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Crossroads Australia
Crossroads Australia arrived in Melbourne yesterday — at a McDonald's restaurant in Broadmeadows, to be precise.
The Crossroads initiative started in 1995 at the excellent Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio. It has been replicated in many other Western countries in the years since. Young adults commit to "pro-life walks" across their countries: to raise the profile of the pro-life cause, and in reparation for sins against life.
Crossroads made its debut in Australia this summer, starting in Brisbane in December, and ending in Melbourne tomorrow. One of the walkers, Daniel Mount, I know well — his brother is a few years behind me in the seminary.
Danny expresses the walk's twofold purpose very well:
I am walking Crossroads because I believe life begins at conception. I want to protect the innocent babies in the womb because they deserve all the rights and dignity of a new born baby. I believe that by all the graces gained through prayers and sufferings offered up, we will change hearts and minds and bring the end of abortion throughout the world.
In other words, Crossroads is both secular and spiritual. A modern awareness raiser, and a traditional pilgrimage.
Daniel has been walking (except for a few days over Christmas) since 15 December. Another friend, Paul Nulley, joined the pilgrimage last Sunday, when it passed through his home town of Canberra. Paul was ordained a deacon a few months ago, and he is due to be ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Canberra-Goulburn later this year.
Remember Danny and Paul in your prayers, and the other walkers. If you're near Melbourne, you can join them at St Augustine's for 10:00 Mass tomorrow morning. From there, the group will walk up Bourke Street to Parliament House. "A prayerful walk along the footpath" — not one of those disruptive protest marches along the street,* which also have a place, but which serve a different purpose. A prayer vigil will be held at the steps of Parliament House from midday to 1pm.
An open invitation is also extended to join the Crossroads after party. 7:30 Saturday night, at the Thomas More Centre, 35 Whitehorse Rd, Balwyn. RSVP: Phyllis Restall, 0402 004 112.
I hope the Crossroads walk across Australia has benefitted the participants, and bears fruit. I hope it's done again. It's part of a more spiritual, less confrontational expression of the pro-life movement which has developed of late.
Congratulations to the participants and organisers. God bless your apostolates.
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I find you use of the descriptor "disruptive" somewhat perjorative in your comment about public protest marches in city streets. I began my experience of public pro-life protests in the days of the Vietnam war and have since been quite active in this form of public protest to raise awareness of injustice and exploitation of the vulnerable.
I support the right of any group to use non-violent public protest as your group has chosen but suggest you might take more care in your assessment of others who also share this right with you.
Tony have you ever seen the group (with yellow t/shirts) with pots and pans and noise makers that attend the Fertility Control Clinic in East Melbourne. I suspect that they are , as you say, exercising "their right" to protest but you know what? they are not allowing the other group that's there praying queitly to do their type of "protest" by praying and offering help to women going in for an abortion. So Tony "perjorative?" fits that particular disruptive group. And I was at the 10am Mass and talk with Dr Van Gend yesterday and the final walk to Parliament house and the young (and not so young like me) prayed outside parliament that those working within those walls might begin to think about "life" not in a perjorative" sense but as really of value.
Ps I Tony have been working full ime in pro life work for many years.
Fr John, if your use of the word "disruptive' in this sense means stopping the traffic, then it's right and just and effective. If only another 10,000 would take to the streets and March for the Babies in the CBD against abortion, we might make a dint in the culture of death.
What might really begin to make a difference would be bishops getting up and preaching against contraception, which is what started it all and is the root of the evil tree. Until that happens I can't see abortion diminishing except when we run out of young women because they've been aborted or are sterile from STDs.
Thanks Mu Mu I like your comment and I agree.
In fact I asked the same question yesterday of another woman next to me. Why weren't there 30,000 people walking for young in utero life like there were 30,000 who walked when a beautiful young woman was murdered. In 24 hours the organiser tweeted, facebooked and brought together 30,000 people to say that they protested against violence in the street where they lived. Why the difference? because the young woman was visible, young beautiful and the media gave the protest their time. Where was the media yesterday..abortion not important… also those who die are invisible, unseen so it must be OK.
Like you Mu mu I dont see things changing any time soon.


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What type of bike should I get?
My budget is about 500 bucks.
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Images: Kicking it with champions [Image 1 of 8]
Photo by Sgt. Robert Golden
Mario Gatica, 6, lets loose a loud yell as he kicks a paddle held by a member of the U.S. Armed Forces Taekwondo Team at the Logan Heights School Age Center, Fort Bliss, Texas, Oct. 2, 2013. The U.S. team made time to share some of their training techniques with military children enrolled in the Child, Youth and School Services program. The team is here preparing for the 2013 World Military Taekwondo Championship scheduled to start Oct. 15. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Robert Golden)
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Lynchburg starter Josh Ravin was impressive in his Carolina League debut, baffling the K-Tribe through six innings. After giving up a game starting walk to Bo Greenwell and a one-out hit to Jeremie Tice later in the inning, Ravin retired the final 16 batters he faced. Ravin (1-0) walked one and struck out six.
Fresh off a spot start with Double A Akron, Kinston starter T.J. McFarland was rudely welcomed back to the Carolina League by Lynchburg. Two singles chopped through the left side by Andrew Means and Neftali Soto, led to the first run of the ballgame from Lynchburg. The Hillcats then blew the game open thanks to a sloppy third inning. Three hits, an error, a hit batter and a wild pitch lead to four unearned runs. Eight batters reached the plate in the third frame as Lynchburg took a 5-0 lead. McFarland (10-4) took the loss, giving up five runs (four unearned) on seven hits in six innings. He did not walk a batter and struck out six.
Lynchburg would add to their lead when Soto hit his 18th home run of the season in the bottom of the seventh inning. The hit came at the expense of Kinston's David Roberts. Roberts gave up two hits in two innings of work. Kinston got on the board in the top of the ninth inning when Abner Abreu delivered an RBI single. After three straight games of double digit hits, Kinston managed just four hits (all singles) on the night.
The three game series continues Saturday night in Lynchburg at 7:05 pm. Joey Mahalic will get the start for Kinston.


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Today I had the "honor" of taking my daughter to the college bookstore for her first semester books. My oh my.
Three Hundred and Sixty Five Dollars for USED books. And we still need two more.
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Requires Microsoft .NET Framework v4.0 Redistributable. See Microsoft's .NET home page for details and downloads.Useful Links
|Now ships with the database in SQLite format, no longer requires MS Jet DB Engine. Recompiled to .NET 4.
|Added code to help with display on high-DPI screens. Added NP reqs and reqs to print.
|Ability to sort clusters on shopping page, just click on the label for which cluster type you wish to sort by (or on the Implant Name label for the default order). Now requires .NET 2.0 or later.
|Database updates for high QL symbiants.
|Updated suggestion feature to be less restrictive.
|Fixed an issue with the skill filtering.
|Added skill filtering for Symbiants and spirits. Added LoX Symbiants and Spirits.
|Finally added Exterminator Occular Enhancement and updated high-end symbiant treatment requirements.
|Removed some more non-existant symbs from the DB. Added window re-size capability.
|Sorted import of iMatrix files with no set profession. Added berserker symbs/spirits. Removed some non-existant symbs from the DB.
|Reworked suggestions tab, added CTRL+F shortcut for find on layout tab, changed "<select cluster>" to something less intrusive. Added Adonis quest reward symbiants & spirit, and fixed Fist of the Dominator.
|Ensure Shopping Page minimum QLs always updated when actual QL changes.
|Added display of the highest Nano Programming skill required to build the implant to the requirements tab, this may not be 100% accurate and it does not show any requirements for clusters that use another skill (ie Jobe clusters).
|Added ability to sort the benefits lists (click on header, an arrow indicates sort order and direction). Cleaned up a few things and ensured compilable with the SDK command-line compiler.
|Added ability to open IMatrix data files. Corrected treatement/level requirements being switched for symbiants. Prevented the setting of found clusters from over-riding the imp/symb setting of a location.
|Added a number of "special" implants to database. Changed results pages to use listviews for neater display. Changed suggestion list to use listview with checkboxes to enable on-the-spot selection of the desired cluster. Redid suggestion code to better handle cases where 2 clusters are free and to not make suggestions if all 3 clusters are free.
|Added shopping tab to enable user to indicate clusters they have, this information is saved with the layout. Added a set implant button next to the find list, once you've selected a skill from the list, using the set button will set all the relevant unfilled slots to that skill.
|Added suggestion tab for finding suitable clusters to make implant depend on specified abilities, added printing with shopping list feature and minimum valid QLs (remember, implant QL can increase when adding clusters, so do take that into account...), made minor tweaks.
|Corrected requirements calculation, added tool-tips to show current benefits for each imp/symb/spirit, added an extra row to show required ability for imps and now listing symbiants in ql order.
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So, I've downloaded your application, but what is implantHelper and how do I use it?
Well, implantHelper is an implant/symbiant/spirit layout designer for Anarchy Online, it enables you to experiment with implant layouts and see what the benefits and requirements are, it also enables you to manage a cluster shopping list, import iMatrix files, and export in a format suitable for use with AOSkills2.
Hopefully, if your familiar with other implant tools (and implants in general) then the functionality should be mostly self evident, but I'll run through a typical usage scenario anyway.
Lets say we want to make a set of computer literacy buffing implants. First, use the cluster search feature to identify which implants we'll need. So from the Find drop-down, select Computer Literacy and you'll see the slots that comp lit clusters fit in highlighted in green. Press the Set button and those slots will be filled in with the correct clusters (provided no other cluster is already in the slot).
Finally, enter the required QL (either against each individual implant or using the global value and set button), and press Build.
You'll be taken directly to the Benefits tab to see what the overall modifiers to your skills will be, and can also look at the Requirements tab to see what treatment and ability requirement's you'll need to meet in order too equip your new implants. remember that when built, implants may go up in QL slightly, so do make allowances.
A few other notes... Use the Type toggles to switch between implants and symbiants. To use symbiants you must first select your profession from the Profession drop-down. Selecting Shade automatically sets all implant types to Symbiant/Spirit as Shade's can only use spirits. Symbiants/Spirits set their QL automatically. Hovering over a cluster or symbiant/spirit shows it's current benefits in a tooltip. The state of the shopping page checkboxes is saved with the data so you can persist cluster shopping sprees over sessions, and the minimum QL you can use is shown next to the cluster (again, make allowances for implants to rise in QL as they are built).
And finally, the suggestions tab is to fit your implants to a specific ability or abilities, tick the required abilities, press suggest, then tick to slect the clusters you want to use. Note that if there are two empty slots to be filled, you need to fill both for the suggestion to hold... experiment with it and you'll soon get the hang of it.
The main window
The main window showing cluster search
The cluster suggestion window
The cluster shopping window
The benefits window
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Who has brought us the best Messier 35? Vote for your favorite from the following entries:
M35_ISO1600_40x120s_1hr20m by AstroJeff, on Flickr
Here is my M35 submission. Enjoy everyone
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Object: M35
Location: Enfield, NS Canada
Date: January 15th, 2013
Camera: Full Spectrum Honis Modified Canon XSi / 450D with MPCC
Filter: Astronomik CLS
Scope: Orion 8" F4 Astrograph
Mount: Celestron CGEM
Guiding: No
Guidescope: Celestron 80mm Guidescope
Guider: None Used
Subs: 40x120s 1hr20m Integration)
Darks: 12
Bias: 25
Flats: 25
Dark Flats: 25
Captured with: BackyardEOS
Stacked with: DSS
Processed in Pixinsight
10 x 60sec. subs + darks, Canon 1100D(T3)Modded
SW 120ED Refractor
EQ6 Mount
M35 as seen from my Menlo Park, CA, USA backyard on January 18, 2013. It was slightly hazy then clear - and quite cold for this area with temperatures dropping to freezing.
This is from a stack of 14 frames each 600 seconds at 400 ISO, giving a total integration of 2 hours and 20 minutes.
Scope: Stellarvue SV4 with SSF6 flattener and IDAS LPR V2 filter.
Camera: full spectrum modified Pentax K10D with cooler.
Guide: Orion SSAG on Stellarvue SV70ED
Mount: Losmandy G11 G2
Guided and Calibrated using Maxim using 21 darks, 64 flats, 256 bias.
Stacked and debayered with DSS
Processed with Pix Insight
Large on Flickr
On Astrobin
Hello all,
Here is my M35 submission.
Taken December 13-14, 2012 from Lake San Antonio, CA, USA.
Details, Equipment, & Software:
Telescope: Astro-Tech AT6RC w/ AT2FF (FL1370mm f/9)
Camera: Canon T2i (stock)
Mount: Orion Atlas EQ-G
Guide: Orion ST80 w/ SSAG
Capture: Backyard EOS (7x300s lights / 20x darks / 25x flats / 50x bias)
Stacking: Nebulosity 3
Final Processing: StarTools/Photoshop CS5
M35 - Gemini Open Cluster on Flickr
Here's my submission for M35, although there are much better ones already up here.
M35 from 1/21/2013
97x30s ISO1600 Sony NEX-5, 25 darks
Celestron Nexstar 80mm f/11 (900mm fl)
Celestron CG-5 mount, unguided
Stacked and processed in PixInsight
Astrobin link
Scope: SkyWatcher 5" reflector
Camera: stock Canon XSI
Mount: LXD 75
Guide : SSAG
Process : DSS + PS4
Integration : 35X2minutes
LP: Red Zone
Object: M35
Location: Ashburn, Virginia
Date: 3 January, 2013
Camera: Hutech Modified Canon T1i / 500DH
Filter: Astronomik CLS
Scope: AT65EDQ astrograph
Mount: Orion Atlas
Guiding: No
Guidescope: N/A
Guider: None Used
Subs: 28x120s (56 total minutes)
Darks: 6
Captured with: APT v2.01
Stacked with: DSS
Processed in PS CS 4 w/ Carboni tools
Good Luck to all our entrants!
Derryk is the Jan13 Beginning DSO Winner!
Started by Charlie Hein , Feb 01 2013 10:48 AM
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Posted 01 February 2013 - 10:48 AM
Posted 10 February 2013 - 06:56 AM
Derryk is the Jan13 Beginning DSO Winner! Please let us know what the March Target will be as soon as you can!
Posted 11 February 2013 - 09:42 PM
Awesome, thanks!
How about M46 - Open Cluster in Puppis for March. Should be a fun target to image with NGC2438 planetary nebula in there, too.
How about M46 - Open Cluster in Puppis for March. Should be a fun target to image with NGC2438 planetary nebula in there, too.


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I have just purchased an Easy Racer Sport and would like to here from anyone who also has one or who wants to talk about it. I have owned a Vision R45, which I sold a couple of years ago when I hurt my back, and then had pain riding the Vision. So far no problems with my back on this bike. Wouldnt you know my first day out I saw another guy on a Tour easy? (never saw him before)
I like the Sport, even though it came with a broken derailuer, crossed up cables and imporperly adjusted front brake and no owners manual. The dealer is sending a manual and deraileur. In the meantime I put an old but expensive 7 speed deraileur on it (origional was 8 speed) You dont get all the gears but its good enough for now.


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Every time I see an ad for the AT&T Yellow Pages, the Yellow Book or their various print and online competitors, I tell myself, "There's got to be a better way to do this."
Centiare — based on the same MediaWiki platform as Wikipedia — could be it. Centiare also has potential to compete with Hoover's, and — who knows? — even peel away a subset of MySpace users.
As the site describes itself:
Centiare is a unique online reference directory that anyone can use. You can set up your very own Directory page about yourself or your business, and no other users can edit it. That's how the Directory pages work — if you create it, you own it. Within these "user-owned" commercial, non-profit, government, personal, and property Directory listings, you're encouraged to express advocate points-of-view (APOV); include links to your products, artwork, blogs, or books you've written; and create wiki-links to any other pages in Centiare that you find interesting.
Developed by Karl Nagel and Greg Kohs, Centiare sees a market opportunity in Wikipedia's rather awkward approach to dealing with certain types of entries — particularly those from corporations.
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, in an effort to maintain Wikipedia's integrity, has discouraged companies from posting about themselves — even going so far as to say that the posting of content by PR people on Wikipedia is "unethical." As a result, Wikipedia is currently a better place to find information about porn stars and the "five-second rule" than serious information about Fortune 1000 companies and interesting startups.
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2. An individual or a company is discouraged from writing anything about itself — even to correct erroneous information.
As Kohs — whose MyWikiBiz project has been frustrated by Wikipedia's stance on business entries — explains Centiare's niche:
Centiare not only allows, but also encourages, all the things Jimmy Wales has worked to prevent from happening in Wikipedia — ownership of articles, advocate point-of-view, and the most robust searching possibilities seen this side of Google.
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Well, after having been unimpressed by Virgin's product on my way to London in July in Premium Economy on G-VBUS, I was hoping that I would least get an Odyssey equipped A340-300 to be able to see a better side of Virgin.
After all, G-VBUS is the oldest A340 in Virgin's fleet and it wasn't in spectacular condition on my way over.
Refernece my trip report:
Anyway, the day started off in Geneva. I checked in for my British Airways A319 flight to London, where I was going to transfer to Terminal 3 and hop on Virgin.
First problem: "No I'm sorry sir we can't possibly check your luggage onto Virgin Atlantic, we can only transfer luggage within British Airways or partner airlines."
This is the same bull I heard from the easyJet representative in Nice who told me she couldn't transfer my luggage, but that is fine at easyJet, I didn't expect them to offer low fares and transfer luggage to other carriers.
But with the world's favourite airline, this was a disgrace. My first thought was of BA dirty tricks campaign against Virgin in the early 1990s. Surely Lord King was chuckling at my inconvenience.
Anyway, obviously there was nothing that could be done about this so I said alright and agreed to pick up the bags at Heathrow.
I was traveling with 4 bags and 2 other people. Three of the bags weighed 30 kilos each, the other was simply a backpack.
After being delayed leaving Geneva due to air traffic control issues over Belgium, we finally pushed back and headed towards Heathrow.
Arrived at terminal 4 LHR at about...12:30 pm or so.
Went through customs, picked up the bags...took Heathrow Express to Terminal 3 and checked in at Virgin's Premium Economy line.
The check in agent for some reason wasn't able to tell me which aircraft it was, all he said was "I believe it to be an Airbus." Not much help, but what he failed to tell us is that the plane was delayed.
We were traveling on Virgin 24 LHR-LAX which is scheduled to leave Heathrow at 15:05. There was a delay until 16:40.
Went through passport control. This was only my second time departing Terminal 3 and the first since in over 10 years. On the previous occasion, I had taken an MEA 707 to Beirut in 1993.
I wasn't too impressed with Terminal 3. First of all, there wasn't a WH Smith. They have the world news or whatever, but on the 3rd day of August they didn't have the September edition of What Car? which upset me as I always buy about 5 or 6 magazines whenever passing through London.
Again, not a big deal.
Eventually, we went into the gate to check in.
From far away, I tried to squint out the tail of the 340. I thought it said "EA" at first would have implied G-VSEA, which is equipped with Odyssey.
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Images: Combat Logistics Battalion 5 [Image 20 of 20]
Photo by Lance Cpl. Alexander Quiles
U.S. Sailors with Assault Craft Unit 1 chain a container to Landing Craft Utility 1680 aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., August 27, 2013. Sailors of Assault Craft Unit 1 conducted bilateral training with Combat Logistics Battalion 5 preforming loading and offloading exercises as part of self sustaining beach landing operations in an expeditionary environment. (U.S. Marine Corps Imagery by Lance Cpl. Alexander Quiles/RELEASED)
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Rebecca Kilgore is an American jazz vocalist and guitarist, currently living in Portland, Oregon. She has released more than thirty albums in her career beginning with a recording made with her first swing group, Wholly Cats, in the early 1980s. Many of her recordings have been made with the accompanying piano of Dave Frishberg. She has appeared on NPR's "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross and "A Prairie Home Companion" with Garrison Keillor. In 2010 she was to the Oregon Music Hall of Fame and to the Jazz Society of Oregon's Hall Of Fame
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Cary, the etnies Girl of the Month, loves snowboarding. And when we say "love," we're not talking about how you love, say, pizza or puppies. We mean it's her ultimate passion in life and the reason why she gets out of bed in the winter. In other words, she loves snowboarding with a capital "L." We chatted with the 17-year-old Southern California resident about why she's an etnies Girl, where she finds inspiration and some of her favorite things (besides snowboarding, of course).
etnies Girl: What are your interests?
Cary: My interests are writing, poetry, dancing, modeling, art, playing guitar and whatever I feel is fun and self-expressive.
etnies Girl: What are your talents?
Cary: I really don't know. People say I'm good at dancing, singing, writing and snowboarding. I can also balance books on my head and make some people laugh.
"I love snowboarding because it's one thing I can do for only myself. It's something I feel like I'm at home with."
etnies Girl: How did you get involved in snowboarding?
Cary: My mom first started snowboarding while I was still skiing at age 4, so she was the main reason why I got into it. When I got a little older, around 10 years old, I started snowboarding. That's when I noticed that skiing wasn't my thing and I didn't like to fall with my legs spread open. I picked up snowboarding fairly quickly, and I enjoy it more than skiing. Nevertheless, I still would like to ski one day and see if I still remember how to "squash grapes." I'm also getting into surfing. I got into surfing this summer and bought a pretty decent used board. I plan on doing it frequently throughout the year. My mom and I are trying it together.
etnies Girl: What do you like about etnies Girl?
Cary: What I like about etnies Girl is that you find and see girls wearing it who transcend the norm. The girls who wear it are diverse; their attitude and interests reflect on their character and style.
etnies Girl: Why are you an etnies Girl?
Cary: I'm an etnies Girl because I can kick ass! OK, just kidding. I'm an etnies Girl because I do what feels right to me. I'm not afraid to be an individual and I strive to be my best. I'm true to myself. That's who I think an etnies Girl is—someone who can stand up for the things they love despite the status quo. She's a girl who believes in herself, is not afraid to be her own person, takes the initiative, and strives for the things she wants out of life and for what makes her happy.
etnies Girl: What do you do for fun?
Cary: I always have fun with my cousin, Noodle. We sing karaoke. We dance at parties when no one else is dancing. We eat a lot of good food and that's always fun. We speak in our native tongue mixed with the languages we learned in school. That's three or four languages in one sentence! Anything we do is an adventure.
etnies Girl: Where do you find inspiration?
Cary: Good friends and family inspire me. I have a handful of good friends who I truly admire and get my inspiration from. They encourage me to go for my dreams and let nothing get in my way. Music is my addiction; it keeps me going and releases everything inside of me. And my mother inspires me. She's the strongest woman I know—a single mom who has raised me, her only child, alone, and still managed to give me all I need and more. She's always reassuring me that I can make something out of myself and that I'm a good person.
etnies Girl: What's your biggest accomplishment?
Cary: I'm so glad that I have made my way through high school. It's been a car crash for the past three years. That I'm going to be graduating in 2006 is such a relief because I know I have made it and have become a much stronger person. My high school experience has made me grow as an individual, and it has sparked something inside of me that I never thought was there: a strong will.
etnies Girl: Why do you love snowboarding so much?
Cary: Oh man, I love snowboarding because it's one thing I can do for only myself. It's something I feel like I'm at home with. It keeps me thinking optimistically about anything I come across. It takes my mind off peer pressure and the superficial things that so many teenage girls put up with. I'm just happy I found something that I love. I get so psyched talking about it with my friends, setting up my board, and when I hear other people talk about it.
etnies Girl: Do you have any trips planned already for this winter?
Cary: I go to Mammoth almost every weekend. It's easy when you have a season pass!
etnies Girl: What's the best piece of advice you've ever received?
Cary: "Trust your own love." I actually got it from a song. I trust myself, do what I want and love what I do—so with that in mind, my dreams will prevail.
etnies Girl: What's really important to you?
Cary: My family, my good friends and my passion. I don't want to take life too seriously because then I won't be happy. I just want to live one day at a time and to enjoy every stage and accept every obstacle as a growing experience. My family supports me and helps me out in any circumstance.
etnies Girl: Is there anything else you would like to tell us about yourself?
Cary: I want to someday be a filmmaker and make snowboard films. If there is anyone in the L.A. area who rides and wants to chill out, leave me a comment, please. It's so hard finding people who ride out here, especially girls. I hardly know any and I would really like to ride with more people who also enjoy riding as much as I do. Lastly, thank you to Sarah and etnies Girl for picking me as the September etnies Girl of the Month!
Cary's Favorite Things
Place: "MAMMOTH!"
Animal: Horses, walruses, zebras, unicorns, frogs, fireflies, dragonflies
Color: Pale purple, electric blue, turquoise
Hangout: "Anywhere I call fun; for instance, somewhere where my cousin Noodle can sing karaoke."
City: Huntington Beach, Calif.; Tokyo, Japan; Vancouver, British Columbia; Cebu, Philippines
Song: "There are too many to name!"
Album: "There are too many that I like."
Band: Days Away, Mae, Cursive, Frou Frou, Head Automatica, Coheed and Cambria, Underoath, Pinback, At the Drive In, The June Spirit, Mock Orange, Aloha, The Early November, Bjork
Book: Manga
Movie: "Adam Sandler movies."
TV show: "Eat Bulaga!" (a variety show in the Philippines)
Sport: "Snowboarding for serious!"
Game: "Spoon! You can play this with your friends. When you're at the lodge eating and chilling out, take turns mixing any nasty concoction together that you can fit on a spoon; give it to your friend and watch them it eat it. Then it's your turn to eat their concoction. Whoever spits it out first loses."
Food: "Sushi, Filipino food, tuna sandwiches, oatmeal raisin cookies and anything that pleases my taste buds."
Candy: Jelly Bellys, Gummi Bears, caramel
Holiday: Christmas, Thanksgiving, Halloween
Smell: "Anything pleasant to my nose."
Hobby: Dancing, writing, guitar playing, drawing, singing, photography
Guilty pleasure: Tiramisu, ice cream, root beer floats, cheesecake
Athletes: "Hana Beaman, Markku Koski, Danny Kass, Eddie Wall, Janna Meyen, Natasha Zurek…there are so many!"
Hero: "My mom for sure and my snowboard family crew."
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Care planning is called in the ill and old person care the written job planning. It wants to make a well-planned and systematic function possible of all care forces involved. The method settles in different forms, whose most important is the conservation plan over several columns. But not the forms are the main thing, but the improvement of the care of the customers.
Conceptually there are far laps with the word care process - therein however more is taken off on the total happening, less on the work engineering.
The origins of care planning lie in the USA of the fifties.
Virginia Henderson, which pursued also occupation-political goals apart from the development and the introduction of such terms like "basic care" in the USA, was very much interested in this development.
For care planning an agreement is meaningful on a professional care theory in the respective mechanism, but not necessarily necessary. Those are for example the care theories of Orem, Roper, Logan & Tierney or Vth Henderson (only one selection), oriented at the needs. The care diagnoses of the NANDA can offer in addition, orientation. In the core it concerns a quality cycle of the out returning information collection, measure definition, execution and evaluation exists.
The word "care planning" stresses more the intellectual preparation and further processing of the care actions by/responsible person the maintaining on a sheet paper for rereading for all entitled ones. It is provided to Nm depending upon organization of the care by a specialist, the reference nurse, the layer line among other things. Into this expiration the other occupational groups involved of the occupations of welfare must (e.g. Lady doctor, Physiotherapie) to be merged. That happens frequently in form of the Visiten or the drop discussions. The care documentation is in the hospital part Patient document.
The individual steps are represented here, which from a spontaneous, unplanned care a planned process become to let:
The circle mentioned closes, as now (in regular distance and/or if new information resulted) the conservation plan examines and revised and so that one adapts to the new situation. Frequently for it the term automatic control loop originating from the technology is used for the description. The number of single steps is differently indicated. In older text books it began with 4 stages. The numbering is however surely unimportant. Agreement exists over all points specified above.
- Where does the quality of the care and its planning - That is this quality These apparently simple questions are not so simple at all to answer. Good quality of the care and according to - planning and - the documentation are present, if care in the sense of the holistic treatment a person considered - that this consists at the same time of
The conservation plan must consider therefore subjective and objective requirements.
I.e. also that the goals must cover these different ranges of the person. Otherwise (justified) the nil return is necessary in the documentation!
The quality of care planning shows itself above all to further by whether
The procedure for the examination of these characteristics can be regulated in an organization standard of the mechanism. It should belong to the executive functions of the responsible persons care specialist. Apart from examinations in a random sampling way to it also systematic Auwertungen of the reached care goals belongs.
The examination of the conservation plans takes place internally via the evaluation steps mentioned and externally via the medical service of the health insurance companies (MDK), which examines cash members (in the context of the nursing care insurance) in a random sampling way for its appropriate the supply. In addition in nursing homes the supervision of home can examine. With re-classifications by routine an examination of the past supply takes place.
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Big 12 coaches not surprised by Oklahoma State, West Virginia games
Oklahoma State and West Virginia lost by a combined 16 points to Florida State and Alabama, the respective No. 1 and 2 teams in the country.
Strong showing, indeed. So the question of the day was this: What does OSU's effort against Florida State and WVU's against Alabama say about the strength of the Big 12 Conference this season?
Texas coach Charlie Strong: "It's so hard to blow a team out. OSU and West Virginia are both well-coached. It says a lot about the strength of the conference and, honestly, the players."
Kansas coach Charlie Weis: "I would have been surprised in opener those two teams getting blown out. Mike (Gundy) and Dana (Holgerson) did a really good job of getting their teams ready to go. I don't think anyone that's involved with the Big 12 finds that as a big surprise. We all know this is a loaded league, and you can't underestimate any team in this league."
OU coach Bob Stoops: "All these teams are better than people gave them credit for. It doesn't surprise me that these good teams with good football players on them."
OSU coach Mike Gundy: "Obviously I don't see every game, but it looks like the Big 12 is going to be fairly strong this year. Not that it's easy to identify the teams from just scores, but it looks like everybody played pretty well."
Kansas State coach Bill Snyder: "The teams at the top of the conference right now indicate what we all know - there's good strength to our conference."
West Virginia coach Dana Holgerson: "I can't speak for Mike Gundy, but I would imagine his answer would be similar. We're disappointed we weren't able to pull game out. Both had a chance to pull the game out in fourth quarter. The skill in Big 12 is as good as skill that exists in any conference in football. The skill is as good as anywhere, conference is as good as anywhere."


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Through his research and analysis of each of the Presidents Siemers has produced a new set of insights into the careers of such famed leaders as Franklin D. Roosevelt, Bill Clinton and James Wilson. Siemers presents his thoughts and findings in language that can be understood by even the casual reader.
This analysis of political theory comes at a time when the policies and practices of American political parties are shifting bringing modern relevance to historical theory.
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The state agency that oversees unemployment benefits is vowing to fix the system after embarrassing stumbles that have angered thousands of jobless Arizonans.
Fixes include personnel changes and plans to roll out a new Web site to make the application process easier.
Arizona currently ranks behind 47 other states in terms of paying out unemployment money on time to first-time claimants.
Making matters worse, a technology meltdown earlier this month left about 46,000 filers initially unable to renew benefits online. Thousands of calls flooded the phone system, causing massive jams.
About 242,000 Arizonans have been laid off since the recession began in December 2007. That's the worst percentage job loss in the state since the Great Depression.
To try to break the logjam, the Arizona Department of Economic Security:
��Brought in a former employee to oversee benefits, tax management, information systems and policy as well as training related to unemployment, according to department memos obtained by The Arizona Republic.
Art Olin, who retired in 2003 after more than 30 years with the DES, had worked on various agency projects recently.
Rochelle Webb, who had overseen those duties, will continue to manage several other job programs.
��Named Jim Hillyard as assistant director of the Division of Technology Services, which handles information technology. Todd Bright, who held that role, will move to the Division of Business and Finance as assistant director.
"Both Todd and Jim are business professionals with experience in systems improvement and will be taking this opportunity to find innovations and efficiencies and also take a fresh look at things," DES Director Neal Young wrote to department staff this week.
��Plans to roll out a new Web site on Sept. 1 that it hopes will make the unemployment-application process easier. The site will remain in a test stage until its official launch in October.
"This week, we've been conducting focus groups consisting of people who were invited via the Web site to evaluate the new form," department spokesman Steve Meissner said. "I'm told the response has been highly positive."
DES officials, who have hired additional call-center employees and opened new call centers in recent months, say they are processing claims faster.
For the week ending Aug. 7, about 75 percent of first-time claimants got their money within 21 days. U.S. Department of Labor guidelines require states to be at 87 percent.
"The UI (unemployment insurance) program is under increasing scrutiny from members of the community who share the (department's) interest in providing UI benefits quickly, efficiently and accurately to the nearly 150,000 of our fellow citizens who qualify to receive them," Patrick Harrington, assistant director of employment and rehabilitation services, wrote to department staff.
Paul Senseman, spokesman for Gov. Jan Brewer, said Thursday that the governor has "great faith" in the plans put into place by Young to fix problems with jobless claims.
Unemployed Arizonans who have spent months fighting to get benefits report that they continue to spend hours on the phone trying to reach a live person to help sort out their problems. As they wait to collect unemployment money, their savings are drying up and they can't pay bills. Some have lost homes, apartments and vehicles. Others have resorted to hocking valuables and skipping meals.
"Does anyone know or care about us?" Mariann Koury asked. "Remember, we're still taxpayers."
The Peoria resident was laid off in May and expected to get unemployment money by mid-June. Funds did arrive in July, but by her calculations, she is missing three weeks' worth of benefits.
She said she tried to call the DES call center, Brewer's office and the DES ombudsman's office, but she never got an explanation for the missing funds, almost $800 before taxes.
She has given up trying to collect the money. "I got so frustrated, I said, 'Forget it,'" she said.
The division within the DES that handles unemployment benefits has been plagued by problems for decades.
During the 2001 recession, for example, state officials reported that the unemployment-benefit call centers were having a tough time keeping up with demand.
"State officials suggest patience and persistence when trying to get through one of the lines," The Arizona Republic reported at the time.
Brewer spokesman Senseman said, "The governor is very aware and very cognizant of the fact that when you put off problems for years at a time, that it's going to have a real impact on real people and real families.
"Frankly, she is deeply disappointed that she inherited the condition of an agency that has tried hard but has not been able to receive proper attention and structuring that it needs to."
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Soldiers of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, U.S. Army Garrison Yongsan, along with members of the Red Cross and Saemaul community gather for a photo before a coal delivery event, Nov. 6. The coal brick delivery is an annual event that is held to help strengthen the community and help keep those less fortunate warm during the cold Korean months ahead. (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Jung Young Ho)
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Fire destroys Wright Twp. home
Fire raged through a Wright Township trailer home Tuesday morning, destroying the structure and leaving one man homeless.
Firefighters from five companies responded to rear 473 S. Mountain Blvd. around 9:13 a.m. and found the trailer engulfed in flames, said Wright Township firefighter Chris Krout.
"It's gone," he said. "It was raging."
State police fire marshal Trooper Jamison Sgarlat investigated because electricity wasn't connected to the trailer. Sgarlat, who spent more than an hour digging through charred debris in the trailer, suspected a lit lantern caused the blaze.
The fire was ruled accidental, Wright Township firefighter John Davies said.
Wright Township police Chief Royce Engler said the trailer had been without electricity for about a month. The trailer is owned by Bernie Adamczyk, he said.
The displaced resident, Raymond Louck, who declined comment at the scene, will stay with family in Nuangola, the chief said.
Fire crews from Rice, Dorrance, Fairview and Hazle townships also responded, Krout said.
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Magnolia Pictures has announced the acquisition of the North American rights to Sean McGinley's "The Great Buck Howard." Howard, produced by Bristol Bay Productions and Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman's Playtone Pictures, stars John Malkovich, Colin Hanks, Emily Blunt, Steve Zahn, and Tom Hanks himself. "'The Great Buck Howard' is a rare find in the current marketplace - a charming, incredibly likeable film that has something for everyone," said Magnolia President Eamonn Bowles in a statement. The deal was negotiated by Magnolia Pictures Senior Vice President, Tom Quinn and Head of Business Affairs, Jason Janego, with Creative Artists Agency and Jim Meenaghan of Bristol Bay, Executive Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs. Magnolia plans a fall theatrical rollout for "Howard." [Peter Knegt]
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News in Short: Canadians don't like e-bills, Facebook CEO aims for 1 billion users
Canadians prefer to read bills on paper, pay online
Canadians appear to be comfortable with paying bills online, but still prefer to read the financial statements of those bills in good old fashioned ink and paper. Why? Because most consumers seem to expect disagreements or mistakes with their bills, and paper bills hold better has recorded evidence. Another reason was physical statements were better reminders to pay bills than online statements.
A business PhD student's thesis on the concept of a "paperless society" examined more than 800 Canadians, and found that 90% still received paper statements, printed online statements, and recorded key numbers.
The youngest group category, 18-24, keeps less records than others, but this is due to less volume of incoming bills and financial responsibility. Despite paper bills, however, Canadians still do use online banking: 67%, compared to less than 45% for Americans and Australians. Green activists will be disappointed that e-statements have stagnated: going paperless on financial statements alone would reduce typical household paper consumption by over 50 pounds annually.
Mark Zuckerberg confidently anticipates 1 billion users
He won't say when, but the young CEO of Facebook says it's "almost guaranteed." Facebook has a lockdown as the main social networking site in many prominent countries, including Canada, the U.S., the U.K., and the Middle East. It lags in a couple of giant markets, namely Russia and many parts of Asia such as China and Japane—but if it can successfully tackle these regions, then Mark is right: 1 billion users isn't just possible, it's almost guaranteed.
As a fun side note, back in 2006, when there was speculation that Google, Viacom, or other big sites might buy out Facebook, commenters crudely remarked how foolish it would be for any of the companies to acquire the social network.
One particular post on a website's article, which accurately represents sentiments at the time, reads, "facebook is definitely not worth 1 billion imo. If Yahoo pays that, I will laugh. Facebook is on the decline." Four years later, even the lowest estimations put Facebook's net value at well over 11 billion, and there is no decline, or even stagnation, in sight.


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Hunkered down in a converted shipping container stationed in a San Francisco parking lot, three entrepreneurs are tinkering with the DNA of ordinary plants in the hopes of being able to mass-produce a variety that glows in the dark.
If all goes well, their startup will begin mailing the first batch of seeds next spring to the 8,000 donors across the country who helped them raise nearly $500,000 in a phenomenally successful online fundraising campaign through Kickstarter.
The distribution of an estimated 600,000 seeds would be, by far, the largest release of a synthetically engineered organism to the public. The recipients will be able to plant the seeds in any standard flowerpot and, with enough light and water, grow a glowing version of a small winter annual with oval leaves that is related to cabbage and mustard.
It is an event that supporters are looking forward to with giddy excitement but also one that has sparked worry about whether existing laws are adequate if something goes wrong and the seeds upset the balance of the environment.
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The entrepreneurs are confident they can grow a plant that gives off light; scientists have been able to create glowing plants as far back as in the 1980s. What they don't know yet is how bright they can make it.
For Antony Evans and his colleagues, Omri Amirav-Drory and Kyle Taylor, the experiment represents the first step toward the goal of creating sustainable natural lighting. They imagine a world where light bulbs are filled with DNA from fireflies and jellyfish and bioluminescent trees replace streetlights.
"Our project is a demonstration of what's possible," said Evans, 33, who has an MBA and is the Glowing Plant Project's manager.
A generation ago, manipulating an organism's genes required millions of dollars in sophisticated equipment and years of trial and error. Now it can be done in a garage with secondhand parts ordered off the Internet in a few days. Thanks to advances in computational power, the cost of reading 1 million base pairs of DNA (the human genome has approximately 3 billion pairs) has fallen from upward of $100,000 to 6 cents.
That has allowed entrepreneurs to enter the field with minimal investment. The entrepreneurs, keeping their exact location a secret because of worries about activists potentially destroying their work, is starting its first experiments this month on hundreds of seedlings lined up on tables in the makeshift lab.
Working off previously published papers, team members have decided to take six genes from a bioluminescent marine bacterium and insert it into seedlings of a small flowering plant, Arabidopsis.
Lighting formula
Creating the glowing plant, as the team describes it, is simple: Team members input the DNA sequences from the bacterium into a computer and a program modifies the DNA sequence to make it work in plants. The team then emails the file containing the sequence of letters (G, T, C, A) to a company in China, wires $8,000, and a few weeks later they get in the mail the DNA, synthesized by Chinese technicians. They then take the DNA and use a machine called a gene gun — because its earliest version was a modified air pistol — to insert it into the plant.
The challenge, according to Evans, is trying to figure out how to make the plant brighter. Is it the gene expression? The oxygen? The amount of sunlight? Earlier experiments produced plants that were so dim the light could be seen only in blacked-out rooms.
"We're not expecting extremely bright. We're aiming glow-in-the-dark, stars-on-the-ceiling-type light. The first batch is not going to replace your bedroom light, but in the longer term that's the goal," Evans said.
That kind of thinking was why the Glowing Plant Project's Kickstarter fundraising campaign, which officially began in April, was wildly popular from the start. While the company had hoped to raise a modest $65,000, it brought in $484,013 in 44 days. A typical comment from a donor: "My dreams of having a greenhouse rose garden/glowing Avatar-like wonderland will soon be realized!"
The project soon ran into trouble, however. Deeming it "a new biotech threat coming from Silicon Valley," the environmental watchdog ETC Group started an online petition calling on Kickstarter to shut down the project. Nearly 14,000 people signed it.
In August, Kickstarter responded by announcing that it had amended its rules to ban all genetically modified rewards for donors, putting such gifts in the same category as drugs and firearms. While donors who supported the Glowing Plant Project would still get their genetically modified seeds, they would be the last. Kickstarter said it recognized it had sparked discussion within the scientific community about whether its platform was the best place to release synthetic or genetically modified organisms.
Synthetic biology
The Glowing Plant Project is at the forefront of an emerging field known as synthetic biology. Known as genetic engineering on steroids, the research aims to create new life-forms for practical purposes. The definition is evolving, but the science — which lies at the intersection of biology, engineering and computational bioinformatics — usually involves modifying organisms to transform them into miniature factories for producing things such as medicine, food flavorings or biofuels.
While genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are created with DNA from natural sources, the products of synthetic biology are often brought to life with DNA sequences invented on a computer.
Critics warn that the untested and unmonitored release of the seeds is ill-advised because no one would be able to control what happens to the plants once they leave the lab. Adding to the concern is that the genes that make the plants glow will be passed from one generation to the next.
"What if someone decides it would be cute to light up a national forest?" asked Arthur Caplan, a bioethicist at New York University and an adviser to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on synthetic biology.
A coalition of more than 110 environmental watchdog organizations has called on international regulators to demand independent risk assessments for these types of projects. But it's not clear which U.S. agency should take the lead.
The various groups within the Department of Interior that oversee land and ecological issues — the Bureau of Land Management and the Fish and Wildlife Service — say it's outside their purview. The Food and Drug Administration says it is not involved because the plant is not meant to be eaten. The Environmental Protection Agency says it's a Department of Agriculture (USDA) matter.
Guidelines finalized
In an email exchange with the Glowing Plant Project's founders, the USDA acknowledges that this particular project may be outside its powers, too, because of the way the glowing plant is being created.
The government guidelines were finalized in 1986. The gene gun wasn't unveiled until 1987.
Dana Perls, a food and technology campaigner for Friends of the Earth, said this interpretation of U.S. statutes could mean that dozens of other synthetic-biology projects in the pipeline could also escape regulation.
"What they're doing is taking the glowing-plant developers' word that it will be safe without knowing what risks might be involved," Perls said. "This is precedent-setting."
Evans says concerns are overblown. He said the company has taken numerous precautions — in plant-species selection, how it transports the materials — to prevent any problems: "We are being very prudent in how we are doing this."
Even before the controversy began, project partner Kyle Taylor — who said the environmental concerns are "constantly in the back of my mind" — had been tinkering with various biocontainment methods. For instance, he said, he could try to make the plant deficient in a certain kind of vitamin, such as B7, so that caretakers would have to regularly give the plants an infusion of the nutrient. If the plants were to escape into someone's garden, they would likely not survive.
"Where I come from, there's this idea of stewardship, of taking care of land you grow," said Taylor, 30, a Stanford University-trained plant biologist from the farming community of Abilene, Kan. "I think it applies in this case."
Evans thinks oversight needs to be scaled back, not built up. "We need to find cost-effective ways for more startups to bring these kinds of products to market," he said. "Only if we do this, can the economic and social promise of the technology be realizable."


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Summary:Like all skateboarders, Derrick Cabrera dreams of getting a sponsor one day. He is loaded with talent but he must overcome some major roadblocks before he can make his dream a reality. He is getting pressure from all sides. His parents are unhappy because he is failing out of school. His girlfriend thinks he is a loser. And his best friend has become his main skater rival. However, things really come to a head when Derrick gets arrested and he ends up running away from home. On his own, Derrick does the only thing he knows how to do and follows his dream to the Tampa Am contest, one of the only ways an unknown skater can get noticed.


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Facing flak for its bureaucratic processes that have largely been blamed for the delay in repairs to the Babu Genu market building which collapsed on September 27, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has now fixed responsibility on user departments of various civic buildings for the structures upkeep. This is an attempt to cut through the red tape that hampers even minor repairs on civic-owned properties. Usually, it takes six to eight months for work orders to be issued.
According to the circular by the civic chief, various BMC departments will not only have to be vigilant, but will also have to carry out the structural audit for the buildings they use. Thus, the education department will be mainly held responsible for municipal school buildings, the solid waste management department for conservancy staff quarters, and the public health department for its hospital buildings.
This was decided in a meeting with Municipal Commissioner Sitaram Kunte on the day of the collapse, and the circular has been issued to all departments. Each civic department is responsible for the buildings they operate out of, and structural audits are their responsibility. It does not cost much to get these audits done. Accordingly, fresh audits have been ordered, said Acting Municipal Commissioner Rajiv Jalota.
Following the building collapse, the administration has ordered re-audit of all C1 and C2 buildings and the structural audit of all buildings over 30 years old. This work cannot be left to the Planning &Design department alone, as there are over 3,000 civic buildings of which 2,965 are residential quarters for employees. Following up on these various buildings is difficult for one department alone. If all departments work together on this, the audit can be completed in the given deadline of one month, said a senior engineer of the P&D department.
Till now, buildings in the city were largely classified on the basis of visual inspection by civic officers, rather than actual structural audits that entail six to seven tests for assessing the buildings safety. We have now been made aware of the problem and are working on methodologies to ensure proper structural audits are carried out for classification of dilapidated buildings, Jalota said.
The circular also allows user departments to carry out repairs with funds from their own budget, without having to approach various departments for preparing estimates and floating tenders. The civil division of each user department can prepare the estimates for minor works and


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Spout About is a prompt for discussion of a movie you've already seen, in this case Robert Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis' "Machete." The post and its comments may include spoilers. We encourage you to watch the movie and then come back and talk about it in full without tiptoeing around plot points or conclusions.
A woman sitting near me in an over-packed (I was sitting on a staircase with other stragglers) late-evening screening of "Machete" yelled out at one point, "they're out of their minds!" I'm not sure if she meant the filmmakers or the characters on the screen, but either way she's right. Robert Rodriguez's "Grindhouse" spin-off, which is hard to call an adaptation of a 'fake' trailer since the idea was conceived as a feature in the first place, is not so much mindless action fare as it is half-minded, in a good way. The story and its players are so embedded in the immigration debate that the movie is clearly trying to contribute to the topic, yet it constantly leaps out of its figurative head, abandoning any brain activity it has for long periods, and asks its audience to do the same, for an over-the-top celebration of big guns, bigger knives and gigantic balls.
The plot is your basic exploitation film fodder, with an anti-hero ex-cop (specifically ex-Federales) set up in an assassination plot, the kind in which the conspirators are looking to boost their own cause by sacrificing its puppet leader and framing its enemy for it. Danny Trejo's titular outlaw is also eventually out for some vengeance -- the film's prologue somewhat establishes "Machete" as Rodriguez's "Kill Bill" with a tragic confrontation with a Mexican drug lord (Steven Seagal) -- and still makes plenty of time for the ladies (Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez, Lindsay Lohan, among them). He's the Mexican Shaft, I guess, though the movie really wants to be the Mexploitation equivalent of all Blaxploitation movies at once. There's also a play on the identity themes of spaghetti westerns, only now the man is all name and no country. But as smart as it could be, "Machete" wants to keep things fun and simple and for every bit of social or political commentary there are at least a hundred bits of cartoonish slaughter and things getting blowed up good.
Anyone who calls "Machete" dull or boring needs to get out to shows like the one I attended. The majority of the audience was indeed minorities, the people who best relate to a movie dealing with racism and xenophobia, and they definitely enjoyed every second. Regardless, though, no matter what your background or level of marginalization, you can easily get excited in a crowd like this. I hadn't seen so much cheering and clapping and justifiable shouting ("It's Cheech!" -- half the crowd, approvingly) during a movie in a long time. And the energy was infectious. I didn't always revel as much in the sex, drugs and violence as my fellow moviegoers did, but I reveled in their delight. I can't help it, I love to witness a film audience having a great time.
So it's wild, but is "Machete" constructive? It's certainly in-your-face enough with its political theme that you'll be surprised you don't leave the theater as scarred as Trejo. The immigration issue itself is so ridiculous right now, though, that it calls for a response this outrageous. For good or bad, the illegal alien thing has always been ripe for the bluntest kind of satire and the most blatant allegory. Look at the unsubtle gag at the center of "A Day Without a Mexican." And next month you can see the sci-fi indie "Monsters," which is less explicit than "Machete" but no less on-the-nose in its handling of the border topic. Here, the mix of overt irony and gratuitous bloodshed is definitely not going to change any minds or offer viable solutions (not productive ones anyway), but the laughter and revenge and vigilantism fantasy is therapeutic for times as void of reason as these (I'll forward the emails I get from conservative relatives if you want to see the worst of it).
I'm perfectly okay with the mix of serious issue and stupid action that Robert Rodriguez, his co-writer Alvaro Rodriguez and his co-director/editor Ethan Maniquis are going for. It's a part of that exploitation tradition. And I never understood why someone can't have their cake -- or in this case "his churros" -- and eat it too. Sure they can. And they have. I also don't believe anyone can honestly believe "Machete" is a modern day "Birth of a Nation," potentially encouraging a real-life underground network of armed illegals as D.W. Griffith's film inspired a return of the Ku Klux Klan. The movie is a release, not a stimulus. Then again, I find it a little too easy for Robert Rodriguez to say talking about the immigration issue puts him to sleep and act like his movie isn't a form of comedic protest.
Can we completely leave the politics out of it and merely enjoy "Machete" for its artistic merits and basic action fantasy, as some suggest? By the point of the absurd and anarchic climax, which pits Machete and the network of immigrants against a civilian border patrol at the latter's training headquarters, while too many characters converge and display confused or complicated motives and affiliation (what is up with Seagal's final moment? what is Lindsay Lohan's habit-garbed deal?), it is very easy to ignore the film's political ideas if not divorce your own beliefs from what you're watching. Anyway the film ends with a very politically charged ironic death, so we're left thinking about the border issue after all that ridiculous mayhem. But I for one can appreciate the blunt political themes and idiotic tone with equal measure. If that somehow makes me both a scholar and a moron, so be it.
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HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Astros have acquired closer Francisco Cordero and outfielder Ben Francisco as part of a 10-player trade with Toronto.
Houston will also receive four minor leaguers in the deal — right-handed pitchers Joe Musgrove and Asher Wojciechowski, left-handed pitcher David Rollins, catcher Carlos Perez and a player to be named later. The Blue Jays will receive pitchers Brandon Lyon, J.A. Happ and David Carpenter from Houston.
Cordero has 329 career saves, second among active players to the New York Yankees' Mariano Rivera (608). In 794 career relief appearances, the 37-year-old Cordero has a 3.28 ERA and has reached 40 or more saves in three seasons. Cordero is 3-5 with two saves in 41 appearances for Toronto this season.
Francisco is hitting .244 in 23 games for Toronto in 2012.


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Philip Gourevitch is an award winning journalist and author, staff writer for the New Yorker magazine, and current editor of The Paris Review. He is perhaps best known for his 1998 book on the Rwandan genocide, entitled We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction. Reviewing the book in the New York Times, the Nobel Prize winning Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka called it "a meticulously researched work" that offers a sustained reflection on "the debasement of humanity, its heroic resistance and its rehabilitation" (Soyinka, "Hearts of Darkness," NY Times, October 4, 1998). More recently, Gourevitch has published a long follow up essay in the New Yorker on post-conflict/transitional justice in Rwanda ("The Life After," in The New Yorker, May 4, 2009), and, together with the documentary filmmaker Errol Morris, The Ballad of Abu Ghraib (2009).
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Jennifer Lopez And Casper Smart Celebrate One-Year Anniversary
By Jessica Rawden 4 years ago
It seemed unlikely that a relationship between a 43-year-old pop singer and her 25-year-old backup dancer would last, especially since the aforementioned singer, Jennifer Lopez had only recently separated from her former husband, Marc Anthony. One year later, the couple seems to be going strong, and Lopez and beau Casper Smart recently celebrated their one-year anniversary in a very public format.
On Thursday, the two got really maudlin with one another via Twitter, cooing and oohing over their one-year anniversary. I hate to get annoyed at anyones happiness, but throwing out pet names on the Internet is really creepy. Regardless, heres what Jenny from the Block had to say to her Bear.
BEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Today is OUR's!! Thank you for sharing your beautiful smile with me everyday! #SpecialDay ♥ #LOVE!
US Weekly first reported the story, also noting that Smart responded in an equally lovey-dovey manner. By all accounts, the dude seems pretty head over heels.
Happy 1 yr. anniversary to the most Gorgeous, Kind, Sweet, Funny, Beautiful Lil Bear in the world.... Love Bear #October25
Back in the day, I always assumed Lopez hated the whole Bennifer thing the media threw at herself and Ben Affleck. Now, Im thinking she probably reveled in it. I hope the singer really understands that she is an adult and she has responsibilities outside of herself (namely her kids). That being said, everyone deserves a little happiness, and if Smart gives her that, it would be cruel to condemn that happiness. Almost as cruel as forcing the Twitterverse through a round of pet names.


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Gossip is usually seen as a malicious force, blamed for damaging friendships and engendering distrust.
But the knowledge that your decisions might cause people to chit-chat behind your back might also be a good thing, say the researchers behind a new study on the subject.
The study, published in Social Psychological and Personality Science, showed that the likelihood of gossip can actually cause people take pause when making selfish decisions -- and encourage them to make more generous choices in the long run.
Subjects in the study were given 100 tickets for a cash-prize lottery and encouraged to distribute them as they liked, with the option to keep as many as they wanted for themselves.
According to a press release on EurekAlert!, half of the subjects were told their choice to give away or keep the tickets would be kept private, while the other half were told the results would be made public knowledge in the group.
Consistently, the group whose choices were kept private hoarded more tickets for themselves -- perhaps confirming the old adage that "character is what we do when no one else is looking." And the people whose results were public were inevitably more generous with their tickets.
But then researchers Bianca Beersma and Gerben Van Kleef added a unique twist: They told some of the public-knowledge group that their group members were unlikely to talk about their ticket distribution choices, and told others that their peers were highly likely to discuss their decision among others.
When the chance for gossip was low, the public-knowledge group's decision -- whether selfish or generous -- did not change. But when the chance for gossip was high, the public group became the most generous of all.
"Participants realized that a selfish choice could be used by their gossiping group members as a basis to construe a negative social reputation that could have severe consequences for them in the future," Beersma and Van Kleef theorized.
But why did the subjects in the study care so much about what fellow group members, who were otherwise strangers, would have to say about them?
They may have been informed by a mild form of paranoia: According to the study, "participants... may even have considered the possibility that group members could tell negative things about them to people not involved in the study, such as fellow students, friends, and family members."


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Yes" if you want vehicles in Far Cry 3 Multiplayer
and "No" if you think vehicles don't belong in Far Cry 3 Multiplayer
Hopefully if the developers are reading these forums they see that the overwhelming majority want vehicles in the multiplayer.