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Easy to use yet powerful real-time pitch correction solution for getting the most out of any vocal recording and fixing pitch errors in no time
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How Do I Celebrate the Holidays?
12/05/2009 | Share this article: View Commentsby Marlene Winell
Image by nabeel_yoosuf via FlickrI'm sure we all remember being told to not forget that "Jesus is the reason for the season," so if you are recently deconverted from Christianity, this may be a confusing time for you. But I think it's a good time to do some healing and growth by taking personal responsibility for how to construe the holidays and consciously deciding what to do, if anything. In my view, this is part of the larger reconstruction project of recovery, which involves rethinking and reclaiming responsibility in every facet of life. As examples, I have discussed the importance of taking responsibility for personal "spirituality," for deciding on one's own sexual guidelines, and the importance of getting past looking for "God's will" in making life choices.
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Presenter: Kevin Rutherford & Lindsay McEwan
Objective(s) of the session:
Participants will learn:
- How to discuss code quality in terms of Smells; they will also gain some understanding of when smells indicate real problems, and when they are more benign.
- Why technical debt is a financial drain on the business; how Smells can present opportunities to improve your, and your team's performance.
- Why not all design patterns are necessarily Smell-free; it often depends on how and when they are applied.
Code Smells, like a pattern language, can help explain why some code is harder to change than it might otherwise be, i.e. why that code is hindering your progress on your current feature or bug-fix. Using Smells in such discussions, we feel, is less vague and less subjective, meaning a way forward is quicker and easier reached.
Participants will review some source code in the light of specific change requests and will explore the communication value of Code Smells as both a pattern language and a design vocabulary. We will discuss how Smells can indicate what code has become hard to change, and why that is a drain on the business.
Participants will also review some common programming and design patterns in the light of what has been learned, discovering tensions between the need for change and idealistic "by-the-book" design.
Format and length: 90 mins workshop
The session will be a workshop. Participants will work on code in pairs or small groups, and will discuss their findings as a group. The discussions and work sessions will be punctuated by brief presentations of new material.
Intended audience and prerequisites:
- Programmers, designers, architects, anyone looking to improve their team's performance.
- Anyone who wants to write better code, but who doesn't really know where to begin.
- Anyone who wants to understand why changeable code helps team performance, and why "technical debt" is a real cost to the business.


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In Berkeley, city leaders branded him a war criminal and human rights activists put up a billboard to denounce him. But in suburban Orange County, Professor John Yoo -- the primary architect of the Bush administration's policy on harsh interrogation techniques that many consider torture -- has found relatively calmer waters.
Yoo is a visiting professor at Chapman University School of Law in Orange, on leave from his tenured post at UC Berkeley to teach foreign relations law.
Although a handful of protesters, one in a Statue of Liberty get-up and another in an orange Abu Ghraib jumpsuit and hood, demonstrated against Yoo on campus recently, law students said they appreciate the prestige and exposure he could bring the law school.
But a small group of local activists said they hope to stir up anger at the 14-year-old law school in the thick of conservative Orange County.


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What are the main benefits of using a sit to stand desk?
- 1. Your body gets to move and not remain static for hours on end.
- 2. When you stand there is less pressure on the spine and legs.
- 3. Being able to stand increases the blood flow in your body.
- 4. Standing uses more calories, which has many health benefits.
- 5. Your legs and core muscles are strengthened.
- 6. Risk of blood clots are reduced as you are not sitting for long periods.
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Medtech group VentriPoint Diagnostics Ltd (CVE:VPT) reported further progress on its flagship product, namely FDA approval to sell its VMS Plus machine with the four-chamber heart analysis system in the USA.
"The VMS Plus is the first simple echocardiography system to be approved by the FDA for the 3-D volumetric analysis of all four chambers of the heart using 2-D ultrasound," said Dr George Adams, chief executive officer of VentriPoint.
READ: VentriPoint Diagnostics to advance AI capabilities in its heart device with new gov't funding
"Now we can offer the VMS Plus to American physicians so they can accurately and easily evaluate and monitor hearts in children and adults during a routine cardiology appointment."
The VMS+ is the first cost-effective and accurate artificial intelligence tool for measuring whole heart function using conventional ultrasound.
The USA is the largest medical device market in the world with over 40mln cardiac ultrasound exams per year.
Two-dimensional ultrasound is the modern stethoscope and is employed worldwide as the first step in evaluating heart disease.
Dr Adams added: "There is more and more evidence that volumes and function can predict which patients require more or less drugs and more careful monitoring and this what the VMS+ does easily and cost-effectively.
"Our mission to make it easier for every doctor worldwide to know what is actually happening with a heart without having to send everyone to an MRI has been advanced greatly with this approval. The rest of the world looks to the USA as a leader in cardiac care and so this will help us elsewhere as well."
Looking ahead, the company boss said: "We have sales and marketing plan for the USA and are now free to implement it.
"You are not allowed to even market a device in the USA without approval, but we have a number of leading centres who are aware of the VMS and have been asking when the VMS+ would be available. We can now actively contact them and solicit orders. We will be announcing these orders as they come in."
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On January 1, 2011, New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez issued
Executive Order 2011-001 entitled, "Formation of a Small Business-Friendly Task Force; Establishing a 90-Day Review Period for all Proposed and Pending Rules and Regulations."
This order suspends proposed and pending rules and regulations for a period of 90 days with some rules excepted. It also creates a task force comprised of cabinet secretaries from Taxation and Revenue, Workforce Solutions, and General Services. The task force is to make specific legislative and regulatory recommendations to achieve economic growth and stability within 90 days from the effective date of the order.
The press release that accompanied the executive order describes the action as follows:
Today, Governor Susana Martinez signed her first executive order, which establishes a small business task force to identify red-tape regulations that are harmful to business growth and job creation in New Mexico and report its findings to the Governor. The task force, chaired by Secretary-designate of Economic Development, Jon Barela, will conduct its review over a 90-day period, during which all proposed and pending regulations will be frozen.
The full text of the Executive Order is available online at http://www.governor.state.nm.us/uploads/FileLinks/1e77a5621a1544e28318ba93fcd47d49/EO-2011-001.pdf.


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Because I am a freelance writer with a limited budget, Skype has opened the door to me interviewing artists in other areas as no cost - a real plus. I also didn't need to purchase a recorder for my phone to tape the calls. An expense I just couldn't justify. Skype interviews I have conducted include a Los Angeles fashion stylist, three designers in New York and a tap icon living in Toronto. That chance to talk and interact with what is being said live, even though there are limitations, is a blessing. Seeing the artist talk also brings an added dimension. The article is stronger and has a better sense of the designer embedded in the words. I just place my tape recorder on my computer's speaker and interview away.
There has been a major surprise, though. Never once in communicating with my kids in Ireland or Australia did I have a single problem on Skype. The connection was great, even though they lived in meagre circumstances, and conversations went uninterrupted. Since interviewing artists in Canada and the U.S. I have been shocked at the low quality of the Skype connection. One of us keeps losing the audio and every time we have had to restart many times. In one interview that was unusually poor, we had to leave the video off entirely to keep the connection to make any progress and still had to re-start three times.
|Okay - I don't hate Skype, but when I have to restart 3 times, I understand the sentiment.
Which brings up the question, why is Skype better when you call someone on another continent than when you call someone in the North America???? I have tried an internet search to no avail, so here is your chance. If you can answer this question and it has a solution, you have improved my future interviewing experience by 100% and will earn my undying appreciation.


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September has arrived! This means my life is about to get a little crazy. Tomorrow Liam starts grade 1, Becky starts going to daycare by herself, and I start working full time again! I'm excited, but nervous too.
I'm hoping I still have lots of time for my scrapping....but if I dissapear again that would be why!!
In the mean time I'm doing all sorts of exciting things in the Digi Scrap world as well. First I've been helping Barbara of Precepts and Promises convert all of her templates into ".page" format for use in the Creative Memories program. It took me a little bit to learn, but I've got into a rhythm yet and I'm having a blast. She has such beautiful templates, so nice and clean with lots of room for journalling. So far just one of the kits has been uploaded with the .page files and it is available to Diner's Club Members at STO only, but keep your eyes open for more including this awesome set:
Digi-Deborah is still producing some amazing things as well. She's got a fantastic kit right now called Roy G Biv, but it's only available through the STO Diner's Club so hurry over and check out that good deal!
Finally the exciting news from STO! There is a big event this week at STO to celebrate Back to School time! Check it out!
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Dr. Denis LACOSTE
Director of Research
Research at Toulouse Business School
Over the last 30 years the links between academic research, business, and the economy have seen massive growth. Leading business schools have an ongoing responsibility to ensure the relevance and quality of their research towards these stakeholders. Our students are of course the first to benefit in the knowledge that their training is both up to date and of value to the professional world they enter. Indeed they are the pilots of change: those best equipped to embrace and steer change to advance their respective company.
This conviction is at the core of the school's activities. Researchers at TBS support it by actively engaging in professional associations, and communicating their expertise and ongoing learning in the most renowned international academic journals. At the same time, our research teams are focused on the needs of the business world, participating in the national and international arenas of research tendering. At a local level, through partnerships with several doctoral schools we are training the researchers of tomorrow thorugh our supervision of their research today.
Research Focus Areas
- Accounting, Control and Performance Management
- Entrepreneurship and Strategy
- Finance, Economics and Econometrics
- Social & Innovation Marketing
- Work, Employment and Health
Three interdisciplinary themes, defined in cooperation with regional industry partners, make up the permanent research axes:
- Aerospace Sector Management
- Agriculture and Foodstuffs Sector Management
- Health Systems Management
Research advisory board
The Research Advisory board has been created to help us achieve an objective analysis of our processes and our performance in research, to compare ourselves to the best performing institutions, and to define our research strategy. We need an outside perspective to guide us in our actions.
The members of this board are appointed for a three-year period. Their main task is to participate in an annual meeting in which they are required to contribute to the diagnosis of the research and the development of recommendations.
External members of the research advisory board
- Pr. Hervé PENAN - Dean of l'Institut d'Administration des Entreprises, Toulouse
- Pr Fany DECLERCK - Dean of the Doctoral School in Management Sciences, Toulouse I Capitole University
- Pr Ulrich HEGE - Dean of Toulouse School of Economics, University Toulouse 1 Capitole
- Pr Dwight MERUNKA - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises, Aix-en-Provence (Mkg)
- Pr Sébastien POUGET - Dean of l'Institut d'Economie Industrielle, IDEI, Toulouse I Capitole University
- Pr Anne SHUK YING TSUI - Arizona State University (TES)
- Pr Ian MARSH - Cass Business School (Finance)
- Pr Jane BROADBENT - Royal Holloway, University of London (CCPP)
- Pr Josée SAINT-PIERRE - Université du Québec, Trois Rivières (Ent & Strat)


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From Amy Thomas, author of Paris, My Sweet. A love affair with Paris, New York, sweets and, now, a little girl named Parker.
Monday, February 14, 2011
This past year, I fell in love with…
• Joel Robuchon
• Art by Joanna Concejo
• Brooklyn Heights
• The Drums, Wild Nothing, Neko Case
• Blogging
• Speculoos. To go with my already raging affair with Nutella.
• Dried apple. To go with my already lifelong affair with dried pineapple.
• Arles and Positano, just a little more than Capri
• Bill Cunningham and Steve Martin (no wonder I'm still single)
• My niece and nephew, just a little bit more
• My godson, Max
• Debailleul
• Daunt Bookstore
• I Am Love
• The Cornet Vegetarien
• A gazillion little moments
Whatever and whoever you have fallen for, I hope your heart is full of love today.
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Ditto on the speculoos. Spread, not cookies.ReplyDelete
Happy Valentine's Day!
La Mom
An American Mom in Paris
Thank you for posting this list, Amy. It flipped a switch for me and made me remember the incredible year I've had, and all the gifts that were in it, small and large - rather than wallowing in my mid-February-in-Minnesota depression.ReplyDelete
Thanks to you, I'm re-falling in love with the memories of my Minnesota State Arts Board grant trip to Ireland to study harp, my trip to the south of France to study writing, my few days in Paris re-tracing the steps of my story, the successful harp concerts I've given, the yogurt cake and bread I learned to bake, the antics of my cats, the late-evening summer jogs through my neighborhood.
Happy V Day.
Happy Valentine's day to you, Amy ! xo, BrittaReplyDelete
The bigger question is did you also fall in love with speculoos SPREAD or just the cookie? Because I can tell you right now, the spread will melt your heart.ReplyDelete
joyeuse st. valentin!
- from caliFebruary 14, 2011 at 12:50 PM
If my heart wasn't full of love today, it is now after reading this. Happy Valentine's Day to you, Amy. (Now, feel free to share more about NY. Never been there and am so curious about day to day life there.)ReplyDelete
i like your "gazillion little moments" and, well, speculoos (?) now i definitely need to try it! (ps i read your comment on miss moss and couldn't stop laughing - you are the BEST!)ReplyDelete
Wonderful list !!ReplyDelete
I have not had a Speculoo yet but I do have 2 jars of Nutella in the pantry :)
I fall in love every day with this amazing place we live in, the people here and my husband.
Great list, so inspiring! I still need to see I Am Love -- it looks amazing :)ReplyDelete
Brooklyn heights is my old neighborhood! If we move back to the US it's a one stop deal for sure!! Sending you loads of love friend!ReplyDelete
I agree especially on Speculos, Brooklyn Heights and I am Love! Looking forward to seeing you soon in Paris Amy! xo EricaReplyDelete


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About the book
While it Lasts is the third book in the new adult (Sea Breeze) series by Abbi Glines. The book was published by Simon and Schuster on 25th April and it is 304 pages long.
Plot Synopsis
Cage York may have messed up his full baseball scholarship by getting into trouble drink-driving. In order to save his future his coach is making him work on a friend's farm for the whole summer. Cage isn't used to being stuck out in the country with no women to keep him entertained and he definitely isn't used to having to deal with cows. Never was he expecting to run smack bang into a girl with the most beautiful blue eyes he has ever seen. Shame she seems to hate him though.
Eva Brooks is the daughter of the farm owner and Cage's new employer. She's had a pretty hard time of it after losing her fiancé at such a young age. Her and Josh had been best friends since they were eight and now she feels incomplete. Eva thought that she could never feel anything for anyone again, swearing that she would spend the rest of her life alone. Cage gets under her skin though and she finds it hard to resist his incredible smile and charm. Eva soon learns that the things she needs may just come in very unexpected packages.
What I thought
Although this is the third book in the Sea Breeze series, it can be read as a stand-alone.
In the previous book, Because of Low, I found Cage to be a bit of an ass for the most part. If you're going into this one not having read the previous book, you'll be lucky to not have any preconceptions about the main male character. In Because of Low, Cage is shown as a massive player, jumping into bed with a different girl every night but he is also shown as extremely caring when it comes to his best friend. In While it Lasts, we get the best of both worlds with Cage. His bad boy ways shine through as he is being punished for driving drunk but as he spends more time on the farm and getting to know Eva, he changes.
Eva, the poor girl, has been through such a lot at a young age. Being engaged to her best friend was heaven for her but then he died in a bombing in Baghdad, leaving her all alone and with not a lot to live for. Ava was extremely protective of herself and those around her to begin with and she certainly didn't like Cage to start off. She disagreed wholly with everything that he was and didn't want to give him the time of day… until she begun to get to know him and to realise how hot he was.
Cage and Eva were characters who brought out the best in each other. Eva doesn't know how to open up to a new man in her life and she doesn't know how to react to someone so different from what she is used to but Cage makes it easier for her because of how forward he can be. Eva lost a lot of herself after her fiancé died and by exploring a relationship with Cage, it brings out her personality and makes her realise that there is more to herself than she once thought. I loved watching these two characters getting to know each other better and for different things about them to get stronger. Eva becomes more confident in herself and more experimental when it comes to having a sexual relationship while Cage becomes sweeter, more attentive and very caring.
However, as much as I loved this book, I do wish the plot had been a bit stronger. Unlike its predecessor, While it Lasts is all about the relationship between Cage and Eva. I would have loved for there to have been a few more problems in the road to happiness and I would have loved for a bit more drama. But, regardless of a less exciting plot, Abbi Glines makes up for this with amazing characters who are amazing together. I really enjoyed the journey that these two characters went on together and they are now two of my favourites from Abbi Glines.


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Thursday, Jan 17, 2019 | Last Update : 04:22 PM IST
In previous years, the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra has reported a high prevalence of suicides in agricultural communities.
New Delhi: Maharashtra's Vidarbha, a region known for farmers ending their lives in epidemic proportions, is now experiencing a fall in depression thanks to Vishram (the Vidarbha Stress and Health Programme), a grass-root community mental health programme designed to address the mental health risk factors for suicide, including depression and alcohol use disorders in a predominantly rural population of 100,555 people in 30 villages in the Amravati district of Vidarbha.
According to the recent evaluation of the progamme, the prevalence of depression has fallen from 14.6 per cent to 11.3 per cent. The findings have been published in Lancet Psychiatry.
The programme, implemented over 18 months, was delivered by two NGOs (Prakriti, with technical support by Sangath), was evaluated by the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) and was funded by the Tata Trusts.
It was evaluated through a survey done and found that the prevalence of depression fell from 14.6 per cent to 11.3 per cent.
Significantly, there was a remarkable increase in the proportion of people seeking care. According to the lancet, the proportion of those with depression who sought care rose from just 4.3 per cent to 27·2 per cent, a six fold increase.
Importantly, the treatment access was equitably increased across caste, gender and social class. Even prevalence of suicidal thoughts in the past 12 months also fell from 5·2 per cent to 2·5 per cent. "A range of mental health literacy indicators showed significant improvement," said the lancet.
The intervention-VISHRAM led by Indian psychiatrist Professor Vikram Patel. Professor Patel, winner of the Pardes Humanitarian Prize-involved three sectors: the community, existing front-line workers -ASHA workers, and worked with community to raise mental health literacy and provided psychological first-aid. The programme also included counsellors who provided psychological treatments in the community and even in the primary health care centers (PHCs). To further help those with suicidal tendencies, the experts indulged psychiatrists from the government's District Mental Health Program and private sector, providing medication for serious mental disorders at the primary health care centres and rural hospital.
In previous years, the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra has reported a high prevalence of suicides in agricultural communities. A 2015 study conducted by VISHRAM found that 5.2 per cent of the population interviewed had thought of taking their life in the last 12 months. Out of these, nearly half (45.3%) also had depression. "VISHRAM is the first program in the region to have shown an impact not only on the increasing demand for care for depression but also a concomitant reduction in suicidal behaviour," it further added.
Shockingly, one third of the global burden of mental illness falls on India and China, which is more than all high-income countries combined. Yet in both countries less than 1 per cent of the national healthcare budget is allocated to mental health care . The recent National Mental Health Survey in India reveaed that about 90 per cent of people with depression have not received any care in the previous 12 months. "VISHRAM, show the first evidence on how this massive treatment gap might be reduced," said the lead author of the study, Dr Rahul Shidhaye, Associate Professor, PHFI.


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Donegal hurler takes on the Westport sea2summit Challenge for charity
Former Donegal hurler and recently retired club hurler with Burt, Andrew Wallace has taken on a new sport and new challenge.
The man who for the best part of quarter of a century has graced the hurling fields of Donegal and Ulster and even further afield has taken up the adventure sport of Endurance Challenge racing.
And already with two events behind him from this summer - Gael Force North and the Dunfanaghy Coastal Challenge - he is about to take on the supreme endurance challenge for 2012, the Westport sea2summit Challenge.
The sea2summit challenge is made up of a 45 K run, 8 K cycle, 5k mountaon climb (Croagh Patrick), 35 K cyle run and a 4 K obstacle course run. The total distance covered in the challenge is 56.5 K. The race on is on Saturday week next November 3rd.
Andrew the holder of 20 Donegal Senior Hurling Championship medals a number of Ulster honours and a host of national accolades and turns 40 next month, is doing the event for charity.
"I only took up the sport a year ago, after having a chat with a friend of mine Gavin Harris from Convoy. Gavin advised me that I should give it a go and to be honest my only regret now is that I had not been aware of the sport and had not tried it earlier," said Andrew.
"It is a tough sport and takes a lot of training and committement, as you can imagine, given the disciplines involved, but I must say I'm really enjoying it.
"I have already done two races, the Gael Force North and the Dunfanaghy Coastal Challenge and I'm happy how the went and I'm now preparing for the Wesport race, it is the toughest and most diffiuclt of the two. But I'm really looking forward to the challenge and the fact that I'm doing it for charity has helped me focus and made sure once I decided to take part to stay with it and complete the challenge."
The two charities that are to benefit are the Donegal Hospice and MS Donegal, both very dear to Andrew for personal reasons.
"The two charities are very dear to me and have been the main motivating factors in taking on the challenge which I'm doing in memory of my late unlce James Wallace, my mother-in-law Bridget Duncan. They both died within two weeks of each other last year my unlce James from cancer and my mother-in-law Bridget from MS who also received care at the Hospice."
Andrew currently has sponsorship cards out in shops and pub and business premises in and around the Burt, Bridgend and Newtowncunning areas, while donations can also be forwared to him at his home address Andrew Wallace, Aileach Valley, Bridgend, Co. Donegal.


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I have signed up for a great webinar on Freedom of Travel sponsored by The Foundation for Economic Education.
It will take place Wednesday, March 06, 2013 from 12:00 PM until 1:00 PM.
Here is free registration information. This will be a great resource on the freedom of travel. I will share any insights I learn here.
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Krieble Webinars: Economic Freedom and Travel Visas
Start Wednesday, March 06, 2013 12:00 PM
End Wednesday, March 06, 2013 1:00 PM
The Foundation for Economic Education presents the Krieble webinar series for international students. Our goal is to provide quality education and expand the reach of the freedom philosophy beyond national borders. Although these webinars are intended for international students, they are open to all FEE students.
The first installment of this series is Economic Freedom and Travel Visas with Robert Lawson. Professor Lawson is one of the economists behind Fraser Institute's Economic Freedom of the World Index and a member of FEE Board of Scholars.
Register to attend the webinar.
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Project Description
Manifolds – Linear, Palletized & Fixed or Traversing
Manifolds that CryoVation manufactures & installs are:
Traversing (Linear or Palletized)
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A review of the previous year's Playmates, as featured in Playboy magazine, January 1965.
About Vintage Stuff
The aim of Vintage Stuff is to display some of the ephemera that I have collected, often inadvertently, over the years. I am now deliberately seeking out interesting old adverts, screen shots, leaflets, obscure record covers, picture postcards and illustrations; anything that catches my eye, in fact. They will be mainly, but not exclusively of UK origin (so many vintage blogs appear to be American) and almost always a scan from something that I actually have in my collection, rather than off the net. If you do re-blog, please acknowledge the source. Further stuff, mainly photographs, can be found on my Flickr pages, via the Benny Hill record cover.
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Sky Writing
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In this issue:
A Voice for the Voiceless
Also: Actress, talk show host, philanthropist, mom and wife: Jada Pinkett Smith is committed to keeping it real—and fighting for victims of human trafficking.
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The traditional Wiener Schnitzel, made with veal, sells like hotcakes every time it's on the menu at Schnitzel & Things.
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Schnitzel & Things
The Locale: On the move! Find its location at schnitzelandthings.com or follow it on Twitter @schnitzeltruck.
The Vendors: Brothers Oleg and Gene Voss
The Story: A first-generation Ukrainian immigrant, Oleg Voss grew up in New York City and studied in Paris when he was 16. It was there that he began appreciating food, and in 2002, he enrolled in NYC's French Culinary Institute and later pursued a business degree at NYU. After graduating, he took a three-month internship in Vienna that later turned into a full-time investment banking gig. However, with the global economic crisis, he was laid off a year later.
Problem Solving: Voss looked to his culinary background, but this time though a business-minded lens. He researched the food scene in the United States and saw an opportunity to enter the market: "I saw the buzz around food trucks. The New York scene wasn't really saturated with savory trucks . . . competition was nonexistent."
What to Order: The traditional Wiener Schnitzel, made with veal, sells like hotcakes every time it's on the menu (due to costs, it's only offered as a special). Regulars rave about the pork schnitzel—an eight-ounce, center-cut pork loin breaded in panko (Japanese bread crumbs). "I don't think the Viennese would approve of the panko, but I don't care—we're putting a new twist on schnitzel," says Voss. "The panko gives it a crispier, fluffier and lighter texture." When it comes to sides, go with the potato or cucumber salad. Both are light and vinegar-based, and though the schnitzel isn't greasy, the acidity cuts the fried goodness perfectly.
Hours: The truck only slings food from 11:30 a.m. until 2 p.m., but the schnitzel team puts in long hours. Their daily prep work begins in an off-site kitchen at 5 a.m.
"We've made it" Moment: After only two months on the streets, Schnitzel & Things took home the 2009 Vendy Award (aka the New York food truck equivalent of an Oscar) for Rookie of the Year.
Jamaican Dutchy
The Locale: Monday through Friday: West 51st Street and Seventh Avenue, Manhattan; Saturday: Parsons Boulevard and Jamaica Avenue, Queens; thejamaicandutchy.net, Twitter @Jamaicandutchy
The Vendor: Oneil Reid
The Story: Ten years ago, Oneil Reid moved from Jamaica's Montego Bay to the Big Apple. He spent his first few years working various jobs downtown and was rarely satisfied with lunch from the city's street vendors. "I knew I could do better," Reid says. Three and a half years ago, he maxed out all his credit cards to get the Jamaican Dutchy up and running.
The Recipes: Reid has no formal culinary training; he learned everything he knows in the kitchen from his mother. When he decided to start serving food, his mother's authentic Jamaican recipes were the natural place to start.
The Menu: The cart begins serving Jamaican breakfast at 6 a.m. If the crack of dawn is too early for liver and onions or akee and salt fish (Jamaica's national dish, made of salted cod and boiled akee fruit), opt for the daily porridge special. The rest of the day is about jerk and curried meats, all done on the bone. Patrons go nuts over the jerk chicken, but try the curried goat accompanied by rice and peas, plantains and steamed vegetables—it's spicy and much less gamy than you'd expect.
Biryani Cart
The Locale: Midtown Manhattan, at the corner of 46th Street and Sixth Avenue
The Vendor: Meru Sikder
The Story: Originally from Bangladesh, Sikder came to the United States 17 years ago to study hotel management. He supplemented his day job at a New Jersey Hilton with a part-time gig in a Japanese restaurant. In 2004, he took a baby step toward his goal of opening a restaurant by launching a food truck.
The Concept: At first, Sikder wasn't sure what to serve. He tried the ubiquitous hot dogs and kebab route, which did a decent business. One year into the gig, he began offering an authentic Indian dish every day. People went nuts over it; he now serves exclusively Indian cuisine, specializing in biryani—rice-based dishes typically topped with savory, spiced meat.
What to Order: Chicken tikka masala was born in London's Indian restaurants a generation ago, but it is one of the most popular syncretic foods on the planet. Sikder makes it his own with a lighter, yogurt-based sauce. Sikder's kati rolls may be one of the city's best examples of grab-and-go. Order the buradi (chicken with habanero-mint sauce) for serious heat or the channai for a Thai-influenced sweet-and-spicy version. The aloo gobi, stuffed with potatoes, is a killer vegetarian option.
This article has been adapted from the original, which appeared in the September 2010 issue of Sky.
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Issue #1368 - March 6, 2003 - Editor: Gloria
Living the Inspiration of Sri Ramana Maharshi
A dialogue between David Godman and Maalok, an Indian academic now teaching in America
Sri Ramana Maharshi
Maalok: Ramana Maharshi has had a lasting influence on your life. For those of us who don't know much about the Maharshi, could you please share some of the salient aspects of his life that have influenced you deeply.
David: About two or three times a year someone asks me this question, 'Summarize Ramana Maharshi's life and teachings in a few words for people who know little or nothing about him'. It's always hard to know where to start with a question like this.
Let me say first that Ramana Maharshi was one of the most highly regarded and widely respected spiritual figures that twentieth-century India produced. I can't think of any other candidate who is as persistently held out to be an example of all that is best in the Hindu spiritual tradition. Everyone reveres him as the perfect example of what a true saint and sage ought to be.
How did this come about? While he was still in his teens Sri Ramana underwent a remarkable, spontaneous experience in which his individuality died, leaving him in a state in which he found his true identity to be the Self, the immanent and transcendent substratum. It was a permanent awakening that was truly remarkable because he had not previously had any interest in spiritual matters. He left his family home a few weeks later, without telling anyone where he was going, and spent the remainder of his life at the foot of Arunachala, a holy mountain and pilgrimage center that is about 120 miles south west of Chennai.
After a few years there - a period in which he was largely oblivious to the world and his body - he began to attract devotees because there was a spiritual radiance emanating from him that many people around him experienced as peace or happiness. This, I think, is the secret of his subsequent fame and popularity. He didn't get a reputation for being a great sage because of what he did or said. It came about because people, who arrived at his ashram with all kinds of questions and doubts, suddenly found themselves becoming quiet, peaceful and happy in his presence. There was a continuous, benign flow of energy coming off him that somehow evaporated the mental anxieties and busy minds of the people who came to see him. He didn't ask people to come. People just came of their own accord. A 19th century American author once wrote that if you invent a better mousetrap, even if you try to hide yourself in the woods, people will beat a path to your door. People beat a path to Sri Ramana's door - for many years he lived in very inaccessible places - because he had something far better than an improved mousetrap to offer; he had a natural ability to induce peace in the people around him.
Let me expand on this because this is the key to understanding both his state and the effect he had on other people. When he had his final experience at the age of sixteen, his mind, his sense of being an individual person vanished forever, leaving him in a state of unassailable peace. He realized and understood that this was not some new experience that was mediated by and through his 'I', his sense of being an individual person. It was, instead, his natural state, something that is there all the time, but which is only experienced when the mind and its perpetual busy-ness is absent. By abiding in this natural and effortless state of inner silence he somehow charged up the atmosphere around him with a healing, quietening energy. People who came to see him spontaneously became happy, peaceful and quiet. Why? Because Sri Ramana himself was effortlessly broadcasting his own experience of happiness, peace and quietude in such a way that those people who were around him got an inner taste, an inner flavor of this natural state that is inherent to all of us. I should say that this power was not restricted to his physical vicinity, although it did seem to be stronger there. People who merely thought about him wherever they happened to be discovered that they could experience something of this peace simply through having this mental contact with him.
So, having given that background, I can now answer the question: 'Who was Ramana Maharshi and what were his teachings?'
Sri Ramana Maharshi was a living embodiment of peace and happiness and his 'teachings' were the emanations of that state which helped other people to find and experience their own inner happiness and peace.
If all this sounds a little abstract, let me tell you a story that was passed on to me by Arthur Osborne's daughter. In the 1940s their house was a kind of dormitory for all the stray foreigners who couldn't find anywhere else to stay near Sri Ramana's ashram. A miserable, crabby women appeared one evening, having been sent by the ashram. They put her up, gave her breakfast and sent her off to see Sri Ramana the next morning. She came back at lunchtime looking absolutely radiant. She was glowing with happiness. The whole family was waiting to hear the story of what happened, but she never said anything about her visit to the ashram. Everyone in the house was expecting some dramatic story: 'He looked at me and this happened,' or 'I asked a question and then I had this great experience.' As the lunch plates were being cleared away, her hosts could not contain their curiosity any longer.
'What happened?' asked one of them. 'What did Bhagavan do to you? What did he say to you?'
The woman looked most surprised. 'He didn't do anything. He didn't say anything to me. I just sat there for the whole morning and then came back for lunch.'
She had been just one new person sitting in a crowd of people, but the power coming off Sri Ramana had been enough to wash away a lifetime of depression, leaving her with a taste of what lay underneath it: her own inherent, natural happiness and peace.
Sri Ramana knew that transformations such as these were going on around him all the time, but he never accepted responsibility for them. He would never say, 'I transformed this woman'. When he was asked about the effect he was having on people, he would sometimes say that by continuously abiding in his own natural state of peace, a sannidhi, a powerful presence, was somehow created that automatically took care of the mental problems of the people who visited him. By abiding in silence as silence, this energy field was created, a field that miraculously transformed the people around him.
Your original question was, 'Why has Ramana Maharshi influenced me so much?' The answer is, 'I came into his sannidhi and through its catalytic activity I discovered my own peace, my own happiness.'
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Thanks to Viorica Weissman on MillionPaths
sliver of a moon
behind me
someone looks up
her eyes following
the angle of my cocked head
is she relieved?
does she smile?
does she see
is the sliver
waking us up?
or is the moon singing us a lullaby
with no regard for its tune?
Thanks to Su Gandolf on NDS
We don't *have* awareness, we *are* awareness. And awareness *is*
love. When it is wide open, when it is not fixated on some narrow and
contrived identity, some narrow craving, argument, irritation, or fear,
the nature of awareness is unconditionally affectionate, tender,
sensitive, and compassionate. Advaita Vedanta, Christian meditation,
the Buddhadharma, Kabbalah, Vipassana, Tibetan Dzogchen, Zen practice,
Sufi practice, and all true forms of mysticism, at their very best, are
simply doors to this discovery. The radical, unconditional mercy of Jesus,
the uncorrupted compassion and understanding of the Buddha - these are
just metaphors for your own pure heart, the core of your own being.
Yours, mine, everyone's.
Scott Morrison
Thanks to Gill
Eardley on Allspirit
perceptive mind is already luminous and shining brightly.
you color it with all your attachments. It is not easy to understand
this, and many do not. They do not cultivate their perceptive mind.
But that mind, luminous and brightly shining, is fundamentally free
from all attachments, because they come and go. This you should
understand and for you there should be cultivation of the perceptive
mind. --Anguttara Nikaya
Thanks to Atimaya on TheUnbornMind
Bestiary by Dr. Joanna Macy
short-tailed albatross
whooping crane
gray wolf
peregrine falcon
hawksbill turtle
In Geneva, the international tally of endangered species, kept up to date in
looseleaf volumes, is becoming too heavy to lift. Where do we now record the
passing of life? What funerals or farewells are appropriate?
reed warbler
swallow-tailed butterfly
Manx shearwater
Indian python
howler monkey
sperm whale
blue whale
Dive me deep, brother whale, in this time we have left. Deep in our mother ocean
where once I swam, gilled and finned. The salt from those early seas still runs
in my tears. Tears are too meager now. Give me a song...a song for a sadness too
vast for my heart, for a rage too wild for my throat.
grizzly bear
brown bear
Bactrian camel
Nile crocodile
American alligator
Ooze me, alligator, in the mud whence I came. Belly me slow in the rich
primordial soup, cradle of our molecules. Let me wallow again, before we drain
your swamp, before we pave it over and blast it to ash.
gray bat
marsh mouse
blue pike
red kangaroo
Aleutian goose
Audouin's seagull
Quick, lift off. Sweep me high over the coast and out, farther out. Don't land
here. Oil spills coat the beach, rocks, sea. I cannot spread my wings glued with
tar. Fly me from what we have done, fly me far.
golden parakeet
African ostrich
Florida panther
Galapagos penguin
Imperial pheasant
Utah prairie dog
Hide me in a hedgerow, badger. Can't you find one? Dig me a tunnel through leaf
mold and roots, under the trees that once defined our fields.
My heart is bulldozed and plowed over. Burrow me a labyrinth deeper than
thick-billed parrot
zone-tailed pigeon
desert bandicoot
Southern bald eagle
California condor
lotus blue butterfly
Crawl me out of here, caterpillar. Spin me a cocoon. Wind me to sleep in a
shroud of silk, where in patience my bones will dissolve. I'll wait as long as
all creation if only it will come again and I take wing.
Atlantic Ridley turtle
pearly mussel
helmeted hornbill
sea otter
humpback whale
monk seal
harp seal
Swim me out beyond the ice floes, mama. Where are you? Boots squeeze my ribs,
clubs drum my fur, the white world goes black with the taste of my blood.
sand gazelle
swamp deer
musk deer
Asian elephant
African elephant
Sway me slowly through the jungle. There still must be jungle somewhere, my
heart drips with green secrets. Hose me down by the waterhole, there is buckshot
in my hide. Tell me the old stories while you can remember.
fan-tailed flycatcher
flapshell tortoise
crested ibis
hook-billed kite
frigate bird
In the time when his world, like ours was ending, Noah had a list of animals,
too. We picture him standing by the gangplank, calling their names, checking
them off on his scroll. Now we also are checking them off.
ivory-billed woodpecker
brown pelican
Florida manatee
Canada goose
We reenact Noah's ancient drama, but in reverse, like a film running backwards,
the animals exiting.
Your tracks are growing fainter. Wait. Wait. This is a hard time.
Thanks to Gill Eardley on Allspirit
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However my news feeds seem to be filled with good intentions, people quitting smoking, other promising to cook a healthy meal a day and lots and lots hoping to make 2013 the year that they drop the dress sizes and lose weight maybe even go on a diet, try some herbal remedies to detox and generally start the year revitalised and healthy maybe even trying out vitamins from sites like Evolution Slimming
Whilst all these resolutions are great, the notion of improving your life is always a good thing, having motivation to change something you know could do with improvement is always positive, but there is always a niggling worry when I hear alot about diets.
Weight, thankfully isn't really anything I have ever had to worry about, I have always been fairly comfortable with my weight never being the thinnest or the most beautiful, but never being overweight either, I am honestly thankful for that. As I know those who do struggle to maintain a comfortable weight really do have to work at their diet, but I do worry how the 'healthy eating' and 'we need to diet' messages effects our children.
I know it is increasingly harder for girls as they grow up and want to have the 'ideal' body image. With the constant stream of perfectly slim and beautiful models in magazines it is easy to see how young girls firmly believe that their own bodies are never going to meet these unrealistic expectations. Added to this the fact that alot of the real female influences in life are always on a diet, counting calories and openly concerned about their weight, it is really no surprise that the amount of children admitted to hospital with eating disorders each year is on the rise.
When Jake was 6 he broke his wrist whilst at school, and I took him to hospital where they Xrayed it and decided he would need an anaesthetic to try to reline the bones, which meant we had to stay in hospital over night, it is the only time I have ever had to stay in hospital other than when I was giving birth, and it was an eye opener!
On the ward with Jake there were 5 other beds, one was empty.
One had a teenage boy in it who had the same broken wrist as Jake, but it was not this that shocked me, it was the occupants of the other beds, young girls.
Girls who had eating disorders, whilst I sat with Jake and watched him sleep off his anaesthetic, I over heard the same conversation with several young girls, the youngest couldn't have been too much older than 8 or 9. Parents desperately pleading with their daughters to eat a little something, and Doctors being stern explaining that if they refused to eat they would have to put a tube in to their stomachs.
The image of these young girls has stayed with me over the years as a stark reminder of how important it is to encourage healthy appetites.
Having a daughter of my own, it is a worry and I try to ensure she doesn't have any negitive body image issues, and that I am passing on, my hopefully positive, attitude to her, ensuring she knows that you don't have to be the same as anyone else to recognise your own beauty.
Obviously, its not always the media influences of beautiful skinny models that have an effect, and the fundamental issue is the relationship with food. I know this is something some people truly struggle with, but diets and the talk of 'healthy verses unhealthy' may be important, so children learn to monitor their food and obesity levels don't rise more than they already are, but what about the negitive impact on childrens view of food?
I have since constantly chanted that cakes and burgers, chips and sausages will not make you fat alone, and it is all about variety and moderation, having cake is fine, as long as you eat up your greens with your dinner, having a take away will not make you over weight, unless you have one for breakfast, dinner and tea!
I only hope that as my children enter their teenage years they carries on with the happy attitudes towards food and body image, I hope that once Chloe gets more aware of celebrities and the perfect image of womens bodies, as her own body changes, that she keeps remembering how beautiful she is just for being herself, and I hope that my boys do too.
I hope that parents who openly go on diets make sure they encourage their children not to think food is bad, and they help model good eating habits, which of course, include eating!


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Photographer Michelle Bates Shoots With Holgawritten by gabysalas on 2012-06-26
Michelle Bates is a passionate photographer that mainly works with the Holga. We asked her some questions about her love of analogue photography, so take a moment to learn about her artistic path and see her impressive and beautiful photos.4 19 Share Tweet
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Louis, in his last challenge before he moves into the adult Worthing League, defeated Hugo Okada 11-3, 9-11, 11-9, 11-7 in the final. He had defeated Rhys Jestico 11-7, 11-3, 11-4 in the semi-finals, while Hugo had progressed past Oliver Smith 9-11, 11-9, 12-10, 8-11, 11-9.
In the Plate final, Louis Packer lifted the trophy after a 11-8, 11-5 win over Toby Ellwood.
Louis Mort-Hill and Eddie Pullen were the winners of the Division One league title, while Cameron McCallam and Billie O'Loughlin won Division Two.
Max Bushby and Zac Slatter were the victors in Division Three, with Luca Finch the winner of Division Four.
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Isaac Sefton and his team-mate defeated Cameron and David Luff in the doubles final.
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Purchases held at a 4.75 million annual rate last month, according to the median forecast of 64 economists surveyed by Bloomberg. In August, demand reached a 4.83 million rate, the most since May 2010. Homebuilder confidence probably held at a six-year high in November, another report may show.
"You've got low mortgage rates, you've got gradual improvement in the labor market, and you have very low inventories," said Mark Vitner, a senior economist at Wells Fargo Securities LLC in Charlotte, North Carolina, a subsidiary of the largest U.S. mortgage lender. "Housing is positioned to move significantly higher over the next year."
The report from the National Association of Realtors is due at 10 a.m. in Washington. Bloomberg survey estimates ranged from 4.55 million to 5.05 million.
The average rate on a 30-year, fixed mortgage declined to 3.34 percent last week, the lowest in data going back to 1972, according to McLean, Virginia-based Freddie Mac.
Homebuilder SentimentA gauge of homebuilder sentiment held at 41 in November after six consecutive increases, a 10 a.m. report from the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo is projected to show today. Readings lower than 50 mean more respondents said conditions were poor.
The Standard & Poor's Supercomposite Homebuilding Index has advanced 70 percent since the end of last year, outpacing the 8.1 percent gain in the broader S&P 500.
"Continued weakness in housing -- reflected in falling prices, low rates of new construction, and historic levels of foreclosure -- has proved a powerful headwind to recovery," Bernanke said last week. "It is encouraging, therefore, that we are seeing signs of improvement in the housing market in most parts of the country."
The Fed chairman is pressing on with record easing including a plan to buy $40 billion a month of mortgage-backed securities, in a bid to spur growth and reduce a 7.9 percent unemployment rate.
Last RecessionHe has resorted to unorthodox policies six years after home prices started a plunge that knocked the economy into the longest recession since the Great Depression.
While tighter credit standards after a collapse in the subprime mortgage market were appropriate, "it seems likely at this point that the pendulum has swung too far the other way, and that overly tight lending standards may now be preventing creditworthy borrowers from buying homes, thereby slowing the revival in housing and impeding the economic recovery," Bernanke said.
Some members of the Federal Open Market Committee said monthly mortgage bond purchases by the central bank may "reinforce the nascent recovery in the housing market," according to minutes of the Oct. 23-24 meeting released Nov. 14.
Existing-home sales have improved after reaching a low of a 3.39 million annual rate in July 2010. In the buildup to the subprime lending collapse and recession, purchases reached a peak of 7.25 million in September 2005.
Storm SandyConstruction and home repair companies may get a lift from clean-up activity after superstorm Sandy, which swept up the Atlantic coast and left a path of destruction in the New Jersey and New York. The storm may provide a boost similar to that provided by Hurricane Irene, which added about $360 million in sales last year, Home Depot Inc. (HD) executives said on a Nov. 13 earnings call.
"The property damage, as we understand it, related to Irene was about $16 billion; the property damage for Sandy is about $20 billion, so it would suggest possibly higher sales, but it's impossible for us to know right now," said Carol Tome, the Atlanta-based company's chief financial officer.


text: 08 fork on 09 bike RideCBR.com › Forums › General Tech Discussions › 08 fork on 09 bike This topic contains 1 reply, has 2 voices, and was last updated by anubisphoenix00 6 years, 7 months ago. Viewing 2 posts - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) Author Posts 05/17/12 at 8:42 am #8355 freekmanRegistered Member RideCBR NewbiePoints: 874 I know that that it is compatible, but will there be any problem if the left fork is from an 08 and the right fork will be the 09. Also what is the difference between the first 2 complete assemblies on here http://www.mrcycles.com/fiche_section_detail.asp?section=959396&category=Motorcycles&make=Honda&year=2009&fveh=26223 06/01/12 at 10:32 pm #10624 anubisphoenix00Registered Member RideCBR NewbiePoints: 401 @Aidan it's prob best you purchase forks as the same pair because depending on where you purchase a fork…u might run into a risk of one fork being sprung and valve differently than that of the other fork. however if you plan on having both the '08 and '09 rebuilt together than the you should not have an issue. It's just when you're installing an '08 fork and '09 fork without confirming they are identically valve and sprung you will run into performance issues and more or less your safety on the bike. As for your 2nd question the different forks you referred to might have to do with the fact one is for an abs model and the other is a non-abs model…might need to have some confirm that but since you're looking at an '09 fork than that would be a logical conclusion since abs came to the cbr in '09. Author Posts Viewing 2 posts - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) You must be logged in to reply to this topic.


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– Descartes Shaman turns out to be not a villain at all. His role in the movie is minor.
– Setsuna appears at the beginning of the movie piloting a Flag and saves Marina from the attack of GN-X that doesn't belong to the Earth Federation
– ELS's influence on Earth turns machines to life
– Allelujah and Marie were attacked in Mongolia before being saved by Lockon in Gundam Dynames (!)
– Ribbons appear in the movie, no longer a normal being. He has a fight scene with Setsuna
– ELS is said to be searching for suitable beings to turn them into Innovators.
– ELS's Fang-like weapon can combine
– Tieria died saving Setsuna from ELS. Raphael Gundam and 00 Raiser Condenser Type were destroyed.
– Descartes Shaman dies in an early combat againts ELS when his ship was invaded by ELS.
– Tieria's will is transferred onto 00 Qan[T] to becomes its control system together with Veda.
– A colossal ELS structure approaches Earth in 92 hours
– The combat against ELS saw many Federation ships invaded and being multiplied under ELS control
– Gundam Harute was invaded by ELS but Allelujah and Marie managed to escape.
– Andrei Smirnov dies
– Graham Aker dies in an effort to create a path for Setsuna to enter ELS's main structure.
– Setsuna learns the real objective of ELS is to search for another planet to exist. After Setsuna manages to establish an understanding with ELS, all attacks stop.
– Flashback: Aoelia in his younger days and the true form of Ribbons talks about the future towards the ending of the movie.
– About 40 percent of human kind is now Innovators. They live and work with other people to develop the world.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you, for alerting me to the fact that Wally George will be given his very own two-hour time slot on KIQQ every Sunday (Pop Eye, by Patrick Goldstein, April 14).
I can hardly wait! Just think, two whole hours of non-stop, sidesplitting comedy! I'm truly grateful for KIQQ and especially Wally George for providing me with such wonderful comic relief.


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Reality hits, and I have decided to put my French and Indians war stuff on hold for a bit.
I have the urge to do some more modelly things, and still have Paul's vehicle master to finish
So far, I have finished the basic troop transport version, and have spent today making the turret for the support version
Quite pleased with how this has turned out. Especially as it is a build with no plans, so I had to think a fair bit .
I've also resurrected an old project. A while back I started farting about with a 1/55th scale Vietnam PBR model. I wanted to get Paul to sculpt me the Apocalypse Now crew for it. As I am into making stuff at the moment, i've lobbed this onto the workbench. Its not looking like much at the mo, but what i've done so far is looking good
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I like that half track mate it is all the better knowing that no plans were used, rather like a real Heath Robinson vehicle.ReplyDelete
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Terrorism, politics and betrayals collide in this unputdownable, fast-paced thriller.
He was the only one left alive; now it was his turn to die.
In September 1972, journalist Anna Rosen takes an early morning phone call from her boss at the ABC, telling her about two bombings in Sydney's busy CBD. It's the worst terrorist attack in the country's history and Anna has no doubt which group is responsible for the carnage. She has been investigating the role of alleged war criminals in the globally active Ustasha movement.
Back in the 1970's there was discussion, debate and disagreement about the likelihood of Croatian extremists operating in Australia, and whether or not there was any involvement by the Communist Yugoslavian Government. Tony Jones, ABC Journalist and Q&A host apparently raised this topic of conversation again recently, leading to the claims he makes in his debut historical thriller THE TWENTIETH MAN.
I should admit, first of all, to having very sketchy remembrance of the furore at the time, so the book with a combination of historical fact and fiction, real life people and made up characters provided an interesting combination of entertainment and information for this reader. The distinctions between these elements will probably be somewhat less clear for younger readers, or people with no awareness of politics from the time, which does make THE TWENTIETH MAN a book for those only looking for a good thriller, as well as those who might consider themselves political junkies.
THE TWENTIETH MAN is set in the 1970's with the central premise being there is an Croatian terrorist group, with operatives in Australia, determined to destroy the Yugoslavian government - in this case we move from a series of bombings in the heart of Sydney to an assassination threat against the visiting Yugoslavian Premier. All of which is delivered in a highly charged, rapid paced style. Regardless of whether you can or even want to tell the differences between fact and fiction, there's plenty in this really well written thriller to engage, amuse, and get the reader thinking long and hard about the ramifications of truth versus fiction.
With hat tips along the way to now well known journalistic names, much of the responsibility for identifying the threat, and then stopping it comes down to a combination of a young ABC Journalist, and daughter of a well known Communist - Anna Rosen; a rogue ASIO Agent Tom Moriarty; and the Federal Police. Intertwined with this is the coincidence of the election of the Whitlam Government; the appointment of Lionel Murphy as Attorney General and Murphy's war on ASIO who he believed needed to be made considerably more accountable than they had previously been.
Alongside the hefty doses of political and bureaucratic intrigue, there's romantic complications, family tensions and a nearly pitch perfect feel of time and place. Australia was more naive in those days, imbued with a sense of optimism and "she'll be rightness", fuelled by youth, enthusiasm and bravado, littered with politically incorrect behaviour, sexism, recreational drugs and a care-freeness that's gone missing from life these days. Jones does a particularly good job with sense of time and place - everything about Canberra and its denizens feels right, everything about the sense of enthusiasm that came out of the early Whitlam days works within the context of the book. Particularly when it's stacked up against the historical back-story of the Croatian rebels.
Extremely readable, fascinating and very cleverly done, THE TWENTIETH MAN is unfortunately a bit of a rarity in Australian fiction - an historical political thriller covering our recent past.
ABC journalist and host of Q&A Tony Jones put the cat among the pigeons last year when he suggested that there was Croation terrorism in Australia in the 1970s. There was fierce debate at that time around this suggestion about Croatian extremists and the involvement of the Communist Yugoslavian Government in potentially creating or manipulating the threat. In The Twentieth Man, Jones doubles down on his claims, in a historical thriller that gives Australian its own Day of the Jackal.
The Twentieth Man opens with a historical bombing in the heart of Sydney in 1972. The bombs are planted by an anonymous Croatian terrorist seeking to destroy targets associated with the Yugoslavian government. Jones uses this opening to introduce a range of characters and it is a while before the narrative settles down around a few key players, particularly Anna Rosen, junior ABC journalist and daughter of a known Communist, Al Sharp, with the Federal Police, and rogue ASIO agent Tom Moriarty. Later in the book the action moves to Yugoslavia where a group of twenty Croatians have infiltrated the country with the aim of creating a popular uprising against the Communist Government. The Twentieth Man of the title is the survivor of this mission.
Jones has crafted a fine historical thriller. The threat, when it emerges, is against the Yugoslavian Premier and becomes a race against time. But behind this fictional assassination attempt is the basis of the historical events which included the operation in Yugoslavia, election of the Whitlam Government and in particular the installation of Lionel Murphy as Attorney General. Jones creates tension through the real events of Murphy's war on Australia's security service ASIO, based on Murphy's conviction that ASIO was withholding information from the Government. All of Jones' characters are caught up in this crusade which, in the long run, made that agency more accountable.
The story comes into focus around journalist Anna Rosen and the Croatian would-be assassin Marin Katich who, in the past, had been involved in a Romeo and Juliet-style relationship, their fathers mortal enemies. Rosen is a creature of her time, idealistic, struggling against chauvinism and happy to indulge in recreational drugs. Katich has his own struggles, trying to reconcile knowledge of his father's wartime activities allied with the Nazis while trying to remain true to the cause he was raised in. While most of the main characters are fictional, there are plenty of historical figures both deep in the plot and included as cameos, most of whom will be familiar to Australian readers. This includes not only Lionel Murphy but journalists George Negus and Michelle Grattan and even a brief walk-on cameo from comedian Paul Hogan, from the time he was a rigger on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. And Jones also gets the feel of the period right, with plenty of period detail and non-politically correct behaviour.
The Twentieth Man is an incredibly assured debut novel and Jones has delivered a pacey and original historical thriller. While historical detectives seem to be everywhere, the historical political thriller is not a genre we have seen much of in Australia. And this one shines a light on fascinating period of Australian history, a time contemporaneous with Watergate, in an engaging and interesting way.


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Jury Convicts Mission Man in Marijuana Conspiracy
MCALLEN, TX—A federal jury in McAllen has convicted Rogelio Guerrero, 50, a U.S. citizen residing in Mission, on one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and possession with intent to distribute large amounts of marijuana, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The jury returned its verdict late this morning following a three-day trial and less than four hours of deliberation.
During the trial, the government presented testimony that Guerrero and his associates utilized tractor-trailers to transport large quantities of marijuana from Mission to Houston. The jury heard that Guerrero's drivers transported between 3,000-5,000 pounds of marijuana to Houston every few weeks. The government also presented evidence that Guerrero owned nearly 10,000 pounds of marijuana that was seized in 2011.
He was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 1,000 kilograms of marijuana and possession with intent to distribute more than 100 kilograms of marijuana.
U.S. District Judge Micaela Alvarez, who presided over the trial, has set sentencing for Sept. 25, 2014. At that time, Guerrero faces a mandatory minimum of 10 years and up to life imprisonment as well as a possible $10 million fine. He will remain in custody pending that hearing.
Guerrero's conviction is a culmination of an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force Operation dubbed "White Line." The six-year investigation, targeting Guerrero and other significant drug traffickers based in Mission, was conducted by Homeland Security Investigations, Drug Enforcement Administration, Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office, Mission Police Department, U.S. Border Patrol, Texas Department of Public Safety, Internal Revenue Service—Criminal Investigation and the FBI.
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President Barack Obama's official inauguration playlist has been released.
Obama was voted US president for a second term in November and will officially take office on Monday (January 21).
Stevie Wonder's 'Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours)' and Beyoncé's 'I Was Here' lead the list, alongside tracks 'Carry On' by fun. and 'Ordinary People' by John Legend.
Katy Perry's 'Firework', Far East Movement's 'Turn Up the Love' and Lady GaGa's 'The Edge of Glory' - covered by the Glee cast - are other pop highlights. Marc Anthony's Mi Gente and 'New Day' by Alicia Keys will also be played.
Stevie Wonder, Beyoncé, fun. and Usher, whose track 'Something Special' features on the 21-track list, will all play at different events this weekend to mark Obama's second inauguration.
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After all set for a chase of 294, MCC lose the wickets but Australian hitter, Aaron Finch made a brilliant century to win the game. West Indies great batsmen, Brian Lara got out after making 23 runs and Shivnarine Chanderpaul is not out on 37.
Indian legendary batsmen Sachin Tendulkar and Aaron Finch together added 107 run partnership for the first wicket. Sachin scored 44 runs with some beautiful drives on either side of the wicket. Finch made 67 and 122 run partnership with Lara and Chanderpaul. His blistering 181(23×4, 6×6) made MCC to win the game comfortably .
Everything happened well at Melbourne, Yuvraj is not been in best of his form but with this match he came to his original game play. The hitting was just amazing and after he reached his century, that was the great moment for him. Having Sachin in opposition and taking blessings from him is a different feeling.
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Cleveland Browns coach Mike Pettine said Tuesday that it would be ideal to make a decision on the team's starting quarterback Tuesday night, according to Mary Kay Cabot of The Plain Dealer in Cleveland.
Pettine would like to decide during a planned meeting with coaches and probably GM Ray Farmer, but said it's possible a decision won't be made until after the team's next preseason game on Saturday against St. Louis.
More: Steelers fans troll Manziel with foam fingers
#Browns Pettine on QB decision: "no we're not in a position to make it at this time. meeting about QBs will occur later.''
— Mary Kay Cabot (@MaryKayCabot) August 19, 2014
#Browns Pettine: "If we do have to wait until after the next game so be it.'' Said it's still ideal to decide later today.
— Mary Kay Cabot (@MaryKayCabot) August 19, 2014
#Browns Pettine said there's a lot of common ground on staff about QBs, "not a lot of divide amongst the staff.''
— Mary Kay Cabot (@MaryKayCabot) August 19, 2014
On Friday, Pettine said that he hoped to decide by Tuesday. Pettine also said Friday he was unsure if he would make a "permanent commitment" to either quarterback.
More: Browns trending upward, but Manziel or Hoyer must take the reins at QB
"Quarterback is different from other positions, in that you do want to make a commitment,'' he said. "[But] I don't know if you can necessarily make a permanent commitment. So much can change over the course of an NFL season, the circumstances.
"But I think that's the one position where you probably have to have a little bit more patience, maybe than some others as far as if a guy's not performing to the level you think he can and you're not getting the results, then you'd go ahead and make a move. It's somewhere in between. I don't want whoever the starter is to feel like, 'oh, if I make one mistake, I'm out.' but I also don't want him to feel like, 'hey, I've achieved something, this is my team for the year.'''
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Both quarterbacks struggled in Monday night's preseason game against Washington. Hoyer, who started the game, completed 2 of 6 passes for 16 yards, while Manziel went 7-for-16 for 65 yards. Manziel made headlines by flashing his middle finger at the Redskins' bench.
Asked Tuesday whether Manziel's obscene gesture would factor into his decision on the starting quarterback, Pettine said, "We'll take into [account] all things QB from A to Z'.' Pettine also said Tuesday that "everything is still on the table" in regard to the battle between Manziel and Hoyer.
Hoyer, who was listed as the Browns' first-team quarterback when the team released its first preseason depth chart, said last week that the Browns are "my team until someone else tells me otherwise."
On Sunday, Pettine denied a ESPN report saying that Manziel has moved ahead of Hoyer on the depth chart and said there was no front-runner to start the team's Sept. 7 regular-season opener at Pittsburgh.
"To me, if there was a clear-cut favorite at this point, it would probably mean that one of them wasn't playing very well,'' Pettine said. "And it's a good problem, having two guys that we think are both capable of being NFL starters.''
More: Report: Johnny Manziel was late to team meeting
Hoyer, 28, threw for 615 yards, five touchdowns and three interceptions in three starts with the Browns last season before tearing his ACL. The team went 3-0 in those games.
Cleveland selected Manziel with the No. 22 pick in this year's draft. The 21-year-old won the Heisman Trophy in his redshirt freshman season at Texas A&M in 2012.
The Browns went 4-12 and finished in last place in the AFC North last season.
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Volume 2012, Article ID 735472, 8 pages
Inflammation and Immune Response of Intra-Articular Serotype 2 Adeno-Associated Virus or Adenovirus Vectors in a Large Animal Model
1Comparative Orthopedic Research Laboratories, Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, The Ohio State University, 1900 Coffey Road, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
2Gene Therapy Center, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH 43205, USA
3Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43205, USA
Received 23 August 2011; Accepted 5 October 2011
Academic Editor: Peter M. van der Kraan
Copyright © 2012 Akikazu Ishihara et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Intra-articular gene therapy has potential for the treatment of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. To quantify in vitro relative gene transduction, equine chondrocytes and synovial cells were treated with adenovirus vectors (Ad), serotype 2 adeno-associated virus vectors (rAAV2), or self-complementary (sc) AAV2 vectors carrying green fluorescent protein (GFP). Using 6 horses, bilateral metacarpophalangeal joints were injected with Ad, rAAV2, or scAAV2 vectors carrying GFP genes to assess the in vivo joint inflammation and neutralizing antibody (NAb) titer in serum and joint fluid. In vitro, the greater transduction efficiency and sustained gene expression were achieved by scAAV2 compared to rAAV2 in equine chondrocytes and synovial cells. In vivo, AAV2 demonstrated less joint inflammation than Ad, but similar NAb titer. The scAAV2 vectors can induce superior gene transduction than rAAV2 in articular cells, and both rAAV2 and scAAV2 vectors were showed to be safer for intra-articular use than Ad vectors.


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Im just trying to make a good marble sniper and i want it to be the best possible... i plan to make it with a cannon of 1,5 cm of diameter with a height of 1 M but if i want a ratio of ~0.8:1 i need the chamber to be something like 2 cm of radius and around 10 cm of height , that's very little and i wont manage to get the right amount of fuel in it (hairspray) or i would need to make a metered propane system and i dont want to make one for the moment... so , how could i do a very powerfull marble cannon ? i want to shot over 300 yards with it !
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