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Moth Orchid Shawl by Shui Kuen Kozinski
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Moth Orchid Shawl
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The Phalaena flower resembles a moth in flight, and for this reason is also known as a Moth Orchid. This triangular shawl is worked top-down in two mirror-imaged sections. The Blueberry Lace motif is from Nancy Bush's Knitted Lace of Estonia (p.137), and the shawl is finished with 2 repeats of the Luna Moth border. Five-stitch nupps were added between two yarnovers, giving the finished shawl an Estonian lace effect. (Elann.com)
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Stanford by Katya Gorbacheva
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Rowan's Felted Tweed yarn is ideal for colourwork, its soft shades blending together to give a vintage look. Added interest is provided by cable panels along the tops of the sleeves, and cabled pockets.

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Keith J. Holyoak conducts research in human reasoning, learning, decision making, and problem solving. Much of his work is concerned with the role of analogy in thinking. One of the major themes is the way in which analogy serves as a psychological mechanism for learning and transfer of knowledge. More broadly, Dr. Holyoak conducts research on the nature of the relational knowledge that underlies analogy, causal learning, and deduction. He investigates how relational knowledge is used to reason in domains ranging from law and politics to science. Dr. Holyoak's research combines studies of thinking in normal adults with computational modeling, and with neuropsychological studies of how thinking is impaired in brain-damaged individuals. This work, in collaboration with Barbara Knowlton and others, focuses on the role of the prefrontal cortex in complex human reasoning.
Dr. Holyoak has published over 170 scientific papers, and is co-author or editor of several books, including Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning and Discovery (MIT Press, 1986), Mental Leaps: Analogy in Creative Thought (MIT Press, 1995), The Analogical Mind (MIT Press, 2001), and The Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning (Cambridge University Press, 2005). He is currently co-editing The Oxford Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning, to be published in 2012.
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High quality exact fit replacement bulb from SYLVANIA OSRAM provides an affordable alternative for replacing the lamp in your DLP television.
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I used to be able to fly on the red-eye, but I found I was so tired that I slept most of the day and couldn't sleep at night. Then I was up all night and basically killed the next couple of days. Getting ready to board for home. Will get back late, but should be functional after that.
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Anyway, currently finishing up a story on Ryan Church. Easily the Mets' MVP so far. I go back now and read some of the comments after the trade. Where are those posters now?
The boys are home tomorrow after a 3-3 trip. They should have won four and could have won five if they had any consistent hitting. Hopefully, they found their strokes on the Left Coast.
I won't be home until late, so I won't be able to update. The blog rests with you guys today. Talk about Church, about Oliver Perez – yeah, I know, what can you say that hasn't already been screamed? _ or anything you'd like.
Take good care and have a good day folks.-JD


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HMV has been announced as the next big name high-street retailer to face administration.
The largest British CD and DVD retailer is now facing closure, with more than 4,200 jobs at risk at the 238 stores nationwide.
The news will affect South Essex, which has large stores in Basildon's Eastgate Centre, Southend High Street and two outlets at Lakeside Shopping Centre in Thurrock. Vouchers and gift cards will no longer be valid following the announcement.
HMV is the second victim in a matter of days following the news that Jessops stores had gone into administration last week, before closing all stores on Friday.
David Burch, the Director of Policy at Essex Chambers of Commerce, says he fears for retailers that don't have an effective online delivery system and says that those who dont adapt their business model could face a difficult 2013.
He said: "It is so dissapointing to see high-street retailers suffering. Administration and liquidation are words that are never pleasant to hear. HMV have been synonymous with music for generations and I think the high street will feel their loss.
"Such large chain stores are still very popular, despite the boost of online sales, and if people know a store such as this has closed it is possible surrounding shops will suffer as there won't be the same amount of footfall. We don't want that knock-on effect. Shops have to adjust to the consumers purchasing habits and those who don't face a very difficult time."
Morrisons shows the power of online trading, having recently seen a downturn in its figures with a 2.5 per cent drop in like for like sales in the run up to Christmas. It is the only one of the 'Big 4' not to offer a home delivery service.
Mr Burch said these statistics show the influence of virtual shopping.
"Many high street stores were built with the premise of people walking past and buying goods on the off-chance. Hopefully this is not the start of a trend but it is never the less worrying. I do believe that using the internet effectively is crucial to the future of high-street stores longevity."
HMVs boss Trevor Moore warned before Christmas that the entertainment group was in trouble, and concerns were raised last week after they announced a month-long sale, with a 25 per cent off sale on much of its stock.
Deloitte has been confirmed as the administrator of the 92-year-old business as they try to find a buyer for the some or all of the businesses although store closures are expected. HMV was turned down after it asked for a £300million injection last week to pay off its debt and fund an overhaul of the company's business model.
Town leaders have announced their sadness following the closure of HMV but say it is not all doom and gloom.
Basildon Council has announced large scale changes to the town centre as part of the £1billion masterplan and Southend are also planning investment in the area.
Tony Ball, Leader of Basildon Council, said the closures of Comet, Jessops and potentially HMV meant the council was work harder than ever to bring more people into the town centre.
"We have been saying for some time that high streets have to change and that's what we are trying to do. The town centre needs to offer more in the way of leisure as retail stores are being squeezed by internet shopping success."
"Every retail business in the borough must be under pressure and it is up to us to support them by offering more for people. Restaurants and cinemas are just some of the options that could bring business back to Basildon."
The most recent figures from the British Retail Consortium showed more than one in 10 shops were empty in October, the worst since the survey began in July 2011.
Dawn Jeakings, chairman of the Southend Town Centre partnership, said she is hopeful for the future of Southend's shops, having secured funding for Southend which will see £2.7million invested in improving services to the town centre and sea front over the next five years.
"It is certainly a tough time for high street sellers and we are sorry to hear the news about HMV going into administration - especially coming so soon after the news about Jessop's and our thoughts are with the staff effected. We hope that the store on Southend High Street will be affected."
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This is a phrase from my childhood. Don't remember when or why...something to do with Shelly and Sheryl. I just know it's funny.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
This watch makes me happy
I love this watch. I have been looking at it for about two years. I probably won't buy it. Kind of reminds me of something Paris Hilton would wear. But I still do like it. ToyWatch Mother of Pearl Chrono in Pink. They also have a cute one with a blue face. The pink one is out of production, so if you find it, hollah.
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Sara Asked Relationship Experts:
"So i am attracted to my female instructor in my gym.. I've never been interested in a female. Ever! I go to her class 6 days/wk. she is married. I don't know why I get the feeling she may be bi.. She has shown some extra interest with me, more than with others in class. My question is how can I approach her without upsetting her to see if she would b interested in me? How do I find out if she is bi? How do I continue going to class if she shuts me down..
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What are the top three personality traits you want in a partner? What about the top three physical traits?
Personality: sincere, stable!, and kind-hearted to others.

Physical: attractive/nice body (that's all one), cute voice, cute walk. A cute walk is pretty disarming; along with a cute voice, hello.
Compassionate, Kindhearted, Honesty, Great smell. Nice smile..
Integrity. Compassion. Emotional intelligence.

Near my age. Nice warm smile. Reasonably healthy.
Smart sense of humor is a must And caring ,sweet for physical nice teeth nice body and mayb nice hair
honesty, loyalty,integrity. as for physical--sweet smile, cute walk, sexy voice doesn't hurt.
Personality traits: Honesty, fidelity, respectfulness

physical: whatever as long as he is clean
Yes always Need somebody that respects u
Honest/trustworthy....sense of humor....and kind....

Physically.....the only thing I could definitively suggest is hygienic.....there are so many different physical traits that can be attractive.....
personality: kind, sweet and faithful

physical : it doesn't matter as long you brush your teeth 3 times a day and take a bath every day!
Three personality traits: outgoing, straightforward, and honest

Three physical traits: nice back, smooth legs, and sexy hairstyle
Top three personality traits, enjoys life, spontaneous, loyalty.

Physical, great smile, truthful eyes, and a soft back that I can touch and rub all night.
Honesty, Funny, Confident

Strong arms, strong face features, expressive eyes.
Personality traits: Funny, empathetic and caring. Physical: I prefer tall, i love red hair, and a beautiful smile
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My Bed
Luckily, I really love my bed with the tufted upholstery headboard, so this was an easy assignment to do. I have always wanted to put up wallpaper to create an accent wall in my bedroom, so this was my chance to see what 'Petal Pusher' by Oh Joy would look like. Fantastic! And yes, that is my baby stuffed bunny.
The idea behind the blog post was featuring Au Lit products, such as a new embroidery pattern. In this case, I used my own shams and duvet with a 'Laurel' pattern for illustrative purposes. By promoting new products, it is an opportunity to inspire customers on how to create their own bedscape, just like they would see in the store. Just by swapping out pillows and accessories, it showed how the pattern was so versatile integrating into so many different looks.
Although I was told I was 'far and away our top candidate', the company ultimately decided to outsource the role to a branding & marketing agency. I must be honest and say that I was really sad for missing out on this dream-job opportunity. I do wish the owner of Au Lit Fine Linens much success and I appreciate that they will keep me top of mind for freelance work in the future.


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The Kyrene School District is not informing parents how proposed changes to middle schools will affect our children next year. Although numerous updates filled with pleasant sounding generalities about middle school go out, the updates say nothing about how the changes will impact our children. Specific changes to middle schools are buried in links to lengthy documents containing more layers of links. The consequences of the changes are nowhere to be found. I am writing as a concerned parent and experienced secondary school teacher of 10 years. I have a son in sixth grade and a daughter in fifth, and I am troubled because some of the proposed changes will result in a harsh and stressful school environment. One dubious change is the elimination of the pod structure. This change will decrease student well-being and lower academic achievement.
A primary objective of the pod structure is to cultivate a sense of belonging among students and to reduce bullying. The pod structure transforms a large, impersonal campus into several smaller communities. The pod structure decreases bullying on campus by helping students get to know one another better, reducing the distance that students travel between classes, ensuring that students are traveling from period to period with other students they know, and assuring that teachers recognize students who walk by their classrooms during passing periods. On a large traditional campus teachers do not recognize many of the students who walk by. Bullying flourishes with anonymity. Opportunities for bullying abound on large campuses when students walk to class alone.
One academic support the pod provides students is Academic Lab, a course designed to help students in their core classes and on standardized tests. Academic Lab has worked well for my son. Since my son has Academic Lab at the same time as his core teachers, he can go to any of his core teachers for help during this class. Academic Lab also provides time for teachers to help students improve on standardized tests. Our children will face high risk standardized tests that will determine high school graduation, scholarships, and college acceptance. Our students need support to help them succeed on these high stake tests.
Another costly consequence of eliminating the pod structure is an increase in test related stress. The core teachers in my son's pod work together when scheduling tests and short-term assignments. My son has not been burdened with having to study for two or more major tests on the same day. Eliminate the pod structure and students will, at times, have too many major tests to study for on the same day. Coordination of tests and assignments among teachers on a large campus is not possible without the pod structure. I am further worried about what I learned at the Board of Education meeting on Dec. 13. I heard important members of our community express concern that children who are active in extracurricular activities are being harmed by the late start. Imagine the stress these student athletes would be under if they had multiple, major tests on the same day. I am also alarmed that the loss of the pod structure would be particularly detrimental if we reduce class time in core classes by 12 percent. How can we save money by shortening core classes?
At the Dec. 13 Board of Education meeting I was shocked to learn that the district's projected savings of late start were not realized. The actual savings are not even close to half of the projected savings. A failure of this magnitude casts doubt on the information the district sends to parents. I feel the district should provide parents with accurate information detailing the impact each proposed middle school change will have on students before any decisions are made for next year.
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A project to promote rural development schemes in the state by holding screenings of Raj Kapoor and Waheeda Rahman-starrer Teesri Kasam has landed the government in a copyright tussle.
Dinesh Shailendra, the youngest son of late lyricist Shailendra, who produced the iconic 1966-film directed by Basu Chatterjee, has demanded Rs 15 crore from the state government for not seeking permission from his family before using it for its welfare campaigns.
In 1967, the Bombay High Court gave the verdict that the copyright for all my fathers work would be held jointly by my mother and his five children. Screening the film without taking our permission is in violation of this ruling, said Dinesh (57), a film director.
He added that he had sent emails to chief minister Nitish Kumar and other senior officials of the Bihar government but had not received any response. I shall initiate the required legal procedure if I dont get a response, he said.
Senior government officials, however, claimed they had no clue about the development.
Brajesh Mehrotra, secretary, information and public relations, said he was not aware of any such email and that the Bihar government had purchased the rights to screen the National Award winning film in 1979.
The film has been screened a number of times before as well, he said.
Dinesh, however, has sought the intervention of Union minister of information and broadcasting Manish Tewari in the matter.
Adapted from Phanishwarnath Renus short story Mare Gaye Gulfam, the film was shot in Araria. It is being used as part of a mobile campaign, which was flagged off by chief minister Nitish Kumar on March 5.


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The champagne can wait. This was a night for clear heads.
A night to remember how far a franchise had come and how agonizing the journey had been. A night to recall the rush of success and the cost it requires.
For the first time since 2007, the Lightning can be called a playoff team, and that is no small accomplishment considering the torture this franchise has endured.
We have gone from owners who had no passion to owners who had no clue. From a revolving door of coaches to a handful of empty checkbooks.
So, yes, when the players reached the locker room after a 2-1 victory against the Penguins on Thursday night, it was more liberation than celebration.
Sort of a release from years of frozen bondage.
"For us, it's been a long time coming, guys that have been here a few years," said Marty St. Louis, who scored his 30th goal of the season. "It's a chance at the big prize again. We haven't played for that in a long time.
"There's been a lot of turmoil the last 2-3 years. Now to finally get back, it's obviously very rewarding with everything that's been done here the last year on and off the ice. I think we should be proud of that."
This Lightning team has made it permissible to forget the miscalculations (Marc Denis), the silliness (Barry Melrose) and the insanity (Tweedle-Barrie and Tweedle-Koules).
It has made it okay to think of possibilities instead of limitations.
It is the steady hand of owner Jeff Vinik and the credibility of general manager Steve Yzerman. It is the honesty of coach Guy Boucher and the devotion of two dozen players.
This team is not yet a Stanley Cup contender, but it is light-years ahead of where it was a year ago.
"It's a long-term plan," Vinik said after the game. "We're very excited to be in the playoffs this year. It's great.
"But we put this team in place to fight (for the playoffs) for many years to come. So hopefully, this is one step on the way to being the world-class team we've talked about."
Of the East teams that have already clinched playoff spots, none have come as far as Tampa Bay.
Philadelphia? Washington? Boston? Pittsburgh? They all made the playoffs last season.
The Lightning has gone from an 80-point season to a 95-point season with five games remaining. Not only did the victory clinch a playoff spot, it guaranteed Tampa Bay's second-best regular season in franchise history, trailing only the Stanley Cup team of 2003-04.
"We have a good group of people that are on the same page," Boucher said. "To me, that's the biggest achievement we've had this year. To have this entire group — and it's a big group — on the same page. It's very rare you get that, wherever you are.
"I find that terrific for a first year. That's what I find special."
Since the franchise's last postseason game, the Lightning has changed ownership twice, fired three coaches and vanquished every single player not named Lecavalier or St. Louis.
Back then, Victor Hedman was 16 and playing in a junior league in Sweden. Steven Stamkos was one year removed from a AAA midget team. And Boucher was making his debut as a head coach in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.
"The last two years, especially, were tough," captain Vinny Lecavalier said. "Everybody was going in a different direction. When that happens, you wonder when it's going to come back.
"This year, when Mr. Vinik bought the team and hired Steve and hired Guy, I think that's where I started to believe."
By now, you may have forgotten what playoff hockey feels like in the NHL.
If so, the Lightning and Penguins offered a pretty close approximation on Thursday night. The game was tight, the hits were punishing and the energy was high.
And considering these teams will probably meet in the first round in two weeks or so, the Lightning should be encouraged by winning Thursday night and evening the season series at two victories apiece. But it should also be realistic.
The Penguins were without Sidney Crosby. They were without Evgeni Malkin. They were without as much motivation as the Lightning. And even so, Pittsburgh outplayed Tampa Bay for long periods of time.
Still, this was not a night for being overly critical or unduly enthusiastic. It was a night to recognize what six months of devotion can accomplish. Which is why Vinik came down to shake some hands and Boucher gave his players a few minutes to appreciate what they had accomplished.
The playoffs are back in Tampa Bay, and now we know just how precious that feeling can be.
"It matters. It matters a lot," Boucher said.
"It means that it's not just a dream now. It's not just something you were hoping for."


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Yesterday was Apple's big announcement – iPhone OS 4.0. There was a bunch of new features announced, including the long awaited – multitasking. If you want to follow the announcement, check out live.gdgt.com.
There's a lot of focus on multitasking these days, so I wanted to run through what Apple announced and what it means for developers and the applications you use every day. Apple's focus was to find a way to allow multitasking but without allowing background processes that end up killing your performance and battery life.
"How are we adding multitasking while preserving battery life and performance. We looked at tens of thousands of apps in the app store, and we've distilled the services those apps need to run in the background. So we implemented those services, and we're providing those services as APIs to developers so they can add multitasking while preserving battery life." – Scott Forstall, SVP of iPhone Software via live.gdgt.com
The announcement goes on to define the seven (7) background services they are providing – Background audio, Voice over IP, Background location, Push notifications, Local notifications, Task completion, and Fast app switching. These are the only multitasking services exposed to the developer. Let's quickly run down what each one of these can do for you:
- Background audio – obviously, great for listening to music while using other applications
- Voice over IP – pretty straight forward again, great for services like Skype
- Background location – this will enhance applications like FourSquare as the app can automatically grab GPS co-ordinates while you're not actively using it. Also a great advantage for turn-by-turn directions.
- Push notifications – this has been in the product for the last 9 months,
- Local notifications – this is based on the push notifications, but there is no server, they are local to the phone
- Task completion – this allows the developer to put a task in motion and forget about it. For example, think of uploading a large file. The developer could code the app to upload that file in the background and this frees up the user to browse away from that screen. There doesn't appear to be any way for the application to interact with that process once it's launched. So it would effectively run to completion or until it times out.
Those are the only multitasking processes allowed at this time. While they are pretty nice features, there's still no way for me to open my RSS reader, start it updating and then switch to email or browse the web while it downloads in the background. It's great that Apple has released multitasking, but to be clear, it's not full on multitasking. It's a limited scope of features. This approach allows them to keep tight control over processes and applications and ensure that the device remains fairly stable. Perhaps Apple will release more ability in the future, but for now, there is limited multitasking ability.
Apple also seems to think that there's no need for a task manager. This could prove to be a problem as they're letting developers spin off task completion treads but there's not way for the end user to manage those. If they hang or maybe there's too many being generated by an app, there's no way to kill that process.
More details should be coming out over the next little while as developers download and test out OS 4.0.


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Two-time Canadian Amateur champion Cam Burke has found the winner's circle as a professional for the first time.
On Thursday, the 25-year-old from New Hamburg, Ont., won the Founders Club Classic, a new event on the eGolf Tour.
Burke didn't do it the easy way, though. In cold and wet conditions at the Founders Club in Southport, N.C., he closed the third and final round with bogeys on the last four holes – hanging on for a one-stroke victory over Harold Varner III.
"Obviously, I would have liked to have won in different fashion," Burke told egolfprofessionaltour.com, "but I'm proud of the way I played this week. I'm very happy that I pulled it off."
His final-round of four-over-par 76 (and three-day total of two-under 214) doesn't seem like a champion's score but it was not out of place among the field, which struggled through drizzle, downpours and gusting winds that reached speeds of 20 to 30 miles an hour. Just a couple of players broke par.
"This round was just so hard. It was a see-what-you-can-do-out-there kind of day," Burke said. "Today was all about the conditions, and sometimes that's just going to happen."
One of the few players to tame the Founders Club Thursday was another two-time Canadian Amateur champion, MacKenzie Hughes. The rookie pro from Dundas, Ont., carded his third consecutive 72 and shot up the leader board to a tie for third place, his best eGolf finish.
Burke has played on the eGolf Tour, considered the hottest men's mini-tour in the United States, for a couple of seasons, amassing seven top-10 finishes in 43 starts.
His victory Thursday came with a $14,000 (U.S.) winner's cheque and took him to No. 3 on the season money list. "I'm really happy with the way I'm playing right now, so we'll see where I can take it."
CANADIAN CONNECTION: Legendary Canadian architect Stanley Thompson helped design the Brazilian course that is hosting the Web.com Tour's Brasil Classic this week.
From 1932 to 1935, Thompson worked on the design and update of the Sao Paulo Golf Club with Jose Maria Gonzalez, the Stanley Thompson Society's website notes.
Thompson was Canada's pre-eminent designer in the classic course era, responsible for such domestic gems as Banff Springs, Jasper Park and St. George's. But he also had his hands on a few international courses, mostly in the Caribbean and South America.
Adam Hadwin of Abbotsford, B.C., called Sao Paulo Golf Club a "great course" on Twitter this week and his good feelings showed in the first round Thursday.
He shot four-under 67 and was tied for ninth place, the best of the Canadian contingent in the field.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Beacon Hall, one of Canada's top private courses, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year.
Rather than keep the party to itself, the Aurora, Ont., course is launching a public awareness campaign to showcase the club and seek out the "next generation of members."
It will air messages on Toronto radio station 680 News and place banner ads in The Globe and Mail.
The Robert Cupp-designed course has consistently been ranked among Canada's top 10 since opening. But its privileged position has not left it immune to the realities of operating a golf club in today's challenging business climate.
"For the past 25 years we have quietly, and quite successfully, gone about our business of providing a world-class membership experience," says Phil Hardy, Beacon Hall's long-standing director of golf. "Now is the time to open the gates a little and showcase the club, the course and our history with golfers and our surrounding communities. We are going to do something that no top-end private club has done – take to the radio airwaves to extol the merits of membership."
THINKING AHEAD: A pair of Canadians might join Lydia Ko in the ceremonial jump into Poppie's Pond on Sunday if the amateur phenom wins the Kraft Nabisco Championship.
The victor at the LPGA Tour's first major of the season traditionally leaps into the water hazard beside the 18th green at the Mission Hills Country Club's Dinah Shore course in Rancho Mirage, Calif.
"If I get to do the jump it'll be a pretty amazing moment," the 15-year-old, who was born in South Korea and grew up in New Zealand, said Wednesday at a press conference ahead of her first career Kraft Nabisco appearance.
Asked who would accompany her besides her caddy, she said likely her mother and two Canadian Koreans with whom she's staying this week. Ko met the unidentified Canadians last year at the CN Canadian Women's Open, which Ko won, and they invited her to stay at their California condo this week.
"We're staying with them and they are going to watch the whole week," Ko said of her hosts. "Hopefully they will jump in as well."
The pond has been cleaned up since Amy Alcott started the tradition in 1988 with an impromptu jump with her caddy. It's been deepened, too, to make it safer. Morgan Pressel's mother broke her leg plunging with her daughter in 2007.
Asked if she can swim, Ko said: "Well, I hope so. We'll see then."
The world's top-ranked female amateur has already won three professional tournaments despite being unable to legally drive yet. The Canadian national championship was the biggest and gave her the distinction of being the youngest winner in LPGA Tour history.
She'll be paired in the opening two rounds Thursday and Friday with Michelle Wie, a former child prodigy herself whom Ko described as her "idol." They've shared a tee box before. "Luckily I've experienced playing with her and Yani (Tseng) at the Australian Open. Yeah I got to know a little more about her. I think she's a very good player, and I'm very excited to be able to play with her."
BEEN THERE, DONE THAT If Lydia Ko does prevail on Sunday, she wouldn't actually be the first amateur to win an LPGA Tour major. Catharine Lacoste captured the 1967 U.S. Women's Open.
BURKE IN DRIVER'S SEAT Former Canadian Amateur champion Cam Burke has a chance to win his first significant tournament on Thursday.
Burke of New Hamburg, Ont., takes a one-stroke lead into the third and final round of the Founders Club Classic, an eGolf Professional Tour event in Southport, N.C.
The 25-year-old has been playing on the U.S. Southeast mini-tour for the past couple of seasons and is in good form in 2013. He posted five top-10 finishes last year, including a runner-up result, and has added another one this year.
He's made the cut in all six starts this year and has finished no worse than a tie for 16th spot.
"I think I've been a little more patient this year," he told the tour's website, egolfprofessionaltour.com. "I've been focused more on playing a whole golf tournament as opposed to trying to throw in a crazy low score now and then. The conditions this year haven't really allowed for too many low scores, but I'm sure they'll come around at some point."
Victory has been elusive despite the steady performances. But that could change quickly.
"I think I'm ready to break through," said Burke, who won the 2008 and 2009 Canadian Ams but hasn't cashed a winner's cheque as a pro other than at a small pro-am in Michigan. "I've had plenty of chances in the last year or so."
Burke enters the final round at the Founders Club at six-under-par 138, one ahead of Carlos Sainz of the United States.
GIMME A BREAK: The 19th season of Golf Channel's Big Break series won't have any Canadian competitors. But at least a few of them have connections north of the border.
Golf Channel announced the cast of Big Break Mexico on Tuesday. The new season begins airing May 13.
The cast of six male and six female competitors is dominated by Americans – 11 in all. The only non-American is Liebelei Lawrence of Luxembourg.
Canada has been represented well in past seasons, with Derek Gillespie of Oshawa, Ont., and David Byrne of Essex, Ont., among the 18 champions. James Lepp of Abbotsford, B.C., and Kent Eger of Regina were runners-up.
But the only Canadian connections in Mexico are a couple of players from the CN Canadian Women's Tour. Lindsey Bergeron has played on the three-event mini-tour in recent years and McKenzie Jackson has it on her agenda this year.
Emily Talley, the youngest Big Break Mexico contestant, played her way into the CN Canadian Women's Open through its Monday qualifier last year. The 22-year-old is one of two contestants who've played an LPGA Tour event.
ANOTHER SHUTOUT The Canadian flag won't be flying this week at the Kraft Nabisco Championship either.
No Canadians qualified for the LPGA Tour's first major of the season.
Alena Sharp of Hamilton was the only Canuck in the field last year. She tied for 75th place.
PAST AND PRESENT One of the more intriguing pairings at the Kraft Nabisco Championship in the first two rounds is former child prodigy Michelle Wie and current child prodigy Lydia Ko, a New Zealand amateur who is just 15 but has won three pro events, including the 2012 CN Canadian Women's Open.
Tennis aficionados might notice a couple of offspring of former tennis stars in the field, too: Jessica Korda, daughter of Petr, and amateur Isabelle Lendl, daughter of Ivan.
IRONMAN Brad Fritsch, the only Canadian in the field this week at the PGA Tour's Valero Texas Open, will be playing for the sixth consecutive week.
But that's nothing new for the Ottawa-raised ironman. Fritsch played the final seven weeks in a row on the Web.com Tour last season and 26 events overall on the year.
At the Texas Open, he'll be looking to get back on track after missing the cut last week at the Shell Houston Open. He's won more than $263,000 (U.S.) this year in his rookie season and sits at No. 103 on the tour's money list.
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Kim Kardashian knows it's gettin' hot in here.
So instead of taking of all her clothes, she's content with posting a butt pic to her Instagram.
But hey, she gives the people what they want amiright!?
This week was a super steamy one for our favorite Hollywood stars, as the weather continues to get hotter, the clothes continue to get scarcer!
From more shirtless selfies from River Viiperi, to Lindsay Lohan showing off some skin while she soaks up the sun, to Justin Bieber well…flexing in the mirror for us…(I don't think he could be anymore MySpace right now if he tried), this week was all kinds of saucy!
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Disillusioned and burnt out by life as a city 'greenocrat', Claire Dunn quit her job, her partner and her comfortable life to embark on a year-long wilderness survival skills program on the mid north coast of NSW. Her new forest home became both ally and enemy as reality, and not just the voracious insects, soon bit.
Claire's story unfolds in four parts, structured by the seasons and the order of survival: Shelter, Water, Fire and Food. After arriving at her wilderness location in summer, buoyant with idealistic enthusiasm, Claire struggles with shelter building, matchless fire-making and other physical challenges – the heat, the cold, getting lost and a terror of the dark – until the wilds of her emotional landscape threaten to unravel her.
Part adventure tale and part personal quest, My Year Without Matches is the story of one woman's search for belonging until an unexpected friendship emerges and the beauty of the bush opens to reveal its wild heart.
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Claire Dunn has been exploring and protecting wild places since her teens, working for many years as a campaigner for The Wilderness Society. Now a freelance journalist, Claire writes frequently for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, and her essays have appeared in Australian Geographic and the anthology Fire. Claire won the manuscript pitching competition 'Pitch Perfect' at the 2013 Byron Bay Writers' Festival for My Year Without Matches.
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PopSugar 100 Day Two Wrapup: Efron and Penn Are Losing, Really?!
OK, it's about to get real. Day two of the PopSugar 100 bracket brought some new surprises and some changes in the lead, but the round is not over yet. It's all fun and games, but here are a few thoughts I have looking at how things stand at the moment. As much as voting is about personal preference, it's also about who had the bigger year — roughly from middle of last Summer to now — so let's take a couple of the more fun matchups:
- Zac Efron vs. Kate Beckinsale: Now, I fully agree that Kate Beckinsale is perfection. She's stunning and seems super down-to-earth. Plus she and her hot husband can't get enough of each other, but really? Zac Efron made the jump from small screen to big screen this year, landing some huge roles and becoming one hot commodity. Plus, all signs point to him being on the up and up! Where are the Efron fans to vote for their guy? He's hosting SNL this weekend, has Beckinsale ever done that? No. It's not just High School Musical supporters who love those baby blues these days . . .
- Sean Penn vs. Patrick Dempsey: Patrick helped turn Grey's Anatomy into a show we love again, but does that compare to winning an Oscar? He's been beating Sean since the Pop100 voting started. Sean starred in a courageous and game-changing movie, all the while keeping his politics at the forefront. You may not agree — and sure he can come off pretty slimy — but the man earned his number four seed.
- Jessica Simpson Yay Neil Patrick Harris, but sad about Jessica Simpson losing so badly. I know that she has her detractors, lots of 'em, but I have a soft spot for Miss Simpson. Where are you, Jessica Simpson fans? Your girl needs your help if she wants to even make it a close match!
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Hawk Talk: A Bright Futureby Staff Writer / Chicago Blackhawks
While it became official this week that the Blackhawks will be home for the playoffs, that's not the case for their minor league affiliate, the Norfolk Admirals.
Recently, the Admirals became the first team in the AHL to clinch a playoff berth, and they're one of the favorites to bring home the Calder Cup. And why shouldn't they be? At 45-18-6 (as of this writing) they have already surpassed their very respectable win total of last year (43) and seem primed for a long playoff run.
So while you can't root for the Hawks in May, maybe you can for the future Hawks as the prospect list of possible NHL players is longer than at any time in recent memory.
I know what you're thinking, we've been down this road before. Certainly the Hawks have not developed bona fide NHL studs as much as we all would like. But a closer look at things might persuade you the Hawks drafting hasn't been all bad.
First and foremost, Duncan Keith and Brent Seabrook look like long term mainstays on the blue line. Tuomo Ruutu is a top six forward and James Wisniewski has had a solid first year in the league. All were Hawk draft picks and all are solid players.
It doesn't sound very impressive in terms of numbers, but I think it's fair to add Mark Bell and Kyle Calder to this discussion as those players brought you Martin Havlat and Michal Handzus. If they're not drafted and developed, there's no sure thing the Hawks pick up those players.
Having said all that, there needs to be more. This is where Norfolk comes in. There's almost no way to predict (save Sidney Crosby) how a player will make the jump to the NHL. But the more success they have down there, the better I feel about who's coming.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that if a team is winning, then individuals are having good years. And if individuals are having good years, then they're gaining confidence and getting closer to the next level. At least that's what logic would dictate.
Things don't always go accordingly, but it's obvious there are plenty of guys contributing in Norfolk and will soon deserve a real chance here. If you're contributing to a losing effort, do you think the powers-that-be are more likely to look at you in a positive light? I doubt it.
One of the under-publicized topics when Denis Savard took over as head coach was that Dale Tallon wanted to have better synergy between the minors and the Blackhawks. What is being taught down there is also being stressed here. You could say Denis Savard and Norfolk's Mike Haviland are teaching similar systems and philosophies.
With the move of the Admirals to Rockford next year, I believe its just a continuation of that synergy. They will be "right there" in terms of geography and mindset as we move forward. The bottom line is that the Blackhawks' minor league system is going to play a big part in the Hawks success (or lack there of) over the course of the next several years.
Again, there are no guarantees, but at least having the best minor league team is a start to having a good NHL one. And IF the success down there can translate to more victories up here, the future will be bright. Notice how that was a BIG if.
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Occupy Santa Cruz Demonstrates Outside Major Banks
On October 7th, hundreds of people marched from Santa Cruz Mission Plaza and demonstrated at national financial institutions in downtown, as part of Occupy Santa Cruz, a local movement in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street and the 800+ occupations taking place in towns and cities throughout the U.S. Demonstrators held signs and chanted outside Bank of America, Chase and Wells Fargo, and briefly marched on Soquel Avenue, Pacific and Mission Street.
People held signs with statements including:
• The Two Party System is A Farce. It's All About Money
• Stop the Wars! Stop the War on Workers!
• Corporations Are People!??? Great! Let's Break Their Knee-caps!
• Stop Funding an Endless War, Invest in Community
• End the Fed
• Democracy is Not a Spectator Sport!
• Land of the Fees, Home of the Slave
• Share More, Consume Less
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This was such a fun march! See you all at the General Assembly today at 4 at the Courthouse (on the side facing soquel ave).
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Yes, I was there at Friday's march . My favorite image is of two bank employees who were in their offices speaking with depositors. Both of these Wells Fargo employees as well as their customers gave me the "thumbs up" when I held up my sign that said "YOU are the 99%" How great is that!! AND my Local 521 SEIU supports the Occupy Santa Cruz movement!!


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St Keverne and Coverack community groups have been given £2,600 in grants by the parish council.
The largest grant from councillors was awarded to St Keverne Parish Hall, which received £2,000 from the charity car park funds.
Councillor Anthony Richards, who is on the hall committee, told his fellow council members that there had been a change of personnel recently and the new treasurer was doing a "fantastic job."
"We do live from hand to mouth a bit, but we always continue and provide a good service for the St Keverne parish. That is the main hall in the parish," he said.
Mr Richards explained the hall was applying for grants in order to update and modernise the heating system, which should have the added benefit of bringing running costs down. The hall had not received any money from the council for almost ten years.
Councillor Russell Peters said: "What is being done and proposed is essential to the hall continuing. We all know today's running costs of halls and the financial constraints."
Coverack Senior Citizens Christmas Party was given £500, with councillor Sarah Lyne saying she knew a lot of people in the village attended.
There was a long discussion about how much to give Coverack Christmas Lights and Tree committee towards this year's event.
Last year members gave £500, but when they met earlier this month they realised the lights committee had an account balance of just shy of £9,500.
Acknowledging the event was a "credit to Coverack", Mr Peters said: "I personally can't see how they can have a balance like that and ask for a grant."
Chairman Roger Combe said the reason given for this bank balance was in case there was an easterly gale and lights had to be replaced – and then that money would soon disappear.
Councillor David Lambrick agreed, but added: "If they do have a bad year then we could step in the following year and help them out."
Councillor Bill Frisken's proposal that the council grant £100 towards this year, with the indication that if the committee fell into bad times the council would be ready to reconsider, was carried.
Members were unable to give a grant to the Friends of St Keverne School towards their swimming pool running costs as no accounts were provided.


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Most family reunions take place in a backyard or a park. The descendants of John and Elizabeth Rotz of Elk River will need most of Meadowvale Elementary School and the grounds surrounding it for theirs.
More than 600 family members are signed up for the July 21 centennial reunion of the Rotz family, which began putting down roots in Elk River in the spring of 1912.
That's when Elizabeth Rotz and six children were reunited with John, who had made his way from Adony, Hungary to Canada five years earlier. He worked as a day laborer there until making his move to the United States. He came to Elk River in the fall of 1911.
Elizabeth entered the country through Ellis Island with kids in tow in the spring of 2012. The couple decided they would call Elk River home, and their family tree has been growing outward from there ever since.
Descendants will come from all over the country, including many who remain local. The family will be represented at the reunion by five of the seven generations who have lived here in America, according to Bette Belanger of the Rotz clan. She is one of the organizers of the event and a proud member of the Hungarian family.
"We have 641 RSVPs," said Belanger, who is also the author of "From Dairy Farms to Gravel Mines," a book on the Hungarian history in Sherburne County. More history will be created July 21.
The reunion will start at 11 a.m. and will include a catered lunch and program at 4 p.m. Hungarian pastries will be served afterward.
A website has been created for the event. It can be connected to at rotzreunion.org.


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Within and Between Group Variation of Individual Strategies in Common Pool Resources: Evidence from Field Experiments
With data from framed common pool resource experiments conducted with artisanal fishing communities in Colombia, we estimate a hierarchical linear model to investigate within-group and between-group variation in individual harvest strategies across several institutions. Our results suggest that communication serves to effectively coordinate individual strategies within groups, but that these coordinated strategies vary considerably across groups. In contrast, weakly enforced regulatory restrictions on individual harvests (as well as unregulated open access) produce significant variation in the individual strategies within groups, but these strategies are roughly replicated across groups so that there is little between-group variation.
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This Christmas, most of us will be plonking ourselves down in front of the TV to watch a jolly old Christmas movie or the Doctor Who Christmas Special. What most of us won't be doing is watching ourselves in a jolly old Christmas movie with Doctor Who, but that's exactly what youngsters Scott Folan and Eleanor Grant will be doing.
The two 13-year-olds are both pupils at Bodens Youth Theatre group and performing arts studio in Barnet, and can both be seen at cinemas across the country now in Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger with David Tennant, Jessica Hynes and Marc Wootton.
"It was really amazing, a really great experience," says Scott, who lives in Whetstone and goes to the Wren Academy in North Finchley. "On the screen you don't really get an idea of how nice they are. They were all really nice to the kids and answered any questions we had. We were asking David Tennant all about Doctor Who, and he said that was his favourite thing that he'd done."
Scott plays the part of Scott, one of a group of pupils who are entered into a national Sing a Song for Christmas competition in Wales. The film was shot over six weeks in October and November of 2011 in Coventry and Wales – and was completely improvised. The cast were only told the story bit by bit, once filming had already begun.
"I'm one of the pupils in the posh school," Scott laughs, "so it was all about acting posh, which was a bit of a challenge for me. I've seen the film twice now and my voice sounds really high!"
Scott has been attending classes at Bodens since he was nine. Manager Adam Boden is very proud of both Scott and Eleanor, who lives in Palmers Green.
"Both Scott and Eleanor are incredibly gifted singers," he says. "They both have a beautiful tone and quality to their voices. Although there are a lot of children in the film, Eleanor has a very featured role and Scott gets a lot of time on camera, so I was immensely proud of their achievements. You never know how much you are going to be included in any final edit, so it speaks for their ability, the amount they are in the final film."
Nativity 2 is the official Children in Need film of 2012 and was first screened on November 11 at a special charity screening, before the official premiere on November 14. Scott was at both events.
"It was really weird, seeing myself up there on the screen," he says. "The second time, I was with my friends and family and I stood up to leave at the end and they all cheered when my name came up on the credits. It was a bit embarrassing, to be honest!"
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Día de los Muertos Festival
Día de los Muertos Festival
We look forward to seeing you at the festival. Please do NOT bring your pets or cooler or picnic baskets. Please do bring yourselves and friends and a small altar or memento of remembrance. Dress in bones, as a sugar skull or for a fiesta!
Bare Hands Gallery, host of the annual Dia de los Muertos festival in Birmingham, Alabama, is proud to present Birmingham Taco Fest happening on Saturday, June 17, 2017 in Birmingham, Alabama.
Be on the lookout for a new web page, vendor contact information and the announcement of our location.
For now visit our Birmingham Taco Fest Facebook Page to get the latest updates.
A meaningful way to participate in Birmingham's Day of Dead Festival is to bring a personal remembrance for a lost loved one. These personal memorials, known as altars or ofrendas, vary from a single photograph of your loved one to an elaborate shrine in honor of that loved one. Everyone is welcome to bring an altar to the festival. We have a large covered Public Altar space especially for you and a few spaces for reservation for larger altars. Please read the guidelines below about sizes and remembering to take your altar back home.
Día de los Muertos is a rich and soulful way to honor our ancestors and to cherish and remember lost loved ones in the company of community. The ancient belief asserts that the souls of the deceased come to visit during Day of the Dead guided by the familiar sights and fragrances of the items on their altars and the sound of their loved ones gathered round.
The annual Día de los Muertos arts and culture festival presented by Bare Hands commemorates this artful remembrance celebration, which most commonly takes place on November 1st (All Saints' Day) and November 2nd (All Souls' Day).
Altars (ofrendas) often contain: Remember to use copies of original items on your altar so that irreplaceable mementos are not lost or damaged
Other traditional elements which can also be added to altars:
If your altar is small (size of a milk crate) you can simply bring it to the festival and place it in the Public Altar space.
Please bring your altar on:
Tuesday, November 1
4:00 pm until 6:00 pm
Wednesday, November 2
During the festival from 4:00 pm until 10:00 pm
Volunteers at the Public Altar area can help you from opening until 7:00 pm.
Please pick up your altar:
When you leave the festival on November 2
Thursday, November 3
3:00pm until 6:00pm
Altars left after Thursday, November 3 will be discarded.
Music & Performers
Music & Performers
Gates open at 4:00 pm. Gates close at 10:00 pm. No pets, personal food or beverages. Rain or shine.
Our amazingly talented face painters that give life and the authentic look to the Dia de los Muertos festival will be available from 4PM - 10PM.
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Local artists from Alabama will come together to share their Day of the Dead inspired craft. Be sure to visit the Mercado from 4PM - 10PM and take a unique Dia de los Muertos artisan creation with you. "Nuestra casa es su casa."
2017 Artists to be announced soon
Gates open at 4:00 pm. Gates close at 10:00 pm. No pets, personal food or beverages. Rain or shine. 4500 5th Ave S, Birmingham, AL 35222
A children's area will be available for those under 7 years of age. Children will be able to learn to create a unique traditional art piece from Guatemala. Kids' Craft area will be open from 4PM - 7PM.
Children's Activity - Free
The Day of the Dead festival not only immerses you into the spirit of the tradition, it brings artists, musicians, performers and some of Birmingham's most authentic Mexican dishes. Enjoy many of your favorite foods like street tacos, tamales, aguas frescas, tortas, quesadillas, gorditas, corn on the cob, and much more.
2017 Food Vendors to be announced soon.
Gates open at 4:00 pm. Gates close at 10:00 pm. No pets, personal food or beverages. Rain or shine.
The flower market mercado will be conveniently located at TBD.
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It's time to celebrate a new financial year with a fresh, positive attitude and disciplined fiscal approach.
A financial planner from Quantum Financial, Claire Mackay, says much of her work with clients is as a coach, to provide motivation and encouragement in reaching goals. The new financial year should be viewed as one filled with potential.
''On the first of July it's good to say, 'This is a fresh start, what's done is done, let's get into good habits from today,''' she says.
Mackay's top tip to start the new year is to make sure you pay money into your savings or off your debts before you pay any other bills.
''The 'pay yourself first' is a really powerful approach,'' she says. ''You pay Telstra or Vodafone, you pay your landlord and your bank, so pay yourself as well, rather than getting to the end of the month and saying, 'What have I got left?' and transferring that across.''
Mackay says it doesn't matter whether you pay yourself by transferring money into a savings account, a holiday fund, mortgage or a regular investment vehicle. The key is to make the transfer when your earnings arrive in your account.
''Take [the money] out of your everyday account. If you can't access it, you don't have the temptation when you're out on a Friday night to dip into it,'' Mackay says.
A good way to resist the temptation to spend and stay motivated during the year is to have firm goals in place. The founder of financial modelling website PlanYourWealth, Aaron Greaves, says the start of the financial year is a great time to make decisions. ''The first thing you've got to do is get to that point where you've made the decision to be serious about your finances,'' Greaves says.
''Once you've made that decision, you have to know your numbers: know what your assets are, know what your liabilities equal and, just as importantly, know your cash flow, know where you spend your money and your savings potential. If you spend more than you earn, then you can't save.''
The best way to know your numbers is to draw up a budget, Greaves says.
''Very rarely people have actually prepared a budget and if you don't know those things you've got no idea and no confidence going forward,'' he says. ''How can you invest in property or super if you have no idea what you're able to achieve?''
Once you have a solid understanding of your financial position today, you can begin to make realistic projections. Greaves says most plans are based on bridging the gap between what people would like their future financial position to be and what it actually is.
''And when you create a plan for the future it's got to be flexible enough to change as life changes and you've got to be disciplined enough to see the plan through,'' he says.
New year's resolutions are often about keeping an eye on a future goal. A financial adviser from Wealth Enhancers, Sarah Riegelhuth, says her pick of suggestions for a fresh start to the year is to organise yourself for the end of the year.
''Most people go and see their accountant after the end of the financial year so it's a bit too late then if you need to change something,'' she says.
Riegelhuth says it's worth speaking to your accountant early in the year so you know all the deductions you can claim and keep the appropriate records, rather than ''scrounging around and finding out after the fact that you could have claimed something but you didn't keep receipts''.
Riegelhuth says if you don't have a good system in place, now is the time.
''Start fresh with all your financial record keeping, so come end of financial year next year, you will have everything ready rather than having to chase it,'' she says.
Tips for a fresh start
- Get serious about creating wealth. More wealth means more freedom to afford the things you love.
- Know your numbers. Do a budget and find out where your money goes and what you are able to save.
- Gain investment awareness. Find out what options best suit what you want to achieve.
- Seek advice. Find an expert who will be able to help you take the next step.
- Be disciplined yet flexible. Life isn't smooth sailing. Keep some cash aside as a buffer to help you through bumpy times.
- Finally, make sure you also set yourself little achievable goals each year. The more investment successes, the more likely you will achieve your long-term goal.
Source: Aaron Greaves, PlanYourWealth.com.au.


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YOUNG people who have turned their lives around after receiving help from the town's youth mentoring project are encouraging more volunteers to come forward.
Swindon Mentoring and Self Help (SMASH) is recruiting volunteers to help vulnerable 13 to 18-year-olds to increase their potential.
Mel Stevenson, 19, of the town centre, will be studying film, television and theatre at university in Derby from September after being encouraged to get her qualifications by her SMASH mentor when she was 14.
She said: "I was giving up on life. I was diagnosed with severe agoraphobia, which meant I couldn't go outside. I was having home tutoring and I chased them away.
"I was matched with a mentor and she understood me. SMASH has definitely changed my life. I would encourage more young people to go for it."
Kyle Goodchild, 14, of Park South, has been helped by SMASH for nearly a year.
He said: "I had a lot of problems at my old school. I wasn't behaving and I kept getting yellow and red cards and being sent out. I got excluded once. SMASH has boosted my confidence a lot and it helps me get out of the house.
"I play pool with my mentor, or sometimes we go bowling or play tennis. My attitude to learning has changed.
"My time at SMASH has coincided with leaving my old school and moving to Churchfields Academy. It is a new start."
SMASH has trained more than 350 volunteers since 1999.
Project manager Rob Chappell said: "We have just got a grant from Nationwide to train a new team and we have a few on board already.
"We are looking for somebody who has a bit of life experience who is willing to give up a couple of hours a week.
"We are looking for people who really want to give something back. It can get difficult on occasions but it is the most rewarding role you can have."
Training starts on July 7 and is sponsored by The Nationwide Community Foundation.
Anyone looking to get involved with mentoring or helping with fundraising can contact Rob on 01793 879297 or visit www.smash-youth-project.co.uk


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Heather Knight and Data: A Researcher and a Robot Walk Into a Bar… | Creating – WSJ.com.
When they appear on stage, Heather Knight, a robotics graduate student, and Data, her stand-up-comedy-performing robot, seem like a futuristic Odd Couple. Ms. Knight is tall, blond and human while Data—sheathed in a white plastic shell and about a third her size—resembles a RoboCop action figure.
Data plays the feisty star; Ms. Knight takes on the role of the "straight man." At a performance last year, Data, perched on a stool, waved to the crowd. "I would say it's a pleasure to be here, but I am a robot and don't know emotion," he said in a fittingly electronic voice. Then he turned his head slowly toward Ms. Knight and pointed at her with his left arm. "Heather, how about you get working on that emotion program?" he asked. "I am, Data!" she responded, in a mock-defensive tone.
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Operation Flashpoint: Elite
Review by dreampage
"Fails as a videogame. Shines as a military simulator."
Good things come to those who wait. What a cliche to start a review with! But if there's one game that fits this cliche it's Operation Flashpoint: Elite, the Xbox exclusive version of the best-selling PC shooter. The Xbox version was announced in 2002 and since the original (Cold War Crisis) proved to be a huge success, console gamers waited in anticipation. However, the game got released only recently due to some problems with publishers and development. What we got now is an extremely polished, yet at the same time extremely outdated game, which can only be loved or hated.
Operation Flashpoint: Elite is a military simulator. There's no other way to define it. Anything that can happen in a real military conflict can happen in this game, yet you can't expect anything unrealistic from it. There's no running 'n gunning here - well, you can run, but the next thing will be death instead of gunning. This is a strict simulator, hard, unforgiving. It puts you in a story that takes place in 1985 in the Cold War (hence the original title). There are another full single-player campaign, however, Resistance, which originally was an expansion for the PC. So what we've got is insane amount of single-player content: two full campaigns, instant action missions and single missions, too. The single-player portion of the game will last about 50-60 hours according to the developers. That's what I call content!
There is also a full mission editor in which players can create, customize and share any kind of missions and play them offline or on Xbox Live. Here come the multiplayer portion, because Elite has it, too. You can play System Link or Xbox Live, and there are many missions and other, more common game modes like Deathmatch and the like. Since the game takes place in enormous environments (four, 100 square kilometer maps to be exact), the more players the better. Oh, and there are bots, too, which can fill up the empty slots in multiplayer matches.
So as far as content goes Operation Flashpoint: Elite is without opponent. But how does it handle? Well, hard, to be honest. The game is not unfair, but the enemy A.I. is brutal on every difficulty level and the various controls can be quite hard to get used to. Even on foot the game handles suspiciously (turning horizontally is too quick on the default setting), and there are dozens of different vehicles, from civilian to military, from helicopters to planes, cars and tanks, for you to control. Every part of the game is realistic, make no mistake - but this level of realism makes the whole experience awkward, and in the first few hours you'll be busy trying to find out what to do instead of where the enemy is.
One thing, however, makes you forget the difficulty: the immersion. You start a mission and you're not playing anymore. You are simply teleported to the virtual battlefield, you feel the virtual air and feel the pain when get shot. The atmosphere of the game is unparallelled as far as military games go. The environments are varied and believable, and there are many little details that make them even more real. Just a few things: insects, real-time clocktowers, dynamic weather and day-time cycle, real star constellations, tidal waves, etc. These are little touches that can't be found in any other game. Subtle touches but you know they're there and this makes the whole experience better.
The missions are usual military affairs: attack, defend, escort, etc. It's the execution that's different. It's much slower, much harder and much more tactical than other shooters. In fact, it's sometimes just too hard and frustrating. Not because it's badly made - but because real war must be just like this: frustrating.
This game is ugly. Plain and simple. The only thing to appreciate in the graphics is that the maps are huge and it makes logical that the look of the game is worse than usual. There are still many details, though. Bees flying over your head, birds flying in the air. Character models are decent, but their animation is horrible. Texturing is another thing that got sacrificed because of the huge scale of the battlefields. The whole feeling of the graphics is that everything wants to fall apart in the next moment. This is because the unusual movement of the main character, the blurry textures and the huge amount of jaggies due to some ugly aliasing. Technically, this outdated look is understandable. But if you look at it as an Xbox game, it's not.
It's hard to imagine that something is even worse than the graphics in this game, but there's one thing: sound. It's really not that the quality of the effects are bad, because everything from weapons to vehicles sound authentic. It's just it's a totally underwhelming experience. There's even a weapon that only makes a clicking sound when shot - I honestly had to check if I really shot a bullet or not, because there was no indication of it whatsoever. The voice acting is quite bad, too, especially the radio chatter during action, because it's so random that makes you think if some badly programmed robots are talking to each other. Again, realism killed the videogame qualities. If you look at it from a military perspective, the sound is quite good. But this should be a game after all, and from this point of view it just sucks.
The music is atmospheric, but here comes another problem: the volume levels cannot be adjusted properly. Seriously. The main reason for this is that the volume in the menus greatly differs from the volume during gameplay. The music is either laughably loud or totally muted, no matter how much you tinker with the sliders. And there's not much music in there anyway.
50 hours of single-player, countless more in various multiplayer modes, custom missions. I think this three phrases tell everything. If someone managed to love this game, he'll never get bored of it. Elite has enough possibilities for a lifetime, that's for sure. It's challenging, tactical and so real, and this translates extremely well into online matches, too. I'm sure the online community will be a fair and hardcore community that can really play and respect this software.
I like Operation Flashpoint: Elite and I greatly respect the work that Bohemia Interactive has done with the game. Yet I can't escape from the "mixed bag" feeling. On one side, it's the most realistic war game ever. Long-lasting, realistic playing, challenging and fair. On the other side, however, I am a gamer who likes to play games, and we have to admit that Flashpoint fails as a game. Because, what makes a great game? The combination of gameplay, atmosphere and audiovisuals. This software doesn't have this combination. It's not fun. Why? Because real war isn't fun either. It's hard for the same reason. It's ugly, and the sound is bad, too. Only hardcore enthusiasts will love Operation Flashpoint: Elite, but to the game's credit, they will love it to death.
The only thing remaining is to choose: do you want a great game or a full-on military simulator? Depending on your choice I advise you buy this immediately or avoid it like hell.
Reviewer's Rating: 3.5 - Good
Originally Posted: 11/21/05
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"Polynesian Outliers: The State of the Art" by Richard ScaglionJanuary 17, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Manoa Campus, Crawford Hall 115
"Polynesia" includes thousands of islands, most arranged in a rough triangle bounded by Hawai'i, New Zealand, and Easter Island. Outside this triangle, in the western Pacific, lie about two dozen islands, rather small and widely separated, whose inhabitants speak Polynesian languages.
These are the Polynesian outliers. Because of their geographic isolation and other factors, many experienced little European contact until relatively recently, making them crucial for the comparative study of Polynesia. Who are these peoples? Where did they originate, and how did they come to settle in these remote islands? What is their relationship to the better-known Polynesian cultures? Can they, in some way, be thought of as representing Polynesian society before it became permanently altered by contact with Europeans? This talk reviews the findings of a new monograph, exploring these and other questions. The book is the first synthetic, comparative treatment of these unique islands.
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