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Girder 6 for Raspberry Pi Linux.
1. Install Debian Jessie Raspbian image available from here
2. Add the Promixis Debian Jessie repo to your sources.list. You can do this by saving the attached file (promixis.list) to your /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory. Or by saving the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/promixis.list
3. Import the Promixis signing keyCode:deb http://www.promixis.com/repo/debian/jessie jessie main
3. As root type apt-get updateCode:wget -O - http://www.promixis.com/repo/debian/jessie/salespromixiscom.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
4. As root type apt-get install girder
Girder can be run as a service or with the full front-end. Typically you'll want to run only the back-end on the R-Pi and use a different computer to run the front-end. To start the back-end only run ./Girder6Service in the /opt/girder directory. Note that you'll need to run the license app for each user that needs Girder on your Linux system.
Alternatively you can use the /etc/init.d/girder script to start and stop Girder.
To run the front-end start x, open a xterm, go to /opt/girder and type ./Girder6.
Staying up to date
To update to the latest version of Girder simply type
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
PIR-1 and PIR-4
On Debian Linux USB HID devices like the PIR-1 and PIR-4 are by default only accessibly by root. Look at the post below to find out how to give other users access as well:
See the Windows post for changes.
September 24, 2014 switched to signed repo and official Debian repo structure.
September 30, 2014. Fixed HOME setting for init.d launched backend. Previously HOME Was not set causing the init.d launched backend to store it's settings in /.config/... this led to many a confusion. The new build fixes this. This however also means that if you have already configured the init.d backend you have to move the /.config to /root/.config and /.local/share/Promixis to /root/.local/share/Promixis

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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The No. 1 Yale women's sailing team will travel to Providence, R.I., this weekend for the Dellenbaugh Trophy hosted by Brown University. The team is undefeated so far this season and is looking to keep that winning streak alive.
Cold temperatures, strong northeasterly winds and rain are in the forecast for the weekend so the Bulldogs won't be packing light. They will, however, enjoy breaks between races unlike at most of their recent regattas. The regatta will be sailed in Brown's single fleet of 420s, so A and B division will trade off time on the water.
Mostly familiar faces will represent the Bulldogs at this weekend's event. Junior Morgan Kiss and senior Amanda Salvesen will compete in A division after dominating A division at the regatta in Charleston last weekend. Seniors Marlena Fauer and Eugenia Custo Greig raced at a coed team racing regatta last weekend, but are returning to sail B division for the women's team this weekend. In addition, freshman crew Natalya Doris will travel with the team to provide fresh legs for hiking when the breeze comes up as forecasted.
Follow the Bulldogs results online using this link.
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Our updated list of distilleries and tequila brands "Nom List", as of 20 January 2014, is now available for download in both PDF and Excel formats. Click on any of the underlined items within the list to be taken directly to our reviews, articles, tasting notes and features on each tequila brand.
Each of our NOM Lists contains the names and information of brands that have previously appeared on NOM lists in the past but have since been dropped by the CRT. Pinpointing your treasure bottles has never been easier! Please understand that this list is not a comprehensive list of every tequila brand ever made. We make every effort to be sure it is as accurate as possible from the time we at Tequila Aficionado Media began publishing our lists in 2013.
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- Brands highlighted in Red did not appear on the current list (see comment on Excel spreadsheet for last shown date)
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The Norma Oficial Mexicana (Official Mexican Standard), abbreviated NOM, is the name of each of a series of official, compulsory standards and regulations for diverse activities in Mexico. They are more commonly referred to as NOMs or normas.
The standards are prepared by the Dirección General de Normas (DGN) (General Directorate of Standards), which is the body representing Mexico in the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
In the case of tequila, Mexico's Tequila Regulatory Council (CRT) regulates production NOMs. The NOM identifier means the tequila meets government standards – but this is not any guarantee of tequila's quality. However, without the NOM stamp of legitimacy, it is not guaranteed that the bottle contains tequila.
All 100% agave tequilas must have a NOM identifier on the bottle. The important laws since 1990 were NOM-006-SCFI-1993 and the later update NOM-006-SCFI-1994 revised in late 2005 NOM-006-SCFI-2005 and the most recent revision in 2012 NOM-006-SCFI-2012.
The number after NOM is the distillery number, assigned by the government. NOM does not indicate the location of the distillery, merely the parent company or – in the case where a company leases space in a plant – the physical plant where the tequila was manufactured. (Source: Wikipedia)


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Volume 19 Issue 15 | August 25 - 31, 2006
By David Spett
Ken Diamondstone, who is challenging incumbent Martin Connor for the Democratic nomination for State Senate in the 25th District, is back on the ballot.
Diamondstone won a State Supreme Court case on Aug. 11, overturning a previous State Board of Elections decision to take his name off the Sept. 12 primary ballot. The B.O.E. ruled that Diamondstone had registered his in-district address, 200 Clinton St., one day too late.
But the Supreme Court disagreed, and Connors appeal to the Appellate Division failed. The Court of Appeals, the States highest court, will hear a second appeal from Connor on Aug. 23.
In its ruling, the State Supreme Court wrote that Connor failed to establish that Diamondstone did not reside in the district in time to run for State Senate.
If this court were to adopt the objectors interpretation of the residency requirements for state legislators, candidates would be forced to move into an Assembly or Senate district in which they seek to be elected at least 11/2 to 2 years prior to the general election.
The court finds that such an interpretation is contrary to the plain language of the constitutional provision, Judge Ira B. Harkavy wrote.
Diamondstone said the court case is a serious distraction from the real issues, like affordable housing, campaign finance reform and lobbying reform.
We prevailed [in Supreme Court], we prevailed in the Appellate Division, and theres virtually no chance this will be overturned in the Court of Appeals, Diamondstone said. So were very, very pleased to have won this battle so we can now start talking about issues that are of much more concern to us.
A top election lawyer, Connor knocked several Democratic primary candidates off the ballot, helping Rosie Mendez to victory, in the 2005 Second District City Council primary race.
Connor, Diamondstone added, doesnt have the resources to run a campaign. Hes using this in order to avoid dealing with the issues and his record. But he wont succeed.
According to Connors campaign, Diamondstone has poured a quarter of a million dollars of his own into the race. Meanwhile, Connors funds are running low, according to the B.O.E. Web site.
Marty Algaze, an aide to Connor, said he was disappointed in the court decisions but still confident that Connor will prevail in the Sept. 12 primary if the Court of Appeals doesnt rule in his favor.
Its always difficult to get people off the ballot, Algaze said. Well continue to campaign, raise money and do all the things you need to do when you have an election to deal with.
Algaze said Diamondstone is inexperienced compared to Connor, who has been a state senator for 28 years. Connor was formerly the State Senates minority leader until being ousted by David Paterson a few years ago. Now that Paterson is running for lieutenant governor, Connor is eyeing a comeback as minority leader.
Diamondstone hasnt done anything in his life, Algaze said. We question anything that hes ever done in his life that would qualify him to be elected to any office, let alone an office that has a real important role to play in passing laws. I cant imagine anyone whos really an intelligent voter who would really choose to vote for Ken Diamondstone, whos had zilch for ideas or experience.
The New York Times is backing Diamondstone. On Aug. 20, the Times recommended voters support Diamondstone over Connor. Diamondstone is the go-to man for politicians who want to get pesky challengers off the ballot, the Timess editorial stated, adding, Senator Connor is something of an Albany institution. But Albany needs change, not institutions.
If Diamondstone loses the primary, he will still run in the November general election on the Working Families Party line.
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Public invited to comment on strengthening airport runway and taxiways
Workshop and public hearing will be Tuesday, Jan. 21
SCOTTSDALE – A public information workshop and hearing is scheduled Tuesday, Jan. 21, to discuss and gather public comments on an environmental assessment for strengthening Scottsdale Airport's runway and associated taxiways to consistently accommodate aircraft up to 100,000 pounds.
Both meetings will be at the Scottsdale Thunderbird Suites, High Flight Room #2, 7515 E. Butherus Drive, Scottsdale, AZ 85260. The workshop takes place from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Following the workshop, a formal public hearing will allow participants to provide comments to a court reporter.
Aircraft at Scottsdale Airport currently can operate up to a maximum weight of 100,000 pounds, but those more than 75,000 pounds must receive prior approval.
The environmental assessment will determine the viability of permanently shifting the maximum aircraft operating weight to 100,000 pounds by evaluating a variety of factors including aircraft noise and air quality.
A typical 100,000-pound aircraft is a large corporate jet that seats 12 to 16 passengers and crew.
The draft environmental assessment is available for review at www.ScottsdaleAirport.com and at the Scottsdale Airport Administrative Office, Scottsdale City Hall, Scottsdale Arabian Library, and the Federal Aviation Administration Phoenix Field Office.
Comments may be submitted in person on Jan. 21, via the website, or dropped off at Scottsdale Airport (15000 N. Airport Drive, Suite 200) until Feb. 3, 2014.
For more information visit www.ScottsdaleAirport.com or contact Sarah Ferrara, aviation planning and outreach coordinator, at (480) 312-8482.


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Demonstrating a commitment to New Jersey"s state and local taxpayers, Acting Governor Kim Guadagno signed bipartisan legislation to provide for a single June primary election in 2012, inclusive of New Jersey"s presidential primary.
The bill, A-3777, eliminates an additional, stand-alone presidential primary election in February, providing for the election of delegates and alternates to political party national conventions to occur at the regular June primary election. State and local governments are anticipated to experience total savings of approximately $12 million, primarily from the elimination of costs such as poll worker salaries, ballot printing and postage, polling place rental and other election-related costs.
"During "Super Tuesday" in February 2008, New Jersey was among 24 other states that held their presidential primaries and caucuses. The benefits to New Jersey of holding a stand-alone election in February for the presidential primary were offset by the number of other states that opted for an early February primary, as well as the additional cost to taxpayers of holding a separate election," said Acting Governor Kim Guadagno, who also serves as the Secretary of State. "Returning our state to a single June primary election in 2012 is a commonsense move that will provide meaningful savings to the state and local taxpayers without diminishing New Jersey"s role in the presidential nomination process."
Acting Governor Guadagno also noted the ease and convenience of the vote-by-mail process in New Jersey. Registered voters across the state can vote-by-mail for any reason for municipal, county, state and federal offices by completing a downloadable application off the Division of Elections website at www.NJElections.org. Applications are available in both English and Spanish, and must be received by the resident"s County Clerk seven days prior to the election. A voter may also apply in-person to the County Clerk until 3:00 p.m. the day prior to an election. The deadline to register for the upcoming November 8 general election is October 18.
A-3777/S-2883 was sponsored by Assemblymembers Thomas Giblin (D-Essex, Passaic), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-Mercer), John Wisniewski (D-Middlesex) and Joe Cryan (D-Union), and Senators Donald Norcross (D-Camden, Gloucester) and Kevin O"Toole (R-Bergen, Essex, Passaic). The New Jersey Association of Election Officials, and numerous county clerks and both the New Jersey League of Municipalities and the New Jersey Association of Counties supported the bill.


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== Manual Test / Debugging ==
== Manual Test / Debugging ==
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Testing SCA Applications
One important aspect that can influence a team or a company to choose SCA for its development is the efficiency and the cost of developments with this technology. Clearly, SCA provides a powerful and very easy way to write distributed applications. But if these applications are difficult to test, there are few chances for SCA to be adopted.
Obviously, who has already written an SCA application does already know that conventional testing tools can be used to test component implementations, and that with an adapted project management, a progressive and planned development can permit to correctly test an SCA application.
However, such an organization sets several constraints on the management. As an example, it requires you to make your composite assembly evolve continually so that you can progressively test the components and their integration. And in this case, perform non-regression tests is very difficult.
This is why tools should be proposed to simplify and improve the tests of SCA applications.
Here are some ideas of tools to test SCA applications, picked up from Fabric3, Tuscany and SCOrWare mailing-lists:
- Unit test
- Integration test
- Manual test / Debugging
Unit Test
Unit test for SCA is about testing services of a component or a composite and ensure their contract is fully respected. These tests must be performed on isolated elements, that is to say dependencies (i.e. references) must be mocked up.
To achieve that, we can use JUnit and EasyMock. This what the SCA platform Fabric3 has done.
For any element to test, the user has to write TestCases (as he would do for any JUnit test) where he mocks the references, calls service operations and checks assertions on the results.
No tool can be easily provided to say whether the user wrote a good test or not. However, we can:
- Bring support and useability when defining a test and managing testing code (e.g. which component / composite is this test for ?).
- Improve the speed of development, e.g. by setting JUnit and Easymock directly in the class path and generate TestCase skeletons.
- Allow users to run SCA JUnit tests from Eclipse on a user-selected platform, and display the results in the usual Eclipse JUnit view.
Basically, the idea is to allow what Fabric3 allows for unit and integration tests, but in a way that permits to run these tests on any SCA platform. (Currently, [Fabric3] has defined specific modules to run this kind of tests). What we would like to do is embed testing code in a simple Java implementation.
Since this not easy to explain, this kind of test is better explained in the following pages:
- A Detailed Example of an SCA Application with Unit Testing
- The Principles of Unit and Integration Testing Tools for SCA
Integration Test
Integration tests for SCA are very similar to unit tests in the way we define and run them. It still consists in writing TestCases, but this time, we progressively replace mocked up references by effective references.
As the continuation of the previous example, integration tests are discussed here:
- A Detailed Example of an SCA Application with Integration Testing
- The Principles of Unit and Integration Testing Tools for SCA
Manual Test / Debugging
The two previous testing tools may be done in fall 2008. The following tools would need additional thinking. They are really just ideas.
Debugging support
Unit and integration tests can be run on platform by right-clicking on the TestCase to run and then by selecting the runtime platform. We could also imagine to run these tests in debug mode. Playing with Java options might be enough to do that.
Users could then add breakpoints in their implementation code. Reaching such a breakpoint would then propose the user to run the debug perspective in Eclipse. Obviously, this would be possible only for languages that support breakpoints (e.g. Java).
Monitoring Service and Reference Messages
We may imagine users that would like to test which messages go through service and reference bindings at runtime. This is a feature we could provide in the SCA tooling.
By adding breakpoints on the SCA Composite Designer or in the XML editor for *.composite files, the debug perspective could be proposed to be launched when such a breakpoint is reached.
In terms of development, this might be achieved by identifying which class and in which platform is in charge of handling messages for the annotated binding.
Invocation Form
Eventually, users would also need an invocation form to call and test services "by hand". Typically, it would look like the Web Service Explorer of Eclipse. We would select a service in a composite and ask to call it using the invocation form. Using the interface of this service, Eclipse would generate a Web form to call this service.
The result would then be retrieved and displayed on screen. This invocation form could also be used as a general service tester, since SCA bindings can be used to access any service type (once again by generating dynamically a SCA application to call the service to test).


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Do-It-Yourself Blood Pressure Monitoring: Worth It?
A new study shows do-it-yourself blood-pressure monitoring might help manage hypertension, but would go much further with more support from doctors. Christopher Weaver reports on The News Hub. Photo: Getty Images.
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FIFA 14 is better on next-gen as current machines have "hit the limit"
EA has made the FIFA series the very best it can be on Xbox 360 and PS3 and is relishing the technical advances afforded to it by the next-gen.
That's according to series producer Nick Channon who told OXM that the game's commitment to maintaining 60 frames per second meant there was not much more it could do with the game under current hardware restrictions.
"For us it's just about using the power of the machine, in terms of much more processing power and significantly more memory, and using the power of the Ignite engine to bring all these things together," he stated
"So that we take those new advantages to create elements we probably wouldn't have been able to do before. If you look at where we are with Xbox 360, we're obviously very proud of the game we've made, it's another great game this year, but we're starting to hit the limit of memory, which means that we can't easily add lots of new animations.
"Those shackles, if you like, are being released on the new consoles, and we're very proud of the innovations we've made on 14 and we'll continue to do that on 15, 16 and beyond. We wouldn't restrict ourselves for any reason."
All of which means, Channon claims, that the upcoming Xbox One and PS4 versions of the game – which have been developed by an entirely different team to that which made the current-gen release – are the definitive version of FIFA 14.
"We introduced the Player Impact system [with FIFA 12], which is a physics-driven collision system," Channon continued. "What we can now do with the extra processing power is project into the future. It may sound silly but it's crucial because it gives players positional awareness.
"It allows them to be much more natural in how they interact. And there's no way we could do those kinds of complex calculations and maintain 60 frames a second on current generation consoles."


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Dominion Dealer Solutions posted an announcement on their website today, about their new DMS platform that will be co-developed with Microsoft. Here is an excerpt of the Press Release:
"Dominion Dealer Solutions and Microsoft have established a strategic relationship to collaborate and create a next-generation Dealer Management System (DMS) based on Microsoft Dynamics AX. The two companies are combining the powerful foundation of Microsoft Dynamics AX with Dominion Dealer Solutions' extensive automotive retail expertise and assets into an industry leading solution that will enable automotive dealers and manufacturers to enhance customer experience, increase revenue and profit and drive operational efficiencies.
The solution will utilize Microsoft Dynamics AX, along with Microsoft server solutions and tools and the Windows Azure platform to take advantage of the efficiencies and flexibility offered by Microsoft's public cloud offerings. "Our strategy with Microsoft Dynamics AX is to provide a robust platform for game-changing solutions like the new Dealer Management System from Dominion," said Christian Pedersen, General Manager of Microsoft Dynamics AX. "The power and flexibility of Microsoft Dynamics AX enables partners like Dominion to rapidly and cost-effectively develop line-of-business solutions that drive accelerated business value for their customers."
"Combining Dominion's experience crafted through relationships with over 11,000 rooftops and Microsoft's technology will result in a tremendous, forward-looking Dealer Management System," said Robert Berndt, President of Dominion Dealer Solutions. "The automotive DMS market has been dominated by large, legacy systems that severely limit the ability of dealers and manufacturers to meet customers' expectations and differentiate themselves from their competition.
Our relationship with Microsoft gives us the capability to meet the needs of the market, and more, on day one. Dealers who use our DMS will experience flexibility they never dreamed possible, and they will be positioned for the future of automotive retailing."
Click on the image below to watch the video announcement by Dominion Dealer Solutions President Robert Berndt
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A fight has begun for data. This is not new. More companies will pop up with solutions. Dealers must be careful and protect their data. The DMS and CRM companies are after data that will become Artificial Intelligence in our future. There will be many more of these companies available at lower costs. Just ensure your agreements protect your data from "partners, affiliates, subsidiaries, etc." Have them spell it out, completely. Don't send your data somewhere without knowing, exactly, where it will land and be used. We don't want it in the hands of the consumer. Otherwise, they own your business through the backdoor(s).
A GM recently said to me, "I'm counting the minutes to the time I can get rid of Reynolds and Reynolds". Sadly, like me, I doubt too many car guys will be shocked by that comment.
Not only do I think that Dominion can pull this off, I think that they are going to come out with a phenomenal product. Imagine a user friendly GUI and a number of commonly used software programs that integrate with it flawlessly.
Not only should Rey Rey and ADP be concerned, this brings Dominion even closer to a one stop shopping experience. A lot of vendors should be very concerned.
Anyway, it's not from the ground up.
@ Larry, huh. Did you watch the video?
Unfortunately Keith Dominion is not the first to go down this path with Microsoft nor are they the biggest. There is way more to the DMS than just building it, actually that is the easiest part.
From a guy who actually did build a DMS I wish Dominion luck, I think they will find they have bitten off a LOT more than they can chew.
I worked for Microsoft for seven years. This is a big deal.
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CHICAGO (AP) -- The defense for the man accused of killing relatives of Jennifer Hudson told jurors Wednesday that prosecutors failed to prove their case, while a prosecutor countered that they had "a tsunami of evidence" linking him to the crime.
Prosecutors insisted during their closing arguments that Hudson's former brother-in-law, William Balfour, was the killer. Hudson, who attended every day of testimony in her former brother-in-law's murder trial, bent forward, her head on her knee, and sobbed as prosecutor Jennifer Bagby described what she called "the execution" of Hudson's mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew in October 2008.
Bagby showed jurors photos of the victims' bloody bodies juxtaposed with pictures of them alive.
"This defendant is the one that made (them) into these images," Bagby said, glancing back at the photos.
Prosecutors contend Balfour killed Hudson's relatives in an act of vengeance against Hudson's sister, Julia Hudson, his estranged wife at the time. She fiddled nervously with a piece of string as Bagby described how her ex-husband allegedly shot her son, Julian King, whom she called Juice Box, through the head.
Balfour "left that innocent child to die in his own pool of blood," covered by an old shower curtain, Bagby told jurors, who looked on intently, many of them taking notes.
Public defender Amy Thompson started her closing by pacing the room, walking up to Balfour and then toward the prosecution table, angrily pointing at the three state's attorneys.
"They know as they sit there that they have failed to prove the case," Thompson said almost at a shout.
"I am offended," she went on, "that they would ask you to throw your logic away."
Lead prosecutor James McKay told jurors later that the circumstantial facts against Balfour amounted to "a tsunami of evidence ... that is drowning him in guilt."
During her closing, Bagby laid the alleged murder weapon on the podium, the silver and black .45-caliber handgun clanging as it hit the wood.
Bagby said gunshot residue from that gun was found on the steering wheel of Balfour's green Chrysler; bullets taken from the bodies were fired from the same gun, she said.
"Make no mistake, there is physical evidence ... linking him to the murders," she said.
She also explained that circumstantial evidence includes everything short of a direct witness.
"Contrary to what you may have heard on television ... circumstantial evidence isn't lesser evidence," she said.
The last word to jurors was left to McKay, whose voice soared as he walked up to the defense table and looked straight at Balfour, a one-time Gangster Disciple who spent nearly seven years in prison for attempted murder.
"Calling the defendant a dog is an insult to dogs!" McKay said.
McKay also lashed out at Thompson, who had finished her closing minutes earlier.
"I don't know what the acoustics are like in this courtroom," McKay said after pointing at Thompson. "But what in the world was she listening to here (during two weeks of testimony)?" he shouted.
After closing arguments, jurors took a break before returning to hear jury instructions. Deliberations could begin after that.
Balfour pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder. If convicted on all counts, he faces a mandatory life prison term.
Prosecutors presented weeks of testimony, starting with Jennifer Hudson. She told jurors about the last time she saw her three family members alive and spoke endearingly about her nephew.
The defense called just two witnesses -- two detectives who had testified earlier -- in a bid to suggest investigators botched the triple-homicide investigation.
Prosecution witnesses testified that Balfour threatened to kill the Hudson family dozens of times if Julia Hudson refused to reconcile with him.
Prosecutors say Balfour shot Hudson's mother, Darnell Donerson, 57, in the living room of the Hudson family home Oct. 24, 2008, then shot Hudson's 29-year-old brother, Jason Hudson, in the head as he lay in bed.
Balfour then allegedly abducted Julian and shot him as he lay behind a front seat of an SUV. His body was found in the abandoned vehicle miles away after a three-day search.


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Let's see ... how could Matt Millen and the Detroit Lions possibly alienate fans any more than they already have. Hmm. Well, jeez, you know, we just can't think of anything; we can't imagine a conceivable way they could devastate that fan base more completely. Wait, here's one: They could tell their fanbase to fuck off. Literally.
Accidentally, of course. A fan trying to cancel his season tickets got a rather unfriendly message from a team employee.
Furlong canceled his season tickets in an e-mail to Schul. Powser then e-mailed Furlong with an offer for more desirable seats, but Furlong said it was a matter of principle — and he wouldn't accept the offer. Then Furlong received the inadvertent e-mail from [team employee] Schul.
The entire e-mail reads, "Lance...he is not talking about you here. Mark was asked to speak to these people and he said no. Fuck 'em until next year."
The real telling part of the story, we thought, is how Furlong, the season ticket holder, found his seats constantly downgraded each year, which is why he canceled his season tickets in the first place. God, Lions fans: Enjoy the Pistons while you can.
Does E-mail Show How Lions Really Feel About Their Fans? [The Oakland Press]


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Robert Henri, Portrait of Mrs. Robert Henri, August 1914. Oil on Canvas, 24 in. x 20 in. (60.9 cm x 50.8 cm). The San Diego Museum of Art, gift of Mrs. George Heyneman, 1959:7.
Robert Henri studied at both the Académie Julian and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Though Thomas Eakins was no longer teaching at the Academy when Henri arrived, Eakins was immensely influential for Henri, who regarded him as the superior portrait painter in the United States and followed Eakins's bluntly realist style.
This painting of Robert Henri's second wife, Marjorie Organ Henri, was given by the artist to Alice Klauber, who studied with Henri in Spain in 1907. Klauber invited Henri to San Diego in 1914, and he assisted her with the organization of an exhibition of American painting for the 1915 Panama-California Exposition, which was held in what became Balboa Park. The exhibition brought the work of George Bellows, William Glackens, Childe Hassam, John Sloan, and Henri to San Diego.


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Christian Jay Snyder
Dec. 5, 2012
PLYMOUTH — Christian Jay Snyder, 40, died at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012 at his residence following a long term illness.
He is survived by his wife, Kris, two sons, Tyler and Trenton, both at home; his mother, Darlene Snyder; and a brother, Mark Snyder.
Visitation is Friday, Dec. 7, 2012 from 4 to 8 p.m. in the Johnson-Danielson Funeral Home, Plymouth.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012 at 11 a.m.
Burial will be in Burr Oak Cemetery.
A complete obituary will follow in Friday's edition.
Orpha Hilda Lough
Dec. 1, 2012
ROCHESTER — Orpha Hilda Lough, 97, died Dec. 1, at 5:55 p.m. at Woodlawn Hospital.
She is survived by her daughters, Betty Jean Myers of Lake Havasu City, Ariz., Patricia Ann (William) Rogers of Phoenix, Ariz.; daughter-in-law, Ann Lough of Culver; son-in-law, Phillip Alber of Fort Wayne; seven grandchildren and many great-grandchildren.
Service will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012 at the Good Family Funeral Home. Visitation is from 4 to 7 p.m. Monday, and an hour prior to services Tuesday. Burial will be in the Richland Center IOOF Cemetery. Memorials in lieu of flowers may be made to the Burton-Richland Center United Methodist Church or the Fulton County Historical Society Museum. Online condolences may be made at www.goodfamilyfh.com.
Kathryn Miller
Dec. 5, 2012
ETNA GREEN — Kathryn Barbara Elizabeth Myers Miller, 94, of Etna Green, died Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012, at 5:03 a.m. at Bremen Healthcare Center.
Surviving are daughters, Ruth Jane Miller of Etna Green, Mary (Larry) Fervida of Nappanee, Susan (Dewayne) Bixler of Nappanee, and Patsy (Don) Kline of Etna Green; three grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Visitation is Thursday, Dec. 6, from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. at Thompson-Lengacher & Yoder Funeral Home, Nappanee, and from 12 to 2 p.m. Friday, at Hepton Union Church, until the 2 p.m. service. Burial will follow at Sandridge Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be given to Hepton Union Church or to the American Diabetes Association. Online condolences may be given at www.tlyfh.com.


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They arrived for the memorial on a recent afternoon, filing in quietly under the steel trusses of a hangar, a motley crowd in suits, in flip-flops, in evening gowns, in pith helmets. Many were strangers to one another, their common thread a man named Griffith Lisle Hoerner. It felt, one said, like there was a hole in the sky.
The aviation community at the Santa Monica Airport is tight-knit and quirky, peppered with a few people who dabble in private jets and the other trappings of wealth, but far more "salty dudes," as Hoerner's son, Alex, describes them.
Some are eccentrics who are obsessed with the history of flight. They sit around debating whether ancient Peruvians might have figured out how to fly hot-air balloons. Some are pilots who are like barnstormers, meant to fly around wearing goggles and fluttering scarves.
It is an insular world and, for much of the last five decades, a ruddy, bearded adventurer known as "Griff" was a ringleader.
He was rated to fly just about anything: fixed-wing airplanes, blimps, helicopters, all manner of gliders and sailplanes. Around the airport, there were few more talented pilots; while Hoerner was not a cowboy, everybody seemed to have a story about his exploits.
There was the time he flew below sea level in Death Valley. There were the U-turns he made, tight and confident, below the rims of the Malibu canyons. The time he landed a helicopter on the Santa Monica Pier, dressed as Santa Claus. Once, he banked so sharply over Santa Catalina to photograph a bison that his friends thought he might tumble out of the plane.
He seemed invincible; he was, said an acquaintance, like a combination of Willy Wonka and Indiana Jones. Then, one day in October, his plane tumbled into the ocean, just past the breakers in Malibu.
The afternoon of Oct. 7, Hoerner took off from Santa Monica Airport with an experienced flight student named Mark Walker.
They were riding in a lightweight, Italian-made plane called a Sky Arrow 600 Sport, which featured a single "push-prop" behind the cockpit. There were two seats; Walker was in front and Hoerner was in the back, investigators believe.
A few years ago, the plane would have been classified as experimental. But the classifications have changed; the aircraft was listed as a "light sport aircraft," which meant it was not built to standards as exacting as federal regulators expect of other aircraft.
Among other things, it had a three-point seat belt system instead of a sturdier five-point harness, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
The plane was owned by a corporation that kept offices at the airport, and it was a popular rental for lessons. It was sleek and glassy; no one loved it more than Griff, said Randy Stein, 58, a friend for 20 years and one of his students for the last five.
"You always want to dance with the best-looking girl," Stein said.
For Hoerner, a good day was any day spent in the air, but he found flying over the ocean to be particularly captivating.
Even if his schedule called for him to fly east, toward the desert, he would first zip over the sea. Still, he told his longtime companion and former wife, Suzy Giambattista: "Nothing would be worse than the impact of the ocean."
"That is what he told me," she said. " 'Nothing. Nothing. Nothing.' "
Just after 5 p.m., the plane was off the coast of Malibu. It took a hard left turn, then plummeted into the sea.
Michael Dwyer, 47, an executive at Jakks Pacific, the Malibu-based toy maker, was in a meeting. He heard the guttural whine of an engine and looked up.
"I saw a plane going absolutely nose-first into the water," Dwyer said. "It hit like a huge bird, creating a huge splash. The wings popped right off."
Dwyer shot up from his desk, shouting for someone to call 911. He raced outside, across Pacific Coast Highway, over a fence and across the beach. With a colleague, Jason Sandoval, he ferried two life preservers and a long surfboard toward the wreckage.
Hoerner and Walker were clinging to one of the wings, covered in blood. Dwyer and Sandoval eased them onto the surfboard and then onto a lifeguard's boat. Walker's injuries were serious but not life-threatening. Hoerner's were severe.
For two weeks, Hoerner hung on at UCLA Medical Center. There were days when he seemed to be improving, when his breathing was less labored, when the pressure on his brain seemed to recede. But on Oct. 24, he died. He was 70.
The NTSB report could take six months, said Patrick Jones, a Los Angeles-based air safety investigator leading the probe. Investigators were able to haul the engine out of the ocean for tests; it ran fine and there is no reason to suspect malfunction, Jones said.
Back at Santa Monica Airport, that has raised more questions than it has answered.
"We're all watching," Stein said. "We all want to know."
Last Sunday, Hoerner's family and friends opened up Barker Hangar for a memorial. The invitation said "BYOP" -- bring your own plane. No one was sure what to expect; nearly 500 people showed up.
There were friends, students and fellow pilots. There were nurses who had cared for him in the intensive-care unit; the two men who helped rescue him from the ocean. Walker, who was in the crash, was there. (He declined to comment for this article.)
There were associates from Griff's "day job," running a small contracting firm. There were contacts from City Hall; Griff was involved in civic affairs and served as a liaison in recent years between pilots and residents pushing hard to shut down the airport because of noise and other issues.
There were people he'd worked with, for a long list of charities -- ferrying patients from remote areas to medical appointments; introducing teenagers to flying; preparing air transportation in the event of a major disaster.
There were his fellow nature lovers; Griff had become enchanted with the migration of monarch butterflies and had planted patches of "butterfly food" -- a type of milkweed -- around the airport and near his home in Santa Monica Canyon.
Everyone seemed taken aback by the size of the crowd.
"He had a wonderful life," Stein said. "But nobody realized it until it was over."
The attendees took turns at a microphone, swapping "Griffisms."
Several remembered that in the 1950s, relatives had given him money for what he claimed were trumpet lessons. He was actually learning to fly.
His mother could not have been more surprised when a friend stopped her at the market to tell her that Griff had made an emergency landing on the beach north of Santa Monica. (Police were less impressed, citing Hoerner and a friend for illegal parking of a motor vehicle on a public beach.)
It was the kind of funeral that only good friends could throw -- toasting his flaws as well as his good traits.
Hoerner, they said, was genuinely interested in helping other people. He was also stubborn and occasionally grumpy, not to mention a questionable businessman who had a hard time keeping his insurance, his licensing and his bills straight.
Indeed, Stein said, his life was "a series of schemes," all designed to convince someone richer than him that a particular plane needed desperately to be purchased -- and, of course, that he would have to test-fly it time and again.
"You always thought he was doing you a favor," Stein said. "And he was having more fun than you ever had."
Mostly, though, they just missed him and wondered what possibly could have happened up there.
"This was a guy who lived his life," said Gene Evans, a friend for 30 years who once survived an emergency landing with Hoerner in a cornfield. "I feel sorry that he's gone -- but it's mostly sorry for me."
Toward the end of the service, Hoerner's pilot friends flew the Goodyear blimp over the hangar. Most cleared out to have a look.
Back inside the hangar, someone had parked Hoerner's old, battered van and left the doors open. One of his books, a collection of Dorothy Parker poems, was in the back, open to page 14, to a poem called "The Trifler": "Death's the lover that I'd be taking; Wild and fickle and fierce is he."
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from www.time.com – He was on the set as a member of the lighting crew. But when the actor cast for the male lead proved unavailable, director Gerard Damiano promoted Herb Streicher to a starring role in Deep Throat. He also gave Streicher a nom de porn: Harry Reems.
Deep Throat, produced for $25,000 in 1972, became the first above-ground sensation in movie pornography. It launched the brief, gaudy phase of "porno chic," luring the mass audience into a sex spectacle, and lent its name to the inside-government secret-spiller for Woodward and Bernstein's Watergate exposes. The movie also earned tens of millions for its sponsor, Louis "Butchie" Peraino, the son of a made man in New York City's Columbo mob family.
For Reems, who died Tuesday at 65 of pancreatic cancer in Salt Lake City, the picture earned a certain fame as the genre's leading male star — and a 1976 guilty verdict on an obscenity charge from a Memphis jury. "For the first time in U.S. history," narrator Dennis Hopper notes in the 2005 documentary Inside Deep Throat, "an actor had been convicted for merely playing a part." The judgment was overturned on appeal.
Unlike his Deep Throat costar Linda Lovelace, whose particular gift was to adjust her breathing so she could ingest a male member in her throat (the movie's original title: The Sword Swallower), Reems radiated the polish of a trained veteran of the stage and screen.
He was an actor whose roles required him to have sex on screen, not a lusty, try-anything amateur who had to be taught how to act in the movies. Sporting his trademark bushy mustache, a la Groucho Marx, he infused the role of Dr. Young, medical hygienist, with a jaunty brio that told filmgoers new to porn, "I'm having fun, so you can too."
Born in the Bronx in 1947, Herbert Streicher served brief stints at the University of Pittsburgh and in the Marine Corps before becoming an actor. The Internet Movie Database credits him with unbilled roles in two mainstream productions: the Jane Fonda Klute and an inspirational urban drama, The Cross and the Switchblade, starring Pat Boone. But he took whatever work there was, including off-off-Broadeway.
"I was doing Coriolanus in some marginal coffeehouse," he recalled in his 1975 memoir Here Comes Harry Reems, "where they passed the hat around at the end of the performance."
Streicher got training of a more valuable kind when he signed on with two burlesque comics to be the set-up guy, or "third banana," on a tour that included Staten Island and Atlantic City. It was there he learned "the crazy doctor bit" that he would use as Dr. Young.
To pay the bills, he drifted into porn in 1970, just as the courts had ruled that films with explicit sex could be shown publicly. Damiano was shooting a 10-min. loop, set in a hospital, with Reems as the patient (he has a bandage bow-tied around his ailing member) and a new performer — Linda Boreman, later Lovelace — as the ministering nurse. Then she performed her sleight-of-throat.
As Reems recalled: "I couldn't believe she ate the whole thing!… It was a frightening sensation. My first thought was, 'Will she bring me back alive?'" (Spoken like a smart third banana.) "Gerry's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets and the cameraman's jaw brushed his shoes. I think all of us there knew we were present at a significant moment in sexual history."
The logical next step to showcase Lovelace's specialty was a feature film: Deep Throat, an hour-long raunch fest that was part slapstick comedy, part carnal carnival.
When Reems read an early version of the script, he recalled, "I saw a part I was dying to play —and my part was dying to play it, too." (Cue rim shot.) Once he cast Reems, Damiano realized he had the man whose ingratiating nature could sell the project to a wide audience. "I really dug Harry," the director said. "He's a professional, he's a romantic, and he's an exhibitionist" — the porn-film trifecta.
Basically a burlesque routine (Reems, wisecracking like Dr. Schnorrer) wrapped around a sideshow freak stunt, the movie provided Reems with the chance to display his indefatigable performance skills, as a burlesque comic and sex worker. Even Federal agent Bill Kelly, who would lead the battle to put Harry in jail, offered the grudging praise that "He was the only redeeming thing in the entire movie, as opposed to Linda Lovelace, who's got as much acting ability as a lamp."
Damiano gave Deep Throat the tone of a borderline-bright comedy; he underscored the action using broadly ironic pop music, including a version of Mickey and Sylvia's "Love Is Strange" with naughtier lyrics. For their efforts, Lovelace was paid $1,200, Reems $250. In a way, they both paid later: the actress with headlines about her having been forced to appear in porn (a charge that was widely disputed) and Reems with his obscenity conviction.
With Deep Throat a breakout hit, Damiano made a super-serioso drama: Devil in Miss Jones. And this time under his own name. Reading the script, Reems told his friend: "Gerry, it's a steal. This is No Exit in its thinnest disguise." To which Damiano replied: "Well, what do you expect? I wrote it in a weekend." An existentialist drama about a suicidal woman (Georgina Spelvin, another refugee from the legit theater) who is given a last wish to explore every forbidden sin, the movie realized Damiano's dream to be Ingmar F—–' Bergman. And Reems had one of the major male roles.
The 1973 Devil in Miss Jones represented the modest apogee of porno chic, before the genre headed to California and spawned two other stars: Ivory Soap model Marilyn Chambers and John T. "Johnny Wadd" Holmes. Porn soon devolved into formula, and Reems was spending nearly as much time in court as in front of the camera.
He also lost the role of the coach in the 1978 movie Grease when the producers decided his notoriety was too great a risk. (Sid Caesar got the part.) By the early '80s, when home video had killed in-theater hard-core, Reems had surrendered to alcohol addiction — he testified that he had "developed two ulcers, chronic pancreatitis, a diseased liver" — and was panhandling on Sunset Boulevard.
By 1990, Reems was in Park City, Utah, where he joined AA, converted to Christianity, got married (his wife Jeanne Sterret survives him) and opened a real estate brokerage. As his fellow XXX-star Jamie Gillis noted in 2005: "he is enjoying playing the role of upstanding, successful citizen."
Though he hadn't done hard-core since 1989, he still used the name Damiano gave him. His business card read: "Harry Reems CRS [Certified Residential Specialist], GRI [Graduate Realtor Institute]." He also reminisced in the Inside Deep Throat doc, with an easy smile and a thick mop of white hair (sans mustache) that made him look like the Steve Martin of porn.
Make that ex-porn. And please pay our deceased artiste the tribute of avoiding the phrase "sex star." Simply call him Harry Reems, actor.


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This is Sri. I live in the Des Plaines/Niles neighbourhood (close to the Golf Mill mall) and looking for tennis partners
who could play either at the Maine East High School or the Golf Mill Park (next to the Golf Mill mall on Church St) courts
or any other courts nearby.Let me know if you are interested.
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Hey i stay in evanston.. near skokie. Lemme know if u want to hit this weekend..
Yes. I am available this Sunday. Let me know where to meet. My # is 804 502 7170.
hey sri, i work right there at mil-green. let me know if you want to play sometime this week.
Hi Dan. Hope you saw my reply to Andrew below. Let me what time works out for you. This weekend I am out though but we could play today through Fri at the evening times I mentioned below.
I live in Skokie and am about a 3.5 level player. I have quite a bit of free time since I am a teacher who is just working in the mornings during the summer. Let me know if any of you are interested in playing.
Sure Andrew. My preferred timings are -
Weekdays - 5:45 - 6:45PM (one of the days I could even do mornings anytime from 6-8AM. We could talk and work it out)
Weekends - Sat ( 6 - 7AM or 10 - 11AM ), Sun (Anytime from 6 - 11AM)
Please call me or give me your # so we could talk and plan things out.
I am at 847 636 7587. Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday are probably the best days in the afternoon for me. The weekends Sunday would work.
Are you up for a match yet?
Heyy Andrew. I though I'd replied to this but for some reason it didn't get posted.
Yes I am up for a match this Weekend - Sat at 10AM and Sun from 7AM till 10AM. Let me know if it works out for you.
Hi Sri,
I just found this site and your ad. I live near Maine East and would be available weekday/weekend mornings. If you are still looking for partners I can be reached at 847-778-5802. Also possibly available evenings.
Cool. Sorry for the late response. Was busy with some commitments. Do you want to play tomorrow at 9:30AM? I will send a txt or call you shortly.
Hi All,
How about this? I am available on all weekends to play from 9:30AM onward. Let me know who is interested. My # is 804 502 7170
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An investor is needed urgently to save the Sunday Business Post after a Dublin court allowed the newspaper to go into examinership.
The move was made after the Post's sister paper The Irish Examiner was bought out by a new company in a deal with creditors led by AIB bank.
The Examiner and a number of local newspapers and radio stations have been bought by a new company called Landmark, led by the Crosby family who owned the Cork based publisher.
Landmark may yet emerge as new buyers for the Business Post after Justice Peter Kelly agreed to the appointment of Michael McAteer of Grant Thornton as interim examiner of Post Publications Ltd (PPL), which publishes the paper.
Lawyer Garvan Corkery for PPL told the court: "The company is loss-making and insolvent and has lost the financial support of its Cork-based parent group Thomas Crosbie Holdings (TCH) following a major restructuring of that company's assets on Wednesday."
He said this involved a new company called Landmark Media Investments Ltd, owned by Tom and Ted Crosbie, acquiring most of the assets of TCH.
The Irish Times reports that the Examiner deal did not include Post Publications Ltd (PPL), which had not guaranteed any of the liabilities of TCH and was not subject to a charge by the Cork media group's main lender, AIB.
Landmark is believed to be interested in acquiring PPL from examinership.
Corkery outlined how PPL has been loss-making since January 2008.
It recorded a net operating loss of $1.5 million in the year ended January 1st, 2013, and is projected to record a loss of almost $2 million this year.
PPL has no debt but has relied on financial support from TCH for the past four years. This is now no longer available.
An independent accountant's report compiled by David Carson of Deloitte has forecast that PPL can return to profit next year and has a 'reasonable prospect of survival' subject to certain conditions being met.
The report adds that court was told that the company's own financial resources would be exhausted by week 13 of the examinership when a deficit of €164,795 would be recorded.
AIB has agreed to provide financial support of €150,000 at this point to enable PPL to see through its examinership.
The court was told a pay cut of 7 per cent along with 20 to 25 redundancies among the 76 staff is also likely.
The court was told that a failure to print the paper on Sunday could be 'fatal' for PPL.
A full examinership hearing will be held on March 15th.


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I didn't know where to post this so I posted it here.
Anyway, it looks like a death Note Live Action-movie is coming. The official site: http://wwws.warnerbros.co.jp/deathnote/
And ofcourse: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758742/ .
So guys, what do you think?
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I'm a big fan of the manga and I hope they can pull this movie off. I worry though that they won't be able to do the manga the full justice it deserves, it's alot to cram into a few hours. Also they'll need some good special effects to make the Shinigami believable.
|2006-04-18, 08:11
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koi ni KNOCKOUT!
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: japan
Age: 30
DEATH NOTE movie!
is anyone going to see movie of DEATH NOTE? i'm very excited!
because Lkun looks so good. i love L the most ヽ(●´з`)ノ.。.☆・゜
misachan has black hair in it but i think it will be OK...
will this movie come out in america!? i'm wondering. i hope it does for you!!
i'm sorry if this post isn't allowed.. 。゜(´A`)゜。 please forgive me
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koi ni KNOCKOUT!
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: japan
Age: 30
|2006-04-18, 11:45
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Well I'll certainly try and see it, hopefully the shinigami look good.
Here's a link to the official website http://wwws.warnerbros.co.jp/deathnote/
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Age: 33
EDIT: God damn, I totally confused her with Maki Horikita.
|2006-04-19, 00:07
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Gantz Survivor
Super Secret Deathnote Animation shhh...keep it under wraps
|2006-04-19, 07:06
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I'm not quite sure if I'm happy about the choice of actor of Light\Raito and L. Tatsuya Fujiwara is a very talented actor and uber-cute... That's the problem for me, his too cute as Raito in my taste. I think a more masculine actor would fit better.
And Kenichi Matsuyama.... He hasn't the looks in my opinion. However, I haven't seen to much of him so I won't judge him just yet. Anyway, I'm looking soo forward to this movie! I love Death Note!
|2006-04-20, 01:26
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I really like the way the way L looks so far! But Light.... he's a good actor, but he doesn't look like Light at all and lacks the creepy not-so-Japanese face and long hair. I don't really like how they made Misa not have blonde hair, either... the dumb blonde look fit her personality and made her stand out. I wonder how they'll do the shinigami?
Though the actors are all awesome so this should be great! So many good actors from so many good things! Battle Royale, Shinsengumi, Nobuta o Produce, Prince of Tennis Musicals....
|2006-04-20, 02:28
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The song itself is a continuation of a "saga", per se, of the RHCP (i.e. the story of Dani California, a ficticious woman who was first created in the song "By the Way", mentioned in "Californiacation", and continued in greater depth here; based on an amalgamation of the various women Anthony Kiedis, the lead singer and lyricist, dated in the past).
|2006-05-02, 15:26
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Death Note Live Action Trailer!
yay, awsome manga will be turned into awsome movie!
|2006-06-19, 09:38
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Netherlands
Age: 39
I just watched it! While I had read only a tiny bit of the Death Note manga (as I was
trying to read it in Japanese and the Japanese used is a bit complicated -- vocabulary-wise
at least), so I knew the story a little. I can say the movie turned out pretty well!
They did change quite a few plot elements though like:
- In the manga Raito is in high school when he finds the Death Note. In the movie he's already in university.
- In the manga he killed pages full of people before meeting Ryuka. But in the movie it's just 2.
... and I could go on for a bit longer ...
Another guy who was watching it with me told me there are even bigger plot elements
(especially concerning Naomi) they changed in the movie. But I wouldn't know -- I haven't
even read up to the part where "Lind L. Taylor" reveals himself in the manga yet.
All in all while it had a few slow moments (IMHO), it's a pretty good movie which I can
recommend to everyone. Though you'd better be pretty fluent in Japanese -- I'm not
and that was a bit of a problem especially in the beginning of the movie when a few things
happen in quick succession. Later on with more casual conversations I had less trouble.
For someone who hadn't read up until that far there were a few good plot twists in
the movie, especially near the end, where you think something has gone very wrong for Raito,
but the real reasons turn out to be very, very different (can't tell anymore without using
spoiler tags).
Ryuka looked pretty cool, though IMHO he lacked a bit in the "kinametics" (sp?) department.
Especially in the beginning his movements seemed pretty fake and not well done. Later
on I noticed this less and less though.
And L was brilliant btw -- easily the coolest character of the movie.
The ending btw leaves a lot of room for a sequel -- and indeed at the end of the credits
they announced the sequel (subtitle "The Last Name") would be released in November
(though alas, I won't be in Japan anymore by that time).
Anyway... just wanted to share my experience
(And to boast some more -- I also saw the PoT movie recently [which sucked I'm afraid]
and I will be seeing Brave Story and probably Gedo Senki before I leave. I love Japan )
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"We Hate Comics" (AKA Review Group) Week 280: All Nighter #1
Hey you! Reader! Want to be a part of the GREATEST COMIC BOOK AND GEEK COMMUNITY on the web?! Well, they're not accepting new members, but we'll take anyone here, so why not sign up for a free acount? It's fast and it's easy, like your mom! Sign up today! Membership spots are limited!*
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Hey you! Reader! Want to be a part of the GREATEST COMIC BOOK AND GEEK COMMUNITY on the web?! Well, they're not accepting new members, but we'll take anyone here, so why not sign up for a free acount? It's fast and it's easy, like your mom! Sign up today! Membership spots are limited!*
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by BlueStreak » Wed Jun 22, 2011 6:59 amDo we hate free comics? Yes, yes we do.
All Nighter #1
as selected by Royal Nonesuch
ALL NIGHTER #1 "Stealing Coins"
Kit Bradley is a 20 year-old art student and petty criminal who knows it's time to leave her delinquent past behind, but isn't ready for the responsibilities of adulthood. Her social headquarters is an all night diner, and while trying to put the 'off' on an on-again-off-again boyfriend, she runs into an old flame, and an enigmatic loner named Martha, whose mysterious disappearance will alter Kit's life forever. Created, written, and drawn by Eisner and Ignatz Award nominee DAVID HAHN, with lettering by Aditya Bidikar
Royal Nonesuch has next week's pick.
If you would like to join the group, it's easy. Just post a review and I'll add you to the member's list. As long as you stay active, eventually it will be your turn to make a pick.
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Comics are to be scored on a scale from 1-10. 1 being suck, 10 being a damn good comic. Beyond that, there's no right or wrong.
If it's your week, you must announce your selection by 5pm EST the day Diamond releases it's shipping list. If you do not announce your pick at that time, I will add a poll to the thread that will remain open until 12pm EST so that the group can make the selection for that week. (If you're seriously MIA, I'll probably put the poll up sooner) To ensure that you know it's your week, I will PM you when Midtown's list goes live on Thursdays. Also you'd better keep in mind the Amber Atoms rule, if your pick isn't reviewed by 2 or more people you will be exiled from the Group for 1 year. Our definition of a single issue comic is limited to comics listed at $3.99 or lower, anything above that is off limits. Also, to prevent utter filth being chosen deliberately, the Weird Worlds Rule has also gone into affect. Any book scoring a new all-time low (2.12 as of today) will not count as a miss if people wisely choose not to purchase it. Any poor soul who did review the book will earn a free pass on a book of their choice.
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by Punchy » Wed Jun 22, 2011 7:00 amFree comics?
BS, did you get my PM with my Sweet Tooth article.
by Zero » Wed Jun 22, 2011 7:01 amFull issue is Here.
by Punchy » Wed Jun 22, 2011 7:02 amSweet, thanks Zero.
by BlueStreak » Wed Jun 22, 2011 7:05 am
I did. I'll post it when I get to work unless you want to take care of it now. I just heard back from Lemire about an interview, so I'll probably have the quote to add in the next couple of days.
by Punchy » Wed Jun 22, 2011 7:05 am
Nah man, let's wait until you have the quote.
by BlueStreak » Wed Jun 22, 2011 7:33 am
Eh, the only problem is that he's slammed right now, so I don't know if he's even seen the email yet. We got the Jeff Parker quote added a day or two after the fact, so there's a bit of precedent.
I just don't want to wait on something that's not definitely a sure thing.
by 3MJ » Wed Jun 22, 2011 7:49 amJust read that comic. I might as well since it's free.
The main character is obviously at this point a bit of a cypher. I appreciated the efforts to flesh out her character, and you get a bit of a sense of what she's about. The other characters obviously weren't that interesting yet, but it's a first issue what can you do. The art was very nice, I thought it flowed very well, and even though I read it on a screen I liked it.
My two big problems:
[Reveal] Spoiler: Click to Expand
The first problem is the tacked on mystery element of the plot. She killed her mother, I get that, but it comes across as cumbersome when she is talking about it. I get it has to be forced in sort of to create a bit of mystery, but it's really not that interesting as of right now.
The second is to do with some of the dialogue. Whilst most of the time it is fine if a little bland (honestly it's hard to tell in one issue) there's a few lines that stand out. "Dwane is like a bad penny you always find in your pocket" a poor metaphor which managed to sound very new yet cliched at the same time.
Also who is that blonde girl?
Overall, y'know one of the better comics I've read recently (really not saying much). It did everything it needed to in a serviceable way, and it didn't need to resort to a fight scene or hitting me with anything over the head. The characters are a bit on the thin side so far, but EVERY character will be a bit on the thin side after an opening issue.
I'm in a very good mood. This get 7.5 out of 10
by Rockman » Wed Jun 22, 2011 8:06 amAll Nighter # 1
Meh meh meh. I'm not a teenage girl so this didn't appeal to me in the least.
by Comic_Doctor » Wed Jun 22, 2011 8:10 amI'm going to get a copy if my LCS has it, but if not, I'll do my review from reading it online.
by Eli Katz » Wed Jun 22, 2011 10:33 am
I don't have superpowers, so most superhero comics leave me cold.
by Zero » Wed Jun 22, 2011 11:33 am
I'm Amazing, but lately Spider-Man leaves me pretty cold.
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The Russian musician, performing music in such styles as IDM and Ambient. I did not come to these styles immediately, and wrote quite a long time trance, house and etc. Soon switched to the experimental styles, I have begun to change bits on the breaks, and electronic sounds change on more alive. All of this fit into the broader framework of style IDM. And nowadays remains in the same style, only a few exceptions going abroad and going into the break, drum'n'bass and dubstep.
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The 7 Best July Movies to watch in theaters!
07.4.2013 | By Jack Rico | No Comments">No Comments
With nearly 30 films in the July calendar, I was thinking of making your life easier by sifting through the garbage and choosing the very best July movies for you to see this very American month. In my professional opinion, there are only 7 movies that have the substance and entertainment value for you to invest your money free of concern. I'm sure these selections will evoke sentiments of emotion, reflection and wonder.
7. Fruitvale Station (Drama, R, Michael B. Jordan, Melonie Diaz, Octavia Spencer) July 12th 2013
Plot: The true story of Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008 when cops made a mortal decision that rocked the San Francisco area and made national news.
Why you need to see it: Debuting to rave reviews at this year's Sundance Film Festival, the gritty indie Fruitvale Station is already being talked about in Oscar conversations. Talk is The Weinstein Company fought hard to acquire it. I don't blame them – its visceral last 30 minutes is powerful cinema. The rest of the movie has some true genuine, convincing and affecting acting from the whole cast. Get ready to see and hear more about this film come award season! Read More


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Mannheim Steamroller Tour Mixed on Mackie Digital X Bus
Woodinville, WA (January 12, 2005)--Chip Davis and his group Mannheim Steamroller crossed over from New Age electronic music to mainstream critical acclaim with the release of their first Christmas album in 1984. With numerous follow-up holiday releases, the group has virtually become synonymous with the Christmas season itself. This year's Christmas Celebration Tour was another great victory for the group, and some of this success is owed to the artistic sound mixing of Rande Ferguson and the addition of a Mackie Digital X Bus console to the show's audio arsenal.
For the last 16 years, Ferguson has served as sound engineer for Mannheim Steamroller during their traditional November and December touring months. During the other ten months of the year, Ferguson is a design/build contractor in Omaha, Nebraska with Audio Support Group. "In this job I'm able to stay well-versed in new audio products and technologies," commented Ferguson. "In fact, this is how I first became aware of Mackie's new digital console. It was my good friend and sales rep, Tim Eakins of Eakins-Bernstein & Associates, that suggested that the new Digital X Bus might be just what I needed for the Mannheim Steamroller tour."
Furguson continued, "I'm always interested in getting the job done with the best equipment for my budget, and I hadn't yet found anything that was able to address the specific needs for this show. Chip has been writing in the surround format for over 20 years, and for this reason, I've been mixing the show in surround since the mid 90's. When I heard of the advanced panning capabilities of the Digital X Bus, I thought this might just be the console I've been waiting for."
For their Christmas tour, the seven core members of Mannheim Steamroller are augmented by a 24-member symphony orchestra made up of local musicians hired in each city visited by the tour. This year, all 24 symphony members were mic'd, and connected to the Digital X Bus. Ferguson then ran a four-channel sub mix (stereo front and stereo rear) out of the Digital X Bus and into a Soundcraft Vienna where the rest of the band was mixed in.
For loudspeaker support, left and right clusters of the Clair Brothers I-4 Line array received a stereo signal from the Soundcraft console while a second stereo signal was sent to left and right hangs of the Grund Audio compact line array at the back of the room. Amplification was a combination of Crest, QSC, and Carver for front fills and subs.
"This configuration gave me the option of selecting the orchestra as a whole, or a single instrument, and moving it around the room as I liked using the panning capabilities of Mackie's X.200," explained Ferguson. "In this way, the board really accomplished something extraordinary and allowed me to control the sound in a way that I had never been able to achieve before."
As for sound quality, Ferguson was amazed. "The sound quality of the X-bus can't be beat. There is not another console in this price range that sounds anything like it," remarked Ferguson. "I purchased the Digital X Bus because it gave me the tools to present the musical vision of my artist. I'm concerned with what he writes, what he's thinking, and this console gives me the ability to really interpret what the artist intends the music to sound like. Chip Davis is big on surround, and the Digital X Bus got me as close as I have ever been to realizing what he wants to hear from a live performance, and that is a major accomplishment."
Ferguson has been so impressed with the capabilities of the Digital X Bus that he is planning to make it a permanent addition to his equipment list for all Mannheim Steamroller tours to come. "I fully intend to take the Digital X Bus out with me again. I received so many positive comments this year from arena managers who said things like: 'What does Steamroller do that other guys don't? My arena has never sounded better.' I guess this means that we've put together a really solid system. I'm definitely looking forward to working with the Digital X Bus again."


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We will be posting a video on how to make these adorable magnetic boards for Christmas! They are really really easy and can be adapted for any season with the appropriate theme to match.
For this project you will need:
1. small baking pans, one for each kid. We got ours at DollarTree so they were $1 each.
2. Acrylic paint--we used what was in the art room so there was no cost involved but to clarify--this is not the kind of paint that comes out of the tubes. You can also use craft paint. Colors are: WHITE, BLACK, BLUE, small amounts of BROWN, RED, GREEN, and ORANGE.
3. flat head brushes and detail brushes for project and a good paint brush for polyurethane
4. Paper towels, one for each kid to wipe brushes in between colors
5. Crop-O-dile (http://store.scrapbook.com/wr-70907-7.html) or some other punch that cuts through metal
6. ribbon
7. One container of High-Gloss polyurethane. I got mine at the hardware store and paid $18
Take off the paper on the front of the pan. Pass out pans. We had our kids write their name and a Christmas message to their parents on the back.
Start by using the flat-head brush and paint the background which is basically painting the bottom 1/4 of the pan white. WITHOUT CLEANING THE BRUSH--dip one side of the flat brush in blue and shade by going over the top of the white with the blue side. It should blend naturally.
wipe brush on papertowel. Load brush with white paint again and make a large ball on the snow you just painted. Make sure to paint into the snow and not just on the line so that it looks like he is actually sitting in the snow. Make the body with 2 or 3 snowballs.
Dip one side of the brush with blue again and shade on one side of snowman.
Wipe brush---don't let the kids WASH the brush as the paint will run on the pans. This will also destroy any chance at blending if there is water in the brush. Wipe on paper towel in between colors.
Using detail brush make the hat and eyes and mouth out of the BLACK paint. Make the arms out of BROWN paint to look like twigs.
Add nose with a small amount of ORANGE.
Add scarf in green or red or if the kids are older, like in this case, we let them go to town on the decorating.
Add snowflakes in BLUE or WHITE.
Let all the pans dry by stacking alternating horizontal and vertical.
When the trays have dried AT LEAST ONE FULL DAY, punch holes in tops and run ribbon through. We also added a quick note printed on computer about NOT using as a baking pan and to only use for decoration.
Dip paint brush in polyurethane and LIGHTLY go over artwork. If you actually touch the paint it will bleed as the polyurethane eats a bit of it up and softens it.
LET DRY ANOTHER COMPLETE DAY. They are ready to use!
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I have a friend I call Dufus. She calls me Dork. If you spend any time at all reading my short stories and have hung around me you will understand how I earned that nick-name. Dufus is a true friend. Know how I know? When she goes to get a bagel she buys an extra one for me and has it at the bottom of the bag because she knows that even if I'm on a diet, and I'm always on a diet, I will want to start taking pieces of hers. She also buys extra scrapbook supplies when she sees something I like because she knows I will be bummed I missed out on getting it because I was most likely working at my day job. When she watches my dog she comes in and watches tv with the silly animal so she is not lonely. I can go on and on but you get the idea.
In turn I have had to put aside my phobia of needles and accompany her to get her first chemo treatment after her mastectomy . I tired to hold a smile and be supportive as I am sure I was turning 3 shades of green and trying not to black out. I had to try and stay positive which for me is a hard thing to do since I am a chronic worrier. Yes of course I was worried about her health through this whole ordeal. We are less like Lucy and Ethel and more like Lucy and Ricky. I reciprocate the pet-watching duties when she is out of town although her bird can take off my finger and her dog barks at me non-stop and runs away so not much chance of me petting her while watching TV.
We used to do a lot of scrapbooking together but then along came work. We still get together when I go to her crops at Scrampers in Torrance, CA and we show each other projects we made. I made these bottles on a whim. We decided to put them into a video so here goes nothing.
We will ALWAYS give you the names of the manufactures and will continue to be FREE!
Hope you enjoy them.
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This LO was an assignment for the show before its demise. The challenge was to only use the Cricut and sewing to make the LO. I used the Cricut patriot cartridge and mostly just the stars in different sizes and then the fireworks. I used Sparkle N Sprinkle glitters which I LOVE and the owners are the sweetest people. They have an amazing array of colors!!!! I had borrowed the producer's Singer Touch N Sew that was featured on the show. I used some of the fancy stitches. If I were in the market for a new machine I would definitely get this one. Anyway that is about it in terms of embellishments and such. I tried to create a story by using something I call "Storyboard Scrapbooking." I will talk more about this later but I created a "montage" of the days events and then ended with the fireworks. I didn't have the greatest photos so it made it harder to create the story. The best photo was the one of the kids making goofy faces so I used that as my focus. Then I took other shots and placed them along the bottom of the LO to make the montage.
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I love the Purple Cow! I have been using them since their beginning and anyone who has cropped with me knows that I use the hand-held cutters all the time.
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I swear I am going to print these photos this weekend and finish that 4th of July LO.
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Well after almost a year on "Cropped" I met with the producer today and we decided that I will no longer be working on her show. This was a mutual decision based on time and scheduling and further commitments we both felt I couldn't give right now. I have gone back to working in commercials in film/tv production and have had a hard time working around both of our work schedules.
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So we are almost done with this remodel and for the first time in 3 months we can get up to use the potty in our own bathroom. Of course there is no sink so we still have to take the long walk to the bathroom in the living room to wash hands but hey---we are closer than we were a week ago! And we got our shower connected. And then the contractor informed me that my "hot water heater check valves and my shut off valves need to be replaced" whatever that means but apparently it means that although we could theoretically take a shower in our bathroom we have no hot water or water pressure to achieve that task. And who has dealt with granite. I mean I was expecting about $1500 in granite for a 5 ft counter and a 3 ft counter but not $2500! Which is why I signaled my contractor when he got the phone call from the granite guy and was repeating the prices out loud, a very definite NO WAY----may have used other symbols but you get the idea.
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This is the 4th of July Layout I've been working on using solely the Cricut, cardstock, and glitter. I also sewed around the edges using a decorative stitch from the show's Touch N Sew by Singer. I also added some waves in red and blue thread. This was my first time using the Cricut and I was playing around with the sizes and shapes. I cut them out of red and blue papers then added the glitter. I will be printing photos from the 4th and finishing the layout soon.
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[Verse 1: Kid Cudi]
Off jump boo, Cudi give you funk
Hit you in your head then it work it to your rump
Hatin' niggas can't hate, leave 'em all stumped
They gotta like a nigga, call me Obama
Not a hypebeast while you beast for the hype (no no)
Yeah I'm the underdog, story of my life (yup)
Matter fact I dreamed that I lived twice
Once as a slave who imagined being free
And made it all happen for his family and his seed
And now me, you can call me Mr. Friendly
One life to live, but no acting on my nigga Friendy
Can't stand evil bitches with they Fendi
All they do is envy and plot up on my loins
I give you options baby flip a coin
You get McDonald's, forget the sirloin
Hating my macking, they asking
Is there any love
In this world?
Is there any love
In this world?
Is there any love
In this world of ours?
Is there any love
In this world?
[Verse 2: Wale & Kid Cudi]
Folarin, the muse of the hater
That music is greater, stupid nigga, bring your face up
Bamas surprised, deprived from attention
Pride of the district all rise so they listenin'
From where gorillas territorial for inches
When it come to pistols, these niggas don't John Lynch them
Off rip that's genius
You niggas so-so like seamstress
No more amore, I refuse to force you
Maybe I lack the fortitude to try to court you
Of course, they all hate
Early adapters agree they all late
So what that say about my watch?
To y'all minds I'm like a UK clock
Hours ahead, so wack niggas is sayin'
What they sayin', young?
They sayin'
What they sayin', young?
They sayin'?
Is there any love
In this world?
Is there any love
In this world?
Is there any love
In this world of ours?
Is there any love
In this world?
[Verse 3: Kid Cudi]
I was born to do the damn thing
Story of Cudi, nigga getting out my dreams
Zero options to choose
Living in a box full of Cuyahoga blues, and listen
I stayed away from reading The Plain Dealer
Most of my niggas back in Cleveland were plain dealers, uh
Who whipped Supremes, the candy-painted eyes
But the love from the boppers had 'him watchin they rise
Wasn't no love for a nigga in the smug
Sipping out a cup, a concoction for cruising
High off life? My nigga not even
I'mma go to war with the devil 'til we're even
Bobbing and weaving, spiritual hymn singing
No commentary my man, I come out swinging
And this will be the song that we sing
Famous for being featured in the 2011 Danny McBride movie "30 Minutes or Less", this song is from Kid Cudi's 2008 Mixtape, A Kid Named Cudi. It samples "Is There Any Love" by Trevor Dandy.


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1. Re: Can't "Publish as New Page"Krishna Prasad B V Jan 17, 2011 9:22 PM (in response to AAMSE)
Can you try clearing the Preferences? To clear the Preferences:
In Windows -
- Quit Contribute.
- Go to C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\ and delete the Contribute CS5 folder. (In Windows Vista or Windows 7, go to C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Adobe\ and delete the Contribute CS5 folder.)
- Also, run reg delete "HKCU\Software\Adobe\Contribute 6" /f
In Mac -
- Quit Contribute.
- Go to Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Adobe/ and delete Contribute CS5 folder.
- Also, go to Users/<username>/Library/Preferences and delete Adobe Contribute 6 Preferences file.
Now, relaunch Contribute and connect to your website, and edit a web page and check whether you are able to Publish As New Page.
Hope this helps.
2. Re: Can't "Publish as New Page"smbale1 Jul 4, 2011 8:28 AM (in response to Krishna Prasad B V)
Having the same issue with some users and not others who have the same permissions. Did changing the preferences work?
3. Re: Can't "Publish as New Page"Dominic Michael Jul 13, 2011 11:05 PM (in response to smbale1)
Clearing the perfereces is like a fresh installation of Contribute. Please try clearing the preference.
Hope this solves your problem.
4. Re: Can't "Publish as New Page"Hi There Sep 28, 2011 2:35 PM (in response to AAMSE)
I'm not sure if this will help, but I know from experience when I simply "Connect" to the site/page via Adobe Contribute the "File" > "Actions" > "Publish as new page..." is greyed out for me. However, when I choose to "Edit Page", then "File" > "Actions" > "Publish as new page..." does become available.
The key is to make sure the page you want to "Publish as a new page" is in EDIT mode in Contribute, not just in view mode.
My software and system:
Contribute CS5 version 6.0
Mac OS X version 10.6.8


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Gibbon, Laos (USNM 296921)
Gibbons are apes and one of our closest living relatives. The Smithsonian Institution's Division of Mammals (http://vertebrates.si.edu/mammals/) houses many gibbons in its scientific collections.
This specimen, USNM 296921 (http://collections.mnh.si.edu/search/mammals/?irn=7303801), is a juvenile female northern white-cheeked gibbon (Nomascus leucogenys) from Laos. It was collected by Richard Elbel on the left bank of the Mekong River, opposite Chiang Saen Kao.
This is a CT scan of the mandible of USNM 296921. These three-dimensional scans are made publicly available through the generous support of the Smithsonian 2.0 Fund, provided from the annual gifts of the Smithsonian National Board to the Secretary to use at his discretion (http://smithsonian20.si.edu/fund.html), and the Smithsonian Collections Care and Preservation Fund.
The main goal of this joint initiative between the Human Origins Program and the Division of Mammals is to make the NMNH's scientific collections of our closest living relatives, the apes, available in 3D for education and research.


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Sarah Silverman supports sister after arrest
The funnywoman's rabbi sibling Susan and her teenage daughter were detained by police at the city's famous Western Wall on Monday (11Feb13) for wearing religious outfits which are usually reserved for men in Orthodox Judaism.
The pair was taking part in a demonstration at the holy site, and Silverman reached out to Susan via Twitter.com to lend her backing.
She writes, "So proud of my amazing sister & niece... for their balls out civil disobedience. Ur (you are) the t**s! Women of the wall."
More than 300 people took part in the protest, and 10 were arrested.