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B12 Injections after Gastric Bypass Surgery
The American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery recommends all gastric bypass patients take a B12 supplement. They recommend 350 to 500 mcg daily as a sublingual (a tablet that dissolves under the tongue) or injections of 1000 mcg once a month. There is also a prescription nasal spray available, which is typically used once a week. Some patients find they need more B12 than that, though; in order to keep my level good, as measured by my labs, I take 1000 mcg injections once a week.
The reason we need to use a sublingual, nasal spray, or shots is because after gastric bypass surgery, we don't have much intrinsic factor in our pouches and intrinsic factor is needed to absorb B12 from food or from a vitamin supplement that we swallow.
Most people will absorb B12 equally well from a sublingual, from the nasal spray, and from injections. It's mostly a matter of personal preference. I choose to use injections because I disliked the taste of the sublinguals I tried and because I find it convenient to only have to take B12 once a week. The injections are also very affordable for me because my insurance covers the B12 (I have a very small co-pay) and even though my insurance will not cover the syringes, they are not expensive.
You can visit your doctor's office to receive B12 injections, but many people choose to administer them to themselves at home. You need a prescription from a doctor to get the B12, which you can fill at any pharmacy.
B12 can be injected intramuscularly, or IM, which means into the muscle, or subcutaneously, or sub-q, which means under the skin. Some medical professionals think it's absorbed better if it's injected IM, while others think it's absorbed equally well if it's injected sub-q. After discussing it with my primary care physician, I opted to do my injections sub-q because that allows me to use a smaller needle and causes less discomfort. In fact, most of the time I barely even feel the needle break my skin!
It's not hard to give yourself a B12 shot. You don't need any special medical training to do it. Your doctor can show you how. If you're squeamish about sticking yourself (I was for a while, but I finally got up the nerve to try it and discovered it wasn't so hard after all), a friend or family member can do it for you, if you prefer not to have to visit your doctor every time you need a shot.
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1) Uninstall HP Update and HP Total Care Advisor from the program list.
2) Reboot the pc.
3) Reinstall HP Update using Recovery Manager by going to Start/All Program/PC Help and Tool and click Recovery Manager.
When the program opens go to Advanced Options, Program Software Reinstallation and go next, then next again and choose HP Update Software from the list, go next and wait for it to reinstall. Then reboot the pc.
4) Important step. You can also try this before the other steps.
Go to start and inside the start search box type "cmd" without the quotes and right above it shows "cmd" with a black icon.
Right-click on cmd and choose Run As Administrator and the command window comes up in elevated mode.
Now type the following commands without the qoutes:
"regsvr32 vbscript.dll" and press enter, then click ok at the notification window then type
"regsvr32 jscript.dll" and press enter, then click ok at the notification window.
Then type exit and reboot the pc.
5) Now you can open up HP Update by going to Start/All Programs/HP Update or start/start search and type update and click HP Update on top.
Step 4 always fixes this.
It took me 1 hour to find this solution.
It's related to a java error and the update 126.96.36.199 for hp updates.
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I used the HP web site link you suggested and clicked for the Vista page having the same error codes dealing with the Active support Library update failures. Downloaded the file shown (sp41377.exe) and ran it. Nearing the end of the install, it failed the same way as the other attempts from other HP update links. Next, did the "HP Help and Support' download, thinking that might 'fix..?' whatever the problems is. That download seemed to install fine, however, further attempts to do the Active Library update all failed to install with the same two error codes beginning with 1316.A At a lost as to what to do next to fix this hp problem.....
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SENDING a strong message to Islamabad, the Narendra Modi government on Monday called off the Foreign Secretary-level talks with Pakistan, an hour after Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basit met Hurriyat leader Shabir Shah here. Two other Kashmiri separatist leaders Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Yasin Malik are scheduled to meet Basit on Tuesday.
This is a serious setback to the efforts to re-start the dialogue process, which have been stalled since January 2013. Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh was scheduled to travel to Islamabad for talks with her Pakistani counterpart Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhary on August 25. The last meeting between the Foreign Secretaries of the two countries took place in Islamabad in September 2012.
Sources told The Indian Express that following a high-level political consultation on Monday morning, Singh called up Basit and asked him to desist from meeting the separatist leaders. This phone call took place before his scheduled meeting with Shah at 4 pm today. He was told in very clear terms that if he went ahead with the meeting, the talks will be called off, a source privy to the seven-minute phone conversation told The Indian Express.
After Basits meeting with Shah, South Block lost no time in announcing its decision. Sources attributed this tough stand to the new BJP-led NDA government among other factors.
Foreign Secretary (Sujatha Singh) conveyed to the Pakistan High Commissioner today, in clear and unambiguous terms, that Pakistans continued efforts to interfere in Indias internal affairs were unacceptable. It was underlined that the Pakistani High Commissioners meetings with these so-called leaders of the Hurriyat undermines the constructive diplomatic engagement initiated by Prime Minister Modi in May on his very first day in office, said the Ministry of External Affairs official spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin in a sharply-worded response.
Therefore, under the present circumstances, it is felt that no useful purpose will be served by the Indian Foreign Secretary going to Islamabad next week. Foreign Secretarys visit to Islamabad for talks on 25 August stands cancelled, he said.
Akbaruddin underlined that at a time when serious initiatives were being undertaken by the Centre to push bilateral ties, including resumption of a regular dialogue process, the invitation to so-called leaders of the Hurriyat by the Pakistan High Commission does indeed raise questions about Pakistans sincerity, and shows that its negative approaches and attempts to interfere in Indias internal affairs continue unabated.
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ooooooooo that cuts. no one calls me a chicken!Originally Posted by KingTermite
do u know how to downsize a file coz they picture i have is 900KB.... and i can only to upload a 100KB file
dont look too hard
i would but i donno how to down-size a fileOriginally Posted by Stacey
dont look too hard
yea! doesnt look so bad
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No, not too bad. Hope it heals well for you.
Try saving your pics in the .JPG format. The file size/image size ratio is much smaller as illustrated below. Same image, the one in BMP format is 26.4 kB while the JPG is 2.8 kB... about 10 percent the file size of the BMP with no loss of quality.
Surely the mods would have something to say about this and getting your patootie modded isn't something one should aspire to.Originally Posted by Stacey
Well, roughly speaking you've just demanded pictures of her rear-end. I was under the impression that such graphic nudity was frowned upon by the mods for some unknown reason.Originally Posted by Stacey
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Roughly speaking, you havent been following the flow of the conversation, have you? Or, have you just failed to comprehend its nuances?
I said: "So march yer patootie over there, get the camera and take a snap PRONTO!!!"
Let's break this down, and I'll type slow so you can follow along...
A) The discussion has been recently about her belly button piercing and reluctance to show a picture thereof. You're still with me, right?
B) I said: "So march yer patootie over there, get the camera" Translation: Get up off your chair and get the necessary piece of photo electronic equipment with which to capture and reproduce said image.
C) I then go on to say: "and take a snap". Translation: Use said piece of photo electronic equipment to capture and reproduce an image of aforementioned belly-button piercing.
D) I fianlize my sentence with the word "PRONTO". Translation: Don't waste time in obtaining and using said piece of photo electronic equipment to capture and reproduce an image of the aforementioned belly button.
Why is it that the only person to have a problem with the english language is a bloody limey?
I didn't have a problem following it, however if she wants to take a picture of her patootie then personally I have no problem with it.Originally Posted by Stacey
I may be fat but I'm slow enough to make up for it.
I never said that I had problems of pictures of patooties, I merely suggested that Stacey not involve herself in incitement to nudity.Originally Posted by LowCel
Now she thinks I don't understand her "English". Not surprising if she's going to be littering it with Italian. Or maybe I was befuddled by looking at shikaka's belly button, it is quite breathtaking.
Is that a challenge?Originally Posted by phantomcow2
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Is morality determine by when no human is watching you or when no being is watching you? For if it is the latter, I can not be a moral person for I know God is with me each and every day.
Just one. Makes my BF experience less frustrating.
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Nope. I did this before becoming a mod. After becoming a mod I obviously have other responsibilitiesOriginally Posted by monogodo
Originally Posted by KingTermite
dont look too hard
I have myself on ignore. wtf did i post??
Roll of quarters... wait, that's not a roll of- AH! There it is!
thanks! that is helpful!Originally Posted by Stacey
Where am I going?......
....and why am I in this handbasket?
Seems like ke422azn has given up, so there's no need for me to ignore him
Just your average club rider... :)
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The Fuji race brought with it a new driver line up, regulars John Martin and Tor Graves were joined by former Formula 1 driver Shinji Nakano who was keen to show well in front of his home fans. The event started with a test day which gave the team chance to get the car tuned in, and it all looked good with John posted a time over a second quicker than anybody else in the class. It was early days and the track conditions were changing quickly but all the drivers were comfortable in the car and even in the few laps Shinji did he already showed his class posting competitive lap times.
The team were feeling confident by the time Free Practice started but there were other posting quick times especially James Rossiter in the Lola, we new we had a quick car so we worked on giving Shinji appropriate time in the car for him to get up to speed with everything as well as tyre life evaluations. In qualifying it was going to come down to the usual Sarrazin, Martin battle but the Lola with Formula 1 driver Antonio Luzzi was also going to be a threat, John did another great lap and missed the pole by fractions of a second from Sarrazin.
The race strategy was simple as the race distance made it a clear seven stint race, John started as the qualifying driver and although he over took Sarrazin at the start, Luzzi went round the outside of both of them at turn 1. John applied maximum pressure over the early laps and is wasn't long until the pressure told and Luzzi made a mistake into turn 2 which John pounced upon taking the lead. With a clear track John was able to maintain the lead over Sarrazin who had also taken Luzzi and in the first round of pit stops the car was handed over to Shinji to maintain the lead, with a number of other drivers putting in their amateur driver Shinji pulled out a commanding lead and putting in a very strong consisted pace that was impressive considering is very limited running in the car. A double stint from Shinji before handing over to Tor, we had monitored the other amateur driver lap times so new what Tor's target laptime was but not content with that he put on another impressive display to maintain the lead at the end of his double stint but the gap was down to almost nothing as John took back over for a head to head battle with Sarrazin in the HPD, John pulled out an advantage in the first stint of his second outing but we had concerns that if we took tyres for the final stint and the HPD did not then all our lead would be gone. Equally we know John is a match for any driver so we should give him everything to push for the win, new tyres went on and as the HPD pitted it looked like they would not change, but a last minute call they changed the left front and exited the pits directly behind John, but there was no way the Australian was going to give this one up and he cruised to victory with a margin of over 30 seconds at the end of the race.« back to newsroom


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You mentioned a kinda mod like the command block. Well I'm doing one better I've almost finished updating a mod called the speaker block mod(My other Developer and I re codded all except the Gui) It is currently with forge and on 1.5.2 but, we have almost completely finished it under forge like that in the future we might work on it differently. The old mod(Still has its old features) can be activated by redstone you set the volume, if it loops, stuff like that currently in the 1.5.2 version it gets the sounds from the world directory(Still buggy working on fixing it). If you have any input on the matter of what we should do next we can help you out with your problem of limited sounds.
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There was something slightly off about tonight. Not Allen Stone. No, no. He wasn't off. He's far too professional and talented for that – but certainly the poor sound and the restless crowd were. The drums were a touch too loud, the keys and vocals too low, and during the only acoustic song of the night, which demanded utter silence and patience, sections of the crowd engaged in mindless chatter that drifted lazily from the back.
If we had been allowed our moment's reverie we would have wallowed in Stone's glorious invocation of Simon and Garfunkle on their classic 'Bridge Over Troubled Water'. His soft, lilting voice was always going to woo here tonight. It's what people love most about him. His vocal range is astounding. But somehow, someway, it just didn't quite come across.
The rest of the gig was patchy, for the most part. The bigger numbers never quite reached the wild peaks of the studio recordings, while the aforementioned slower song was intruded upon. With a house band consisting of bass and lead guitars, drummer, and two keyboardists, it seemed all but a formality that the place would be jumping. And boy did Allen Stone try to make that happen. Perhaps too hard. There were moments of collective hand waving and clapping, and even a couple of sing-alongs that made the gig feel more like a vaudeville show than a concert. Stone evidently sensed the crowd was losing attention and desperately needed some encouragement. But you can't fault him for his earnestness and desire to show people "a damn good time" – as he put it.
And this is to take nothing away from Stone as a singer-songwriter. This is a concert review after all. The 25-year-old from Washington State, a self-confessed "hippie with soul" who sounds like some of the best R&B and jazz singers from years gone by - from Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, and Marvin Gaye to Donny Hathaway, and who performs like Jim Morrison, Mick Jagger and Jay Kay combined – shot into the public's consciousness back in 2010 when he self-released his debut album, 'Last to Speak'. A heady mix of folk and soul, with a healthy spattering of spiritual influences and political issues thrown in, it was his unique voice that made him stand out amongst the dross of other popular artists plying the same trade.
But it was on last year's self-titled sophomore LP that he really came into his own, with most of tonight's performance being taken from this record. There was the celebratory spirit of 'Contact High' and 'Celebrate Tonight', alongside the pure funk and groove of 'Satisfaction', ending with the evocative, ethereal charms of 'Unaware'. Evidently what was also missing was the horn section that so often accompanies some of his tracks. There was too little groove and not enough damn funk. The songs sounded good, but collectively they lacked that intensity you so often look for in a live setting.
My guess is he was too eager to make a good impression here, and was sadly at the whim of a crowd who had seemingly stumbled into the wrong gig. The guy is supremely talented, no doubt about it, and too damn charming to boot – but in another time, in another place he would have brought the house down.
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After fishing, healing a broken nose and appearing on the "Late Show with David Letterman," Clint Dempsey is ready to get back on a soccer field.
Dempsey is returning from U.S. men's national-team duties at the World Cup in Brazil and was given about a week of rest time before returning to Sounders practice Thursday.
"There was just so much travel involved and so much work on the field and on tape and nonstop being around the game," Dempsey said of his time in Brazil. "It was good of the coaching staff and the ownership to give me a little bit of a break, which I needed. Now I'm recharged and ready to go."
Before returning to Seattle, Dempsey got to spend plenty of time fishing — one of his favorite pastimes — and less time watching soccer.
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Dempsey said it was difficult to watch other teams still playing after the United States' Round of 16 loss to Belgium, when he knew the Americans were just as capable of reaching that stage.
"To be honest with you, I got away from the game," he said. "It's tough to watch the other teams still be in the competition. You're jealous because you still want to be a part of things."
Although the U.S. didn't make it as far as he had hoped, Dempsey said he'll remember Brazil as a special piece of his international experience. His goal just 29 seconds into a victory over Ghana was the fastest in U.S. World Cup history, and fifth-fastest for any team. With that goal, Dempsey became the first American to score in three straight World Cups.
Although those accolades eventually came next to an "L" in the Round of 16, it doesn't diminish their importance to Dempsey.
"For me it's special because I never knew if I was going to play in one World Cup," he said. "I remember as a kid, going to bed, that's what I would pray about and dream about, hope that one day I would be able to do that. Being able to relive that dream three times … that is pretty special."
Now, it's back to the daily MLS grind for Dempsey. He returned to practice Thursday in preparation for the Sounders' match against Portland on Sunday.
Seattle coach Sigi Schmid has said over the past week that he expected Dempsey and fellow men's national team member DeAndre Yedlin to be ready for Sunday's match. Yedlin played in the Sounders' U.S. Open Cup match against the Timbers on Wednesday until the end of regulation.
Whether Dempsey will play similar minutes is up in the air; Schmid said a decision would be reached on Saturday.
"He looked fine," Schmid said. "We just told him not to go crazy today and we'll just see where he's at at the end of the day."
Dempsey, who said he could finally "breathe again" after he broke his nose at the World Cup, is just ready to get back out there with the Sounders.
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In an era of real-time news, CNN ought to be ashamed
It's hard to imagine that Eason Jordan would have picked the headline that ran over his column in The New York Times on April 11: "The News We Kept to Ourselves." It was a brief but damning mea culpa, and it sent shudders through the journalistic community. It is a big enough scandal that it deserves mention both on this page and in Marvin Olasky's column at the end of the magazine on page 32.
Mr. Jordan is chief news executive at CNN, the television news network that first gained its fame through its "reporting" on the first Gulf War in early 1991. In his most unusual recent column, Mr. Jordan bluntly admits that CNN over the last decade repeatedly and deliberately held back from reporting grisly news from Iraq just so that its reporters would be free to stay in the country.
Free to stay in the country-but to what end? If you're not even going to report the stories that your presence in the country allows you to see, what's the motivation for sticking around? Baghdad, even on the best of days, isn't that charming an assignment. What's the point of sitting around week after week, listening to the goofy reports from the Minister of Information, if you don't intend sooner or later to pass on what you hear with an insightful and courageous story?
"I felt awful having these stories bottled up inside me," says a rueful Mr. Jordan in his bizarre Times column. "Now that Saddam Hussein's regime is gone, I suspect we will hear many many more gut-wrenching tales from Iraqis about the decades of torment. At last, these stories can be told freely."
But Mr. Jordan, of course, has it all upside down. He's forgotten (or maybe never knew) that it is specifically the news reporter's main task not to allow important stories to get bottled up inside. No matter what.
No matter what? Well, Mr. Jordan suggests two justifications for staying silent even when you have an important story to tell. The first is that perhaps there's an even more important story coming in a few days (or a few months, or a few years?), and you want to be there to tell it. Or, as Mr. Jordan put it in an earlier interview, "Some light is better than no light whatsoever."
The second justification is more sobering. It is the reminder that the gruesome stories you heard as a reporter in a totalitarian setting were told to you by somebody whose life or welfare might be at risk if you publish the story. Mr. Jordan put it this way: "We also had to worry that our reporting might endanger Iraqis not on our payroll.... If we had gone with the story, I was sure that [Saddam's son Uday] would have responded by killing the Iraqi translator who was the only other participant in the meeting. After all, secret police thugs brutalized even senior officials of the Information Ministry, just to keep them in line (one such official has long been missing all his fingernails)."
But for any serious journalist to argue that it's OK to sit on an important story, and especially to sit on it for several years-even for reasons like these-is to undo the whole mission of good journalism. The task of a reporter is to tell the truth. Especially when the truth gets monstrous, it needs to be told. It is not the reporter's job to sit and weigh what the effects might be if he does his job. A journalist's job is to get on with telling the truth.
An eerie parallel exists between CNN's shameful performance and that of some Christian missionary organizations. Here and there around the world, too many Christians these days deliberately turn a blind eye to terrible wrongs in various countries and cultures of the world-just so that their continued acceptance by corrupt governing authorities will not be jeopardized. Their rationale is a lot like Eason Jordan's. "A little light is better than no light at all," they might say.
Both messengers are forgetting the same important principle-that a messenger's main task is to carry the message, and not to get weighed down in endless debates over whether this is the time to carry the message or what the secondary effects might be.
Indeed, all of us tend to fall into the same trap, even in our personal dealings. "I wouldn't dare say what's true in this circumstance," we rationalize, "or I might lose all future opportunity to speak the truth." Or, "I'd speak the truth, but I worry that somebody might get hurt."
So relationship trumps faithfulness-and in the process the truth never gets through, or gets through only when it can no longer do much good. Eason Jordan, as a professional truth-teller, should be ashamed of himself. So, in a not-too-different context, should a lot of the rest of us. Eason Jordan stumbled as a bearer of bad news. Some of us, believe it or not, stumble in exactly the same way as bearers of the best news that has ever been told.


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INTERACT Point Vienna
INTERACT was set up in 2003 by the European Commission and the EU Member States with the aim of supporting the implementation of cross-border, transnational and interregional EU subsidy programmes.
The City of Vienna has participated in the INTERACT programme since its establishment. Initially, Vienna was represented by INTERACT Point Managing Transition and External Cooperation. The successor facility, INTERACT Point Vienna, has been active since 2008.
INTERACT Point Vienna is one of four European INTERACT Points. The other INTERACT Points are situated in Turku (Finland), Valencia (Spain) and Viborg (Denmark).
INTERACT is the only EU programme to take the form of an exchange platform for ETC programmes and aims at the joint development of viable solutions across national borders. For example, best practices are identified, discussed and disseminated among ETC programmes located all over Europe.
- In the current subsidy period, INTERACT Point Vienna was entrusted with the following two focuses: technical and strategic support of ETC (Eean Co-operation) programmes in the Central and South-eastern European region.
- Since 2010, INTERACT Point Vienna has moreover been supporting the European Commission in the preparation and implementation of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region and assumes a central role in providing assistance to the relevant EU subsidy programmes and strategy co-ordinators.
Activity range
INTERACT Point Vienna develops tailor-made services to meet the needs of the different subsidy programmes:
- Seminars and workshops: participants come together to network, discuss joint problems and potential solutions and develop good practices
- Advisory services: provided on request by the managers of a specific programme, country or institution
- Creation and stimulation of networks
- Publication of studies, handbooks, templates, checklists
Every year, INTERACT Point Vienna organises more than 20 seminars, workshops and conferences in South-eastern Europe and other European countries. These events are attended by over 1,000 participants annually.
Importance for Vienna
The efforts and good reputation of INTERACT Point Vienna contribute to confirming the important role played by Vienna within the European Union and in the accession candidate countries. For the City of Vienna, INTERACT Point Vienna is an instrument that strengthens its profile as a pioneer of innovation, knowledge transfer and European co-operation.
INTERACT Point Vienna is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the participating EU Member States, Switzerland and Norway. The Viennese budget for INTERACT is Euro seven million Euro (ERDF co-financing rate: 85 percent) until 2014.
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In "The Place Beyond the Pines," Derek Cianfrance's time-spanning look at guilt and responsibility across multiple generations, Ryan Gosling plays a reckless stunt driver suddenly thrust into fatherhood and engaged in bank robberies to provide for the son he just learned about. Despite his apparent commitment to a worthy cause, Gosling's character engages in a recklessness that puts both himself and his family at risk: He's not only an absent father but a dangerous one. Cianfrance himself may not suffer from the same risky tendencies, but the battle to obtain a commanding role over familial stability is almost certainly a personal one, judging by the portrait of his household's interiors in "Towheads." Directed by Cianfrance's wife, the witty video performance artist Shannon Plumb, "Towheads" looks at the other side of the equation only glimpsed in "Pines": Whereas in that movie we follow the absent father, "Towheads" observes the world he leaves behind.
READ MORE: Derek Cianfrance's 'The Place Beyond the Pines' Is Sad, Powerful and Strengthened By Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper
Though lightly fictionalized, there's no doubting "Towheads" hails from a real place. The movie, which most recently made its U.S. premiere at the New Directors/New Films festival (and screens once more on Saturday), features Plumb as a married Brooklynite actress named Penny, who wastes most of her days doting over her two young sons while her husband (Cianfrance, barely glimpsed in shadows with his face methodically obscured in various scenes) buries himself in his directing work. The couple's children, the blond-headed Cody and Walker who give the movie its title, use their real names. Conceptually, the movie presents itself as the experimental alternative to Judd Apatow's "This is Forty," which similarly cast the director's children in a version of the family's off-camera life. But "Towhead" stretches far beyond simply portraying the inconsequential woes of suburban life to explore a much deeper sense of yearning that Plumb clearly endures on a regular basis.
Consolidating years of video artistry by stringing together various irreverent ideas into the movie's vignette-like progression, "Towheads" follows Plumb on her ongoing quest to find a purpose beyond her responsibilities to her children. Constantly in the shadow of her husband's success and fighting to make her own pursuits count, Plumb shows herself in a series of uncompromising situations: Dashing down busy streets with a stroller, failing auditions and donning costumes to obscure her physical shortcomings, she's simultaneously a slapstick figure and an object of sympathy.
Plumb's directorial style may have little in common with her husband's approach, but it does seem to answer it. In "Pines" and "Blue Valentine," Cianfrance maintains a precise gravitas in every scene that lends a cold, discomfiting feeling to the drama. In "Towheads," even the somber moments maintain a noticeable warmth to them -- Plumb pokes fun at her unhappiness by rendering its poignance in broad comedic strokes. The result is an unlikely jokey take on domestic drama that's still riddled with pathos, as if Jacques Tati directed "Jeanne Dielman." Plumb's focus on physical confusion, starting with an opening gag in which she mistakenly assumes construction workers are wooing her on the street (they're actually looking at the woman in front of her), create a marvelously entertaining rhythm that connects each scene. Using an irreverent approach to narrative that echoes Miranda July, Plumb expresses a capricious view of self-image problems and the alienating feelings of a daily routine without getting bogged down by the bad vibes.
It helps that Plumb's onscreen presence is inherently funny. Her throaty voice and darting eyes define the movie's cartoonish sensibility, which extends to her antics: On a whim, she buys a couture dress for a botched audition to which she dashes while battling to keep control of her stroller with one hand. In another failed gig, she crumbles during the filming of an awful tampon commercial.
The silly qualities of Plumb's life take on a tragic dimension when juxtaposed with her husband's apparently disaffected regard for his wife's sadness. ("Go get a facial," he sighs one morning when she tries to complain.) While Plumb's fragmented approach doesn't always hold together, the ongoing discord of her household remains emotionally substantial. "I want your help," she tells her beau at one point. His excuse, that committing to his work to support the family takes precedence over assisting his wife's personal hangups, recalls Gosling's vain commitment in "The Place Beyond the Pines." Cianfrance claims that he's "living in the real world with real responsibilities," and yet for that very reason he's disconnected from Plumb's life.
But Plumb, as Penny, finds plenty of ridiculous ways to stay busy. Donning a mustache and roaming about town in a manly outfit (borrowing a bit from one of her video works), she auditions for the role of a Salvation Army Santa Clause under the name "Mike Tyson" -- and then, against all odds, lands it. It's the epitome of the way "Towheads" cleverly embodies the inherent absurdities in the daily struggle to make each moment feel worthwhile. Even her desperate attempt to land a striptease gig feels like a progressive act simply because it breaks her routine.
In "Towheads," every comic bit is weighted with an awkward blend of sadness and irreverent humor. At one point, Penny's husband boldly asks her if she's enduring a midlife crisis; she chooses not to reply. The behavior speaks for itself. In "Pines," that tension comes out in a sensational plot involving crime and marital turmoil. "Towheads" finds a more familiar discomfort in the details of everyday life.
"Towheads" screens once more at New Directors/New Films on Saturday evening.
Criticwire grade: B+
HOW WILL IT PLAY? "Towheads" may not have potential in wide release, but it's charming enough to attract some decent reviews and could have some potential in ancillary markets.


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Meadow Marsh Cleanup Begins
August 2003
The Meadow Marsh, also known as the Upland Recharge/Meadow Marsh, was designated as Area of Concern (AOC) 8A. The Marsh was used from 1973 to 1978 to conduct experiments to evaluate the capacity of small natural and man-made terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems for treating sewage and recharging ground and surface waters. Liquid effluent from residential cesspools, and treated and untreated effluent from the BNL Sewage Treatment Plant was applied to various study areas within the Meadow Marsh. Prior to remediation, the area was a series of overgrown fields and man-made basins. This area was included in the Site-wide Biological Inventory conducted during 1994 and 1995 (LMS, 1995).
The Meadow Marsh contained six small man-made ponds underlain with a PVC liner containment system to prevent recharge to groundwater. The PVC liners in the three western ponds and the northeastern pond had deteriorated and no longer retained water. The two eastern ponds were of concern because they served as breeding ponds for the Eastern Tiger Salamander, a New York State endangered species. The sediment depth in the various ponds ranged from two inches to two feet and was contaminated with low-levels of pesticides, metals, and radionuclides.
A Preliminary Ecological Risk Screening was performed in 1996 and a Focused Ecological Risk Assessment and Addendum was completed in 1999. The Assessment concluded that there was a toxicity exposure risk, from various metals (copper, zinc, and aluminum) and trace amounts of americium-241 and cobalt-60 in the pond sediment, for larval salamanders living in the ponds.
Remedial Action
The remedial objectives for the Meadow Marsh were to prevent or minimize the uptake of contaminants present in the soils by ecological receptors. The cleanup, which began in August 2003, included pumping out nearly 55,000 gallons of water from the ponds and removing 240 cubic yards of contaminated sediment and degraded pond liners. The sediment was shipped by rail to a licensed disposal facility and the water was transported to an off-site disposal facility.
Prior to the start of the cleanup, workers combed the ponds using dip nets and a seine net. Five Tiger Salamanders were removed and placed in another pond on-site.
Following the sediment removal, the berm separating the two cleaned ponds was removed and one large pond was created. New soil, a new liner, and wetland plants helped establish the new pond. The project was completed in September 2003.
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Worries about President Obama's health-care proposals have contributed to his plummeting popularity among Floridians, according to poll results released Thursday, leaving him in a virtual tie between those who approve and disapprove of his performance.
Obama's 47-percent approval rating among likely Florida voters was the lowest in the nation of any poll conducted by Quinnipiac University. The president's approval rating in Florida dropped 11 points since June, the poll found.
In Thursday's results, 48 percent of likely Florida voters disapproved of Obama's performance. The survey had a margin of error of 3 percent.
The poll also found that nearly three out of four Floridians don't trust Obama to keep his promise to reform health care without increasing the federal budget deficit.
On the other hand, the poll found that a majority of voters — 58 to 36 percent — support creating a government-backed health insurance plan to compete with private insurers, despite protests from opponents who liken the concept to socialism.
Even some congressional Democrats have backed away from the government option, which is opposed by many insurance companies, pharmaceutical manufacturers and doctors.
Critics of the government plan say it would thwart competition. They warn that other provisions in which Medicare would pay for end-of-life counseling could lead to the creation of "death panels" and euthanasia.
The "death panel" claims are nonsense, health care experts agree. Most private insurers already pay doctors to perform the service, said University of Florida professor Paul Duncan, who had no role in the survey.
"This notion that people are going to sit around and decide whether to kill granny is utter fiction," said Duncan, chairman of the UF Department of Health Services Research, Management and Policy.


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JURIST Guest Columnist Ottilia Maunganidze, Researcher at the Institute for Security Studies, says that for the NTC to establish credibility it must put an end to unlawful detentions, make certain that any arrests are carried out by lawful police forces and ensure humane treatment of detainees...
Pillay`s statement to the Security Council came just weeks before human rights advocacy organization Amnesty International (AI) released a report accusing the NTC of allowing the abuse and torture of supporters of former leader Gaddafi by unofficial militia. The AI report of February 16, 2012 underscores Pillay`s concerns. The report itself is a product of an AI fact-finding mission to Libya in January and February 2012. The mission visited 11 facilities in Tripoli, al-Zawiya, Gharyan, Misrata and Sirte. The facilities are all currently used as detention facilities for suspected Gaddafi loyalists.
AI`s report details systematic human rights abuses by militia of people in custody. People interviewed provided details of different forms of torture and resultant grievous bodily harm. According to the report, the alleged forms of torture used by the militia include, but are not limited to, beatings using various instruments such as sticks, whips and rifle butts. Several of the people interviewed by the AI mission said they suffered other forms of torture, including electric shocks, burns and threats of rape or death. In addition to those allegedly tortured, the mission also found that 12 detainees had died in custody.
Aid agency Medecins San Frontieres (MSF) has supported the findings of this report and Pillay`s statement to the Security Council. According to the MSF, forensic examinations of some of those who died in detention provide evidence that such methods are still being used. Furthermore, MSF reports that some of their staff were asked by the militia in detention in Misrata to patch up prisoners midway through torture sessions so they could be taken back for more abuse. MSF in January said that its doctors had treated 115 people since August 2011 who had torture-related wounds and of those two people had died.
If the reported human rights violations are true and the militia is responsible for them, then the militia has violated the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) of 1966 and the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of 1984, two international agreements to which Libya is a party. The ICCPR provides that everyone has the right to life and further that "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest or detention." In addition, both the ICCPR and the Torture Convention expressly provide that no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Bearing this in mind, it is clear that the alleged perpetrators should be brought to book for the acts of torture and the reported deaths. The AI report recommends that the NTC abruptly put an end to the unlawful detentions and ensure that any arrests are carried out by lawful police forces, ensure humane treatment of detainees and investigate the reported deaths of prisoners. However, as noted by Pillay, the reason that these crimes have gone largely unpunished is because the NTC seems to lack the requisite systems to oversee activities across the country. Consequently, some regions are not governed by the NTC, but instead by the militia.
In 2011, the NTC vowed to investigate allegations of human rights abuses after AI released their September 2011 report, which alleged that both sides to the Libyan conflict were responsible for human rights violations. The NTC also currently has in detention International Criminal Court (ICC) accused Saif al-Islam and Abdullah al-Senussi, who they intend to prosecute domestically despite criticisms from the ICC and the international community. Indeed, to date, no efforts have been made to freely and fairly prosecute both sides to the conflict. Unfortunately, this state of affairs closely mirrors the lack of commitment to criminal justice on the part of the Gaddafi government throughout his 42-year rule. If the NTC is to establish itself as a legitimate government, it will need to address this fundamental issue as well as ensure that it has authority over areas currently controlled by different militia groups.
Ottilia Maunganidze is a Researcher for the International Crime in Africa Programme at the Institute for Security Studies. Her main focus is on criminal justice mechanisms to deal with international crimes and the promotion and protection of human rights. Previously, she worked as a research intern for the African Security Analysis Programme, as a junior legal advisor at the Rhodes University Legal Aid Clinic, and as a student human rights education coordinator for the Rhodes University chapter of Amnesty International.
Suggested citation: Ottilia Maunganidze, NTC Must Commit to Criminal Justice to Bolster Credibility, JURIST - Hotline, Feb. 27, 2012, http://jurist.org/hotline/2012/02/ottilia-maunganidze-ntc-detentions.php.
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Wow, summer went by fast! It seems like only three months ago that our very own Sway was ditching the Led Zeppelin "Whole Lotta Love" roller coaster in favor of a kiddie choo-choo ride at the brand-new Hard Rock Park in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
On Wednesday, word broke that the first rock-and-roll theme park had filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy and is closing its doors for the rest of the year. (Guess that means no Rocktoberfest parties there, damn!)
Since it opened in April, the 55-acre, seven-years-in-the-planning, $400 million park apparently performed way below expectations, despite the undeniable attraction of that Eagles "Life in the Fast Lane" ride. Projections of 30,000 visitors a day and 3 million for the year didn't pan out, and the park cut its operating hours in August.
But operators still hope to reopen next year, despite the fact that this is one of the worst times in which to open a tourist destination that charges $50 a pop, what with gas prices skyrocketing and the credit market collapsing. Like a lot of businesses, the park was hit by the country's current economic crisis, which President Bush discussed in Wednesday's prime-time address and which spurred presidential candidates Senators John McCain and Barack Obama to issue a joint statement.


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"Rust and Bone" (Sony Pictures Classics) - Week 2
$25,800 in 2 theaters (unchanged); PSA: $12,600; Cumulative: $66,100
Down only 5% from its disappointing first weekend, this Marion Cotillard-starring French romantic drama is showing some signs of life. Like all other limited films, this so far NY-only booking is doing its best to find ticket buyers at a hugely competitive time.
What comes next: LA opening soon, and then the rest of the country later as Cotillard's hoped-for best actress nomination comes along.
"Central Park West" (IFC) - Week 2
$30,000 in 5 theaters; PSA: $6,000; Cumulative: $60,000
LA was added to NY this week with average results for this acclaimed documentary (co-directed by Ken Burns) about a group of minority kids and how mass-hysteria led to their convictions for a heinous assault.
What comes next: As with other docs, awaiting possible awards attention.
"Silver Linings Playbook" (Weinstein) - Week 3
$3,341,000 in 371 theaters (+4); PSA: $9,005; Cumulative: $10,991,000
Barely missing the Top Ten (it still might make it when final figures are in), this showed the smallest fall (by far) of any of the Oscar contenders with higher grosses (all in many more theaters). This shows that Weinstein's slow rollout for this is working, with the bonus of making the top ten while still in limited release.
Last year in its third week in 203 more theaters, "The Descendants" grossed $4.8 million with a PSA of $8,344. While keeping in mind that more theaters usually decreases PSA, that "Silver Linings" is now ahead of Alexander Payne's film's average at this point means it is quickly catching up in overall performance.
What comes next: This still won't reach its maximum break for some time, but this is now firmly set to stay in place through the holidays and be positioned to hit its peak just as awards announcements hit their maximum after New Year's. Weinstein is playing a long game here, which makes sense, particularly since the remaining weeks before Christmas involve more competition and fewer people going out to the movies.
"Anna Karenina" (Focus) - Week 3
$2,230,000 in 384 theaters (+318); PSA: $5,807; Cumulative: $784,000
Edging ahead of "SLP" in theater totals, this reached about two-thirds as good a performance, making it a reasonable specialized player at this point. It is also a bit less than two-thirds of what "Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" achieved in its third week with a similar total. That makes this promising so far - "SLP" is going to get significantly bigger, as "Hotel" got up to $45 million.
What lies ahead is trickier. Focus has two more films to launch in coming weeks ("Hyde Park on the Hudson" and "Promised Land") to complicate things, apart from the crush of current and upcoming releases crowding theaters. This was a problem that "Hotel" never faced (it went over 1,000 theaters its fourth week).
These are just decent numbers, which means that they have found their initial core audience, which under the circumstances (without unanimously stellar reviews) is an achievement.
What comes next: The tricky part, keeping this going to capitalize on real interest so far. But at a minimum this performance keeps Keira Knightley in the mix for best actress.
"Chasing Ice" (Submarine Deluxe) - Week 4
$94,300 in 30 theaters (+13); PSA: $3,143; Cumulative: $349,000
Expanding quickly for a documentary, this visually strong presentation of climate-changing reshaping icebergs continues it successful run. Though not great numbers, it is reaching an audience at the right time as year end awards line up.
What comes next: Like many other worthy doc contenders, this awaits the release of the list of the 15 semi-final Oscar contenders in the next few days. If it makes it, its presence in the market right now will help its chances.
Ongoing (weekend gross and cumulative)
"The Sessions" (Fox Searchlight) - $328,000/$4,577,000
"The Perks of Being a Wallflower" (Lionsgate) - $200,000/$16,629,000
"A Late Quartet" (EOne) - $86,500/$872,000
"The Other Son" (Cohen) - $59,100/$881,000
"Searching for Sugar Man" (Sony Pictures Classics) - $47,900/$2,838,000
"Holy Motors" (Indomina) - $35,800/$334,000
"Samsara" (Oscilloscope) - $25,000 - $2,525,000
A large number of new releases, some also showing on Video on Demandl, didn't report grosses, including "Addicted to Fame," "Young and Wild" (from Sundance this year), "Dragon" (the latest Radius/Weinstein release), "California Solo" (also from Sundance) among others. The grosses for "A Royal Affair" also are again being delayed until tomorrow, despite being considered a significant contender for the Foreign Language Oscar.


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From PixieWiki
OpenEXR is a high dynamic-range image format developed by ILM and opensourced for use by other projects. Whilst TIFF has support for HDR float images, OpenEXR is able to store data more efficiently because it employs a 'half' float datatype. OpenEXR images also allow for arbitrary named channels.
See [http://www.openexr.com]
To render image to OpenEXR format you must turn off quantize and select apropriate display:
Quantize "rgba" 0 0 0 0 Display "imagename.exr" "openexr" "rgb" "string compressinon" "algorithm"
Where algorithm can be RLE, ZIPS, ZIP, PIZ or PXR24.
To view exr image you can use exrdisplay from ILM's OpenEXR package.


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Mullen's Exit
When Admiral Mike Mullen hands over the most senior military job Friday, the changing of the guard at the Pentagon will be complete.
When Admiral Mike Mullen hands over the most senior military job Friday, the changing of the guard at the Pentagon will be complete. Robert Gates left the defense secretary's post in July. General David Petraeus, who oversaw the surge of troops into Iraq and Afghanistan, hung up his military uniform in August to run the Central Intelligence Agency. Adm. Mullen, who has chaired the Joint Chiefs of Staff since 2007, was the last senior holdover on the security team from the Bush years. He was less visible than either Secretary Gates or Gen. Petraeus, yet he helped shape a critical era for the military.
His four year tenure saw the U.S. engaged in the hardest fighting since 9/11, first in Iraq and now in Afghanistan. Adm. Mullen wasn't the intellectual architect of the Iraq and Afghan surges, and as Navy chief of staff in late 2006 he initially opposed the Iraqi plan. All the service chiefs were skeptical about the Bush surge.
The admiral played a bigger role in Afghanistan. On taking his office, he said the U.S. needed to re-focus on that conflict and Pakistan. This put him in sync with an incoming commander in chief, Barack Obama, who opposed Iraq and considered Afghanistan the good war. During internal debates in 2009, Adm. Mullen stood with his commanders in the field to demand that a new counterinsurgency strategy for Afghanistan be properly resourced. Bob Woodward's "Obama at War," which gave more space to the White House skeptics who favored a smaller push, portrayed him as trying to tie the president's hands. The characterization stung an officer who worked hard to make the chairman a "military diplomat" who directly advises the president.
Eighteen months after the surge began, President Obama announced a steady withdrawal from Afghanistan this summer, and relations with Pakistan are at a low-point. Military brass were lobbying for a slower drawdown of American forces, irrespective of the election calendar. In Pakistan, Adm. Mullen invested much time and capital to nurture their military chief, Gen. Ashfaq Kayani. As relations with Pakistan deteriorated, so did his relations with Gen. Kayani. In a chilly telephone call on May 1, Adm. Mullen informed him about the American raid on Osama bin Laden's Pakistani compound. Gen. Kayani was furious.
Adm. Mullen must be, too. As a parting shot across the bow last week, he testified on Capitol Hill that Pakistan's military intelligence arm, the ISI, was behind two recent terrorist attacks on U.S. and NATO facilities in Afghanistan. Yet his engagement with Gen. Kayani helped pave the way for better cooperation on the drone bombing campaign against terrorist sanctuaries in Pakistan -- an unquestionable success of the Obama foreign policy.
The son of a prominent Hollywood publicist, Adm. Mullen was a military man that liberals could like. He was comfortable around soldiers and the celebrities he dealt with. Last December, during a USO tour through Afghanistan, I saw his easy rapport with the actor Robin Williams and the cyclist Lance Armstrong. He led the push to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and to allow female sailors on submarines. Behind the scenes, he helped pick the next generation of military leaders. He tended to prefer officers who were battle-tested in Iraq and Afghanistan and who understand and support the military's changed mission in the 21st century. This may be his legacy.
When the White House looked around for a new chairman this spring, the favorite was Gen. James Cartwright, who never deployed to any of the post-9/11 conflicts and wasn't steeped in counterinsurgency warfare. Adm. Mullen quietly opposed his candidacy. In the end, the White House went with Gen. Martin Dempsey, who served in Iraq and knew the Middle East well.
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See that tree ?
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We each see things
With our memory
As as they are all different
It therefore cannot be
Each depiction
Is our own little fiction
A spot in time
Exclusively mine
When we look at things
We remember what we've known
As so, because of that
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I'm glad that my poem meant something to you. I got the idea from watching a TV documentary about the artist David Hockney. He commented on a tree that he had observed and the fact that what he saw would be different from the impression that another person might have. For the reasons set out in my poem.
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10th Anniversary of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS)
West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin and Director Mueller shared a cheerful moment at a ceremony on April 8 marking the 10th anniversary of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).
In the past decade, NICS has processed more than 100 million background checks to determine the eligibility of an individual to purchase firearms or explosives. "Because of NICS, 'instant' checks are not only possible, they have become routine," Director Mueller said during the ceremony at the Criminal Justice Information Services Division complex in Clarksburg, West Virginia. Each background check includes an automated search of more than 61 million criminal history records, including records on wanted persons and subjects of protective/restraining orders.
The Director thanked the men and women in the NICS Section, saying they work around the clock to provide this critical service to our law enforcement partners. "It is their dedication and innovation that have made NICS successful," he said.
Director Robert Mueller helps observe NICS' 10th anniversary.
Acting CJIS Assistant Director Jerome Pender (second from left) with former CJIS Assistant Directors.
Former CJIS Assistant Director Tom Bush speaks at the 10th anniversary luncheon.
The NICS Development Team
Director Mueller greets former CJIS Assistant Directors Tom Bush and Jim DeSarno.
West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin (left) and NICS Section Chief John Strong (center).
Director Mueller with Lawrence Keane of the National Shooting Sports Foundation and Peter Hamm from the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
Representatives from the Department of Justice with Acting Assistant Director Pender, Acting NICS Section Chief Lisa Vincent, and current NICS management.
Director Mueller meets with some of the CJIS "Junior Special Agents."
Members of the CJIS Honor Guard who took part in the NICS 10th anniversary ceremony.


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Patrick Bateman
Convocation Medal for Undergraduate Achievement
A world-class orator and recipient of many University prizes, including the Walter Reid Memorial Prize for Penultimate Law, Patrick Bateman (BEcSocSc (Hons) '10 LLB '12) has made a significant contribution to causes on and off the campus.
During his studies in Government and Law, Patrick held St Paul's College's most prestigious scholarships and awards, such as the Felix Arnott Residential Scholarship. He co-founded the University of Sydney Union's Public Speaking Society, and as the USU Board Director from 2009 – 2010, brought the Union to a budget-neutral position and drove membership up by 30%.
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Thanks to commenter Mackey for suggesting this poem by Australian Aboriginal poet Oodgeroo Noonuccal.
Municipal Gum
Gumtree in the city street,
Hard bitumen around your feet,
Rather you should be
In the cool world of leafy forest halls
And wild bird calls
Here you seems to me
Like that poor cart-horse
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Strapped and buckled, its hell prolonged,
Whose hung head and listless mien express
Its hopelessness.
Municipal gum, it is dolorous
To see you thus
Set in your black grass of bitumen–
O fellow citizen,
What have they done to us?


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We don't know who it'll be, but hopefully they hire somebody soon. WBB coverage will suffer until they do, since La Gesse is already doing FB and MBB.
Ames Tribune > Archives > Ames Tribune > Sports > La Gesse named Tribune sports editor
Last week, La Gesse was promoted to the top position in The Tribune's sports department, a spot previously occupied by Courtney Linehan, who left in late August to become sports editor of the Lubbock (Texas) Avalanche-Journal.
La Gesse will continue to cover ISU football. He will also take over the ISU men's basketball beat, leaving the Cyclones' women's basketball beat for his replacement, whom he is charged with hiring.
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Having lost 2 weeks of rugby to the weather and against a side that we have never played before, this was always going to be an "interesting" match. In league terms it was a close run things; with (in theory) Redingensians just needing to pick up a bonus point to secure second position and Chinnor looking to grab a win to take third spot in the League from Bicester. Make no mistake 'Ensians wanted to win this game. Top three in the League qualify for the National Cup; one of our key objectives this season.
In the event the match was anything but pretty, played in cold windy conditions, on an exposed pitch. Thermal knickers were the order of the day....
Redingensians started the brightest exerting early pressure with phase after phase of good quick rugby, into the wind. Things looked very promising when first blood was drawn after just 4 minutes play. Captain Sharp was quickest to react to a loose ball at the base of an attacking ruck which he neatly picked up on the 22, straightened his line to draw his man and timed to offload to full back Richardson perfectly. Richardson bi-sected the Chinnor backs, bursting over to score.
From the restart it was Chinnors turn to plough up into enemy territory making headway with good direct running. Midway through the first half Chinnor drew a penalty just outside the visitors 22, which was quickly taken. Ensians were clearly not 10 and from the second penalty a try was scored.
Sadly these two events were pretty much the highlights of the half. 5 - 5 at half time.
Whilst both sides managed to up the tempo a little in the second half neither really grabbed the match by the scuff of the neck. Both sides rucked and counter rucked forcing turnover ball. The home side blitzed well to put pressure on the 'Ensians attack. Several attacking opportunities for 'Ensians came to nought as knock on's seemed to be the order of the order of the day, accompanied by some very wayward passing in midfield.
That said, it wasn't all doom and gloom; there was some exemplary jackling by Messer's Baker, Sharp and Holt, to name but a few. Oliver and Leicester put in some cracking tackles. The engine room of Stevens and Patterson helped push the opposition back at scrum time.......
Both sides will need to up their games for the up and coming Cup fixtures, but on the day the result should see both sides through.
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1. The BB spindle length you need is really determined by your chainline at the hub, not by your frame. Most track hubs have a chainline of about 42mm, so go from there. Sheldon brown has a huge website all about this stuff, here's a couple relevant links from him:
2. The IRO BB is JIS taper, and won't work the best with your campy cranks (ISO taper). You may permanently damage those cranks.
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Welcome to the Guild!
I look forward to seeing your maps... fantasy world maps are by far my favorite!
There are many good GIMP tutorials on the forum and I hope you get as much out of this community as I am...
Hello there,
My name's Stephen, though I've been posting under the "Karro" handle for years now, so why change now? (You can find me at RPG.net under the same name, but I haven't gamed in years now, and consequently haven't posted there in years either.)
I happened across this place while searching for GIMP tutorials to help me learn the program while I work on a fantasy world map. I've been drawing fantasy maps since I was a wee lad, and I'd done a number of maps of a particular imagined world (primarily paper-based). A couple years ago I decided to start recreating this world from the ground up, and using some of the maps I'd drawn when I was younger as rough guides. Using a free pdf I found on world-building I tried to learn a little about plate tectonics and how they form the world and affect the shape of the world above them. So, I sketched up a quick design of interlocking plates, gave a rough indication of the transforming, subducting, and diverging plates, and then placed my continents on top of them.
I decided that I wanted to be able to produce several kinds of maps of the same world without having to redraw the world each time, so I decided to try to work on the computer where, having in the past used Paint Shop Pro and having been introduced to the concept of Layers, I thought I could best perform this task. So, recently, I started redrawing the rough designs I did on paper in GIMP, starting with a basic outline of the tectonic plates, and then adding layers for some general continent outlines, and the ocean. I was manually drawing and blurring the shorelines of these otherwise featureless continents (I don't have a wacom tablet or anything similar, and it was taking forever, and I hadn't even tried forests or mountains yet) when I thought "There must be a better way... I'm not taking full advantage of GIMP's tools". So... after fruitlessly messing with some GIMP filters (like edge detect, and a cool polar map feature that I can use later to produce polar-oriented maps if I so desire), I decided to hit up Ye Olde Internet for better answers. It directed me here (unless I want to spend too much time watching video tuts... but I like static tutorial presentations better, so I can more easily refer back to them).
So, I already started fooling around with RobA's tutorial on regional fantasy maps, and I'm trying to think of ways some of the same techniques might be applied to a world-map scale. It looks like this is an excellent community, here, and I'm glad to have found it.
Welcome to the Guild!
I look forward to seeing your maps... fantasy world maps are by far my favorite!
There are many good GIMP tutorials on the forum and I hope you get as much out of this community as I am...
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Welcome Stephen! RobA's tuts should help you get started fairly quickly. Looking forward to seeing some of your stuff.
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Welcome aboard, Stephen. I look forward to seeing your fantasy maps.
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I don't know if anybody talked about this or not but a fight broke out at the And1 tourstop in Columbia. Apparently it started partially due to a hard foul by Jason Sutherland (not all that surprising for anyone that remembers him) and erupted when one of the And1 guys took him into the first row on a three point attempt. The Columbia team was made up of Mizzou alumni and local high school kids.
Here's the story: 'A very bad shame'
Jason Sutherland in a fight? NOOOOOoooooo!
I was working a basketball tournament in the early 1990s and there was a team from South Dakota. I was talking to the coach and I mentioned Sutherland's name. He told me that Sutherland was playing in an opponent's gym. Sutherland did a reverse 2 hand dunk and and then right after the dunk, he flipped off the crowd.
Definitely not a front runner for any Mr. Congeniality awards...
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Definitely not a front runner for any Mr. Congeniality awards...
If Sandra Bullock can win one in the movie Miss Congeniality, I think the has a shot at reform.
"Seven minutes to glory."
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The Academy Foundation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has awarded the San Francisco International Film Festival a $150,000 grant as the event approaches its 50th anniversary next Spring. The fest will receive $50,000 in 2007 and an equal amount in two subsequent years. AMPAS has already awarded similar grants to the Telluride Film Festival and the Los Angeles Film Festival. In a statement, Festival Grants Committee Chair Gale Anne Hurd said, in a statement, "That kind of security will permit a festival to take some chances with programs they might otherwise not be willing to try." [Eugene Hernandez]
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