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So who was responsible for the Theraphosidae?
Jason Dunlop
Tarantulas belong in the spider family given the scientific name Theraphosidae. But ,who first came up with that name and why? To answer this you must take a trip into the treacherous world of spider systematics, where science meets history in the often difficult quest to track down who said ,what and why.
Anyway it turns out that Theraphosidae was first proposed as a family name back in 1870 by the eminent Swedish arachnologist, Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell (1830-1901), professor of zoology in the University of Upsala. One possible source of confusion is that he created Theraphosidae in a weighty book about European spiders, which is not the first place you'd go looking for tarantula names. Anyway, the full reference is as follows:-
Thorell, T. 1870. On European spiders.
Part 1. Review of some European genera of spiders
preceded by some observations on zoological nomenclature.
Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis,
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A New Musical Adaptation of Jack & The Beanstalk
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The Black Box Performing Arts Center proudly presents an original musical comedy for audiences of all ages!
When Jack's best friend, Mo, (who just so happens to be a dairy cow,) can no longer produce any milk, Jack's mother demands that he go into town to put Mo up for sale. In the midst of trying to earn some money to bring back to his mother, Jack loses Mo in the streets of NYC, but manages to obtain a bean that (he is told) contains magic. Jack is challenged to make the right choices in difficult situations throughout the show, and through his wild adventures, we learn many valuable lessons.
Book and Lyrics by Nachi Lederer. Music by Brody Greif.
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Uno Synth is an excellent-sounding, versatile analogue monosynth, and you do get a lot for your money. The presets offer a ton of highly usable sounds, and we could certainly see this becoming a go-to instrument for classic basses and leads. The arp and sequencer are great for inspiring ideas too.
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From headphones to memo writers, our top tech under Rs 2000 list has everything! Here are the top 10 tech and accessories under Rs 2000 for your next shopping spree.
Amkette GamePad Pro 2
This gamepad is ideal if you're an ardent smartphone gamer, or just like a controller over touch controls on your smartphone. The rubberised grip makes it comfortable to handle for long gaming sessions and the Bluetooth connectivity gives you an option to place your phone a little further is you like.
Portronics Ruffpad
This nifty little gadget is ideal for you if you are someone who forgets what they need to buy for the house. It has a magnetic back so you can stick this memo taker on your fridge and keep an updated shopping list right in front of you. The Ruffpad has an easy delete button and a battery that'll last you up to one year.
Reos Lite Smart Bulb
Smart bulbs are fast becoming an essential tech to have at your home or office. This Reos Lite smart bulb costs Rs 1499 and connects via Bluetooth to your smartphone or tablet. One of the features of the Reos Lite bulb is that it can be synced with your music player and the colour of the bulb changes colour according to the current song.
AmazonBasics Waterproof Speaker
The AmazonBasics waterproof speaker produces great sound for its price and if you are into outdoor music sessions, this speaker is waterproof as well. The speaker also has rubberised exterior for impact resistance and has a battery life of up to 12 hours of music playback.
Fitmate Z1 Fitness Tracker
This fitness tracker has a touchscreen and even monitors your sleep. Its fitness feature includes steps, a pedometer, distance, calories record, sleep monitor and move alert. You can even set an alarm on Fitmate Z1 fitness tracker and it has a battery life of up to 7 days.
Xiaomi Smart Power Strip
This is a power strip you would need at your home. It's the new-age power strip that does more than just charging your appliances. It connects to an app which enables you to timely switch it off to avoid over-charging and electricity consumption. It also lets you measure the electricity it has consumed.
Audio Technica ATH-AX1iSWH
The Audio Technica over ear headphones cost about Rs 1700 and offer a great price-to-performance ratio. It is available in 5 different colours on Amazon India. The headphones have a 36mm driver to produce the sound and the cushioned ear pads are comfortable for long hours of music listening sessions.
Mi In Ear Pro Headphones
If you are on the look out for a pair of in-ear type earphones, then the Mi Pro earphones fit the bill for you. The earphones are made out of a high-quality metal alloy and come with a 1.25-meter cable. The earphones have a total sensitivity of 98 decibels and a speaker impedance of 32 ohms.
Zakk iDisk Memory Cable
The Zakk iDisk is a great little memory device for your iPhone which also doubles up as charging cable. It has a 32GB memory and you can store all kinds of media in it if your iPhone doesn't have enough onboard storage left. The companion app allows you to directly take pictures from the app and store in the memory cable.
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The RM Auction & Sotheby's auction during the Concours D'Elegance in Amelia Island would have had some vehicles that were unique and record-breaking in their desire, but the bids were far behind the hoped for Estimate. Above all, the particularly high-quality Ferraris stayed behind their expectations. Including the Ferrari 250GT SWB Berlinetta with Scaglietti body, year of construction 1961 (Estimate 9 to 10 million dollars) and the very special Ferrari 166 MM Barchetta with Touring bodywork with a documented Mille MIglia history (Estimate 8 to 10 million dollars).
The Ferrari 365 GTB / 4 Daytona Berlinetta Competizione Conversion of 1971 was also unable to find a buyer (Estimate 1.25 to 1.5 million dollars). Also a 1928 Bentley 4 ½ liter Le Mans Sports "The Bobtail" with Van den Plas body, built in 1928, with an Estimate of 6.5 to 7.5 million dollars was not sold. Fourteen vehicles, mainly with a high-priced Estimate remained unsold.
But the hoped-for record sales were also to be reported. At the top of the sales was the 1937 Bugatti Type 57S Cabriolet with Vanvooren bodywork, which changed ownership for 7.7 million dollars. Noticeable at the Amelia Island auction was the large proportion of prewar vehicles. While the last few years have been rather unsuccessful for these vehicles, the vehicles from the Orin Smith collection have been changing their owners for a total of around 31 million dollars. Shortly after the sale of the spectacular Bugatti, a 1929 Stutz Model M Supercharged Coupe, of which there are only three known cars left, could change possession for 1,705,000 million. A total of 63 vehicles were sold from the collection. Another highlight was the 1936 Lancia Astura Cabriolet Series III "Tipo Bocca", which was auctioned for 2,145,000 dollars. The $ 1 million Estimate also surpassed by the 1933 Rolls-Royce Phantom II Special Newmarket Permanent Sedan with Brewster bodywork, which ultimately changed ownership for $ 1,237,500. The Rolls-Royce brand was a top performer in this auction. A 1929 Rolls-Royce Phantom I Henley Roadster, also with Brewster bodywork was sold for $ 682,000. A Graham 97 Supercharged Cabriolet from 1937 exhibited a new auction record and was auctioned for 770,000 dollars.
The 1956 Bentley S1 Continetal Drophead Coupé with Park Ward body was also an absolute top performer at the Amelia Island auction of RM & Sotheby's Auction. It reached a total of 1.7 million dollars, well above the Estimate of 700 to 900 thousand dollars.
The Saturday was in the limelight of a private sports car collection, led by the two-color Maserati A6G / 54 Frua Coupé Series III of 1956, which totalled 2,365,000 dollars (Estimate 1.6 to 2.2 million dollars). From the same collection, the Porsche 911 Carrera RS 3.0 from 1974, which very quickly exceeded its Estimate from 900,000 to 1.1 million dollars and at the end the buyer offered 1,375,000 dollars. The 1955 Alfa Romeo 1900C SS Coupe brought 1.1 million dollars and a Mercedes Benz Gullwing of 1954 reached 1,358,500 dollars.
An absolute surprise was the auction of the 1963-man's Manx Dune Buggy, which surpassed his aimed Estimate twice and doubled for 68,750 dollars. Also worthy of note is the 1995 Ferrari F50 from prominent predecessor. The vehicle was initially delivered to Mike Tyson. The Ferrari was sold for $ 68,750.
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Prospective members in the Smiths Falls Flying club require the sponsorship of an Active Member of the Club. For students this person in normally your designated flying instructor.
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This is open to those interested in taking flight lessons and who do not hold a Transport Canada Pilot Licence. Upon acquiring the License, a Student Member becomes an Associate or Active Member at the next membership renewal. Student members have no voting privileges.
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$120.00/year plus 13% HST, plus $12.00 for two Fly-In breakfast tickets for a total of $147.60.
The Smiths Falls Airport is one of the nicest and best maintained airfields in Canada and most of the work is done by volunteers. All members are expected to help out at the club in any way they can. Grounds upkeep (grass cutting), clubhouse maintenance, helping out at the Annual Fly in Breakfast held by the club are just a few of the areas where help is needed.
All memberships are for a calendar year, from Feb 1 to Jan 31. Invoices are sent out to members the beginning of January in the new year. For members joining for the first time your billing is pro rated according to the number of months remaining to Feb 1st. The online application calculates this for you.


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Indeed, being accused of domestic violence can be a frustrating and helpless experience when you are a police officer. You pledge your life to uphold the law and hold those accountable who do not. But when someone accuses you of a crime simply to exert their power over you, the thought of your career (and your good name) being threatened can be overwhelming.
Questions officers should ask when accused of domestic violence
What police officers should know about body cam footage
Calls for the review of police body cam footage have increased over the past few years. These requests commonly come as a result of complaints made against a police officer (or department) for civil rights violations. Indeed, body camera footage can be helpful in resolving baseless complaints, but it has the potential to be detrimental to an officer's career.
Should I take the plea deal?
If you are a police officer being charged with or under investigation for domestic abuse, chances are that you know that a discussion about a plea deal will be forthcoming. After all, a majority of criminal cases are resolved through plea deals, so they are fairly common.
Officer suspected of improper weapons purchases
Indeed, curbing gun violence is a top priority for police departments today. To do this, local authorities conduct additional investigations with federal law enforcement bureaus to uncover illegal weapons sales. Sometimes these investigations may unwittingly ensnare local police officers.


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A Fellow of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Ireland, Brendan has more than 25 years' experience in the specialist area of corporate recovery. He is a founding member of the Irish Society of Insolvency Practitioners (ISIP) and a member of the European Insolvency Practitioners Association (INSOL Europe).
Brendan's work spans creditors' and members' voluntary liquidations, High Court liquidations, receiverships, examinerships and corporate restructurings. Widely recognised for his expertise in corporate insolvency, he provides litigation support and forensic accounting services and is also an authorised personal insolvency practitioner.
Brendan is a member of the Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies in Ireland (CCABI Insolvency) and chairs the Insolvency Sub-Committee of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Ireland. He has written and lectured extensively on restructuring and insolvency and is frequently quoted in business publications and the general media.
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Sherpa Shepherds is one of the company in Nepal which adopted Smart Mountaineering in each of its peak climbing trips. In partnership with different organization, internet service providers and IT companies, Sherpa Shepherds has initiated 'Smart Mountaineering'. We have synchronized the latest technologies and our wealth of experiences to ensure safe and quality mountaineering in the Himalaya. By using wealth of our experience and available internet and safety tools we have been able to bring oldest person to summit Mount Everest late Min Bahadur Serchan, first Nepali visually impaired person Amit KC, first Tamang women Everest summiteer Kanchhi Maya Tamang and many more.
Government Of Nepal and Nepalese Army has honored Sherpa Shepherds for this exceptional contribution for safe mountaineering and smart mountaineering. Sherpa Shepherds has always been promoter of sustainable and eco-friendly tourism in Nepal. For this Sherpa Shepherds is collaborating many non profit individuals and organization which will reduce the trashes in the mountain, initiative for climate changes, uses of local products and provide employment to local community by using their services/products and empower socially excluded people of remote areas. Similarly Sherpa Shepherds was appeared in many national and international daily news papers for its extraordinary activities and contribution in mountaineering. Read more
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Adoptee searching for Ethiopian family. Female, birth name Hayat, born in 1998 in Debre Zeit adopted in 2008 along with her younger brother, Esmael. They are the youngest of 8 children. Ethiopian parents names were Merima (Mother) and Shikure (Father). They were adopted to the USA through Christian World Adoption and A Hope for Children.
Submitted by Adoptee searching for Ethiopian family
Child's Information
Gender of Child Female and Male
Ethnicity of Child Tigraway
Year of child's birth 1998
Name of child at the time of adoption Hayat and Esmael
Ethiopian birth name of child Hayat and Esmael
Age of child at adoption Hayat was 10 years old at adoption and Esmael was younger.
Year children were adopted 2008
Give information about child's Ethiopian family, if known. My mother's name is Merima. My father's name is Shikure. I have 7 brothers and sisters. My youngest brother, Esmael is also adopted with me in 2008. My family can be found in Debre Zeit, Ethiopia.
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Age when child entered care center or orphanage 10 Years
Year child entered a care center or orphanage 2006
To the best of your knowledge, child was Relinquished
Region of relinquishment Addis Ababa Region
Zone of relinquishment Addis Ababa – Addis Ababa Region
City/town of relinquishment Debre Zebit
Name and relationship of relinquishing adult My mother, Merima. She took care of me.
Do you believe child(ren) were relinquished willingly? Yes
Adoption Agency Information
Adoption agency through which the child was processed Christian World Adoption (USA)
Adoptive Country USA
Orphanage/care center #1
Orphanage or care center used in the adoption A Hope for Children (AHOPE)
Region of orphanage or care center Addis Ababa Region
Zone of orphanage or care center Addis Ababa – Addis Ababa Region
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Undergraduate Students and Faculty in Journal Special Issue
Second-year students in the course "Ethnography: Theory and Practice" published in the journal "The Unfamiliar." [07 Dec 2016]
SPS Student Receives Emerging Leaders in Anthropology Award
PhD student, Catherine Whittaker, has been presented with the Emerging Leaders award by the National Association of Student Anthropologists, a section of the American Anthropological Association. [25 Nov 2016]
ESRC-AHRC 'Arts for Advocacy' Project Launch
Dr Laura Jeffery (PI) and Dr Sebastien Bachelet have just launched their new ESRC-AHRC Globlal Challenges project, 'Arts for Advocacy: Creative Engagement with Forced Displacement in Morocco' [02 Nov 2016]
MSc by Research student Imogen Bevan awarded the 2016 Christine Wilson Prize
The Christine Wilson Prize is awarded by the AAA's Society for Anthropology of Food and Nutrition for the best graduate student essay on nutrition, food studies and anthropology. [02 Sep 2016]
My Neighbourhood: The Zabbaleen Rubbish Collectors of Cairo
A performance by Christian Stejskal: This show is a colourful personal journey from my birth city of Vienna to Ethiopia by foot, then into the lives of Cairo's rubbish collectors, most of them Christian, whom I met during this pilgrimage. After finishing my walk in Axum, I returned to Cairo and lived with the Zabbaleen. Supporting myself as a violinist at the Cairo Opera House, I spent five years taking photos and listening to stories of their joys, struggles, tragedies and small triumphs. Through seven spoken word vignettes, photos and violin music performed live, this show recounts lives of the Zabbaleen and my encounter with them. [25 Aug 2016]
Edinburgh welcomes Sri Lanka researchers
Sri Lanka in Transition: Society, Polity, Economy 5th Roundtable on Contemporary Sri Lanka, University of Edinburgh [23 May 2016]
Agathe Mora wins Hocart essay prize
Agathe Mora has just been awarded the RAI's Arthur Maurice Hocart prize for her essay: 'We Don't Work for the Serbs, We Work for Human Rights': Justice and Impartiality in Transitional Kosovo. [04 May 2016]
Book Forum: Realizing the Witch
Richard Baxstrom and Todd meyers will be discussing their new book Realizing the Witch (Fordham University Press). [15 Apr 2016]
Care Symposium 11 May 2016
Care has recently emerged as a key concept in medical anthropology. But why should we care about care? What does the term offer? What do we really know about care and caregivers? The theme of care runs through all our presenters' work, but it means different things in different ethnographic settings. [12 Apr 2016]
Veterinary Anthropology Workshop
18th - 19th April 2016 6th Floor Staffroom, Chrystal Macmillan Building Kindly sponsored by - CHSS Challenge Investment Fund & SPS Strategic Support Fund [05 Apr 2016]
Social Anthropology Tutor shortlisted for Teaching Award
Social Anthropology Tutor Alex Gapud has been shortlisted for an EUSA Teaching Award for his work as a Tutor. [04 Apr 2016]
Lotte Hoek wins Bernard S. Cohn Prize
The Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize honors outstanding and innovative scholarship across discipline and country of specialization for a first single-authored monograph on South Asia, published during the preceding year. [18 Feb 2016]


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Paper No. 6327 Dated 11-Dec-2017
By Dr. S. Chandrasekharan
Of late, there are increasing demands from experts and political scientists from Pakistan to revise the almost six decades old Indus Water treaty that had survived despite wars, near wars, acts of terrorism and other conflicts between the two countries.
Paper No. 6231 Dated 10-Mar-2017
By Dr. S.Chandrasekharan
(This may be read along with the previous paper on the subject- Paper No. 6226 of 24th Feb. 2017)
Paper No. 6226 Dated 24-Feb-2017
It is well known that Pakistan is one of the most "water stressed" countries of the world. Currently its per capita annual water capability is 1017 cubic metres- that is perilously close to a threshold of 1000 cubic metres. Back in 2009, it was 1500 cubic metres.
Paper No. 6174 Dated 26-Sept-2016
In the over frenzied atmosphere post Uri attack in Kashmir, the media as well as the analysts have been freely discussing ways to punish Pakistan. Options that should be left to the Army, the Intelligence agencies and the Ministry of External Affairs are being openly discussed with pros and cons and even recommendations are being made!
Paper No. 5689 Dated 25-Apr-2014
Dr. S. Chandrasekharan
A month ago, one of the water experts in Pakistan warned that the "most dreaded water scarcity ever" has at last hit the country. The warning came not too soon and the surprise if any is that the warning has come too late.
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The commercials would show them as actual "flying" fairies. All my life I'd wanted a flying fairy. It was as if my purpose on earth was all leading to that one moment....the moment when I would finally get a flying fairy.
I begged my mom for what felt like centuries. I did all my chores. I said "please" and "thank you" when I was at Gramma's house. I even tried not to fight with my sister. I was Little St. Jen, the Heavenly Fairy Obsesser. I remember pining for this toy like it was an everlasting fountain of joy and pure happiness. I ate, drank, and slept Skydancer. I just had to have one. I just had to.
And then....it happened.....Skydancer. My sister got one too and we went absolutely ballistic. SKYDANCER, people.
We raced outside to try them out. I popped mine on her little dolphin wave pedestal, pulled the cord, and let 'er rip.
Bsssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh - ZING!
So high! So fast! So beautiful! She rose and soared in the wind, shooting skyward, becoming one with the fairy winds of the North....until suddenly, she wasn't. A crazy cross-breeze stopped her momentum like a bolt of lightening and she came hurtling to the ground, headfirst, plummeting faster, faster, faster, as I looked on helplessly, mouth open, struggling to accept the fact that she was NOT a real flying fairy...no, not at all. She hit the ground with a horrific *snap* and I watched as one of her precious wings broke right off.
I can still see it in my head, slow-mo style. SPLAT *pop*.... *tink....tink....tink*
I realized two things that day.
1) TV toy commercials are full of lies.
2) Building something up so, so much can sometimes set you up for disappointment.
I relished the idea of that Skydancer so much, I truly thought sparkling trails of love would follow her everywhere she went. Maybe it's the writer in me. Maybe it's the drama queen in me. Maybe it's the hopefulness in me. I build things up. I'm a huge builder-upper. I build things up so high they're bound to tumble down with reality.
So what's a chick to do when she realizes she's built something up too high? What happens when that hopefulness turns into disappointment? How do you stay positive when you realize your obsessing has actually backfired....instead of planned, purposeful, and poised, you're drowning in the unexpected and waiting for the joy to hit you....waiting, waiting, wondering where it is?
Is this it? Is this what I've been waiting for?
No. The answer is no.
Call it God, call it fate, call it life....whatever your name for it, some aspects of living cannot be controlled. A little girl's flying fairy dreams, a teenage girl's first love, a grown woman's lifestyle desires.....all fluid, each one of them. None of these things, dreams, love, or desires, are tangible, concrete steps toward a self-fulfilling, realistic destiny. These are ideals. These are manifestations of the heart.
These are the building blocks of towers I've built and watched tumble down around me, brick by disappointing brick.
I envy those who see the greater picture, who aren't concerned with the future, who know in their heart it will all work out. Maybe if I were one of those people, I wouldn't obsess so much about the things I want and would instead accept the beauty and joy I already have....because this is a tough lesson to learn, the one where you work and work to try and grab something that never truly existed, at least not the way you wanted it to.
It always comes back to perspective, for me. I am constantly realizing I need a perspective check...the kind that allows me to see things through other people's eyes, the kind that makes me want to slap myself for feeling anything but blessed.
So the fairy didn't fly. So the first love didn't love you. So the lifestyle you thought you were getting isn't really a thing.
So what. What are you going to do about it.
Well, you can sulk about it. You can stomp your feet and scream "THAT'S NOT FAIR" and you can whine to your mom on the phone and talk your bff's ear off. You're allowed to feel upset. That dang fairy was supposed to fly. This isn't what I signed up for.
But then what? What happens when the anger and disappointment becomes too much to carry...when it starts to fade and you get tired, oh so tired, of being pissed off? What's the next step?
I have a theory.
Take you hopes, the ones that got you into this situation, and shuffle them up a few steps. Go on and wiggle them up there, like a heavy moving box on apartment stairs. It ain't easy. It ain't without work. But keep pushing. Dream at a higher lever. Dream with people like Gandhi and Mother Teresa and all those other studs in Heaven.
Why do we quote these studs' words, know their names, cherish their lessons? Simple, really. They had the ability to reformulate their desires to match the reality they were given. They learned from every failure, every mistake, and every lost dream....and used that knowledge to build a completely new set of dreams, these ones aimed at a higher level of thinking.
Fairy doesn't fly...but fairy makes my sister smile, which is kind of like flying.
The first love doesn't love me...but my first love is happy, and because I love him, so am I.
This lifestyle isn't what I wanted it would be.......but I can feel it, the simple happiness, waiting just around the corner. Waiting for me. Waiting for me to drop the 'tude and realign my thinking. Waiting for me to engage and soar.
Your life, and mine, isn't always all it's cracked up to be. Sometimes we set ourselves up by building up.....a vacation.......a wedding..........the first day of school.
It's ok. The dreamer in you is coming out. This is a positive thing. Take the sting of your failed assumptions and refocus them. Raise yourself up to this challenge called life. You can take it, and so can I.
To all those who work hard to make their dreams come true, Happy Labor Day. And as always, my lovely, hard-working readers, thank you for reading.


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I don't know where I would be without eyeshadow palettes - they are makeup essentials. Forget single shadows, palettes are where it's at! As a beauty blogger and someone who is just generally interested in makeup, I own quite a few palettes - MAC, Urban Decay, LORAC, TheBalm, Tarte, Zoeva - you name a brand, I probably own one of their palettes. The cheaper drugstore brands aren't really renowned for their palettes, and here in New Zealand, it's hard to find a good quality and relatively affordable eyeshadow palette with versatile colours. But L'Oreal are here to offer us some more options with the release of the La Palette Nude*.
The palettes are all around pretty great. The size is compact and slim, yet you still get 10 shades that vary from mattes to shimmers. Pigmentation wise, these perform well. Some of the shades aren't as pigmented as I might like, but there are others that make up for that. They apply well, and blend well too, but some of the lighter shades do just sort of blend away to nothing if you work them too much. You get a double ended sponge applicator and brush with the palette; the brush isn't terrible, but I would opt for my own brushes to use with it.
I find myself reaching for this palette quite a lot and love the softer pinks and neutral shades that are included. It gives off a slight Urban Decay Naked 3 vibe, but doesn't quite live up to the quality of those shadows. In this palette, you get five mattes and five shimmers, and there isn't a colour included that I wouldn't/don't use.
The second palette includes more warmer tones with bronzes and browns. Again like the Rose, there are five mattes and five shimmer shades and as you can see from the swatches, the mattes have a great colour payoff. The let down I find in this palette are some of the shimmer shades, like the white and light yellow gold shades. This is definitely one just for the matte shadows.
The La Palette Nude's are NZD $35.99 each and can be found at L'Oreal stockists.
Have you used these palettes? Would you go for Rose or the Beige variety?
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Modi is NOT the only popular CM, after all!
The results of CNN-IBN and The Hindu poll conducted by Centre for the Study of Developing Societies projects the Bharatiya Janata Party to be single-largest party in Uttar Pradesh; a neck and neck tie between the BJP and the Congress in Rajasthan and a likely clean sweep for the BJP in Madhya Pradesh, if elections were to be held today.
The results of the poll show that it's likely to be a neck and neck race between BJP and Congress in Rajasthan. Both the parties are likely to end up with 10-14 seats each in Rajasthan. When asked, 35 per cent people said that the BJP's Vasundhara Raje government rated better than the present Congress government, while 29 per cent said otherwise.
While 31 per cent of the people said that the condition of the roads had improved, 35 per cent replied in the negative. Twenty four per cent of the respondents felt that the supply of water had improved in the state, 43 per cent said it had deteriorated.
The current Congress government's report card projected that when it came to the condition of farmers, 18 per cent respondents felt that it had improved, while 42 per cent of them replied in the negative.
In the job sector, 21 per cent of the respondents said that the situation had improved, while 35 per cent said that it had gone down. Over all, the level of satisfaction with the Gehlot government was up to 65 per cent from the previous 58 per cent. Dissatisfaction was down to 23 per cent from 26 per cent.
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Likely clean sweep for BJP in Madhya Pradesh
The results of the poll show it's a likely clean sweep for BJP in Madhya Pradesh. The BJP is likely to get 21-25 seats in Madhya Pradesh while the Congress may end up with 2-6 seats. The BJP is likely to secure an estimated 50 per cent vote share in Madhya Pradesh while the Congress is likely to trail way behind with 32 per cent votes.
In what can be called a shot in the arm for Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, a whopping 75 per cent respondents felt that it is better that the previous Digvijaya Singh government.
Only 8 per cent respondents said that the Digvijaya Singh government was better. Even among the Congress supporters, 56 per cent said that Chouhan's government was better, while only 21 per cent stuck with Digvijaya.
Satisfaction with the current government was up to 82 per cent from the previous 75 per cent – this was the highest among all states that were surveyed. When asked who would make a better prime minister, a surprising 49 per cent said Chouhan, while 28 per cent were with Modi.
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SP likely to finish second in Uttar Pradesh
The seat projections in Uttar Pradesh show that the BJP is likely to emerge the leading party with 29-33 seats, around a three fold gain compared to its performance in 2009 Lok Sabha elections.
The Samajwadi Party is likely to come second with 17-21 seats while the Bahujan Samaj Party would be closely following with projected 14-18 seats. The Congress in UP is likely to finish fourth with 11-15 seats.
The poll shows that the BJP is likely to get an estimated vote share of 27 per cent, highest among all the parties. The SP is likely to 22 per cent of votes while the BSP will be trailing by a thin margin of 1 per cent with 21 per cent of votes. The Congress is likely to 16 per cent of votes.
A majority 51 per cent of the respondents felt that hooliganism was on the rise, while only 11 per cent of them said otherwise. Fourty-five per cent thought that the incidents of crime had increased in the state, while only 13 per cent said that it had declined. When asked, 32 per cent of the respondents said that cast related violence had increased, while 12 per cent thought it had declined.
As for Akhilesh himself, a whopping 53 per cent thought he should be replaced by his father Mulayam Singh Yadav.


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The software that police and enterprise security teams use to investigate wrongdoing on computers is not as secure as it should be, according to researchers with Isec Partners.
The San Francisco security company has spent the past six months investigating two forensic investigation programs, Guidance Software's EnCase, and an open-source product called The Sleuth Kit. They have discovered about a dozen bugs that could be used to crash the programs or possibly even install unauthorized software on an investigator's machine, according to Alex Stamos, a researcher and founding partner with Isec Partners.
Researchers have been hacking forensics tools for years, but have traditionally focused on techniques that intruders could use to cover their tracks and thwart forensic investigations. The Isec team has taken a different tack, however, creating hacking tools that can be used to pound the software with data, looking for flaws.
Based on their findings, Stamos's team believes that the EnCase software is not written as securely as it should and could theoretically be exploited by an attacker.
"What Guidance needs to do is change their production and their quality assurance practices," Stamos said. "We looked at a small portion of the functionality of EnCase and we found that there are lots of bug that can make it impossible for somebody to complete their work,"he said. "Basically we can make it impossible to open up a hard drive and look at it."
Isec is holding the technical details of its findings close to its chest, and is not saying whether any bugs they found could be exploited to do something much worse: install unauthorized software on a PC.
But the team will be disclosing some information at next week's Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, Stamos said.
What exactly will be disclosed? The Sleuth Kit project has already patched the flaws Isec has found, so those flaws will be made public. Details on EnCase may be released if the product is patched by then, Stamos said. Isec will also release the debugging and "fuzzing" tools it used to find these flaws, he added.
The Isec research looks interesting, but will probably not have a major impact on the lives of forensic researchers, said Jim Butterworth, Guidance's director of incident response.
Because forensic systems are typically not connected to external networks, they cannot be remotely controlled via the Internet, he said. So even if an attacker could use these techniques to compromise one forensic snapshot of a system, a second forensic tool would provide the real picture. "It's just not that big of a threat because I know a lot of other mitigating steps to take," he said. "A well-trained person does not use a single tool."
Another forensic researcher agreed that the Isec Partners research is interesting, but of limited use to criminals.
That's because most serious attackers are already good enough at covering their tracks that they will never be caught, according to James C. Foster, president and chief scientist at Ciphent Inc. "If you're an attacker you can basically beat the system," he said. "In my opinion, the bigger problem is that the product is not going to provide the data that you want."
However, there is one group that may pay special attention to the Stamos team: defense lawyers. If Isec shows that unauthorized software could have been run on an investigator's PC, it could ultimately undermine the usefulness of these forensic tools in court, said Chris Ridder, residential fellow at the Stanford University Law School Center for Internet and Society
"The big risk is for someone to execute arbitrary code," he said "If there's a risk that the evidence has been compromised or if something has been planted by a third party... then you can call into question the accuracy of the software and possibly get it thrown out."
Butterworth, who has been grilled many times by defense lawyers, agreed. "I wouldn't put anything past a defense attorney ," he said.


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Syria's Oil Minister Sufian Alao [Sufian Allaw] has met representatives of Chinese companies in Beijing to discuss the long-delayed refinery project that could help save Syria billions of dollars in fuel imports.
The refinery could eventually take oil from Iraq, if political differences between Syria and Iraq that have delayed plans to re-activate an oil pipeline from Kirkuk to Syria's Mediterranean coast are resolved.
The official Syrian news agency, SANA, said on Saturday that the meetings last week were attended by heads and representatives of the Chinese National Petroleum Company (CNPC), Sinopec (China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation) and Sinochem Corporation.
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Basically I started understanding about the architecture of Fatwire analytics, where I need to know how the BIG data will be processed. Big means really Very Big volumes of data. Hadoop framework helps to process the data by creating Namenodes and Data nodes. The name nodes will be maintaining the metadata this could be sorted and indexed to process newly available data into local disk. further this can be handled by tasktrackers and jobtrackers they are like agents. JobTracker will assign the task to perform. this is design in Java to work on PETA bytes of data with MapReduce design pattern.
Where do we use Hadoop?
For any web site, The social marketing guy need to know 'What is the aricle most viewed?' or 'What page popular?' What page got how many impressions etc.., To do this there will be a process that senses that page visitors and their basic information can be collected by a sensor. when there is a new visitor need to collect where visitor is from? and which browser or device using etc.
When webmaster tool interacts with Analytics basing on Big Data collected from Content delivery systems. It is provided to content editor what to give the effective keywords required got most views/ customers.


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Foreclosure Influx Causes Backlog In Some States
This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. Good morning. I'm Renee Montagne.
And in the midst of the housing crisis, it turns out that the old expression - location, location, location - applies to foreclosures. Depending on the state, it can take an average of three months or three years to process a foreclosure.
As NPR's Yuki Noguchi reports, the disparity in how fast states complete foreclosures is becoming even more pronounced.
YUKI NOGUCHI, BYLINE: The fate of thousands of troubled homeowners in Central Florida rests in the hands of Lee Haworth. Haworth is foreclosure administrative judge for the 12th Circuit in Florida.
JUDGE LEE HAWORTH: We were hit pretty hard.
NOGUCHI: Haworth's caseload exploded from less than a thousand six years ago, to a backlog he estimates is now 20 times that. State budget cutbacks forced a reduction of staff, just as cases started flooding in.
HAWORTH: You know, I used to say that we were sailing with a skeleton crew and then starting in 2007 we started throwing the skeletons overboard.
NOGUCHI: The story of the troubled housing market is increasingly a tale of two types of states. About half of states don't require courts to oversee and approve foreclosures.
According to research firm RealtyTrac, cases in the non-judicial state of Texas take about three months to resolve. Compare that to states like New York and Florida, where foreclosures are handled with judicial oversight.
Judges like Haworth say this gives homeowners greater due process in foreclosure. But it also takes longer, often much longer, because of hearings and required paperwork. It takes more than 800 days on average - that's over two years - to resolve foreclosures in Florida. Haworth says that's largely because he and other judges often work solo.
HAWORTH: What we don't have are the people behind the scenes to help prepare the enormous amount of the paperwork, to set the calendars, to drill down into the statistics to see which cases are languishing so we can move those ahead on the docket. That key infrastructure is missing.
NOGUCHI: States with judicial foreclosures are trying to address the backlog. Florida, for example, increased its budget for next year to re-hire staff and retired judges.
In New York, where foreclosures are taking nearly three years to process, courts are trying to sift out cases where homeowners can't afford even a modified home loan to expedite those cases.
Foreclosure filings everywhere slowed down dramatically two years ago, after several big banks admitted to robo-signing paperwork to cut corners. Last month, the five biggest mortgage companies settled that case. And now foreclosure filings are expected to resume, adding to the foreclosure backlog in judicial foreclosure states.
JAY BRINKMANN: The problem is that we are seeing this difference get more and more exacerbated.
NOGUCHI: Jay Brinkmann is chief economist for the Mortgage Bankers Association. He says by many measures, national housing statistics show signs of recovery. Even some hard-hit states like Arizona, which is a non-judicial state, are starting to show some signs of housing recovery.
BRINKMANN: We're really seeing it's not so much a national problem. It's an Illinois problem. It's a Florida problem. It's a New Jersey problem.
NOGUCHI: It's not just that the non-judicial states are further along in their housing recovery. The backlog of foreclosures in judicial states, Brinkmann says, creates a lack of certainty for potential homebuyers in those markets. Why would you buy if you thought the market might be soon be flooded with cheap homes?
Also, Brinkmann says, a long drawn out mortgage process is costly for banks. The banks have to shoulder the higher costs, not only for paperwork and lawyers, but also for the homes themselves, including property taxes, cleanup and maintenance.
BRINKMANN: Point is, all of those costs are going to be going into future mortgage rates. But they're going to be going into future mortgage rates differentially.
NOGUCHI: Brinkmann says history has shown that in states where default and foreclosure take longer, mortgage rates increase or fewer borrowers qualify for mortgages.
But not everyone agrees that a slower process is necessarily bad. Mark Fleming is chief economist for CoreLogic, a research firm. He says in some ways a slower system may be helping some housing markets get back on their feet.
MARK FLEMING: Is there a right or a wrong way to do this? I don't know. You ask your child, how do you want your band aid ripped off, fast or slow? Some like it slow, some like it fast. It all depends on your preferences, right?
NOGUCHI: Another thing to remember: there are many factors that shape a housing market, and the pace of foreclosure is only one of them.
Yuki Noguchi, NPR News, Washington.
MONTAGNE: You can see a map showing how long it takes to foreclose in most states by going to NPR.org.
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Trip Report – Bouldering Trip to Elephant Rocks
We had a great turnout to South Canterbury section club trip to Elephant Rocks last weekend, which is just 5 minutes from Duntroon. We car pooled from Timaru, which was about 1 hour & half's drive away.
We were really lucky to have Murrays leadership and local knowledge of an area he had developed in the 1980's. He had heaps of great climbing tips and showed us a huge range of climbs, so there was something for everyone. We spent a good part of the Satruday there enjoying bouldering in the sunshine. There are plenty more climbs we have yet to explore and as Murray said we probably only climbed on about a third of what is there.
Thankyou to the club for the use of their lovely new bouldering mat. We will be taking it out on another adventure soon! If you care to join us, please do by texting Kelly on 021 243 7381.
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Almost as if to coincide with graduation season, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a lower court's decision involving a school district renting church facilities for a school's commencement activities.
That's normal. The Court picks only a handful of cases each year; most of the time the court refuses to grant certiorari ("cert") to cases. And when it denies cert, it almost does so without comment. What's not normal is what Justice Antonin Scalia did yesterday. He penned a rare rebuke of the Court's decision, saying that the Court should have remanded the case back down to the appeals court for further review.
Scalia said that Elmbrook School District v. Doe had been decided using the "endorsement test" and not the "coersion test" used in the Court's recent ruling in Town of Greece v. Galloway.
In 2000, Wisconsin's Elmbrook School District permitted a school to hold its graduation in a nearby church auditorium, due to poor facilities for such an event in the school. No church employees or members participated in the ceremony. However, some students and parents protested the site itself, alleging that the presence of religious symbols and artifacts was troubling and overshadowed what was supposed to be a celebratory occasion. The lower court had decided that using a church auditorium amounted to an endorsement of the church's religion and coercion of the students, the appeals court decided.
Scalia was characteristically witty or brash (depending on your predilections) in his dissent. Students and families being offended was irrelevant, said Scalia. He said that he is frequently offended by certain types of music:
Some there are—many, perhaps—who are offended by public displays of religion. Religion, they believe, is a personal matter; if it must be given external manifestation, that should not occur in public places where others may be offended. I can understand that attitude: It parallels my own toward the playing in public of rock music or Stravinsky. And I too am especially annoyed when the intrusion upon my inner peace occurs while I am part of a captive audience, as on a municipal bus or in the waiting room of a public agency.
But in the Town of Greece decision, said Scalia, the Court ruled that being offended does not mean that one is being coerced. "It is perhaps the job of school officials to prevent hurt dissenting feelings at school events," Scalia wrote, "But that is decidedly not the job of the Constitution."
This is not the Court's first foray into the intersection of religion and high school graduations, of course. The Court previously ruling that prayers offered by clergy at these events violate the First Amendment (Lee v. Weisman). But unlike in that case, the Court's denial here does not establish nationwide guidelines for future cases – another court of appeals could very well decide that a school is within its boundaries to hold its graduation in churches. Most likely, the Court is waiting for more conflict to emerge in the lower courts before getting involved, despite Justice Scalia's desire to do so now.
The Court's denial is yet another instance of the Court tackling questions about the role of religion and the public square this term, all of which are leading up to the highly-anticipated Hobby Lobby case to be handed down sometime this month.
Daniel Bennett, PhD, researches the conservative legal movement. He will be joining the faculty at Eastern Kentucky University this fall.


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Dyker Heigjts is residential neighborhood in the southwest corner of the Borough of Brooklyn in New York City, USA. It is sandwiched among Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, and Gravesend Bay. According to the Post Office, Dyker Heights is bounded to the west by Interstate 278, to the north by Bay Ridge Avenue, to the east by Fourteenth Avenue, and to the south by Fort Hamilton. The Dyker Beach Golf Course extends to the Belt Parkway.
Dyker Heights originated as a speculative luxary housing development in October 1895 when Walter Loveridge Johnson developed a portion of woodland into a suburban community. During the height of his development, the boundaries were primarily between Tenth Avenue and Thirteenth Avenue and from 79th Street to 86th Street. The finest homes of the development were situated along the top of the 110-foot (34 m) hill, at above Eleventh Avenue and 82nd Street.
In Decemeber 1899, the Brooklyn Eagle wrote a very detailed description of the homes in Dyker Heights:
Dyker Heights is also accessible by car via the Belt Parkway, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, and the Gowanus Expressway (Brooklyn-Queens Expressway).


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Definitions for "action"
The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events.
Betting activity.
Used to describe the total bets placed in the pot by a player.
Keywords: fretboard, fret, guitar, piano, fingerboard
The mechanical contrivance by means of which the impulse of the player's finger is transmitted to the strings of a pianoforte or to the valve of an organ pipe.
The distance between the underside of the strings and the playing surface.
the height of the guitar strings above a fret or fretboard, usually measured from the top of a fret to the bottom of the string.
Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun.
A group of moving parts used to cock, compress air (in some models), load, and fire an air gun.
The combination of the receiver or frame and breech bolt together with the other parts of the mechanism by which a firearm is loaded, fired and unloaded.
Keywords: redress, lawsuit, proceeding, wrong, judicial
Gesticulation; the external deportment of the speaker, or the suiting of his attitude, voice, gestures, and countenance, to the subject, or to the feelings.
A suit or process, by which a demand is made of a right in a court of justice; in a broad sense, a judicial proceeding for the enforcement or protection of a right, the redress or prevention of a wrong, or the punishment of a public offense.
A legal suit to secure the enforcement of one's rights in a court of law. (Hogue, Arthur R. Origins of the Common Law, 255) For more information: English Common Law
What's happening in a story to move it toward its dramatic conclusion. Dramatic action normally consists of action proper (fights, chases, gestures) and dialogue.
One of a set of occurrences that processes data, either sequentially or concurrently. See also event.
An option of the CICS write to operator command which specifies the action to be taken associated with the message (i.e. critical, eventual or immediate).
A menu selection resulting in a task or command being executed by the application.
An HP VUE construct used to provide a user interface for applications and other commands. You can create actions to start applications or execute commands. Actions are defined in a database of files located along the database search path.
Keywords: mouseclick, launch, mouseover, gateway, heighten
An action defines how a helper application handles a file it has been associated with. A file may be viewed in the browser, saved to the local disk, launched with the associated application, or the user may supply an action.
This terms refers to the action of the user (a mouseclick, mouseover etc.)
Price action refers to the movement of price and volume during a certain window...
Movement; as, the horse has a spirited action.
The price movement and volume of a stock or overall market.
Keywords: lobbying, league, legislature, legislation, litigation
All levels of League can take a variety of actions to support their programs: lobbying legislatures in support or opposition to legislation, monitoring programs, surveying the public, writing op ed pieces, etc.
Deposition of any question before the Legislature.
implementing League program positions or principles by making public statements, lobbying legislators, litigation, monitoring, and citizen education. A "call to action" is an alert that an important issue is at the point where action can be most effective.
An engagement between troops in war, whether on land or water; a battle; a fight; as, a general action, a partial action.
Doing something. Comic Book Title.
1. The mechanism by which something is operated, as that of a gun. 2. A military encounter, as a battle or skirmish. 3. Actual combat with enemy forces.
Keywords: baseball, happens, pitchers, philosophy, bodily
That which happens on stage to gain the audience's attention.
what happens and what the characters do in an animated film
Term used in baseball when no pitchers are specified. It means that you choose to have action on the game no matter who starts pitching. If there is a pitching change you will get an adjusted price.
Keywords: aketon
A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of power exerted on one body by another; agency; activity; operation; as, the action of heat; a man of action.
For every action there is an opposite and equal reaction. Water pushes back equal to the energy exerted against it. With every movement, water's natural resistance provides a time-efficient workout while toning the muscle pairs equally. In water, the amount of resistance can be instantly adjusted by the individual's own exertion to be as challenging or light as desired. Couples can workout together-each at their own pace-and water fittness classes can accommodate a wide range of skills and fitntness levels.
Keywords: notification, ham, restarting, pulse, died
A specific task the HAM will perform under certain associated conditions. Examples of actions include executing an external process, restarting a process that has died, sending a signal or pulse notification, etc.
A unit of work that is performed on a node. Examples include adding an aspect, copying a node or emailing notification.
A notification that your state has changed.
A term to describe the flex of a fly rod. This is determined by how dense the graphite composite in the rod is. A fast-action rod feels stiff except near the top where it flexes, a medium action will flex in the middle and a slow rod flexes all the way to the cork grip.
Where most of the initial flex in a rod blank takes place. Fast Action rods will flex mostly in the upper 1/3rd of their length. Moderate Action rods in the upper 1/2 of their length. Slow Action rods flex along their entire length. *See also "Progressive Action."
An executable behavior associated with a Hyperbole button. A specific class of actions which display entities are called links, such as a link to a file.
Code to be executed in order to perform a task. Actions in a rakefile are specified in a code block (usually delimited by do/ end pairs.
The specification of an executable statement that forms an abstraction of a computational procedure. An action typically results in a change in the state of the system, and can be realized by sending a message to an object or modifying a link or a value of an attribute. .
Keywords: irreverent, hollywood, peter, comedy, praised
Action was a short-lived comedy series about a Hollywood producer named Peter Dragon, who is trying to recover from his last box-office failure. It aired on FOX during the 1999-2000 season. The series was critically praised for its irreverent, and sometimes hostile look at Hollywood culture.
Keywords: implement, dtrace, protest, mitigating, probe
Apply concepts learned in class to implement a recycling program.
This is an activity which management may decide to implement with the intention of mitigating a risk (reducing Probability and/ or Impact).
A behavior implemented by the DTrace framework that can be performed at probe firing time that either traces data or modifies system state external to DTrace. Actions include tracing data, stopping processes, and capturing stack traces, among others.
Keywords: ning, conversionruler, sig, newsletter, catalog
An Action is a transaction from your Web site that is reported by ConversionRuler. For example, a visitor completing a catalog request, sig ning up for a newsletter, or placing an order are all actions.
Keywords: decrement, depolarization, refractory, threshold, propagated
potential Electric signal propagated by nerve and muscle cells; an all-or-none depolarization of membrane polarity; has a threshold and refractory period and is conducted without decrement.
Keywords: hence, demeanor, habitual, plural, enterprise
An act; a thing done; a deed; an enterprise. (pl.): Habitual deeds; hence, conduct; behavior; demeanor.
A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds; hence, in the plural, equivalent to stocks.
The motion of the pins when struck by the ball.
Dramatic motion in subjective space and time.
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Keywords: arraylist, autoboxing, anonymous, affiliate, classes
EParents are liable for their children's actions.EFor every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
overused term that refers to one of: the action pop-up menu (in the status bar of many windows, labeled with a gear and a down arrow); the desired task to be performed given a Protocol and other information in the Connect to Server window; or an Automator Action.
A task that is scheduled by a system administrator using Red Hat Network to be performed on one or more client systems. For example, an action can be scheduled to update the kernel packages on all the systems within a selected group.
A specific task to address a risk.
Keywords: canberra, omnibus, territory, australian, australia
The Australian Capital Territory Internal Omnibus Network, more commonly known by the acronym ACTION, is a public transportation company in Canberra, Australia. It is owned and operated by the ACT government.
The spin of a ball when it strikes the putting green.
To impart backspin onto the ball.
Spin on the ball and the movement of the pins caused by that spin. A relatively slow ball with a lot of action can be much more effective than a very fast ball with little action.
Keywords: grandparents, companions, foster, volunteer, april
The Federal domestic volunteer agency, established in 1971 to administer Volunteers in Service to America and the senior volunteer programs - Foster Grandparents, Senior Companions, Retired and Senior Volunteer Program. ACTION became part of the Corporation for National and Community Service in April 1994.
Keywords: mcdoaction, quicktime, integer, constants, movie
One of many integer constants used by QuickTime movie controller components in the MCDoAction function. Applications that include action filters may receive any of these actions.
The mechanism which allows wind into the pipes when needed and shuts it off otherwise. When the organist depresses a key at the console, only those pipes associated with that key and with the stops in use at the time may speak. The action includes the switching which transmits the motion of the key to the chest, as well as the mechanism inside the chest that actually opens the proper valves under the corresponding pipes.
The mechanical connection between keys and pipes. As with anything, some moving parts will wear out.
Keywords: secquence, rule, dialog, conjunction, query
A part of a rule that is used in conjunction with conditions to automatically display dialog boxes, set values, query and submit data, and open forms.
Setting for a rule - monitor, block, or block without logging.
The refers to the suite of rules and policies associated with a state machine state. Typically an action is an object method. (See category on state machines.)
Keywords: sentiment, passion, attitude, depicted, expressive
The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.
Keywords: extinguish, conscious, mere, alias, creator
An action is an atomic computation that cannot be terminated externally, and changes the state of the model or returns a value.
Entity Model: definition of ACT (n) The conscious exercise of will by an officer of the records creator or by an external person aimed to create, maintain, modify or extinguish situations. There are two types of act: a mere act and a transaction. Alias: act.
A component of a UBE filter; it specifies the action that is to be performed if a match occurs.
The operation performed on a connection once it matches a rule. A combination of Access Control, QoS and Connection Control.
Keywords: theatre, motivations, psychological, sense, core
Active Active Sensing
The core of a theatre piece; the sense of forward movement created by the sense of time and/or the physical and psychological motivations of characters.
Keywords: invocations, learner, collaboration, diagrams, exhibit
Behavior associated with States or Transitions in State Diagram. These actions are invocations of Methods and appear on Sequence and Collaboration Diagrams.
The specific behavior the learner is to exhibit after training.
Keywords: calculus, evolution, spatial, pertaining, quantity
In physics, the action is an integral quantity that is used to determine the evolution of a physical system between two defined states using the calculus of variations. Several different definitions of the action are in common use in physics, as described below. The action is usually an integral over time, but may be integrated over spatial variables as well (for action pertaining to fields); in still other cases, the action is integrated along the path followed by the physical system.
Keywords: denial, ongoing, accreditation, probation, warning
(U.S.) A judgment by an accrediting organization regarding accreditation for new institutions and programs or review of accreditation for ongoing institutions and programs. Includes, for example, denial of accreditation, probation, and warning. (See also adverse action.)
Keywords: tase, circumstances, perform, defined, operation
an operation which can be performed on an object.
An activity performed by the TASE.2 server under some defined circumstances.
A user interface defined in a database of files that requests an application perform some operation.
Keywords: scripaction, preferred, term, see
You have 2 Actions on each of your turns. You can use an Action to draw a card or to play a card. You don't have to use all your Actions.
Action is a rather vague term referring to a couple of sections of play. One use of the term refers to it being your turn to act "the action is on you". More commonly the term is used to describe exciting poker play where many chips are in play for a particular game.
An Action is a card which, when played, has a one-off effect and is then placed in the discard pile.
Keywords: doable, tasks, assignments, depend, completed
An Action is a piece of work or activity that is part of a Project or Result. In other time management or project management systems, these are sometimes called Tasks or Assignments. An action may not be "doable" yet, as it might depend on other actions being completed first.
A written communication sent by the Examining Attorney from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, requesting a response from the applicant regarding some matter pertinent to a pending application for trademark registration.
Keywords: causal, indirectly, therefor, behavioral, relationship
is a behavioral element that changes world-state; that is, there is an effect caused by the action. Action has conditions that effect the possibility to perform the action in relationship world state and therefor indirectly in relationship to other actions. This establishes causal links between actions.
Keywords: delta, bay, conflict, restoration, criteria
A structure, operating criteria, program, regulation, policy, or restoration activity that is intended to address a problem or resolve a conflict in the Bay-Delta system.
Keywords: cfengine, capability, particular, functional, areas
(internal or emotional) - What you do to get what your character wants.
Any act a character can perform during a Phase (q.v.).
When your character does something, that's an action. Every character can take two actions per round.
The actor's cue to perform
Anything you want your Actor to attempt during a Movie that has a chance of failure.
A description of a step that a bill undergoes as it moves through the legislative process.
The way a dog moves.
The moving pictures we see on screen. Also, the direction given by a director indicating that filming begins.
A unit of work that is performed on a helpdesk job. ie. Change status, send an email. Applies to a job and is accessed through a job.
Any one of the active processes going on in an organism; the performance of a function; as, the action of the heart, the muscles, or the gastric juice.
Keywords: acl, permission, attribute, list, access
Keywords: potency, exercise, effect, production, operative
Keywords: brochure, campaigns, critical, downloading, want
The actions a customer completes on your web site. These are the critical actions you want to achieve from your campaigns, such as a customer completing a sale, requesting information, signing up for a mailing list, or downloading a brochure.
Keywords: promotion, personnel, hire, termination
An action is a configuration directive that maps a URL to a handler. You setup actions within a package in the action.perl file, and default actions are defined in the server.perl file.
Together, the actions represent the work programme for delivering an action plan. Each can be viewed as a discrete project, with a start and end date and with nominated organisation(s) for carrying them out. Actions are highly variable, for example they may relate to publicity, research, survey, management or policy.
"Action" is called during filming to indicate the start of the current take.
Keywords: deliberate, intent, faster, comfortable, button
You will be required to press the X button faster than you are entirely comfortable with.
1. Acting with deliberate intent to make an improvement. 2. Doing what you said you were going to do.
The type of order for a trade. 1) For stocks, the action can be buy, sell, buy to cover, or sell short; 2) For option orders, the action can be buy, buy to cover, sell, sell short, buy to open, buy to close, sell covered call, sell to close, sell uncovered option, depending on the option trading level for which you are approved.
Keywords: therapeutic, herb, variety, considered, substance
Any of a variety of terms used to describe the effect an herb or other substance has on or in the body that may be considered therapeutic.
Any step taken to resolve a problem.
Action taken by a visitor an a web page, like a visit, purchase, download or sign-up
Keywords: impulse, neuron, nerve, potential, displaying
Keywords: proportional, integral, derivative, final, regulate
The function of a controller. Specifically, what is done to regulate the final control element to effect control. Types of action include ON-OFF, proportional, integral and derivative.
Keywords: algorithmic, procedure, computational
Keywords: alteration, tool, initiation, function, performed
Keywords: choice, policy, management, activity


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Santa Rosa Beach Real Estate
- Bedrooms: 5
- Full Baths: 5
- Half Baths: 1
- Square Footage: 4525
- Built: 2019
- Acreage:
25 Fort Panic Road
Santa Rosa Beach, FL 32459
See On Map
- County: Walton
- Area: 17 - 30A West
- Sub Area: 1705 - South of 30A West Beaches
- Subdivision: SANTA ROSA DUNES
Waterfront, Gulf
Waterview, Gulf
Interior, Breakfast Bar,Elevator,Floor Hardwood,Floor Tile,Kitchen Island,Lighting Recessed,Pantry,Wet Bar
Exterior, Deck Covered,Hot Tub,Pool - Heated,Shower
Property Type, Detached Single Family
Style, Beach House
High School, South Walton
Middle School, Emerald Coast
DESCRIPTION*This home is under construction. Images shown are renderings of what this property will look like* Located GULF FRONT on the quiet west end of 30A, this new construction opportunity is now underway. Potential buyers not only have the advantage of seeing the build out come together, but are provided the opportunity to add design preference and insight as well. The home will be situated on the largest lot in Fort Panic offering 75ft of prime gulf frontage. Upon entering the property, you will find an oversized garage with room for four vehicles with additional storage areas. The home's 4 stop elevator can take you to the main level where you'll find an open concept main living area providing ideal flow, and a wall of glass doors with the most amazing views! The kitchen will contain a large marble island, top of the line appliances, and a walk-in pantry. French doors lead to the home's media room just off the main living area. To the south, the wall of glass doors, leads to the luxurious gulf front private pool and spa. Three guest bedrooms, each with en-suite baths are found on the second level, with the southern most bedroom offering a large private balcony overlooking the pool. The third level of the home holds two spacious master suites each complete with en-suite baths, walk-in closets, and access to the wet bar between the two rooms. The gulf front master also boasts a large private balcony spanning the width of the home. The elegantly designed outdoor space comes complete with a large private pool and spa, and 3 levels of porches spanning the width of the providing space for rest, relaxation, and entertainment in this 5 bedroom, 5.5 bathroom beachfront home. Buyer is responsible for personally verifying details about this property. Any information contained in this listing is believed to be accurate but is not guaranteed.
Driving Directions: From Highway 98 take 393 south and turn right onto 30A towards Oyster Lake. Turn left onto Fort Panic Rd. Home is second house on your left.
Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed. The information is provided exclusively for consumers' personal, non-commercial use and may not be used for any purpose other than to identify prospective properties consumers may be interested in purchasing.


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Ballot and comments from AP Pro 32 panel voter Ira Kaufman of Tampa Tribune:
Week 14
IRA KAUFMAN (Tampa Tribune)
1. Houston Texans - Riding a 15-1 streak, Matt Schaub may be the NFL's most disrespected quarterback.
2. Atlanta Falcons - Everyone keeps looking for cracks, but they keep winning the close ones.
3. New England Patriots - When the Pats don't score 40 points, Boston residents lower their flags.
4. Denver Broncos - Peyton Manning: As good as he ever was, maybe as good as there's ever been.
5. San Francisco 49ers - Anytime Frank Gore is contained, this offense struggles.
6. Green Bay Packers - Aaron Rodgers and Matt Stafford might combine for 900 yards passing at Lambeau.
7. Baltimore Ravens - Ray Rice wants the football - oblige your best player.
8. New York Giants - A 1-3 slump has opened the door to the NFC East crown.
9. Seattle Seahawks - Russell Wilson's late comebacks are becoming must-see TV.
10. Chicago Bears - A swarming defense just disappeared in crunch time.
11. Indianapolis Colts - Why stop at Rookie of the Year? Andrew Luck is a viable MVP candidate.
12. Cincinnati Bengals - With an October lull well behind them, the Bengals are on a serious playoff surge.
13. Pittsburgh Steelers - They likely salvaged their season in an unlikely venue - Baltimore.
14. Washington Redskins - Fiscal cliffs aside, the buzz has returned to the nation's capital.
15. Tampa Bay Buccaneers - Back-to-back losses to division leaders leaves them at the NFL crossroads.
16. Dallas Cowboys - There's no margin for error heading to Cincinnati.
17. St. Louis Rams - Outplaying the 49ers twice is no small feat.
18. New Orleans Saints - Drew Brees can handle a pass rush, but not this kind of pressure.
19. Minnesota Vikings - A slow fade into the Minnesota tundra.
20. Miami Dolphins - Just not enough offense to beat the big boys.
21. Detroit Lions - It's time to shop around for a new defense in Motown.
22. Cleveland Browns - They've been quite competitive for the past two months.
23. Buffalo Bills - A heck of a ground game has largely gone to waste.
24. San Diego Chargers - It's all over for Norv Turner, and you can tell he knows it.
25. New York Jets - They finally met a team with even more troubling QB issues.
26. Tennessee Titans - Coughing up 30 points per game is no formula for success.
27. Philadelphia Eagles - One of the league's most stable organizations is in disarray.
28. Carolina Panthers - Cam Newton will learn from this and come back stronger in 2013.
29. Arizona Cardinals - If only Larry Fitzgerald felt free to speak his mind about this debacle.
30. Kansas City Chiefs - Out of unspeakable tragedy, the Chiefs bonded together.
31. Oakland Raiders - The NFL's worst point differential resides in the East Bay.
32. Jacksonville Jaguars - A new owner faces the same old problem ... not enough weapons.
http://pro32.ap.org/poll andhttp://twitter.com/AP-NFL


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Monthly Archives: November 2013
S T Davis will be selling and signing her books at Craftsmen by Design in Poughkeepsie
I will be at the Poughkeepsie Plaza on Saturday, November 9, 2013 from 2:00-4:00 PM, signing and selling my books, Musket and Mobcap and Summer of Red Rain. You will find me at the Craftsmen by Design store. If you … Continue reading
S T Davis signed and sold books at the Fall Colors Craft Show on Saturday, November 2, 2013
Here I am at the craft show at Spackenkill High School.