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Here is a character that looks like it could be Finn's cousin. Up next you will learn "how to draw Chris", step by step from the YouTube series Bravest Warriors. This character is also created by Pendleton Ward who is the same person that brought Finn and Jake to life for us to enjoy. His full name is Chris Kirkman and he too is one of the three heroes. He has a big time crush on Beth and because of this Chris sometimes looses himself when he is paying attention to what she is doing even if she's just standing there. The most difficult part to this tutorial is going to be his hands I think because they are the most detailed thing on his body. Don't fret because drawing Chris Kirkman should still prove to be rather easy. Yes, I do have more tuts on the way for you all so stick around.
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text: Nice that each has found someone who "understands". Let us hope they email each other directly, incessantly. Maybe someone should fund a think-tank for these great minds--with padded walls? We have a couple of other candidates, absent from this group (mercifully) for a while, but not forgotten... F. LeFever In <913570714.12075.0.nnrp-06.d4e44203 at news.demon.co.uk> "Andrew K Fletcher" <andrew.k.fletcher at naturesway.demon.co.uk> writes: > >Thanks for your kind review Ken > >Would like to offer the following remark to the use of a microscope, and >hope it is received in a positive context. > >Education has been the downfall of science and prohibits free thinking. >Education causes people to stop before they say something. A child is far >more clever than some well educated people, whom I have met. They have >become too well educated, and no longer see the wood for the trees. >A top scientist was talking on a BBC radio program about the advances in >science. Listeners were invited to ask him questions. > >Needless to say there were not many takers. However I asked him this >question: "When you look through your microscope, do you see more or less of >the object which you are focused on?". To my surprise he couldn't answer the >question and blinded the question with B.S. and somewhat hesitant political >skill. A child would have probably answered "More", meaning more detail, but >you actually see less of the object. >I was trying to point out that the closer one looks at the details the less >one sees. In other words step back and look at the whole picture. This is >particularly important with regard to trying to work out how things happen >in the real world. You can't take a slice from a tree any more than you can >take a slice from a vital organ, to find out how it works because you have >disconected it. "Sorry for stating the obvious again". >kkollins at pop3.concentric.net wrote in message ><36733F0D.5BA589C9 at pop3.concentric.net>... >>Good for you, Andrew, the integration inherent in your Theory is >>Quite-Nice. You can Verify your position be-cause, if it's Correct, the >>"tube"-construction must be graded over the length of the tubes >>(greatest where the tube is oldest, least where the tube is newest.) a >>carefully cross-sectioned tree, a microscope, and the Will to do what'll >>be a lengthy cross-correlation process are all you need. >> >>I enjoyed reading your work. Cheers, Ken Collins >> >>Andrews K Fletcher wrote: >> >>[his Interesting Theoretical Position re. water flow in trees] > >

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From today, you can admire the spectacular lights of nature on Google Maps – Google Street View.
The images are those of the Northern Lights of frozen lakes of Finland.
Click here to see the Aurora Borealis on Google Maps – Google Street View.
Northern Lights, Finland
The aurora borealis, also known as Aurora Borealis, is a natural light in the sky, especially in view of high latitude regions (Arctic and Antarctic).
The northern lights can take many different forms.
The northern lights have had a number of names throughout history.
In medieval Europe, the northern lights were commonly thought to be a sign from God.


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OBX proposals
From OLPC
These are some of the possible Category:OBX templates under consideration for development in November 2007. (Most were subsequently developed, some are little-used as of December 2008.) This is both a sandbox and a catalog for ideas. What follows are just ideas, with very little consideration for aesthetics, only the functionality (good; bad; yes, but...) and utility are to be considered.
Suggestions & requests
Please feel free to add ideas and suggestions about what you feel would be a good box to have, a textual description is more than enough (no need to try doing it yourself :)
- team member status — Lauren suggested it, but can't imagine what she meant...
- My best guess is stuff like "I'm an intern!" "I'm a Director!" "I'm an enthusiast!" "Im a staff member!" "I'm an XO user!" "I'm a very, very frequent volunteer!" Mchua 02:06, 13 July 2007 (EDT)
- make boxes for different purposes different colors, for example 'i am a(n) artist/game developer/teacher/etc' could be red, while 'i want to find a(n) artist/game developer/teacher/etc' could be blue (and so on)
- davewa would like to propose this user box:
- note that the extensive use of OBX templates on activity pages is redundant with the addition of Form:Activity and Template:Activity page to activity pages in 2008. Semantic MediaWiki#For activities suggests ways to harmonize them.
(see #currently available) sample target invocation intended target pages notes, observations, etc. {{OBX license cc|by-nc-sa|3.0}} anything licenseable under CC see: {{OBX license cc}} GNU licensed under GPL-2.0 {{OBX license gnu|gpl|2.0}} anything licenseable under GNU see: {{OBX license gnu}} Public Domain — verify if considerations apply. {{OBX license pd}} anything licenseable under PD*
variants for moral rights may be easy
see: {{OBX license pd}} {{OBX source dev|name}} all activity and software component pages that have their sources in dev.laptop.org see: {{OBX source dev}} SVN sources in code.google.com {{OBX source other|[http://code.google.com/p/facilhtml code.google.com]|SVN}} all activity and software component pages that DON'T have their sources in dev.laptop.org see: {{OBX source other}} fedoraproject.org - write.master.pot
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Others el / pt_BR
see {{OBX pot}} Anything managing POT & PO files for Localization see: {{OBX pot}} Pootle Localization
.POT file NEEDED
see {{OBX pootle|pot=HttpUrl|others=list}} Anything managing POT & PO files in the Pootle server for Localization see: {{OBX pootle}} .xo Bundle – measure.xo {{OBX xobundle|http://dev.laptop.org/~arjs/Measure-9.xo|measure}} all activities that have a .xo bundle see: {{OBX xobundle}} {{OBX devtickets|chat-activity}} activities with tickets in dev.laptop.org see: {{OBX devtickets}} {{ OBX team |people-list|contact }} any activity, componente, etc. page that people are contributing to see {{OBX team}} {{ OBX activity |{{{icon}}}|{{{category}}}|{{{text}}} }} basically all activity pages see {{OBX activity}} TST Kuku
Need re-test: 2007-09-18
{{OBX test |{{planlink}}|{{{updated?}}} }} all activity and components with a plan
{{{updated}}} is optional and highlighted when it should be re-tested due to changes in the software (suggested by SJ).
see {{OBX test}}
{{OBX mimetypes | type | subtype }} basically any page, and software components that handles mimetypes see {{OBX mimetypes}} — although a full-template, it is still being thought out... type|subtype is messy for all categories, and one thing is the actual mime type and another is the file extension... FDBK User feedback can be found in {{{wikilink}}} {{OBX feedback|location}} basically any page, and software components that want to have feedback the {{{wikilink}}} could be local or external, preferably a subpage (ie: [[somepage/Feedback]] which could be the default if no parameter is given). DEV I develop/test using {{{environment}}} on {{{platform}}} {{OBX develop|environment|platform}} for users to declare their platform of choice the environment could be QEMU, jhbuild, etc, while platfrom could be Fedora, Ubuntu, etc.
This activity relies on the camera and/or microphone {{OBX cameramic}} any activity that needs the camera and/or microphone ◯ ╳
△ ▢
This activity relies on the game pad {{OBX gamepad}} any activity that needs the game pad ◯ ╳
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This activity can be used in console mode {{OBX console}} any activity that can be used in console mode (needs the game pad) similar to {{OBX gamepad}} above {{OBX mesh}} any activity that needs the Category:Network This activity relies on the Internet {{OBX mesh internet}} any activity that needs the Internet BLD First appeared in build {{{number}}} {{OBX build xo|number}} for those components that have been included in the builds STAT The status of is {{{stat}}} {{OBX source stat|stat}} basically any page that people are contributing for the concept embodied in said page the {{{stat}}} could be segmented into things like idea, pre-alpha, alpha, beta, ...
pedagogical aspects
SUBJ Related to {{{subject}}} {{OBX school subject|subject}} for material targeted for a particular school subject the {{{subject}}} should be segmented into things like Math, Geography, etc. ... SCHL Related to {{{school}}} {{OBX school|school}} Page is related to the particular {{{school}}} GRD Related to school grade {{{grade}}} {{OBX school grade|grade}} Page is related to a particular {{{grade}}} ART I'm an [[Category:Artist|Artist]] can do [[Category:Artist foo|foo]] {{User artist|foo}} A user would define itself as an Artist (cateogry), capable of doing foo (subcategory or artist), and also register as a volunteer (another category) ART In need of a [[Category:Wanted Artist foo|foo]] artist {{OBX artist wanted|foo}} A 'consumer' would specify some need for an Artist (cateogry), capable of doing foo (subcategory or artist). Those would be just references, not categorizations. Suggest by an IRC chat with User:nlee
INT ern This user is an intern doing blah {{User intern|project|mentor}} If a user is an intern it would (besides categorize the page) provide links to the mentor, project, etc. MEN tor This user is an mentor doing blah {{User intern|project|mentor}} If a user is an mentor/tutor it would (besides categorize the page) provide links to the mentor, project, etc. ie User:Bnardone/Internship
GEO The location is linkToMap. See XO map. {{OBX geocoord|lat|long|XO}} basically any page that could be plotted (a Category:Pilot site, a particular XO, etc) the linkToMap would be built similarly to this pseudo template XO Have XO will travel.{{{model}}}-{{{serial}}} {{OBX xo|model|serial}} user pages that want to publicize their XO with pride this should probably be an user box, and could be merged with the GEO above.
superseded prototypes
The following are trials that are only kept as testimony of ideas or alternatives. l10n The localization resources can be found in {{{wikilink}}} {{OBX source l10n|wikilink}} basically all activity pages, and software components that need to be l10n-ed superseded by {{OBX pot}} .PO This is the PO file of {{{wikilink}}} {{OBX l10n wikipo|wikilink}} basically any software components that need to be l10n-ed superseded by {{OBX pot}} .POs list of lang-link {{OBX l10n langs|xx|wikilinkXX|yy|wikilinkYY...}} basically any software components that need to be l10n-ed superseded by {{OBX pot}}
currently available
These are the Category:Userbox templates available — they have been 'inlined' using {{Userboxmacro}} This user is a teacher. This user is a primary teacher at {{{1}}} This user is a university teacher at {{{1}}} This user is in educational technology. See: {{User teacher}} {{User teacher primary}} {{User teacher university}} {{User edtech}} school}}{{User time zone|UTC|world}}{{User translator|en|es}} See: {{User student}} {{User time zone}} {{User translator}} no.spam|inter.net}}{{User irc|nickname|#channels}} See: {{User mail}} {{User irc}} These are the Category:OBX templates available — they have been 'inlined' using {{Olpcboxmacro}} by-nc-sa|3.0}}{{OBX license gnu|gpl|2.0}} Public Domain — verify if considerations apply. See {{OBX license cc}} {{OBX license gnu}} {{OBX license pd}} projects/kuku}}{{OBX source other|code.google.com|SVN}}{{OBX activity||core|description }} See {{OBX source dev}} {{OBX source other}} {{OBX activity}} http://dev.laptop.org/~arjs/Measure-9.xo|measure}}{{OBX devtickets|chat-activity}}{{OBX team |people-list|contact }} See {{OBX xobundle}} {{OBX devtickets}} {{OBX team}} Kuku}} fedoraproject.org - write.master.pot
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Pootle Localization
.POT file NEEDED
See {{OBX test}} {{OBX pot}} {{OBX pootle}}
Facts about OBX proposalsRDF feed
- See Wikipedia:Userboxes/Profession for ideas
Localization URL http://translate.fedoraproject.org/POT/olpc-write.master/write.master.pot +Categories: Translated Pages | XO source | POT | PO lang-ar | PO wanted lang-en | PO lang-es | PO lang-fr | PO wanted lang-pt | PO wanted lang-ro | PO lang-others | Pootle | POT wanted | Activity bundle | Activities | Games | Test plans updated | Mimetype image | Mimetype png | Mimetype jpeg | Mimetype | Educators | OBX templates
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Language support > Pootle
Language support > Translated Pages
Learning > Education
Media > Bundles > Activity bundle
PO wanted lang-en
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People > Educators
Projects > Content
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Saints have had a £7m bid for Jay Rodriguez accepted by Burnley.
As revealed last week, the two clubs were in discussions regarding a deal worth in excess of £6m for the striker.
The Clarets, who are resigned to losing the 22-year-old this summer, had valued the player at £8m.
But with the forward having just one year left on his Turf Moor contract, the Championship side have been willing to accept a smaller sum.
If Rodriguez does move to Saints, the fee would break the club's long-standing transfer record, set when they signed Rory Delap for £4m from Derby in 2001.


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Iran is on pace to become one of the regional leaders in terms of underground storage of natural gas, a top energy executive said.
Shourijeh, a gas storage facility in Iran's northeastern province of North Khorassan, is expected to come on stream later this year. It's expected to hold as much as 700 million cubic feet of gas for Iran.
For the inland facilities, Managing Director of Natural Gas Storage Co. Massoud Samivand said the country will have the largest storage capabilities for natural gas in the region.
"Iran will become one of five main countries in the world and second in the Middle East with underground facilities for natural gas storage," he said Saturday.
Gas storage helps Iran meet its economic demands for energy products. Last year, the government said it was self-sufficient in terms of oil and natural gas.
Iran is second only to Russia in terms of proven natural gas reserves with an estimated 1.1. quadrillion cubic feet as of January 2013.
Iran last week announced it launched its first-ever floating gas condensate export terminal in the waters of the Persian Gulf.
[Fars News Agency]


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Featured News - Current News - Archived News - News Categories
The 2013 Conference on the Environment is slated to kick off in Buffalo on Thursday, Oct. 3, at the Adam's Mark Hotel when Gord Downie - frontman for The Tragically Hip - presents an evening of song and conversation on the environment. Tickets are available to the public for $25 and can be purchased through the 2013 Conference on the Environment website, coe2013.org. Proceeds from the event will benefit the Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper.
Although Downie, pictured, is best known for his music, over the years he has become a strong advocate for protecting the Great Lakes and for people's water rights. As a member of Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, much of Downie's environmental activism has been focused on the Canadian side of Lake Ontario. However, the health of the Great Lakes has no political boundaries, nor does citizens' rights to protect the largest source of fresh water on earth.
Downie's performance will be the highlight of the 2013 Conference on the Environment. His passion for the environment, translated into eclectic performance, will inspire the audience to examine its actions from a more ecological perspective as Downie explores what he considers "one of the great loves of our lives" - the environment.
Doors open at 6 p.m., when the Western New York Environmental Alliance will showcase the work of environmental organizations from across the region. Downie will take the stage at 7:30 p.m.
"An Evening with Gord Downie" is sponsored by the New York State Association of Conservation Commissions, New York State Association of Environmental Management Councils, the Erie County Department of Environment and Planning, and the Niagara Region Integrated Community Planning Department. It is made possible through the contributions of Ecology and Environment Inc., The Community Foundation of Greater Buffalo, and National Grid.
The 2013 Conference on the Environment is a program of NYSACC and NYSAEMC, and has been brought to Buffalo thanks to a partnership with the Erie County Department of Environment and Planning and the Niagara Region Integrated Community Planning Department. The conference will take place Oct. 3-5 at the Adam's Mark Hotel in downtown Buffalo. It is dedicated to helping the public and those in the environmental and allied fields respond to environmental opportunities and challenges relevant to communities across the U.S. and Canada.
Registration is $120 and includes all conference sessions, select meals, and a ticket to "An Evening with Gord Downie." For full conference details, visit coe2013.org.


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A man has been jailed for two-and-a-half years after Derbyshire police stopped a car he was driving and found drugs inside.
Derby Crown Court heard on Tuesday, February 11, how Tom Carey, 23, was sentenced to a total of 30 months after he pleaded guilty to possessing diamorphine, two lots of cathinone derivative and possessing MDMA with the intent to supply.
Officers were on patrol in Dronfield on the night of April 29 when they saw Volvo driving through the town.
They decided to stop and check the car as there had been several burglaries in the area and pulled the vehicle was pulled over on Lea Road.
The car smelled of cannabis, according to police, and Carey was taken to Dronfield police station and searched.
Drugs were found in the car and at Carey's house, in Norton Lane, Sheffield.


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MattRobinson needed a new stationery design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 67 designs submitted by 21 freelance designers.
"Our Family Serving Yours" is more than a slogan for us. We are a locally owned service orientated business in Jacksonville Florida.
Our staff are caring and experienced professionals who understand that each family is unique and has personal requests and traditions.
We serve the Jacksonville community and have a strong perceived value in our area. We are perceived as approachable by our community.
Peeples Family Funeral Home are a well established company serving families since 1968 with care and compassion.
The logo & stationery needs to be Contemporary and modern but respectful. It needs to be simple, convey trust professionalism and integrity.
It will be on the website and business cards of the company.
Colours required are to be earth tones. Either one of the following two combinations can be used; Black, Tope, Dark Biege, or Navy, Gold, Tope, Dark Beige
Keep it simple
The logo must just have "Peeples" as the title
We don't want :
We have attached the old logo but don't want the rose or doves
Dolphins or other animals, Dollar signs, money bills, cartoons,
Usage of pink or other feminine colors
No coffins, urns or funeral related images
Overly complicated icons
Please don't add the slogan to the logo
Religious symbols as we serve various religious groups
- logo
- business card
- letterhead 8.5 x 11
- envelope - #10
The files we will require are:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
Print file format - .eps
Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo


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Daily Freeman Life Editor Ivan Lajara talks about journalism, living in the Hudson Valley, language, the Web, cats and even politics. But he shouldn't.
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Take a 360-degree ride inside the Trolley in Kingston
The Kingston Trolley Museum offers rides in Downtown Kingston from the bottom of Broadway to Rotary Park (by Kingston Point) from noon to 5 on weekends through Oct. 10. It makes a stop at the museum (though passengers seem puzzled at the stop on a recent visit, because the museum doesn't look like a museum) and a 10 minute stop at the park. Rides are $6 for adults and $4 for children (ages up to 5 ride for free). Fun for kids and a nice break if you're about town. There was a bit of a smell during a small part of the ride on this particular visit, but 360 videos don't have smell-o-vision.
Side note for journo-types looking for freebie audio files: Song is "Respira" by Jacopo Tore, used under Creative Commons license 4.0, shortened for length. You can get that for use (even commercially) and others where it came from at the Free Music Archive site.


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Are you the same person you were before you had kids?
Does that mean you've lost your identity?
Maybe. But whether or not you've "lost" your identity is your call. Your judgment.
Me? I lost my identity. More like I let it go. But I found a new one. One that I'm mostly okay with. Make sense? No?
Here, let me explain.
I was reading this article over on Jezebel by Tracy Moore called For The Love Of All That Is Holy: You Don't Lose Your Identity When You Become A Parent, You Lose Your Minutes. A mouthful of a title, yes, but it does a good job explaining the article too.
Moore argues that your identity isn't gone after you have kids, it's still lurking somewhere inside you, it just can't manifest itself very often because you don't have the time to indulge it. Meaning, you want to go to that yoga class you frequented before baby but now that baby is a demanding, little toddler who rarely allows you the time it takes to get your downward dog on.
I get Moore's point and think she's onto something but feel like she's taking only a small bite of the whole enchilada. I also think being afraid of the person you might become after having children is a huge factor for those on the fence about becoming parents. And as much as I want to assuage the concerns of those fence-riders that no, you don't really change after having kids, I don't necessarily agree with Moore. I think your before-baby identity definitely takes a beating after the little one arrives, but that doesn't have to be a bad thing, as Moore seems to be implying.
Am I into the same things I was before kids? Probably. Mostly. But I've also gained new interests as a result of being a parent and decided other interests weren't really worth my time. And still other changes, deeply profound changes, have taken place. That's my identity changing as a result of being a parent. Doesn't mean it's changing for the bad; it's just changing. The profound changes in her own personality may be imperceptible to Moore, or she's choosing not to see them because she views it as a way to fight the inevitable "you're a boring parent now" label, but they're there and they aren't simply a result of not having the time to indulge them. It's bigger than that.
Becoming a parent can make you feel differently about religion, books, politics all those things that together create your identity. Being a parent changes your perception. For example, I was staunchly pro-choice before giving birth. I had an abortion when I was 17 and greatly appreciated having the option and still feel that others should have the option as well. Now? After having children, while I still consider myself pro-choice, the issue isn't as black and white for me and if I could go back and do it all over again I'd opt for adoption. Is the change in my identity positive or negative? It all depends on how I feel about it. That's why I mentioned way up there that whether or not you've "lost" your identity is your call. Your judgment.
There are some changes in my identity that I view as negative and I suspect these are the changes many of those riding the parenting fence fear the most. I sometimes go for weeks sporting sweatpants or leggings, no make-up and un-styled (and sometimes unwashed) hair. To be fair, that can also be directly correlated to the fact that I work from home but it's also, as Moore points out, due to the fact that I don't have the time to apply make-up or coordinate some snazzy outfit because I'm too busy playing mom.
The real truth is, I just don't care about that stuff as much. In the grand scheme of my life right now it doesn't seem as important as other things. This is what Moore is talking about: not having the time to indulge those things that create our identity. But not having the time has led me to discover that maybe the things I once considered so important aren't really that big of a deal after all. I also recognize that once my kids are older I may swing back toward a desire to be on the cusp of fashion with the latest jeans, shoes, hair-dos and make-up because I still occasionally find myself interested, but not like before.
This state of affairs (make-up-less, style-less) feels uncomfortably close to a description of what parenting must look like to those childless folks scared and still deciding whether or not they want kids I found on Ask Moxie:
Tired, worn out, cranky. No energy for anything creative. Endless posts about potty training and T ball, pictures of first days of school and Halloween costumes. Not sexy, not confident. Not doing anything but react to whatever bodily-fluid-covered problem you step in right then. Bored. Settling.
I acknowledge this as an apt description for who I am sometimes and I'm okay with that. It's part of parenting. If I really wanted to I could put in the extra effort to really hit the gym, carefully choose flattering outfits, and style my hair, but I don't feel like it right now and that's part of my identity change. Maybe those women contemplating becoming mothers are afraid of losing their sassy identities, afraid of becoming me; but they don't have to become me.
Prioritize. If being stylish is really important to you, hang onto that and let other, less important characteristics of your identity go. Because, believe me, something's gotta go. Parenting doesn't leave room for you to indulge everything you did before baby. But it brings other things to the table. Yes, that includes sleepless nights and poop and various otherbodily fluids, but the rewards are many.
So listen. It's not like parenting will sneak up on you and steal your identity like some Internet thief. Not if you conscientiously decide what is important to you. It's all in your hands. If running is your thing, make sure you proactively carve out that time and make it known that this is what you plan to be doing. You can make it happen.
Don't let parenting happen to you; go into it proactively, knowing what path you want to carve. You can keep the important parts of your identity. You just need to recognize what it is about yourself you consider important and make those things your priority while parenting. But if, like me, those things no longer feel important, that's okay too. That doesn't mean you're "losing your identity;" your priorities have changed and you are letting certain parts of your identity go. For just a few years, anyway, when the kids are really young. And the rewards you get back during that time you put a few of your things on the back burner are many. It's worth the exchange, it really is. And you might come out the other side a new and improved version of you.
With the 20/20 vision that hindsight affords, in a couple more years, when my kids are older, I'll be able to look back and see even more clearly how parenting has changed my identity. It's inevitable. It happens. It's happening right now! And that's okay. All huge life experiences impact us in numerous, often unidentifiable ways. Jobs. Relationships. Vacations. Parenting is no different.
Don't be afraid of losing your identity. You'll find a new one. One filled with the same positives and negatives contained within your current identity. That's what life's about: learning new things, ascending to a new level of consciousness, keeping what you like, discarding what you don't and learning, always learning.
Do I miss certain things about my before-baby self? Sure. But I've also developed new characteristics that are just as great, if not better. I have compassion, patience, and I'm more receptive to the feelings of others. So yeah, I could go on and on about how parenting has made me a better person and shown me a capability to love and a selflessness I never knew I had, but that's just smoke and mirrors to someone who doesn't have children and is worried about losing themselves within parenthood.
The bottom line is simply this: You won't lose your identity so much as let it go as you build a new one. It's exciting. An adventure. You'll find a different, stronger self that you never would have realized were it not for the myriad of wild experiences only parenthood offers.


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Tapioca starch gives udon extra chewy texture, even though I used lesser amount of bread flour as I always did. I cooked my udon in dashi stock on T's request. He said "we can taste the udon better in simple stock". Since when he has became a food critic? By the way, udon can be served with warm dashi stock, either plain or with some toppings such as tempura. It can also be served chilled, just like cold soba. If you like stir-fried noodles, try with udon too.
2½ cup bread flour
2½ cup all-purpose flour
2 tbsp tapioca starch
1⅓ cup warm water
1 tsp salt
- Dissolve salt in the water and set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, bring together bread flour, all-purpose flour and starch. Make a small well in the center and add in water.
- Mix with fingers from the well, and slowly form into a lumpy ball. Don't worry that if the dough is a bit on the dry or hard side.
- Rest dough for 15 minutes or longer, then it will be easier or softer to work with. Knead it on the lightly floured surface until smooth. Keep dough in an air-tight container or plastic bag, rest for a few hours or overnight if possible.
- Knead again. If you are making in large quantity, you may want to wrap dough with heavy duty plastic sheets, place it on the floor and have a little dance on it.
- Roll out the dough into ½ cm thickness and cut into strips. Drop udon into boiling water and cook until they are floated on the surface. Ready to serve.
(recipe updated on 27 June 2009)


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Rsyslog is an enhanced multi-threaded syslogd with a focus on security and
Among others, it offers support for on-demand disk buffering, reliable syslog
over TCP, SSL, TLS and RELP, writing to databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle,
and many more), email alerting, fully configurable output formats (including
high-precision timestamps),the ability to filter on any part of the syslog
message, on-the-wire message compression, and the ability to convert text
files to syslog.
It is a drop-in replacement for stock syslogd and able to work with the same
configuration file syntax. Its advanced features make it suitable for
enterprise-class, encryption protected syslog relay chains while at the same
time being very easy to setup for the novice user.
Tracking v4-stable
WWW: http://www.rsyslog.com/
No installation instructions: this port has been deleted.
The package name of this deleted port was: rsyslog4-libdbi
PKGNAME: rsyslog-libdbi
distinfo: There is no distinfo for this port.
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
No options to configure
Number of commits found: 4
EOL Upstream
sysutils/rsyslog4|rsyslog5|2012-01-16|EOL Upstream
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Police are looking for a man who walked into Affordable Tanning, near Gold Star Chili in Dry Ridge, on Monday and demanded cash.
According to Dry Ridge Police Chief Rick Kells, the man, whom clerks describe as a black male, entered the business around noon and demanded all the cash from the cash drawer.
Kells said he threatened the clerk with a weapon. She told police she believes she saw the outline of a handgun in jacket pocket.
The man fled on foot. The clerk did not see which direction he went in.
Two men were killed early Sunday morning in a three-vehicle crash on Interstate-75 south of the Crittenden exit.
Robert Roaden, 33, of Williamstown and Jerry Martin, 89, of Centerville, Ohio died at the scene.
Police said the wreck occurred when Roaden's vehicle ran off the right side of the roadway, traveling several hundred feet before it came back on the road and then overturned multiple times.
Roaden was thrown from the wreckage. Police said he was not wearing a seatbelt.
A Corinth man tasted freedom for just 24 hours before he was arrested and returned to the Grant County Detention Center.
Kenneth Forrester walked away from the Grant County Animal Shelter around 1 p.m. on Nov. 4.
According to Jailer Terry Peeples, Forrester had been working at the shelter for about nine months as part of the Class D program. Shelter staff noticed he wasn't at his work assignment and they alerted the detention center.
A Corinth man tasted freedom for just 24 hours before he was arrested and returned to the Grant County Detention Center.
Kenneth Forrester walked away from the Grant County Animal Shelter around 1 p.m. on Nov. 4.
According to Jailer Terry Peeples, Forrester had been working at the shelter for about nine months as part of the Class D program. Shelter staff noticed he wasn't at his work assignment and they alerted the detention center.
By Mike Boyer, Kentucky Enquirer
Seven people were injured - two seriously - in a two-vehicle crash on Interstate 75 Sunday afternoon about 2:30 which closed the northbound late in Kenton County for more than two hours.
Kenton County Police said a 12-year-old boy in a Chevrolet Blazer driven by Beverly Bates, 40, of Dry Ridge, was flown to Cincinnati Children's Hospital with multiple injuries. Police said he wasn't wearing a seat belt.
A Corinth man died following an accident over the weekend.
Mike Howe, 44, died when a tree that he was moving with his tractor snapped and hit him in the head.
The accident occurred around 6:15 p.m.
Howe had been cutting trees, dragging them to the rear of his property and splitting them for firewood.
Grant County Sheriff Chuck Dills said Howe was using the bucket on his tractor to raise and move the trees.
"It looked like the tree slipped, snapped and then flew back and hit him," Dills said.
Two adults and two juveniles have been arrested in connection with a string of robberies in Dry Ridge that occurred within the last several weeks.
Justin Mallott and Dillon Lewis, both 18 and residents of Dry Ridge, have been charged with theft by unlawful taking over $500. They were lodged in the Grant County Detention Center.
Two juveniles, one 16 and one 17, were also charged. One of the teens was lodged in the Campbell County Detention Center.
Firefighters from seven departments battled a blaze, which leveled a Cordova business last week.
A Corinth firefighter received minor injuries after he was knocked down by an explosion inside the wood frame structure.
The fire broke out around 4:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 21 at Mike's Auto Salvage on KY 330.
The cause of the fire is not known but a deputy fire marshal was scheduled to visit the site on Oct. 26 to see if a cause could be determined.
What began as a few isolated incidents of items being removed from unlocked cars has turned into dozens of thefts from all over the county.
Williamstown Assistant Police Chief Chris Hankins received several complaints a couple of weeks ago of items being removed from cars parked on residential streets in Williamstown.
"We've seen both vehicles hit that were locked and unlocked," Hankins said.
Windows were smashed on the vehicles that were locked.
If you've got copper and scrap metal that you want to keep, police are advising you to lock it up or it may disappear.
Local police agencies have been inundated with complaints about missing wire and metal from construction sites, houses in foreclosure, churches and businesses.
"We are taking complaints nearly every day of stolen copper and scrap from people's property," said Williamstown Police Chief Al Rich.
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Staging Block
Content → Objects → Staging Block
- Index | General | Sections | Details | Permissions
What is a Staging Block?
- A staging block is a special kind of block divided in multiple detection sections.
- Trains with undefined length are not allowed to enter.
- Regarding the train length one or more trains can be serially staged.
- One or more sections can be reserved for a train depending of its length.
- The staging block will move the containing trains forwards if the first train has left.
- Its one way only. The arrow side is exit.
- Not usable with track driver systems.
The staging block shows the loco ID only on reserve and enter, in all other cases the number of occupied sections is shown in brackets.
A '<' sign shows that the exit side of the staging block is closed.
A gray background shows that the enter side of the staging block is closed.
Staging Automation
- As soon as a train arrives in a staging block it will be placed in manual mode.
- The train will be moved to free sections under control of the staging block until it arrives in the last section in which the auto mode is reactivated again.
- A train can only be stopped traveling to another block if the staging block has been closed or if the train is put to the hold status before it is in the last section.
- The function stop all locs does not prevent, that trains leave the staging block.
- A section can only be used if it is electrically and logically free.
- Every sensor and unlock event will trigger the compress command to move trains to open sections.
- A manual start loco command will be rejected if the train is not in the last section.
- A pending leaving train is not allowed to reserve the same Staging Block.
- To disable departure the following options are available:
- Close exit.
- Disable automode.
- The trains that are present are moved in the direction of the "exit" section, in order to free up the "entry" section and to fill gaps in the sections.
- If the exit is open, the train in the "exit" section will be placed in "Auto" mode.
Put into Operation / Out of Operation
Controls the "enter" flow the staging block.
Close Exit / Open Exit
Controls the "exit" flow of the staging block.
Properties of this Staging Block.
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Museum Hosts Live Programming for NASA's Mars
Denver Museum of Nature & Science Features Live Video
Q&A with Experts at Kennedy Space Center November 23, 25, and
26, Plus Live Launch Coverage on November 26
DENVER-November 16, 2011- NASA's Mars
Science Laboratory (MSL) mission will launch the
rover Curiosity-the largest mobile
spacecraft ever launched to another planet-to Mars on Saturday,
November 26. The Denver Museum of Nature & Science is
offering interactive programming November 23, 25, and 26, plus
special launch coverage on November 26. All programs are included
FREE with Museum admission.
Live, Interactive Programming with Space
Experts-November 23, 25, and 26
The Museum will host live, interactive video programming
from NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, in partnership
with NASA, the Virginia Air and Space Center, and the National
Institute of Aerospace. Dr. Steve Lee, the Museum's curator of
planetary science, will host the live broadcasts from the space
center with a variety of scientists, engineers, educators, and NASA
officials who will answer questions from audiences at multiple
museums, the KSC Visitor Complex, and online
The live broadcasts are scheduled at the following
There will be two 30-minute audience Q&A sessions each day
between the experts at KSC and the Denver Museum of Nature &
Science audiences. For a complete schedule, including names of the
speakers, click
here. Eddie Goldstein, the Museum's senior space science
educator, Dave Cuomo, assistant space science coordinator, and Dr.
Dimitri Klebe, a Museum space science content expert, will act as
local hosts in Denver and provide Museum visitors with background
information on the Curiosity launch and
Live Launch Coverage-November 26
The launch is scheduled for 8:02 a.m. The Museum will open
at 6:45 a.m. and will host live launch coverage, beginning at 7:15
a.m. on Saturday, November 26. This event is FREE with Museum
admission. A direct NASA video feed of the launch will be
available. This will be hosted by Eddie Goldstein and Zach Richards
from United Launch Alliance.
Local Aerospace Connections and Mission
The Curiosity spacecraft will be carried aloft onboard
an Atlas V rocket, provided by Centennial-based United Launch
Alliance. Littleton-based Lockheed Martin Space Systems built the
spacecraft's heat shield and entry-shell at its Waterton Canyon
facility. During its two-year
mission, Curiosity will analyze dozens of
samples drilled from rocks or scooped from the ground as it
explores with greater range and capabilities than any previous Mars
rover. Carrying the most advanced payload of scientific gear ever
used on the surface of Mars, Curiosity aims to assess
whether Mars is, or ever was, an environment able to support
microbial life.
Additional Information
MSL mission-http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/
Mission status-http://www.spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av028/status.html
Live interactive video programming-http://www.livestream.com/marsrover
Museum programming-www.dmns.org
Press Contact
Charlotte Hurley, Public Relations Coordinator, [email protected] /
About the Denver Museum of Nature &
The Denver Museum of Nature & Science is the Rocky Mountain
Region's leading resource for informal science education. A variety
of engaging exhibits, discussions and activities help Museum
visitors celebrate and understand the natural wonders of Colorado,
Earth and the universe. The Museum is located at 2001 Colorado
Blvd., Denver, CO, 80205. To learn more about the Museum,
check www.dmns.org,
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Many of the Museum's educational programs and exhibits are made
possible in part by the citizens of the seven-county metro area
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The following guide gives you some suggestions for creating the audio atmosphere of a Bose® home theater system . This guide will help you properly place, setup and connect your Bose Lifestyle® or Bose Acoustimass® system in your room. We recommend that you experiment with the orientation and placement of the Bose speaker cubes to experience the sound most pleasing to you. Exact placement of Bose Lifestyle® speakers is not as important because the Bose ADAPTIQ process will calibrate your Lifestyle® System to give optimum performance in virtually any room. For a more detailed explanation of how to set up your product, please refer to your owner's guide.
Lifestyle Media CenterYou need to place your media center somewhere near your other components (TV, Cable Box, VCR) so cable connections are easier. Be sure of the length of your cables before you pick a permanent spot for your Media Center and components. Make sure that you do not block the front of the Media Center because the IR Emitter will not properly communicate with other components, also leave enough room to open the front door on the Media Center.
Bose Cube SpeakersFollow these guidelines to help you select the locations for your speakers in your Bose system. Trying alternate arrangements of the speakers will take advantage of the unique sound characteristics of your space.
Left and right front speakersThe sound from the left and right front speakers should seem to come from the edge of the picture, so that the acoustic image is close to the size of the visual image.
- Place the cubes so that they line up with the vertical center of the TV screen.
- Place them up to 3 feet (1 m) from the edge of the television. We recommend a maximum distance of 3 feet (1 m) so that the sound does not become separated from the picture. The Bose speaker cubes should also be at least 6 feet (2 m) apart from each other. You may wish to vary this distance based on room conditions and personal preference.
- If your Bose Home Entertainment System features cube speaker arrays, direct one speaker cube of each array forward. Direct the other speaker cube toward the wall or in a different direction to reflect the sound. For a system featuring single cube speakers, direct each cube toward the wall or in a different direction to reflect the sound.
- The front speaker cables included with your Bose system allow the cube speakers to be placed up to 20 feet (6.1 m) from the Acoustimass® module.
Center channel speakerThe sound from the center channel speaker should appear to come directly from the center of the picture.
- Place the center speaker or cube array directly above or below the center of the TV screen, or at the closest convenient location.
- Align the speaker or array with the front of the TV screen (not pushed to the back of the TV).
- For a single speaker, direct the cube facing forward. For a Bose speaker cube array, direct each of the speaker cubes slightly away from center, to create a wider area of direct sound.
- The center speaker cable included with your Bose system allows up to 20 feet (6.1 m) distance from the Bose Acoustimass module.
Surround speakersThe surround (rear) speakers create an area of sound around the listener.
- Place the surround speakers in the back half of your room.
- Position the speakers so that they are at the listeners' seated ear height or higher. The speaker cube should be directed slightly away from the listeners so that you cannot pinpoint the exact location of the sound source.
- The surround speaker cables included with your Bose system allow up to 50 feet (15.2 m) distance from the Bose Acoustimass module.
- If you are unable to run wires to your surround speakers, you can use the Bose SL2 Wireless Surround Link to send the signal wirelessly to your surround speakers.
Acoustimass moduleThe Bose Acoustimass module provides the deep, low frequency sound for your music and movies. The Acoustimass module also powers the rest of the speaker cubes in the system so all the wires from the rest of the speaker cubes will be run to the Acoustimass module.
- Place the Bose Acoustimass module along the same wall or close to the same end of the room as the TV monitor.
- Select a convenient location—under a table or behind a sofa, for example. Do not allow furniture or drapes to block the ventilation openings of the module. Be sure there is a gap of at least 2 inches (5 cm) between any surface and the front opening or the grille on the bottom.
- Place the Acoustimass module within reach of the audio input cable, speaker cables and an AC power (mains) outlet.
- Select a position for the Acoustimass module. For proper ventilation, place it on the long edge, with the connectors facing the floor. An alternate position is on its largest side, with the bass and treble controls facing up. Do not place the module on either end.
- Once you have selected a position for the module, place the four self-adhesive rubber feet near the corners of the bottom surface. The rubber feet provide increased stability and protection from scratches.
- Aim the Acoustimass port (the round or rectangular opening) into a corner for more bass or aim the port into the room or along the wall for less bass. Avoid blocking the air flow by allowing a gap of at least 2 inches (5 cm).
- For best low-frequency performance, do not place the Acoustimass module at equal distances from any two walls or from a wall and the ceiling.


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Autism Ontario Peel Chapter Family Swimming in Brampton for May 21, 2017
Autism Ontario - Peel Chapter
Sunday, 21 May 2017 from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM (EDT)
Event Details
Autism Ontario Peel Chapter Family Swimming in Brampton
Sunday, May 21, 2017 from 6:00pm to 7:00pm only
We have exclusive use of the 2 pools and water slide. There are a family, men's and ladies change rooms available. A great, calming way to end the day for the kids and often a chance for the grown ups to get to know each other. Come join us!
LOCATION: Cassie Campbell Community Centre, 1050 Sandalwood Parkway West. NW corner of Chinguacousy & Sandalwood.
COST: Free for Members or $5 per person for Non-Members
***You must show registration card or proof of membership (email from AO) at the event for free entry. Without this, you will be charged the Non-member rate.
Pre-registration is required. Registration opens on Sunday, October 16, 2016 5:00 PM.
If you want to avail of the free or discounted rate for events organized and fundraised by the Autism Ontario Peel Chapter, you may complete an online application membership form, please click here. It is the easiest and quickest way to receive your membership.
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Cassie Campbell Community Centre
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Sunday, 21 May 2017 from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM (EDT)
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Autism Ontario covering Peel Region.
1) How will I know if I am a Paid Member? You will have received a membership card in the mail with a membership number on it.
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3) How much is membership? Membership is $50 for a family membership. This entitles you , and your entire immediate family, to attend our:
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Understanding opportunity is what it takes to run a successful global macro fund. Kathleen Kelley, founder and chief investment officer of Queen Anne's Gate Capital Management in New York, understands that concept better than most.
Her first opportunity came when she was an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, a position she traded for a similar one at Tudor Investments. It was Paul Tudor Jones who suggested she move to the trading side and thus Kelley made the best trade of her career.
"It was Paul Jones who said to me, 'You know, you should move over to the trading side,' so I moved over and for the last six years that I was at Tudor, I ran a portfolio in macro. At that point, we could do anything except equity, so it was commodities, fixed income and FX," said Kelley. "Paul was still very involved in the commodity markets, so I learned commodities by sitting outside of his office."
Kelley's next career trade took her to Vantis Capital in 2001, a long/short equity hedge fund, where she brought in more macro themes. She then moved to Kingdon Capital, which was long/short, but had sector allocation portfolio managers. Kelley was brought in to add a macro allocation, with a stronger focus on commodities as an instrument to implement the macro view.
Next came a personal year living in London with her three children, where she planned her biggest trade — launching her own global macro fund, Queen Anne's Gate Capital Management.
We caught up with Kelley to get her views on the markets, starting a fund and her experience working with the proverbial "smartest guys in the room."
FUTURES MAGAZINE: Introduce us to your new fund. What do you trade and how do you make your decisions?
Kathleen Kelley: We are a discretionary macro fund with a commodity focus. We take our macro view and implement it in the commodities phase because we do micro supply/demand analysis for each commodity so we can bring together macro and micro and then we have an investable idea. That's the best situation for us.
We have a framework for evaluating these markets that has been developed over the last 20 years. We look at what happens with high prices and in commodity markets, but other markets as well. [Because] that tends to lead market prices to change their behavior so producers produce more of it, consumers consume less of it with record high prices and with record low prices you have the opposite. So we are constantly looking at the impact that three- to six-months out for high prices or low prices in certain markets will have. That's how we look at the world. And we are looking for the inflection points that are almost always brought about by these strong directional moves in price.


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Sherman Pass was blocked for several hours on Veterans Day for a logging truck crash east of town.
No injuries were reported. The trailer was not loaded, Washington State Patrol Trooper Jeff Sevigney said.
State Highway 20 was closed at 7:25 a.m. about 22 miles east of town at milepost 325. It reopened about 11:45 a.m.
Sevigney said no information is available about the driver, road conditions or how the crash occurred.
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PORTLAND, Maine, March 21 (UPI) -- A Maine businessman was sentenced to 20 days in jail Thursday for promotion of prostitution in a scandal that rocked the Portland area.
Mark Strong Sr., 57, apologized at a hearing in Cumberland County, the Kennebunk Journal reported. He was convicted March 6 of 12 counts of promoting prostitution.
Strong's wife, Julie, wept as she asked for a short sentence.
"Go easy on my husband," she said. "He clearly has learned from this experience."
Judge Nancy Mills, who also imposed a $3,000 fine, ordered Strong jailed immediately and said he must pay $80 a day for the expenses of his incarceration, The Portland Press-Herald reported. She rejected a defense request to delay his jail sentence.
Charges that a Zumba instructor in Kennebunk was also running a prostitution business out of her studio became a major story in Maine and across the country.
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WikipediaRead full entry
Water monitor
- For the Australian species with a similar common names, see Mertens' water monitor and Mitchell's water monitor.
The water monitor (Varanus salvator) is a large lizard native to South and Southeast Asia. Water monitors are one of the most common monitor lizards found throughout Asia, and range from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and India to Indochina, the Malay Peninsula, and various islands of Indonesia, living in areas close to water.
The water monitor is a large species of monitor lizards. Breeding maturity is attained for males when they are a relatively modest 40 cm (16 in) long and weigh 1 kg (2.2 lb) and for females at 50 cm (20 in). However, they grow much larger throughout life, with males being larger than females.[2] Most adult specimens will not exceed 1.5–2 m (4.9–6.6 ft) in length.[3] However, the species can attain a maximum size of 3 m (9.8 ft).[4] The largest specimen on record was an animal measuring 321 cm from Ceylon (Sri Lanka). A common mature weight of V. salvator can be 19.5 kg (43 lb).[2][5] The maximum weight of the species is over 50 kg (110 lb).[6] In exceptional cases, the species has been reported to attain 75 to 90 kg (165 to 198 lb), though most such reports are unverified and may be unreliable. They are the world's second-heaviest lizard, after the Komodo dragon.[7] Their bodies are muscular, with a long, powerful, laterally compressed tails.
The generic name Varanus is derived from the Arabic waral (ورل), which translates as "monitor". The specific name is the Latin word for "saviour", denoting a possible religious connotation.[8] The water monitor is occasionally confused with the crocodile monitor (V. salvadorii) because of their similar scientific names.[9]
In Thailand, the local word for a water monitor, hia (เหี้ย), is used as an insulting word for bad and evil things, including bad persons. The word is also thought to bring bad luck, so some people prefer to call the animals 'silver-and-gold' (ตัวเงินตัวทอง) to avoid the jinx.
The origin of this offensive meaning can be traced back to a time when more people lived in rural areas in close proximity to monitor lizards. Traditionally, Thai villagers lived in two-story houses; the top floor was for living, while the ground floor was designed to be a space for domestic animals such as pigs, chickens, and dogs. Water monitors would enter the ground floor and eat or maim the domestic animals, also hence the other name dtua gin gai (ตัวกินไก่ 'chicken eater').
In Indonesian and Malay, the water monitor is called biawak air,[10] to differentiate it from the biawak pasir ("sand lizard"), Leiolepis belliana.[11]
- The Asian water monitor, V. s. salvator, the nominate subspecies, is now restricted to Sri Lanka, where it is known as the kabaragoya (කබරගොයා) in Sinhala and kalawathan in Tamil.
- The Andaman Islands water monitor, V. s. andamanensis, is found on the Andaman Islands; the type locality is Port Blair, Andaman Islands.
- The two-striped water monitor, V. s. bivittatus, is common to Java, Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Flores, Ombai (Alor), Wetar, and some neighbouring islands within the Sunda arch, Indonesia; the type locality is Java (designated by Mertens 1959).
- The black water monitor, V. s. komaini, from Thailand (type locality: Amphoe La-ngu, Satun Prov., Thailand, and Thai-Malaysian border area), was formerly a subspecies, but now is regarded as a synonym of V. s. macromaculatus.[12]
- The Southeast Asian water monitor, V. s. macromaculatus (type locality: Siam [Thailand]), is found in mainland Southeast Asia, Singapore, Sumatra, Borneo, and smaller associated offshore islands.[12]
- Ziegler's water monitor, V. s. ziegleri, is from Obi Island.
- Varanus cumingi, Varanus marmoratus, and Varanus nuchalis were classified as subspecies until 2007, when they were elevated to full species.[12][13]
Behavior and diet[edit]
Water monitors defend themselves using their tails, claws, and jaws. They are excellent swimmers, using the raised fin on their tails to steer through water. They are carnivores, and have a wide range of foods. They are known to eat fish, frogs, rodents, birds, crabs, and snakes.[8] They have also been known to eat turtles, as well as young crocodiles and crocodile eggs.[14] Like the Komodo dragon, they will often eat carrion.[8] Water monitors have been observed eating catfish in a fashion similar to a mammalian carnivore, tearing off chunks of meat with their sharp teeth while holding it with their fore legs and then separating different parts of the fish for sequential consumption.[15]
In Nepal it is a protected species in Chitwan National Park under the Wild Animals Protection Act of 2002. In Hong Kong, it is a protected species under Wild Animals Protection Ordinance Cap 170. In Malaysia, this species is one of the most common wild animals around, with numbers comparable to that of the population of macaques there. Although many fall prey to humans via road kill and animal cruelty, they still thrive in most states of Malaysia, especially in the shrubs of the east-coast states such as Pahang and Terengganu. In the east-coast states of Malaysia, this species is very common in roadkill. In Thailand, all monitor lizards are protected species.[16]
- ^ Bennett, D., Gaulke, M., Pianka, E. R., Somaweera, R. & Sweet, S. S. (2010). "Varanus salvator". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 2014-08-26.
- ^ a b Shine, R.; Harlow, P. S.; Keogh, J. S. (1996). "Commercial harvesting of giant lizards: The biology of water monitors Varanus salvator in southern Sumatra". Biological Conservation 77 (2-3): 125–134. doi:10.1016/0006-3207(96)00008-0. Retrieved 2013-06-09.
- ^ Pianka, King & king. Varanoid lizards of the world. 2004
- ^ Malayan Water Monitor – Varanus salvator. Ecologyasia.com. Retrieved on 2012-08-22.
- ^ Water Monitor Lizard (Varanus salvator) at Pak Lah's House | Mutakhir. Wildlife.gov.my (2012-02-23). Retrieved on 2012-08-22.
- ^ Water Monitor – Varanus salvator : WAZA : World Association of Zoos and Aquariums. WAZA. Retrieved on 2012-08-22.
- ^ Wood, Gerald (1983). The Guinness Book of Animal Facts and Feats. ISBN 978-0-85112-235-9.
- ^ a b c Robert George Sprackland (1992). Giant lizards. Neptune, NJ: T.F.H. Publications. ISBN 0-86622-634-6.
- ^ Netherton, John; Badger, David P. (2002). Lizards: A Natural History of Some Uncommon Creatures—Extraordinary Chameleons, Iguanas, Geckos, and More. Stillwater, MN: Voyageur Press. pp. 140–141. ISBN 0-7603-2579-0.
- ^ Journal of Bioscience, Volumes 15-16 Universiti Sains Malaysia, 2004
- ^ The Hope Reports, Volume 4 private circulation, 1903
- ^ a b c Koch, A., M. Auliya, A. Schmitz, U. Kuch & W. Böhme. (2007). Morphological Studies on the Systematics of South East Asian Water Monitors (Varanus salvator Complex): Nominotypic Populations and Taxonomic Overview. pp. 109–180. In Horn, H.-G., W. Böhme & U. Krebs (eds.), Advances in Monitor Research III. Mertensiella 16, Rheinbach.
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Further reading[edit]
- Bennett, Daniel 1995 The water monitor Varanus salvator Reptilian 3 (8): 15–21
- Das, Indraneil 1988 New evidence of the occurrence of water monitor (Varanus salvator) in Meghalaya J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 86: 253–255
- Deraniyagala, P. E. P. 1944 Four New Races of the Kabaragoya Lizard Varanus salvator. Spolia Zeylanica 24: 59–62
- Pandav, Bivash 1993 A preliminary survey of the water monitor (Varanus salvator) in Bhitarkanika Wildlife Sanctuary, Orissa Hamadryad 18: 49–51


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Rackable servers goin' mobile
Watch the police and the tax man miss IT
The joke with containerized data centers - putting racks of servers, storage, and networking into shipping containers instead of into brick-and-mortar data centers - is that if you put them in the corporate parking lot, as some vendors have suggested, you only make it easier for thieves to walk off with - well, drive off with - millions of dollars in computing gear.
A new family of small, ruggedized, wheeled racks from Rackable Systems, called the MobiRacks, will take the opportunity for a heist down to a couple ten thousands of dollars in server gear.
The MobiRacks come in four sizes, the compact 5U and 11U and midrange 14U and 16U sizes, and are designed to house rack-based servers, storage devices, networking gear, uninterruptible power supplies, and DC power distribution gear, all in a portable enclosure that takes its inspiration from the plastic cases that high-end tools are stored in. Or perhaps a minibar you want to get through customs without letting someone break into.
The MobiRacks are relatively compact thanks to Rackable's server designs, which are half-depth units that normally plug into a standard-sized server rack two at a time - one in the front, and one in the back. Using these half-depth servers in a MobiRack allows them to be roughly square and to fit in a fairly small space on the floor. They are also light enough to be rolled around pretty easily, at 350 to 421 pounds. In essence, this is a containerized data center suitable for small and medium businesses.
The smallest MobiRack, the MR1000-5U, can house five 1U servers or two 2U servers using Intel Xeon or Advanced Micro Devices Opteron processors, with a maximum of 40 processor cores. The largest MobiRack, the MR1000-16U, can house up to 16 1U servers or eight 2U servers, for a maximum of 128 processor cores. The MobiRacks offer from 10 TB to 40 TB of disk capacity as well.
All of the units take in 110 volt AC power, and depending on the model, servers are designed for DC or AC input power at the server. (The smallest MobiRack is AC-only, and the largest one is DC only; the middle two can do either.) Rackable, of course, is one of the pioneers of distributing DC power only within the rack to create more energy-efficient racks.
Rackable envisions the MobiRacks being deployed in initial data centers that are not of the traditional raised floor variety - it might be the corner of the factory - and other kinds of harsh environments. The company is not only offering the plastic exteriors in a variety of colors, but is also delivering air-tight and water-tight options. Both of these are problematic for air-cooled equipment, obviously.
The tightness has more to do with when the equipment is being transported than when it is being used. The front and back of the enclosure comes off when it is running. The racks meet shock and vibration standards of the military and air transport companies, too, Rackable says. The company doesn't do public pricing, so heaven only knows what this costs.
If you buy a MobiRack, just make sure you get insurance for the content inside. You'll probably want to get collision and liability insurance, too, while you are at it. ®


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ROME (AP) — Italy must continue to bring down its public debt, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Thursday, even as the country's new premier seeks a greater focus on economic growth instead.
Premier Enrico Letta on Thursday wrapped up a tour of European capitals where he expressed the growing antagonism within Europe to harsh austerity measures that, while bringing down the country's borrowing costs, have literally driven Italians to suicide.
Debt reduction through spending cuts and tax increases tends to hurt economic growth in the short-term. Italy's unemployment rate has risen sharply to 11.5 percent and the economy is in a protracted recession.
In his inaugural address to Parliament this week, Letta said his primary focus would be on rekindling economic growth and getting more young people and women into the workforce.
Letta praised the work of the previous premier, Mario Monti, whose tax hikes, pension reform and labor market reforms brought Italy back from the brink of succumbing to Europe's debt crisis. But he said "By restoring fiscal health alone, Italy dies."
The OECD, a global economic watchdog, warned in a report released Thursday that Italy should not undo the budget improvements it has made, and that continued efforts are needed.
It recommended that Italy focus on controlling its public spending and further liberalizing the labor market. In a nod to priorities outlined by Letta, it called for reductions in marginal tax rates for workers, particularly women.
The OECD forecast Italy's economy would shrink by 1.5 percent this year and only grow by 0.5 percent in 2014, worse than the government's own projections.
It estimated that Italy's debt would rise this year to 131.5 percent of annual GDP, well over the 127 percent in 2012. Next year, it forecasts it at 134.2 percent.
The debt ratio of Italy, which has the third largest economy in the 17-country eurozone, is second only to that of Greece.
In its recommendations, the OECD urged Italy to "halt and reverse" the worsening debt-to-GDP ratio, saying it could be accomplished by balancing the budget along with structural reforms.
It said Italy's budget deficit would be 3.3 percent of GDP this year and 3.8 percent next year. While that is lower than many large EU countries like France and Britain, it is still above the EU ceiling of 3 percent.
Italy's new finance and economy minister insisted that economic growth was key to reducing Italy's debt.
"The creation of jobs is essential to resolving the debt problem," Fabrizio Saccomanni told a parliamentary committee. "It's with growth that you reduce the debt burden."
Saccomanni, whose resume includes posts at Italy's central bank and the International Monetary Fund, said there had been a psychological boost from the formation of a broad coalition led by Letta last weekend. Inconclusive elections two months ago had complicated that creation of a new government that could continue Monti's reforms.
"I believe this will be an important element to dilute the sense of mistrust and of reciprocal paralysis that blocked, and perhaps sharpened, in these last weeks the sense of crisis in the country," Saccomanni said.
He also pointed out that the OECD report hadn't taken into account a recent decree to speed up long overdue payments from the government to private companies for services and supplies delivered in the past. Many of these companies suffered financially while they waited months, or even years, for payment from the government.


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Posted by JakobeVazquez 67 days ago (https://in.reuters.com)Rohit Phansalkar is a member of the Audit and Nomination committees and is the chair of the Remuneration committee. He was the co-head of the Energy Finance Group at Shearson American Express, Managing Director of Bear Stearns and Managing Director at Oppenheimer & Co. He was also the Founding Chairman of The India Fund.
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Review by prince Johnathon:
I've patiently waited and now it's in my hands..I can't wait to use it. (I'll need to invite some friends over for pizza and trick them into helping me scan these receipts)
NeatReceipts for Mac arrives in a white and orange cardboard box with a picture of the scanner on the front. On the back of the package is an image of the NeatReceipts software along with a listing of features. The Neat Company gets kudos for being green by using 100% recyclable materials in the packaging.
Opening the box reveals the Neat scanner, a mini USB cable, a quick start guide containing the installation CD, set up instructions, calibration paper, dry cleaning paper and alcohol cleaning paper. This also contains PDF converter software for free. $100 value.
What makes NeatReceipts for Mac especially appealing is the compact size and the light weight scanner allowing me to take it on the road, to my office or use it at home. It's small size that packs a lot of features and helps me organize my office littered with paper.
You can find NeatReceipts on their website for: $199.95 with $30.00 off making it $169.95.
They offer Free 30 Day Trial of NeatCloud Included!
After scanning 7 documents, I'm hooked. This will not only save me time and money as well.
Scanner Specs:
- Lightweight, portable scanner
- Scans in color, greyscale, or B&W CIS
- USB powered, no external power supply needed
- 600 dpi maximum resolution
- Scans approximately 3-4 receipts per minute
- Optical Character Recognition (OCR) + Intelligent Text Recognition (ITR)
- Accepts paper sizes from 1" x 1" to 8.5" x 30"
- Scanner Dimensions: 10.8"W x 1.6"D x 1.3"H
- Weight: 10.6 oz
Neat Software Specs:
For Windows:
- Images can be saved in JPEG, PDF, and other popular formats
- Data can be sent to Excel®, Outlook, Quicken®, QuickBooks®, TurboTax®, and more
- Reads U.S. and Canadian receipts and business cards
For Mac:
- Images can be saved in JPEG, PDF, and other popular formats
- Data can be exported to .CSV, .QIF (Quicken®), Excel®, TurboTax®, and Mac Address Book
- Reads U.S. and Canadian receipts and business cards
System Requirements:
For Windows:
- Microsoft® Windows® XP , Vista® or Windows 7 (32- and 64-bit)
- Pentium® IV 2.0+ GHz or faster (Dual Core recommended)
- 1 GB RAM; 2 GB highly recommended
- 1 GB hard disk space to install
- CD-ROM drive or DVD drive required for installation
- Available USB port
For Mac:
- Mac computer
- 1 GB of RAM; 4 GB recommended
- Mac OS X v10.6 or later
- 650 MB of available disk space for installation, 1 GB recommended for
user data
- CD-ROM or DVD drive required for installation
- Available USB port
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Disclaimer: I was given this product to review but the thoughts and opinions are my own.


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NEW YORK (AP) - Spider-Man can still sling it at the box office. "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" debuted with $92 million at the box office over the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.
It was a solid opening for Sony's Columbia Pictures, which has released five movies about Marvel's web-slinging superhero in the last 14 years.
The rebooted franchise starring Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone isn't performing quite as strongly as Sam Raimi's trilogy with Tobey Maguire.
Two of those films opened well above $100 million. Last week's No. 1 film, the female revenge comedy "The Other Woman," slid to second with a distant $14 million.
The release of "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" essentially kicks off Hollywood's summer season and its annual parade of sequels and spectacle.
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Comprehensive DescriptionRead full entry
| Common names: soldierfish (English), candil (Espanol), soldado (Espanol)
Plectrypops lima (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1831)
Roughscale soldierfish, Shy soldierfish
Body ovate, deep; snout moderately pointed with relatively long straight forehead; eyes large, at upper margin of head; mouth moderately large, slightly oblique; edge of bone under eye with small, slender, curved, partly forward-pointing spines; no large spines at corner of operculum or preoperculum; dorsal with XII spines , last spine shorter than spine before it, divided to base between 11th and 12th spines, dorsal spines relatively short, 14-16 soft rays; anal fin IV, 10-12, none of spines extremely long or thick; tail fin small, forked, with strongly rounded lobes; scales very rough; lateral-line scales 39-42.
Uniform bright red.
Size: grows to 16 cm.
Habitat: a seldom seen fish that hides in caves and crevices during the day.
Depth: 3-40 m.
Widespread in the tropical Indo-Pacific; known in the eastern Pacific from Cocos and Clipperton and the Revillagigedos.


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Deputies: Man tries to steal blow up doll
Deputies: Man tries to steal blow up doll
A 22-year-old man is accused of trying to steal a blow up doll, according to an incident report.
Spartanburg police were called to Spencer's Gifts on Tuesday after someone called about a shoplifter in custody.
Benjamin Greene is charged with shoplifting, according to the Spartanburg County Detention Center website.
A store employee said she saw Greene take a Blow Mylie Doll from the shelf, take the doll out of the box and conceal it in his coat.
The employee said Greene passed all points of sale without trying to pay for it.
The report said the employee stopped him and asked for the doll, and he let the doll fall out of his jacket.


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Panel finds probable cause trooper broke law
Captain provided security for Bobby Petrino
Panel finds probable cause trooper broke law
Captain provided security for Bobby Petrino
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. —
The Arkansas Ethics Commission said there's probable cause that a state police captain who provided security for former Razorbacks coach Bobby Petrino broke the law when he accepted tickets and a Sugar Bowl ring from Arkansas' football program.
A settlement offer signed this month by Capt. Jeffrey Lance King said the commission found probable cause that King broke the law by receiving gifts intended to reward him for doing his job.
King has not been charged. A prosecutor didn't immediately return a phone call seeking comment.
State police spokesman Bill Sadler said he doesn't know whether King has a lawyer. Sadler said King doesn't have plans to comment on the matter at this point.
King filed a complaint against himself earlier this year.


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University Of Michigan Library Kicks Off Project To Identify All The Orphan Works In Its Collection
from the how-big-is-the-problem? dept
Of course, there is the flipside to the argument, which is that if we made such a huge mess thanks to the 1976 Act, perhaps we should look at rolling back that Act, or at least rolling back the "automatic copyright" provisions. But, of course, our copyright masters never see the point in admitting they might have gotten something wrong. So, the best interim issue is an orphan works law. Of course, to get that actually through, one of the big questions is how big of an impact do orphan works really have. Along those lines, the University of Michigan Library is kicking off a new project to identify all the orphan works it has in its collection, which sounds like it could take quite some time. However, it would be nice to see some data on just how many works today are technically under copyright, but whose copyright holder is unknown or can't be found. Having some actual data might help shift the debate forward, rather than trekking over the same myths yet again.


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Big pools. Spacious and adjoining guest rooms. Lots of dining options. Kids' clubs. According to a report released this week by Hilton Hotels & Resorts, these are four of the most important amenities that families seek when they plan family vacations at resorts.
The report, titled, "Resort Travel Trends: What Families Want," pulled together data from 1,238 respondents, and offered a comprehensive look at some of the current trends in family travel.
In addition to the four amenities listed above, report findings also indicated that: 1) moms are still the ones booking trips, 2) the majority of trips are planned within six months of departure, 3) Hawaii remains the most popular destination for U.S. travelers, and 4) a growing number of families are interested in all-inclusive resorts where the cost for everything is included in a package price.
(In case you're wondering, the report also offers up some pretty pictures of Hilton properties all over the world.)
All of this data got me thinking about some of the amenities and features that we Villanos want from our resort-oriented trips. Then, last night, I rounded up my wife and a steno pad and made a list:
- Proximity to off-site grocery store and parks or other places for outdoor adventure
- Separate sleeping quarters for those under the age of 13
- 24-hour fitness center (where we parents can take turns working out after kids go to bed)
- Open-air balconies where Dad can write stories at 2 a.m.
- Some sort of cultural program/immersive cultural experiences
Even if you eliminate the entry about balconies where yours truly can write until 2 a.m., our list still differs dramatically from the "average" survey respondent's. What does your list look like? What's most important to you? What do you think about the report's conclusions about what matters to other families? Leave a comment and let me know.