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The Microsoft VX7000 is 6.5cm wide and 2.5cm tall, the camera is 2cm deep but there is a weighted articulated arm behind this that folds over the top of the panel.
It has a 1.35metre USB lead protruding from the back base of the camera. The camera is grey apart from the face that is black with chrome trim round the lens and on the right edge where the inbuilt microphone is. If you add a chromed button on the top you have described everything.
You need to install the software before attaching the USB lead to the PC. It will refuse to install on any PC not running Windows XP SP2 or later or Windows Vista.
While on the bad news it will not respond to the button on the top unless you install the 'optional' Windows Live. You can of course operate it from inside the software provided.
The main use these days for a web cam is for moving images while chatting over VOIP or Skype or other methods of communication. I installed it on a desktop and a notebook PC the desktop had a flat panel and it hang easily over the top of it. I chatted without problem with others using Skype and in fact it detects Skype during the install and gets the required permission to attach itself.
It is quite interesting having a video conversation with someone you may never have met face to face and providing both parties are willing it could be a fulfilling experience.
I have seen better and larger image sizes with a different manufacturers product but again only with their own software. If you used it just as a TWAIN device there was little to choose in the quality.
Once you have installed Windows Live then this product comes out of it's shell you can swap photos in real time. Setting up a video call is simple and easy using the call button on top of the camera. LifeCam Dashboard allows you to add special effects and control the webcam all from within Messenger. Easy uploading of photos to your blog within Windows Live Spaces.
The 2mega pixel camera performs better within the 'Live' environment, and also works in low light again it seems to produce better images in the 'Live' use. I tried the same things on the PC without 'Live' and a less powerful notebook with 'Live' so I suspect that it's full capabilities are held for the 'Live' use.
The glass lens is stated to have a 71degree capture zone so more of the area near the web cam can be captured.
Certainly should you use Windows Live then this is a perfectly good web cam, however my tests without it were disappointing and really with the PC being more powerful than the notebook things - if anything - should have been the other way. If like me you have an MSN account you will have no choice as collection of messages in Outlook Express is due to end in July. While the Live environment works and messages can easily be sent and received it certainly smacks of Big Brother as Microsoft decides how your messages will be collected. Here with this web cam to get the best you need to install 'optional' software.
Doing my Internet searches found the Microsoft LifeCam VX7000 at a best price of £49.99 including free delivery from the first link below.
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OROVILLE — City Attorney Scott Huber thinks the State Controller's Office is misinterpreting the rules by demanding the $1.8 million the city loaned the former Oroville Redevelopment Agency, but he thinks the state will probably take the money anyway.
In December 2011, the state's top court upheld Gov. Jerry Brown's legislation to dissolve redevelopment agencies.
The agencies were ended in January 2012, with the State Controller's Office reviewing assets or money transferred back to cities and counties from RDAs.
The purpose of the review was to identify any assets the state deemed not compliant with the dissolution act.
As a result, the state has demanded the city of Oroville transfer $1,852,500, including interest, back to the successor agency to distribute among other local agencies, according to a city report.
Huber told City Council this week the Controller's Office is misinterpreting the rules for "enforceable obligations" in the dissolution act.
"It is absurd for the state to claim a loan that was repaid was not a transferable asset," Huber said.
A loan comes with a contractual obligation for repayment, he said.
Auditors met with the city on Jan. 8, and they visited City Hall every day for a a week reviewing records and questioning staff about the former Oroville Redevelopment Agency records, according to the report.
During an exit interview on Jan. 18, auditors presented the city a "Draft Claw-back Summary" with the loan plus interest to be "clawed back" to the successor agency.
The dissolution act does not define the loan as an enforceable obligation because the city loaned the money to the RDA within two years after the city formed the agency, Huber said.
Huber said he has prepared a response that is more then 50 pages long.
While Huber thinks the state's interpretation of the dissolution act's definition of an enforceable obligation or transferable asset is wrong, he said the state will probably deny the city's request to keep the money.
Huber said many cities are having the same problem.
The other cities will be looking at the state's determinations, and if the state allows Oroville to keep the loan money, that would in a sense set a precedent.
He said the people in the Controllers Office are just doing their job, and they have been told to "go get the money."
He said they will likely take the money, "even though I think we are in the right."
Once the Controllers Office receives the city's comments, the state will prepare a final report.
If the state does not alter its findings, the city will have exhausted its administrative procedures and will be forced to transfer the money or consider litigation, Huber said.
Huber said there are 65 lawsuits against the state, mostly over the same issue of loans made to the former redevelopment agencies.
Most of those lawsuits have been assigned the same judge to ensure uniform action, he said.
City Councilman David Pittman said the reason the city did not loan the money to the RDA when it was formed is that the agencies were a "new animal," and the city had to figure out how operate the agency.
Pittman has called the state's demand of the city's loan money to start RDA business as taxation without representation, which were fighting words in the early formation of the United States.
"The state is just in a desperate mode," Pittman said.
Some state assemblymen will be coming to Oroville to talk about the city's stance on the state's claw-back of the loan money.
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All mums have a squeeze bottle or two of tommy sauce in their pantry (the one ingredient that makes every meal kid-friendly!). If you happen to own copper or brass cookware, tomato sauce can make them all shiny and new again. Simply squeeze a little sauce onto a cloth and rub on pots and pans to clean them. Rinse well afterwards.
If you love making walnut bread and have a leather couch, listen up. A natural way to remove light scratches from leather is to rub a little walnut oil on them. Remove the shell from a walnut, cut it in half and rub it on the scratch. After an hour the scratch will magically disappear!
You may not believe it, but even a slice of white bread has secret cleaning powers - it can be used to dust oil paintings! Simply dab a slice on the surface of an oil painting to absorb any dirt or grime.
When mixed with water into a thick paste, this pantry staple doubles as a heavy duty hand soup.
Give your glass vases a sparkly facelift by washing them with rice. Simply fill a vase ¾ with warm water and add 1 tbsp of uncooked rice. Cup your hand over the opening and shake vigorously. Rinse and voila, glittering glassware!
Rice also makes the best laundry starch. Next time you're cooking rice for dinner, keep the rice water after it's boiled and add water in even parts (so 1 cup starch, 1 cup water). Pour this diluted mixture into your washing machine's rinse cycle to stiffen fabric. Spray it on clothes while ironing too.
Instead of tossing teabags out after your mid morning cuppa, save them and add shine to your wooden furniture by wiping it with a soft cloth dipped in tea water.
Probably the most useful ingredient in your pantry, bicarb soda can be used in cooking and has a zillion household uses too. It's a cheap natural alternative to expensive (and toxic) household cleaners, is a laundry must-have, can be added to the rinse cycle of your dishwasher and when mixed with water, is a natural and effective mouthwash. Add shine to your scuffed stainless-steel sink by polishing it with a cloth soaked in bicarb soda and water, then wipe it dry with another clean cloth.
Cornstarch is great for getting rid of grease spills on carpet. Simply dab it on grease spots and let it sit for 15 to 30 minutes before vacuuming away.
You can also use cornstarch to dry clean your family's pet cat! Simply rub Silvester's fur in cornstarch and leave him to groom himself naturally.
Humble table salt can be used to scrub pots and pans and to tackle stubborn coffee mug stains. When mixed with a little vinegar and water, it can also spruce up tarnished brass or copper. Pouring hot, salty brine down the kitchen sink will also prevent grease from collecting in the drain pipe.
Along with bicarb soda, vinegar is the natural cleaner's best bud. Dilute it with water for an eco glass cleaner, use it in the laundry as a natural fabric softener/stain remover/soaker, mix it with bicarb soda to make a bathroom cleansing past and get rid of stinky odours by spraying it around your home or car.
Yuk! - you might think, but rotten milk is actually a powerful ink stain remover. To get rid of ink stains on your child's school uniform, or the family couch, rot some milk in the sun and rub the solids onto the fabric. When the ink starts to lift, wash the rotten milk away with water and detergent.
This citrus gem can be used to dissolve soap scum, clean brass and copper, and when mixed with vinegar and baking soda, makes a natural cleaning paste. Cut a lemon in half, sprinkle baking soda on the segment and use it to scrub dishes, surfaces, and stains!
Your salad dressing moonlights as a fabulous, and natural, furniture polish. Add shine and lustre to wooden bookshelves, wooden coffee and dinning tables by rubbing them with a cloth soaked in a little olive oil.
There's nothing like the aroma of coffee to get rid of a bad smell. Tip a cup of coffee grinds into the kitchen sink and slowly pour a kettle of boiling water down the sink to get rid of smelly odours.
This one doesn't technically live in your pantry, and should probably reside in your bathroom cabinet, or medicine drawer, as its a natural home toothache remedy, but we've included it here because oil of cloves also has secret mould-killing powers. Mix 4-5 drops of oil of cloves in a bucket half filled with water and wipe a mouldy wall with a sponge soaked in it. The mould won't come off straight away, but the oil of cloves will continue to attack, killing the mould over time.
Long before modern cleaning chemicals polluted our lives, bran water was used to wash heavy cotton and linen fabrics and upholstery. To make bran water, mix 2 cups bran with 3.5 litres of water. Bring to the boil on a stove for 20 minutes. Strain off the bran and hand wash fabric, or add the bran water to the rinse cycle of your washing machine.


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Spraying heaps of perfume, lighting up incense and using disinfectant after going to the toilet are the many ways we mask the bad feces smell. Everyone knows what bad bowel smell + lots of floral perfume smells like (smells eeewww!! LOL)
Theory has it lighting up a matchstick neutralize odors. Scientist states smell is subjective, meaning it's possible the "match effect" is in our heads. However, if you're willing to play along and assume a match really does work, there are a few possible reasons why.
When a match is struck, it produces sulfur dioxide, a "very pungent substance, to which the smell receptors are extremely sensitive." MadSci explains, "You can smell a minute amount of sulfur dioxide, but when you have done so, you will not smell anything else for a while." So, the match doesn't really get rid of the odor -- it just covers it up, or turn off your sense of smell for a few minutes. A few more theory - "oxidation of smelly substances in the flame" and "absorption of smelly substances onto the smoke."
The TV show "MythBusters" covered this topic and concluded that matches mask the methyl mercaptan found in flatulence and feces. So, a match may not eliminate odors, but it will push them to the background. Most of the time, that's good enough.
For all travelers who are sharing a bathroom/toilet, bring some matchstick on your next trip, light a few match stick after doing your business or after some heavy vomiting, while the flame is still burning slowly move the fire in circular motion around the toilet seat, repeat this step a few times, then flush. If the odor is still strong light up more matches, then flush, no-one would notice what business you were up to before they stepped into the toilet. (Just don't bring matches onto planes! buy them at your destination/s!).
If you find flushing burnt wood into our drainage system is not eco-friendly, bring a bowl of water with you before/after entering the toilet, lighting up matches without dipping it into water just doesn't get rid of the smell correctly.
Even at home, keep match boxes in the toilet, its much better then using perfume spray, which just mask the smell. I really don't know how it works but personally, the burning wood in water and smoke does something in the air which distinguish the feces smell


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Texas Tech went through its second scrimmage Wednesday afternoon, putting in 120 in plays worth of work.
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Click Here to view this Link."We got a lot out of it," Tuberville said. "Looks like we're getting a little bit better, did a lot of kicking. I think too many penalties but it's something we've just got to continue to work on. We're losing concentration, it's been a long week and a half but after a pretty good morning this afternoon their minds weren't all the way in it. But overall, a good day of work, a good day of competition. I thought we got a lot better."
Tuberville wouldn't speculate on players who had a good scrimmage before watching the film but said the defense looks the best is has during fall camp.
"I thought defense won out today," the coach said. "That was the best we've played on defense in a long time. Offense didn't score as many points and we put (the defense's) back against the wall with some short drives at the 20 and 15 and 45 yard line. I thought they held their own."
Tuberville also felt a lot better about the kicking game. He said Donnie Carona either made all of his field goals or missed just one and Ryan Erxleben had a great day of punting.
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Learning whether or not defensive tackle Delvon Simmons is eligible or not has become frustrating for the Red Raider coaching staff.
It was originally thought they'd get an NCAA ruling Tuesday but as of Wednesday evening had heard nothing definite.
"Still waiting," Tuberville said.
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Freshman receiver Javares McRoy has arrived on Tech's campus and went through his first practice today in shorts and a helmet. He still has three more days before he's allowed to work out in full pads per NCAA rules.
That's not a huge issue. McRoy is ineligible for this season due to NCAA rules after transferring from Florida.
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Freshman receiver Bradley Marquez signed a Major League Baseball contract with the New York Mets earlier in the week.
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Il Giardino dei Pini, Alliste
- Free breakfast, free WiFi, and free parking
Main amenities
- 18 guestrooms
- Restaurant and bar/lounge
- Full-service spa
- Outdoor pool
- Rooftop terrace
- Free area shuttle
- Health club
- Airport shuttle
- Childcare
- 24-hour front desk
- Air conditioning
- Daily housekeeping
- Free breakfast, free WiFi, and free parking
For families
- Cribs/infant beds (surcharge)
- Children's pool
- Playground on site
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Private bathroom
What's around
- In Posto Rosso
- Torre San Giovanni Harbor (2.4 mi / 3.8 km)
- Madonna dell'Alto Church (2.7 mi / 4.4 km)
- Felline Mother Church (2.9 mi / 4.6 km)
- Felline Castle (3 mi / 4.8 km)
- Salentina Raceway (3.9 mi / 6.3 km)
- Torre Suda (4.6 mi / 7.4 km)
- Fontanelle Beach (5 mi / 8.1 km)
- San Marco Square (5.1 mi / 8.2 km)
- Ugento Archaeological Museum (6.3 mi / 10.2 km)
- Cavalli Beach (6.4 mi / 10.3 km)
Il Giardino dei Pini, Alliste
Hotel Info: 866-539-8117from $174
- Executive Double Room
- Classic Suite for 3 people
- Classic Suite for 2 people
- Classic Single Room
- Classic Suite for 4 people
- Standard Double Room
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At a glance
Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 18 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 1 floor
- Check-in time noon-10 PM
- Check-out time is 10:30 AM
- Express check-in
Guests planning to arrive outside of normal check-in hours must contact this property in advance to arrange check-in. Please contact the office using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
Travelling with others
- Babysitting/childcare *
- Pets allowed *
- Up to 10 kg
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Airport shuttle (available on request) *
- Train station pickup *
- Free self parking
- Free area shuttle
In the hotel
- Free breakfast
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- Poolside bar
- Room service (during limited hours)
- Outdoor pool
- Children's pool
- Health club
- Outdoor tennis court
- Full-service spa
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Free bicycles on site
- Playground on site
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Snorkeling nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
- Tennis on site
- One meeting room
- 24-hour front desk
- Concierge services
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Laundry facilities
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Multilingual staff
- Number of buildings/towers - 18
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Rooftop terrace
- Garden
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
In the room
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Air conditioning
- Minibar
- Soundproofed rooms
- Private bathroom
- Bidet
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Digital TV channels
- Free WiFi
- Phone
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe
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Special features
Narciso has massage/treatment rooms. Services include body scrubs and body treatments. The spa is equipped with a spa tub and Turkish bath/hammam. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy and Ayurvedic.
DiningOnsite venue - This restaurant specializes in Mediterranean cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Reservations are required.
On Site
- Health club
- Outdoor tennis court
- Tennis on site
- Free bicycles on site
- Playground on site
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Snorkeling nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
Il Giardino dei Pini, Alliste's small print
Also known as
- Il Giardino Pini
- Il Giardino Pini Alliste
- Il Giardino Pini Hotel
- Il Giardino Pini Hotel Alliste
All guests, including children, must be present at check-in and show their government-issued photo ID card or passport.
Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 2999.99, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation.
Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments and can be made by contacting the property before arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
Mandatory fees
You'll be asked to pay the following charges at check in or check out:
- Club Card: EUR 100 per accommodation, per week
- Resort fee (June - September): EUR 15 per person, per night in summer
Resort fee inclusions:
- Pool access
- Beach access
- Beach towels
- Sporting facilities or equipment
- Airport shuttle
- Shuttle service
Inclusions may be listed elsewhere on the page as free or for a surcharge.
Optional extras
Rollaway beds are available for EUR 10 per night
Cribs/Infant beds are available for EUR 10 per night
Babysitting/childcare is available for an extra charge
Pets are allowed for an extra charge of EUR 10 per pet, per day
Airport shuttle service is offered for an extra charge of EUR 90 per room (roundtrip)
Train station pick-up service is offered for an extra charge
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LiDAR Reveals Angkor's Immense Size
Wednesday, July 03, 2013
SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA—Information gathered by remote sensing equipment known as LiDAR shows that the city of Angkor, founded in 802 A.D. as the capital of the Khmer Empire, was the world's largest urban network until the Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth century. Damian Evans of the University of Sydney's Robert Christie Research Center in Siem Reap says that the project, which was funded by the Khmer Archaeology LiDAR Consortium, fills in blank spaces on the map of Angkor. "While a lot of the city is buried beneath the ground, it impacts the surface in subtle ways. ...None of these lumps and bumps and dips made any kind of sense, but once you see the LiDAR imagery, it's strikingly evident that what you're looking at are the remains of a city associated with Angkor Wat," he said.
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In case you didn't hear, "She left that LOSER in a dust cloud." This image raises several questions.
First of all, who is the owner of this car? The she who "left that loser in a dust cloud"? The loser? A concerned or laudatory friend?
Second of all, how did she go about leaving him in a dust cloud. It was certainly not in this wicked red Dodge Neon, as fast as it may appear.
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Civil War Bass Drum with Beater and Tarred Cover - Carried by John Kell
Online Auction 63695377
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This is an antique Bass Drum that was used during the American Civil War. It comes with it's original, and extremely rare, tarred drum cover as well as a wooden beater. There is no makers label on this drum. It is 24 1/4" tall and 14 1/4" deep.
Written on drum head is: JOHN. H. KELLER / Born Feb 4, 1836 / Died Sept 15, 1911 / Drummer boy Co. C. / 78 Reg Pennsylvania Volunteers / Drum used by him in / Civil war
Private John H. Keller was recruited into the 78th Regiment on the Pennsylvania Volunteers in Clarion County Pennsylvania on September 16th, 1861 at the age of 25. He was mustered out with the Company 3 years later on November 4th, 1864.
It was restored by Jim Ellis at Cooperman's in 2014. One head was replace with a goat skin head. A new period correct cord was added along with 11 ear pulls. No other work was done to it. The original broken head and rope comes with this drum in the event the buyer wants to return this drum to it's original found condition.
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Coupling, One Piece, Bore Dia 8 mm
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|Item: Rigid Shaft Coupling
|Overall Length: 35mm
|Machined From: Bar Stock
|Outside Dia.: 24mm
|Application: For Applications where Alignment is Critical, Particularly when no Backlash is Desired and Flexibility is not Required, Useful when Timing, Joining and/or Aligning Shafts at Lower Speeds and Torque
|Provides: Extra Holding Power for Higher Load Applications without Marring Shafts
|Design: Four Vibration Resistant Socket Capscrews
|Keyway Width (mm): 2
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B Stiff EP
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|B Stiff EP
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|October 1977
|October 1976–October 1977
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B Stiff is the first EP by new wave musicians Devo, released in 1977. It is a compilation of the three 7-inch singles released by the band on Stiff Records in the UK. The cover was created by graphic designer Barney Bubbles and photographer Brian Griffin.
Although the B Stiff EP has never had a proper CD release, all but one of its tracks have been re-released on various compilation albums in the digital format:
- "Jocko Homo" - Pioneers Who Got Scalped: The Anthology
- "(I Can't Get Me No) Satisfaction" - Greatest Misses, Hardcore Devo: Volume One
- "Be Stiff" - Devo's Greatest Misses, Pioneers Who Got Scalped: The Anthology
- "Mongoloid" - Pioneers Who Got Scalped: The Anthology. (A slightly different mix appeared on Hardcore Devo: Volume One.)
- "(I Saw My Baby Gettin') Sloppy" - Recombo DNA (the extra few seconds of drum noise and shouting before the song starts has been removed from this version)
- "Social Fools" - Still unreleased, although a different version appeared as the B-side of "Come Back Jonee" and later on the Virgin CD release of "Q: Are We Not Men/A: We Are Devo!"/Dev-O Live EP" as a bonus track.
Track listing[edit]
Side one[edit]
- "Jocko Homo" (Mark Mothersbaugh) - 3:21
- "(I Can't Get Me No) Satisfaction" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) - 2:53
- "Be Stiff" (Gerald V. Casale, Bob Lewis) - 2:35
Side two[edit]
- "Mongoloid" (G.V. Casale) - 3:30
- "(I Saw My Baby Gettin') Sloppy" (M. Mothersbaugh, Bob Mothersbaugh, G.V. Casale, Gary Jackett) - 2:20
- "Social Fools" (G.V. Casale, M. Mothersbaugh) - 2:52
- Bob Casale - rhythm guitar, additional keyboards, occasional backing vocals
- Gerald Casale - bass guitar, additional keyboards, lead vocals
- Bob Mothersbaugh - lead guitar, backing vocals
- Jim Mothersbaugh - electronic drums
- Mark Mothersbaugh - keyboards, occasional guitar, lead vocals
- Alan Myers - drums
- Producers: Devo
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Storm May Have Stranded Connecticut Trout
Published: April 19, 2007
Saturday is the start of trout-fishing season in Connecticut, but environmental officials are concerned that as many as 50,000 of the freshly stocked fish were swept away by the northeaster and might now be swimming in flooded fields and backyards.
Several lakes and waterways -- particularly the Quinnipiac, Connecticut and Farmington Rivers -- flooded low-lying areas, leaving tens of thousands of trout, grown in state hatcheries and stocked last week, swimming in woodlands, marshes, fields and yards.
People who find the wayward trout are being asked to pick them up and put them into the nearest permanent body of water. State officials say people who find and keep any of the stranded fish could face a $154 fine -- even if they catch the fish with their hands rather than bait and tackle -- because fishing season has not yet started.
Looking on the brighter side, however, William A. Hyatt, the director of inland fisheries for the state Department of Environmental Protection, said that the wild fish and the trout that were stocked more than a week ago probably fared better.
''Wild fish, particularly trout in the streams, are well adapted to handle this kind of flooding,'' Mr. Hyatt said. ''Some will be stranded as waters recede, but they are physically and evolutionarily adapted to ride out powerful storms.''


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Generating leads with Social Media
Social media efforts
You have done your utmost to make the max out of Social Media:
- Your company has a Facebook page
- You Tweet often on Twitter
- Your company is present on LinkedIn
- Your employees are on LinkedIn
- You have uploaded company videos on Youtube, DailyMotion and Vimeo
- You even post twice a week a blog post
- You write comments on other blogs
Turning Social Media into sales leads
All these Social Media efforts have resulted in more traffic to your website, but not in more leads or sales.
Although they visit, they don't contact you. They don't download white papers or use free web email addresses.
So all your social media efforts have resulted in hardly any results. Nothing to prove. Nothing to show. What a waste of time and money.
You need to know who or which company is visiting your website and why they are visiting.
This can be solved easily by LEADSExplorer - making your Social Media effective and successful.
This relates to the digital body language of your lead.
You will know what your leads require which increases the likelihood of success and decreases significantly the waste of time as your salesmen will only call leads having a demand.


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Princess Cancer Pants
• Chemo
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• Return to kicking my own ass by 2018
She was not strong. She was valiant. Radiant. Brave and broken. The beauty she discovered in the aftermath was unparalleled to anything she had known before, because it had come at such a cost.
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I ran a mile and I liked it, liked it, liked it. firstname.lastname@example.com
How's your food? You eating enough to support that amount of running?
Hawt and sexy
I'm touching your pants.
A Saucy Wench
I have become Death, the destroyer of electronic gadgets
"When I got too tired to run anymore I just pretended I wasnt tired and kept running anyway" - dd, age 7
Take a nap if you can. I find when I hit a new mileage level for several weeks the fatigue builds. Sleep is needed. Then I adjust. It doesnt mean you will always need more sleep at 40 mpw, but that this go round you may. The kind of exhausted I get when I am increasing my training level often is served well with a 10 minute cat nap.
I also have had good luck when I am exhausted in the middle of a program to look at the timing of my food. Not the overall quantity, but am I eating the right stuff at the right time. Same with watching the caffeine. Scaling back on the caffeine at certain times has given me more overall energy - probably from higher quality sleep.
But any time I am pushing myself my sleep needs increase. Just this week I think I napped 2 or 3 times. One real nap, 2 10 minute naps.
And run earlier...as early as you can. I know you usually go when Dane is in school, so try to go as soon as he goes instead of putting it off. Matching your running to natural energy cycles in the day can help ALOT with overall energy and fatigue. I feel sleepy all morning if I havent run yet.
I get night cramps when I have too much potassium in my system. A day or two without the post run banana usually clears that up. You can have all the salt in the world in your system, but too much potassium can cause problems. The only reason I know of this one is because I had a friend years ago that had terrible leg cramps while sleeping. He went to the doc, and the doc told him to quit eating bananas. The cramps stopped. So when i get leg cramps at night, I skip the bananas, and the cramps stop..


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Writer credit revised from Joe Devlin ? to ? by Craig Delich 2013-4-6. Devlin did not write or draw this strip according to the Who's Who. Joe Devlin did not exist......John did, but he was a writer and editor only.
There is a text story with this title in Police #102, but this is a different story not starring Plastic Man.


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Welcome to Interfaith Internet Resources
The Religious Studies program at SCSU is pleased to provide lists of internet resources for academic study and general interest on topics of interfaith relations. *
What You'll Find Inside
- Jewish/Christian: Sources about relations between Jews and Christians.
- Jewish/Muslim: Sources about relations between Jews and Muslims.
- Jewish/Christian/Muslim: Sources from various disciplines regarding relations between these religions.
- News Sources: Online periodicals with specific links to the religion sections.
- Other Useful Links: Miscellaneous sources
- Minnesota Resources: Local organizations
*The lists provided on this site are not comprehensive but merely provided as a service for academic exploration. The views presented in any of the sources listed at this site do not necessarily represent those of the SCSU Religious Studies Program or of SCSU at large. Suggestions for other sites are appreciated. Please provide suggested URLs (and broken links) to email@example.com.


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I'm not the only librarian who can help you. Please use the information below to contact the Library's Service Desk.
Videophone 202-779-9478
What is Crab Theory?
The "crab theory" is used in the Deaf community as a metaphor to describe the tendency of some Deaf people to criticize or put down the successes or achievements of other Deaf people. It may take several different forms: malicious and negative gossip, grudges, social rejection, etc., and is directed against Deaf community leaders, successful Deaf business entrepreneurs or educational administrators, deaf individuals who go to college while their deaf peers never get beyond high school, deaf people who "don't act Deaf enough", even ordinary Deaf individuals who do such positive things as buying a new car or marrying a good person.
The analogy is to a bucket of live crabs: whenever one crab attempts to escape the bucket by climbing out of it, the others reach up and pull it back down. The result, of course, is that no crab succeeds in escaping the bucket. Other groups, especially other minority groups, also use the "crab theory" to describe similar negativity within their own communities, but the "crab theory" is probably more widely mentioned and discussed within the Deaf community than in any other group.
This brief paper cannot attempt an analysis of the sometimes-complex psychological reasons for the practice of the "crab theory". However, certain common elements that tend to contribute to this phenomenon can be identified in the Deaf community.
Jealousy is often involved, of course: one Deaf person sees another Deaf person become successful while s/he still is not, so the first Deaf person tries to minimize feelings of "inferiority" by putting down the other Deaf person's success. This likely arises out of the low self-esteem frequently seen among Deaf people, often brought on from low expectations set for them by hearing parents and hearing educators, as well as from oppression by those same hearing persons (see related Deaf FAQ on Audism). This attitude by hearing authorities and parents that "Deaf people can't" gets internalized by many Deaf persons during their formative years and carries into adulthood. Self-oppression and internecine strife is a common result of low self-esteem in the Deaf community.
In other situations, revenge or retaliation for real or perceived offenses may be another cause. To give just one example, in a contentious divorce, the two principals may bad-mouth each other to their families and friends. This happens among hearing persons, too, but since the Deaf community is so small and often insular, the negativity spreads more rapidly and insidiously. Deaf individuals have difficulty escaping the trail of gossip that follows them.
The Deaf "crab theory" is not limited only to Deaf individuals; it is also seen in the often contentious relationships among various Deaf organizations, which in theory should be working cooperatively for the good of the Deaf community, but which in practice often end up accomplishing little as a result of internecine bickering and inability among the organizations to agree on goals and methods.
For all the talk about the crab theory in the Deaf community, there has been surprisingly little actually written and published about it. Known references are:
DeLora, Jennifer. "May the best---or the deafest---win?", Deaf life, vol. 8 no. 10, April 1996, p.27-29.
"For hearing people only: Can't deaf people appreciate successful achievers who benefit their community?", Deaf life, vol.1 no.11, May 1989, p.7. [Does not actually call it the "crab theory", but is definitely about that attitude and behavior. Also appears as a chapter in the book: Moore, Matthew S., For hearing people only: answers to some of the most commonly asked questions about the Deaf community, its culture, and the "Deaf reality". Rochester, NY: Deaf Life Press, 1993, p.271-273.]
Murphy, Fred R. "Moiphy's column", Silent worker, vol.1 no.5, January 1949, p.5. [This also does not call it by that name, but the author is clearly discussing what we now call the "crab theory". This article shows that the concept and practice was in the Deaf community at least as long ago as the 1940s.]
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Lebanese hotty, Haifa Wehbe, is set to perform tonight with 'Voice' coach, Assi Helani [2], in what is tipped to be the biggest concert of New Year's Eve.
But while Assi has been quietly practicing behind the scenes, Haifa has let us all in on how preparations are going. The pop princess tweeted that she had hired superstar choreographer, Kamel Ouali, for the Beirut show, leaving fans fired up about her dance moves.
However, Haifa has apparently been more interested in the shoes for the event than in learning her lines. The songstress has posted up multiple photos on the gift-wrapped skyscrapers [3] from Yves Sain Laurent and Louboutin with very little evidence of how she is going to perform in such huge heels.
[1] http://www.syndigate.info
[2] http://www.albawaba.com/entertainment/assi-helani-haifa-wehbe-456538
[3] https://twitter.com/HaifaWehbe
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NVIDIA Mirrors Qualcomm's Hot Streak With Earnings Surprise of Its Own
Jason Mick
November 9, 2012 10:31 AM
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NVIDIA unleashes its metaphorical can of "whoop ass"
There was a time -- back in 2010 -- when NVIDIA Corp. (
) looked a bit lost. A resurgent Radeon brand, now owned by Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (
), was
punishing it in the discrete graphics market
with the Radeon HD 5000 series devices, and analysts were scratching their heads in puzzlement at NVIDIA's focus on GPU computing.
And NVIDIA's
Tegra system-on-a-chip effort
was largely written off, as NVIDIA couldn't seem to figure out what it wanted to do with it -- netbooks? Mobile devices? No one could quite tell.
I. A Young Power in the Mobile Market
Fast-forward three years and NVIDIA is in a far different -- and far better -- position. GPU computing is an exploding field and NVIDIA has
large purchase orders
from the hottest new deployments. It's back to
scoring wins
in the gaming graphics market.
And most importantly Tegra has exploded, seizing a commanding stake in the mobile device system-on-a-chip (SoC) market.
In calendar/fiscal Q3 2012, NVIDIA
large earnings and revenue surprises, delivered thanks to its SoC and GPU market gains. Revenue fell in at $1.204B USD (GAAP), pleasantly above the consensus of $1.192B USD estimated by 33 analysts
surveyed by
The Financial Times
Tegra 3 drove NVIDIA to a big profit surprise.
much like system-on-a-chip archrival Qualcomm
, Inc. (
), the biggest surprise lay not on the revenue, but on the net income (profit) front. NVIDIA pocketed a whopping $209M USD, ($0.33 USD/share), above the most optimistic estimate of $203M USD ($0.32 USD/share) from the analyst crowd, and even higher above the average estimate of $187M USD.
NVIDIA's at times colorful and divisive chief executive officer and president, Jen Hsun Huang crowed, "Investments in our new growth strategies paid off this quarter in record revenues and margins. Kepler GPUs are winning across the special-purpose PC markets we serve, from gaming to design to supercomputing. And Tegra is powering some of the most innovative tablets, phones and cars in the market."
The chipmaker decided to share the wealth with its shareholders, offering up a 7.5 cent dividend.
Capital expenditures for NVIDIA have grown as the company sharpens its focus on bleeding edge system-on-a-chip research. NVIDIA estimates that it will spend $50M to $60M USD next quarter on R&D and other CAPEX.
II. Gloom for Q4, But It Could be Worse
Looking ahead, while NVIDIA's Q3 results mirror Qualcomm's, its Q4 estimates are
than its rivals. NVIDIA estimates that revenue will dip to between $1.025B and $1.175B USD on a slowing global economy, versus the traditional bump in the holiday season.
One possible reason why NVIDIA is more worried than Qualcomm is that much of its earnings are still driven by sales of high-end (
) hardware (GPUs) for traditional consumer and enterprise systems. When the economy slumps, these sales tend to suffer the most, as users consolidate their buying power towards cheaper mobile devices. In that regard, a mix mobile/traditional chipmaker like NVIDIA will likely be hurt more by a downturn than a solely mobile-centric chipmaker like Qualcomm.
A slowing economy is expected to dent NVIDIA's Q4 earnings.
However, NVIDIA's better-than-expected earnings do represent good news in a couple of ways. First, NVIDIA and Qualcomm represent a reasonably good barometer by which to gauge the health of the mobile market. And by the looks of it, mobile is flourishing at a time when other less fortunate markets find themselves facing tough financial questions.
Second, NVIDIA enjoys a key psychological advantage over Qualcomm in that it's pumping out quad-core units of its latest and greatest Tegra 3 processor, while Qualcomm's current Snapdragon 4 offerings are mostly constrained to dual-core CPUs. That's a big reason why NVIDIA is thus far
outpacing Qualcomm in design wins
in the emerging Windows RT ARM-based laptop/hybrid device market.
Traditional PCs demand more power, and NVIDIA has been the most aggressive about push higher core-counts in its mobile chips. That decision will likely pay off for the company, and help it ride out the storm ahead in the discrete graphics market.
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Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010, 3:47 p.m.Northeast Library
There's Still Time
Attention local teachers and families with children in grades K-8!
If your child (or a student in your class) would like to enter the Friends of the Northeast Library's children's book review contest, there is still time. The entry deadline, originally Dec. 1, has been pushed back to early January to allow for more entries.
Children in K-2 may make a drawing to represent what they like about a favorite book or write a review, while children in grades 3-8 may write a review. A prize will be given to the author of the best review in each grade.
Forms and contest rules are available from the children's librarians upstairs, and should be returned to the children's librarians as well.
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Paradox management delegation: inter and intra-individual variability
While paradox is increasingly presented in organisational literature as a normal, even advisable element, it is still seen as a problem by individuals who are confronted with it on a daily basis. Thus there is a clear gap between researchers' conclusions and real-life situations experienced by practitioners, or maybe a tension between two levels of analysis, organisational and individual levels. We have found that this tension has seldom been studied. In a nutshell, existing literature tends to be divided into two groups. Our research work therefore aims to study the positions of health sector professionals with respect to the paradox management that has been delegated to them, to analyse the extent to which this delegation might alter the pluralistic organisational management of paradoxes. To this end, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 14 of 16 new physician-managers working in a large teaching hospital where the reform was initiated. Our results show that individuals adopt four types of positions when faced with paradox : rejection, detachment, absorption, and transcendence.
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OWLS HEAD, Maine — Secretary of State John Kerry is just back from yet another visit to the Middle East to jump-start an Israeli-Palestinian peace as part of a longer trip that included stops in Ethiopia and other African hot spots.
He's barely been in the job three months but with his miles piling up, he seems intent on breaking Hillary Clinton's million-mile travel record during her four years as secretary.
A peripatetic secretary of state can be a good thing; promoting US interests, strategic and economic, and just showing the flag around the world, is not a bad way for America's premier diplomat to spend his time.
But as Kerry zooms in on dealing with the modern Middle East's Gordian knot — the current Palestinian-Israeli impasse goes back to the Six-Day War, which is on the verge of its 46th anniversary, one can't help asking, "What am I missing here? What does he know that no one else knows?"
During last week's trip, when Kerry was the prime mover in a World Economic Forum held at the edge of Jordan's Dead Sea — that featured Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli President Shimon Peres, along with the Middle East's greatest hanger-on, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair — Kerry explained his rationale: "The greatest existential threat and the greatest economic threat to both sides is the lack of peace. To not try to head these off would be tragic, and irresponsible."
Well, perhaps. Though trying to do the impossible, and failing, is even more irresponsible. And as for the greatest existential threat, the disintegration of Syria, and the fallout therefrom, looms a little larger. But that's nitpicking — our new Kissinger wannabe has worked out a deal with the Russians to tackle that one as well.
Coincidence or not, The New York Times had an analysis piece in its Sunday News Review section the same day that Kerry was at the Dead Sea, headlined, "What Mideast Crisis? Israelis Have Moved On."
The reporter, the Times correspondent in Israel up until a year ago, had been back for a visit and found that the search for peace is hardly uppermost these days in the minds of most Israelis, leftists or rightists: "Instead of focusing on what has long been seen as their central challenge — how to share this land with another nation — Israelis are largely ignoring it, insisting that the problem is both insoluble for now and less significant than the world thinks. We cannot fix it, many say, but we can manage it. "
Even before the Israelis had psychologically moved on, threading this particular needle, as US politician and businessman George Mitchell was the most recent would-be peacemaker to discover, is a labor that the mighty Hercules would have hoped to avoid.
But here Kerry is, staking his virgin reputation on the hardest foreign policy challenge of them all.
How exactly to parse this? Washington is a complex place, full of big egos, the more so in Congress where yes-men and lobbyists with bags of money surround them. Senators can say one thing one day, and then the next, when they're appealing to a different constituency, say the reverse. Words are just another election tool for congressmen; in diplomacy, words are the key tool of the trade, and resonate long after a senator's promises are forgotten.
In his first term, President Barack Obama put Hillary Clinton on a tight rein: foreign policy, as astute observers have increasingly noted, was moved from State to the White House and the Pentagon.
The two most important international concerns facing Obama four years ago were Afghanistan/Pakistan and Israel/Palestine, issues for which he set up individual czars, effectively removing them from Clinton's oversight.
Not that it mattered. Obama quickly emasculated both appointees — Mitchell, by caving in to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the first opportunity, and Richard Holbrooke, his AfPak designee, by publicly announcing the date for US withdrawal from Afghanistan even as he was in the process of doubling down on US boots on the ground.
Obama, like his predecessor George W. Bush, was a foreign policy neophyte, an all too-common preference of the American electorate. (Luckily for the rest of us, he had Joe Biden, instead of Dick Cheney, as his vice president, and Bob Gates, not Don Rumsfeld, at Defense.)
Fast forward four years: The possibility of Kerry's resurrecting a successful peace process between Israel and the Palestinians is only slightly more likely than Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan resurrecting the Ottoman Empire. The Israeli public isn't interested. The Israeli leadership, beginning with Netanyahu, is even less interested.
Palestinian leadership is in ever-greater disarray. The West's favorite Palestinian, Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, is resigning. The Times' articles quotes friends of his saying that if he thought Kerry's initiative were going to go anywhere, he wouldn't be quitting.
Palestinian President Abbas is old, discredited, and no closer to a rapprochement with Hamas than ever. And anyone who believes Obama is going to step out of his preferred rhetorical mode and put real pressure on Israel is as out of touch with Washington as Kerry is with the Middle East.
One thing Kerry must know is that, even were Obama to get tough with Israel, there would be no support from Congress on either side of the aisle. Were an Obama-beleaguered Netanyahu to show up in Washington, they'd fall over themselves as they did a few years back swearing their support for Israel.
So, the question is: What's up with Kerry?
Is it arrogance? Has his ambition blinded him to reality?
We may never find out. But what we are about to find out is how Kerry handles failure. It's one thing, as the new foreign policy mogul, to make a pro forma trip to the Middle East, take the temperature of the opponents and realize that, without at least 100 percent backing from the president, history is not going to change this year in the West Bank.
It's quite another to rush into the war zone, unarmed and unprepared. What impact will failure have on the US relationship with an increasingly hostile Arab world? What will it say to Syria's Assad as Kerry works with Russia to resolve the Middle East's newest intractable problem? What will it convey to China, and indeed our allies, about our diplomacy?
And how does Obama fit in here? Why is he letting his new secretary of state discredit himself before he's even weaned?
A conspiracy theorist would recall that Kerry was Obama's second choice; he really wanted Susan Rice. So Obama gives him a wink and a nod as he goes off the deep end with Israelis and Palestinians, hoping when he's disgraced before the world, he resigns, and then — Rice's unwitting role in the Benghazi debacle accepted by congressional Republicans — Obama can pick her to replace Kerry.
Fat chance; of course I know that's not Obama's plan. But does Obama know what is Kerry's plan?
Mac Deford is retired after a career as a Foreign Service officer, an international banker, and a museum director. He lives at Owls Head, Maine and still travels frequently to the Middle East.


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TAMPA — The plea deal reached last week for Ahmed Mohamed on a terrorism charge surprised many who expected his case to go to trial.
But the bigger surprise may be that the agreement does not require the former University of South Florida student to testify against co-defendant Youssef Megahed, attorneys familiar with the case said Monday.
"The most important point is what's missing, and the main thing missing is any suggestion that Megahed is guilty," said attorney Rochelle Reback, who is unconnected to the case but read Mohamed's plea agreement.
"It suggests very strongly that the government has major proof issues in their case against Megahed."
Mohamed, 26, signed an agreement Friday to plead guilty to a federal charge of providing material support to terrorists. The accusations stemmed from a YouTube video that prosecutors said Mohamed posted online and intended to aid attempts by terrorists to murder employees of the United States, including military personnel.
He is scheduled to enter his guilty plea Wednesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Pizzo.
Adam Allen, Megahed's public defender, said Monday that a federal plea agreement rarely, if ever, omits the requirement for a defendant to cooperate with prosecutors. "I've never seen that," Allen said.
The agreement also leaves out a clause that says prosecutors would consider asking a judge for the low end of a sentencing guideline range, which is often done in cases where defendants accept responsibility and cooperate.
A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office said the plea agreement speaks for itself and declined further comment.
Prosecutors have agreed to drop six other charges against Mohamed, including counts for illegally transporting explosive material and possessing an unregistered destructive device.
Those are the only two charges against Megahed, 22, who is scheduled to have a separate trial pending the outcome of a government appeal over a judge's ruling to toss out evidence against him.
Megahed and Mohamed were stopped for speeding Aug. 4 as they traveled through Goose Creek, S.C. They were arrested on explosives charges after a deputy became suspicious, searched their car and found what investigators said were materials for low-grade explosives in the trunk.
Allen said he's hopeful that Mohamed's guilty plea will prompt prosecutors to re-evaluate their case against Megahed and drop his charges.
Mohamed told authorities that Megahed knew nothing of the materials in the trunk, which Mohamed described as homemade fireworks.
"From Day 1, Mr. Mohamed has been advising law enforcement that my client had no involvement in any of this illegal activity," Allen said.
If Mohamed does provide evidence against Megahed, Allen said it would be contrary to what he has said all along.
Attorney George Tragos, a former federal prosecutor, said the government could force Mohamed to testify before a grand jury if it thought he had relevant information.
Tragos said Mohamed may have waived his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination by signing the plea deal.
Attorney Kevin Beck, a former federal public defender, said he wonders why prosecutors allowed Mohamed to avoid taking responsibility for the explosives charges. But he has a theory.
"There is significant evidence that supports the idea that those items were not readily convertible (into an explosive), nor were they destructive devices," Beck said.
"It may be that they were hoeing a pretty long row in order to obtain a conviction there."
If Megahed goes to trial, Allen has said he intends to introduce evidence that the materials found in the trunk were harmless, and when ignited, they expelled smoke, burned or did nothing at all.
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GEORGE CHALONER secured the biggest success of his career when steering Baccarat to Royal Ascot glory.
The 22-year-old apprentice, attached to Richard Fahey's Musley Bank yard, was the only claimer to taste victory at last week's five-day Royal extravaganza aboard the 9-1 shot in the Wokingham Handicap.
"It feels amazing," said Chaloner, whose victory was achieved in the well-known colours of Yorkshire owner Sir Robert Ogden.
One of the most prestigious sprint handicaps of the racing calendar with a prize fund of £175,000 and a first prize of more than £108,000, the six furlong contest attracted a field of 28 runners.
Fahey also filled fourth spot with Alben Star, his other representative, on a memorable day in which he had four winners at meetings around the country and boosted his prize money earnings for the season through the £1 million barrier.
For Chaloner, who had made his Royal Ascot debut only the previous day when finishing unplaced on Heaven's Guest in the Buckingham Palace Handicap, Baccarat's decisive length-and-a-half victory was a dream come true.
"The boss told me to get some cover and to keep it simple," he said. "I had finished second on him at York last month and it was great to go one better in a race like the Wokingham."
Chaloner, who began his career with Norton's Malcolm Jefferson before joining Fahey five years ago, has developed into one of Britain's leading apprentices and rode 33 winners last year. He is now up to 15 For the current campaign.
"It's brilliant for George," said Fahey. "He hasn't too many more winners to go before he loses his claim and he needs big winners like this to project him. Hopefully, a few will have looked at him and thought this kid can ride."
Fahey, who now intends to step Baccarat, winner of last year's Great St Wilfrid Handicap at Ripon, up in class, was saddling his fourth Royal Ascot winner. The first was with Superior Premium in 2000 in the race now known as the Diamond Jubilee Stakes.
"Baccarat is similar type to Superior Premium," said the Malton trainer. "He's very talented."
The same might be said of Chaloner, especially now that he has projected his career to another level.
The high-flying apprentice, who went on to post a 33-1 success for his boss at Pontefract 24 hours later aboard newcomer Bimbo.
"Last Saturday was a day to remember," he said. "It's all down to Mr Fahey and to Sir Robert Ogden for giving me the opportunity."


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Sexism in SFWA (and the world)
by Nojh on Feb.18, 2014, under Articles, Culture, Gaming, Video Games, Writing
You don't have to look very far these days to see sexism but you do have to know what you are looking for. The problem is that most of us are effectively blind to it, both because it is kept behind close doors and because it is hiding in plain sight. And when people, particularly women, call attention to it, they're often labeled misogynist, or simply told to "laugh it off". Even when sexism is dragged out from behind doors for all to see, it is easy to claim that it is happening to just one person, or a small group of people, hidden away, and not a systemic problem within our society.
Noted and award winning author Mary Robinette Kowal was slandered by some of her peers in the Science Fiction Writer's Association (SFWA) the other day. Male members of the organization made comments via the organization's public email listserv. One called her a hypocrite based upon her public views as a feminist and what clothing she chooses to wear to award ceremonies, as well as simply calling her phony and incompetent.
To her credit, Mary has offered a response which, rather than simply attacking back, called attention to this attack and focused instead on making it an example of sexism and to make note that this is not an incident she is facing alone, but that women inside and outside the SFWA suffer all the time from what is effectively verbal abuse.
In her response entitled"Me, as a useful representative example", she says the following:
Then I replied to the messages saying, "Honestly, I'm fine. Four years in office inured me to this so mostly I'm just laughing."
And this is the part that I feel I should draw attention to — I was "mostly" laughing. I was also having mild stress reactions. Dry sweats, elevated heart rate. I was ready to shrug them off as, "Meh, doesn't materially affect me. I've seen worse."
Until someone pointed it out that I was basically saying, "I'm inured to being abused, because I was abused for years." See… the things those folks are saying in that public forum? When I was in office, they would email that bile directly to me and because I was an officer, I could not choose to ignore it. I had to read every single one. And I had to reply politely to them. Strangely, sometimes I had trouble doing that, but a polite response was the one that was expected. Now? Being out of office for two years, I can say whatever the fuck I want, but most beautifully, I don't have to read the emails.
So this is why I feel weird about writing about this. My impulse is to tell you all that I'm fine and that this has no material affect on my life. And that is true. But I also know that I am a useful representative sample of the abuse that happens to other women.
Too many places, too many women, get this sort of unwelcome attention and commentary about what they were wearing but no one does anything. It's always, "Laugh about it" or "Just shrug it off," or "Ignore it and he'll go away."
You see how well that last is working?
So, I really, truly am fine. But watch what happens to me now that I'm posting. Read the comments when they happen. Note the people who say that because I'm talking about the abuse, I must be begging for attention.
Take me as a useful representative example. And know that I am not an isolated case.
It is sad that we need examples and I applaud Kowal for providing one. And we do need one. I recently was reading an online article about a video game that was in no way related to gender equality. In the middle of this author's article, he says the following:
…this is, after all, a game where half the punchlines are "ogling women is funny" (and I say that as a staunch anti-feminist)…
It stopped me reading right in my tracks. It took me awhile to comprehend that the initial statement meant that the game wasn't necessarily to be taken so seriously as it relied upon humor like men staring at women. Yet I couldn't understand why he felt compelled to add the anti-feminism qualifier, to declare that he was staunchly opposed to a society where men and women are treated equally without discrimination or abuse, be it physical or emotional.
Actually it seems unlikely that the author is an active proponent of sexism. Instead he is likely ignorant of the amount of sexism that exists in our culture and the harm that it does. Instead he is reacting to the backlash that accompanies attempts to educate people regarding this harm, shielding himself from it by claiming that he is not a feminist. This backlash is what Mary Robinette Kowal wants you to look for in the coming days.
That backlash will be just some of the sexism that hides in plain sight.
Apparently, these guys don't want women to write science fiction by Aja Romano [DailyDot.com]
Me, as a useful representative example by Mary Robinette Kowal [MaryRobinetteKowal.com]
Cheap Arts by Silvia Moreno-Garcia [Silvia Moreno-Garcia.com]
Mary Robinette Kowal Offers Herself Up as a Useful Representative Example by John Scalzi [whatever.scazli.com]
Does Bravely Default Hate Atheists? by Geoff Thew [HardCoreGamer.com]
Penny Arcade, Pax, & Dickwolves
by Nojh on Sep.06, 2013, under Articles, Culture, Gaming, News, Video Games
The past is full of unfortunate events. Actions taken with little to no experience, wisdom, and certainly no hindsight to guide them can have profound effects. We can, at least, hope to learn from them however. Let me take a moment to discuss a controversy, which is still settling, called Penny Arcade's dickwolves.
First some context, back in 2010 Penny Arcade posted a comic which mentions rape, now infamously known as the dickwolves comic. Now rape is a serious issue and our society has problems with addressing it and many other female related social issues. However when the comic began receiving criticism focusing on the mention of rape and not the intended commentary on moral ambiguity in games, Mike Krahulik, more well known as Gabe and co-creator of Penny Arcade, responded by mocking the critics, claiming attempts to censor his work and an issue of free speech. This was the start of the actual controversy as fans and detractors angrily attacked each other vocally. The issue exploded further after merchandise referencing the comic was released. Ultimately the merchandise was removed, despite Mike Krahulik public protests, and the entire sitaution settled, until recently when Mike mentioned his regret over the merchandise being removed at a recent PAX 2013.
This issue is very complicated and I covered it in a very broad manner above. I did so because I wanted to share the following links that cover the issue from various viewpoints that hopefully will let us all learn from this. I provide the following links to inform people regarding various viewpoints of the controversy.
The first is a personal post on tumblr by someone claiming to have attended the 2013 panel. The post is effectively anonymous and can't be verified, but that isn't the point in sharing it. It's the tale of a rape victim, who met her raper at PAX and despite the negative associations, continued to attend PAX, that is until she heard Mike's comments about the dickwolves. The article is a powerful chronicle.
I Can't Go Back Or Why I'm So Bent Out of Shape about Penny Arcade (A Dream Come True [Tumblr])
The point of linking to this article is two-fold. One to understand why the original criticisms of the dickwolves comic was raised. What effects including rape in a joke, even if the joke wasn't about the rape, can have upon people. The topic of why it perpetuates rape culture is left for another time. The second is to understand why Mike just mentioning the comic has rekindled this controversy. Why people would consider not attending PAX any further.
Because many people are, and not just attendees but companies as well. Many people have been posting about how Mike's and the reactions of some of Penny Arcade's fans are wrong. One such response has been from Wired.com's Rachel Edidin.
Why I'm Never Going Back to Penny Arcade Expo by Rachel Edidin [Wired.com]
Rachel Edidin covers the controversy very quickly, providing commentary as to why this event is holding gaming as a culture back and why people should just leave PAX behind. Which I feel is a sad statement to have to make. PAX is well-known for claiming to be for everyone, but if what Rachel and the above blogger say, it is only giving lip service to this ideology.
So why is Mike behaving this way? One of the prominent figures of the gaming community mocking critics and inciting bully behavior in his fans?
MovieBob, creator of The Big Picture, The Game Overthinker, and other web series, provides what I feel is a very fair and gamer centric viewpoint of the entire situation, with particular insight into why Mike might be having this way. Warning this is a long article and it rambles a little, but it covers the entire situation and is well worth reading.
Dickwolf'd (GameOverThinker [Blogpost])
Ultimately what Movie Bob is trying to say is Penny Arcade was not wrong to post the comic but at the same time criticizing it for how lightly it uses rape was also not wrong. Neither side was necessarily wrong in this situation. Mike Krahulik's response to the criticism however, was completely wrong.
Instead his mocking responses very indicative a mentality one might have had in the 80s and 90s. When comics and gaming were often attacked by people wishing to censor it for various ignorant and unfounded reasons. This may have been his reasoning for his actions, even if they still wrong. What is worse his actions inspired unconscionable attacks against critics of the comic by many fans of Penny Arcade. Some of these fans did it out of loyalty, and sadly some did it because of the still pervasive and ignorant misogyny that pervades gaming culture.
Thankfully the tale has something of a happy ending.
Some Clarification by Gabe (Mike Krahulik) [Penny Arcade]
Mike has apologized for all of his actions after the initial strip. I particularly like Mike's comments about PAX, which I hope is enough to make people reconsider their calls for boycotting the convention.
I sort of see PAX like I see my children. Yes I helped make them and yes they have a lot of me in them but they can be better than me. They can take the good stuff I have and leave out all the bad. Like my kids, PAX makes me want to be better.
At the very least all of us can learn from this controversy. Take the time to learn the difference between criticism and censorship, of the reasons why people become offended, and what can be done to fix the problems of rape in our culture, rather than attack the symptoms.
If you're interested in other reactions to this entire controversy, one blogger has taken it upon themselves to archive this from 2010 and beyond at the this tumblr, in two large link based posted.
New and improved Tic-Tac-Toe
by Nojh on Jul.10, 2013, under Articles, Board Games, Design & Development, Entertainment, Gaming
I was seriously into Tic-Tac-Toe when I was a kid.. until I solved it. Then I stumbled upon Math With Bad Drawing's new Ultimate Tic Tac Toe.
The full discussion of rules and strategy can be found here, but here are the quicky rules:
- Each turn, you mark one of the small squares.
- When you get three in a row on a small board, you've won that board.
- To win the game, you need to win three small boards in a row.
- You don't get to pick which of the nine boards to play on. That's determined by your opponent's previous move. Whichever square they pick, that's the board you must play in next. And whichever square you pick will determine which board he plays on next. If you are sent to a board that's already been won, you may go wherever you like.
- If the small board is a tie choose one, treat it as empty, neither player can use it to win.
- A variant is to have the small tile treat as a win for both people.
That last rule is obviously the most important and the most interesting!
In addition multiple people have created online versions of this game since the original post went up! Check out the original post for the list!
Not all Journalism is Responsible
by Nojh on May.20, 2013, under Articles, Culture, Gaming, News, Opinions, Video Games
Kotaku, a video game new site, ran an article by Chris Person, discussing an episode by television journalist Katie Couric. The article examines how journalism can be used to steer your perceptions of an event through techniques and words. In this case it was used to create fear that video games will some how ruin children's lives. Sadly not all journalism is going to be as blatant as this episode of Katie was.
The only real safeguard against this type of journalism is critical thinking. Is reading, watching, or listening, then thinking about if what you've taken in matches what you know, what you can reason out, and even if it does or doesn't dig a little deeper into whatever its sources might be, before you internalize it as a "truth". This requires effort. You're not going to succeed every time. The other way is to try to find trusted sources of news and information, but make sure they earn your trust.
We life in the Information Age now and while that gives us all sorts of awesome things, it should require us to be a responsible consumer of all that information.
A video game I want to play
by Nojh on Apr.29, 2013, under Art, Articles, Entertainment, Gaming, Video Games
The author of Dresden Codak, inspired of the Video Game Tropes vs Women series, decided to design a Legend of Zelda story idea with Zelda as the primary character, and it sounds awesome.
Aaron, the creator of Dresden Codak, does a little bit more than just make a cover but also goes as far as to describe and draw the main characters (Zelda, Prince Link, and Ganndorf) and explain the mythology of Hyrule, and layout the items and magic that Zelda has access to.
And more. Please check out his post to read up about it.
I mention that this would be a game I'd love to play. It isn't just because it is Zelda in her own game. That's actually beside the point. It is the gameplay described in the details of the game. Weapons, magic, enemies, and the plot all sound very compelling in a two-dimensional or three-dimensional third person video game. The plot could be re-written to be a completely original set of characters for all that it matters, if the gameplay is solid.
Video: Super Mario Busters
by Nojh on Feb.18, 2013, under Entertainment, Gaming, Video Games, Videos, Visual Media
Presented with little commentary other than "Who you going to pipe?" Okay yeah that kinda sucked but still. Awesome video.
News: The Museum of Modern Art to showcase video games
by Nojh on Feb.04, 2013, under Art, Articles, Culture, Gaming, News, Video Games
So the MoMA, or the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, is building an exhibit that will be open in March. But what will the contents of this exhibit be? Video Games!? But Video Games Aren't Art! Or so plenty of critics want to claim.
Except that legally, they are, according to United States Supreme Court. But some of modern culture seems to have hang-ups over the idea. Video games are not new. They've been around since the sixties. Yet they're only now starting to receive mass acceptance, mostly because the adult world has grown up with them. The average age of a person who plays video games is 30 years old, according to studies done by the Entertainment Software Association.
But that isn't the only reason. Even people under the age of thirty might question the artistic value of video games, and I'll agree, as a whole, most video games are created with the intention of being entertainment to make the creators money. But not all. And even those video games which are created with this intention can have significant artistic merit, for which Mike Rugnetta from PBS' Idea Channel happily provides many examples.
That is because video games are a unique type of medium. Unlike almost every type of artistic endeavor commonly accepted as art, video games have interaction. Which is what the MoMA is focusing on for their first exhibit.
Are video games art? They sure are, but they are also design, and a design approach is what we chose for this new foray into this universe. The games are selected as outstanding examples of interaction design—a field that MoMA has already explored and collected extensively, and one of the most important and oft-discussed expressions of contemporary design creativity.
The exhibit opens on in March in New York City and will feature 12 different video games from classics like Tetris, to more modern video games like Portal and flOw, and will attempt to expand to many other types of video games.
Video Games: 14 in the collection, for starters by Paola Antonelli [Museum of Modern Art]
Video Games as art [Wikipedia]
Video games can never be art by Roger Ebert [Chicago Sun Times]
Sorry MoMA, video games are not art by Jonathan Jones [The Guardian UK]
Top 5 Most Artful Video Games with Mike Rugnetta [YouTube PBS Idea Channel]
Industry Facts [Entertainment Software Association]
Conan O'Brien plays Resident Evil 6
by Nojh on Oct.08, 2012, under Entertainment, Gaming, Video Games, Videos, Visual Media
Albeit with a laugh track but you'll probably be laughing too.
Video: The Big Picture: On The Subject Of Violence
by Nojh on Aug.02, 2012, under Art, Articles, Culture, Gaming, Video Games, Videos, Visual Media
A discussion of the use of violence in media and how it may or may not contribute to violence in society but, more importantly, what we should do about it.
Video: Made for Play: Board Games & Modern Industry
by Nojh on Jul.30, 2012, under Articles, Board Games, Design & Development, Gaming, Videos, Visual Media
Ever been interested in how modern euro-board games get made? Watch the video below.
Made for Play: Board Games & Modern Industry from The Spiel on Vimeo.
I remember when I was a kid I watched a video about how toys are made. It had a narrative where a toy rewound time in order to find out how it was made. Basically showed off an entire Japanese toy manufacturing company. This video reminds me of that, without the silly narrative. The inside of a factory has always been neat and interesting to me.


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It started at -14 outside the house this morning. 13 above inside the garage when I left for work but on my way to work the outside temp got to -20! Ouch. Never had any issues with "putt-putt" in the cold or snow. The temps can only go up from here.
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Hello! Ever since I first got my Princess Spacy (used), I noticed that the beeps sound really strange and metallic. Today I noticed that it also somehow has a "heartbeat", the repeated, faint beeping found in other versions such as V2, V3, and Nano, as well as a high, neverending beep in the background.
The sounds are very quiet, a lot quieter than on V2, but I've never heard of iD Ls having the heartbeat...my normal iD L didn't have one, but maybe I never listened closely enough.
Also, usually the heartbeat is always even but sometimes it slows down...it's really weird. 0.o I've been thinking it might be something wrong with the sound chip, because of the other strange sounds it makes...any ideas?
Heartbeat on Princess Spacy iD L?
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Posted 29 September 2012 - 05:09 AM ( #2 )
My Princess Spacy(Which.. Well, yes, was new when I first got it.) has made some strange noises before.. To be exact, I can hear very faint buzzing inside of it,,
Posted 29 September 2012 - 05:11 AM ( #3 )
I can answer that best, being the Princess Spacy's previous owner. It has been round the world twice and used for a long time, and it also had a slight battery glitch once. Tamas that have been debugged often have this "heartbeat", but I have definitely not opened the Princess Spacy further than needed to replace the battery. There is absolutely no reason for there to be any major glitch - probably just a little fault from being bumped around on airplanes.
I hope this information helps someone a bit more knowledgeable to solve this problem...just saying, nobody's been messing about with this Tama so it shouldn't be doing anything out of the ordinary.
I hope this information helps someone a bit more knowledgeable to solve this problem...just saying, nobody's been messing about with this Tama so it shouldn't be doing anything out of the ordinary.
Posted 29 September 2012 - 11:02 AM ( #4 )
I find that if I listen really closely, there's a sort of long, quiet beep that goes on with iD L's when the screen is on, and it disappears when it is off. Maybe that might be it?
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Another year, another VAT change - don't you just love it?
It's maybe obvious, but in addition to the admin costs and hassle of changing the rate that becomes effective on 4th Jan 2011, any business also needs to consider the fact that 2.5% is being removed from the gross income of most if not all of their products or services.
In most ecommerce systems (eg the Blot ecommerce system), it's a simple thing to change the VAT rate, but you might want to revise pricing or other aspects of your system.
You might also want to find out how you can 'bank' orders at the current rate and whole raft of other information. Read the VAT article from our friends at Springfords Accountants.
Read about the VAT increase . . .
We've talked before about the online advertising facilities available through Facebook and how you can target adverts to chosen demographics.
Well it looks like people are starting to 'Like' Facebook advertising!
Latest figures show that approximately one third of online advertising is now going Facebook's way.
The majority of these ads were placed by big corporates, but might there be something in it for the SMEs?
Anyone old enough to remember the original Ace of Spades song by Lemmy and Motorhead would be surprised to find that song and the Carbuncled One could ever be held up as a great example of modern advertising.
But a couple of days ago, I saw an advert in a newspaper for Kronenbourg 1664 lager. In the advert, they highlighed Lemmy, The Ace of Spades, Kronenbourg 1664 and a link to YouTube featuring Lemmy playing an acoustic version of Ace of Spades in a French bar.
That's print, celebrity, entertainment, product, social network and video advertising all rolled into one little package.
And, having read, watched and listened, I could even remember the product being advertised. Amazing!
Watch the clip . . .