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On 3 December 2007, the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations, along with the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, and the New Heritage Theatre Group, co-sponsored "UnHeard Notes," a piano concert featuring pianists with disabilities, which was held in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium. Performers from 7 different countries performed classics such as Beethoven and Chopin, some having arranged the music themselves. The performers, with disabilities ranging from visual and hearing impairments to loss of extremities, moved the audience greatly as they demonstrated their ability to overcome physical and mental hardships and play the piano masterfully.
The concert was a collaboration of the winners and friends of the Piano Paralympics, which was first held in Japan in 2005. The President of the Institute for Piano Teachers & Disabled Japan and one of the founders of the Piano Paralympics , Mr. Tokio Sakoda, spoke to the audience about the importance of giving people with disabilities an opportunity to show their talents and strengths. Ambassador Jiro Kodera also remarked how the performers gave profound hope to all like people, and he recognized their hard work and dedication with respect.
On September 2007, Japan's Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura signed the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities at the United Nations. As the first comprehensive human rights treaty of the 21st Century, the convention seeks to legally protect people with disabilities from discrimination as well as respect their independence and dignity.
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In his first official visit to Toronto, Ambassador Barak met with Premier Wynne, two senior economic ministers--Dr. Hoskins and Dr. Moridi--and Lieutenant Governor Onley.
At the top of the agenda was a renewed push to enhance economic and trade ties between Ontario and Israel. According to Ambassador Barak, "I see great importance in stregthening ties between the Province of Ontario and the State of Israel. In addition to learning about the fields in which we already cooperate, including brain research and innovation, I look forward to discussing ways to deepen our collaboration in untapped sectors."
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For about 5 years, I have been making a 2 hour drive to work 1-2 times a week. Normally a 50 minute drive, the traffic would just get so bad that the commute would more than double on some days. One day, I just snapped and vowed to start taking the train instead. But I had a 20 minute walk from the train to work that I didn't like taking, so I started thinking about getting a bike. My girlfriend recommended folding bikes, since they were allowed on the train at all times, even during rush hour (regular bikes were not). That conversation took place last month on July 8.
That same night, I put in my order for a Citizen Gotham1 after [very] limited research. I found bikeforums.net and began to heavily study the world of folding bikes. "Ew, Bromptons - so ugly, I'll never ride those," I remember saying. Two days later, I canceled my Citizen order and sent an order for a Dahon Speed Uno instead after seeing reviews on the forums. Another two days pass and I got an email from Thor, saying that the Speed Uno was not in stock and recommended the Tern Link Uno instead, saying that it was "a much nicer bike" (I still say that in front of my girlfriend today, imitating Thor's accent). I was pretty heartbroken at first about the Dahon, but a day later, I decided to go for the Tern. That was July 14.
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Suddenly, I had a random yearning for a Brompton. I began to watch videos and customizing colors on nycewheels.com. It became an obsession. After I test drove one, it was over. I listed part of my beloved sneaker collection on Ebay just to come up with the money. But the Ebay listings were set to end in seven days... I was losing sleep once again. Finally, I did something truly pathetic and begged my mother to lend me the money. So on August 6, I went to a local shop and bought my Brompton. I'm satisfied now. I hope.
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POV-Ray is a ray-tracing program, hence the name. You create images by writing out statements in a file, which is parsed by POV-Ray and turned into an image. You use statements like:
box { <0,0,0> <1,1,1> } to create a box with one corner at the origin and the other at <1,1,1>.
Blender is a lot more sophisticated program. It's an open source 3D Graphics Workshop. With it, you can create 3D models, animate them, and edit your animations and other video into a finished product. It's an impressive program, and it's free. It can be intimidating, but there are lots of tutorials and there's a great user community.
I've been working a lot with Blender lately. It's an outstanding graphics program with capabilities similar to those available in commercial products such as Maya or 3DStudio. One major difference is that Blender is open source, so it's free. It's also well-supported by a very active community of developers. You can find new builds with patches that include the latest innovations at Graphical.org.
I've been making some artwork for my writers group, the Walpole Writers Group. You can see it at my Zazzle gallery, www.zazzle.com/rben13*
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My latest project is creating a 3D model of a Monarch butterfly. It's proven a lot more challenging than I thought, because I kept wanting to do more and more detail. The pictures here should give you some idea what I'm talking about. These are test renders. The model isn't nearly finished, yet. I'm waiting to do the wings until I can get some butterflies and scan their wings, or find really good high resolution pictures that will work.
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Gov. Jay Nixon, on Tuesday, April 30, named J. Michael Brown to serve as the new prosecuting attorney for Hickory County. The position became vacant earlier this year after the Governor appointed the former prosecuting attorney, James A. Hackett, as associate circuit judge for Hickory County.
Brown, who resides in Hickory County, served as associate circuit judge for Polk County for 24 years before retiring at the end of 2002. After leaving the bench, he served first as a mediator and then as a private attorney in Bolivar. Brown is a veteran of the U.S. Army Reserve.
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — When they married 31 years ago, Dave Johnson joked that someday his younger wife, Alicia, would be pushing him around in a wheelchair.
The 66-year-old Sioux City man never thought he would instead be taking care of Alicia Johnson, 53, who suffers from congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma and diabetes. Sometimes her asthma attacks are so severe that she passes out. She was hospitalized nine times last year.
Dave Johnson shuttles his wife to doctor appointments, helps administer her breathing treatments every four hours, cooks meals and cleans the one-and-a-half story Leeds home they put on the market to cover the cost of medical bills.
A year ago, the couple began receiving help from nurses and home health aides provided through Hospice of Siouxland's Palliative Care program.
"They're like our right arm. We've called them for everything," Alicia Johnson told the Sioux City Journal (http://bit.ly/1hLATG9).
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Director Linda Todd said Hospice of Siouxland tries to fill the gaps in health care delivery that exist in the community. As baby boomers age and numerous home health aides and nurses in their 50s and 60s retire, Todd said, the demand for paid caregivers will only increase.
By 2020 Iowa will need 95,000 paid caregivers. The average annual turnover rate for the profession in the state is more than 60 percent, according to the Iowa CareGivers Association. The organization founded by Di Findley, a 13-year nurse aide, estimates that to keep up with the turnover, Iowa employers spent $193 million to recruit and train new staff in 2012.
"It's been a pretty invisible workforce," Findley said. "It doesn't matter if you've been working in this field for a year or even 40 years, they're still viewed as entry-level workers, and that's just not right."
Encouraging people to join the caregiver workforce can be a hard sell. Ninety percent of caregivers in Iowa are women who earn between $9 and $11 an hour. Twenty-five percent of them don't have health insurance, according to Findley.
The job involves frequent bending and lifting and has one of the highest rates of occupational injury, particularly to the low back. In-home paid caregivers in rural areas drive long distances to reach clients' homes, and those working in long-term care facilities often tend to a high number of patients.
Doris Shoultz, who has worked for Hospice of Siouxland since 1991, said the occupation also takes an emotional toll.
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As the health care system focuses on prevention and wellness rather than sickness and disease, more people are planning to spend their golden years in their own homes.
Last summer, surgeons at Mercy Medical Center amputated Gary Kelley's left leg. The 66-year-old spent three months at Holy Spirit Retirement Home before returning to his handicapped accessible condo on the city's east side. Mercy Home Care provided wound care and antibiotic infusions until his wife, Helen, 72, could take over. Without assistance, Kelley said he doesn't think he would be able to remain in his home. He developed an infection after surgery.
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Medicare no longer pays for the days patients spend in a hospital that aren't medically necessary. If patients' needs go unmet after they're discharged, they'll end up back at the emergency room.
"We see people coming out of the hospital who are very sick. Huge needs. Lots of needs," Todd said.
Jane Arnold, vice president of operations for UnityPoint at Home, a company that provides a wide range of home care services in Siouxland, said the biggest challenge facing the health care industry is shifting resources from hospitals and long-term care facilitates into the home.
"Historically (home care) has been a smaller portion of it," she said. "Now it's becoming a larger focus within the health care system and with the changes with the Affordable Care Act."
UnityPoint at Home, Arnold said, is partnering with St. Luke's College to give nursing students an opportunity to spend time training in the home environment. Mike Stiles, the college's chancellor, said he doesn't think hospitals will struggle to find certified nursing assistants and nurses in the near future as much as home care companies will.
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Chris Severson, assistant administrator at Holy Spirit Retirement Home, said she isn't concerned about a potential paid caregiver shortage. The long-term care facility on the city's west side is a teaching facility that trains Briar Cliff University and Western Iowa Tech Community College students.
"They get experience for geriatrics, and that fulfills their commitment to their education," she said. "Fortunately for us, we have nurses that come back and apply here because they like the environment."
Findley thinks allowing paid caregivers to specialize and receive training in areas such as dementia, Alzheimer's disease and autism will draw more people to the field.
"People who enter it for the right reasons find it very rewarding," she said. "It's the toughest job you'll ever love."
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The Independent Games Festival (IGF) juries have announced the Main Competition finalists for the 15th annual awards – nominating nearly 30 independent game titles from around the world. This year's finalists were picked by expert juries, following "playthroughs and recommendations" of 580+ IGF entries from over 200 top independent game experts, according to organizers. Some of the nominees include Cardboard Computer's magical adventure game Kentucky Route Zero, Subset Games' spaceship sim 'Roguelike-like' FTL, Dennaton Games's gritty action game Hotline Miami, and Richard Hofmeier's street vendor simulator Cart Life.
The full list of finalists for the 2013 Independent Games Festival, including "honorable mentions," can be found below:
Excellence In Visual Art
Incredipede (Northway Games and Thomas Shahan)
Kentucky Route Zero (Cardboard Computer)
Guacalamelee! (Drinkbox Studios)
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime (Asteroid Base)
Year Walk (Simogo)
Honorable mentions: Fly'n (Ankama Play); Eleven (Christoffer Hedborg, Datahowler); The Bridge (Ty Taylor and Mario Castaneda); Thomas Was Alone (Mike Bithell, David Housden and Danny Wallace); Hundreds (Semi Secret feat. aeiowu)
Excellence In Narrative:
Thirty Flights of Loving (Blendo Games)
Cart Life (Richard Hofmeier)
Kentucky Route Zero (Cardboard Computer)
Dys4ia (Auntie Pixelante)
Gone Home (The Fullbright Company)
Honorable mentions: Goblet Grotto (thecatamites, j chastain, NEW VADERS); Analogue: A Hate Story (Christine Love); Papo & Yo (Minority Media); The Stanley Parable (Galactic Cafe); 7 Grand Steps (Mousechief)
Technical Excellence
StarForge (CodeHatch)
Perspective (DigiPen Widdershins)
Little Inferno (Tomorrow Corporation)
Intrusion 2 (Aleksey Abramenko)
LiquidSketch (Tobias Neukom)
Honorable mentions: Mobiloid (Monty Melby); Skulls Of The Shogun (17-BIT); Foldit (University of Washington); 140 (Jeppe Carlsen); Gateways (Smudged Cat Games)
Excellence In Design
Samurai Gunn (Beau Blyth)
FTL: Faster Than Light (Subset Games)
Starseed Pilgrim (Droqen & Ryan Roth)
Super Hexagon (Terry Cavanagh)
Super Space ______ (David Scamehorn & Alexander Baard/DigiPen)
Honorable mentions: Spaceteam (Henry Smith); Helix (Michael Brough); Little Inferno (Tomorrow Corporation); Rymdkapsel (Martin Jonasson, Grapefrukt Games); Hotline Miami (Dennaton Games)
Excellence In Audio
Kentucky Route Zero (Cardboard Computer)
Bad Hotel (Lucky Frame)
140 (Jeppe Carlsen)
Hotline Miami (Dennaton Games)
Pixeljunk 4AM (Q-Games)
Honorable mentions: Thomas Was Alone (Mike Bithell, David Housden and Danny Wallace); Little Inferno (Tomorrow Corporation); Gone Home (The Fullbright Company); Fract OSC (Phosfiend Systems); Dust: An Elysian Tale (Humble Hearts)
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Cart Life (Richard Hofmeier)
Spaceteam (Henry Smith)
Dys4ia (Auntie Pixelante)
Bientot l'ete (Tale of Tales)
7 Grand Steps (Mousechief)
MirrorMoon (SantaRagione + BloodyMonkey)
VESPER.5 (Michael Brough)
Little Inferno (Tomorrow Corporation)
Honorable mentions: Renga (wallFour); Starseed Pilgrim (Droqen & Ryan Roth); Frog Fractions (Twinbeard); Thirty Flights of Loving (Blendo Games); The Stanley Parable (Galactic Cafe)
Seumas McNally Grand Prize
Hotline Miami (Dennaton Games)
FTL: Faster Than Light (Subset Games)
Cart Life (Richard Hofmeier)
Little Inferno (Tomorrow Corporation)
Kentucky Route Zero (Cardboard Computer)
Honorable mentions: Gone Home (The Fullbright Company); Thirty Flights of Loving (Blendo Games); The Stanley Parable (Galactic Cafe); Super Hexagon (Terry Cavanagh); Starseed Pilgrim (Droqen & Ryan Roth)
All finalist games will be playable at an expanded IGF Pavilion on the Game Developers Conference 2013 Expo floor from March 27-29, 2013, at San Francisco's Moscone Center. The IGF Awards will be held on the evening of Wednesday, March 27th alongside the Game Developers Choice Awards. IGF Awards recipients will receive nearly $60,000 of prizes in various categories, including the $30,000 Seumas McNally Grand Prize.
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Script to Refresh CommandCentral Storage Managed Hosts (v5.x) Explorer in Bulk
Script to refresh CommandCentral Storage Managed Hosts Explorers in bulk from Command Central Storage Management Server
What is the need?
- In few instances, we have seen that 5.x Command Central Storage Managed Hosts Explorers have been discovered information correctly but somehow CommandCentral Storage database did not get updated with latest information discovered by Managed Hosts Explorers. In this situation we need to refresh Explorers at Managed Hosts.
How to identify if you need Managed Hosts Explorer refresh?
- Look at the Explorers objects.xml. If you see that objects.xml has correct information but CC Storage Console is not showing this.
- You can also upload xmls on your lab MS to check the same.
When to use script?
- Use the script if there are many Managed Hosts Explorers showing problem. In case of fewer Managed Hosts, you can refresh Explorers manually.
- One the issue is resolved, DO NOT use the script to refresh explorers. Refreshing explorers operation sends full dump to database so it can cause slow down to your Command Central Storage MS.
How to run the script?
1. Download and save script Refresh_ManagedHosts_Explorer.pl.txt on your Management Server (File is attached with this article).
2. Rename file from Refresh_ManagedHosts_Explorer.pl.txt to Refresh_ManagedHosts_Explorer.pl
3. Open the script in notepad and set below two values
- $explorer_type -- Type of the Explorer which you want to refresh on Managed Hosts
- $ENV -- ENV path. In example below path to HAL\bin dir is set to defalut path. Chenge the ENV path according to your setup.
e.g. my $explorer_type = "StorageExplorer"
$ENV{PATH}='%PATH%;C:\\Program Files\\VERITAS\\CommandCentral Storage\\HAL\\bin';
4. Create a file hostnames.txt and write down the Managed Hosts names on which you wish to refresh explorers.
5. Execute the script as below (Use perl which comes under HAL\bin dir)
Default path to HAL\bin dir is "C:\Program Files\VERITAS\CommandCentral Storage\HAL\bin"
e.g. <path to HAL\bin dir>\perl Refresh_ManagedHosts_Explorer.pl
6. Script output will be generated in Explorer_refresh_log.txt file. Open the file to see how many Explorers refreshed successfully and how many not.
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Jewellery manufacturer and exporter Tara Jewels' initial public offering (IPO) has received tepid response from investors on the very first day of its opening today and was subscribed only four per cent.
The IPO, which will close on November 23, attracted bids for about 2.77 lakh shares against 68.18 lakh shares on offer by 1700 hrs, as per information available with the stock exchanges.
The company said the issue comprises fresh equity shares worth Rs 197.5 crore and an offer for sale of Rs 70 crore worth of shares by Fabrikant H K Trading.
Ahead of the IPO, the company had alloted shares worth over Rs 26 crore to two anchor investors yesterday. It had fixed a price band of Rs 225 to Rs 230 per share.
The company plans to use funds to expand its retail presence from suburban areas of metro cities to mini metros and other cities possessing higher concentration of mid-income segment and pre-payment of loan.
It conducts jewellery retail operations in the domestic market under the brand 'Tara Jewellers' and currently has 30 existing stores spread mainly in west, central and the north.
Enam Securities Private and ICICI Securities are book running lead managers to the issue, while Link Intime India is the registrar to the issue.
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Agreed - it's badly misunderstood, but is a poisonous pet even for the wise. Among other things, it's frequently treated as an implementation tool ("subclassing"), users ignore the need for subtypes to not restrict the precondition but fully deliver the postcondition (the former can be relaxed but not the latter)...
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Beautiful photo's Kevin, you are talented.
Great shots, Kevin.
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How can you take the title from Larry twice? Also, you can make a very strong argument that Larry should have gotten the decision in the rematch. And you can make an argument he won the first fight. Larry Holmes is anything but self centered. He just recently got the boy of steel award for donating millions to the fight against cancer. He's given back more to his community then most. He pretty much pays for the St. Anthony's youth center single handildly with all of his donations. He only charges $15 a month to go his gym. The whole reason his gym is open to the public is to keep the kids off of the street. He would take years off of his life if it helped kids be productive and funtioning members of society. It is a well known fact that the only reason Larry took the fight against Tyson was for the pay day. They were both shot fighters, or close to it, and they are known as Tyson's best wins, when they shouldn't be.
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What I meant by self centered is that Holmes was a proud Champion, the fact that he gave a better account of himself by beating Mercer 4 years after the fact and extending Holyfield to the distance taking about 4 rounds in the process means that he had more in the tank than some give him credit for. I dont buy for one second that Holmes was underprepared or only took the fight for the payday. Holmes was a respectable champion with solid wins and a respectable reign. Furthermore in 1987 Tyson was at the height of his powers, I find it hard to believe that anyone would sign for a fight with him and not come in tip top shape. I mean who doesnt train their ass off for Tyson?
To me Tyson's win over Holmes was better than Holyfield's win over Foreman.
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Using a computerized "consolidometer," Mike Wielputz, regional technical specialist, initiates a test that will determine soil properties of a sample at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District Environmental and Materials Unit. USACE photo by Tracy Robillard.
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Escif, who showed at FIFTY24SF Gallery with San in the summer of 2011, has been down in Mexico City for All City Canvas, and of course, is painting some politically-charged works. This huge public piece was painting on the side of the famous Chihuahua building, the site of the TLATELOLCO Massacre of 1968, where over 300 students and protestors were murdered, 10 days before the Olympics, by the Army… this piece is a subtle nod to that event.
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USA Network announces summer premiere dates for 'Burn Notice', 'Covert Affairs', 'Graceland', more
In addition to news that Suits would premiere its third season on July 16, USA Network has revealed its fully-stacked summer schedule, featuring the return of five of the network's best-established series, as well as the premiere of a brand new drama and reality series, respectively.
Burn Notice will return for its seventh season on Thursday, June 6 at 9/8c. This will be followed by the series premiere of Graceland at 10/9c. The new drama, from White Collar creator Jeff Eastin and starring Rescue Me alum Daniel Sunjata and Les Miserables' Aaron Tveit, is centered on a group of undercover FBI, DEA and US Customs agents working under the same roof.
Meanwhile, Royal Pains will return for its fifth season on Wednesday, June 12 at 9/8c, followed by the third season premiere of Necessary Roughness at 10/9c.
Covert Affairs premieres season four on Tuesday, July 16 at 9/8c, with the aforementioned third season premiere of Suits following at 10/9c.
As for unscripted series, Summer Camp, a reality competition in which 16 adults compete in over-the-tip challenges inspired by classic camp games, will premiere at an unspecified date in July. White Collar, meanwhile, will be missing out on the summer altogether, returning instead this fall.


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I rescued an ACD back in November and I've felt awful because I haven't been taking her on the daily walks she needs to go on. She's got a large yard but she needs more than that. She needs a job. I'm working towards getting her into agility and herding. I'm even thinking about Dancing with Dogs. I just need to get her to a place in her training where she'll be able to do stuff like that. She needs impeccable recall.
She's great with people. Iffy with dogs. She thinks she's the boss. It makes life hard when you want to be lazy and take her down the dog park so she can run with the others. I don't take her down there any more. Not until we get all this sorted out and she will play nice with the others.
Anyway, I finally caved and downloaded Zombies, Run onto my iphone. I'm the kind of person who will read a book in less than a day. A trilogy in less than 2 days... I can't put them down. I need to know what happens. So, today I walked for 40 minutes trying to complete my first mission. Which I succeeded in. I took Flame out for 20 mins and then Yogi (he's having a weekend with me while his Mum's away) out for another 20 minutes. I wish I had thrown some money at them in development now. I could have been in the story!
But, it's awesome. I also downloaded the Zombies, Run 5k - because that's where I want to be able to run without feeling as if I'm going to have a massive asthma attack.
I weigh 120kg - which is higher than I was even when I was in the middle of an emotionally abusive relationship where I swore I would never go anywhere near 116kg again. For 11 years every time I got to 110 kg I would freak out and get myself back on track. But, I've never ever been at a healthy body weight.
I have PCOS so that doesn't help - but I lost all that weight in Japan and let me tell you a secret. I was eating Maccas almost every weeknight as that and the pub were the only things open when I finished work. But, I was walking *everywhere*.
Anyway, today was a start. I've joined sparkpeople before and not really made any headway but I didn't really do anything. This time I've joined Sparkcoach and I'm intending to get my money's worth.
I think I'll go jump in the forums and ask what people who can't eat legumes should do. It seems like most lose weight recipes are 'eat more chick peas and lentils!' Or perhaps that's just a vegetarian diet. I'm not allergic I just gag pretty violently when I put them in my mouth. No idea why. I wish I did.
Still, here I am... and I'm here to stay for a while. I even bought a tape measure today. I want this spark to grow from an ember to a flame and then to a roaring fire because I want to know what it's like *not* to be the fat girl.
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Friday, September 5, 2008
A new website, a new coach and a first home game at Central High School on September 6 are propelling Wolves fans into a new season of football.
Following a week on the road, the West Georgia Wolves return home for the first time in 2008. UWG welcomes in-state rival Clark Atlanta to Richards Stadium for the sixth renewal of the series between the two teams.
UWG leads the all-time series with Clark Atlanta, 4-1. This record includes last season's 23-11 defensive struggle at Panther Stadium on the CAU campus.
As the fall season gets underway, Daryl Dickey, the new coach at the helm of West Georgia Wolves football, is frequently asked, "Can you win here?"
The coach never blinks with his answer.
"The short answer is, yes," he said. "There is no question it can be done here. This school has a great academic environment and social environment, it has proximity to Atlanta and there is great high school football in this state. All the ingredients are here."
He's steadfast in his belief that he will return UWG football to the ranks of Gulf South Conference and NCAA contender.
Dickey came to West Georgia with a glowing resume. His successful building of an enduring program at Presbyterian, and his six seasons on the staff of Bobby Bowden at Florida State speak volumes.
Also, the name Dickey has a special gravitas in southern college football, thanks to dad Doug and his success at Tennessee and Florida.
Dickey's fondness for UWG and the community was clear when he brought his family here and enrolled sons Dallas James and Drew in the Carrollton City School system. His daughter Karis enrolled at UWG for her freshman year this fall.
"I was extremely impressed," he said of what he saw at West Georgia. "What I found here blew me away. I saw a university totally committed to its young people. I saw a school that offers a great opportunity academically and to compete on the field at the highest level possible."
In short, just as West Georgia was being sold on Dickey, the new coach was just as sold on West Georgia.
Dickey's first priority at UWG might surprise many. No, it wasn't recruiting or hiring a coaching staff.
"I wanted to a get a handle on where we were academically," said the coach, reflecting on his first days in December. "I didn't want this to be a rollover program. We want kids who will be here for the long haul and we had to see where our players stood in the classroom."
Dickey wants the cornerstone of his program to be recruits from Georgia high schools, and throughout the winter and spring he and his staff were walking into schools across the state.
As West Georgia's program grows and the university begins its move that will send the team to the Division I-FCS level, the entire UWG community will be more and more proud that its football coach is Daryl Dickey.
It's already very apparent that the coach is proud to be here. Go Wolves.


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Hi! First, sorry for my poor english
I wanted to ask you if anyone is trying any TOPICAL experimental treatment like any of the next ones...
* CRTH2 (or GPR44) Antagonists: Indole-3-acetic acids,Ramatroban and analogues, 4-aminotetrahydroquinoline derivatives K117 and K604.
* Quercetin
* PTGDS inhibitor
* Sodium chromoglycate
* Vitamin E Succinate
I want to try a PTGDS inhibitor but I can't find (at least in Google) any one that could be available at a pharmacy... do you know of any? (I think they're only experimental because their names are codes or long chemistry names) like the other options, e.g. ramatroban (but its available in Japan , and I'm in Argentina.. 20000 km. away ) Also I'm an engineering student, so I have no money and no life , but mostly I have no money
I wanted to know if you are trying something new , now that we know that prostaglandins are involved


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Author's Notes: An extra pack of stick-on icons
This collection contains 23 individual sticky icons.
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Author's Notes: A beautiful set of icons to replace Adobe's originals.
More than 150 icons,
standard 16×16 to 128×128 sizes, 9 formats in total.
Ported to windows by me with permission from the original artist Adam Betts, wish has some amazing work on his web site, very recommended…
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Author's Notes: This is a Adobe Creative Suite 3 Icon Pack for Windows Vista.
I only made it because I got Adobe's software, while enjoying all the great new features, felt that their icons are an invasive branding strategy that makes me feel like a NASCAR driver with a jacket full of sponsors and logo as it slaps the colored squares with alphabets all over my start menu, and at the same time, makes my Windows Vista and Object Dock look like 2000′s by introducing its 2-dimensional artwork into my 3-dimensional desktop metaphor.
Anyway, I have yet to find a better branding strategy for their 60+ products, so I wouldn't try to make a realistic 'object' icon (yet) to represent the software. I don't think making a set with some abstract symbols I invented myself wouldn't be that useful (yet) either.
Right now, I like their box art so I decided to do a simple mashup of their periodic table icons and the product boxes. It gives a nice dimension, better texture and less legibility. Easy to make, pleasing to look at. It's all good!
It has all sizes for Windows Vista up to 256×256. It works for Windows XP as well.
Includes: Photoshop, Photoshop Extended, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere, Soundbooth, Dreamweaver, Flash, Contribute, Fireworks, Bridge and Acrobat 8.
All box arts are creations by Adobe so they can take this down if they like. I'm just contributing as a hobbyist here just in case somebody feels the same about their icons… anyway, thanks for looking!


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Guatemala jungle journey
When we moored up we had a short steep walk up to a more level root ragged track to the Maya ruens. All around us was the sights, sounds and smells of the rain forest. Howler monkeys made throaty calls and barks while spider monkeys chattered and warned when the Vultures were overhead threatening their young. Great spines of vibrant ferns arched across the track and long trailing vines dripped from the branches of a range of trees, the most mighty looking for us being the Ceiba tree (no wonder its the national tree of the country!). The site itself was fascinating with the stelae giving insight to the classic period life of the rulers. Our guide, Melvin, told us these stelae are called stone books and it is easy to see why.
When we left the site it was back along the river to Chiminos Lodge. This is a dreamy jungle preserve on the lagoon Petexbatun and our bungalow No. 2 was on its own with a balcony overlooking the lagoon. We would happily have moved in and stayed!


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Nice blast from the past. Thanks for the link.
I wondered if her high heels were clipless. ;)
I saw some pictures taken at a local amusement park (Santa's Village) in the 60's with kids on new looking Schwinn bikes that looked like they would have been used in ad. Nice nostalgia, even if I can't find it now.
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Part 1: Natural Theology / Natural Revelation
Part 2: The Flying Spaghetti Monster
Part 3: The Invisible Pink Unicorns
Part 4: The God of the Bible
The Invisible Pink Unicorns
Let us now consider whether the Invisible Pink Unicorns pass the natural theology / revelation test.
The main introduction to the revelation of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is The Invisible Pink Unicorn Page which describes the Invisible Pink Unicorns as follows:
The invisible Pink Unicorns, or I.P.U's [sic] are the true masters and creators of the universe. They existed before anything existed. They even existed before they existed. There is no possible way for me to explain how this is possible. We just have to be content with the knowlege [sic] that Invisible Pink Unicorns exist, and they are beyond our ability to comprehend.
It purports the following manner of revelation:
I know of their existence because my cat, Cloe, is the devine [sic] prophet of the Invisible Pink Unicorns. Cloe speaks to them secretly, and reveals their astounding truths to me by whispering into my ear late at night when no-one else is around. Cloe tells me that she has chosen me to help her spread the word about the I.P.U's [sic].
An entry in Wikipedia offers some of the history behind the Invisible Pink Unicorns and how later revelation has taken us from monounicornism to polyunicornism (much like Mormonism went from monotheism to henotheism):
The earliest known written reference to the IPU [Invisible Pink Unicorns] was on July 7, 1990…The concept was further developed by a group of college students from 1994 to 1995…The students created a manifesto…based on a multitude of invisible pink unicorns.
While the Invisible Pink Unicorns' Page claims to be, as it where, the scripture of the Invisible Pink Unicorns, it is important to note a few things about it.
In this case the shahadah may be said to be "There are no gods but the Invisible Pink Unicorns, and Cleo (pbuh) is their messenger."
It is claimed that a cat receives the revelation and whispers it into the webmaster's ear late at night. It is not stated whether the cat whispers too softly to be understood clearly, nor whether the webmaster can ask for clarification, nor if the webmaster writes the revelations on the spot or waits until the morning. One thing is for certain; there are at least 36 misspellings and grammatical errors in the front page alone. Thus, the various "[sic]" notations in the quotations. I would like to inspect the autographa of the Invisible Pink Unicorns' scripture.
Multiply the 36 this by the number of times that the page has been downloaded, copied and pasted, emailed, printed, etc. and Bart Ehrman would claim that there are millions of errors in the text. Perhaps Bart Ehrman will write a book entitled "Misquoting Invisible Pink Unicorns."
The webmaster claims that Cloe has also revealed revelation as to how the universe came about and functions. However, there is nothing new here and nothing that the webmaster could not have simply copied from current books on cosmology and astronomy.
Also, the webmaster claims that the Invisible Pink Unicorns have revealed how life began and states that "many cells in our body can not [sic] reproduce themselves. Brain cells can not [sic]."
However, Princeton University reports:
…scientists believed that brain cells were a finite resource; that unlike other cells in the body, those in the brain did not regenerate. But psychology professor Elizabeth Gould recently proved such is not the case for the hippocampal formation of the brain in Old World monkeys, primates closely related to man. And Fred Gage at the Salk Institute in La Jolla has showed that adult humans also generate new neurons in their hippocampus. These discoveries, along with Gould's later findings about the relationship between learning and neuronal regeneration, could change the way scientists look at the brain.[1]
I do not know who is wrong or confused in this case: the Invisible Pink Unicorns, Cloe or the webmaster but we are also told that "prions are molecules" but they are proteins.
Moreover, not being intelligent designers, the Invisible Pink Unicorns claim that RNA came into being by a long series of "random mistakes."
One very concerning part of Invisible Pink Unicorns' theology is:
The IPU's [sic] want all matter to obey the physical laws of the universe. It is actually impossible not to do so. As long as matter continues to obey the laws, the Invisible Pink Unicorns will be happy. They don't care what else happens.
You can kill your parents, eat your dog, sing out of tune, nothing you can possibly do will break the laws of the universe…there is no way you can offend them. You are amusing, but insignificant to them…
The IPU's [sic] however, have put aside a hellish place where all people who use the word "an" before the word 'historic' will go to suffer in agony for all eternity, because that's their biggest pet pieve [sic].
At the end of the front page there is a very brief "Quick test" which would not pass a kindergarten English test saturated, as it is, with grammatical and spelling errors.
Another interesting revelation is that the Invisible Pink Unicorns:
…care as much about you worshiping them, as you care about your dandrif [sic] flakes worshiping you. Even by our standards it seems wierd [sic] to want the things you create worship you. We don't expect it of our children, do we? "Now Billy, get on your knees and worship thy LORD and CREATOR MOMMY!"
It is difficult to discern whether this is particular illustration is directly from the IPUs or if it is the commentary of Cloe or the interpretation of the webmaster. Yet, whoever came up with it must not have children. While parents do not want their children to "worship" them in a traditional sense of the word the relationship between parent and child is very much a model of the relationship between God and creatures. In order to ensure health and safety the child must obey the parents and the parent must forgive and care for the child.
Also, note that although they claim that they do not want worship we were told that they are "the true masters."
Thus, overall the revelation of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is very problematic on many fronts. Now, let us see if they pass the test of natural theology / revelation. The "Quick test" states,
You should be wondering, "If they're invisible, how can they be Pink?"
The answer is: If you could see them, they would be pink.
Indeed, if they are invisible they are non, or not, visible. If they are invisible how could they be pink? Well, if we could see them, they would be pink but since we cannot see them then they are not pink, right?
Yet, since they are unicorns they have a physical form: horse's body with one horn which protrudes from their godhead-foreheads. Since they have a physical form, they absorb and reflect light particles and so their pigmentation is of a pinkish hue. Since they have a physical form which interacts with light in displaying a pinkish color they are not invisible but are visible. The physical nature of the pseudo-invisible Pink Unicorns means that they fail the natural theology / natural revelation test for the same reasons as does the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
It is also important to note that the Invisible Pink Unicorns are a pantheon which means that not one of them is the absolute, complete or ultimate creator god. Since they are legion and separate beings they each must possess something that the others do not posses. Therefore, they are each lacking.
More problematic is the statement that "They existed before anything existed. They even existed before they existed." This is a clear indication that the Invisible Pink Unicorns cult presents a false theology: the Invisible Pink Unicorns cannot have existed before they existed.
Firstly, this essentially states that they are not eternal but had a beginning "before they existed." Yet, they are said to have preexisted their existence. The fact that either Cloe or the webmaster attempt to salvage this sure sign of false doctrine by stating "There is no possible way for me to explain how this is possible" does not help matter but only digs the cult's own grave deeper still. This is a good parody of false theology to be sure.
Thus, overall the Flying Spaghetti Monster and the Invisible Pink Unicorns fail the test of natural theology and are thus are excluded from further consideration.
Speaking of good parody of false theology, let us further take a moment to note that the entry in Wikipedia states:
Her two defining attributes, invisibility and color (pink), are inconsistent and contradictory; this is part of the satire. The paradox of something being invisible yet having visible characteristics (e.g., color) is reflected in some East Asian cultures, wherein an 'invisible red string' is said to connect people who have a shared or linked destiny.
Good point and it works against various theologies. In part 4 we will consider whether it works against the God of the Bible.
Wikipedia also notes,
In his essay The Dragon in my Garage from his book The Demon-Haunted World: Science As A Candle In the Dark, Carl Sagan uses the example of an invisible dragon breathing heatless fire that someone claims lives in his garage.
Whether it is the Flying Spaghetti Monster, the Invisible Pink Unicorns or the Dragon in my Garage each fails for the same reasons that were specified in parts 2 and here in 3.
For a fascinating review of Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World written by Prof. Richard Lewontin, see here.
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He was born August 8, 1922 at the family farm outside Cosby, Missouri, the son of Charles and Lydia Kieser.
Ralph graduated from Central High School in 1939. He served 3 ½ years with the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. Ralph married Mary Louise Kline on August 17, 1944. He graduated from Northwest Missouri State College in Maryville, Missouri.
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Voice Compare » InuYasha » Myoga
Comparision of the voice over actors who have been the voice of Myoga with sound clips and images.
Created by Pokejedservo on Sep 5 2010, 1 Comments
InuYasha (2002)
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EDITOR'S OPINIONAlright folks for the 2nd Inuyasha upon this very date it shall be another round of Paul Dobson Vs. Russell Wait and this time it shall be for this little demonic flea... MYOGA! In Viz's English dub of the series that was released in North America Myoga was voiced by Paul Dobson. Paul Dobson may be more known for lower voices but he does have a decent history with higher voices that are usually used for elderly roles like this and this is a pretty good example why. In fact its been often said that Paul Dobson's voice and performance for Myoga is rather inspired by his work as Happosai in Ranma 1/2 but a bit more somber (while Happosai is by no means a prude he is a considerably tamer character than Happosai). But still Paul's performance in this role certainly worked for the role well as he can play the role straight pretty well but his performance still does fit on how Myoga is still at heart a Comic relief character in the show.
In the Hong Kong-made Animax dub made for the SE Asia Market he was voicing by American Hong Kong VA Russell Wait and he was pretty good in this role. (Heck Russell actually even sounds similar to Paul Dobson's Myoga voice here, granted not quite as high but close.) But still Russell's work as Myoga is also pretty good for the role as well as his performance also works pretty well in Myoga's serious and goofy moments in the series as well. Overall I liked them both but like Naraku I am going with Paul Dobson here (but unlike Naraku, Russell is considerably closer this time around).
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said at 10:05 AM on Sun Feb 14 2016
said at 10:05 AM on Sun Feb 14 2016
Paul Dobson definitely makes Myoga. He does a really great old sounding voice that just fits this flea well, and definitely nails his somewhat helpful yet mostly cowardly personality for sure.Reply
Russell Wait sounds more like a typical old man, than an old flea. He also sounds a bit like James Hong at times.
Definitely going with Paul Dobson here.
Russell Wait sounds more like a typical old man, than an old flea. He also sounds a bit like James Hong at times.
Definitely going with Paul Dobson here.


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With the latest forecast from Congressional Budget Office and the healthcare bill just days from going through the House for round two of votes, this topic continues to captivate our interest and ignite passionate discussions. Why shouldn't it? It is a subject that concerns our health and wallet – two things that most people care most about.
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Desaray Akins and the Utes take on No. 23 Oregon State TODAY at 4 p.m.
April 28, 2012
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The University of Utah softball team plays the middle game of its three-game Pac-12 Conference set against No. 23 Oregon State this afternoon at Ute Field.
Utah is 25-22 overall this season and 0-16 in Pac-12 play.
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Game 1 Review: Utah's junior shortstop Kelsi Hoopiiaina (Riverton, Utah) had two hits in three at-bats with a run scored, but Utah lost yesterday's series opener to No. 23 Oregon State by a 10-2 margin.
`Hoop' Goes for Extras: Hoopiiaina drove Utah's lone extra-base hit of the contest, a double in the bottom of the third, which was her team-leading 10th double of the season. Hoopiiaina now leads the team with 18 extra-base hits in 2012.
Base Bandits: Hoopiiana also stole a base Friday against the Beavers to move to 16-for-16 on steal attempts this season, a mark that ranks fifth in the Pac-12.
Junior shortstop Sandi Bowles (Herriman, Utah) also came up with a steal against Oregon State yesterday and is now second on the team with 11 stolen bases this season.
Quick-Start Utes: The Utes have scored in the first inning in each of their last three games. Utah has crossed the plate in the first frame 17 times this season and sports an 11-6 record in those contests.
Utah has been the first to score in 24 games in 2012 and owns an 18-6 mark in those games.
Heavy Hitting Elliott: Junior Katelyn Elliott (Spanish Fork, Utah) is hitting .500 over Utah's last three games with a .900 slugging percentage and .545 on-base percentage. She has five hits in 10 at-bats, three of which have gone for extra bases, for five RBI.
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Upload a file is a common action for websites. And CarrierWave gem provides a very simple and flexible way to achieve that for Rails application.
In realistic situation, you may only allow user to upload files within a limited size or with certain type. For example, only image file type (extension .jpg .jpeg .gif .png) with 5 MB maximum size is allowed. Below, I will show you how to do validations for file size and file extensions.
The validations should be implemented on both front end (client side) and back end (model level). Here I assume you already created an User model, and a string field :avatar to mount the uploader of CarrierWave, following this guide.
1. Client Side Validation
The front end side (client side) is implemented using jQuery.
First, we need to create a file field inside of your form, using Rails' file field helper:
<%= f.file_field :avatar,:onchange =>"validateFiles(this);", :data => { :max_file_size => 5.megabytes }%>
Here, onChange event is triggered when file is selected, and method validateFiles is called. And notice that I create a data attribute "max_file_size" to store the maximum allowed file size information. You can change this value to suit your needs.
Then, we need to implement the validateFiles method. Put the following javascript code inside of your .js file:
function validateFiles(inputFile) { var maxExceededMessage = "This file exceeds the maximum allowed file size (5 MB)"; var extErrorMessage = "Only image file with extension: .jpg, .jpeg, .gif or .png is allowed"; var allowedExtension = ["jpg", "jpeg", "gif", "png"]; var extName; var maxFileSize = $(inputFile).data('max-file-size'); var sizeExceeded = false; var extError = false; $.each(inputFile.files, function() { if (this.size && maxFileSize && this.size > parseInt(maxFileSize)) {sizeExceeded=true;}; extName = this.name.split('.').pop(); if ($.inArray(extName, allowedExtension) == -1) {extError=true;}; }); if (sizeExceeded) { window.alert(maxExceededMessage); $(inputFile).val(''); }; if (extError) { window.alert(extErrorMessage); $(inputFile).val(''); }; }
Basically, this code will check if the input file is over the limit and if the input file type is included in the array allowedExtension. Alert window will pop up when validations fail, and the input field will be cleaned.
You can customize the error messages by change the values of maxExceededMessage and extErrorMessage, also you might want to change the allowed file extensions by changing the allowedExtension array.
That's it for the client side!
2. Model Level Validation
Now, we need to add the same validation on the model level. For file extension check, you just need uncomment the extension_white_list method existing inside of your uploader class:
class AvatarUploader < CarrierWave::Uploader::Base ... ... def extension_white_list %w(jpg jpeg gif png) end end
Furthermore, the validation for file size is done by Rails custom validator. Inside of User model, add the following code:
class User < ActiveRecord::Base ... ... validate :avatar_size_validation ... ... private def avatar_size_validation errors[:avatar] << "should be less than 5MB" if avatar.size > 5.megabytes end end
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I try to add several providers to login to my website microsoft, google, yahoo, facebook, And I;m using DotNetOpenAuth library since the site is an asp.net
While with the other providers everything goes smoothly with yahoo in the process of the RequestAuthentication the page in the browser is replaced with https://open.login.yahoo.com/openid...... an empty white page!!!!! which makes my site disappear for a second or two and causes of course flicker.
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The Code Book, by Simon Singh, is a fascinating account of the development of cryptography. The book recounts the evolution of this art through the centuries, describing the historic challenges and duels behind the search for privacy and security in communications. Starting with military espionage in ancient Greece, and ending with the still experimental quantum cryptography, Singh traces a great panorama of a science that affected world's destiny in more than one occasion.
The history of cryptography has his heroes, villains, myths and misconceptions, and Singh makes a great job of showing the facts in their adequate context. He describes, albeit in a limited form, the general principles behind cryptography and cryptanalysis, allowing the interested reader to understand the intricacies of creating secure codes, and the even bigger complexities of breaking those codes, even when they look deceptively simple. The book also analyzes the recent developments in the field and the social and ethic concerns that permeate those developments. Additionally, Singh tells a bit of the histories concerning the deciphering of ancient writing and lost idioms, which bear strong resemblance to unknown codes.
Although the book is necessarily condensed, given cryptography's rich history, it doesn't lose its interest because it omits some events is that history. On the contrary, the high level perspective it presents allows the reader to understand how much cryptography influenced human history. Anyway, for readers interested in complementing their knowledge, the book offers a big list of additional reading going well beyond the book purposes.
As in his previous book, Fermat's Enigma, Simon Singh shows he is a natural-born writer offering a light, understandable, and amusing text. Even the last chapters, which involve relatively complex concepts, are written in a completely accessible way to any reader willing to think about them.
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Mummy's BenBen Affleck has confessed he still "snuggles" up with his mum on the sofa.
The Hollywood heartthrob says he goes home to Boston as often as he can and when he's there, he likes nothing better than cuddling up with his mum and discussing his problems.
He said: cI go over to her house as often as I can, snuggle down on her sofa and tell her my problems. I often take her places with me, I ask her for help, I listen to her lectures. I answer back - but I know she's right." He added in an interview with Britain's Sunday Times Style magazine: "When she and my father got divorced, she looked after me and my brother Casey. She helped us with our schooling and she made sure we didn't feel different. Even today, her house in Boston is really my home - all my books are there. It makes me feel ashamed if I let her down. I know that she's there for me, and that's the most important thing."
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After several months of rumors of a separation between singer Avril Lavigne and musician Deryck Whibley it appears that the rumors were in fact true. Avril took to her blog to let everyone know that she and her husband Deryck are separating. After writing some things about how she "admires" him and still loves him with all her heart, she writes, "Deryck and I are separating and moving forward on a positive note." Unfortunately, it also appears that Avril is making up the "positive note" part. According to an inside source, "she dumped him and told him she was leaving him." The sourced added, "divorce papers will be filed any day now," and that Whibley is "crushed." Avril had been seen just a few weeks ago enjoying time on the beach with other guys and her husband was nowhere in sight. The couple married young as she was only 21 when they got married and was 19 when they started dating. It appears this is another Hollywood (or wannabe Hollywood) marriage gone horribly wrong.
Kate Gosselin from , may be losing a husband but may be gaining an awesome job as a talk show host. According to Radar online, the reality star is said to be teaming up with Food Network star Paula Deen for a talk show that is completely focused on moms . The proposed show has a mixture of beauty, health, and parenting tips mixed in with some celebrity gossip. Apparently they are now looking for other women for the show to talk to and they want all the women to be moms. A few months back Kate had told Entertainment Weekly, "There are no mom-centered talk shows. I think that would be a very comfortable thing for me." A rep for Telepictures would not deny nor confirm that the show was currently in the works. Kate has said that she would do anything to provide for her 8 kids, well apparently that means being a talk show host. Really, how hard could that really be and does this mean she will be moving from their million dollar home as well?