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We extol the virtues of our favourite gaming heroes and heroines (in no particular order)...
A quiet boy in a green tunic and tights isn't your typical hero, but Link has always been one of gaming's greats. Armed with the legendary Master Sword, boomerangs, slingshots and a whole arsenal of other nifty weapons, he valiantly defends the mythical land of Hyrule from the evil Ganon.
Finest hour... Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998)
It's-a-me, Mario! The most recognisable character of all time has smashed his way through countless monsters and brick blocks, and on weekends he relaxes by maniacally pelting fellow drivers with turtle shells. We don't know what Nintendo were smoking when they thought a moustachioed Italian plumber would be a good protagonist, but we're sure glad they did.
Finest hour... Super Mario Kart (1992)
Cloud Strife
Don't let the feminine cheek bones and silky blonde hair fool you. Cloud Strife more than proves himself as a mercenary in Final Fantasy VII as he wields his gargantuan sword against Sephiroth and his minions to deadly effect. Still not convinced? You try wielding that thing. Seriously, look at it. It's ridiculous.
Finest hour... Final Fantasy VII (1997)
Sonic the Hedgehog
Meet the only hedgehog in existence that's too fast to become roadkill. A spiky blue mammal with attitude and snazzy red trainers, Sonic lays the smackdown at blistering speeds as he blazes through different worlds to foil the evil Dr Robotnik.
Finest hour... Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (1992)
Master Chief
You know someone's a badass when they hardly speak two words and never show their face. Armed with a host of human and alien weapons, the armoured Chief ploughs his way through hordes of slimy, ugly alien cannon fodder and goes on to singlehandedly save the human race.
Finest hour... Halo: Combat Evolved (2004)


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The following was posted in our comment sections three days ago. We wondered if it was real or not. A little detective work revealed it to be genuine and posted in a number of stations and units and CO Books:
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From: Weis, Jody P.
To: [removed]
Sent: Fri Mar 27 19:15:49 2009
Earlier today, I was copied on a letter sent from FOP President Mark Donahue to the City's Corporation Counsel alleging that the Department was planning an improper first amendment investigation into those individuals who choose to participate in an FOP-organized picket on 02 April.
This allegation is false and not substantiated by any information that is available within the Department. I am deeply concerned that such an allegation would be raised against members of the Department without proof.
I would ask that you inform the members of your command that the Department is committed to upholding the constitution, and that we will support the first amendment rights of the men and women of the Department, regardless of the first amendment activity they choose to participate in. The Department will support their rights; it is vital that we stress this point to the membership.
Every day, numerous first amendment activities are ongoing throughout the City with the full support and protection of legal first amendment activity by the members of the Department; the event on 02 April will enjoy the same support and protections by the Department provided to any other activity.
Thank you for your leadership in this issue.
Jody Weis
Chicago Police Department
The PBPA - Lieutenants and Captains Association posted a message of support Monday and a press release was issued. Thanks to Lieutenant Weisskopf, Captain Drozd and their memberships.
SecondCitySarge has declared their intent to join the Informational Picket, but no word from the official Sergeants Union site.
We still haven't seen a SecondCityExempts blog up and running, and we don't really expect one soon. In any event, Thursday is the day. Let's see if some of the supervisors expressing support come out and show some support, too. The more the merrier.
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I'd like to take a moment to honor Danny Trejo in recognition of his remarkable achievement of going from being little more than a "That Guy" in action movies throughout the 90's, to landing his first legitimate starring role in Robert Rodriguez's Machete.
In my early childhood I knew him as "that ruddy-complexioned guy that dies all the time."
Later on I knew him as a much friendlier personality in the form of the voices of Enrique on King of the Hill,
and well; himself, in the videogame Def Jam: Fight for New York.
Well, it's about 20 years overdue, but finally the day has come that we can all say we know Danny Trejo as the star of his own movie.
Anyway, in honor of Danny Trejo and the host of other perpetually typecast actors, I'd like to take this opportunity to pay tribute to the "That Guy's" of action cinema.
What is a "That Guy," you ask?
A "That Guy" is one of those actors that is consistently typecast in various bit-roles, typically along the lines of "ugly thug #1" or "dude that gets shot."
It goes without saying, that the vast majority of "That Guy's" end up playing villains throughout the entirety of their careers.
Think of it this way:
If you've seen an action movie actor enough times that you know their face, but not their name; chances are they're a "That Guy."
Over the years there have been a handful of "That Guy's" that have ascended to legitimate celebrity, though every case is essentially a million to one shot.
For the most part though, a "That Guy's" claim to fame generally springs from the list of big name action stars that have killed them throughout their career.
Take Sven-Ole Thorsen for example:
A veteran of an ungodly number of action films, the big Dane got capped to shit by Leonardo DiCaprio in The Quick and the Dead,
he got offed by Steven Seagal in On Deadly Ground, he got the everloving-shit kicked out of him by Russell Crowe in Gladiator,
and to top it all off, he's been torn apart by Arnold Schwarzenegger more times than I care to count.
Best of all though, not only has 'ole Sven been killed by Ah-Nold more times than I've used the word "fuck" on this blog, he's also accomplished the astounding feat of being killed by Arnold twice in the same movie franchise.
Said franchise would of course be the Conan series.
Sven was in both films, playing 2 different characters, though in Conan the Destroyer he was fitted with a dorky looking helmet, most likely to hide his appearance.
No article about "That Guy's" can be made without mention of the uber-prolific Thomas Rosales Jr.
You may of course remember him as the deaf as fuck Hispanic mercenary, Carter, from The Lost World.
Well, beyond that, chances are you also remember him from Raw Deal, The Running Man, Last Action Hero, (Arnold killed him a few times) and the sci-fi sequels, Robocop 2 and Predator 2.
Any man that takes a bullet from Robocop, and gets skinned by the Predator, definitely deserves special mention.
Another example of the quintissential "That Guy" I'd like to point out is the classic "Azn That Guy," Al Leong.
If ever there was a need for an Asian "That Guy," in any action movie ever, chances are Al Leong was considered for the part.
With his distinctive beard and outrageous bald spot, Mr. Leong made in appearances in such classics as Bill and Ted's Excellent adventure (as Genghis Khan no less) and Big Trouble in Little China, as well as achieved the honor of being killed off by industry greats like Mel Gibson (Lethal Weapon),
Tee hee, that was silly.
and Bruce Willis (Die Hard).
Though in my eyes he's nowhere near as accomplished as either of the other 2 men above, Patrick Kilpatrick is a "That Guy" that deserves mention, if not for his awesomely-badass name, then for the sheer strength of his performances.
Few "That Guy's" can match Kilpatrick's ability to stand out from the crowd with his creepy mannerisms and borderline down-syndrome kid facial structure.
That being said, Mr. Kilpatrick's been killed by Steven Seagal in Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, Bruce Willis in Last Man Standing, Arnold Schwarzenneger in Eraser, and he even got to be the primary antagonist in the Jean-Claude Van Damme prison actioner, Death Warrant.
Not only that, he got to fight Treat Williams in The Substitute 4: Failure Is Not An Option.
I happen to like Treat Williams…
Anyway, I don't want to overstay my welcome with this tribute post, so I'll just finish by rattling off a few more "That Guy's" that deserve to be known somewhere on the internet.
Nick Chinlund AKA Billy Bedlam from Con Air, thanks for having the raunchiest, slimiest voice of any "That Guy" EVER.
Robert Z'Dar, thanks for having the biggest fucking chin on the face of the planet. Oh yeah, thanks for making Tango and Cash suck just a little bit less too.
Tommy Lister, thanks for being the president of THE WORLD in The Fifth Element, and giving us Deebo in Friday, and Zeus in No Holds Barred. Foh' real man, I don't think anyone else could've done so much with so little.
Michael Berryman, sorry about the Hypohidrotic Ectodermal Dysplasia, but think of it this way, you saved many a filmmaker a shit ton of money on makeup effects.
and Brian Thompson, thanks for reminding me of Michael Berryman when you're head's shaved, and for the Buffalo Bob sequence in Joe Dirt.
Brian Thompson in drag = Funny. Spade without Farley = Sad.
Anyway, there's a shit ton of other "That Guy's" deserving of recognition, and perhaps we'll get to them another day, but for now, here's to hoping they all know they're appreciated.
Remember, just 'cause I don't know your name doesn't mean I don't appreciate what you do.
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Dogs seized at Highland Co. animal rescue
15 taken, court advice sought for 80 more
Officials concerned about living conditions for dozens of dogs at a Tri-State property have removed 15 dogs and want court guidance on what should happen to about 80 others.
Officials tell the Times-Gazette in Hillsboro that investigators found more than 100 dogs in inadequate conditions Tuesday at Cares About Life Rescue outside of Hillsboro.
Sheriff's deputies and animal cruelty investigators returned Thursday with a search warrant and removed some of the dogs.
Those were placed in foster homes or the local dog pound. Dozens more were documented.
Highland County Sheriff Ron Ward said he expected animal cruelty charges against the site's operator. He says it appears she couldn't properly care for so many animals, though her intentions may have been good.


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If you thought that the slim ware was limited only to smartphones and TVs, think again. Sony has announced a 'Super Slim' version of the PlayStation 3 at the Tokyo Game Show.
The new smaller and lighter PS3 will be available in two HDD capacities – 250GB and 500GB. Sony claims that the 'Super Slim' PS3 is 20% smaller and 25% lighter than the current model. It is also lighter by more than 1.1 pounds, and is power efficient as well (200W vs 190W).
Sony will be also be releasing a limited edition bundle 250GB PS3 bundle featuring Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception and more than $30 of bonus digital content for DUST 514 on 25th September for $269.99 in the United States.
The 500GB version of the 'Super Slim' PS3 will cost $299 when it hits the U.S on October 30th and will come bundled with Assassin's Creed III.


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The European Union and Canada agreed a multibillion-dollar trade pact on Friday that will integrate two of the world's largest economies and pave the way for Europe to clinch an even bigger deal with the United States.
The deal will make Canada the only G8 country to have preferential access to the world's two largest markets, the EU and the United States, home to a total of 800 million people.
"This is the biggest deal our country has ever made," Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in Brussels, adding that it outstripped the North American Free Trade Agreement between Canada, the United States and Mexico.
Talks between the two sides launched in May 2009 but stalled for months over quotas for Canadian beef and EU cheese. Harper and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso met in Brussels to resolve outstanding issues and seal the deal.
In a cheeky touch, chefs served Italian gorgonzola and Greek feta cheese at a four-course lunch laid on for the two leaders to celebrate the deal, which EU trade chief Karel De Gucht called a "template" for negotiations with the United States.
The deal marks a breakthrough for Brussels' free-trade agenda, which had previously achieved smaller agreements with South Korea and Singapore. It is expected to increase bilateral trade in goods and services by a fifth to €25.7 billion ($35 billion) a year, according to the latest EU estimates.
Barroso said he hoped the agreement could come into effect from 2015, after EU governments, the European Parliament and Canada's 10 provinces give their blessing.
One significant potential obstacle was cleared on Friday when the government of Quebec, whose dairy industry had been unhappy about the increased EU cheese quota, announced its support for the agreement.
On dairy, the province's government said Ottawa had committed to compensate producers for any losses due to the new import quotas.
However, France signaled some reservations about an influx of Canadian beef under the deal, even if its Munster and Camembert cheese will now win easier access to Canada's supermarket shelves.
"I am waiting for confirmation from the Commission that this accord, particularly in agriculture, does not a set a precedent for talks with the United States," said French Trade Minister Nicole Bricq at a meeting with De Gucht and her peers in Luxembourg.
The Commission is negotiating trade pacts with more than 80 countries on behalf of the bloc's 28 members after the collapse of the marathon Doha round of global trade talks. The delays that dogged the agreement with Canada showed how difficult such deals can be.
Efforts to sign a free trade accord with the United States faced a setback this month when a second round of negotiations was cancelled because of the U.S. government shutdown.
Despite plans to do a deal by the end of next year, the talks have also been overshadowed by reports the United States bugged EU offices under surveillance programs made public by former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who has taken refuge in Russia.
Still, the EU-Canada agreement should provide a boost for EU-U.S. negotiations. Both deals seek to go far beyond tariff cuts and to reduce transatlantic barriers to business. There are similar sticking points, such as agriculture.
"It's a good signal. I'm a transatlanticist," German Economy Minister Philipp Roesler told Reuters in Luxembourg.
"It's a great basis for all other negotiations, such as the TTIP talks with the United States," he said, referring to the proposed deal by its formal name, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
The EU-Canada pact would eliminate tariffs on almost all goods and services, set larger quotas for EU dairy exports and make it easier for EU carmakers to export vehicles to Canada and for European companies to invest in Canada's uranium sector.
For Canada, pork and beef farmers are perhaps the biggest winners, gaining a bigger share of a huge market once they change production and processing to meet EU rules.
But more European cheese will enter Canada's well-protected market, and for the first time, provincial and municipal governments in Canada will commit to opening their lucrative procurement markets so European companies can compete for contracts alongside locals.
"When you open that up to the European behemoths like Siemens and others, I think it's going to change the landscape," said John Boscariol, who heads the international trade and investment law group at McCarthy Tetrault in Toronto.
The EU will eliminate duties on a range of Canadian agricultural products, from wheat to maple syrup. Canada will be able to export 80,000 tons of pork and 50,000 tons of beef free of duties to the EU.
But French beef farmers said they were "outraged". "Worst of all, the (European) Commission is blindly preparing for a deal with the United States that will hasten the bankruptcy of farms and jobs in the sector," France's beef farm federation FNB said.
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Check out how the new HTC One M8's camera stacks up against some of its biggest smartphone rivals.
A flagship smartphone won't charm tech fans the world over if it can't snap top-quality pictures. To see how the new HTC One M8's camera stacks up, I pitted it against the iPhone 5S, Samsung Galaxy S4, Nokia Lumia 1020 and the older HTC One.
All photos were taken on full automatic mode at the maximum available resolution. Although every phone was held at the same distance from the scene, each phone has a different focal length, so some (particularly the Galaxy S4) look rather more zoomed in. Not every phone is represented in every slide -- the Lumia doesn't have an HDR mode, for example, and the old HTC One corrupted some of its images.
Click through the gallery above to see the HTC One M8's attempts at each scene. Below each pic, you'll see links to see the full-size, non-cropped version of its photos, along with the comparisons from its rivals.
First up, this lovely big house in West London. The One M8 managed to achieve a good overall exposure, although its white balance was rather on the cold side.
Check out how the rivals compared:
iPhone 5S
Samsung Galaxy S4
Nokia Lumia 1020
HTC One
HTC One M8 full-size image
While the colour was more natural here, the M8 didn't achieve as even an exposure. Compare the iPhone 5S's shot, which more clearly captured the dramatic grey clouds behind the trees. Only having 4 megapixels also means it lacks the full-screen detail offered by the iPhone, Galaxy S4 or Lumia 1020.
A great shot here. Both exposure and colour tone looked good, with more contrast than the Lumia 1020.
The M8 came out on top in terms of exposure and colour balance here. The iPhone 5S had an unusual orangey tint and seemed a little over-exposed.
On the downside, the 4-megapixel sensor again means that there's little clarity when you zoom in. For Facebook snaps, this will be fine, but if you want to crop into an image, 4 megapixels won't be enough.
A great, natural colour tone overall here, but the water has overexposed, making it look like bright white globules falling, rather than a clear stream.
A disappointing effort from the M8 here. It has only exposed for the dark brickwork beneath the bridge. That part of the shot is more easily visible than in the iPhone's shot, but the rich blue sky is completely washed out.
Note that I tapped to focus and meter in the centre of the image under the bridge on all phones, so all of them were exposing for the same part of the scene.
Turning HDR mode on didn't help matters. Although it's made the brickwork brighter, it's done nothing to rescue the bright sky. The iPhone 5S managed to maintain a rich sky, while the older HTC One did a fair job at keeping the sky under control and still showing plenty of detail in the brickwork.
This non-HDR image has again slightly overexposed clouds, although to nowhere near the same extent as the bridge photo. Both the iPhone 5S and Galaxy S4 managed to capture much more balanced scenes.
HDR mode didn't help at all in keeping the clouds under control. If anything, it only really served to make the scene look a little unnatural.
The M8's white balance was way off here, making this scene look very cold and blue.
With HDR mode enabled, the colour balance was brought under control. It's a generally great pic, with great exposure overall.
The non-HDR version of this picture is a little dark, although on the plus side, it hasn't blown out the sky too much.
With HDR enabled, the scene is a lot brighter. The colour balance doesn't look particularly natural, but I really like it anyway -- it has an almost vintage feel to it that suits the scene well.
There's an automatic sweep panorama mode on board that's very easy to use. It was able to capture this great shot in West London. Colour balance and exposure look good and there are very few stitching errors.
The iPhone 5S's version is great too, with slightly warmer colours and more vertical information recorded as the phone is held in portrait mode as you sweep it around.
See the full-size HTC One M8 panorama
See the full-size iPhone 5S panorama
The One M8 can take a 360-degree photo, as well as a panorama. It captures everything around where you stand, by piecing together lots of individual photos. It takes a while to do and requires you to spin on the spot, but the result looks great.
Once captured, you can move the phone around you and the scene will pan around on the screen, exactly as though you were stood there.
See the full-size image
It even allows you to take a snapshot from the 360-degree photo and save it as a new image, effectively allowing you to completely recompose a shot you saw after you've left.
Moving indoors, the One M8 had a decent exposure in this very poorly lit portrait scene, but it's seriously lacking in quality and sharpness. The Nokia Lumia 1020 achieved the best shot here, while the S4's attempt was barely even visible.
The One M8's flash wasn't particularly powerful here, so hasn't given much illumination, but it also hasn't washed out skin tones or given a lot of glare.
These low-light objects were easily visible on the One M8's shot (the S4's was again extremely dark). It lacked clarity however, which is particularly visible in the text on the red box of Oxo cubes. It was much sharper on the iPhone 5S.
Unsurprisingly, all images looked better with the flash turned on. The One M8's shot was the darkest, with the Muse album difficult to make out in the background. Colours were a little drab as well, although I was pleased that there isn't any major glare from the flash on any of the objects.
With a hearty 5-megapixel camera on the front, it's no surprise that the One M8 managed to capture a pretty decent selfie. Exposure on my face was even and the overall colour tone looked good.
The One M8 comes with a bunch of other camera tricks too. This dual-shot mode lets you combine images taken from the front and rear cameras at once.
There are a host of effects you can add to your images. None are more dramatic than this solarised filter.
The Zoe camera mode takes a 3-second video from which you can save individual frames to capture the best moment in a scene.
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You're also able to edit them together into an action sequence shot. Got skateboarding friends? They'll love this.
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Embedded Linux Class by Mark A. Yoder
The BeagleBoard has a huge open source community. To be effective at using the Beagle you need to learn how work with the community. The purpose of this exercise is to introduce you some of the Beagle communities.
eLinux.org is where this page is posted. It's also where I've posted all my class exercises. I tag all my pages with [[Category:ECE497]] so it's easy to find all my pages.
- Create a user name on eLinux.org
- Add your name to the ECE497 Editing a Wiki page.
- Edit your User page on eLinux and add [[Category:ECE497]] to it. This will make it appear on the Category page. Check out User:Mayhewsw for ideas of what else to put on your User page.
Our first stop is BeagleBoard.org. This is the "official" BeagleBoard site, you'll find lots of good information here.
- While visiting, download a copy of the System Reference Manual (SRM) for the BeagleBoard-xM.
- Also check out the FAQ. It has some good suggestions on where to find information.
BeagleBoard Google Group
There is a Google Group for the BeagleBoard. This is where I go for most of my information, it's easy to search for past information and members are quick to post answers to questions. Try it,
- search for cloud9 and see what you find
- post a response to my message
- subscribe to the group so you can get email updates. I like using the daily digest.
You'll also find an ECE497 BeagleBoard group. This is a group I use to communicating with my class. You are welcome to subscribe to it, but you won't find much there.
There's also an IRC channel for the Beagle. It's a good place to get really quick answers since there is usually someone monitoring the channel the knows the Beagle.
- Go to the channel and post something.
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Saving for Retirement: Millennial Edition
If you're among the 70% of college graduates[i] in the United States working to pay down student loan debt, you likely already know how challenging it can be to simultaneously save for retirement.
The good news? There are proven ways to begin putting together an effective, smart plan for the future while managing—and, perhaps, even reducing—your debt today.
Here's where to begin:
Saving for retirement is a major long-term financial goal, so don't be afraid to start small. Establishing automatic contributions to your retirement account can help make saving habitual—which, in turn, allows you to take the first, most important step toward making your financial aspirations a reality: Saving some amount of money from each paycheck consistently!
The earlier you begin contributing to retirement, the more time compounding interest—essentially, earning money on your money—has to work its magic. Hypothetically speaking, a person who invests just $100 a month from age 22 until age 67 could potentially have $379,000 by retirement age, earning an average 7% annual return.
In addition to automating your contributions, keep your retirement account in mind any time you come into unexpected cash such as a bonus from your employer, a raise or cost of living increase, return of a security deposit from a landlord, or a tax refund.
Based on your income and the retirement savings plans for which you are eligible, simply placing your money into one (or more) of these tax-advantaged retirement accounts could potentially lower your tax bill:
You may also qualify for other tax benefits such as the Saver's Credit—just for saving for retirement.
Debt doesn't just make it difficult to save for other goals: If the debt is interest-bearing, it costs you money to carry.
Most of us have more than one type of debt since car loans, student loans and credit cards tend to present themselves at around the same time in life. It helps to focus on eliminating at least one of those debts so that you have more financial flexibility.
Whether you choose to eliminate your smallest debt or tackle a larger one more aggressively, paying a debt off will give you more cash that you can put towards retirement savings.
Aside from budget categories you can't easily change—rent, a car payment—where do you spend the most money? Dining out? The grocery store? Commuting costs? Reduce what you spend in that category by just 10%, put the money into your savings instead, and you may be surprised by how fast your retirement account begins to grow.
If you have student loan debt, explore whether you can lower the cost of it. For example, if you work in a profession the government considers to be a public service—a designation which can apply to teachers, government employees at Federal, state, local and tribal levels, and some non-profit employees—and have made 120 qualifying loan payments to your Federal college debt after October 1, 2007, you may qualify to apply for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program[iii]. Or if your employer offers student loan repayment assistance or access to partners who specialize in student loan refinancing, these voluntary benefits might also provide you with ways to pay your loans back more quickly and/or refinance them into a less expensive loan.
Don't forget to take advantage of any education-related tax benefits for which you may be eligible when filing your taxes. The American Opportunity Tax Credit or the Lifelong Learning Credit, for example, may reduce the amount of income tax that you owe, leaving more money in your pocket that you could put towards retirement.
Now that you have a set of tips to help you find more ways to save, remember that your goal is saving for retirement – so be sure to stash your newfound income instead of spending it. The best way to do this is to keep a list of your savings goals, so that you know exactly what you're saving for and how to prioritize.
[i] https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/paying-for-college/slideshows/10-student-loan-facts-college-grads-need-to-know
[ii] https://www.irs.gov/retirement-plans/plan-participant-employee/retirement-topics-403b-contribution-limits
[iii] https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/public-service


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What do Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke and Flavor Flav have in common?
Not much.
Yet, the 90s-era hype-man turned reality TV star, or at least his signature over-sized clock medallion, makes an unlikely appearance in Bill Gross's latest musings on Fed policy.
In a Thursday letter to investors, the Pimco founder conjures up a Genie "with a 10-inch diameter Flavor Flav clock hanging ceremoniously around his neck," complete with sunglasses and gold teeth.
Related: Bond fund manager says beware of Treasuries
In his latest missive, Gross, also known as the Bond King, imagines a conversation with the Flavor Flav Genie, who offers to predict the outcome of next week's presidential election. Gross dismisses the hypothetical offer, saying the outcome is meaningless and that voters are "merely election-day pawns" who are more interested in when the latest iPhone will be released.
Gross expresses his disappointment in a "modern-day" Pledge of Allegiance to a "fragmented state of America" that, in a populist note, includes "liberty and justice for the 1(%)."
The Genie responds by calling Gross old and "cranky." Gross, who's 68 years old, does not disagree.
Once the political lament is done, Gross, who runs the Pimco Total Return Fund (PTTRX) moves on to his area of expertise: interest rates.
He argues that the Fed's policy of driving down interest rates via quantitative easing is causing "financial repression" by punishing savers and encouraging spending that does not help the economy.
"There is no evidence that investment is being incented by quantitative easing," says Gross. "All of the money being created and freed up is elevating asset prices, but those prices are not causing corporations to invest in future production."
Related: Bill Gross says 'central banks are where bad bonds go to die'
Gross acknowledges that Bernanke is "operating with one arm behind his back" as Congress remains locked in partisan paralysis.
But he maintains that the Fed's policies have done nothing to revive the economy and that investors should beware. The combination of "bite-sized future returns" and "misguided monetary and fiscal policy" could lead to "disruptive financial markets," according to the letter.
Gross also expects Treasury yields to remain low, saying the "cult" of equity, or expectation for total return in both stocks and bonds, is now over.
"If growth cannot be boosted by monetary policy, and fiscal policy is in the hands of a plutocracy more concerned about immediate profits as opposed to long-term vitality, then no Genie or Flavor Flav with a magic clock can make a difference," says Gross.
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Rihanna might be a lot of things, but there is one thing she is definitely not: self-conscious about her body. The provocative singer posed for GQ's "Men of the Year" issue wearing nothing but a cropped leather jacket and the curves her mama gave her.
Photos: Everybody's posing nude! Check out Rihanna and other stars who've bared all"Sometimes a person looks at me and sees dollars. They see numbers and they see a product," Rihanna tells GQ. "I look at me and see art. If I didn't like what I was doing, then I would say I was committing slavery. "
Justin Bieber, Rihanna join the angels at Victoria's Secret Fashion ShowApparently, what Rihanna likes doing is posing nearly nude. In addition to her racy cover, RiRi posed for the magazine's pictorial clad only in lacy black panties, shoes and a sweater so loose that it barely hung on to her toned physique.Check out more photos from Rihanna's GQ shoot here.


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Preview of City College improvement plan
Proposals include: cut free classes, lay off faculty, hire administrators
City College of San Francisco will hire new leaders, lay off faculty, close and lease out properties, and make enrichment classes a low priority as part of its frenzied determination to remain accredited and stay in business.
One new approach also reflects an astonishing reality: City College has allowed students to take classes without paying the required enrollment fees, causing the college to lose at least $400,000 a year.
On Thursday, interim Chancellor Pamila Fisher will offer a public preview of the college's plan for addressing the 14 major fiscal and managerial deficiencies identified in July by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges that jeopardize the college's future. The commission gave City College until Oct. 15 to produce a final action plan, and until March 15 to turn itself around.
"The college recognizes that clear, difficult choices must be made immediately," says the 48-page draft plan, which promises that "all goals will either be accomplished or a concrete process will be in place with measurable progress" by the March deadline.
One major change already approved by the trustees is to shift City College's main mission away from free enrichment classes like music appreciation and memoir writing, and focus instead on preparing students for transfer to a university, earning an associate degree, acquiring career skills and learning to speak English.
The key proposals
These are among the key proposals and savings identified in the draft plan, which have yet to be approved:
-- Consolidating or eliminating programs, such as enrichment classes. This would save $60,000 a year for each "full-time equivalent" instructor position eliminated, meaning jobs held by two or more part-timers.
-- Although the college is hiring some administrators, others would lose their jobs, with savings estimated at $180,000 a year for each position. The accreditation commission had said the school actually has too few administrators.
-- Laying off clerical employees.
-- Increasing the workweek of clerical staff from 37.5 hours to 40 hours to reduce overtime pay by $180,000 a year.
-- Hiring fewer students.
-- Eliminating paid sabbaticals to save $800,000 a year.
-- Imposing across-the-board salary cuts of 1 percent to save $1.57 million.
Another surprising bit of savings is revealed in a paragraph deep in the appendix of the proposal.
"(The) college currently 'writes off' as an expenditure $400,000 in unpaid student fees per year, a figure that will certainly increase in the near term."
The proposal plans for the college to collect those fees, which reflect enrollment costs of $46 per unit.
A single closure
The college acknowledges in the plan that it is unaware of what it costs to run each of its nine campuses and proposes to figure it all out.
There has also been speculation that some campuses would close. The plan proposes to eliminate only the Castro campus, which simply refers to about 25 night courses taught at Everett Middle School at 450 Church St.
At the same time, the plan proposes to lease out the college headquarters at 33 Gough St., "a prime location for development located one block off of Market Street."
The task for City College is huge, and the stakes high. Among the largest community colleges in the country, City College enrolls 49,000 students in its credit programs, and 36,000 in noncredit programs, including English language classes, across nine campuses.
The accrediting commission found that City College spends money it doesn't have, has nearly depleted its reserves, and can't track its finances or say how much each campus costs to run. The college spends a disproportionate amount of its budget - 92 percent - on salaries and benefits, while other colleges spend in the low 80s. There are too few administrators, and most are interim officials with little experience.
Tackling the problems
In response, City College sprang into action, perhaps more organized and trigger-ready than in years. Fisher - who arrived in May and leaves in October - established 14 groups of employees, trustees and students to tackle each problematic area identified by the accrediting commission.
One of the problems the plan takes a stab at is the college's approach to "shared governance," which at other colleges is an advisory system for faculty, employees and even students to influence the campus policies decided by administrators and boards of trustees.
At City College, however, the accrediting commission said there were so many squabbling cooks that little work got done.
In response, trustees, administrators, managers and faculty took lessons in how the process should work. And though they'll change the name from "shared governance" to "participatory governance," it's not clear how the system itself will be different.
Robert Shireman, a former Obama administration education official who now directs a higher education think tank in Oakland called California Competes, is an outspoken critic of the kind of muddy decision-making he says the state permits at community colleges.
While Shireman praised the City College plan for proposing that a "default decider" be appointed to break logjams, he said it isn't enough.
"What I do not see in the draft is a recognition that the accrediting agency will be looking for clarity that, when all is said and done, the buck stops with the trustees elected by the people of San Francisco," he said.
City College trustees meeting
The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. on the first floor of the multiuse building on the main campus at 50 Phelan Ave., San Francisco.
Online: To see the agenda for the meeting, go to: bit.ly/PUAJU1
Nanette Asimov is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @NanetteAsimov


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Casa Grandiosa
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Very comfortable and popular private cottage Grandiosa with private pool, air conditioning, free Wi-Fi and garage, 350 m to the beach
Our holiday house "Casa Grandiosa" is with 3 bedrooms for max. 6 people. The front door leads into the living / dining area which is followed by the American cuisine. The house has a beautiful bathroom with shower and toilet. For our youngest guests receive a Kinderreisebettchen, which we will gladly provide on request. Casa Graciosa is equipped with air conditioning, outdoor shower and a beautiful BBQ area by the pool and very quiet. The whole plot (400m²) is completely fenced. This lovingly furnished new family vacation home offers your entire family all the comforts for a relaxing family holiday. In just 2 minutes you can walk to the supermarket, bakery, cafes and restaurants that provide a daily extensive breakfast menu for all our guests. The spacious terrace overlooking the hotel's own pool area, invites you to a hearty breakfast under the Spanish sun and beautiful barbecue evenings with the whole family. Until guarded beach there are (with the towel over his shoulder) only about three minutes.
Neighboring house of "Casa Falco 1"
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Deposit: 200.- Euro. Opt. Cleaning fee per dog 25.- Euro.
Tourist tax: 1,00 Euro / day and person. However maximum 7,00 Euro per person per stay (from 17 years).
All our properties are furnished with the following basic equipment:
- All plots are fenced with a fence or a wall, so that your dog can move freely in the grounds.
- Pillows, blankets and linens are inclusive in each house for max. indicated number of persons present.(pax)
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- Well-equipped kitchens with glasses and dishes, coffee maker, toaster, washing machine, kettle and big fridges
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Page Family collection
- 1780-2004 (Creation)
20.79 Linear Feet, 42 Boxes
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Scope and content
The Correspondence Series (1834, 1845-1966) consists of twelve boxes and four sub-series.
The first sub-series are correspondence between family members and friends between the years 1834, and 1845 and 1966. It consists of nine boxes and twenty additional file folders in box 10.
The second sub-series is Education and made up of one file folder. Correspondence in this sub-series contains "pressure notes" to Olive and Mary Page when they attended Mt. Holyoke-Female Seminary wanting the twins to change their religious beliefs.
The third sub-series is Medical and is comprised of 33 file folders that contains correspondence that deal with Dr. William H. Page's medical practice.
The fourth sub-series, Military, contains two file folders of World War I letters to Olive Page between 1918 and 1919.
The Art Series (1851-1852) consists of one cartoon that was created by Daniel Page when he was sent home from the Phillips Exeter Academy "because he did not know enough to enter the academy."
The Cookery Series (ca. 1910-1920, undated) includes Mary Page Hastings undated manuscript cookbook. This cookbook includes recipes for cream pies, feed for 40 hens and washing fluid. Also in this series is a score card when Olive Page Rogers judged butter contests between 1910 and 1920.
The Education Series (1844-1929, undated) consists of school transcripts for Daniel Page from Phillips Exeter Academy, Florence Page from Newark Art School of Fine & Industrial Arts and Kingman Page from Bowdoin College. Essays by Mary Page, Nina Page, and William Page are included.
The Family Series (1817, 1943-195[2], undated) consists of eighteen file folders. These folders include genealogical information, garden records, church membership, wedding gifts, funerals, marriages and school medical examination.
The Financial Series (1821-1948) is housed in fourteen file folders contains ledger books with minutes and legal information, receipts for payments to teachers, individual accounts, and financial documents pertaining to organizations and society pins. A flat box includes an account book for pigs/hogs, horses, cattle, hens, sheep, wall paper for the Portland Street House, feed supplies, clothing, utilities, labor expenses, etc.
The Legal Series (1789-1947, undated) is comprised of real estate documents, deeds, a law suit that Alice Page filed against Daniel Page and Benjamin Page in the 1840s, and wills and estates.
The Literary Series (1823-1923, undated) consists of essays by William H. Page, Poetry by Beatrice Page, Mary Page Hastings and Minnie Hastings and Valentines to William Page and Huldah Page.
The Medical Series (1840s-1885) is made up of documents from William H. Page's medical practice. Items included are record books of patients, records of military recruits examined by Page at Boston during the Civil War, prescriptions, cures, and documents Page's eye injury.
The Military Series (1861-1863) contains a discharge record book of Civil War soldiers from Massachusetts and New Hampshire. This book provides the rank, company, regiment, state, residence, date of discharge, volume number and page number.
Printed Material (1839-1927) includes advertisement, announcements, annual reports, booklets about agriculture, medical, mining, silver ware and travel; a New Testament Bible belonging to Daniel Page; broadsides; calling card; invitations, and newspaper clippings.
Diaries Series (1854-1988) consists of 26 diaries. The most prominent diaries in the collection were written by Nina E. Page, daughter of Dr. William H. Page, from 1911 to 1942.
Memo Notebooks Series (1874-1881; 1909; 1973; undated) is comprised of two Page family address books (1909 and 1973), an undated events book, and an autograph book.
Correspondence Series, Alphabetical, 1972-2004 and undated consists of correspondence to Carolyn Page and Roy Zarucchi and their business The Nightshade Press.
Correspondence Series, Chronological, 1834-1946 and undated is made up of handwritten correspondence between Page Family members. These letters were not included in the original collection as Carolyn Page was using them for research. This series also includes correspondence, 1847-1878 and undated, that are typewritten because they had been transcribed onto a CD.
Subject, 1851-2002 and undated, is comprised of information relating to some of the Page family members and information pertaining to The Nightshade Press such as press releases, poetry book reviews, and some authors who wrote for the journal.
The Financial Series, 1850-1947, is made up of Account and Note Books and financial information kept by Victor E. Page and Olive Page Rogers. These accounts include prices of food, clothing and other household items purchased as well as crops and livestock bought and sold.
Legal Documents II, 1822-1912, consists of real estate records and deed, marriage records, wills, and estate records. The most interesting items in this series are the wills and estate documents of Benjamin and Huldah Page.
Literary Works II consists of an incomplete manuscript by Carolyn Page titled <emph render='italic'>Homesteading in Desperate Times.</emph> It was to be a book about the twins, Mary and Olive Page. Mary married and moved to Missouri, while Olive taught school in Boston. Often Mary wrote home asking Olive to send her old clothes so that she could sew clothes for her children.
Printed Material II, 1839-2000, includes articles, books published by The Nightshade Press, book reviews, hymn lyrics, The Nightshade Press journals from 1989 to 2000.
The Photograph Series consist of three (3) photographs: Daniel and Maggie Page, Dannie, Lilli and Nettie, and an unidentified person.
The Media Series consists of one Compact Disk (CD, undated). This CD contains Page Family correspondence that has been transcribed. Researchers should try to match the transcribed letter to the original handwritten if all possible for accuracy.
The Art Series II, 1930 and undated, consists of artwork by Carolyn Page, Anne Croom, Wilma Fulkerson, Ray Gengenbach, Florence Page Woodes, and Roy Zarucchi.
The Oversize Series, 1865-1889, 1986 and undated, is made up of three Physician Record books belonging to Dr. William H. Page and to Nina A. Page and some art work by Anne Croom, Ray Gengenback, Joe McLendon and Carolyn Page.
The Artifacts Series, 1889-1890, 1915 and undated includes a birthday card, calling card case, a medical prescription pad, two wallets – one black and one brown, and a wooden letter box. There are also empty envelopes in this series that did not have correspondence attached.
System of arrangement
There are twenty-six Series in the Page Family Collection: 1) Correspondence, 1834, 1845-1966; 2) Art (1851-1852); 3) Cookery (undated, ca. 1910-1920); 4) Education (undated, 1844-1929); 5) Family (undated, 1817, 1843-195[2]); 6) Financial (undated, 1821-1948); 7) Legal (undated, 1780-1947); 8) Literary (undated, 1823-1923); 9) Medical, 1840s-1885; 10) Military (1861-1863); 11) Printed Material (1839-1927); 12) Oversize, (1817, 1839, 1861-1865, 1889-1898, 1916-1918, 1922); 13) Diaries (1854-1988); 14) Memo Notebooks (1874-1881; 1909; 1973; undated); 15) CorrespondenceII, Alphabetical (1972-2004, undated); 16) Correspondence II, Chronological (1834-1946, undated); 17) Subject (1851-2002, undated); 18) Financial (1850-1947, undated); 19) Legal Documents II (1822-1912); 20) Literary Works II (undated); 21) Printed Materials II (1827-2000, undated); 22) Photograph (1897, 1905, undated); 23) Art II (1930, undated); 24) Media (undated); 25) Oversize II (1865-1889, 1986, undated); 26) Artifacts (1889-1890, 1915, undated).
Conditions of access and use elements
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No access restriction: All materials are open for research.
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Conditions governing reproduction
The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.
Languages of the material
- English
Scripts of the material
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Finding aids
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Custodial history
It received the accession number P2003.01.
Immediate source of acquisition
Acqusition Method: Purchased by the Friends of the K-State Libraries
Acqusition Date: 20021001
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Boxes 19-42 are additions
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Preferred Citation: [Item title], [item date], Page Family papers, Box [nmber], Folder [number or title], Morse Department of Special Collections, Kansas State University Libraries.
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Finding Aid Author: Anthony R. Crawford and Cynthia A. Harris
Processing Info: Boxes 1-18 were processed by Tony Crawford, Curator of Manuscripts in 2003. The addition, boxes 19-42 were processed by Cynthia Harris, Collections Processor in 2013.
Publication Date: 2014-06-12


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Thrilla in Manila: On location with 'The Bourne Legacy'
Hard-core fans of rogue CIA assassin "Jason Bourne" have already followed him through Zurich, Paris, Mykonos, Berlin, Goa, Moscow, Tangiers, Madrid, London and New York City.
But in just released "The Bourne Legacy," the fourth installment of the films based on the Robert Ludlum spy action thriller series, it's less -- or rather, no -- Bourne (Matt Damon) and more legacy, in the form of agent Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner).
Cross travels through Alaska, Washington D.C. and New York, but he spends quite a bit of time in the Philippines, where the film's crew spent 45 days shooting around the streets of Manila.
Big budget films have been shot here before. What has Filipinos excited is that it's the first Hollywood film to include the Philippines in location credits on the big screen.
"The Philippines has played almost any country -- Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Mexico, Panama, Cuba," says Lope "Jun" Juban, Jr., president of Philippine Film Studios, which worked on the "Legacy" shoot.
"It is only now that we are filming Manila as Manila, which is great for us."
Here's a quick guide to where some of the movie's key scenes were filmed.
Shoot location: Remedios Circle
The scene: The cops chase Marta and she reaches a dead end, an entrance to a very narrow alleyway.
The action: According to Second Assistant Director Maricris Calilung, the very narrow alleyway -- called "the chasm" -- where Marta gets trapped by two cops was constructed in a vacant lot across Remedios Circle (a five-minute walk from the San Andres Market).
Remedios Circle used to feature some of Manila's most happening nightlife, with clubs, bars and discos pulsating from night to day.
While it's no longer as jumping as it was during its 1980s/1990s heyday, the idyllic circle still retains some of its bohemian, "come as you are" vibe.
Tourist fare: Café Adriatico (1790 M. Adriatico St.; +63 2 738 8220), which has been described as "the first true Filipino Café," continues to serve classic Spanish and Filipino dishes in an old-world setting with a terrace perfect for people watching.
The Bar@1951, formerly Penguin Café, (1951 M. Adriatico St.) features live indie bands and exhibits.
A short distance away, Oarhouse (1688-B, Jorge Bocobo Street; +63 2516 7296), another Malate institution, founded by retired U.S. Navy pilot Charles "Chuck" Monroe, serves pub fare like fish-and-chips and chicken wings.
More on CNN: How to be a Manila local: 10 tips on faking it
Shoot location: Jones Bridge
The Scene: Motorcycle police pursue operative Larx-03 (Louis Ozawa Changchien), who jumps on one of the bikes and throws the cops off.
The action: Aaron takes his bike up the stairs, across Jones Bridge, and down the stair rail on the other side.
Tourist fare: Formerly known as Puente de Espana (Bridge of Spain), this was the first bridge to be built in the country in 1623, spanning the Pasig River.
The Neoclassical Bridge was once hailed as the queen of bridges, but fell into neglect in the 1980s.
Today, strolling or driving across the bridge offers a gorgeous view of the Manila Post Office and other parts of old Manila on one side.
The other side opens up to Binondo, one of the oldest Chinatowns in the world.
Shoot location: San Andres Neighborhood
The scene: This is where Aaron (Renner) and Dr. Marta Shearing (Rachel Weisz) run, hide and seek refuge from Philippine cops. Producer Patrick Crowley described it to media as "one of the best chase scenes ever."
The action: The neighborhood's ramshackle houses and dark alleyways are home to some of the city's lower and middle income earners.
In "Legacy," rooftops in San Andres were replaced for the chase scene, and they hired hundreds of local technicians and drivers, rented a parking lot and "trained a core group of drivers to keep a straight line and not to flinch as Hollywood stuntmen and motorcycles raced past them with inches to spare," says Crowley.
Tourist fare: San Andres is home to the popular 400-square-meter San Andres Market, which locals claim is where you'll find some of the largest and most colorful selection of fruits in the country.
Mangoes, rambutans, pineapples, melons, apples, pears and durians are among the greats, and which can be arranged in fruit baskets for gifts at some stalls.
Bargaining is the name of the game here.
Getting there: Head for San Andres Street, in Manila's Malate district.
More on CNN: The best of Manila
Shoot location: Marikina Public Market
The Scene: When Aaron shoots at Larx, who is on a motorcycle, he crashes on a fruit and vegetable stall in the market.
The Action: One of the largest markets in the country, Marikina Public Market has been declared one of the cleanest, too.
Marikina residents say they love it because it's clustered into food groups, wet and dry sections, utilities and DVDs. The different sections also have covered walking streets to shade from the heat.
The market has been likened to an "un-airconditioned" grocery store because of its sanitary standards, and is closed regularly for cleaning.
Tourist fare: Manufacturing over 80 percent of the country's footwear, Marikina is the "shoe capital" of the Philippines. There's even a "Shoe Museum," featuring over 3,000 pairs of shoes, including 800 owned by former first lady Imelda Marcos (J.P. Rizal St, Barangay San Roque, Marikina City; +63 2430 9735).
Getting there: Marikina Public Market, E. De La Paz Street, Marikina City; +63 2646 1996
Shoot location: Navotas Fish Port
The scene: Larx hits a concrete post, and Aaron and Marta's motorcycle skids. A fisherman sees them, and they ask him for help.
The action: The oldest fishing port in the country, established in 1977, Navotas Fish Port supplies most of the country with fresh and quality fish, about 80 percent of Metro Manila's demand.
"The Bourne Legacy" crew took over the port for a few mornings in January, replacing parts of the roof to let natural light in. They also had to scrub down the floors every day to make sure nobody slipped on fish guts.
Tourist fare: More than 20 commercial fishing vessels unload at least 800 tons of fish daily from Laguna de Bay, Zambales and Palawan, as early as 6 a.m.
Come early but bring boots as the floors can indeed get wet and slippery. Haggling or bidding for the best price is encouraged if done discreetly.
To get there, ask a taxi driver to take you to the Navotas Fish Port Complex, Navotas.
Shoot location: El Nido, Palawan
The scene: There's a boat, it's the end of the film. That's all we'll tell you. No spoilers here.
The action: It's "most beautiful place I've been to," proclaims "Legacy" director Tony Gilroy.
Marbled cliffs, white sand beaches, limestone formations, prehistoric caves and waterfalls and crystal clear blue waters make Palawan one of the Philippine's top islands.
And if you've seen the competition, that's no petty achievement.
Tourist fare: Wildlife like kingfishers, egrets, eagles and hornbills and bountiful flora like narra trees, mangroves and coconut trees abound.
Located in the "coral triangle," the global center of marine biodiversity, diving and snorkeling Palawan can boast colorful corals, reefs, parrotfish, clownfish, reef shark, stingrays, turtles, dolphins and the occasional whale shark.
Getting there: Several airlines fly daily from Manila to El Nido, including SEAir and Island Transvoyager.
More on CNN: The Philippines best beaches and islands
"The Bourne Legacy" is now showing in cinemas worldwide.


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Injured Gordon happy to soak in All-Star week
MINNEAPOLIS -- When he sustained a right wrist sprain that would sideline him during the All-Star Game, Alex Gordon could've chosen to take a four-day break and skip the trip to Minnesota, as some injured players do. Gordon didn't even think about it.
"It's unfortunate. You never want to miss this game, but when they asked me if I wanted to come or not, but I knew 100 percent I wanted to come and share the experience with 'Salvy' [Salvador Perez] and Greg [Holland]," Gordon said. "We were here last year together, so it's kind of special to be here together again. It's something that I can, I guess, kick back, relax and enjoy."
The thing Gordon is most looking forward to? Being in the same clubhouse as Derek Jeter, who is celebrating his final All-Star Game.
"Just the consummate professional," Gordon said of Jeter. "I've only got one jersey signed by an active player, and that was Derek Jeter. One of those guys you look up to, and he plays the game the right way."
Though Gordon will miss this year's send-off, he did get to play a role in the goodbye for Mariano Rivera last year. Gordon caught the second out of the inning after breaking in for Allen Craig's liner before moving back just in time to make the play.
"I don't know how I'd be able to screw up Jeter's," Gordon said, laughing. "It'd be kind of cool to play in the outfield behind him. The Rivera experience was pretty fun. After it happened, I was like, I almost did it. I almost screwed it up."


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Will you be hanging out with 500,000 of your closest friends next week?
Of course I'm talking about EAA AirVenture, which takes place July 28 through Aug. 3 in Oshkosh, Wis. I've written before about why you need to come to Oshkosh (assuming you haven't made it in the past). And I've shared my own tips for first-timers, which you can read here.
For this post, I'll concentrate on letting you know that AOPA will be there and we sure hope you'll fit us into your Oshkosh plans. We have a new, expanded exhibit area in a brand-new location—across from the Brown Arch.
At our main tent, you can duck into some air-conditioned shade, renew or check the status of your membership, or bring your questions to any of our knowledgeable staff.
In addition to our main tent, we have a new activities tent, where you can meet airshow champion Patty Wagstaff, talk about current issues with AOPA President Mark Baker, and your kids can play with a Disney's Planes: Fire and Rescue interactive display. The activities tent is where we'll be holding educational seminars, including a Rusty Pilots seminar at 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday, July 30. (We'll have coffee and a light breakfast for those who want to know more about how to get back into flying. RSVPs appreciated!)
Don't miss the chance to take a good look at our Sweepstakes Beech Debonair, which will be on display. This is one special airplane!
Click here for a full schedule of seminars, guest speakers, and more.
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When you get Aveda stylist Kevin Ryan in a room, it's always a fun-filled time. And the feel backstage at Tibi reflected that playful mood. Stylists were abuzz creating low-slung ponytails that captured "a cool, independent girl having a 5 p.m. moment," as Ryan put it. Who ever said fashion had to be so serious? See how it all went down behind the scenes now and learn how you can get a runway-worthy ponytail in just a few easy steps.


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Cheyenne, Wyo. • Andrew J. Johnson stopped at the court clerk's office in Cheyenne on Friday and picked up an order signed by a district judge dismissing criminal charges against him. He said he intends to have it framed. He paid for it with 23 years of his life.
Prosecutors in Cheyenne dropped criminal charges Friday against Johnson, 63. A judge this spring had ordered Johnson released from prison after new testing of DNA evidence in the 1989 rape case excluded him as the source.
But Johnson, who had served 23 years of a life sentence on the conviction, had faced the prospect of a new trial in October until Friday's announcement.
"It feels good that I got this straightened out at this time through the DNA," Johnson said in an interview in the lobby of a Cheyenne hotel. Tourists in town for the annual Frontier Days rodeo milled around him as he described how he had refused to quit challenging his conviction.
Johnson is the first person to be released under a recent state law that allows people to challenge old convictions using DNA evidence.
Johnson, who worked as a law clerk in prison, has been steadfast in maintaining his innocence. He drew repeated rebukes from judges for filing "frivolous" appeals on his own behalf as his conviction was upheld by both the Wyoming Supreme Court and the federal court system.
Johnson said that when he was first sent to prison, he told his mother he expected it would take him two years to get his conviction overturned. His mother died this spring. But he said she lived long enough to see that DNA testing had excluded him as the source of evidence in the case.
"My mother, that is a strong woman," Johnson said. "She held on until she knew that I was free."
Scott Homar, Laramie County district attorney, said Friday that he was dropping the charges after concluding that his office didn't have the evidence to convict Johnson.
Homar stated that, in the years since the 1989 rape, physical evidence in the case was destroyed and the lead detective in the case died. "This is not an exoneration," he said, claiming that there was other evidence that pointed to Johnson.
But Homar said he concluded his office would no longer be able to overcome its burden of proof if it went to trial against Johnson.
Johnson credited Homar with not opposing his DNA testing request. But Johnson said he is bitter that samples in his case weren't tested 24 years ago. "They were being cheap and didn't want to spend the money," he said of the state.
Lawyers with the Utah-based Rocky Mountain Innocence Center have pushed for more than a decade to free Johnson. The center succeeded in changing Wyoming law in 2008 to allow DNA testing, even years after a trial, with an eye toward pressing Johnson's innocence claims.
Jensie L. Anderson, legal director of the Rocky Mountain Innocence Center, said Friday that the center is thrilled about Homar's decision to drop the charges.
"The DNA we believe showed that Andrew was innocent, and this was the right thing to do," she said.
"The problem was, early on we recognized that there was DNA evidence that could be tested, but there was no way to get back into court," Anderson said.
Johnson said he intends to bring a civil lawsuit against the state. Another win for Rocky Mountain Innocence Center
Earlier this month, the Utah Supreme Court upheld the innocence of Debra Brown, who was once convicted of murder and represented on appeal by lawyers from the center. http://t.co/nYbWJemSA2


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Rita Maas
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- Makes about 1 quart
- For ice cream
- 1 1/2 cups heavy cream
- 1 cup milk
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons finely grated fresh lemon zest
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 6 large egg yolks
- 2/3 cup fresh lemon juice
- For sauce
- 1 (12-ounce) jar black-currant preserves
- 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
- Special Equipment
- an ice-cream maker and a candy or instant-read thermometer
- Make ice cream:
- Bring cream, milk, sugar, zest, and salt just to a boil in a 2-quart heavy saucepan, stirring occasionally. Lightly beat yolks in a large bowl, then add hot sweetened cream in a slow stream, whisking. Pour custard into saucepan and cook over moderately low heat, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon, until a candy or instant-read thermometer registers 170°F and custard coats back of spoon, about 10 minutes. Pour through a sieve into a clean bowl, then stir in juice. Cool custard, stirring occasionally, then chill until cold.
- Freeze custard in ice-cream maker. Transfer ice cream to an airtight container and put in freezer to harden.
- Make sauce:
- Blend together preserves and lemon juice in a food processor until smooth. Strain sauce and/or thin with water if desired.
- Serve ice cream with black-currant sauce.
Cooks' notes:
·To cool custard quickly after straining, set bowl in a larger bowl of ice and cold water and stir until chilled.
·Ice cream keeps 1 week. Black-currant sauce keeps, chilled, 1 week.
·Ice cream keeps 1 week. Black-currant sauce keeps, chilled, 1 week.


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How to Become a Mandarin Teacher for K-12 in the California Public Schools
Why Mandarin?
Nationwide there is a growing demand for certified Mandarin instructors. Mandarin has been identified as a 'critical language' by the US government. Currently, California faces a shortage of qualified Chinese teachers to teach in the public schools. Pursuing a career in teaching Mandarin is a great way to impact students and give back to the community.
Mandarin Teacher Credentialing Options, Area Resources and Basic Requirements for Certification:
Which certification you choose depends upon who you want to teach (i.e., elementary or high school students?) and what you want to teach (i.e. only Mandarin or Math, Science, Art and Mandarin?). Below are different credentialing options:
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If you would like to teach different subjects at the elementary school level, then you would pursue the Multiple Subject Teaching Credential. The teacher with this credential is authorized to teach many subjects (e.g., Math, Science, Art, etc.) to one fixed group of students who stay in the same classroom throughout the day, most often found in elementary school settings.
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If you prefer to teach at the secondary level, then you would pursue the Single Subject Teaching Credential. With this credential you are authorized to teach a specific academic subject (e.g. Mandarin, Science, Math, Art) most often in departmentalized classes such as typically found in most middle and high schools. (In secondary schools students change classrooms and teachers as they change periods and subject matter.) View list of subjects available for Single Subject Teaching Credentials.
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Shadowbox Live is gearing up for their production of "Spamalot" (playing through Feb. 9) and to get you in the mood, here are the top 5 quotes from "Monty Python and The Holy Grail." Believe me, it was hard to pick just five.
5. "Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelled of Elderberries."
"Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time!"
4. "We want... A Shrubbery!"
"Nothing too expensive..."
3. "Tis merely a flesh wound!"
"Okay, we'll call it a draw."
2. "He's got a vicious streak a mile wide!""
"That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you've ever set eyes on!"
1. "Where'd you get the coconuts?"
"It's not a question of where he grips it, it's a simple question of weight ratios."
Make sure to see Spamalot at Shadowbox Live, or check out some other great winter art events here.


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This paper describes and reflects on the implementation of a Knowledge Based Holistic Design Support System – termed "HolD" – into a business environment. The paper introduces the rationale and development behind the system, a consciously different approach to traditional knowledge based systems in engineering in order to meet the requirements of a small business, producing bespoke low volume products. Typical knowledge based engineering systems rely on explicitly codified knowledge which often supports product optimisation rather than creative design activities. Such a system would provide little benefit to a business producing bespoke products. Instead, the system presented here, supports the creativity of designers through codified tacit knowledge input by designers as meta‑data for past designs. The problem of individual inertia in adopting the system and sharing knowledge was approached early in the construction of the system. The steps taken to lower user barriers and encourage day‑to‑day use are detailed, including the design of a multi‑stage input process designed to interact at key stages of users' existing processes. The immediate results after a six month trial period are presented and the results show slower than anticipated usage. In particular designers were found to be reluctant to input detailed information beyond common identifying data and did not attempt to seek information from the system. The reasons for this slower usage are discussed and possible solutions presented. The paper therefore provides industrial based evidence of the inertia encountered when implementing a knowledge system and argues that technology alone is insufficient to overcome this inertia.
Keywords: engineering design, knowledge based systems, ethnographic study, fixture and tooling, design re-use
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Volume 8 Issue 3 / Nov 2010 pp267‑344
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Keywords: action research, case study, codification and personalization knowledge management strategies, collaborative projects, components of tacit knowledge, critical knowledge factors, design re-use, engineering design, ethnographic study, evidence-based medical practice., explicit and tacit knowledge forms, explicit knowledge, fixture and tooling, knowledge assets management, knowledge based systems, knowledge capital, knowledge integration, knowledge map, nature of tacit knowledge, new product development, organizational culture, performance improvement, research centre, social capital, tacit knowledge,


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Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) A woman accused of cheating an Indian household servant out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in pay and keeping her a virtual prisoner at a mansion testified Thursday that a tape recording that appears to show she knew the woman was in the country illegally was not her voice.
Annie George repeated her earlier testimony that she didn't know Valsamma Mathai was in the United States illegally and that she didn't mistreat Mathai during the 5 years she worked in her 20,000-square-foot home in suburban Rexford.
Mathai testified earlier that she slept in a closet, worked long days without vacation, days off or sick time and wasn't allowed to leave the property, a palatial stone mansion on a cliff overlooking the Mohawk River.
The case surfaced when Mathai's son in India, Shiju, called the National Human Trafficking Resources Center in 2011.
George is charged with harboring an illegal immigrant for financial gain, which carries a penalty of up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine upon conviction.
On Thursday, she said the tape recording of a phone call between a woman and Shiju Mathai, which prosecutors played Wednesday, wasn't her voice. She didn't say who she thought the voice belonged to.
On the call, the woman warns Shiju there could be dire consequences, even jail time, for his mother if she was to tell authorities about working in the United States.
George, repeatedly breaking down in tears on the stand Wednesday, said she was left in desperate financial straits when her husband died in 2009. She said she knew nothing of his business dealings, including the arrangement to have Mathai live with them, because he required her to stick to her duties as his wife and mother of their six children and severely punished her if she tried to make any decisions in the home.
Her late husband, Mathai George, was a native of India who built a hotel and real estate development business in the United States. He was killed in 2009 along with his 11-year-old son and another man when their private plane crashed after takeoff.
A business associate testified Wednesday that Mathai George left six hotels, all in foreclosure or bankrupt and in poor condition. Several friends of Annie George said when they visited it appeared Valsamma Mathai was a member of the family rather than a servant, and George's children called her grandmother.
Federal prosecutors said Annie George owes Mathai $317,000, based on the minimum wage and overtime for the hours she worked in the George household. Mathai said she was paid only $26,000, much of which she sent to her family in India.
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Happy Friday!
This week has been very busy with finishing up our classroom book. We have spent most of our free time doing this and we will be shipping it out later today as a class! I am very excited to see the end product and thank you all for submitting your orders! We will be getting a free classroom book! Next Tuesday we will have a Halloween party. Feel free to send your student to school with snacks, but this is NOT required! I will be bringing candy for them and will have juice. As far as I know now, they are allowed to wear their Halloween costume to school all day. If this changes, I will send out an email!
Today for art we painted big pumpkins and then used sharpie to color mini pumpkins. The mini pumpkins are going home today and the large ones will be sent home on Tuesday.
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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
Voltaire's poem celebrating the fact that he was living in an age of developing commerce and markets:
Others may with regret complain That 'tis not fair Astrea's reign, That the famed golden age is o'er That Saturn, Rhea rule no more: Or, to speak in another style, That Eden's groves no longer smile. For my part, I thank Nature sage, That she has placed me in this age… I have, I own, a worldly mind, That's pleased abundance here to find; Abundance, mother of all arts, Which with new wants new joys imparts The treasures of the earth and main, With all the creatures they contain: These, luxury and pleasures raise; This iron age brings happy days.
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Voltaire was best known in his lifetime as an author of poetry and plays. To us in the 21st century he is best known for his satirical work Candide (1759) and the Philosophical Dictionary (1764). Yet as this quote shows even in his poetry and plays Voltaire had sharp observations about political and economic matters.


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Charlie, in the red sweatshirt, middle, went to girls camp this year. This was her second year. We have lived in Maryland for less than a month; she's met some of these girls maybe three times in that time, and with no hesitation she is off. This girl does not know a stranger. She is fearless. And she had a great time. My favorite story of hers after camp started like this: Mom, guess what? I am really good at archery. That's how I had my chocolate at camp. They gave out Reese's cups for bullseyes. I had lots of Reese's cups.
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The fantastic range of delicious desserts and creative cakes that Park Pantry supply are all hand made in Derbyshire. Containing only the finest ingredients, our cakes and desserts are carefully crafted by Alison and Marie in much the same way as any professional chef would make them.
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Minecraft developer Mojang is being sued by Bethesda because it filed a Swedish trademark for the word "Scroll," which is seen as an infringement on the Elder Scrolls name. Studio founder Markus "Notch" Persson would like to settle the dispute out of court ... with a game of Quake 3.
"I challenge Bethesda to a game of Quake 3. Three of our best warriors against three of your best warriors," Notch wrote on his blog. "We select one level, you select the other, we randomize the order. 20 minute matches, highest total frag count per team across both levels wins.
"If we win, you drop the lawsuit. If you win, we will change the name of Scrolls to something you're fine with. I am serious, by the way."
I doubt Bethesda will take him up on his offer, but you can't help respecting his class!
Hey, Bethesda! Let's settle this [The Word of Notch]


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Participant Checklist
As indicated on the workshop application form, participants are expected to do several things in advance of the Teaching Paleontology Workshop. Here's a list of those preparatory activities and their deadlines.
By May 8, 2009:
- Register for the workshop. Note that all accepted applicants need to register, and the registration form is not the same form as the application form that you have already filled out.
By June 1, 2009:
- Pay the workshop registration fee using the online payment form, if you did not do so at the time you filled out the registration form.
- Contribute the following:
- At least two assignments or activities for a paleontology course or a course with a significant paleontology component at the undergraduate level. You must do this on line using our activity submission form. Please do not email assignments to workshop conveners.
- A syllabus for a paleontology course or a course with a significant paleontology component. You must do this online using our course submission form.
By June 10, 2009:
- Fill out the workshop travel form to let us know what your travel plans will be. Note: please make your travel plans so that you can attend the opening workshop session at 7 p.m. on Thursday, July 30, 2009 with a reception. The workshop will not conclude until dinner on Monday, August 3, and it is essential that you attend the full workshop, including the full day on Monday. An optional field trip will be held all day on Tuesday, August 4. Additional information for travel and ground transportation:
- Remember that participants must provide their own transportation to and from the workshop.
- The workshop will be held at Cornell University and the Paleontological Research Institute . Both are located in Ithaca, NY, about 55 miles south of Syracuse International Airport and about 10 minutes from Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport.
- As the workshop approaches, we will provide you with a list of participant arrival times so that you can arrange to share ground transportation if you fly in to Syracuse Airport.
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- Make a poster for the Friday evening poster session. When it's ready, upload your poster. Note: We cannot print your poster for you; you will need to print it out and bring it to the workshop yourself. However, we ask you to upload it so that we can make it available as a downloadable file from the workshop website.
- Upload your presentation file if you are giving an oral presentation at the workshop. This will give you an on-site backup copy and will allow us to post your presentation on the website. You should still plan to bring a copy of your file with you. You will have the option of giving your presentation from your own computer, or you may use one of our laptops (both PCs and Macs will be available).
- Download the Medical Emergency Information Form (Acrobat (PDF) 5kB Jan13 04), complete it, and bring it with you to the workshop in a sealed envelope. We will open the envelope and read the form only in the case of a medical emergency during the workshop.


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After centuries of dismissal as a heretic, a radical 17th Century nun is finally getting recognition.
Mary Ward, an English Catholic, joined the Poor Clare order of Franciscans at 15. But frustrated by the rigidity of the order, in 1609 she founded her own order at St. Omer. While most nuns were strictly cloistered and limited in their outside activity - by Church decree - Ward's was based on action: like the Jesuits, her order would be devoted to educating women and preserving the Catholic faith in Protestant England. She encouraged her nuns to abandon their habits and go amongst the poor. Oddly enough, one of ward's big issues was the theatre: she was aggressive in challenging the notion that women couldn't appear on the stage, and that those who were warranted scorn.
Although this was the height of the Inquisition, and progressive thinkers were being accused of heresy right and left, such was Ward's confidence in the Church that in 1631, Ward walked from Belgium to Rome to ask Pope Urban VIII for official recognition of her order. The Pope jailed ward and issued a Papal bull declaring that her order be disbanded. And, after a year in prison, Ward obeyed this edict, dissolving her revolutionary order and returning to England, where she died in the siege of York. Although something of an icon to English nuns, Ward remained persona non grata in the church until the 19th century, when a French nun's petition helped convince Pope Piux X that the case against her was unfounded. Pope Pius XI, opened Ward's cause for sainthood in 1932, and the Jesuit lobbying for the cause says that she will probably be named a "Venerable" (two rungs below sainthood) on the recommendation a panel of Vatican theologians within the next year.
Says a member of Ward's order, now known as the Congregation of Jesus and made up of 4,000 sisters, "She had a vision of the equality of men and women before God and a vision of the capacity of women to do good and to work for the kingdom of God...She had this at a time when universities were still discussing whether women had souls."
It should perhaps be noted that Dorothy Day, another firebrand whose adherents are pushing for canonization - controversial because of a history of civil disobedience, criticism of the Church and political action - was an admirer of Mary Ward, taking the title of her famous autobiography The Long Loneliness from a Ward epigraph. Both women are emblematic of a deep traditional faith interpreted according to conscience. And while recognition of Ward would, in 2009, hardly qualify as a revolutionary act, it would be one of good faith, long overdue.
The First Sister Of Feminism [Independent]
Mary Ward: Pioneer For Women In The Church [IBVM]
Mary Ward [Catholic Encyclopedia]
Mary Ward, Pilgrim and Mystic [Google Books]