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Want to learn how to build Web sites fast? This best-selling guide's visual format and step-by-step, task-based instructions will have you up and running with HTML5 and CSS3 in no time. This Seventh Edition is a major revision, with approximately 125 pages added and substantial updates to (or complete rewrites of) nearly every page from the preceding edition. Authors Elizabeth Castro and Bruce Hyslop use clear instructions, friendly prose, and real-world code samples to teach you HTML and CSS from the ground up. Over the course of 21 chapters you will learn how to:
Need to learn HTML5 fast? This best-selling reference's visual format and step-by-step, task-based instructions will have you up and running with HTML in no time. In this completely updated edition of our best-selling guide to HTML, authors Elizabeth Castro and Bruce Hyslop use crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce you to all of today's HTML5 and CSS essentials. You'll learn how to design, structure, and format your website. You'll learn about the new elements and form input types in HTML5. You'll create and use images, links, styles, lists, tables, frames, and forms; and you'll add video, audio, and other multimedia to your site. You'll learn how to add visual effects with CSS3. You'll understand web standards and learn from code examples that reflect today's best practices. Finally, you will test and debug your site, and publish it to the web. Throughout the book, the authors will cover all of HTML and offer extensive coverage of HTML5 and CSS techniques.
About the Author
Bruce Hyslop began developing for the Web in 1997 and focuses on interface technical architecture, development, usability, accessibility, and advocating best practices. He is the author of The HTML Pocket Guide (Peachpit Press, 2010), a thorough discussion and reference of all HTML elements (HTML5 and prior). Bruce also teaches a CSS course at UCLA Extension and occasionally speaks on matters regarding front-end development. Over the years, he has overseen front-end teams or been a developer for more than 150 projects, including those for ABC, BBC, Disney, Logitech, Microsoft, NBC Universal, Nokia, Target, Toyota, and Yahoo!, among others.
Bruce was an early adopter of Web standards. At a previous agency in the early 2000s, he lead companies such as Baskin-Robbins and Pacific Gas & Electric into the fray of modern client-side practices while managing development between offices in Los Angeles, China, and New York.
Table of Contents
Front matter
The Internet, the Web, and HTML
Open but Not Equal
An Introduction to Web Standards
A Glimpse at the Past: HTML 4 and XHTML 1
Upward and Onward: An HTML5 Primer
CSS and Browser Support
How This Book Works
What's Changed in the Seventh Edition
The HTML VQS Web Site
01 Web Page Building Blocks
A Basic HTML Page
Semantic HTML: Markup with Meaning
Markup: Elements, Attributes, and Values
A Web Page's Text Content
Links, Images, and Other Non-Text Content
File Names
Recap of Key Takeaways
02 Working with Web Page Files
Planning Your Site
Creating a New Web Page
Saving Your Web Page
Specifying a Default or "Home" Page
Editing Web Pages
Organizing Files
Viewing Your Page in a Browser
The Inspiration of Others
Working on a Local Server
03 Basic HTML Structure
Starting Your Web Page
Creating the Foundation
Declaring the Encoding
Creating a Title
Creating Headings
Grouping Headings
Starting a New Paragraph
Naming Elements
Breaking up a Page into Divisions
Creating Inline Spans
Adding a Thematic Break or Transition
Labeling Elements in a Web Page
Adding Comments
04 Structural Elements Unique to HTML5
HTML5's Document Outline
Creating a Header
Marking Navigation
Creating a Footer
Creating an Article
Creating a Section
Specifying an Aside
05 Text
Adding Author Contact Information
Defining a Figure
Marking Important and Emphasized Text
Offset Text Stylistically or in Another Voice
Highlighting Text
Quoting Text
Indicating a Citation or Reference
Explaining Abbreviations
Defining a Term
Creating Superscripts and Subscripts
Specifying Time
Marking Changed Text
Marking Misspelled Text
Specifying Fine Print
Marking Code and Using Preformatted Text
Marking Keyboard Instructions and Sample Output
Creating a Line Break
Indicating a Measurement within a Range
Indicating Progress
Adding a Ruby Annotation
Handling Bidirectional Text
06 Images
About Images for the Web
Getting Images
Choosing an Image Editor
The Save for Web Command
Inserting Images on a Page
Specifying Alternate Text
Determining an Image's Dimensions
Reducing an Image's Dimensions
Adding an Icon for Your Web Site
07 Links
Creating a Link to Another Web Page
Creating Anchors
Linking to a Specific Anchor
Creating Other Kinds of Links
Using Images to Label Links
08 Style Sheet Building Blocks
Constructing a Style Rule
Adding Comments to Style Rules
The Cascade: When Rules Collide
A Property's Value
09 Working with Style Sheet Files
Creating an External Style Sheet
Linking External Style Sheets
Creating an Embedded Style Sheet
Applying Inline Styles
Using Media-Specific Style Sheets
Offering Alternate Style Sheets
The Importance of Location
The Inspiration of Others: CSS
10 Defining Selectors
Constructing Selectors
Selecting Elements by Name
Selecting Elements by ID or Class
Selecting Elements by Context
Selecting Part of an Element
Selecting Link Elements Based on Their State
Selecting Elements Based on Attributes
Specifying Groups of Elements
Combining Selectors
11 Formatting Text with Styles
Choosing a Font Family
Specifying Alternate Fonts
Creating Italics
Applying Bold Formatting
Setting the Font Size
Setting the Line Height
Setting All Font Values at Once
Setting the Color
Changing the Text's Background
Controlling Spacing between Words and Letters
Adding Indents
Setting White Space Properties
Controlling Word Wrapping
Aligning Text
Changing the Text Case
Using Small Caps
Decorating Text
Adding a Shadow to Text
12 Adding a Custom Web Font
About Web Fonts
Finding a Web Font
Adding a Web Font to a Style Sheet
Testing a Web Font
13 Layout with Styles
Structuring Your Pages
The Box Model
Changing the Background
Using Multiple Background Images
Setting the Height or Width for an Element
Setting the Margins around an Element
Adding Padding around an Element
Offsetting Elements In the Natural Flow
Positioning Elements Absolutely
Affixing an Element to the Browser Window
Making Elements Float
Controlling Where Elements Float
Positioning Elements in "3D"
Setting the Border
Changing the Cursor
Determining Where Overflow Should Go
Aligning Elements Vertically
14 Enhancements with CSS3
Making an Element Semi-transparent
Changing the Opacity of an Element
Adding Rounded Corners to an Element
Adding a Drop Shadow to an Element
Adding a Linear Gradient to an Element
Adding a Radial Gradient to an Element
15 Dynamic Effects with Styles
Displaying and Hiding Elements
Creating Rollover Buttons
Creating Drop-Down Menus with Lists
Replace an Element's Content with an Image
16 Style Sheets for Printing
Creating a Style Sheet for Print
How Print Style Sheets Differ
Controlling Page Breaks
Printing Link URLs
Controlling Widows and Orphans
17 Style Sheets for Mobile and Tablets
Mobilize vs. Miniaturize
Looking at Your Site
HTML and CSS for Mobile
Creating Style Sheets for Mobile
Targeting Screen Sizes with Media Queries
Adjusting Layout for the iPhone and iPad
Hiding Extraneous Elements
Creating and Using an Image Header
Creating Extra Links to the Top
A Look at Responsive Web Design
18 Lists
Creating Ordered and Unordered Lists
Choosing Your Markers (Bullets)
Choosing Where to Start List Numbering
Using Custom Markers
Controlling Where Markers Hang
Setting All List-Style Properties at Once
Creating Definition Lists
Styling Nested Lists
19 Forms
About New Form Inputs in HTML5
Creating a Form
Processing Forms
Sending Form Data via E-mail
Organizing the Form Elements
Creating Text Boxes
Creating Password Boxes
Formally Labeling Form Parts
Creating Radio Buttons
Creating Menus
Creating Checkboxes
Creating Larger Text Areas
Allowing Visitors to Upload Files
Creating Hidden Fields
Creating the Submit Button
Resetting the Form
Using an Image to Submit Data
Setting the Tab Order in a Form
Adding Keyboard Shortcuts
Disabling Form Elements
Keeping Elements from Being Changed
Creating Search Boxes
Creating Range Sliders
Creating Number Range Boxes
Creating Phone Number Boxes
Creating Date Boxes
20 Video, Audio, and other Multimedia
About HTML5 and Video
Of Plugins and Players
Adding an HTML5 Video Player
Displaying Fallback Players if HTML5 isn't Available
Adding an HTML5 Audio Player
Getting Multimedia Files
Linking to Multimedia Files
Embedding QuickTime Movies for Windows
Embedding QuickTime Movies for Everyone besides IE
Embedding QuickTime Movies for All
Using JavaScript to Call a Movie
Scaling a QuickTime Movie
Changing the Movie's Background Color
Looping a QuickTime Movie
Offering a Preview Movie
Adding Attributes to Secondary Movies
Offering a Sequel
Embedding MP3 Audio on a Page
Embedding Windows Media, Part 1
Embedding Windows Media, Part 2
Embedding Flash
Embedding YouTube Video
Embedding Other Multimedia Files
21 Tables
Creating a Simple Table
Adding a Border
Setting the Width
Centering a Table
Wrapping Text around a Table
Combining Tables
Aligning a Cell's Contents
Changing the Background
Controlling the Space
Spanning a Cell across Columns
Spanning a Cell across Rows
Dividing Your Table into Column Groups
Dividing the Table into Horizontal Sections
Choosing Which Borders to Display
Controlling Line Breaks in a Cell
Speeding up Table Display
22 Scripts
Adding an "Automatic" Script
Calling an External Automatic Script
Adding Alternate Information
23 Symbols and Non-English Characters
About Character Encodings
Declaring Your Page's Character Encoding
Declaring a Style Sheet's Encoding
Saving Your Page with the Proper Encoding
Editing a Page with the Proper Encoding
Adding Characters from Outside the Encoding
Specifying A Page's Language
24 Testing and Debugging Web Pages
Some Debugging Techniques
Check the Easy Stuff First!
Checking the Easy Stuff: HTML
Checking the Easy Stuff: CSS
Validating Your Code
Testing Your Page
When Images Don't Appear
Differences from Browser to Browser
Still Stuck?
25 Publishing Your Pages on the Web
Finding a Host for Your Site
Getting Your Own Domain Name
Transferring Files to the Server
Appendix A: HTML Reference
Appendix B: CSS Properties and Values
Appendix C: Events
Appendix D: HTML Symbols and Characters
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Studying the morphology and function of the normal and diseased retina in vivo is needed for advancing the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of retinal disease. This protocol uses an adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscope (AOSLO) to image the normal and diseased retina with individual cellular resolution non-invasively. The primary objective of this study is to obtain and analyze high-resolution images of the retina, in particular by imaging the cone photoreceptor mosaic, the retinal vasculature and other retinal layers. The study design will involve case-control studies, where cases are followed over time. Subjects age 7 and older may be invited to participate. The main research procedure involves retinal imaging with the AOSLO. The primary endpoint is the observation of differences in retinal images between subjects with and without retinal diseases. These changes will be quantified by examining the cell density, size, spacing and regularity of the cone photoreceptor mosaic, as well as examining the differences between other retinal layers.
Retinitis Pigmentosa
Age-related Macular Degeneration
Geographic Atrophy
Procedure: Retinal imaging
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|High Resolution Retinal Imaging
- high-resolution images of retina [ Time Frame: 1 day (initial visit) ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]The primary objective of this study is to obtain and analyze high-resolution images of the retina in normal and diseased eyes non-invasively.
- Cone mosaic parameters [ Time Frame: 1 day (initial visit) ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Imaging the cone photoreceptor mosaic, and analyzing cell density, size, spacing, regularity, and other mosaic parameters in normal retina compared to diseased retina.
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Retinal degeneration
This group will include patients with retinal degeneration and vision abnormalities. The group will participate in retinal imaging procedures including adaptive optics imaging, optical coherence tomography and fundus photography. Vision may be assessed using microperimetry, visual fields, and visual acuity.
Procedure: Retinal imaging
Retinal imaging procedures include adaptive optics imaging, optical coherence tomography and fundus photography.
Normal control
This group will include individuals without retinal degeneration. The group will participate in retinal imaging procedures including adaptive optics imaging, optical coherence tomography and fundus photography. Vision may be assessed using microperimetry, visual fields, and visual acuity.
Procedure: Retinal imaging
Retinal imaging procedures include adaptive optics imaging, optical coherence tomography and fundus photography.
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Individuals age 7 and older will be recruited for purposes of this study. Adults must have the capacity to give informed consent. Subjects age 7 to 17 will need parent/guardian consent to participate in the study. Subjects aged 7 to 17 will need to assent to participate in the study. We will recruit subjects with both normal (disease-free) retinas and subjects with retinal degenerations including Leber's Congenital Amaurosis, Stargardt's Dystrophy, retinitis pigmentosa, age-related macular degeneration, Choroideremia, Geographic Atrophy, etc. Subjects will not be excluded based on ethnic or racial background; we expect that enrollment will be split evenly between males and females.
Inclusion Criteria:
- Males or females age 7 years or older.
- Parental/guardian permission (informed consent) and if appropriate, child assent. Child subjects age 7-17 must give assent.
- Reasonable compliance with an imaging protocol as determined by the study personnel.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Individuals that are at risk to acute glaucoma.
- Individuals that are photophobic and experience adverse psychological reactions to flashes of light.
- Ocular opacities, high refractive error, and high frequency of nystagmus as determined by the study team.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01866371
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retinal degeneration
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Geographic Atrophy
Macular Degeneration
Retinitis Pigmentosa
Choroid Diseases
Eye Diseases
Eye Diseases, Hereditary
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
Genetic Diseases, X-Linked
Retinal Degeneration
Retinal Diseases
Retinal Dystrophies
Uveal Diseases
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Finally someone said it. Everytime I make mention of the samething, someone always has an excuse defending the oil companies. I was starting to think I was the only one who had a problem with oil companies makeing billions of dollars in profits every quater.
I usually enjoy De Rosier's View and think his cartoons are great. However, since I can't stand unnecessary depictions of violence, I was very turned off by this cartoon and didn't pay much attention to the message as a result. Even greedy, dishonest oil executives should not be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment. To be powerful, political cartoons need to be beyond reproach.
Thoughtful post, Joan. Thanks for writing.
"Thoughtful"? "greedy, dishonest oil executives"? "Thoughtful"? Slanderous, maybe. Just think, Joan, if each of those "greed, dishonest" executives made zero dollars and zero cents every year, (yes, a pay of nothing) gas might be a penny cheaper per gallon. Maybe. To be "thoughtful", comments need to have a lick of common sense and knowledge about the topic under discussion.
I'll take the penny.
This cartoon made lots of sense, contrary to the opinion of the oil executive (Falze) that scorned your view. It was, however, simplistic. The oil execs and their companies are much too powerful and make too much money, but they don't bear all the blame. Our selfish, ego-driven, money-grubbing political leaders are the real villains here; and don't leave out those of us who return them to office every time they run.
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Dr. Sung-Yun Kim is a staff accompanist at Texas Woman's University. Prior to coming to Denton, he was an adjunct instructor, instrumental and vocal coach, and a collaborative pianist-in-residence at Southeastern Oklahoma State University in Durant, Oklahoma. He has also served as a Teaching Assistant at the University of North Texas. He has won many piano competitions in South Korea and the third prize winner in the International Piano Workshop Competition in Varna, Bulgaria. He has performed as a soloist with the Keimyung University Orchestra, the Daegu New Philharmonia Orchestra, and the Bulgaria Varna Philharmonic Orchestra.
As a Collaborative pianist, he has appeared in recital with performed with Julianne Baird, voice professor at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey, Maryann Kyle, voice professor at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Amanda Pepping, trumpet professor at the Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia, and Ewa Izykowska-Klosiewicz, voice professor and Jaroslaw Domzal, cello professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Poland. He has performed with the Keimyung Opera, the Daegu Male Choir that received second prize in International Choir Olympics Official Competition and first prize in competition held by president of S. Korea, the Keimyung University Choir and Opera and the UNT A Cappella Choir, the Recital Choir, the Grand chorus, the UNT Symphony Orchestra, the UNT Concert Orchestra, TWU Opera, and the North Texas Chamber Choir for the recording session of GIA publications. He has been given the "Accompanist of the Year" award by the National Association of Teachers of Singing in Dallas/ Fort Worth Area Chapter in 2013 and 2014. He also has performed in Weil Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning has barred The Courier-Journal's political writer from weekly telephone briefings with Kentucky reporters.
Bunning holds the briefings each Tuesday morning to discuss legislative issues.
Bunning spokesman Mike Reynard called Joseph Gerth "a biased
reporter," says Gerth "has a political agenda," and said Bunning's office does not need to include him on the call.
In a story published Thursday, Courier-Journal Managing Editor Ben Post said the newspaper objects to Bunning's decision. He said Gerth has been fair in his reporting about Bunning.
Reynard notes that The Courier-Journal's Washington-based reporter, James R. Carroll, already participates in the weekly calls.
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Edward Snowden now holds a permanent place in the pantheon of US national security leakers, alongside the likes of Daniel Ellsberg, Julian Assange, and Chelsea Manning.
A former contractor for the US National Security Agency (NSA), Snowden made headlines around the world when he leaked thousands of confidential files detailing secretive NSA spying programs.
Now that it's been a year since the Snowden files emerged, after publication of a report in The Guardian blew the lid off the NSA's bulk collection of Americans' phone records, we thought we'd take a look back at what we've learned.
The revelations
The codenames of the NSA's vast data collection programs are now familiar to many - PRISM, Tempura, Upstream, XKeyscore.
The program called PRISM, explained in documents leaked by Snowden to The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald in June 2013, collected data directly from the servers of the largest internet companies - including Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Microsoft.
The troves of data swept up by the NSA are so enormous - billions of phone calls, text messages, emails, chats and images every day - that the NSA can only store some of it for short periods of time.
XKeyscore is the NSA's network of 500 servers across the globe used to store the data collected from the internet and telecommunications traffic of nearly everyone on the planet.
The NSA's descriptions of XKeyscore say that it can "collect nearly everything a user does on the internet," from web searches to video chats.
Other programs revealed by Snowden's leaks include the NSA's collaboration with other spy agencies, including the UK's GCHQ, and others in France, Germany, Israel and Australia.
Most recently, we learned of the NSA's facial recognition program that scans millions of images gathered from websites, emails, text messages and chats to match suspects against photo ID databases.
The NSA dragnet leaves nothing that travels over the internet untouched.
The backlash
After The Guardian's first report, more revelations poured out in the media in the following weeks.
There was a swift backlash against NSA spying, from people in grassroots organizations, to the biggest tech companies, with repercussions both political and diplomatic.
In the US, President Obama tried to soothe things over with allies such as Germany's Angela Merkel when it was revealed that the NSA had tapped phone conversations of world leaders.
In terms of domestic politics in the US, Obama has called for reforms in the way the NSA gathers data from Americans, and some of those reforms will keep US citizens from having their phone records and emails collected.
But efforts to curtail the NSA's power to collect data under US law won't be enough.
To ensure the privacy of communications that we take for granted as a part of our rights to freedom of speech and political association, we need to have more control over the way we use technology.
That means that we as individuals have to be more aware of how the services we use handle our data, and we need to have security that includes encryption for all our communications.
Companies like Google, Yahoo and Facebook have made steps towards more encryption for our messages on those services - but many others need to follow their lead.
Snowden himself
This story would be far less complicated if the NSA leaker were anonymous - but Snowden's fame has made his actions hard to separate from his personality.
Some people consider Snowden's actions heroic - others call him a traitor.
Snowden's face is now iconic - we see everywhere the photo of Snowden that first introduced us to the bespectacled young man who opened our eyes to the NSA's secrets.
Given what we know now about the NSA, and the unfolding events of the past year, Snowden's actions will have an impact for a long time to come.
As for Snowden himself, he is seeking to leave Russia and find asylum, perhaps in Brazil - but Brazil might not want him due to its own concerns about relations with the US.
Let's hope that the facts of NSA surveillance don't become a secondary storyline to Snowden's personal tribulations.
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What should I do if I think someone I know has bulimia?
- If someone you know is showing signs of bulimia, you may be able to help.
- Set a time to talk. Set aside a time to talk privately with your friend. Make sure you talk in a quiet place where you won't be distracted.
- Tell your friend about your concerns. Be honest. Tell your friend about your worries about his or her eating or exercising habits. Tell your friend you are concerned and that you think these things may be a sign of a problem that needs professional help.
- Ask your friend to talk to a professional. Your friend can talk to a counselor or doctor who knows about eating issues. Offer to help your friend find a counselor or doctor and make an appointment, and offer to go with him or her to the appointment.
- Avoid conflicts. If your friend won't admit that he or she has a problem, don't push. Be sure to tell your friend you are always there to listen if he or she wants to talk.
- Don't place shame, blame, or guilt on your friend. Don't say, "You just need to eat." Instead, say things like, "I'm concerned about you because you won't eat breakfast or lunch." Or, "It makes me afraid to hear you throwing up."
- Don't give simple solutions. Don't say, "If you'd just stop, then things would be fine!"
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This is a photo of Bovo Primary School visiting the Library at 1pm today. Other schools are coming through and Librarian Philippa Robinson and Alan Gioni are also starting to visit schools around the island. Thanks to Alan for photos.
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The library was offically opened last Friday in a stunning ceremony on site. Ten speeches and performances from five different cultural groups made up the three hour event.
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Vacation Bible school
These churches have scheduled Vacation Bible School sessions as follows:
First Central Presbyterian Church, 400 Orange St., "Kingdom Rock: Where Kids Stand Strong for God," June 23-27 for children from preschool through grade five, 325-677-3501.
St. Paul United Methodist Church, 525 Beech St., "Kingdom Rock: Where Kids Stand Strong for God," 5-8 p.m. June 23-27 for preschool and elementary school aged children, 325-672- 7814.
St. James United Methodist Church, 3100 Barrow St., "HayDay VBS," 9 a.m.-3 p.m. June 29 for children from age 3 to those entering sixth grade, 325-692-0263.
First United Methodist Church, 202 Butternut St., is having its "Noah's Ark" Vacation Bible School 5-8 p.m. June 24-28. Dinner will be provided each night for all the children. To preregister or for more information, call Guy Irvin at 325-673- 6769.
Second Baptist Church, 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. June 22 for children in grades K-6.
Lytle South Baptist Church, 1125 E. Industrial Blvd., will conduct its "Colossal Coaster World" Vacation Bible School 6-8:30 p.m. June 23-27. Children age 3 through sixth grade are welcome. Free. 325-675-6533.
North Fifth and Grape Church of Christ, 433 Grape St., will present its "Building Up God's House" Vacation Bible School from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. Children age 4 through sixth grade are welcome. 325-673-0211 or www.northfifthand grapechurch.org.
First Christian Church, 420 N. Third St., "Parable Prairie Ranch" preschool Vacation Bible School, 9 a.m.-noon June 25-27. Open to children ages 3-5. Free. Register at fccabilene.com/page/preschool-vbs or 325-677- 2186.
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Can zombies get married, according to the Bible?
Maybe the term "civil rights" doesn't mean what Mike Huckabee thinks it means.
After drawing national attention and being found in contempt of court for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples seeking to wed in her area of Kentucky, Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis could be on her way to professional martyrdom for mixing her religious beliefs with her job.
In an essay published in The Guardian after the U.S. Supreme Court's same-sex marriage decision, Chelsea Manning traced the arc of progress on the issue of LGBT rights, starting from the moment California's controversial Proposition 8 was passed in 2008 to Friday's stunning SCOTUS victory.
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Saturday vote counts of the Irish referendum on gay marriage show that the once "Roman Catholic stronghold" seems ready to embrace same-sex marriage with open arms.
"This is the last time that I'll be able to hang out with these adorable bigots," she says in mock tears as insults and hellish threats pour in from all sides at an anti-gay marriage rally in Washington, D.C.
And then there were six: Former Arkansas governor and Fox News talking head Mike Huckabee brought the official tally of Republican candidates for the 2016 presidential contest to a half-dozen Tuesday, and he blasted his ex-rival, President Obama, while he was at it.
It's been a busy news week, to say the least. Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer happened to be in Baltimore and relays what he saw, on the latest episode of "Left, Right & Center." Also: Bernie Sanders' 2016 bid and same-sex marriage's upcoming day in court.
For much of the country, gay marriage is becoming old news. But you would never know that from listening to the GOP presidential hopefuls, who play rhetorical Twister whenever the issue is raised.
The once-unthinkable is about to happen. Get ready.
The new paradigm explodes restrictive categories and in their place offers greater freedom for both gay and straight couples.
FedEx is the defendant in a lawsuit filed by a California woman who claims the speedy delivery company refused to recognize her marriage with another woman.
In a string of judicial opinions and public appearances dating back at least to the mid-1990s, Antonin Scalia has demonstrated that he cannot evaluate questions of gay rights with the temperament and open-mindedness expected of a judge.
Well said, your honor: A federal judge in Pennsylvania—one John E. Jones III of the Federal District Court in Harrisburg, to be precise—did away with the state's ban on same-sex marriage on Tuesday, declaring it unconstitutional with an eloquent flourish.
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Utah is the 10th state to get gay marriage this year—and the second this week—but it's an especially significant one considering that voters in the state have not followed public opinion.
More than a thousand students have enrolled in the leftist group's la escuelita de libertad to learn about the Mexican rebels' life philosophies; a Canadian teenager protests Monsanto by eloquently refuting a bumbling TV host; meanwhile, same-sex marriage is garnering immense support in Latin America. These discoveries and more after the jump.
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The rapid evolution of attitudes toward gay marriage is a wonder to behold. On few issues has public opinion moved as quickly or decisively. Many who are against the formal recognition of homosexual unions are now resigned to the reality they will eventually become commonplace.
The blogger and commentator, who is gay and Catholic, explained to CNN's Fareed Zakaria on Sunday why the Catholic Church shouldn't have any problems with same-sex couples getting married.
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Thanks to the Supreme Court's decision in Hollingsworth v. Perry, California's Proposition 8 ballot initiative that barred same-sex marriage in the state is no more. But the measure's supporters are once again up in arms after the Golden State resumed allowing gay couples to wed Friday. (UPDATED)
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On Wednesday morning, the Supreme Court issued decisions on a pair of landmark same-sex marriage cases, striking down the Defense of Marriage Act while ruling the proponents of California's Proposition 8 lacked standing to argue the case in federal courts.
A look at the day's political happenings, including PolitiFact considers possible outcomes for Wednesday's Supreme Court same-sex marriage decisions and "The Daily Show's" John Oliver takes aim at the media and the government over whistle-blower Edward Snowden.
A look at the day's political happenings, including a third GOP senator throws her support behind legalizing gay marriage and a Democratic lawmaker takes a major step to end corporate personhood.
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An estimated 150,000 people took to the streets of the French capital Sunday to protest the same-sex legislation signed into law last week. Meanwhile, in the south of the country, the Palme d'Or, the highest honor of the Cannes Film Festival, was awarded to "Blue Is the Warmest Color," a long and very explicit movie about a teenager's wakening lesbianism.
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Much to the likely chagrin of the Minnesota congresswoman—who once claimed that gay couples could wed, but only to members of the opposite sex—her home state appears poised to become the latest to legalize same-sex marriage.
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Gutless action has no place in the high court's deliberations on marriage.
A look at the day's political happenings, including the latest Senate Democrat to "evolve" on the issue of gay marriage and a California billionaire looking to become the left's answer to the Koch brothers.
In this weekend's episode of "Saturday Night Live," the show's version of the North Korean ruler made a couple of major announcements regarding state policy on nuclear weapons and gay marriage.
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I thought I had said all I had to say last week about the accelerated change in American attitudes toward gay marriage and "illegal" immigration. But there are a lot of other folks out there examining the accelerated politics of the day and generally coming to the conclusion that, after years of moving right, Americans are moving left again.
A look at the day's political happenings, including Connecticut's tough new gun laws and a recently created PAC looks to support candidates based on one nonpolitical trait.
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The "Real Time" host appeared on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" on Tuesday where he mocked a number of his favorite topics including religious holidays, the Catholic Church and the Bible.
A look at the day's political happenings, including the NRA's new plan to make schools "safer" and Bill Maher scores a small victory against Donald Trump.
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Recent polls show Americans would rather reduce the deficit by raising taxes than by cutting Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, education and transportation. Yet Congress seems incapable of making that kind of deal. Some 65 percent of Americans want to raise taxes on large corporations, but both parties are heading in precisely the opposite direction.
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Out of all the newsworthy comments during this week's Supreme Court debate over the legality of same-sex marriage bans, none was more revealing—or troubling—than that which came from Justice Sonya Sotomayor.
A look at the day's political happenings, including a Texas congressman's run-in with the law and Ashley Judd's big political announcement.
Edie and Thea met in the early 1960s, in New York's Greenwich Village. They hit it off.
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Nevertheless, the Supreme Court's likely rulings on the issue of gay marriage will not be complete victories for those who support allowing same-sex couples to wed.
One of the top arguments that those who oppose allowing gay couples to wed routinely give is that it would be a "threat" to the marriage of straight couples. What happens when attendees at an anti-marriage equality rally Tuesday were asked about it, however, paints a different picture.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in the case concerning Proposition 8, the California ballot initiative that bars same-sex couples from marrying in the state.
Don't take anything for granted. The conservative activists on the Supreme Court may not be able to halt the inexorable shift toward acceptance of gay marriage, but we probably should expect them to try.
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Which current, former Packers could make a good World Cup team?
Right now, that other kind of football is having its greatest tournament with the World Cup. Of course, American football is king here. We came up with a list of Packers past and present who could at least perform respectably at the World Cup....like losing 49-0 instead of 50-0. Check out our fun list of a Green Bay Packers World Cup team.
Mason Crosby, Packers kicker, 2007-present. The high school soccer star is the franchise's second-most accurate kicker. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Al Del Greco, Packers kicker, 1984-87. The top-level golfer played for a state championship soccer team back in high school. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Paul Hornung, Packers halfback and kicker, 1957-62, 64-66. Though he wasn't the most accurate kicker in Green Bay, his shiftiness in the open field could translate to the soccer pitch. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Chris Jacke, Packers kicker, 1989-96. He's not only known for his clutch kicks, but he's a high school soccer star, and now a soccer dad. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Jerry Kramer, guard and kicker, 1958-68. He wrote in "Instant Replay" that his kicking form was more of a "boink." We'll have to discern which soccer position would suit him best. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Ryan Longwell, kicker, 1997-2005. He stands in the top 20 for most accurate kickers in NFL history. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Chester Marcol, Packers kicker, 1972-80. He's our team co-captain, as he played on Poland's national junior soccer team before emigrating to America. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Max McGee, Packers wide receiver and punter, 1954, 1957-67. He served as a punter for six years in Green Bay, and he could catch anything - perfect to play goalkeeper. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Ray Nitschke, Packers linebacker, 1958-72. Nobody would mess with him on headers. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Jan Stenerud, Packers kicker, 1980-83. The Pro Football Hall of Famer is our co-captain. Said to be one of the best youth soccer players in Norway as a kid, he revolutionized NFL kicking. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Willie Wood, Packers safety and kicker, 1960-71. The Pro Football Hall of Famer was a kickoff specialist for Vince Lombardi's Packers. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel


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Since he spent much time with pencil and paper in his father's study, dogs also became the chief subject of his drawings: an endless number of epic scenes in which dogs were generals, soldiers, soccer players, and knights.
—Milan Kundera, Life Is Elsewhere
The world's most popular game and one of the most beloved symbols of domesticity would seem to be an ideal combination. Soccer and dogs can both create idyllic moments. The emotion that comes from watching a dog freed from his tether bound across a field parallels that of seeing some of the world game's artists demonstrate their gifts in the 2010 World Cup.
Study the history of a sport that has enchanted people of all social stripes and you'll see that dogs have had their place in it, nowhere more so than in the modern game's country of origin—England—where the phrase "two men and a dog" long ago became the sportswriter's cliché for the sparse but dutiful attendance at lower-division matches.
One of the indicators of increasing corporate influence and enhanced regulation over English soccer (football), in fact, has been the decline over the past two decades in the number of dogs trying to join the play. The so-called "pitch intrusions" were features of the game in its earlier days; when they occurred, the referee was required to stop the game, and players kneeled in frustrated attempts to coax the canine visitors into their arms.
How did dogs get on the field in the first place? I asked Roger Titford, who has written on dogs and football for English soccer magazines.
"One suspects that men sometimes said they were taking the dog out for a walk as an excuse, when in fact they were off to the match," he writes. "This was much easier in the days of walking to a nearby ground and standing on half-empty terraces than it is nowadays. The dog got bored, startled by the noise or something, and escaped through a pitchside gate or by leaping a low wall and ran for freedom all over the pitch, usually round in circles until rounded up by the referee or, for some reason, the goalie."
A notorious incident occurred at the 1962 World Cup in Chile in a quarterfinal between England and Brazil. A stray dog avoided several players until celebrated England forward Jimmy Greaves sunk to all fours and corralled it. According to some reports, Greaves barked. This counterintuitive approach to calming the dog had startling consequences, as the frightened animal urinated on Greaves' England jersey. "I smelled bad," said Greaves, "but at least it meant the Brazilian defenders stayed clear of me." Garrincha, a Brazilian midfield player, enjoyed the display so much that he adopted the dog after the tournament. Garrincha scored twice in the match. England lost.
But of all sporting events in which animals have interceded, few incidents top the exploits of Pickles. The mixed-breed Scottish Border Collie, accompanying his owner, a Thames barge worker, on an evening walk in South-East London's Beulah Hill on March 27, 1966, drew the man's attention to a package wrapped in newspaper.
"I picked it up and tore some paper and saw a woman holding a dish over her head," recalls David Corbett in an interview with the London Observer earlier this year, "and disks with the words Germany, Uruguay, Brazil. I rushed inside to my wife. She was one of those anti-sport wives. But I said, 'I've found the World Cup! I've found the World Cup!'"
One week earlier, the Jules Rimet trophy, the prize for the winning team in that summer's World Cup, had been stolen from its glass display case at an exhibition hall in Westminster. England's Football Association, domestic organizers of the tournament that was taking place in England for the first time, consulted Scotland Yard and started ransom negotiations with the thieves. The FA also surreptitiously commissioned a replacement trophy in case the £30,000 solid-gold statuette could not be recovered in time.
But Pickles saved authorities from greater embarrassment. The theft, remembers Corbett, gained such attention that it had "knocked [Prime Minister] Harold Wilson off the front pages."
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Cary Nelson (1946), professor of English and Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was president of the American Association of University Professors between 2006 and 2012.
He received his Ph.D in English from the University of Rochester 1970 and is a 1967 graduate of Antioch College. His scholarship of the 1970s and 80s worked to expand the canon of modern American poetry, and since the 1990s he has increasingly focused on issues in higher education. In the words of Alan Wald, "With the appearance of Manifesto of a Tenured Radical in 1997, Cary became an example of the committed scholar who conceived of the advance of his own career in the context of the amelioration of the rank-and-file of the academic community; more specifically, graduate students, part-time employees, and campus workers."[1]
Nelson was elected to a two-year term as president of the AAUP in April 2006 and was re-elected until 2012. For the previous six years, he had been the second vice president of the AAUP. In April 2006 he was arrested, along with over 50 others (including Jane Buck, the outgoing president of the AAUP), as part of a unionization effort by New York University's graduate teaching assistants.[2]
He has published or edited twenty five books, including Manifesto of a Tenured Radical and Revolutionary Memory: Recovering the Poetry of the American Left. His academic focus is on modern American poetry.[3]
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ABSTRACT- Purpose/Objective: Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) can deliver highly conformal doses to complicated anatomical structures. Inherent to dose delivery by IMRT, however, is increased delivery time for each treatment fraction. There is concern that if sublethal damage repair (SLDR) were sufficiently rapid, it might be necessary to increment dose relative to more rapid delivery methods to achieve adequate tumor cell killing. We sought to measure SLDR on a time scale relevant to IMRT (0-60 min) in two glioblastoma (GBM) human tumor cell lines. Materials/Methods: U87MG and T98G GBM cells were plated into 96-well plates as single-cell suspensions. Beginning 4 h after plating, cells received 2 Gy per day in 1 Gy half-fractions separated by intervals of 0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, or 60 minutes. The radiation field was homogeneous within 6%, and plates were thermally insulated during irradiations. Irradiations continued for 5 consecutive days to a cumulative dose of 10 Gy, with 4 replicates per condition and 4 unirradiated plates to measure plating efficiency (PE). After incubation for at least two weeks, colonies were fixed and stained. Clonogenic survival was determined by dilution analysis: SF(D)=-ln(WCF)/(N*PE); WCF = no. of wells without colonies/96 and N = no. of cells plated per well. The mean values of SF2x5 from each experiment were normalized to the laboratory standard value for each cell line. Statistical tests were performed using PSI-Plot. Results: The figure [see poster] shows the SF2x5 values for T98G and U87MG. Points are means for 3 experiments with 4 plates per experiment (n=12); error bars are standard errors of the mean. Significantly different survivals for T98G were: 0 vs. 60 (p=0.025) and 30 vs. 60 (p = 0.048), while 15 vs. 60 was nearly significant (p =0.077). Significantly different survivals for U87MG were: 0 vs. 60 (p=0.020), 5 vs. 20 (p=0.038), 5 vs. 60 (p=0.042), 10 vs. 20 (p=0.009), 15 vs. 20 (p=0.007), and 20 vs. 60 (p =0.002), while 20 vs. 30 was nearly significant (p= 0.076). The U87MG, but not the T98G, p-values are valid for multiple comparisons by Fisher's Protected LSD test. Conclusions: A 60-min interval between half-fractions spared both cell lines, whereas a 30-min or shorter split spared neither. This implies that IMRT fractions delivered within 30 min should not be less effective than the same dose delivered at 0.8 Gy/min without interruption. U87MG survival was smaller, however, for the 20-min split than for several shorter or longer splits. Although thermal or other artifacts cannot yet be excluded, we may have detected a complicated variation in cell vulnerability to subsequent irradiation in the first few minutes after a 1-Gy dose. The extreme range of survivals observed in this study, if extrapolated to 30 fractions, could cause 1.9-fold and 7.8-fold differences in residual tumor clonogen number for T98G and U87MG, respectively, corresponding to tumor cell killing by 2 (2-Gy) fractions for T98G or 3 fractions for U87MG.
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On my previous post I showed an option to cause a message to appear by clicking on a button. I had played for a while in Blend 2.5 with the obvious functions and animations to achieve this but for some reason it didn't work out. For the opacity of the text the xaml in Blend showed errors. Visual Studio 2008 didn't show any errors but it wouldn't debug either. As for the visibility function it just doesn't work when the timeline recording is on. I get a pop up window describing: "Invalid Property Value: The Property Value is not Valid" (I like how it's refrased in case we didn't get it).
Finally I came up with the last resort, playing with a color animation. Only last night I kicked, digged, dzoned, etc. the article with a very nice result since I received useful comments. Sean made me want to give the opacity another try because it really didn't make any sense that it didn't work. He also mentions that it would be more useful in the case of having a video or an image. So thanks to Sean here is the result:
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This morning I felt like recreating in Silverlight 2, with Microsoft Blend 2.5 March Preview, a little executable I made in WPF. First of all I listened to some lying-in-a-caribbean-beach-sipping-pineapple-and-grenadine-juice music to tame the frustration without having to drink any alcohol.
Back to the subject. I couldn't manage to make a message appear and disappear at the click of an object because the Visibility option "Hidden" is not available. The solution turned out to be very simple. It is actually a color animation. The initial color of the font is the same as the background. Then in the animation I changed the color to Black for 2 seconds. At 02:01:00 I added a keyframe to turn the text back to its original color. Here is the result:
This animation creates the illusion of a message appearing after being triggered by clicking a button and then disappearing. Notice the fading effect achieved by the 0.1" color animation at the end.
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PIERRE — Self-driving cars have been the stuff of science fiction but if some lawmakers get their way, they soon could be heading to South Dakota.
With companies such as Google and General Motors developing autonomous vehicles, California, Michigan and other states have approved access to the road for self-driving cars. Rep. Isaac Latterell, R-Sioux Falls, wants South Dakota to join them.
Ive seen a lot of different states try to encourage driverless car innovation, Latterell said.
We want to be one of the states thats leading in technology. I think this is another way we can attract car manufacturers who are trying to make advances in this area to come to South Dakota.
His measure would allow autonomous cars onto South Dakota highways, but with plenty of restrictions. They would be allowed only for research and testing purposes, not recreational use. The cars would have to have an operator capable of taking control of the car at any moment, if the sensors or computerized guidance systems failed. And the company would have to post a $5 million bond in case anything went wrong.
Theres a real tension between fostering innovation ... and on the other hand protecting public safety, said Bryant Walker Smith, who teaches and studies the legal aspects of automation at Stanford University. Thirty thousand people die on U.S. roads every year, largely through human error, but you can imagine the consequences of an errant robot, both in terms of lives and the technologies involved.
Latterell and other enthusiasts, such as Sen. Dan Lederman, R-Dakota Dunes, said they think people will grow more comfortable with the idea of a car driving itself as they get more familiar.
Initially, there are going to be some knee-jerk reactions against the bill, because to think of a car driving itself seems so foreign, Lederman said. It is a very different idea. But industries have put hundreds of thousands of miles on autonomous cars without any accidents in other states like California.
The self-driving car technology is in a curious state. Commercially available cars already can monitor and control, to varying degrees, a cars speed and direction. But the dream of a car that can function as a chauffeur, going from one place to another while its owner naps in the back, isnt here yet.
The vision of a fully self-driving car has been 20 years away ever since the 1930s, Smith said. Now, the good news is that its coming in 10 years.
Though fully automated cars largely are the province of major corporations, some universities and smaller companies are working on the subject even in South Dakota.
We dont build automobiles. Our research is to apply autonomy to any vehicle, said Jeff McGough, director of the computational sciences and robotics program at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City.
McGough said students and professors are working on building robotic vehicles off-road, partly because of legal issues with taking autonomous cars onto public roads. But he said he knows students who would love to retrofit cars with self-driving capabilities if it were legal.
I dont know of any private land that has, say, interstate, McGough said. Having the laws in place where we could do research, that would be great.
But McGough said Latterells bill might not help student researchers. The requirement for a $5 million bond, in particular, probably would be too great a barrier for a group of students to overcome.
Latterell and Lederman said they havent had any conversations with autonomous car manufacturers but hope theyll be intrigued if South Dakota joins Nevada, California, Florida, Michigan and Washington, D.C., in passing laws governing self-driving cars.
Lederman and Latterell certainly will hear from some of the industry participants, but it wont necessarily be an enthusiastic embrace of the language, Smith said.
In some states, developers of self-driving vehicles have opposed legislation to give them access to the roads with conditions. In part, thats because some companies dont think the laws are needed.
Its probably already legal for an auto manufacturer to take one of their vehicles, duly licensed in South Dakota ... and under the careful supervision of a test driver, operate it on a public road, Smith said.
But probably legal doesnt provide the certainty companies are looking for, so they have welcomed legislation specifically legalizing it except when ta number of restrictions are imposed.
Some people might view this as a bill that expands the legality of the activity, Smith said of Latterells bill. It provides certainty, but it may in fact contract the legality of the activity.
The Senate bill has been assigned to the Senate Transportation Committee but has not been scheduled for a hearing.


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Transparency is ultimately a useful tool and a move in the right direction: the more we know, the better. Of course, if you've hired a portfolio manager who charges a monthly or quarterly inclusive fee, you have already been enjoying full transparency, long before these regulations came into affect.
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. With self-directed investment accounts, discount brokers, free online financial tools and an overabundance of online personal financial advice, it may seem like consumers today are well positioned to manage their own financial path. But access to tools doesn't necessarily mean one has the skills to use them properly.
I don't believe the average person has any idea of what an imbedded commission is or how it affects them. As a matter of fact, I wouldn't be surprised if most investors of mutual funds had a better understanding of how a black hole works. The root of this conundrum is that advisors who sell mutual funds usually get paid from the fund companies.
There are a lot of people who make over $200,000 per year, have over $1,000,000 of investable assets and are often encouraged to invest more than $150,000, without knowing very much about investing. Just because you make a lot of money, or have a lot of money, doesn't mean it should be acceptable to have someone take it from you.
Pierre Lassonde, one of the world's foremost experts on gold, says the only way's up for the shiny stuff. He should know and has made his fortune in the gold game. This week, he spoke at a mining seminar in Toronto organized by mining consultant Terry Ortsland, Chair of the Mineral Resource Analyst Group.
It has all come to where we are today: Loss of confidence, loss of trust, and staggering market losses. This is the time for transparency, authentic conversation, honesty and humility. Those who display this behaviour have a chance to slowly regain the shattered trust of their customers. Straight talk. Honest talk. Committed talk. No spin. No rationalization. The industry messed up, and the public wants to hear the truth.
Recently, there have been some examples of shareholder activism, at Yahoo, Research in Motion and CP Rail. What does not seem to dawn on people (at least not completely) is that if public company boards really understood and did their jobs, there would be no need for "shareholder empowerment." The only question in responding to a "concerned" or activist shareholder is: what is in the best interests of the company and its shareholders?


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That move was AWESOME!!!
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This video? This video is awesome.
I know that I wrote last year about my very first pole dancing class… and I've got to admit it's a ton of fun and yes, I am still a poler.
(As a side note, I don't know that I'm mature enough to write these posts. I keep wanting to call myself a pole lover, a pole girl… I'm just… I'm not mature enough. I'm sorry.)
That being said, it was nice to know that the folks at CBS Sunday Morning aren't mature enough either, as they got in a few giggle-worthy lines during their coverage of the US Pole Dance Championship that took place a little while back. Check out the video here:
And, while I must admit that I cringed a little when the dance instructor said "Mothers bring their daughters in to help them feel sexier," because when we talk about "Mother and daughter" in this country, our first inclination is to think of 35yo Mom and 13yo daughter… but it's often the 47yo Mom and the 25yo daughter who come together. At least, I hope that's what she meant.
Anyway… tell me that video isn't awesome?
…and just try and tell me you weren't impressed when Madame Butterfly walked in the air. Just try. Because you'd be a full-blooded lie.
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That move was AWESOME!!!
I love poling! And yes Butterfly's air walk was amazing – can't wait til my core is that strong!
Hi Erika,
I saw that episode of CBS Sunday Morning when it came on and thought about tweeting you, but figured you were probably watching anyway.
Madame Butterfly is amazing! When I saw that move, I looked at my husband and said "I want to do that!!!" LOL
All I can say is "WOW"!!
I've recently taken up pole dancing classes to stay in shape. It takes a LOT of strength, but I love the results.
This was a repeat, but yall gotta get with Felix Cane, World Champion, that bish is B-A-D! :O)
Love it! I heart the pole…booty shorts, climbs and all!
I love, love, love the pole! I have a ways to go, but I've come so far!


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How big is 2015 going to be for moviegoers and the industry as a whole? Well, if we take the analogy of NBA Free Agency and how the movement of one or two players can change the balance of power in the whole league, Hollywood's 2015 offerings are equal to the potential of the summer of 2014 when LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony and Kobe Bryant could hit the market. Even if you know little about basketball you've heard of those names. Yep, it's that big.
If release dates hold, 2015 will feature highly anticipated juggernauts such as "Avatar 2," the "Man of Steel" sequel featuring Batman, "Avengers: Age of Ultron," the finale of the "Hunger Games" series, the latest James Bond adventure and the first "Star Wars" film in a decade. Oh yeah, there's also a new "Terminator," "Peanuts," "Mission Impossible" and 14 other films that have different fan bases around the globe waiting with bated breath. And this tally doesn't include the prestige fare on the way from some of the world's greatest filmmakers.
No, years like this don't appear on the release date schedule very often, so you can also think of it like the movie Summer Olympics. In 2016 the world's athletes will head to Rio. In 2015, you'll be compelled and (hopefully) excited to head to your movie theater more often than you're used to.
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Estranged husband accused of beating and kicking wife in the presence of their children
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A Livington Parish mother is recovering from injuries after being severely beaten, allegedly at the hands of a man who vowed to protect and serve her.
The victim, Skye Kleinpeter tells us that she, two house guest and her two small children awoke to the sound of glass shattering at the back of her home.
When she awoke to check on what had happened, her door came crashing in and there stood her husband Ridge Price, 22 of Walker, Louisiana who she has been separated from for nearly a month.
Kleinpeter tells us that is when all hell broke loose.
Price allegedly kicked her in the face resulting in her nose squirting blood onto their 2-year-old child, then dragged her from the bed by her hair and slammed her into a door where their 1-year-old child slept according to the victim. Kleinpeter alleges that Price then drug her down the hallway by her hair while her two-year-old child was screaming and crying for him to stop as he continued to stomp her head.
Kleinpeter tells us she screamed out for her friends who were hiding in a closet because she believed Price was going to kill her. She says once he realized they were not alone, he stopped beating her and began looking for her two friends. Kleinpeter says this allowed her the opportunity to run out the door and seek refuge with a neighbor who contacted Police. In the meantime, her friends were able to climb out a window with the two small children and Price allegedly took off out the back door.
Police arrived and searched the area for Price, however, were unsuccessful in apprehending him that night. The following day Price turned himself in to authorities with the Livingston Parish Sheriff's Department and was booked on one count of Aggravated Second Degree Battery and released a short time later on a $5,000 bond.
It's unclear why price was not charged with Home Invasion or Child Endagerment, however, we will continue to seek answers in the coming days.
What is even more puzzling is when we inquired with Livingstong Parish Sheriff, Jason Ard about this incident, he alleges that no adult witnesses were present and nothing was ever mentioned about Price breaking into the home.
Friends and family members have started a Facebook page called, "Ridge Price the Woman Beater is still on the Streets of LP"
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Been there myself many times. Including roadside at night in the rain nearly getting clipped myself trying to help a large doe hit by an asshole who clearly didn't care they left an animal suffering to their death.
What I've learned over the years - especially when despite your efforts, the animal doesn't make it - is this: Every being, whether human or animal, has their own path. It may be different from what we perceive. The best we can do is what we can,
with genuine effort for that being
It may have been that what the dog you helped "needed" in his life experience was to know what it felt like to have someone help, care, and
on his behalf. Soul path complete for this lifetime, perhaps. It's something I felt and saw in her eyes as the doe looked up at me, her head in my lap, as the rain poured down and cars whizzed behind me while waiting for the cops to arrive with their guns.
What happened with the dog may have created a shift in awareness for you or the others involved. These bigger picture things are not without additional "benefit" that way.
It may sound like an out-there concept but when you consider there are larger things at play in the Universe, it's plausible. You were there for a reason.
Just yesterday while at work a baby bird fell from a nest into a horse's stall (horse is one of "my" horses). Not an unusual occurrence this time of year. Eyes not yet open but seemed unharmed. A second one was already dead in the aisle. Anyway, I took the little one to a wildlife rescue minutes away. How could I not? I was there for a reason. It happened in one of my horses' stalls for a reason. A couple of the people from the barn said it was "more than they would do." What? Why. People blow my mind sometimes. But perhaps next time those people might remember there is something they can try to do.
One more thing. Most veterinary offices are closed Sundays but around my area at least there are emergency clinics open always. It might be something to look into in the event you are faced with this again.
Thank You every one said I did the right thing but it still sucks.My girl found the owner via facecrack she talked to him yesterday he was very thankful for me doing what I did and sorry that I had to go trough every thing and said that he would swing by and talk to me in person my girl said to give me a few days I am not sure I am ready to talk to him yet.
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How does this qualify for today? Well we (by that I mean one of my daughters and I), are going to take just one of the four stories contained in this novel and give our thoughts on it. We are also going to take this one step further and discuss the audio cd version of this novel. The short story we chose was the third one, Fair Extension; here is the very short description of the story:
"Harry Streeter, who is suffering from cancer, decides to make a deal with the devil but, as always, there is a price to pay."
If you haven't been to my father's blog and read his biography then you don't know he has eight children, seven daughters and one son. I am daughter number two and I am told that number one, as she is sometimes referred to, is going to be chiming in during this week also on The Memory Place by Mira Bartok. Number one is a psychologist, that's why Dad threw this one at her, it should be right up her alley as I hear. Enough about her though, this is my time and space so listen up and can I please have your attention? Thank you. It was my birthday recently and my Dad won the novel and the audio cd in a contest put on by Simon & Schuster, I found that out afterwards. I scare easily; everybody that knows me knows that. My dad trying to get a laugh at my expense and maybe being a little Stephen King like, was nice enough to put the cd's in the bottom of my birthday bag to give it some weight. The whole family knew it, and waited for my response, the look on my face. Surprise was not the word!
Being the good sport I am and finding out that King did the Shawshank Redemption I thought why not? What is the worst that could happen? I have an hour's drive to work each way so I can kill this bad boy quickly and move on. To my surprise I enjoyed this very dark and soul full story. What would you do in this situation? I was amazed at how deep King gets into the heart of the matter and can portray emotions that are so polar opposite. The depths of the human spirit he touches on and can convey blew me away. The narrative on the cd heightened my experience and was probably my best bet for enjoying this work. I know I didn't want to sit down with the book, but it made my drive to and from work seem like it was nothing as I got deeper and deeper into the story. I'm going with 5 stars on this, and I will report in future weeks on the other stories. The joke is now on the rest of the family. They thought I would run from this and never break the package open, I out "King"ed them. Haha!
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All along the storied Las Vegas Strip, 37 surveillance cameras watch and record every movement.
Such an expensive purchase might surprise citizens of Sin City given that the Metropolitan Police Department is in the middle of a hiring freeze and has laid off dozens of officers all over the city.
The effects of the deep budget cuts are likely to continue to be felt. The Las Vegas Sun reports, "The outlook only threatens to worsen, with Metro facing a $30 million budget deficit that could require it to shed as many as 250 additional officer positions over the next several years."
Homeland Security has deep pockets, though, and the federal government loves using largesse to co-opt control of local law enforcement.
The Las Vegas Police Department received $300,000 from the federal Department of Homeland Security. This generous grant paid for the cameras and the sophisticated surveillance software that powers them.
Before the DHS carrot and stick appeared, there were only eight cameras covering the area now under expanded surveillance.
DHS is proud of the success of its program to use federal funds to save struggling police departments and sheriff's offices, converting them into "partners" with the massive and unconstitutional federal agency.
"We have brought resources and expertise to our law enforcement partners and built new mechanisms to share information. This includes investments in training for local law enforcement and first responders of all types in order to increase expertise and capacity at the local level," DHS states on its website.
New mechanisms such as powerful surveillance cameras.
How is all this new technology being used? Who is being watched? Why are they being targeted for surveillance? Neither law enforcement nor federal agents are talking.
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