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Syfy Channel has unleashed a pair of video promos for next week's brand new (and much anticipated, around these parts) episode of Stargate Universe! Check them out below. (Beware of some plot spoilers …)
"Twin Destinies" airs Monday, March 14 at 10 p.m. (9 Central) on Syfy.
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I'm not gonna risk spoiling myself with trailers, i'm waiting for the full episode.
Looks promising from what i read previously tho.
We need better SGU ratings!
Holy **** the second half is looks so GOOD!!! WTF did SyFy Cancel this? ERRR!!!
WTF? What looks to be an awsome Episode..as does every single one of the back half of season 2 (and yes, I said back half, not final eps!) So where are all of the posts about something positive? If the only time we come together as a group is when we have negative thing to say (And ive said pages about this cancellation BS myself)
Then We have a problem, Lets all come together now, and spike there Damn ratings through the roof! I have Downloaded (AKA Stolen) every episode of any show I watch since SyFy cancelled SGU, But On Monday I sat my Fat ass on the couch and watched AND Recorded Every Stargate Ep they Aired….And I called all my friends and told them to do the same? Do you love Stargate (as a whole) as much as me? THEN PROVE IT! OR well be watching Reruns for the next 20 years!
Looks awsome. So Young does not want to go home after all. I wonder if Rush and Young hiding something from the crew or he just does not want to see his wife and Telford get together.
@trinium: I will do just that, after you warp space time so that I live within the US. Cuz that's the only way I'm going there.
Well, Here in Australia they(Channel 11),just aired "justice". Aside from buying the Blu-Ray discs there is nothing we can do to help.
This show really has improved enormously though since season 1, and even that got better as it went along.
It's always the crap shows that get renewed and the awesome ones that get cancelled.
I've been watching "V" and "The event", both good shows, but don't hold a candle to SGU.
SGU is definitely the best Sci-fi I have seen in years.
SyFy's other science fiction shows don't really rate all that much better do they?
I bet if this show was on Fox, Abc, or whatever other major network channels You have there, it would have done considerably better.
@trinium Do you have a Nielsen box? If not your watching SGU live doesn't mean,or change a thing.
I actually signed back in for the first time in a couple years. I'll be pushing where I can for the show to be renewed or continued somewhere. I always enjoy the series; even when it's weak, the premise makes it stronger and with more potential than most anything else left on television. Regardless, I'd love to see next week that the plot covers all the bases as it used to (i.e., few plot holes), such as "Why don't we test this out by dialing unpopulated but in the Milky Way P3C24 rather than Earth so we don't blow up another planet in this effort?"
And you'll have to give me a Nielsen box too.
We should raise a fund and donate 500 million dollars so they can keep making new episodes..
@Wesley32: That's enough for almost 2 episodes. Almost.
@Wesley32 i think they tried that with Star Trek: Enterprise at the time, they wanted $30million for a full 20 episodes, and struggled to scrape even a million.
Why would anyone pay twice, and over the odds, to watch a tv show?
If you're going to start a fund, SGU cost about $2-3million per episode. Although i'll bet you'd be looking more around the $3.5-4million mark, as if its not a long series run, you cant save money by doing Bottle Episodes. A TV Movie would be about $7million, and a 4 hour miniseries $14million or more. The BSG Miniseries cost $17million, but they had to build sets. SGU still has its sets up for the time being.
Basically, you havent a hope in hell of getting a fund to finance much of anything.
this pisses me off that stargate is ending this way. and that syfy keeps giving fans the middle finger. all us fans have done is been loyal to the show, but they cancel atlantis for no reason, then have sgu cast members and fans learn the show is cancelled via twitter, then move the show to a bad time slot, and when fans argue they dont want wrestling on syfy, they put sgu up on the same timeslot as the most viewed wrestling show on the planet! so will ratings go up in the next few weeks? maybe a little but what its up against on the time it's on will be very difficult
Oh well, 9 more episodes then it's all over. Assuming all episodes air without interruption the final episode will air May 10th.
What is a neilson box? I have a high def comcast dvr box so do i count as a live viewer?
It's so ridiculous. A paradox. It's not just SyFy's fault but just really strange.. Every half season SGU got better, and at the same time every half season the ratings went down a notch ( about 0.4 – 0.3 million each time, but it seems stable now ).. I can't really blame the show anymore as it's gotten a whole lot better within the space of a season. SG-1 and SGA were great, but didn't have such remarkable improvement from season to season. I guess it really, really didn't appeal to people ( though personally I suspect the hatred out of principle because they ended SGA ( not just SyFy but the producers did, but there was no loyalty or respect for the 15 seasons of SG-1 and SGA they gave us, just outright bitternes and hatred resulting in, at the moment, the end of a franchise.. )
Ah, I just had to rant.
Previews look awesome. Just awesome.
I. Can't. Wait!
This looks great. Unfortunately the UK aren't able to help with the ratings, but I'll definitely be buying the S02 complete blu-ray when it comes out (as I did with the first season).
Beyond that all I can do is hope.
Still working on Warping space-time….But until I work that out, Just download the show on Itunes (I can't believe I just recommended apple! GRR) as soon as it comes out! not to mention Blue Ray and DVD's of SGU….
NO I don't have a nielsen box, But I have a DVR that's connected to broadband, and they collect all the Data from Tivo and other for Live + Same day, and Live + 7, which is why I said watch it, DVR it, and watch that too! If your on cable, Dish, Or DirecTv, and connected to broadband, then your watching the show counts….
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The only Blew up the planets because they were using energy from the planets Naqudah Core… So the planet they dial shouldnt have any ill effects, although Id dial the alpha site just to be sure you dont have anything feed back through the wormhole.
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Actually Imperious ,You are incorrect when you say Well, Here in Australia they(Channel 11),just aired "justice". Aside from buying the Blu-Ray discs there is nothing we can do to help" StarGate Universe Airs every Thursday on SciFi Channel on Foxtel, we are on the same episode as the USA.Its airs Mondays USA, same episode Thursday Australia. Forget free to air tv there are months and months behind.
Moving the show to a better network would be great. the other thing for them to do is do what they did for the pilot episode and show the previews for each week episodes on the big screens before the movie starts. i sure would like to find out where Destiny is going and what they find when they get there. Plus, to even find out if Earth ever gets the right team back onboard the ship. I also would hope to see if Dainel Jackson makes it to the ship as well. Last, all the space battels so far are great. still moving the show to another network would help the ratings. the other thing would be move it back to Friday Nights or maybe put it on Showtime Channel were SG-1 first started on.
@trinium If you read the article that Slayme found,you'll see why Live + same day and + 7,doesn't really make any significant difference.
But I respect your enthusiasm for the show.
One thing is certain..in the next few years this status quo will become unsustainable.And things will have to change.Now what that change will look like,it is hard to tell,but if I'd have to guess,I'd say it will probably be some sort of combination between on-line advertising and payed on-demand viewing.For that combination to be functionable a new on-line system will have to be developed and introduced.
Now,that is just guessing on my part,but a change will happen,because this Nielsen cult really is just an agreed currency,with very little connection to reallity and it is so outdated.A time of Dallas and Dinasty is so long gone,dead and burried.
What is the Episode that Robert picardo and david hewlett is on?
That is the last Stargate universe episode I plan on watching ever… I stopped watching a long time ago but I love those guys and would watch pretty much anything they do. I have been watching for it on the News here and don't see it yet.
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@puddlejumper_1 It's just not SCi-fi channel but it's also the producers as well.
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Wii U is 'expensive' says Ubisoft CEO - GameSpot.com
A new article came out saying the the Wii U is priced to high according to Ubisoft CEO.
Wii U is 'expensive' says Ubisoft CEO - GameSpot.com
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ehhh. wel i mean if they could they would put it down to 100 dollars. they think the wii u is priced cheap but"wished it was lower". they think it is good. but from a company standpoint lower is better for them.
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I think that $300 is low for a next-gen system, remember that Nintendo is selling the Wii U at a loss here, so really around $300 could possibly be the cheapest you could get at this moment.
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I paid $400 bucks for my 360 at launch. $300-$350 is ideal considering that I feel like Sony and Microsoft might go $500 for their upper tier bundle whenever they launch. Considering what the Wii U costs now (selling at a loss) and the specs it has, when the competitors launch in a year or two, the cost of production isn't going to go down substantially.
Well, I do certainly think it could be priced better to market toward a casual gamer. Really though, you can't expect Nintendo to go any lower at this point in time. They're already losing money.
five hundred ninety nine US dollars!
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I wonder where is the proof about Nintendo is selling the Wii U at a loss...oh and anyone remember Nintendo loses money (2011) for their first time? Good move Iwata! (he cuts his salary 50% and other employees)
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I agree, $300 is too much. I had to buy it using my hard-earned money. I crei evry tiem I think about my purchase.
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It's 50 bucks more than the Wii was at launch, and arguably has better specs for the time, with a significantly more expensive controller.
Half the price the PS3 was at launch, a hundred bucks less than the 360's HDD enabled model. The difference grows with a bit of inflation thrown in.
It's understandable why the CEO of a games company would like a lower price point, especially when they're responsible for casual-aimed cash cows like Just Dance, but for consumers the tech Nintendo has included is coming at a bargain price this time!
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Ubisoft is so confusing. Are they for Nintendo, or against them. You hear about all the games they are making for the Wii U. Then you hear about games they say they're not planning on ever porting. Then you hear about more games they are making for the Wii U. Then they whine and complain about how much it costs. Make up your minds, guys. Don't be wishy washy with your support.
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The base system is $50 more than the Wii and a mear $100 more than all other Nintendo consoles ever released. Compare that to PS1 ($299) PS2 ($299) XBOX ($299) XBOX 360 ($399-$499) and lastly PS3 ($499-599) Does he consider the Wii U an inferior system to what Sony and Microsoft are preparing to release, more than likely for considerably more money!?!?!?
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The price on the hardware when you consider the controller isnt your typical $30-50 controller, but a $150 controller. So the Wii U console itself is probably a $200 piece, but the controller cost puts it at the current price. Everyone just wants to look at the cost based on the graphics hardware, but thats not where the extra cost has come from. If Nintendo has just released a Wii HD, they could have easily come in at the $199-250 price point.
It's Ubisoft. If they had made the system, you'd have to unlock each piece of it with online activated only DRM.

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The wreckage of the helicopter was located in Choctawhatchee Bay in about 10 feet of water. A witness fishing near the site said he saw an unknown type of aircraft flying to the north on the east side of the bay, with "lights and a red light." The aircraft turned toward the east and descended and he did not see or hear it again.
Radar data from Eglin Air Force Base showed that the flight was first seen on radar at 12:40:37 at 300 feet. It climbed to 900 feet, proceeding northbound across the bay.
The flight then descended to between 700 and 800 feet. At 12:42:18, the flight entered a turn to the east, and the last radar contact was recorded at 12:42:49, when the helicopter was heading east-southeast at 700 feet. This position was about three-quarters of a mile northeast of the crash site.


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Yamaha Tenori-On. This is a beautiful new electronic musical instrument designed by media artist Toshio Iwai. You hold it with two hands and are represented with a grid of 256 white LEDs. It has a unique sequencer which allows for traditional step style movements but also pings and gravity motions. The LEDs bounce and fly across the grid. You can add layers sounds. You end up with a gorgeous light show viewable from the front and backside of the instrument. If the musician you love had a Light Bright when he was a child he's going to freak when he see this. Inspirational and new the Tenori-On. link
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As summer progresses, the preferred forages for grazing dry up and become less available and animals are forced to consume plants they might otherwise not eat. These are some plants of concern for grazing livestock during these dry conditions in Ohio.
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There aren't too many differences between this new Dragonrider boss fight and the first one you faced - other than the minor fact that this time around there's two of the blighters to deal with. Just be aware that one of your opponents will use a bow against you, and hides in the corner of the room for most of the fight, while the remaining boss is as good as identical to the original Dragonrider.
We recommend taking down the ranged attacker first, although you'll need to lure the other boss to the far side of the room in order to do so. Whenever he fails to land an attack against you, race over as fast as you can to the ranged enemy, and throw as many whacks at it as you can manage. If you stay very close to the bow-wielding warrior, it won't be able to fire its arrows at you.
Always keep a close eye on your other opponent, and move out of its attacking range whenever it approaches. Keep this strategy up until the ranged opponent is dead. Now you can turn your attention to the melee boss.
Just strafe all the way around the boss to avoid the worst of its damage, or you can dodge out of the way to avoid the incoming attacks. When it's finished launching its assault, you should be able to get two or three hits in, depending on the speed of your weapon. Keep all this up and you should have no trouble finishing off the last boss.
How to find King's Passage
When the pair of Dragonriders are dead, go through the door ahead of you and light the bonfire. Now carry on down this hall and take a right when you reach the small round room. Go up the ladder here, then turn around and walk through the gate.
Watch out for the statues in this next area, as they'll come to life and attack you. Just make your way through the room very slowly, and you should never have to deal with too many statues at the same time.
"Watch out for the statues in this next area, as they'll come to life and attack you."
Once you've killed all of the statues, go through the door in front of you and interact with the coffers in the next room to loot a Caitha's Chime, a Soul Greatsword, and an Old Knight Hammer. Carry on through the next door along, then make your way up the big set of stairs.
Turn right when you reach the top of the stairs, then carry on down the hallway and kill the pair of archers you come to. Keep a close eye out for any incoming danger from the archers who are over on the other side of the area while you're do this.
When you reach the end of this hall you'll come to a coffer. Loot it to add a Firestorm to your inventory, then make your way over to the other side of this area and kill the pair of archers.
The chest nearby is booby-trapped, and you'll be staring down the barrel of a volley of heavy bolts when you open it. Dodge or block these shots, then rummage around in the chest to loot 10 Fire Greatarrows.
Go back downstairs now and kill the trio of enemies lurking around at the other end of the room. Now go through the doorway, kill the enemy in the next area, then go downstairs again and walk through the door. You'll be able to loot 10 Flame Butterflies and five Repair Powders from the next room, as well as an Estus Flask Shard from the nearby chest.
Interact with the lever to open up the gate that's over in the corner, then go through the door and walk down the stairs to get back to the bonfire. Once you're at the bonfire, go through the door and keep walking along until you come to the circular room. Walk onto the plate that's in the middle of the room to get a lift up to the next floor.
If you go through the doors in front of you you'll come across a prisoner. You can't do anything with him until you've looted the Key to the Embedded, so just keep this location in mind for now, and come back later when you have the key - you'll loot it from the Demon of Song. When you've got that key, you'll be able to loot a Ring of the Dead.
For now, simply open up all of the coffers you can see to get a Strong Magic Shield, a Fire Seed, a Soul Vessel, and the Key to King's Passage. Make your way back to the lift that brought you up here, activate the lever, and take the trip back down. Now you can use that key to open up the door in front of you. Once opened, walk along the hallway and into King's Passage.
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A strong start by host Aliso Niguel to Tuesday night's South Coast League dual meet had the San Clemente wrestling team in an early bind, but a second-half surge from the Tritons quickly put to rest any notion of an upset.
The reigning league dual-meet champion Tritons, who are ranked No. 7 in Orange County, took advantage of some favorable matchups in the bigger weight classes to turn the tide and secure a 34-30 victory that improved their record to 9-3, 1-1 in league.
"Enough of the kids wrestled well enough; it's just coming off a break I think we are a little bit flat right now," said San Clemente coach Mark Calentino, whose team trailed, 18-12, midway through the meet. "We need to be able to get inside our own heads and wrestle hard, wrestle tough and mean. If we can get that back, we will be fine."
San Clemente took a 19-18 lead when Nathan Clifton scored a four-point win in a dominant showing in the 160-pound class. In the blink of an eye, the Tritons fattened their lead to 34-18 on back-to-back pin falls earned by Mike Marshall (170) and Zack Adcock (182) followed by a 5-1 win in the 195-pound class by Alex Ames.
The Tritons also got wins from Noah Fiegener, who scored a first-round pin at 138, and Kyle Marshall, who won a close match at 152.
And while it seemed the breaks were going the Wolverines' way early on, an injury default in the second match of the night ended up costing the Wolverines (6-7, 0-3) dearly.
Aliso Niguel's Anthony Villa suffered an injury in the second round of his 113-pound match against Sebastian Beltran, who held a 4-3 lead at the time. Villa was unable to continue, which awarded the Tritons a crucial six points and an early foothold. A win of any kind for Villa would have been enough to swing the final score back in the Wolverines' favor.
"We lost three close matches that we kind of expected to win close," Calentino said. "You can't lose all the matches that are toss ups. If we're on, I think we beat them by 20-25 points. We were fortunate enough to pull that one out for a victory."
San Clemente 60, Troy 53: Elijah Morris made five three-pointers and finished with 19 points in the Tritons' nonleague road win Tuesday night.
Sam Darnold scored 25 points for San Clemente (8-8).
No. 8 San Clemente 66, Edison 57: Jessica Degree came up one rebound shy of a 20-20 performance in the Tritons' nonleague road win on Monday night, finishing with season highs of 27 points and 19 boards.
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Since first recording in the late 1950s, soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy has been one of the most prolific musicians on the planet, with well over 100 releases to his name. Now, with the addition of the double CD Snips to his catalogue, there is another document of Lacy's not infrequent forays into what must be one of the most demanding of performance situations, solo improvised saxophone.
In Lacy's case this type of performance situation is made even more demanding by the fact that he does not really anchor his improvisations in melody or anything close to regular changes. Rather, he tends to set out fairly elemental musical ideas bit by bit, playing a passage over and over with slight variation until the idea has exhausted itself and he can move on. While Lacy's approach may strike listeners as being naïve at times, his thoroughness shows him to be very deliberate and very sophisticated, as if he is working out a whole new vocabulary piece by piece. At the same time though, his approach seems very much rooted in the situation, in the creative spark of the moment. I would imagine that sitting in the Environ loft in 1976 in New York, the site of this recording, would have been quite exciting, and not just because it was Lacy's first solo show in the U.S., but because he displays such an obvious commitment to exploring new sounds. The problem though is the fact that what is new and exciting, what is built out of the sheer desire to create, does not always transcend the moment. Therefore, while Snips is an interesting artifact of a moment in a performer's career, and of a time in New York, it doesn't always make for the most compelling listening. Part of the problem here is the fact that this recording was made by a fan using fairly rudimentary equipment, which means that the recording itself ranges from poor to bad. Thus on "Hooky" where Lacy shouts out "don't go to school / don't go to school" and then proceeds to play off the rhythm of his voice, the impact is totally lost given how muted his voice is. The problem is even worse on "Underline (Fire)", a section of a longer pieced called "The Four Edges", where Lacy repeats a mantra vocally, and then plays out the rhythms on his horn. You can sort of hear what's going on, but not really in any satisfying way. It left me thinking, I bet that was cool, wish I was there to really hear it.
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Wintec's Training Restaurant Launches First Cookbook
For immediate release
8 November 2012
Wintec's Training Restaurant Launches First
Wintec's student training restaurant Windows launches its first cookbook in Hamilton next week.
The cookbook - A Taste of Windows - is filled with a collection of the most sought-after recipes developed by Wintec tutors and produced and served by Wintec hospitality students.
Wintec hospitality tutor, Barry Finch said: "We're excited to be launching our first cookbook. A Taste of Windows is a way of showcasing the skills of our talented tutors and student stars of the future. It also responds to the feedback from our loyal customers who want to know the recipes behind our meals."
"Our training restaurant is a well-known institution in the region. It is a modern facility where we teach the latest food trends and industry techniques to our students, as well as giving them hands-on experience cooking and presenting to the Waikato public."
Mr Finch says it is hoped a Windows cookbook will be produced on an annual basis. The cookbook is $15 and with every one sold $6 goes to the charity Child Matters to help prevent harm to children in New Zealand.
There are recipes for every occasion, as well as dishes from this year's popular themed banquets - An Arabic Journey through the Ages, A Chocolate Degustation, A Taste of Malt and A South African Culinary Safari. Windows hosted the banquets which saw around 400 members of the public through its doors.
A Taste of Windows is available to purchase at Windows Restaurant located at the Rotokauri campus on Avalon Drive; through Wintec's Centre for Hospitality 07-834 8850, or via email@example.com.
Windows is also the venue for the region's largest cooking competition, the Waikato Culinary Fare. It is open to the public for lunch, dinner and private functions throughout the teaching year. For more information on opening times, visit www.wintec.ac.nz/windows.
The cookbook launch will take place between 11am-12pm on Monday 12 November at Windows, Wintec Rotokauri Campus, Avalon Drive, Hamilton. It will be attended by Wintec staff and students, loyal customers and industry professionals. Copies of the cookbooks will be available for purchase at the launch.


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Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg spoke about the housing crisis, cuts to government spending and strike action during a visit to Finchley today.
The Conservative and Liberal Democrat party leaders were invited to Pentland Brands global headquarters in Squires Lane, to meet its researchers, developers and designers.
Both praised the work of the family-owned business, which has seen sales grow by 18 per cent in England and 33 per cent internationally over the past five years.
As well as calling the firm a "real gem", the pair also took some time out to discuss the current issues affecting Barnet.
Mr Cameron was asked about Premier House, Edgware, which is due to be converted from offices to flats after a change in the law left Barnet Council powerless to refuse a change of use request.
He said: "We all know we need more housing in London, that's probably the number one issue across all London boroughs and allowing greater flexibility so you can turn often empty office space into housing is right."
He also said cuts to government funding were not possible.
The Prime Minister said over the next year, Barnet's spending power has been reduced by 1.6 per cent, which is less than the national average.
He said: "We must stick to our long-term economic plan. The key part is to get that deficit down and avoid the mistakes of the past.
"We'd be betraying people if we had to go back to the high-spending, high-taxing and high-borrowing past we are escaping from."
Mr Clegg was asked whether care workers from Your Choice Barnet were right to strike following plans to introduce a 9.5 per cent pay cut.
He said: "I will always defend people's rights to strike. The care sector is incredibly important as lots of people rely on it and it's a huge help to many families across the country.
"It helps protect the vulnerable folk, but is notorious for being a sector where there's low pay, which is why we've made sure minimum wage goes up to a higher rate than ever before.
"I don't want to see innocent members of the public, and the most vulnerable people in our society, suffer from these disputes. It's always best for employers and employees who are in dispute to seek to resolve them, rather than to have other people drawn into the dispute and suffering as a result."
He was also quizzed about the Brent Cross Regeneration Project, which will see 7,500 new homes built in the area in the next ten years.
However, many have raised concerns about over development and the fact that this will inevitably mean the loss of green spaces in the area.
He said: "We should be up front about the housing crisis. We should be building a quarter of a million houses every year just to get supply and demand to roughly match.
"We need to stop this constant spiralling of prices which means so many young people these days the dream of getting on the first rung of the property ladder really is just a dream.
"The crucial thing is to build new homes which enjoy as much support locally as possible, and doesn't carpet over the great swathes of green spaces people care so much about."


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Michael Dialynas Draws Heroes From Comics, 'Doctor Who,' 'Game of Thrones' and More [Art]
Asking the question "What if?" can be a fun game to play whether you're writing a comic book for Marvel or just sketching away at a passing thought. At least that's the case with artist Michael Dialynas (pronounced "The-Alley-Nas," according to the info at his blog). He's got a thing for concept mash-ups, including The Doctor posing like the Little Prince and hypothetical, Moebius-designed armor for Iron Man.
There's a healthy gallery of Dialynas' stuff up on deviantART, that includes characters from the X-Men, Akira, Tintin and it's mighty colorful. Just take a look at the pink and black in his Bane piece, which has a really charged Dan Hipp-ish quality to it. Dialynas hits other comic book notables like Swamp Thing, Deadman and Spider-Man on his mobile phone.
The most recent gem is in his main blog feed, though, where he mixed together Tony Stark, Inigo Montoya and Game of Thrones. There are probably a lot of GoT fans who wouldn't mind reading a whole comic about what happens when an armored up Tony flies down and dispenses some hand-blaster justice to Joffrey.


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Let's Broaden Our Minds With An Australian TV Show About Dancing To 'Batdance'
Although Chris Sims is without question the World's Foremost Batmanologist, there is one area where he's a little weak: International Batman Studies. Sure, he knows about Jiro Kuwata's manga and The Wild World of Batwoman, but it seems like there are always strange new interpretations of the Caped Crusader from other countries to discover. Like that time in 1989 when a bunch of Australians dressed up like Prince and did some dodgy choreography to "Batdance."


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My daughter is suddenly afraid to sleep in her own room. She's okay with reading a bedtime story there, but after about five minutes in bed, she comes running out of her room saying, "I'm scared!"
Sigh ... What's a mum to do? She wasn't like this before but we went overseas on holidays and all shared a room. I guess she got used to us all being together.
Writer Jo Harris addresses 'scared of the dark' fears as well as other common childhood fears (hands up who's had to cope with 'letting the water out of the bath' fear or 'flushing the toilet' fear!) Meanwhile, I'll use Jo's article to try to get my child back to sleeping in her room ON HER OWN!
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Foot Tattoos
Many women choose to get a foot tattoo is because of the size of the design. Foot tattoo designs tend to be smaller so they take less time to ink. And with less time under the needle that means that there is also less pain from being tattooed. Another thing that makes foot tattoos attractive to females is that the tattoo can be easily hidden just by wearing normal foot apparel. So, if tattoos aren't permitted at her place of employment then she can cover it.
But, if she goes out clubbing with her friends then she can show it off with pride. Take a look at the foot tattoo in the picture. It's what I would call a common female design. It shows off a beautiful flower design that wraps around the ankle. This type of design fits a women's foot especially well since it take advantage of the natural curves and soft lines of a ladies foot. The only thing that perplexes me about this tattoo is the lack of color. I would think that a foot tattoo that had a flower design would also be done with very bright and colorful inks. But, then again maybe this design isn't finished yet.
Foot Tattoo
Foot tattoos have gained a certain level of popularity in recent times, especially among females. This can probably be attributed to the increased use of open toed shoe designs found with flip flops and high heels. Foot tattoos can be striking but often require a lot of aftercare. Ink migration, the spreading of the ink out of the tattoo, can be an elevated risk with foot tattoos. Also, it is thought that these tattoos are generally more painful than placement on say, the arm. That's because tattoos done over bone tend to hurt more than those done over soft tissue.
So, an upper arm or chest tattoo may be a better choice for a novice who is worried about their first tattoo or don't know quite what to expect. If you get a foot tattoo, be prepared to go back and have it re-inked if need be. The top of your foot is the best place with the least blurring, avoid other places like the sides or the heels. The positive side of foot tattoos is that they are generally easier to hide, if you need to cover them for work for instance. And another positive is that these tattoos can really look cool if they are done by a skillful artist and proper care is taken of them.
Foot Tattoo
Getting a foot tattoo can both be a beautiful piece of art and at the same time be a real pain to maintain. Foot tattoos require more diligence in maintaining them compared to other tattoos. For one, the top of the foot is hard to cover and it's recommended that tattoos be initially covered in order to allow them to heal properly. So, after getting a foot tattoo you may have to opt out of wearing open toed shoes until it's healed! Plus, any rubbing on the newly done tattoo will most likely result in irritation.
Another issue with foot tattoos is infection. If you opt to not wear shoes while it's healing then all kinds of dirt and gunk can get into them, and trust me an infected tattoo is by no means fun at all. But, there are also positives associated with these tattoos. One, they are easy to cover if your in a work or social situation that frowns upon skin ink. And two, these pieces can really be striking works of art and showcase the skills of the tattoo artist who inked it. The most common designs for foot tattoos are flowers, stars or in the case of the picture butterflies.
Feet Tattoos
Feet tattoos can be a controversial subject when discussed in mixed circles. It's not because there is anything that is inherently wrong with feet tattoos, it's just some people think that getting inked on this part of the body can be a somewhat risky proposition. Some people think that getting the skin inked on the top of the foot can lead to all sorts of problems. If you mention the subject of feet tattoos the first thing that you are likely to hear is that they can cause damage to the nerves of the foot.
The theory is that the skin is so thin on that particular part of the body that piercing it with a needle will damage the very sensitive nerves located there. But, let me address that problem right here and now. There is no evidence that supports the fact that getting feet tattoos will cause any damage to nerves whatsoever. In fact, I have personally known quite a few people that have gotten feet tattoos without any adverse reactions at all. Now I'm not saying that's impossible, especially if the artist is inexperienced or uses too much pressure with the tattoo gun. I'm just saying that it's highly unlikely.
Foot Tattoos
Here we have a couple of pretty cool looking and matching foot tattoos. These two are simple tattoos but they get right to the point. Just a plain sort of design around the top of the foot mostly. These foot tattoos really reminded me of the time I saw a guy with sandals tattooed to his feet. Yes, sandals. He had them put on in such a way that you though he really was wearing a pair of sandals, and unless you got up close to him and took a good look, you would never know that it was really just tattoos.
He was kind of a goofy guy though and use to joke that he did that so he could go in and out of the little stores in the area without them telling him he had to have shoes on. I guess he thought that was funny. It's cute, but not really funny and I never believed that was the real reason he got them.
They say getting foot tattoos can be the most painful tattoos to get because the skin is so close to the bone, and that they require the most aftercare as well to prevent infection and such things. I am not sure if that is true or not.
Feet Tattoos
These two feet tattoos are the kind that you just cannot go wrong with. And that is because they say Mom and Dad. That's never going to change so there's nothing to worry about. As long as this person is cool with these rather large, flowery heart tattoos across the top of both feet, then everything is great. But if that becomes a problem, too late. They are there to stay. These two feet tattoos are very pleasant looking though. The colors are loud but not over done in my opinion.
They are not so loud that they jump up and scream out at anyone. They're just loud enough to say hey, look at me. I'm cool. And that's what a really big part of having tattoos is all about. People want to get art put on them and then walk through life showing it off. And if they want to do it with feet tattoos then that's the way they are going to do it. As far as I am concerned it's all just a matter of doing it. When it comes to the tattoo world that's what separates the men and the boys.


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An outdoor production of George's Marvellous Medicine is be staged.
Roald Dahl's classic story tells of a child devising his own medicine for his nasty grandmother in revenge for her moving into his room.
The outdoor theatre troop Illyria will perform at the Temple in Wanstead Park, with the show starting at 3pm on Wednesday.
Adult tickets £14.95, under-16s £8.95 and under-3s, £3.95.


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The following, once copied and pasted into phpMyAdmin, gives me the following familiar error message:
I don't know what to change to fix it.
CREATE TABLE Addresses {
id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY
, name VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL
, address1 VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL
, address2 VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL
, city VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL
, state CHAR(2) NOT NULL
, zip VARCHAR(10) NOT NULL
, url VARCHAR(255) NULL
, email VARCHAR(255) NULL
, phone VARCHAR(20) NULL
, details TEXT NULL
, display CHAR(1) NULL
, added DATE NOT NULL
} DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 ENGINE=InnoDB
You need to use () and not {} for you create table statement.
change the { and } for ( and )
A little PHP leaked into my MySQL! Thanks!


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by Jason Olson
Sports Editor
Scoring has been a struggle for Coon Rapids as they were shutout in four of the last five games.
The lone win, a 3-1 win over the Duluth Northern Lights Dec. 27 came in the middle game of the Abra Invitational at Braemar Arena in Edina.
The Cardinals were blanked at Blaine 4-0 Dec. 17 and 5-0 at Roseville Dec. 23. Coon Rapids opened the Edina tournament with a 6-0 loss to Lakeville South Dec. 26. The day after the win, Coon Rapids returned to its scoring woes as Irondale handed it a 3-0 shutout Dec. 27 as the Knights Samantha Donovan had a hat trick. Lakeville South's Ari Reid completed her hat trick with 1:22 left in the second period.
Coon Rapids' Jane Hannula ended the scoring drought 15:25 into the first period against Duluth. Brenna Paskey made it 2-0 for the Cardinals 1:20 into the second period and Michelle Harris scored a power play goal 13:04 into the final period for the third goal of the game with assists going to Addie Rust and Kate Fredrickson.
"It was a great team effort and we scored some nice goals off rebounds and an aggressive forecheck," Coon Rapids coach Jessica Christopherson said. "We've been in a scoring drought the last couple games so it was good to break out of that."
Coon Rapids goalie Ali Weber made 21 saves for the win. She made 22 saves in the loss to Irondale and 34 saves against Lakeville South. [smooth=id:446]
• Fifth-ranked Anoka captured the Mid-Winter Meltdown tournament title in Eden Prairie following its 4-3 win over Chaska/Chanhassen Dec. 30.
The Tornadoes (12-1) began the tournament with a 3-0 win over Cloquet/Esko/Carlton before topping No. 11 ranked Eagan 3-1 in the semifinals.
"Those were three really good hockey teams and proved to be a good challenge for us," Anoka coach Pete Hayes said as they took the New Year's weekend off before returning to action against North Metro and Armstrong earlier this week.
Anoka ran its current winning streak to 10 games with a perfect 10-0 record in Decemeber as the top line of Emily Brigham, Katie Johnson and Blair Parent continued to propel the Tornadoes. Johnson had nine points (five goals), Brigham had eight points (six assists) and Blair Parent had seven points (four assists).
Anoka outshot the Lumberjills 28-18 as Tornadoes goalie Katie McLain recorded the shutout win.
Despite being out-shot 39-33 by the Eagan, it was Anoka who buried the puck including a four-point game from Johnson (two goals). Blair Parent scored twice and Brigham assisted twice as McLain was busy in turning away 37 shots in the semifinal.
"One we got those three back together four games ago, they're as good as any line in the state," Hayse said. "Team's might be able to stop one of them but not the whole line."
Anoka's second line of McKenna Parent, Kayla McLauglin and Dani Peterson has provided some consistency and veteran varsity experience.
"They know their roles on the team and they each have the potennial to score," Hayes said as they create match-up issues for the opposition after the top line takes to the bench. Special teams will be another area Anoka has plenty of firepower to use with the top line joined at times with McKenna Parent on the point and Peterson in the slot.
Anoka and Chaska/Chanhassen entered the third period tied 2-2. Johnson scored a power play goal at the 9:28 mark of the third period to make it 3-2. Five minutes later Anoka's Amanda Kimmerle made it 4-2 with assists from Blair Parent and McLaughlin.
The Hawks made it 4-3 with four seconds left in the game as McLain had 22 saves.
• Eighth-ranked Blaine also took to the Eden Prairie ice for the Mid-Winter Meltdown and came away with a 1-2 record. The Bengals were shutout in back to back losses to No. 11 ranked Eagan (4-0) and Cloquet/Esko/Carlton (1-0) before handing North Metro a 2-1 loss Dec. 30.
North Metro, a Northwest Suburban Conference foe, took a 1-0 lead with a power play goal just 23 seconds into the second period. That lead stood for the next 11 minutes before Blaine's Kiersten Falck tied it up with goal from Breanna Mahoney at the 11:02 mark of the period. The Blaine duo reversed its roles for the game winner, 8:41 into the third period as Falck found Mahoney for the winner.
Blaine controlled the puck and carried the pace of play as they outshot the Stars 46-17 for the game. The Bengals peppered North Metro goalie Lauren Torborg for 21 shots in the second period.
Blaine also outshot Cloquet 26-18 in the semifinals, but Eskimos Mackenzie Roy scored the lone goal of the game 7:50 into the third period.
Scott Darwitz' Eagan squad outshot the Bengals 39-14, including a 17-1 margin in the third third period. The Wildcats Megan Wolfe had a hat trick while Bengals goalie Tara Hoverstad had 35 saves in the loss.
• St. Francis/North Branch took part in the Schwan Cup's White Division Dec. 28-30 going 1-2.
The Fighting Saints lost to Badger Thunder (Wis.) 3-2 in the opener Dec. 28 before a 6-1 loss to Appleton (Wis.) Dec. 29. St. Francis rebounded with a 7-1 win over Fairmont to close out the tournament on a high note Dec. 30.
It was the first win of the season for St. Francis who began the season 0-12-0.
Saints Jessica St. Marie scored less than three minutes apart to give her team a 2-0 lead 7:36 into the contest. The offense set the tone for the afternoon as St. Francis added three more goals in the middle period by Erynn Downey, Kalley Wagner and Katie Sigfrinius.
Alexa Denney ad Emily Swanson scored 89 seconds apart late in the third period for the final score.
Saints goalie Dakotah Bullen made 12 saves for her first win of the season as the defense did a great job of containing the Cardinals offense.
• Spring Lake Park took a holiday road trip to the Austin Hotshots Tournament in southern Minnesota Dec. 26-28.
The Panthers had its first three-game winning streak of the season after losing six of its previous seven games and set multiple school records in an 18-0 blowout win over Windom Dec. 27.
The Panthers set new school records for most goals scored in one game while they didn't give up a shot for another team record.
Spring Lake Park came from behind to down New Prague 5-3 in the opener Dec. 26 and finished the tournament with a 5-0 win over Minneapolis Novas in the championship game Dec. 28.
Panthers coach Tom Kulenkamp said the turning point for his club came in the first game against New Prague. "We had several players who had solid games," he said while his team came back from a 3-2 deficit with three short handed goals in the third period including a goal from a 3-on-5 situation.
Kulenkamp said his squad played its best game of the season against Minneapolis.
"We played solid team defense, had excellent goaltending and we passed the puck well," he said. "We moved the puck around on the power play and even though we didn't score a power play goal, our power play helped tire them out and gave us good momentum in the game.
"We had outstanding team leadership from all four seniors – Karissa Thompson, Taylor Patterson, Miranda Mulvihill and Ana Benson and had several other outstanding individual performances."
Spring Lake Park scored four times in the second period against the Novas, with two from Kim Patterson at 15:16 and 15:25. The final goal of the period from Kelly Morris came at 16:26.
Morris had three points after collecting six points (five assists) as Kelly had a hat trick and Miranda Mulvihill also had a hat trick and added an assist in the 18-0 blowout win over Windom which is a new program record for goals scored in one game. The Panthers outshot Windom 89-0, which is the first time the program has held another team without a shot.
Morris had 10 points in the tournament and played a huge role in the win over New Prague as she scored a shorthander 28 seconds after Thompson tied the game 1:15 into the third period. Morris' goal proved to be the game-winner.
"She really had an outstanding tournament," Kulenkamp said. "Kelly was a factor in all three games defending as well as on the attack."
Spring Lake Park forward Mulvihill and freshman defenseman Allie Guzy were also named to the all-tournament team.
Panthers goalie Mackensay Kelly had 22 saves in for her second shutout of the season against the Novas.


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Forrester analysts interviewed 40 digital business leaders about their paths to mobile digital transformation. The verdict: It's not an easy road.
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How do you make developers, who sometimes operate at breakneck speeds, care about security? Why not gamify it, Lev Lesokhin of CAST said in this SearchCIO video interview.
DCIM software addresses a diverse range of data center needs and functions. Learn about the vendors in the market and the accompanying specialties and functions that they offer.
Nearly half of enterprises do not save money with the public cloud, and say they have figured out how to beat public cloud costs with their own private cloud.
It made its name in a long-ago era, but even in the time of virtualization and cloud computing, the mainframe hasn't disappeared yet. The IBM z14 aims to keep it that way.
Top-line Cisco revenues fell in the July quarter, as the company's legacy switching business continued to weaken. Cisco could soon reach two straight years of revenue declines.
Bloggers examine WatchGuard firewall appliances, explore transparency as a vendor virtue and assess the role of 5G in future SD-WAN deployments.
Network infrastructure management processes and architectures are being retooled by IT teams, as today's enterprises prepare for network modernization of legacy systems.
Experts and Apple said despite the leak of the iPhone Secure Enclave Processor encryption key that can be used to decrypt firmware code, user data and biometric information is still safe.
A new POS malware downloads a RAM scraper to avoid detection. Expert Nick Lewis explains the tricks MajikPOS uses to target retail terminals and how to defend against it.
Former CIA officer Valerie Plame discusses why America's cyberdefense is lagging behind -- and what the government and private sector should do to reverse the trend.
Managing a local software testing team is one thing, but when testers are remote, it's challenging. Expert Gerie Owen unpacks her top tips to make the process smoother.
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Fire that killed 2 in Palo Alto ruled accidental
Published 5:36 pm, Tuesday, January 14, 2014
(01-14) 17:35 PST PALO ALTO -- The deaths of two people in a fire at a Palo Alto home were the result of an accident, police said Tuesday.
The victims, whose names haven't been released, were found in a home on the 900 block of Embarcadero Road on the eastern edge of the city after the fire was extinguished about 7:30 p.m. Friday.
The blaze began in the kitchen, but extensive damage prevented police and fire investigators from determining exactly what started it, authorities said.
Investigators did, however, find two possible ignition sources: an electrical appliance and cigarette smoking materials, police said.
Autopsies performed on the victims Tuesday by the Santa Clara County medical examiner did not turn up evidence of homicide or suicide, authorities said.
Henry K. Lee is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: email@example.com Twitter: @henryklee


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African Skies Rain Death, Destruction on Villagers
Date: 19-Sep-07
Country: GHANA
Author: Miriam Imrie
But when floodwaters swirled through her village, her house
collapsed, leaving her homeless and hungry along with hundreds
of thousands of other hapless Africans who have suffered a
similar drenching fate across the continent's Sub-Saharan belt.
"I have no sleeping place and the grain stores also fell
down. All of our crops have totally failed. We have no food. We
are starving ... we have been eating only one meal a day," said
Apebani, 67, who comes from Pungu in Ghana's Upper East region.
She is among more than 300,000 people driven from their
homes in north Ghana alone by torrential rains and floods that
have swept over East and West Africa in recent weeks, destroying
homes and schools and washing away crops and livestock.
Conservative estimates put the number of those killed by the
deluges at some 200, and aid agencies say a million people have
been affected from Ethiopia in the east to Senegal in the west.
In Uganda, one of the countries worst hit, death continued
to fall from the sky.
Ugandan officials said lightning killed seven children and
injured 17 at Bujogo Primary School in western Hoima District on
Monday, the first day of the new academic year,
"In a flash of a moment, I saw pupils lying unconscious
outside the classroom ... Some had their skins peeled off,"
teacher Alexander Sabiiti told state-owned New Vision newspaper.
As aid agencies swung into action to try to house and feed
the homeless and protect them from disease, many flood victims
in northern Ghana were sleeping at night in schools while they
tried to salvage by day what was left of their belongings.
"The roof fell down ... The sand covered our possessions. We
had to dig them out," said Agodem Abablore, 72, who with his
wife Azekpajlie said they had not eaten for over a day.
Like many elderly villagers, they refused to leave their
fragile homes when the floods worsened, choosing to stay behind
to try to guard their possessions and livestock.
As it is, many have lost everything to the floods.
Farmer Majid Issaka from the Builsa district, one of the
worst affected, saw his farm on the edge of a river disappear
beneath the floodwaters.
"I came and saw the crops were destroyed," he said.
He and others feared disease fomented by the floods would
cause many more victims from cholera and malaria.
"The mosquitoes are coming and many people have been falling
sick," he said.
George Isaac Amoo, national coordinator of Ghana's National
Disaster Management Organisation, said that, while floodwaters
were receding in most places, there was a serious threat of food
shortages unless more rapid relief arrived for the victims.
The rains and floods inflicted extensive damage on a
northern region that was traditionally Ghana's major food
basket, growing rice, maize, millet and sorghum.
"This flood is unprecedented; thousands of acres of farmland
have been destroyed, including livestock," Amoo said
"Barns and silos ... stored food ... Infrastructure like
bridges and roads have all been destroyed," he added.
Ghana's government was distributing food rations and United
Nations experts were up in the north assessing emergency needs.
Cocoa, Ghana's main export, is not grown in the flood-hit
north, but heavier than normal rain has produced black pod, a
fungal infection, in some major producing areas.
(Additional reporting by Orla Ryan in Accra and Francis Kwera
in Kampala)


text: Monsanto has withdrawn its application to bring two varieties of second-generation genetically modified corn to market in Europe. There are allegations that the corn in question carries serious food safety issues, and the article reports that Monsanto has asked for all its data back—which would prevent anyone from doing further research on the corn's safety. (Via Starkman.) Link.


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Following significant drops both on month and on year in January, worldwide notebook shipments remained weak in February, growing only 2% sequentially for the top-five brand vendors together and 1% sequentially for the top-three notebook ODMs, according to Digitimes Research.
Despite a significant shipment decline in January because of high inventory level, Hewlett-Packard (HP) still managed to reach its shipment goal for the fiscal first-quarter 2016 ended on January 31. HP then recorded strong growth in February and returned as the largest vendor worldwide, Digitimes Research's report noted.
Although Lenovo had strong shipment performance in January, its shipments in February were lower than those for Dell, who achieved growth in the month thanks to orders for Windows 10-based enterprise notebooks.
Asustek Computer and Acer both saw on-month shipment drops in February because of seasonal factors.
As for the top-3 ODMs, Compal Electronics achieved an on-month growth of 10% in February, the best performance among the three. Quanta Computer had an on-month decline in February with one of its major clients, Toshiba, gradually leaving the consumer notebook market, and another, Acer, performing weaker than expected. Wistron's February shipments were flat on month. The three ODMs together had an on-year decline of 12% in February, which was a big improvement compared to the January's on-year drop of 30%.


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EAST Lancashire students are set to become the future generation of archaeologists.
A new A level at Blackburn College will teach students to dig up the secrets of the world's most significant historical sites.
Students who take on the new qualification will study a range of different archaeological sites from ancient Egypt and Roman Europe.
The teacher Blackburn College has hired to take them through the course also works as an archaeological and historical researcher in her spare time.
The college have employed tutor Victoria Buckley who will be encouraging students to get hands-on experience of looking into the past.
Under her tutelage, in the second year the students will be expected to take on their own independent archaeological investigation based on fieldwork.
Victoria acquired a degree at Newcastle University and a post-graduate qualification at the University of York in early mediaeval studies and History.
She said: "While studying I carried out fieldwork on Roman sites in South Shields and Northumberland and Bronze Age sites in Majorca which was a great exper-ience."
She has also worked at the Lancaster University Arch-aeology Unit, the Oxford Archaeology unit as well as volunteering at Ribchester Roman Museum.
She added: "I completed my PGCE and the role of archaeology A level tutor is my first full-time role and I can't wait to start.
On the two-year course, students will focus on belief systems, mortuary practices, funerary monuments and links to symbolism and art.
In the second year, students will be introduced to a range of themes and controversies in world archaeology.
For more information regarding the course, go to www.blackburn.ac.uk/course/archaeology/


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In a frank opinion article for The New York Times, Goldman Sachs executive Greg Smith explained on Wednesday why he was resigning from the firm.
Mr Smith, who was head of Goldman's United States equity derivatives business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, said clients' interests were sidelined in how the firm operated and thought about making money. Mr Smith placed the blame for this cultural change on top management, including Goldman's chief executive, Lloyd Blankfein, and its president, Gary Cohn.
"I truly believe that this decline in the firm's moral fibre represents the single most serious threat to its long-run survival," he wrote. "It astounds me how little senior management gets a basic truth: If clients don't trust you they will eventually stop doing business with you. It doesn't matter how smart you are.
Without clients you will not make money. In fact, you will not exist. Weed out the morally bankrupt people, no matter how much money they make for the firm. And get the culture right again, so people want to work here for the right reasons."
Goldman Sachs took issue with the opinion piece, defending the investment bank's practices and its treatment of clients.
"We disagree with the views expressed, which we don't think reflect the way we run our business," said a spokesperson for Goldman Sachs. "In our view, we will only be successful if our clients are successful. This fundamental truth lies at the heart of how we conduct ourselves."
Within hours, the public resignation letter had sparked a storm of comment on the web and Twitter, as some called it a "must read" and others a "public relations disaster".
4.52pm EST | Our 'Leaving Goldman' Live Blog Is Done
Our live blog updates are done for the day, but The New York Times will have more coverage of the topic throughout the night including articles by DealBook's Susanne Craig and Kevin Roose.
Lorcan Roche Kelly (@LorcanRK) tweets: Goldman Sachs thing is officially dead. Tweets about the etymology of 'muppet' now far ahead of tweets of outrage.
4.10pm | The Volcker Rule and the Goldman Controversy
Paul Volcker suggested that the Volcker Rule might help stop the sort of conflicts of interest that Mr Smith said occurred at Goldman, reports NYT DealBook's Peter Eavis from The Atlantic magazine's Economy Summit in Washington.
The ex-Fed Chairman said that trading businesses that have become a big part of Wall Street over the past 20 years can "lead to a lot of conflicts of interest, and enormous compensation – when you're doing well".
3.39pm | A "Decent" Ping Pong Player
It seems every media outlet has an angle about Greg Smith.
Table Tennis Nation is getting tips about Mr Smith's ping pong prowess.
We're trying to find out as much as possible about Greg Smith, the Goldman Sachs employee who resigned very publicly with a New York Times OpEd in which he calls the firm "toxic" but lists winning a bronze medal in table tennis among his greatest achievements.
An eyewitness for the site confirms that Mr Smith "was a decent player, about an 1800 (at best) using USATT rankings, which means he was capable of keeping up in matches, but way below any seriously competitive ability."
3.32pm | Hedge Fund Founder Defends Goldman
Whitney Tilson, the founder of T2 Partners, sent a letter to the ValueWalk website, saying Goldman is accused of increasingly being profit driven, but so is every firm.
"Our direct experience as a client of Goldman has been universally positive. The many people we have dealt with there have all been exceptionally talented and high-grade, and never once have we had a negative experience in which we felt that they took advantage of us or didn't do what they said they would do."
3.24pm | D'Antoni Resigns Too
No word from the opinion desk yet on whether the former coach of the Knicks has penned an article about the team's decline. But when the history books are written about the Knickerbockers, they may reflect that Carmelo Anthony and Amare Stoudemire lost hold of the team's up-tempo culture on their watch. DealBook truly believes that this decline in passing represents the single most serious threat to Linsanity's long-run survival.
3pm | Matt Taibbi: 'Smith's Piece is Devastating'
Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone magazine has made a career out of taking Goldman down a notch. So it is not surprising that he found a lot to like in Mr Smith's op-ed article, but the author of "The Great American Bubble Machine" also provides a recap of his earlier coverage along with details on Senator Carl Levin's financial inquiry.
"This always had to be the endgame for reforming Wall Street. It was never going to happen by having the government sweep through and impose a wave of draconian new regulations, although a more vigorous enforcement of existing laws might have helped. Nor could the Occupy protests or even a monster wave of civil lawsuits hope to really change the screw-your-clients, screw-everybody, grab-what-you-can culture of the modern financial services industry."
2.42pm | Bess Levin on Why Smith Really Quit
Financial bloggers continue to greet Mr Smith's op-ed with scepticism. Bess Levin of DealBreaker has a PG-13 take on why the head of the firm's United States equity derivatives business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa has resigned.
"He saw the firm hiring people with unpaid parking tickets. He saw employees not being sufficiently chastened as a result of Matt Taibbi's article in Rolling Stone. He saw clients being called muppets. MUPPETS! Did he see illegal behavior? No. Is he pretty sure it's happening but cannot say definitively at this time for legal reasons? Yes. Every day, in fact."
2.24pm | 25 of Smith's Friends 'Like' His Op-Ed
A Facebook profile that appears to belong to Greg Smith of Goldman-quitting fame has shared a link to the op-ed in today's New York Times. So far, 25 of Mr Smith's 207 Facebook friends have "liked" the article. "Congratulations Greg! You are amazing!" writes one friend. "Thanks for writing this. I'd love to catch up sometime." At press time, Mr Smith had yet to respond to DealBook's friend request.
1.38pm | Welcome to the Goldman Firestorm
Azam Ahmed of DealBook and Jackie Calmes write that "it would be hard to imagine a tougher start for Goldman Sachs's new public relations chief, Richard Siewert Jr."
1.36pm | William Cohan Says Smith Is 'Toast' on Wall Street
"He's toast," says William Cohan, the author of Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World. "He is completely toast in terms of Wall Street, no question about that. He is in the witness protection program right now."
1.28pm | Goldman Stock Is Down
Goldman's stock is down more than 3 per cent today, to $120.36 a share in afternoon trading. Overall bank stocks are higher after the Federal Reserve said yesterday that 15 of the 19 largest financial firms had passed a "stress test" and had enough capital to withstand a recession.
1.09pm | What Some Former Goldman Employees Have to Say
DealBook's Kevin Roose has gathered some anonymous reactions from former Goldman Sachs employees and other financial services workers.
"Some of this seems like obvious criticism that simply jumps on the anti-GS/Wall Street bandwagon (too greedy), and, cynically, it's coming from an executive director (after 12 years?), not a managing director or someone who is particularly well-known around the firm." - former Goldman analyst, who left the firm last year
1.04pm | Disenchanted Bankers Or Struggling Authors?
From the author Michael Lewis to the former AIG executive who resigned in a New York Times op-ed before it was cool, Daniel Gross of Yahoo has compiled a list of Wall Street's literary angst.
"The Triumphant Jerk. In October 2008, as the financial world was melting down, hedge fund manager Andrew Lahde danced on the graves of many of his colleagues. He released a letter to the Financial Times explaining that he was shutting his hedge fund because he had already made enough money, and no longer wanted to deal with a bunch of idiots. Oh, and the missive included a plea for the legalisation of pot. Has not been heard from since."
12.36pm | A Goldman Memo Responds to Smith's Op-Ed
DealBook has received an email from a Goldman representative responding to Mr Smith's op-ed article.
In a message to the company's employees, Mr Blankfein and Mr Cohn write: "It is unfortunate that an individual opinion about Goldman Sachs is amplified in a newspaper and speaks louder than the regular, detailed and intensive feedback you have provided the firm and independent, public surveys of workplace environments."
Here is the complete letter:
March 14, 2012
Our Response to Today's New York Times Op-Ed
By now, many of you have read the submission in today's New York Times by a former employee of the firm. Needless to say, we were disappointed to read the assertions made by this individual that do not reflect our values, our culture and how the vast majority of people at Goldman Sachs think about the firm and the work it does on behalf of our clients.
In a company of our size, it is not shocking that some people could feel disgruntled. But that does not and should not represent our firm of more than 30,000 people. Everyone is entitled to his or her opinion. But, it is unfortunate that an individual opinion about Goldman Sachs is amplified in a newspaper and speaks louder than the regular, detailed and intensive feedback you have provided the firm and independent, public surveys of workplace environments.
While I expect you find the words you read today foreign from your own day-to-day experiences, we wanted to remind you what we, as a firm – individually and collectively – think about Goldman Sachs and our client-driven culture.
First, 85 per cent of the firm responded to our recent People Survey, which provides the most detailed and comprehensive review to determine how our people feel about Goldman Sachs and the work they do.
And, what do our people think about how we interact with our clients? Across the firm at all levels, 89 per cent of you said that that the firm provides exceptional service to them. For the group of nearly 12,000 vice presidents, of which the author of today's commentary was, that number was similarly high.
Anyone who feels otherwise has available to him or her a mechanism for anonymously expressing their concerns. We are not aware that the writer of the opinion piece expressed misgivings through this avenue, however, if an individual expresses issues, we examine them carefully and we will be doing so in this case.
Our firm has had its share of challenges during and after the financial crisis, but your pride in Goldman Sachs is clear. You've not only told us, you have told external surveys.
Just two weeks ago, Goldman Sachs was named one of the best places to work in the United Kingdom, where this employee resides. The firm was the highest placed financial services company for the third consecutive year and was the only one in its peer group to make the top 25.
We are far from perfect, but where the firm has seen a problem, we've responded to it seriously and substantively. And we have demonstrated that fact.
It is unfortunate that all of you who worked so hard through a difficult environment over the last few years now have to respond to this. But, our response is best demonstrated in how we really work with and help our clients through our commitment to their long-term interests. That priority has distinguished us in the past, through the financial crisis and today.
Thank you.
Lloyd C. Blankfein
Gary D. Cohn
12.30pm | And Now There Are Two
Reuters reports that Bill McDermott, the head of the defined contribution business at Goldman Sachs, has left the firm.
12.07pm | Salmon: 'A Strong Smell of Faux-Naive'
Felix Salmon, the influential finance blogger at Reuters, says that the timing of Mr Smith's exit right after bonus season is not a coincidence. "The question is, why decide to quit in as public and destructive a manner as possible?" Mr Salmon writes that where the former Goldman executive director goes next may reveal his motivations. Does he join a rival company or a regulator?
"Smith has been in this business for 12 years, and he's done extremely well by it. And to a certain extent, if the people who work for him are constantly asking how good a deal is for Goldman, rather than how good the deal is for Goldman's clients, then that's because of the example he set. What's missing in his op-ed is any sense of mea culpa, any sense that he was at all part of the problem."
11.26am | The Reformed Broker: Muppets Are Adorable
Joshua Brown, aka The Reformed Broker, told Business Day Live that people need to ask: "Is this a Goldman thing or is this really just something about the way the principal versus agency business model is set up? And whether or not you have to sell some things and make some money if you're going to be on Wall Street."
Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) tweets: Live on set for @nytimes Business Day http://t.co/Z4huVO4A
10.54am | We've Got Mail: Blankfein's 'Letter' to Clients and a Letter to Goldman
The humorist Andy Borowitz has published a satirical letter from Mr Blankfein to Goldman's clients in which the chief executive officer responds to Mr Smith's op-ed excoriating the financial firm.
"Mr Smith comes across as a man of conscience, ideals, and high moral standards. And as you read his words, you no doubt asked yourself this troubling question: how could Goldman have hired such a person?"
But who will replace Mr Smith as executive director? Michael Comeau posts his application on Minyanville.
"My proudest moments in life – getting accepted to Brooklyn College, passing Intro to Chemistry, and competing in countless Wiffle-ball and roller-hockey games, known as the Brooklyn Olympics – were achieved through pure awesomeness, with no shortcuts."
10.06am | Is Mr Smith a Fan of Don Draper?
In season four of Mad Men, the ad executive Don Draper loses the account for Lucky Strikes and publishes a letter titled "Why I'm Quitting Tobacco."
Micheline Maynard of Forbes, a former senior business correspondent for The New York Times, compares the letter with Mr Smith's op-ed resignation:
Mr Smith, in his closing paragraphs, drops his resignation bomb. "Goldman Sachs today has become too much about shortcuts and not enough about achievement. It just doesn't feel right to me any more."
He adds: "People who only care about making money will not sustain this firm – or the trust of its clients – for very much longer."
Mr Draper's denouement: "So as of today, Sterling Cooper Draper Price will no longer take tobacco accounts. We know it's going to be hard. If you're interested in cigarette work, here's a list of agencies that do it."
He concludes: "As for us, we welcome all other business because we know our best work is ahead of us."
DealBook loves Mr Draper, but we can't help wondering what would happen if Mr Smith had ventured into 200 West Street for a very public, Jerry Maguire-style exit.
9.58am | The Language of Money and Muppets
Mr Smith revealed a number of colorful phrases that he said were being used inside Goldman. For example, clients are called Muppets. Juli Weiner of Vanity Fair tackles the local lingo:
So, are we doing this right? "I'm going to hunt elephants and get these muppets to take on some axes!"
9.49am | Reaction From London's Regulators
In comments to the London Evening Standard, officials from Labour and the Liberal Democrat party were united in condemning Goldman,
"We all know in the City that Goldman help themselves before they help their clients – here is the proof. Greg Smith says you get promoted there if you are not an 'axe murderer', and the people of Greece and the rest of the euro zone are paying the price." – Lord Oakeshott, a former Liberal Democrat treasury spokesman.
"At last somebody has come out and exposed what has been really going on. There is a real challenge to the government to sort this out and make sure the banking industry is properly focused on its customers." – John Mann, a Labour MP and a member of the Treasury select committee.
9.13am | Smith's Former Intern Speaks Out
Aveneesh Singh Saluja, a former intern for Mr Smith at Goldman Sachs, discussed his former boss with Business Insider.
"I hold him in very high regard and he took care of us junior guys, gave us great pieces of advice, and in general came across as one of the more personable, friendly, and genuine guys on the floor."
7.43am | The Early Bird Reaction
The Atlantic wrote: "These complaints, of course, are the same charges that have been lobbed at Goldman for years, particularly since the economic meltdown in 2008." But coming from an insider gave them more credence: "To hear them now, from a former true believer – Smith started at the firm as intern 12 years ago, and has been there ever since graduating from Stanford – makes them particularly damning."
Several media outlets wondered about what the letter would mean for Goldman's reputation, which has taken a hit since the financial crisis. Mr Smith's letter came just one day after Goldman officially hired a new public relations chief, Richard Siewert Jr, known as Jake, a former counsellor to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.
Business Insider said: "This seems sure to be the buzzy Wall Street story of the day." The financial blog added that it's "also sure to be another PR nightmare for Goldman Sachs".
BBC Business editor Robert Peston (@Peston) tweets:
This attack on Goldman Sachs from resigning exec is astonishing. The damage to the firm could be pretty serious http://t.co/tVc5cu7k
The Wall Street Journal's economics editor David Wessel (@davidmwessel) tweets:
Goldman's new p.r. man, Jake Siewart, is going to get baptism by fire today. http://t.co/dhs5bjgC
Financial blogger The Epicurean Dealmaker (@EpicureanDeal) tweets:
That is the most spectacular example of bridge burning I have witnessed in my entire career. I hope Greg Smith has some money saved. #GS
CNBC personality and money manager Jim Cramer (@jimcramer) tweets:
Look, the $GS piece was devastating to me. I don't want to believe it. But it was a bitter pill and a sad one
The letter even spawned a spoof. The Daily Mash ran a mock editorial titled "Why I am Leaving the Empire, by Darth Vader", reworking Mr Smith's words in the language of Star Wars:
"After almost 12 years, first as a summer intern, then in the Death Star and now in London, I believe I have worked here long enough to understand the trajectory of its culture, its people and its massive, genocidal space machines. And I can honestly say that the environment now is as toxic and destructive as I have ever seen it.
"To put the problem in the simplest terms, throttling people with your mind continues to be sidelined in the way the firm operates and thinks about making people dead."
The New York Times


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Eight is More Than Enough? Avalon Group Homes Square Off Against Dallas (Again).
An Avalon home in Fort Worth.
As we've mentioned before, Dallas has been grappling for some time with how to regulate the city's nearly 280 group homes, those halfway houses and assisted-living facilities that are protected by federal housing laws.
But the operator of 14 North Texas group homes for Alzheimer's patients isn't waiting for the city to sort all that out. It filed a lawsuit in federal court this month, alleging that the city is violating the federal Fair Housing Act by enforcing a limit of eight unrelated disabled people under one roof. The company, Avalon Residential Care Homes, also claims the city is retaliating for a previous lawsuit it filed over a decade ago.
Avalon first tangled with the city in 1997, when it opened its first Alzheimer's group home on Glendora Avenue. Codes required that it be 1,000 feet from other group homes for the disabled, and after calls to the city and state turned up none, the Glendora location appeared kosher.
But it wasn't long before someone complained, pointing out two nearby facilities for the disabled. Never mind that the homes were unlicensed and operating illegally, and that Avalon couldn't possibly have looked them up. The city ordered the company to shutter the group home.
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Avalon sought a special use permit, and the City Plan Commission staff recommended approval. But the commission denied the request. The company fired back, filing a lawsuit in federal court. And as city lawyers tried to get the suit tossed, the United States Attorney's Office's Civil Rights Division stepped in, filing a brief slamming the city for violating the Fair Housing Act with onerous city codes. Dallas "may violate the Act when it applies its ordinances 'rigidly and in a manner blind'" to the needs of disabled people, the feds wrote, quoting a previous federal court decision.
And why, the U.S. Attorney's Office also wondered, was the city hassling a licensed group home for its proximity to the two unlicensed ones?
The concern is a snowball effect: Strict zoning discourages new group homes, and low occupancy caps render those that remain -- like Avalon's -- financially insolvent. The feds' brief must have been persuasive, because the city and Avalon eventually settled. The Glendora house remained in business, and the company even expanded to new locations.
Now, some 10 years later, the city and Avalon are scuffling once again, this time over occupancy caps. Avalon now operates seven group homes in neighborhoods zoned for single-family homes, "several" of which house more than eight disabled adults, First Assistant City Attorney Chris Bowers tells Unfair Park in a written statement. He says, just as city lawyers did in the late 1990s, that Avalon should just set up shop elsewhere -- in multi-family apartments, a mixed-use zoning district or downtown, where the ordinance doesn't apply.
Neither Avalon's owner, Ruth Anne Seib, nor her attorney responded to calls for comment. But along with accusing the city of violating federal housing laws, Avalon claims that Dallas's enforcement amounts to little more than stale retribution.
Bowers says that the city is merely enforcing the law: "That is clearly not 'retaliation," he writes.
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DAVID Howell admitted he never fully recovered from a nightmare start to his second round as he missed the cut at the Qatar Masters yesterday.
The Broome Manor man, sitting one-over after the first set of 18 holes on Wednesday, carded a bogey and a double bogey in his first two holes and although he managed to sink five birdies in the remaining holes it wasn't enough, as he ended the round only one-under.
With the cut mark at one-under for the tournament, Howell's level-par score through 36 holes so him fall just one shot short, meaning he now has to sit out the remaining two rounds.
"I got off to shocker really which wasn't what I wanted and I flobbed a chip on the 10th (Howell's first hole after starting on the back nine) and from there a potential birdie became a bogey which put my right up against it. I then got the double (bogey) on the 11th which left me too much to do," he said.
"I battled from there and made some good shots but it wasn't enough for me. It wasn't a disastrous performance because it's easy to miss the cut by one, especially in a strong field like this.
"Although I battled to the end I never really looked as if I was in it and it was almost like being 4-1 down in football and scoring two late goals because I needed two birdies at the end to make it look respectable."
Howell now returns to his home in Dubai to be with his partner Emily and newborn identical twins Charles and Samuel, as well as eldest son Freddie, with some rare time with his family the only consolation for missing the cut.
"I head home now to Dubai but I did do a little bit of chipping with my coach after the round which can hopefully help me next time," he said.
"I'll try and forget about golf now for a few days which should be nice because there's a lot going on outside the game and enjoy my sons' company now."
Rafa Cabrera-Bello leads the Qatar Masters on 13-under, two-points clear of George Coetzee.
Howell returns to action next week at the Dubai Desert Classic where he will be looking for a repeat of his impressive victory at the event in 1999.


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