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Pregnant actress and former model, Jaime King, strolled with her pal musician Lana Del Rey in Hollywood, CA on Friday (August 23). Jamie and her husband Kyle Newman are expecting a baby boy sometime in October.
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Alec and Hilaria Baldwin were all smiles as they took their 2 day old daughter, Carmen Gabriela, home from the hospital on Sunday (August 25).
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Reality television star Kourtney Kardashian was seen frolicking on the beach in Malibu, CA with her adorable children- Mason, 3, and Penelope, 1, on Friday (August 23).
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Sons of pop legend Michael Jackson Prince Jackson, 16, and Blanket Jackson, 11, were spotted at a gas station in Reseda, CA on Saturday (August 24). Prince and Blanket's 15-year-old sister, Paris, attempted suicide in June 2013 and was recently released from the hospital and sent to an out-of-state boarding school to continue her recovery.


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you are welcome with sweet and smile, warm and impressive hospitality
as well as gracious service. In the atmosphere of central Bangkok, Ariston
Hotel is surrounded by main business area including famous shopping
and entertainment centers. The Ariston boasts standard guest room all are stylishly furnished and
offers a high level of luxury and comfort.
Superior Room
Executive Suite
Deluxe Suites (Jacuzzi) / Princess Suites (Jacuzzi)
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Give yourself a break by swimming pool our sala thai offer your snack and cool drinks at poolside for your refreshment, it is mixture of Thai and western style.
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Type of applicant
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15 May 2021
* If you are an applicant with an EU/EEA nationality and wish to apply for housing, you must submit your application by 1 March.
If you are interested in a scholarship, you need to apply for both the Master's programme and the scholarship before 15 January. Learn more about scholarships in the Humanities on the website of the Graduate School of Humanities.
The Master's programme in English Literature and Culture is open for application to students with a Bachelor's degree from an accredited university in the humanities or social sciences with a minimum of 30 ECTS (equivalent to a full-time semester of academic studies) taken in a literary subject (English Literature, Comparative Literature, European Literature, Classics, Cultural Studies with a literary emphasis, etc.).
You are expected to have an awareness of basic theoretical notions that are used in the analysis of texts (e.g. concepts such as 'metaphor', 'narrator', 'metre', etc.).
If you do not meet the entry requirements above, for example if you have a degree from a Dutch University of Applied Sciences (HBO) or an equivalent thereof, you may be eligible for admission after completing the pre-Master's programme Literary Studies.
If you are unsure whether you meet the entry requirements, you are advised to get in touch with the programme coordinator before applying.
New Master's students should be able to speak, read, write and understand English at an advanced academic level. Please check carefully whether you already meet the English language requirements or whether you need to arrange to take an official English language test. See the English language requirements on the Graduate School of Humanities website.
All students applying for a Master's programme at the University of Amsterdam will need to start their application by submitting an enrolment application in Studielink. Studielink is the national online system for students who would like to pursue a degree programme at a Dutch university.
Before starting your application, make sure you have read the Studielink application procedure, including a Step-by-step guide to Studielink.
Applicants for English Literature and Culture need to register in Studielink for Literary Studies at least 48 hours before the application deadline (see step 1). This is to ensure that you receive your login information (UvAnetID) in time to complete your UvA application in MyInfo (see step 5).
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In North Korea, illicit drug use usually results in a strict punishment. For example, in 2010 one source told NKRadio.org that the government had begun putting signs up saying 'any drug users will face a firing squad should they be caught' following outbreaks of meth-amphetamine usage in the country.
However, that attitude reportedly doesn't extend to all drugs — in particular, Marijuana is an accepted part of life in the country.
Benjamin R. Young has taken a look at the country's relationship with marijuana for NKNews.org:
There is no taboo around pot smoking in the country – many North Koreans know the drug exists and have smoked it. In North Korea, the drug goes by the name of ip tambae or "leaf tobacco." It is reported to be especially popular amongst young soldiers in the North Korean military – rather than getting hooked on tar & nicotine like their contemporaries in the West, they fraternize without fear of repercussion by lighting up king-sized doobies during down time on the military beat.
Despite the fact the government does not crackdown on the use of the marijuana (or opium) and its prevalence amongst the common people, all you groups of dreadlocked California hippies and Burning Man festival survivors hoping to book yourselves onto a spliff-sampling tour after reading this are likely to be disappointed. If a Western tourist asks his or her guide where is the best place to get the "special plant," as it is euphemistically referred to, the guide will most likely eschew the question. They're likely well enough educated in Western legal attitudes towards marijuana to not feel the need to promote anything that might draw any more negative press. Then again, bring them a bottle of Hennessy, and they might be more willing to help you out.
Young reports that the drug is readily available from the black market, and that marijuana sprouts wildly in many areas. Newspapers are used as rolling papers, with pictures of the Supreme Leader and his family carefully avoided.


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Hello to potential new forum members,
a few information about the process of a new registration.
At some point, the contributions of spammers have taken more and more.
Therefore, the registration was changed to 'manual operation'.
How does this work?
If you are registering, you will not be released at the same time.
First i get an initial notification of your registration.
Do not be impatient. Normally i am quite fast.
In exceptional cases, however, it might take a day or two.
After I have read the message i will control the registration data and make a decision,
whether it is an registration of an interested Gileristi or a spammer.
To do this, I ccheck login name, e-mail addresses and the IP.
That together should make sense for me.
A name composed of confused letters, together with an e-mail of the Sparkasse Niederauerbach and an IP from Uzbekistan .... Sorry
Sometimes this is not so easy.
The next step is to unblock the account.
Now the new member can at least have a look at the pictures.
If you write a post, it first moves to quarantine.
This means I get a message again. After I have checked this, I release the post (you get a message about it) and register you as a permanent member.
From now on everything works automatically.
I should be able to recognize Spammers at this stage and throw them out.
I hope i did not delete (to much) real interested persons by accident.
There are (temporary) members who never log in after the release. After a few months I will delete them.
My request to new members, please write something in the Forum. This helps me to keep the survey
If you have further problems while registering...
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new registrations for the Forum
Forum für klassische und neue Gilera-Motorräder
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How do I become a member of the OPC?
This answer is in two parts, beginning today and concluding next week.
Church membership is covenantal (in terms of the Covenant of Grace). The marks of those who are in God's covenant fellowship (the church) are that they love the means of grace: God's Word, prayer and the sacraments—baptism and the Lord's supper. When a person becomes a member of the church that person is bound by solemn vows made to the Triune God.
In other words, members of a particular church are under discipline. Discipline does not pertain merely to judicial discipline (dealing with those delinquent in doctrine or life), but to discipleship. Church members are disciples of Christ, and the rules governing the behavior of church members are a major part of the ongoing ministry of the church. Membership vows are binding on the consciences of all church members.
This responsibility of communicant members needs to be impressed on those taking membership vows. It is the plague of the present age that people take all sorts of vows, make all sorts of promises, without any serious sense of responsibility! So whoever teaches candidates for church membership ought to impress upon the candidates that membership in the church brings with it great benefits, but also great responsibilities.
As in all legitimate human affairs, privilege and responsibility are always, like lawfully wedded man and wife, always tied together. Read Scripture and you'll find that God blesses you freely to be a Christian; but it also costs to be a Christian. This present age, subtly and openly, opposes those who quit running with them in their secular mindset and begin seriously living according to the promises and law of their Savior-King. This also is involved in church membership.
Please do not feel overwhelmed by this answer. Romans 14:1 commands his saints to "receive even the weak in faith..." for, in verse 4, "God is able to make you stand" as a pillar of truth in his Church. Note also these words from Hebrews 13:20-21, "Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen." (NKJV)
[See also part 2 of this answer.}
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The questions come from individuals like yourself. If you have questions about biblical and theological matters, you are invited to send them by e-mail by using the "Pose a Question" link on the OPC home page or by clicking here.
At least one new question is posted each week, so there should always be something new here for you to read. (For those people who would like to look at previous questions and answers, they will continue to be available as well.)
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Merry Christmas Y'all
mara chris miss yall
Merry Christmas Y'all
mara chris miss yall
'I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future!' Scrooge repeated, as he scrambled out of bed. 'The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. Oh, Jacob Marley! Heaven, and the Christmas Time be praised for this! I say it on my knees, old Jacob, on my knees!' (Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol)
That's funny.
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The holly's up, the house is all bright, The tree is ready, the candles alight; Rejoice and be glad, all children tonight.
You sound texas youself Just kidding!
I sometimes ask myself, "does my cat like christmas?" But i just awnser, "yes, because she gets cat nip, and the christmas tree is ripe for climbing".


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The Academy has announced the nominations for the GAME British Academy Video Games Awards, with 48 different games recognised.
Batman: Arkham City and LA Noire lead the charge with eight nominations apiece. Batman: Arkham City and LA Noire are both nominated for Artistic Achievement, Best Game, Design, Original Music, Performer and Story. In addition, Batman: Arkham City is nominated for Action and Audio Achievement. LA Noire also got the nod for Debut Game and Game Innovation.
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception and LittleBigPlanet 2 both received nominations for Artistic Achievement and Performer. Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception was also nominated for Action, Audio Achievement, Original Music, and Story. LittleBigPlanet 2 received additional noms for Design, Family, Game Innovation, and Online-Multiplayer.
Portal 2 is nominated for Action and Performer. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim received nominations for Artistic Achievement and Original Music, and both games are also nominated for Best Game, Design, and Story.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution received nods for Action, Original Music, Story and Strategy. Assassin's Creed Revelations and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 both have three nominations. Bastion, Battlefield 3, Dance Central 2, Dark Souls, FIFA 12, From Dust, Kinect Sports 2, Monstermind, The Nightjar, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Super Mario 3D Land, and Total War: SHOGUN 2 all received two.
This year's Awards will also include the publicly-voted category - the GAME Award of 2011. Voting is now live at www.baftagameaward.com.
The GAME British Academy Video Games Awards will take place on Friday March 16 at the London Hilton on Park Lane and will be hosted by comedian and gamer Dara O'Briain.


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Kotaku: Koch Media owns publisher Deep Silver (Dead Island). It now owns both the Saints Row and Metro franchises, along with the studios that made them.
The franchises will be alright long as Koch/Deep Silver just publish and don't interfere
i wonder if Sega would also be faithful to future Company of heroes series
Ummmm dead island sucked so I'm nervous but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt this one time to see how they do


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S. E. Hinton
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|S. E. Hinton
|Susan Eloise Hinton
July 22, 1948 [1]
Tulsa, Oklahoma, US
|Young-adult novels, children's books, screenplays[2][3]
|Notable awards
|Margaret Edwards Award
Susan Eloise Hinton (born July 22, 1948) is an American writer best known for her young-adult novels set in Oklahoma, especially The Outsiders, which she wrote during high school.[a] In 1988 she received the inaugural Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association for her cumulative contribution in writing for teens.[5][b]
While still in her teens, Hinton became a household name[a] as the author of The Outsiders, her first and most popular novel, set in Oklahoma in the 1960s. She began writing it in 1965.[6] The book was inspired by two rival gangs at her school, Will Rogers High School,[7] the Greasers and the Socs,[4] and her desire to show sympathy toward the Greasers by writing from their point of view.[c] It was published by Viking Press in 1967, during her freshman year at the University of Tulsa.[9] Since then, the book has sold more than 14 million copies[7] and still sells more than 500,000 a year.[4]
Hinton's publisher suggested she use her initials instead of her feminine given names so that the very first[10] male book reviewers would not dismiss the novel because its author was female.[6][d] After the success of The Outsiders, Hinton chose to continue writing and publishing using her initials, because she did not want to lose what she had made famous,[e] and to allow her to keep her private and public lives separate.[f]
Personal life
Hinton states that she is a private person. She has revealed, however, that she enjoys reading (Jane Austen, Mary Renault, and F. Scott Fitzgerald[6]), writing, taking classes at the local university, and horseback riding.
She currently resides with her husband David Inhofe, a software engineer,[7] whom she married in the summer of 1970[11] after meeting him in her freshman biology class at college.[7] In August 1983, they became parents to Nicolas David Inhofe, who has worked as a sound effects recordist on the movie Ice Age: The Meltdown.[12][13]
Film adaptations of The Outsiders (March 1983) and Rumble Fish (October 1983) were both directed by Francis Ford Coppola; Hinton co-wrote the script for Rumble Fish with Coppola. Also adapted to film were Tex (1982), directed by Tim Hunter, and That Was Then... This Is Now (1985), directed by Christopher Cain. Hinton herself acted as a location scout, and she had cameo roles in three of the four films. She plays a nurse in Dallas's hospital room in The Outsiders. In Tex, she is the typing teacher. She also appears as a prostitute propositioning Rusty James in Rumble Fish. In 2009, Hinton portrayed the school principal in The Legend of Billy Fail.[14]
Awards and honors
Hinton received the inaugural 1988 Margaret A. Edwards Award[b] from the American YA librarians, citing her first four YA novels, which had been published from 1967 to 1979 and adapted as films from 1982 to 1985. The annual[b] award recognizes one author of books published in the U.S., and specified works "taken to heart by young adults over a period of years, providing an 'authentic voice that continues to illuminate their experiences and emotions, giving insight into their lives'." The librarians noted that in reading Hinton's novels "a young adult may explore the need for independence and simultaneously the need for loyalty and belonging, the need to care for others, and the need to be cared for by them."[5]
In 1992 she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa by the University of Tulsa,[15] and in 1998 she was inducted into the Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame at the Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers of Oklahoma State University-Tulsa.[16]
Young adult novels
The five YA novels, her first books published, are Hinton's works most widely held in WorldCat libraries.[17] All are set in Oklahoma.
- The Outsiders (1967)
- That Was Then, This Is Now (1971)
- Rumble Fish (1975)
- Tex (1979)
- Taming the Star Runner (1988)
Children's books
- Big David, Little David, illustrated by Alan Daniel (1995), picture book
- The Puppy Sister illus. Jacqueline Rogers (1995), chapter book
Adult fiction
- Hawkes Harbor (2004), novel
- Some of Tim's Stories (2007), short stories
- Great Women Writers, Rita Dove, S.E. Hinton, and Maya Angelou (Princeton NJ: Hacienda Productions, 1999), DVD video - autobiographical accounts by the three authors[17]
- ^ a b "Once a teen sensation who wrote her most famous book while still in high school, Hinton is now 59." -Italie[4]
- ^ a b cBefore 1988 the ALA awards did not distinguish "children's" literature - the Newbery book award and Wilder career award - from that for "young adults". Hinton won the first biennial "Young Adult Services Division/School Library Journal Author Achievement Award", according to plan, but there were only two as it was renamed and made annual after 1990.
On the last point compare the 1988, 1990, and 1991 Edwards Award citations.
- ^ "Someone should tell their side of the story, and maybe people would understand then and wouldn't be so quick to judge."[8]
- ^ "Viking signed her ... with a suggestion that she call herself S.E. in print, so male critics wouldn't be turned off by a woman writer." -Italie[4]
- ^ "I made the name famous. I'm not gonna lose it."[10]
- ^ "I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight."[10]
- ^ "S E Hinton". The New York Times. 2010. Retrieved 2011-09-09.
- ^ S.E. Hinton on IMDb.
- ^ Pulver, Andrew (October 29, 2004). "When you grow up, your heart dies: SE Hinton's The Outsiders (1983)". The Guardian. Retrieved 2010-03-25.
- ^ a b c dItalie, Hillel (October 3, 2007). "40 years later Hinton's 'The Outsiders' still strikes a chord among the readers". San Diego Union-Tribune. Associated Press.
- ^ a b"1988 Margaret A. Edwards Award Winner". Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). American Library Association (ALA).
"Edwards Award". YALSA. ALA. Retrieved 2013-09-26.
- ^ a b c"Frequently Asked Questions". sehinton.com. Archived from the original on 2007-10-13. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
- ^ a b c dSmith, Dinitia (September 7, 2005). "An Interview With S. E. Hinton: An Outsider, Out of the Shadow". The New York Times.
- ^ Peck, Dale (September 23, 2007). "The Outsiders: 40 Years Later". The New York Times.
- ^ "About S. E. Hinton". Penguin Group USA.
- ^ a b c"Staying Golden". Unsigned review of Hawkes Harbor. New York Press. September 28, 2004. Retrieved 2010-03-25.
- ^ "S.E. Hinton". tcmuk.tv.
- ^ Wilson, Antoine (2003). S. E. Hinton. New York: Rosen Central. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-8239-3778-3.
- ^ Nick Inhofe on IMDb.
- ^ Legend of Billy Fail on IMDb.
- ^ http://www.orgs.utulsa.edu/phibetakappa/honorary.html
- ^ "Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame". Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers. OSU-Tulsa.
- ^ a b "Hinton, S. E.". WorldCat. Retrieved 2013-03-10.
External links
|Wikiquote has quotations related to: S. E. Hinton
- Official website
- S. E. Hinton at Teens@Random (publisher Random House) - including "S. E. Hinton on Becoming a Writer"
- S.E. Hinton on IMDb
- S. E. Hinton at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- "Some of Hinton's Stories", interview for Vanity Fair (May 14, 2007)
- "Hinton, Susan Eloise" in the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
- "Staying Golden" article in the New York Press (September 28, 2004)
- S. E. Hinton at Library of Congress Authorities - with 17 catalog records


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It started (as these things always do) with a post on Mac news/rumor site Think Secret. The gist: Apple is planning a new 60GB iPod with a twist. This one would include a high-resolution 2-inch color LCD and a photo viewing feature, but no built-in photo editing ability. Perhaps most noteworthy of all is the supposed presence of a video out port, which will allow for users to run slideshows on the family TV using transitions and a musical background. In additions, users would be able to view cover art for their music library on the device.
As is their custom, Apple is remaining tight-lipped about plans for the iPod (or any product that it might conceive of between now and Judgment Day). However, the current 4G iPod lineup is atypical, having only two models (20GB and 40GB) instead of the usual three. Speculation about the possibility of a 60GB iPod began back in early June when Toshiba announced the availability of a 60GB version of the 1.8-inch hard drives used in the iPod and stated that they were receiving orders from Apple.
Rumors of a 60GB iPod first surfaced in June, when Toshiba said that it was in the process of developing a 60GB drive. Much to the ire of Apple, Toshiba also mentioned that Apple had already committed to buying the large 1.8-inch drives. The drives have since begun shipping in quantity, and Toshiba recently introduced a 60GB digital music player, which is currently the highest-capacity digital music player available.
Sure, a 60GB iPod is a logical product for Apple, with a likely price of US$499. Its 60GB capacity would be a selling point for those with particularly large digital music libraries or a fondness for lossless encoding. But a photo-equipped iPod would be a rather large departure for a company whose mantra is "it's all about the music." It's unclear how many people would buy the 60GB model for the express purpose of being able to look at their photo library on it, or plug it into a TV to watch slideshows. In fact, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has remarked on numerous occasions the he doesn't see the TV as part of the "digital hub" envisioned by Apple.
Furthermore, how would Windows users manage their photos on the iPod? Given the music player's strength on both sides of the desktop OS aisle, it's difficult to conceive of Apple releasing a "flagship" iPod with Mac-only features. Would they port iPhoto (or iLife) to Windows? Doubtful, although it is possible that they would enlist third-party software for Windows photo synchronization and management as they did when the Windows-flavored iPod was first released.
In the meantime, market research firms are reporting that Apple now owns 92.1 percent of the hard-drive based digital music market, up from 82.2 percent last year. That figure reflects sales of both the iPod Mini and its larger counterparts. Creative and Rio are a distant second and third with 3.7 and 3.2 percent, respectively. The growth has been spurred by the iPod's strong brand recognition, along with the perception of Apple products as being "cool." Even as the iPod's popularity grows, some iPod owners have taken to using third-party headphones with the music players in a phenomenon one consumer behaviorist characterizes as "desired marginality" it's hard to be cool and trendy when everyone else owns the same product as you.
Some analysts believe that the iPod's Achilles heel is the low end of the market, where the Mini is Apple's least-expensive product offering. Virgin Electronics looks to be aiming for that vulnerability (if Apple is indeed vulnerable there), as it has taken the wraps off of its new competitor to the iPod Mini. The Virgin Player has a 5GB capacity (vs. 4GB), a built-in FM tuner, and supports both mp3 and the WMA format used by the Virgin Music Store. Virgin's first foray into making digital music players came last October, as it launched a low-cost music player along side other gadgets. Last month, they launched a music store and subscription service, making them the first brick-and-mortar music chain to venture into the music download business.
Whether or not Apple is preparing to take the iPod Beyond the Music, the Virgin Player (and other competitors) are going to have a rough time toppling the iPod from the top of the heap. And the iPod's dominance will also make it difficult for competitors to Apple's iTunes Music Store to gain serious traction in the market. The synergy between Apple's player and music store is strong, especially since Apple is refusing to license the FairPlay DRM used in iTMS or open up the iPod to support formats other than AAC and MP3. Steve Jobs has said on more than one occasion that they might consider licensing FairPlay or opening up the iPod once the competition's market share approaches 50 percent. At the rate things are going, Apple may not have to make that decision for a long time.


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There's nothing more mysterious on a Windows PC than the Registry, and today we'll explain exactly what it is, how it works, and whether you should bother cleaning it. We'll also go about debunking a few widespread registry myths along the way.
As I said, the registry has always been mysterious — if not entirely misunderstood — component of the Windows operating system. Today I've set out to explain in detail what the registry is all about. If you already have a working understanding of the registry, skip down to the mythbusting section for a little clarity regarding the usefulness of the many registry cleaners out there.
What Is the Registry?
The Windows Registry is a hierarchical database that stores settings for virtually everything on a Windows PC — from application settings, user passwords, device driver info, Windows settings and pretty much everything else.
Application settings used to be stored in text-based configuration files (and with some applications, still are), with a separate file for every application. The Windows Registry is meant to solve that problem by providing a single place for all settings across all applications.
In addition to consolidating system settings, storing all of these settings in a single place and in a database format means that accessing values in the registry is much faster than parsing a text configuration file — so the registry can be used for more than just settings. In fact, most or all of the registry is read into memory each time the system boots, so accessing the registry is nearly instant.
Editing the Registry
[image url="https://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2010/03/340x_sshot-2010-03-01-_11-33-06_-_1_.jpg" size="legacy" align="right"] There are a number of methods for editing the registry, but most of the time you'll just use the regedit.exe utility to make changes, which you can launch from the start menu search or run boxes. (Hit Win+R, paste regedit.exe, then hit Enter and you're there.) Once you've opened up the editor, you'll be presented with a tree view of keys on the left-hand side, and the values on the right. The most important thing you'll want to do when editing the registry is to export the entire key before you make any changes — don't ever assume that you can just change the value back.
You can use regedit to connect to another PC and edit the registry there, provided you have the proper network access and the remote registry service is running. You can also edit from the command line using the reg.exe utility, which can be very helpful if you need to make a registry change from a machine that won't boot anymore — if you can make it to the recovery console, you can manually make the registry change from the command line.
What Are These .reg Files?
[image url="https://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2010/03/500x_sshot-2010-03-01-_11-36-44_-_1_.jpg" size="legacy" align="center"] If you spend any amount of time browsing Windows-tweaking websites, you've undoubtedly come across a downloadable .reg file that somebody provides as a way to quickly add a setting to the registry. These files are nothing more than simple text files that contain instructions for the regedit utility to add, change or remove keys in the registry without any accidental typos that cause your system to crash.
My recommendation is that before you apply any of these files, you first open them up in a text editor to see what they really contain, but in general, applying a .reg file is a lot safer and easier than manually making registry edits, provided you trust the source.
How Is the Registry Stored, and How Do I Back it Up?
[image url="https://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2010/03/340x_sshot-2010-03-01-_11-31-30_-_1_.jpg" size="legacy" align="right"] Even though the registry is supposed to be one consolidated place to store everything on your system, it's not stored in a single file — all of the system hives other than HKEY_CURRENT_USER are stored under %SystemRoot%System32Config, and the rest are stored in the %SystemRoot%ProfilesUsername folder, and there are a lot of files to deal with.
Your best bet for backing up your registry is simply creating a System Restore point (check out our complete guide to Windows system restore for more), but most of the popular backup software packages should be able to backup and restore the registry.
If you only need to backup a portion of the registry, you can open up regedit, find the key in the left-hand panel that you'd like to backup, and use the Export feature from the right-click menu to save the entire section to a text file format. You'll probably not want to use this to backup the entire registry, but it can be useful if you want to keep a copy of HKEY_CURRENT_USER around in case you need to restore some settings — and you're ready to do some seriously geeky registry hacking. For the average user, System Restore is not just the preferred option, but it's also the one that Microsoft recommends.
Do You Really Need to Clean the Registry?
[image url="https://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2010/03/340x_sshot-2010-03-01-_11-41-06_-_1_.jpg" size="legacy" align="right"] The internets are chock full of advertisements and testimonials for registry cleaning products that claim to fix every problem on your PC by giving your registry a good scrubbing; readers may even remember an unofficial Microsoft-supplied utility called regclean from years back, which gives even more validity to the idea that registry cleaning is a very useful pursuit. But do they really work?
The sad answer, which we covered while debunking performance tweaking myths, is that most of these products are not worth running, and while the better ones won't necessarily kill your PC, they're rarely going to help you a lot either. If you stop and think about it, you'll realise that since the registry contains many hundreds of thousands of keys (or more), removing 50 or even 100 of them isn't going to yield any performance gains.
Windows expert Ed Bott has some stronger words on the subject:
I'd go a step further: Don't run registry cleaner programs, period. I won't go so far as to call them snake oil, but what possible performance benefits can you get from "cleaning up" unneeded registry entries and eliminating a few stray DLL files?
That said, there are a few edge cases where cleaning the registry might yield some performance gains, if you've installed something that plugs into Windows somehow, doesn't work very well, and also doesn't uninstall itself properly. Most of these problems can be prevented in the first place by simply being more careful about what you install on your PC — after all, you shouldn't have to reinstall Windows regularly.
If you disagree with my assessment, I'd like to issue you this challenge: Before calling me out, why don't you be the first person to ever have real-world benchmarks proving that registry cleaners make a substantial difference in your system performance. I won't hold my breath.
What About Defragging the Registry?
[image url="https://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2010/03/340x_sshot-2010-03-01-_11-23-34_-_1_.jpg" size="legacy" align="right"] Another claim you'll often read about the registry is that you need to defrag it regularly to keep your PC from being extremely slow — in fact, Microsoft provides the PageDefrag utility for Windows XP to defragment your pagefile and registry. Windows 7 or Vista users will have to turn to a freeware utility like Auslogics Registry Defrag to keep their registry defragmented.
What most people don't realise, however, is that your registry is fully loaded into RAM when your system boots, meaning all reads and writes to the registry are done directly to memory, and then loaded to the disk later. So while you're going to gain some slight performance gain by making sure your registry isn't too fragmented, the reality is that your system isn't going to suddenly be blazing fast because you defragged your registry.


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Pinang Peranakan Mansion at Penang
Located on the Penang Island, the Pinang Peranakan Mansion was a home of a rich Baba. Now as a museum, it offers an experience into the Peranankan lifestyle and traditions.
According to its official website, this Chinese courtyard house is a typical large Baba home of eclectic style, incorporating Chinese carved-wood panels, English floor tiles and Scottish ironworks.
The admission fee costs RM10 for an adult and you'll get an information brochure and a sticker in return.
And today, kenwooi.com will bring you on another virtual tour into the Pinang Peranakan Mansion. :)
As you enter the building, you'll be greeted by the front hall. The center area is open-air and it's surrounded by partitions of rooms for different purposes.
The main staircase is a distinct feature of the European influence which uses of both local and imported materials. To get to the upper floor, you're required to take off your shoes.
This western-style dining room is for entertaining the guests from Europe.
With over thousands of antiques and collectibles on display, this Baba-Nyonya museum is definitely well-preserved and very valuable.
One of the jewelery showcases available.
Antique plates being displayed in a room.
Drawings of a couple from the older generation. If I'm not mistaken, the man is the one who built the mansion – Kapitan China Chung Keng Kwee. He was a wealthy Hakka triad leader.
This is a wooden chair, or bed? It looks like a sofa bed, except that it's hard.
I can't help but to pose like a king relaxing while my concubines accompany me. I'm gonna have them wear modern cheongsam with boots.
Life is certainly good.
Anyway, behind the mansion – there's a backyard.
At the back, there's a place where traditional Chinese medicine and herbs are prepared.
A small kitchen area and a dining table for the servants. Also, more antiques such as olden wooden chairs and traditional food mashers.
Well, that's roughly all. Even though the Pinang Peranakan Mansion offers an insight into a rich Peranankan's way of living, it's just worth a visit.
Oh by the way, did you know that the famous Singaporean drama series – The Little Nyonya – used the mansion as one of the main shooting locations?
Take a look at these pictures.
Above, the casts posed at one of the rooms. And the bottom photo, taken at the upper floor.
Hmm… wait a minute. Something's not right with one of the casts on the photos. I wonder which one…
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These days it ain't much fun going out in the cold.
With my hankering for another guitar I thought it'd be a good time to fire up my little Steinberger guitar and busker's amp. I haven't plugged in for a while, so I have to be careful I don't let that battery lose all it's charge.
Thankfully it was still working, but by the end of my little jam I plugged it in the power outlet for more juice.
Once that was done, I thought it'd be fun to noodle around in Garageband and record some guitar lines. I found a nice "Arena Rock" preset that sounds like a Marshall cranked-up. Pretty convincing to my ears. One day you might get to hear some of it, possibly as the soundtrack to a Toyko video maybe.
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The CAA will be conducting a live chat with all 24 coaches from the CAA Cyber Court at the ESPN Zone. Fans are encouraged to submit questions in advance by clicking on the button located on the right side of the CAASports.com home page or by clicking here. Questions can also be sent in as the chat is taking place. Each coach will spend about 10 minutes on Media Day answering as many questions as possible, and their answers will be posted on the site.
The live chat is just one of the ways that fans can take in the excitement from Media Day. Michael Litos, author of Cinderella - Inside the Rise of Mid-Major College Basketball, and Christy Winters-Scott, a television analyst with Comcast SportsNet, will be hosting video blogs with each coach that will be posted on CAASports.com throughout the day. The interviews will provide an opportunity to learn more about each coach both on and off the court.
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Google's "20 percent time" is dead – or so we worried.
The business website Quartz reported on Friday that Google had effectively killed its famously egalitarian company policy – which encouraged employees to spend about 20 percent of their time experimenting with their own ideas – and Silicon Valley has been buzzing ever since. On the website Hacker News, members of the startup set have weighed in on the alleged death some 475 times.
It makes sense that programmers and other knowledge workers would react emotionally to reports of 20 percent time's demise. Google has become today's most powerful symbol of a more casual, collegial, and unorthodox approach to management that has been emerging at Valley companies for several decades. Outside the tech bubble, interest was strong enough to fuel production of a major motion picture, The Internship. Inside, the stakes are far higher.
"I'm incredibly sad, as it seems that too many companies go down this road," wrote one longtime Hacker News denizen.
The only trouble is that 20 percent time is still very much alive.
In part, that's because Google says its employees continue to create what are commonly referred to as 20 percent projects, despite the disincentives to participation listed by Quartz. We'll see how that plays out, but in the meantime, there's a bigger reason 20 percent time will live: Google couldn't kill the thing if it wanted to.
Google didn't invent the idea of giving employees time to experiment with their own ideas, nor will it have the final word on how best to bestow such time. Plenty of other large tech companies have implemented their own takes on 20 percent time, including widely admired, innovative companies like Facebook, LinkedIn, and, reportedly, Apple.
The core idea behind 20 percent time – that knowledge workers are most valuable when granted protected space in which to tinker – is more alive in Silicon Valley today than it ever has been before, reports of Google killing its program notwithstanding.
The flourishing of 20-percent-style programs shows that, despite a seemingly endless boom-and-bust cycle, with corresponding hiring and firing binges, the technology sector has also developed a lasting corporate culture, one that may yet prove as viral as its products.
I'm not a neutral observer of this phenomenon, having recently written a book on 20 percent time, similar programs, and the recent flowering of side projects in Silicon Valley and beyond. But my interest here is to set people straight on a widely misunderstood topic, not to siphon more money from the publishing industry's gushing fountain of profits.
To understand why it's tricky to talk about 20 percent time being dead or alive, you have to first understand what the program is and what it is not. Google's 20 percent time has historically worked like this: The company allowed employees to spend approximately one-fifth of their time – one day per week, four days per month, or maybe even a couple of months per year – working on a Google-related passion project of their own choosing or of their own creation.
This is a Google policy, and it has been mentioned in official documents like press releases, company blog posts, and Larry Page's and Sergey Brin's 2004 "founders letter" to prospective Google shareholders. The policy led to products like Google News; Google's autocomplete system, originally called Google Suggest; Gmail; and AdSense, the advertising engine developed to support Gmail financially, now producing roughly a quarter of Google's revenue.
What 20 Percent Time Is Not —————————
That's what 20 percent time is. Here is what it is not: A fully fleshed corporate program with its own written policy, detailed guidelines, and manager. No one gets a "20 percent time" packet at orientation, or pushed into distracting themselves with a side project. Twenty percent time has always operated on a somewhat ad hoc basis, providing an outlet for the company's brightest, most restless, and most persistent employees – for people determined to see an idea through to completion, come hell or high water.
For example, engineer Paul Buchheit worked on Gmail for two and half years before he finally persuaded company brass, who worried about stretching Google too far beyond search, to launch the thing. At the time, one member of Google's founding team even said in a meeting that "this will destroy our brand; this will crush our company," ex-Googler Chris Wetherell told me for my book.
Wetherell's own side project, Google Reader, only got placed on Google's internal servers because Wetherell was friendly with people with administrative access to those machines who could bypass the normal chain of command. (The external public release, which came later, was sanctioned).
Because 20 percent time is less of a formal program than an idea or operating spirit available to bullheaded employees, availing oneself of 20 percent time has long entailed sacrifices. And at a company where bonuses make up a large percentage of income, these sacrifices can be financial, particularly if your manager and co-workers are, for whatever reason, unsupportive of your 20 percent time project. Even if said people could not block your 20 percent time project, they could make you pay a steep price for continuing to pursue it.
So Google has levers it can pull to make 20 percent projects more or less attractive to employees when its enthusiasm for side projects waxes and wanes as it has over the years. While I was writing my book, Google shut down its Labs experimentation platform, and there was speculation 20 percent time would die. When Google VP Bradley Horowitz announced a few months later that "we're throwing fewer things at the wall," the company was again asked if 20 percent time was dying, and again said it was not.
But Google has copped in the past to making it harder to ship 20 percent time projects, and Quartz says another crackdown is ongoing. Google says through a spokesperson that employees are still encouraged to pursue what are often called 20 percent projects that involve Google-related interests outside their main line of work. It also says the idea of Googlers running with their own ideas is core to the company's culture. But it won't, when pressed repeatedly, state simply and clearly that 20 percent time lives on. So we'll see.
An Idea Bigger Than Google ————————–
In the meantime, remember that the core idea behind 20 percent time didn't begin at Google – 3M had 15 percent time – and won't die there, because it clearly lives on at other tech companies. One key way tech employees are encouraged to pursue their own experiments these days is at hackathons, programming marathons followed by a presentation of brief demonstrations and, often, prizes. Pioneered by an Australian software company called Atlassian, which was expressly trying to find a cheaper version of 20 percent time, corporate hackathons are now commonplace, including at Twitter, Facebook, Google, Yahoo, LinkedIn, and eBay, to name just a few practitioners.
Hackathon projects can even graduate to full-fledged products at Facebook, Atlassian, and LinkedIn, all of which offer some sort of pipeline for the most promising hacks. Under LinkedIn's InCubator, creators of top experiments can get up to three months – 25 percent of the year if you're keeping score at home – to develop their ideas, along with coaching from founder Reid Hoffman.
At Facebook, hacks that make it through a gauntlet known as the "Prototype Forum" and become experimental products like Facebook's free café Wi-Fi system. And at Atlassian, managers can hand out "get out of work free days" to people on other teams, which, given the right approvals, can snowball into 20 percent time.
Last year, Apple reportedly launched an initiative called "Blue Sky" that allowed small teams to "spend a few weeks on a pet engineering product," as The Wall Street Journal put it.
None of these programs is as expansive as the public perception of 20 percent time as a universal goof-around-for-free day bestowed on pampered Google employees every week. But then Google's program was never as expansive as believed. And adding some judging, feedback, and controls to Google's system, as Facebook et al have done, is very much in the spirit of 20 percent time. What's the point of an experiment if you're not going to act based on what you learn?


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I've Thule bike carriers which can be left or right opening.
So do I place both bikes facing forwards, or do I have the bikes one front facing, one rear facing?
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4. The Goal: Hansen's Proficiencies
According to Hansen (1986: 231) graduates in economics should be 'effectively equipped to use their knowledge and skills.' They should be proficient in accessing existing knowledge, displaying command of that knowledge, providing both theoretical and empirical interpretations, applying knowledge, asking pertinent and penetrating questions, and creating new knowledge. Hansen (2006) has developed a taxonomy (Figure 4) to describe these skills in more detail and this offers a well-defined structure on which to ground the undergraduate research process.
The advantage of reviewing these proficiencies in conjunction with the development of an undergraduate research project is two-fold. First, it serves as a reminder for instructors of the many ways that projects can be designed that focus on specific skills. Second, this rubric can be used as a guide for assessing the degree to which students have participated in the skill development necessary to take on larger projects.
Figure 4: Grounding a Model of Undergraduate Research in Hansen's Taxonomy of Learning
|Key Steps in the Undergraduate Research Model
|Hansen's Proficiencies for the Economics Major1
|1. Identifying economic issues
|Accessing existing knowledge: Locate published research in economics and related fields; locate information on particular topics and issues in economics; search out economic data as well as information about the meaning of data and how they are derived.
|2. Developing a research question
|Asking pertinent and penetrating questions. Demonstrate an understanding of questions that stimulate productive discussion (factual, interpretative and evaluative) and that reflect particular concerns when engaged in discussing economic issues and policies.
|3. Undertaking a literature search
4. Summarizing relevant literature
|Displaying command of existing knowledge: Write a precis of a published journal article; summarise in a two-minute monologue or a 300-word written statement what is known about the current condition of the economy; summarise the principal ideas of an eminent economist; summarise a current controversy in the economics literature; state succinctly the dimensions of a current economic policy issue; explain key economic concepts and describe how they can be used.
|4. Summarising relevant literature
5. Identifying an area of potential contribution
|Interpreting existing knowledge: Explain what economic concepts and principles are used in economic analyses published in articles from daily newspapers and weekly news magazines; read and interpret a theoretical analysis, which includes simple mathematical derivations, reported in an economics journal article.
|6. Locating and analysing data
|Interpreting and manipulating economic data: Construct tables from already available data; explain how to understand and interpret numerical data found in published tables such as those in The Economic Report of the President; be able to identify patterns and trends in published data such as those contained in the Digest of Educational Statistics; read and interpret a quantitative analysis, including regression results, reported in an economics journal article.
|7. Drawing conclusions
8. Comparing conclusions to identified literature
9. Applying analysis to current policy issue
|Applying existing knowledge: Prepare a five-page written analysis of a current economic problem; prepare a two-page decision memorandum for a superior that recommends some action on an economic decision faced by the organisation; write an op-ed essay on some local economic issue.
|10. Presenting research to peers and/or faculty
|Creating new knowledge: Identify and formulate a question or series of questions about some economic issue that will facilitate its investigation; prepare a five-page proposal for a research project; complete a research study with its results contained in a carefully edited 20-page paper.
1Replicated from a description provided in Hansen (2006).
As Figure 4 demonstrates, proficiencies can be directly associated with the steps that are the focus of an undergraduate research project such as those described in section 3 of this chapter. For example, the first step in this process, identifying economic issues, requires that students demonstrate their mastery of the foundational knowledge in economics. In the language of the proficiencies students must access existing knowledge. This is true regardless of the extent to which students are allowed to determine their own topic for study. In order to translate the chosen topic into a researchable question, students must be able to ask pertinent and penetrating questions. Greenlaw (2006: 14–18 ) suggests that an effective economic question has well-defined components: problem-oriented, analytical, interesting, significant, amenable to economic analysis and feasible.
One added benefit of using Hansen's proficiencies to ground undergraduate research rests in the many ways each proficiency can be demonstrated, also indicated in Figure 4. As the reader will note, the examples provided by Hansen involve many forms of undergraduate research ranging from short projects (such as five-page written analysis of a current economic problem) to those that could be the focus of an entire course (such as a research study with results that are contained in a 20-page paper).
Basing the undergraduate research process on expected skill development through the proficiencies taxonomy also supports a model of the research process that branches out beyond traditional empirical research that dominates the professional practices in economics. Three examples in which this nontraditional approach to research can be nurtured are encouraging interdisciplinary study, developing qualitative projects and understanding the role of heterodox critiques. The proficiency 'accessing existing knowledge' explicitly suggests that students should locate published research in economics and related fields, which reinforces the prospect of interdisciplinary research that allows students to link economics to other disciplines that they are exposed to during college. The use of qualitative data is often argued to enrich understanding of problems as it allows for historical and social influences that are less easily captured in standard quantitative sources (see, for example, Berik, 1997 and Russell, 2005). The research process outlined in Figure 4 could be enhanced to allow for qualitative projects simply by broadening the data analysis step to include an understanding of how to use qualitative information (as gathered from open-ended questions and interviews, for example). Further, the process of implementing the proficiencies can be adapted to those who are supportive of some of challenges to economics presented by heterodox economics. For example, one would expect that asking penetrating and pertinent questions would be an ideal place in which to incorporate the challenges by feminists and supporters of critical realism in economics. (Some readings that bring a heterodox perspective into the classroom and can be used to develop such questions can be found at http://www.orgs.bucknell.edu/afee/HetReadings.htm.)
Finally, it is important to recognise that a simple presentation of expected outcomes, such as sharing the proficiencies with students, is unlikely to generate the desired result: a well-developed research project. The structure of the research project presented to students must be reviewed to ensure that it supports the development of the skills desired. For example, one should not expect students to be able to develop an effective economic question if no part of the research process teaches them to recognise and construct pertinent and penetrating questions. Students must be provided with the opportunity to practise each of these skills in order to become proficient at them, hence the importance of modelling the research process.
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Videos | July 24, 2006
Spitzer's Spin on Stars
What do a rolling skating star and a newly forming star in the universe have in common?
Transcript:Brittany Rosales is a rising star in the roller skating arena. The 13-year-old regional champ's headed for the Nationals in freestyle. She behaves like a star more than she realizes. Young stars in the universe also love to twirl like Brittany, who spins faster and faster by pulling her arms inward.
Brittany Rosales, Roller skater:
"When your arms are out, for me, I slow down, but then when I put my arms in I spin faster."
Newly-formed stars, brimming with gas and dust, also spin faster and faster as they collapse inward. Some could even spin themselves to smithereens if something didn't put the brakes on them. Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have found evidence that it might be the dusty disks of planet-forming material that surrounds some young stars. Dr. Luisa Rebull, Spitzer Space Telescope Scientist:
"We found that stars with disks rotate on average slower than stars without disks, so a star that's rotating slowly is much more likely to have a disk than a star that's rotating quickly."
Astronomers like Luisa Rebull theorize that a star's magnetic field acts like a leash that latches onto the dust disk.
But what's happening in these young stars that have disks is that the magnetic field from these young stars is actually locking it to the disks. So, like the skater pulling in her arms, maybe she's giving people high fives as she's trying to spin, and so that's slowing her spin down. So even though she's trying to spin up, she can't because she's hitting stuff as she's going around and around.
Rebull and other scientists thought planet-forming disks were causing the celestial slowdown, but the evidence was missing until Spitzer came along. The infrared observatory is great at spotting the heat from dusty disks.
Ultimately the big picture here is we're trying to figure out how stars like our sun formed and whether all stars like our sun formed planets or just some of them. And if they do only some of them form planets, why? What makes two stars that are otherwise twins, one decides to form planets and one doesn't. It could be that that magic ingredient is the rotation rate of the star.
Brittany is realizing that her link to the universe goes far beyond the roller rink. Astronomers are anxious to learn more about this latest spin on stars and planets.


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Fifty-year-old Kevin Rogers hasn't played a down of organized football in his life, but he couldn't resist this opportunity.
Rogers will suit up alongside his son, Paul, for the Dixon team in its alumni game Saturday night at Rochelle.
The Rogerses are the only father-son combination playing for Dixon. Doug Devine is coaching the team, while his son Andrew is playing.
"Paul's very excited about it, and I'm pretty excited about this too," said Kevin, a 1980 graduate of the former Shabbona High School, who was allowed to play for the Dixon alumni due to a lack of players.
"I was excited to play next to all my buddies, but once he said he was going to do it, I was pumped up," said Paul, 26, a 2005 Dixon grad. "There's not many people that can say they played football next to their dad."
Kevin, who has been a Dixon resident since 1983, was a basketball and track guy in high school at Shabbona, where his graduating class totaled 32.
"I played a lot of pick-up games and flag football, but the school I went to was so small we couldn't support a football team," Kevin said.
Though he appears to be in good shape and is an avid weightlifter, Kevin has had his share of struggles in the team's practices.
"I pulled a hamstring one of our first practices," he said. "They taught me how to stretch out better. They have let me out of the last run every day. We'll do a set of three or four busters, and they always let me out of the last one. It's because they don't want to do CPR on me."
There was one other issue.
"We're not allowed to get our pads till the night of the game, but we hit each other," Kevin said. "Paul laid me out once, then he apologized for it."
The Rogerses are both playing on the offensive line. Paul hopes to get to line up alongside his dad.
"Hopefully we can make a couple pancakes together," said Paul, who played football for 2 years at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa, after high school.
Paul likes what's he seen from his dad on the practice field.
"I think he's a stud for 50," Paul said. "He works out all the time. He's a paramedic, so he does a lot of lifting. I was pretty impressed when he started working out with us."
The Rogerses also work alongside each other at Advance EMS Ambulance Services in Dixon. Kevin is the owner of the business, and his father, Jim, is also involved there.
"I get to work with [my dad] Monday through Friday, then we get to do this too," Paul said. "We have a pretty strong bond. I feel lucky, because I work with him and my grandpa both."
Who: Dixon at Rochelle
What: Alumni Football USA game
When: 7 p.m. Saturday
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Rules: IHSA rules apply, with a few exceptions (no blitzing; no crack-back blocks; no rushing the center on punts, field goals or extra points). No fighting or taunting – violating those rules may result in ejection.


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This chapter describes how to use the VMware P2V Assistant to reconfigure a cloned disk so it can be used as a bootable system disk in a virtual machine.
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Virtual disks, in order to function with virtual machines, require some reconfiguring. This reconfiguration alters elements that are essential to working in a virtual environment; it does not alter the machine identification information. The following describes how to reconfigure an existing virtual disk to boot in a helper virtual machine using the P2V Assistant. Perform the steps in this section when you have an existing virtual disk or image that you wish to use in a virtual machine.


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Heartwarming: An elderly actor used the internet to recreate the Manhattan apartment he lived in as a youngster, item by item. Not so heartwarming: it was a stunt by the Swedish Postal Service to familiarise old people with e-commerce.
My heart doesn't know how to feel about this. Bo Brundin, a Swedish actor who appeared in over 40 films, recently used the internet to recreate the apartment he lived in as a struggling young artist in the 1960s, down to the James Dean head shots and the cane-leg chair.
But wait! This wasn't just Bo's idea, it's the Swedish Postal Service's, who want to deliver a bunch of stuff to old, internet-shopping Swedes, because, you know, it's profitable. The video explains that the Swedish Postal Service helped Bo "with everything from digital presence planning and strategic marketing tips, to logistics and establishment of his website." Ugh! Ugh, ugh, ugh.
The internet, as it often does in matters such as these, came through, and with a deluge of tips it only took Bo two months to find all 42 items needed to create the pad of his youth. You can watch the process on his website, Forever Young.
So Bo got his room, and the Swedish Postal Service showed that, yes, old people can learn to shop on the internet. Everyone's happy. Everyone, that is, except for me, a young boy who on this day lost just a little bit of internet innocence.


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Hi all,
I am an undergraduate research aid for a biochemistry lab and am currently working to optimize the manner in which we analyze a lot of our data from our experiments. The program we currently use is an open source program called ImageJ which we utilized to track cancer cells and analyze their trajectories in our time lapse videos. The program is written in Java and the source code is free to download ( I posted a link below) and is beautiful and extensive code. However, for my project I simply need to optimize this program for our personal use and the main task at hand is exporting the trajectory data to an Excel spreadsheet. I am using Eclipse to edit my code and have read about JExcel API but wasn't sure how to really integrate this or if this would be compatible with Eclipse. Any help would be extremely helpful as I really am a true novice when it comes to coding in Java.
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