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|Minding Mind: A Course in Basic Meditation
Translated By Thomas Cleary
1995 180p. This collection of short, accessible works from Asia on the practice of meditation includes seven traditional texts from China, Japan, and Korea, written by renowned teachers from various Buddhist sects, covering a wide range of topics. Because of the growing popularity of meditative practices in many spiritual traditions, this anthology of Buddhist meditation manuals is timely. Collected here are texts that discuss a variety of techniques of meditation, the distinctions between sudden and gradual enlightenment, the value of Zen koan meditation, and the power of meditation in action. Cleary's translations are clear and lively. Minding Mind says its a basic meditation book, but get ready for some surprises! The contributes all great masters from various time periods are obviously coming from a state of close enlightenment. One master states after giving a discourse "If I am deceiving you, in the future I will fall into eighteen hells. I promise to heaven and earth. If I am not being truthful, let me be devoured by tigers and wolves lifetime after lifetime. Not many of the authors on spiritual topics would promise that! How often can you get to listen to that wise master up in the Himalayas? Or the Zen master who says he has taken the route to the top of the mountain and can show you the way? Here you have a guide book to mindfulness which is after all the rest of the time (when not meditating). Every page is a jewel of wisdom, this book is for the beginner and the advanced practitioner. The book is broken down into sections which cover all the questions that a student would want to ask the enlightened master. Contents: Translator's Introduction Treatise on the Supreme Vehicle; Models for Sitting Meditation; Guidelines for Sitting Meditation; A Generally Recommended Mode of Sitting Meditation; Secrets of Cultivating the Mind; Absorption in the Treasury of Light; An Elementary Talk on Zen; Notes.
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|The Glass Bead Game
Hermann Hesse
Final novel by Hermann Hesse, published in two volumes in 1943 in German as Das Glasperlenspiel, and sometimes translated as Magister Ludi. The book is an intricate bildungsroman about humanity's eternal quest for enlightenment and for synthesis of the intellectual and the participatory life. Set in the 23rd century, the novel purports to be a biography of Josef Knecht ("servant" in German), who has been reared in Castalia, the remote place his society has provided for the intellectual elite to grow and flourish. Since childhood, Knecht has been consumed with mastering the Glass Bead Game, which requires a synthesis of aesthetics and scientific arts, such as mathematics, music, logic, and philosophy. This he achieves in adulthood, becoming a Magister Ludi (Master of the Game). Synopsis: Setting his story in the distant, post-Holocaust future, Hesse tells of an elite cult of intellectuals occupying themselves with an elaborate game that employs all the cultural and scientific knowledge of the ages. The most imaginative and prophetic of Hesse's works. A Masterpiece! QUALITY PAPERBACK EDITION
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|The Complete Works of Franz Bardon
Introduction: Frabato the Magician
Volume I: Initiation Into Hermetics
Volume II: The Practice of Magical Evocation
Volume III: The Key To The True Kabbalah
Volume IV: Questions & Answers
Franz Bardon
For detailed information, contents, & excerpts from these titles, please refer to the MAGICK Section on the Home Page, & the individual listings in the Hermetics or Other Categories of the Seeker's Sanctum.
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|Initiation Into Hermetics: A Course of Instruction of Magic Theory & Practice
Franz Bardon
1999 287p. Initiation into Hermetics is the entrance gate to true initiation as it is the first key to the universal laws. The content of this book is not based on any speculative methods, but is the result of personal experiences and research of practical exercises by the author, which, up to now, was available only to a chosen few. And it is not easy to express in simple words a subject which is on such high level as magic, and make it understandable to everyone. Initiation into Hermetics transcends any book ever written on this subject, even though it is only the first of three volumes. From this statement you can gather the wealth of information the other volumes contain. Never before in the history of mankind has this information been committed in this form to paper in such a complete and understandable manner. Initiation into Hermetics is the greatest treasure in this universe and this applies to the other two volumes as well. The reader will not find this information in any other books. For detailed information, contents, & excerpts from this title, please refer to the MAGICK Section on the Home Page.
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| The Practice Of Magical Evocation: Instructions For Invoking Spirit Beings From The Spheres Surrounding Us.
Franz Bardon
First Published 1956, 2002 Edition. 546 Pages, 148p. & Color Plates With Seals of Spirit Beings . Merkur Publishing. The Practice of Magical Evocation is divided into two parts: the first section deals with evocational magic, and second with the hierarchy of the beings in the different spheres. You could divide magical knowledge into three categories: lower magic, intermediate magic, and high magic. This book gives the reader the significance of the magic circle, triangle, the magic mirror, the magic wand, and so forth. The second part discloses the names and signatures of the different heads, genii and intelligences of the various planetary spheres in our solar system, how to communicate with them and also what their specific tasks are. These heads or genii have their specific field; there is not one field of endeavor which is not covered by one or another head, intelligence or genii. A detailed description of their expertise in a particular field is listed in this book by name and sphere, and how to establish contact with these beings. It should however be mentioned that you cannot succeed in contacting these beings unless you have practically and successfully completed the first volume Initiation into Hermetics, or you must have at least successfully completed the eighth step. For detailed information, contents, & excerpts from this title, please refer to the MAGICK Section on the Home Page.
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|The Key To The True Kabbalah: The Kabbalist As A Perfected Sovereign In the Microcosm & The Macrocosm
Franz Bardon
1996 279p. In The Key to the True Kabbalah, Franz Bardon demonstrates that the mysticism of letters and numbers the true Kabbalah is a universal teaching of great antiquity and depth. Throughout the ages, adepts of every time and place have achieved the highest levels of magical attainment through the understanding of sound, color, number and vibration as embodied in the Kabbalah. This book, the third in Franz Bardon's remarkable texts of Hermetic magic, is nothing less than a practical guide to such attainment. Using the common German alphabet, Bardon guides the reader through ever greater levels of Kabbalistic achievement. No other available text reveals as great a depth of Kabbalistic wisdom or provides the reader with as much practical training. Though intended primarily as a working text for those who have completed Bardon's first and second volumes, Initiation Into Hermetics and The Practice of Magical Evocation, the present work stands on its own, and even those without the requisite background in practical Hermetics will be fascinated by the author's intellectual journey through the mysticism of Tantric India, Tibet, the Hebrew Kabbalah, and the ancient sources of the Western magical tradition. For detailed information, contents, & excerpts from this title, please refer to the MAGICK Section on the Home Page.
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|Questions & Answers
Franz Bardon
1998 99p. Franz Bardon is regarded by many as greatest Hermetic adept of the 20th century. A tireless worker for the light, he survived Hitler's concentration camps but died a victim of Communist persecution in 1958. He left behind him four legendary books which have become acknowledged classics of occult literature. This present volume is the first complete Bardon book from the hand of Franz Bardon to appear since his famous series of books on Hermetics. Compiled by Dieter Rueggeberg from the notes of Bardon's students in Prague, it represents his oral teachings on the nature of the magical universe. Set in the form of questions and answers, this book is an invaluable addition to the Bardon material. For detailed information, contents, & excerpts from this title, please refer to the MAGICK Section on the Home Page.
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|On The Elephant's Knee: Gurdjieffian Typology
Thomas M. Easley
1998 186p. An Interesting Title By An Associate Of The Sacred Science Institute, Presenting A System For Psychologically Reading Or Evaluating People Through Observation Of Physiological & Psychologically Interactive Behavior Characteristics. This System Is Based Upon Principles Developed By The Famous Mystical Cosmologist, G. I. Gurdjieff, And Essentially Allows One To Learn A Quantity Of Information As Sophisticated As An Astrological Reading, Merely Through Observation Of Physical & Behavioral Characteristics. Such Systems Have Always Been Used In Esoteric Orders To Allow An Added Advantage Of Psychological Insight Into Those With Whom They Dealt. This Knowledge Is Called Foundation Knowledge, Revealing The Core Or Foundation Of All Knowledge Which Manifests Through The Law Of Correspondences In All Phenomena. A Valuable Work Meant For Application. Contents: Origins Of Foundation Knowledge; Body Type: Attraction & Repulsion; Alchemy: Keeping Peace Within Your Environment; Chief Feature: Diminishing Fear; Center Of Focus: Spending Your Energy; Essence: What You Can't Change. Charts, Tables & Diagrams Of Correspondences.
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|The Art Of Memory.
Francis A. Yates
1974. 400p. Book Description "Once in a very great while, historical scholarship produces a book which makes one immediately begin re-thinking many of one's major suppositions about the thought systems of the past. Professor Yates has given us such a book."--Norman D. Hinton, The Modern Schoolman This book is one of the best overviews of the systems of memory and the nature of the art as used in the Renaissance and Greek times. An excellent introduction to the subject, though not focused upon application. Contents: Three Latin Sources for the Classical Art of Memory; The Art of Memory in Greece: Memory and the Soul; The Art of Memory in the Middle Ages; Medieval Memory and the Formation of Imagery; The Memory Treatises; Renaissance Memory: The Memory Theater of Giulio Camillo; Camillo's Theatre and the Venetian Renaissance; Lullism as an Art of Memory; Giordano Bruno: The Secret of Shadows; Ramism as an Art of Memory; Giordano Bruno" The Secret of Seals; Conflict Between Brunian and Ramist Memory; Bruno: The Last Works on Memory; Art of Memory in Bruno's Italian Dialogues; The Theatre Memory System of Robert Fludd Fludd's Memory Theatre and the Globe Theatre; Art of Memory and the Growth of Scientific Method.
University of Chicago Press. Paperback. CAT#379 $40.00
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|How To Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Everyday Genius.
Michael J. Gelb
1998. 322p. We suggest this title for a introduction to the more interesting modern day approaches to Expedient Learning, while tracing them back to the genius of Leonardo. This is an inspiring and inventive guide that teaches readers how to develop their full potential, using the principles of Da Vincian thought identified by the author. Beginning with a brief historical biography of Da Vinci and an overview of the astounding advances made in the arts and sciences during the Renaissance, Gelb illustrates the seven fundamental elements of Da Vinci's thought process: Questionare: A questing, insatiably curious approach to life Dimostrazione: A commitment to test knowledge through experience Sensazione: The continual refinement of the senses, especially sight, as the means to clarify experience Sfumato: A willingness to embrace ambiguity, paradox and uncertainty Arte/Scienza: The development of the balance between science and art, logic and imagination. "Whole-brain" thinking Corporalita: The cultivation of ambidexterity, fitness and poise Connessione: A recognition and appreciation for the interconnectedness of all things and phenomena. "Systems" thinking. Loaded with practical exercises, quotes, sidebars, illustrations and material drawn directly from Da Vinci's personal notebooks, How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci is both a tribute to his great achievements and a call to carry on his legacy in our everyday lives by utilizing our potential to the best of our ability
Bantam, Doubleday, Dell. Hardback. CAT#382 $25.00 OUT OF STOCK
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|And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared: TRIZ, the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving.
G. Altshuller (H. Altov) Translated by Lev Shulyak.
1990. 171P. This legendary book was first published in English in 1990. It is Altshuller's most popular book in Russia on how to become an inventor and how to solve technical problems. Originally written for high school students, it engages readers of all ages by inviting them to learn by doing. The translator, Lev Shulyak, is himself an accomplished inventor, engineer and TRIZ expert. About the Author: Genrich Altshuller received his first Soviet patent at the age of 14. While in his early 20s, he began developing TRIZ, the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving. Stalin rewarded him with 25 years imprisonment in Siberia. Released after Stalin's death, he led the underground TRIZ revolution, a fundamental shift in the technical creativity paradigm. Altshuller spent the remainder of his life working to advance what has become the science of TRIZ. He died in 1998. The similarity between many of these techniques and Vedic Mathematics is striking, particularly considering that both authors developed their systems around the same time period.
Technical Innovation Center. Paperback. CAT#383 $60.00 OUT OF STOCK
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|The New Drawing On The Right Side of The Brain.
Betty Edwards
1999. 320pp. This book is amazing! It will teach anyone who feels that they draw like a child to learn to draw stunningly realistic drawings within the time it takes to work through the book(about a month). An superb example of true education, showing that everyone possesses the inherent ability express their vision through drawing, and that our lack of this ability is solely due to our lack of know-how, received through the poor or non-existent art education given in our schools. Book Jacket: "Translated into thirteen languages, with more than 2.5 million copies sold, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is the world's most widely used drawing instruction book."--BOOK JACKET. "This twentieth-anniversary edition of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain has been dramatically revised, with more than fifty percent new material, including: recent developments in brain research that relate to drawing; new insights on the use of drawing techniques in the corporate world and in education; instruction on self-expression through drawing; ways to step beyond black-and-white drawing into color; and detailed advice on applying the five basic skills of drawing to solve problems." Contents: 1Drawing and the Art of Bicycle Riding. 2 The Drawing Exercises: One Step at a Time. 3 Your Brain: The Right and Left of It. 4 Crossing Over: Experiencing the Shift from Left to Right. 5 Drawing on Memories: Your History as an Artist. 6 Getting Around Your Symbol System: Meeting Edges and Contours. 7 Perceiving the Shape of a Space: The Positive Aspects of Negative Space. 8 Relationships in a New Mode: Putting Sighting in Perspective. 9 Facing Forward: Portrait Drawing with Ease. 10 The Value of Logical Lights and Shadows. 11 Drawing on the Beauty of Color. 12 The Zen of Drawing: Drawing Out the Artist Within. Afterword: Is Beautiful Handwriting a Lost Art?
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|Divine Harmony: The Life & Teachings of Pythagoras
John Strohmeier & Peter Westbrook
1999 160p. Pythagoras, the sixth century BC Greek scientist and mystic, has long been recognized as a seminal figure in western thought, a teacher "whose influence on the ideas, and thereby on the destiny, of the human race was probably greater than that of any single man before or after him." But until now, no accessible biographical study of him has been available for general readers. Drawing upon the most authoritative sources available—the writings of Pythagoras' disciples—Divine Harmony describes his wanderings in ancient Phoenicia, Egypt, Babylon, and the Greek islands, and the heart of Pythagorean ideas as taught at his scholarly community in Southern Italy. Strohmeier, a classical scholar, and Westbrook, a historian of music and Sacred Science, present a portrait of a man whose ideas are as powerful in our own time as they were two and a half millennia ago. Part I The Making of a Philosopher. 1. Birth of Pythagoras 2. Early Years 3. Studies in Ionia 4. Passage to Egypt 5. Travels in Egypt and Babylonia 6. Travels in the Greek World 7. Relocation to Italy Part II The Teachings of Pythagoras 8. The Pythagorean Community 9. Knowledge 10. The Nature of the Soul 11. Friendship 12. Number 13. Harmony 14. The Celestial Spheres 15. Care of the Self 16. Magic and Miracles 17. Family Life 18. Politics and Justice 19. Divinity Part III Decline of the Pythagoreans 20. The Death of Pythagoras 21. Followers of Pythagoras Part IV The Golden Verses
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|Memories of Franz Bardon
Lumir Bardon and Dr. M.K.
2004 108p.We are happy to announce the release of a new and interesting book on Franz Bardon. It provides a fascinating insight into the life and work of the Czech adept as told to Dieter Ruggeberg by Bardon's son, Lumir, and his long time student, Dr. M. K., providing interesting details and stories about the real life of this great magician. CONTENTE: Memories of My Father; Memories of Master Frabato; Hermetics; Cirriculum Vitae; The Master: Habits & Duties Related To Reincarnation; Perseverance, Patience, Control of the Spirit, Spiritual Peace; Conscience; Haste; Curiosity; Introspection/ Self-Knowledge; Concentration; Yoga; The Spirit; The States of the Spirit; The Development of the Spirit; Wishes; Personal God; The Physical Body; Asceticism - Sport; Destiny; Karma.
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Thomas S. O'Neill, vice president of Exelon Nuclear's new plant development program since March 2007, has been promoted to Senior Vice President
KENNETT SQUARE, Pa. (March 2, 2009) - Thomas S. O'Neill, vice president of Exelon Nuclear's new plant development program since March 2007, has been promoted to Senior Vice President, Generation Development for Exelon Generation, Exelon President and Chief Operating Officer Chris Crane announced today.
In his new role, O'Neill will be responsible for identification and development of new renewable and merchant generation and new enterprises, providing oversight for projects across the company. The promotion is effective March 2, 2009.
A substantial portion of O'Neill's responsibility will involve renewable energy and other development work required to meet carbon reduction goals established under Exelon 2020: A Low Carbon Roadmap. His group will support the work of Corporate Strategy, Corporate Development, Power Team and other organizations as they establish priorities for business and generation development.
Under President Obama's administration, Exelon expects to see a broad range of obligations and opportunities arising from energy, environmental and economic mandates, Crane said. Coupled with Exelon 2020 carbon reduction commitments, the new demands will require a new approach to Exelon's business development.
"We're entering an era of new energy development that requires us to expand our thinking across the traditional fossil and nuclear organizational lines into a broader, more unified approach," Crane said. "This will require an integrated, disciplined project management approach that makes the most efficient use of our resources. Tom has demonstrated that he can consistently and successfully navigate complex, multifaceted projects with nimbleness and efficiency. I am delighted that he will be leading this new approach to our development work."
O'Neill joined Exelon in 2001 after 12 years in private law practice. He was a partner with the Chicago office of the national law firm Jenner & Block, practicing civil and criminal litigation with a wide range of corporate and individual clients. He joined Exelon as lead counsel to Exelon Nuclear and was promoted to vice president responsible for regulatory, legal and environmental affairs before taking on his most recent project development role.
O'Neill received his Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Illinois-Urbana (Honors with High Distinction) and his law de


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Two teens were due in court Tuesday to face charges they killed three members of a Wyoming family in a small town near the Montana border where residents said they've been left shaken by the rare violence.
Park County Sheriff Scott Steward said Stephen Hammer, 19, and Tanner Vanpelt, 18, both from Cody, were arrested after neighbors described two men entering the house where the victim's bodies were found.
The neighbors saw two vehicles speeding away, including a black Audi belonging to 40-year-old Ildiko Freitas, who owned the house with her husband.
Freitas and her parents, Janos Volgyesi, 69, and Hildegard Volgyesi, 70, were found dead inside the house Saturday. At least two had been shot.
The sheriff said in a statement that it was "nothing short of cold-blooded murder." He gave no indication of motive, and his office declined to release details, citing the ongoing investigation.
Freitas' brother, Thomas Volgyesi, said Monday that he knew of no connection between the suspects and his family.
Residents could not recall a murder in recent decades in Clark, a rural community dominated by ranching and farming.
The town has only a few businesses and no post office. Its roughly 300 residents are scattered across a broad river valley framed by the Beartooth Mountains that rise up to the west. The closest large towns, Powell and Cody, are more than 30 miles away.
Connie Morris, manager of the Edelweiss - a combination convenience store, restaurant and bar that is Clark's most prominent business - said the last violent death she could recall there was in the 1970s, when a woman was found dead in a creek.
Foul play was initially suspected in that case but later ruled out, residents said.
"There wasn't enough people here to have many problems," Morris said. "I'm afraid it's permeated into God's country now. I hate to see it. It was the one place I always knew of that didn't have problems."
A neighbor, Robert Bushman, speculated that the killers were interested in stealing Freitas' Audi. He said another neighbor who had watched them approach the residence estimated that they were inside for 20 minutes at most.
Thomas Volgyesi said his parents retired to Wyoming four years ago for its more relaxed lifestyle, after leaving their longtime home in southern California.
They lived in a separate house on the same property as their daughter and her husband, John, who works in the oil industry and was away for work at the time of the killings, Volgyesi said.
"They were the only family I have and I'm left with nothing now," Volgyesi said. "To have them taken away from me like this, I'm not registering it yet."
Ildiko Freitas grew up in Bakersfield, Calif., and attended the University of Wyoming before moving to Clark with her husband six or seven years ago. Last year, the couple bought another house in Loveland, Colo., that they had been renovating and were planning to move into sometime soon, said neighbor David Mathiesen.
Vanpelt's father said Monday that his son had not been in serious trouble before his arrest. Robb Vanpelt said his son was not living with him and the accusation he was involved in a triple homicide was "pretty much totally out of the blue."
Tanner Vanpelt graduated in December 2011 from Cody High School, where principal Brandon Jensen recalled that the teenager wasn't involved in athletics or after-school clubs, but also never had serious discipline issues.
Hammer attended the school only a year before transferring during his freshman year, Jensen said.
Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Ben Neary in Cheyenne and Colleen Slevin in Denver, and news researcher Rhonda Shafner in New York.


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Apache Subversion-focused software company WANdisco has announced uberSVN, a new product intended to "transform" the popular source code management system into an extensible platform that the company says will empower developers with a wider choice of toolsets.
uberSVN gives the developer freedom to choose any combination of software development tools that best fits their business requirements. Toolset choice can be based on price or functionality, the use of open or closed source proprietary applications — and there is no vendor lock-in. The product is freely available, but professional support is available from WANdisco.
WANdisco already has an extensive list of companies using its Enterprise Subversion solutions, so along with WANdisco's active participation and sponsorship of the Apache Subversion project, the company claims to be doing more than any other single vendor to contribute to the functionality of this visionary platform.
"For the past five years we have supported the world's largest Subversion implementations," said David Richards, president and CEO of WANdisco. "Subversion is the most popular source code management software on the planet with over five million deployments. Now uberSVN gives Subversion users what they want — an easy-to-use product that they can extend, however they choose, whenever they want."
Looking at the product more closely, it appears that uberSVN turns Subversion into an open, extensible platform for ALM that is easy to install, easy to use, and easy to extend. The concept is that uberSVN is a platform in the sense that it enables developers to take a set of disparate applications and, by providing the right packaging and integration, to deliver a complete solution.
uberSVN is organized around development teams and their activities. Each development team has its own home page that profiles the team members, lists the projects they're working on, repositories they're using, and their latest activity and status. Managers are able to see real-time progress by simply subscribing to Twitter-like feeds.
uberSVN is built on top of WANdisco's pure certified Subversion binaries that have been put through the same rigorous testing as the company's Enterprise Subversion solutions that support the world's largest Subversion deployments.


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text: "Lipite" is a wonderful beach near Sinemorets. It is not an overcrowded one from the resort village, because is not located near many restaurants and hotels. It is situated in a small bay surrounded by high cliffs that provide tourists with beautiful landscapes, solitude and a wild forest in the back. The beach is spacious and covered with fine golden sand, the water is clean and pleasant. The sea is shallow which makes it suitable for families with little children. There are no paid umbrellas and sunbeds at "Lipite" and there is plenty of space. It is called a "wild" beach which attracts people willing to get away from the crowd and relax in the nature. It is a known place for surfers and a popular occasional tent camping site for lovers of camp fires in the evening.


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Santa Maria Beach Safehouse
The Santa Maria Beach Safehouse is a safehouse located in Santa Maria Beach, Los Santos in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Carl Johnson, the player character, can purchase the safehouse for $30,000. The safehouse has a garage that can store three vehicles. The interior of the house is average size, it has a hallway with the first bedroom on the left and the kitchen on the right, further down the hall is the wardrobe in which players can change there outfits, going futher staright is the second bedroom, and the living room in to the right of the hallway.


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I'd been eyeing this jacket up on River Island for a while but its way out my price range! Thought I'd just make it myself using things I already had. I've had the Primark jacket for years now, and the collar on my coat of dreams is detachable so with a bit of creativity I interpreted it for myself. I think fur collars and leather make me feel like a long lost Olsen (I wish!)
Today I've been playing with my new nail art pens, I've changed my nails about three times today before deciding on my go-to fail safe pink nails. Probably going to add some gems and pearls to it to intensify the tackiness!


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Why so many still claim to be merely agnostic.
Re-examining our God of the gaps
For anyone still in the dark about Bradley Manning.
glad to find this group before i ship out anyone in fort leonard wood ill be there in june for boot and ait for over 9 months
I hear ya. 8 Years USMC here, I am certain a number of my fellow Marines were atheists, but none would admit it but me!
I've ran into maybe one other person in the Marine Corps who was an atheist. Glad to find this group. crucifacts.wordpress.com My blog if anyone is interested.
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Cycling Highway 1 - last day of the Steinbeck pilgrimage
I headed out into the cold ocean fog and felt fantastic cruising the roads down onto the coast, blood pumping and me quickly warming up even without much sunshine on me (though given the state of my sunburn this was a good thing).
Highway 1 wends up and down the hills of the coastline, rising up into the fog and down to sea level every few kilometers. Sadly the fog was too strong most of the time to make photography very worthwhile but I got one shot of the famous Buxby Bridge, which, with its lack of high sides and strong winds made cycling across it a rather sketchy experience
The rucksack with my Canon 7D and four lenses was pretty heavy and as I got closer and closer to Big Sur it quickly got painful and I had to stop every ten kilometers or so to stretch the muscles in my back which were beginning to spasm with the constant exersion. Along the way there are a few reasonably big hills and one enormous beast which just keeps going on and on. The main problem though is that there's almost nowhere along the route which is flat:
EDIT: Somehow I just lost the rest of this blogpost. I'll start again...
Anyway, the hill in the middle of the ride was hard on the way to Big Sur, and truly horrendous on the way back. It took me two and a half hours or so to get to Big Sur and by this time I was already exhausted and my back was in almost constant spasm. With the wind blowing North to South I was rather worried about the route back, and indeed after a quick lunch and a stretch I was back on the bike, and even on the relatively flat start I struggled with the incoming wind. I was worried that the big hill in the middle was going to finish me off and I pondered about how easy it would be to flag down a ride if I was really struggling.
Thankfully I managed to push through and didn't stop on the ride up the middle hill, but instead took my mind off the pain by counting down from 100 over and over again through each peddle stroke. The ride the other side was fantastic, though my back was giving me such big pains by this point that nothing was terribly enjoyable.
I should note that despite all the complaining above the ride was spectacular, and it has often been said to be one of the most picturesque routes in the US. I have to say though that I've done similarly spectacular rides in England, Scotland and Wales and would recommend anyone taking a ride along the Cornish coastline, or the Northernmost reachest of Scotland to see similarly breathtaking views.
Six hours after starting out I found myself back in the bike shop and still had another hour's walk plus the bus ride to get back to the hostel. I spent as much time stretching my upper back as possible, but the spasms by this point had turned to a monotonous tension that wouldn't go away. Before crashing into bed I guzzled up two burgers, a huge milkshake and a big bowl of clam chowder. By 8 in the evening I was in bed, and soon after had passed out completely.
The next morning I woke up expecting to be in agony, but in fact was feeling fine, though with a general feeling of muscle fatigue. My back on the other hand had turned from pain to complete numbness and I had no feeling at all in the upper left part of my back. I worried that I'd done myself some spinal damage, the rucksack somehow pressing into a vertebrae and it wasn't until I could see a doctor in Munich a few days later that I was told that it was probably just local nerve damage from the pain in the muscles and that it should be fine in a matter of a couple of months. One month later the feeling is slowly coming back and all should be fine again in a few weeks. Yet another tick for Jon's stupidity when it comes to pushing myself!
The morning after the ride I was due to head back to San Francisco and had put up a note in the hostel asking for a rideshare. A guy was heading to SF airport and offered to give me a lift there. He had been living on the East coast of the US for 30+ years but had origininally been born and raised in Steinbeck's hometown of Salinas. He asked me, very apologetically if I wouldn't mind if we took a quick nostaligic tour through his old haunts. On the contrary I assured him, it was about as much as I could have hoped for to have a personal tour of the town I'd read so much about. It was frankly the best hour of the whole time in the Monterey area and I couldn't have asked for a more perfect Steinbeckian tale to end the journey.
We went back to the old streets of his childhood, 40 or so years previously, and he recounted tales of his schooldays, and of getting in trouble in the surrounding hills and valleys, of local misfits and life in the factory for his father - in fact the same factory that Steinbeck worked for some time - the local Spreckels Sugar Beet processing plant. He told me about historic brawls and of the two Mexican kids in his class, of what has come of his old school friends and of how things had changed in the intervening years.
The dry hillsides surrounding Salinas and the gently rolling hills fulfilled every image I'd had of this part of the world, and frankly no biography or local history book could have given me more of a taste of where his stories had come from. We finally stopped off for half an hour at the National Steinbeck Centre which is well worth a visit if you're in the area and are a fan of his writing.
Anyway, I made it back to San Francisco and the next few days were a relaxed last Californian breather before heading back to Europe. I went to see friends in Palo Alto and spent time hanging out with my good friend Alex and his daughter Sahtah before diving headlong into work.
Since I arrived back in Munich a month ago I've been for one week in central Germany with a collaboration, a few days in Poland in both Warsaw and Krakow at a Marie Curie conference and giving a talk, and then, after five days back in Munich, I was in Beijing for two weeks giving a half a dozen talks and starting a new collaboration with a soon-to-be office mate in Munich. I'll try and update these stories in the coming week, though right now it looks like just about every minute is taken up with projects of various kinds.
To be continued...


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Six former and serving NSW police officers have been charged with perjury and assault for lying to the police watchdog over the "violent" arrest of a young man.
The charges come after the Police Integrity Commission (PIC) found the north coast officers subjected then-23-year-old Corey Barker to "brutal and violent" treatment but instead claimed Mr Barker had hit an officer.
The fresh charges stem from Barker's arrest in January 2011 after a late night confrontation between his mates and police in a Ballina street.
Barker was later charged with a string of offences, including assaulting Senior Constable David Hill.
However, the credibility of the evidence from six officers about what happened that night came into question after Ballina Magistrate David Heilpern viewed CCTV footage - initially thought to be damaged.
Mr Heilpern referred the case to the PIC after finding the footage from the police station did not show Mr Barker throwing a punch.
Mr Barker's assault case was also thrown out of court.
In a damning report last year, the PIC stated the officers slammed Mr Barker into a bin and a chair before swinging him into a machine.
He was then allegedly forced to the ground and kicked in the head.
Mr Barker was handcuffed and dragged along the floor on his stomach by his arms to a cell where he was left in handcuffs for more than hour, according to the PIC report.
The PIC found that Hill and Constables Lee Walmsley, Ryan Eckersley and Luke Mewing used excessive force against Mr Barker.
The watchdog also alleged the officers lied about the arrest, alongside Senior Constable Mark Woolven and former Sergeant Robert McCubben.
The PIC confirmed on Tuesday that charges had been laid.
Walmsley and Mewing, who is no longer a police officer, have been charged with five and six offences respectively, including perjury and common assault.
Eckersley is facing similar charges.
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By Teachers, For Teachers
Students often fear math word problems, and feeling intimidated means they can't relax and apply what they've learned to even the simplest problems. The resulting brain freeze serves to reinforce the idea that word problems are scary and difficult.
Here are a few strategies that will thaw their attitudes, help them overcome their test anxiety and motivate them to look forward to math problems rather than dreading them!
Daily Problem Solving
Implement a problem-solving program in which students solve just one word problem a day. Instead of assigning three or four problems at a time, present a single problem and include class time to debrief and discuss the solution.
Mix It Up
Mix up the types of problems you assign so your students are reviewing a variety of content knowledge and skills over time.
Start Small
Keep problem solving sessions short at first - no more than 10 to 15 minutes a day. As students begin to enjoy these sessions, occasionally include longer problems that require more persistence.
Make It a Challenge!
Refer to word problems as "puzzlers," "brain teasers," or "stumpers," and present them as fun challenges rather than dreaded math problems.
Solve Problems Together
Alternate cooperative learning strategies with independent work to add an element of fun and to stimulate higher level thinking.
However, even when allowing students to work with others, provide time for them to read and think about the problem independently before discussing it with a partner or team.
Get 'Em Up and Moving
Occasionally combine problem solving with a class-movement activity to energize your students and spark creative thinking.
Try Music-Mix-Math in which students quietly mix around the room until you stop the music, at which time they find a partner and solve the next problem on their math worksheet.
Compute with Calculators
Allow students to use calculators during problem-solving sessions. Being able to use a calculator encourages your students to choose strategies that involve more complex thinking than their limited computation skills might normally allow.
Show, Don't Tell
Require students to show their work with pictures, symbols, or words, but don't require them to write complete sentence explanations for every problem they solve.
Making students write paragraph explanations every day is a sure way to kill their enthusiasm. Once a week is plenty for written explanations.
Brush Away Mistakes
Have students solve math problems on dry erase boards. It's easy to brush away mistakes and it's easy for you to see their work as you walk around the room monitoring and providing assistance.
Reveal the Answer First
After giving students time to solve a problem, reveal the correct answer yourself rather than calling on different students to find out if they have the right answer.
This step will greatly relieve your students' anxiety. It takes the focus away from finding the answer, and it sets the stage for a great discussion on how to solve the problem.
Demonstrate on the Document Camera
If you have a document camera, ask students volunteers to bring their math papers or dry erase boards up to show the class how they solved the problem.
Be sure they explain the steps they used to arrive at their answers.
Encourage Creative Approaches
After the first student shows how to solve the problem, ask, "How many more ways can we solve this problem?" Keep a class tally of all the different strategies. It's amazing how many different ways kids will dream up when you show that you value "outside of the box" thinking.
This step motivates kids to pay attention during the discussion and it encourages creativity. They quickily figure out that if they want to be called on to share their strategy, they will have to come up with novel methods of solving problems.
I've had great success with the test anxiety lessening strategies above, and other teachers have had similar results when they tried these methods. Many have said that their students now look forward to solving word problems instead of dreading them!
In the same way that an apple a day keeps the doctor away, it seems that a problem a day keeps the brain freeze away!
For more detailed explanations of the 12 strategies above, watch the recording of my recent webinar, Math Problem Solving - Once a Day, the Easy Way. You can find it on the Math Problem Solving page on my Teaching Resources website.
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Last week, FIFA inspectors completed their visit to Qatar, the final stop on a globe-spanning tour of the nine bidders vying to host either the 2018 or 2022 World Cup.
The Middle East nation's chances took a hit when Harold Mayne-Nicholls, head of the inspection team, said the bid presented "a number of logistical challenges," but a surprise appearance by Zinedine Zidane impressed FIFA. The French legend passionately argued that it was time for a nation in the region to host the World Cup.
The oil-rich country and Australia are seen as the United States' primary competition to host the '22 tournament. Japan and South Korea are also in the running, while five European bids were submitted for both World Cups.
It's widely presumed that FIFA's executive committee will award the '18 event to a European host, eliminating them all from contention four years later.
David Downs, executive director of the US' efforts, continues to believe the US has a great shot to win one of the two votes held on December 2.
"Our confidence level remains the same following the conclusion of our FIFA inspection visit, primarily because we expected our facilities (arguably one of our bid's strongest features) to be well-received, and indeed they were," he told MLSsoccer.com via email.
Downs and his staff kept tabs on the FIFA inspectors' world tour.
"Because we were the eighth of nine bidders to be visited by FIFA, we did pay close attention to reports of the earlier visits," he wrote. "But we were not so much looking at the evaluations of each bidder's facilities but instead how certain aspects of their tours were handled from a logistics and protocol perspective."
"We also asked FIFA for feedback on what to do and not to do, as well as appropriate timings for individual segments of our visit (e.g. Is 75 minutes enough time to visit an 80,000-seat match stadium?)."
With the visits complete, it's time to begin lobbying for votes. As the sole bidder from CONCACAF, the Americans already have an advantage as the federation pledged its three votes to the US effort. To win the World Cup bid, a country needs 13 of the 24 FIFA committee members to support its cause.
During FIFA's visit, Downs and the rest of the Red, White and Blue contingent learned they need to work at convincing voters how far the game has come in the US.
"One of their observations, although not really a formal part of their evaluation of our facilities, was that there is still a perception beyond our borders that the sport did not change greatly in the United States as a result of the 1994 World Cup," Downs said. "As you know, nothing could be further from the truth.
"But clearly we have to do a better job explaining those things, and also how those enormous gains benefit the sport throughout the CONCACAF region and even the rest of the world," he added. "We strongly believe a World Cup here in 2018 or 2022 would drive the global soccer economy to even greater heights, but we must convince others of that."
Although there are rumors that the Americans will drop out of the '18 running -- fueled in part by a recent statement from England World Cup bid president David Dein that "it won't be long before the United States will withdraw from 2018, leaving themselves a run on 2022" -- Downs says the US will continue pushing for both tournaments.
"That was merely David Dein's opinion and not reflective of any discussions we had with him," Downs wrote.
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In an offer more typical of warehouse mattress or furniture stores, the swanky Clifton Inn is having a 50 percent off sale through January. That's right, every Monday and Tuesday until the end of the month, all menu items–- excluding specials on group menus, beverages, and tax and service fees–- will be half price. So come on down to Sofa King, ââ?¬Ë?cause this deal just won't last! Uh, sorry, Dish got a little carried away there"Š
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There has been hiking happening around here.
It's the picture taking that's been lacking. I finally remembered to snap some pictures yesterday.
There was running.
And sniffing.
Here they come!
Luka was kind enough to strike a pose at an overlook.
Sadie managed to smile while running.
I smiled while taking in views like this. Oh, how I love my adopted state.
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Just in time for Public Service Recognition Week, the Trump administration has proposed $143.5 billion in compensation cuts for federal employees, The Washington Post's Joe Davidson reports:
"In a letter to House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) on Friday, Office of Personnel Management Director Jeff T.H. Pon pushed four proposals that, over 10 years, would significantly cut retirement benefits for 2.6 million federal retirees and survivors."
Pon's proposals, which he wrote are aimed at bringing federal employee benefits "more in line with the private sector," include:
- Eliminating annuity supplements for Federal Employees Retirement System beneficiaries and their survivors who retire before being eligible for Social Security.
- Changing federal pensions to be based on a five-year pay average instead of three years.
- Sharply raising employee retirement contributions (without an increase in benefits). "Currently, most employees pay 0.8 percent of basic pay. … Some groups (Members of Congress, congressional staff, law enforcement officers, firefighters, and others) pay an additional one half of one percent (1.3%) of basic pay. Employees hired after 2012 pay a higher employee deduction rate, 3.1 or 4.4 percent depending on when first hired. Under this proposal, FERS employee deduction rates will increase by 1 percent per year until they reach 7.25 percent of basic pay."
- Reducing or eliminating retirement cost-of-living adjustments.
"In addition to these retirement cuts, the administration also has proposed freezing federal pay next year," Davidson notes. "With next year's planned freeze, federal employees would have been hit with $246 billion in cuts to wages and benefits, complained J. David Cox Sr., president of the American Federation of Government Employees, which released Pon's letter after getting it from a congressional source."


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Several thousand supporters of Tunisia's governing moderate Islamist party held a pro-government demonstration in the capital on Saturday, a day after the funeral of an assassinated opposition politician.
But outside Tunis, groups of youths threw stones at offices of the governing party and attacked police stations in several cities.
The Interior Ministry said 230 people, aged 16 to 25, have been arrested since Friday, the day Chokri Belaid was buried. The slaying of the respected opposition figure unleashed anger, and his funeral drew hundreds of thousands of mourners chanting anti-government slogans in Tunis.
Saturday was the third straight day of reports of unrest in this North African country, which overthrew its long-ruling president, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, in January 2011, kicking off the Arab Spring revolutions.
In the two years since, Ennahda, a moderate Islamist party, has won elections and governed in a coalition with two secular parties. However, there are growing signs of divisions within the party, made more visible after Belaid's killing.
It is not known who killed Belaid, but the assassination unleashed pockets of pillaging and unrest on Saturday, including an attack by some 80 youths armed with stones and clubs on a police station and a second security post in Zaghouan, 25 miles (40 kilometers) west of Tunis, the official TAP news agency reported. To the south, in the town of Kebili, some 60 people, mainly youths, attacked the governing Ennahda party offices. The extent of that damage was not immediately known.
Meanwhile, several thousand supporters of Ennahda held a pro-government demonstration in the capital on Saturday. The protesters also insulted France, accusing the former colonial ruler of interfering in the North African country's politics.
The Ennahda party had called for the show of support for the constitutional assembly, whose work on a new constitution suffered a severe setback after the killing of Belaid on Wednesday when the opposition withdrew its participation.
The Ennahda party said Saturday's rally also was meant to protest "French interference," a reference to French Interior Minister Manuel Valls, who this week denounced Belaid's killing as an attack on "the values of Tunisia's Jasmine revolution."
The protesters denounced Valls' remarks, claiming they showed France is interfering in Tunisia's internal affairs. The demonstrators gathered in front of the National Theater, waving flags of the Ennahda party and shouting "Get out, France!"
The main thoroughfare was bustling, with cafes full and shops reopened after a general strike Friday. Police in riot armor and plainclothes officers patrolled, but the protest was peaceful - in contrast to the aftermath of Friday's funeral when police fired tear gas amid running street battles in Tunis.
Valls said on Europe 1 radio Thursday that Belaid was "one of the democrats and we must support these democrats so that the values of the Jasmine Revolution are not betrayed. There is an Islamic fascism rising everywhere, but this obscurantism must, of course, be condemned because it denies the democracy for which the Libyan, Tunisian and Egyptian people have fought."
Valls was clearly referring to Salafists, with their strict interpretation of Islam, who have come to the fore and smeared Ennahda's moderate image. At least one black Salafi flag was spotted in the sea of white Ennahda flags at Saturday's demonstration, which took place near the well-guarded French Embassy.
Fathi Rhayem, a teacher, said the demonstration "shows the Tunisian peoples' desire to show that it is sovereign, it is independent and is no longer under French protection." He said, "We want to show that we want to live on equal terms with France, as friends with reciprocal interests but not like a dominant and a dominated. The policy of submission ... is finished now."
The events have added to the growing turmoil in Tunisia, where the transition from dictatorship to democracy has been shaken by religious divides, political wrangling and economic struggles. It's been a perilous stretch for a country many hoped would be a model for other post-revolutionary Arab states.
Belaid was shot to death in his car outside his home. Hours later, Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali said he would form a new, technocratic government to guide the country to elections - but Ennahda, his own party, rejected that idea soon afterward.
Late Friday, Jebali renewed his proposal for a new government, which would be a key concession to the country's opposition. "I am convinced this is the best solution for the current situation in Tunisia," he said, offering to resign if the elected assembly did not accept his proposed Cabinet.
Jebali said he was confident he could get Ennahda's support, but his party's rejection of the proposal exposed its own divisions between moderates and hardliners, and it remained unclear how the prime minister planned to win enough support.
The coalition's failure to stem the country's economic crisis and stop the often-violent rise of hardline Salafi Muslims has drawn fierce criticism, especially from staunch secularists such as the late Belaid.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 66 diseños de 14 diseñadores freelance.
I'm a lawyer. After I worked in large law firms for 25 years, in 2008 I decided to work by myself. My only advertising is my website and "Linked-In". I help both individuals and companies protect their "intellectual property" by helping them get patents, trademark registrations, and copyright registrations. I also represent my clients in lawsuits to enforce those rights in Courts, and, when my clients are sued for allegedly infringing similar rights owned by others, I defend my clients in Court against those accusations.
I do NOT want to attract novices who have no idea what "intellectual property" is. Also, I do NOT want to attract as clients those who can not afford my hourly rate, which is $500/hour. My targets are owners of high-tech, small and medium sized companies, or "in-house counsel" (employee-lawyers) of large high-tech companies. I want to attract people looking for a highly-experienced lawyer in the following fields, listed in my order of priority: patents, trademarks, and copyrights.
Please give me suggested modifications of my existing logo: perhaps in different colors, and/or different outlining, and/or higher quality lines, arrangement, etc.
I have a U.S. federal registration (No. 3,592,858, online copy attached) for my logo. The 3 letters, H-I-P, are the acronym for "Headley Intellectual Property".
I use my logo on my website, my letterhead, my business cards, and I recently decided to put it on coffee mugs and foam coffee cups, so that I can offer coffee to my clients in my office in mugs that they can keep. Therefore, I need the artwork provided to me in a "vector format", preferably "eps".
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Owen Wright (Australia) has won the 10th annual Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) six star PRIME rated World Qualifying Series (WQS).
It was a monumental high scoring final, described by numerous ASP officials at this event as the greatest final they have ever seen.
This final had everything with both surfers forcing each other to new heights combining superb power surfing with new age aerial moves.
The final scores saw Owen Wright on 19.23 out of a possible 20 to Gudauskas on 18.93.
Wright's second ride in the final of 9.83 was decisive, pulling two major aerial manoerveres along with a series of fully powered on face vertical turns.
While that wave opened up a serious lead, Gudauskas challenged hard on his second ride driving through a series of powerful top to bottom turns but just fractionally mistimed his final floating re entry and fell. The wave was still awarded an outstanding 8.94, many believed had he landed that final turn it would have been his second perfect 10 point ride for the event.
Wright capitalised mid final with another outstanding 9.4 ride, again inclusive of aerial moves and Gudauskas suddenly found himself in a combination situation.
Gudauskas, who earlier in this event had scored a perfect ten point ride utilizing the new age rodeo clown move, refused to concede the final and began to focus on going for another perfect 10 by attempting some massive rodeo clowns which he went perilously close to landing.
Inside the final five minutes, Gudauskas found his final excellent wave, unleashed three incredible top to bottom powered turns, lined up the final section, launched and landed another amazing aerial flip to take a perfect 10 points.
Still in second place and requiring a 9.24 to win, time ran out for Gudauskas and Wright was the deserving winner of this epic battle.
"That was the best final I have ever experienced " said Wright after his win.
" I knew Pat was capable of scoring 9 to 10 point rides and before the final I knew I'd have to pull multiple aerials to win - my strategy was at least two serious aerials on the waves and a lot of powerful surfing in between the aerials and that's exactly how it played out."
Owen Wright is now number one rated surfer on the ASP World Qualifying Series and the exciting 19 year old has already reassessed his goals for the season.
"At the start of the year I was focusing on winning the Pro Junior season in Australia and doing a few WQS events to get the experience but now I'm definitely looking to win the WQS and qualify for the ASP World Tour."
ASP world tour head judge Perry Hatchet firmly placed this final within the top five finals he had ever witnessed while many others declared it the best final they had witnessed.
The entire event, which created history earlier when Pat Gudauskas delivered the first competitive rodeo clown manoeuvre, appears to have sped up the aerial assault that surfing is taking.
Pat Gudauskas's efforts both in the final and throughout the event left the 23 year old feeling good after his narrow defeat in the final.
"You know I feel like I've won the event even though I lost, it was just such an amazing event and incredible final to surf in and I'm really stoked to have pulled those aerials" said Gudauskas.
"I think surfing's heading to exciting places with these moves and I'm fully pumped for the rest of the year."
In a significant rule implementation, the final was actually restarted after the first 10 minutes saw both surfers without a score on the board. This recent rule had just been passed by the ASP and it was successful at its first go.
"The 10 minute restart rule set that final up and made it an incredible event" commented ASP World Tour Head Judge Perry Hatchett.
Equal 3rd placed surfers today were Brazilian 19 year old Jadson Andre and USA's Austin Ware.
Andre went down in his semi final to Gudauskas but again demonstrated his incredible aerial skills fighting back from a massive combination scoring situation in the semi final using his trademark massive aerial skills.
The 3rd place result for Andre further consolidates his season on the WQS. Andre is now rated 4th on the season WQS ratings.
At season's end the top 15 surfers on the WQS will qualify for the elite ASP World Tour and Andre is superbly placed..
For Austin Ware his 3rd place finish was his best result of the season and also has him right in contention on the WQS at this half way point to the season.


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Fort Lewis Colleges new football coach arrived this year with hopes of turning around the colleges lackluster team, which went 0-10 last season, but he also apparently brings $40.7 million in debt.
The Associated Press reported Friday that creditors are trying to block John L. Smith from liquidating the debt, saying he moved several properties and more than $2 million from his holdings before filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
FLC hired Smith in January, and he started this month.
When reached Friday evening, Smith said he cant comment about pending litigation, but he doesnt expect his debt problems to distract from his mission as head coach.
We were involved in different deals, he said. I dont know what to say about it. Its all in litigation at this point.
He hopes the FLC community and Durango as a whole accept his difficulties.
I would hope they would be understanding and say, Yeah, he got involved in a number of different ventures which went south, Smith said. I think thats about all you can say.
Before arriving at FLC, Smith was the interim football head coach at Arkansas, a premier Division I team. He has more than 40 years of coaching experience, including 19 years as a head coach at the Division I level.
He was not retained as head coach in Arkansas after the 2012 season.
FLC President Dene Kay Thomas and Athletic Director Gary Hunter said they were able to lure him to FLC to lead the Division II Skyhawks.
It was a rare move for a football coach of Smiths stature.
Thomas said Friday evening she was aware of Smiths financial situation before recruiting him.
He was very open with me about his situation before we hired him, she said. It has no bearing on his ability to coach football.
Federal bankruptcy court filings by Smiths creditors say he cashed $1 million in certificates of deposit in 2008, and he is unable to explain the current location of the funds. The documents also allege that in 2008 and 2009, Smith transferred $1.16 million to his wife, son and daughter-in-law. Most of that sum, $975,000, went to the Diana Smith Trust, which is named for Smiths wife.
Smith has said Kentucky real estate investments that went sour led to his financial troubles. He disclosed to the AP last summer that he expected to file for bankruptcy protection and hoped his financial woes wouldnt be a distraction during the season as he took over for the fired Bobby Petrino.
In 2008, Smith shifted ownership of real estate two properties in Idaho and one in Michigan to the trust in his wifes name. The filings allege that Smith transferred his interest in a company, JLS Enterprises II LLC, to his wifes trust in 2008, and between then and 2012, Smith signed documents as a member of JLH, which held property in Kentucky.
On Sept. 4, 2012, that entity was folded into Fourth and One LLC, of which Diana Smith was the sole member.
Smith filed for bankruptcy two days later.
Smiths lawyer, Jill Jacoway of Fayetteville, Ark., didnt return phone and email messages seeking comment.
As of Friday, Jacoway had not filed a response to the creditors complaint. A lawyer for the creditors, Thomas Robertson Jr., said he didnt want to discuss the case outside of court.
Arkansas hired Smith away from his alma mater, Weber State, last April when it urgently needed an interim coach. The school had fired Petrino after he hired his mistress to work in the football program.
Arkansas entered last season ranked in the top 10 but lost to Louisiana-Monroe in its second game and limped to a 4-8 finish.
Smith had a 10-month contract for $850,000 structured so that much of it would be paid on a deferred basis. Athletic director Jeff Long said during the season there was no intent by the university to keep that money from being seized in the bankruptcy proceeding.
But the creditors filing alleges that Smith intended to place such funds beyond the reach of the creditors.
Jacoway said after a hearing last fall that U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Ben Barry will decide what happens to the money Smith earned at Arkansas.
And if one side or the other doesnt like what Judge Barry says, then we appeal, and we appeal, and we appeal, she said.
The creditors include Terra Springs LLC, John D. Rhodes Revocable Trust, the Rhodes Family Limited Partnership, John D. Rhodes, Gerard J. Hart, Spring Farm Glen LLC, Spring Farm Pointe LLC, Terra Acquisitions LLC and Branch Banking and Trust Co.
Barry has assigned a trustee to handle any of Smiths assets.
In a previous interview with The Durango Herald, FLCs Hunter said he expected Smiths annual contract to be a bit more than the $67,000 that previous head football coach Cesar Rivas-Sandoval made.
Smith said he is enjoying Durango and his first week at FLC.
Were working hard on the recruiting trail, he said. Were excited to be here, we love Fort Lewis and love the snow and love the mountains. Weve just got to get the football team back and try to get ready for spring ball.
AP Sports Writer Kurt Voigt contributed to this report.


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My voice is tired. As soon as the Keynotes ended, I started talking to dozens and dozens of people. Some want to tell me about their products. Some want information about what is going on with Ancestry.com, FamilySearch.org, MyHeritage.cm and findmypast.com. Some just want to say hello. But I quickly decided I was getting more information from talking to people all day than I would from the classes and besides I was getting extremely tired of sitting anyway. Not that the classes aren't wonderful, but I felt like I needed to spend the time talking to all the vendors and others on the Exhibit floor. So I started on one side and worked my way through all the different spaces.
In between, I conducted interviews. Three of the interviews so far were videoed and will be put online at some point as soon as I get the copies. One of the highlights of the day was a lunch meeting with MyHeritage.com. I will be getting more information about the presentation and writing a summary of their extremely interesting presentation.
As I wandered through the Exhibit Floor, I met some old friends and made some new ones. Here is a sample of who I talked to with comments. I may return to some of these companies in future blog posts.
My friend Sharon Monson has published a new very basic book for learning about computers. When I say basic, I mean basic. It looks like her website is under construction. GenSearchandmore.com
I talked to Kitty Cooper who does website design. She is from Lakeside, California. Her website si at OpenSkyWebDesign.com
I talked to the folks at RootsPoint.com. This is, in part, a social networking program aimed at drawing people into a conversation about their relatives in the 1940 U.S. Census. This is a pretty unique idea. They also have a number of other searchable record collections including a number of UK Census collections and other collections.
I was glad to see Tammy Hepps of Treelines.com, the winner of the RootsTech 2013 Developer Challenge. Starting a new company is a real challenge and it is wonderful that she has been able to make it back to a second RootsTech Conference.
I stopped by the FamilyStoryteller.com booth and found a professional interviewing company owned by Kimberly Houk, a 14 years as a broadcast journalist and news anchor,
I will have a few more in a later post.


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