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Do you want to not have negative emotions as you want to be happy all the time? What if your negative emotions are a key to your well being?
What if rather than judge an emotion as negative or positive we considered that they are, what they are, emotions, and .....
I believe every emotion has a message.
If the emotion you are feeling makes you feel good you must be thinking and doing and being in a place and with people that have been a part of your well being. If you have an emotion and you are not feeling good, what if that is a message to think, sense, do something different to restore your ease and contentment.
We have lost contact with understanding the messages from our physical sensory body since we have become so dominated with making meaning from words. Our words have become more and more abstract and we use technology and our distant from felt experiences that help us make meaning and all of this is outside of ourselves. Sure we need words, but we also make meaning from:
our emotions, our senses, images, kinaesthetically, from music, nature, spiritually, movement and more.
Rather than judge an emotion as negative my suggestion is to be with whatever emotion arises, yes experience it.
While you are experiencing your emotion know that you are not your emotion.
Remember this, otherwise you may become overwhelmed by your emotion and create more anxiety as if you are the emotion.
If you know there is a part of you that is not the emotion you can communicate with that part of you.
You can soothe that part of you if it is needs comforting.
You can expel the energy if that energy needs to move.
You can learn to listen and to ask what that emotion needs from you to bring yourself back to a state of ease and contentment and creativity.
Imagine there is a part of you that is experiencing the emotion and is not the emotion. So from the loving adult, curious part of you that senses the emotion and is not the emotion ask:
(remember ask the emotion as if it is an energy that can communicate with you)
What is this emotion communicating to me? Whilst it is hard to generalise here are some examples,
If I feel fear, what do I need to do to create safety?
If I feel anger, where has someone violated me or soneone else? How can I restore respectful boundaries?
If I feel frustration, what other action can I take?
If I feel anxiety, what can I do to create ease?
If I feel controlled, who or what is controlling me? What do I need to do to create freedom for myself?
If I feel repulsion, who or what is doing something that is "bad" or unethical or cruel? What can I do to protect myself and or others?
If I feel content, what am I doing or thinking that has created contentment? How can I continue to do more of that?
Etc etc etc
Life is like being on a swing. If you become resilient you can constantly come back to contentment no matter how much turbulence.
Action this week:
Are your negative emotions a key to your well being? Check how you move from:
from frustration to contentment?
from fear to safety?
from anger to peace?
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Photo Coverage: FINIAN'S RAINBOW Closing Night Party
Tony Award-winners Philip Bosco, Jim Norton and Ruben Santiago-Hudson, as well as Cheyenne Jackson, Kate Baldwin, and Jeremy Bobb starred in Finian's Rainbow, the final production of New York City Center's 2008-09 Encores! season, preformances ran from March 26 - 29.
BroadwayWorld.com's cameras were there to celebrate with the cast at the closing night party!
Finian's Rainbow has music by Burton Lane, lyrics by E.Y. Harburg and book by E. Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy and will be directed and choreographed by Warren Carlyle with music direction by Rob Berman. The musical played five performances at City Center (West 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues).
The cast includes: Kate Baldwin, Jeremy Bobb, Philip Bosco, Guy Davis, Alina Faye, Cheyenne Jackson, Jim Norton, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Andy Weems and William Youmans, with Tanya Birl, Bree Branker, Meggie Cansler, Bernard Dotson, Leslie Donna Flesner, Lisa Gajda, Tim Hartman, Mary Illes, Tyrick Wiltez Jones, Denis Lambert, Kevin Ligon, Monica L. Patton, Joe Aaron Reid, Devin Richards, Steve Schepis, Rashidra Scott, J.D. Webster and Terri White.
Finian's Rainbow is the story of the Irishman Finian McLonergan (Jim Norton), and his daughter Sharon (Kate Baldwin) who travel to a small Southern town in the mythical state of Missitucky with plans to bury a stolen pot of gold in the shadows of Fort Knox, in the mistaken belief it will grow and multiply. They have been followed from Ireland by the owner of the gold, a leprechaun (Jeremy Bobb), who shows up determined to recover his treasure. Harburg and Lane created one of Broadway's greatest popular scores, including "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?," "When I'm Not Near the Girl I Love (I Love the Girl I'm Near)," "That Old Devil Moon," and "If This Isn't Love."
Finian's Rainbow opened at the 46th Street Theatre on January 10, 1947 and played a total of 725 performances. Michael Kidd won the Tony Award for his choreography (In an interesting note, the show played at New York City Center twice before - in 1955 and 1960, presented by the New York City Light Opera.).
The 2008-2009 Encores! season was made possible in part by the Stephanie and Fred Shuman Fund for Encores! with additional support from the Joseph S. and Diane H. Steinberg Charitable Trust and Roz and Jerry Meyer.
New York City Center Encores! (Jack Viertel, Artistic Director; Rob Berman, Music Director) has, since 1994, celebrated the rarely-heard works of America's most important composers and lyricists. Conceived as concert versions, each Encores! season gives three scores the chance to be heard as originally intended by their creators. Over the years, Encores! has presented the works of the Gershwins, Rodgers and Hart, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Kurt Weill, Bock and Harnick, Burt Bacharach, Kander and Ebb, Comden and Green, and many others. The program is the recipient of a special 2000 Tony Honor for Excellence in the Theatre, as well as an Outer Critics Circle Award, Lucille Lortel Award and Jujamcyn Theaters Award.
New York City Center (Arlene Shuler, President and CEO) has long been known and beloved by New York audiences not only as one of the City's preeminent performing art institutions but also as an accessible and welcoming venue for dance and theater. New York City Center produces the Tony-honored Encores!
Photos by Linda Lenzi
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A dynamic entry and price game with capacity indivisibility
Strategic market interaction is here modelled as a two-stage game in which potential entrants choose capacities and active firms compete in prices. Due to capital indivisibility, the capacity choice is made from a finite grid and there are substantial economies of scale. In the simplest version of the model assuming a single production technique, the equilibrium of the game is shown to depend on the market size - namely, on total demand at a price equal to the minimum average cost -relative to the firm minimum efficient scale: if the market is sufficiently large, then the competitive price (the minimum of average cost) emerges at a subgame-perfect equilibrium of the game; if the market is not that large, then the firms randomize in prices on the equilibrium path of the game. The role of the market size for the competitive outcome is even more important for the case of two production techniques
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A joint venture of Tucson-based Raytheon Missile Systems and Lockheed Martin has won a $176 million contract for production of Javelin anti-tank missiles and launchers for the U.S. and several allied nations, Raytheon said today.
The contract, which calls for production and delivery of 842 Block I Javelin rounds and 120 command launch units, was awarded to the Javelin Joint Venture in September, Raytheon said in an announcement from the Dubai Air Show.
The precision guided, shoulder-fired missiles will be provided to the U.S. Army and Marine Corps and three international customers, Oman, Jordan and Indonesia, Raytheon said.
The contract, which was funded with special defense acquisition Funds, calls for the launch units to be delivered to the Army beginning October 2014.


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Fri Nov 9, 2012, 01:16 PM
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Foxconn considers opening U.S. factories
Taiwan companys reportedly evaluating LA and Detroit as site for TV assembly plants owing to rising labour costs at home
Foxconn, the controversial Taiwanese manufacturer that has become one of the worlds largest employers thanks to booming demand for the Apple products it assembles, is reportedly planning to open factories in the United States.
With an 800,000 strong workforce largely based in mainland China, Foxconn is one of the businesses that has profited from the decline of western manufacturing. Now the firm is apparently planning to reverse the labour drain by opening American factories.
As labour costs surge in its home market Foxconn has been looking overseas for opportunities, and sources have told Taiwanese trade publication DigiTimes that the company is evaluating cities including Detroit and Los Angeles.
Do you think they will have to put up barbed wire fencing and circus nets to keep people in? Could this have been the jobs rmoney was talking about creating?
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Fri Nov 9, 2012, 01:18 PM
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1. I would put the odds of Foxconn opening a factory in Detroit at close to nil. nt
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Fri Nov 9, 2012, 01:56 PM
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2. The only reason they would do this...
is to have the "last screw" put into the product, by robotics, on US soil, therefore being able to place a "Made in USA" sticker on the box and reducing any tariffs. The products will still be produced overseas and these new "manufacturing" jobs will require the same training as ringing a doorbell.
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A new flavor: Restaurants open on Westcott Street, look to revive neighborhood
Luke Rafferty | Design Editor
Developers, residents and business owners hope three additional Westcott Street restaurants will help revitalize a dreary corner of the popular stretch of businesses.
The eateries, which are located in the north end of Westcott Street, feature elements that promote a stronger sense of community, including a shared courtyard, pedestrian-friendly walkway and environmentally friendly elements, said Doug Roth, a project manager with University Hill Realty, the company that owns the properties and is helping construct and renovate the spaces.
"It's a community way of revitalizing an urban center," he said.
Gastropub Beer Belly Deli opened on Oct. 31, and two additional restaurant openings are scheduled to follow. The deli will share the space previously occupied by Seven Rays bookstore with Asahi, a Japanese restaurant. A juice bar is also in the works on the second floor above Taste of India, though it is still in its beginning stages, Roth said.
While the restaurants have separate owners, a few features unify the businesses. A T-shaped pedestrian walkway links the Taste of India parking lot, which is located behind Beer Belly Deli, to the main stretch of Westcott Street businesses. Electric car charging stations will also be available at three spaces in the parking lot shared by Beer Belly Deli, Asahi and Papa John's Pizza.
As part of Onondaga County's Save the Rain program, permeable pavers were recently installed in the parking lot and the back patio shared by Beer Belly Deli and Asahi. Water seeps through cracks, collects into a catch basin below the paver and absorbs rainwater back into the earth.
The sustainable qualities introduced in the north end corner of the street will help enhance the Westcott Street experience, said Roth, the developer with University Hill Reality.
"It reduces pollution. It makes it a better place to live," he said.
Taste of India, which opened last year, was one of the first restaurants to participate in the earth-friendly revitalization of the corner, turning a converted automobile garage into a full-functioning restaurant.
"This restaurant used to be like nothing," said Gagan Singh, owner and manager.
A year after moving from downtown, Singh described the Westcott Street relocation as a positive business move that will likely improve Westcott's commerciality.
Roth said reusing old buildings — like a converted automobile garage — is a more environmentally conscious ways of creating a new business.
Barbara Humphrey, president of the Westcott East Neighborhood Association, said the new restaurants will bring an added — and needed — presence to an otherwise dim and dreary end of the street.
"I think getting new, young business owners is great," said Humphrey, a Westcott neighborhood resident of 22 years. "I think the light and activity at the end of the street is great. It's a win-win situation."
Many of the businesses at Westcott's north end operate on regular business hours and close before the evening rush. The addition of restaurants may attract more evening patrons, she said.
The overall spirit of the Westcott neighborhood attracted Lauren Monforte, co-manager and owner of Beer Belly Deli, to the area.
Monforte shopped for possible locations in Buffalo, N.Y., and downtown Syracuse, among others, but eventually settled on Beer Belly Deli's Westcott Street location to start the business she dreamed of owning since she was 16 years old.
The area offers a space to "celebrate being weird and different," she said, and the Westcott neighborhood was the perfect atmosphere for her restaurant.
"It's one of those weird neighborhoods that attract people that are open-minded," Monforte said.
Beer Belly Deli's interior also communicates the same homey, inviting space. A wooden bench lines one side of the restaurant and wraps into an L shape at the end, creating an intimate space that helps facilitate conversation, she said.
The 13-foot-high ceilings are coupled with an eclectic mix of decor, including an armoire Monforte transported from her personal bedroom. Her mother's prized antique school desk sits near the front entrance, opposite a chest owned by her stepmother.
The spirit that encourages the revitalization of Westcott's north corner as a comfortable community space carries over to Monforte's business. She plans on incorporating elements in her business that encourage community involvement, including featuring customers' sandwich creations and playing their playlists.
Said Monforte: "I want people to come over and eat and drink and be merry."
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Baku, Azerbaijan, June 7
By Rufiz Hafizoglu - Trend:
The groundbreaking ceremony for the third airport have taken place in Istanbul, TRT Haber TV channel reported on June 7.
An agreement on construction of the third airport in Istanbul was signed in Turkey in May 2013.
The document was signed between the Ministry of Transport, Shipping and Communications of Turkey and the Limak-Kolin-Cengiz-MaPa-Kalyon Consortium, which won the tender.
The Limak-Kolin-Cengiz-MaPa-Kalyon consortium won the tender for the project on May 3, 2013, offering 22.1 billion Euros for the project.
Istanbul's third airport was under construction near Lake Terkos in the north of the city.
Earlier, the Air Transport Department of the Turkish Ministry of Transport, Shipping and Communications told Trend that construction of the third airport in Istanbul would cost ten billion lira.
The ministry also said the airport would be able to serve 90 million people a year initially. In future, this figure would increase to 150 million.
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A Hercule Poirot story
Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express is undoubtedly one of Agatha Christie's greatest mystery novels.
Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Isolated and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must identify the murderer – in case he or she decides to strike again.
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
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A group of passengers trapped on the Orient Express in a snow storm with a murdered body and a Belgian detective to keep them company: Murder on the Orient Express is one of Agatha Christie's most famous stories. It's an intricate mystery revolving around a group of characters cut off from the world where Poirot exhibits not only the power of his little grey cells but his concern and compassion for humanity.
The underlying plot of the story was one Agatha Christie pulled from the headlines at the time, the abduction of Charles Lindbergh's son, a traumatic real-life mystery involving murder and extortion that had yet to be solved when Murder on the Orient Express was published. As for the setting, Christie had long professed a love of the Orient Express, finally achieving her dream of travelling on it in 1928 with her first solo trip abroad. In writing the story, she painstakingly noted the details of the carriages; clues such as the position of door handles would prove vital to Poirot's investigation. Several fans, in fact, have followed in Christie's footsteps, double-checking her descriptions.
Need it be said – the little grey cells solve once more the seemingly insoluble. Mrs Christie makes an improbable tale very real, and keeps her readers enthralled and guessing to the end.
In 2017 a 20th Century Fox feature film adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express is set for release, directed by Kenneth Branagh, who will also take on the role of Hercule Poirot. Joining him are Penelope Cruz, Johnny Depp as Ratchett, Willem Dafoe as Hardman, Michelle Pfeiffer as Mrs. Hubbard, Judi Dench portraying Princess Dragomiroff, Daisy Ridley as Mary Debenham, Tom Bateman as Bouc, Derek Jacobi portraying Masterman, and Leslie Odom Jr. playing Doctor Arbuthnot. Dutch actor Marwan Kenzari will play Michel, Josh Gad will play Hector MacQueen, and Lucy Boynton will portray Countess Andrenyi. Discover more about the adaptation here.
The first adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express was the award-winning 1974 film featuring an all-star cast and Albert Finney as Poirot. Other stars included Sean Connery, Lauren Bacall, and Ingrid Bergman, who won an Oscar for her role as Greta Ohlsson. The film won nine awards in total and had an additional sixteen nominations in 1975. It was remade for TV in 2001, with Alfred Molina as Poirot.
The story was adapted in 2004 by BBC Radio 4 with John Moffatt in the role of Poirot. 2006 saw the story become a PC game. Playing as a new character, Antoinette Marceau, gamers work alongside Poirot to solve the mystery of Ratchett's death. In 2007 the story became a graphic novel, adapted by François Rivière, but it wasn't until 2010 that David Suchet appeared on the famous train. David Suchet also did the Poirot voice-over in the PC game. Although generally faithful to the original novel, this TV film emphasised the religious and moral themes of the story as Poirot grappled with the nature of justice, clearly struggling with his final decision.
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GENERAL HOSPITAL actors are continuing their fall tour with stops in Chicago and Detroit! Jen Lilley (ex-Maxie), Kelly Sullivan (Kate), Lisa LoCicero (Olivia), Lindsey Morgan (Kristina) and Erik Valdez (Trey) are all going to be appearing at their own fan events in each city.
On Saturday, October 13, they will be appearing at the JW Marriott in Chicago, IL. Lilley's event will run from 9:00 am to 11:00 am, Sullivan and LoCicero's is from 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm, and Valdez an Morgan will appear from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. On Sunday, October 14, they'll be at the Detroit Marriott Troy in Troy, MI, at the same times.
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Weather permitting, South Hall County motorists can begin driving today on part of a new road being built in front of the 100-bed Northeast Georgia Medical Center Braselton, which is also under construction.
Traffic will be moved over on new lanes of the Ga. 347 stretch from Chateau Corners Drive to Ga. 211/Old Winder Highway.
"The traffic shuffle allows crews to rebuild the original lanes of (Ga. 347) while traffic runs in newly built lanes," states a Georgia Department of Transportation news release.
One lane will be open in each direction along the stretch, DOT district spokeswoman Teri Pope said.
Also, two new traffic signals are scheduled to begin operating along the stretch, one at Deaton Creek Parkway and the other at Ga. 211 and Bayberry Drive.
The signals will start operating as the shift occurs, according to the DOT.
The shift could start taking place as early as 9 a.m. and continue throughout the day, finishing by midafternoon. Delays are expected as the shift occurs.
"Please slow down and use extra caution through the area as motorists get used to these changes, especially the new traffic signals," District Engineer Bayne Smith said in the release.
The stretch of road is part of a larger Ga. 347 widening project that stretches from Ga. 211 to Interstate 985.
The 8-mile, $38.4 million project, which began in October 2012, is set for completion by Jan. 12, 2016.
Work on a stretch of Ga. 347 between Spout Springs Road and Ga. 211 — including the Chateau Corners-Ga. 211 segment — is slated to be finished by April 12.
The hospital, scheduled for a spring 2015 opening, is part of the Northeast Georgia Health System's new River Place campus.
The campus is already home to a medical office building, Medical Plaza 1, which houses an urgent care center, imaging center, endoscopy suite, outpatient lab and therapy services and more than 20 doctor's offices, according to the health system's website.


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We Love Bloomfield
I have an 11th grade son who takes half of his classes at Model High School and the other half at the High School. He is so fortunate to benefit from everything the school has to offer like small class sizes and seminar style discussions. The teachers really know him, and he in turn strives to achieve to his highest potential because of the relationships he has formed with his teachers.
My son takes an active role in his learning and goes above and beyond what is expected of him and, therefore, sees and appreciates the benefits of his education. I feel that my son will be well prepared for college because at Model you are not only graded on your finished product, you are graded on your work ethic, integrity and other core competencies that are skills he will use throughout his life.
Model has been an amazing experience for my son and I am thankful that there is a high school that supports my son and helps him to be the best student and person he can be."- Marianne Sacks, Model Parent
"As newcomers to the both the community and the school district, our decision to relocate our family from Chicago to Bloomfield Hills is justified each and every day our son comes home from school. As parents, one of our most important goals was to find the school that would best suit our child and his individual needs.
After 7 Detroit area school visits, Eastover was a no-brainer. It was the only school that captured us in each and every way. Between the staff interaction, the learning objectives, ethical teachings and programming, we were sold immediately and were excited to become part of the Eastover community.
We already know that the experience at Eastover is more than educational. To SOAR is to truly embrace all that is taught at Eastover. We could not be more pleased with our decision to attend Eastover and are excited to continue our journey with both of our children."
- Dana Mowat, Eastover Parent
"It's hard to believe that it's been almost 12 years since I graduated high school. During that time, I've come to realize that the experiences I had and people I met during my time in the Bloomfield Hills School system will stay with me for the rest of my life.
Even though I moved to New York shortly after college, and have remained here, my connection to friends and former classmates remains strong, as do the lessons learned. Some of my favorite memories from high school were from my time on the Cross Country team, and just this morning, I saw the former captain of the team running past me in Brooklyn's Prospect Park. All I could think as we were catching up and catching our breath was how proud our coach, Mr. Price, would have been to see that his lessons on health and fitness as a lifestyle—not a fad—have paid off, as did the connections we made during months of training and competition."
-Brittany Gersh, Andover Alumni
"My life was literally and figuratively saved by my public school teacher many years ago. We all love our jobs and students and are eager to start the year with passion and compassion. At the end of the summer, we count our pencils and take care of our families so that in just a few short weeks, we can take care of yours."
– Grat Dalton, BHEA President
"The middle schools have lots of different clubs and classes that help every child fit in. And the teachers are very dedicated to help you to succeed. They want the best for all of us."
- Matthew Frank, 7th Grade Student at BHMS
"Our children have been exposed to more curriculum and co-curricular options than any school they've attended. At Eastover, we value our partnerships with Lawrence Tech and Harvard University. We especially applaud our principal and school staff for choosing school initiatives that enhance critical thinking skills as well as life skills. Our Visible Thinking initiative prepares students for their entire academic journey, ensuring that they can take a concept, associate it with other principles, and apply it in other situations. With our Sustainability initiative, students in all grades, have fun and use their research and hands-on experiences, which can be applied in college and in future careers. I truly believe this Sustainability initiative, unique to Eastover Elementary School, is also preparing students to become innovators who will be prepared for emerging industries in Michigan.
To prospective parents and community members, we want you to know that Eastover Elementary School welcomes every parent and resident to volunteer and participate in our programs. Our staff works as a team, and it truly feels like an extended family. Our school is extremely concerned about the safety of our children and work very hard to provide a well-rounded experience for our students. We hope you decide to visit soon or enroll your child at Eastover!
Bloomfield Hills Schools has worked diligently to partner with community members to ensure that we provide a comprehensive education. The level of commitment to this partnership effort is unique to most parents' experiences in a public school district. Our Community Partnership Committee (CPC), PTOs, and local community organizations provide a wide variety of opportunities for student enrichment and we invite anyone interested in using their talents to serve our school community."
- Walter & Stephanie Crider, Eastover Parents
"I am the mother of a 3rd grader at Eastover Elementary and a preschooler at Bloomin' Tots Fox Hills and in addition to the exceptional education that speaks for itself, I want to share with you what it means to me to have my children in the Bloomfield Hills School District and at these buildings.
It means that the very first day I had to drop my first born child off at school I found relief from the burden of my fears and anxiety. It meant I could breathe and wipe away my tears when the arms of a stranger made my child feel like they were ready to be without me. It has meant that I don't have to worry about their safety or their care because they have exceptional safeguards and people who do it for me like my child is their own. It means that I know every minute my children are at school I am confident that those around them care to know them well enough to understand who they are and how they are doing. They pay attention to the times they need a helping hand or need their independence. They know exactly who they are by celebrating their talents and nurturing and guiding them into developing their skills. They have made my family feel like we are the most important people at school, until we learned they treat everyone that way, which is an extraordinary environment for my children to grow up in."
- Shannon Curcuru, Eastover and Bloomin' Parent
"Michelle and I are proud products of the Bloomfield Hills School District. The curriculum and extracurricular activities provided us the breadth of knowledge we needed to be able to compete in today's hyper competitive world. But the teachers personal commitment to help each of us achieve our own unique goals made us stand out, both at the University of Michigan and now in our professional careers."
- Anthony Atto and Michelle Atto, Andover Alumni


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Governor Scott announces his partnership to Google to get small businesses online. He believes "small businesses are the backbone of Florida's economy" and that this "initiative is aimed to help these businesses grow in Florida."
Right now, 63% of small businesses in the U.S. do not have a website. And 97% of consumers look online for local products and services.
You're invited to Florida Get Your Business Online. If you don't have a website or online business listing, you'll find everything you need to get started – web professionals at your side every step of the way. If your business is already online, you'll find tools and resources to help you succeed. Space is limited, so register in advance for this FREE event.
Tuesday, April 3: 7:30 AM - 5:30 PM
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We're ready to serve you!
The Office of Human Resources is pleased to be a major support function of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. This site is designed to be a convenient and thorough source of information for current and prospective UW-La Crosse employees. The information provided on these pages describes basic policies, procedures, benefits and services provided to all faculty and staff at UW-La Crosse. You are invited to learn more about the mission of the Office of Human Resources.
The Office of Human Resources is here to serve you 7:45 am to 4:30 pm Monday through Friday.
Human Resources news, events, and updates
Annual Benefits and Wellness Fair
Title and Total Compensation Study
New Prescription Drug Cost Compare Tool
- Log into NAVI-GATE for Members at navitus.com, or register if it is your first time accessing the member portal
- Select the "Cost Compare" tool on the left side of the screen
- Choose yourself or a family member
- Enter specific drug information into the search field or search your own medication history (Note: It is helpful to have your drug container near you.)
- Enter location information into the search field
What does self-insurance mean for employees?
Understanding your Wisconsin Retirement Benefits
Hiring temporary office support staff
Emergency contact information
Is your Emergency Contact Information up to date? This information is imperative as we have had the need arise to contact a designee only to find no one is listed. When medical or other emergencies come up, every minute counts. Please help us help you out should the need ever arise. You can update your information on your My UW System portal by clicking the "update my personal information" link or you may complete and return the emergency contact form to the Human Resources office.


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French Fried Onion Chicken
READY IN: 55mins
Recipe by Bri22
i came up with this recipe trying to make a flavorful breaded chicken. its fast, easy and sooooo delicious!!
Top Review by KrisVonD
I cooked as instructed. The breading burned and I had to shake the 'way too much' onion and parm cheese off the top. Turned out very dry. Will not be making again.
See Discussion:11 Reviews 1 Tweak
Ingredients Nutrition
- 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 170.09 g can French-fried onions
- 354.88 ml breadcrumbs
- 2 eggs
- 59.14 ml milk
- 177.44 ml parmesan cheese
- 44.37-59.16 ml melted butter or 44.37-59.16 ml margarine
Directions See How It's Made
- spray the bottom of a 9 by 13 inch pan.
- whisk together milk and eggs in a bowl big enough to dip chicken into.
- dip chicken in eggs, set side by side in baking pan.
- in a small bowl crush the onions.
- mix in the bread crumbs and parmesan cheese pour over chicken.
- Drizzle melted butter or margarine over chicken.
- bake at 350 degrees until chicken is done about 45 minutes.
- ****Note**** If CHICKEN IS TOO THICK, I POUND IT AND SOMETIMES CUT IT IN HALF.


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Sun and Orion enable Dubai Municipality to implement geographic information system
Sun Microsystems Middle East & Africa and Orion Technology have completed of their geographic information system (GIS) project for the Dubai Municipality, which will make up-to-date geographic and address-based information accessible via computers and mobile devices.
The Municipality has created a Sun technology-based GIS Center, using Web-GIS software from Orion, for the benefit of both government departments and private end-users. The GIS project enables Dubai Municipality to make its geographic information about Dubai available through a central information hub.
Initially open to residents and tourists alike via the Internet, the GIS Center will eventually provide all government agencies in Dubai with a tool for integrating geographic information of various government agencies, locating places of interest and makings maps on demand.
Features offered include a road, address, and parcel search, as well as a means to locate schools, hospitals, hotels, and other places of interest. Users have access to high-resolution aerial photography with tools that contractors and consultants can use to measure areas and distances without setting foot on-site. With the new system, users can print and e-mail maps in a matter of seconds.
Dubai Municipality sits at the center of Dubai's government, providing civic services to the public and private sectors, as well as visitors to the Emirate. With more than 11,000 employees, the Dubai Municipality includes the departments of planning and building, roads and general projects, and environment and public health. The Dubai Municipality oversees projects relating to public health, drainage and irrigation, and construction and roads. — (menareport.com)
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Top Headlines
- Dubai Municipality launches first phase of Engineering Projects Information Management System under the directives of H.H Sheikh Mohammed
- Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council receives top geomaturity assessment rating for its spatial data infrastructure
- Improving government services through a world-class Geographical Information System
- Satyam to implement far-reaching ILM solution for Dubai Municipality
- Satyam to implement far-reaching ILM solution for Dubai Municipality


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Michael L. Smith
PhD Candidate
Department of Neurobiology and Behavior
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
I'm interested in how organisms detect that they've reached the developmental stage where it becomes adaptive to invest in not only survival and growth, but also in reproduction. We commonly think of this process as puberty, the first reproductive investment that an organism makes. An organism going through puberty cannot yet reproduce, but it has begun to invest its resources in reproduction. How an organism detects its developmental state, and then shifts resources accordingly, is relevant at any level of biological organization, whether its a unicellular yeast, a multicellular plant, or a superorganism honey bee colony.
In a superorganism like a honey bee colony, puberty occurs when the number of workers in the colony surpasses a reproductive threshold. Once the colony has enough workers, the workers begin building special cells of beeswax comb to rear male reproductives, drones. This drone comb is built when the colony has over 4000 individuals, which raises an interesting question: how does a worker detect the number of other bees in her colony?
My PhD research is ongoing, so I do not regularly update this part of the website. However, I do encourage you to contact me via email if you'd like to know more about my current work, or if you'd like PDF's of any of my publications. I also welcome requests for outreach and collaboration, whether academic or not.
Thesis Advisor:
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International Ferro Metals
18p -½
Questor says HOLD
International Ferro Metals (IFL) is a South African producer of ferrochrome, which is used in the production of stainless steel. Its results have been hit by strength of the rand compared with the dollar and rising energy prices.
Contract prices were also reduced recently, in line with other commodity prices. The ferrochrome price for the third quarter of this year was set on 11 July and was reduced by 15 cents to $1.20 per pound.
"This reduction reflected the trend of global spot prices being under pressure in the lead up to the price settlement," IFL said. Prices are expected to move higher in the fourth quarter.
However, the longer term pricing environment for ferrochrome is solid and demand is expected to rise significantly over the next few years.
Although the group is expected to be loss making in the current year, it is expected to return to profitability next year. Profits are expected to rise sharply in 2013 – so much so that the current earnings multiple for that year is just over three times.
The company's output was also lower, but this was down to upgrade work on the group's furnace – which has been timed to coincide with seasonal weakness in the market. Smelting is planned to restart next month, with full production from the middle of October as the second furnace returns to service.
Production was down by 17pc from the equivalent period of last year to 42,584 tonnes. Sales were down 37pc to 34,735 tonnes. This fall was expected by the market.
"Industry experts are forecasting a record year for stainless steel production in 2011 and again in 2012, however the third quarter is traditionally weak and we have seen this in lower benchmark prices and reduced output of ferrochrome from the South African producers," David Kovarsky, chief executive, said.
The company's net debt was ZAR248m (£22m) at the end of June.
This year, IFL expects stainless steel production to hit a record, which means destocking cannot last – and the company's new mines should bring its production lower down the cost curve.
Its new Sky Chrome project should be a significant contributor to falling costs. Open pit mining operations at the project started in June, with 7,000 tonnes of ore mined last month. This is being stockpiled for delivery to the group's plant, starting from next week.
Sky Chrome is a substantial deposit with 12m tonnes of open pit recoverable reserves. The open pit mining costs are significantly below those at its Lesedi underground mine.
The shares are trading on a June 2012 earnings multiple of 35.9 based on current forecasts, falling to just 3.1 times in 2012. The shares were first tipped at 56½p on August 8, 2009 and are down almost 70pc.
Analysts have a very wide range of price targets for the group, with Bloomberg quoting price objectives ranging from 25p to 84p. As analysts from Collins Stewart's mining team put it yesterday, "This company presents a great opportunity for longer term investors to take a counter cycle position at heavily discounted levels."
However, Questor says hold until we receive the next update – despite believing that the shares are significantly undervalued.


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Simple Interface – Click to Enlarge
A few days ago I claimed that ReNamer was the best free file renamer available, and Mouser over at Donation Coder decided to prod their readers to see if they had come across any that were better. One member, iphigenie, mentioned a program called Flexible Renamer (a.k.a. FlexRenamer) that I decided to test out.
This free file renamer isn't all that different from the last one, but the good news is that Flexible Renamer has a live preview feature. This makes it easier to see what you're renaming your files to since the changes are shown, but not executed, in real-time.
When you launch Flexible Renamer it will start in a "simple" mode (pictured above) where it offers a lot of common file renaming operations right there at your fingertips, such as inserting a number at the end of the file names. Just choose your poison, and rename the files!
The only thing I don't like about this program is that you have to perform one operation at a time, meaning to insert a hyphen followed by a number would actually require two different operations. In ReNamer you could prepare and order operations in bulk before going through with the file renaming process. That may not sound like a big deal, but it would suck having to wait a few minutes between each operation if you're dealing with thousands of files.
Advanced Interface – Click to Enlarge
If you're a bit more adventurous you could also switch over to the advanced mode. Here you can use wildcards, regular expressions, and translations for renaming the files. ReNamer also supported the use of regular expressions, but Flexible Renamer is a bit better mostly because of the powerful live preview. If you're not familiar with using regular expressions then it will take awhile before you get used to them, but they are often considered to be a programmer's best friend. To help you along the way Flexible Renamer does have some preset regular expressions:
Here are some of the other things Flexible Renamer can do:
- Rename a media file based on tags
- Batch edit file attributes
- Add context menu entries for when you right-click on files
- Copy and move renamed files to another directory preserving the originals
- Recursive renaming (can find files nested in folders)
- Drag & drop files from Windows Explorer
- Customize the font (size, type, etc…) that's used throughout the program
- Save folders to favorites for one-click access
Flexible Renamer (for Windows – no installation required)


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French Sorrel
Common name: French Sorrel
Scientific name: Rumex acetosa
Family: Polygonaceae
Uses: Culinary, medicinal.Use in containers. For culinary use. Leaves can be used in salads and soups or cooked like spinach. The leaves of french sorrel are almost tasteless early on in the growing season, but gain acidity and flavor as the season progresses. The buckleaf sorrel has smaller angular leaves and has silvery patches on the leaves and sharp acidic flavor. Sorrel is said to have some medicinal uses.
History: Commonly referred to as just sorrel, and closely related to buckler
leaf (or buckleaf) sorrel (R. scutatus). Both species are
Description: Many small, greenish yellow or reddish flowers in spreading panicles. Leaves are one foot or more in length, lance shaped, wavy edged and light green. Lower leaves are larger than upper ones.
Plant type: Perennial
Hardiness: Hardiness zone .
Height: 6-18 inches; width .
Width: 24 inches
Light: Full sun
Soil: well drained soil with an acidic pH
Disease: Snails.
Cultivation: Sow seeds in spring. Thin or transplant to 12 inches. Divide and replant every five years.
Companion planting:
Propagation: Seeds, division.
Flowering period: Summer
Flower color: Greenish to reddish
Harvesting: For culinary uses gather leaves when young.
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So, cheap is sort of a strong word for what I'm talking about here.
Because, if I'm honest, I don't like to skimp on quality when it comes to clothing.
With this body, it's barely even an option.
One of the things I learned from the style gurus when I was on What NOT to Wear is that looking good is an investment.
Gone are the days when my body could walk into a store and walk out with a pair of $15 jeans and a $5.99 racerback tee and still look fly.
My clothing needs structure. And durable fabric that won't stretch. It has to hold its shape, even when my belly and my love handles, and whatever that stuff is on my thighs, challenge it not to. It can't be so thin it's see through. And, it can't expect my body to do what it's told. Because my body has become quite the rebellious little renegade. And it does whatever the hell it wants to, never mind what I say.
With that in mind, looking half way fabulous means I have to take my time when I shop. I have to make an investment in quality. I have to live in classics and work in trends when I can. And, I have to mostly stay the heck away from the junior section and anything sold in Walmart.
My wallet misses those days.
Finding quality clothing options without breaking the bank has become my mission. For someone who now considers shopping a hobby, it's sort of also a necessity.
Here are my best frugal fashion tips!
1. Shop discount stores. Marshalls, TJ Maxx, and Ross are my besties. But, admittedly, shopping at those places requires a little extra work. You have to get past the fact that some of your co-shoppers are probably going to be nuts. You have to overlook the fact that the store may look more like a flea market than it does a retail location (for some reason, some of these locations are not super well kept). I guess some people are quite vigorous in their bargain hunting. And, you have to be prepared to visit often. Their stock is limited and it changes quickly. And, no, they don't have anymore in the back.
2. Don't shop at those stores where every thing is always on sale. You know the ones I'm talking about. Where they have a shoddily constructed cotton sweater with a celebrity's name on it showing an original price of $62 and a sale price of $38. You get tricked into thinking you're getting a deal when really the sale price is more than it's even worth most of the time.
3. Use Ebates. Cash. Back. Shopping. Is. What's. Up. It's almost like someone is actually paying you to buy adorable clothing. Come. On.
4. Get a Target Red Card. Same thing, only real life. And, it's not a credit card. I mean it is, but it doesn't have to be. It took me months to realize that the Target Red Card could actually just be tied to your debit card. Now I, 5% back every time I shop at Target, which depending on the season, could mean every day of life.
5. Make eBay your you-know-what. I sell stuff on eBay constantly (have a super cute romper on there now!). All of the money I make on selling lightly-worn-still-fly garments there goes back into my make-mommy-feel-pretty fund. It's easier than consigning and eBay's cut is WAY smaller than anything I've ever gotten from the consignment shops in our town.
A note about thrift shopping: As cool as it is, I've not had much real success with this practice. We don't have a bunch of really cool thrift shops around here. The few we do have aren't great on pricing. I'm of the belief that if I am going to buy your dead grandma's kicks that she could still be haunting, I want them to come at a significant price break.


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Stuff's wedding of the week
Louis and Dee's wedding might just be the prettiest dang thing we've ever seen. (It's making us want to rewind the clock so we can re-do our wedding just so we can have an awesome floral crown) ...
How did you meet? Louis and I met while we were both teaching in Japan. I met him on more or less his first night in the country, and instantly I knew I wanted to get to know him. I thought he didn't notice me, but recently for my hen night my friends arranged a question-and-answer game, and one of the questions was "what was Dee wearing the first time you saw her?" and he nailed it completely, which made my heart melt (or maybe it was the big glass of bubbles I was drinking during the game!)
Tell us about the proposal: It was our fifth anniversary and we were both hungover after a meal and drinks out the night before. We had breakfast in a busy cafe, but I got hot, nauseous and felt terrible after a strong coffee, and although we had planned to go to an exhibition in the CBD, I said maybe it would be best if we went home.
Louis said I'd feel better with some fresh air and suggested we go for a walk. He took me to Mt Eden, and as we sat looking over our new city (we'd recently moved back to New Zealand, and it was our first time living in Auckland) we spotted two swallows sitting on a wire fence by us.
One jumped off and hovered on the thermals waiting for the other. The second swallow jumped off and joined the first, and they flew off together. I was turning to Louis to say how sweet it was that one had waited for the other when he started to thank me for moving to New Zealand to be with him, thanking me for being the person he loved, and would I marry him?!
I was shell-shocked and took a few seconds and a couple of asks to believe he was serious. It certainly helped my hangover go away!
Location of wedding: We chose Nelson because Louis is from there, and a lot of his family are there. Plus, it's beautiful, of course!
We chose to have the ceremony in Miyazu Japanese Gardens as we had met and fallen in love in Japan, then had our reception a five minute walk down the road, at the Granary in Founders Park.
Describe your wedding day: Sunny, laid-back, lighthearted and full of fun and love. With paper swallows and ribbons fluttering from the trees.
The dress: It's actually a dress I would have found difficult to see myself in, but luckily the lady at the dress shop pulled it out for me and I was sold as it encompassed all the things I had hoped for. I wanted something unfussy, timeless with a nod to vintage 1930s (my engagement and wedding rings are from that era) and art nouveau.
The flowers: Again, I wanted a nod to art nouveau, as well as being more laid-back and fun colour-wise. My mother-in-law and sister-in-law were amazing and gathered wildflowers from their and friends' properties on Takaka Hill.
I also bought a bunch of coral/orange roses spontaneously when I picked up my flowers from my supplier, as I felt there wasn't enough "punch" to the colour flowers I had ordered. I dropped off my ordered flowers to Sarah at Willow Floral Design and she worked absolute wonders. I had sent her a photo of the style of headpiece I wanted and she said she has never made one like that before - but wow - did she make something above and beyond my vision. Everyone that day and since has commented on how beautiful it was. I have Sarah, Louis' Mum and sister-in-law and my spontaneous purchase to thank for that.
Highlight of the wedding: There were so many! Our mothers conducting a hand-binding ceremony - so important that the person we came from would also be a big part in the ceremony.
Having my bridesmaids come all the way from the UK and Japan for us.
Everyone being silly enough to dress up for the homemade photo booth, and a late-night impromptu ballet to Elton John's Rocket Man! Our MC, Louis' brother, was lifted into the air by two male friends and carried across the dance floor, guests pirouetting around him. It was amazing, unplanned, and it happened because everyone was obviously in the same place of relaxed silliness.
Was there any drama? Our rented house had a few electricity shorts that morning (too many people ironing no doubt!) but other than that the main drama was that we were so relaxed that we didn't realise the time. The photographer turned up and the bridesmaids and I just flung on our dresses, took some shots outside the house and left.
I actually didn't see myself in the mirror until after the ceremony and photos had happened. Luckily everything went well together! I was putting dress tape on myself and the dress in the taxi on the way to the ceremony. Then we realised we had nowhere to put the coin change the taxi had given us - so we left him with a very good tip!
It was all pretty hilarious!
The honeymoon: We had friends and family over for a week prior and after the wedding, so we took them to Takaka Hill and Abel Tasman National Park, which was such a cool experience to share with the ones you love.
After that we really needed a break and a wonderful family friend gave us their bach in Tata Beach, Golden Bay, to stay in for four days. It was bliss to have time to relax, connect after everything, and have a good old natter and reflect on the whole two weeks.
Your photographer and favourite photo? I looked around, ready to find a photographer from outside Nelson, then I saw some of The Love Collective's images and fell for them hook, line and sinker.
I was so lucky that they are actually based in Nelson! Alisha is multitalented, her eye for composition, colour, framing and her technical skill are what drew me to her, but her friendliness, speed and also love of everything looking beautiful (our final images arrived on a wooden memory stick in a box with treats and tied with string) made me feel that she really cared about each and every one of her clients.
She gave me so many stunning images to remember the day by, but I think the close-up of us in the bamboo is so beautiful, and really resonates with where we met, in rural Japan, where bamboo surrounded us almost every day.


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|From: Jordan Schatz (jordan at noionlabs.com)
Date: Fri Nov 18 15:13:35 EST 2011
I have a pattern of user interaction that is common in my web app: I have a db record, I present it to the user in a form, the user edits the form, submits it, server side logic validates it, and then returns the same form with the updated record. I want to port the app to Racket, and I thought formlets would be just the thing, but I don't see how to fill the values into the formlet without making a new formlet... seems I need a (formlet-fill (some-values)) to go along with the formlet-display and formlet-process. Here is what I have: (Which doesn't work) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- #lang web-server/insta (require web-server/formlets) (define record (hasheq 'title "this is a title" 'body "post body")) (define (start request) (edit-record request)) (define (edit-record request) (local [(define (record-formlet our-values) (formlet (#%# ,{(text-input #:value (string->bytes/utf-8 (hash-ref our-values 'title))) . => . title} ,{(text-input #:value (string->bytes/utf-8 (hash-ref our-values 'body))) . => . body}) (values title body))) (define (handle-response request) (define-values (title body) (formlet-process our-formlet request)) (set! record (hasheq 'title title 'body body)) (start (redirect/get))) (define (response-generator embed/url) (response/xexpr `(html (form ([action ,(embed/url handle-response)]) ,@(formlet-display our-formlet) (input ([type "submit"]))))))] (send/suspend/dispatch response-generator))) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- It seems like this would be a very common pattern... what is the "normal" way to do it? Thanks, Jordan
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Leading Canadian Cold Storage 3PL Westco Selects Manhattan Associates
ATLANTA — August 15, 2011 — Leading Canadian cold storage third party logistics provider (3PL) Westco has selected solutions from the Manhattan SCALE™ product suite from Manhattan Associates (NASDAQ: MANH) to support two distribution centers in Calgary, along with facilities in Saskatoon and Winnipeg. Westco selected the Warehouse Management, Labor Management, Billing Management and Trading Partner Management solutions from the Manhattan SCALE portfolio, along with the Supply Chain Intelligence application to provide real-time visibility and insight into its supply chain performance.
"Our existing solution had limited capabilities which resulted in more costs as our business continued to grow," said Daryn Chernick, manager, information technology, Westco MultiTemp Distribution Centres Inc. "Manhattan's solutions will help us improve our customer service as well as leverage our processes for future growth opportunities."
Manhattan SCALE (Supply Chain Architected for Logistics Execution) is a portfolio of distribution management and transportation management solutions built on Microsoft .NET technology designed to be rapidly implemented and deployed to meet the needs of industries such as third-party logistics providers, food and beverage distributors and consumer packaged goods companies.
To learn more about Westco MultiTemp Distribution Centres Inc., please visit http://www.westco.ca/.
Receive up-to-date product, customer and partner news directly from Manhattan Associates on Twitter and Facebook. Just visit www.twitter.com/ManhAssocNews to follow our latest news and join the Manhattan Associates Facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/ManhattanAssociates.
About Manhattan Associates, Inc.
Manhattan Associates continues to deliver on its 21-year heritage of providing global supply chain excellence to more than 1,200 customers worldwide that consider supply chain optimization core to their strategic market leadership. The company's supply chain innovations include: Manhattan SCOPE® a portfolio of software solutions and technology that leverages a Supply Chain Process Platform to help organisations optimize their supply chains from planning through execution; Manhattan SCALE™, a portfolio of distribution management and transportation management solutions built on Microsoft. NET technology; and Manhattan Carrier™, a suite of supply chain solutions specifically addressing the needs of the motor carrier industry. For more information, please visit www.manh.com.


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Possum Point Players' SEE HOW THEY RUN Begins Tonight
Possum Point Players present "See How They Run," literally a fast-paced farce with action dodging in and out of the doors of what used to be the staid, decorous Vicarage at quaint Merton-cum-Middlewick, England. Performances are today, June 6, 7, 8, 13, 14 and 15 at Possum Hall in Georgetown.
Most could have predicted trouble in the offing when the Reverend married a former actress, an independent-minded American who wears trousers about in public. However, no one could have imagined the rumpus that ensues when no less than four alleged clergy, an American actor turned U.S. airman, a prim, if pickled, elderly villager and a saucy cockney maid all end up in the mix. And much dodging in and out and confusing identity duplicity takes place under the astonished eyes of a visiting Bishop.
Directed by Michael Murnin, "See How They Run" is a rollicking way to get into summer vacation mode.
Friday and Saturday performances are at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday performances are at 2 p.m. Tickets are $18, seniors and students, $17, and may be reserved on-line at www.possumpointplayers.org. For phone orders, call Possums' ticketline 856-4560.


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Notes from an Informal Lunch Meeting with ACTA Negotiators
Mike Palmedo
August 18, 2010
Yesterday's lunch with ACTA negotiators was set up in a way that surprised all who attended. There were no presentations, Q&A, or structured conversations. Instead, the room had a bunch of small tables that seated 5 or 6 people each, and everyone walked around and mingled. Almost none of the negotiators who I talked to had business cards. There wasn't really an opportunity to take notes or record anyone.
Jamie Love (KEI), Malini Aisoloa (KEI), Alberto Cerda(KEI), Peter Maybarduk (Public Citizen), Sherwin Siy (Public Knowledge), Rohit Malpani (Oxfam), Meredith Jacob (American Univeristy, PIJIP) and I were the civil society attendees. There were approximately 30 ACTA negotiators from various countries. All negotiators seemed to share the sense that progress was being made, yet it was coming along very slowly.
Four Korean negotiators were at a table together, and Hyeyoon Choi, Assistant Director, Copyright Division, DG of Copyright Policy spoke with us more than the others. In general, they said that the conversations so far had centered around copyright issues. Conversations about the scope of what would be included in ACTA had not yet taken place. They understand some people are concerned about access to medicines, but the way they see it, patents are out of the border section so there isn't much of an issue left. They didn't seem to agree that trademark issues or third party liability could threaten access to medicines. When asked what Korean civil society was pushing for, the answer was quite different than what we expected. There has been some pressure in Korea for the inclusion of 'morality on the internet' provisions following a string a scandals in Korea involving celebrity suicides linked to gossipy internet slander.
George Mina from the Australian negotiation, and Benoit Lory and Luc Devigne from the EU, were at a table together. They said that the scope of IP in ACTA had come up in conversations, although in a somewhat indirect manner. They all said that a decision will be made about whether or not to release the text publicly at the end of the week, but said that (personally, not officially) they didn't see why the text shouldn't be released if it's just going to be leaked anyway.
Luc Devigne (lead EU Negotiator) is gung ho that patents will be in. He thinks that medicines have been addressed and therefore medicines are not an issue. He asked more than once how you could have an 'IP Enforcement' treaty and not include patents – and dismissed suggestions that ACTA is specifically an 'Anti-Counterfeiting' treaty rather than a broader enforcement treaty. George Mina said the Australian government's position was that patents should out of the agreement entirely.
Mina was amenable to the idea that more safeguards ought to be inserted into the text. Devigne was not opposed to this either, but Mina was seemed more open to it.
Kira Alvarez (lead USTR negotiator) said she will come and speak at an open, publicized, webcast event at American Unviersity Washington College of Law. She needs to figure out the specifics of her schedule, but she will do the event.
Stan McCoy (USTR) said that the main aim of the meeting is to slowly go through the text, and iron out as many brackets as possible. They want to identify the differences that negotiators feel strongly about, and which might be more easily resolved. They want to have something less bracketed that negotiators can take back to their countries before the next round.
All of the negotiators I talked to said that there was no date set for the next round in Japan. They said that this issue would be discussed on Friday. Someone told another that the next round will be the week of September 27.


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Ed Sheeran, Jake Bugg For 'Fault In Our Stars' Soundtrack
Birdy and Tom Odell also feature on the record, which is due for release on May 19...
The likes of Ed Sheeran, Jake Bugg and Birdy are all confirmed to feature on the soundtrack of new movie, Fault In Our Stars.
Sheeran has recorded a tune called All Of The Stars for the flick, while Tom Odell, Kodaline and Charli XCX also appear.
Fault In Our Stars tells the tale of Hazel and Gus - played by Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort - who fall in love after meeting at a support group for cancer patients.
It is an adaptation of the novel by John Green, and is directed by Stuck In Love director Josh Boone.
An exclusive clip from the film premiered at the 2014 MTV Movie Awards on Sunday (April 13) - showing the first time Hazel and Gus meet.
Fault In Our Stars is due for UK release on June 20, with soundtrack available from May 19.
Soundtrack Tracklist:
1. All Of The Stars - Ed Sheeran
2. Simple As This - Jake Bugg
3. I'll Be Waitin' – Grouplove
4. Best Shot – Birdy feat. Jaymes Young
5. Long Way Down - Tom Odell
6. All I Want – Kodaline
7. Boom Clap - Charli XCX
8. While I¹m Alive – STRFKR
9. Written In The Stars – Indians
10. Strange Things Will Happen - The Radio Dept.
11. Bomfallarella - Afasi & Filthy
12. Without Words - Ray Lamontagne
13. Not About Angels – Birdy
14. No One Ever Loved - Lykke Li
15. Wait – M83
16. Tee Shirt – Birdy (Bonus Track)


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Igor, a hunchbacked minion, dreams of being a mad scientist.
This clumsy CGI fantasy is set in the kingdom of Malaria, whose economy is built around a mad science fair. Igor (voiced by John Cusack), a hunchbacked minion, dreams of being a mad scientist in the way a rodent might dream of being a chef. He creates Eva (Molly Shannon), a monster who wants to be an actress, and a bad mad scientist (Eddie Izzard) schemes to steal her so he can win the fair and overthrow the King (Jay Leno). You can guess the rest, down to vocal contortions from Jennifer Coolidge and Steve Buscemi (as a suicidal but unkillable rabbit).
Igor is heavily indebted to the Tim Burton school of kindergarten Gothic, but severely lacking in spark.


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LG X110 Netbook
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LG's 10in netbook is in a unique position. Not because it offers anything fundamentally different from other netbooks, but because it's the only mobile PC offering the company has in the UK. So with so much riding on its shoulders, will the X110 measure up?
First impressions are certainly positive. The X110 is based on the MSI Wind, but is far more than a simple rebadge like the Advent 4211. The entire chassis, including the keyboard and touchpad, have received a major overhaul and it's all for the better. Furthermore, its overall shape is now less curved and sleeker, and the plastics used feel slightly stronger. Unlike the logos on the Wind and Advent, the LG one is modestly positioned on the corner of the lid.
Another change is a small 'lip' on the lid's top edge that helps make the netbook easier to open up, revealing the re-styled interior. The power button now has a blue LED surround rather than the star-shape of its predecessors, and the curve has gone from the palm-rest, which is now even. The power and battery indicators have also been enlarged so that they're visible when the lid is closed, which is a useful touch.
As for the colour scheme, we're not overly enthusiastic about the white and off-silver 'champagne' combination. Thankfully, other options are available including black, white and pink. Despite sporting a high-gloss finish on the outside, our model's white exterior means fingerprints are only visible from certain angles – a good thing since no cleaning cloth is provided.
Aside from its shape, the biggest and most welcome physical change with the X110 concerns the keyboard. The Wind's implementation was good but its big annoyance was the Fn key residing to the outside of the Ctrl key. LG has remedied this, and has also moved down the cursor keys to not only allow a full-size right-shift key, but also dedicated Home and End keys to either side of the up-cursor. Shortcuts to volume and brightness have also been made more accessible as they are now secondary functions of the cursor keys.
Feedback is a bit on the light side but pleasant nonetheless, with a well-shaped key-surface. All of the above makes it one of the best netbook keyboards on the market, superior in layout if not in feedback to that of the Samsung NC10, though the excellent example on the HP Mini remains unmatched.
Likewise, the large touchpad is one of the better examples on the market. Design-wise it's perfectly integrated, featuring the exact same finish as the rest of the keyboard surround. The surface is just the right balance between textured and smooth, and the pad is incredibly sensitive. Both buttons are merged into a single bar, but unlike many such implementations it works perfectly as each end is easy to press and response is crisp.
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Carlotta Fire Department receives life saving technology
CARLOTTA- The Carlotta Volunteer Fire Department has been awarded a grant that has helped them to purchase a thermal imaging camera. The $5,235 grant was awarded to the department from George Petersen Insurance Agency and Fireman's Fund Insurance Company.
Fire Chief John Church said the camera will help volunteer firefighters save lives in the community. Church said the device helps them to almost see through smoke and be able to see heat that can help them locate people in fires.
The fire department is staffed entirely by their 13 volunteers. Church said he was thankful for the donation, because their limited budget would not allow them to purchase the camera. "We can help people, we can save people, we can save structures. It's just a win win for all of us," said Church.


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Dallas Voice contributing photographer Chuck Dube shot an amazing slideshow for us at last Sunday's Dallas Pride festivities. The slideshow is pretty large at 250-plus photos, so it takes a few minutes to load, but it's definitely worth a look if you haven't already checked it out. Anyhow, Chuck shot far more than just the 250 photos he sent us, of course, and on Thursday we posted a link to his website for those who like us can't get enough of his work. Which is where we found this gem that Chuck had been holding back. We understand why he may have thought it wasn't appropriate, but after all, what else really says gay Pride like a rainbow-colored Speedo with an iPhone tucked into it, a tattoo on the lower abdomen, a pierced navel and a bottle of vodka?
This photo from Dallas Pride didn't make our slideshow, but now we can't stop staring at it
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By Carlos Lopes and Kamal Dervis
The Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) rarely makes headlines in the US. But the frequency with which it was raised during President Obama's recent trip to Africa underlines how important the trade legislation is seen on the continent both as a driver of progress and as a symbol of the US's relations with it. The need to extend Agoa, due to expire in 2015, was a clear priority for the countries the President visited.
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No distribution has even come close to developing a package management system like the one Debian has. To what would you attribute this? And why do you think other distributions have failed to develop anything even half as good?
Debian was started as a distribution by Free Software experts back in 1993. Rather than being developed by one isolated individual or group, as other distributions of GNU/Linux have been, Debian was to be developed openly in the spirit of Linux and GNU. The primary purpose of the Debian project is to finally create a distribution that lives up to the Linux name. Debian is being carefully and conscientiously put together and will be maintained and supported with similar care.
There are two main differences between Debian GNU/Linux and other distributions.
Both are very important to the development of the Debian distribution. The sophisticated system of dependencies, recommendations and suggestions has developed through the years and the system has been improved more and more.
Once the first version of the package management system was released, many people found out that dependencies were different despite popular belief. Hence, the system had to be improved over time to describe the fine grained web of inter-package dependencies. This has been done in the past and dependencies are still improved.
Only few other distributions offer permanent public review during the development of the next release. This is a very important design decision since it offers random users a chance to try out the new software and report back problems and ask for improvements. A system is much more mature when it is permanently tested, reviewed and improved. This is what happened to Debian.
There is one more thing that needs to be mentioned. The package management system - dpkg and the file format - was designed and first implemented by Ian Jackson, a very good and sophisticated software architect. Later apt-get was added by Jason Gunthorpe which improved usability a lot. Without those developers, I'm not sure if the system would be as good.
I am not in a position to judge the package management systems of other distributions, but the goals are probably different as well as the development process.
For example, Debian GNU/Linux may need to be installed via floppy, CDROM, network or hard disk. Some other distributions' main installation medium is a set of CDs. The Debian distribution needs to be mirrored by hundreds of servers on the Internet. For other distributions this may not be important. The requirements for package management are probably different.
Despite the fact that there is no payback, Debian continues to attract developers. What is their motivation?
Oh, there is a lot of payback. It's just not monetary payback in the first place. There are a lot of users who do support (through LUGs, mailing lists, Web sites, events, workshops, books, articles etc.). There's a lot of feedback through mailing lists and the bug tracking system. There are companies offering support, CDs, DVDs, books and pre-installed computers as well. Then there are companies and individuals who donate money, bandwidth or hardware to the project.
This is a lot more valuable payback than if you would get some money each month. Feedback like this reaches the person who worked on it directly. This shows that the system and his particular work is actually used, which is worth much more. This is a good reason to continue and improve the system.
Developers are given the chance to improve the system as a whole or a particular angle based on their personal or professional needs. This is something only few other distributions offer, only non-profit ones actually. As a result, they get the perfect distribution for their needs and don't have to adjust everything once a new release is out.
There are several different types of motivations and I can probably only name a few:
The lack of any deadlines for releases means that Debian can aim for stability. However, this also means that it can take well over a year for a new release. Do you see this as a strength or a weakness? Does it not serve to put off the more inexperienced users who only use the stable branch?
This can be seen both as a strength and a weakness, depending on your expectations and point of view. Different Debian developers have different goals and expectations, so there is no uniform view within the project.
For some people this is a major strength since it ensures that no totally broken release is distributed and that the project can aim for technical perfection. Without deadlines and marketing pressure our developers can concentrate on their work and improve the entire system.
On the other hand, this also means long release cycles which means that a system once released may be contain old versions of software. Many people, especially desktop users, prefer to run more current software, though. Hence, they may consider this as a weakness of Debian.
However, Debian offers these people the testing distribution which contains more recent software than the released stable version that doesn't change. The testing distribution doesn't contain totally bleeding edge software, though, so people can safely use it. Even if this was intended to simplify the release of the next stable system, this is also a great offer to our users.
Long release cycles, however, are not always bad. Think about a corporate environment with hundreds of machines. Doing a release change is an awful task and needs to be tested before done. I know of some environments in which it is simply impossible to upgrade the system four times a year. Even upgrading every one or two years may be difficult. For such environments, a stable and well tested system is worth much more than one which is released often.
During the development process for the 3.0 release (Woody), there were allegations that developers were more interested in adding packages to the unstable branch rather than the stable branch and that the release of Woody was overly delayed due to this. Comments?
Well, this is true and wrong at the same time. :-) Debian consists of about 1000 registered developers and many more sponsored developers. Most of them maintain a small set of packages. They use these packages in their personal or professional environment. Maintaining them in Debian is their contribution to Debian.
There are, however, some framework tasks that need to be worked on as well. The installation process is an example. Few people are skilled enough to work on an installation routine that needs to run on 11+ architectures and cope with the oddities of each.
One must not ignore that the stable Debian distribution runs on 11 architectures and the installation process is the same on all of them - except for only architectural differences like booting via tftp instead of CDROM etc. This also needs to work at the same time, since all 11 architectures are released at the same time, not one after another.
Alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc are equitable when it comes to Debian. They use the same installation routine and all packages are available on all supported architectures - with only very few exceptions.
This places a high responsibility on those who work on the installation process. Due to the complexity of this, very few people are able to work on it. Unfortunately, skilled people often are the most busiest people, so work on it takes a while.
So, while several developers added new packages to the distribution (only to unstable since stable was already frozen at that time), they did not work on finishing and improving the installer. On the other hand, 99 percent of them were not even skilled enough to do the work on the installer.
Criticism that the installation process is too difficult for new users has led to the creation of a separate desktop project. Is this because the project fears that users may migrate to other distributions?
Strictly speaking, the installation proces of Debian is one of the easiest. There's a joke: even a chicken could install Debian. In fact, you only need to hit the Enter key, since the installer makes proper assumptions.
However, attached to the installation process is the installation of selected packages. Depending on the hardware you are using and the packages you have selected, this is easy, time-consuming or difficult. However, there are very important configuration bits that ensure that Debian packages will "just run" after an installation and you won't have to configure everything afterwards.
Since a Debian system is used for everything from a PDA to a Desktop machine to a high-end server, packages are prepared for several uses. For example, even if it is not vital for a desktop machine to run its own mail server, this is important for a server. Hence, a mail server needs to be installed and configured even on a Desktop machine.
I guess, the post-installation configuration is what some people consider too difficult. However, in most cases simply hitting the Enter key will lead to acceptable results. This is being improved a lot by using debconf. You can adjust the severity for questions and see less of them.
The reason why the Debian desktop subproject was created is not exactly because the project fears that users may migrate to other distributions.
First of all, this sub-project - similar to Debian Jr. and Debian Med - was started by an individual and not by the project as a whole. This is very common to most of the work within the Debian project. Most people are motivated because they need something. As a result they work on this aspect very enthusiastically which helps a lot in improving things.
It was more a realisation that while we have a very stable user base of experienced technical users who have no trouble with the current Debian installer, they are a much smaller segment of the market than less experienced users. So it's not so much a fear of current Debian users migrating as just a wish to make Debian easier to use, and thereby gain even more users.
Debian aims to be the universal operating system, and hence tries and should try to attract all types of users.
Else, why should a free project, which by now has its own niche of users, bow to market forces?
It doesn't need to and it doesn't. However, attracting more people, more vendors and more organisations to use our work, is always a benefit and hence appreciated.
Given that even a project run entirely by volunteers does need some funds - as when you take a stall at an expo - how does the project obtain the finances which it needs?
There are a lot of sponsors, mostly for hardware and bandwidth, but also some that donate money to the project. Software in the Public Interest, Inc. is the umbrella organisation for Debian and other projects. It is classified charitable, so money donations are even tax-deductible.
For exhibitions, the project depends on gratis booths.
What future do you see for Debian?
The project will grow, the number of packages will increase, the number of active developers will increase, the number of supported architectures will also increase and key tasks like the buildd network and debian-installer will become even more important and complex.
While some commercial vendors suffer from a bad market situation, Debian is unaffected by this. Even if commercial vendors shut shop, free distributions created by volunteers will continue to exist, especially if they have well-documented and clear rules and an existing and functioning framework.
Commercial vendors often halt support for certain architectures that don't have a large market share (take Red Hat as an example - it recently terminated support for the sparc and alpha architectures). They will continued to be supported by volunteer projects such as Debian as long as there are volunteers who own such hardware and who consider it fun or charge to work on the port.
As another example, Debian still supports m68k, an architecture well-known for the Amiga, Atari and old Mac computers. I'm not sure, but I guess that Debian may be the only official GNU/Linux m68k distribution. There are not many such machines in use anymore, unfortunately, and only very few ones are produced these days (but there are some!). As long as there is an active developer base for this architecture, it will be supported by Debian.
Debian will probably also attract more users, especially experts or high-end users, who suffered from deficiencies in other vendors' distributions and who learned about the benefits of Debian GNU/Linux. Debian will probably also attract people who would like to run the Hurd or *BSD with a non-BSD framework. There's a port of Debian using the NetBSD kernel in progress.
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Sairee Beach is the perfect place to stay in Koh Samui as a large number of the area's star attractions are within easy reach. Sairee Plaza and Sairee Beach are amongst the popular sights here, adored by locals and visitors alike. Two other recommended attractions you'll find close by Sairee Beach are Laem Thian and the Mae Haad Pier.
There are a number of natural gifts here as well, so make sure you enjoy the chance to get outdoors. Get in touch with nature at one of the area's beaches, for example Mango Bay in Koh Tao, the Ko Nang Yuan and the Sai Nuan Beach. Make the most of the native flora and fauna, by heading to Shark Island in Koh Tao.
Finding somewhere suitable to stay around the Sairee Beach area couldn't be easier. For a good night's sleep it's hard to go past the Haadtien Beach Resort, Koh Tao, the Sensi Paradise Beach Resort, Koh Tao, and the popular Charm Churee Village, Koh Tao.


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Durban - A man was sentenced to 25 years in prison by the Maphumulo Regional Court on Tuesday for raping and robbing an elderly woman, KwaZulu-Natal police said.
Captain Thulani Zwane said Ndumiso Gcabashe, 22, raped a 90-year-old woman in her house in Maphumulo, in the Woza area, on July 20, 2010.
The woman was alone when Gcabashe entered the house and threatened her with a knife.
"Gcabashe overpowered the woman and raped her," Zwane said.
He also robbed her of R470, which was her pension money.
Gcabashe was arrested in the Ntuzuma area, north of Durban, in February. - Sapa