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The diagram below illustrates the relationships between the primary components of the JDO architecture.
javax.jdo.JDOHelper contains static
helper methods to query the lifecycle state of persistent
objects and to obtain
PersistenceManagerFactory instances in a
vendor-neutral fashion.
: The
is a factory for
javax.jdo.PersistenceManager is the
primary JDO interface used by applications. Each
PersistenceManager manages a set of
persistent objects, and has APIs to insert new objects and
delete existing ones. There is a one-to-one
relationship between a
and a
PersistenceManagers also act as factories
Extent and
Query instances.
JDO calls user-defined persistent classes
persistence-capable classes. Most JDO vendors provide
an enhancer to transparently add a special
PersistenceCapable interface to each
persistent class. You will never use this interface directly.
PersistenceManager has a one-to-one
relation with a single
Transactions allow operations on persistent
data to be grouped into units of work that either completely
succeed or completely fail, leaving the datastore in its original
state. These all-or-nothing operations are important for
maintaining data integrity.
Extent: A
javax.jdo.Extent is a logical view of
all the objects of a particular class that exist in the
datastore. You can configure
to also include subclasses.
are obtained from a
Query: The
javax.jdo.Query interface is implemented
by each JDO vendor to find persistent objects that meet certain
criteria. JDO standardizes support for queries using the Java
Data Objects Query Language (JDOQL), and for relational database
queries using the Structured Query Language (SQL). You obtain
Query instances from a
PersistenceManager and
Query has a mutable reference to a
javax.jdo.FetchPlan. The
FetchPlan gives you control over eager
fetching, result scrolling, and other data loading behavior.
Sequence: The
javax.jdo.datastore.Sequence interface
represents an object capable of generating sequential values.
Sequences are defined in mapping metadata (see
Chapter 15, Mapping Metadata), cached at the
PersistenceManagerFactory level, and
obtained through the
DataStoreCache: Many
JDO implementations provide some form of datastore cache.
interface provides a standard way to interact with your vendor's
The example below illustrates how the JDO interfaces interact to execute a JDOQL query and update persistent objects.
Example 3.1. Interaction of JDO Interfaces
// get a PersistenceManagerFactory using the JDOHelper; typically // the factory is cached for easy repeated use PersistenceManagerFactory factory = JDOHelper.getPersistenceManagerFactory (System.getProperties ()); // get a PersistenceManager from the factory PersistenceManager pm = factory.getPersistenceManager (); // updates take place within transactions Transaction tx = pm.currentTransaction (); tx.begin (); // query for all employees who work in our research division // and put in over 40 hours a week average Extent extent = pm.getExtent (Employee.class, false); Query query = pm.newQuery (extent); query.setFilter ("division.name == 'Research' && avgHours > 40"); // we only need to populate the metadata-defined salary fetch group data; // there might be a lot of employees, so read from store in batches of 100 query.getFetchPlan ().setGroup ("salary"); query.getFetchPlan ().setFetchSize (100); List results = (List) query.execute (); // give all those hard-working employees a raise; keep track of hardest worker Employee emp; Employee mostHours = null; for (Iterator itr = results.iterator (); itr.hasNext ();) { emp = (Employee) itr.next (); emp.setSalary (emp.getSalary () * 1.1); if (mostHours == null || emp.avgHours () > mostHours.avgHours ()) mostHours = emp; } // we know we're going to be fetching the hardest-working employee a // lot in our application, so pin its data to the cache factory.getDataStoreCache ().pin (JDOHelper.getObjectId (mostHours)); // commit the updates and free persistence manager tx.commit (); pm.close (); // if we were ending our application, we'd free the factory too // factory.close ();
The remainder of this document explores the JDO interfaces in detail. We present them in roughly the order that you will use them as you develop your application.
The diagram above depicts the JDO exception architecture. Runtime
exceptions such as
NullPointerExceptions and
IllegalArgumentExceptions aside, JDO
components only throw
The JDO exception hierarchy should be self-explanatory. The base
JDOException class provides the following useful
FailedObject: The failed object is the
persistent instance or identity object that caused the
exception, if applicable. It is particularly useful for
JDOOptimisticVerificationExceptions and
NestedExceptions: An array of nested
exceptions that caused the failure. Rather than stop
immediately at the first error, many JDO methods collect all
errors during execution and throw a single parent exception,
nesting the collected exceptions within it. For example, a
failed attempt to commit a transaction might result in a
JDOFatalDataStoreException with a nested
JDOOptimisticVerificationException for
each persistent instance that failed the optimsitic concurrency
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The live-action Mario movie is like a giant scab on your knee. It's gross, and an eyesore, yet for whatever reason many of us just can't resist picking at it.
Most of the time that invokes painful memories, but not today. Today it'll provoke some different, much stranger emotions.
Witness Golden's Super Mario Bros. The Movie: colouring Book. It's a book that's supposed to recreate the action of the film with simplified, black & white imagery, but either the bottom-drawer artists hired for the job hadn't actually seen it, or they were cocky enough to try and make some visual (and narrative) changes.
Those are the only two explanations I can think of for what you're about to see. Because, correct me if I'm wrong, I'm pretty sure Samantha Mathis doesn't date Yoshi in the flick.
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The other day I asked myself: what can I realistically find about my relatives in GenealogyBank? How many details about my family can I discover?
So I decided to find out by searching GenealogyBank's historical newspaper archives for a family member we know little about: Madge E. Richmond (1866-1942).
Her Career as a Teacher
Madge Richmond was a teacher for 25 years; almost all of those years were spent teaching at the Technical High School in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Beyond that we had the family traditions of her kindness, intellect and work ethic. We knew little else about her.
The family has two pictures of her—one as a young woman.
The other picture of her was taken in the years after her retirement.
Madge Richmond was an "ordinary person"—your typical relative. She was beloved by the family and the school community where she worked, but otherwise she was an unknown person to the world at large.
What could I hope to discover about her in GenealogyBank?
Would newspapers have published anything about such a plain, ordinary person?
All of our relatives are special to us but—for the most part—unknown beyond our family and friends.
The Search for My Relative Begins
In my initial search on GenealogyBank I used only my relative's name: Madge Richmond.
That first and last name search produced 331 record matches—far too many for me to sort through them all.
So I decided to try searching for my relative again, this time narrowing my search to only the newspapers in the New England states.
I did this simply by checking all the New England states on GenealogyBank's newspaper search page.
That refined search produced 80 search results.
OK—I can work with that. I began looking through the records.
The very first record I opened was about was about her! Even better, the article included a photograph of her! It was her retirement notice in the local newspaper.
Look at the last line in this newspaper article, a quote from the dedication of that year's Tech School yearbook:
"To Madge Eleanor Richmond, whose steady poise, clear vision and wise judgment have distinguished her service in this school and have marked every association with faculty and students."
So—now I know her middle name was "Eleanor."
I'd always assumed her middle name was Eleanor—but now I have proof.
The old newspaper article explained that Madge was the head of the mathematics department, one of the most popular teachers at the school, and was retiring after teaching for nearly 25 years.
As I looked through more of the search results, I found dozens of mentions of Madge in news articles about school events, lists of faculty and the like. All of these stories, clues and little details I found in the newspaper archives helped me learn about a relative I didn't know very well.
Here are some of the newspaper articles I found in GenealogyBank that gave me more of Madge's life story.
These historical newspaper articles have given me a more complete picture of Madge's life—and a very nice portrait of her.
Here are some of the key moments and events from her life, as captured in newspaper articles.
30 June 1911
"Miss Madge Eleanor Richmond was also elected teacher of mathematics in the technical high school. She has been a teacher in the Dover (N.H.) high school."
Great. I knew she was a teacher in Springfield, Massachusetts, but I didn't know that she was also a teacher in Dover, New Hampshire.
17 April 1914
OK—here's another fact new to me: Madge was principal of Ansonia High School (Ansonia, Connecticut) for 12 years prior to coming to Springfield.
July-August 1915
More information: in the summer of 1915 she attended Cornell University.
4 July 1916
She liked Cornell so much that she and two friends went again the next year.
December 1917
She spent Christmas of 1917 with her brother and his wife: Dr. and Mrs. Allen Pierce Richmond of Dover, New Hampshire.
June-August 1919
In 1915 Madge attended the summer session at the University of Michigan. She also visited her brother Dr. A.P (Allen Pierce) Richmond in Dover, New Hampshire, and her sister Mrs. William Jordan (Abigail May Richmond) in Lisbon, Maine.
So, she also attended the University of Michigan.
That's good to know.
15-16 November 1919
My grandmother— Madge's niece—was an accountant at the American Optical Company in Southbridge, Massachusetts—and in Boston, Massachusetts?
I didn't know that.
That's a real find.
The social briefs in newspapers have been a real goldmine of information about Madge Richmond and the family!
21 May 1921
In 1921 she went to study at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
She left on 16 July 1921 for Colorado.
June 1929
In 1929 she would go down to St. Augustine, Florida, traveling through the Shenandoah Valley on the trip down and along the coast on the way back. She planned to stay at the St. Augustine Hotel.
January 1934
In 1934 she was named the Head of the Mathematics Department at Tech High School.
14 January 1942
And finally, in these three old newspaper articles, we learn of her death and the funeral arrangements.
That's an incredible amount of genealogical and family history information I found in old newspaper articles—lots of stories, lots of details about her life—that have turned Madge Richmond from just another relative (with only name, birth and death dates) on the family tree into a member of the family that we know and understand better.
Dig into GenealogyBank's newspaper archives to see what family history discoveries you can make and bring your family tree to life!


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Below a highway overpass in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, college students eat fried noodles and spicy chicken stew from brightly lit food stalls that fill this gritty space. The noise of cars and trucks rumbling overhead mingles with the sound of jets landing at the nearby airport.
A singer's voice begins to pierce this dense cacophony. She has woven palm fronds into her hair to create a headpiece that crowns her sparkly pink outfit. Diners tip her before turning back to their meals.
The busker's name is Madame Ruly and she is a fixture in the Yogyakarta community of waria — loosely, though imperfectly, translated as transwomen. The word combines two Indonesian words: "wanita," or woman, and "pria," or man. As a third gender, waria — biological men who live as women — have been part of Indonesian society for as long as anyone can remember, many years before the modern gay rights movement in the country. Yet they are often disowned by their own family members who disapprove of their children coming out as transgender.
Day-to-day survival can be a struggle. To make a living, many waria in Indonesia do sex work or sing on the street for tips. Both of those jobs are technically illegal but are often tolerated by the authorities.
Despite the obstacles they face, the waria find strength in asserting their identity. In a sense, it's unifying, "because they're marginalized by everyone," says Sandeep Nanwani, a 26-year-old doctor and a candidate for a master's in global health delivery at Harvard University.
Nanwani is an irrepressible spirit who seems both wise beyond his 26 years and full of youthful energy. Growing up in Indonesia's capitol, Jakarta, he lost his mother to cancer when he was in middle school. The experience inspired him to become a doctor.
Nanwani took some time off from his medical studies in Indonesia to volunteer in public health clinics. The doctors he worked with were trying to account for the efficacy of their HIV/AIDS prevention. Specifically, they wanted to know if condoms that were distributed were being used. Nanwani's job: sort through the trash in men's restrooms to count the used condoms.
Today, as part of his graduate school field work, Nanwani helps provide medical care to many of the waria in Yogyakarta. Byron Good, a professor of medical anthropology at Harvard, says the young doctor's commitment to social justice is rare even among global health physicians. Good compared him to the MacArthur "Genius" winner, Dr. Paul Farmer, who is known for working to provide health care to the rural poor in Haiti.
"Sandeep has a remarkable commitment to the poor and to issues of social justice," Good said. "It's difficult to find physicians anywhere in the world like that. But he also has a commitment to spend the time and go hang out with the poor. To hang out with the waria."
At an abandoned patch of land behind a strip of hotels that serves as an informal housing complex for many older waria in Yogyakarta, Nanwani checks in on a patient: Madame Wiwik. In her late 60s, Wiwik has a bulbous nose and eyebrows drawn on in dark pencil. Wiwik sits on a mattress on the floor in a dark concrete room, one of the unofficial (and illegal) dwellings the waria rent. She plays a recording of a songbird on her phone and winces in pain. Madame Wiwik recently had a stroke and her words are slurry; she struggles to lift her arms above her shoulders. Dr. Nanwani says Madame Wiwik has no medication, "not even aspirin to prevent future strokes. Nothing."
That need for medical care among waria became critical in the early 2000s, when the HIV epidemic exploded here. Sandeep says the toll on the waria was devastating.
An older waria named Vinolia Wakijo watched the epidemic decimate her community. Today, Wakijo, whom everyone calls Mami, is 61. She's effectively the matriarch of waria in this city. In 2007 she established Kebaya, a group home for people with HIV that receives some government funding. In the ten years that she has operated Kebaya, 46 people with AIDS have died there.
Today ten people live in the home, and the Kebaya family continues to grow. For the first time, there's a baby living there: an 11-month old girl named Nira. Her mother was a sex worker who died of AIDS, and the warias have taken her in. Nira has her own room and a slew of de facto aunties who take turns holding her and trying to make her giggle.
Nanwani is known throughout the waria community of Yogyagarta and is clearly more than a doctor. He comes to Kebaya almost daily, he says, just to check in. But it's not an easy community to work with. Sometimes clients simply disappear. With no fixed address it can be impossible to track them down or find out what happened to them. Nanwani still wonders whether he could have done more to help some of his patients, who became friends — and then vanished.
Still, Nanwani says the rewards from working with the waria are profound: "They provide care for me as much as I provide care to them. Waria endure suffering through humor and laughter, and I just love that."
Indonesia is as wide as the continental United States, and it's diverse. In the far west, Sharia law governs Aceh province. To the east, Hinduism dominates the island of Bali. There are pockets of Christianity and Buddhism. And this week, we are looking at some of the things that bind this democracy together.
SHAPIRO: In the college town of Yogyakarta, a 26-year-old named Sandeep Nanwani is recently out of medical school, and we met him in the field. He works with a group of patients that you can find in every corner of this sprawling country.
SANDEEP NANWANI: So you will have it Aceh, Timor, in Papua. There is in Papua and Sulawesi - the whole Indonesia.
SHAPIRO: He's talking about warias, transgender women in Indonesia who often do sex work or sing on the street for tips. Both of those jobs are technically illegal but often tolerated. Warias have been part of Indonesian society for as long as anyone can remember.
NANWANI: So that's, like, a national identity. Everywhere is the same.
SHAPIRO: That's interesting that while there might be divisions between Muslims and Christians, people of Chinese descent, people of Arab descent, these threads of waria go through the whole country.
NANWANI: Because they are - of course they are because they are marginalized by everyone (laughter) in a sense.
SHAPIRO: Dr. Nanwani takes us to an informal housing complex where he provides medical care to a group of warias.
NANWANI: We are in the space - like, an abandoned land behind a strip of hotels where a lot of warias live. And most of them are pengamen or ngamen or buskers.
SHAPIRO: They sing on the street for tips. In the courtyard, chickens peck at the ground, and a neighbor kid gets water from a pump. Nanwani is here to check in on a waria in her late-60s who goes by the name Madame Wiwik. She has a bulbous nose and eyebrows drawn on in dark pencil.
In a dark concrete room, Wiwik sits on a mattress on the floor. The doctor asks her to raise her arms overhead. She struggles to lift them above her shoulders.
NANWANI: Up, up, up.
SHAPIRO: Madame Wiwik recently had a stroke. Even though I don't speak the language, I can tell that her words are slurry.
NANWANI: She has no medication at all, not even aspirin to prevent future strokes, nothing.
SHAPIRO: Madame Wiwik wants to go busking again tonight. Ngamen is the local term for it. Dr. Nanwani thinks it's a bad idea, but he knows that she needs the money.
NANWANI: I am a bit scared about that she goes ngamen. So I have told her, like, you have to go ngamen with - accompanied by someone, not alone - get stroke in the middle.
SHAPIRO: I can imagine somebody saying, why spend your time and talents on a population of people who are doing sex work, living on the streets?
NANWANI: They provide care for me as much as I provide care to them. Waria endure suffering through, like, humor and laughter. And I just love that.
SHAPIRO: Can you give us an example of that?
NANWANI: So if they get caught by the police and there's a lot of media and so on, they will literally go to the media and, like, strut their stuff. They're shameless. I just love how you survive through being shameless, right? It's so amazing (laughter).
SHAPIRO: And there's another thing that he loves about the warias. They create chosen families. That's true of marginalized groups in a lot of countries. But in Indonesia, these families of choice have official recognition and legal power. Nanwani explains that one way Indonesia creates a national identity is through formal family networks. Everybody in the country has a card listing their biological relatives. It's like a social security card, but it ties everyone to a community. And you need that card to get health care.
NANWANI: What unites Indonesia is a nuclear family. So everybody's registered through the family card. So everybody has a family card.
SHAPIRO: So what happens if your family cuts you off and kicks you out?
NANWANI: So zero care. So, like, that's how they - the waria movement started to work together with the state to find some form of care.
SHAPIRO: Warias are often disowned by their families. That cuts them off from the community they were born into. So some of the elders have created waria families complete with the official legal card. It became really necessary when the HIV epidemic exploded here in the early 2000s. Dr. Nanwani brings us to a group home for people with HIV.
VINOLIA WAKIJO: (Foreign language spoken) Vinolia.
SHAPIRO: It's so nice to...
An older waria named Vinolia Wakijo established it a decade ago. Nanwani calls her Mami.
NANWANI: Like, Mami's whole generation of people completely - just all of them died.
SHAPIRO: Today Mami is 61, and she's effectively the matriarch of warias in the city of Yogyakarta.
WAKIJO: (Through interpreter) I consider them my family because as warias, they are my responsibility.
SHAPIRO: In the 10 years that you've operated this house, how many people who have come here have passed away?
WAKIJO: (Through interpreter) Forty-six people with HIV-AIDS have died here.
SHAPIRO: Dr. Nanwani points out a wall in the front room of the house full of certificates and awards from places that have recognized Mami's work.
NANWANI: She goes, gives lectures every year in the medical school, psychology school.
SHAPIRO: I ask Mami to show us her family card.
NANWANI: Yeah, this.
SHAPIRO: She reaches into a file folder and pulls out a full-size sheet of paper.
How many children list you as their mother on their family card?
NANWANI: (Foreign language spoken).
WAKIJO: (Through interpreter) Three where I take full economic responsibility for them. They're all street kids.
SHAPIRO: The family in this house is growing. For the first time, there is a baby living here, an 11-month-old girl named Nira. Her mother was a sex worker who died of AIDS, and the warias have taken her in.
SHAPIRO: Less than 20 percent of Indonesians with HIV get the drugs they need. That's partly because so many people in this community live outside of society's formal networks. So Dr. Nanwani is trying to connect warias with a place like the clinic in a hospital where he works.
NANWANI: I used to hang out here every time as a medical student and just gossip with all the people here (laughter).
SHAPIRO: His mentor walks in, the woman who runs this clinic, Dr. Yandri Subronto.
YANDRI SUBRONTO: Welcome to the (unintelligible) clinic.
SHAPIRO: Dr. Subronto jokes that as a straight woman, she is a minority in HIV research circles. She started doing this work when her colleagues were afraid to interact with people who had AIDS.
SUBRONTO: You feel the thing as a doctor. This is where I'm needed.
SHAPIRO: Dr. Subronto has a no-nonsense demeanor. She starts to tell us about her first AIDS patient who died. And suddenly she begins to lose her composure.
SUBRONTO: They help me to understand life. Why should I not respect them? They're the one who - yeah, they live in a hardship. Because of those problems, they don't have identity. They cannot get access to medications. They cannot get access to treatment or whatever.
SHAPIRO: When you say your patients teach you how to understand life, what do you mean?
SUBRONTO: Acceptance - it's accepting people as they are. Just embrace your life. You understand that it's all beauty. Everyone feels each other. You know, it seems like God teach me that the world is so colorful, and you just have to accept - you know, don't reject what is there. Just try to understand it.
SHAPIRO: That night, we go to a highway underpass with airplanes flying low overhead. This is where the buskers do their work. At brightly lit food stalls, college students eat fried noodles and spicy chicken stew. Out of the shadows, one of the warias we met earlier in the day steps into the light. Madame Ruly has woven palm fronds into her hair to create a headpiece that crowns her sparkly pink outfit. She sings along with the music coming out of her small makeshift boom box, and she looks beautiful.
MADAME RULY: (Singing in foreign language). Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Missing minicamp and Organized Team Activities wasn't a problem for Drew Brees.
Saints coach Joe Vitt said after watching Brees at the first training camp practice that he looks as good as ever after lengthy contract negotiations that kept him away from the team.
"Outstanding," Vitt said of Brees. "I don't think anybody's eyes lied to them. You guys were here and saw the practice. Excellent tempo, excellent ball location, in and out of the huddle, up and down, on and off. Outstanding."
The Saints moved practice indoors because of rain in New Orleans, so fans weren't able to see Brees with their own eyes. But Saints fans will like Vitt's description. Brees is ready to go.


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Last update: 1 October 2008
Cannabis is not allowed for medicinal use in Finland.
Court Rulings
Regional administrative court
According to a newspaper report the National Agency for Medicines has granted a citizen special permission to use cannabis for the relief of pain in 2006. This permission is valid for one year. The patient in question suffered from a serious injury to his back and neck in a traffic accident four years ago. Since then he suffers from chronic pain, which was not relieved by opioids. These caused severe side effects. The Agency had initially rejected the application for the use of cannabis prescribed by a Dutch doctor. The decision on the certificate of exemption was made by the regional administrative court. Terhi Hermanson, head physician at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, said that the case is the first one in which a patient has applied for permission to use cannabis for medicinal purposes in Finland.
The court decision also forced the Ministry for Social Affairs and Health to clarify legislation.
So far, there is only one patient who receives cannabis for medical use.
In 2007 the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health announced to publish guidelines on the medical use of cannabis following a court decision in 2006. It is expected, that in a few months changes will be enacted that allow the prescription of cannabis. Under the plan, even after the changes, cannabis prescriptions for medicinal purposes will require the permission of the National Agency for Medicines. More in articles of Helsingin Sanomat and YLE News.
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Choreography by: Christopher Wheeldon
Music by: André Previn, Leonard Bernstein
A Place for Us highlights the interpersonal charisma of its two dancers who at one point dart around and interact with shifting patterns of light.
Christopher Wheeldon's A Place for Us, a pas de deux set to scores for clarinet and piano by André Previn and Leonard Bernstein, had its world premiere at NYCB's 2013 Spring Gala performance. It features lighting designed by Penny Jacobus, and costumes designed by New York-based fashion designer Joseph Altuzarra. The ballet is dedicated to Jerome Robbins.


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won his second gold medal of the Columbus Grand Prix by cruising to victory in the 200-meter butterfly Saturday.
His time of 1 minute, 55.17 seconds unofficially is the fastest in the world this year.
"It's my second-fastest in-season time ever," said Phelps, of Baltimore. "I guess I can't complain too much, but I wanted to break [1:55]. There's some little, small stupid things that I shouldn't be making mistakes doing — a couple of walls I was long on and breathing off the first stroke the last two 50s. It wasn't very good."
He went 0:60.36 for the final half of the race at the McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion at Ohio State.
"My second hundred needs to be under a minute," Phelps said. "That's just what I want to do. The more times I can do that before trials the better off I'll be."
Phelps, 26, began his quest for four gold medals at the Columbus Grand Prix on Friday by winning the 200-meter free with a meet-record time of 1:45.69 — the second-fastest time in the world this season.
The 200 butterfly was Phelps' only event Saturday, but he will compete today in the preliminaries of the 100 free and the 200 backstroke.
His wins are an indication that his intense three weeks of training at altitude in Colorado Springs, Colo., with longtime coach Bob Bowman before coming to Columbus was paying off.
"I'm always pleased when we come down from altitude because we're able to get so much work done up there," he said.
Phelps, sporting a scraggly beard, swam at a comfortable pace Friday in anticipation of a heavier workload the rest of the weekend.
Of course, that's all relative.
He became a worldwide phenomenon by earning a record eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, pushing his career total to 14.
The following three years were admittedly a letdown, and it's only recently that Phelps has regained the hunger that made him so successful.
"Over the last three years I haven't had fun doing it," he told reporters Thursday. "If I'm having fun, then it's easy.


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Crispy Pickled Shiitake From 'Pitt Cue Co.: The Cookbook'
The Pitt Cue Co. chefs were wowed by the pickled mushrooms they tried at Momofuku in NYC. So wowed that the only way to take them up a notch was to deep-fry those suckers. They share the recipe for their Crispy Pickled Shiitake in Pitt Cue Co.: The Cookbook, and it is totally worth the effort. First comes the actual pickling, which is easy, if you can stand the waiting. You start with dried shiitakes, rehydrate them for 5 to 6 hours, and simmer them in their soaking liquid with soy sauce, cider vinegar, and sugar spiked with ginger, licorice root, and star anise. Then you have to somehow keep your hand out of the
cookie jar pickle bowl for 3 days as they steep in that rich, salty, sweet, fragrant liquid. (Which, by the way, I didn't. I ate them hot out of the pot and every day after. Delicious. Delicious. Delicious.) The pickles are tremendous as is. The aromatics and soy give them a distinctly Asian feel and can't-put-my-finger-on-it complexity, despite the relative brevity of the ingredient list. Finally, after AT LEAST 3 days (ugh), you toss the mushrooms in flour, dip them in eggs and milk, coat them in panko breadcrumbs, and fry them briefly until deeply golden. And there you have it: crispy, meaty, magical umami-bombs.
Why I picked this recipe: Despite being from the South, I came to fried pickles late in life. And I want more. MORE.
What worked: These are fantastic, whether you make it to the frying or stop at the pickling.
What didn't: The pickle recipe calls for a fairly pricey 7 ounces of dried shiitakes. You use only about 3 dried ounces worth of the pickled mushrooms (14 ounces once rehydrated) in the final recipe, so the choice of how much to make is yours, depending on how many leftover pickles you want. I'm planning on chopping some up and making a relish to add umami intensity to, possibly, everything.
Suggested tweaks: In introducing the recipe, the Pitt Cue crew says to choose the biggest shiitake you can find to avoid stalk-heavy, unpleasant pickles. Mine were small but had plenty of meat left after removing the stalks, and made for perfectly good eating. (For the most part, I did not cut them in half as specified.) They also specify to store them in a sterilized jar. There are way too many pickles for one jar, I'll tell you that; in my experience, the recipe makes nearly twice the 2 pints of pickles they predict. And, honestly, unless you plan on canning them or keeping them for longer than a week or two, any tightly covered container should do. And as for the deep-fryer that they reference, a heavy-bottomed pot with a candy thermometer works fine.
- Yield:Serves 4 to 6
- Active time: 50 minutes
- Total time:50 minutes
- Heaping 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 3 free-range eggs
- 3 tablespoons whole milk
- 1 1/2 cups Japanese panko bread crumbs
- 14 ounces Pickled Shiitake, drained
- Oil, for deep-frying
Get ready three shallow bowls. In the first, add the flour, in the second beat the eggs with the milk, and in the third put the panko bread crumbs. Lightly coat the pickled shiitake in flour, then dip them into the egg and milk mixture, and finally toss them carefully in the panko bread crumbs. The shiitake should be uniformly coated. Work neatly and in small batches so that the crumbs do not become wet or clumpy. Place the mushrooms on a sheet of waxed paper. they freeze very well like this.
Heat the oil to 375℉ in a deep-fryer and fry the shiitake for 2 minutes, until golden and crisp. Drain on paper towels and serve.
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It was nice to be in love with you
As if poetry was a kind of healing love
While you were still holding to your book
I thought we were like Karla and Lin
Beautiful bitter peach and lovesick crook
It was so nice to be with you old friend
Depression, migraines , pregnancy and loss
While you were holding god knows what
I knew I couldn't comfort you, instead
I wrote poetry that wasn't so good…
Matthew Van Ortton
Super Tramp & poet
There appears to be a new breed of scribes gallivanting the globe who are peddlers of prose and poetry. They tramp across countries in a makeshift bubble that, in a manner, preserves the integrity of their outpourings.
Their verse is childlike, naive and usually self obsessed. Inspiration is derived from intensely personal experiences with the opposite and/or same-sex. Some draw on the life and works of long dead poets imagining or attempting to ape the lifestyle of the illustrious; while at the same time desperately trying to carve a niche in the matrix of modern society.
Matthew is a tramp in the making, infected by the life of William Davies, the Super Tramp and Poet. I met him (Matthew) at Paulo's Antique Bar in Bardez over a glass of Shiraz and a smoke from Hell to discuss his passion for composing 10 minute poems (poems that are conceived in ten minutes flat), bathroom rhymes and contemplative verse.
His spelling is atrocious…dictation a curious mix of Dutch and English…Bohemian in dress and an attitude to match. All in all an interesting individualist detached from the ebb and flow of the high street and its parading clones.
Born Matthew Malecki in Poland (1970). He has lived in Harlem (Holland), Reggio (Calareia, Italy), South Beach Florida (USA), Cornwall (UK) and elsewhere. He was married, fathered two children and divorced, leaving the comfort of home and hearth to travel the world. On the way he met a fine lady and set up home in Cornwall, only to leave all behind once again to circumnavigate village earth.
"I know this appears to be the actions of a deluded mind but this is not so. You see my grand mother was an Italian gypsy. Maybe I carry her spirit within me, a lust for the luscious life, wanderlust that seduces one and diverts attention from the prosaic."
Why do you write poetry?
Writing poetry is akin to floating, like a ship sailing on a quiet sea, the waves of inspiration caressing the bow of the vessel – my mind. Therefore, whenever I compose verse it instills a sense of quietude, and as each poem is born fresh from a fertile mind it is like a celebration of thought. The feeling is one of sheer pleasure.
And your inspiration, where does it come from?
There are two halves…one is from Leah, the woman I abandoned in Cornwall with the resultant residual vibrating emotions…and the second is from Nature, its beauty and tranquility.
Why do you write in English?
I speak and write in Italian, German, Polish and English. But I write in English because this language, for me, is the only one that has a versatility and subtlety that makes it an exciting medium for poetry.
What are you working on, now?
My first anthology of sixty poems – very personal. It reflects what happened to Leah and me with glimpses of Nature to convey the sense of peace that I have found.
You know love is peace – a state of existence, placidness of the soul that lulls one into the deep recesses of Oneness. Here in India I have found a love in the people that transcends their destitution – inspite of their poverty they smile at you and continue to maintain a happiness that defies logic.
After publication of your anthology, any future plans?
I'm a man
Without a plan
Interested in everything
Committed to nothing
Matthew is a poet that still needs to marinate in life to achieve maturity in verse and deed. And he will get there in time with quill in hand and peace in his heart, hopefully.
Om Shanti Shanti Shanti Om


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Saturday, January 11, 2014
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dampens expectations of Australian Open success
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[January 11, 2014]
By Simon Cambers
MELBOURNE (Reuters) — Four months after
back surgery, Wimbledon champion Andy Murray was understandably cautious
on Saturday about his chances of reaching a fourth Australian Open final
in five years.
The Briton goes into the first grand slam event of the year having
played just two competitive matches since the surgery in September
and said it would take him time to hit top form.
"Expectations are a bit different," Murray told reporters in
Melbourne. "Obviously I need to be pretty patient with myself and
not expect too much.
"But you never know. I've done a lot of training the last few
months; it's just I haven't played many matches.
"If somehow I can work my way into the tournament, feel a little bit
better every day, then I might start to raise those expectations.
"But for now they're not going to be obviously as high as they were
the last few years. I'll just concentrate on my first match."
Seeded fourth and drawn in the same half as top seed Rafa Nadal and
Swiss Roger Federer, Murray begins his campaign against Japan's Go
Soeda, ranked 112th in the world.
A kind draw in the first week gives the 26-year-old the chance to
ease himself into the tournament, which begins on Monday, and Murray
said it was possible he could click into gear fairly quickly.
"It can come almost from one day to the next sometimes, or one
tournament to the next," the 2012 U.S. Open champion said.
"How many matches do you need before you're feeling 100 percent
match fit, I don't know.
"But I played a few matches in Doha, singles and doubles and then
obviously I practiced a lot here.
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"We'll see, when the tournament starts. I'll have a better idea
what I'm like playing five-set matches because that's also
completely different to best-of-three, especially in the heat we're
going to be playing in."
Murray was the first of the current crop of top players to hire a
former legend of the game when he named Ivan Lendl as his coach two
years ago.
With German Boris Becker recently joining defending champion Novak
Djokovic and Swede Stefan Edberg becoming part of Federer's team,
Murray said it was good to see the former players back on the
And Murray even caused a bit of laughter when describing what it is
like to have a new, once-famous coach.
"It's kind of like any relationship that you have," he said. "If
it's with a woman, I would try to impress my girlfriend a lot more
the first few months I was with her than I do now, I guess.
"It's the same with Ivan. The first few months when I was working
with him, you're kind of nervous going into practice sessions and
"That's a good thing. It shows that you care and want to impress
him. But then over time, you get used to having him around. It's not
quite the same. But that happens in a lot of different
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[1005.2581] A Performance Comparison of CUDA and OpenCL
CUDA and OpenCL offer two different interfaces for programming GPUs. OpenCL is an open standard that can be used to program CPUs, GPUs, and other devices from different vendors, while CUDA is specific to NVIDIA GPUs. Although OpenCL promises a portable language for GPU programming, its generality may entail a performance penalty. In this paper, we compare the performance of CUDA and OpenCL using complex, near-identical kernels. We show that when using NVIDIA compiler tools, converting a CUDA kernel to an OpenCL kernel involves minimal modifications. Making such a kernel compile with ATI's build tools involves more modifications. Our performance tests measure and compare data transfer times to and from the GPU, kernel execution times, and end-to-end application execution times for both CUDA and OpenCL.


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Make no bones about it, Eternal Legacy, coming from Gameloft for the iPhone and iPod touch just before Christmas, is the company's love affair with Japanese RPGs made real.
It offers around 16 hours worth of story mode, with full voice acting and magnificently-detailed locations, each rendered in full 3D. There's eight companions which you can pick up along the way, with three able to fight alongside you in traditional turn-based action. And, there's even a stack of side quests to complete, that will extend and expand the game's shelf life. In short, it's the Final Fantasy-style title fans of the genre have been waiting for.
Certainly, if you've played a Japanese RPG or two, you'll feel at home with Eternal Legacy. Everything seems reassuringly familiar, from the control method and save points to the power ups and combat system. It sticks to the tried and trusted, and works beautifully for it.
The turn-based fighting is ideal for mobile gaming (Eternal Legacy is also coming for iPad) as you wouldn't want to lose vital hit points just because you have to let a fellow passenger past on a train. However, it's not quite staccato; there is a flow to it, thanks to an action bar that fills in real time, only allowing moves to be undertaken once filled.
Also, your companions - which you can swap in and out in the menu system - will fight and use special moves in their own time, allowing you to concentrate on your own character. Instead, you are encouraged to change an NPC's focus, such as set them to prioritise healing. It's a set-up that works brilliantly on a portable device.
Graphically, Eternal Legacy is exceptional; even the small amount of the game Pocket-lint has played so far is rich in colour and detail. It is a prime example of how far iPhone gaming has come in a short space of time. And it has a deep, rich soundtrack to match.
We're definitely waiting with baited breath for the final product to come to the App Store. Expect it to hit at normal Gameloft prices (around £3.99 for iPhone and iPad).
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I was in Woolies (Woolworths) grocery shopping and I came across a plaster Obama. I love tacky stuff like this. One, because it's kitsch and kitsch is beautiful in an ugly odd way – a bit like myself – and these things – as ghastly as they are – appreciate in value. It made the whole day worthwhile. A friend suggested putting him in my new office. I don't want to personalize the office. Why? I want it to be purely for work and nothing else. Work will never be my life.
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Shine Your Shoes, Mista?
This column, like many of my columns and days of my week, takes place at an airport. It is true that art imitates life.
I had just gotten to Philadelphia. As it turns out, it is not the city of brotherly love. Rather the city of frighteningly persistent shoeshine men. "Phil," taken from a possible name of the shoeshine guy, and "adelphia" taken from the latin for "cable network."
I, like all good airline passengers who have checked bags do, went to the baggage claim area. Right away, a man approached me with an offer to shine my shoes. I politely declined, laughing to myself about how the shoes I was wearing, like most things purchased at Target, were unshinable. The only footwear less shinable than what I was wearing would have been flip flops.
The man, like his sales motivation tapes must have instructed him, did not take "no thank you" for an answer. Well, he took it, but ignored it.
"Only three dollars," he explained.
"Oh," he expected me to say. "Only three dollars? Well then shine my unshinable shoes, I'm steppin' out!"
Three dollars was practically the price for the shoes. I again politely declined, this time saying, "That's a good deal, but no thank you." I didn't want a shine, nor would I pay three dollars for one done while I was standing up, but there was no reason to discourage him from bothering other people.
"I'll do a really good job," he further explained.
"Oh," he expected me to say. "A good job? I assumed at such a bargain price, this would be an amateur shine. But now that I know your shoe shine skills, shine me up! I'm steppin' out!"
I don't know why he kept expecting me to say that I'm stepping out, but he did.
I again politely declined, this time saying, "I just shined them." If he didn't know they couldn't be shined, how would he know I hadn't already shined them? Perhaps, while purchasing a hearty libation, I ran into his rival shoe-shiner JP Wigginsbottom, who charged me just $2.75. Wigginsbottom, you crafty scallawag.
"Please?" he pathetically asked.
I wanted to be polite. I also wanted to tell him that my job doesn't require me to own shoes, let shine them. But I needed to put my unshiny foot down.
"No," I said. "I do not want a shoeshine."
"Only three dollars," he said again, restarting the only sales pitch he was trained to give.
It was pathetic, and I thought about giving him the three dollars to help him and so he'd go away. My heart was bleeding, but my head was getting more than annoyed.
"No," I said even more sternly and focused on finding my bags so that I could fix the handles I'm sure the baggage handlers broke. See? I had better ways to spend that three dollars.
My bags came a few minutes later, just about the time my phone rang. So with bags in each hand and over each shoulder, and with my phone resting between my ear and one of my bags, I felt a tap on my arm.
"I'll do a good job," said a voice behind me.
And that's when I lost it and killed everyone in the airport. Okay, so I just rejected the man for the sixth time and walked away. Slowly, so I wouldn't drop my phone as I muttered "six times!" in disbelief.
I am torn about the situation. Everyone has a right to make a living, but this guy was being impossibly frustrating. Why should his living interfere with my day? Perhaps some people enjoy the option of getting a standup shoeshine at the airport, which is why he was tolerated by security. But if security wants him there, the airport should build him a booth. Nothing fancy - you've got to keep your overhead low if you only charge $3 for a shine.
I didn't tell any of the guards how pushy the man was to get him tossed, as I easily could have. I figured that while I was annoyed by him, I'd rectify my torn-ness by letting him stick around to annoy other people. Besides, I was in the city of brotherly love, right?
And I, like any humor columnist would, thought it was funny to watch him approach someone else.


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Ron Livingston was on hand for HBO's WWII "Pacific" premiere Wednesday night, but didn't mind when the subject changed to an upcoming project, "Dinner for Schmucks."
Livingston just completed the two-month shoot for the comedy featuring some of the biggest names in comedy, and recalled a set full of belly-laughs.
"With Steve Carell, Paul Rudd and Zach Galifianakis, I was often dying laughing on the set. For two months," Livingston told Popcorn Biz. "You gotta think we can get 90 good minutes from this."
Given that cast and a great premise, we tend to agree. Based on a classic French comedy, it features Paul Rudd as a rising exec who has a monthly dinner in which losers ("schmucks") are invited and discreetly mocked. The pal who brings the most obnoxious guest, wins. Livingston plays one of Rudd's pals who does his own "schmuck" trolling.
"It's in the can, but you never know how it's going to work until you cross the finish line," says Livingston. "But I wouldn't bet against us in this."
Livingston had a minor and spirited reunion with his "Band of Brothers" castmates at the HBO event for the new chapter of the World War II story. As to which military group -- "Band of Brothers" versus "The Pacific" -- makes for better fighters, he offered this:
"Who'd win in a straight fight?" he smiled, refusing to answer the question. "We got experience and they're about 10 years younger." Then he pointed out that the European war ended long before the Pacific.


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Anyway, I've had my theories for a while about what might happen in the flick, based mostly on watching the trailer ten or so times. I watched the 2003 Director's Cut of Alien on Blu-ray just last week, and today I watched the original '79 theatrical version with Scott's 1999 DVD commentary track. Between the two viewings, I've noticed quite a few things that lead me to some conclusions about what Prometheus might entail.
The first viewing, years after I'd last seen the film, I noticed that the xenomorphs', or Giger creatures', eggs are veiled not only in an atmospheric "mist," as Kane calls it, but also by a kind of barrier. Then the action that triggers the first facehugger's actual hatching is when Kane physically touches the top of the egg.
After listening to the '99 commentary track by Scott, he seems to confirm my conclusion, which is this: the eggs are in a kind of containment field -- or, as Scott calls it, a kind of "placenta" -- that has kept them preserved for quite some time.
Furthermore, Scott offers his basic explanation of the relationship between the xenomorph eggs, the Space Jockey and the Derelict. He feels that the Space Jockey must be one of a once larger crew who have obviously been dead for a long time, but jokes that he has no idea what happened to the others (this, I think, was probably the creative impetus for doing this pseudo-prequel in the first place, but I digress). The eggs, then, must have been -- according to Scott's explanation -- weaponized creatures on board as military cargo.
So: While I don't think we will get to actually see any Giger aliens on-screen in Prometheus, I certainly think we'll see a facehugger or two, or at least the eggs themselves. If I recall correctly, there is a hole in the deck of the Derelict's bridge, which looks to have been eaten away by acid prior to the Nostromo crew's arrival; that suggests that someone in Prometheus will probably get attacked by a facehugger. My partly unfounded estimate, though, is that no one in the film will actually get a xenomorph embryo successfully implanted inside them.
Scott has said that the film contains a scene comparable in effect to the infamous chest-birthing scene from the original film, and elsewhere mentions something about a character performing a C-section on herself. This doesn't sound like something that would work for ridding oneself of a xenomorph, since it hatches from the chest, rather than the uterus.
My theory, purely speculative, is that the Space Jockey is . . . either Charlize Therone's character, who we see little of in the trailer, or David, the android played by Michael Fassbender. His character feels ominous and morally ambiguous in the various viral campaign videos that have cropped up online, and moreover, the trailer seems to suggest that the antagonist in this film will be born from a sticky green goo of sorts, which might lead to a kind of Invasion of the Body Snatchers symbiosis, which in the arena of science-fiction cinema could radically alter a character's appearance.
If David's body is composed of Gigeresque "biomechanical" components, or even synthetic DNA, then it doesn't seem too much of a stretch to think that the Space Jockey might be the result of alien DNA meshing with humankind's synthetic biotech work. (Plus, I think it would be cool to watch an android merge with an alien symbiote and then rebel against its human creators.)
I imagine Fassbender serving as the similar Ash character, or even the chilling "Archos" from Daniel H. Wilson's Robopocalypse, who remarks:
You humans are biological machines designed to create ever more intelligent tools. You have reached the pinnacle of your species. All your ancestors' lives, the rise and fall of your nations, every pink and squirming baby -- they have all led you here, to this moment, where you have fulfilled the destiny of humankind and created your successor. You have expired. You have accomplished what you were designed to do.
Chilling, right? Almost as chilling as Fassbender's one-liner, "Big things have small beginnings." Again . . . I don't think I'm stretching this too far. Besides, the original Scott film begins with the Nostromo answering a distress signal of unknown origin, which leads them to the Derelict, where they conclude that it was sent by the Space Jockey itself. I could see Scott ending the film with an android-alien abomination dying, perhaps at the hands of a facehugger or one of the main protagonists, sending one last cry for help across the stars, toward Earth and humanity -- who send the crew of the Nostromo and Ash, years later, on a suicide mission to bring home an unstoppable militarized alien . . .
ETA: I know that it's maybe more logical on the surface that the Space Jockey is the intended pilot of the Derelict, but I don't think so. That the film takes place on LV-223 instead of LV-426 suggests the Derelict may originate underground in LV-223 and later get commandeered by either a protagonist or David-in-Space-Jockey-form. Talk in the trailer implies that the sticky green goo invited humankind to LV-223, so I'm thinking the goo needed a biological host in which to rise again. David, unfeeling for humankind, would probably be more than willing to show them the way home — to Earth.
Anything else is either too obvious to mention or too nebulous to back up with anything resembling even the flimsiest of evidence. What y'all think? Is this movie gonna kick ass or what?


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Silk Screening Conductive Paint Part 2[edit]
Last week we tried silk screening silver conductive paint (MGchemicals 842-20G) onto two different types of fabric, but had no luck. Neither fabric showed low resistance, despite our shaking the paint. How could conductive paint possibly not conduct?!
Well, it turns out that the key was to 'stir' the paint vigorously. The metal particles had settled at the bottom and formed its own "layer" with a consistency of a swamp-like mud. After stirring, we silk screened on the two fabrics and got successful electrical connection. We were able to thread conductive thread through with a needle and light up an LED through a circuit that went from the power supply through conductive thread and conductive paint to the LED, then to ground.
We tested out different paint techniques (silk screen vs paint on by brush) on our two different fabrics (water-resistant polyester vs leather-like fabric) for durability:
- Silk screening on the "leather"-like fabric didn't survive our wear and tear testing. The paint cracked when we wrinkled the fabric.
- Silk screening on the polyester survived wear and tear, though the silver particles started dusting off when I (Chung-Hay) scratched it with my nails. We'd say this is not cat-proof.
- Painting on the "leather"-like fabric definitely didn't survive wear and tear. The paint cracked when we wrinkled the fabric.
- Painting on the polyester survived wear and tear with no noticeable differences compared to silk screening.
We then turned to testing the fabric we used for the actual screen in silk screening. That porous fabric turned out to be better than either fabrics. The conductive paint soaked into the holes between the weaves. We successfully threaded conductive thread to the painted wires and were able to light up and LED.
Addition note: silk screening required more paint than just painting with a brush over a stencil.
From our experimentation, we have concluded that the best way to draw our circuit will be to paint by brush over a stencil on porous fabric.
Soldering on Conductive Paint[edit]
Soldering on conductive paint was remarkably easy. The solder tins onto the paint nicely! Surface mount LEDs were easy to solder directly onto the painted fabric. The conduction was very solid, better than the soldering connection on regular PCB. The fabric literally becomes integrated with the paint and solder.
We term our circuit-making creation a painted circuit.
Stencil Idea[edit]
Looking at the circuit in the choker that we have, you can just layout traces and have nice contact pads. We envision a "fake tie" armature, like this:
The traces at the bottom could be soldered to a header if they were spaced right. Hopefully making holes through the fabric will be easy.
Heart Rate Sensor Parts[edit]
We're exploring methods of filtering and amplifying the signal. There is a interesting part which does some filtering right inside the device: digikey EE-SY310.
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My mom requested another CD calendar this year, so I am trying to whip one up for Christmas (don't read this mom!) It really is fun to make these as it's sort of a recap of the year and fun to look back at all we've done.
To keep it simple, but pretty, I decided to use one of Kayleigh's clusters on each page. I love her pocket and readymade stuff! Of course, I couldn't do it without Katie's templates either!!!
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text: Pili Blasco is the third of the Blasco siblings (among which Jesús Blasco is the most famous). She began her career in comics in the 1940s, drawing for the magazine Mis Chicas. For this girls magazine, she drew among others 'La Vida de Quique', 'El Castillo de Oro', 'La Feota Chiquitina', 'Historias de Insectos' and several stories with the 'Mariló' character. She also contributed to Chicos, the weekly run by Consuelo Gil of which Mis Chicas was subsidiary. She created the 'Lalita' character for Florita Magazine. In addition she worked for publishers Augusta and Gilsa. By the 1960s Pili Blasco was no longer working on comics whereas her three brothers stablished themselves as a team.


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Paris Hilton is No Mother Theresa
When I read that an Indian filmmaker wanted to cast Paris Hilton as Mother Theresa, I thought it made sense. Neither ate much, and both led a lifestyle that could have ended in disease.
A story in the AFP, which apparently stands for "Are you Freaking Plastered?" said that filmmaker T. Rajeevnath saw a computer-generated match between the saint and the sinner. So now the award winning director is looking to cast Paris in the springtime, meeting with her to discuss the movie.
"So, like, I'm playing a nun or something?"
"And I, like, help lepers and stuff?"
"That's hot."
The story, which came out of Thiruvananthapuram, is harder to swallow than your tongue while pronouncing "Thiruvananthapuram."
All jokes about a greenish night vision version of Mother Theresa's life story aside (okay, not aside, but postponed a few paragraphs) I need to address the fact that Paris Hilton can't act. A 54-year-old director renowned for Malayalam-language films, best known for his touching story of seven nuns who care for an abandoned baby, is looking to cast the slut from House of Wax. You'd think anyone smart enough to correctly pronounce Thiruvananthapuram would know better.
House of Wax was a great movie. It involved otherwise wax creatures coming to life briefly. Pretty much the same plot as her sex tape.
I can't imagine this film turning out well. Mother Theresa's hunger strike wasn't so she could fit into a pair of Seven jeans. I would be shocked if Paris Hilton even knew who Mother Theresa was. When she first got that phone call, she had to have said, "what? My mother's name isn't Theresa! Nicole, is this you?"
T. Rjeenath, who is such a good filmmaker that he doesn't need a first name, has got to be doing this for publicity. Or maybe his name is Thiruvananthapuram, and he abbreviated to save valuable column space. Either way, he can't be serious about this. I just don't want to live in a world where Paris Hilton can be Mother Theresa.
I don't want to see Gary Busey as John F. Kennedy. I don't want to see Son of Sam as Mahatma Gandhi. And I don't want to see a racist bimbo playing one of the kindest people in world history. I probably wouldn't watch the movie anyway. But this is all the more reason.
I don't understand how Paris could look like a young Mother Theresa. Mother Theresa had a glow in her eyes that comes from hope and compassion. Paris has a glow in her eyes that comes from herpes. Okay, I don't know if she has herpes. But would you be surprised?
"Paris Hilton has herpes? No! Really? No! There's no way! Did she get it while caring for those orphans?"
It is T.'s prerogative to cast who he wants in his films. And while I wouldn't watch the movie, I would like to see some clips. I'd be interested to see Paris try an Albanian accent.
"What do you mean, like Albany?"
That's hot.


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Natalie Portman's upcoming Western movie "Jane Got A Gun" has suffered another blow after the film's latest leading man Bradley Cooper reportedly dropped out of the cast.
The project hit headlines in March when Michael Fassbender quit due to scheduling conflicts with "X-Men: Days of Future Past," and days later studio bosses were forced to hunt for a new director after Lynne Ramsay failed to show up on the first day of production.
Actor Jude Law and moviemaker Gavin O'Connor were called in to save the project, but the Brit then bowed out of the cast and Cooper stepped up to take his place.
However, "The Hangover" hunk has now walked away from the movie, according to Deadline.com.
The reason for Cooper's departure is not known but Jake Gyllenhaal, Tobey Maguire, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Tom Hiddleston are among the actors rumored to be in talks for the lead.


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Redditor GreenLeavesDryHeaves needed somewhere to put his iPhone. What he had was a lot of Lego and creativity. One "lazy" weekend was all he needed to create this crystal-powered, minifig-operated work of art.
Now if only he could create a human-sized version for the living room. That would be a throne befitting of the classiest of tushes. [Reddit via TechEBlog]


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Milestone-Proposal:Bell Telephone Laboratories 1925 - 1984
Docket #:2011-03
This Proposal has been approved, and is now a Milestone Nomination
This is a draft proposal, that has not yet been submitted. To submit this proposal, click on "Edit with form", check the "Submit this proposal for review" box at the bottom, and save the page.
Is the achievement you are proposing more than 25 years old?
Is the achievement you are proposing within IEEE's fields of interest? (e.g. "the theory and practice of electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering, as well as computer science, the allied branches of engineering and the related arts and sciences" – from the IEEE Constitution)
Did the achievement provide a meaningful benefit for humanity?
Was it of at least regional importance?
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Has the owner of the site agreed to have it designated as an Electrical Engineering Milestone? Yes
Year or range of years in which the achievement occurred:
1925 to 1984
Title of the proposed milestone:
Bell Telephone Laboratories 1925 - 1984
Plaque citation summarizing the achievement and its significance:
In what IEEE section(s) does it reside?
North Jersey
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Please note: your email address and contact information will be masked on the website for privacy reasons. Only IEEE History Center Staff will be able to view the email address.
Street address(es) and GPS coordinates of the intended milestone plaque site(s):
600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, NJ 07974
Describe briefly the intended site(s) of the milestone plaque(s). The intended site(s) must have a direct connection with the achievement (e.g. where developed, invented, tested, demonstrated, installed, or operated, etc.). A museum where a device or example of the technology is displayed, or the university where the inventor studied, are not, in themselves, sufficient connection for a milestone plaque.
Please give the address(es) of the plaque site(s) (GPS coordinates if you have them). Also please give the details of the mounting, i.e. on the outside of the building, in the ground floor entrance hall, on a plinth on the grounds, etc. If visitors to the plaque site will need to go through security, or make an appointment, please give the contact information visitors will need.
The proposed milestone plaque would be located in the lobby or in the Hall of Innovation museum adjacent to the lobby of Building 6, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, 600 Mountain Ave, Murray Hill, NJ, within the IEEE North Jersey Section.
Are the original buildings extant?
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How is the site protected/secured, and in what ways is it accessible to the public?
The Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs Building 6 lobby and the Hall of Innovation has security protection. The building lobby would be accessible to the public at a milestone dedication ceremony and during business hours according to the Alcatel-Lucent building security procedures.
Who is the present owner of the site(s)?
Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs
A letter in English, or with English translation, from the site owner(s) giving permission to place IEEE milestone plaque on the property:
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What is the historical significance of the work (its technological, scientific, or social importance)?
Bell Labs transformed the way people communicate at work and home through the invention and development of many technical innovations that were necessary for the modern tele-communication systems and other advanced technologies. From its founding in 1925, Bell Telephone Laboratories made numerous significant contributions to telecommunications and related fields that led to the information age and the digital era. Some of these contributions include: information theory, systems engineering, digital signal processing, digital transmission and switching, data networking, cellular systems, (800) service, the transistor, solar cell, integrated circuit technology, communication satellites, high capacity undersea cable, touch-tone dialing, voice and video compression, and the Unix operating system.
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As a regulated monopoly, it had to share it's innovations with others under terms of the federal government's regulatory agreements.
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References to establish the dates, location, and importance of the achievement: Minimum of five (5), but as many as needed to support the milestone, such as patents, contemporary newspaper articles, journal articles, or citations to pages in scholarly books. At least one of the references must be from a scholarly book or journal article.
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Have you joined our Facebook community? It's a fun place to connect with other ambitious young professionals!
Ever dream of chucking the stability of your corporate job to follow your passion? Picture yourself basking in the benefits of the freedom and serenity that comes with being your own boss?
It's a good dream, one that's becoming increasingly popular. But before you decide to make the leap to full-time entrepreneurship, know that there's more to successfully following your passion than enthusiasm—a lot more. Especially if you actually want to earn money and support yourself (and maybe even your family).
During a decade working in a human resources department, I had a front row look into the reasons why employees join or leave an organization. And what type of person did I see again and again? Those who wanted to return to the traditional workforce after trying unsuccessfully to make a living by following their passion.
The reason they couldn't make their ventures work almost always had nothing to do with passion, and everything to do with lacking critical business knowledge.
Here's what I learned from studying these folks—let's call them "paused entrepreneurs." Let their missteps help you decide whether now is the right time for you to strike out on your own, or whether you should stick it out a bit longer in your traditional job to gather some critical business skills.
1. Working for someone else teaches you how to be a boss
Working as an employee in a company that's owned and managed by someone else helps you understand the annoyances of being an employee and teaches you how to manage work-flow processes and balance competing demands. It also gives you the opportunity to test your own work capacity levels and expectations, without risking your business falling apart.
When you have a boss, you're also learning how to be a boss. That means you're learning about how you best take direction, leadership actions you would like to emulate or forget, how efficient delegation works and how to bite your tongue when speaking with a superior.
The paused entrepreneurs I interacted with often said they were completely unaware of how much work it takes to build their own business; they didn't know their own capacity. When their workload piled up quickly to the point of them needing assistance, they were unable to effectively manage the responsibility that comes with additional staff. Many tried to hire an assistant and found they were even more miserable being a boss, as they had no prior experience managing someone.
The lesson: if you haven't spent enough time as an employee, you might find it difficult to succeed as a manager.
2. Understanding office politics will make you a better communicator
Office politics exist in every work environment. Yes, take a deep breath. Those politics will provide you with ample opportunities to hone several business acumen muscles, such as how to influence others. Be sure to learn how to get your point across without stepping on your colleague's toes—an essential component to business success.
While you're at your traditional job, figure out how to work with the most difficult person in the office. It may not be fun while you're doing it, but it will provide you with a preview of all of the different personalities you'll come across when you're on your own.
When difficult customers cross your path down the road, you'll be prepared to handle them under pressure with class and grace.
3. Observing how a business works (rather than working with your head down) will help you and your business in the long run
You can learn so much more about how a business works by asking questions, observing your surroundings and seeking out new experiences.
Instead of simply punching a clock, figure out:
- How is the company you work for profitable?
- What do they spend money on?
- How do they generate recurring income?
- How do they find their customers?
Put on your spy hat while you're in a safe environment and seek out the decision makers, idea generators and budget keepers to get a full scope of the business model. Then copy what you can by applying the lessons you learned to your own venture.
Creating a profitable business was one of the biggest challenges that sent paused entrepreneurs back into the traditional workforce. Understanding how to generate sales and maintain profitability was the biggest stumbling block—and it's one you can avoid by learning on the job.
4. Try out entrepreneurship before committing full-time
For many paused entrepreneurs, the idea of being their own boss was more liberating than the reality. Before making the leap, take a week or two of vacation days and act as if you're already running your business full-time. Being your own boss does come with expansive freedom, but it also comes with wide-reaching responsibility, isolation and plenty of regular office job menial work—like creating invoices and replacing the printer cartridge, tasks someone else might do for you when you're an employee at a big company.
If you start your business on the side at first, you can turn it into a side hustle while giving yourself time to test your sea legs and generate income. You'll be able to weigh your business model and levity of decision making and figure out a work environment that works for you.
Following your passion is a huge step into the unknown and includes all of the scary and exciting things that come with being your own boss. But to make your first leap your last one, be sure you have gathered as many business skills as you can from a profitable, stable and established business. Your firsthand experience working for someone else will be invaluable for succeeding at your own business.
Melissa Anzman is a career coach, blogger and author of Stop Hating Your Job. A former human resources insider who helps people fall in love with their jobs again, Melissa lives in Atlanta and blogs at Loosen Your White Collar.
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You are Catholic Charities. Your caring and generosity brings hope to life for those most in need.
Often we are blind to the needs right here in our own communities. People hurting or struggling don't always know where to turn for help. That is why Catholic Charities provides specialized services to people of all faiths, to make sure Central Washington families can find the support they need to bring hope back to their lives. Helping the most vulnerable among us, Catholic Charities is the compassionate face of Jesus to nearly 50,000 people throughout Central Washington each year. The challenge to serve our brothers and sisters comes from Jesus in Matthew 25: "Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me."Learn About Us
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Mortgage rates have been relatively consistent, but don't let that get you too comfortable. Rates are changing all the time --by how much, and whether it will be in your favor, we cannot say. We can make intelligent guesses, but we can't predict with any certainty.
However, that doesn't mean that you are entirely powerless when it comes to taking charge of the mortgage rate you qualify for.
You hold a lot of power, including the ability to qualify for a lower rate by improving your credit score, buying points, and exploring the rates of various home loan options.
And here is another idea for getting a low mortgage rate in an uncertain market: get a floating mortgage rate.
Bookmark this post for future reference and read on to understand the difference between a locked-in rate versus a floating rate.
"Locking" a mortgage rate means the interest rate won't change from the time we offer it to you until the closing of your loan. When the rate rises—as they're expected to—your rate won't budge. Sounds great, right? It is!
However, you should know that there are a few stipulations to a mortgage rate lock, such as:
Even with a locked rate, some circumstances can still cause a locked rate to adjust, namely:
There is also a fee associated with locking in a rate, and the longer the rate lock term, the higher the fee. Plus, if the rate drops, you won't be able to take advantage of the lower rate—unless you have a "float down" option.
A "float down" option means that you're able to reduce your interest rate if market conditions cause rates to drop during your lock term. This mortgage rate option is dependant on the daily market fluctuations. So if the interest rate goes up by the time you close on your mortgage, you'll lose some buying power.
But if the rate falls, you'll gain some buying power.
Choosing to float your mortgage rate is considered riskier because one can't truly predict what rates will do from one day to the next. But the potential for savings is very attractive, which is why many mortgage applicants choose it.
When rates are decreasing steadily from week to week, it might be a good idea to float it. There's a chance you'll get a better rate when it's time for the loan transaction to take place.
On the other hand, if rates a less steady or are moving higher, then you'll want to lock in your rates.
How much can a rate impact your monthly mortgage payment? Let's look at an example. A mortgage payment on a $200,000 home at a 4.5 percent interest rate would be $1,013. However, at a 4.75 percent interest rate, the payment would be $1,043.
That $30 difference that adds up to nearly $400 over a year!
Need more personalized guidance about interest rates and which you should choose based on the current market? Call us! We're your local mortgage experts, and we look forward to serving you.


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"Inglourious Basterds" star Diane Kruger has credited boyfriend Joshua Jackson with transforming her from a city slicker to a backpacker.
The pretty German model-turned-actress admits she had never been camping before the former "Dawson's Creek" star suggested a rustic break at the beginning of their romance – and now she can't wait for their next adventure together.
She says, "My partner loves backpacking and being outside. At first I was like, 'I don't know … the tents, the backpacking,' and then we started going on these amazing trips and he converted me. We did Australia one year and Patagonia."
And Kruger tells WENN that one recent trip to Chile was a dream come true for both of them: "I just went to Chile and climbed the volcano that was 18,600 feet. That was pretty insane and amazing. Chile was always his (Jackson) dream and when he finished 'Fringe' – that was my Christmas gift to him. It was amazing.
"We saw icebergs and climbed the volcano. We saw Bolivia in front of us and Argentina on the other side. It was magical. We had no phones and no connection. It was just the two of us and climbing.
"You never enjoy the moment in L.A.. There's so much anxiety about, 'What's the next gig? Who's the next hot thing?' It drives you crazy after awhile and there (in Chile) we had no television and we don't know what's going on; time stands still. It's so amazing because you feel like you live and you get something out of life. You come back a different person."