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Relatively little is known about the Companion Guild's rules and practices, or the customs of Companions, though a few details have been revealed or implied in various Firefly episodes:
While the Companion Guild is in many ways a working company of skilled artisans, it also would appear to be a kind of religious sect. Heads of Companion houses are called "priestesses", and Inara's house is called " Madrassa ", the Arabic word for school. There are heavy religious overtones to many Guild practices, such as the use of incense, a focus on contemplation, and a cloistered lifestyle.
The oldest profession in the 'Verse has one of the oldest and most respected guilds in the Core. Prostitution as it had existed on Earth-That-Was was abolished long ago, replaced by a government-approved profession officially titled 'Companion'. The Companion's Guild established Guild Houses throughout the system to train its members, though, due to the war, there are few Houses currently on the outer worlds. The Guild establishes its own laws and rules. For example, Guild law states that no House may ever be run by a man. The law also states that a Companion is free to choose her clients. Originally a female organization, the Guild has since allowed males to enter. The men undergo the same training as the women and, like the women, they service both sexes. The Houses exist to provide training to the Companions. No work is ever done inside a House.
Girls and boys as young as twelve may begin training, which includes a well-rounded education and years of physical discipline, religious study, and the arts. Girls and boys are taught dance, martial arts, calligraphy, how to play musical instruments, and singing. The children undergo rigorous testing on all subjects, and those who fail are sent back to their homes. They are taught the art of love play only upon successful completion of their schooling.
Companions must pass a test in order to gain their registration. To maintain that registration, they must also pass a yearly physical evaluation conducted at a licensed hospital.
Clients must pay a subscription fee to earn a place in the client registry. The Guild and the Companion must approve of the client. If a client ever mistreats a Companion, that client will earn a black mark in the client registry, preventing him or her from ever securing such services again.
A Companion House is run much like a monastery, protecting its inhabitants and sheltering them from the outside as they undergo their training. The services a Companion performs for the client are steeped in tradition and ritual. A Companion greets a client and bids that client farewell with ceremony, and the act of lovemaking is designed to make each client feel that he or she is special and valued - only one of the reasons an evening with a Companion is so highly sought after.Dirk M Elston, MD
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Colloquially, the term university may be used to describe a phase in one's life: "When I was at university..." (in the United States and Ireland, college is often used instead: "When I was in college..."). In Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Nigeria, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain and the German-speaking countries , university is often contracted to uni . In Ghana, New Zealand, Bangladesh and in South Africa it is sometimes called "varsity" (although this has become uncommon in New Zealand in recent years). "Varsity" was also common usage in the UK in the 19th century. [ citation needed ] "Varsity" is still in common usage in Scotland.
In many countries, students are required to pay tuition fees. Many students look to get 'student grants' to cover the cost of university. In 2016, the average outstanding student loan balance per borrower in the United States was US$30,000.
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Thus the university, as a form of social organization, was peculiar to medieval Europe. Later, it was exported to all parts of the world, including the Muslim East; and it has remained with us down to the present day. But back in the middle ages, outside of Europe, there was nothing anything quite like it anywhere.
The team that first completes all game missions (levels) gets 50% of all the money collected; the rest goes to the organizer.
The entry fee totals 40-$200, 15-20 teams generally participate in a game. The developers of the network receive fixed deposits for each game ($15 to $40 depending on game format) as a payment for using the service platform. [36]
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The annual racing and night role-playing games market capacity in Moscow is estimated to be at least 6 million roubles, Masliukov says. And it tends to increase at a rate up to 250% per year.
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The main goal of the game is to complete various missions in several locations sooner than the others. A team or a solo player to complete all given missions first wins the game. According to rules there is no strict sequence of missions, they are not limited in time or number. The organizers may determine all these parameters themselves. The similar game called Dozor.Classic in contrast, has strict limitations to each game. For example, there can only be 5 to 10 missions in a game, each mission is limited to 90 minutes and the hints are provided every 30 minutes with automatic mission switch. [39]
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A man brazenly urinating from the window of a bus into passing traffic is the latest example of China's public toileting habits to outrage the nation.
The picture was taken in the Fujian province city of Xiamen by a driver understandably aggrieved at the fact his car had nearly been urinated on by the bus passenger.
After finding its way online, Chinese were soon decrying the spectacle, calling the passenger a "barbarian" and suggesting he might do well to wear a diaper for the rest of his life – although sadly it is apparent that such behaviour is all too common on the nation's public transport.


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Peggy LeMone, president of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), had an inspiration for this year's annual conference. Since the theme was about communicating climate, she wanted an informal, real-time experiment run during the conference, to demonstrate how people affect the environment.
At the most basic level, people modify immediate surroundings simply by body heat and breathing. At another level, our buildings have great impact: to keep conditions comfortable indoors, most buildings must get rid of excess heat through HVAC (Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning) systems. Collectively, buildings help make cities warmer than rural areas.
LeMone asked meteorologists Dan Wolfe of ESRL's Physical Sciences Division and Collin Daly of Campbell Scientific, both of them experts in creating and deploying meteorological instruments, to develop a monitoring system to measure room conditions and changes during AMS.
"We've used similar monitoring systems for research experiments on land, ships and aircraft to study boundary layer and climate processes," said Wolfe. Components for the indoor analysis system were provided by Vaisala and LICOR, integrated by Campbell Scientific, and tested by Wolfe and Daly.
LeMone also wanted to engage students attending the conference by involving them in the study. About 10 students volunteered, learning from Wolfe and Daly how to assemble equipment and monitor data.
Two identical systems measured temperature, relative humidity, and CO2 data at different locations throughout the convention center. Data were transmitted by cell phone in real time to Campbell Scientific, and made available on the company's website and via smart phone; all conference attendees had access.
The system was first tested at the AMS exhibit during WeatherFest, an interactive science fair open to the public. "Students working in the booth enthusiastically explained to visitors how our system operated and our objective," said Wolfe.
The primary monitoring location was at the Presidential Forum, with about 1,400 participants. Calculations before the event showed the potential for significant increases in temperature and CO2 readings, not factoring in the HVAC. To make things more interesting, the HVAC system was discreetly turned off for 25 minutes during the Forum. This was long enough to see a change in the data signal, without a major impact on people's comfort.
At the request of LeMone, Professor David Sailor of Portland State University gave a talk the next day at a Town Hall meeting on the "Impact of Human Occupancy at the 2011 AMS Annual Convention." Sailor didn't have much time to analyze the data before his talk, but as expected, CO2 and temperature levels fluctuated as occupancy changed. When the HVAC was shut off, the temperature and CO2 level rose more rapidly – with CO2 reaching nearly 1100 ppm (ambient atmospheric levels average about 390 ppm).
"Neither CO2 nor water vapor nor temperature rose as much as we thought it would," said Sailor, "because the room was still in 'communication' with other parts of the building and created suction."The room wasn't completely sealed off, allowing air to rush in through open doors and adjacent spaces, decreasing the expected impact.
At the end of the Presidential Forum, session surveys were handed out that included questions about room acoustics and temperature. More than 500 surveys were returned and are in the process of being collated and reviewed. Sailor said that thus far, there is a trend suggesting that the conference rooms tend to be too cool, which could mean wasted energy and money.
Sailor will attend a different conference at the same venue in the near future, and may revisit the experiment. In the coming months, he hopes to do a detailed analysis of the data and perhaps publish the results in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
Many conference attendees who Wolfe spoke with thought the experiment was a great idea. "We were able to accomplish more than initially anticipated, because of the efforts of all those involved," said Wolfe.


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CLEVELAND (AP) — Three men who pleaded guilty in a plot to bomb a highway bridge should be sentenced as terrorists, making them subject to harsher prison terms, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
U.S. District Court Judge David Dowd's ruling upheld a government request to impose stricter sentences based on a "terrorist enhancement" for the trio. The ruling that the three were trying to intimidate the government expands their possible sentences from five or six years to 15 to 30 years or more.
The judge will sentence Connor Stevens, 20, of Berea; Brandon Baxter, 20, of Lakewood; and Douglas Wright, 26, of Indianapolis, on Tuesday in Akron.
The men were among five arrested in an FBI sting operation targeting a highway bridge over the Cuyahoga Valley National Park between Cleveland and Akron. The FBI has said the public was never in danger and the device was a dud provided by an informant.
The suspects were described by the government as self-proclaimed anarchists who acted out of anger against corporate America and the government.
Stevens, Baxter and Wright pleaded guilty to conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction, knowingly attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to damage property with explosives. There was no plea deal.
A fourth man who pleaded guilty first and agreed to testify against the others in return for leniency will be sentenced Wednesday. The fifth defendant is undergoing a psychiatric exam.
Wright faces the toughest sentence, up to 33 years, because he "was clearly the leader in the activities of the five defendants," the judge said. Stevens was a "minor participant" and his sentence guideline was calculated at 15 to 19 years. Baxter could get 22 to 27 years.
The judge alternately calculated possible prison terms for the trio if the "terrorist enhancement" is successfully challenged. In that case, each man would face five or six years in prison, Dowd said.
Terry Gilbert, the attorney representing Stevens, said Thursday the judge's guideline calculations were a starting point for Tuesday's hearing. He said the defense would ask for leniency based on issues including the age of the men, their family backgrounds and an informant's role.
The attorney for Baxter declined to comment on the judge's ruling. A message seeking comment was left for Wright's attorney.
The defense has called the investigation a case of entrapment, with the informant guiding the way, and said the plot was more an act of vandalism than anti-government terrorism. They asked for sentences in the range of the mandatory minimum of five years.
The government said the plot "was meant to convey a message to the civilian population, the corporate world, the financial system, and all levels of government."


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Gov. Snyder's Obamacare 'Partnership' Misguided
Just 10 weeks before an election that could place Obamacare on a very different trajectory, The Detroit News reports that Gov. Rick Snyder has chosen to bypass the Legislature and enter a "joint partnership" with the federal government to create the "exchange" through which the law's mandates and subsidies will be administered. A spokesperson for the Snyder administration told The News that the governor is concerned with meeting timelines mandated by the law.
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He shouldn't be, because it's all but certain those timelines will not be met regardless of what state and federal policymakers do. A useful memo just published by Dr. Robert Graboyes of the National Federation of Independent Business brings this reality into sharp relief. Here's the relevant portion from the memo's "Q&A" section:
Will PPACA's key institutions be up and running by 2014? The exchanges and other provisions will require a massive new information technology infrastructure that merges individual-level data (on all 310,000,000 Americans) from the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor, Justice, Homeland Security, Treasury (and the Internal Revenue Service), plus Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, 50 states, exchanges, and hundreds of insurers. Governors of both parties reported a year ago that HHS was missing crucial deadlines related to the construction of this IT infrastructure. Indeed, some skeptics (I am one) question whether this unparalleled IT integration will ever be feasible.
Graboyes isn't the only one. As reported here earlier, in a recent interview Wisconsin Secretary of Health Dennis Smith also explained why the law's deadlines are beyond unrealistic:
We have no other plan that we are taking because we think the reality is the federal government cannot meet its deadlines for implementing PPACA," Smith said. "No one knows what a federal exchange looks like. The two major components that an exchange is supposed to do, which is determine eligibility and to complete the business transaction to pay premiums to health care plans that millions of Americans are supposed to pick, nobody knows what those look like. The administration has failed to release a credible business plan where objective observers could conclude that they're going to pull this off."
Smith's extensive prior experience lends weight to his prognosis: Prior to his current position he ran the federal Medicaid program for President George W. Bush, and was a health care analyst at the Heritage Foundation.
Also reported here, a letter to President Obama from Virginia Gov. and Republican Governors Association Chairman Bob McDonnell posed a lengthy series of detailed questions that exposed the depth of uncertainty surrounding the law's implementation even within the federal bureaucracy.
It appears that Gov. Snyder is bypassing the Legislature to pursue a goal that simply isn't going to happen, and meet deadlines that Attorney General Bill Schuette has aptly characterized as "phony as a three-dollar bill."
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The Australian Defence Force and NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) are jointly investigating an incident with Australian troops which may have involved civilian injuries in Afghanistan.
Details of the incident in a north-western Oruzgan province were not available to the media on Friday afternoon, but Prime Minister Julia Gillard has been briefed on it.
Defence says there were no Australian casualties.
An ISAF spokesman told the ABC the incident may have involved civilians being injured.
However, the ISAF Joint Command Press Desk in Kabul was not providing further information and referred AAP to Defence Minister Stephen Smith.
Parliamentary secretary for Defence David Feeney said he was aware of the allegations of civilian injuries but had "no particulars".
"I am aware that Australian forces have been involved in an operational incident in the north-western part of the Uruzgan province," Senator Feeney told reporters in Canberra on Friday morning.
"I understand details of that operational incident are at the moment unclear, but I can confirm that no member of the ADF is a casualty."
Senator Feeney said the government was "always concerned about civilian casualties".
Asked about the current mission, he said: "I think the mission has clear goals; we have a clear strategy going forward."
Australia has about 1000 troops in Afghanistan and is scaling back its role in military operations ahead of the withdrawal of western forces next year.


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New Zealand First has welcomed the official declaration of a state of drought for Northland.Richard Prosser MP
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Support of Drought Declaration
New Zealand First has welcomed the official declaration of a state of drought for Northland.
Primary Industries Spokesman Richard Prosser said the declaration would allow farmers to access emergency relief and assistance as necessary, from a range of Government agencies including the IRD and the Ministry of Social Development.
"We understand the magnitude of the drought crisis in Northland and we support the Government's official declaration.
"If conditions continue as they are it is likely the drought will spread to other regions, and we support the Government's timely intervention in assisting farming communities and will help in whatever way we can," he said.
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TWIN FALLS, Idaho — An extremely tight milk supply in Idaho led Glanbia Foods, the world's largest American-style cheese manufacturer, to lay off nearly 50 employees at its Idaho facilities this week.
The company staffed up for its record volume of cheese manufactured in 2013, up 8 percent from 2012. But with its current milk supplies down 10 percent from a year ago, it had to reduce operational and administrative costs and let 48 to 49 people go, said Jeff Williams, Glanbia president and CEO.
The staff reduction represents less than 5 percent of Glanbia's work force of 1,100 in Idaho and New Mexico. It's obviously not minor for the people involved, but from a company standpoint, it is a small reduction, he said.
Glanbia saw a milk-supply problem coming in early December, but it didn't really start impacting cheese production until the first of January, Williams said.
A number of factors resulted in the short supply. Idaho's milk production was down 1 percent in 2013 compared with 2012, and since Chobani began its Greek yogurt production in December of 2012, the state has an overcapacity of processing, he said.
In December, Chobani announced it had reached a production milestone at its Twin Falls plant. The company, on Friday, wouldn't reveal what that production is, but company officials had earlier stated the plan was to process 2 million pounds of milk a day in its first phase, eventually reaching full capacity of 10 million pounds a day.
Chobani came to Idaho because company officials were told Idaho has room for 70,000 to 100,000 more dairy cows, but cow numbers actually dropped 15,000 head since Chobani opened, Williams said.
"There's no doubt we have the room, they (cows) just haven't come," he said.
In addition, raw milk flows to the highest value. The highest value is milk going into cartons, which isn't significant in Idaho due to its relatively small population. Yogurt is the next highest value, followed by cheese and powder, Williams said.
Cheese is the higher value compared with powder three out of four years. However, with a huge world demand for powder, especially from China, those values have flipped, he said.
Even though milk production was down in 2013, Glanbia was able to attract more milk and grow its cheese production because cheese prices were higher than powder prices, he said.
It's a fairly short-term problem for Glanbia, he said. With powder plants being built all over the world, cheese will regain its competitive position, a correction in markets will take place and milk will flow back into Glanbia's plants, he said.
In addition, the outlook for dairymen has improved with higher milk prices and lower feed costs. Most dairymen should be making money and hopefully are putting or retaining more cows in the barn. Spring should also bring more milk and milk production could turn around by mid-year, if not sooner, he said.
"We fully anticipate things will rebound. Our goal is to get our factories full of milk by the end of the year," he said.
The company has been in a growth mode for some time and opened its Cheese Innovation Center last August to focus on product development and expanding its exports. The small reduction in work force in no way clouds Glanbia's strategic plan for continued growth, he said.
Glanbia's layoffs are strictly a factor of Idaho's tight milk supply, said Bob Naerebout, executive director of Idaho Dairymen's Association.
Feed costs have been extremely high the last four or five years and margins have been very tight for the last four years. But producers historically respond to high prices, and January futures are running $21 per hundredweight for Class III milk for cheese and $21.45 per hundredweight for Class IV for powder, both strong and higher than the 2013 average price, he said.
In addition, the spring "flush" will be starting as production increases in May and carries through a good portion of the summer, he said.
Glanbia's current situation just reflects vagaries in the market. Ups and downs in commodities markets happen all the time, said Brent Olmstead, executive director of Milk Producers of Idaho.
There's a little less milk in the market and more competition for that milk. Maybe some of Glanbia's producer suppliers switched to other companies. Chobani is the newest processor in the area, and its ramped-up production is probably a factor, he said.
"The main thing is we haven't had any dairy expansion for the past five to six years," he said.
It's been a tough environment for dairymen. Dairy margins have been down, banks have tightened credit, and labor issues continue, he said.
While milk prices have been fairly decent, the price of inputs has risen so much it's like taking two steps forward and two-and-a-quarter steps back. Margins have diminished considerably, he said.
In addition, Congress has been stalling on immigration reform, using it as a political football since killing President George W. Bush's immigration reform proposal. That leaves dairymen and livestock producers without a program to allow year-round foreign workers, he said.
"We can bring in Justin Bieber, but we can't get milkers in," he said.
Warmer weather this spring could increase production, and if bankers would lighten up on credit, Idaho could see some expansion in the next two to three years. Permits to expand have been secured, but producers have been in a bit of the doldrums the last two to three years, he said.
Milk futures prices look good, but the drought continues to be a threat as far as water to irrigate crops and operate dairies, he said.


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During an interview with Pastor Rick Warren, Piers Morgan proposed that we "amend the Bible." Morgan believes the Bible should be amended because it's out-of-date on the issues such as gay rights. Here is the exchange:
Morgan didn't spell out the process by which the Bible should be amended. Perhaps he wasn't using the word "amend" literally. We can always hope not, anyway.
The Bible isn't like the U.S. Constitution. It does not have the force of govenrment law behind it. If one ignores a particular prohibition or teaching — because it is "out-of-date" or, what is often the same thing, because one would rather not follow it — no government penalty attaches and no government enforcement mechanism comes into play (unless the law contains the same prohibition). But, of course, one assumes all other risks.
Towards the end of the exchange, Warren and Morgan agree that it's good to have the kind of discussion they just had. Morgan adds that the discussion should always be respectful. Why? Because "the moment it becomes disrespectful and discourteous and then rude and then poisonous, you never achieve anything."
But, as Peter Wehner notes, this is the same Piers Morgan who, during an interview, called Larry Pratt, the executive director of Gun Owners of America, "an unbelievably stupid man" who "shame[s] your country" and "doesn't give a damn about the gun murder rate in America."
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ISM Index wraps up 2013 with bullish growth
PMI at 57% for December; new orders, employment on the rise
It was a happy old year for manufacturing.
The first big manufacturing report of 2014 greeted industry analysts as the Institute of Supply Management's PMI Index for December 2013 hit 57%. That's just three-tenths of a point below November's high-water mark of 57.3% and the sixth straight month above 55%. After the PMI dipped below the growth rate of 50% in April the index has climbed steadily.
There was more good news from the Jan. 2 report, as the New Orders Index increased to 64.2%, its highest level since April 2010. The Employment Index also increased in December to 56.9%, which left Bradley Holcomb, chairman of the ISM's Manufacturing Business Survey Committee, pleased with the strength in the sector at the end of the year.
"Comments from the panel generally reflect a solid final month of the year, capping off the second half of 2013, which was characterized by continuous growth and momentum in manufacturing," said Holcomb.
Among the comments from survey respondents were:
- "Amazingly enough, we are seeing meaningful increases in our sales in nearly all segments and regions." (Apparel, Leather & Allied Products)
- "Largest backlog ever. Most orders waiting on customer approvals." (Fabricated Metal Products)
- "Orders and price continue to be strong." (Paper Products)
- "Continued government spending constraints keeping production volumes low." (Transportation Equipment)
- "Good overall business conditions nationally and internationally." (Computer & Electronic Products)
- "Markets are sound. We typically see a seasonal 4th quarter slowdown. However, this year … not so." (Wood Products)
- "Very, very busy." (Furniture & Related Products)
The latest PMI report is in sharp contrast to a similar report from China, which showed manufacturing growth at its lowest level in 15 years. The China Federation of Logistics & Purchasing said Jan. 1 that its purchasing managers index for December declined to 51% from the previous month's 51.4%. The overall Chinese economy grew 7.6% in 2013, its lowest growth rate since 1999 and an indication of continuing struggles for the world's second largest manufacturing economy.
The U.S. manufacturing sector continues to fuel solid economic growth for the overall economy, according to the PMI data. The threshold for overall economic growth is 42.2%, so the 57.0% reading in December was the 55th straight month for growth in the overall economy, according to ISM. Holcomb noted that the 2013 PMI data corresponds to a 3.7% growth rate in GDP for the year, and the December figure alone translates to a 4.6 increase in GDP.
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Apple knows how to build something right, and since it did it so well once, well, why change? The new iPad 3 looks just like its predecessor, the iPad 2 – despite this updated version being 9.4mm thick compared to the iPad 2's 8.8mm. But it's the screen that really sets it apart.
Apple iPad 3 hands on review – screen
This is the big sell of the tablet we thought would be called the iPad HD, which is offically named simply 'the new iPad'. When that beautiful 264ppi screen fired up, we were blown away. The 2048x1036px display makes photos look beautiful even when zoomed in – ideal for the new iPhoto app with its plethora of editing options. The only video we got to see was a home video but it looked crystal clear and ran slippery smooth on the A5X processor.
Apple iPad 3 hands on review – power and performance
No sign of the A6 core but this A5X which runs quad-core graphics certainly doesn't lag. Using processor-gorging apps like iPhoto, manipulating 19MP photos is all taken in the stride of the new iPad. Sky Gamblers – Air Supremacy, a flight sim game, runs smoothly with graphics that would look at home on a top console. It'll be interesting to see how well this all works on the A5 core of the iPad 2 by comparison.
When you've got a Retina Display and quad-core graphics it would be silly to scrimp on the camera, hence the 5MP snapper found on the new iPad 3. It has a host of interesting features like back-lit optics, IR reduction, IPS and stunning 1080p video. No sign of a flash sadly and shooting indoors wasn't an option, but the gallery pictures look great – suprise, suprise. We'd have liked to see an 8MP snapper but – for now – this will do.
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iPhoto is one powerful piece of software that really shows off that pretty, pretty Retina Display – it can handle images up to 19MP. A great feature lets you instantly transfer files to other devices, although we didn't get to see that in action. What we did see was a bevvy of editing options like saturation changing, quick colour adjustments, various brush options and a nifty quick glance that lets you compare your edit to the original image. Not bad for £3. We like.
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The new iPad, or iPad 3, or iPad HD – call it what you will – isn't a massive upgrade over its predecessor, but it'll be a must-have for early adopting moths drawn to its flame-bright screen. And we suspect as more apps join the HD ranks, it'll become more and more essential for the everyman tableteer. Apple's prolific streak of downright wantable gadgets has a new member. And our first impression says we'll want one very much. Of course, we'll leave our final verdict to a full review, coming very soon.
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Gold and silver futures fell the most in a week after a rally by the dollar reduced the appeal of the precious metal as an alternative investment.
The greenback advanced to a four-week high against a basket of major currencies. European Central Bank President Mario Draghi signaled that policy makers are concerned that the euro's advance may damp inflation and hamper an economic recovery. In 2012, gold gained 7 percent as stimulus programs in the U.S., Europe and Japan spurred concerns that consumer prices would rise.
"The market is reacting to what Draghi said, and everyone is moving to the dollar," Sterling Smith, a futures specialist at Citigroup Inc. in Chicago, said in a telephone interview. "Absence of inflation is making gold unattractive."
Gold futures for April delivery declined 0.4 percent to $1,671.30 an ounce at 1:43 p.m. on the Comex in New York, the biggest drop for the most-active contract since Jan. 31.
Silver futures for March delivery fell 1.5 percent to $31.403 an ounce, the biggest slide since Jan. 31.
On Feb. 1, the euro rose to the highest since November 2011 against the dollar.
On the New York Mercantile Exchange, platinum futures for April delivery dropped 0.8 percent to $1,722.30 an ounce, ending a four-session rally. Yesterday, the metal reached $1,744.50, the highest since Sept. 22, 2011.
Palladium futures for March delivery slumped 1.9 percent to $750.45 an ounce on the Nymex, the biggest drop since Jan. 7. Yesterday, the price reached $772.90, the highest since Sept. 6, 2011.
This year, platinum has gained 12 percent, palladium has gained 6.7 percent and silver is up 3.9 percent. Gold has dropped 0.3 percent
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Nearly two years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the meticulous, long-term efforts of scientists finally yielded the official results: namely, that the brown, wilted, dying corals found at the Mississippi Canyon lease block 294 were indeed damaged by a plume of oil from the spill.
For many, it seemed a foregone conclusion. Back in December 2010, when news of the damaged corals first came out, their proximity to the leaking Macondo well seemed to be a "smoking gun" in its own right. What else could brown gunk (flocculent matter, if you are a scientist) covering damaged corals seven miles from the Deepwater Horizon site be, if not oil from the spill?
Yet, to this team of scientists, it was worth taking a closer look at the evidence with two-dimensional gas chromatography, sediment cores, coral samples, and mosaic imagery. Why? Because too much was at stake to base judgments on mere speculation.
In order to understand the damage in the deep, the scientists had to start by understanding what was down there to begin with.
To support that mission, enter USGS research benthic ecologist Dr. Amanda Demopoulos, who studies life on the sea floor to piece together what types of organisms typically live together in deep sea communities. Her work involves digging sediment cores from the bottom of the ocean and sorting through the many tiny forms of life found there.
In addition to deep sea coral ecosystems, Demopoulos studies communities in parts of the Gulf where oil naturally seeps up from the seafloor and is in fact a wellspring of life, not a source of damage. Chemosynthetic ecosystems -- the ones where food webs are based on chemicals rather than sunlight -- tend to have different forms of life, such as tubeworms.
Demopoulos was on the November 2010 research expedition which first discovered the damaged corals. Funded by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and the agency now known as the Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management, the goal of that expedition was to gather the basic data needed to construct a scientific understanding of the various undersea ecosystems. It was part of a decades-long collaborative effort among federal and university scientists to explore deep sea ecosystems in an effort to provide sound baseline information for governance decisions about how to best balance natural resource use with protection. Demopoulos recalled watching the first images from the damaged site come in from remotely-operated vehicle.
"When we were watching the ROV video in the lab, I looked up at the video screen, and it looked starkly different from anything we'd ever seen before,"� Demopoulos said. "The corals were all dark grey and lumped over, and it was clear these animals were not healthy. We'd seen dead coral, but this was so different, we immediately knew it was worth investigating further. When we got closer, there didn't seem to be any secondary colonization, as we'd seen in the past on dead coral."
The fact that no new animals — such as barnacles or hydroids — had begun to attach to and grow on the dead corals suggested the coral deaths had been recent, noted Demopoulos. This process, known as secondary colonization, is commonly observed on dead corals, but takes time to occur.
The discovery of the damaged coral triggered a follow-up expedition to more carefully investigate the damage itself, supported by a special National Science Foundation RAPID grant. Demopoulos would later work with scientists from Haverford College, Penn State University, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Temple University, and BOEM to assess the damage.
Demopoulos' part in the overall effort to understand life in the deep ocean has been to understand what lives in the sediments of different types of environments, such as deep-sea corals and chemosynthetic communities. Some species may be generalists found in a variety of environments, while others will be unique to one type of habitat. Demopoulos also pieces together new information about how these tiny organisms are connected through food webs.
Without a baseline for understanding what is typical, Demopoulos would not be able to assess how those sediment dwellers were affected by the oil spill. Based on her expertise with sediment samples, Demopoulos helped design the best approach for assessing the corals at the Mississippi Canyon lease block 294 for the presence of oil and the extent of damage.
"The challenge we faced in this study was piecing together what happened from multiple lines of evidence, because no one was sitting on the sea floor when the plume went by. The corals were the only witness," said Demopoulos, "We had to consider the proximity to the Deepwater Horizon site and the fact a deep-water plume had recently passed over the site, then closely examine the corals for tissue damage and signs of stress, such as the presence of mucus, and of course, the chemical signature of the oil. It was truly an interdisciplinary effort."
Demopoulos pointed out that the cumulative knowledge about deep-sea communities from previous expeditions provided the baseline for scientifically assessing what they saw at the site. "This is but one site in the Gulf of Mexico," she said, "but it has shown how important it was for us to have a frame of reference as to what a healthy deep-sea coral ecosystem looks like. We are still trying to understand the extent to which this is occurring elsewhere in the Gulf of Mexico."
The results of the efforts were recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States.
Rachel Pawlitz writes for the US Geological Survey.


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Tenn woman wanted for offering baby to 7 families
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee woman has been charged with seven counts of illegal payments in connection with the placement of a child after police say she offered her newborn for adoption to seven different families before fleeing.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says 32-year-old Tiffany Lynn Jordan-Johnson of Madison agreed to let each of the families adopt her child after he or she was born between November 2012 and March 2013.
The Tennessean reported (http://tnne.ws/1auKrYD ) Jordan-Johnson also allegedly began accepting payments and gifts from parents and adoption agencies.
After her child was born in Dyer in April 2013, Jordan-Johnson, her baby, and the youngest of her six other children could not be found.
Jordan-Johnson, is also charged with six counts of theft. Jordan-Johnson also faces charges of forgery and attempted forgery.
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With the calendar flipping from July to August, changes come to the beach. Even before sunrise I can hear the difference in the wind, now coming from the north. It is a light wind, though, only a hint of what is to come as summer gives way to fall and then to winter.
In the house, our oldest child was packed off to sleep-away camp for the very first time this week, another sign of time's passing. Skittering hordes of sandpipers and plovers have been back for several weeks now, their numbers increasing each day as they arrive from breeding places in the far north.
These small birds move through the seasons quickly, nesting in spring, staying only briefly in their tundra haunts before winging south, stopping along the coast in the usual places to gorge on the shrimp-like things and worms that live at the water's edge. In the distance they seem to rise and fall like snow, flying out over the bay for a moment without apparent purpose, then returning to the same patch of sand.
The very southernmost sweep of Gardiner's Bay has been teeming with life of one sort or another this year. This is in stark contrast with, but perhaps related to, the savage and sweeping devastation of the late December storm that churned the beach and pushed the dune landward a dozen feet in some places. Huge schools of sand eels rise each day before dawn, drawing in predators above and below.
Terns show up just as there is light enough to see them, hovering along the edge of the beach. It was pointed out to me by a brother-in-law who notices such things that, though their nesting sites were elsewhere, young-of-the-year terns assemble on the beach, waiting to be fed by the more able adults.
Getting Adelia ready for camp has been reminiscent of the terns' feeding arrangements, if somewhat more complicated. There have been bags to pack, things to buy and ship in advance. One morning this week, she will be sent on her way, in a van to New Hampshire, our own little bird, making her very first flight


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Bebo launched a bid today to further differentiate itself from Facebook by aligning itself with TV, film and music companies rather than software developers.
The move sets the site on a collision course with MySpace in the race for TV's "lost generation" of consumers aged 13 to 24. Some 70 per cent of Bebo's 40 million users belong to this demographic.
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At an extravagant event* at BAFTA in London, Bebo president Joanna Shields (pictured) pitched its "Open Media" initiative, which invites producers to build their own presence on the site and upload material.
So far the BBC, ITN and Channel 4 have signed up from the UK mainstream TV world. Music labels have been more reticent so far.
Bebo has been redesigned (in an 11th hour push which finished in the small hours of this morning, we're told) so users can collect their favourite video and music in their profile. The theory goes that their friends will then view it and popularity of bands and shows will grow organically.
Bebo claims its homebrewed drama Kate Modern, which has accumulated 25 million views, is proof of the potential for an entertainment-centric social network. Kate Modern, about London twentysomethings, was funded entirely by product placement - illegal on broadcast TV.
The open Media platform allows media companies to put their creations on Bebo for free and without signing a revenue-sharing deal; in that sense it's "open".
However, the emphasis in its pitch to industry execs today was on how much control rights owners can retain if they choose. They will be able to use their own media player, for example, and therefore sell their own advertising if they have the means.
Courting traditional media - as a priority - contrasts with Facebook's efforts to tame the web development community by giving them the APIs to run applications over its Platform. We counted about half a dozen times that Shields said Open Media makes Bebo "different" from the rest of the social networking pack because it allows for "self-expression" by users.
The pitch, combined with unflattering noises in Facebook's direction, was eerily reminiscient of comments by Rupert Murdoch in last week's News Corp earnings announcement.
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"Facebook, on the other hand, tends to be a web utility, similar to a phonebook."
Shields even echoed Murdoch's comparison with a slide showing Bebo's logo next to a BlackBerry. Her site, she said, is more analagous to an iPod Touch. "We have to work on making the network more interesting," Shields said.
Bebo doesn't yet have a Facebook-style advertising motherbrain to target marketing to its users' interests, but it's in the works. Shields said it can afford to offer free hosting to other companies because of the projected traffic boost and its existing display ads deal with Yahoo!.
The impact of Bebo's move today will be much smaller in the US, where to date it's barely qualifying as a social networking also-ran. ®
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Killed for Christ, but who remembers?
Exclusive: Marisa Martin showcases art of the martyrs
Today portions of Islam seek to create their own "martyrdom," yet many more Christians are unwillingly and forcibly finding it: 176,000 a year, 482 a day or 1 every 3 minutes, according to several human rights groups.
Christian martyrdom as a subject is conspicuously absent in the press and the art world with a few exceptions, but tragically common across the earth. More Christians were murdered for their faith in the 20th century than all earlier times combined. This century isn't starting off any less bloody, with Christians composing an estimated 80 percent of those persecuted or killed over their religion alone.
Maximilian Maria Kolbe, a Polish priest, volunteered to die in place of a complete stranger in Auschwitz in 1941. Pope John Paul II later declared Kolbe as "the patron saint of our difficult century," perhaps sensing how events would take place. Most Christians won't die in such a spectacularly public display, but many missionaries and others are martyred while they still serve their killers. Isn't this world strange?
Christ warned us not to expect fair treatment from the "world," but silence from church and Christian artists is troubling. No howls of lamentation for Mallam Abdullahi keening over the bodies of his sons in a Nigerian school. No operatic dirge of sorrow sounds for young Adnan Masih, tortured and killed by Pakistan's own police on June 10, 2013. He is one of many.
Western artists, filmmakers and especially musicians are in position to publicize anything on a whim, to an almost infinite audience. Subjects for these singers tend to annoyingly cluster around the poles of emotional turmoil, adolescent romance, light political statements, endless joys of sex and personal details we never wanted to know. U2 frontman Bono, Billy Talent, System of a Down, Bruce Cockburn and some of Bob Dylans' older things are some exceptions in the secular world, while Christian artists take it on just slightly more often.
The English word for "martyr" derives from martu or a "witness." Openly witnessing our faith or even quietly living it is extremely perilous in some places, and that arena seems to be growing.
"Des hommes et des dieux" ("Of Men and of Gods") is a 2010 French film where the dangers of Christian "witness" are beautifully depicted by director Xavier Beauvois. Based on the true story of Trappist monks serving Muslims in Algeria, seven who refused to leave were assassinated in 1996 during yet another Algerian Civil War. Strongly supportive of the monks' compassion and courage, the film was highly rated by critics but dissed by the public. Not enough things blowing up or just too much to think about at once?
Le Monde's Isabelle Regnier wrote: "We can, we must, even, consider this film as a profession of faith."
Visual art memorializing martyrs is slightly more likely to happen in Latin America. "Martyrs of Jesuit University" from El Salvador's 1989 civil war appear in a memorial plaque of murdered priests and workers who were suspected of supporting the dissidents. Br. Robert Lentz painted the piece 20 years later as circular icon-style portraits, usually reserved for saints. Another series of drawings posed as Stations of the Cross are from the Jesuit Chapel at the University of Central America, San Salvador. Typically, the Christian presenters inclusively extend justice to all people, as victims of the civil war weren't all religious and suffered on both sides.
The exhibit is prefaced by this: "A faith-filled reflection upon the suffering of Christ in the unjust tortures of the people of El Salvador."
Another beautiful contemporary piece referencing martyrdom is Mexican painter Mauricio García Vega's "Retablo de los mártires" ("Altar of the Martyrs"). His painting of human figures overwhelmed and almost obliterated by their surroundings is muted, somber and somewhat abstracted. They give the impression of a queue waiting for something, perhaps a judgment.
When Western artists take on the subject of martyrdom, it's generally mockingly light-hearted or simperingly self-serving. Did this trend begin with John Lennon's self-pitying plea as he compares himself to the death of Christ from a luxurious bed in the Amsterdam Hilton?
"Christ you know it ain't easy – you know how hard it can be
The way things are going, they're going to crucify me "
At any rate, swooningly rich and decadent artists from Lady Gaga to Madonna seem obsessed on showing each other up with personal fantasies of "victimhood" including binding, attacks and crucifixion. A Stockholm hard rock band is called "Crucified Barbara." Apparently their audiences are numbed and terrifically bored through constant displays of anatomy – anything to nab the glory without the pain.
Possibly the most successful contemporary American painter who has even addressed the subject of martyrdom and Christians is Kehinde Wiley. Some of his highly realistic, full-length portraits bear the names of famous saints from the past, but he makes it hard for us to take him seriously. For instance, in his St. Cecilia a young black person of indeterminate sex (but tending more male) stretches across a bed, apparently deceased. Pink, decorative floral background looking like upholstery catalogs make lighten the scene, as do the trendy street clothing with obvious name brands. Even some secular critics note the discrepancy between the subject and titular object in Wiley's works. They also complain that other artists actually created them, but that's another day's work.
Sawai Chinnawong is a Thai artist whose work centers on his strong Christian faith. Chinnawong's simple yet powerful painting "Lost Son" graphically evokes the emotion of a man who has lost his son – in this case because of his faith.
The leanness of the man and emptiness near his heart and belly are beautifully symbolic of what he is missing. He looks about to fall. It's a situation that happens in Chinnawong's nation, but even more so with his neighbors in Laos and Viet Nam.
But who gets the press and the gallery shows on martrydom? Ironically it's the same Muslims who covet and manufacture their own demise, possibly taking a host of innocent Christians and/or Muslims along with them.
This was the case in Paris last June when "Martyrs" art show by Ahlam Shibli at the Jeu de Paume featured Palestinian terrorists both dead and imprisoned for various crimes including stabbing children. The exhibit ignited some outcries (mostly by Jews, the intended targets in the first place), but the gallery denies it is "condoning terrorism" and the show goes on through this September.
In yet more denial of Christian persecution, Candida Moss pens "The Myth of Persecution," in 2013 where she deliberately ignores established facts and rewrites the history of the church all by herself. Although obviously some narratives of particular saints and situations have changed over the years, this century stands in refute to her statements that martyrdom is a "conspiratorial assumption" that we should just get over.
Moss' work was gleefully jumped upon by the Huffington Post and rode as hard as they could, perhaps to rationalize their constant attacks on Christians coupled with a new excuse to ignore real suffering, should they ever recognize it.
Moss' last offering as a supposed "leading expert on early Christianity" is a study in denial and obfuscation for whatever her purpose.
The martyrs of Compiègne, a group of Carmelite nuns beheaded by the French revolutionaries more than 200 years ago, have inspired numerous paintings, plays, novels and an opera. One of the sisters, Mother Henriette, penned a poem that was read at her execution. Below is a fragment comparing the world and its violence with her faith and God:
It is the sorrow that devours it.
I despise its pride,
I consider its hatred an honor;
and I prefer my chains
to its spurious freedom.
O day of eternal celebration
There's a tendency to ignore current atrocities until the last survivor is long gone before we publicize or mourn it. The string of WWII and Holocaust-based films and books are great and noble endeavors, but 70 years late to change anything. I suggest we use the arts to memorialize current victims of Christian persecution as well as Jewish and other groups. Perhaps it may stop attacks in the future, and if not, at least we did something.
In paraphrase of an old gospel tune, "Everybody talkin' bout justice ain't doin it … justice."


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I'm back have not been on here for a year crazy!!!! this page is so different!!! I miss the chat on here :(
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well, well, well... nice to see you again. I disappeared for a bit as well, but nobody seemed to notice. Seeing you here is certainly a pleasant surprise.


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|2011-07-15, 02:15
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Age: 24
I was happy with fall season when I heard Shakugan no shana season III was coming out but now that I see the list Fall season is going to be great for me
I am really REALLY looking forward to
Shakugan no shana III
Boku wa tomodachi ga sukunai
Shows that I know i am going to watch but not as hyped up about it as the two listed above
Working II
Bakuman season 2
Mirai Nikki
Persona 4
Series that I know nothing about that I will at least give a try
Kyoukai Senjou no horizon
Mashiro-iro symphony
Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai
|2011-07-15, 04:44
|Link #43
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: France
Age: 28
Me this spring: Woo, that's a lot of interesting series to watch.
Me this summer: There's so much to watch I'm already lagging behind during the second week of the season.
Me this fall: ... it looks even worse?
Have I already mentioned how much I've been loving 2011?
Will watch:
Persona 4 - So excited. Trailers look fantastic.
Mirai Nikki - Though I actually loathed many things from the short OVA and am thus pretty scared for the full series... but I can only watch it because the manga is that good.
Guilty Crown - I do kind of wonder why this even ended up on noitaminA (I guess I know the answer, it just still looks out of place), but anyway...
UN-GO - noitaminA #30. Or is it #31?
Chihayafuru - If noitaminA doesn't deliver in the female-oriented department this season, late-night NTV will do it instead. Great staff for an excellent manga (I couldn't help but start reading it after the announcement).
Haganai - Here's hoping this is as fun as the other AIC Build production. The designs are looking more and more Buriki-like.
Fate/Zero - Note that I'm totally oblivious to the whole TYPE-MOON universe, but this is a huge Ufotable production that I'd hate to miss.
Sekaiichi Hatsukoi S2 - Second season and all. More of Tori and less of the main couple... is what I'm hoping for but know won't happen.
And then maybe...
Gundam AGE - Nichigo series are always convenient to watch on Sundays, but I'm still sort of skeptical about the look of the series. The whole three generations deal has me intrigued, though.
Ben-To - That synopsis sounds like possibly fun material, and it's always nice to see Itagaki Shin still getting work.
C³ - Oonuma Shin.
Shinryaku!? Ika Musume - Fun first season, but I'm not sure we can get more fresh jokes for a whole new cour and yeah, so many actually new series to watch...
Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon - The PV did look great, I'm just not sure I can get into these characters and the universe?
Kimi to Boku - I like the fact that male school SOL gets a chance at being animated too. I don't know if the fact that it's male will make me gain enough interest to keep watching.
Shakugan no Shana III - I dropped II somewhere in the middle, yet the "Final" tag would make you think they won't waste time on boring arcs, wouldn't it?
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|2011-07-15, 05:01
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Join Date: Jul 2010
|2011-07-15, 10:53
|Link #45
Join Date: Jan 2009
Plenty of stuff
Shana III
Ika Musume
Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai
Dantalian no Shoka
Seitokai no Ichizon II
May watch:
Kyoukai Senjou no horizon
I swear...JC....Don't fuck up Shana again dammit...especially not with the last 3 volumes being so epic...
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|2011-07-15, 11:13
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Age: 28
- Boku wa tomodachi ga sukunai: I know the original source, hope the studio doesn't screw up the designs or the characters lines with censoring, still waiting for the date release.
- Ben-to: What I've heard about it is enough to convice me to watch it or at least try reading it someday.
- Persona 4: Just because I'm curious.
- Seitokai no ichizon 2: Just for the lulz.
- Lupin III: I'll try as long as they don't start recalling events from prequels I don't know.
- Dantalian no Shoka: I've heard is the same author from Asura Cryin which I watched time ago, so it can be interesting, the author never holds back with the tragedy.
- Shana III: I won't watch until a high reliable source/friend tells JC Staff didn't screw up... once again. That said, I never tried watching Shana II, so if the III is worth enough I'll marathon the II.
|2011-07-15, 16:57
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Licensed Hunter-a-holic
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 29
Dantalian no Shoka actually aired today ...
|2011-07-15, 18:15
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Lets be reality
Join Date: May 2007
We should rank which of the 4 is better after the 2 cour shows from Fall are finished... 07> 06 > 11 > 08-10.
|2011-07-16, 02:36
|Link #50
Prefectural Magical Girl
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Paris, France
|2011-07-17, 20:19
|Link #52
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2004
Will definitely watch:
Seitokai no Ichizon
Gundam AGE
Persona 4
Shana III
any sequels or continuing series
everything else:
will wait for previews and more information, having a full half of my slots assigned already will probably mean my standards are higher for the remaining.
|2011-07-17, 22:51
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2009
Checking out:
-Guilty Crown
-Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon
-Last Exile
-Mirai Nikki
-Un-Go (assuming it's centered around food?)
-Kimi to Boku
-BokuTomo (if reviews are favorable, and another guy joins the club T-T)
-Phi Brain
Not as many must-watches for me like in Summer 2011, but still a pretty nice lineup.
|2011-07-18, 00:13
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Prefectural Magical Girl
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Paris, France
|2011-07-18, 06:24
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I don't think it has much to do with age, maybe your preferences changed. (Maybe it does later on in life but I'd like to believe we are still relatively young.) I probably will be watching the same stuff when I reach 30.
Age shouldn't affect your interest, but a phase change in your life cycle would probably contribute to it.
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Invasion of hurricane-disturbed scrub communities on Mississippi barrier islands: A battle between native and non-native ecosystem engineers
Some communities may resist invasion because they are dominated by ecosystem engineers. If these dominant species are removed by a catastrophic disturbance, they can be replaced by invasive species that will dramatically alter the ecosystem in a way that may prevent its recovery. Hurricanes represent a major source of such catastrophic disturbance to coastal communities. The removal of Florida rosemary, a native allelopathic shrub, by Hurricane Katrina may have promoted the spread of an invasive grass within interior dune communities on Horn and Petit Bois Islands, Mississippi. Interactions among these two ecosystem engineers and periodic hurricanes could contribute to the structure of scrub communities on Gulf Coast barrier islands.
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On May 9, 1972, the West Virginia Board of Regents created a dual-campus community college out of what were formerly the Hancock County Branch and the Wheeling Campus of West Liberty State College. The Board specified that the newly created institution was to be a comprehensive community college responsible for educational programs of two years or less duration for high school graduates and adults. Responding to local community requests, the College began offering courses in New Martinsville in 1973 and established a campus there in 1975.
As a comprehensive community college, Northern offers a wide variety of programs and courses in the arts and sciences, career-technical education, developmental studies and community service. Under an open-door enrollment policy, the College admits all adults desiring postsecondary education. High school students recommended by their schools for early entrance are also admitted. Graduates receive Associate in Arts degrees, Associate in Science degrees, Associate in Applied Science degrees and Certificates.
The student population at West Virginia Northern Community College has grown consistently, at times having double digit enrollment growth, since the year 2000. Northern, a public, comprehensive community college with campus locations in Wheeling, Weirton, and New Martinsville, was created on May 9, 1972, and has grown into the largest institution of higher education in the Upper Ohio Valley. WVNCC currently is undergoing a years-long expansion and remodeling effort at all three campuses.
The College tuition schedule remains among the lowest in the state. Along with its service area of Hancock, Brooke, Ohio, Marshall, Wetzel and Tyler counties, WVNCC has a tuition reciprocity agreement that serves students in four neighboring Ohio counties: Jefferson, Harrison, Belmont and Monroe. A lowered metro rate is offered to students in the Pennsylvania counties of Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Washington and Greene as well as to students from Columbiana and Washington counties in Ohio.
As a comprehensive community college, Northern offers a wide variety of more than 70 programs in the arts and sciences and career-technical education, and dozens of continuing education offerings. There are nearly 20 specialized two plus two transfer programs with numerous four-year institutions. Online education offerings continue to expand, and Northern graduates also have direct access to some master's degree programs.
Recent highlights at the College include the following: the nursing graduate pass rate for the National Council Licensure Examination continues to improve, with Northern's students consistently bettering state and national averages; the Culinary Arts department again earned its national reaccreditation; and, students continue to receive the highest accolades for their many community service projects ranging from Military Mail Call to raising funds for several charitable causes.


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Sonogirl: Is it safe to sleep with them in your arms? I assume you would't do it if it wasn't... I just have been operating under the assumption that if you do that there's a chance that their heads can flop over or get into a bad position otherwise while you're asleep. Kind of like in the carseat- how they warn you not to leave them in it too long because their heads flop over and it can obstruct their airway.
What I have been doing now is letting him fall asleep latched on in sidelying position then waiting till he spits it out (then moves his head so my breast is his pillow!) and staying awake till he's in a deep enough sleep to move him to his back, propped up on me. Sometimes this works but more often than not, moving wakes him up. I generally have to do this several times till he stays asleep. But it's only a matter of time till I'm so tired I fall asleep before moving him.


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Well everyone else is doing it, so why not us? lol. I didn't see any other 09 Vandy threads, so don't flame me. Anyways, I just moved to Nashville, lovin it... live withing walking distance to the school, and can't wait to get started.
Anybody else here a little nervous that we might end up with a very small entering class? I guess that could be a good thing or a bad thing, or both. I know that they've already been letting some people in off the waitlist.


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Brian William Fish Jr. of Newburgh died August 28, 2013 from injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident. He was 18 years old. He was born September 6, 1994, the son of Jovan Mercado and Brian Fish, Sr. in Newburgh, NY.
With his bright green eyes, and his big warming smile, Brian always lit up the room. Whether you've known him for two days, or two years, he always had a way of making everyone feel special. Brian had the most beautiful soul in the world. There was no way you wouldn't instantly fall in love with him. He was a loving son, grandson, and greatest friend anyone could ever ask for.
Brian leaves to cherish his memory his mother, Jovan Mercado; his father, Brian Fish, Sr. and his step-mother, Lynn Fish; his brother, Braeden Fish; his maternal grandparents, Sonya and Louis Mercado; his paternal grandparents, Dang and Bill Fish; his step grand-parents, John and Kay McCrossen; his aunts and uncles: Mark and his wife, Louisa and Matthew Mercado, Natasha Mercado, Christina Pascarella Diaz, Don and Jess Fish, John and Dana McCrossen; several cousins and many friends.
Brian was predeceased by his sister, Brielle Fish on July 7, 2013.
Visitation for Brian will be held from 2 to 7 p.m. on Monday, September 2nd at Brooks Funeral Home, Newburgh. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, September 3rd at Sacred Heart Church. Burial will follow in Calvary Cemetery, New Windsor.
In honor of his sister, memorial donations may be made in Brian's name to Friends of Karen,118 Titkus Rd., North Salem, NY 10560; or Ronald McDonald House of the Hudson Valley, 80 Woods Rd., Valhalla, NY 10595.
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GIRLS SOCCER: The Mexico High School Lady Bulldogs soccer team lost to Hannibal Lady Pirates 3-0 Thursday night at home. The final was 3-0. Hannibal scored 2 in the first half of the match and 1 in the second half.
"This was another night that had some bright spots, but we need to still start to put 80 minutes out there, where all 11 players are competing for everything," remarked MHS Coach Brad Ellebracht.
The Lady Bulldogs who are 5-7 overall return to action tonight and Saturday in the Camdenton Invitational.
The junior varsity team also lost with a final score of 10-0.
BOYS GOLF: It was a bittersweet finish yesterday for Mexico Bulldogs boys golf team. "The sweetness came from defeating Fulton on both sides, but bitter because it signed the end of the regular season for the junior varsity plays and was the last home match for the three seniors," remarked MHS Coach John Knipfel. The seniors are Jared Melton, Jordan McNeil and Brock Lunceford.
The varsity Bulldogs won the match 167-182 and are noe 34-22 on the season. The JV team won 189-238 and finished the season 18-2.
However, the weather was perfect and the scores weren't too far from it. The junior varsity players set their season low with a 182 and varsity players were only a few off from breaking its season low.
Brock Lunceford 41.
Jordan McNeil 41.
Austin Kelsay 41.
Alex Bledsoe 42.
Vincent Perll 47.
Brandon Oligschlaeger 42.
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i use a tablet PC running WinCE 6.0 and i was wondering if ScummVM officially works on these devices, and if so which version?
The only thing i found was a quick and dirty gizmondo port that works quite well on it, but the list of supported games is old and outdated.
Uhm, i reply to myself for now.
Found a modified Version of 0.10.0 that runs very good, it also includes Simon, Elvira 1 and 2 and LSL allready.
Any newer versions known?
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i have a Windows Ce 6.0 PNA and i want to play Scummvm!
I havent found a Version that works!
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Jorgensen defends title at Yokohama triathlon
YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — Gwen Jorgensen of the United States won the world series triathlon event in Yokohama on Saturday, successfully defending her title.
Jorgensen pulled ahead in the run leg and finished with a time 1 hour, 58 minutes, 38 seconds. Japan's Ai Ueda was second with a time of 1:59.14 followed by Agnieszka Jerzyk of Poland in 1:59.24.
Jorgensen took the lead from Ueda on the second of four laps and held on for her first win of the season. Ueda became the second Japanese athlete to podium at Yokohama, alongside Juri Ide, and claimed her first career medal.
Britain's Jodie Stimpson, who won the first two events of the season, finished ninth despite suffering a cut foot and maintained her lead in the overall standings after three rounds.
Javier Gomez of Spain won the men's event, clocking a time of 1:45.31 to edge compatriot Mario Mola in a photo-finish. Richard Murray of South Africa was third with a time of 1:46.00.
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BRUSSELS, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- The Turkish government is commended for work on resolving issues with the Kurdish minority though the political climate is polarized, the European Union said.
Turkey aspires to a closer relationship with the European Union. The EU said it was mindful of reforms needed for improved ties, notably steps taken to resolve issues with the Kurdish minority.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in September unveiled a sweeping package of reforms Monday meant to resolve the 30-year conflict. Among his reforms were concessions for the Kurdish language and a reversal on the ban of traditional headscarves for women.
The EU said, however, the political climate in Turkey is "marked by polarization." This was exemplified in nation-wide protest early this year, which the EU said was largely a reaction to a democracy "relying exclusively on parliamentary majority, rather than a participative process in which all voices are heard."
Amnesty International published a 53-page report Oct. 2 on allegations of the excessive use of police force during this year's unrest. The organization said demonstrators were denied their right to peaceful assembly through the use of intimidation.
The EU said its mixed assessment underlined "the importance for the EU to enhance its engagement with Turkey on fundamental rights."