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WatusiWare Corporation is a developer of iPhone applications.
Our target audience is typically individual consumers or small business persons.
This is a bit of an unusual project. It should be an easy project for an Adobe Illustrator pro, IF you know the appropriate techniques.
The goal of the project is to develop a method to achieve results in Adobe Illustrator that we have only been able to achieve using Photoshop. The requirement to manipulate images in Photoshop has made the project prohibitively expensive. Any change to color, proportion, size, etc. requires extensive re-work in Photoshop in order to re-create "punched out" areas after making changes to the design in Illustrator.
This is part of an iPhone application that displays the face of a mechanical instrument which has a metal face-plate, with several beveled "punchouts" in the face. Other images will be placed "behind" the punchouts in the app. The "gps" indicator will have a color wheel (supplied) behind it.
I'm supplying "finished results" as PNG files with alpha channel. You need to supply an Adobe Illustrator file (you can use CS3, 4, or 5) that can achieve similar-looking results without the use of Photoshop.
(Steampunk refers to imagining what common bits of modern technology might have looked like in the "steam era" of the late 1800's, had they been invented by then. In this particular case, "Steampunk" is a bit of a misnomer, as the era in question is the 1920's through 1950's.)


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Every student of Astrophysics 101 soon learns that there are two main types of supernovae; Type 1a, which occur when a white dwarf star accretes matter from a bloated companion, passes the Chandrasekhar Limit and explodes, and Type II, when a star 8 times the mass of our Sun or larger reaches the end of its fusion burning life and promptly explodes but are these snapshots of the final phases of stellar evolution really that neat and tidy? Recently, evidence has been mounting that there may be other sub-branches to the supernova tale, and not just the two flavors and the sub-categories that we learned in school. The first round of evidence comes from a team at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and their study of supernova 2005E. This blast occurred in the galactic halo of the galaxy NGC 1032 in the constellation Cetus, not your typical supernova breeding territory. Supernovae are usually seen in rich star forming regions, not in metal poor outer galactic suburbs. This event was a fizzle, ejecting only 300 times the mass of Jupiter into its nearby environs.
The mystery deepened as a team from Hiroshima University released their results of a study of another supernova, 2005cz. Located in the elliptical galaxy NGC 4589, this eruption was also only 20% as bright as models predict, showing that while the initial mass may have been just above what was required for a Type II supernova, it beared none of the classic hallmarks of either species of events. Both of these supernovae, along with 6 others recorded, show a high concentration of calcium in their spectra, a hint that they may not be related to either of the previously known types.
So, whats going on? Do we need to re-write all those old astrophysical texts? Its unlikely that a progenitor star migrated all the way to a galactic halo region in its short life span simply to explode. A possible scenario could be a pair of binary white dwarfs (or do you say dwarves?) in a tight orbit, with one stealing the helium shell of another and bursting. Spectra taken of both events seem to support this scenario this mystery may have a tie-in with the seeming lack of Type 1As in waiting mentioned in this space in an article on a recent survey of nearby galaxies will this hybrid style of supernova become known as Type III or Type 2.5?


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But I found the site, and it's potential to characterize physician's on-line influence, interesting.
It works by giving people on Twitter and Facebook a "score", influenced by the lists that people are on, the number of original "tweets," number of times things are re-tweeted by others, and so on and then uses the metrics to classify the type and influence of the individual using social media. I suppose an analogy might be that its like looking at a bunch of personality tests to understand the type of person you're following.
So I looked into the scores and characteristics of a few physician bloggers. The results were interesting.
By the way, I have no commercial relationship with this website, but I found the concept intriguing for doctors as we enter the new internet age of social media. Certainly this is not the only site that purports to measure the influence of someone on social media (see Peerindex, for instance), but it was interesting to see it's accuracy in determining these few individual's influence on the internet based on their content tweeted.
Yours truly gave a meager "Klout score" of 48 at the time of this writing and was classified as a "Specialist."
Kevin Pho, MD is a "Thought Leader" with a score of 69.
Grunt Doc, an ER doctor and long-time blogger is a "Thought Leader", too, but has a score of 38.
Doctor Anonymous is an "Explorer" with a Klout score of 50.
Ramona Bates, MD - a plastic surgeon - is a "Specialist" too with a score of 54.
Happy Hospitalist has a Klout Score of 24, but is considered a Thought Leader, too.
(You can check your "score" and inflence type with a twitter account and then enter it here.)
While Mr. Owyang does a nice job explaining the limitations of these metric websites (especially as it relates to lack of a "Sentiment Index"), but I must say that from my cursory look at the few fellow physicians I queried, it classified some of these more prolific bloggers and twitter users that I know pretty well.
Looking forward, it would not be unrealistic to think that some day a new variant of the Klout website might just serve as another form of doctor rating website. If so, the benefit of developing an valued online social media "physician brand" now might pay professional dividends later.


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Rick Daniels, a former Boston Globe executive who most recently was president of Gatehouse Media, and Boston private equity investor Heb Ryan have been in discussions with the Times Co. and last month submitted a bid of about $100 million to buy The Boston Globe, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
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In this Washington Post commentary, Sharon Meers says women need "Thick Skin, and More of It." Meers is the co-author of Getting to 50/50: How Working Couples Can Have It All by Sharing It All.She also is a former managing director at Goldman Sachs who now works in Silicon Valley.
She says, of the way we raise girls:
Girls also need a layer that boys don't - added protection to be successful outsiders, until we finally get comfortable with females wielding power as overtly as men do. Not long after I snapped at Derek's boss, I was assigned a mentor. This woman was the rarest of breeds, a female proprietary trader, Wall Street 1988. She took me to drinks and said, "You're going to be lonely. But you'll succeed if you want to."Note that she's not suggesting you'll become a real insider...just a successful outsider. She shares this study that quantifies that feeling:
Columbia professor Claude Steele recently conducted a study showing that even female engineers (no strangers to being outnumbered by men), have higher heart rates, temperature and distraction when they are less than 25% of the room. Make the room gender-neutral and group results improve - women perform well and men perform no worse.Meers cites this Harvard Business Review article by Jeffrey Pfeffer on "Women and the Uneasy Embrace of Power" to make her case. Pfeffer says, "It's true that women tend to be perceived more negatively and be less liked when they use the same power strategies as men. (This is an unfair reality that Alice Eagly has referred to as 'the double bind.') But there is little evidence to suggest that those strategies aren't just as effective for women."
On The Eloquent Woman on Facebook, readers reacted this way, and shared some tips and resources:
- Shelley Hanes said: "I just spoke with one of my supervisors yesterday about my need to get thicker skin. I also have had people who know me well say the same... I am working on it. I agree building extra skin takes time, life experience and putting into practice new ideals. Thank you I needed to read this post at this point in my life."
- Coffee DaRealist Beanz shared, "I also absolutely love the book entitled A Woman in Your Own Right: Assertiveness and You. It teaches women about being assertive without being aggressive. Must Read!!!"
Harvard's Program on Negotiation asks "when does personality matter?" when it comes to negotiation, and cites research showing it may not matter as much as we think it does:
Why do we hold on to the notion that toughness matters so much in negotiation? In part because of the predictable and repeated errors we make when sizing up situations and processing information. Prior to negotiation, a fixed-pie bias leads us to falsely assume that our interests are incompatible with those of our counterpart. Once at the table, we're vulnerable to the negativity bias, which causes us to react more strongly to negative information, such as threats, than to positive information, such as revelations about possible tradeoffs.What to do instead? Stay curious about the person with whom you're negotiating and the issue, asking questions to elicit information and to look for different preferences you can exploit to create a shared "win."
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In THE RADICALISM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Gordon Wood challenges a generation of scholarship by consensus historians who have interpreted the American Revolution as a conservative rebellion in defense of the status quo. Extending the Revolutionary era backward to the 1760's and forward to the early nineteenth century, Wood argues that the country experienced a genuine social transformation. One class did not overthrow another, but social relationships—the connecting links between people—were permanently changed.
Wood develops this thesis by examining the country's transition from monarchy to republic to democracy. Monarchical society linked people to those above and below them in a hierarchy of rank. The small depended on the great and such personal relationships constituted the ligaments that held society together. The republicanism that the colonists embraced during the Revolution dissolved the old monarchical connections of hierarchy, patronage, and dependency; in this sense it was as radical for the eighteenth century as Marxism would be for the nineteenth.
The patriot leaders envisioned the new American republic as a nation of freeholders governed by gentlemen of disinterested virtue whose leisure and independence from petty commercial concerns elevated them above the corruptions of self interest. Instead, artisans and mechanics took to heart the rhetoric of equality and elected men of the middling ranks who promised to champion local interests. As a result, America became the first modern society to bring ordinary people into government as rulers as well as voters—a bloodless transition to democracy that the Founding Fathers had neither anticipated nor desired.
Sources for Further Study
American Spectator. XXV, April, 1992, p. 68.
Booklist. LXXXVIII, January 1, 1992, p. 808.
Boston Globe. February 12, 1992, p. 72.
Choice. XXX, September, 1992, p. 210.
Kirkus Reviews. LIX, November 15, 1991, p. 1461.
Library Journal. CXVII, January, 1992, p. 154.
Los Angeles Times Book Review. February 2, 1992, p. 2.
The New Republic. CCV, December 23, 1991, p. 32.
The New York Review of Books. XXXIX, June 25, 1992, p. 23.
The New York Times Book Review. XCVII, March 1, 1992, p. 1.
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Opus Chamber Music Series - James Rodseth & Theresa KeeneName: Opus Chamber Music Series - James Rodseth & Theresa KeeneDate: April 28, 2019Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDTEvent Description:Trumpeter James Rodseth performs accessible, fun, and interesting works for trumpet and piano, including sonatas by Kent Kennan and Eric Ewazen, Caprice by Joseph Turrin, and Legend by Georges Enesco—some of the best music composed for trumpet and piano in the 20th Century. A Mendocino native, Mr. Rodseth is a long time member of the Mendocino Music Festival Orchestra and principal trumpet of the Sacramento Philharmonic. He will be joined by acclaimed concert pianist Theresa Keene. Ms. Keene is a graduate of Eastman School of Music and San Francisco Conservatory of Music and now principal keyboard instrumentalist with Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra. She will perform some selections for solo piano as well as accompany Mr. Rodseth in the finale Opus concert of the 2018-19 season.
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Recently the Federal Reserve released transcripts of its monetary policy meetings during the fateful year of 2008. And, boy, are they discouraging reading.
Partly that's because Fed officials come across as essentially clueless about the gathering economic storm. But we knew that already. What's really striking is the extent to which they were obsessed with the wrong thing. The economy was plunging, yet all many people at the Fed wanted to talk about was inflation.
Matthew O'Brien at The Atlantic has done the math. In August 2008 there were 322 mentions of inflation, versus only 28 of unemployment and 19 of systemic risks or crises. In the meeting on Sept. 16, 2008 — the day after Lehman fell! — there were 129 mentions of inflation versus 26 mentions of unemployment and only four of systemic risks or crises.
Historians of the Great Depression have long marveled at the folly of policy discussion at the time. For example, the Bank of England, faced with a devastating deflationary spiral, kept obsessing over the imagined threat of inflation. As the economist Ralph Hawtrey famously observed, "That was to cry 'Fire, fire!' in Noah's flood." But it turns out that modern monetary officials facing financial crisis were just as obsessed with the wrong thing as their predecessors three generations before.
And it wasn't just a bad call in 2008. Much supposedly informed opinion has remained fixated on the supposed threat of rising prices despite being wrong again and again. If you spent the last five years watching CNBC, or reading the Wall Street Journal opinion pages, or for that matter listening to prominent conservative economists, you lived in a constant state of alarm over runaway inflation, which was coming any day now. It never did.
What accounts for inflation obsession? One answer is that obsessives failed to distinguish between underlying inflation and short-term fluctuations in the headline number, which are mainly driven by volatile energy and food prices. Gasoline prices, in particular, strongly influence inflation in any given year, and dire warnings are heard whenever prices rise at the pump; yet such blips say nothing at all about future inflation.
They also failed to understand that printing money in a depressed economy isn't inflationary. I could have told them that, and in fact I did. But maybe there was some excuse for not grasping this point in 2008 or early 2009.
The point, however, is that inflation obsession has persisted, year after year, even as events have refuted its supposed justifications. And this tells us that something more than bad analysis is at work. At a fundamental level, it's political.
This is fairly obvious if you look at who the inflation obsessives are. While a few conservatives believe that the Fed should be doing more, not less, they have little if any real influence. The overall picture is that most conservatives are inflation obsessives, and nearly all inflation obsessives are conservative.
Why is this the case? In part it reflects the belief that the government should never seek to mitigate economic pain, because the private sector always knows best. Back in the 1930s, Austrian economists like Friedrich Hayek and Joseph Schumpeter inveighed against any effort to fight the depression with easy money; to do so, warned Schumpeter, would be to leave "the work of depressions undone." Modern conservatives are generally less open about the harshness of their view, but it's pretty much the same.
The flip side of this antigovernment attitude is the conviction that any attempt to boost the economy, whether fiscal or monetary, must produce disastrous results — Zimbabwe, here we come! And this conviction is so strong that it persists no matter how wrong it has been, year after year.
Finally, all this ties in with a predilection for acting tough and inflicting punishment whatever the economic conditions. The British journalist William Keegan once described this as "sado-monetarism," and it's very much alive today.
Does any of this matter? It's true that the Fed hasn't surrendered to the sado-monetarists. Notably, it didn't panic in 2011, when another blip in gasoline prices briefly raised the headline rate of inflation, and Republicans began inveighing against the "debasement" of the dollar.
But I'd argue that the clamor from inflation obsessives has intimidated the Fed, which might otherwise have done more. And it has also been part of a general climate of opposition to anything that might address our continuing jobs crisis.
As I suggested, we used to marvel at the wrongheadedness of policy makers during the Great Depression. But when the Great Recession struck, and we were given a chance to do better, we ended up repeating all the same mistakes.


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Data management changes in Citadel 7
There are two important data management changes starting with Citadel 7.60.
The first one is a big change to how Citadel uses LDAP. You might know that prior to Citadel 7.50, we had the ability to populate an external LDAP address book with the contents of Citadel's global address book. As it turned out, this was not very useful. It was deprecated in 7.50 and has been removed in 7.60. We were fairly certain that nobody was using this feature, and the fact that no one has complained about its deprecation seems to confirm this.
Instead, Citadel 7.60 has the ability to authenticate against an external LDAP directory, which seems to be what most people wanted in the first place. We've supported authentication via the host system for a long time, and in practice most sites seem to combine this with pam_ldap and nss_ldap to allow Citadel to participate in "single sign on" at organizations which use LDAP. So why not make it easy? Citadel 7.60 speaks directly to your LDAP server, and the configuration consists of entering a few simple configuration items instead of all that tedious mucking about in the /etc directory. We support both the industry-standard LDAP schema (RFC 2307) and the most commonly deployed nonstandard schema (Microsoft Active Directory).
The other big change is a complete rewrite of the import/export module. The old way was usable but fairly clumsy. In Citadel 7.60, the database dump format is XML based, and the import/export operations run much faster. And beginning now, we are making the dump format upward compatible, so the target system can be running a newer version of Citadel than the source system. You will not have to upgrade the source system in order to migrate it.
To make this even more useful, we've written an "over the wire" migration utility. When you want to migrate Citadel to a new host system, even one with a different CPU architecture, you just run the migrate utility on the target host, and point it at the source host. The migrate utility will do all of the work for you automatically, producing a perfect clone of your Citadel installation. OpenSSH and rsync are used to copy the parts of your Citadel data that are not stored in the database, such as user profiles (bios), photos and other images, etc. This utility will do for migrations what Easy Install did for installations.
These changes were frequently requested, and we are happy to announce that they are now available.


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TOKYO (Reuters) – In 2006 Nintendo took video gaming out of the kids' room and into the living room, as its hit Wii created a new niche as the console the whole family could share.
But with that Wii boom waning, the successor being prepared by the creator of Super Mario looks like a losing proposition as Apple Inc and other smartphone and tablet makers take gaming to the bathroom, the commuter bus and back to the bedroom.
Nintendo will report on Thursday its first ever operating loss, after estimating a 45 billion yen deficit for the business year just ended.
"They have been beaten by smartphones and tablets, in particular, for consumers spending and, more importantly, time," said David Gibson, an analyst for Macquarie in Tokyo.
The company, which began in 1889 making playing cards in the back streets of Kyoto, has been hammered by a precipitous drop-off in sales of its Wii, DS handheld console and its new 3DS version.
A year ago Nintendo expected to sell 13 million Wii consoles, 16 million 3DS handhelds and 11 million DS machines in the financial year. In January it slashed its sales target for all three, lopping 3 million off its Wii target, 2 million off 3DS and halving its prediction for the DS.
Promising to return his company to profit this business term, Nintendo's boss, Satoru Iwata, blamed dismal sales on a strong yen and economic gloom in Europe. No strategic rethink or change to plans for the new Wii console, the Wii U, was necessary, he insisted.
Yet what Nintendo faces is a fundamental shift in gaming habits that analyst argue may require it to shrink its hardware business and instead chase profits for Super Mario and other game titles on devices built by other firms.
Its emerging foe is Apple, already the nemesis of flagging Japanese titan Sony Corp, whose seamless go-anywhere devices – the iPhone, iPad and rumored plans for a games controller and "iTV" – are positioning it to grab swathes of the gaming market where Nintendo once held sway.
In a report this month, Macquarie's Gibson pointed to a recent survey by mobile gaming site MocoSpace. It asked 15,000 gamers where they gamed; 53 percent said they played in bed, 41 percent in the living room, 72 percent commuting and 5 percent on the toilet.
Yet a game started on a Wii can't be continued on a DS on the way to work or school. The Wii U, slated to go on sale in time for the year-end shopping season, does not address that convergence hurdle.
Nintendo will have to sell the new console for as much as $350 to break even, estimates Nanako Imazu, an analyst for CLSA in Tokyo. That is $100 more than it charged for the Wii in 2006 and would outstrip both the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360, which can be picked up for less than $300.
Imazu said Nintendo, which earns about four-fifths of its revenue overseas, should get a boost this business term from a weaker yen and the launch of popular game titles including Mario Party 8 and the latest installment of Dragon Quest from Square Enix.
That should result in an operating profit of around 40 billion yen for the 12 months to March 31 – according to the average estimate of 20 analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S – back into the black, although well below the earning power it displayed during the Wii boom.
Nintendo will also likely have a year's grace to woo core gamers to the Wii U, say analysts, before Sony's anticipated launch of its PlayStation 4 and Microsoft's updated Xbox at the end of 2013. Nintendo, nonetheless, will still have to contend with the rising flood of smartphones and iPhones.
"Nintendo has to deal with the change and let Mario games be played on non-Nintendo devices," said Imazu. "I think it will take at least couple of years to see that."
Any drastic strategy shift that would dispatch the Mario brothers into the realm of Android and Apple's iOS operating system would likely require a change at the top of Nintendo, said Macquarie's Gibson. And that likely won't happen for a couple of years until the Wii U is shown to be a clear failure, he added.
Unlike money-losing Sony, where time is running out to counter the pounding it's getting from Apple and South Korea's Samsung Electronics, Nintendo, sitting on oodles of cash it made selling the Wii – about $14 billion – at least has time to mull its choices.
"With its 8,000 yen a share in cash, it can afford to still make a bet that its hardware will sell," said Gibson.
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(Editing by Alex Richardson)
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One night after interviewing a reluctant witness at a London apartment complex, Lacey Flint, a young detective constable, stumbles onto a woman brutally stabbed just moments before in the building's darkened parking lot. Within twenty-four hours a reporter receives an anonymous letter that points out alarming similarities between the murder and Jack the Ripper's first murder—a letter that calls out Lacey by name. If it's real, and they have a killer bent on re-creating London's bloody past, history shows they have just five days until the next attempt. No one believes the connections are anything more than a sadistic killer's game, not even Lacey, whom the killer seems to be taunting specifically. However, as they investigate the details of the case start reminding her more and more of a part of her past she'd rather keep hidden. And the only way to do that is to catch the killer herself.
After a few disappointing books, I wanted something that would truly engage me. My friend Renee @It's Book Talk (check out her amazing blog!) had recommended this series several times and I finally decided to give it a go. Thank you! What a wise decision 😉
You know how much I love police procedurals, but this felt totally different. Even better. Our main character is not your typical detective. She's flawed, she's difficult and she might be dangerous. She's fierce and independent and I have a feeling that I will like her more when I read the sequels.
It's funny because the main character and some of the scenes reminded me of a book I had read this year. And then I realized I was thinking of Daisy In Chains, which is written by the same author. I definitely like you, Bolton.
What I liked the most about the plot was that it wasn't what I was expecting. Let's say that the investigation took a different turn after a while and I absolutely loved the change of focus. It made the book even more captivating, in my opinion. My advice is to read this book with an open mind and enjoy the thrilling journey.
And now, of course, let's talk about Mark Joesbury. I loved him, period. I could feel the tension between Mark and Lacey from their very first scene. They were making me crazy! You know I don't usually think love stories are important in crime books, but I'm already rooting for these two. Their relationship was so well-written that I believe everyone would agree with me. Even if you hate romance.
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dear queenie valentine reader,
i know i have been away for sometime now and for that i am sorry. :( However I am full of logical excuses. WORK And SCHOOl..and SOCIAL life or what's left of it. AND not to forget my internet was acting like it was on some serious crack. I had to sit on the phone with Dell, while some foreign man explained to me in almost perfect English that I had to re-buy a warranty for the third time in order for them to fix my internet problem! Ugh...technology can be so ridiculous sometimes. I'm going to try my best to keep up with the Jones' and keep ur wondering bright minds entertained. lol. While I've been gone some interesting things have happened:both party conventions, the VMA's (which i quickly wrote about last night), classes began, i quit one of my jobs, i made my first ebay purchase on my roomates computer, and i dont know of anything else because im being so so so ANTI and so self absorbed into my own life that i forget to google and find out a lil sumin sumin bout rih rih, britney, and some new brooklyn rap group...i have now come back to work. look forward for new ish..and bare with me plz
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When the Queens Museum of Art wanted to create an arts education program for immigrant adults, its location in the nation's most diverse county played a big role in the process. Queens, New York, has a population of 2.2 million, 48 percent of whom are foreign born. Approximately 138 languages are spoken, and 55 percent of people age five years and older speak a language other than English at home. Of the total population, 26 percent is Hispanic, 21 percent is non-Hispanic Asian, and 18 percent is non-Hispanic Black or African-American. This diversity led the museum to look beyond its peers for an educational model.
Lauren Schloss, director of education at the museum and project director, said, "We couldn't find a model or a partner through an art museum, but the Queens Library is one of the most successful cultural organizations in our borough. We learned that they had had a program called the New Americans Program for about 30 years. It focused on the same population—immigrant communities—with a bent toward adult education." So the museum enlisted Queens Library as a partner to help develop the "Art and Literacy for New New Yorkers" grant project. The library is the most heavily used library system in the country, with more than 21 million items circulated in 2007. It consists of 62 branches, seven Adult Learning Centers, and a central library.
In 2005, the museum received a three-year, $449,000 grant for Art and Literacy from the IMLS National Leadership Grants for Museums program. The project partners matched the IMLS award to maximize the grant's impact.
Offering Classes
The project's main objective was to provide arts, technology, and language programming to immigrant audiences, with the goal of making both the museum and the library indispensable community resources. To accomplish this, the partners crafted workshops and other professional development activities to train museum and library staff on the challenges of attracting and providing programs for immigrant populations. They also created and delivered a full range of jointly-sponsored educational and public programming for new Americans and designed and built a Cyber Center at the museum.
Library staff taught the professional development sessions, which focused on the keys to success in working with immigrant communities.
The library already had significant experience with cultural programming for immigrants, and it knew the county inside and out. "We have a long history of doing demographics," said Maureen O'Connor, the library's chief operating officer. "We have a demographer on staff who can tell us what neighborhoods speak which languages. So, for example, if the museum was doing an exhibit of Southeast Asian artists, we could target neighborhoods where they might want to have an artist do a workshop."
The programming included classes in painting, book making, crafts, photography, video editing, performance, graphic design, Web design, computer literacy, arts literacy, and English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL). Most classes were held at the museum, although some started off at library branches. "For instance," Schloss said, "if we're interested in offering a course in Korean, we'll work with the library to see what would be an appropriate branch." The first month of the class would take place at the library branch and the second month at the museum—thus introducing people to the museum. The grant project also included performing arts events, open houses, and student art exhibits.
In addition, the partners created a space within the museum for a future library branch. This Reading Room was run by a librarian and contained 200 Queens Library reference books in four different languages.
Because of the large Latino community near the museum, many classes were offered in Spanish, but instructors also used English to accommodate non-Spanish-speakers from East Asia and elsewhere. Technology classes used the Cyber Center—a mobile computer lab with 15 laptops on a cart.
Educating People, Transforming Lives
The project had a large impact, providing 840 classes and events to 16,000 people during the grant period. Some 175 people took the ESOL classes; 267 attended the artists' talks; 1,071 visitors and staff members used the Reading Room; and three open houses drew 1,100 people.
The classes were very popular. The Adobe PhotoShop course often had as many as 40 people, so students had to share computers. At one open house, 200 people signed up for a Web design class. The digital photography class in Spanish was very popular and is now offered at three different levels. In all, students completed 610 projects during the classes.
Schloss said, "One surprise was how popular the classes were. We went from having no idea what to do to just being completely oversubscribed and overwhelmed by demand."
The partners initially offered short classes, but they found that students wanted longer running instruction. In the project's second year, the partners offered two-month-long classes in a studio art medium that usually included technology.
"Something we learned from the library early on," Schloss said, "was that skills were really important in the education experiences of adult immigrants in our community."
Three student art exhibitions were held at the museum, featuring 117 student projects.
The most notable result of the program, however, was the impact on students' lives. The museum documented 20 cases of students who successfully transformed their lives and incomes with skills they learned in the Art and Literacy project.
For example, Celino B., a young man in his 20s from Mexico, took photography and video classes and now works as a social photographer on weekends. This supplements his income as a short-order cook. With this business, he can support his parents and younger siblings in Mexico and a younger brother here in the United States—thanks to Art and Literacy classes.
Challenges and Lessons Learned
One difficulty during the project was making the Reading Room more popular with visitors. It was not used as much as the partners expected. "Having literature in the gallery isn't as popular as we all thought it would be," said Schloss. "But the items are noncirculating. We're curious to see if they would be more relevant to people if they were circulating."
Plans for a satellite branch of Queens Library at the museum are still in the works; they were delayed along with the museum's expansion project. Space has been allocated for a library branch, but design plans have not yet been created. It would be the first public library in an art museum in the country. "We intend for it to happen, but it's still not confirmed," said Schloss.
The partnership was extremely smooth—the museum and the library found that they had more similarities than differences. One difference in working style did emerge when museum staff interacted with library staff and programmers at the branch level.
Schloss explained, "[Museum staff] tend to start from scratch and do a lot of brainstorming and thinking through things. We enjoy that process. On-the-ground staff at the library are more likely to say, 'What's the program? What kind of space do you need? When do you need it?'—so, more logistics." She said the museum easily adapted to the different work style. "So now we think things through with our staff and educators, then we contact the library. We're more prepared when we start the conversation."
Fine-Tuning the Programs
After the grant ended, the budget for Art and Literacy shrank during its fourth year. Despite the dip, however, the museum staff continued to make inroads into the East Asian community. Schloss said, "One of the staff is fluent in Korean and another in Mandarin and Taiwanese, so they've been able to go much further with the community to the east of our museum."
The project now receives funding from the Altman Foundation and TD Commerce. Next steps include securing additional funding sources, fine-tuning the programming, and making progress on the library-inside-the-museum project.


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Tuesday marked 30 years to the day Fran Webb last saw her daughter Darlene Webb.
ORMOND BEACH — Fran Webb has gone through a lot of light bulbs over the past 30 years.
"The front porch light still burns, and it's on every night because the last child is not home," Webb said, sitting in the living room of her Ormond Beach home on Tuesday, 30 years to the day she last saw her daughter Darlene Webb.
"It's getting harder for me because I'm getting older," said Webb, 74. "Family's passing, and it's just getting rougher and rougher every year."
As rough as it's getting, this tough mother refuses to give up, even when people tell her Darlene, who was 20 when she disappeared, is gone.
"As far as I'm concerned she's not gone," the mother said. "(Police) think, which I agree with, whoever took her probably, maybe drugged her enough that she lost her memory and she doesn't know who she is."
Fran Webb and her other children — Karen Webb, 51, and James Webb, 49 — have accepted that the Darlene they knew is gone, whether she's actually still alive or not.
The Darlene they knew was a tough cookie with a positive attitude and a beautiful voice. Sometimes she enjoyed singing off-key to bug her family. She was a student at then-Daytona Beach Community College and had just been promoted to assistant manager of the Chick-fil-A restaurant in the Volusia Mall.
Darlene had gone to a bar in Daytona Beach with friends that night, but told her mom she didn't plan on staying out too late since the restaurant manager was sick and she would have to open.
When Fran Webb received a call from the manager the next morning after the Chick-fil-A wasn't opened on time, she went to where Darlene's friends said she had parked her car on North Grandview Avenue.
"Her coat was in the car, her purse was in the car," Fran Webb said. "The only thing missing was her and the keys to her car."
She said when Darlene's car was found, the front passenger-side window was halfway down, the front passenger-side seat was reclined and the ashtray was full of cigarette butts, but Darlene wasn't a smoker.
Initially and throughout the past 30 years, Fran Webb hasn't had the easiest time drawing attention to her daughter's case because Darlene was an adult when she disappeared.
"What bothers me the most is the amount of things that have changed over 30 years," Karen Webb said. "Back then, police wouldn't even take a report for 72 hours because at that point, you were an adult, you had a right to disappear. Nowadays, if somebody disappears, you see it on TV immediately."
Sgt. Clem Malec, the detective on Darlene's case, agreed that the fact Darlene was an adult when she disappeared didn't make the case any easier.
He said when an adult goes missing, the key is to find something suspicious because adults can make the choice to disappear or take a vacation without telling anyone.
The few leads detectives had in Darlene's case, once she was declared a missing person, never amounted to anything.
Once Darlene's story hit the news, Fran Webb said she was contacted by a woman who worked at a beer garden close to where Darlene had parked her Chevy Chevette. The woman told Fran Webb she heard screams that night, and when she went outside, she saw a car speed away with its lights off.
The Webbs have accepted that the question of Darlene being in that car is probably one question among many they will never get an answer to.
"Back then, we did what we could," James Webb said. "You hope and pray and think she's alive until you hear something."
The Webb family wonders where Darlene's case would be today if present-day technology existed back then. They have posted things on their own Facebook pages and the page they made for Darlene. They also have checked accounts under Darlene's name, hoping maybe she's alive and has joined the world of social media.
Even with the advent of social media, the family still does some things the old way by posting fliers around the county.
"We still put up pictures and stuff and hope that maybe someday either she or somebody who has seen her will go 'oh wait a minute, isn't that you?' " Karen Webb said.
Whether or not that happens, Fran Webb and her family plan to keep on plugging until they find some closure – good or bad.
"If she's passed on, then I'll close the book on it, but until then I'm not closing the book," Fran Webb said. "Mother's gut instincts? She's alive somewhere, and I know she is. I just gotta find her."


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I have searched through many pages of local newspapers before. This time, I wanted to see if there was anything I had missed.
Fortunately, my family, both my maternal and paternal sides, lived in Toronto, Ontario and the 'local' paper, The Toronto Star has digitized 116 years of it's editions, back to 1894, through it's Pages of the Past feature. In addition, using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology, all pages of the newspaper are searchable using keywords, exact phrase or Boolean Query. My experience with the OCR technology indicates that it is not perfect but it is good and getting better. Searching 116 years of newspaper pages, even for an exact 'phrase' such as a family surname can be time consuming and not everything found was connected to my family. For example, someone named Lorraine Hadden played a lot of bridge when the newspaper was publishing bridge tournament results through the 1950's and 1960's. There were also a lot of stories about Dave Hadden, a player for the Toronto Argonaut professional football team through the 1970's - and I got to view all of them!
But hidden within all of the 'misses' were some great gems about my family (including a story about me from 1995 that I will save for another time). When I first used newspapers as a genealogy source, I tended to focus on defined dates of known events. I knew my birth date so was there a birth announcement, for example. Conducting a broader search with the resulting large number of 'hits' tested my patience. I wanted more immediate gratification than hours and hours of viewing seemed to offer.
I now search more patiently and I have gleaned some great results that I can share. My great grandparents, Alexander Shand Hadden and his wife Jessie (nee Gaull) died in 1945, within months of each other. I have now found both of their obituaries.
On March 22, 1945, the death notice for Jessie Gaull Hadden appeared on page 26 of the Toronto Star. The obituary related that Jessie passed away in Toronto East General Hospital on Tuesday, March 20, 1945 in her 64th year. Her funeral was held in the chapel of the William Sherrin Funeral Home at 873 Kingston Road on Friday, March 23rd at 2:00 p.m. Internment was at St. John's Norway Cemetery.
Alexander Shand Hadden's obituary appeared on page 17 of the July 27, 1945 Toronto Star newspaper. The obituary stated that Alexander died on Thursday, July 26th, 1945 at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto. In addition his current and former residences are given. His next of kin included his children: Edith, Alex, and John, all of Toronto and "Company Sergeant-Major Andrew Hadden, C.I.T.C." (Note to self - some research is needed to understand Uncle Andy's previously unheard of military role!) Like his wife a few months earlier, Alexander's funeral was held in the chapel of the Sherrin Funeral Home on Saturday, July 28, 1945 at 11:00 a.m. and internment followed at St. John's Norway Cemetery in Toronto.
The real surprise was finding a memorial published in the Toronto Star on March 20, 1946. The memorial reads as follows:
"HADDEN - In loving memory of my dear mother, Jessie Gaull Hadden, who passed away March 20, 1945.
Peacefully sleeping, resting at last
The world's weary troubles and trials are past.
I silence she suffered, in patience she bore
Till God called her home to suffer no more.
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Summer Event is still going and portals will stay open for another 15 days until end of July! So you still have time to get those fancy wings!
Now, lets talk about the changes:
- Critical Pet has been buffed a little bit. It will now give a bonus based on your overall damage, not just the damage you get out of LUC. Tests will continue and this pet might keep getting changes until we find something balanced.
- Fixed the position of name, guildname, title and chat bubbles.
- Fixed an issue preventing raid leaders from using Raid Mark on same faction players.
- Fixed a chat issue when typing % in raid chat.
- Raid mark messages will now be displayed to everyone within the raid while in FFA map.
- New emote icons for Raid Mark, Raid Sit, Raid Play.
- Healing spells can now be used on enemy players inside FFA map.
- Resurrection Spell and Target Resurrection Rune are now blocked in FFA map.
- Fix for skill bar 3 to be automatically placed at the third position of skills.
- New Attack Player behavior that will target and attack the closest enemy player.
- Renamed GM Extraction Hammer to Perfect Extraction Hammer to allow it to be searched in the auction board.
- New raid leader command: Raid Sit
-- This command can only be used in a designated map and will move the targeted player to the sitters position.
- New raid leader command: Raid Play
-- This command can only be used in a designated map and will move the targeted player to your position.


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Salsaholism [sahl-sah-hawl-ism]
- Noun.
1. A condition characterized by the excessive and compulsive consumption of salsa to the point that it interferes with a person's health and ability to function in day-to-day life. Signs of this disorder include, but are not limited to, disappearance of tortilla chips, cilantro-induced separation anxiety, and unusually ferocious protection of pineapples, mangoes, tomatoes, and the like. Side-effects of salsaholism are generally manifested in one or more of the following conditions: panting; water-gulping; salty, tortilla chip lips; and an unreasonable amounts of happy-dancing. While it is possible to cure salsaholism through intense cognitive behavioral therapy involving a series of whistles, chili peppers, and short track speed skating, most sufferers of salsaholism, or salsaholics, are notoriously resistant to treatment and will regularly refuse to admit that they have a problem. Above all else, salsaholics should be kept away from any combination of the following ingredients:
Roasted pineapple, as the tempting amalgamation of sweet and spicy is simply too much for even non-salsaholics to bear.
Red onion, due to its festive purple color, which lures potential salsaholics into a false sense of security.
Habanero peppers, because it is their kryptonite.
Cilantro, for its fresh flavor and hypnotizing beauty.
When the aforementioned ingredients are mixed together, along with a squirt of fresh lime juice and a pinch of kosher salt, the tasty results are too much for even the most serious salsaholics to withstand. In order to avoid finding the salsaholic crouched in a corner, shoveling chip-fulls of pineapple-habanero glory into their greedy mouths, and fiercely hissing at passers-by, family members and loved ones are advised to keep salsaholics away from this blog post at all costs.
Oh…wait. You're a salsaholic, aren't you?
Okay, okay, okaaaay…you are not a salsaholic and you do not have a problem.
I agree, you can stop eating salsa any time you want.
But yeah, you're totally right. Roasted pineapple salsa with habanero sounds like a great snack.
I'll grab the bowl, you grab the chips?
Salsa de Piña Asada con Habanero: Roasted Pineapple Salsa with Habanero
Recipe adapted from "Salsa de Piña Asada con Habanero: Roasted Pineapple Salsa with Habanero" by Roberto Santibañez with JJ Goode, Epicurious.com, April 2011
4-6 round slices fresh pineapple (1/2-inch thick)
1/4 cup mild olive oil or vegetable oil
1/2 large red onion (1 cup), finely chopped
1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro
1/4 freshly-squeezed lime juice, or more to taste
2 fresh habanero peppers, minced, including the seeds
1 teaspoon kosher salt, to taste
Set the oven to broil, positioning the rack 8 inches from the heat source. Spray a baking sheet with nonstick spray or cover with nonstick aluminum foil.
Brush both sides of the pineapple slices with the oil and place on a baking sheet. Roast the pineapple in the oven for about 8 minutes, then turn and continue to roast for another 8 minutes. Let cool.
Dice the pineapple, removing the core. In a large bowl, stir together the pineapple, red onion, cilantro, lime juice, habaneros, and salt, seasoning to taste with additional lime juice and salt.
Keeps well in the fridge for up to 24 hours. Makes about 2 1/2 cups of salsa.


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Showtime network says "Friends" alum Matt LeBlanc is returning to TV in a new comedy.
LeBlanc will star in "Episodes," a single-camera series about a husband-and-wife producing team whose witty hit comedy on British TV is turned into a dumbed-down American sitcom starring LeBlanc, who plays himself.
"Episodes" is a send-up of the TV world and LeBlanc's image as a sitcom veteran. The show will be a co-production of Showtime and the BBC and will begin shooting a six-episode season in London and Hollywood this winter. It is scheduled to air next year on Showtime and BBC Two. LeBlanc played Joey Tribbiani on "Friends" for a decade. He followed that NBC hit in 2004 with a sitcom based on the same character, "Joey," which flopped.
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Does Justin Bieber just have the worst luck when it comes to paparazzi? (Well, not counting Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, et al.)
The Los Angeles City Attorney's Office is now reviewing the singer's July 6 run-in with the California Highway Patrol that resulted in him being cited for speeding, E! News confirmed Tuesday.
But, guess what? This isn't bad news for Bieber!
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The CHP's investigation ended with a recommendation that prosecutors file charges against the paparazzo whom Bieber has accused of pursuing him on L.A.'s 101 freeway.
After officers pulled him over, "Justin was given instructions that if he was being harassed again [by paparazzi] to call the CHP," Officer Saul Gomez of the Southern Division of the California Highway Patrol Officer told E! News following the incident.
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"Approximately 30 minutes later," Gomez continued, "the CHP received a call from Justin who reported that he was being harassed on the freeway. Nothing happened as a result of this. Justin got to where he was headed and it stopped there. The officers that pulled Justin over are looking into the paparazzi that were following Justin the first and second time."
If convicted of a misdemeanor crime in the case, the as-yet unidentified photographer could face a maximum six-month jail sentence.
Los Angeles City Councilman Dennis Zine, a witness to the apparently joyless ride, remarked at the time that Bieber seemed to be approaching triple digits in the speed department.
--Reporting by Baker Machado and Holly Passalaqua


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Thoughts of Home
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The Fall and Rise of the Righteous
Many commentators note that this passage can also be applied to the sins of the righteous person. Matthew Henry comments, "The just man falls, sometimes falls seven times perhaps, into sin, sins of infirmity, through the surprise of temptation; but ...Read More
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In most JDO implementations, user-defined persistent classes implement a
PersistenceCapable interface.
This interface contains many complex methods that enable the JDO
implementation to manage the persistent fields of class instances.
Fortunately, you do not have to implement this interface yourself.
In fact, writing a persistent class in JDO is usually no different than
writing any other class. There are no special parent classes to extend
from, field types to use, or methods to write. This is one important way
in which JDO makes persistence completely transparent to you, the
Example 4.1. PersistenceCapable Class
package org.mag; /** * Example persistent class. Notice that it looks exactly like any other * class. JDO makes writing persistent classes completely transparent. */ public class Magazine { private String isbn; private String title; private Set articles = new HashSet (); private Article coverArticle; private int copiesSold; private double price; private Company publisher; private Magazine () { } public Magazine (String title, String isbn) { this.title = title; this.isbn = isbn; } public void publish (Company publisher, double price) { this.publisher = publisher; publisher.addMagazine (this); this.price = price; } public void sell () { copiesSold++; publisher.addRevenue (price); } public void addArticle (Article article) { articles.add (article); } // rest of methods omitted }
In order to shield you from the intricacies of the
PersistenceCapable interface, JDO
implementations typically provide an enhancer. An
enhancer is a tool that automatically adds code to your persistent
classes after you have written them. Though some vendors may use
source enhancers that modify your Java code, enhancers generally
operate on
.class files. They post-process
the bytecode generated by your Java compiler, adding the necessary
fields and methods to implement the expected interface. This bytecode
modification perfectly preserves the line numbers in stack traces
and is compatible with Java debuggers, so enhancement does not affect
The diagram above illustrates the compilation of a persistent class. JDO implementations typically include an Ant task so that you can make enhancement an automatic part of your build process. Some JDO implementations may also use custom class loaders or Java 5's class loading hooks to perform enhancement transparently at runtime, rather than adding a step to the build process.
Kodo uses bytecode, rather than source code, enhancement. Kodo offers both a compile-time enhancer tool and a runtime enhancement option for Java 5 users. See Section 5.2, "Enhancement" of the Reference Guide.


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- Packers (12-4). Rather than the Packers suffering from a Super Bowl letdown, I think this team will maintain the momentum from the end of last year and be fairly dominant this year. The players who brought home the Lombardi trophy got a massive boost of confidence from the accomplishment and will carry this into this season. And I don't think they will be overconfident because the team is largely comprised of hard-working guys not too inclined to let success get to their heads. This team will be good again. The schedule definitely has its challenges (@ Atlanta, @KC, @SD), but overall the Packers should win a lot of games. Rodgers, Finley and the WRs will be very good again but I think the offense will benefit significantly from having both a healthy Starks and a healthy Grant in the backfield splitting carries. The defense should be good again – though we're all a bit concerned about filling the void left by Jenkins. Special teams has improved and Randall Cobb may even give us something to get excited about in the return game – for the first time since Desmond Howard. But one of the biggest reasons why I believe the team will be good again this year is that Mike McCarthy now feels significantly less pressure. McCarthy did not enjoy losing and the pressure that came with possibly missing the playoffs again etc. It made him visibly irritable. But now that he has won the big game, I really think he'll be freer with playcalling and be a bit more willing to take on risks – and his players will now have the confidence to execute riskier playcalls. Think Belichick and the Pats. Well, at least this is how I hope it plays out.
- Detroit (10-6). I just changed my pick for Detroit. I had them going 9-7, but I'm putting a bit more faith in the team to win a couple of the close ones. This is a much improved team. Everyone likes the D-Line for good reason – very talented. But I also like that they went out and picked up LB Stephen Tulloch, RB Jerome Harrison and TE Tony Scheffler. The passing game will be good with a healthy Stafford, Calvin Johnson, Burleson, Best, Pettigrew, and even rookie Titus Young. The one area of weakness for the Lions this year, though, will be in the secondary. Safety Louis Delmas is a decent player, a mean player and big hitter, but I'm not convinced he's that good in coverage. And the other 3 guys seem like just guys. They could struggle against teams with better passing games this year, but overall the Lions will be solid and they just may end their playoff drought.
- Minnesota (8-8). The Vikes will be better this year than most prognosticators think. Donovan McNabb on the Vikings makes sense primarily because his personal style and general annoyingness fits with the general annoyingness of the Vikings. But I think McNabb will have a stabilizing influence at a position where the Vikes have been unstable for a few years (2009 excepted). I've read plenty of previews contending that McNabb doesn't have anyone to throw to this year. I don't agree with that necessarily. The guys he'll throw to are mostly capable pass catchers: Percy Harvin could be an elite WR with more touches; Shiancoe could be really good as McNabb likes his TEs; Bernard Berrian (Ok, Berrian isn't that good); Michael Jenkins did some damage as a Falcon; and Devin Aromashodu – the former Bear who had his potential crushed while in the doghouse – could be surprisingly good. (I'm on record saying the Vike's pick-up of Aromashodu was really smart – and that he could have a really good season this year.) No, these aren't big-name targets and the loss of Sidney Rice hurts to be sure. But historically, McNabb has made a habit of developing a decent passing game with less heralded pass targets. I just don't think the passing game will be that bad and of course the running game will be good again. (Though this year, watch for Peterson to be more involved as a pass catcher out of the backfield – McNabb likes throwing to his backs.) On the other side of the ball, the Vikings could be really bad. Nobody stands out on that defense right now. Winfield is getting too old, Jared Allen seems to have lost his mojo, The Williams Wall has been dismantled and there are no other individual contributors I can think of who deserve special mention. Though Leslie Frazier will surely give defense extra attention, they might be surprisingly bad on defense this year.
- Chicago (5-11). Yes, the NFC title game participants will be awful this year. Why? Because under Lovie Smith, the Bears do fluky things like get to the Super Bowl or the NFC Title game only to then vanish for a few years. The Bears have upgraded a bit on the O-Line but I don't think they've done much with the rest of the team. Adding Roy Williams won't help at all and adding Marion Barber will only help a little bit come wintertime. This is another team, like the Redskins, that is headed in a questionable direction. Ted Thompson has a vision – as do lots of other GMs. But I'm just not following the vision of the Bears. Many of you may be reading this thinking I've lost it – how can I pick a team that beat the Pack for the NFC North title last year to finish 5-11 when their personnel hasn't changed dramatically? I'm telling you, I can't explain it but I think I just have a read on the Bears. I picked the Bears to make the playoffs last year when nobody else did (everyone picked the Vikes or Pack…remember?). This will be a down year for the team and there will be lots of grumpy Bears fans come January.
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Schaefer Says:
September 8, 2011 at 2:46 pm |
I actually feel the same way about the Bears…they just seem/feel like a team on a downward spiral. Here in Chicago I don't get much sense of excitement about this team.
I was razzing some Bears fans about the fact they could maybe have kept the Pack out of the playoffs with a little more effort and they said it didn't really matter (…huh!?!) and they then lamented that the Pack has a better front office and Angelo is nuts. (which is true)…no smack, just a nod that the Pack is better and likely will be this year too.
Now, that's just the fans, but I reference it because it adds to the general sense that the Bears are going down.
I love it…and hope it plays out to be true.


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This item makes a beam of light off the ground (similar to the old style graphic for Solar Beam) for three minutes.
These can be obtained through Lucky Red Envelopes (given by Elders after you speak with them) or created by Elune's Latern, an item that is rewarded during the Lunar Festival for killing Omen while on the quest Elune's Blessing.
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