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Not so terra firmaA week hiking the legendary Laugavegur Trail in Iceland
Iceland can seem daunting and impenetrable. And that's just placenames which are as much of a challenge as the topography. In fact, while there trekking one of the world's greatest trails, one struggles for the vocabulary to do justice to a breath-taking land thrown up – literally – by its precarious perch on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Volcanoes and geysers, tumbling waterfalls and bubbling hot springs, the terra is far from firma. And trolls seem to have as much substance and often better press than Icelandic bankers.
I was there with a group of hikers who spend most Sunday mornings on the Wicklow Mountains, followed by a spicy goulash in the Roundwood Inn. We'd been tempted to the Laugavegur, a world-famous walk of some 55km from Landmannalaugar to Þórsmörk in Iceland's south-west.
First however, there was the not insubstantial matter of duty free. As intimidating as the hiking was said to be, talk of the price of drink had prompted much pre-trip speculation. But we'd discovered duty free can be bought in Reykjavik's Keflavík Airport on the way in. Moreover, it can be ordered in advance. The spartan practicality of huts along the route was to be somewhat ameliorated by a couple of trolleys of wine and beer. There was the risk of dehydration for 16 thirsty walkers after all.
The following day we were to tackle Mount Hekla, which last erupted in 2000. Before that, a stop-off at the Blue Lagoon geothermal spa, Iceland's most popular tourist attraction. Described as "one of the earth's most awesome places" (OMG!) by National Geographic magazine, it's a smoky-azure blue lake with frosted edges of crusty silica, whose water is a bath-like 37ºC.
Reputed to have all sorts of beneficial skin effects, the greatest surprise of this fabulous natural wonder is it's not at all what it seems. The hot geothermal saltwater which feeds the lagoon has actually been cooled before its arrival by a visit to the local geothermal power station which initially uses the super-heated steam surging up from 2km underground to drive turbines and harvest heat. Iceland's perception-twisting begins.
"The Gates of Hell" is how Mount Hekla was known for centuries, with up to 30 eruptions in recorded history and goodness knows how many unrecorded. We climb it on an unseasonably gorgeous day, while our expert guide, Jon – who along with our driver, also Jon, meant the entire gang totted up no less than eight "Jons" – casually gave us geology 101.
At the summit, there's a vulcanologist's station and an aluminium box protecting a visitor's book. We spot entries from an Irish father and daughter we know who had climbed it together earlier in the year to mark her Leaving Cert. Sitting down on a narrow gravelly strip to have our sandwiches, the realisation dawns that the ground isn't exposed through climbers' boot steps, but because it's piping hot. Catch the light right and you see steam rising. And this is at 1,500m with snow on every side. Fire and ice indeed.
|Helka's "hot" strip across the snowy summit
The Laugavegur trail starts the next day and we're driven cross-country to the hut at Landmannalaugar in a customised mini-coach, with four monster tyres and four-wheel drive. This Top-Gearesque transporter is soon nicknamed "The Beast". Off-road is on-road as far as driving Iceland is concerned. You have to tip-toe fat tyres across snowfields and ash deserts and zigzag fast-flowing glacial rivers. Jon the Driver and The Beast make it look easy.
Huts along the route are maintained by the Icelandic Touring Association and Landmannalaugar's are spotless, if ascetically furnished. Dorms with bunk beds are standard. As is no electricity, separate chemical loos at a distance, and running water, a lottery. It's like paradise following a hard day on the trail. After a dinner of chicken stew rustled up on a gas ring and the first few bottles of duty free are uncorked, we don head torches and swimming togs to brave the freezing night for a spot a few hundred metres from our isolated hut. There's a hot spring pond. We lie in waist-high hot water among reeds, gazing up at a spilt galaxy of Milky Way untroubled by light pollution. Except for the nascent glimmering of distant Northern Lights. Later, world-class snoring kicks in and tomorrow, it's 25km to Hvanngil Hut.
Iceland is being wrent asunder. And not just because of the "economical" crisis which the Jons patiently field questions about. The island's existence results from being at the boundary of the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates. And they're drifting apart, pulling two sides of Iceland east and west by as much as 2cm a year.
There are all sorts of manifestations of this shifting underworld. Sulphurous steam pumps out of holes in the ground. Hillside streams might be glacial cold or scalding hot. Shiny obsidian fields give way to black ash deserts. Vast, sheer canyons are deep-etched by improbably powerful rivers. Beautiful vistas unfold, and yet they're unlike anything any of us have seen before, as if it's an old Polaroid where the colours are doing their own thing.
Surging rivers must be waded. Some of us roll our trousers up, while others strip to their undies. Boots are slung around necks. It's all a bit touch and go as the icy water rushes up around our nether regions. A slip would be bloody cold – if hilarious to the rest - and the current can be so strong that we have to cross with arms linked like some demented can-can troupe. We agree that photographic evidence of these crossings is to be strictly controlled: there's little dignity in the knickers and shell-jackets look.
Ludwik the cook somehow arranges packed lunches for all each day. Foal (yes) sandwiches are euphemistically referred to as smoked lamb. He calculates our diet in terms of kilos per person and we need it. The days are long and tiring, and the wind, bone-cuttingly cold at times.
We make Emstrur huts and then Þórsmörk, the most spacious accommodation to date with a fantastic view and coin-operated hot showers: five minutes for 500 Kr. Luxury. The classic Laugavegur ends here, but we've signed up for an extra day to hike a further 25kms over a pass to the coast.
Vast glaciers slip off their high mountain homes along the horizon. About a tenth of the island is ice-capped, many sitting over volcanoes, including Eyjafjallajökull, responsible for the infamous plane-grounding ash cloud.
Next day we greet Michael O'Leary's nemesis face to face, as we skirt its still smoking flank. We get to climb a brand new mountain spewed out in 2010, one side steep and thick with a leg-wearying fine black ash. Almost blown off the top, the surface is so hot, it's painful to sit on. Later we follow a eye-watering series of waterfalls, one more spectacular than the last until we clamber (in fact, we run, but that's another story) down the side of Skógafoss Waterfall, as it tumbles 60 meters to our journey's end at Skógar.
A week in Iceland saw us making more of a fist of the placenames, but still lost for words to evoke a proper sense of this incredible land, this geological toy-box. We only saw one amazing corner of it. It blitzes expectations of a solid earth and bombards the senses in every way. The Gates of Hell? I don't think so.
We flew with Iceland Express via Gatwick. The excellent Jons, Ludwik and The Beast are with www.amazingtours.is. Find The Icelandic Touring Association at www.fi.is.
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Six Chinese electric industry officials visited San Joaquin County on Thursday, bringing with them potential future investments in green energy projects here and hoping to take home ideas to tap more solar and wind energy, in particular to power electric cars.
Six Chinese electric industry officials visited San Joaquin County on Thursday, bringing with them potential future investments in green energy projects here and hoping to take home ideas to tap more solar and wind energy, in particular to power electric cars.
Wang Chengwen, vice president of the Shaanxi Provincial Electric Power Corp. and leader of the six-member trade delegation, said the group was investigating California's development of renewable energy.
"Especially in the transfer of solar energy and wind energy into cars," he said through a translator.
That interest brought the visitors to the San Joaquin County Office of Education in Stockton, where they took careful notes on its electric charging stations powered, in part, by the agency's 500-kilowatt solar array; examined an electric bus being added to a local fleet; and studied electric trucks manufactured in Stockton.
Other stops included Tracy, where the Chinese provincial officials learned about industrial development and heard from a state official on California's plans to develop its electric vehicle infrastructure; and Lodi, where the municipal utility showed off its electric vehicles and charging station.
John Anderson of the California State Regional Center in Lodi, a company that matches foreign investors looking to immigrate to the United States with development projects, said the Chinese officials have good reasons to want to tap California's green energy expertise.
"They have a goal to put 5 million electric cars on the road by 2015," he said.
That means China has an immediate need for electric vehicle and renewable energy technologies.
"We're the innovators, ... so they're really looking in the United States for that resource," he said.
In addition, Anderson said, "They want to invest in the (electric) grid here in California."
Chinese investors have no opportunity to invest in China's state-owned power companies, he explained. Also, they can make very limited investments overseas, unless government officials give their approval.
Lian Wishart of Modesto, president of Unified Metropolitan Areas of California, which helped bring the delegation to the Central Valley, agreed there was hope for Chinese investment that could generate jobs locally.
"They showed a lot of interest in the investment to build electrical grid charging stations," she said.
Mike Ammann, president of the San Joaquin Partnership, said the potential was great but cautioned it would take more than the one visit from six Chinese officials.
"It takes time. You have to build a relationship, some rapport," he said.
Also, it will take time to build needed support and consensus among federal, state and local officials.
Barry Scott, energy coordinator for the county Office of Education who helped welcome the Chinese delegates in Stockton, said after talking with the visitors that they shared many common interests, concerns and issues in developing new sources of sustainable energy and green transportation.
"We're not so different," he said. "This is just an opportunity to maybe work together and find solutions."
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DETROIT (AP) — The auto-industry turnaround expert picked to steer Detroit back from the brink of financial ruin had tax liens on his Maryland home, records show.
Kevyn Orr, Detroit's new emergency financial manager, had two outstanding liens on his $1 million home in Chevy Chase, Md., for $16,000 in unemployment taxes in 2010 and 2011, The Detroit News reported Saturday. The Maryland state records also show that two other liens of more than $16,000 in unemployment and income taxes were satisfied in 2010 and 2011.
Orr, a partner in the Cleveland-based law firm of Jones Day who represented Chrysler during its successful restructuring, was appointed Detroit's financial manager by Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder on Thursday.
Orr said Friday he didn't know anything about the liens when shown the records by the News. On Saturday, the Washington, D.C., bankruptcy attorney said he now is paid up on state liens.
"It's on me — it's something that fell through the cracks," Orr told the Detroit Free Press.
Orr, 54, apologized for the oversight, saying he always tries to be attentive to such matters and wasn't aware of the liens until he was notified about them on Friday.
"It's remarkably embarrassing," Orr said. "I called and paid it up Friday. I wanted to make sure I addressed it as soon as I could."
Sara Wurfel, a spokeswoman for Snyder, said the governor's office wasn't aware of the liens until the News asked about them.
"It did not come up in any of the vetting," she said.
Critics of the emergency manager said the liens are troubling, because one of Orr's jobs will be to improve Detroit's tax-collecting operations.
Detroit is saddled with a $327 million budget deficit and more than $14 billion in long-term debt. City records estimate that Detroit collected $32 million less in income taxes than it was owed in 2011.
"It's quite interesting that (Orr) feels he could manage the city of Detroit, and he's having trouble managing his own affairs," said the Rev. Charles Williams II, president of the National Action Network of Michigan and an opponent of Orr's appointment.


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IreneY wrote:Well, if the ancient Greek name did not start with a vowel and took the acute (oxeia) accent yes . Ρόδος for instance or Κόρινθος. Or, I guess, if you find an older map before we ditched the polytonic system.
The closest one I could find is some maps in this site http://diolkos.blogspot.com/2010/10/10.html but they are not in polytonic. I'll keep an eye out though.
Sceptra Tenens wrote:I'm not a Hellenist, at least not yet, but doesn't it simply refer to the use of the circumflex and grave accents and breathing marks?
LCN wrote:Finally regarding your comments on Buddhism, it seems to me that you are the Eurocentric one here in that you project a Greek conflation of wisdom with reason onto a way of life that does not seek wisdom through reason.
To shoehorn Buddhism into "world philosophy" is, to use the old saw, a Procrustean effort. Whatever Buddhism may be (revelation perhaps?) and whatever truth it may hold, it's not philosophy. To read that as an insult to Buddhism is to display a deeply-rooted Western prejudice in favor of philosophy.*
And anyway there's nothing European about ancient Greece, which makes the charge even more ill-fitting.
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Court Decision Forcing Twitter To Give Up Info On Wikileaks Associates Challenged In Europe
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It appears that at least one of those whose info is being sought, Icelandic Member of Parliament (MP) Birgitta Jonsdottir is now trying to challenge this in Europe, where privacy protections are much stronger. This could get interesting for a variety of reasons. While the US does not have such privacy laws, many companies in the US agree to abide by the basics of European privacy laws, in order to be allowed to offer service in Europe. It would be interesting to see what happens if the process in Europe says that Twitter can't give up such info without violating European privacy laws. While I don't think they could stop the handing over of the info (US company, US court...), I wonder if there could be further implications for Twitter, in that it may no longer be able to comply with European privacy rules. That might create quite a mess.


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Teen chefs square off in maple syrup competition
STAMFORD -- It was a sweet afternoon at the Stamford Museum and Nature Center Saturday as four teenage chefs squared off in a competition to see who could concoct the tastiest maple syrup-themed treat.
First County Bank sponsored the contest, which required only that chefs use maple syrup in their dishes. The anchor ingredient inspired entries that incorporated chocolate, bacon, sweet potatoes and Brussels sprouts.
"This is the fifth year that we've done a chef challenge, but the first year we've had teenage contestants," said Museum and Nature Center Executive Director Melissa Mulrooney. "We feel great about being able to bring young chefs to the floor and really highlight them."
Each chef was required to provide 300 samples of their dish for sampling by the public, which voted to crown Northford teen Evan Cassidy as the contest's winner. Cassidy, 15, baked two desserts for his entry: Maple meringue with cinnamon and toasted almonds, and sweet potato cupcakes with maple butter frosting and candied bacon.
"As soon as I heard the ingredient was maple syrup, I immediately wanted to use bacon," Cassidy said. "I just think the smoky flavor works well with the maple."
Cassidy is a first-year student at Gateway Community College in New Haven, where he majors in culinary arts and hotel management. He hopes to attend the Disney Culinary Program after graduation.
Two Stamford residents competed Saturday, including Hunter Zampa, 13, who won the Food Network's "Teen Invasion: Chopped" competition last year. The Scofield Magnet Middle School student woke up before 6 a.m. Saturday to prepare his double maple donuts with candied bacon and maple glaze.
"I don't really try sweets a lot, but I wanted to take a risk," Zampa said.
Rippowam Middle School eighth-grader Marissa Young, 13, baked chocolate cupcakes and maple butter cream frosting topped with shaved chocolate and sea salt. Young said she experimented with cookies, whoopee pies and fudge before settling on cupcakes.
"I tried a bunch of different things," Young said. "I really enjoy baking."
The competition's fourth contestant, Westport resident Hannah Bukzin, 13, prepared an appetizer of shaved Brussels sprouts with candied almonds and bacon with a maple syrup glaze. She also baked maple fritters with black pepper caramel sauce.
"I like doing savory stuff, and Brussels sprouts is my favorite vegetable to cook with," said the Staples High School freshman. "And bacon makes everything better."
Stamford resident Jocelyn Avidan sampled the contest entries with her 3-year-old daughter and 1-year-old son.
"I think it was a great idea to have the teens participate in this competition," Avidan said.
Saturday's teen chef challenge was part of a maple syrup-themed weekend at the Museum and Nature Center on Scofieldtown Road. The event offers demonstrations showing how sap is tapped, collected and turned into syrup, as well as face painting, scavenger hunts and live music.
The event continues Sunday. Tickets to the Maple Sugar event are $5 for SMNC members, $10 for nonmembers, free for children 3 and younger. There is an additional $5 fee for Sunday's pancake brunch, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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I built the legs into shelving units to store records, paperwork, and photo gear. What used to be an awkward nook in a walk in closet, is now my dream home studio.
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BERLIN (AP) — The Vatican's head of doctrine says critics in North America and Europe are conducting a "concerted campaign" to discredit the Catholic Church that is resulting in open attacks against priests.
In an interview published Saturday by Germany newspaper Die Welt, Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Mueller likened the sentiment directed toward the Church to that of the pogroms against Jews in Europe.
Mueller, who leads the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, was quoted as saying that those attacking the Church borrow arguments used by totalitarian ideologies such as Communism and Nazism against Christianity.
In recent years, the Catholic Church has faced growing criticism in Europe and North America for its handling of sexual abuse cases and its opposition to contraception, same-sex marriage and the ordination of women.


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There is a sense in which the Supreme Court's latest church-state decision — on allowing civic prayer to open meetings of government bodies — is more important for what the court didn't do than for what it did.
The 5-4 ruling May 5 didn't say no to opening meetings of a town council in upstate New York with prayer by an invited member of the clergy. Had the Supreme Court done that, it would have been a major victory for secularism in its campaign to drive religion out of the public square in the United States.
As it is, in saying yes to civic prayer the court reaffirmed a 1983 decision declaring the constitutional propriety of a practice common in American government at all levels — including presidential inaugurations and sessions of Congress and the Supreme Court itself.
Ralph Reed, chairman of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, called prayer at civic events "a long and cherished tradition ... woven into the fabric of American society." But Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, invoking the specter of anti-Semitism, said "the invocation of religion can be seen as a hostile act." Apparently Cohen didn't notice that barring prayer can also be seen that way.
The significance of the Supreme Court's decision is best understood in relation to the continuing struggle between secularism and religion in America. Just last month, the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal by an Albuquerque, New Mexico, husband and wife wedding photography team who were found guilty of violating the state's anti-discrimination law for refusing to cover a same-sex wedding ceremony.
The dispute (Greece v. Galloway) arose in Greece, New York, a town of 100,000 near Rochester, where for 15 years prayers offered by invited members of the clergy have opened town council meetings. Two local women found this practice offensive and went to court hoping to end it. A panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with them.
The Supreme Court did not. The outcome instead was a familiar conservative-liberal divide, with five members — Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito — taking the town's side and four opposed — Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. Kennedy wrote the majority opinion, with Kagan writing for the minority.
Kennedy said "ceremonial prayer" was a long tradition in America corresponding to many citizens' beliefs "far beyond the authority of government to alter or define." The dissenters also accepted prayer in principle, but objected to the specifically Christian language of some of the prayers in this case. But for government to tell the clergy how they could and couldn't pray, Kennedy said, would itself be unacceptable state involvement in religious affairs.
The outcome in the Greece case offers few if any hints to how the Supreme Court will decide another, potentially more important church-state case involving government pressure on individuals and groups to conform with laws that violate their consciences.
A consolidation of two separate challenges (Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores and Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. v. Sebelius), that case revolves around objections by the evangelical owners of a crafts store chain and a Mennonite family that owns a cabinet-making company to provisions of the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, requiring them to provide employees with health insurance coverage that includes abortifacients.
Crucial to the dispute is how to interpret provisions of a 1993 law called the Religious Freedom Restoration Act forbidding the government to impose a "substantial burden" on the constitutional right of religious free exercise unless doing so is necessary to realize some "compelling government interest."
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the Hobby Lobby and Conestoga case in March. The decision is expected before its term ends in late June.
Beyond Hobby Lobby and Conestoga, both of them privately owned, for-profit companies, lie a large number of cases working their way toward the Supreme Court that involve church-related institutions and groups, many Catholic, with conscience-based objections to Obamacare's requirement of coverage for contraceptives, sterilizations and abortion-inducing drugs.
This adds up to what many see as potentially one of the biggest tests in years of religious free exercise in conflict with government and a critical test of strength in the war between religion and secularism.
The late Father Richard John Neuhaus, author, editor and astute observer of religion in the United States, anticipated many of these matters and discussed them at length in his book "The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America," published in 1984. Thirty years later, the volume still sheds light on current events.
Starting from the premise that in a democracy "the public business is carried on in conversation with the actual values of people who are the society," Father Neuhaus notes that the majority of Americans identify themselves as Christians. That remains true today, with 77 percent in a 2012 Gallup survey saying they were Christian.
Nevertheless, in recent decades, the author continues, "pluralism" has been constantly invoked to bring about a new situation which he describes like this: "Public policy decisions reflect a surrender of the normal to the abnormal, of the dominant to the deviant." But even so, Father Neuhaus adds, most Americans have "gone along assuming that of course morality, public and private, is derived from religion."
The Supreme Court's new foray into the church-state thicket — this time on the question of civic prayer — can perhaps be seen as a small, highly conditioned gesture toward confirming people in that view.
Russell Shaw is an OSV contributing editor.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles-based electric carmaker CODA Holdings has filed for bankruptcy protection after selling just 100 cars and says it plans to quit the auto business altogether.
The parent of CODA Automotive filed for Chapter 11 Wednesday in a Delaware federal court. A consortium of lenders intends to buy it for $25 million and concentrate on the firm's energy storage business.
CODA is the latest casualty in an all-electric vehicle market that has struggled to lure consumers who are skeptical of the short battery life, relatively short driving range, high price and lack of infrastructure.
Last month, Anaheim, Calif.-based Fisker Automotive confirmed it's laid off about three-fourths of its headquarters workers as it struggles with financial and production problems.
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Five years ago Princeton experienced what many referred to as a hundred-year rain. A couple of weeks ago, another hundred-year rain occurred. I recall storms while growing up referred to as hundred-year rains. It's inevitable that hundred-year rains are in our future, and so are flooding and sanitary back up issues.
The city has $40 million in unprecedented debt. Paying on this debt is burdensome. Whether we address the north end flooding and sewer issues or the city's overall sewer problems, the added costs will be great.
To replace or patch repair our extensive sewer problems will necessitate revenue from sources already tapped; utility rates/fees, property and sales tax dollars. I mention property and sales taxes because storm sewers, unlike sanitary sewers, are not a utility. Revenue sources for storm sewers include property and sales tax dollars. Currently revenue from both is pretty much spoken for on a year to year basis. Another option for storm sewers is establishing a new utility. Doing this would add another line item to our utility bills. Flooding that occurs on the northeast end of town is primarily caused by runoff from nearby fields. Depending on how the issue is best solved will determine how the problem is paid for; utility rates/fees, property taxes and/or sales tax dollars. There may also be possible government funds/grants available. Regardless, addressing any of these issues thoroughly will prove costly.
There is another option, but history questions its viability. I'll raise it anyway because, financially, I believe it's the best option. During last year's home rule meetings, there was much discussion about our sewers and their future. Sewers were the driving force of why home rule was being discussed. Consider that if home rule had passed and we had initiated an immediate $.03 tax on a gallon of gas, we could, today, arguably have upwards of $1 million, maybe more, already in a sewer fund. Of this amount upwards of $700,000, maybe more, would have been collected from non-residents … motorists and truckers just passing through town; year after year after year. The money in this fund would have enabled us to service any debt needed to address our run-off flooding and sewer problems at minimal costs to residents; no cost if you choose to buy your gas elsewhere.
As homes and basements dry out and time passes with no major rainfall, residents may tend to forget today's troubles. But then another hundred-year rain will hit, and our problems of today will reappear and residents, including me, will voice frustration and anger, fed up with a continuing unresolved and detrimental issue.
Revenue sources involving utilities, property and sales taxes are available today. Home rule consideration is available in three years time. It's time we discuss and debate solutions. We know the issues. We're working on solutions, and it won't be long and we'll have an idea on costs. The question we all need to answer and agree on is how will we pay for it all?
Joel Quiram,
Princeton commissioner


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What do you guys think of a dot cleave team? Relies on dots, and aoe damage to kill the team. Trying to think of some pets this might work with. Would be interesting to have something like a Restless Shadeling, Singing Song Flower, and Fungal Abomination.
Use the Singing Song Flower for increased healing and aoe damage, and use the Restless Shadeling for the team wide healing with Plagued Blood (I think thats what its called), and then spread dots and shadelings healing ability on everyone and boom. You got yourself a damned near invincible team right there. Plus Singing Song Flower has a nice aoe heal along with 2 big hitting abilities.
What do you guys think? I think it could work pretty well!


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Marty Note
I wish consistent greatness was as easy to follow as this or any blueprint. I like every idea expressed here, but there is a certain serendipity to greatness that is hard to capture. I do believe practicing like you want to play increases your chances of discovering the magic serendipity, which I realize makes it sound less like serendipity :), but there you have it :).M
This Infographic is one of the top Scoops from Curation Revolution (http://www.scoop.it/t/curation-revolution ).
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Qualcomm CEO Envisions Cell Base Stations in Your Home
Few companies have gambled as successfully on the mobile revolution as Qualcomm Inc. As Chief Executive Paul Jacobs looks ahead, he says he's ready to place more bets.
The chip maker receives a patent royalty on just about every handset that uses third-generation or later cellular technology. Apple Inc.'s iPhone 5, for example, communicates with Qualcomm chips—as do most smartphones that use the speedy technology known as LTE.


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BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is escalating a spat over fishing quotas with the tiny Faeroe Islands in what it calls a bid to prevent overfishing.
The EU Commission, the 28-nation bloc's executive arm, said Tuesday it is banning imports of herring and mackerel from the Faeroes. It also forbids vessels fishing the stocks under the Faeroes' control from entering EU ports, barring emergencies.
The government of the Faeroes — a semi-autonomous Danish archipelago between Scotland and Iceland that is home to about 50,000 people — says it is taking the EU to an international arbitration tribunal to have the bans overturned.
The EU says the fish stock was jointly managed with Norway, Russia and Iceland through agreed quotas, but the Faeroes broke the agreement and trebled their share.


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A "Big Three" automaker approached Handling Specialty to custom engineer, design and manufacture explosion proof, high precision scissor lifts for one of their robotic automotive paint facilities.
In this solution, the fully-assembled car body enters an off-line inspection booth by way of a power roller conveyor. The body is transferred onto the paint station's tandem scissor lift so that inspection can take place. The purpose of the scissor lift is to position the body accurately for painting by the robot. Synchronous lifting was achieved and made possible by the lift's line shaft interconnected ball screw drive.
There are two major classifications of screw actuated lifts. The first utilizes a ball nut in conjunction with a rolled ball screw. Found primarily in high cycling applications, these units results in a low friction lift at higher speeds. The second type combines a machined lifting nut with an acme screw thread. This union produces a drive system that is inherently self locking with zero load creep. Both drives result in a table with exceptional repeatability, allowing the unit to be used for precision positioning and indexing, load ejection and acceptance, and automatic feeding applications.


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Visual Studio has been Microsoft's cornerstone development product since way back in the Visual Basic (VB) days. Visual Studio 2010 continues that long tradition with a revamped UI and several new features that further cement the product as the premier code development platform. In this article I review Microsoft's Visual Studio 2010 release and discuss some of its most important new features.
New Editions
Microsoft made some big changes to the editions of Visual Studio that are offered in the 2010 release. The old Visual Studio Standard Edition was dropped and replaced with a new high-end Ultimate Edition. In addition, an all-new Test Professional Edition was added to the product lineup. Visual Studio 2010 consists of the following editions:
- Visual Studio 2010 Professional with MSDN Essentials
- Visual Studio 2010 Professional with MSDN
- Visual Studio 2010 Premium with MSDN
- Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN
- Visual Studio Test Professional 2010 with MSDN
All the paid editions of Visual Studio now come with an MSDN subscription. At the low end is Visual Studio 2010 Professional, with a one-year MDSN Essentials subscription that provides access to the current core Windows platforms: Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, and SQL Server 2008 R2 Datacenter. In the middle of the lineup, Visual Studio 2010 Professional provides access to the core Windows platforms, previous versions of Windows, and SQL Server. This edition doesn't provide access to other Microsoft server platforms. At the high end, Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate offers a full MSDN subscription. If you're interested in the cloud, each edition provides access to Microsoft's Windows Azure platform. For more information about Visual Studio 2010 editions, including prices and feature sets, see Table 1. You can find even more detailed information about the features available in different versions of Visual Studio 2010 at www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products.
Windows Presentation Foundation–Based IDE
One of the biggest and certainly the most obvious changes in Visual Studio 2010 is the updated UI used in the Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Notably, the new interface doesn't sport the Ribbon that is now prevalent in many other new Microsoft products. Figure 1 shows Visual Studio 2010's new Windows Presentation Foundation–based IDE.
Windows Presentation Foundation gives Visual Studio 2010 several capabilities that weren't present in previous versions. Unlike the earlier versions of Visual Studio that used a bitmap-based interface, Visual Studio 2010's Windows Presentation Foundation–based IDE is vector based, which gives Visual Studio 2010's IDE zoomability that wasn't available in the bitmap-based interface. On a more subtle level the fonts are clearer and crisper. In addition, you can zoom in on parts of the interface, and you can add interface extensions from the Visual Studio Gallery at visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us.
The new IDE also sports several improved workability enhancements. For example, in Figure 2 you can see the improved highlight bar on the left side of the editing window that graphically shows the lines of code that have been changed. Visual Studio 2010 also has a new bracket matching feature. Positioning the cursor next to a code bracket automatically highlights the matching bracket. IntelliSense in Visual Studio 2010 supports two modes: statement completion and the new suggestion mode. Suggestion mode lets you use members before they're defined. You can toggle between completion mode and suggestion mode using Ctrl+Alt+Spacebar.
Another important enhancement in the Visual Studio 2010 interface is its multiple monitor support. Previous versions of Visual Studio used a multiple-document interface (MDI) layout, in which all child windows were displayed with the frame of the parent IDE window. This approach didn't let the IDE effectively take advantage of multiple monitors. The Visual Studio 2010 IDE allows free-floating windows that can be placed outside the borders of the main IDE. You can use Visual Studio 2010's multiple monitor support to display the primary editor in your main monitor, then drag the Toolbox and other utility windows onto your additional monitors—keeping them out of the way and giving you more code editing real estate while simultaneously keeping your Toolbox and other windows handy and readily available. In addition, Visual Studio 2010 remembers the window layout you were using, so you can have one set of windows for development and a different window layout for debugging.
Visual Studio 2010 includes several other enhancements. A new Navigate To search feature in the toolbar lets you quickly search and identify strings across all the files in your project. If you enter a search string and press Enter, all the occurrences of the substring are highlighted in your code. Visual Studio 2010's Snippet editor supports JScript. In addition, IntelliSense was added for JQuery.
Although the majority of my experiences with Visual Studio 2010's interface were positive, I don't like the product's all-browser-based Help. The new Windows Presentation Foundation screen definitely looks cool, but I found the editing experience to be a bit slower and less crisp than in previous versions of Visual Studio. You also need to be aware that after you convert a Visual Studio 2008 project to Visual Studio 2010, you'll no longer be able to open the project with Visual Studio 2008.
SharePoint Integration
Although you can use previous versions of Visual Studio to develop SharePoint applications, the process is far from easy. You have to use a combination of XML and ASP.NET and undergo a complex multistep process to build and deploy a SharePoint Web Part. Visual Studio 2010 provides SharePoint 2010–specific project templates that simplify SharePoint application development.
Visual Studio 2010's new project templates let you develop empty SharePoint applications, Visual Web Parts, Sequential Workflows, Business Data Connectivity Models, Event Receiver projects, and other SharePoint items. Visual Studio 2010 also provides the ability to debug SharePoint projects. In addition, you can now deploy SharePoint projects directly to SharePoint rather than having to use the old command-line Stsadm tool.
To make development a bit easier, SharePoint 2010 can now run on Windows 7, which lets you run Visual Studio 2010 and SharePoint 2010 on the same box. A new SharePoint Server Explorer lets you display all of the items in a SharePoint site. Finally, Visual Studio 2010 has a Feature Designer that lets you create SharePoint features and a Package Explorer that gives you a graphical view of what will be deployed.
Data Application Enhancements
One overdue feature in Visual Studio 2010 is support for drag-and-drop data binding for Windows Presentation Foundation applications. Visual Studio 2010 lets you drag data sets, entity data models, Windows Communication Foundation services, XML web services, SharePoint objects, and custom business objects onto data objects in Windows Presentation Foundation Designer. Likewise, Visual Studio 2010 also supports drag-and-drop data binding for Silverlight applications.
Visual Studio 2010's data access technologies have several enhancements. The Entity Framework 4 supports building data object models using either a data-first design, in which the data object framework is created from an existing database, or using the new model-first approach. As in previous versions of Visual Studio, the Entity Framework can then generate the code for the model in either VB or C#.
Many of the relational database tools that used to be found in the now defunct Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals have found their way into other members of the Visual Studio family. New options under the Premium and Ultimate Editions' Visual Studio 2010 Data menu let you compare schema, compare data, edit and execute T-SQL statements, and view and synchronize database schema.
Debugging Enhancements
A useful new debugging feature is the ability to search for, label, and group breakpoints. You can use the tear-off breakpoint window to group together and label a set of related breakpoints. You can later search for these breakpoint labels, as well as enable and disable them as a group. Visual Studio 2010 also lets you export and import breakpoints via XML files, which lets you share sets of breakpoints with other developers. Figure 3 shows Visual Studio 2010's tear-away debugging window for managing breakpoints.
Another useful new feature is the ability to pin DataTips in the debugger. To pin a DataTip you simply hover the mouse over the variable that you're interested in and click the new pin button. This action causes the DataTip to always display in the debugging window. For more information about pinning DataTips, see "VS 2010 Debugger Improvements (BreakPoints, DataTips, Import/Export)."
The most important new debugging feature in Visual Studio 2010 is undoubtedly IntelliTrace. This feature lets you record the execution of a .NET application and then later replay it. In beta versions, IntelliTrace was referred to as Historical Debugging. This feature is designed to solve those frustrating nonrepo errors in which the developer can't reproduce the errors seen by users or testers. IntelliTrace operates in the background, recording all the events that occurred in an application and letting the developer see events that occurred over the course of the application's run and the context in which they occurred. All the IntelliTrace information is recorded automatically. IntelliTrace works with VB and C# applications that were built with the .NET Framework 2.0 and later. Figure 4 shows Visual Studio 2010's new IntelliTrace feature; the IntelliTrace window is in the right-hand pane. This window displays events that occurred during the application's execution. Clicking an event expands the description and reveals detailed information about the event. IntelliTrace is enabled by default for IntelliTrace events only; to capture all call information, select Debug, Options and Settings, IntelliTrace, then click the General tab. An important limitation I encountered is that IntelliTrace debugging is available only for x86 applications.
The new SketchFlow feature is part of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate. SketchFlow is a rapid prototyping tool that comes from the Expression product line. SketchFlow lets developers quickly create UIs for laying out forms and populating them with data; you can even design an application flow that controls and demonstrates how an application will move through multiple forms. The SketchFlow feature encourages user input in the design process because the developer and user can sit down and cooperatively create a working model. The developer can then use the SketchFlow model to generate a Visual Studio 2010 solution.
.NET Framework Enhancements
Visual Studio 2010 includes the Microsoft .NET Framework 4. .NET Framework 4 applications are compatible with earlier versions of the .NET Framework. However, unlike earlier versions of Visual Studio, Visual Studio 2010 doesn't automatically update applications using older versions of the .NET Framework to the new .NET Framework 4—you must explicitly change the .NET Framework to update your older .NET applications to the .NET Framework 4.
As you'd expect, the .NET Framework 4 brings several important new features to the table. The .NET Framework 4 supports in-process side-by-side execution, which lets applications load components that are based on earlier versions of the .NET Framework. In-process side-by-side execution works with .NET Framework 2.0 SP1 and later applications.
Another important new enhancement to the .NET Framework 4 is the change from concurrent to background garbage collection. Concurrent garbage collection degrades application performance; the change to background garbage collection improves .NET application performance.
Yet another big change in the .NET Framework 4 is support for the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) and its new System.Dynamic namespace. The DLR enables dynamic languages such as IronPython and IronRuby to run on top of the .NET Framework.
To better take advantage of today's multicore processors, the .NET Framework 4 includes a new System.Threading.Tasks namespace that makes writing multithreaded applications easier. New support for web applications includes support for Model-View-Controller (MVC) applications and AJAX. Other notable enhancements in the .NET Framework 4 include a new System.Tuple class for supporting structured tuple objects. Finally, the .NET Framework 4 includes new System.Numerics.BigInteger and SystemNumerics.Complex numeric data types and support for memory-mapped files.
New Features Come at a Price
Visual Studio 2010 raises the bar for .NET application development. The new Windows Presentation Foundation–based interface, support for multiple monitors, enhanced SharePoint support, and IntelliTrace features set Visual Studio 2010 well above other development platforms and are significant improvements over previous versions. The inclusion of MSDN in Visual Studio 2010 is also a welcome feature. However, there's no such thing as a free lunch—and the more full-featured editions of Visual Studio come with a price tag that might put them out of reach for many organizations.


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Music mogul Scott Storch pulled a Britney — 24 hours after getting married, he wanted out, and is now filing for an annulment due to extreme intoxication.
The famed producer just filed the docs, attempting to get out of marriage … which went down in 2011. Scott says he and Christina Gray said, "I do" on June 7, 2011 — but separated the next day. He says they haven't been together since then.
In the docs, Scott admits he and Christina were hammered when they tied the knot, and were "not of sound mind." It is weird he's just now getting around to filing annulment docs … 5 and half years later.
In this case, the hangover definitely lasted longer than the honeymoon.


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Mine were both 6 years old and had babies, then they turned 7 then same day, the next morning my got paused..when i unpuased them, they were 6 again..its been almost 2 days and they are still 6. will they ever get older?? and when can i take care of the babies???? is there another way to unpause them beside reset button/download???
Mine were both 7 years
Started by pyari1985 , Oct 23 2004 10:24 AM
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Last Post25 Oct 2004
Posted 23 October 2004 - 12:25 PM ( #2 )
you press a and b to unpause them.. Then they should age as normal.
Posted 23 October 2004 - 01:59 PM ( #3 )
Its been almost 2 days since they have been unpaused and they are not age-ing any. I dont want to have to restart them or anything. I sould be able to be caing for second generatin now.
Posted 25 October 2004 - 06:09 AM ( #4 )
did you change the time at all? or the date? or the batteries?


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(In the September issue of Christianity Today)
By Carolyn Arends, on September 16, 2013, 6:38 pm.
How sensual delights prepare us for the eternal feast
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Reviewed by April P (age 10)
Freedom's Wings Corey's Diary illustration will appear here.
I like this book because it is a type of biography, and it was interesting and fun to read. My favorite part was at the end, but I'm not telling if he found his father or not. This book is great for fourth and fifth grade students and for people who are interested in history.


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UK economy set to pass pre-recession peak next year BCC forecasts
British Chambers of Commerce upgrades growth forecasts, bringing forward likely date to third quarter of 2014.
The UK downturn is finally expected to be left behind next year as the size of the economy surpasses its pre-recession peak, according to a new forecast upgrading prospects for growth.
The prediction from the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) brings forward the likely date to the third quarter of 2014.
It would mark the first time that UK gross domestic product (GDP) has climbed back to the peak it reached in the first quarter of 2008.
While this would still mean that it has taken more than six years just to return the economy to the position it was in before it nose-dived, it would ease fears of a lost decade.
The forecast comes amid a recent pattern of accelerating growth, which reached 0.8% in the third quarter of this year.
A year ago amid a much gloomier picture for the economy, the BCC predicted the pre-recession peak would not be reached until 2016. This was brought forward in August to the first quarter of 2015 but has now been revised again.
John Longworth, the BCC's director general, said: "It is really great that next year the UK economy is finally expected to bounce back from the deepest recession in modern times.
"British businesses have remained determined to compete and grow in the face of difficult circumstances, and the upgrading of our short-term forecast is testament to their sheer hard work, resilience and creativity."
Figures from the Office for National Statistics show that, at its lowest point, the economy fell to 7.2% below the peak. The latest data suggests that in the third quarter of this year it remained 2.5% off the 2008 level.
The BCC now expects GDP growth of 1.4% for this year (up from 1.3%) and 2.7% next year (from 2.2%), driven by household consumption, boosted by the buoyant property market.
However, it expects the rate to slow to 2.4% (down from 2.5%) by 2015 as consumption moderates amid high personal debt levels.
Longworth said long-term challenges were still looming, with the need to find ways of boosting business investment and exports as household spending wanes. Small businesses were still struggling to obtain finance, he added.
"Politicians must not take their eye off the ball in the run-up to a general election, and must ensure that the economy remains front and centre at all times.
"If we make important decisions to fix the long-term structural failure in business finance, continue to deliver a major infrastructure upgrade and do more to support exports, it is possible to achieve not just a good recovery, but a truly great and sustainable economy."
BCC chief economist David Kern said: "We believe that in 2014 UK GDP will at long last move above its 2008 pre-recession level.
"But long-term trends show we can do much better, and with the right policies in place we can expect a much stronger recovery in the second half of the decade."
A Treasury spokesman said: "Britain's economic plan is working: growing the economy, creating over 1.4m new private sector jobs and cutting the deficit by a third.
"But the job is not done, and the government will go on taking the difficult decisions needed to support business and secure a responsible recovery for all."


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On the final Friday of a parched and quarrelsome October, Florida Democrats were bumping around a hallway in Disney's faux-elegant Yacht and Beach Club Resort on the opening night of their state convention, perusing campaign items for sale (three Hillary buttons for $5!), sussing out the evening's schedule ("The progressives are supposed to be having a party, but where are they?") and, mostly, grousing about the conspicuous absence of presidential candidates.
"This whole thing here is a joke," said John Taylor, a hulking schoolteacher from Jacksonville wearing the tallest, most bodacious Chef Boyardee-style, star-spangled red-white-and-blue hat you ever saw. "How stupid the Democrats are–we're shooting ourselves in the foot!" Taylor angrily recalled some of the Republicans' tactics for suppressing the Democratic vote in 2000 and 2004. "They stole two elections, and now we've been working six years to make sure that don't happen again. And the Democrats screw us!"
"Forget that," his friend said. "You're beating a dead horse. I blame the candidates. You've got, what, ten or eleven of them? And not one of them shows up here?"
It's rumored that Mike Gravel will be in town tomorrow, I note (and he did appear, at the convention and an antiwar rally). "If he's here, that's where my vote is going," said the friend.
Not Taylor's. "I'm going to have to resign from the Duval [County] Democratic Party"–he serves on its executive committee–"just so that I can vote for somebody else. I'm going to vote Libertarian, probably. Or I might cross over and vote for Huckabee. My wife will kill me. She's the treasurer of the Duval Democratic Party! She retired from her job to work full time, for no money, for the Democrats. And I'm the man in the hat! But why not? What difference does it make? The Democrats don't care about us in Florida."
"I think it sucks," says Bob Matherne, a bearded middle-aged fellow in a Kucinich shirt. Matherne's been registering LGBT voters in Sarasota for months now, but daily headlines featuring the war between national and Florida Democrats have made it tough. "People don't understand the situation–and neither do I, really. They're asking for clarification: 'What's going on? The Republicans aren't being penalized for the early primary. Why are we being penalized? Why would Democrats do this, already knowing about Florida's problems with voting?'"


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Marion Cotillard Kissing Guillaume Canet in LA | Pictures
Marion Cotillard Kisses Guillaume Canet During Their Stay in LA
Marion Cotillard stopped to kiss her partner, Guillaume Canet, as they shopped at The Grove in LA last Thursday. The actress, who has been spending time in Hollywood during award season, joined Guillaume and their 1-year-old son, Marcel, for a day at the outdoor mall.
On Sunday, Marion attended the SAG Awards in a straight-from-the-runway look from Dior. She was nominated for her role in Rust and Bone, but Jennifer Lawrence ended up snagging the statuette that night for her work in Silver Linings Playbook. Marion's performance as a double amputee in the French-language film has earned her lots of accolades, including a Golden Globe nomination, but she was edged out of the Oscar race. Instead, Jennifer, Jessica Chastain, Naomi Watts, Amour's Emmanuelle Riva, and Beasts of the Southern Wild's young star, Quvenzhané Wallis, will vie for best actress at the Academy Awards on Feb. 24.


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IU East announces fall 2013 Chancellor's List
Indiana University East students who take 12 or more credit hours and complete the semester with a grade point average of 4.0 on a 4.0 scale are named to the Indiana University East Chancellor's List. The following is the fall 2013 Chancellor's List. The list is sorted by the student's listed hometown.


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LOS ANGELES (CNS) – Oscar nominees Sandra Bullock and Jennifer Lawrence are among the nominees at tonight's 27th annual Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, which may be best known for the gallons of green slime that are annually dumped on winners, nominees and guests alike.
Bullock is nominated for favorite movie actress for her Oscar-nominated work in "Gravity," while Lawrence is nominated for her return to the role of Katniss in "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire."
Mila Kunis is nominated for favorite movie actress for "Oz The Great and Powerful," along with Jayma Mays for "The Smurfs 2."
Another "Smurfs 2" star, Neil Patrick Harris, is nominated for favorite movie actor, along with Johnny Depp for "The Lone Ranger," Robert Downey Jr. for "Iron Man 3" and Adam Sandler for "Grown Ups 2."
Vying for the honor of favorite movie will be "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire," "Iron Man 3," "Oz the Great and Powerful" and "The Smurfs 2."
On the small screen, nominees for favorite TV show are "The Big Bang Theory," "Good Luck Charlie," "Jessie" and "Sam & Cat."
"Sam & Cat" has a pair of nominations for favorite TV actress — Ariana Grande and Jennette McCurdy. Also nominated are Bridgit Mendler for "Good Luck Charlie" and Debby Ryan of "Jessie."
Favorite TV actor nominees are Benjamin Flores Jr. of "The Haunted Hathaways," Jack Griffo of "The Thundermans," Ross Lynch of "Austin & Ally" and Jake Short for "A.N.T. Farm."
Mark Wahlberg will host the slime-coated ceremony, which will be held at USC's Galen Center.


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simpleplan1234 berkata …
I cinta this movie I can't wait for the live action to come to theaters diposting sebulan yang lalu
|lebih the lion king poling >>
|lebih the lion king jawaban >>
I've always loved the Lion King! I can even roar like a professional. Several people taught me. At first, I just shouted the word "ROAR!", but once I learned how to do it realistically (sort of), now there's no stopping me! I've used my roar many times, mostly when I watch the film and video on the Internet. I'm worried about using it out of anger, though, as I might upset someone. I had a dream once where Mufasa and Simba told me I had a powerful roar. I don't know if it was from my watching too much Lion Guard atau a message from God. Probably both.
Hi guys, I cinta this film from the bottom of my heart, so I'll menulis a short review about the film as well as the musical scores and the songs of the legendary film that brought us together.
The Story
Based on Shakepeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. The story has provides moral values that we learn in our lives as we grow up, the first one is the put your past behind anda and yes, it DOES hurt sometimes. But, we all change it and that we need to improve the future!
Yes, I know in some cases these people aren't critisising the character so much as the people who wrote him. But I can't defend all the people who have developed Simba at The Walt disney Company because some of them really messed up, so that judul will have to do.
Confused Matthew on YouTube and some others criticise that SImba's adult version is completely unrelated to the child version of him. Essentially that his character development was abandoned in the middle of the film. Also, when reviewing "The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar", most seem to label Simba as a racist...
I think everyone who has seen "The Lion King" and "The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride" film can agree that "The Lion Guard" doesn't do
a very good job with fitting in there. I have only seen all of "The Return of the Roar" and several clips from some other episodes. But that's enough to conclude that this TV tampil fails miserably as a Lion King series. I'm sure the majority of my fellow Millenials from this fanbase agree with me, but I know there are Lion King fan who nonetheless enjoy and cinta this new series. fan who don't think it sucks. Good for you, guys, if anda can find something...
Hi guys, I will be doing another comparison between 2 movies. Only this time, it is the Lion King and Titanic. Two highest grossing films of our generations!
The Lion King
This was the very first movie that I watched and I cinta all of the songs. However, the story is based on Shakespeare's Hamlet: Prince of Denmark. Unlike the latter, Mufasa's death is really graphic that I feel disturbed about it and hearing Mufasa's scream down to his death if I were in Simba's place!
Hi guys, since my Beauty and the Beast: Film vs Musical made it on the front page. Now, it's the Lion King's turn to write about, since I only got the movie soundtrack version. I will also write the musical version too.
The Movie Version
Okay, I grew up with this movie since my childhood days, I cinta the song and got the soundtrack for the film. My favourite score is 'Under the Stars', because the musik is soothing before gradually becoming lebih inspirational, African style!
Hi everyone, I just want to say before Frozen came into the picture. The Lion King had a number of things that taught me while I first watch this movie many years ago, here they are.
Let it Go!
Yes, the Lion King had actually taught us to let go of our past. It also taught me to improve my future along the way while learning from my mistakes in life, our life is full of ups and downs.
Parental Love
It also promotes about loving your parents like Simba and Mufasa did, I really cinta my parents despite that we do not agree on a...
Tangu siku sisi kufika katika dunia
Na blinking, hatua katika jua
Kuna zaidi ya kuona kuliko unaweza milele kuonekana
Zaidi ya kufanya ila anayeweza kufanywa
(From the hari we arrive on the planet
And blinking, step into the sun
There's lebih to see than can ever be seen
lebih to do than can ever be done)
Kuna mno kuchukua katika hapa
Zaidi kupata kuliko hayawezi kupatikana
Lakini jua rolling juu
Hi guys, I just downloaded this movie a few months yang lalu after not seeing it in many years. There are certain things that I dislike that I would like to write it down here, so here we go.
The Story-line
The story was borrowed from another Shakespeare classic, Romeo and Juliet. While I think they kept the Shakespearean tradition going on, I personally felt that they should be lebih original towards the story. The movie also left me a number of tidak terjawab pertanyaan that I'm going to voice out.
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Charles Arlinghaus: Rudman reminds us just how bad things areCHARLES ARLINGHAUS
December 05. 2012 12:06AM
The memorial service for the late former Sen. Warren Rudman served to remind us of a great public servant, and it gave us a chance to go back and read some of his speeches and reflect that in the 20 years since he retired from office, things have gotten worse, his more outlandish predictions are commonplace, and no serious effort to address the deficit has occurred. The pathetic debate in Washington over the deficit sounds like a satire constructed to make a point.
Warren Rudman served in the U.S. Senate from 1980-1992 in the seat now filled by Sen. Kelly Ayotte (something about the seat itself apparently makes one a deficit hawk). He was known for many things during his time in the Senate, but we remember him best today for an unflinching attack on the federal deficit. The Gramm-Rudman deficit reduction law is a model for today's weak-kneed politicians to force discipline on themselves.
The people we as a nation had the poor sense to elect to supposedly represent us in Washington amount to a 435-member bowl of jelly wobbling about. Occasionally, they lurch into action and do something, but those incidents are rare.
Reading some comments from Sen. Rudman's retirement speech reminds one how far we haven't come. Keep in mind that Rudman announced his retirement in March of 1992, more than 20 years ago. Some things haven't changed a bit since then. Rudman was concerned about a ridiculously high deficit and the inability of lawmakers to address it.
After the Gramm-Rudman law had reduced the annual deficit from 29 percent of revenues to 15 percent of revenues, it was repealed largely because lawmakers preferred "flexibility" to actual discipline. The budget deficit began to rise and would almost double in three years - from $152 billion in 1989, the last year of Gramm-Rudman, to $290 billion in 1992, when Rudman retired.
Rudman's warning resonates today. In his retirement speech, he warned about growing deficits: "with a federal budget deficit reaching $400 billion, with a country in economic disarray; how can we responsibly stand on this floor and talk about doing anything that has even the slightest chance of adding, not a dime, but a penny to a budget deficit?"
Rudman would leave the Senate and together with former Sen. Paul Tsongas pressure lawmakers from the right and left to focus on the deficit and what he considered an achievable goal of a balanced budget.
Those without short memories will remember that the debate in the middle 1990s was not over whether to balance the budget. It was a question of timing. As the economy started to boom, both parties wanted to use the economic growth to balance the budget. Republicans, taking their cues largely from Rudman in this respect, attacked President Clinton for not acting fast enough because he was willing to take 10 years to balance the budget. They insisted it happen in five lest the economic growth not be directed to achieving responsibility.
An election landslide for the Republicans in 1994 came after a campaign based in part on balancing the budget in five years. That landslide created the impetus for both parties to support balance as a goal. They disagreed bitterly on many things, but the budget was balanced in just four years by a Republican Congress and a Democratic President.
Today we have a similar divided government (although Congress itself is divided this time). Deficits are ridiculous by Rudman's standards: The deficit isn't $290 billion, it's almost $1.2 trillion. It isn't a completely ridiculous 29 percent of revenue, it's nearly 50 percent of revenue.
And yet the debate in Washington is completely unfocused. Lawmakers are proposing talking about this or that (closing tax loopholes, raising tax rates, caps on discretionary spending, serious entitlement reform perhaps) but no one is suggesting it is possible to balance the budget. All lawmakers are being asked to sacrifice political principle in the goal of making things not quite as bad.
That's pathetic. You can't balance a budget if you don't set a goal of balancing the budget. You can't ask politicians to give way on deeply held political principles to make things somewhat less bad.
Someone in the malarial swamp on the north bank of the Potomac needs to set a goal of actually balancing the budget in a set number of years (I'd suggest five). You can't reach a goal if you don't set a goal. Set a goal, balance the budget, do something for a change.
Charles M. Arlinghaus is president of the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy, a free-market think tank in Concord.


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I know the picky eater all too well. . . I have one in my family and I used to be one.
When you coat chicken in a seasoned mayonnaise mixture and adhere crushed up tortilla chips to it the picky eater will be the first one to the table. Especially since the smells wafting through the cracks in the oven door as it bakes is enough to drive anyone crazy with hunger!
I fully expected the picky eater to skip the avocado salsa but was I surprised when they not only ate it but really, really liked it. So much so that they almost broke out in a happy dance the next day at lunch time when they found out the leftovers had their name written all over them.
Super crunchy on the outside, a little bit spicy, tender and juicy on the inside with a Tex-mex flair – how can anyone resist?
Not this recovering picky eater!
Chicken coated in seasoned tortilla chips with an avocado salsa, super crunchy on the outside, tender and juicy in the middle!
- Preheat oven to 425° F.
- Combine mayonnaise, lime juice, garlic, cilantro and chili powder in small bowl; set aside.
- Coat chicken with mayonnaise mixture, then tortilla crumbs. Arrange chicken on aluminum-foil-lined baking pan.
- Bake 20 minutes or until chicken is thoroughly cooked.
- Make the salsa while the chicken cooks. Combine avocado, tomato, onion and cilantro. Toss with a tablespoon or two of lime to taste and season to taste with salt and pepper.
- Garnish, if desired, with the salsa and cilantro.
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For all his fame and celebration, William Shakespeare remains a mysterious figure with regards to personal history. There are just two primary sources for information on the Bard: his works, and various legal and church documents that have survived from Elizabethan times. Naturally, there are many gaps in this body of information, which tells us little about Shakespeare the man.
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But this is no movie! It's the next hope for fun four-player gaming. The game allows players to wield weapons that work better with friends—four friends. Hopefully you have three of those!
This October, Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One will be released on the PS3 exclusively.
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Strikeforce WSOF Deathwatch: WSOF 7 Pulled in Just 94,000 Viewers
(And just when they were figuring out proper product placement! Curses!!)
Well, we can't say this looks good.
Thanks to a last-minute injury that saw their (cursed) main event scratched, Ray Sefo and the gang were forced to push the featherweight title fight between Georgi Karakhanyan and Lance Palmer from the co-main spot into the spotlight at WSOF 7 last weekend. Viewing audiences apparently did not approve of this unfortunate yet necessary change, or maybe they just had better things to do on a Saturday night. Or maybe we were all tapped out from the epicness that was Fight Night 33. In any case, it appears that none of you heeded our advice and tuned into WSOF 7. Seriously, like none of you (via MMAPayout):
MMA Payout has learned through Nielsen sources that World Series of Fighting's event on Saturday night received a meager 94,000 viewers. WSOF 7 from Vancouver, BC in Canada competed with a heavy night of college football, boxing and Invicta FC.
One could argue that the lack of "compelling" fights (which, as we pointed out in our breakdown, was not the case with WSOF 7) and multitude of events that transpired last weekend were responsible for the utter failure that was WSOF 7. But as MMA Payout also pointed out, WSOF 6 managed to draw in 161,000 viewers despite competing with both Mayweather-Alvarez and Fight Night 30.
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Your days of tripping over tripods that just won't take the vibrations of your shutter and mirror are over. Meet the C4i+53P set, a C4i tripod and FPH-53P panorama ball head bundle that no professional should do without. It's built using an aluminium-magnesium alloy that guarantees stability and durability. The entire set weighs little over 1.3 kg, an ideal weight for carrying with you whenever adventure is afoot. Conveniently compact, this tripod extends to 1.75 m, the equivalent of 4 times its initial height, and withstands loads of up to 8 kg.
The C4i+53P doesn't take photography lightly
The C4i+53P bundle is more than you'd expect, but without going overboard. Rollei throws in a spirit level on the tripod head for precise alignment, a speedy camera mount mechanism for those urgent shots, and a centre column for added stability even on uneven surfaces. There's also a complimentary Rollei bag, an Allen key and a hook for the central column, all of which are offered to lucky owners of the C4i+53P.
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Light as it may be, this panorama head tripod bundle is not to be sniffed at. It carries a price tag the dedicated hobbyist may find hefty, but it's a fraction of what competing brands cost, especially as this is a professional set with all the trimmings. As you'd expect of Rollei, it allows you to customize your tripod. Choose between the titanium, blue, orange, green and red version and match your photographic gear to the theme, blend in with the scenery or express your love for colours.
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MSI N760 Hawk Review
MSI N760 Hawk Introduction:
Of late MSI has made a real push to put out graphics cards that are capable of pushing overclocking boundaries with a whole slew of capable cards, including the likes of the N780 and N770 Gaming series cards. Pushing down in the product stack we have the N760 Hawk that brings these high end features to the mainstream so that we get high end performance for our mid level dollar. Packed full of features from MSI's own Military Class IV component selection with Super Ferrite Chokes, Dark Solid Capacitors, Hi-C Tantulum filled caps, Dual BIOS, dust removal technology as part of the Twin Frozr IV cooling solution, 6+2 phase power circuit, and a custom eight layer PCB. Add in the higher factory GPU Boost 2.0 clock speeds on the core and you can see that MSI started with a clean sheet approach.
MSI's N760 Hawk is built using NVIDIA's GK104 Kepler core clocked at up to 1176MHz in game and is equipped with 2GB of high speed GDDR5 memory to keep pace with the core. When we first looked at the GTX 760 we know that NVIDIA and its partners had something special when you looked at the performance metrics. Will the N760 Hawk be able to take all the technology and apply it for some truly awe inspiring performance? Let's start with a look at the packaging and see where it leads.
MSI N760 Hawk Closer Look:
The packaging for the N760 Hawk follows previous versions of the Hawk series with a representation of the F-117 Nighthawk on the front panel. Other notables on the front panel are some of the basic specifications of the card as well as an emblem at the top right that shows this is a factory overclocked card. From that you can infer it is going to be faster than the reference cards. The front panel flips open to illustrate many of the MSI-specific feature set including the use of Twin Frozer IV Cooling, Military Class IV component selection, and dust removal technologies. Internally the packaging is black and comes in two components: the accessory box and the N760 Hawk.
MSI's accessory bundle includes the standard items you get with just about every card on the market as well as a unique accessory seen on very few. The standard parts include the users guide, DVI to VGA adapter, driver and utility disk, and 6-pin to 8-pin PCIe power adapters, while the unique parts are three pigtails that plug into the V-Check point ports on the back end of the card. These are used to measure with a multimeter the applied voltages to the core, memory, and PCIe bus. Something seen on very few discrete cards.
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WASHINGTON -- When did so many of us become so fearful?
When did we, proud of our melting-pot origins, become determined to keep out immigrant families seeking a chance at the American dream?
When did we stop being proud of our government and start hoarding guns to protect us against the invasion of our homes by mythical government storm troopers?
When did churches start publicly protesting which boys could belong to the Boy Scouts and which ones should be ostracized?
When did we become so afraid?
Was it 9/11? Was it the popularity of conspiracy movies? Was it the disappearance of the middle class?
Was it when we began to worry that the American dream itself might be dying?
Most Americans are living their lives as always -- working hard, teaching their children the difference between right and wrong, how to be tolerant and that being happy means helping others. Most Americans are proud of their neighborhoods and their communities and their government and America's place in the world.
Nearly half of us oppose limiting sales of assault weapons, the kind designed to kill as many soldiers on the battlefield as possible, on the theory we all have a right to own semi-automatics.
Even after children at an elementary school are mowed down by assault weapons and even after a madman shoots and kills the driver of a school bus and takes a 5-year-old hostage, we are told that serious new gun control measures are dead in Congress.
While we acquiesce to smoking bans and requirements that houses have smoke detectors and laws that require us to register our cars, we balk at registering our weapons.
We have become a multiethnic, bilingual nation. Yet many of us speak of the 11 million undocumented people living among us as though they are evil invaders from another planet who must be thrown out. There are demands for concrete barriers topped with barbed wire and machine guns raised against their return.
While religious tolerance in our society is preciously guarded, some religions are engaged in wholesale opposition to the people who identify themselves as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.
Pious people urge the Boy Scouts of America not to permit gay children to join their ranks. Yet some of the hierarchies of some of those religions harbored pedophiles in their midst for decades.
Our beloved Constitution demands separation of church and state, yet no national politician dares say he or she is a nonbeliever. No president would refuse to attend the annual National Prayer Breakfast to proclaim his deep belief in God. It would be political suicide.
Why, in this fabulous country with unimaginable wealth and opportunities denied to hundreds of millions in other countries, are we so afraid?
Is it about clinging to a disappearing status quo? Is it fear of those who are different? Is it being afraid of a loss of what we have acquired, that what is ours will be taken away?
Perhaps. But at the root of such fear is an ugliness that is un-American. Let's return to the recognition that America is a big tent, with room enough for everyone to prosper.
We went through truly bad days in the 1860s, when it was not certain the nation would remain united. We survived that test and prospered. We will do it again.
We must fear being afraid.
(Scripps Howard columnist Ann McFeatters has covered the White House and national politics since 1986. Email email@example.com. Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, shns.com.)


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Onions and butter. So much butter. So much guilt over the quantity of butter. You know what? Screw the guilt. "Screw you," I said, prodding angrily at the onions. They shrivelled and turned brown.
A dainty sprinkle of chilli flakes. "Restraint," I muttered to myself, suppressing the urge to sprinkle turmeric. We don't want garish yellow rice.
One clove of garlic. I peered at the bulb, looking for the smallest clove. They all seemed unrestrainedly large. I peeled the smallest one, smashed it between my fingers and cast it in. The smell from the pot changed from oniony to garlicky. I took a deep sniff and coughed from the noseful of chilli.
Finally, the rice. It was partially cooked and drained, then thrown into the pot with the onions and garlic, water and salt, to cook some more. Then I covered it with a lid and fidgeted. It had to cook in its own steam, undisturbed.
I cursed and opened the pot to throw in a single pod of cardamom. The rice must be perfumed. I noticed the onions were rehydrating, plumping. Lid closed.
Ten minutes later, I was back at the pot, listening. The sounds inside had gone from bubbling to hissing. The starch from the rice was finally coming in contact with metal, the buffer of water evaporated. I chuckled to myself and turned off the heat.


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Meltman wrote:It's happened before, but not in PWG. If I recall correctly the match wasn't much to write home about, sadly.
Chalk it up to circumstance. ROH B-show the night before Danielson gets a title shot, it was Pac's third match for the company, it didn't really make sense to book the match as anything other than a glorified squash.
That said, Danielson always has shown a disappointing disinterest in giving "flippy" guys much offense when he faces them. Whether its Pac, Jack Evans or Matt Sydal in ROH, or even the Young Bucks match as DDT4 (which I loved, but the point still holds), Danielson doesn't seem to like to give the aerial guys much offense when they face him. Maybe its a principle thing for him, I dunno.


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Now that we've had a month to reflect on the horrible aftermath of hurricane Sandy, one thing is very clear: our nation needs a new power grid.
"I think this storm was a wake up call to government officials and the utilities they regulate all over this country to finally start fixing our aging electrical infrastructure," said Jim Cramer.
One of the reasons why it took days or even weeks for people in New York and New Jersey to get their electricity back is because their power grid was outdated. The equipment should have been replaced ages ago.
And Cramer thinks after Sandy the nation will start to take the issue very seriously.
Of course losing power is inconvenient and it brings business to a screeching halt. The NYSE closed for 2 days. But far more important – the antiquated electrical grid is a security threat.
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"If, God forbid, a terrorist really wanted to do some damage, all they'd have to do is knock out a couple of power substations," reminded Cramer. "Thanks to Sandy we already know that should it happen, all of lower Manhattan would lose power."
However, amid the massive power outages there is a bright spot here - the nation's power grid pain could be your gain.
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