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Ruffian Nail Polish Launch
Ruffian Adds Nail Polish to Its Designer Offerings
Fashion brand Ruffian is making it even easier to get its eccentric runway manicures at home with a new nail polish collection. The lacquer line will be released with the help of Birchbox this Fall, according to WWD. But this week, Birchbox Facebook fans will get to vote on their three favorite shades to be shipped in the September box. The starter hues include Delirium (a vibrant plum), Fox Hunt (a burnt orange), Lady Alabaster (a pastel lavender), Venus in Fur (a muted champagne), and Hedge Fund (a forest green).
Designer Brian Wolk also hopes to retail in stores beginning this September, too. The debut will be timed with Ruffian's Spring 2014 showing during New York Fashion Week. The brand is already known for its extensive nail designs on the runway, and last year it collaborated with MAC on half-moon tips. This news is just the most recent in a long list of high-fashion designers jumping on the nail craze, including Oscar de la Renta, Marc Jacobs, and Jason Wu.

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced Friday that Eileen Rominger, director of the Division of Investment Management, will be retiring in July.
During Rominger's tenure, the SEC says, the division has been instrumental in implementing the Dodd-Frank Act's mandates regarding advisors to hedge funds and other private funds.
"Eileen understood the importance of a fair and efficient investment management industry to the well-being of investors everywhere. Her practical insights and steady leadership served investors well," said SEC Chairwoman Mary Schapiro, in a statement.
Rominger said in the same statement that "It has been a privilege to work with the talented and dedicated staff of the SEC in its mission of protecting investors."
In the 30 years before Rominger arrived at the SEC, she worked as a portfolio manager and a leader of portfolio management teams, serving investors and being held accountable to mutual fund boards of directors in those roles.
Until 2010, Rominger worked at Goldman Sachs Asset Management for 11 years, serving most recently as the firm's global chief investment officer. She previously worked for 18 years at Oppenheimer Capital, where she was a portfolio manager, managing director, and a member of the Executive Committee.
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Start at the Meiji Shinto Shrine, a large Imperial Palace with large gardens. Take a stroll through the Tokyo National Museum to enjoy classical Japanese art, then make sure to discover local cuisine at the Tsukiji Fish Market, home to an impressive selection of fresh fruit, vegetables, and fish. Watch pedestrians cross the street at world-famous Shibuya Crossing, and be inspired by local fashion at the shops in Harajuku. Otherwise, get away from the city bustle at the Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden.
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I recently had a comment posted on a previous blog post regarding generating barcodes in the reports that come with the records management module (either in WebCenter Content/UCM or WebCenter Content: Records/URM).
I knew we could output barcodes because we do in some of the default reports that come with the product. But even when looking at those rich-text templates, it wasn't clear how they were defined. So I did a little digging and discovered the code needed to be added to those fields to do the barcode magic. I won't repeat the steps on how to update/create the custom reports from my earlier post, but will just cover the few extra steps for barcodes.
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Once you have your field input into the template in Word, right-click on the field and choose BI Publisher -> Properties. Click on the Advanced tab and you should see the box for Code with the field you are outputting surrounded by <?field_name?>. For barcodes, you'll want to enter this in that code field:
Just replace dBarcode with your field name (e.g. dDocName, xComments, etc).
Next, you'll want to change the font on the field to be 'BC 3of9'. This font should have been added when the BI Publisher Desktop add-in for Word was installed.
Now simply follow the steps to add the template to the repository and configure the appropriate reports. Now when the reports are run, it should provide the values in barcodes.
One thing I noticed is when I saved the Word document in rich-text format, I was no longer able to re-open that rtf file and get back to the code for the field properties. But in Word's default doc format, I was. So if you think you might need to edit the report later on, it's probably a good idea to save a copy in doc format as well.


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Pharmacology (from Ancient Greek φάρμακον, pharmakon, "drug"; and -λογία, -logia) is the study of drug action.[1] More specifically, it is the study of the interactions that occur between a living organism and exogenous chemicals that alter normal biochemical function. If substances have medicinal properties, they are considered pharmaceuticals. The field encompasses drug composition and properties, interactions, toxicology, therapy, and medical applications and antipathogenic capabilities. Pharmacology is not synonymous with pharmacy, which is the name used for a profession, though in common usage the two terms are confused at times. Pharmacology deals with how drugs interact within biological systems to affect function. It is the study of drugs, of the body's reaction to drugs, the sources of drugs, their nature, and their properties. In contrast, pharmacy is a medical science concerned with the safe and effective use of medicines.
The origins of clinical pharmacology date back to the Middle Ages in Avicenna's The Canon of Medicine, Peter of Spain's Commentary on Isaac, and John of St Amand's Commentary on the Antedotary of Nicholas.[2] Pharmacology as a scientific discipline did not further advance until the mid-19th century amid the great biomedical resurgence of that period.[3] Before the second half of the nineteenth century, the remarkable potency and specificity of the actions of drugs such as morphine, quinine and digitalis were explained vaguely and with reference to extraordinary chemical powers and affinities to certain organs or tissues.[4] The first pharmacology department was set up by Buchheim in 1847, in recognition of the need to understand how therapeutic drugs and poisons produced their effects.[3]
Early pharmacologists focused on natural substances, mainly plant extracts. Pharmacology developed in the 19th century as a biomedical science that applied the principles of scientific experimentation to therapeutic contexts.[5]
Pharmacology as a chemical science is practiced by pharmacologists. Subdisciplines include
- clinical pharmacology - the medical field of medication effects on humans
- neuro- and psychopharmacology (effects of medication on behavior and nervous system functioning),
- pharmacogenetics (clinical testing of genetic variation that gives rise to differing response to drugs)
- pharmacogenomics (application of genomic technologies to new drug discovery and further characterization of older drugs)
- pharmacoepidemiology (study of effects of drugs in large numbers of people)
- toxicology study of harmful effects of drugs
- theoretical pharmacology
- posology - how medicines are dosed
- pharmacognosy a branch of pharmacology dealing especially with the composition, use, and development of medicinal substances of biological origin and especially medicinal substances obtained from plants also known as deriving medicines from plants
- behavioral pharmacology study of the effects of drugs on behavior. Includes preclinical and in vivo research, such as small animal and rodent testing used to evaluate behavioral responses to novel drug treatment.
Scientific backgroundEdit
The study of chemicals requires intimate knowledge of the biological system affected. With the knowledge of cell biology and biochemistry increasing, the field of pharmacology has also changed substantially. It has become possible, through molecular analysis of receptors, to design chemicals that act on specific cellular signaling or metabolic pathways by affecting sites directly on cell-surface receptors (which modulate and mediate cellular signaling pathways controlling cellular function).
A chemical has, from the pharmacological point-of-view, various properties. Pharmacokinetics describes the effect of the body on the chemical (e.g. half-life and volume of distribution), and pharmacodynamics describes the chemical's effect on the body (desired or toxic).
When describing the pharmacokinetic properties of a chemical, pharmacologists are often interested in LADME:
- Liberation - disintegration (for solid oral forms {breaking down into smaller particles}), dispersal and dissolution
- Absorption - How is the medication absorbed (through the skin, the intestine, the oral mucosa)?
- Distribution - How does it spread through the organism?
- Metabolism - Is the medication converted chemically inside the body, and into which substances. Are these active? Could they be toxic?
- Excretion - How is the medication eliminated (through the bile, urine, breath, skin)?
Medication is said to have a narrow or wide therapeutic index or therapeutic window. This describes the ratio of desired effect to toxic effect. A compound with a narrow therapeutic index (close to one) exerts its desired effect at a dose close to its toxic dose. A compound with a wide therapeutic index (greater than five) exerts its desired effect at a dose substantially below its toxic dose. Those with a narrow margin are more difficult to dose and administer, and may require therapeutic drug monitoring (examples are warfarin, some antiepileptics, aminoglycoside antibiotics). Most anti-cancer drugs have a narrow therapeutic margin: toxic side-effects are almost always encountered at doses used to kill tumors.
Medicine development and safety testingEdit
Development of medication is a vital concern to medicine, but also has strong economical and political implications. To protect the consumer and prevent abuse, many governments regulate the manufacture, sale, and administration of medication. In the United States, the main body that regulates pharmaceuticals is the Food and Drug Administration and they enforce standards set by the United States Pharmacopoeia. In the European Union, the main body that regulates pharmaceuticals is the EMEA and they enforce standards set by the European Pharmacopoeia.
The metabolic stability and the reactivity of a library of candidate drug compounds have to be assessed for drug metabolism and toxicological studies. Many methods have been proposed for quantitative predictions in drug metabolism; one example of a recent computational method is SPORCalc[6]. If the chemical structure of a medicinal compound is altered slightly, this could slightly or dramatically alter the medicinal properties of the compound depending on the level of alteration as it relates to the structural composition of the substrate or receptor site on which it exerts its medicinal effect, a concept referred to as the structural activity relationship (SAR). This means that when a useful activity has been identified, chemists will make many similar compounds called analogues, in an attempt to maximize the desired medicinal effect(s) of the compound. This development phase can take anywhere from a few years to a decade or more and is very expensive.[7]
These new analogues need to be developed. It needs to be determined how safe the medicine is for human consumption, its stability in the human body and the best form for delivery to the desired organ system, like tablet or aerosol. After extensive testing, which can take up to 6 years the new medicine is ready for marketing and selling.[7]
As a result of the long time required to develop analogues and test a new medicine and the fact that of every 5000 potential new medicines typically only one will ever reach the open market, this is an expensive way of doing things, costing millions of dollars. To recoup this outlay pharmaceutical companies may do a number of things:[7]
- Carefully research the demand for their potential new product before spending an outlay of company funds.[7]
- Obtain a patent on the new medicine preventing other companies from producing that medicine for a certain allocation of time.[7]
Drug legislation and safetyEdit
In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responsible for creating guidelines for the approval and use of drugs. The FDA requires that all approved drugs fulfill two requirements:
- The drug must be found to be effective against the disease for which it is seeking approval.
- The drug must meet safety criteria by being subject to extensive animal and controlled human testing.
Gaining FDA approval usually takes several years to attain. Testing done on animals must be extensive and must include several species to help in the evaluation of both the effectiveness and toxicity of the drug. The dosage of any drug approved for use is intended to fall within a range in which the drug produces a therapeutic effect or desired outcome.[8]
The safety and effectiveness of prescription drugs in the U.S. is regulated by the federal Prescription Drug Marketing Act of 1987.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has a similar role in the UK.
The study of pharmacology is offered in many universities worldwide.
Again, pharmacology education programs differ from pharmacy programs. Students of pharmacology are trained as researchers, studying the effects of substances in order to better understand the mechanisms which might lead to new drug discoveries for example. Whereas a pharmacy student will eventually work in a pharmacy dispensing medications or some other position focused on the patient, pharmacologist will typically work within a laboratory setting.
Some higher educational institutions combine pharmacology and toxicology into a single program as does Michigan State University. Michigan State University offers PhD training in Pharmacology & Toxicology with an optional Environmental Toxicology specialization. They also offer a Professional Science Masters in Integrative Pharmacology.
See also Edit
- ↑ Vallance P, Smart TG (January 2006). The future of pharmacology. British journal of pharmacology 147 Suppl 1: S304–7.
- ↑ Brater DC, Daly WJ (May 2000). Clinical pharmacology in the Middle Ages: principles that presage the 21st century. Clin. Pharmacol. Ther. 67 (5): 447–50.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Rang HP (January 2006). The receptor concept: pharmacology's big idea. Br. J. Pharmacol. 147 Suppl 1: S9–16.
- ↑ Maehle AH, Prüll CR, Halliwell RF (August 2002). The emergence of the drug receptor theory. Nat Rev Drug Discov 1 (8): 637–41.
- ↑ Rang, H.P.; M.M. Dale, J.M. Ritter, R.J. Flower (2007). Pharmacology, China: Elsevier.
- ↑ James Smith; Viktor Stein (2009). SPORCalc: A development of a database analysis that provides putative metabolic enzyme reactions for ligand-based drug design. Computational Biology and Chemistry 33 (2): 149–159.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Newton, David; Alasdair Thorpe, Chris Otter (2004). Revise A2 Chemistry, 1, Heinemann Educational Publishers.
- ↑ Nagle, Hinter; Barbara Nagle (2005). Pharmacology: An Introduction, Boston: McGraw Hill.
External linksEdit
- Pharmaceutical company profiles at NNDB.
- International Conference on Harmonisation.
- US Pharmacopeia.
- International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology.
- IUPHAR Committee on Receptor Nomenclature and Drug Classification.
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Waldron village council members met in a special meeting Monday night to approve a change in the contract for code enforcer Don Thompson.
The six-month trial contract, retroactive to Oct. 1, calls for Thompson to focus his efforts on the enforcement of village code, but also to serve as a police officer when he is on call.
Thompson will use his own vehicle in Waldron, will carry a firearm owned by the village and will have wear a Waldron Police patch on his uniform.
The change in the contract came at the request of Hillsdale County undersheriff Jeremiah Hodshire. Thompson will serve as Hillsdale County deputy. He also serves as a full-time officer in Morenci.
Thompson will be paid $15 an hour, with a minimum of three-hours for each visit.
At the Oct. 9 regular meeting, council members voted unanimously to appoint trustee Rick Bays as street administrator and to pay him $400 annually. In the past, street administrator fell under the duties of the village clerk.
Council members also unanimously voted to retain Charles Meade as village assessor and to increase his pay to $500 annually.
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Actress Kristin Cavallari told Fox Business Thursday that she opposes vaccines for children, citing studies that she said link vaccines to autism, despite the medical community's broad rejection of any such link.
"There is a pediatric group called Homestead -- or shoot, Homestead or Home First, now I'm pregnancy brain, I gotta confuse them -- but they've never vaccinated any of their children, and they've never had one case of autism. And now, one in 88 boys is autistic, which is a really scary statistic," Cavallari said.
The Fox Business show's host, former MTV VJ Kennedy, appeared surprised by the former reality TV star's stance and pointed out that she turned out okay, even though she was vaccinated as a child. Cavallari claimed that vaccinations have changed over the years.
The University of Chicago's pediatric infectious disease chief Dr. Kenneth Alexander told the Chicago Tribune that Cavallari's comments were "dangerous" and that claims of a link between vaccines and autism have long been disproven.
The American Academy of Pediatrics, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Medical Association all say that there is no link between vaccinations and autism, and they recommend all children receive vaccinations.
Cavallari and husband Jay Cutler have a son together, and she's currently pregnant with another boy.
Cavallari also said on the show that she doesn't smoke pot but doesn't have a problem with legalizing marijuana.


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Is it possible to update the service issues outage announcement such that the "last post" date/time is when it was updated (and not when the announcement was originally created)?
I tend to look for "current" date/times when skimming for updates, and the lack of a current date/time caused me to look elsewhere.
(I got "hit" by the AWS us-east-1 region outage starting around 9:45am PST, so I knew about it. A big outage, impacting lots of sites. It is (slowly) recovering.)
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Getting started
Advanced tutorials
Your Script is written to run multiple concurrent users. But how can you make sure that all users are logged on successfully? We have to check the validity of the pages that are loaded for each virtual user executing the script. This can be done by adding a check option on a web request.
By default, the recording process adds a check option on every primary web request in order to verify the title of the page (this option can be changed in the recording options if desired).
This tutorial will show you how add a check on a request and use it to verify the availability of your application.
We add a check on a login request. This check will verify if our user John is well logged in the AgileLoad bookstore website.
In the script, go to the login request by placing the cursor on the line where the main request is (this will be denoted by having the word PRIMARY), and show request details by clicking on the Record Request Details button (), a yellow arrow will then appear in the left margin of the script editor to show that the HTTP Data window content is relating to that line in the script:
In the HTTP Data view (to the right of the script), in the Server tab (middle of the window), go to the HTML tab (at the bottom of the HTTP Data Window).
Select "Welcome John Smith" and right click on it. In the menu, select Insert Check Point.
The Check assistant will appear with your selected text. Add a name to this check, "Login".
Click on the Apply button and the request in the script will be modified to include the code for the check (see highlighted text below)
You can add multiple checks on a single request, use the Check assistant to help you add checks.
The Check Contains option tells the check to search for the presence of a character string in the HTTP response to the request (and its associated sub-requests) that is selected in the script. The Check Condition verifies either status return code, body size or enables you to create your own condition with SubStr parser, HTML parser, XML parser or other functions.
The excerpt above will behave as follows:
1st line example: If response contains a response code of 200 (HTTP OK) then continue and do not fail the check, if the response code is not 200 then continue anyway but raise the check as failed.
2nd line example: If the HTTP content is greater than 500 bytes then continue and fail the check, if <= 500 bytes then continue and do not fail the check.
3rd line example: In the HTTP content, Substr function go to "Shopping Cart" character string position and extract character string between first "title="" character string and """, if the extract character string is not "Les Mesirables" then continue and fail the check, the character string is "Les Miserables" then continue and do not fail the check.
The Check name is very important as it will help you to identify the failure. The check name will appear if the check fails in the Replay Details list in script editor, in the Audit Log message and in the Checks View in AgileLoad Test Center when running a test or analysing results.
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Hate Group Goes On Diet: 21 Day Fast For Marriage Begins Today
If all goes to plan, there will be a lot of skinny bigots come May.
Rights of Same-Sex Military Spouses Vary by State
Last year's Supreme Court ruling striking down DOMA ensured that federal military benefits extend to same-sex partners and their children. But about 2/3 of active-duty personnel in the U.S. are based in states that don't recognize same-sex marriage.
Huge Advances for Gay Marriage in an Eventful 'Post-DOMA' Year
One year ago, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a pair of landmark rulings, one striking down the statute that denied federal recognition to same-sex marriages and the other clearing the way for gay couples to wed legally in California.
Ask A Lawyer: Immigration Issues Part Three
This week marks the one year anniversary of the Supreme Court decision striking down parts of the Defense of Marriage Act. Does that make it easier for multi-national same-sex couples to remain in the country? - yes and no. Know your rights!
Ask A Lawyer: Immigration Issues Part Two
Since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, our community has had equal immigration rights under Federal law.
Marriage Celebration Rally @ City Hall :: May 20, 2014
Following the Supreme Court rulings Wednesday that shot down a crucial section of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, Philadelphia LGBT held a rally in celebration.
Utah's AG Speaks at Rally in Favor of Marriage Ban
Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes says his defense of Utah's same-sex marriage ban in a federal appeals court is not motivated by hate.
Divorce Equality May Come to the Keystone State
A Pennsylvania lawmaker has proposed legislation to allow same-sex couples residing in the Keystone state who were legally married in other states to untie the knot at home.
Judges in Utah Marriage Case Question Lawyers
Sharp questioning Thursday by a divided panel of appellate judges considering Utah's ban on gay marriages showed that, while same-sex marriage has had a remarkable winning streak lately, its legal status remains uncertain.
Gay Marriage's Win Streak Tested in Appeals Court
With its recent string of high-profile victories in federal court, the gay marriage movement is hoping to build momentum to help it attain its long-held goal: a Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.
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[H]e was alluding to the Hindu chauvinists who had tried to exert their own monopoly in the city and who had forcibly renamed it—after a Hindu goddess—Mumbai. We all now collude with this, in the same way that most newspapers and TV stations do the Burmese junta's work for it by using the fake name Myanmar. (Bombay's hospital and stock exchange, both targets of terrorists, are still called by their right name by most people, just as Bollywood retains its "B.")Andrew Sullivan resolves to write "Bombay" from now on.
I'll change my "Mumbai" tag to "Bombay." (My "Burma" tag was always "Burma.")
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Bombay... used to be considered a pearl of the Orient, with its necklace of lights along the corniche and its magnificent British Raj architecture. It was one of India's most diverse and plural cities, and its many layers of texture have been cleverly explored by Salman Rushdie... and in the films of Mira Nair. It is true that there had been intercommunal fighting there, during the time in 1947-1948 when the grand historic movement for an Indian self-government was being ruined by Muslim demands for a separate state and by the fact that the Congress Party was led by a pious Hindu. But probably as many people took refuge in Bombay during that moment of religious bloodlust as were driven or fled from it. A form of cultural coexistence resumed, as often happens when cities are exposed to the sea and to influences from outside. Parsis -- former Zoroastrians who had been persecuted in Persia -- were a prominent minority, and the city was also host to a historically significant community of Jews. But that was not enough to content Mr. Bal Thackeray and his Shiv Sena Hindu nationalist movement, who in the 1990s decided that Bombay should be run by and for his coreligionists, and who loosed a tide of goons and thugs onto the streets. Just to show he could do it, he ordered the city renamed as "Mumbai"....


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Spain's Amancio Ortega, the co-founder of the Inditex fashion group, leapt over Warren Buffett and France's Bernard Arnault to become the world's third richest person on Forbes' 2013 annual ranking of billionaires, with an estimated net worth of $57 billion.
Mexico's Carlos Slim, who has taken a hit from the slump in the share price of his America Movil telecoms group since the list was calculated as of February 14, remained the richest person with a fortune of $73 billion, and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates held on to the No. 2 spot with a net worth of $67 billion.
Ortega's fortune increased $19.5 billion, the biggest gain for any of the billionaires, from the report in 2012. He jumped two places and bumped Buffett, chairman and chief executive of conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway Inc with a fortune of $53.5 billion, out of the top three to the No. 4 spot for the first time since 2000.
"Warren had a great year, it's just that Amancio Ortega had a better year," Forbes magazine editor Randall Lane said of the co-founder of Zara. "He has one of the dominant apparel lines in Europe."
Arnault, of the LVMH luxury goods group, dropped to 10th place with $29 billion.
Slim, 73, made much of his fortune in telecommunications but also branched out into retail, commodities, finance and energy.
"To see Carlos Slim again broaden his lead and certify himself as the richest man in the world is a statement that wealth truly is global and not an American monopoly like it sometimes felt for many decades," Lane added in an interview.
Rising stock markets fueled in part by monetary stimulus by the U.S. Federal Reserve, and robust consumer brands fortified the fortunes of those already on the list and drove many of the 210 new billionaires onto it.
Oracle Corp's Larry Ellison, with a fortune of $43 billion, rounded out the top five in the ranking that included a record 1,426 billionaires, with an average net worth of $3.8 billion.
Forbes' 27th annual ranking is the biggest ever and has the largest jump in total number of people added in one year.
"It is a very good year to be a billionaire, and a much easier year to be a billionaire. You have those economic forces and global markets going up and that is pushing more people over the threshold," Lane explained.
Brazilian mining, energy and shipping magnate Eike Batista, whose net worth fell $19.4 billion, was the biggest loser on the 2013 list. He dropped from No. 7 in 2012 to 100.
The total net worth of the world's billionaires is $5.4 trillion, according to Forbes, up from $4.6 trillion in the previous ranking.
The United States led the list with 442 billionaires, followed by 386 from Asia and the Pacific region, with 122 in China alone.
Europe was close behind with 366, including 110 in Russia. The Americas, not including the United States, had 129 and the Middle East and Africa 103.
"There will be more Asian billionaires than American billionaires by the end of this decade, actually by the middle of this decade," said Lane. "That is a statement about where global growth is."
Americans captured five of the top 10 spots including brothers Charles and David Koch, owners of Koch Industries Inc, who tied for sixth place with $34 billion each.
France's Liliane Bettencourt, of the L'Oreal cosmetics empire, is the world's richest woman, coming in ninth with a $30 billion fortune.
Li Ka-shing, who controls the Hong Kong-based conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa, is the wealthiest man in Asia with a $31 billion fortune, putting him in eighth place.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the founder of financial data firm Bloomberg LP, a competitor of Thomson Reuters Corp, just missed the top 10, rising to 13th place from 20th with a net worth of $27 billion.
Thirty-four more women, including American fashion designer Tory Burch, made the list for a total of 138.
The youngest billionaire was 28-year-old Internet entrepreneur Dustin Moskovitz. The former college roommate of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and an early investor in the social networking site, came in at No. 353 with a net worth of $3.8 billion.
Another newcomer was GoPro's Nicholas Woodman with a fortune of $1.3 billion. The privately owned company makes wearable cameras. Renzo Rosso of the Italian fashion company Diesel was also new to the list with a $3 billion net worth.
"It's a cultural sea change when you can come up with an idea, actualize the idea, monetize the idea and become a billionaire by your 40th birthday. That just didn't happen in the pre-Microsoft era," Lane said of the young billionaires.
U.S. banker and philanthropist David Rockefeller, 97, was the oldest, placing 527th with $2.7 billion.
Sixty people dropped off the list, including Mark Pincus of social gaming company Zynga Inc and Aubrey McClendon, the outgoing CEO and former chairman of natural gas producer Chesapeake Energy Corp.
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Halle Berry's ex-boyfriend Gabriel Aubry was arrested on Thanksgiving after getting into a brawl with Berry's fiancée Oliver Martinez, TMZ.com reports.
When Aubry arrived at Berry's home to drop off their 4-year-old daughter, Nahla, Martinez allegedly told Berry's ex, "We have to move on." This could be in reference to the recent count ruling, in which a judge denied Berry's wish to move her daughter Nahla to France.
Judge rules against Halle Berry's wish to move child to France
Aubry allegedly reacted by shoving Martinez and trying to punch him, starting a brawl that ended with Martinez punching Aubry in the face and pinning him to the ground. Aubry suffered a broken rib and contusions to his face, while Martinez may have broken his hand and suffered neck injuries, according to the site.
Martinez made a citizen's arrest for battery against Aubry, who was transported to the hospital. Martinez also went to the hospital to treat his injuries. A protective order was issued, requiring Aubry to stay 100 yards away from Berry, Martinez and daughter Nahla.
Berry and Aubry split in April 2010 after four years of dating. In December 2011, Berry's boyfriend Olivier Martinez proposed. Before her relationship with Aubry, she was married to singer Eric Benet and baseball player David Justice.


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New York, New York - June 14, 2010 - Faran Tahir (Star Trek, Iron Man, 24) will guest star in two episodes of Warehouse 13 this summer, as one of the mysterious and powerful Regents - the shadowy governing body charged with keeping the Warehouse safe. Syfy's hit series returns for its second season Tuesday, July 6, at 9PM (ET/PT).
Tahir stars as Regent Adwin Kosan, sent to the Warehouse to handle a burgeoning crisis. His rare appearance, and shocking pronouncements, threatens to tear the Team apart.
Tahir joins other Warehouse 13 season two guest stars Lindsay Wagner (Bionic Woman), Tia Carrere (Wayne's World), Jewel Staite and Sean Maher (both from Firefly), Neil Graystone (Eureka), Rene Auberjonois (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), Paula Garces (Defying Gravity), Nolan Gerard Funk (Aliens in America), Philip Winchester (Crusoe) and as well as WWE Superstar Cody Rhodes (Friday Night SmackDown).
Warehouse 13 follows two Secret Service agents who find themselves abruptly transferred to a massive, top-secret storage facility in windswept South Dakota which houses every strange artifact, mysterious relic, fantastical object and supernatural souvenir ever collected by the U.S. government. The Warehouse's caretaker Artie (Rubinek) charges Agents Pete Lattimer (McClintock) and Myka Bering (Kelly) with chasing down reports of supernatural and paranormal activity in search of new objects to cache at the Warehouse, as well as helping him to control the Warehouse itself. The series also features Allison Scagliotti as Claudia, Artie's apprentice in the Warehouse.
In its first season, Warehouse 13 became the all-time Syfy leader in total viewers (4.1 million), Adults 25-54 (2.1 million) and Household ratings (2.9), based on Live+7 DVR data.
Warehouse 13 is produced for Syfy by Universal Cable Productions. Jack Kenny (The Book of Daniel) is Executive Producer and showrunner.
Universal Cable Productions creates quality content across multiple media platforms for USA, Syfy and other networks. A leader in innovative and critically acclaimed programming, UCP is the studio behind USA's Royal Pains, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Psych, In Plain Sight, Covert Affairs and Facing Kate, as well as Syfy's Eureka, Warehouse 13 and Caprica. The studio also produced the long-running series Monk and Battlestar Galactica. UCP is a division of NBC Universal.
Syfy is a media destination for imagination-based entertainment. With year round acclaimed original series, events, blockbuster movies, classic science fiction and fantasy programming, a dynamic Web site (www.Syfy.com), and a portfolio of adjacent business (Syfy Ventures), Syfy is a passport to limitless possibilities. Originally launched in 1992 as SCI FI Channel, and currently in more than 96 million homes, Syfy is a network of NBC Universal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. (Syfy. Imagine greater.)


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Astros Release Infielder Brett Wallace
KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — Infielder Brett Wallace was given his unconditional release by the Houston Astros on Wednesday.
The 27-year-old played with the Astros for four years, mostly at first base and also at third base. He played in 79 games last season, batting .221 with 13 home runs. In eight games this spring training, Wallace hit .143 (2 for 14) with eight strikeouts.
He was dropped from the 40-man roster last month to clear a spot for pitcher Jerome Williams and had been at spring training as a non-roster invitee. Chris Carter and rookie Jon Singleton remain in the competition for time at first base.
Catcher Jason Castro is the only player on the current roster with the Astros continuously longer than Wallace.


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We are expecting the merged mining support for Dogecoin and Litecoin that was announced to start after DOGE block 371337 to happen any moment now (less than 100 blocks remaining), so if you are currently mining Dogecoin you might want to move to a pool with merged mining support. You should be able to mine directly for Litecoin and also get Dogecoin additionally, however in order to be able to do that you will have to use a pool that has already implemented DOGE and LTC merged mining support. Do note that merged mining of DOGE can happen with other Scrypt coins as well and not only with LTC, so some pools may have enabled merged mining of Dogecoin with other Scrypt crypto coins. We have prepared a list of pools that have already announced that are ready with merged mining support and as soon as we move past the block that should act as a starting point of the support you should start getting paid in LTC and DOGE by just mining for Litecoin. You will still be able to separately mine only DOGE, however there is not going to be much point in that when you can get the same amount of DOGE extra while mining for LTC in a pool supporting merged mining. There are still not a lot of pools supporting AuxPow merged mining, but we'll probably see some more adding support in the next few days…
Pools with LTC and DOGE merged mining:
– Coinotron
– Multipool.us
– Litecoinpool.org
– WeMineLTC
Do note that that the AuxPow or merged mining support comes with a hardfork for the DOGE, so you will need to update your wallet to continue using it after block 371337, so if you still haven't updated to version 1.8 of the Dogecoin wallet than it is time to do the upgrade. Have in mind that the update will require you to reindex the blockchain and that can take some time to complete.


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Implementation and Next Steps
- Strategic Directions [pdf] is designed to give the College community a broad vision for our future together. Existing campus committees along with newly formed groups are establishing goals and priorities, providing a map for implementation activities, and establishing touchstones against which to measure our progress. Development of a campus facilities master plan, a diversity and inclusivity plan, and planning for a capital campaign are examples of some of the work that is underway.
Letter from the President
Dear Members of the Swarthmore Community,
We became increasingly aware that the challenges and opportunities confronting higher education in the 21st century are quite different from those that have preceded it. Our students are preparing for an era characterized by global connections, filled with diverse peoples and perspectives, and dominated by the acceleration of technological change. After the deep discussions and careful analysis that were components of our planning process, I believe that the sheer challenge of preparing students to think creatively and critically for a future of dramatic progress and rapid change makes this one of the most exciting times in the history of higher education.
Three great unifying passions emerged in the process of developing our strategic directions [pdf]: academic rigor and imagination, an intentional community dedicated to the common good, and the future of liberal arts in the nation and the world. To make it possible to fulfill these passions, we must attract and support students who are capable and enthusiastic about our distinct approach to education. Current and future generations of students come to us from a world with few boundaries, where they multitask, and tweet through the day. They are also civic-minded and curious about spirituality, the arts, and politics across nations, languages, ethnic groups, and religions. They come to us wanting both traditional forms of teaching and learning and seeking more and better forms of problem-centered, community-based, digitally-informed learning.
We need faculty who will, like their predecessors, be devoted to our students. Our ways of attracting and retaining a diverse faculty will need to keep pace with the changes both in academics and in our student body. Our forms of support for faculty will need to be tailored to how they teach, how students learn, and how research is conducted by faculty as well as by faculty and students together.
At Swarthmore we are well-positioned to meet these challenges. Our energized and passionate faculty and students delight in new, often interdisciplinary ways to organize knowledge and routinely use problem-based learning to teach. Equally dedicated and passionate faculty and students continue to follow well-honed traditions of learning, teaching, and research that in some cases are centuries old. This plan embraces our dedication to rigor and creativity in emerging as well as established ways of teaching, learning, and research. We want to ensure that Swarthmore continues its legacy of teaching people to think critically and creatively, no matter what the topic, situation, or challenge.
We also want to ensure that our students will continue to be innovative and ethical leaders who can build intentional communities dedicated to the common good. Liberal arts education, by definition, prepares young men and women for building robust democratic communities by requiring them to live in residential communities and experiment with leadership in the arts, athletics, cultural activities, and student government—all practices that develop community-building skills. During the planning process, many expressed concern that the current structures and cultures of democratic community are too diminished to provide the robust community a thriving society needs. Swarthmore aims to be an exemplar of how a residential community supports the work of developing individuals; manifesting a diverse, inclusive, and engaged community; and building new models of democratic communities in the world.
Another passion identified in the planning process is that of maintaining the liberal arts as a viable and powerful form of undergraduate education in the 21st century both nationally and internationally. This plan calls for developing an institute for the future of liberal arts that will help our faculty address both practical and theoretical problems of the future. It will also connect alumni fellows who are living lives shaped by the liberal arts to engage with our students and faculty. And, perhaps most significantly, it will champion the liberal arts nationally and internationally, joining with other schools to do so. As society and the world of higher education continues to evolve in dramatic and often unpredictable ways, we must be willing to share what we know, and to learn from those all around the world who are similarly devoted to educating future generations.
In these strategic directions, we have also placed an increased emphasis on alumni engagement. We look to our alumni to engage with our community in creative ways and at deeper levels, both on campus and with each other in what is now a worldwide Swarthmore network. We have been heartened by the enthusiasm expressed for the Swarthmore approach to undergraduate education and by the wealth of talents, ideas, and support alumni want to share with our community. We have also heard the desire alumni express for more forms of communication and networking with each other as well as with the College.
As we end this phase of the planning process, I am deeply grateful to the more than 80 staff, alumni, students, and faculty members who came together in special groups to explore the ideas offered by hundreds of people on campus and to the many alumni who participated in this process. I also appreciate the efforts of each person who engaged in conversation, posted to the website, or attended a community event in which strategic planning was the focus.
It is a privilege to share this plan with you in order that we may extend our commitment to rigor and imagination, our willingness to be an intentional community dedicated to the common good, and our commitment to championing liberal arts education in the nation and around the world. I look forward to working together to implement the plan and to secure our future direction together.
With warm regards,
Rebecca Chopp
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Victoria College is a public, open-admission comprehensive community college. VC is a respected community partner in the Crossroads region, serving Victoria and the seven surrounding counties. The college provides associate degrees, certificates, transfer programs, workforce training and continuing education, customized training, high school programs and adult basic education. Most importantly, VC has been your hometown college since 1925.
I'd like to address the recent report of the University of Houston-Sugar Land Task Force, which proposes to transfer certain University of Houston-Victoria programs to UH in Sugar Land, that has definitely gotten the attention of the Victoria community.
Probably no aspect of the report has generated more discussion and concern than the potential changes in UHV's nursing offerings. There seems to be a lot of confusion in our community about these changes and their impact on Victoria. In particular, statements made about Victoria losing nursing programs because of these proposed changes simply are not true. To set the record straight, let's consider some facts.
Fact 1: In order to become a registered nurse, you must graduate with either an associate degree or a bachelor's degree from an accredited nursing program, and you must pass the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (also known as NCLEX). Everyone who wants to be an RN in the United States must take the NCLEX, and everyone who passes the NCLEX is a registered nurse.
Fact 2: Victoria College is the only institution in Victoria and the Crossroads that prepares students to become registered nurses. Victoria College has had a nursing school since 1959 and has been preparing future RNs since 1975. Over that period of time, VC has been responsible for preparing thousands of registered nurses for our community.
VC currently graduates between 85 and 100 associate degree nurses each year. Our students achieve a pass rate on the national nursing licensure exam between 90 and 95 percent, which is significantly higher than the state and national average and higher than many universities.
UHV does not have a program in Victoria that prepares students to become registered nurses, although it does in the Houston-metro area. The changes proposed in the UH-Sugar Land Task Force report will have no impact on VC's ability to continue to successfully meet our community's needs for registered nurses.
Fact 3: UHV's nursing programs are mostly located in Sugar Land (not Victoria). It simply cannot be said that Victoria is losing these Sugar Land-based programs, although it appears that UHV may lose control of them.
One important exception is a program that is called the UHV RN to BSN completion program, also known as a bridge program. This program is located in Victoria and primarily serves Victoria College's RNs who wish to continue their education and earn a bachelor's degree (BSN). This bridge program is a great example of a partnership between VC and UHV that is working well. It allows VC-prepared RNs to take the additional courses necessary to earn their bachelor's degree from UHV. It is not clear from the task force report what will become of the bridge program, but I see it as vital for Victoria and something worth fighting for. Typically, around 30 students choose to participate in the bridge program each year.
Sometimes our immediate reaction to a change is to focus on what we have "lost," especially when it appears to have been "taken" from us. As we consider the task force report and its implications, I suggest that we get past that immediate reaction and instead seize the opportunity that is before us.
As disconcerting as all of the proposed changes first appear, they also bring an opportunity to once again have community dialogue about what Victoria wants and needs from its university. After all, the report suggests a two- to five-year period of transition and implementation. That length of time gives Victoria the opportunity - and the time - to clearly assess our needs and shape outcomes to meet those needs. Victoria College would welcome the opportunity to be a part of such a discussion.
Dr. Tom Butler is the president of Victoria College. Readers with questions or comments can contact him at 361-485-6808 or via email at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Vanda Sruoga (1899-1997) was a Lithuanian historian and educator and the wife of prominent Lithuanian writer Balys Sruoga. Balys Sruoga (1896-1947) was a poet, playwright, critic, and literary theorist. In 1943, he was sent to Stutthof Concentration Camp. Vanda Sruoga collected Balys Sruoga's letters from the camp, as well as additional writing he produced during this time. She typed and translated some of the letters from German into Lithuanian and added her own notes. Vanda Sruoga also collected letters she received from Vincas Kreve, another prominent Lithuanian writer.


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- Induction Motors: Typically used in kitchen appliances, automobiles and industrial machinery, induction motors have an output rotation speed that is proportional to its applied frequency of alternate current.
- Synchronous Motors: So called because the speed of the rotor is proportional to the stator, synchronous AC motors are used where accuracy is an important factor, such as clocks and timers.
- Squirrel Cage Motors: A type of induction motor that uses cage rotor instead of a wound rotors, and as such is considered to be more rugged and less maintenance heavy. Squirrel cage induction motors are often used in applications where a low starting torque is required and no speed control is needed, such as pumps and compressors.
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- Gov. Jerry Brown will seek a stay of what he calls "unprecedented" court order
- A federal court orders prison population to fall to 137.5% of capacity
- Original lawsuits were filed when overcrowding was at 202% of capacity
- Federal court ruling threatens California with contempt but defers action
California Gov. Jerry Brown will seek an immediate stay of what he called an "unprecedented" federal court order to release almost 10,000 inmates to relieve prison overcrowding by the end of the year, he said Thursday.
A three-judge federal court panel ordered the state to reduce its prison population to 137.5% of design capacity by December 31 and threatened to find the state in contempt if California does not report on its progress every two weeks, Thursday's ruling said.
California has the nation's largest prison system and says it has been reducing overcrowding.
The case grows out of lawsuits filed in 1990 and 2001 that alleged overcrowding is at the core of a domino effect of unsafe and unhealthy conditions for those on both sides of the iron bars. When plaintiffs filed motions to convene the three-judge court panel in November 2006, California's prisons were at 202% of design capacity.
In 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a three-judge federal panel's determination that California's medical and mental health care for inmates falls below a constitutional level of care and that the only way to meet the requirements is by reducing prison crowding.
The Supreme Court in 2011 found that California's shortcomings in prison medical and mental health care resulted in "needless suffering and death" and recognized the federal court's prison reduction order was "of unprecedented sweep and extent," Thursday's ruling said. The high court affirmed that order in full in 2011.
On Thursday, the three U.S. District Court judges expressed impatience with California officials, the defendants in the case.
"The history of this litigation is of defendants' repeated failure to take the necessary steps to remedy the constitutional violations in its prison system," the order said. "It is defendants' unwillingness to comply with this Court's orders that requires us to order additional relief today."
The three-judge panel added that the plaintiffs' request for a court order to show why California shouldn't be held in contempt "has considerable merit."
"Our first priority, however, is to eliminate the deprivation of constitutional liberties in the California prison system," the three judges said in their ruling. "We will therefore DEFER ruling on plaintiffs' motion, and defer instituting any contempt proceedings related to defendants' prior acts until after we are able to determine whether defendants will comply with this order."
Court documents also show that "DEFER" was not only all capitalized but also printed in bold face.


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Steelers' Haley worried about Chiefs, not revenge
Todd Haley faces former team on Monday night
Todd Haley is over it, he swears. The sting from getting fired as Kansas City's head coach last December has faded, replaced by the peace he feels in Pittsburgh, where he's quickly molded the Steelers into one of the most diverse attacks in the league as offensive coordinator.
Haley insists there will be no extra motivation Monday night when his new employer faces his old one. "I'm always excited if we win," Haley said. "I'm always depressed if we lose."
Haley went 19-27 with the Chiefs, engineering a remarkable turnaround in 2010 when he turned a team that finished 4-12 the season before into AFC West champions. The next step never happened.
Haley found a safe landing in Pittsburgh, where he was tasked with diversifying the offense and taking some of the pressure off quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. "I'm really happy to be part of this great organization and really what is a tight-knit family," Haley said. "It's a unique environment that's hard to find."
There was an early feeling-out process between coach and quarterback, with Roethlisberger taking his time to fully embrace Haley's scheme. Any concerns about their ability to get along, however, have disappeared. There are no visible signs of discord between the two and Roethlisberger understands how important Monday's game is to the guy calling the plays.
Haley acknowledges there may be a "minor" advantage to facing a team he helped build, even if the Chiefs (1-7) have taken on a distinctly different personality under new head coach Romeo Crennel.
"I'm not going to really get into that whole situation. I'm not going to touch it," quarterback Matt Cassel said. "You know, Coach Haley has gone in there, he's done a good job. Their offense is going well, but we have to get ready for a great defense. That's what we have to concentrate on."
"Todd's not going to stand up and give any grand speeches about their personnel or things of that nature," Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin said. "If anything, he provides a nugget or two or some clarity when we get mixed signals in terms of what we see on tape or maybe what we perceive they're capable of."
"I'm proud of my players from that time and have a lot of really good feelings toward all of them," Haley said. "They're good memories."
NOTES: Jonathan Dwyer, who sat out last week's game against the New York Giants with a strained right quadriceps, practiced on Thursday and is expected to play against the Chiefs ... RB Chris Rainey (ribs) and K Shaun Suisham (ankle) also practiced and will play ... WR Antonio Brown (ankle), S Troy Polamalu (calf) and LB Sylvester Stevenson (hamstring) all missed practice and have been ruled out while T Marcus Gilbert (ankle) and RB Rashard Mendenhall (Achilles) were limited.


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Hafan y Mor Pwllheli – Stage 2 Saturday 14.11.15.
Saturday was the day of rain, but undeterred by the weather, we set off to see the first band of the day MORE. MORE are described as "the ultimate New Wave Of British Heavy Metal tribute band formed from previous MORE members and guest guitarists".
Another 80's band set to carry the party on were Chariot, a four piece metal band from London and if you hadn't woken up by now, Chariot certainly made sure you were awake now!
The afternoon had Trespass, Supercharger, Sky Valley Mistress, City of Thieves and Colour of Noise keeping us rockers entertained and that they certainly did. Stage 2 was a strong stage on Saturday, speaking to some of the guests they had pretty much planned to stay on stage 2 most of the day enjoying the bands.
The Picturebooks were one of the bands that I had been waiting all weekend for and are a duo from Germany with a very unique bluesy rock sound. Philipp, despite having an injured shoulder due to a motorcycle accident gave it his almighty all on the drums and the crowd really welcomed them and enjoyed it just as much as I did. With the unfortunate news of the Paris attacks on Friday evening, Fynn announced a minutes silence would be held, which was a very moving moment for everyone. Find out more about why they did this in my interview with the guys.
King Creature, Dendera and Lawless carried the evening on, and what an evening it was aswell!
Stage 2 was now very busy as the crowd geared up for Those Damn Crows. Those Damn Crows are a five piece rock band from South Wales who playing their album pretty much in its entirety including their new single "Fear of the Broken".
Chase The Ace closed Hard Rock Hell with an awesome set. You can't really put a genre on these guys as they are a little bit of everything and appealing to a wide audience, which was very apparent as people were cramming in to watch stage 2. They all had a great stage presence, especially Roi Vito Peleg – I don't know where he got his energy from, but it was tiring just watching him.
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The film that surprised me the most this year was undoubtedly Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Going into the movie, I saw it as an unnecessary cash-in on the Planet of the Apes franchise that inexplicably starred James Franco. Much to my surprise, director Rupert Wyatt delivered one of the most emotional films of the year with a powerhouse performance by Andy Serkis in some of the best motion-capture these eyes have ever seen. With that, I'm happy to report that Fox is now officially moving forward with a sequel to the film as they've just closed a very hefty deal for Serkis to return and reprise his role as Caesar. Hit the jump for more, including who else is returning for the follow-up and news on Fox's push for awards consideration for Serkis' performance.
Fox is planning multiple sequels to Apes, as Deadline reports that Serkis is the first actor to be locked in for the follow-up as well as future installments. Wyatt (who deserves a hefty amount of credit for Apes' success) was already under contract for the sequel, so he's back, as are screenwriters Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver. There's no word on deals for James Franco or Freida Pinto, but the former's arc had a nice ending to it with Apes, and the latter spoke about three sentences throughout the course of the entire film, so I wouldn't be upset if they don't return.
As for where the franchise goes in future installments, the story is still currently in the idea stage. Wyatt previously ruminated on where the sequel could pick up:
"You could start this story again eight years from where we left off, the next generation of apes, those that have come from our protagonists, perhaps going in to a conflict with humans and showing real fear, in the same way as going into war for young soldiers in this day and age, telling their story. Or how apes are taking over cities, and being moved into human environments and having to interact with them and deal with things that are part of our culture and understand and evolve through them. Spies that are in the employ of the apes, working against humans and humans maybe existing underground, because that's a way they can avoid the virus, coming up above ground wearing gas masks, and maybe that's what dehumanises them."
All great ideas, and again here you can see how Wyatt doesn't simply think in terms of spectacle or what will look cool, he's all about the emotional aspects of the story. Since there's no script, it'll most likely be a while before we see the Apes sequel head into production. Then there's the lengthy post-production process that will most certainly involve many more apes that need crafting.
Not only is Serkis getting a hefty payday to return to the franchise, Fox is now officially gunning for an Oscar nomination for the actor's strong performance. This isn't the first time a Serkis-lead motion-capture performance has garnered awards attention, as there was plenty of talk (and controversy) concerning his work as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings. The jury's still out on how the acting community as a whole feels about motion-capture performances being judged alongside live-action, but Serkis' talent undeniably shines through his performance as Caesar. This is much, much more than cartoons, folks.


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Vivaldis ageless classic, the largo from the Winter concerto of the Four Seasons, recreated virtually while aiming for maximum realism. Features solo violin, string orchestra and harpsichord.
Perfect for giving videos, presentations and games that warm, cozy feel now that winter is approaching! To quote the sonnet that goes along with this movement:
"Before the fire to pass peaceful, Contented days while the rain outside pours down."Other items you might enjoy:
- Bach's Air from Orchestral Suite no. 2 – Bach's beautiful masterpiece from one of his orchestral suites
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- Cheerful Gigue – a positive, uplifting gigue in baroque style
- Ball at the Manor – peaceful, elegant track for string orchestra


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During your Wacky Walks scavenger hunt in Elizabeth, you'll take in all the city has to offer while gaining points and competing against prior teams for first place on the leaderboard.
About Wacky Walks
Wacky Walks is a unique walking game. It is similar to a board game in which the power, or control shifts from one player to another, and instead of a board, you'll be navigating the streets of your city with your smartphone to complete the game. The objective of the game is to have fun, learn some facts about your city, be a little wacky, and enjoy the company of whoever you are playing with. With that being said, Wacky Walks will start out by designating who will be the first King or Queen (kind of like a Team Captain), but don't worry, that could soon change. You'll then go out on checkpoints throughout the city. At each checkpoint, the players will need to answer a question about the checkpoint and the players, or "pawns" as we call them will perform a task for the King or Queen. Don't worry, you won't be alone during your game. You'll have a remote/virtual guide that will be available in case you get stuck.
Starting Location
Elizabeth Wacky Walks
Scott Plaza
50 Winfield Scott Plaza
Elizabeth, NJ 07201
Time: About 2 hours
Distance: About 2 miles
Suggested Transportation: Walking
How Do I Start?
First, head to our Tickets page to purchase for the number of players participating
Once you have your tickets, you can make a reservation and choose your day and time for your game.
Wacky Walks Scavenger Hunts Are Perfect For:
Birthday Parties
Looking for an awesome idea for a birthday party? Wacky Walks makes for the perfect party. Go to checkpoints around your city with friends and family. Complete wacky challenges along the way. You could even stumble upon a cool bar or restaurant of your choice to hang out at afterwards. You can even customize the game if you have more than 6 players!
Team Building Events
With Wacky Walks, you can divide your players up into teams or decide to play all together. Your group(s) will work together to answer questions at checkpoints and complete Wacky tasks! You can even customize the game if you have more than 6 players!
Bachelorette Parties
Looking for things to do for a bachelorette party? Wacky Walks is the perfect game for all brides of all ages. Bring your closest friends to play Wacky Walks as your daytime activity for your bachelorette party! You can even customize the game if you have more than 6 players!
Corporate Events
Have a corporate event you need to plan? Wacky Walks is the perfect activity for your day! We've helped companies like American Airlines, Home Depot, Verizon, and Enterprise (to name a few) plan their activity. You can even customize questions or locations to find during the scavenger hunt to customize it to fit your company!
Date Day or Date Night
Looking for a unique and fun date idea for a new or established relationship? We're here to help! Wacky Walks will help you create lasting bonds with your date or partner. Grab your date and go on our Wacky walks adventure where you'll bond and create lasting memories together!
Customer Reviews
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Original oil painting of the iconic coastal, red cliff PEI (Prince Edward Island, Canada) landscape.
Signed by the artist (Danielle White) and dated on the back.
6" x 6", on gallery-profile canvas. Sides are unpainted.
Painting will be wrapped with bubble wrap and cardboard, for shipping.
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FIREWORKS VIDEO MAGAZINE #46, MARCH, 2004. Consumer Fireworks Item Dissection: Sky Parade; Highlights from APA Winter Educational Conference in Las Vegas & Western Winter Blast & a trip to China; Display by PPA in Philadelphia July 4, 1997; new items: making a Cincinnati Fire Kite, new book from AFN: Backyard Ballistics; Demo from Wizard Brand Fireworks; and of course a fantastic fireworks display at the end of Display by PPA Pyrospectaculars, December 31, 2003 in Philadelphia.


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A can of tea can apparently land you in the can
Adan Salazar
May 2, 2013
A recent YouTube video captured an overzealous security guard accusing a 24-year-old man of drinking alcohol in the parking lot of a liquor store, and then subsequently arresting him. The kicker, of course, was that the 24-year-old was only drinking Arizona brand Half and Half Iced Tea.
Warning, video contains strong language
As rapper Xstrav (Xstravagant), AKA Christopher Beatty, and his friend Tony Brown waited for their friend in the parking lot of the Cumberland County ABC Liquor Store in Fayetteville, North Carolina, an alleged plainclothes officer walked up to them demanding to know what Beatty was drinking.
Naturally, Beatty was taken aback by the seemingly normal man approaching him and asking to inspect his drink. He held the can at arm's length, allowing the man, who merely identified himself as "police" verbally, to read the label, but refused to allow the strange man to hold (or sip) the drink.
The man, professing to be a police officer, next asks Beatty to leave the property for trespassing, even though Beatty explained he was there in the parking lot waiting to make a future purchase.
The video clearly shows the supposed undercover officer did not immediately identify himself as a policeman before he began questioning Beatty, and only quickly flashes what may be a badge three seconds before he demands the man put his hands on the trunk of his own car.
Without reading him his rights or divulging the charge for which he was making the arrest, the security guard begins handcuffing Beatty in the parking lot, while another seemingly drunk man wanders around the parking lot violating the well-known law of public intoxication.
According to LatinRapper, YouTube and Reddit users began suspecting the encounter was staged, but a second YouTube upload leaves little doubt that the incident is authentic.
A quick check on the North Carolina Court System website also shows Beatty was charged with trespassing and resisting a public officer.
Hopefully, thanks to his friend filming the event, Beatty will have the evidence he needs to have his charges dismissed as the officer, if it turns out he actually is one, clearly had no initial probable cause to begin harassing him.
UPDATE: Infowars contacted the Fayetteville Police Department. We were informed that the security officer who made the arrest was affiliated with the NC Department of Public Safety's Alcohol Law Enforcement division. According to a NC Department of Public Safety Communications Officer, however, the person who made the arrest worked with the Cumberland County Alcoholic Beverage Commission.
Alex Jones, David Knight and John Bowne talked to Tino Brown, the person who filmed the event, on the Alex Jones Show, May 3.
David Knight also interviewed Tino Brown, the person who filmed the arrest, and rapper Xtravagant, the person who got arrested, on the Infowars Nightly News 5/03/13.
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Our University has received a re-accreditation by EQUIS for the next 5 years. The presence among less than 200 universities in the world, which can place the accreditation mark next to their logo, is a positive distinction and a reason to be proud.
We would like to invite you for the Online Leothon Recycle AI, hackathon for business organised by Kozminski Venture Lab in association with Microsoft and Polpharma. It will be the first completely online event. Recrutation starts on 11th of May.
"Geoeconomics will constantly merge with geopolitics. Great dangers will arise, because China and the USA will compete more. Friendly competition is fine, but hostile confrontation – catastrophic" – writes prof. Kołodko in "China Daily Global".
Kozminski University starts cooperation with eight international universities in the research project "Trust in Governance and Regulation in Europe" (TiGRE). The EU-funded project aims to analyze trust relationships with regulatory policies in Europe.
Kozminski University is the sole proprietor of all the buildings on its campus. The campus spreads over a total surface area of 3.4 hectares and its buildings are comprised of: offices for academic and administrative staff, lecture theatres, classrooms, IT facilities, library, study rooms, meeting rooms, a fitness centre, a bookstore, a post office, photocopying facilities, student canteens and faculty cafeterias. 60% of all classrooms and lecture theatres are fitted with high class IT equipment and have access to networked computers equipped with audio-visual appliances such as monitors with plasma screens, visualizers, TV sets, video recorders and tape recorders.
The school now has 6 large auditoriums (each seating between 100 and 200 people) as well as 26 classrooms (seating 50 to 100 people) and 24 workshop classrooms (seating up to 50 people). Larger classrooms and all auditoriums possess audio-visual equipment. The school owns 5 seminar and discussion group rooms, as well as a Senate Hall (seating 120 people), 4 computer labs and 2 server rooms.
The 4 cafeterias are available for faculty and students and are located on our premises as well as a bookstore, 2 photocopying offices, 5 coffee machines, a cash machine, a post office, 2 student organization offices and 3 guest apartments for visiting faculty members (including 2 double rooms and 1 single room). There are 98 fully equipped faculty and administration offices (equipped with computers, printers, telephones and faxes). Our parking facilities offer 400 places for students and 70 further places for our faculty and staff.
The University also owns several sport facilities. These include 1 playing field and 2 sports halls. In addition it rents out a swimming pool, a sauna - and basketball and volleyball courts.
Our main hall (600 m2) not only provides a proper rest area for students, it can also be used as an exhibition area. Book fairs, work fairs and art exhibitions are held there on a regular basis.
Although the University does not yet own residential facilities for students, those coming from outside Warsaw as well as international students can rent rooms in private flats throughout the city - a customary practice in Warsaw.
The Kozminski University Library is committed to being a user-oriented, electronic research library of high international standard. Our goal is to take the lead in IT. For example, IT is used in the development of new dissemination methods and services and the library constantly works to improve and intensify contacts with its primary user groups (students and academics) Kozminski University Library is a hybrid one. It holds printed materials as well as electronic information resources. The library's primary objective is to ensure that the University employees and students have quick and easy access to all published information on research, teaching and development. In addition to this, it serves interested external users and the business community through inter-library loans. Library holdings and services are mainly concentrated in management and business economics, but the library also covers related subject areas. In this regard it plays an important role as a disseminator of research achievements at Kozminski University. Furthermore it participates in national and international library co-operation. The University has signed cooperation agreements with Lund University as well as many Polish libraries. These agreements cover exchanges of information and resources, inter-library loans and joint conferences.
The Kozminski University library is two stories high and has a combined work area of 1,263.5 m2. It allows free access to our book collection and contains over 40 computer stands with library catalogues as well as booths for individual and team work. Computers and audio-visual appliances for the presentation of the multimedia collection are also included. Separate areas are devoted to magazine and journal reading, as well as an information laboratory and computer stands with Internet connection. These connections enable students to tap into world data bases as well as access economic publications in electronic form.
Because of its modern design, the Kozminski University Library can serve 200 people simultaneously. To date it has accommodated over 8000 readers. In the storage area, books are divided into a main book collection and student manual section (displayed according to numerous currens) with direct access to all reading areas. The whole collection contains 33,841 volumes, out of which 60% are in Polish, 39% in English and 1% in German, French and Russian. We subscribe to 353 journals, out of which 126 are foreign titles. We possess six full-text data bases such as: Ebsco, Proquest, Euromany and Factivia. The library owns a computer librarian system (Patron) available on the Internet. Book searches are conducted according to author, title, issue, Universal Decimal Classification, and other criteria. The catalogue is found in the library's computers and it is possible to gain access to this catalogue via the Internet.
The library is dedicated to providing quality services to all its users. Library staff members remain open to new technologies and consistently seek to develop new networks whilst striving for the highest in international library standards.
All students have access to 7 computer laboratories with 235 PCs, which are replaced every four years. Throughout their period of studies, Kozminski University students have access to the following:
- network login ID and password
- remote access to an e-mail system
- a mailbox with 25 mb capacity
- space on the server, the so-called virtual drive, which is connected after signing on to the school computers (accessible through FTP)
- space for personal WWW sites (25 mb)
- access to library resources through the WWW (i.e.: for making book reservations, or looking into one's library account)
These services are activated automatically after a student is admitted to the University and are valid for 1 month after his/her graduation. Students also have on-campus access to various computer applications and programs such as: Symfonia (accounting software), Lex Polonica (Law Acts), and Statistica 6, Market Place, 3D Studio Max, Adobe Acrobat, Correl Draw and various virus protection programs. Moreover, students and faculty may borrow Microsoft applications for installation on their PCs. Wireless connections throughout the school are introduced in place of physical network connection points.
During the computer lab's opening hours (9 am – 9 pm), students can get support from student assistants who are trained in solving computer-related problems.
The Kozminski University Bookstore is run on a commercial basis by a professional bookseller whose main goal is to promote and disseminate economic publications and entrepreneurial reading materials as well as develop the Kozminski University brand.
Academic Sport Association secures student physical development and organizes various sporting events and athletic camps. The University also owns several sport outlets. These include 1 playing field and 2 sport halls. In addition it hires out a swimming pool, a sauna - and basketball and volleyball courts.The Kozminski University ASA comprises 14 divisions: soccer, basketball,volleyball, swimming, tennis, table tennis, aikido, sailing, judo, twoevent competition, aerobics classes, Alpine skiing, golf and diving.
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At Tuesday night's Crew awards ceremony, club President and General Manager and Crew Soccer Foundation President Mark McCullers announced that the Kirk Urso Memorial Fund reached its goal of raising $100,000 in 2013. The players also voted for Eric Gehrig to receive the second Kirk Urso Heart Award. Fifteen months after Urso's tragic passing, TheCrew.com's Steve Sirk takes a look back at the lasting impact the midfielder has had on the club.
The team awards ceremony was also an opportunity to recognize some of the players that shone brightest in Black & Gold during the 2013 season. Awards were handed out to Crew Captain and Designated Player Federico Higuain (Barbasol Most Valuable Player), defender Chad Marshall (Defender of the Year), and Homegrown Player Wil Trapp (Breakout Performance of the Year), among others. Adam Jardy from the Columbus Dispatch has a full recap of Tuesday's event.
Second-year forward Aaron Schoenfeld continues to make headlines since his standout performance in Saturday's match at New England. After providing an assist and scoring a stunning goal that was nominated for MLSsoccer.com's Goal of the Week, Schoenfeld was featured in a piece by Andrew King from MLSsoccer.com on Wednesday.


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The finalists for the 2012 Story Prize, an annual book award given for a short story collection published during the previous year, were announced this morning. The winner, who will be chosen in March, will receive twenty thousand dollars.
The 2012 finalists are Dan Chaon for Stay Awake (Ballantine), Junot Díaz for This Is How You Lose Her (Riverhead), and Claire Vaye Watkins for Battleborn (Riverhead). The collections were chosen from ninety-eight submissions, representing sixty-five different publishers.
Dan Chaon is the author of two previous books, including the collection Among the Missing (Ballantine), which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Junot Díaz's second book, the novel The Brief and Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao (Riverhead) won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Claire Vaye Watkins has received a Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame and earned a spot on the National Book Foundation's 2012 "5 Under 35" list. Battleborn is her debut collection.
"These are all outstanding short story collections by skillful and accomplished authors, whom we're thrilled to have as finalists for The Story Prize," wrote Director Larry Dark on the Prize blog.
The judges for this year's prize include critic and writer Jane Ciabattari, author Yiyun Li, and bookseller Sarah McNally. The winner will be announced on March 13 at an annual award ceremony and reading at the New School in New York City.
Founded in 2004, The Story Prize is dedicated to the short story, a form often overlooked among major literary prizes. The 2011 award went to Steven Millhauser for his collection We Others (Knopf).


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Episode 91: "Justified Anger"February 26th, 2020
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New rumors on Galaxy Note II point to UBP display, October release
With the success of the original Galaxy Note still following them well into the second quarter of 2012, Samsung is already preparing a successor to the popular phablet. Thanks to a rumor report out of MK Business News, we may now have an idea what could go into the device.
According to MK Business News, the Samsung Galaxy Note II will be improved in just about every way possible. Not only is the Note II rumored to include a quad-core processor, sturdier build, better battery life and Jelly Bean, it will also deploy a new screen technology known as unbreakable plane, or UBP.
Instead of using glass like with traditional OLED displays, UBP displays use a polymer film allowing for thinner and lighter components. UBP technology has also been called a, "precursor to the flexible display." So while the Galaxy Note II may not feature a flexible OLED display, it will bring us one step closer.
If the latest rumors are right, you can look for the Galaxy Note II to launch sometime this October, going head-to-head with the Apple iPhone 5. In the meantime, we'll still be keeping our eyes out for that elusive T-Mobile branded Note spotted in late April.


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