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Hey y'all!
I thought I'd share some pics from my weekend. We went out to one of my fave sports bars in Uptown Dallas. Really fun atmosphere and a lot of my friends work there. I went with Mike, Myra, and a couple of Mike's guy friends. It was really nice to kick back and relax after a 55+ work week.
I kept my makeup pretty simple. I can't remember the last time I work something vibrant. Its just not feasible for me to wear it often with my job/ field. But one day when I'm off, I hope I will lol. Here's what I used:
Armani foundation (I stopped tanning so often so my color has gone back to semi-normal lol)
Clinique powder
MAC Sculpting powder - to contour
Nars Orgasm blush
MAC #7 falsies
The new MAC Felt-tip eyeliner pen... don't know the name lol
MAC Ricepaper e/s lower lashline and just above liner on upper lid.
MAC Lipgloss
I didn't take a close-up picture, but you can pretty much see that I'm just keeping it fairly simple. And yes Mike and I like to match.... it's just what we do :)
I was wearing 4" heels.... but he's still a bit taller than me. I love it!
He has the prettiest blue eyes.... :)
Just being silly together... I love that we can be complete dorks together.
My bestie, Myra.
Our signature pose together lol
The group at Frankies.
Yep, that's pretty much it. Been working really long hours and all I wanna do on the weekend is have some fun :) And workout since I hardly have time during the week. Anyways, that's all from me at the moment. I'll get back to y'all when I have something new to write about. If there's anything y'all wanna know or have questions about, feel free to ask. I don't really know what to write about these days, but I still want to stay in touch! Bye for now!


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9-8-8-8 for Bristol.
These judges are smoking the Project Runway judges' crack. :lol
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9-8-8-8 for Bristol.
These judges are smoking the Project Runway judges' crack. :lol
:lol Post of the night, MFW!Quote:
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I think Bristol's wearing lower heels, now, and Mark is wearing lifts. She doesn't appear to be towering over him as seemed to be the case earlier in the season.
You got that right! :roflQuote:
Originally Posted by MFWalkoff;4095957;
The good news is Bristol is in last place by 4 points. The bad news is she should be behind by double that.
Rick looks like the Jolly Green Giant in all that green.
I think I'm seeing a leprechaun...
Helio yes, it's great for you to be back and not sitting in prison at this time, thank goodness..
Rick and Kurt both have the same eternal problem for me -- they both end up looking like cool guys who are faking a dance, rather than actually dancing with their partners.
He is soooo talll! That was better than most of his dances cause he looked like he actually had fun doing it! Height difference killed the dance honestly!
If not Bristol tomorrow night, then I certainly think it is Rick's time to go..followed by Kurt!
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a) STDs can and will be used as weapons *screams, hides*.
b) Only total morons admit to being this level of messed up on the internet.
c) Does no one practice safe sex anymore? Call us a bunch of prudes but we're massive advocates of the condom... Especially when conducting intercourse with a "stripper/hooker or whatever they call themselves". Also, if said girl was a stripper/hooker, did this guy pay to give her the clap? Sorry, new level of weird.
d) This guy is full of it. While he claims to have taken on a nobel quest in order to right a wrong once done onto his pal, we're 98% sure he just got the clap, didn't realise it and then accidentally passed it on.
e) If it really is bros before hoes, what the heck was this dude doing creepin' with a buddy's former flame? Something to think about, eh?
Conclusion, Brobible.com is terrifying.


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DN1212 Numerical Methods and Basic Programming 9.0 credits
Numeriska metoder och grundläggande programmering
Please note
This course has been cancelled.
A basic course in numerical methods and programming technique.
Educational levelFirst cycle
Academic level (A-D)A
Subject areaTechnology
Grade scaleA, B, C, D, E, FX, F
At present this course is not scheduled to be offered.
Intended learning outcomes
An overlying goal of the course is the realisation of the necessity of numerical methods and programming techniques in order to simulate technological and scientific processes.
After completing this course, the students should be able to
- identify various mathematical problems and reformulate these in a way suitable for numerical treatment
- select a suitable numerical method for the treatment of the given problem
- motivate the choice of a method by describing its advantages and limitations
- select an algorithm leading to efficient computation, and implement this in a suitable programming language, e.g. Matlab
- present the results in a relevant and illustrative way
- provide an estimate of the accuracy of the results
- break down larger problems into subproblems, and write user functions for these
- utilize control- and datastructures
- handle files in various formats, both for input and output
- utilize standard functions from Matlab's library, for calculation, visualization and efficient programming
- write well-structured programs in the programming language.
Course main content
Fundamental computer concepts. Programming in a modern programming language for scientific computations (Matlab). Use of a graphic library. Problem solving by subdivision of the problem. Program structuring. Use of mathematics software for solving technical-mathematical problems, doing numerical experiments and presenting solutions. Basic concepts and ideas in numerical analysis: algorithms, computational cost, local linearization, iteration, extrapolation, discretization, convergence, stability. Reliability assessment: parameter sensitivity, experimental perturburations. Numerical methods for linear and nonlinear systems of equations, integrals, differential equations, interpolation. Model fitting with the method of least squares.
Recommended prerequisites
Corresponding to courses in Linear algebra and and Differential calculus for functions in one variable.
To be announced at least 4 weeks before course start at course home page. Probably we will use P. Pohl: Grunderna i numeriska metoder, Teknisk Högskolelitt. S. Chapman: Matlab programming for engineers, Brooks/Cole, Thomson Learning. Material produced at the department.
- LAB1 - Laboratory Works, 1.5, grade scale: P, F
- LAB2 - Laboratory Works, 1.5, grade scale: P, F
- LAB3 - Laboratory Works, 1.5, grade scale: P, F
- LAB4 - Laboratory Works, 1.5, grade scale: P, F
- TEN1 - Examination, 3.0, grade scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
In this course all the regulations of the code of honor at the School of Computer science and Communication apply, see: http://www.kth.se/csc/student/hederskodex/1.17237?l=en_UK.
Requirements for final grade
Examination (TENl; 3 university credits).
Laboratory work (LAB1; 1.5 university credits), (LAB2; 1,5 university credits), (LAB3; 1,5 university credits), (LAB4; 1,5 university credits).
Offered by
Katarina Gustavsson (email@example.com)
Supplementary information
Only one of the following courses can be counted in your degree: DD100N, DD1310, DD1311, DD1312, DD1314, DD1315, DD1340, DD1341, DD1342, DD1343, DD1345, DN1212, HI1024, HI1026, ID1004, ID1301.
Add-on studies
DD1321 Applied Programming and Computer Science and DN2221 Applied Numerical Methods, part 1.
Course syllabus valid from: Autumn 2009.
Examination information valid from: Autumn 2007.


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Help the Exhibition Refugee Childhood
The Project
The exhibition Infância Refugiada / Refugee Childhood – Palestinians in Turkey, Lebanon and Syria, is a solo exhibition by Brazilian photographer Karine Garcêz, which captures the expressions of Palestinian children and adolescents who live in refugee camps distributed in Turkey, Lebanon and Syria. The pictures were taken in 2014, during the humanitarian trip Karine Garcêz took integrating the mission from the Dutch NGO Al Wafaa Campaign. The name of the NGO means "Fulfilling the Campaign" and it dedicates exclusively to the Palestinian cause.
The exhibition's goal is to register childhood in refugee camps and raise awareness about the responsibility the international community has towards the harsh reality of war and absence of basic social rights, conditions which these children are under. Infância Refugiada / Refugee Childhood will tour initially through Brasília, Fortaleza, São Paulo and Curitiba in Brazil, and Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
Giving visibility to innocent victims of wars.
Karine Garcêz is a Brazilian photographer from Ceará who converted to Islam around 10 years ago. She has been doing this solo work about the preserved innocence by the children, even when facing a degrading human situation. The refugee Palestinian children are little adults, who keep all childish delicacy at the same time that they already have political awareness.
According to the United Nations Organization (UN), today there are more than 50 million refugees, people who due to wars and persecutions, were obliged to flee their homes. Around 5 million are Palestinians victims of the conflict started in1948. Around a third of those Palestinian refugees live in refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon and in Gaziantep, a Turkish city located near the Syrian border. It is estimated that around 80 thousand Palestinian children and adolescents are refugees in Gaziantep.
Victims of war, the children have their rights violated by violence, tearing the pages of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child from 1959 and the Convention on the Rights of the Child from 1989. The war takes their homes,communities, privacy, dignity, innocence and many times their lives. The survivor carries the consequences of the experience of this stage of life: anxiety, depression and aggressiveness.
Even if they are not regarded as children, they are still children and that is how we should look at them. Not going back to the past and seeing them as grown-ups but defending their rights to be children. They are little seeds that have to be watered, not mature trees which we already expect fruits and shadow from. The child's age is not the same as the war age. It is the love age.
The exhibition Infância Refugiada/ Refugee Childhood is a window which intends to tour throughout the world making the foreign sight reach out to the Palestinian childhood, today refuging and threatened, in the expectation that all the hope that is in the look of these little rightful citizens to be fed by world citizens.
The hope and the sight are two territories which should not find barriers.
The objective of the exhibition is to register childhood in refugee camps and generate reflection on the responsibility the international community has towards the harsh reality of war and absence of basic social rights, condition which these children are submitted to.
Social counterpart/compensation
The souvenir sales of the exhibition go to the NGO Al Wafaa Campaign , which performs humanitarian intervention with Palestinian refugees.
Who is Al Wafaa Campaign?
The cration of Al Wafaa Campagin is the result of combined and coordinated groups of relief organizations to help Palestinians. One of it goal is to collect and contribute to alleviate the suffering and the performance of duty towards Palestine and its children through a series of relief convoys and humanitarian charities and projects aimed at them wherever they are inside or outside Palestine.
Website: www.europal.org
Why 11.000,00 thousand dollars?
This money will help us make this project come true such as:
- Treatment and printing photos, the photos and aluminum structure;
- Photographer;
- Professionals: Media Relations;
- Marketing;
- Curator;
- Souvenirs;
- Promotional print materials, Website development and management;
- postal cost ;
- Coust site
This amount requested, we will accomplish in just one city in Brazil. The first, and then broaden and build support to complete the target of 5 cities in Brazil and abroad
Learn More:
- Page Refugee Childhood https://www.facebook.com/refugeechildhood?ref=bookmarks
- Page Karine Garcêz: https://www.facebook.com/karine.garcez
Twitter: refugeechildhood
Who can help us?
All kinds of people can contribute with our project. It is very easy! All you need to do is to choose one of the donation options.
Help us. Please share enabling us to find people or companies that can provide us so we can accomplish this work, share and mark your friends and businesses on social networks.If you want to be a donor, you will receive a souvenir kit for free, and many hasanat by providing our campaign to ease the situation of many Palestinian refugees children. Allah will reward you greatly … Children are the mirror of the future.


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Wander This World
It's a few minutes after 2 p.m., and the Bar Marmont on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood has yet to open for business. I was supposed to meet Manu Chao at 2 sharp, but the doors are locked and nobody's responding to my knocking. I run down the street to a pay phone, call and discover that because the sun is shining, Manu—or Mr. Chao, as The New York Times would have him—has opted to spend the afternoon lounging at the swimming pool of a nearby hotel instead of waiting for me at the bar.
Welcome to the world of Manu Chao, the Spanish-born, French-raised son of a prominent socialist journalist; a nonstop wanderer of the barrios, casbahs and favelas of the Third World; and a Dylanesque troubadour who jokingly refers to his albums as "little trips." Chao's first hit song, "Bongo Bong," got the most airplay, but the most revealing tune was "Desaparecido," or "Disappeared"—which seemed especially appropriate during the time I didn't know where the hell the guy was. Although fans in Guatemala and Argentina assumed the song referred to the disappeared victims of their countries' civil wars, Chao insists "Desaparecido" is just a nickname for himself.
"My friends like to call me the desaparecido because they never know when I'm going to go and they never know when I'm gonna come back," he told me during our (eventual) poolside chat last month. Chao was in town on behalf of his band/artistic collective, Radio Bemba Sound System, to promote his new CD, Proxima Estacon: Esperanza(Next Station: Hope), which Virgin Records released two weeks ago.
Like Clandestino, Chao's ethereal 1998 solo debut, each song on Esperanza flows seamlessly into the next, like a musical road map of his recent journeys. Interspersed throughout each tune are radio and TV transmissions, ambient sounds from South American markets, passing buses, everyday life. Chao's proclivity for background sampling is especially evident on Esperanza's last track, "Infinita Tristeza" ("Infinite Sadness"), combining the melodies of Esperanza's strongest tracks, especially "Me Gustas Tu" ("I Like You") and "Que Hora Son?" ("What Time Is It?"), which feature the nocturnal transmissions of Cuba's Radio Reloj.
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"I consider every disc to be one song," Chao explains. "A little trip, a pequeno viajecito. And at the end of the process, there are different songs. Sometimes, the joint between two songs is more important than the actual songs. If I like the two songs but there's no joint, one has to go. For me, the best part of the recording process is taking the disc and re-mixing the whole thing, putting new things on there."
Unlike Clandestino, however, the influence of Chao's musical hero, Bob Marley, is obvious from the initial bars of Esperanza's first track, "Merry Blues," which, in an odd way, is perhaps the purest roots-rock/reggae song to come out since Marley's passing in 1981. "I learned a lot about simplicity from Bobby Marley," Chao says. "There is not a single song of Bob Marley that is complicated. Each song has maybe two or three chords, and sometimes just one. But every time you listen to it, it's new."
"Mr. Bobby" on Esperanzais Manu's Marley tribute. In the song's chorus, Manu wails, "Hey, Bobby Marley, sing something good to me/This world go crazy, it's an emergency."
Chao's philosophy about music borrows heavily from Marley, whose lyrics often contained angry messages wrapped around soothing melodies. "With music, I try to channel my anger," Chao explains. "If you are doing trash/hardcore/metal music that's really angry, the people of Latin America won't understand you. You arrive in a favela in Rio, and they look at you and say, "Okay, very nice, but I don't understand."
Manu learned this lesson a decade ago, when he and his brother Antoine (who plays trombone in Radio Bemba) toured Latin America with their French ethno-punk band Mano Negra, which Chao describes as a "much harder group" than Radio Bemba. "The city people and the students in South America understood us because they had the culture of rock music," he recalled. "But the people of the pueblo really didn't understand us. They would tell us, 'Okay, but how can we dance to that? All day long, we have trouble trying to make a living and trying to feed our sons. Now, we have five minutes to party. Hey, don't bullshit my head.'"
Easy on the ear but heavy on the soul, Manu Chao's music is all about what he likes to call "malegria," a word he created that combines mal, or "bad," and alegria, which means "happiness." "Malegria is the alegria that is also sadness and hardship—the kind you get in the barrios," he explains. "In the suburbs of Panama or Brazil or Colombia, there's no time for depression. In the First World—you and me—our esperanza is more something for the future, but we don't need to make a living everyday to feed our children. We don't need this kind of esperanza, the real raw esperanza that tonight my children have to have dinner. No time for depression in South America. You've got depression there, you're dead."
Although his lyrics clearly reflect the outrage he feels toward the suffering he's witnessed around the world, Chao doesn't consider his music political. "First of all, my job as a musician is to make entertainment," he says. "That's my first job. Afterward, we can talk about social issues. But the first job of a musician is to give pleasure to people. I'm a clown, you know, not a politician. In this job, you can pass other messages and other things, but always keeping people having a good time is the best weapon."
Born in Paris, Chao now divides his time between Barcelona, Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro. In each locale, his favorite activity is wandering the cafs and street corners of his adopted neighborhoods. His apartment is for sleeping and recording music—nothing else, he says. "I drink my coffee in the barrio," he explains. "I read the newspaper in the barrio, watch the television in the barrio. I'm always playing my music in the street. In Barcelona, the street is our place of rehearsal. The Radio Bemba band, we don't rehearse in a studio; we rehearse on the street. People are always all around us. They see us perform, [and] they bring a beer or a joint. It's really beautiful."
On one recent occasion, Chao and a few members of Radio Bemba were jamming on a street corner in Barcelona when a crowd gathered. "Some people came over and one of them said, 'Que bien cantas las canciones deManu Chao,'" he recalls, laughing at the irony: "How well you play the songs of Manu Chao!"
To some ego-driven musicians, such confusion might seem an insult. But for Manu Chao, being mistaken for an impostor is a fitting tribute to his nomadic sensibilities, particularly his preference for the anonymity of the streets over the spotlight of rock-star fame.
"My protection against all the business pressure is that I don't have a schedule," he admits. "Every six months, all my roads are open. If I want to make another record, if I want to go open a bar in Tanzania—I need to know I can jump. Because if there's something that makes sense to me, it's traveling around the world. If I can't see that what I'm doing has any sense, then I just have to wait two or three months, and I'm out."
Which is why Radio Bemba's upcoming European tour is scheduled to last exactly two months. "We'll play Central Park and then tour Europe for two months because we never play for more than two months with the band," Manu explains. "After two months, we automatically split up. It's our way to fight against routine. Every six months, I organize my life."
Chao wouldn't say when or if he'll return to Hollywood, where he played the Palace last December, or Orange County, where he dropped in for a show at JC Fandango's in Anaheim. "To read in the newspaper what I am going to do two years from now is completely surreal," he says. "But every time I decide to change my life and go to another country and do something else, I always go back to my music. I cannot get out. I try sometimes to get out by traveling, but for the moment, no. Because it makes me happy."
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I don't get to a W-S too often, but today I was at two malls (the horror!) and needed to waste a little time. A few things of note:
First, the sale prices appear to continue. I think they're feeling the crunch. They're really pushing All-Clad d5 and Greenpan pans. Oh, and Staub is now the marquis CI, and the color du jour is the deep purplish blue.
Second, there appear to be a lot more single-purpose gadgets than I remember, e.g., a jalepena corer (and grill rack for them), and a mango pitter, but fewer multi-use.
Third, in the two stores I went in, both had almost a *complete* line of Mauviel copper, including the big ticket specialty pieces--turbotiers, braising boxes, large poachers, etc. These pieces are still tinned, but most others are bimetal. IMO, the only *regular* piece bearing a faint resemblance to the quality of the old W-S is the rondeau, which is still thick and heavy and tinned. Not a bargain though at $525.
Fourth, Bob Kramer's Shun is now at $299 (down from $375), and it is so light I think it's a turnoff.
Fifth, W-S had a high-end Heckels (the Chronodur, or something like that) that appears to be the same profile and geometry as their really expensive ($1K) Damascus Kramer knock-off. But not the $$$ knife itself. The Chronodur was a nice feel and shape.
Sixth, I finally handled the Shun "dual density" bread knife, and was totally underwhelmed. The handle and "bolster" are slightly Japanese-D shaped, but the blade itself was perceptibly crooked, and I found the serrations almost crudely cut.
Last, the selection of de Buyer carbon steel pans is up, and the prices for them seemed very reasonable.


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Rodwell McNeill killed in single-vehicle Landover crash
The police officer injured while trying to save a man from a burning vehicle has been released from the hospital.
Officials say Lt. John Boesman, a 21-year veteran with the department, suffered second degree burns to his hands and face as he tried to pull 70-year-old Rodwell McNeill Jr. from his car.
Unfortunately, McNeill did not survive the single-vehicle crash.
The accident occurred at Martin Luther King Highway and Whitfield Chapel Road a little after 1 p.m. Monday.
Prince George's Police Corporal Ron Owens saw the smoke and responded. Running to help, he was the third officer to arrive on scene.
"I saw three people. It was two officers, one was a civilian, trying to break the windshield out and actually pull the guy out of the car," Owens said.
Owens attempted to join the other officers in saving the trapped victim inside the SUV. But he and the other officers can't save him.
"We had to back off. The one officer he had burns on his arms, his hands was all cut up, he had burns to his face just from the heat," Owens recalled.
In video from Owens' cruiser camera, you can see a plain clothes police lieutenant clearly in pain. Another officer poured water onto Boesman's burned hands.
"I'm grateful to them. I know they tried. I know they tried," said Polly Young, McNeill's mother-in-law. "They are heroes."
She says her family knows the officers did all they could.
"He was a good man, he was a Christian man, he was a good husband," Young said of her son-in-law.


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Five-Year-Old Uncovers Xbox One Login Flaw 196
New submitter Smiffa2001 writes: "The BBC reports that five-year-old Kristoffer Von Hassel from San Diego has uncovered a (frankly embarrassing) security flaw within the Xbox One login screen. Apparently by entering an incorrect password in the first prompt and then filling the second field with spaces, a user can log in without knowing a password to an account. Young Kristoffer's dad submitted the flaw to Microsoft — who have patched the flaw — and have generously provided four free games, $50, a year-long subscription to Xbox Live and an entry on their list of Security Researcher Acknowledgments."


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IT has been 22 months of hell, but Jason Culina is ready to play again.
The Sydney FC midfielder, sidelined since January 2011, says "it's the right time" to kick a ball in anger this week. He could be just days away from a return to the A-League.
Inspired in part by the chance to link up with Alessandro Del Piero, Culina will play in a practice match for Sydney this week aiming to put the seal on a truly stirring sporting comeback.
While desperate not to get ahead of himself, Culina, 32, admitted he would love "to be involved in some form" against Melbourne Victory next weekend - just months after he feared he would never play again.
He injured his knee in last year's Asian Cup, but the former Socceroos midfielder has the green light from doctors to go at full tilt.
"I've been in rehab for just over a year since the operation, and training full on with the team for the past six to eight weeks," Culina said.
"I'm slowly getting there, every week I'm a bit stronger, and on the advice of the medical staff it's the right time to start playing again.
"Getting through my first practice match is the first thing, then we'll reassess if I'm feeling good after that. I'd love to have played against the Mariners (yesterday), but people told me it wasn't quite the right time, so to be involved in some form against Victory would be incredible."
Six years ago at the World Cup in Germany, Culina played against Del Piero and swapped shirts with the Italian at the end of the game.
"It's ridiculous how things turn out. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I'd be back on the same pitch as Alessandro, playing with him," Culina said. "I've had the joy of training alongside him, and now to be this close to playing with him is a tremendous feeling. It's something anyone would grasp at as you don't get someone of his class playing in Australia too often, let alone for your club.
"But I'm also looking forward to playing with the rest of the team, after working alongside them for months now. It's a club that cares about players."
Culina admitted he would feel nerves this week, before adding: "Even before the injury I always felt nerves before every game.
"I'm more excited than anything. A few months ago I could only dream of playing again but, as it's got closer, the adrenalin is starting to flow.
"On the field, I guess I might be a bit nervous at first, but I think I'll be more overjoyed to be back playing.
"It's hard to describe, the feeling deep inside that you might never play again the game you love. I'm just overwhelmed with joy to be back to the point where I can actually get back out there.
"The last time I played in front of a big crowd was probably at PSV in Holland; sadly that wasn't the case at Gold Coast. It's nice to be playing for a big club like Sydney. It's been amazing to see the fans come pouring in for our first few games."
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Toon boss Shearer hoping for Barton return
Newcastle United manager Alan Shearer is hoping forgotten man Joey Barton can revitalise his midfield just when he needs it most.
The 26-year-old former Manchester City player is expected to return to full training later this week after recovering from a fractured metatarsal and would then be in contention for the make-or-break Premier League clash with Portsmouth next Monday evening.
The Magpies midfield has lacked penetration in recent months, leaving the club's strikers starved of meaningful possession, so the return of a man who is yet to even start paying off his £5.8m transfer fee cannot come soon enough.
At his peak with City, Barton both scored and created goals, and Shearer is desperate for him to do just that as his side prepare for their final five games of the campaign, with three of them must-win affairs at St James' Park.
The manager said: ``Joey has had treatment all over the weekend and if everything goes well with him over the next few days, we might have him in full training on Thursday or Friday.
``He can also run on and get past the forwards, which, with all due respect, Nicky Butt, who is 34, can't do.
``He does well in other jobs that he does, but he can't get past the forwards, and if Joey is there to do that, then it would free up some other players.''
Barton was signed by former boss Sam Allardyce in July 2007, but has managed only 31 appearances since as a result of injuries and his spell in prison.
Just five of his 25 starts have come this season with knee and foot problems having severely restricted his attempts to belatedly prove his worth on Tyneside.
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Chicken pot au feu may sound fancy, but it's actually an easy and delicious dinner that can be whipped up in just a few simple steps. The literal translation of this French dish is "pot on fire," and it involves simmering meat and vegetables together and creating a flavorful broth.
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We've got trouble, friends–right here! Republican legistlators in the Hawkeye State are ginning up the kulkurkampfen again by targeting professors' sabbaticals at public universities. They think that Iowans are not aware of the caliber of disaster indicated by the presence of sabbaticals in public university budgets! Unsurprisingly, incoming House speaker Kraig Paulsen doesn't remember that there are all kinds of biomedical faculty, business professors, and engineering proffies in Iowa. He targets Medieval Studies and Music!
It's awful hard to look a taxpayer in the eye and say, "You need to pay higher property taxes so that a professor can take a year off from teaching to go research superstitions on the Middle Ages or write a musical."
I wonder how sabbaticals would fare if faculty proposed instead to remember the Maine, Plymouth Rock, and the Golden Rule?
The story at Marketplace is actually in sympathy with preserving sabbaticals–their angle of the story is that it's penny-wise but pound-foolish, and they interview someone from the AAUP to make the case for preserving faculty sabbaticals. I sure wish he had been permitted to expand on the other point he made, which is that faculty aren't just teachers, we're also contractually obligated to produce research as well as contribute to self-governance and service. Yes, those very people who don't want their property taxes to go up have also–through university boards and administrators–required us to do much more than just teach our classes.
As far as I can tell, my sabbatical in 2007-08 at Baa Ram U. actually made money for my university. Like most American faculty we only get a full year at half pay or one semester at full pay, so the people who take the whole year end up paying for the people on half-year sabbaticals. I took the full year of leave, so the college kited half my salary to cover the other sabbaticals. They didn't hire anyone to teach my courses, advise students, or to help carry the burden of service. (My colleagues all pitched in and did it for free, again, as we all do every year for colleagues who are on leave. Somehow, that's never recognized in these conversations about how costly sabbaticals are at public unis.)
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SAN DIEGO -- Leaders of a county task force said Friday that they want $154.9 million a year -- more than four times the $37.5 million dozens of backcountry fire agencies now spend annually -- to merge the county's rural fire agencies into a unified fire service.
Palomar fire Chief Karl Bauer said the cost estimate was based on increasing staffing and upgrading equipment at the 60 fire stations now operated by 28 separate special districts in the unincorporated parts of the county. Upgrades would include at least one full-time fire engine and four full-time firefighters. He said that would double the existing full-time staffing at those 60 fire stations.
Service levels and spending on fire protection vary widely around the county. The task force has assumed in its consolidation plan that it would raise spending and service in poor districts to levels much closer to spending in the wealthy districts.
Bauer, the executive director of the county's Task Force on Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Services, made his comments at the task force's meeting Friday at the County Administration Building in San Diego. Proponents of consolidation, including Bauer and county Supervisor Dianne Jacob, the task force's chairwoman, say unifying fire agencies under one flag would improve fire and emergency medical response service, enhance communication and provide more firefighting equipment for the region by increasing lobbying power for now-divided fire agencies.
Fire officials say the issue of consolidating rural fire agencies has been discussed for years. But it has been stoked by the recent firestorm that raged through the county.
Bauer said the aim of the consolidation was to provide "seamless," high-quality fire and paramedic service from San Diego County's southern border with Mexico to its northern border with Riverside County. He said it was important to remember that firefighters are not only the first agencies to respond to fires, but also to car wrecks and medical emergencies such as heart attacks. Bauer said a person typically begins to suffer permanent brain damage within four to six minutes after the heart stops.
"Right now, it takes unstaffed stations about 10 minutes to get an engine on the road," Bauer said.
Task force members, who include representatives from nearly all of the county's rural fire districts, approved a motion saying they favored the idea of consolidating.
Bauer did not offer specifics on how it would be possible to find the roughly $110 million a year needed to fund a consolidated fire agency.
He said it was possible that the money could be found in the existing property tax and benefit fee revenues in the state, perhaps by forcing the state to return property tax money it began siphoning away from local governments and local public safety back in 1993. Bauer said that since 1993, Sacramento had taken more than $66 million from local governments in the county to pay for state expenses.
In his proposed budget for next year, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is proposing to take an additional $1.3 billion in property taxes from local governments -- a move that would take $55.3 million away from San Diego County.
Fire officials say fire agencies suffered large revenue losses in 1978 when voters approved Proposition 13, which capped property taxes and forced agencies to ask voters to approve benefit fees. An inch-thick report compiled by Bauer in the last six months said that because of Prop. 13, individual communities offer fire agencies widely varying amounts of money and receive widely varying levels of protection.
As a "last resort," Bauer told fire officials, fire agencies could ask voters to approve a ballot initiative to pay for the regional agency.
Task force members instructed Bauer to come up with more specific funding plans by March.
"To me, this doesn't get off the paper unless you're able to wrestle the funding issue to the ground," said Chief Bill Metcalf of Fallbrook's North County Fire Protection District.
Jacob, who has long been a proponent of merging fire agencies in the backcountry, also refused to take a position on how funding a unified fire service could be done and urged the task force to proceed one step at a time.
She also said the consolidation plan did not propose that the county of San Diego run any unified agency.
"What we have on our agenda today is the 'what,' … a proposal in front of us that actually defines what a single fire department would look like in the unincorporated area," Jacob said. "There's no question about it, that (funding) is going to be a tough one. But unless we have a vision and we have a plan, which we have never had before, then there is nothing for us to work toward."
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|Dinner, naked. And dee-licious!
The Enemy Of The American People Since 2007
"Humanity will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
Monday, March 19, 2012
Good Eats Recap
by M. Bouffant at 18:20
Following our vain attempt to incite a war among the Catholics, we ended up eating corned beef Saturday.
5 comments:
- vacuumslayer said...
Hey, nice tile in your kitchen!
- 20 March, 2012 07:12
- Big Bad Bald Bastard said...
You succumbed to the Borg. Did you sing "Danny Boy" after dinner and fall asleep watching The Quiet Man?
Here's a nice little Irish ditty to warm the cockles of your heart, mo buachaill.
- 20 March, 2012 10:21
- M. Bouffant said...
Cuisine Editor:
No singing, or falling asleep. Several Pogues songs were played, which almost put us to sleep.
That is not the Just Another Blog™ Test Kitchen. (Not our friend & sexual associate's kitchen, either.) We don't even have an oven.
- 20 March, 2012 15:00
I'm sitting here eating a corned beef on sourdough.
And smiling.
- 20 March, 2012 16:16
- M. Bouffant said...
Sour Editor:
Our leftovers were consumed on sourdough too.
- 20 March, 2012 18:08
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This year's Call for Entries campaign, and a glittering interactive physical award, have been designed in collaboration with New York based typographer and FFF regular Craig Ward. Combining striking type with imagery of the award itself the campaign invites creatives around the world to 'Shake it Up'.
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shouldn't the graph's x-axis be in percentile and not in probability? The range of CDF is percentile (0,1) = (0th percentile, 100th percentile), whereas the range of normal distribution is probability (0,1) = (0%,100%). Since the probit is the CDF inverse, it's domain is CDF's range, which is in percentile, not probability. Thoreaulylazy 15:20, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
- The range of the CDF in the graph is probability, right? However, this is an article about the probit, not the normal CDF, so it should probably remain a map from [0,1] to [-Inf, Inf]. --Pdbailey 00:49, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
- I agree that Probit is a map from [0,1] to [-Inf,Inf], the problem is that [0,1] can be interpreted as 0% to 100% or 0th percentile to 100th percentile. The correct interpretation should be percentile not probability. An article about the probit function should be consistent with an article on the CDF function because they are inverses of each other. That is, the domain and range for CDF becomes the range and domain for Probit. The complication on whether to use "percentile" or "probability" stems from the fact that a percentile is a form of probability, "the probability that a random sample from the set is BELOW". That is, it is equivalent to say (a) a student John is ranked 70th in a class of 100, as it is to say (b) a random student from the class has a 70% probability of having a lower rank than John. Most statisticians, however, would simply say "John is at 70th percentile" -- no statistician would ever say "John is at 70% probability" (although they might say, if they're trying to be unnecessarily wordy, "a random student from the class has a 70% probability of being below John"). Thus, knowing the mean test score (M) and the standard deviation (D), we can infer John's score as M + D*Probit(.7). The domain of the Probit function is clearly percentile (.7 = 70th percentile). -- Thoreaulylazy 18:41, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Summary is a bit heavy[edit]
Couldn't this article have a simpler summary? The lingo used in this article suggests to me that anybody who understood it would probably know what a probit was already anyway. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 188.8.131.52 (talk) 09:46, 12 January 2007 (UTC).
I'd say "a bit" heavy is an understatement. The very first phrase of this article contains at least four terms I do not understand, and I did get some Statistics 101 in my days... Yoe (talk) 02:18, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
I agree that the summary jumps into the specifics and notation too early. It might be better to keep the summary more general, and move the specific details into the body. The logit article's summary might be a good example of keeping it simple. However, note that the logit article's body overall has less technical detail and thus might not be a good model for the body of this article. Showeropera (talk) 23:31, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
In my opinion article is great, espacialy part about computation in R. Hope to see more articles with usefoul studd like that 188.8.131.52 (talk) 18:50, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
Needs More History and Motivation[edit]
1. There is a problem with identifying your readers, and writing appropriately. One reader might be an EPA manager with one course in statistics, who has heard that the scientists are using "LD50s" which are computed using something called "probit analysis." Another may be a statistician who thinks "wonder what Wikipedia has on probit."
2. Looks like this is mostly about math. You probably want to think about subject-matter motivation. Important areas of application include psychometrics, econometrics, and toxicology. A conventional toxicological explanation is based on a lognormal distribution of tolerances, where the tolerance of a single organism is the dose just high enough to elicit a particular type of "response" (not necessarily death).
3. I think it would be good to include some more about statistical inference, including some interesting history. The linear relation between probit of expected response and the predictor is very often taken by the statistically naive as an indication that inference is a case of ordinary linear regression. In fact, maximum likelihood estimation is pretty standard. Historically, it seems you could about say that probit is the original "generalized linear model." The scoring algorithm used in glm comes from an appendix of Bliss paper, written by R.A. Fisher.
4. Possible links are bioassay, toxicology, generalized linear models, R.A. Fisher.
Dfarrar 04:37, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Maybe I'm mistaken, but I understood that probit stood for "PROBability of Insect Toxicity" and not "PROBability unIT"? The original probit model was to allow the useful linear model structure to be mapped into the binary outcome "bug lives" or "bug dies" by estimating the probability of the response state rather than estimating an inapplicable linear response. Anyone care to comment? 18.104.22.168 (talk) 00:33, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
- Bliss's 1934 paper in Science simply says "These arbitrary probability units have been termed 'probits' and are given above in an abbreviated table". He gives no further explanation of the motivation for the term. "Probability of Insect Toxicity" gives 0 hits on Google. Smells like a backronym to me. --Qwfp (talk) 13:26, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
what goes here vs. what goes under probit model[edit]
I think this should be limited pretty much to defining the probit function and alluding to the important uses. Additional detail on probit modeling should probably go under probit model. I hope my additions conform to that suggestion. I suggest finding some links related to the material I just put in on diagnosing deviation from normality. Thanks for the nice details on Bliss's work. Dfarrar 03:51, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
I'm not sure why this deserves an entry. The inverse of a CDF is not exactly special. All the interesting stuff regards the probit model. BTW, the recent entry about diagnosing non-normality is better covered by Q-Q_plots, or at least is just a special case of Q-Q plots. Pdbailey 17:28, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
- I could live with merging this into probit modeling. Thanks for pointing out the QQ plot article.Dfarrar 00:29, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
Seems there should a reference to D.J. Finney's contribution to Probit Analysis. Below is a quote from page 6 of Probit Analysis, by D.J. Finney, 2nd edition Cambridge, At The University Press 1962.
"The statistical treatment of quantal assay data has been much aided by the development of Probit Analysis. This method, which is usually attributed to Gaddam (1933) and Bliss (1934a, b; 1935a, b) though it has, in fact, a much longer history (& 14), has now been widely adopted as the standard method of reducing the data to simple terms."
Richard Daum, retired, at one time employed as an analytical statistician by US Dept of Agriculture.
- Richard, Could you provide the text of reference 14? Also, why do you think that belongs here and not at probit model? Pdbailey 16:18, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
14? (cannot duplicate original icon)references Section (?), page 42, in Chapter 2 with subtitle: HISTORY OF THE PROBIT METHOD in D.J. Finney's Probit Analysis. In response to your suggestion of why D.J. Finney's Probit Analysis belongs in Probit Model -- the answer is it seemed Finney's Probit Analysis work fit more appropriate here.
error function[edit]
I think this entire page is a little silly grab bag of topics, but pointing out that the error function (a function defined by the CDF of the normal) is the inverse of the inverse of the normal's CDF seems a little beyond the pail to me. Pdbailey 21:17, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
- I tentatively disagree with point 1 and agree on point 2. Unless someone comes forward to explain the significance of the erf thing, I think we should take it out.
- I think the page can be used for certain things, especially connected with the history of use in toxicology, that might get in the way for your previously suggested, combined article on modeling of dichotomous data. For an example, I have just reviewed two probit programs. The coefficient estimates are equal except that the intercept terms differ by a value of 5. The article serves the interest of toxicologists by providing information on why such things can happen. Most related material is better placed inder probit model or some other regression-oriented article. If you want it worked into your combined article, suggest a plan. If I am not mistaken, you emphasize econometrics. Dfarrar 18:19, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
here is the deleted erf() stuff[edit]
I think the erf stuff is fairly technical and needs some generally acceisible statement of it's significance. Here it is:
"The probit function may be expressed in terms of the inverse of the error function:
As a student, the error function inverse is how probits are described and introduced to us, as we learn about the error function in basic courses. I personally think it would be useful to have it on there Geeeeeeek (talk) 17:15, 12 May 2016 (UTC)


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IoT-A, the EU lighthouse project on Internet of Things
IoT-A, the EU lighthouse project on Internet of Things, ended in 2013 after morethan 3 years work. Its legacy is still very alive: it developed a number of concepts andtechnologies which were since taken up by different environments in differentregions of the world. In particular, the foundations of a sustainable IoT development,which are the underlying concepts often indicated as "Reference Architecture", were afundamental achievement of the work. The set of models and procedures developedby the project allow any innovative idea that falls within the IoT domain to become areality.Furthermore, IoT-A developed different technological bricks at different levelsto bridge and extend current capabilities.
IoT-A's overall technical objective is to create the architectural foundations of theFuture Internet of Things, allowing seamless integration of heterogeneous IoTtechnologies into a coherent architecture and their federation with other systems ofthe Future Internet. In order to achieve this ambitious overall goal, IoT-A hasidentified a series of detailed scientific and technological objectives that will beaddressed within the context of the project.
- To provide an architectural reference model for the interoperability of IoT systems, outlining principles and guidelines for the technical design of its protocols, interfaces and algorithms. Today there exists no widely agreed upon understanding of an architecture of the Internet of Things, making an interoperability of different IoT system very difficult. IoT-A will establish an architectural reference model, providing foundations to build upon, such as unified protocols and protocol stacks and machine-to-machine (M2M) interfaces. Access of current and future designers on IoT protocols and system functions will be provided through particular guidance that IoT-A will offer, in form of system calls and architecture interfaces description, so that they are able to develop their solutions in an interoperable manner.
- To assess existing IoT protocol suits and derive mechanisms to achieve end-to-end inter-operability for seamless communication between IoT devices. The IoT will consist of devices with diverse communication stacks. IoT-A will enable seamless communication flows between heterogeneous devices, hiding the complexity of the end-to-end heterogeneity from the communication service. This goal will be pursued with the design, implementation and demonstration of unified translation mechanisms between technology-specific boundaries via M2M interfaces, whereby service accomodation will become transparent, using a single programming interface for communicating with the connected IoT.
- To develop modelling tools and a description language for goal-oriented IoT aware (business) process interactions allowing expression of their dependencies for a variety of deployment models. Current description languages are not suitable to describe interactions between services offered by IoT devices. IoT-A will develop such description language, and corresponding tools, considering the constraints and particularities of IoT environments, which is essential for seamless integration of the IoT into the service layer of the FI. Furthermore, this description language will have to represent abstractly the resources and the communication requirements of IoT so that they can be seamleassly integrated in the overall IoT-A architecture without resorting to internal component alterations.
- To derive adaptive mechanisms for distributed orchestration of IoT resource interactions exposing self-* properties in order to deal with the complex dynamics of real world environments. Current orchestration mechanisms are mainly centralised and have difficulties dealing with high real world dynamics. An IoT-A will derive mechanisms that ensure interactions will continue to persist and autonomously adapt in a distributed manner to a variety of system dynamics such as mobility and changing availability of IoT devices. Distributed orchestration will be realised in form of light-weight decentralized mechanisms, which in the light of the often severe resource constraints of devices, the scalability requirements and the changing user behaviour will act autonomously and in a self-organized but concerted manner to ensure service continuity.
- To holistically embed effective and efficient security and privacy mechanisms into IoT devices and the protocols and services they utilise. Privacy and security are major concerns, in particular to EU citizen. An IoT-A will ensure that appropriate mechanisms are deeply embedded in the IoT architecture, covering the hardware of its devices, communication and interaction protocols and the information level. To implement this goal IoT-A will extensively investigate and take into account service privacy and IoT access security aspects throughout the architecture design activities dealing with service accommodation, indentification and IoT-A platform realisations.
- To develop a novel resolution infrastructure for the IoT, allowing scalable look up and discovery of IoT resourcs, entities of the real world and their associations. Today there are different identification and addressing schemes for different IoT technologies and separate resolution infrastructures for each of them. IoT-A will develop a novel resolution infrastructure that can deal with the heterogeneity of existing schemes. Beyond simple lookup, the discovery of suitable IoT resources based on concepts of the physical world has to be supported. A suitable higher-level abstraction for interacting with the real world is that of a real world entity. The IoT-A resolution infrastructure will manage these associations dynamically and support the lookup and discovery of IoT resources based on real world entities. It will be able to resolve names and identities to addresses and locators used by communication services, thereby enabling cross-layer communication between IoT resources, services and applications.
- To develop IoT device platform components including device hardware and run- time environment. IoT-A will develop key components required for the IoT device platform on which a future Internet of Things will be based, providing a basis for the research community to build upon. Availability of the desired functionality to enable smooth realisation of the IoT-A architecure, will be investigated and design and development of hardware/software missing components will be taken over. Work will evolve along the issues of energy efficiency, security and authentication, privacy of user services and cryptography of low level interfaces and run-time environment for end-devices and hub components. - To validate the architectural reference model against the derived requirements with the implementation of real life use cases that demonstrate the benefits of the developed solutions. The principles of rough consensus and running code in the Internet research community have been key to Internet's current success. IoT-A is committed to experimentally evaluate its solutions and to demonstrate the feasibility of its concepts and the resulting benefits on real life use cases.This goal will be made possible through the organisation and realisation of a number of use-cases for health, home and logistics applications.
- To contribute to the dissemination and exploitation of the developed architectural foundations. The success of an architecture not only depends on its technical merits but on its adoption by the community at large. IoT-A has implemented a variety of different strategic means to ensure the acceptance and adequate impact of its results. These means are underpinned on the implementation of a detailed scientific dissemination plan, addressing the largest scientific conferences and journals that coincide with the project lifecycle and the exploitation plans of the industrial partners, as detailed in chapter 3.


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Two US Senators are feeling anything but friendly toward Eduardo Saverin, one of the cofounders of the social networking site Facebook.
Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Bob Casey (D-PA) have proposed new legislation, called the Ex-PATRIOT Act (Expatriation Prevention by Abolishing Tax-Related Incentives for Offshore Tenancy), which would impose a mandatory 30-percent capital gains tax rate for expatriates on all future investment gains. It's a quick response to news reports that Saverin renounced his American citizenship in order to sidestep US taxes after Facebook launched its much-ballyhooed initial public offering (IPO) on May 18.
"Saverin has turned his back from the country that welcomed him, kept him safe, educated him, and helped him become a billionaire", Schumer said at a press conference with Casey. He added that it was time to "defriend" the cofounder. "This is a great American success story gone horribly wrong." The proposed law is designed to crack down on around 5,000 individuals, including Saverin, who are avoiding tax by living abroad.
"Our two-prong plan is simple – if you renounce your citizenship to avoid paying taxes, you can't set foot in America again, and any investments you have in America will be taxed in the future at 30 percent", stated Schumer.
Saverin became a US citizen in 1998 after his family fled Brazil. He helped Mark Zuckerberg start Facebook while studying at Harvard University. The friends had a falling-out, but Saverin was still richly rewarded. He renounced his citizenship in 2011 shortly before the company announced its intentions to go public. Saverin has lived in Singapore since 2010. Because Singapore has no tax on capital gains, Schumer said renouncing his citizenship "could help him duck anywhere between $67 million and $100 million."
Under the proposed legislation, according to Casey, any US expatriate with a net worth of $2 million or more, or an average income tax liability of at least $148,000 in the previous five years, would be deemed to have renounced his or her citizenship, unless they can provide a legitimate explanation.
"This is an insult to the American people", Casey said. "We should make sure that he's held accountable. We've got troop oversees that are sacrificing on our behalf every day, for all the values that we hold dear, and Mr. Saverin spits in their eyes."
The tax would prospectively impose a tax on an individual's future investment gains, so it may be too late to penalize Saverin for his initial decision. However, Schumer said the law would still affect Saverin and others who invest in the United States in order to maintain their net worth.
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I believe this is a variation of a behavior problem called wool-sucking. There are a number of factors that make a kitten or cat more likely to do this. Early weaning is a likely cause and genetics also play a part. It is basically like human thumb sucking behavior. You should try some things to get the kitten to stop this behavior because it can get worse with time. It can start with sucking on you, move on to sucking on his own fur, and then soon any fuzzy item will do. Sometimes it escalates even further, and the cat starts eating non-food materials which can be a very dangerous thing to do.
Some things you can try are using bitter spray on your clothes near your neck. Grannick's bitter apple is a good one. Provide him with a wide variety of toys to provide mental stimulation. You could try getting some cat grass (the tubs of grass that grow in the house). It would give him something to chew on. Most pet stores sells these or it can be bought on-line. Anytime he starts to suck on your neck put him on the floor and ignore him.
Here is a link to a page about feline behavior problems. If you scroll down a little ways you will find wool-sucking. A little further yet, and it goes into more detail about things to try to stop the behaviors:
If you have further questions let me know. Thank you.
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The incredibly talented Lucy Heath and her border collie Indie from Billingborough have won an ITV talent show.
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Lucy and Indie pulled off a superb dance routine to the tune of Footloose and brought Sharon Osborne to a standing ovation.
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This listing at 1314 Napoleon Ave. is not only an historic piece of property; it is also a distinctive condominium in its own right.
"This condo is designed to impress your company as well as entertain them," said Bart Gillis, the listing agent with Keller Williams Realty. "This townhouse is the developer's personal unit and is practically a stand-alone, four-story building within St Elizabeth's, a circa-1860 Gothic landmark once owned by writer Anne Rice."
The St. Elizabeth's development comprises an entire city block on the parade route in Uptown New Orleans. It's surrounded by a sturdy wrought iron fence complete with a plaque detailing its historic status and its entrance is guarded by two snow white angels.
"The building itself features security, gorgeous common areas, a nice private swimming pool shielded by part of the structure and a fitness room," noted Gillis. "This development really is a stunner!"
This unit's ground floor is an impressive foyer ideal for hosting gatherings. An extra-wide sparkling white door opens onto a room with clerestory windows, exposed brick walls, crystal chandeliers, ceiling fans and gorgeous shiny wide pine floors.
An impressive stairway bounded by exposed brick walls and iron railings leads to the upper floors. Day-to-day living is centered on the second and third floors which house the master suite, kitchen, living and dining areas.
The living and dining rooms have an old New Orleans feel with exposed brick walls, wide pine floors, an abundance of windows and ceiling fans. The kitchen has stainless steel appliances: a double sink, built-in microwave, range, and refrigerator. There are plenty of cabinets and drawers for storage space and long, long windows let in plenty of light.
The master suite is quite cozy and light-filled and also boasts wide pine floors and a marble mantle. Its bath features a Jacuzzi tub surrounded by marble as well as a separate shower. Again, there are plenty of windows for a bright feeling.
"The fourth floor, for guests, boasts two bedrooms, a bath and a secondary living room," said Gillis. "Your guests won't just have a separate room, but a separate floor." The unit includes an elevator and there is also parking for three cars.
Novelist Anne Rice and her poet husband Stan were living at 1020 St. Philip St. in the Irish Channel, near Redemptorist School when she decided to renovate the former St. Elizabeth's Children's Home, 1314 Napoleon Ave. on the corner of Prytania Street. It was originally built as a boarding school in 1865 and turned into an orphanage for girls in 1870 by The Daughters of Charity. Rice used it as a repository for her extensive doll collection and installed members of her family there in 1993. She hosted many parties and fund raisers at this gorgeous building, including her famous Halloween ball. In 2004, Rice sold it and the next year it was renovated into condominiums; this is the developer's unit that is for sale.
Uptown, where this structure is located on the corner of Napoleon Avenue and Prytania Street, was developed during the 19th century, mostly from land that had been plantations in the Colonial era. Uptown was built along the higher ground along an old natural Mississippi River levee – the "sliver by the river" – as we call it now. Streets were laid out either roughly paralleling the river's curve or perpendicular to it.
Major roadways echoing the river's crescent include Tchoupitoulas Street closest to the river, Magazine Street with its one lane of traffic in both directions and famous St. Charles Avenue, home to the St. Charles Avenue streetcar line and the city's "millionaires' row."
Furthest back is wide Claiborne Avenue, which until the early 20th century had a canal running down its neutral ground, and in much of Uptown was the back boundary of developed area until the drainage pumps designed by A. Baldwin Wood were installed.
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Address: St. Elizabeth Condos, 1314 Napoleon Ave., No. 11
Living area: 3,879 square feet
Bedrooms: Three
Baths: Three full, one half
Price: $879,000
Extras: Separate floor for guests, elevator, gated parking for three cars,
security, gorgeous common areas, swimming pool and fitness room.
Marketing agent: Bart Gillis
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The handouts include all the exercises, as well as many of the tips and charts.
Secret #2: Apathy Isn't Real
Secret #3: Aim for the Bullseye
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Lesson 1: Attitude Adjustment
- How the Boss Keeps Us Disorganized
- What's the Real Problem
- Aim for the Bullseye
- Exercise: Draw Your Own Bullseye
- Your Legal Rights to Organize
Lesson 2: One-on-One Conversations
- How to Be a Good Listener
- An Organizing Conversation
- Exercise: Write Your Own Organizing Conversation
- Exercise: Practice the Organizing Conversation
Lesson 3: Map Your Workplace and Its Leaders
- Help Leaders Learn
- Qualities of a Good Organizer
- Exercise: Draw Your Workplace Map
- Exercise: Map How People Connect
- Exercise: Analyze Your Workplace Map
- Exercise: Make a Chart Too
Lesson 4: Choosing an Issue
- A Good Organizing Issue
- Why Grievances Are Not Enough
- Exercise: Evaluate an Organizing Issue
- Getting the Ball Rolling
Lesson 5: An Escalating Campaign
- Powerful Ways to Act
- Turn Up the Heat: Action Thermometer
- Checklist: Choose Tactics That Fit
- Exercise: Arrange These Tactics on a Thermometer
- Make Sure Every Job Gets Done
Lesson 6: Expect the Unexpected
- To React or Not to React
- Answering Tough Questions
- Exercise: Practice Answering Tough Questions
- When You're Called into the Office
- Update Your Chart
Lesson 7: Always Be Organizing
- Power Is the Goal
- Exercise: Sketch Out a Member Network
- What a Leaflet Can Do
- Why Make a Newsletter?
- Taking the Conversation Online
- Portrait of a Well-Organized Workplace
- Exercise: Give Your Workplace a Checkup
Lesson 8: Putting It All Together
- Case Study #1: A Union School
- Exercise: Case Study #1 Discussion Questions
- Case Study #2: An Injury to One Is an Injury to All
- Exercise: Case Study #2 Discussion Questions
- Remember the Basics
"As with the Troublemaker's Handbook, Secrets of a Successful Organizer offers us a broad range of experience from throughout our movement of how to move members to act. The book itself is a well-organized tour through the life of an organizer. It's a step-at-a-time manual to build the collective spirit, harness power, and make the world a better place."
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"I expect Secrets of a Successful Organizer will quickly become a go-to book for new and experienced organizers. It's a great tool, combining the underlying principles that guide successful organizing campaigns with concrete examples of tactics that work. It's also a good read, with lots of inspiring stories that remind us that good organizing brings out the best in people."
—Pam Galpern, Verizon field technician, CWA Local 1101
"This book should come with a complimentary Post-It pad because you will need it to mark the pages you can use! Building rank-and-file power is tremendously challenging and there is no exact blueprint. What Secrets of a Successful Organizer does is provide real-life examples and time-honored gems that assist, encourage, and support us as we challenge others to take up the struggle, not behind us, not beneath us, but alongside us."
—Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez, RN, President, New York State Nurses Association
"Secrets of a Successful Organizer is a wonderful book for any worker that hopes to build power and win respect in their workplace. It focuses on building power through solidarity with concrete examples. Examples, with a little imagination, can be adapted to be applicable in a wide variety of workplaces where workers desire more respect and dignity on the job. The book also contains exercises and can be used as a teaching manual. One of the most powerful lessons is the recognition that, while grievances are important, they are not enough. Grievance procedures tend to delay and isolate the workers and workplace problems. Solidarity actions to solve problems should come first and be coupled to the grievance procedure whenever possible."
—Scott Houldieson, Vice President, United Auto Workers Local 551
"This is a great read and reference for workplace organizers—primarily mobilization at a union workplace, but many of the strategies would work without a union as well. For many working women and men in the U.S. the bridge from a union to a non-union workplace is more like a tightrope, so this is not a manual for how to organize a union. Many of the tools are the same—building unity across racial, occupational, or other divides, mapping out the workplace and building lists, and organizing around issues. In years of mobilizing training at CWA, we learned that education of mobilizers or stewards was critical to successful action. This publication is a great asset in the educational process."
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The Sixth Season of The X-Files commenced airing on the FOX Network in the United States on November 8, 1998, concluding on the same channel on May 16, 1999, and contained 22 episodes.
|"Mulder? Where are you?"
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|"The Beginning"
Just after having returned from Antartica, Mulder and Scully conduct an unofficial search for a vicious alien in Phoenix, Arizona.
Mulder finds himself forced to drive a man in a high-speed dash across the Southwest in an effort to prevent the man's head from exploding.
Lost in the Bermuda Triangle, Mulder believes he has traveled back to 1939 and has to evade Nazis aboard an historic British sailing ship similarly lost, encountering individuals who seem strikingly familiar to him.
On a tip, Mulder and Scully visit the infamous Area 51 where a strange event swaps Mulder's personality with that of Morris Fletcher, a shadowy government agent.
|"Dreamland II"
Scully desperately tries to reverse the personality switch between Mulder and Morris Fletcher before it's too late.
|"How the Ghosts Stole Christmas"
On Christmas Eve, Mulder and Scully go ghost-hunting in a supposedly haunted house full of Christmas spirit.
|"Terms of Endearment"
Mulder believes that a bigamist, suspected of pre-natal infanticide, is actually a demon.
|"The Rain King"
A man in Kansas claims to be able to command the weather and appears to be the real deal.
Skinner is infected with a strange disease triggered by nanotechnology in his body.
Scully is partnered with another agent and assigned to investigate a crime scene photographer but her encounter with him leads to deathly consequences for them both.
|"Two Fathers"
The unexpected return of Cassandra Spender and an attack by alien rebels forces the Syndicate's hand in a move that threatens the survival of their carefully-crafted conspiracy.
|"One Son"
An alien rebellion leads the Syndicate to its demise as their twenty-five year conspiracy approaches its disastrous collapse.
|"Agua Mala"
Agent Dales contacts Mulder to find out happened in the Shipley residence, from where Dales recieved a description of a creature with tentacles that took her husband. Mulder and Scully while returning gets stuck in an apartment in the midst of Hurricane Leroy. They soon discover that the same creature might be in the plumbing.
A woman is trapped in an endlessly repeating time loop that ends in a tragic bombing in which Mulder and Scully lose their lives every time.
Mulder and Scully go undercover as a married couple in a gated community to investigate the mysterious disappearances of neighbors who didn't conform.
Mulder and Scully investigate a series of attacks by a canine that shows signs of human intelligence.
The agents pursue an escaped convict who is capable of passing through solid matter and is desperate to meet his son for the first time.
A writer who lives next door to Mulder becomes the prime suspect in a series of killings.
|"The Unnatural"
Arthur Dales, the brother of a retired FBI agent with the same name, tells Mulder about an alien who played baseball for the Roswell Grays in 1947.
|"Three of a Kind"
The Lone Gunmen encounter Susanne Modeski while infiltrating a defense contractors' conference in Las Vegas.
|"Field Trip"
A mystery involving two skeletons leads the agents on a journey in which nothing is quite as it seems.
Mulder believes that metallic objects discovered in Africa are proof that life originated elsewhere in the universe.
Main castEdit
- David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder (22/22 episodes)
- Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully (22/22 episodes)
Recurring castEdit
- Mitch Pileggi as Assistant Director Walter Skinner (8/22 episodes)
- Chris Owens as Special Agent Jeffrey Spender (5/22 episodes)
- William B. Davis as Cigarette Smoking Man (5/22 episodes)
- Nicholas Lea as Alex Krycek (4/22 episodes)
- James Pickens, Jr. as Deputy Director Alvin Kersh (6/22 episodes)
- Tom Braidwood as Melvin Frohike (5/22 episodes)
- Dean Haglund as Richard Langly (5/22 episodes)
- Bruce Harwood as John Fitzgerald Byers (4/22 episodes)
- Mimi Rogers as Special Agent Diana Fowley (4/22 episodes)
- Michael McKean as Man in Black Agent Morris Fletcher (3/22 episodes)
- Don S. Williams as First Elder (3/22 episodes)
- Wayne Alexander as G. Arnold (2/22 episodes)
- Veronica Cartwright as Cassandra Spender (2/22 episodes)
- George Murdock as Second Elder (2/22 episodes)
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text: Charles Philip "Phil" Wehman, 85, died on Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2013. Phil was born in 1928 in Union City, Tenn., to Roy Cecil Wehman and Martha McAlister Wehman. He graduated form Union City High School and was an Eagle Scout. After high school, he served his country in the U.S. Navy. Phil graduated from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville with a bachelor of science in industrial engineering and was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity. Phil was a member of St. Luke United Methodist Church. He worked for DuPont and was a charter member and president of the Chattanooga American Institute of Industrial Engineers chapter, president of the Chattanooga Industrial Personnel Club, president of the Hamilton County Chapter of the UT Alumni Association, and member of the UT Alumni Board of Governors. Until his death, he was an active member of the International Society of Antique Scale Collectors. Phil was preceded in death by his wife of 52 years, George Anna Hearn Wehman. Phil is survived by his daughter, Melissa Wehman, of Chattanooga; son Philip Wehman and wife Karen, of Fishers, Ind.; grandchildren Mark and Carolyn Wehman, of Fishers, Ind.; brother Roy Wehman, of Union City, Tenn. Funeral service will be conducted at 2 p.m. today, Dec. 28, at St. Luke United Methodist Church. The family will receive friends at Chattanooga Funeral Home, North Chapel and from 1-2 p.m. today, at St. Luke United Methodist Church. Interment to follow to Hamilton Memorial Gardens Memorial Contributions may be made to St. Luke United Methodist Church, 3210 Social Circle, Chattanooga, TN 37415.


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Keep eye contact! Sit up straight, don't slouch and smile often. Good luck. :)
Do a little research for the company you're applying first, it will be appreciated and it will show professionalism. Ask questions about the work and company profile or anything that you don't know/understand, pay attention, smile genuinely and give firm handshakes.

Good Luck!
Apply only for the jobs that you really want...
Take a gun and threaten to blow the guys head off if he doesn't give you the job.

Well okay that might not work long term. Try this instead.

Keep your answers short and on topic. They don't give a **** what kind of dog you have, just your experience, your ability to learn, and your ability to show up, every singly day ready to work and make the company money.

Keep that in mind. You have to earn more money for the company than they pay you. Might not seem fair at first, but if you look at it from their point of view, they want to make money as much as you do. If you cost more than you earn you're not worth keeping.
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