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Schogol wrote:I don't know why I think this. I'm not a mind-reader, nor even the resident Cassandra, but I suspect that there will actually be no development for public consumption of Poco/Barca in spite of all protestations to the contrary.
Schogol wrote:Gleason, as I said I'll hang on a bit longer, but I'm keeping my eyes out for a client that is still breathing.
Since I paid for it -- twice -- I don't feel bad about abandoning it. If anyone has tried something else and likes it, please let me know.
roadrunner wrote:Hello,
Has anyone from this forum tried the PIM from Chaos Software, and, if so, what is your opinion?
Thank you.
Gleason Pace wrote:I see there is still traffic in the beta forum.
Come on, that's really not fair.660207 wrote:Seems to be a dead program with an exorbitant price
Eric wrote:Come on, that's really not fair.660207 wrote:Seems to be a dead program with an exorbitant price
Poco/Barca are not overpriced
Eric wrote:and further more development is still going on.
We'll have to wait for a new beta build until Slaven irons out the bugs already reported.
Same as Tomas already posted, so please refrain from discrediting PSI and their software.
DaveP wrote:I last paid $35.96 CDN for the 4.0 upgrade in 2005. Three and a half years usage for $40 is pretty good value in my books.
The main reason I purchased Pocomail (in 2002) was security protection. MS Outlook targeted viruses were running rampant back then. Pocomail eliminated the problem.
Pocomail is dependable. It does the job for me. I don't use IMAP, and I cannot be bothered with HTML. I strip all received messages of HTML. I am only interested in the content.
An update/upgrade would be interesting, but how would it benefit me?
Dave P
Gleason Pace wrote:
For many of us though, it is broke.
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For the past week, we've been looking at the nine top issues the Red Sox will have to contend with before they start their 2010 season. Do they have the starter they need to go all the way? Does Big Papi still have it? And could we face yet another Sox-Yankees AL showdown? Read the whole series here.
For the past week, we've been looking at the nine top issues the Red Sox will have to contend with before they start their 2010 season. Do they have the starter they need to go all the way? Does Big Papi still have it?And could we face yet another Sox-Yankees AL showdown? Read the whole series here.
PART 1: Red Sox starting rotation has the potential to be great
Jumping the gun aside, but the Red Sox do appear to have a lockdown starting rotation in Josh Beckett, Jon Lester, John Lackey, Daisuke Matsuzaka and Clay Buchholz. Heck, Tim Wakefield likely won't crack the starting five. But that old "you can't have enough pitching" tenet isn't just idle talk. The Sox thought they were pretty well set last season until Matsuzaka went kablooey and Wakefield hit a wall in July, when he was leading the league in wins. Read more.
PART 2: Sox searching to replace the offense of departed Jason Bay
Throughout most of the last decade, the one thing that has been a hallmark of the Red Sox has been offense. It's mostly been in the form of power, from Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz, to the slamming efficiency of Kevin Youkilis and Dustin Pedroia. As the Sox head into 2010, though, there are only suggestions of the power that had blessed them. Read more.
PART 3: Red Sox get defensive
The Boston Red Sox won only 86 games in 2006 and failed to make the playoffs, but they were winners in one area: defense. Wasted was a club-record low 66 errors, far outdistancing the second-best defensive team in the league, Houston. Read more.
PART 4: Smart money is on the Red Sox
The economy is barely improving, people are still out of work, markets continue to lag and businesses are cutting back like there's no tomorrow, so it would seem that the Red Sox would be in a similar predicament, right? Wrong. Read more.
PART 5: Will it be another 2-team horse race in the AL East?
Baseball Prospectus is the highly regarded organization that performs exhaustive analysis of the major leagues, having devised its "Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm" method as a means of predicting the future. In its future for the 2010 season: The Red Sox atop the A.L. East. Read more.
PART 6: Padres slugger Gonzalez could find his way to Boston
Adrian Gonzalez is a great player, which is exactly why he's playing himself out of San Diego. Due to make $4.75 million in '10, with an '11 club option of $5.5 million, on a team with a 2009 payroll of $43 million, he'll soon be too rich for the blood of a second-echelon club that won't be doing anything or going anywhere this season. All of which means that Red Sox ears perked up a long time ago, and they're still enamored with the possibility of adding him. Read more.
PART 7: Is David Ortiz still Big Papi?
Good to know that David Ortiz hadn't lost his sense of humor when he reported to spring training on Feb. 22. When the first question to him dealt with his condition, the Red Sox slugger said, "You ought to see me naked." Since nobody was really interested in that, they were anxious to see how he was stroking the ball once he underwent a physical. That certainly was a problem during the early part of last season. Read more.
PART 8: Red Sox have talent down on the farm
Not a year goes by that the Red Sox don't have to depend on their minor leaguers for some support. In 2004, Kevin Youkilis was called upon to play 72 games. In 2007, Jacoby Ellsbury played 33 games in the regular season and then batted .438 as a World Series starter. Yet, you look at the current Red Sox roster and you wonder where a youngster from the farm will ever get a break, let alone make a positive contribution. Yet, you know better. The fact is, the Red Sox' farm system, seemingly a bit depleted a year ago, is primed and ready to do just that. Read more.
PART 9: Can the Sox catchers fully complement the upgraded starting rotation?
The toughest part of the Red Sox catching situation was made a whole lot easier when longtime starter Jason Varitek exercised his $3 million option to return as the backup to Victor Martinez. Varitek has been nothing but positive and accepting of his plight, realizing there weren't any takers for a soon-to-be 38-year-old who has batted .217 with a .316 OBP and .377 slugging average over the previous two seasons. Read more.

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So you take issue with the current U.S. health care system: Why is it considered 'Progressive' to nationalize it?
Nationalizing anything is about as non-progressive as it gets. Actual progress in human government was made when America was founded and power was taken away from government and divided with the separation of powers – but for some reason – it is referred to as 'progressive' (i.e. making progress) to go back and hand power back to government.
It's like The Chewbacca Defense. That does not make sense.


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Astronomers around the world are looking forward with excitement to the "eclipse of the century" on August 21. You can see very deep into space at Teide Observatory on the island of Tenerife.
Dr. Miquel Serra's work day on the island of Tenerife begins at nightfall, with an evening meal of chicken, fries and a glass of water. From the dining room, Serra, 51, looks out onto an arid, volcanic universe 2400 meters above sea level. Black rock, green broom, scree and not a tree in sight, and far below, a layer of cloud. Beyond that, the coast, and in the west, an orange sun sinks into the Atlantic. Earlier in the day, the scientist had taken a look at the current NASA coordinates and checked the weather: perfect visibility, no moon, no dust in the atmosphere. "Fantastic conditions," says Serra, pushing his plate aside. The sky will soon be full of stars, meaning that Serra will probably get a good look at some asteroids circling somewhere beyond the sun, more than 200 million kilometers away.
The roof of Tenerife is ideal for gazing deep into space. The Observatorio del Teide on the flanks of this Canary island's volcano is the world's most famous observatory – along with its sisters in Hawaii and Chile. Stars fill the sky on eighty-five out of a hundred nights here, and low-lying cloud usually deflects all artificial light. Mount Teide is one of the darkest places on earth; the sky above it is even off-limits to aircraft, which means a clear view of space for the scientists.
Serra is chief astronomer at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, his workplace for the past 25 years. He gives lectures all over the world and teaches at the university of La Laguna, but spends most of his time on his own work. His main focus of research are near-earth asteroids (NEAs), which travel through our solar system at very high speeds. Studying them is more than a job to Serra, it's a passion. He studied physics for ten years before writing his dissertation, Astronomical Applications of Artificial Neuronal Networks, and receiving a professorship. "Just a bunch of theory," he says off-handedly. Astronomy, he adds, is all about mathematics and statistics, but it also deals in a special way with the real world. "Just look up at the sky, the whole universe out there is real!"
Dr. Serra knows better than to imagine things like that – it could drive him insane
At 9 pm, Serra gets up from the table and steps out into the thin air of the moonscape beneath the pointed cone of the Teide volcano. To the east, Gran Canaria juts out of the clouds, and to the west, there's the island of La Palma surrounded by blue sea. The sun dips ever lower toward the horizon. Up here, high above the beaches of the popular vacation island, we are in another world. A gentle wind whistles across the landscape; the air tastes cold and fresh. Everywhere, antennae rise from the dark volcanic earth amid domes and white orbs scattered about like giant astronaut helmets. These contain the astronomers' high-tech telescopes, their mirrors, sensors and cameras all trained on our infinite universe.
Sun, moon and stars
A tropical lagoon, the middle of the desert and a mountaintop are all excellent places from which to look deep into space. The Teide Observatory app permits private viewings on your phone.
More than 20 nations operate various different telescopes on the slopes of Mount Teide, engage in research projects and perform experiments aimed at extracting further secrets from space. They conduct seismological studies of the sun, search for exoplanets (planets that revolve around a star) and carry out laser-based satellite communication or radio telescopic measurements to capture leftover radiation from the Big Bang. The research is a complex form of fieldwork; every night, the scientists collect hundreds of terabytes of data with which to study far-off nebula and galaxies. After all, astronomers have no concrete samples at their disposal. All they have to go by is the light and the radiation from the depths of the cosmos.
The sky over Tenerife glows blood-red as night creeps up on the island from the east. And now, high up on the mountain, a loud whirring fills the air as the domes rise and their hatches slide apart, making them look like giant clams opening their shells. The telescopes appear, their view of the stars now entirely unobstructed. Serra, an old leather cap on his head, takes a few steps down the slope and spreads his arms wide, saying, "The sea below, the peace up hear, the stars and the telescopes – I love this place!"
He opens a door and enters IAC-80, his telescope facility. A narrow corridor, two offices and beyond them, the control room filled with screens, computers and display boards with flickering coordinates, longs lines of figures, parameters and time periods. These represent the positions of stars and asteroids, computations of their orbits and their relative distance to the sun. Mathematical symbols of space; the astronomers' language.
We walk up a couple of steps and through another door behind which we find the wired-up "eye" of the dome – a metal structure equipped with mirrors and lenses that capture and condense the light of the stars: It's the telescope itself. The roof of the dome slides open above our heads. Serra boots up one computer after another, loading files and positions, and aligning the telescope with millimeter precision. On the wall beside his desk, he has photos of galaxies, the Horsehead Nebula and the Rosetta Nebula, mysterious apparitions from the farthest reaches of space. But tonight, Serra is studying something else: the 2014 JO25, an asteroid with a diameter of roughly one kilometer that he's been tracking for two months. Just now, for a few weeks, it will be passing in orbit at 1.5 times the distance from the earth to the sun before disappearing from sight for another three years.
Today, the angle is perfect for capturing and analyzing the asteroid's light. What is the asteroid composed of? How fast is it traveling? Could it be entirely silicon or even contain traces of water? These days, such conclusions can be drawn by analyzing the asteroid's reflections, although it is a Sisyphean task. That's why the scientists enlist the help of a supercomputer called the "LaPalma node." Its 512 processors are able to carry out 4.5 billion calculations per second; modern astrophysics requires this kind of help. Astrophysicists study black holes but also scan the skies for orbiting space debris that could collide with the international space station ISS.
Serra focuses primarily on the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter, which contains over a million chunks of rock, small stars and vagabond debris. Some of these occasionally leave their orbit to hurtle headlong into space. Such mavericks can measure up to ten kilometers across. Some asteroids have even come quite close to earth, passing by only as far away as the moon before whizzing off again. "We are quite familiar with about a thousand of the biggest asteroids," Serra explains, "and what we aim to do is to characterize these and other asteroids even more precisely." Robots could be landing on them one day to explore them as sources of energy, for instance. But it's also a matter of preventing collisions with planet, moons and the earth. What would the consequences of such a collision be? And how can such catastrophes be reliably prevented?
The telescope takes an hour to locate the asteroid. Serra points to one of the screens. There it is! A white dot on a gray background pulling a flimsy trail of light along behind. The telescope takes thousands of pictures, virtually sucking up the light from the celestial body so far away. The images will not be analyzed nor the spectra and wavelengths decoded until later. Now dozens of other white dots are visible beyond the first one. "They're all galaxies," says Serra, "and each one has a diameter of at least 200 million light years. Welcome to outer space." But before long, even the experienced professor starts getting nervous and sends everyone out of the control room, even his assistant. In the next few minutes, he will have to make some important calculations and establish crucial data. He already knows that the asteroid rotates once around its own axis every three hours, but which axes are those? Does it tumble through space? In order to concentrate, Serra needs complete silence. Right now, he's a physicist utterly absorbed in his chosen universe, an astronomer in a state of bliss.
It's long past midnight now and just like most nights, Serra will sit with his data, images and coordinates until three or four in the morning. At 1 am, he spots Johnson C/2015 V2, an asteroid with a diameter of ten kilometers, far beyond the sun. Somewhat later, he watches a comet with a long tail melt near the sun. Small fry. In the end, he is also interested in the big picture, looking for answers to big questions. How was the universe formed? What came before it? What lies beyond its limits?
Serra takes a piece of paper and a pencil and writes down the formula: 0 = 1 + (-1). "It's very simple," he says. Zero is nothingness, the equals sign is the Big Bang, one is matter, negative one is antimatter. "Everything can be reduced to that," he adds. The big question is the equals sign, the Big Bang. Why did it happen? Why did everything, the universe that we know and that experts claim has eleven dimensions, arise out of nothing? Many things can be explained mathematically, but Serra knows better than to try to imagine all of that because it could drive him insane. "I stick to my asteroids because I know what I'm dealing with," he says. Serra steps outside and looks up into the sizzling, blinking, shimmering heavens. The sky over Tenerife is once again teeming with stars.


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Vikas is an experienced engineer/project manager with over 6 years of progressive experience in traffic signal synchronization, traffic microsimulation, transportation planning, bicycle and pedestrian planning, parking studies, safety assessment of transportation facilities, ITS design and planning, statistical and accident modeling and general traffic engineering. He has worked on several traffic signal synchronization projects (over 1000 signals) throughout Orange County, Los Angeles County, Caltrans and San Bernardino County in Southern California and also assisted with previous PASS (Santa Clara) projects. His responsibilities on these projects included signal timing optimization, field finetuning and deployment of optimized signal timing at agencies' Traffic Management Centers as well as field deployment of timing into various signal controllers. He is proficient in variety of software packages including Synchro 8, VISSIM 5.4, SIDRA, Tru-Traffic TS/PP 10.0, Traffix, Cube and AutoCAD. He is a faculty at California State University at Fullerton and has instructed several courses and ran workshops on traffic engineering, signal synchronization and Synchro/Simtraffic and Microsimulation Modeling at local universities and even at California Polytechnic Institute, Pomona in the past.


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Dr. Joyce Brothers, the psychologist whose career included a syndicated column, books, stints on television and in film, has died.
She was 85.
Brothers passed away Monday in New York City, although no cause of death has been revealed.
Brothers first rose to fame by winning the top prize in 1955 while a contestant on 'The $64,000 Question,' becoming the first woman to do so.
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Winning the show opened many doors for her career. She worked as a boxing analyst for CBS before her wealth of knowledge in the psychology field earned her a show, called 'The Dr. Joyce Brothers Show.' It would mark the beginning of a career that lasted over 40 years and saw her appear on everything from 'Happy Days' to 'ALF' to 'Analyze That' to 'The Tonight Show.' She also penned a column for 'Good Housekeeping' that ran for nearly four decades.
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Cloud – Easily the Best File and Link Sharing App for Mac
Ever want to share a file or a picture with your friends instantly? In the past, I used to upload whatever files or pictures I want to share with my buddies to Dropbox or SugarSync and then share it. It is a bit cumbersome as I have to first upload and then share it. Although I have quite a bit of storage on both my Dropbox and SugarSync account, but the files or pictures might not be something that I want to store. That's quite a bit of a problem as that creates a housekeeping chore, that is, I have to remember to go back and delete all those unwanted files.
In come CloudApp (or "Cloud" in the Mac App Store), a free file and link sharing app available on the Mac App Store last week. The app itself been around for some time and this new version 1.5 is a gorgeous makeover which features a chic yet simple interface.
The application, once installed, sits on the menu bar. You can drag any files or picture to it and it will copy the link to whatever you dragged to your clipboard and you can instantly paste it in Twitter, Facebook or email. The uploaded file resides in your CloudApp webpage and another neat thing is there's a view counter to each of the linked files, great for those stats lover.
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Lady Antebellum and The Band Perry Will Also Perform During the Three-Hour Gala
Previously Announced Performers Miranda Lambert and Keith Urban
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Newly inducted Country Music Hall of Fame member Kenny Rogers will receive The Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award during "The 47th Annual CMA Awards" airing WEDNESDAY,NOVEMBER 6 (8:00-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.
Rogers will be honored with a star-studded tribute featuring performances by Jennifer Nettles, Rascal Flatts, and Darius Rucker.
"Kenny Rogers is a living legend and Country Music trailblazer," said Ed Hardy, President of the CMA Board of Directors. "He is more than deserving of this honor and what is sure to be a stellar tribute."
Rogers is a five-time CMA Awards winner with 23 career CMA nominations. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in a Medallion Ceremony Sunday night, celebrating a 5 decade-long career. Rogers has sold more than 120 million records worldwide, recorded 24 No. 1 songs and 12 No. 1 albums, is a New York Times Bestselling author, and recently released his 27th studio album – the critically acclaimed You Can't Make Old Friends, which became his 22nd Top 10 Country album.
The Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award was presented for the first time last year to its namesake. The Lifetime Achievement Award was created and meant to be presented to an iconic artist who has attained the highest degree of recognition in Country Music. The Award recognizes an artist who has achieved both national and international prominence and stature through concert performances, humanitarian efforts, philanthropy, record sales, and public representation at the highest level.
Lady Antebellum and The Band Perry have been added to the list of artists performing during the ceremony, and previously announced performers Miranda Lambert and Keith Urban will perform together on the CMA Awards for the first time.
Nettles is a six-time CMA Awards winner, five of which were for Vocal Duo of the Year as half of Sugarland, and one as a songwriter for penning Song of the Year, "Stay." Sugarland is nominated again for Vocal Duo of the Year, bringing Nettles' career CMA nomination total to 19.
Rascal Flatts have earned seven CMA Awards and 16 nominations over their career. The trio was named Vocal Group of the Year six consecutive times, and also received the Horizon Award (now New Artist of the Year) in 2002.
Rucker is a former CMA New Artist of the Year with four career CMA nominations. He is nominated this year for Single of the Year for "Wagon Wheel," the No. 1 single from his latest album, True Believers. The hit is also nominated for Song of the Year for songwriters Bob Dylan and Ketch Secor.
Lady Antebellum are seven-time CMA Awards winners with 14 career nominations. They've been named CMA Vocal Group of the Year three times, and are nominated again in that category. The trio is also nominated for Music Video of the Year for "Downtown."
The Band Perry, two-time CMA Awards winners, are nominated this year for Vocal Group of the Year — their fourth consecutive nomination in the category. The trio took home the trophy for New Artist of the Year and Single of the Year for "If I Die Young" in 2011. Additionally, Kimberly Perry won Song of the Year for writing the track.
Hosted for the sixth consecutive year by Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood, "The 47th Annual CMA Awards" will air live from the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville.
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- 650g self-raising flour, plus extra to dust
- 3 tsp ground ginger
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- 2 eggs, beaten
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- 2x chocolate flake bars
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- 2x 200g packs white mini marshmallows
- 200g icing sugar, sifted, plus extra for dusting
- coloured lollies, chocolate buttons, sweets
- 30cm square silver cake board
Place the flour, ginger, cinnamon and butter in a food processor and pulse until they resemble breadcrumbs (do this in two batches if the bowl is small). Combine the sugar, treacle and egg in a large mixing bowl. Tip in the flour mix and stir, then bring the dough together with your hands. Turn onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth. Cover and chill for at least 1 hr.
Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Line three baking sheets with non-stick paper. Divide the dough into three and roll out on a floured surface to the thickness of two £1 coins. Using the templates, cut out two each for the roof, sides and two pointed end walls. Lift them onto the baking sheets. Re-roll scraps of dough, then cut out the small trees. Bake for 12 mins or until just firm. Leave to firm up for 5 mins, then transfer to a wire rack to cool.
To assemble the house, pipe a door on an end wall and a window on a side wall, using the squeezy icing. Pipe icing generously along one long edge of one side wall and stick it to the board. Repeat with an end wall, join the corners with a line of icing, then fix a flake bar to the base as a 'foundation'. Stick the remaining walls together. Use another flake bar to support the other end wall. Fix on the roof pieces, then leave overnight to set.
Stick the marshmallows all over the roof, using the decorating icing as glue. Fix chocolate buttons around the door and to cover the corner joins. Pipe icicles along the front edge of the roof using the squeezy icing – start each one with a small pea-sized blob of icing. Pull the icing nozzle downwards and away from the blob – the icing will break off in a jagged 'icicle'. Alternatively, decorate with a line of white chocolate buttons.
Mix the icing sugar with drops of water until you have a thick but spreadable icing. Spread this over the board and decorate with the lollipops (fastened to soft sweets), sweets, chocolate buttons and gingerbread trees. Dust lightly with icing sugar for a snowy effect.
NOTE: To make the templates draw each shape on card or paper, using the following measurements. Side walls: 16cm x 10cm. Roof walls: 19cm x 12cm. End walls: Total height 18cm to the apex. 10cm tall to the top of the box. Angled line 11cm long.


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Monday, May 31, 2010
A very Spesch-al preview
I hope you aren't getting tired of all my posting going on but I've got so many cool things to share right now that I just gotta do it!
So my blog buddy and owner of the fun and fabulous Spesch Designer Stamps, Tracey, invited me to be a guest designer for the month of June and I was delighted to accept the position. When I saw the super cute summer digis that are being released today I was even more excited and couldn't wait to dive right in. :)
Spesch is introducing a new stamp designer, Max, to their range of images and this adorable little summertime dude is one of his designs. As soon as I printed out this cute kiddo visions of a hot beach and cool ocean waves filled my head so I ran with it and created a scene for him to live in on my card. I don't know about you but I'm always thrilled to find cool boy images for my guy cards and this one definitely fits the bill!
There are also three more images being released today that I'll be sharing later in the week but I highly recommend that you head on over to the Spesch blog to see all the fab cards Tracey and her team have created for the previews, I know you're gonna love them! :)
Thanks for stopping by again! Supply list:
cardstock- Bazzill and PTI
paper- Bella Blvd (All Inclusive)
digi stamp- Spesch Designer Stamps (summer boy)
Colorbox dark brown chalk ink
Pebbles eye candy dots
Sakura clear glaze pen
Copic markers:
skin- E00, E21, E13, R20
hair- E97, E99, E37, E59, 0
eyes- B12, B16, B18
clothes- C7, C9, Y13, Y18, Y17, B12, B16, B18, Y38, YR04, YR14, BG0000
scene- E30, E31, E33, E35, B00, B02, B04, B000, BG0000
23 comments:
- Maria Therese said...
Your card is just amazing Amy!!! I loooooooooooooooove your coloring.+ you know how I'm sunned by how you color he hair. So great to have you with us as a guest DT your cards always inspire me so much!!
- May 31, 2010 at 1:17 PM
- Allison said...
Cute! I like the new style you have used a bit lately, using a solid coloured in background... I like the fact that I dont cut off any hair swirls or arms by accident this way! I love the bright summery colours!
- May 31, 2010 at 1:22 PM
- Joy said...
like your boy card...the colors are so vibrant and bright. love the image you used too. I should go and check out those sites. have a wonderful holiday!
- May 31, 2010 at 1:31 PM
- ~* steph :) *~ said...
love your card amy! it's perfect for the summertime! cute boy image! love the colors and how you colored the ocean. so pretty! thanks for sharing :)! have a great day! *hugs* steph :)
- May 31, 2010 at 1:36 PM
- Kimberly S said...
Super cute! The image is adorable and your scene is fabulous! :)
- May 31, 2010 at 1:38 PM
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- May 31, 2010 at 1:46 PM
- Unknown said...
Awesome! I love the image and the bright colors. TFS Big hugs :)
- May 31, 2010 at 1:47 PM
- ♥Rach♥ said...
Ooooh, super fun beach scene!! Love the sand and the waves, great touches :0)
- May 31, 2010 at 2:11 PM
- gobeagirl said...
Amy, you are such a busy lady. I am so amazed by you. I wish I could get this much done like you do. Awesome card. I just love Tracey's stamps. I really love your turtle one this one also...Hugs, Lisa
- May 31, 2010 at 2:16 PM
- Shaela said...
so cute! love the bright fun summer-y colors :)
- May 31, 2010 at 2:29 PM
- Tracey Feeger said...
Absolutely positively cool. He truly is a cool boy image to use for all your boy cards. I do love him and obviously you do too. Great inspiration and can't wait to see your other cards. You rock sweets. I love having you as a GDT.
- May 31, 2010 at 3:07 PM
- Marlene said...
Love this card! The colors are striking and fantastic! The sunglasses look so realistic, too. BEAUTIFUL job!
- May 31, 2010 at 4:45 PM
- Crafty Jenn said...
"Cool dude"!! This turned out great. I don't know where you find the time to do all these challenges, DT spots, work, and run your own stamps. You're a machine!
<3 Jenn
- May 31, 2010 at 5:09 PM
- Alice said...
lovely summery card!!! so cool! love it!
- May 31, 2010 at 5:56 PM
- Sammi said...
Gorgeous Job Amy!! LOVE this little scene you've created!!
- May 31, 2010 at 9:24 PM
- Lysa said...
Oh.. this is too cute! So summery!
- May 31, 2010 at 9:31 PM
- WickedPixie said...
Oooh, I love this fabulous summer card! I always talk about your brilliant ideas and how I love your cheerful, cute style, but you are an amazing colorer (?) too! I can't get over his hair and i want to make it much bigger to study it! :-)Traci
- May 31, 2010 at 10:33 PM
- Angela said...
Oh He is adorable!! Such a cutie!! I love scene you created and his clothes look great!! Hope you had a great long weekend!! Looks like you spent most of the time in your happy place!!! CRAFTING!!!
- June 1, 2010 at 5:22 AM
- Stamping Cafe said...
Super cuteness, Amy!! Love this summer card, and your coloring is amazing!
- June 1, 2010 at 8:34 AM
- RiNNE said...
Wow, wonderful surfing card! I just LOVE his hair! Reminds me of my son's!! We are getting his hair cut today and seeing your creation makes me a bit sad that he'll be losing his long, shaggy hair! Anyway, what a cute card! I want to go out and enjoy some sunshine and surf now!
- June 1, 2010 at 11:52 AM
- donna mikasa said...
How summery cute and speschel! Way to go on the GDT spot--you're gonna rock the month of June!
- June 1, 2010 at 1:11 PM
- Tasha said...
Wow Amy this is fantastic, love the colours and the fabulous scene you have created, awesome papers too
love tasha xx
- June 2, 2010 at 2:43 PM
- Leanne said...
Congratulations!!! This card is perfect for the summer!! Love the scene you set. =)
- June 3, 2010 at 8:12 PM


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More on Saturday's Chelsea visit -
Kim Simonsson at Nancy Margolis - Loved these eerie ceramic beings. They were like sci-fi ghosts, isolated and withdrawn, trying to silently communicate. Figures stood alone or gathered in groups of two or three; it was easy to imagine relationships or messages passing between them and I was surprised when the gallerist told me that a grouping of three together in a small circle was a random arrangement. They had very much seemed to be in a dialogue of gestures - a glossy all-white boy was making a gang sign, a matte-black girl held her arms stiffly at her sides, one fist clenched.
Remember the holographic projection of Princess Leia in Star Wars?
Patricia Piccinini at Robert Miller- I can't help but compare this show, unfavorably, to the Simonsson show. These creatures were more life-like, but also more life-less; stuffed, glassy-eyed specimens. I didn't think of another world or another place, these inert obvious things came from the studio. The hammy cloying tableaux were also irksome - one cuddling in bed with a little boy, one nursing a human infant, one leaping to attack a woman. No mystery, no subtlety.
I didn't like her stuff at Mass Moca's Becoming Animal either, but Roberta and Libby are into it.
UPDATE: Piccinini's website names Richard Mueck as a production assistant. This interview states that "Richard Mueck has been working as a sculptor in the film industry for years, even working on the original Star Wars film in the late 1970s." Is this guy related to Ron Mueck?
Jim Shaw at Metro Pictures - He had a comic-book narrative running along the wall, a discussion between two guys, one of whom is doubting his belief in O. O is the name of the female God of O-ism, Jim Shaw's made-up religion in which time runs backward and ink is evidently the cosmic discombobulator.
Why the chronologically-linear narrative format? The guy shoots up ink and their whole world dissolves, but only after he has the discussion with his friend and after he injects the ink. Hello, concept paging form. Come in, form.
If this tired lazy piece interested you at all I recommend watching Gary Hill's brilliant Why Do Things Get in a Muddle?.
Ludwig Schwarz at Freight + Volume - Catchy video of a frustrated paranoid guy insisting "get the zombies outta here" and if we "put the bed on the other side of the room" we'll get the zombies out. Some kind of crazy man feng-shui. It becomes like a song.
Didn't like his gimmicky painting project though, in which he has Chinese workers produce editions of his old paintings. TIRED.
Tracey Emin at Lehmann Maupin - Wonderful, tender, sensitive, fragile show. Lots of small fabric pieces, white-ish squares on white-ish squares (some just unprimed canvas), most featuring a single, barely-delineated embroidered figure kneeling, crying, or lying down. All of them include quiet, pathetic confessions like "I keep dreaming of you", "always on my own", "want be with u".
Eva & Adele at Claire Oliver - This show was a surprise because it was all paintings. Lots of layers, but everything is visible. A skull becomes a sexy lady becomes a double-portrait of the couple. These paintings are just like them - fun, formal, glittery, sweet, odd puzzles.
John Wesley at Fredericks and Freiser - I liked this one too.


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I'm creating a new website where people will listen to non-stop playlists based on their music preference.
This new service is going to be called "CARDUME.FM". "Cardume" means "shoal" (large group of fish together) in portuguese.
We'd like to target people who just want to listen to music online and find new artists. Just like last.fm, but using Youtube (and other video services) as our source of streaming music.
We want to build a community around it, so the name "Cardume" (shoal - group of fish) may be nice to represent each person as a fish in the shoal.
The target audience is mainly young (14-20 years old), about 60% female.
This site is a single page website. Everything will be on the same screen. We will ask two or three artists that the person like and it will detect music that the user might like.
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A simple logo also needs to be designed, something like a drawing of 3 fishes together with different colors and the "Cardume" name below, might be nice.
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Valve adds Subscription Plans service for subscription-based games on Steam
Valve has announced the addition of Subscription Plans to its offering of services. With Subscription Plans, users can sign up and manage payments for subscription-based games on Steam. The launch title for the new service is Darkfall: Unholy Wars, with additional subscription-based games to follow. Head over to Steam to sign-up for, manage, cancel or […]
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Darkfall: Unholy Wars release date set
After five months of beta testing, including the elimination of at least one major bug and eight major updates, Adventurine has set a lunch date for Darkfall: Unholy Wars. The MMO will officially open its doors on April 16, so prepare yourself by checking out the PvP-heavy effort's website.Thanks, Massively.
Darkfall: Unholy Wars shows off its crafting chops
Darkfall: Unholy Wars is going to have a heck of a lot of crafting options, including everything up to full-sized, working ships, according to a new trailer.
Darkfall: Unholy Wars beta delayed by persistance bug
A post on the Darkfall forums explains why the latest entry in the MMO series, Unholy Wars, hasn't gone into beta as expected. The testing session has been delayed while Adventurine wipes out a particularly nasty persistance bug which occasionally robs players of all their gear.Thanks, Massively.


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Teresa Giudice isn't the only "Real Housewives of New Jersey" star on the defense.
Melissa Gorga appeared on "The Wendy Williams Show" on Friday to explain the controversial comments in her new book, "Love Italian Style: The Secrets of My Hot and Happy Marriage."
In the book, Melissa wrote:
"Men, I know you think your woman isn't the type who wants to be taken. But trust me, she is. Every girl wants to get her hair pulled once in a while. If your wife says 'no,' turn her around, and rip her clothes off. She wants to be dominated."
When Wendy Williams raised the point that some critics are saying her statement advocates rape, Melissa responded, "That's so gross. That's disgusting."
"We're talking about playfulness. We're talking about like 'I don't want it tonight. Yes you do. Give it to me,'" Melissa explained. "We're not talking about like, 'I have a headache and I don't want it tonight,' and your husband takes it from you."
Wendy said she understood what Melissa meant, but do you?
Of course, Wendy had to ask Melissa how her relationship is with Teresa, and her feelings on her sister-in-law's fraud indictment.
"We're in a much better place than we've been in a really long time,and we're trying for the kids," Melissa responded. "Obviously, she's in a very difficult situation and I'm just here to support."
Check out the clip above to see whether Melissa thinks Teresa is guilty or not, and how she felt about Teresa's husband Joe Giudice saying that they would'nt give their kids to Melissa and her husband if they go to jail.
Plus, be sure to tune into Part 1 of "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" reunion this Sunday on Bravo!


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Spike TV's second-annual special celebrating indie games airs on Spike tonight. Host Geoff Keighley shared a copy of the show early with Kotaku and it does indeed feature visits with the makers of Osmos, 'Splosion Man, Trials HD and Flower.
The show even offers an early look at 'Splosion Man developer Twisted Pixel's next game, Comic Jumper.
Plus there's some diving in a cold lake by Keighley and the creators of Trials HD (pictured above, of course). A debut of a multi-touch version of my favorite of these very good games, Osmos. Oh, and full disclosure: Someone who may or may not have written this post appears in this show as a talking head.
The games featured in the show are the nominees for the best indie game category in this Saturday's Spike Video Game Awards. (More disclosure: Kotaku is part of the judging panel.)
The half-hour show premieres tonight on Spike at midnight. Check your listings. Celebrate indie games. And... let me know how I did?
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A fireball explodes from the site of an oil train derailment on Dec 30, 2013, in Casselton, N.D.
A series of fiery train crashes has spurred regulators to take a closer look at the booming movement of crude oil by rail. But documents obtained by NBC News show regulators have known about issues like overloading and mislabeling that may increase the risk of shipping the oil since as far back as the fall of 2011, a year and a half before the first of the crashes, which killed 47 people in Lac Megantic, Quebec.
Production has boomed in the Bakken, an oil region centered on Western North Dakota, with production increasing more than 1,300 percent since 2008 to nearly 1 million barrels a day. An absence of pipeline infrastructure means the bulk of the crude moves by rail, often in mile-long "unit trains" that travel straight through U.S. and Canadian towns.
Some say too little attention has been paid to making sure these "mobile pipelines" are safe. Since the deadly July 2013 crash in Lac Megantic, oil trains have derailed in Alabama, North Dakota and New Brunswick, albeit without serious injury. Almost 1,500 residents of Casselton, N.D., fled the town after the Dec. 30 crash of an oil train produced massive fireballs and spilled more than 400,000 gallons of crude.
"The boom has just created this enormous pressure to use the available rail system because it's convenient and it was ready," said Fred Millar, a consultant to local governments on chemical safety and railroad transportation. "Now the veil has been lifted that we don't have adequate infrastructure, and we don't have adequate regulation."
Documents obtained by NBC News through a Freedom of Information Act request show that regulators had been aware of problems within the industry for some time, including overloading, mislabeling of highly flammable material and the possible use of unsafe tank cars.
In October 2011 and June 2012, as the volume of rail traffic soared, hazardous materials inspectors from the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) conducted inspections of the growing number of transportation and loading operations in the region.
The resulting report, entitled "North Dakota -- The Next Hazardous Materials Frontier," noted that train cars were being overloaded, and that pressure to move product meant that some cars that were "out of specification" were being sent out on the rails anyway. Companies were also mislabeling the hazard level of oil they were shipping, describing it as less flammable than it actually was.
Read the inspection report here
In the report, inspectors described a shortage of tank cars as "a major concern." The boom has left a number of companies scrambling for tank cars to move the oil, and the report says that led to several cases in which companies sent cars out that did not meet standards.
"The pressure to ship those cars was more than the risk of failure in transportation or discovery by the FRA," inspectors wrote.
Critics worry trains carrying tons of crude oil aren't safe and pose a danger to surrounding communities. NBC's Lisa Myers reports.
Another "major problem," according to the report, was the overloading of tank cars , which can make them more prone to rupture in an accident. Overloaded cars were discovered only after having traveled hundreds of miles.
In notes from the June 2012 visit, inspectors wrote that some companies appeared to be mis-classifying the hazard level of oil in the cars, which has become a key point of discussion in the wake of recent accidents.
Companies handing relatively dangerous crude were shipping it under labels meant for more stable, less flammable crude, inspectors found. Paperwork at the facilities showed the companies were dealing with crude designated as Packing Group I or II, designations for high or moderate risk materials.
Read the NBCNews.com report 'Danger on the Tracks'
But inspectors noted the oil was going out as Packing Group III -- the lower-risk designation often used for traditional, heavier crude. Inspectors noted that the designation could "affect the selected emergency response and even the type of package required or tank car in this case," regulators wrote.
In at least one case, a company was fined for misclassifying its shipment. A violation report obtained by NBC News shows that in February 2013, an FRA inspector recommended a "strong monetary penalty" against ENSERCO, a company contracted to load crude onto rail cars, after tests showed the crude was more flammable than labeling indicated. The company paid $7,700 in fines last May.
"We take that issue very seriously," said Tom Godbold, general counsel of Twin Eagle Resource Management, ENSERCO's parent company. "It happened, and we think we've got the issues improved upon and fixed. Luckily there's been no accident."
After the disaster in Canada, regulators began to speak publicly about some of the problems discovered a year before. In a July 29th letter from the FRA to the American Petroleum Institute, an industry group, regulators outlined a number of concerns, including overloaded cars and the mis-labeling of crude moving by rail. The agency requested current testing and shipping information from companies, adding that the FRA "may consider exercising its authority" to do its own investigations if companies could not show they were following regulations.
A mile-long train carrying crude oil exploded in Casselton, North Dakota near the homes of 2,000 residents who officials are "strongly recommending" evacuate the area as a forecasted shift in the wind could send hazardous smoke over the town.
In September 2013, it became clear that compliance was an issue that extended beyond ENSERCO after the Transportation Safety Board of Canada revealed that the crude oil on the train that crashed in Lac Megantic, which was loaded in North Dakota, had the qualities of Packing Group II oil but been shipped as Packing Group III. The crude had in fact been more flammable than labeling indicated, explaining "in part why it ignited so quickly," inspectors wrote.
Early this month regulators at the U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Administration (PHMSA) released a safety alert warning that oil from the Bakken might be more flammable than traditional crude. PHMSA is currently conducting tests of Bakken oil for its content and flammability.
"We are concerned that perhaps shippers have not been fulfilling their requirements in terms of testing and classifying and knowing what is coming out of the field," PHMSA Administrator Cynthia Quarterman told Reuters this week. "Whatever is in the crude will determine what our next steps are."
But officials in North Dakota, who have been meeting with regulators in the wake of the Casselton crash, said they want to make sure the system is improved from top to bottom--fewer derailments, better rail cars, and a better understanding of what's going in them.
"We want to make sure that this product is moving as safely as possible and we want to reassure the public that the federal government is doing its job," said Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., who met with regulators last week with her Republican counterpart, Sen. John Hoeven.
Most agree that change is coming. An ongoing rulemaking process will likely change the design of the tank cars most often used to transport crude by rail, the DOT-111s, making them more resilient in a crash. The industry has already made changes to those cars, adding shields and thicker shells, and several rail companies have done widespread maintenance to their tracks in recent years as traffic has surged.
Accidents are statistically rare. More than 99.9 percent of hazardous materials moved by rail in 2010 arrived safely, according to the Association of American Railroads. Earlier this month, the trade group said it was "pleased" that PHMSA had "called for heightened vigilance and attention to the proper labeling of crude oil moving in tank cars."
A spokesperson for the Department of Transportation, which oversees both the FRA and PHMSA, said in a statement Wednesday that rail safety was a "national priority."
"We have been aggressively taking action on multiple fronts to mitigate risks and ensure the safe transportation of HAZMAT by rail," said the statement. "Operation Classification, which has been looking at how crude is sampled, tested, and classified before being shipped, will help inform our next steps. In addition to these efforts, we are updating rail safety regulations, including those that address the DOT-111 tank cars and are working with the industry to identify what they're doing to promote safety when transporting crude oil, especially in the Bakken region."
The American Petroleum Institute, which represents the oil industry, also said in a statement Wednesday that safety was a "top priority."
"The oil and natural gas industry continues to work with regulators and the rail industry to make shipment by rail as safe as possible," said the statement. "Our industry has asked the government repeatedly to improve its rail car regulations, and we voluntarily began several years ago producing and using cars that are safer."
But even with new regulations, hurdles remain to enforcement, according to the 2012 report from the FRA. "Ownership, responsible party, accountability is difficult to determine," inspectors wrote. "Between developers, well owner, subcontractors, marketing companies, distribution companies, trucking concerns, independents, tank farms (product holding companies), track owners, and end users; compliance is challenging."
Some believe it will be the industry, rather than regulators who will shape the future of oil shipping in this domestic boom.
"I think the industry will correct, and we will see far fewer of these incidents," said Ramanan Krishnamoorti, chief energy officer at the University of Houston. "In this business it has to be that the industry polices itself. You just don't have enough regulators do to it."
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Welcome to the web site of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Ioannina, Greece. Our department is a thriving academic community which aims at transferring and expanding knowledge through high quality teaching and research.
The Department of Computer Science & Engineering was founded in 1990 as a Computer Science department, accepted its first students in 1993 and since 1998 it offers a Graduate Program leading to Master and PhD degrees. Throughout those years, the department has come to be one of the top Computer Science departments in Greece, with cutting edge facilities for teaching and research, contemporary programs of study and global collaborations through participation in national and international R&D projects. In June 2013 the department was upgraded and renamed to Department of Computer Science & Engineering. It now offers a 5-year long program of studies, covering the subjects of both Computer Science and Computer Engineering.
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In Westfield: Police have suspect in homicide
by Paul Lefebvre
WESTFIELD — A movie set carpenter for major films and a part-time resident here is believed to be the victim of a recent homicide in this town of roughly 500 people.
State Police are not releasing the name of the deceased, but neighbors say he is George Kouzoujian, who has lived off and on in town for the last two or three years, and reportedly kept an apartment in New York City.
Next-door neighbor Randall Brenner said in an interview that a State Trooper came to his house around 5:30 Tuesday morning to tell him "George was deceased."
However, when Mr. Brenner raised a question about safety, the trooper told him security was not a concern.
Police are releasing few details except to say that a suspect, Peter Lavalette, 49, of Derby is being held in custody after he was stopped for a traffic violation in Indiana shortly after midnight Tuesday.
According to a State Police press release, a call from the Jasper County Sheriff's Department alerted Vermont authorities at 12:49 Tuesday morning that they had arrested Mr. Lavalette after he allegedly "indicated he was involved in a homicide in Vermont."
The release goes on to say that he is being held on a "felony warrant for homicide, pending extradition back to Vermont."
The state's chief medical examiner was expected to perform an autopsy Tuesday to determine the cause of death.
Mr. Kouzoujian lived at the end of Fuller Road, a dirt road, in a small, two-story blue house that at one o'clock Tuesdayafternoon appeared to be an active crime scene with a mobile State Police laboratory parked in the yard, its swinging back doors open to the house.
Two State Police cruisers were parked nearby along with a silver crew club pickup. A trooper standing in the road just beyond the neighbor's driveway stopped traffic from proceeding any further. Four or more people in white forensic-type clothing were seen walking on the grounds.
Although police are withholding the deceased's identity until the autopsy is completed and the next-of-kin have been contacted, neighbors and store clerks in town expressed shock and surprise over the death of the man that most knew by the name of George.
"He was very friendly but not close," said Mary Brenner, who along with her husband, Randy, moved from Washington D.C. to Westfield 16 years ago.
"That's why we like it back here, to have peace of mind," she said, while sitting on the back porch with her husband watching the ongoing investigation up the road.
She said Mr. Kouzoujian had spent most of the winter away and had only returned to Westfield in May.
"He said he had been working his butt off so he could have his summer off," she recalled, as she continued to praise him as a good neighbor and someone who was always busy with projects around the house.
At the Westfield General Store, Mr. Kouzoujian was evidently a familiar and friendly face.
"We're still in shock," said the store owner, who declined to give her name.
"He was a quirky little fellow, you know what I mean?" offered Sue Dunne, a clerk at the store.
On the Internet, Mr. Kouzoujian is listed as a union carpenter in the New York Production Guide. According to a listing posted in the New York Times, he was a carpenter in several films and a construction foreman in the movie Crocodile Dundee.
Ms. Dunne noted that he used to come into the store and show off the carpenter work he had been doing on movie sets, including a recent job he had done for Russell Crowe's new movie, Noah.
Mr. Kouzoujian had recently been in the store, and Ms. Dunne was still struggling to come to terms with his tragic and untimely demise.
"Things don't happen like this around here," she said, before catching herself falling into a cliché. "Isn't that what they always say?"
People Tuesday characterized Mr. Kouzoujian as friendly and a nice guy. Ms. Brenner recalled how he had bought a rototiller from her, although he didn't really need it. And then there was the time he fastened a relay to his house that enabled the Brenners to get a better Internet connection.
Still, Ms. Brenner saw her neighbor as something of a loner. She said he "didn't look to be the marrying type," and that he seldom brought friends to his house.
There was one man, though, who was often seen in the company of Mr. Kouzoujian. Around town Peter Lavalette was considered Mr. Kouzoujian's handyman. He reportedly did odds and ends for the deceased, and Ms. Dunne recalled seeing the two of them together a few times.
So did Andy Hass, who runs the hardware store in town. While he agreed with the other folks in town — in describing Mr. Kouzoujian as a nice guy — he saw another side of him as well.
"He could look like a half-eaten sandwich," he said, describing a time when Mr. Kouzoujian came into the store, leaving Mr. Lavalette waiting in a parked vehicle.
Apparently, those were the roles each assumed when Mr. Kouzoujian came into town to shop. Unless called into the hardware store for advice, Mr. Lavalette stayed in the car while Mr. Kouzoujian carried on his business inside.
Ms. Brenner said Mr. Lavalette worked for her neighbor as a laborer, and that he was "in and out all the time."
Mr. Hass described Mr. Kouzoujian as a "super friendly" customer who was easy to work with in sizing up a job.
He said that when he heard about the death Tuesday morning, it caught him by surprise. He only knew him by his first name, as Mr. Kouzoujian didn't keep a slip, preferring instead to pay cash.
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Professional services consultant and construction contracts for UH systemwide CIP and R&M projects approvedUniversity of Hawaiʻi
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PEARL CITY, Oʻahu — Professional services (planning, design, project and construction management) consultant and construction contracts for a number of University of Hawaiʻi capital improvements program (CIP) and repairs and maintenance (R&M) projects were approved today by the University of Hawaiʻi Board of Regents (BOR).
There are 20 professional services contracts worth $10.4 million with an estimated construction cost of $128 million, and 7 construction projects estimated at $17 million. The CIP and R&M projects planned to be undertaken and construction projects intended to be awarded are for the first quarter of the 2007-2008 fiscal year.
Among the professional services contracts approved by the BOR are:
- a planning contract for a project development report and assessment for renovations and addition to the Campus Center Complex at UH Mānoa;
- design contracts for modular buildings for the College of Pharmacy, addition and renovation to the Student Services Building, and various upgrades and improvements throughout the UH Hilo campus;
- a design contract for campus development of off-site infrastructure for UH West Oʻahu;
- and a variety of planning and design contracts for the UH community colleges, including a new advanced technology training center at Honolulu Community College and renovations and infrastructure upgrades at various sites.
Among the construction contracts approved are re-roofing of Hamilton Library and renovations to the Gateway House Dormitories food service facilities at UH Mānoa and bookstore improvements at Maui Community College.


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Photodynamic therapy
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a newly emerging therapy for displastic tissues, such as cancer, age-related blindness, pre-malignant transformation or psoriasis. The therapy involves the administration of a photosensitizing agent, together with the application of moderate intensity light to active the molecules to produce local doses of singlet oxygen. Ongoing research topics include, developing improved dosimetry instrumentation and software, fluorescence tomography imaging to sense drug localization, and assaying unique tumor biology and treatment effects in experimental cancers.
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A man allegedly tried to rob an upstate New York bank armed only with a toilet plunger Monday — and when that predictably failed, he tried another two banks, police told NBC's Utica affiliate WKTV.
The 49-year-old, Lawrence Deptola, was caught at about 1:30 p.m. after trying to rob the three Utica, N.Y., banks.
According to employees of the Key Bank he tried to rob, he came in swearing and demanding money be put in a bag and given to him. Cops added that he threatened the tellers with the plunger.
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That bank and two others had all called the police reporting his attempts, WKTV reported.
Deptola was caught after running from police and was charged with attempted robbery. His trusty plunger was found inside the Citizen's Bank he apparently tried to rob.


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The action packed celebrations to mark 150 years of Sacred Heart education in Armagh took place on Thursday 27th and Friday 28th September 2001.
It was 150 years since Mother Croft arrived in Armagh and Sacred Heart education came to the city. Mother Croft's residence, the Pavilion, next to what is today the Court House, was in fact the birth place of a vision and movement which has made an immense contribution to the education and development of young women in Armagh and beyond.
It was therefore fitting and appropriate that many people from education, politics, the local and school community and the Sisters of the Society of the Sacred Heart came together to celebrate this historic occasion.
The celebrations commended on Thursday 27th September 2001 with a civic reception hosted by the then Mayor, Sylvia McRoberts at the Palace buildings Armagh.
Following the civic reception, an evening of celebration and nostalgia was hosted in Saint Catherine's College by the Board of Governors and the Principal of the school, Margaret Martin.
Special guests at the evening reception included former teacher at Saint Catherine's College, Mr Seamus Mallon MP MLA and former Deputy First Minister, Mr Martin McGuinness, the then Minister for Education, and Sister Maria Mullen, Provincial of the Irish Scottish Province of the Society of the Sacred Heart.
During the evening there was an opportunity for parents and invited guests to view the displays prepared by the students reflecting their perspective on 150 years of Sacred Heart education in Armagh. A special commemorative issue of Cor Unum, the magazine of Saint Catherine's College was launched by Martin McGuinness.
The visit of President Mary McAleese was the culmination of the celebrations on Friday 28th September 2001. President McAleese lead the distinguished guest list at the Mass of Celebration to mark 150 years of Sacred Heart education in Armagh in Saint Patrick's Cathedral with the main concelebrant was Archbishop Sean Brady. Following the Mass, President McAleese unveiled a specially commissioned sculpture designed by Mr Paul O'Neill, Rathbanna Copper Works, at the Sisters' residence Siena beside the grounds of Saint Catherine's College. The President then joined staff, pupils and guests for afternoon tea in the school's Assembly Hall