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Frandsen was a standout player at Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose and then moved on to excel at San Jose State University. At San Jose State, Frandsen posted the following lines:
2002: .317/.409/.522/.931 with 7 HRsThe Giants selected the hometown kid in the 12th round (370th overall) of the 2004 draft.
2003: .332/.413/.455/.868 with 4 HRs
2004: .321/.421/.444/.865 with 2 HRs
In 2007, Frandsen has played 88 games in five different positions (2b, 3b, ss, lf, rf) and logged 213 plate appearances. His numbers over that time period aren't very impressive, as he has posted a line of .230/.294/.340/.634. To go along with that rather uninspiring line Frandsen has posted 4 homeruns and been thrown out in 2 of his 3 steal attempts.
While he will improve upon his stats, it's undeniable that Frandsen lacks tremendous power, great speed, and massive on base skills. That said, Frandsen compensates for what he lacks in tools with his makeup and baseball IQ, which are both off the charts. Frandsen also has the uncanny ability to put the ball in play. His tremendous bat control could make him an ideal #2 hitter in time.
Frandsen's bat control makes him the type of hitter that frequently brings about an early conclusion to his Plate Appearances. That kind of approach reduces both walks and strikeouts, as it is not possible to strikeout without seeing at least 3 pitches or walk without seeing at least 4. While his approach does limit strikeouts and (unfortunately) walks, but it also makes him a very good candidate to post a high batting average.
Over his minor league career, Frandsen has a line of .328/.393/.459/.852. His lowest average in the minors was .287 and his highest was .403 over 67 ABs in AAA Fresno.
In 2007, Frandsen has walked in 7.5% and struck out in 8.9% of his plate appearances. He has also seen just 3.44 pitches per plate appearance and has made contact on 86% of his swings, all of which evidence his great contact skills and his "early consequence" approach at the plate. I'm not sure there is a better bet to be a consistent .290-.300 hitter around, as Frandsen has posted very high averages at every level of his playing career. It seems only a matter of time before he starts cranking out very high batting averages at the MLB level.
Recent statistical analysis has proven that there are more important measures than batting average, which has been largely overrated throughout baseball history. That said, the value of having a player who hits around .300 with tremendous bat control and a very high baseball IQ still cannot be overstated. Placido Polanco is proving just that for the Tigers in 2007.
Frandsen should develop into a very good defensive second baseman and he's already the best defensive second baseman on the roster. The presence of Ray Durham on the roster has forced Frandsen to play numerous different positions in 2007 in order to get playing time. The Giants even moved Frandsen up the defensive spectrum by having him spell Omar Vizquel at shortstop. Frandsen may ultimately lack the range to play short, but he has acquitted himself admirably in 114 innings there this season. Still, Frandsen is likely to push Ray Durham to the bench or another position in 2008, as neither Durham's bat nor salary justify giving him playing time at the expense of Frandsen. Now that Bonds has gotten his tainted record, the Giants are likely to start the rebuilding process by turning to youth in 2008.
Frandsen was ranked the #6 prospect in the Giants system by Baseball America in their 2007 Prospect handbook, where they had this to say about him:
"Frandsen was one of the Giants' most heartwarming stories in 2006. He dedicated himself to making the big leagues to honer his brother D.J., who lost a lifelong battle with cancer in 2004. After he got there, pitching coach Dave Righetti, who was D.J.'s favorite player, quietly insisted that Kevin take his unform number 19, which he had worn since 1981. Frandsen has marvelous bat control and profiles as a solid number 2 hitter in the mold of Robby Thompson. He puts the bat in play consistently, uses the whole field and has occasional gap power. His baseball IQ is off the charts and he has plus makeup and maturity. Even when temperatures hit 112 degrees at Triple-A Fresno, he pestered the coaches for extra infield practice. Frandsen knows he must improve his on-base percentage and limit himself to pitches he can drive - a difficult task because he can put almost any pitch into play. He focuse on working couts in the Arizona Fall League and had success. While he also played shortstop and third base in Triple-A, his range and arm are merely adequate and limit him to second base. The Giants would like him to polish his bunting skills. By hitting .388 in the Arizona Fall League, Frandsen improved his chances of opening 2007 as San Francisco's second baseman. But, the Giants subsequently resigned Ray Durham, so Frandsen will apprentice in a utility role."
While he's unlikely to ever be a great fantasy baseball player or perennial All Star, but he's the type of player that you need to be successful in Major League Baseball. Frandsen is quickly becoming a fan favorite in San Francisco (as he was at Triple-A Fresno and probably throughout his baseball life), for his intelligence, hard work, and always leaving it all out on the field. The only thing Frandsen doesn't leave out on the field after a game is the dirt that covers his uniform.


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Morning Maddow: August 6
The victims of yesterday's shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin.
The GOP releases the names of some of the RNC speakers (but not the big one).
Sen. Mark Kirk releases another video showing his progress in rehabilitation from his stroke.
Syria's prime minister gets fired. Or did he defect?
Was Hillary Clinton chased by bees in Malawi?
NASA's "Curiosity" rover survives its 7 minutes of terror to land on Mars, making one Mohawked flight director an internet star, and causing a full-on JPL FREAKOUT!

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Chicago White Sox Minor League pitching coordinator Kirk Champion begins his fourth stint as Team USA pitching coach. Champ, as he is known, won gold at the 2009 IBAF World Cup, took home silver at the 2001 World Cup and helped lead the U.S. pitching staff at the 2006 COPABE Olympic Qualifier. Champ enjoys pretzels and Werthers caramel candies on team bus rides.
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The Breton practice CG Architectes realised this prefabricated single famly residence in the middle of a rather conventional housing estate in the northwest of France.
"This project is a prototype of a Three-dimensional modular and industrialized house, built with four 40'shipping containers. The aim of this project is to build a low cost architect's housing with high focus on environmental issues. With a industrial approach, the construction time is reduced, as the prices are getting down. Each volume presents a very simple design: living area on the ground floor, and three bedrooms on the first floor. The crossing of the two boxes provides a covered entrance and a carport.
This prototype is the first of the B3 (Built By Boxes) concept by CGARCHITECTES. Soon, many other design will be completed."


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Barbetta was born in Milan but grew up between Bayside and Flushing, and now lives in Nassau County but still works as a marketing consultant in Queens.
She has three kids, one of whom, Sofia, now 11, suffers from allergies to eggs and milk.
Barbetta came up with a story to tell Sofia before bed time about a princess who has food allergies.
"And then I decided, why not share it with other little girls and make them feel better about their food allergies?" she said.
"Kylie's Special Treat: A Food Allergy Fairy Tale," draws on the "Cinderalla" tale, and is about a girl who loves to paint and dreams about a prince she met in art class.
Kylie receives an invitation to cook a treat for the prince.
So Kylie, along with some magical help, cooks the prince a special dessert, without any milk, eggs or nuts, which she is allergic to. Barbetta said the publishing process was her favorite part of writing the book, as she learned the most from it and discovered a new interest.
A portion of the proceeds of each book sold will be donated to The Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network, a non-profit organization for food allergy research. The back of the book includes a letter to parents and tips and resources for dealing with food allergies.
"My hope is that this book gets into school classrooms just to teach people that this happens to kids and let's be respectful about it," Barbetta said. "The message I hope children take away from this book, whether they have food allergies or not, is to not let anything hold them back from reaching for their dreams."


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LiviuLica necesitaba un nuevo diseño de botón o icono y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 172 diseños de 38 diseñadores freelance.
We work on many projects, not just one, however you can find more about me, the guy who writes the brief at http://www.zaGeex.ro
I'm a web developer and full-time geek, together with friends and colleagues we work on many interesting projects, from blogs to charity organizations. We feel the need to have a brand for all our projects. As the projects are more than one, and we want to tie all of them together, we decided we will go with a character that will be our spoke person, our mascot. The character will be a geeky sheep.
Why a sheep? For some reason my friends started calling me "the sheep" and I have had a sheep as an avatar for many years and many know me by the avatar. We want to take the next step with it and make it into a true brand(s) ambassador. This sheep has to be able to speak to the world about the projects it supports. See the requirements section for more details about it.
Why we choose a character and not a standard logo? Because we love brands that have a character to speak for them. We were first inspired by the creators of Fredo and Pidjin (http://www.pidjin.net/) who gave a very convincing talk at a conference back in 2008. Some examples we like are: the chimp from Mail Chimp, the Twitter Fail wail, Geicko the Gecko, the Energezier bunny or the Firefox fox. Some more examples are here: http://bit.ly/axHhGS and http://bit.ly/cZewcc
Help us create a spoke person for our projects that will match our ambitions with it's funny nature, geeckiness and a touch of weirdness.
As our projects are very different it's hard to define a target audience.
However, we want to focus, in all our projects, on active (read sporty) people, who are just a touch cool, and weird enough to think that a sheep in boots is funny and trustworthy for a spokesperson.
To give you an idea about the projects we do - one of them is a foodie website, another one is a fitness training program for riders, we work also on a couple of specialized blogs about mountain biking and skiing.
The character/mascot must be a sheep
It must be: funny, geeky, mischievous and a little bit weird. Our sheep is cool, and it knows it.
If possible, it has to have a hand-drown feel, but at the same time it should look crisp and fit to be on a website, not in a coloring book.
If you think it fits the theme, the sheep will wear glasses and have boots on its feet.
It must be easy to draw as a doodle (I mean that we don't want a photo-realistic sheep, a 5 year old should be able to make an accurate enough doodle out of it, something like Mickey Mouse is).
The colors must be happy, natural looking, more watercolor feel than computer drown. We prefer the sheep to be white, and you can use green, red, yellow or any other natural color.
You will need to match a type-face to the style of the sheep
The sheep has to be versatile enough to be able to be used in different situations (see below)
For the first part of the contest I only want 1 pose of the ones below, but the winner will get (for an additional fee) to do the other two poses.
1) Just standing on all 4 legs and looking toward whoever is looking at it (something like this http://bit.ly/bHENLe)
2) Looking over a fence / wall. That fence should be easily replaceable with a banner, logo (something like this http://bit.ly/9TDsOr)
3) Holding a sign, heaving a dialog bubble over it's head, to be able to say something (something like this http://bit.ly/aKFkeP) Here you will also have to match a type-face to the style of the sheep.
Attached you will find my current avatar (sheep.png) and the pictures referenced here. We like the avatar a lot, we would like our spokesperson to be a natural evolution from it.
You will also find attached 3 more photos (sheep_1,jpg, sheep_2,jpg and sheep_3,jpg) of some sheep magnets and piggy banks I have at home. You might find them useful.


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Jamie Masada, owner of the Laugh Factory said, "Two of the main reasons I love doing this is because it brings so many members of the Jewish community a chance return to their traditions and it gives so many actors, writers and comedians who can't afford to join a temple a place to pray for the holidays."
Services are conducted in the Reform Jewish tradition by Rabbi Bob Jacobs.
Rosh Hashanah will be celebrated on:
Thursday, September 5, 2013
11:00 am until 1:00 pm with refreshments to follow
Yom Kippur will begin with the Kol Nidre service on:
Friday, September 13, 2013
5:30 pm to 7:00pm
Services will continue on the morning of:
Saturday, September 14, 2013
11:00 am until 1:00 pm
Concluding with Neilah service from 5:45 pm until 7:00 pm.
A "break-the-fast" will follow. No contributions are accepted and tickets are not required.
Observers are requested to come early in order to be accommodated indoors. In the event of overflow capacity, The Laugh Factory is determined to include everyone in the services and will provide TV monitors outside on the sidewalk on Laurel Avenue.
The Laugh Factory is located at 8001 Sunset Blvd in Hollywood, two blocks west of Fairfax. Limited parking is available around the corner in the Laugh Factory parking lot on Laurel Place. Street parking is available on Laurel Avenue between Sunset and Selma; Selma between Hayworth and Laurel Canyon Blvd; and Laurel Canyon Blvd between Selma and Sunset.
Due to high attendance, please call for reservations (323) 656-1336 x1 or email [email protected] (include your Name, number of guests, contact number, & zip code).


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People Magazine reports that actor and director Mark Wahlberg has gotten his high school diploma at the age of 42. Congratulations to him for doing this, even though he never needs to work again.
Does anyone else remember Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch?
Mark Wahlberg Earns His High School Diploma
By Raha Lewis | 09/16/2013
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Actor and producer Mark Wahlberg has a new title to add to his resume – high school graduate.
The 42-year-old received his diploma in June and tells PEOPLE that his four children were a big motivation for hitting the books. "I didn't want the kids saying, 'You didn't do it, so why do I need it?' They are all wanting to do things in their future that require an education."
The Ted star, who had a troubled childhood and dropped out in the ninth grade being charged with attempted murder, says getting his diploma is "a huge accomplishment."
"It's also a huge sense of relief," he told PEOPLE Monday at an event in Irvine, Calif., for the Taco Bell Foundation for Teens, where he presented scholarships to select Taco Bell employees as part of its pilot program. "I wondered, 'Why didn't I do it when I was there?' It's so much harder at 41 going back and trying to do all these difficult tasks."
The most challenging part for Wahlberg, who took online classes, was math, even though he jokes that he's "good at counting money and keeping track of my money."
Wahlberg hired a tutor and studied between takes on the set of Two Guns, but kept it a secret from his costar Denzel Washington.
"Denzel was always asking me what I was doing but I didn't want to share that information with him," he says. "Nobody knew, because I felt like I don't like to count my chickens before they hatch, so I didn't want to say that I was doing it until I actually finished it. What if I said I'm doing this and I didn't finish it?"
Now that Wahlberg has his diploma, he's hoping to further his education.
"I would love to go to USC and study film. I don't want to become a veterinarian or anything, [I want to study] things that further my career and broaden my horizon."


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I was walking down Main Street in Richmond one sunny lunchtime about a week ago. It was one of those Richmond-in-June days…humid, temp around 80, not bad but you know it's going to get ugly before long.
Standing in line to get cart food were two guys in their mid to late 20s. Both were in seersucker suits that looked new; one was a light blue and the other gray. Bowties ruled the day, allowing them to show off the crisp starch of their dry-cleanered white shirts. Both had expensive sunglasses: one guy had just a shock of fashionably long hair falling over one lens.
They looked like they were working hard to blend in and, if perhaps a bit overdressed, they succeeded. On a summery day in downtown Richmond, you won't see that many men wearing a tie, let alone a jacket. It wasn't that long ago a friend who worked at one of the big firms told me that the office code for men was always to wear a jacket when you went out at lunch, and you always buttoned the button. Even in 90-degree heat. But times do change, thankfully.
I overheard them talking to each other. Casual hail-goodfellow talk, each eager to please and be solicitous of the other. They sounded like two guys who had been thrown together about a week before and were working at becoming friends.
Count on summer to bring four things: Fireflies, corn on the cob, peaches and summer law clerks.
A word of advice to the two guys in seersucker: Work hard and try to enjoy your summer. I hope you get your offer in August.


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I was having dinner with a dear colleague one night after a long day. He was trying to explain how uTube will become the video search engine in the future and that fact was key to understanding a new way to optimize search in video. "Nothing will come close" he said.
Rather impolitely, I kept saying, actually insisting, "No – they won't be". He looked at me rather incredulously and not without good reason. He was well ensconced within bosom of the techno-glitteri and he moved in the high-glam world of high tech. He knew stuff about uTube that most people didn't. I was not just challenging him; I was challenging most of the accepted wisdom of the techno Silicon Valley world; that in the internet game there will be a few search winners, Google and uTube. Game over. That belief was required for the rest of our conversation to continue.
Poor man. He could not get me to agree to that simple, well understood principle. I could not buy into a monopolistic search belief system. I sense the centralized search model is ready to fall apart. I was not just being argumentative or combative, but I sensed a "new" trend that has been operative for 20 years was starting to asset itself and only few people seem to see it.
I call the trend, "the techno-edge effect" and the main principle is that new technologies migrate from the enterprise level to the consumer level, to the "edge", at some point. Some simple examples to illustrate my point:
- Corporate Audix systems (messaging systems) evolved to become consumer answering services and ultimately devices (1980s)
- Desktop PCs became personal PCs (1990s)
- VoIP for enterprise migrated to consumers via services like Vonage (2000s)
- Centralized software development to crowd sourcing (2007)
- Podcasting was a corporate activity, now anyone with a webcam can be a broadcaster (2008)
- Centralized news service to citizen journalism (2008)
- "Cloud" computing would have only been contemplated for business a mere few years ago – now the model of the new Netbooks is that your data is "in the clouds" (2010…)
(Enough yet? If not email me, I can send you about 2 dozen more J)
The point is that the march to the technology edge is unrelenting and undeniable. The only question is how fast a particular technology will move to the edge. One could argue that Twitter became so successful so fast because it encouraged a high level of customization and personalization – it moved out to the edge really really fast.
Very interesting, but what pray tell, does this have to do with the entrenched and well accepted belief that search will be dominated by a few centralized companies?
Everything! Because I believe technology has reached the point where we will be able to create a totally personal web not through some centralized company, but through the transformative ingredient of trust. Now that people are creating trust for themselves (via communities, blogs etc) the power is shifting relentlessly from centralized search providers, (like a Google or uTube) to distributed power of the Trusted Web.
The model of the Trusted Web and decentralized search
Instead of semantic search or intelligent search agents from big companies driving the web's evolution, I contend that each person's ability to drive trust into every web action will be the animating force that moves us from centralized search paradigms to a new, decentralized one. In the new model, we will be able to search better because our trusted communities are doing search for us. We can better trust sites, because people we know had good experiences and we will learn about new things on the internet with services like Twine or HopSurf that gives us ideas based on people who are similar to me.
In the future, we will rely on the power of our networks to inject trust into our search – we won't go to Google first. If some specific event requires that I get search help from a diverse set of backgrounds, I can create a virtual, new trusted group from all my networks. We will still search internet, but we will start with our trusted network first moving out only as the need requires.
This new proactive model of creating trust is not some future, far off concept. It is happening here and now. We now use trust based content rating systems to determine what content is more trustworthy. Reputation systems allow us to better trust verified SMEs (subject matter experts) versus just any reviewer. The explosive growth of communities demonstrates how people are proactively creating trust through shared interests. Twitter, Comodo HopSurf and Twine are interesting in this decentralized model because they provide an individualized community-based "trusted information filter" to help sort through the deluge of relevant data. Forums are yet another mechanism for people to create individualized trust by letting users share experiences.
All this adds up to the inescapable trend that the techno-edge effect for the Internet is that trust will be dismantling the centralized search monolithic model we have today. We are now moving to this new trust decentralized model. A model I call the Trusted Web.
Watch this space.
Judy Shapiro
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Tyler McHaley, president of Springfield Area Disability Activists (www.disabilityactivists.org), shared that message Nov. 16 with the Health Care Reform Implementation Council, a collection of state agency directors charged with crafting rules for Illinois' implementation of the federal Affordable Care Act. The council asked experts and advocates statewide for input on reforming Medicaid and health insurance laws to better meet the needs of Illinois' poor, disabled and others who use social services.
McHaley says Illinois is the worst state in the nation in terms of sticking people with disabilities in state-operated developmental centers (SODCs), which he says is a costly and ineffective solution. Instead, he says, the state should be funding more community-based service arrangements.
"Illinois annually throws millions of dollars at state-run institutions, spending an average of $166,000 per year on each resident, when the cost of providing services in the community averages closer to $50,000 annually," McHaley says in written testimony submitted to the council. Illinois ranks 47th in the nation for community services spending for the disabled and 51st in spending for small community-based living arrangements, McHaley says. Focusing on community-based care over institutionalization would be less expensive for the state and more helpful for the disabled, he adds.
Independent living is important to people with disabilities, McHaley notes, saying it requires that they be given choices.
"The choice to live in the community is fundamental to an individual's ongoing overall health," he says, urging the council to put "consumer choice ahead of bureaucracy, policy, profit and especially politics."
"The choice of doctors and specialists who provide care to people with disabilities is equally critical in the overarching theme of health care reform," he continues. "As long as Illinois retains the mindset that SODCs provide adequate living arrangements for people with disabilities, the state will not move forward. If Medicaid managed care becomes the norm in Illinois with HMOs potentially putting profits before people, the state will not move forward."
As part of his proposed changes, McHaley also called on the council to support the development of more affordable and accessible housing for people with disabilities.
"You cannot expect people to move out of institutions or even contemplate such a move if they feel they have nowhere to go once they are 'on the outside,' " he says. "An effort to change this culture and provide adequate housing would require an initial outlay of several millions of dollars, but it would also create jobs, provide housing and boost an otherwise sagging Illinois economy. Moreover, studies have shown people who live in the communities as opposed to institutions have better overall health outcomes, including mental health."
People with disabilities face many other issues, McHaley says, and the council must go beyond the mandates of the federal law to make more meaningful changes.
"…[I]t is essential for this council to understand the fundamental principles behind the ideas that guide people with disabilities and the disability rights movement," he says. "Consumer choice, independence, freedom to live where you choose and access to health care not mandated by sometimes unknowing insurance companies only begin to scratch the surface of the many issues people with disabilities find concerning Illinois' current fiscal and health care environments."
The Health Care Reform Implementation Council will recommend changes to the state's health insurance laws and social service programs in an official report by the end of the year. For more information or to submit testimony to the council, visit www2.illinois.gov/healthcarereform.
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Liberty News
Liberty wins regional flight competition
The Liberty University School of Aeronautics flight competition team is the winner of the National Intercollegiate Flight Association (NIFA) Region 10 Safety and Flight Evaluation Conference (SAFECON) air meet for the eighth consecutive year.
The competition, hosted by Elizabeth City State University, was held Oct. 10-13 on the ECSU campus and at Elizabeth City Regional Airport.
Liberty Flight Instructor Nathan Edwards ('10) earned the Top Pilot award; Melanie Evans ('11), also a flight instructor, was named the Top Scoring Female Contestant.
Liberty's team placed first overall, first in the overall flying category, first in the overall ground category, and first in five of the nine events: Edwards for aircraft preflight inspection, Evans in simulated comprehensive aircraft navigation (SCAN), seniors Matt Sylvester and Corbin Brown in navigation, junior Patrick Spencer for computer accuracy, and junior Zach Floto for ground trainer.
"At the competition, it became readily apparent the blessings that we have as an aeronautics program," said Col. John Marselus, academic advisor for the flight team and associate dean for flight operations at the School of Aeronautics. "We are very thankful to the university and the administration for the support they give to our NIFA team."
Liberty competed with two Cessna 172 SkyHawk airplanes, one of which was recently purchased by the university and carries the tail number 701LU. Liberty also earned the Red Baron Award for outstanding team sportsmanship as voted by the schools in attendance.
"That is one of the intangibles, that the character of our students shines through," Marselus said. "To see our character and integrity recognized with the Red Baron award is a supreme honor, and represents our university, as well as our Lord and Savior, very well."
Liberty will go on to compete at nationals, to be held at the Ohio State University Airport in Columbus, Ohio, May 6-11.


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Tumbling, the first movie from filmmaker Shameka Raines, a 1998 graduate of Port St. Joe High School, will debut April 20 at the Martin Theater in Panama City.
Tumbling, the first movie from filmmaker Shameka Raines, a 1998 graduate of Port St. Joe High School, will debut April 20 at the Martin Theater in Panama City.
The urban film tells the story of five members of an organized crime unit who end up fighting for revenge, power and greed.
�Life is about choices, and each one has a consequence,� said Raines of the movie�s theme.
The Port St. Joe native, who wrote, directed, and produced the movie under the name Brooklynn Winters, spent the last three years working on the film after the idea struck her in 2009.
In order to see it through to the screen, she overcame the hurdles of minimal funds, limited resources and no connections in the film world.
�I didn�t know how make the movie,� said Raines, �So I had to do 92 percent of everything.�
Her first obstacle was to create a crime film that didn�t glorify drugs and displayed a fresh take on the genre.
Raines had to �find a different spin� on the story. Once she found her angle, it took her two weeks to draft the first version of the script. Once complete she had to find actors and locations to bring Tumbling to life.
Utilizing modeling agencies and open casting calls through Craigslist and Facebook, she assembled a cast of over 50 actors and three crewmembers to populate the world she had created.
The entire movie was shot in various Florida towns including Jacksonville, Tampa, Orlando, and Miami.
Because Raines lived in Jacksonville, where she graduated from Jacksonville University with a Bachelor�s in psychology and sociology, during the film�s production she often spent her weekends commuting to shooting locations.
Due to a limited film budget, Raines often had to get creative with specific locations.
She temporarily turned her brother�s house into the main character�s home, and a rented hotel room doubled as another important set. The film�s extras even assisted Raines in finding additional shooting locations in the towns she wasn�t familiar with.
Once shooting on the film had wrapped, Raines found herself having to edit the footage together, a process she learned through online tutorials.
When she and her mother watched the first cut of the film, all of her hard work had suddenly paid off.
Raines said her first thoughts were simply, �Wow, I can�t believe I did this.�
A writer since the age of two, Raines credits her former high school English teacher, Pat Lowry, for her guidance in how to write a film script. Raines had focused on novels and poetry but quickly found a love for writing movies.
Already considering her next projects, Raines has written her next film, a psychological thriller dealing with concepts of spirituality and narcissism, but wants to keep her focus for now on promoting Tumbling. She plans to submit the film to festivals to gain more exposure and would like to host additional premieres around Florida and surrounding states.
When asked about the overall experience of creating a film from the ground up, Raines said, �It was a lot of work.�
The filmmaker attributes her success to the support of her family, friends and teachers.
Raines hopes that she can inspire other future writers and directors from Gulf County to pursue their passions.
�Have supportive people who believe in what you�re doing,� advised Raines. �Believe in yourself and others will believe in you as well.�
Tumbling will premiere with two showings at the Martin Theater in Panama City.
The first will take place at 3:30 p.m. CT where guests will have an opportunity to meet and greet with the cast.
The second showing at 7 p.m. CT and will have a red carpet event prior to the start of the film.
Advance tickets for each showing are $10 and can be purchased at the Martin Theater box office, online at tumblingthemovie.com or by calling 404-981-8881.


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Sugar Rush: Ice Cream Sandwiches at BakerBots, Toronto
Ice cream sandwiches at BakerBots Baking are a chose-your-own culinary adventure. From the menu, which boasts a variety of cookies and ice cream options, you select what you'd like and they construct it for you. On my latest visit there were six cookies and 13 types of ice cream available. A Half Ice Cream Sandwich ($4) is made with one cookie and has two scoops of ice cream. A Full Ice Cream Sandwich ($6.50) is made with two cookies and has four scoops of ice cream. You don't have to do the math to know that is a lot of different possible combinations.
The cookie varieties include Ginger Molasses, Captain Peanut, RoCocoa, The Everything, Birthday, and Oatmeal cookies. The RoCocoa is crunchy chocolate cookie brought to life with a pinch of salt. The Birthday is a perfectly chewy-crisp sugar cookie with sprinkles baked into the top. While delicious on their own, the thin and flat cookies are perfect vehicles for the large scoops of ice cream that get sandwiched between them.
Choosing which ice cream to pair with the cookies is where it gets tricky. With over ten options, it can be a little intimidating to select which ice creams not only pair well with the cookie, but also well with each other. There are traditional options such as Garden Fresh Mint and Chocolate-Chocolate, but also more contemporary choices such as Burnt Toffee, and Peanut Butter And Grape Jelly. The ice creams also include local flavors such as SJCB Espresso with coffee from Sam James Coffee Bar and Bellwoods Stout with beer from Bellwoods Brewery.The menu even includes two dairy-free options: raspberry and chocolate sorbet. A personal favorite is Cinnamon Toast (great with a Ginger Molasses cookie). I try to sample a new flavor on every visit, and it's a rule that's never steered me wrong. I sampled the lemon meringue on my latest visit and was blown away by the bright and refreshing ice cream with flecks of lemon zest.
While the store is open from 11am to 10pm on weekends, it only opens after 3pm on weekdays, and not at all on Mondays. Quite frankly, that's not enough time for ice cream sandwich adventures.
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In its first project, the Burkle Global Impact Initiative helped a group of young documentary filmmakers learn about the Millennium Development Goals.
"Chance of a Lifetime" makes global development issues compelling viewing—the goal of the Burkle Global Impact Initiative.
By Peggy McInerny, Director of Communications
by Peggy McInerny
International Institute, February 5, 2014 — When you think about Hollywood, you don't usually picture an academic center for international relations. Yet the UCLA Burkle Global Impact Initiative is working to link these disparate worlds to promote more, and more accurate, coverage of crucial global issues and events.
Formed in 2013, the Global Impact Initiative is the newest program of UCLA's Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Affairs. Its mission is to encourage content creators in Hollywood to become conversant with global, humanitarian and advocacy issues, encouraging the entertainment industry to cover global issues to a greater degree and, consequently, better educate the public about international affairs.
Specifically, the Burkle Global Impact Initiative works on a case-by-case, invite-only basis to connect entertainment industry professionals with senior experts at the United Nations. In the future, the Initiative also hopes to work with the U.S. State Department, the World Health Organization and the World Bank, as well as political leaders across the globe. In addition, the program helps these professionals conduct deep background research on specific issues and/or events.
The initiative is led by Brian Gott, former publisher of Variety, one of most important trade publications of the entertainment industry. While at Variety, Gott mobilized entertainment industry support for United Nations- and UN Foundation–related campaigns, earning the publication the Global Leadership Award of the United Nations Foundation in 2012.
The UN's own Creative Community Outreach Initiative (CCOI) provides film and media professionals information about the work of the United Nations and its priority issues. However, with an office based in New York, CCOI lacks proximity to Hollywood.
Presently, the Burkle Global Impact Initiative partners with CCOI to help Hollywood professionals make productive contacts with the United Nations. Depending on the need, the two organizations work together to arrange interviews with relevant senior UN personnel at headquarters and in foreign missions, coordinate visits to UN sites and refugee camps, and provide UN background information, film clips and photographs on a given topic.
Which is how the Burkle Center came to be involved in a cable television contestant show, "Chance of Lifetime." The show, which debuts on Participant Media's new cable channel Pivot on February 15, pits young filmmakers against one another to produce a winning documentary on issues central to the work of the United Nations.
Young filmmakers learn about development issues
"Chance of a Lifetime: Competing for Glory, Fighting for a Cause" is the brainchild of film producer Ashok Amritraj. Chairman and CEO of Hyde Park Entertainment of Burbank, California. A veteran Hollywood producer, Amritraj was the producing might behind such films as "Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance," "Machete," "Blue Valentine" and "The Double," among many, many others.
A native of India, Amritraj is a long-time supporter of the UN and the UN Foundation, particularly their women and children's health initiatives in his home country.
Interested in promoting films on the work of the UN, Armitraj came up with an idea for a television reality show for young documentary filmmakers. In "Chance of a Lifetime," filmmakers from three different countries — India, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates —compete before judges to make a documentary highlighting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
The MDGs are eight development goals adopted by virtually every multilateral and bilateral development agency in the world, which have committed to helping developing nations achieve the goals by 2015. The task of the filmmakers is to create a documentary on the issues addressed by the MDGs, as seen from the bottom up in the city of Chennai, India.
Enter the Burkle Global Impact Initiative. Working with Amritraj, the staff of the Burkle Center prepared background briefs on the major developmental issues addressed by the MDGs; in addition, they screened and selected relevant stock footage from various UN agencies for the filmmaking teams. The issues included poverty, education rates, child mortality, hunger and clean water.
In a microcosm of the work of the UN itself, the multinational teams came together to create short films, overcoming intercultural and on-site challenges while maintaining a clear sense of advocacy for their issues. Amritraj acted as both host and mentor for the show, and UN experts on the issues were available to the contestants for consultations.
The 12 participants were grouped into three international teams (with one member from each country) for "Chance of a Lifetime." In the first round, each team pitched their proposal for a documentary, then had one day (24 hours) to make a 1-minute documentary on their issue. They then competed with one another in progressive rounds of the show, being assigned new topics each step of the way and being tasked with making longer films (5 minutes, 10 minutes). The eventual winning team will present their 10-minute film to the United Nations and be recognized at Variety's gala event at the Cannes International Film Festival.
The competition will premiere on Pivot in two parts on February 15 and 16, followed by a marathon of all episodes on February 20, which coincides with the World Social Justice Day of the United Nations.
Bringing filmmakers together in an exercise that mimics how the UN operates, to create a documentary on the organization's work, in an international setting — "Chance of a Lifetime" makes global development issues compelling viewing. Precisely the goal of the Burkle Global Impact Initiative.
Participant Media's Pivot channel can be seen on the following platforms: Directv (channel 267), Dish Network (channel 197), AT&T (channel 287), Verizon (channel 287), and Comcast Xfinity (channel 231).
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Man shoots snake is not news. Snake shoots man is.
Please excuse yet another column about snakes, but when I saw the following headline in the Orlando Sentinel, "Man aims at snake, shoots friend instead," I thought, "Oh, I must." Yet another story to add to the collection demonstrating why people should adopt a live-and-let-live attitude.
The upshot of the story is that three 18- to 21-year-old men stopped their pickup truck alongside a road near Orlando. It was nighttime, and one of them needed to "answer the call of nature." Meanwhile, one of the others was not paying attention to his friend's whereabouts when he saw a big snake crossing the road. Upon hearing a sound in the brush, he grabbed a semiautomatic rifle and fired away. Unfortunately, his companion was the one making the noise.
The end of the story is that one person was treated for a bullet wound to the leg, everyone is presumably a bit embarrassed and the snake is long gone. The following are four more previously reported stories, all true, of human-snake encounters that provide further evidence for why people should be a bit more tolerant of all creatures great and small, including snakes.
One story involved a man armed with a rifle who encountered a snake in a forest. Apparently not wanting to waste ammunition on so lowly a creature but nonetheless wanting to kill it (never mind that there is no rational reason for killing a snake in a forest), the man began crushing the snake's head with the butt of his rifle. A dying snake, of course, begins to thrash and curl around. As the snake squirmed, its tail reached the trigger and squeezed. To paraphrase the famous editorial maxim: Man shoots snake is not news. Snake shoots man is.
Another incident occurred in Mississippi. A man with a double-barreled shotgun saw a snake crawling around one of his outbuildings. As the snake slid alongside a box in the doorway, the man pulled the first trigger of the shotgun. He did not pull the second trigger. The snake was dead. The man was dead, too, and the building was gone. The box in the doorway was a case of dynamite. End of story.
Another widely publicized incident took place in Alabama, where two alcohol-laden citizens tossed a canebrake rattlesnake back and forth in what turned out to be a lethal game of hot potato. The rattlesnake crawled away safely after biting one of the participants, who died before proper medical treatment could be administered.
Some readers may prefer the outcome of this last story because no people were injured or killed. Believing her mobile home was infested with snakes, a South Carolina woman decided to sprinkle sulfur around the area to keep snakes away. No credible evidence exists to show that sulfur is a deterrent to snakes that are roaming around in the wild, but she put the smelly stuff out anyway. Then she went one step further. She filled pots with sulfur, placed them under the trailer and set them on fire. Sulfur stinks without any help from fire; burning sulfur smells like rotten eggs.
I doubt if snakes care much one way or another about the smell of rotten eggs, but can you imagine what the mobile home smelled like? In fact, had she not accidentally burned the trailer to the ground, the snakes would probably have continued to live there, even though no person would cross the threshold while the smell of burning sulfur lingered.
People who conquer their irrational attitudes about snakes and other wildlife enjoy the outdoor world far more than those who live in fear of stepping outside. It bears repeating that no U.S. venomous snake will attack a person without provocation, and the fundamental rule for someone who does not like snakes is to leave them alone.
Surely the factual stories recounted above offer proof that live and let live is generally the best policy—at least as far as snakes are concerned.
Whit Gibbons, professor emeritus of ecology, University of Georgia, and head of the Environmental Outreach Program at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, grew up in Tuscaloosa. He received bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Alabama and his Ph.D. from Michigan State University. Send environmental questions to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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An international human rights group accused Yemen on Tuesday of failing to investigate the 2011 killing of 45 anti-government protesters during the uprising against former President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Human Rights Watch said in a report that top former officials - including Saleh's relatives, such as his nephew - should be held responsible for the slayings.
The New York-based group was referring to the March 18, 2011 incident, when the government unleashed security forces on the demonstrators in the capital, Sanaa.
Saleh stepped down last year, following yearlong protests against his rule.
HRW's senior researcher Letta Tayler warned that "if Yemen doesn't fairly investigate and prosecute those responsible for this deadly attack, it risks perpetuating the culture of impunity at the heart of Yemen's uprising."
"Human Rights Watch found that several senior former and current government officials appear to have played a role in the massacre but have not been charged," the report said.
HRW said its report was based on more than 60 interviews with witnesses, victims of the shooting, lawyers, government officials, human rights defenders, and journalists. It found that the Central Security Forces, led then by Saleh's nephew, Brig. Gen. Yahya Saleh, withdrew from the streets where the shootings took place and returned later after the worst of the shooting ended, and at that point shielded the gunmen from the protesters.
President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, who promised sweeping reforms and accountability for the abuses of the past removed Yahya Saleh from his post in December, but without disciplinary proceedings due to a sweeping immunity law that the Yemeni parliament passed last year in exchange for Saleh's resignation. The law granted Saleh and all those who served with him, immunity from prosecution for all crimes except acts of terrorism.
The report said 43 of the 78 suspects whom prosecutors indicted in June 2011 were listed as fugitives from justice, but 31 of them were never apprehended and the other 12 disappeared after they were provisionally released pending the outcome of the trial. 27 defendants were released on bail.
In October, the victims' lawyers filed a motion in court demanding the indictment of at least 11 additional government officials for the shootings, including Saleh, his nephew and former interior minister. The trial judge in the case however sent the motion to the Supreme Court to investigate its validity in light of the immunity law. The trial has been suspended waiting for the Supreme Court decision.
Besides reopening the investigations, HRW recommended that the Yemeni government "ensure all those implicated, regardless of position or rank, are arrested and appropriately prosecuted," and that Yemen "comply with international obligations prohibiting immunity from prosecution for those responsible for serious human rights violations."
It also called on the UN Security Council, Gulf Cooperation Council, European Union, United States and other concerned countries to impose an asset freeze and travel ban on current and former officials implicated in the attack and other serious human rights violations.
Several Saleh loyalists attending the news conference, tried to interrupt the proceedings by yelling and shouting, but others ignored them and the news conference went on uninterrupted.


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High-brightness LEDs in various colors for lighting projects. Our LEDs are all packaged in clear epoxy, and are selected for very high brightness. Use 3mm LEDs where space is a constraint, and 5mm LEDs for maximum brightness. You may wish to grind the ends for applications where the LED is viewed directly, or used to illuminate an area. An unmodified LED throws a fairly bright but narrow spot.
Some possible applications:
Creature tail light mod: 5mm red 500 ohm resistors
MM Dragon: 3mm eyes (yellow, green, amber); 5mm red mouth
Spot lighting: 5mm warm white or white LED
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My current GM went out and bought all of the previous sets of the Game Mastery cards and we use them. The artwork is great and you put the card in a penny sleeve and write a detailed description of the item on the sleeve instead of the card.
When we find a treasure chest, the GM brings out this little ornate chest filled with the cards and we can spend a few minutes picking through and fighting over the loot. It is a lot more fun than just having the DM list stuff to you.
If you have the money to get the cards then I suggest you do as they are a good investment for the serious player and game master.


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Emily_shea necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 86 diseños de 24 diseñadores freelance.
Watch City Dogs
We provide Dog Daycare, Grooming, Training and Boutique. The name has a double meaning, as the business is located in a town known as "watch city' and also implies the dog daycare services -i.e. We watch city dogs (or country dogs, or suburban dogs, etc)
Looking for a logo that will be appropriate across a variety of platforms (letterhead, web, tshirts, etc) but most importantly that it is visible, legible and impactful on the outside of a building - visible from the road. The services provided are aimed toward an modern, upper middle class demograhic, but with a bit of playfulness since were talking about dogs here. However please dont misinterpret playfulness for anything juvenile. The business is more of a boutique approach than a playroom.
The images provided will be framed throughout the space - they each have an interesting story along with them that display the depth and value behind the human-dog connection.
I really like the 'downward dog' silhouette provided - which is a dog in a 'play bow', which initiates play between them. It does not have to be incorporated, but i think it portrays the fun side of the business well while staying modern.
A similar business is Pooch in chicago - http://www.poochhotel.com/ however i would like my business to come across as more approachable (this has a bit of an elitist vibe)
I am open to incorporating the following words into the logo - Dog Daycare, Grooming, Boutique.
I hope this is enough information to help kick start the project.
thank you all in advance, and good luck!
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Trupro has always prided itself with providing excellent service and quality products to it's customers. Our office is situated in Feng Yuan which is the main industrial area for the production of Woodworking Machines and Metal Machine Tools in Taiwan. With over 20 years of experience in the woodworking and metalworking field, our customers are continually updated with the latest technology and machinery from Taiwan and China.
We also have affiliated offices in China for providing service for the products from China. With wide range of tools and accessories from Taiwan and China, we can help you source the products you need.
Our good quality machine with affordable price as well as good after-service had won TRUPRO-tec products a good name around the world. We also have affiliated offices in South-East Asia for providing service for the products from Taiwan. With wide range of machinery and tools from Taiwan, we can help you source wood working machine you need. By offering a comprehensive product range we find our customers are very pleased to consolidate their orders to take advantage of the freight benefits.
we provide a wide selection of industial machinery equipment for wood & meta working industry, including CNC router, rip saw, table saw, cut off saw, wide belt sanders, 4 side moulder, dust collector, band saw, drum sander, CNC lathe, Swiss Type Lathe, milling center, surface grinder machine, CNC tapping center, planner, tenoner, CNC turning lathe, turn-key solution machine, machining center, panel saw, metalworking machines, metal forming processing machineries, wood working equipments and so on.
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Chris Brown's Mom Reportedly Tells Him to 'Grow Up' Following Twitter Rant
Well, someone needed to say it. Chris Brown's mother, Joyce Hawkins, is upset at her son's latest outburst following his Grammy win on Sunday, has reportedly told her son to "grow up."
After his win for Best R&B Album, Brown tweeted, "HATE ALL U WANT BECUZ I GOT A GRAMMY Now! That's the ultimate F— OFF!" The since-deleted tweets, which a source says were posted by one of Brown's employees and not the singer himself, caused outrage among some who haven't forgiven Brown for his assault on Rihanna and felt he shouldn't have been at the ceremony.
Radar Online quotes a source close to Brown who says, "Joyce is absolutely livid that those vile words and rants were posted on Chris' Twitter page. She isn't buying his excuse that he didn't post it and she has told him that it is his Twitter page, and only he should be posting to it, period. She feels like people were just waiting for a negative reaction to what others were saying about him. She had begged Chris to just ignore it and she is just beside herself that after such successful performances at the Grammys and winning the award, people are now talking about this Twitter controversy."
After his message to the haters, "RIP Chris Brown" became a trending topic on Twitter, causing him to send out more defensive tweets. As of this morning, only 11 tweets remain on Brown's feed, one of which is a useful piece of advice from Perez Hilton that Brown re-tweeted: "@chrisbrown This is something I have often been guilty of. Responding in a bad way to negativity. Channel it in a healthier way! Rise above!"
Meanwhile, Grammy producer Ken Ehrlich defended the show's decision to let Breezy perform, saying, "We're glad to have him back. I think people deserve a second chance, you know? What he's done and what he's done to reclaim his career and seemingly the kind of person that he has become makes him, I don't even want to use the word 'eligible,' but you know, it's time."


text: International Summer School on Advances in Programming Languages 25th-28th August, 2009 Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~greg/ISS-AiPL Overview ~~~~~~~~ This four-day residential International Summer School on Advances in Programming Languages has a major theme of Concurrency, Distribution, and Multicore. Intended primarily for postgraduate research students, the School offers lectures and practical sessions on an engaging blend of cutting edge theoretical and practical techniques from international experts. The Summer School is supported by the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (http://www.sicsa.ac.uk/), a Scottish Funding Council Research Pool. Participants from SICSA member institutions may attend at no cost. Confirmed Topics/Speakers * Static and dynamic languages, Prof Philip Wadler, University of Edinburgh * Compiler technology for data-parallel languages, Dr Sven-Bodo Scholz, University of Hertfordshire * New applications of parametricity, Dr Janis Voigtlander, Technical University of Dresden * Automatic vectorising compilation, Dr Paul Cockshott, University of Glasgow * Foundational aspects of size analysis, Prof Marko van Eekelen / Dr Olha Shakaravska, Radboud University Nijmegen * Context oriented programming, Dr Pascal Costanza, Vrije Universiteit Brussels * Multi-core programming, Dr Phil Trinder, Heriot-Watt University * Multi-core compilation, Dr Alastair Donaldson, Codeplay Software Ltd * Principles and Applications of Refinement Types, Dr Andrew D. Gordon, Microsoft Research, Cambridge * Resource aware programming in Hume, Prof Greg Michaelson, Heriot-Watt University / Prof Kevin Hammond, University of St Andrews * Haskell concurrency & parallelism, Dr Satnam Singh, Microsoft Research, Cambridge Location ~~~~~~~~ The Summer School is at Heriot-Watt University's Riccarton campus, set in pleasant parkland to the west of Edinburgh, with easy access to the airport, city and central Scotland (http://www.hw.ac.uk/welcome/directions.htm). The Summer School immediately precedes the 2009 International Conference on Functional Programming (http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/icfp09.html) and takes place during the Edinburgh International Festival (http://www.eif.co.uk/) , and the associated Edinburgh Festival Fringe (http://www.edfringe.com/) and Edinburgh International Book Festival (http://www.edbookfest.co.uk/) Steering Committee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Prof Prof Greg Michaelson, Heriot-Watt University (Convenor), <G.Michaelson@REDACTED> Prof Kevin Hammond, University of St Andrews Dr Patricia Johann, University of Strathclyde Prof Philip Wadler, University of Edinburgh Fee ~~~ Full rate: £400; (free for SICSA students) Includes: four nights single room, en-suite accommodation with breakfast, lunch and dinner, plus coffee breaks and session materials. Day rate: £200; (free for SICSA students) Includes: lunch, coffee breaks, session materials Registration of Interest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you are interested in attending the International Summer School, please complete the form available from (http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~greg/ISS-AiPL/ISS-AiPL%20register.doc) or below, and return it to: <ISS-AiPL-register@REDACTED> ********** International Summer School on Advances in Programming Languages 25th-28th August, 2009 Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland Registration of Interest Name: Address: Email: Phone: SICSA Uni: Yes / No Rate: Full / Day Accessibility requirements: Dietary requirements: Return to: ISS-AiPL-register@REDACTED **********


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For the week ending 1 May 2004 / 10 Iyyar 5764
Farmer Food for the Needy
This Pesach saw a record amount of money and food distributed to needy families in Israel by charitable organizations. Even the Israeli government took part in this outpouring of help. The Agriculture Ministry this Pesach distributed surplus food products valued in the millions of shekels.
This farmer food for the needy included five million eggs, 550 tons of potatoes, 370 tons of oranges, 350 tons of carrots and 237 tons of onions.


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Arts & Events
Around & About Theater: Aurora Opens Wilder Nights; Ram Das 'Acid Test' at the Marsh—& a Few Richards: 'Richard the First' at Central Works & Actors Ensemble of Berkeley's 'Richard III'
—Aurora's opening a selection of Thornton Wilder's one-acts (Thursday, November 8 through December 9), directed by founding Artistic Director Barbara Oliver: "Infancy" (1962), "Childhood" ('62), "The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden" (1931) and "The Long Christmas Dinner" ('31)—the latter, his most famous one-act, with its time-lapse view of human lifetimes through a family feast, may've been part inspiration for Orson Welles' famous montage of a marriage at the breakfast table, failing over the years, in 'Citizen Kane.' It was made into an opera by Paul Hindemith.
Wilder, most famous for 'Our Town' (and for 'The Skin of Our Teeth,' as well as the screenplay for Hitchcock's 'Shadow of a Doubt,' and 'The Matchmaker,' from Johann Nestroy, whence springeth 'Hello, Dolly!") is often misrepresented as sugar-coated or Pollyanna-ish.Nothing could be further from the truth, as the second half of 'Our Town,' shows, emphasized in Jonathan Moscone's production at Berkeley Rep a few years back: the starkness of the effects of mortality, of the basic questions of the human condition, is etched sharply against the gestures in the foreground towards folk and populist sentiments, revealing the unspoken collective and individual doubts and fears in positive-thinking small town America.
And, like elements of the one-acts, it is a small revolution in dramaturgy and staging.
Friend of Gertrude Stein, acquaintance and translator of Sartre, mentor to Edward Albee, Wilder was an international figure—his plays are presented all over the world, his novels an object of university study.
The Aurora cast includes Heather Gordon, Gwen Kingston, Soren Oliver, Marcia Pizzo, Stacy Ross, Patrick Duvall and Brian Tryson.
Tuesday through Sunday (different times), through December 9. 2081 Addison (near Shattuck). $32-$50. 843-4822; auroratheatre.org


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We're pretty partial to a compact printer – we gave Berg's Little Printer a spot on our Cool List 2012 – so you shouldn't be surprised that Alex Zhulin's Oksu concept made it onto the Stuff geek accessory radar.
Like the Little Printer, the Oksu lets you print out news stories or online recipes that interest you so that you can reference the articles without having your phone skulking about all the time. The example cards in the video are pretty image-heavy and we reckon the Oksu could fill a Pinterest-shaped void in the real world.
The mini printer uses Z-Ink paper with built-in colour pigments, rather than replaceable cartridges – but where it gets interesting is the use of NFC chips in each card. That means you can embed links to sites, photos or videos in the cards themselves so that they boot up when you place them near your (NFC enabled) phone, tablet or laptop.
The NFC chips might bump up the price of the Oksu cards but since this is just a concept for now, it's too soon to talk money.
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The Paul J. Rizzo Conference Center At Meadowmont is part of UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School. Located to the east of Chapel Hill, it features superb conferencing facilities and a combination of new and old buildings set in a wooded location only twenty minutes drive from RDU Airport.
The United States is one of the most diverse countries on earth, jam packed full of amazing sights from St. Patrick's cathedral in New York to Mount Hollywood California.The Northeast region is where it all started. Thirteen British colonies fought the American Revolution from here and won their independence in the first successful colonial rebellion in history. Take a look at these rolling hills carpeted with foliage along the Hudson river here, north of New York City.The American south is known for its polite people and slow pace of life. Probably they move slowly because it's so hot. Southerners tend not to trust people from "up north" because they talk too fast. Here's a cemetery in Georgia where you can find graves of soldiers from the Civil War.The West Coast is sort of like another country that exists to make the east coast jealous. California is full of nothing but grizzly old miners digging for gold, a few gangster rappers, and then actors. That is to say, the West Coast functions as the imagination of the US, like a weird little brother who teases everybody then gets famous for making freaky art.The central part of the country is flat farmland all the way over to the Rocky Mountains. Up in the northwest corner you can find creative people in places like Portland and Seattle, along with awesome snowboarding and good beer. Text by Steve Smith.


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64-bit computing is as prevalent today as multicore computing. Almost any new processor from Intel or AMD has the AMD long mode extensions, allowing the processor to use 64-bit registers. While 32-bit processors can address 4 gigabytes of RAM, a 64-bit processor can address 16 exabytes, or almost 17.2 billion gigabytes, of RAM. Most 64-bit-capable computers aren't making use of these capabilities, but instead are put to work running 32-bit operating systems, usually because of a lack of applications for 64-bit operating systems, since applications must be recompiled and in some cases rewritten for 64-bit operation. It is possible, however, to run 32-bit Linux binaries natively under 64-bit Linux kernels.
Here's a look at three cases where running 32-bit applications on 64-bit hardware can accomplish what you need. The commands in this article are for Ubuntu 8.04, but the software described should work for any Debian-based 64-bit Linux distribution.
Being a technology enthusiast, I decided to install the 64-bit version of Ubuntu on my new Toshiba laptop, equipped with an AMD Turion 64 X2 dual core processor. Most of the applications in Ubuntu's repositories have been recompiled for 64-bit support, so productivity is not a problem. Even the restricted drivers, such as the ATI frglx and the Atheros MadWifi drivers, came precompiled. I was writing documents, browsing the Web, chatting with Ekiga, and listening to music almost as soon as Ubuntu was installed. The joyride came to an end when I tried to find a video for one of my favorite new songs on YouTube. Apparently, the only plugin available for Flash video was the open source player Gnash, but it would not even display the YouTube video player.
Since I am also a (very amateur) musician, I also wanted to install one of my favorite software synthesizers, RTSynth, a physical modeling synthesizer which, alas, is free only as in beer because of concerns over patents on physical modeling. It is available as a binary only for 32-bit Linux. Normally I would set up a virtual machine for such a "problem program," but none of the virtual machine applications that run on today's hardware can meet the processing and latency requirements for sound work (especially physical modeling).
Where I live, we have a saying: "If you don't like our weather, stick around a few minutes, it'll change." Since our weather is so variable, we depend on weather radar more than forecasting for scheduling events affected by weather. The National Weather Service has looping weather radar pages that show the movement of storms and rain. These pages require Java, and Sun, like Adobe, is rather tardy about supporting 64-bit computers. In fact, Sun's Java doesn't even work with the plugin wrapper we will use for Flash. The good news is, Sun doesn't have the only the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) on the block.
32-bit binaries
As it turns out, the good people of Debian (on which Ubuntu is based) have already solved the problem of running 32-bit binaries on 64-bit Linux. The IA32 libraries provide everything you need to run 32-bit binaries. The command
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs will install the libraries. If you get an error about an asound library being uninstallable, you should be able to fix it with the command
sudo apt-get install libasound2=1.0.15-3ubuntu4.
That's it! Your 32-bit binaries and any included libraries should now be functional. As a test, I fired up QJackCTL, VKeyBD, aconnectgui (all native 64-bit applications), and the JACK version of RTSynth. After hooking up the outputs in QJackCTL and the MIDI from VKeyBD to RTSynth in aconnectgui, I was able to play a wonderful-sounding guitar from my keyboard. The 32-bit binary RTSynth interacted flawlessly with the native 64-bit programs.
Flash video the Adobe way
All well and good; I can get a relatively obscure, special-use binary to run natively on my system — but how about that killer app of internet multimedia, Adobe Flash? The developers of the open source Gnash Flash player have been working in the dark for most of the project's life. The Flash Video and SWF container specifications were only just released, and Gnash has not yet had the time to make full use of the information. A key piece of the Flash specification, ActionScript, remains unreleased. For everyday use, we still need Adobe's Flash plugin. Yet even with the 32-bit libraries mentioned above, Flash will not install in Firefox.
The answer is a handy little tool called nspluginwrapper that installs under the 64-bit version of Firefox and can run the 32-bit version of Flash. To get Flash working, install the IA32 libraries and remove Gnash if it is installed:
sudo apt-get remove gnash
Install nspluginwrapper and Flash 9:
sudo apt-get install nspluginwrapper flashplugin-nonfree lib32nss-mdns
Flash 9 is not packaged, but the package installer script will fetch it from Adobe's download site and install it. Now simply install nspluginwrapper as a Firefox plugin:
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/ sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-3.0/plugins/
After restarting Firefox, you should have the Flash 9 plugin installed and working properly. Surf to YouTube or Google Video and find something interesting to watch.
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And finally we have Java, the "write once, run anywhere" language that brought us our first taste of client-side Web interactivity. Sadly, Sun doesn't seem to think "anywhere" includes 64-bit machines, at least for Web applets. Sun's JRE is available for 64-bit Linux, but does not include a working browser plugin. However, the IcedTea Java plugin will run under 64-bit Linux. The following commands will install the IcedTea plugin for Firefox:
sudo apt-get install icedtea-java7-plugin sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/gcjwebplugin.so /usr/lib/firefox/plugins
Again, you will have to restart Firefox for the plugin installation to take effect. You should then be able to utilize Java applets in any Web page. For a test, visit the National Weather Service and watch the weather over Ohio.
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Bolt eyes historic IAAF award
With just a few days to go, Jamaican sprinting royalty Usain Bolt inches closer to yet another slice of history, as he eyes a historic fourth IAAF Male Athlete of the Year (AOY) award at the IAAF Grand Gala and Awards Ceremony.
The IAAF is this year celebrating 100 years of existence, and though never one who needed a real reason to party, Bolt is looking to make it a big weekend at the glitzy affair in Barcelona, Spain.
Bolt has the company of Moroccan middle-distance legend Hicham El Guerrouj as the only athletes with three such awards to their name.
El Guerrouj won his awards from 2001-2003, while Bolt's triumphs came in 2008, 2009 and last year.
On Saturday, though, the 26-year-old could secure another first. It will not be an easy acquisition for the man who successfully defended his Olympic 100m and 200m titles at the London Games a few months ago.
He will be up against it with the smooth-hurdling Aries Merritt and the indomitable David Rudisha also in contention for one of the closest IAAF Male AOY races in years.
Nonetheless, notwithstanding his only two losses - to training partner Yohan Blake at the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association/Supreme Ventures National Senior Championships earlier this year - this ranks as one of Bolt's best seasons since his campaign of domination started in 2008.
The powerful sprinter followed up his London exploits, which also included a blistering anchor leg - reportedly clocked at 8.70; matching Asafa Powell's 2008 Beijing Olympic split - with top honours in the 100m for the rich Samsung Diamond League series.
Individual world records
Both Meritt and Rudisha will take individual world records to the table; Merritt's determined and season-long assault on the 110m hurdles world record finally bearing dividends with a new mark of 12.80.
Replacing the old record of 12.87, Merritt's mark followed an amazing eight sub-13 seconds clockings this year and tucks in nicely with his Olympic, World Indoor and Diamond League titles.
Rudisha has had a stranglehold on his 800m pet event for some time and broke new ground at the Olympic Games, becoming the first man to dip below one minute, 41 seconds with a 1:40.91 time which betters Wilson Kipketer's 15-year record of 1:41.11.
Some track and field aficionados rate Rudisha's performance as the best single run at the Olympic Games in London, leaving the Kenyan star with a honest shot at upstaging Bolt and Merritt when the votes are tallied in a few days.
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The Enduro World Series kicks off this weekend in Punta Ala, Italy, and that means it's prototype teaser time. The bike in question this time is the Lapierre Spicy Team 27.5 rig that will be piloted by French great Nico Vouilloz. You might remember him for his days as the world's premier downhill racer. Between 1992 and 2002, Vouilloz won 10 world titles and 16 World Cup races. Dude was the best. Period.
Now like a lot of aging former pros (he turned 37 in February), Vouilloz has transitioned to enduro racing. And what do you know, he's winning again. Turns out bike skills are bike skills.
Nico's weapon of choice starting this weekend will be what looks like a full alloy prototype from Lapierre. The PR that accompanied these teaser shots says that the bike is "a honed race machine spec'd to perfection."
That spec includes the innovative Monarch Relay shock E.I auto-adjust suspension system, which is tag-team effort between RockShox and Lapierre. The basic gist is that the shock has a built-in automatic on-the-fly adjustment system that manages compression and lock-out via an array of special sensors and accelerometers that monitor bump forces and speed. Very cool stuff, and likely a harbinger of the next frontier in mountain bike suspension technology.
Nico's bike also has a stealthy RockShox BlackBox 160mm Pike fork with sexy black stanchions, a SRAM XX1 groupset, prototype SRAM wheels, and a set of First Ride Schwalbe prototype tires with some seriously beefy tread.
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How could I not anticipate this? Honestly, I always looked the liberals as fat, loud, purple hair crazies, gender study major hipster boys and crooked politicians and was absolutely sure that I've never personally met any of them. Considering that half of the USA voted for Hillary Clinton, it should have been obvious that half of the US-based commenters of a gaming blog are Hillary voters.
To explain, let me start with what "leftism" means in Europe. In short, it means Bernie Sanders. Longer: it means social-democracy, the idea that the successful and productive people should give welfare to the unsuccessful. I disagree with this idea, but I never considered these people "bad". Their politics can be presented with a simple example "the only way for an alcoholist homeless to become productive person is giving him free health care, education and housing until he recovers and learns skills". I find it wrong and believe that he'll just waste the welfare and remains alcoholist homeless. But I can't deny that:
- The statement is factually true, not giving him welfare guarantees that he won't get any more useful.
- There is a chance that he turns out to be a working person, there are actual examples, no matter how rare they are.
- The idea is based on human nature, compassion for the unfortunate. While I fight these pre-historic subroutines, it would be crazy to deny their existence.
- Their ultimate goal is to make the alcoholist homeless into a productive person, which is a worthy and good goal.
Liberals on the other hand say that the alcoholist homeless has nothing wrong with him, his state is my fault, I made him an alcoholist homeless with my toxic masculinity and oppressive whiteness and I must atone to these crimes by respecting his rights to housing and nutrition and health care without conditions. They love Hillary for the things she say and voted for her in the primaries against Bernie.
This is crazy. It doesn't compute for me, how can any reasonable person believe this nonsense. Which left me with the belief is that anyone preaching it is either a liar who just say it to get elected (Hillary) or a total lunatic (the purple hair, fat feminist with a penis). I simply can't understand how can anyone remotely reasonable call races and genders oppressors after the Holocaust (which was based on the bizarre idea that the Jewish race is oppressing the German race). Since my commenters look reasonable people, I came to the conclusion that none of my commenters are liberals.
So if you are a reader who believes in affirmative action and not a purple hair fat feminist with a penis, (nor a crooked politician) please try to explain how this will lead to a better World?
PS: I don't deny that some people are racist and misogynists. But they are individuals with their individual, identifiable offenses and not speaking for their skin color or genitals. Their obvious counter is meritocracy: their organizations will fail in competition against those that welcome hard-working women or black people. There is a reason why no top company is ran by Ku Klux Klan members: rednecks wearing ghost costumes aren't particularly good at innovation.


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The first alpha release of Fedora 9 (codenamed Sulphur) was announced this morning on the Fedora mailing list. This alpha, which provides a first look at the features of Fedora's next release, includes GNOME 2.21, KDE 4.0, Firefox 3 beta 2, version 2.6.24 of the Linux kernel, and many other improvements.
The alpha 1 release is available for download from the Fedora web site. Installation CD and DVD images can be downloaded directly or via BitTorrent, and Live CD images are available in both GNOME and KDE flavors. Keep in mind that this prerelease isn't intended for use on production systems and is an early snapshot of the Fedora development branch.
Plans for this release include full integration of GIO and GVFS, improved integration of the PolicyKit permission and authentication framework, inclusion of the PackageKit package management interface, and performance improvements for Xorg that aim to decrease start time. Developers are also working on preliminary integration of the new ext4 filesystem, adding support for installing directly to encrypted filesystems, and adding support for partition resizing in the Anaconda installer.
The final release of Fedora 9 is tentatively scheduled for late April. Feature freeze will occur early next month and will be followed by the Fedora 9 beta release. For more information, see the planned feature list, the release schedule, and the alpha release notes.


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