (FNMA): Q3 net income of $8.7B up from $1.8B in year-ago quarter. Positive net worth of $11.6B and will pay $8.6B dividend to Treasury.
- The "dividend sweep" will have Fannie paying $82.4B to Treasury this year, and bring the total dividends paid to $113.9B vs. $116.1B in draws from 2008-11. Treasury - of course - retains its $117.1B in preferred stock.
- Press release.
Thursday, Nov 78:23 AM| 12 Comments -
Thursday, Oct 313:08 PMReport: Fannie Mae sues group of banks for $800M over Libor
- Barclays (BCS -1.6%), UBS (UBS -0.2%), and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS +1.2%) are among those facing suit by Fannie Mae (FNMA) over alleged Libor-rigging, reports Bloomberg, citing a copy of a federal court filing in NYC. The filing hasn't yet been confirmed in court records. All three banks have already settled Libor cases with various regulators.
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Thursday, Oct 244:30 PMNew (lower) Fannie and Freddie loan limit announcement coming
- Though the announcement is set for November, it will take at least six months for the lower limits to take effect, FHFA chief Ed DeMarco tells an audience. This should give the housing lobbying groups plenty of time to muster support for softening or eliminating the reductions.
- The current loan limit runs as low as $417K for a single-family home. "Any reduction would be across the board, not just in some parts of the country," says DeMarco.
- Fannie Mae (FNMA). Freddie Mac (FMCC).
- Homebuilder ETFs: XHB, ITB, PKB.
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Wednesday, Oct 234:00 PMCountrywide found guilty in U.S. mortgage suit
- A federal jury has found Bank of America's (BAC -2.1%) Countrywide unit liable for defrauding Fannie Mae (FNMA +22%) and Freddie Mac (FMCC +19.4%) by selling them thousands of defective mortgages.
- The judge will determine the amount of the penalty - the U.S. has requested $848M, the gross loss to the GSEs as calculated by its expert witness.
- The suit centered on Countrywide's HSSL - High Speed Swim Lane - program instituted in August 2007, says the government, to keep the music playing as the property market was falling apart.
Wednesday, Oct 234:00 PM| 23 Comments -
Wednesday, Oct 2310:33 AMRanieri pulls plug on nonagency MBS offering
- There's more evidence Fannie (FNMA +6.8%) and Freddie (FMCC +7.6%) aren't going anywhere anytime soon as Shellpoint Partners - led by mortgage kingpin Lew Ranieri - pulls a planned MBS offering for the 2nd time this month, citing soft demand. The company had restructured the bond issue - backed by jumbo residential mortgages - by removing some of the riskier loans in exchange for better agency ratings, but it still wasn't able to get the prices it wanted.
- Issuance of nonagency paper had flown earlier this year, but has ground to a halt since interest rates began rising this spring. Additionally, Frannie has begun offering a new security more tied to credit than rates, thus sapping some demand for nonagency bonds.
- Trying to break into the nonagency issuance market, PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT +0.2%) last month had to cut prices at least twice on its debut offering. Redwood Trust (RWT -0.6%) - which pretty much had the nonagency field to itself not long ago - has struggled mightily since the spring.
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Monday, Oct 75:16 PMReal estate lobbying groups flex muscle over FHFA loan limits
- Hasn't housing recovered? The National Association of Realtors and National Association of Home Builders send a letter to House representatives asking them to prevent the FHFA from lowering conforming loan limits for Fannie Mae (FNMA.OB) and Freddie Mac (FMCC.OB).
- "While there has been some return of private mortgage lending, without the benefit of a federal guarantee, it remains limited and available only to the most highly qualified borrowers ... FHFA Acting Director DeMarco appears to be making decisions above and beyond this authority provided by Congress and may significantly damage local housing markets."
- The FHFA wants to cut the limits beginning in 2014 in order to shrink the GSEs presence in the mortgage market and allow room for private capital to enter.
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directory on a AMD64 64-bit-install of Ubuntu? If or when Debian/Ubuntu start supporting multi-target-architecture binaries in their ELF's will this directory branching become unnecessary?
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Because it wouldn't be useful to install (for example) Installing binaries from multiple libraries at the same time is only useful for shared libraries. Oh, also, multiarch doesn't use You can find the name of that directory by running:
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Hey guys I just assembly my new rig but I'm having a problem with it when I turn it on it says LOADING OPERATING SYSTEM and it doesn't allow me to get in the bios can somebody help please I will appreciate it.
fill out your sp, links in my sig. Did you make sure your keyboard is plugged in and you are hitting the correct button to get into the bios?
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Press delete while it's booting before the display kicks on. Also, are you using a PS2 keyboard or USB?
not I haven't install any os now I can get in the bios menu but when I tried to install the os It doesn't boot up the installler
Not yet right now I'm using the onboard one but I'll upgrade to POWERCOLOR AX5770 512MD5-H Radeon HD 5770 512MB GDDR5 PCI Express x16 (2.1v) Video Card Retail and I will change to water cooler to overclock it I'm planing to use the Corsair Hydro Series H50 Liquid cooling system so I will be able to unlock the 4 core as quad what do you guys think about my idea any suggestions???????????????


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(9:1-2) Zeniff and his men were sent from Zarahemla to find out the strengths and weaknesses of the Lamanite army. Once Zeniff saw the Lamanites, however, he saw "that which was good among them" and he didn't want them to be destroyed. Zeniff asked his group's leader to make a treaty with them, but this didn't go so well. The leader commanded that Zeniff be killed for even suggesting such a thing. Some sided with Zeniff, and this led to infighting where "father fought against father, and brother fought against brother." Most of the group died in the fighting. The rest of the group returned with Zeniff to Zarahemla to tell the cool story to their wives and children.
(9:1) "I, Zeniff, ... having been sent as a spy among the Lamanites that I might spy out their forces, that our army might come upon them and destroy them -- but when I saw that which was good among them I was desirous that they should not be destroyed."
(9:2) "Therefore, I contended with my brethren hat our ruler should make a treaty with them; but he being an austere and a bloodthirsty man commanded that I should be slain; but I was rescued by the shedding of much blood; for father fought against father, and brother against brother, until the greater number of our army was destroyed in the wilderness; and we returned, those of us that were spared, to the land of Zarahemla, to relate that tale to their wives and their children."
(9:3-4) Then they decide to go back. They wander in the wilderness, and it is a pretty tough journey, since they were "slow to remember God." God punishes Zeniff's people with famine and sore afflictions, but they make it there eventually.
(9:3) "I ... collected as many as were desirous to go up to possess the land, and started again on our journey ... to go up to the land; but we were smitten with famine and sore afflictions; for we were slow to remember the Lord our God."
(9:4) "Nevertheless, after many days' wandering in the wilderness we pitched our tents in the place where our brethren were slain, which was near to the land of our fathers."
(9:5, 11, 13, 15, 16) And it came to pass
(9:5-9) Once they set up camp, Zeniff picks four of his men and goes down to meet the Lamanite king. It goes surprisingly well. The Lamanite king commands his people to clear the land immediately, and he gives the land to Zeniff and his people. They start repairing walls and growing crops and stuff.
(9:5) "I went again with four of my men into the city, in unto the king."
(9:6) "And I went in unto the king, and he covenanted with me that I might possess the land of Lehi-Nephi, and the land of Shilom."
(9:7) "And he also commanded that his people should depart out of the land, and I and my people went into the land that we might possess it."
(9:8) "And we began to build buildings ... yea, even the walls of the city of Lehi-Nephi, and the city of Shilom."
(9:9) "And we began to till the ground, yea, even with all manner of seeds, with seeds of corn, and of wheat, and of barley, and with neas, and with sheum, and with seeds of all manner of fruits; and we did begin to multiply and prosper in the land." Zeniff and his people plant all kinds of crops, including wheat and barley, neither of which were present until Europeans brought them to America.
(9:10-15) King Laman had a cunning and crafty plan, though. He only gave them the land so that he could put them in bondage later. Twelve years later, King Laman enacts his plan. Zeniff's people are attacked by a host of Lamanites. The people rush to Zeniff for protection.
(9:10) "Now it was the cunning and the craftiness of king Laman, to bring my people into bondage, that he yielded up the land that we might possess it."
(9:11-13) "After we had dwelt in the land for the space of twelve years ... king Laman began to stir up his people that they should contend with my people; therefore there began to be wars and contentions in the land."
(9:15) "Yea, And it came to pass that they ... did call upon me for protection."
(9:16-19) Unfortunately for the Lamanites, Zeniff is prepared. He arms his people with all kinds of weapons (they even invent some) and they cried out mightily to the Lord for help in battle. The Lord hears them, and they defeat the Lamanites, 3,043 to 279.
(9:16) "I did arm them with bows, and with arrows, with swords, and with cimeters, and with clubs, and with slings, and with all manner of weapons which we could invent, and I and my people did go forth against the Lamanites to battle." Zeniff arms his people with swords and cimeters. No evidence for these pre-Columbian weapons has ever been found.
(9:17) "Yea, in the strength of the Lord did we go forth to battle against the Lamanites; for I and my people did cry mightily to the Lord that he would deliver us out of the hands of our enemies."
(9:18) "And God did hear our cries and did answer our prayers ... and in one day and a night we did slay three thousand and forty-three."
(9:19) "And I, myself, with mine own hands, did help to bury their dead. And behold, to our great sorrow and lamentation, two hundred and seventy-nine of our brethren were slain."


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Since the high profile theft last year of a classic car belonging to Hollywood actor, John Travolta, a lot of attention has been paid to the developing story.
The 1970 Mercedes-Benz 280 SL was originally taken from Travolta while he visited a Jaguar dealership back in September of 2011. It was subsequently recovered by the authorities, although it had been dismantled and many of the parts were missing.
The two men who were arrested in connection with the theft were eventually taken to court and, at the end of last month, they were sentenced by a judge to custodial sentences.
Michael T. Green is being the most severely punished, with a 14 year jail term handed down to him because of his involvement in various forms of automotive crime. This even included an operation which dismantled stolen vehicles to pass on the parts.
Mr D.L. Rayford Jr. has been sentenced to a 16 month jail term for his part in the robbery and will also be paying around $50,000 to Travolta, to cover the cost of the vehicle. Of course, this compensation may not account for its emotional value or the pain that its theft caused the famous owner.
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National Coordination Office for Networking and Information Technology Research and Development: Aggregated Federal R&D Budget for Networking and Information Technology
As a commitment to openness and transparency, NCO is making all of its NITRD budget data available to the public and our customers. This information comes from member Federal agencies and is broken down over the following eight program component areas: High End Computing Infrastructure & Application, High End Computing Research & Development, Cyber Security & Information Assurance, Human-Computer Interaction & Information Management, Large Scale Networking, High Confidence Software & Systems, Social Economic & Workforce Implications of IT & IT Workforce Development, and Software Design & Productivity. Interested individuals will now be able to track funding trends and identify agencies with investments in technical areas of interest, which will enable entrepreneurs and grant seekers to better direct their efforts to engage the correct Federal agency.
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wtfserbia95riri wrote:^ I don't know, but it sounds "little" considering all the success and everything.
She has earned $90m from this era. That's not "little"serbia95riri wrote:^ I don't know, but it sounds "little" considering all the success and everything.
From Billboard MagazineTHE BILLBOARD SPOTLIGHT AWARD: Katy Perry
Honoring a singular accomplishment on the Billboard charts during the Billboard Music Award charting year, the Spotlight Award goes to Katy Perry this year. August 27, 2011 was a fine day for the pop phenomenon: "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" ascended to the No. 1 position on Billboard's Historic Hot 100 singles chart. This was the fifth song from her Teenage Dream album to hit No. 1 on the Hot 100, tying the record set by Michael Jackson's Bad album, and establishing Perry as the only female artist in history to achieve five No. 1s from one album.
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Er, I think that's the point...that she can "be anything"Maneater wrote:"Be yourself and you can be anything."
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Identifying Molding (If I posted this twice, forgive me)
Can I not see the forest for the trees? Hoping someone can tell me what I'm looking for. I want to dress up my old plain 60's kitchen cabinet doors by applying molding.
If you've ever shopped for molding, then you know there's millions (maybe trillions) to choose from. The door to the left is what I want to create. The molding will be applied onto solid birch wood doors, then painted. 3 maybe 2, moldings used here. A.) the outer frame, B.) ½ round rope molding, and C.) A small pencil thin molding OR is the ½ round rope molding sitting in a router track?
The problem. What is the outer frame made of? I've looked all weekend online for the outer frame molding with no luck. Then it dawned on me that maybe the outer frame is not really molding, but strips of flat wood that can be purchased at any Lowe's or Home Depot and cut with a miter saw to create a frame. If so, what is it called?
The starting price for that door is $35 dollars. I have 30 total cabinet door. Since the house was built in 1950, the cabinet maker made the cabinets in the house (no pre-fab back then). The owner and the cabinet maker weren't stingy in my house, but the biggest problem is the multisized doors. Of 30 doors I have 15 different sizes (now you know why new cabinet doors are not in the budget). I have 4' tall doors, the small doors typically of the over the refrigerator, and I have one door that when it's opened a ironing board drops down. With that said, I will need several different sized outer frames (oh boy, I get to use the table saw).
I would appreciate any feedback, as I want to get this done before Spring (which usually starts in late March or April around here. Thanks.
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At least some members of the Obama administration plan to call for an end to fossil-fuel subsidies as part of next week's G20 economic leaders summit, citing positive impacts ranging from improved energy security to combating climate change. But how much does the U.S. government pay? Well, according to a new analysis from the Environmental Law Institute released today, roughly $72 billion between 2002 and 2008.
More than $54 billion of that was in the form of 23 different tax credits for oil, coal and natural gas producers, including those overseas, most of which are permanent provisions of the U.S. Tax Code. Just $18.3 billion was grants and other direct cash for research and development and other pursuits, such as the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
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The American age of oil began 150 years ago today. Or, if you prefer the phrasing of President George W. Bush, the U.S. addiction to oil can be traced back to the original pusher "Colonel" Edwin Drake who began producing oil from the first commercial well near Titusville, Pa., (about 100 miles north of Pittsburgh).
The rest is history—the automobile, plastics, modern agriculture and, of course, climate change. But it all started with the Colonel's 69-foot wooden well that ultimately yielded roughly 40 barrels a day. To put that in perspective, the world currently produces some 85 million barrels per day, which provide us with a full 40 percent of our energy.
The Titusville find kicked off the first oil boom (to be followed by similar booms in Texas, Saudi Arabia and, most recently, Brazil) and left us with the enduring legacy of Pennzoil as well as the corporate children of the oil monopolies created by capitalist titans like John D. Rockefeller.
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Here's a seemingly simple solar power fact*: the sun bathes Earth with enough energy in one hour (4.3 x 1020 joules) to more than fill all of humanity's present energy use in a year (4.1 x 1020 joules). So how to convert it? In the world of solar energy harvesting, there's a constant battle between cost and efficiency. On the one hand, complex and expensive triple-junction photovoltaic cells can turn more than 40 percent of the (specially concentrated) sunlight that falls on them into electricity. On the other, cheap, plastic solar cells under development convert less than 5 percent.
In between, ubiquitous photovoltaics—the multicrystalline silicon solar panels cropping up on rooftops across the country and, indeed, the world—struggle to balance the need for (relatively) easy manufacturing and low cost with technology to get the most electrons for your solar buck.
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Mining is the second most dangerous occupation in the U.S., averaging roughly 27 deaths for every 100,000 workers per year. That's nearly nine times higher than the overall fatality rate for U.S. industry as a whole, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau (pdf).
So it stands to reason that energy derived from renewable resources such as the sun and wind might cause fewer workplace deaths than energy industries—coal, oil and natural gas—that rely on mining, drilling and otherwise extracting fossil fuels. And that's exactly what doctors from Medical College of Wisconsin and Duke University Medical Center found in an analysis published in JAMA The Journal of the American Medical Association on August 19.
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Employees at the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) appear to be ignoring their own energy-saving advice. The agency, which is authorized to spend $16.8 billion of the federal stimulus within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy alone, failed a recent inspector general energy efficienty audit, notes The Wall Street Journal's Environmental Capital blog today.
The audit, which surveyed seven of the agency's major sites, detailed the DoE's "efforts to manage information technology resources in an energy-efficient and environmentally responsible manner." It found that the agency was squandering enough energy on unnecessary IT to power 2,400 homes for a year, at a cost of more than $1.5 million.
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How can a Nobel Prize–winning physicist—now the nation's energy secretary—get a bunch of coal industry folks to sit up and take notice during a keynote speech? How about by announcing that the feds are planning to dispense $2.4 billion to research and develop so-called clean coal technology?
In fact, that's exactly what Steven Chu did today at a meeting of the National Coal Council in Washington, D.C., where he announced that the government plans to add another $800 million to the Clean Coal Power Initiative pot of cash designed to explore new ways to cut acid rain, smog and mercury pollution as well as $1.5 billion to probe carbon dioxide capture and storage (rather than venting it) from heavy emitters other than power plants (think: cement manufacturers and refineries).
May 13, 2009 | 5
Duke Energy wants to put a power plant on your house.
Over the next year, the utility plans to spend $50 million to plop a variety of photovoltaic panels on commercial buildings, the roofs of private homes, and other property in North Carolina.
Once installed, the 10 megawatts worth of solar panels are expected to produce enough alternating-current electricity to power 1,300 homes. But the utility's main goals for the demonstration project are to gain experience with distributed generation—putting the power plant closer to the customer—and with integrating intermittent, renewable resources like sunshine into the grid.
Apr 15, 2009 | 18
It's no wonder inventors are racing to develop the best type of engine to power tomorrow's fleet of hybrids as automakers rush to get enviro-friendly cars on the road and consumers are tempted by a new $7,500 tax incentive being offered for buying one. But it's not only new inventions that are vying for a piece of the action: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, former Microsoft chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold, and other entrepreneurs are attempting to put a new face on technology that's been kicking around for more than a century—an electromagnetic engine that turns mechanical into electrical energy.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office last week published a patent application describing an internal combustion engine that "converts mechanical energy of a piston to and from electrical energy during each piston cycle" submitted in October 2007 by Searette LLC, part of Intellectual Ventures, a Bellevue, Wash., company launched in 2000 to buy and license patents. Gates, who was still Microsoft's chief software architect at the time the patent was filed, is listed as one of 10 inventors on the application.
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High-tech giants like Google and Microsoft are getting socked with high electric bills to cool ever-expanding data centers (computers don't like heat or humidity). In an attempt to lower costs, some of them are using fresh air to help maintain optimum temps–and now there's a way to gauge how much money and energy they can save by taking this tack. The Green Grid, a Portland, Ore.,–based consortium of 208 businesses (including Google and Microsoft) with megadata centers, today launched a free tool on its Web site designed to help U.S. and Canadian companies figure out how Mother Nature can help them keep their cool—and how much dough and energy they can save by tapping her reserves.
Potential savings depend on a number of factors, including where a data center is located, the local cost per kilowatt hour of power, how much energy a facility uses and the specific temperatures and humidity levels required, according to Mark Monroe, a member of the Green Grid's board of directors and Sun Microsystems's director of sustainable computing.
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It will be exactly 30 years tomorrow since the nation's worst commercial nuclear accident occurred on a three-mile (five kilometer) slip of land in the Susquehanna River in the shadow of Harrisburg, Pa. Until that day, few people had ever heard of Three Mile Island—now there are few who haven't.
Once a majestic symbol of nuclear power, the plant would become synonymous with its dangers after one of its two reactors—the newer one, known as Unit 2—nearly melted down on March 28, 1979, just months after it was fired up.
The plant was shuttered, and Pennsylvania Gov. Richard Thornburgh recommended that pregnant women and preschoolers within five miles (eight kilometers) of the plant evacuate; some nearby hospitals and nursing homes were also evacuated. Today steam billows from the chunky, twin cooling towers of TMI's only functioning unit; the crippled reactor, now a skeleton, never reopened.
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The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission (MAVEN), set to launch in 2013, will explore the planet's upper atmosphere, ionosphere and interactions with the sun and solar wind. Scientists will use MAVEN data to determine the role that loss of volatile compounds—such as carbon dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, and water—from the Mars atmosphere to space has played through time, giving insight into the history of Mars atmosphere and climate, liquid water, and planetary habitability. The MAVEN Principal Investigator is Dr. Bruce Jakosky of the University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (CU/LASP), and the project is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
MAVEN will carry three instrument suites. The Particles and Fields Package, built by the University of California at Berkeley with support from CU/LASP and Goddard Space Flight Center, contains six instruments that will characterize the solar wind and the ionosphere of the planet. The Remote Sensing Package, built by CU/LASP, will determine global characteristics of the upper atmosphere and ionosphere. The Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer, provided by Goddard Space Flight Center, will measure the composition and isotopes of neutral ions. Lockheed Martin, based in Littleton, Colorado, will provide the MAVEN spacecraft, as well as mission operations for the mission. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory will navigate the spacecraft. CU/LASP will provide science operations and data packaging.


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SEASIDE, Calif. -- The Monterey County bomb squad was called to Seaside Tuesday afternoon for an explosive device after officers were on scene serving a search warrant at a home following a murder over the weekend.
Detectives served search warrants in three separate locations in Seaside on Tuesday. Officers were serving search warrants in relation to the shooting death of 19-year-old Eric Venegas who was found shot to death in Monterey over the weekend.
Police were in the 1200 block of San Pablo Avenue in Seaside serving a gang-related search warrant, when they found what they believed to be an active grenade. About 50 people were evacuated in the surrounding apartment building as crews came in to dispose of the grenade.
The device was later identified as a World War 2 era fragmentation grenade.
The scene was cleared around 6:30 p.m. Two teens were arrested at the apartment and charged with child endangerment, possession of ammunition, possession of an explosive device and other gang related charges, officers said. One of the 16-year old suspects turned himself in to the police department Wednesday morning, according to investigators. Names of the juveniles are not being released by police.
Seaside, Monterey and Marina Detectives worked with Homeland Security Investigators and two NCIS agents on the case.


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Logo: Yoga sun club, ID: 92377
, Posted: Wed, 04/18/2012 - 13:36
Logo details
Sun rays and multiple female silhouette for yoga club, spa treatment, relaxation therapy, etc. Colors and font may be changed for free.
Included in price
- Watermark removed from logo artwork.
- Full and exclusive rights. Logo sold only once.
- Various formats available: EPS, PNG, JPG and others on request.
- Designer contact information.
- Price includes text changes.
- Price includes color changes.
- Price includes minor design changes.