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Issue No. 02 - February (1986 vol. 8)
pp: 276-282
Leo Dorst , Department of Applied Physics, Delft University of Technology, 2628 CJ Delft, The Netherlands.
Arnold W. M. Smeulders , Department of Pathology and Medical Informatics, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
This paper considers the problem of measuring properties of digitized straight lines from the viewpoint of measurement methodology. The measurement and estimation process is described in detail, revealing the importance of a step called ``characterization'' which was not recognized explicitly before. Using this new concept, BLUE (Best Linear Unbiased) estimators are found. These are calculated for various properties of digitized straight lines, and are briefly compared to previous work.
Leo Dorst, Arnold W. M. Smeulders, "Best Linear Unbiased Estimators for Properties of Digitized Straight Lines", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence, vol. 8, no. , pp. 276-282, February 1986, doi:10.1109/TPAMI.1986.4767781


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No royal offspring yet! After a tabloid claimed that Kate Middleton and Prince William were expecting twins, the couple's rep quickly (though ever so politely) put the issue to bed, and simultaneously crushed the hopes of millions of royal watchers.
"Suffice to say that were it true, it would be us that announces it, not a gossip magazine," the palace rep tells Us.
Not that they won't ever have children….
As Prince William said in November, the pair intends to "take it one step at a time."
"We'll sort of get over the marriage thing first, then look at the kids," he continued. "But obviously, we want a family."

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DELAFIELD, Wis. (Stockpickr) -- There isn't a day that goes by on Wall Street when certain stocks trading for $10 a share or less don't experience massive spikes higher. Traders savvy enough to follow the low-priced names and trade them with discipline and sound risk management are banking ridiculous coin on a regular basis.
>>5 Big Stocks to Trade for Gains
Just take a look at some of the big movers in the under-$10 complex from Thursday, including Rexahn Pharmaceuticals (RNN), which is exploding higher by 19%; Synthetic Biologics (SYN), which is jumping higher by 17%; Skilled Healthcare Group (SKH), which is trending to the upside by 12%; and Ambient (AMBT), which is ripping higher by 12%. You don't even have to catch the entire move in lower-priced stocks such as these to make outsized returns when trading.
One low-priced stock that recently ripped higher was integrated mining player Pretium Resources (PVG), which I highlighted in April 24's "5 Stocks Under $10 Set to Soar" at around $6 per share. I mentioned in that piece that shares of PVG were trending sideways and consolidating for the last three months or so, with the stock moving between $5 on the downside and $7.49 on the upside. This stock was just starting to spike higher above support at $5.50 and it's was quickly moving within range of triggering a near-term breakout trade above its 200-day at $6.21 and its 50-day at $6.32 a share.
>>5 Stocks Insiders Love Right Now
Guess what happened? Shares of Pretium Resources triggered that breakout a few trading sessions later. This stock ran sharply once those key moving averages were taken out with decent volume, and shares of PVG tagged a recent a high of $7.70 a share. That represents a very nice gain in a tough market environment of right around 30%.
Low-priced stocks are something that I tweet about on a regular basis. I frequently flag high-probability setups, breakout candidates and low-priced stocks that are acting technically bullish. I like to hunt for low-priced stocks that are showing bullish price and volume trends, since that increases the probability of those stocks heading higher. These setups often produce monster moves higher in very short time frames.
>>Hedge Funds Hate These 5 Stocks -- Should You?
When I trade under-$10 names, I do it almost entirely based off of the charts and technical analysis. I also like to find under-$10 names with a catalyst, but that's secondary to the chart and volume patterns.
With that in mind, here's a look at several under-$10 stocks that look poised to potentially trade higher from current levels.


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St Mary's Pre-school in Rowden Hill, Chippenham has won an award for being a top recommended nursery in the South West.
The nursery came third out of 1,028 nurseries in the region. The top ten nurseries received an award from online directory and industry website daynurseries.co.uk The award was based on the nursery's online recommendations from the parents of their children plus relatives and guardians of the children.
St Mary's Pre-school chairman Kerrie Hanlon said: "We feel very honoured to have been given an award and to be placed third in the whole of the South West is just amazing.
"We are very proud of all of our children and feel we play an important part, along with their parents, in getting them ready for the onward journey into school. As we are an independent smaller pre-school, our door is always open to parents."


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By offering a domestic partnership registration status, instead of legal marriage, the Swiss have created an apartheid, with one set of laws pertaining to opposite-sex couples, and another for same-sex couples. [See Marrying Apartheid]
Previous Support for Same-sex Couples
Between July 2003 and the end of 2004, 383 same-sex couples registered.
While this registration status offers an improved range of protections for same-sex couples who live in Switzerland, it contains many gaps.
Partnership are obtained from a Civil Registrarĺs Office.
Partnerships can only be dissolved by a court.
Switzerlandĺs Web site about the registration:
Federal Office of Justice: Registered Partnerships
[From the Swiss governmentĺs Web site document:
www.bj.admin.ch/etc/medialib/data/gesellschaft/gesetzgebung/eingetragene_partnerschaft.Par.0037.File.tmp/Partnership _e_.pdf]
A registered partnership commits partners of the same sex to lead life as a couple and to assume joint responsibilities. Partners must assist and respect each other. They must each contribute, as far as they are able, to the support of their life together.
To form a registered partnership, partners must meet the following legal conditions:
Preparatory procedure
The partners must go in person to the registry office covering the residence of one of them and must produce the following documents:
Swiss nationals:
A personal civil status certificate and a certificate of residence.
Foreign nationals:
A certificate of residence and documents proving their birth, sex, surname, parentage, civil status and nationality.
Partners previously married or bound by a registered partnership:
Confirmation of the dissolution of the marriage or registered partnership.
The application form to register a partnership can be requested from the relevant registry office.
Having completed this form and produced the necessary documents, the partners must also personally declare to the registrar that they meet all the legal conditions.
The registrar will examine the application and inform the partners whether the partnership can be registered. The details of the registration will be decided in agreement with the registry office.
Registration must occur within three months of notification of the decision that the preparatory procedure has been successfully completed.
Swiss nationals abroad may file their application through the relevant diplomatic or consular
Formation of the partnership
The two partners will make a declaration before the registrar that they wish to form a partnership. The registrar will get them to sign the partnership document and will then issue them with a partnership certificate.
The registry office charges a fee for registering the partnership (preparation and formation of the
partnership) and for the documents issued.
Recognition of homosexual partnerships formed abroad
A partnership which has been duly formed abroad will be recognised in Switzerland if it complies with Swiss legal principles.
The partnership will be recorded in the ôInfostarö civil status register if one of the partners holds Swiss nationality or is resident in Switzerland. The application for recognition must be filed with the Swiss representation (embassy or consulate) together with the documents on the registered partnership.
The Swiss representation will verify the accuracy of the documents, legalise these and then translate them, if necessary, into an official language of Switzerland (in return for payment of a fee). The documents will then be sent to the relevant cantonal civil status supervisory authority. The supervisory authority of the canton of origin will be responsible for Swiss nationals abroad whereas, for foreign nationals resident in Switzerland, recognition will be decided by the civil status supervisory authority of the canton of residence.
The cantonal supervisory authority will decide whether the partnership can be recognised. If the conditions are met, it will order the partnership to be recorded in the registers. Based on this decision, the partnership formed abroad may therefore be recorded in the ôInfostarö civil status register.
A marriage celebrated abroad between persons of the same sex will be recognised in Switzerland as a registered partnership.
New civil status
Civil status must always be indicated on official forms and in correspondence with the authorities. The official term is ôbound by a registered partnershipö or ôpartnership dissolvedö after the legal dissolution of the partnership or the death of a partner.
Joint home
The two partners undertake, as a result of registering the partnership, to lead life as a couple. They will decide together whether they want to live in a joint home or in two or more apartments. One partner cannot relinquish or cancel the lease for the joint apartment without the express consent of the other partner.
Effects of the registered partnership
Personal effects
a) Surname
The registered partnership will have no effect on the surname of the partners or on their citizenship.
However, to indicate their partnership, partners do have the option of using a combined surname made up of their two hyphenated surnames. The combined surname may be used in daily life and may appear, on request, in their passports or identity cards.
Foreign partners can declare to the registrar that they want their surname to be governed by their national law (Article 37(2) of the Federal Act on Private International Law: LDIP RS 2911). In some countries (e.g. Germany, Scandinavian countries), the national law allows partners to bear a joint surname.
b) Nationality
As regards the foreign partner acquiring Swiss nationality, the law does not allow for Swiss naturalisation to be obtained in a simplified manner as is the case with a foreign spouse of a Swiss national.
Property effects of the partnership
Each partner will own his/her own property and will be solely responsible for his/her debts. This system corresponds to the system of separation of property under matrimonial law. Each partner is obliged, if requested, to inform the other partner about his/her income, property and debts. At the request of one partner, the courts may compel the other partner or third parties to provide appropriate information and to produce the necessary documents.
If the partnership is dissolved, the partners may conclude a special agreement and specify, for example, that the property will be shared according to the provisions of matrimonial law on participation in the property acquired after marriage. This type of agreement will be valid only if drawn up as an officially recorded document by an authorised person (notary).
Each partner may have an officially recorded inventory drawn up of the respective property, to be produced as evidence.
In the areas of tax law and inheritance law, registered partners will be treated like married couples. If one of the partners dies, the surviving partner will be regarded as a widow/widower in terms of entitlement to old-age and survivorsĺ pensions (rente AVS) and additional work pensions (prÚvoyance professionnelle).
The lessor of the joint home must be informed of the partnershipĺs registration because cancellation of the lease by the lessor is valid only if sent separately to each of the two partners.
Partnership and children
Adoption of a child and recourse to artificial reproduction are prohibited for persons bound by a registered partnership. Adoption of the partnerĺs child is also not permitted.
Where a partner has children, the other partner must duly assist his/her partner in fulfilling the support obligation and in exercising parental authority and must represent his/her partner when circumstances require this (for example in the event of illness or absence).
Dissolution of the partnership
The two partners may together file a request for dissolution of the partnership with the courts. Each partner may also ask the courts to dissolve the partnership if the couple has lived separately for at least one year.
The additional work pension benefits (prÚvoyance professionnelle) will be shared as in the case of a divorce. After the registered partnership has been dissolved, each partner will in principle be responsible for supporting himself/herself. However, where one person has, due to the distribution of tasks during the registered partnership, limited his/her paid work or has not worked, he/she may request reasonable support contributions from his/her partner until he/she can again obtain work allowing him/her to support himself/herself.
[ 1 Translatorĺs note: LDIP = loi fÚdÚrale sur le droit international privÚ; RS = Recueil Suisse (Swiss gazette). ]


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Wellingborough Amateur Swimming Club
Guide to British Age Group Categories (BAGCATS)
This brief guide is intended as a basic introduction for both swimmers and parents to British Age Group Categories (known as BAGCATS).
BAGCATS applies to:
Boys aged 9 – 14 yrs (Counties), 10 – 14 yrs (Regional & Nationals).
Girls aged 9 – 13 yrs (Counties), 10 – 13 yrs (Regional & Nationals).
County, Regional and National Championships are run under the BAGCATS system.
At the Northamptonshire County Championships there are only BAGCAT awards; no trophies are awarded for individual events for boys aged 9 to14 years and girls aged 9 to 13 years.
Is an accumulative points system which culminates with the overall placings and ranking at the end of a Championship. At Northamptonshire County Championships awards are usually presented to the top 6 swimmers in each age and sex category.
The points system works by awarding points for the time you achieve. The faster you swim, the more points you are awarded. Sliding scales are used, depending on your age and sex.
Ideally, you need to compete in at least one event in each Category, to achieve good points. There are normally four or five Categories that count towards overall BAGCATS points. If you swim in more than one event in a Category, then your best points score is counted.
The Categories are:
Sprint 50 m Butterfly, Backstroke, Breaststroke, Freestyle events
100s 100 m Butterfly, Backstroke, Breaststroke, Freestyle events
Form 200 m Butterfly, Backstroke, Breaststroke events
Distance 200 m to 1500 m Freestyle events
IM 100m, 200m, 400m Individual Medley events BAGCAT Table in full
The 200m Freestyle is always a Distance event, not a Form stroke.
There are no BAGCATS sprint events at Region or National competitions.


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On Sunday I did 6 miles with no foot pain at all. Then later in the day the outside of my right foot started to ache a bit. I rested yesterday, but noticed that when I tried to put on my shoes the pain intensified. Today, I can barely take one step in my shoe without a shooting pain. The pain is at the widest part of my foot, does not hurt at all to hop on the foot. Walking barefoot or in sandals with minimal pain.
I've been running about 10 miles per week so far this year, have done a handful of 5ks and one 10k trail race (woo hoo!). Been using the same shoes all year, they were brand new at xmas. The only thing I can think of that may have affected my right foot, is that I had a pretty bad blister on my left foot from playing football, so maybe I was putting more weight on my right foot to avoid hurting the left??
Any suggestions or insight about this injury are much appreciated!


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"Why Do You Refuse to Eat Pork?" Jews, Food, and Identity in Roman PalestinePosted on August 28, 2012 | No CommentsComments about this dietary regulation, however, are far from a modern phenomenon. Both Jewish and gentile discussions about the absence of pig from the Jewish table survive from antiquity.
The Old and the Restless: The Egyptians and the Scythians in Herodotus' HistoriesPosted on August 24, 2012 | No CommentsOn a historiographical level, if we look at all the ethnographic material in the Histories, it appears that Herodotus wishes the reader to view the world and its peoples in a sort of grid. Scythia and Egyptians are the extremes (in several ways) and other central cultures like the Greeks and Persians fall into place between them.
Egyptian brewing : the production of beer based on archaeological evidencePosted on April 21, 2012 | No CommentsProduction of beer in ancient Egypt was an important daily activity. Beer was an essential part of the nutrition of the ancient Egyptian as well as important in religious life.
Blended Cuisine in Ancient RomePosted on February 26, 2012 | No CommentsIn many cultures one can find a set of close and extensive relationships between food and cosmological beliefs such as those of Empedocles. The spiritual conception of cuisine that prevailed among many
Epic Appetites: Images of Food in Ancient Greece and RomePosted on December 18, 2011 | No Commentslthough there exist many accounts describing food, its production, consumption and trade in the ancient Mediterranean world, there is nothing like a painting or sculpture or mosaic to bring these texts to life and flesh out our understanding of the role of food in past societies.
What Did Our Ancestors Eat?Posted on November 13, 2011 | No CommentsUntil the advent of modern processing technologies, dirt, grit, and fiber constituted a large part of most early diets.


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This article was published 30/8/2013 (1451 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
"Adam named the animals. MaddAddam customizes them."
So read the portal to a secret Internet chat room hosted by disaffected scientists in 2003's Oryx and Crake, the first speculative-fiction novel of Canadian literary doyenne Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy.
MaddAddam members illegally shared by night the information about genetic hazards that their corporate work caused, legally, by day, as gene-splicing corporations such as ReJoovenesence, HelthWyzer and OrganInc produced not only the dangerous "pigoons" (pigs injected with human neocortical tissue) but also the innocent, quasi-human "Crakers," who eat and mate without blood and tears.
Oryx and Crake recounts, through Crake's friend Jimmy, how Crake hijacked the MaddAddam network and its ideals to cause the "Waterless Flood." The second book, 2009's The Year of the Flood, tells the back stories of Ren and Toby, two women from the environmental sect -- God's Gardeners -- and then follows the women into the early days after the Waterless Flood.
MaddAddam, the third instalment, is tasked with wrapping up the series, taking us beyond the Waterless Flood to see if the few remaining Gardeners and MaddAddamites can make a civilized go of things, or whether humankind is damned to lapse into barbarity.
Wrap things up Atwood does, often too neatly.
That isn't to say the novel lacks entertainment. The dust jacket promises adventure, romance and humour, and Atwood delivers.
As in The Year of the Flood, Toby is again an engaging central presence. Through her questions, we hear another back story, this time of Zeb, an alpha male among the survivors.
Will Zeb be able to change his identity enough times to escape the pre-Flood clutches of his evil father, the powerful Petrobaptist Reverend, who gets his kicks at the Scales and Tails brothel? Since Zeb is still around with Toby, the betting is heavy on "yes."
Will Zeb stay true to the middle-aged Toby, even though the nubile and fertile Swift Fox is giving him smouldering looks? Don't touch that dial!
Still, plot isn't how Atwood climbed to the top of the literary heap. Atwood's greatness resides in her fully formed worlds, and in the poetic and symbolic depth she gives to them.
Toby's conversations with the Crakers are often funny, sometimes poetic, sometimes both. Blackbeard, a genial adolescent Craker, learns, despite his initial skepticism, that a paper with a few scratches on it can carry surprising freight from one person to another. He exclaims, "It said my name! It told my name to Ren!"
Toby's character transformations are symbolized by her arrival at the former "Anoo You" spa, where she once hid and where her old ghost still lingers. There, she dons her pink AnooYoo tracksuit with its kissy-lips and winky-eye logo.
Despite this, and despite Zeb's spirit-bear echoes, compared to Jimmy's unwilling transformations in Oryx and Crake, the changes in Toby and Zeb are relatively minor. Atwood seems satisfied with her protagonists the way they are. Too bad.
MaddAddam is the 14th novel the Toronto-based literary juggernaut has published. This count represents just a fraction of her production, which began more than 50 years ago.
Over that time Atwood has penned numerous short-story collections, poetry collections, non-fiction plays, children's books, TV scripts, e-books and even opera librettos.
At 73, she is one of Canada's most engaged public intellectuals, an enthusiastic experimenter with digital technologies and one of the English language's most respected authors. She has won dozens of awards, both Canadian and international. Outside Canada she is probably best known for her 1985 novel, The Handmaid's Tale, a cautionary tale set in the near future in which the U.S. has become a totalitarian Christian theocracy. (In October, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet will premiere a dance adaptation, choreographed by New Yorker Lila York.)
Atwood has argued against suggestions that The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake were science fiction. She labels them "speculative fiction."
She gathered together some of her writing on SF in In Other Worlds (2011). "Science fiction has monsters and spaceships," she told the British newspaper The Guardian. "Speculative fiction could really happen."
Advertised as another dystopian novel, MaddAddam is more utopian. Atwood maintains her witty cynicism about the world before the Flood -- our world, soon, with its Church of Petroleum and its "Feel-iT-enabled porno installations in suburban malls."
But the beginnings of inter-species co-operation after the flood between human and pigoon is less convincing. It's understandable that Atwood would want to allow some light into her bad dreams, but the physics of communication and the conceptual linkages between human and pigoon turn out to be laughably easy.
Smart and brutal in Oryx and Crake, the pigoons in MaddAddam are almost ready for swimming with the dolphins, though they do insist upon new kosher regulations: ham and bacon are definite deal-breakers. Atwood could have used a dose of Stanislaw Lem in this regard.
One of Atwood's great achievements in The Year of the Flood was to build the new environmental religion, God's Gardeners, from scratch. Although she doesn't hesitate to satirize them at times -- here it's the Festival of Intestinal Parasites -- Gardener ideals are continued in MaddAddam through Toby, suggesting that Atwood's pig-friendly plot shift has its roots in post-humanism.
Toby's tutoring of the Crakers, the other post-humans, is beautifully realized, and the question of what will become of the Crakers is still a live issue. It's fascinating to watch as Toby struggles to decide whether to be euphemistic or to place a heavy burden upon their sweet stupidity.
"Walking potatoes," one character calls them, but they're so much more. Late in the novel, the point of view shifts to Blackbeard. If MaddAddam, like The Year of the Flood, lacks the brilliance of Oryx and Crake, it's still moving to see this fruit of human ingenuity begin to wrestle with the world he has inherited.
Brandon University professor Reinhold Kramer is the author of four books on Canadian literature and history.


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This started as your run of the mill Fabulicious Friday post, until I heard from the people over at Macy's and Make a Wish.
Macy's, Santa, and Make a Wish have teamed up to make a wonderful deal! Macy's has special red mailboxes to collect all your stamped letters for the Santa. For each letter that you mail at Macy's, they will donate $1 (up to $1,000,000) for the Make a Wish Foundation! They will also deliver the mail straight to Santa in time for Christmas Eve. How can it get any better then that?
Believe it or not, there's more! Check out Macy's site for more information on store locations and hours, the story behind that famous "Yes Virgina, there IS a Santa Claus" letter, download some special Santa stationary, read more about Make a Wish, or my very favorite-make a Claus! Check this baby out; Jake and I were in hysterics over my sorta scary looking version of Santa Claus!
You think I'm done now? You're wrong! The good people over at Macy's have offered up a $20 gift certificate to me for doing this post and since I don't live in the USA or anywhere near a Macy's, it is totally up for grabs!
AND, I have two $5 Starbucks gift cards that I picked up in Utah this summer that are just kicking around in my wallet that I'd love to send to 2 lucky readers.
How to enter: leave me a comment telling me your Christmas wish-don't forget an e-mail address in case you win!
Contest is open to: anyone with a USA mailing address.
Contest closes: 9 pm, PST on December 16 2008, and then Jake and I will pick someone at random. Good luck!


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British record industry bosses say Russia-based allofmp3.com doesn't have permission to sell tunes and added they are planning to take the site to court.
The site says it is licensed to sell tracks legally, but it isn't.
There's no need to worry at the moment if you've been downloading tracks from allofmp3.com though, as people who use the site aren't facing legal action.
Tracks on the site are available for as little as 4p and albums for £1, and it is the second most popular download site in the UK.
A recent survey suggests as many as 14% of UK music downloads come from the website.
A spokesman for the record industry, Matt Philips, said: "Because it is a professionally put together site it does look legitimate, although it should be obvious from the price that it isn't."


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How to Use Mashape's Auto-Generated Java client library for your Android apps
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ASCIA's next production will be Don't Dress For Dinner a two-act play by French playwright Marc Camoletti. It's a sequel to Camoletti's other play Boeing Boeing. The play ran in Paris for a little more than two years under the name Pyjamas Pour Six, and also ran in London starring Simon Cadell and Su Pollard.
The play will be directed by Anthony Grover and is currently being cast.
ASCIA's website is back online.
Thank you to everyone for their patience while we worked on the technical problems with this site.
"She Stoops To Conquer" has been canceled for August.
After an exhausting audition process, ASCIA (and director John Anderson) has been unable to cast this period piece. There is a chance it will be mounted in October.
More to follow...
Open Cast Calls for She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
Doubt opened last weekend, and here is what Penelope Grover (Producer and Founder) has to say about it:
This production is really wonderful. The cast is ON POINT! The directing is subtle. The play itself is thought-provoking and inspiring. We need an audience. Please share this with everyone you know. The actors deserve respect; as does the playwright.
Doubt, A Parable
By John Patrick Shanley
Call 516-686-7894 for tickets and information
Dates & Times
Fri 3/12 at 8 pm • Sat 3/13 at 8 pm
Fri 3/19 at 8 pm • Sat 3/20 at 8 pm
Fri 3/26 at 8 pm • Sat 3/27 at 8 pm
Fri 4/2 at 8 pm • Sat 4/3 at 8 pm
Evenings $20 • Matinees $18
Seniors $2 Discount • Students always $10
The Salten Center, NYIT
(on Rte. 25A in Old Westbury)
ASCIA's 2010 season opens next month with our production of DOUBT.
Theatre in Residence at
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Red Location district pays tribute to South African heritage
Port Elizabeth is a vibrant city brimming with stories of South African heritage, and is home to many anti-apartheid activists who fought to liberate the country many years ago.
The Red Location cultural precinct in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth's oldest township, is testament to their legacy and a must-visit location for anyone wanting to gain a deeper understanding of how far South Africa has come as a nation.
Driving through this section of the township, you soon realise why it earned the name Red Location – the corrugated iron barrack buildings that dot the area have turned a deep red through rust damage. Many of these were built using materials from the Boer concentration camp at Uitenhage and the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital at De Aar, both erected during the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902.
Two primary attractions in the district are the Red Location Lodge and Red Location Museum.
Red Location Lodge
From the ashes and rubble of an old beer hall established during the apartheid era rose the Red Location Lodge – a backpackers that began as a haven for vulnerable youths in the township.
The business was started by a group a passionate elderly ladies, many of whom were political activists before the first democratic election in 1994. They saw the damage the old beer hall was causing within the community – turning young children into alcoholics and causing hundreds of others to waste what little money they had solely on booze – so they burnt it to the ground.
The property stood derelict for many years before the ladies managed to secure funding for the lodge in 2007.
We receive a warm welcome at Red Location Lodge as we walk into the main hall and dining area. The room is spotless and the decor simple, and the smell of meat cooking wafts in from the nearby kitchen.
We meet "Mama Africa", a proud woman who fought for equal rights and better education for children during apartheid. She is a co-owner of the lodge, and formed part of the group that burnt down the beer hall in 1986.
In the years that followed, Ma Africa was brutally harassed by police, and still bears the scars of those encounters. She recalls how she was often thrown in prison on suspicion alone and subjected to cruel treatment while detained.
'Our children grew up without us because we were in jail. But today South Africa is free. I have forgiven, but I will never forget.'
Ma Africa comes out of her reverie with tears rolling down her cheeks. The rest of the ladies rally around her and break into a cheerful song, which they often sing together when feeling down. I'm happy to see that she's smiling again as everyone waves us goodbye.
Accommodation at the lodge is comfortable and affordable. Expect to pay R120 a night without a meal, or R155 with breakfast included.
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We then drive to the Red Location Museum, a few kilometres away. The museum was established in 2005 and has since won a number of prestigious architecture awards, including the Royal Institute of British Architects' Lubetkin Prize.
A feature on the wall reads: 'The Red Location Museum seeks to remember the past in many ways. It plans to depict the notion of memory, portraying both the horrors of institutionalised racism and the heroic efforts of the anti-apartheid movement.
'The museum seeks to serve as stimuli for upgrading the destitute living conditions in the Red Location shack settlement, while celebrating those who fought to end apartheid. It is therefore designed not only as a tourist attraction for foreign visitors, but also as an integral part of the surrounding community, regarding education, arts and cultural activities and also a space for heritage practitioners in the metro.
'The museum seeks to portray an overall feeling of awkwardness, ambiguity and complexity through its vibrant exhibitions.'
In this way, it also challenges the traditional method museums use to portray history through their displays. The floor space contains different 'memory boxes', which each creatively exhibit the stories behind the people or groups who fought apartheid.
Walking into the museum, you're met with the '12 Pillars of Liberation', which feature 12 notable activists who played a major part in transforming South Africa into the democratic nation it is today.
Among other displays, you'll also see a moving photographic essay dedicated to the children, mothers, fathers, men and women of the Langa massacre in Uitenhage, as well as an interesting depiction of the fate that befell activist Vuyisile Mini – one of the first men to be executed under the apartheid regime.
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At my place of work, there's the retail assistants (which is what I am), the supervisors, the asst. manager and then the manager. Well, I'm being bullied by one of the supervisors and it's been going on for months. I've complained about her twice but the manager and others said I was being really sensitive and that she wasn't bullying me. I just needed to toughen up.
Anyway, here are some of the things she has been doing to me:
There are many times when she criticises me. She will tell me I'm going too slow on the shop floor, tell me I'm not scanning fast enough when there are big queues and doesn't seem to realise (or turns a blind eye to) that there are big queues because it's busy and not because I'm a slow cashier, tells me I'm being impatient when I ring the till bell twice in a short space of time (the bell tells another cashier to come on the till), tells me to use a bit of initiative and when I do use initiative tells me off because I didn't get permission before I did the job (such as filling something that was looking empty). Nothing I do is right. She tells me to do something, I do it, and then she'll tell me off for doing it.
There have been instances when she has denied me breaks at the end of the day but has let everyone else have theirs. One time I was staying over for delivery. She let the people who were leaving at 6pm go for a short break outside and when I went to follow them outside she told me that it was only for people to have a cigarette break even though she herself doesn't smoke and neither do two other staff members, who were also outside having their break.
She patronises me a lot. She makes fun of me because I'm forgetful. When it was said that till pens would cost £1 if they were lost (she said that, no one else did) she said that I'd probably have to pay a fiver each week because I would always lose mine. She keeps telling me to do something useful instead of just either a) standing there doing nothing or b) walking around like a lost sheep when I'm actually working really hard.
She shouted at me through the intercom when the shop was closed because she gave me a deadline and I had gone past the deadline. It was when the shop was closed but two others were present as well and it made me feel very silly. She humiliates me in front of customers by telling me off for little things, such as not getting a bell immediately, ringing twice and other small things. She also tells me off when I've done nothing wrong.
She is always giving me deadlines that are unrealistic and she gives me other jobs in-between as well so that I am never able to finish the first job she told me to do. I feel like I'm just being bombarded with tasks and deadlines and there is just no way that I can do all of them at once and finish them within the deadline.
She watches me a lot and seems to be there when I mess up, giving her the ability to shout at me or criticise me.
I'm always apologising to her, especially as I've been dropping things recently. She always makes me feel really guilty because she gives me evil looks.
I found this on another forum: Bullies separate and isolate their targets, sometimes going as far as to cause division within the target's family. The bully is likely to be manipulating your work colleagues into distancing themselves from you, either by sweet-talking them with charm, or by playing on their vulnerabilities whilst raising doubts about their job security
There are a couple of instances where this has happened. Firstly, it happened when we all went for a night out. She had told everyone that I had filed a complaint about her and that she was thinking of quitting her job, because of me. Everyone abandoned me that night, leaving me on my own. I was in tears. Another supervisor was vile to me that night; she kept giving me evils and saying nasty things to me that I couldn't hear. It is what the bully wanted. I went into the toilets and they were in there. As I went in one of the cubicles, the other supervisor shouted at the top of her voice, "You're not leaving because of that bitch *my name*!" Since that night, she hasn't been the same with me. This is also happening with another work colleague. She is being really rude and patronising to me and she is also best friends with the bully. Since that night where everyone turned against me because I complained, I have been reluctant to complain since.
The bully's best friend recently made a false allegation to me. I'm very pleasant. I always say please and thank you and I'm nice to everyone. Everyone. She complained to the manager about me and said I was rude to her on the tills. I was up in the office and told off. Then the accuser came in and told her story again. I couldn't believe what she was saying. It was all lies! Needless to say, my manager believed her story and I got a slap on the wrist (not literally) and was forced to apologise.
I've written a journal, as well, listing everything she has done to me. I've got times, dates, I have even written down witnesses, and I plan to hand it in to my manager when I've got a good handful of pages for her to read. I'm really suffering. It's coming to the point where I'm fearful of losing my job. I feel incompetent. To be honest, I am getting to the point of being that way because I'm terrified of her and and also of the other work colleague. She is making me nervous to the point where it's affecting my work. I've been having migraines, suffering with bowel problems, can't sleep, am having nightmares when I DO manage to get to sleep, am shaky and I also feel a little out of touch with reality. I seem to have this anger inside of me, but it's directed at me. I've developed a mantra inside and I repeat it to myself in my head. It goes "I'm absolutely fine. Nothing wrong with me." Or sometimes it goes "I'm okay. I'm okay." and it just repeats. I feel I'm doing this to try and reassure myself that I'm coping, when it's obvious I'm not. I feel like I'm losing my mind. I hardly laugh anymore, I burst into tears, I'm angry and confused.
I don't want to quit. I'm autistic and this is the first job I've managed to get. If I quit, I don't know how long it would be until I found another job. I also don't want to quit because I think I'm a strong person; I've just been struck with a psychiatric injury that has knocked me from my foundations. It's not in my nature to quit. I'm a fighter, not a quitter. I'll fight and fight until I get so emotionally drained that I can't cope. I just really need to know what to do.
Should I keep writing things down in my journal and then hand it in to my manager? How can I cope with the stress? Any helpful advice would be greatly appreciated.


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Marjorie Nadine Harrell, 88, of Higginsville, and formerly of Richmond, died Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013 at the Meyer Care Center in Higginsville.
Nadine was born July 27, 1925 in Dawn, to Howard and Bertha (Snodgrass) Timbrook. She married Donald Richard Harrell of Chillicothe, Nov. 4, 1943; he preceded her in death April 25, 1984.
Nadine and her husband owned and operated Harrell Sundries in Richmond, and a Ceramic Shop in Henrietta, for many years. She was a Methodist.
Survivors include two sons and daughters-in-law, Richard L. and Carla F. Harrell of Burden, Kan. and David W. and Robbie Harrell of Independence; one daughter, Donna Nadine McClain of Red Bluff, Calif.; one sister, Martha McKinel of Overland Park, Kan.; five grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren, five great-great-grandchildren, two step-grandchildren and six step-great-grandchildren.
In addition to her parents and husband, Nadine was preceded in death by one sister, Mary Ellen Graves.
Inurnment will be at the Plymouth Cemetery east of Braymer, at a later date. As to Nadine's request there will be no services.
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By Rac Ward
Siting down at a panel and pressing a button. A holographic screen appears, the disheveled figure looks at himself in the camera feed. Hungry eyes sunk into the back of his skull, face covered in rough stubble with the occasional cut. Clothes ripped and smeared in blood, the bright blue reflect of his RIG emits a soft light in the dark room. He opens his mouth and says, "It's funny, I never thought it would have come to this. If you had told me a week ago that I would be in a living nightmare and have seen things that no human should see I would have laughed. I guess I should follow proper protocol when starting a log..." The man smirks at the absurdity of following rules in this mess. The trappings of societial conduct and procedure seems like a joke that only those who have been where he is now can appreaciate. "My name is Corporal, Jack Darte I was a member of P.S.E.C Security here at the Aegis Seven Colony. I think I am the only one left, it's been several hours since the screaming died away. All that remains is utter silence, it's driving me insane. I miss the lively noise of the colony but now the silence of this tomb makes me want to shout so those things will find me." Jack slids out the last clip of ammo from a pouch on his belt and jams it into his sidearm. He then places the gun on the desk top making sure it is within reach. "I don't know how any of this started, with the mass suicide in Union Square I figured I had seen the worst this colony had to offer. Boy, was I mistaken. All of this shit started with the Marker, that damn thing is the cause of all of this." Jack feels a massive pressure that has been building in his head finally burst. He leans over the monitor clutching his forehead feeling his sweat dribble down. As he looks up he swoons and looks at the blank screens overhead, for a second he thinks he sees the face of his wife. He shakes his head and the vision disappears, "I thought that my experience as an ex-Marine would allow me a sure fire way of getting hired by CEC. After the Resource Wars were over I retired from the military. I got tired of shooting some poor bastard for little or no reason. When your a soldier you are taught to obey orders even though they might not always make sense.
But the face of that child has kept me up most nights. My unit was on patrol near a small village, headquarters had recieved word that enemy movement had been sighted in the area. As we entered the village we were ambushed, the enemy had been waiting for us. Weapon fire was coming from all sides, the Colonel was hit in the first barage and the Captain who was his second in command was killed fifteen minutes into the fight. The civies of the village were caught between my unit's gunfire and that of the enemies. Some of the enemy had taken cover in a two story building overlooking the main road. From there they were shooting us to pieces, some of the men had tried to lob frags into the upper stories of the building but only one went off. The other was thrown back out into the street, I volunteer to lead three other men to sweep the building of any resistance. The firing from the roof and windows came to an end and everything seemed still. Our comms were being jammed so we couldn't call in an airstrike or reinforcements. As the small squad with me leading it made it's way across the street the firing resumed. One of of the men was shot through the head and he fell to the ground. Most of the enemy had fled into the upper floors and we found only a few of them on the ground floor. As we made our way upstairs the weapons fire came from all directions. I could hear the hiss of the bullets then watched as they smashed into the wall behind me. As I ran up the stairs the other members of my squad were killed. I tossed a grenade into a room to my right then entered a room to my left. A man held a gun to the head of a child using him as a human shield. The terror in the childs eyes haunts me to this day, those wide eyes like black pits gazing at me. Well I ended up killing the man and the rest of the unit took out the men on the roof. We lost half our unit in that fire fight but the horror of that fight was nothing compared to this. This place, this colony is hell.
When I signed on as a CEC security officer I figured that I would be sent out to some remote colony at the ass end of the universe and sit at a desk. You should read the fine print more closely when you sign up for jobs like this. You might get more than you bargained for.
This all started with the Marker, the vid logs spread like cancer throughout the colony when Jen Barrows dig team found it. Then all the Uni's go real excited when it was brought into the colony. After a meeting with Neumann I overheard one of them saying, "It was the dawn of a new age." What a load of bullshit! A new age, more like the beginning of a nightmare, people around the colony started to change. They couldn't sleep, when they walked down the hallways they just shuffled silently along the skin under there eyes sagging from the lack of sleep. Also many of the colonists started to loose their shit. Carthusia said it was nothing more than the stale air in the place, but that was a bullshit. People were freaking out and the bodies were pilling up. Neumann and I both knew sooner or later the Uni's would loose their shit, and we all would have hell to pay.
Well, this statement proved to be rather prophetic, it was on the day that the first planetcrack was scheduled. Despite the recent Union Square suicides, everything ran smoothly. I had met with McNeil earlier that day, we discussed the recent murders committed by Sam Caldwell, a engineer who slaughtered his entire dig team. I was also surprised to learn that a team from the Ishimura had been dispatched planet side on sometime of high level priority mission. Leading it to my surprise was Gabe Weller, a buddy of mine from the War. I guess when it comes to teaching old dogs new tricks, the phrase is wrong in this case. Weller had only joined the Ishimura crew only a few weeks prior. I was glad to see him again, I hoped that after our respective duties were up that him and I along with McNeil could talk about old times. But that would have to wait, planet crack was about to start and I had other places to be. I watched on a monitor as the countdown started, 10,9,8,7,6,5,....I wondered when I would ever end,....3,2,1. As soon as countdown reached one the whole colony shook as the gravity tethers kicked in lifting a massive ton of rocks into the air. But as soon as that happened, the power went out. Commander James wondered what the hell was happening? I too was a bit concerned that the emergency generators hadn't kicked in by this point.
Then over what little comms we had, reports started coming in of colony wide panic. People were kicking the shit out of each other in the streets. Bodies were pilling up again, and this time there wasn't enough of us to stop it. It is one thing for PSEC to answer to a few calls but the sheer amount of them coming in was staggering. I was order by Commander James to take Jones and Ryan to secure Carthusia's office. As we made our way towards Carthusia's office we found our way blocked by large crowds all panicking and some even trying to strangle one another. Just then from one of the vents burst open on the other side of the lobby. From it came out this twisted looking thing, the clothes covering it's sking were shredded and you couldn't make out whether the thing had once been a engineer or nurse. Regardless it waded into the crowd cutting down all those it's path. I pulled out my sidearm and fired a few shots at the thing.The bullets slammed into it's head and for a moment it paused. It then turned and roared, anger in it's eye. It charged at us and only under a barrage of gunfire did the thing finally fall dead about twenty feet from us. It took quite a few rounds to put the thing down, I wasted half a clip into that thing. But before we could check out the body more of the things poured out of the vents.
The people in the lobby started to scream and ran towards the nearest exit. The few PSEC officers mixed into the crowd opened up onto the creatures, a few of them fell to the ground but there were just too many. I tried to grab Jones but he was frozen in his place, when I shook his arm he turned and fell to the ground. A large gash across his side had opened up and his entrails were hanging out. Ryan continued to fire at the creatures but seeing that we could do nothing we fell back into a nearby hall way. After the door closed we barracaded it. From the otherside of the door we could hear the screams of the people as they were killed by those things. As I turned back to Ryan he was gone, I don't know if he had lost his shit and decided to make a run for it but it wasn't like that mattered anyway. The colony PSEC force couldn't fight those things since it seemed like bullets bounced right off of them.
Fucking Carthusia, he's the reason behind all of this! That bastard should have listened to Neumann and I. But instead he brought that fucking rock into the colony and everyone lost their shit...." The vent behind Darte bursts open and he fires a few shots into the creature, one of the bullets hitting it in the head the other severing the spine. The creature falls down dead. "Shit, the bastards know I am in here, it's only a matter of time before they continue to come in here. There's no way I can hold them off, I only have a few rounds left. I don't even know the point of why I am making this video? I don't think anyone will see it and if anyone has any sense they would level this fucking place to the last screw. I guess I am just making this for myself." Darte can hear faint roars and scratching in the walls, "Well I guess it's time to rock..." He turns back to the console and says, "End recording." The screen stops and a query pops up asking whether the video should be sent. Darte hits send just as the creatures burst through more of the vents, he screams and fires his weapon. Then everything grows still, frozen in the moment. Dusty silence envelopes the colony, the video transmits a thousand times a second racing through the air.
On Earth, an old man awakes to find his video monitor picking up a coded message, it reads, "Video Log, Aegis Colony, Code 01273659, from Darte, J." The man walks over to the monitor and presses play, he listens in stunned silence as Darte rambles. The old man wipes the sweat from his brow. A few thoughts race through his head, "Can this really be the proof the Church has been looking for? A life after death?" The man places a small disk into a slot and makes a copy of the video. He then sends a message saying, "Recieved from Aegis Colony. Proof found of life hereafter, enclosed is a copy of the video I received. Please pass the findings to the Overseer. From Dan Darte, Vested Member."
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All events are at the store, are free and require no previous skill or experience. The classes are for ages 9 – 14.
The Monday night lineup for Cabela's Kid's Kamp, which runs from 7 to 7:45 p.m., includes:
June 6: Kids Archery
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Best gun TV show?
Basically I have limited time to watch so which should I DVR?
Top shot is okay but I get annoyed at the reality part.
Other than that I barely keep up with whats out there.
Unfortunately some of the best firearm shows no longer run on TV anymore, atleast that I'm aware of. Some of my favorite firearm shows include Tales of the Gun, Lock N' Load, Modern Marvels (such as the Magnum), and then there are shows on the military channel that I don't keep up with much. I don't particularly like Top Shot, because of the Reality portion that is thrown in. If it was more based on just shooting then I would like it more.
I have found Gun shows on:
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History Channel
Military Channel
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American Rifleman TV
The Gun Nuts
Gun Stories
Shooting Gallery
Shooting USA
The Sportsman Channel
American Airgunner
Gallery of Guns
Guns and Ammo
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My favorites are probably Shooting USA, Shooting Gallery and Guns and Ammo.
Shooting USA and Gallery of Guns have a question you can answer on their web site to enter contests to win a firearm.
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I'm new to this site but this forum caught my eye, one show that I like is sons of guns.
American Guns is a new one. It's on Discovery.
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Shooting USA
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Top Shot. Now that Jake is gone, there's no more drama, just shooting. Tonight's show was one of the best.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A century after the controversial 1913 Armory Show in New York challenged America's perception of art, a new exhibition is celebrating the event with works from the original including masterpieces by Henri Matisse, Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia.
"The Armory Show at 100: Modern Art and Revolution" opens at the New-York Historical Society Museum & Library on Friday and runs through February 23 next year. The exhibit recreates, on a smaller scale, the experience of the 1913 show that shocked New Yorkers and introduced them to the European avant garde.
"We couldn't let the 100-year anniversary go by without doing something. The Armory Show was probably the most important art exhibition in America," Marilyn Satin Kushner, the co-curator of the exhibition, said in an interview.
"This is a landmark time in terms of the history and in terms of the history of art in America."
The exhibition includes 100 works from the original show by artists such as Duchamp, whose masterpiece "Nude Descending a Staircase" was mocked and compared at the time to an explosion in a shingle factory, and Matisse's "Blue Nude," considered depraved for its distortion of the female form.
Francis Picabia's "Dances at the Spring" was likened to a patchwork quilt.
Using artifacts, historical documents and archival photographs and films, the exhibition puts the works in the context of 1913 New York.
"It will introduce people to what was going on in New York in 1913 because one can't understand the Armory Show completely unless one understands that New York at that time period was the age of discovery, the age of freedom, the age of independence, the age of youth marching in the streets for women's rights," said Kushner.
The 1913 show, officially known as The International Exhibition of Modern Art, was organized by a small group of young American artists called the Association of Painters and Sculptors. They were looking to showcase their work, as well as that of other artists. It was considered a turning point because it introduced Americans, accustomed to classical art, to the European avant-garde.
The show, which attracted thousands of visitors, shocked some viewers and sparked harsh criticism.
"They were very threatened by the art," said Kushner. "There were people on both sides of the fence but the noisiest people didn't get it, didn't want to get it and couldn't understand it."
The exhibition includes photos of the original show and a chart showing how it was organized so modern-day viewers can get an idea of what visitors saw 100 years ago.
Many of the paintings and works on paper were by American artists, such John Sloan's "Sunday, Women Drying Their Hair" and "Landscape with Figures" by Maurice Prendergast.
Other galleries feature Impressionist works, which were already accepted by Americans in 1913, including Pierre-Auguste Renoir's "Algerian Girl," and paintings by the precursors to modernism, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin and Vincent Van Gogh.
But it was the avant-garde work, which is featured in the final galleries, that was thought to be the most scandalous.
"They were befuddled by the 'Nude Descending' and they were angered by the 'Blue Nude,'" said Kushner about viewers in 1913, adding the art was a threat to their ideals of traditionalism and beauty.
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Health News Prediction: The 'August' Diet Will Dominate the World!
For the next three weeks, my 'August' diet will consist of only the following things. Fresh locally picked NH peaches, nectarines, apples and a variety of plums. However, these delicious fruits always leave me with an intense craving for steak calzones.
This picture represents the only things I'll be eating until Labor Day. And if you are asking, "How come the box is closed?", well, that is because I already ate the steak calzone before I thought of documenting the two most essential ingredients of the 'August' diet. Look out Atkins, you've got some serious competition!


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At the time when I was writing my MPLS books and developing MPLS courses for Cisco, everyone was ecstatically promoting GMPLS (Generalized MPLS) as the next unifying technology of everything, making someone so fed up with the fad that he wrote the Electricity over IP RFC.
GMPLS got implemented in high-end routers, but never really took off (at least I've never seen or even heard about it). Obviously the transport teams found the idea of routers requesting on-demand lambdas with IP-based protocols too hard to swallow.
Few years ago, ITU-T tried to reinvent the wheel (and ride on the MPLS brand name) and started the T-MPLS effort. After a while, IETF and ITU-T managed to sort out the paperwork (including plenty of liaison notes) and started joint MPLS-TP task group and new standardization efforts.
The first MPLS-TP RFCs have already started to appear and there are numerous drafts in the pipeline, so it's high time to take a second look at MPLS-TP and figure out what's new and whether it's a useful technology. I tried to do that in the MPLS and MPLS Transport Profile (MPLS-TP): The technology differences article published by SearchTelecom.


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14 Recommendations
rembrandtflores's recommendation
Makes going back to work ever-so-much more bearable
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David's recommendation
I went from a brick of a Toshiba to an amazing, light-weight Sony Vaio. I seem to be moving more to Sony over time: Vaio desktop at home for the family, PSP, formerly a Clie (I wish Sony had made a Clie phone). The Vaio laptop makes my geek pack much lighter. If only I can hack the Sidekick to hook it up as a modem via Bluetooth.
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nahabed's recommendation
I've gone through 5-6 Vaio's in as many years... used them for personal and business. I like Sony products alot (TV, digital camera, etc.) but the last Viao I got SZ-140P model has been a disappointment. I got reeeeeeal close to buying and apple notebook and I wish i had. I think the next one for me is going to be an apple.
John_and_Rose's recommendation
This is going on my Christmas wish list for sure. I've had my eye on this for a while now...
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Velma's recommendation
I luuuuuuurve my VAIO laptop. I've had the VGN-T350P model for the last 10 months, and I'm not exaggerating when I say it has changed my life.
philedmunds's recommendation
Small, compact, great.
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jbongio's recommendation
Great notebook!
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ClearysNotebook's recommendation
light to handle, great performance, price is right
maxfischer's recommendation
uber hot.. great notebook for fashionistas.
chloe_ko's recommendation
What I'm into about VAIO notebook is slim design,, plus good function! I have been using this...almost 4 yrs,, still works well!
Xavier's recommendation
I use a Sony VAIO SZ and I've enjoyed it overall, but the brand's not for everyone. Sony VAIO notebooks are generally much more expensive than other brands. What you're paying for is sleek design and the cool factor. If having a cool looking computer is a primary concern, then look no further than the VAIO brand. The VAIO SZ, TX, and UX lines are their pro lines in the U.S. The SZ is a 13.3-inch notebook that appeals to business users who still like to have fun. The LCD's are razor thin and housed in either Carbon Fiber or Magnessium lids. The SZ is extremely lightweight and portable, but features top of the line components. The SZ features a full size keyboard and built-in Cingular wireless broadband. The TX is for business people on the go. It is tiny and uses low-voltage processors and slower hardware than the SZ to maximize performance. Great for road warriors who want to travel light. The TX features Sprint EVDO wireles broadband. The UX is the smallest of them all and can fit in one hand. Unless you have a very specialized reason for having this, don't bother looking twice at it. It will make a great second computer, but generally lacks the raw power and capacities that most power users demand. To learn more about Sony VAIOs and other notebooks, you can see my site: http://www.notebooks.com
HarveyWalden's recommendation
Ok this is like my American Express. I donât leave home without it. The 17-inch screen allows me to watch my yoga and Pilates DVD in my hotel room with ease. I also love to watch movies on the road to wind down without worrying if the hotel has a DVD player. Not to mention itâs like having your desktop with you when you want to check emails and catch up on some work.
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Leciya's recommendation
it comes in so may cool colours
meiobrien's recommendation
Best display I've ever seen


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I surprised myself today, I think I bought the most expensive app (program) for my iPod touch. It cost me a whopping 10bucks. But it's called "isnipe" and it's a ballistics program that's always going to be on me now instead of a cheat sheet being taped to my rifle.
I found something kind of weird out just now with it though. I've been putting in stupid setting to do with shot angle, temp and just other nonsense. In the picture I've got the temp set to a crazy +256C just to see what would happen......the bullet actually picks up speed. The shot angle is still set to 0 also.
On a serious note though, this is a pretty cool and simple to use app. It had just about every factory load that I can think of as well as every caliber. If your not using factory load, you can put your own bullet weight, BC and muzzle energy in into the spots provided. You can even save it so your not wasting time putting it in over and over.
Once your done that you can even put your rifle set up in. You can't pick a brand/model though. But you can put your rifles name in and the. Set the distance your zero'd at and save it. Then you can move onto the "fun" part of the program.
After you've got your rifle and ammunition all set up you can start picking your distances. You can have as close or as far a distance as you'd like and can also set the intervals for the cheat sheet that'll be produced.
The last option I gives you is your environmental in puts. If you've got an iPhone or 3G capable device, you can just hit a button and it'll figure all of that out for you. Once everything is set you simply hit "compute" and it shows up in a nice little chart.
One of the great things about this program is that it also has a built in range finder. Now obviously it's not a laser range finder, but it does work for the small bit I've messed around with it. You have to have a device with a camera on it to have the range finder be of use.
I passed on it a while back when it came out because it had limited features. I went with Ballistic because it uses the JBM system which I had confirmed in the field on my 308 as dead nuts on already.
I actually shot my first match with a JBM printout out to 500yards without ever confirming it and still finished top 10
I know they have come a long way, I'm not saying anything bad about the current version. The guys at snipershide were not impressed when it came out a while back, you might google there for more info.
The Ballistic and Knights programs are GTG though, my shooting buddy uses the Knights version and likes it.
Maybe we could both set a load up and post the results it gives use here and see how close they come to each other?
Another iPhone app to get is "tactical NAV" I you work with UTM on your maps.
I haven't heard of Tactical Nav but I'll surely look into it.
M193 @ 50 Zero for comparison.
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I couldn't find a factory loaded 56 grain M193, so I went with a 55 grain. Other then that all my environmentals are the same as yours. Right down to the scope hight.
The second pic is putting all your info in, right down to the bullet weight/BC.
Isn't all to far off from yours
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Many people have the notion that only skinny people are flexible, but the two are not always connected. Flexibility is an ability that we are all born with but lose as we grow. The extent of this loss depends on our lifestyle—a sedentary lifestyle, for example, leads to greater stiffness while an active one, like that of an athlete or dancer, keeps us more elastic. Retaining the elasticity of our muscles needs a little bit of daily practice.
Even the skinniest of people, if they don't stretch regularly, will end up with stiff muscles and joints which lead to muscle pain and increase our body's susceptibility to injury.
Consistent yoga practice greatly increases flexibility since yoga is focused heavily on muscle elasticity. This in turn contributes to keeping the body in good health. With increased flexibility, there is not just improvement in the functional movement of the body, but also better blood circulation, and reduced risk of arthritis, strokes, even heart disease.
In yoga, the movement and stretching of muscles is combined with breathing, thus avoiding tensing and shortening of muscles. Special attention should be paid to exhalations as the muscles are able to relax more deeply as we exhale.
The hamstrings, or the muscles at the back of the thighs, are one of the most susceptible to tightening if you are used to sitting for long periods of the day. Tight hamstrings lead to a pulling sensation in the back of the thighs while trying to do a forward bend. The hamstrings, because of their integral relationship with the hips and the lower back, also lead to lower back pain and hip pain when they are tight.
If you have tight hips, you will notice that your knees are way off the floor while sitting in a cross-legged position. Releasing the hips and hamstrings will help you to practise yogic postures with ease and also bring greater overall comfort in daily life.
Before you begin, make sure you have an empty stomach—3-4 hours should have elapsed after your last meal.
Ardha Rajakapotasana
The half-pigeon pose is a great hip opener. Begin in the plank position, focusing on keeping your body as straight as possible. Then take your right leg through to the front and bend it in front of you at an angle, bringing your right thigh and calves down on the floor. Your hips will come down too. Keep your left leg extended on the floor and allow the centre line to press down on the floor, your toes stretched away from you. Keep the toes of your right foot flexed. Make mountains out of your fingertips and keeping your hands in front of you, lift your torso away from the thigh. Lengthen the lower back by pressing your tail bone down and forward simultaneously. Roll your left hip so that it points toward the right heel, and stretch the left side of the groin. Stay in this pose for 30 seconds, then repeat with the left leg. As you get more comfortable over a period of time you may slowly work your way up to 2 minutes. This asana opens up the hip flexor muscles and the groin area.
Supta Padangusthasana
'Supta' is lying down, 'pada' is foot and 'angustha' is the big toe. Begin by lying flat on your back, arms by your side and feet together. As you inhale, raise your right leg up to 90 degrees. Keep it there for a few seconds, then grab the back of your thigh with both hands. Inhale, and then as you exhale, raise your head and chest up and walk your hands up your leg. Reach up to wherever you can comfortably—the calf muscle or the ankle. The aim is to gradually get to the point where you can hold on to your big toe with the thumb, index and middle fingers of your right hand, as your flexibility increases with regular stretching. Now bring your leg closer to you while keeping the knee as straight as comfortably possible.
The stretch should be felt on the back of the leg so the focus should be on the leg coming towards the torso, as opposed to the torso going up to the leg. Hold for a few seconds. Inhale, let go of your foot or leg and bring the torso down to the floor. As you exhale, bring the right leg down to the floor. Take a moment, then repeat with the left leg. This asana stretches your hamstrings, increases blood circulation in the legs and eases the tightness in the hips. The asana helps relieve sciatic pain.
Tara Goswami is a Delhi-based author, artist and yoga teacher trained in the Sivananda form of yoga at the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Dhanwantari Ashram, Kerala.


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Cafe 21
Cafe 21 is one of those San Diego eateries I love to go to. Never to turn down a good a mom and pop shop, this place has it all for breakfast. We got three different dishes and heeerrre theeey arreee.
Sausage omelet. Simple, good, yummy. It had italian sausage, tomatoes, and mozzarella cheese. All the omelet's come out on a cast iron griddle and they come with toast and a side. You can choose from salad, prosciutto, potato pancake, and fruit. I've had all of the omelet's on the menu at one time or another and they're all great.…Read more
The Marine Room (San Diego Restaurant Week)
Hello foodies. Restaurant Week just passed a few weeks ago and I only was able to go to a couple places. One of them was the elusive Marine Room. I hadn't gone there before and neither had my girlfriend so we were excited about what the night would have in store for us, celebrating our anniversary! The wait wasn't long with the reservations I had made which started us off the night right. There were a ton of people waiting both by the hostess desk on the steps below and at the top waiting area.…Read more


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(Mar. 9, 2011) On March 3, 2011, the Australian Senate passed the Evidence Amendment (Journalists' Privilege) Bill 2010, which will have the effect of reversing the current presumption in the federal evidence law that favors the disclosure of journalists' confidential sources. (Evidence Amendment (Journalists' Privilege) Bill 2010, Parliament of Australia website (last visited Mar. 8, 2011); see generally Matthew Tracey, Journalist Shield Laws, 29(2) COMMUNICATIONS LAW BULLETIN 12 (2010).)
In passing the bill, the Senate agreed to amendments, proposed by a Senator from the Australian Greens party, that extend the coverage of the shield law to bloggers, citizen journalists, and independent media organizations. (Press Release, Sen. Scott Ludlam, Greens Hail New Federal Journalist Shield Laws (Mar. 3, 2011).) These amendments were aimed at making the law "technology neutral," with the definition of journalist including anyone "engaged and active" in the publication of news in any medium. (Chris Merritt, Shield Law Now Goes Beyond the Media to Cover Everyone, THE AUSTRALIAN (Mar. 7, 2011).) However, a journalist would need to have promised a source that his or her identity would remain confidential in order to claim the protection of the law.
The bill was introduced in the Parliament in October 2010 by two independent legislators, but it gained the support of the Australian government as well as Opposition party members. (Lanai Vasek, Universal Support for New Shield Laws, THE AUSTRALIAN (Oct. 26, 2010); Government Will Back Journalist Shield Laws, ABC NEWS (Sept. 28, 2010).) The bill was modeled on the journalist privilege provisions contained in the New Zealand Evidence Act 2006 and creates a presumption that a journalist cannot be compelled to reveal a source unless a court finds there to be an overriding public interest in disclosure. (Chris Merritt, Labour to Back Independents' Bill on Journalists' Sources, THE AUSTRALIAN (Sept. 28, 2010).)
Similar to shield laws in other countries, the provisions in the bill will mean that "it is up to those parties who want to force a journalist to reveal their source to prove that the public interest in disclosing the source outweighs the likely harm to the source and the public interest in the information being provided [to the media] in the first place." (The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, Evidence Amendment (Journalists' Privilege) Bill 2010: Explanatory Memorandum, at 1, Parliament of Australia website (last visited Mar. 8, 2011).)
The new shield law will only apply in proceedings involving federal laws. Several Australian states are considering adopting shield laws and may move to finalize their positions following the enactment of the federal law. (Debbie Guest & Chris Merritt, West Australia's Attorney-General Rejects Federal Moves to Protect Sources, PERTH NOW (Oct. 1, 2010); Debbie Guest, Porter to Extend Shield Laws to Investigative Bodies in WA, THE AUSTRALIAN (Feb. 28, 2011).)