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@Advntrbuddy01 LOL yes, but nothing crazy. For instance, I have a wooden car...
The Apprentice is such a snore fest, I am surprised there haven't been reports of the editors throwing themselves from high-rise windows. Armies of zombie Apprentice editors, walking the streets, eating brains, craving the sweet, sweet taste of non-Apprentice tainted brains, which, judging by the ratings for this season, there are many of them out there.
Episode 7 opened with the teams learning they would be working with Ace Hardware on their promitions with the Boys & Girls Clubs of America on their "New Faces for Helpful Places" program. Each team would be renovating a room at a Boys and Girls Club. Lenny took up the Project Manager post for Gold Rush and Michael for Synergy.
Lenny proved to be a horrible leader. He didn't listen close enough to what Ace Hardware wanted, the rooms to promote team work, he instead went with very seperate music stations that promoted kids doing their own things. He also didn't seem to ever actually lead the team as much as just watch them do what they needed to do.
Michael had a much better ear for the needs of the assignment, came up with stations in their room that promote the kids working together and worked with his team. His biggest problem was taking forever to finalize their plans and not getting them to the Ace store until mere moments before the shop closed.
Long story, short, adios Lenny. Trump didn't even bother to send the team out and bring back a few, he just fired them in front of everyone and be done with him. Synergy's reward was to take a girl on her Make-A-Wish Foundation shopping spree to a Toys R' Us.
In episode 8, Lee was feeling bad about having lost Lenny. If you are wondering how that friendship came about, join the club. The teams then met with Trump in Central Park and learned Michael would be moving over to Gold Rush as the team was too overpowered now. They went on to find out their task was to promote the new P'EatZZa sanwhich at 7-11. The team with the largest percentage sales increase in sales for their assigned store would be the winner. Andrea was Project Manager for Synergy and Leslie for Gold Rush. I am going to depart a little from norm and really analyze this task, because on the surface it was a silly task, but there was a lot going on here.
Andrea tyranically chose a hat as the promotional item for the Synergy location and Gold Rush chose a cooler. Lee, Michael and Charmaine headed over to their store to scope it out. Lee talked with the manager and two important things happened:#1, he suggested the price point at $6.99 and #2 Lee got him to agree that no other sandwhichs would be on the shelves the next day. This is important because the stripping of choice was a great idea, but the manager gave them an essential piece of information, they had an experianced hand in this area tell them what price point would work, but yet Leslie decided to ignore that info and sell them for $7.99 for 1 and $8.99 for 2. This was something that would come back to haunt her the next day when Lee heard employees mocking the price.
Andrea made one good decesion and one horrible decesion. The good, she got her team out in front of the store the night before hitting the locals with fliers about the sale the next day and asking them to come back the next day and try the new food item. I didn't think this would work, but it did as many familiar faces from the night before showed up the next day. The bad decesion was the hats. As someone who has spent 20 years in retail, I can tell you a hat never works. It's the most half-assed promotional item out there. It almost works to the negative, as if to say "Well, we knew we needed a promotional item, but this shows a total lack or originallity and a lack of caring." It's like "calling it in" in terms of promotional items. It also cuts out the majority of women as they do not typically care about ball caps. They settled on a price of $4.00.
Back at Gold Rush, Lee was trying to secure a sale of 1,000 sanwhiches, hopefully at the price of $3.00. The buyer came back with a price of $2.00, after consulting Leslie, Lee went back with a price of $2.50, no deal was reached. Leslie was angry Lee had wasted so much time on a failed deal.
Back in the board room, the teams learned their results. Gold Rush increased their store's sales by 608% and Synergy increased theirs by 997%, making Synergy the winner for the fourth week in a row. Here's the problem with this task though…math. Let's say Synergy's store, on a normal day, sold 1 sandwhich for $1.00, that means Synergy would do far less work to increase the sales volume over Gold Rush, who was at a store that normally did sales of $2.00 a day. Unless the stores were perfectly even, volume is meaningless. This really should have been judged on dollar amount. Anyway, as their reward, Synergy flew down to Washington, D.C. on a private plane to meet with New York Senator Chuck Schumer for lunch. Huzzah.
In the board room, Leslie tried to say she would have pulled the sandwhichs also, Lee was ne genius. She only brought him in to the room with her and she whined about his failed deal. Trump applauded him trying and told her that's the nature of deals, get used to it. Leslie was fired, good riddance. Just wish she could have taken Andrea with her just for annoynace factor.


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Today I saw a grown man in a pedal car, and a man practicing the French Horn. Yesterday it was role players and treasure hunters in the woods. This is the same running route that regularly brings me horse dancing and cyclocross. Great value for under 10km!
That elusive 5km PB goal
After I completed Redcar Half Marathon I looked at my runkeeper splits and realised I had run the first 5km in 25.27. I have never run under 25 minutes before and it looked like I was pretty close. My next goal seemed pretty straightforward – score that PB at my local parkrun.
I started well, further forwards in the pack than my usual so I didn't get held up at any of the bottlenecks on the course, and I ran a good steady pace, pushing myself hard all the way – knowing I didn't have another 16km+ to go afterwards!
I got 25.53. On the half marathon I felt like I was still just floating along at that 5km point, trying to make myself go down to a more practical pace but feeling too good to do it. Yes the parkrun is an off-road, twisting course, and so it should be slower than a road race, but I wasn't ready for it to be slower and feel so much harder.
I felt better when I got my results email later saying I was 19th lady and 2nd in my age group. Although I put that down to luck, and I am some way off the the 1st lady in my age group – 20.45!
It looks like I still have some work to do, hence the focus on hills lately.
And I just worked out my 10km time too, based on my half marathon splits, and that was 52.2 so maybe I need to find a race for that too…
Keep on running
It's not about speed and gold medals. It is about refusing to be stopped.
Running with a cold in the cold
I'm not sure what the pharmacist made of me running red-faced and sweaty into the shop to pick up lemsip and lockets, but she probably just assumed they weren't for me.
I woke up this morning at 6am with sore throat. Seriously, it woke me up. Yesterday, nothing. It is so frustrating because I love my weekend runs. Since my post half-marathon dip in training, I have just got back into a good schedule, getting out regularly and building up the mileage. Ok, so that 10km I did on the treadmill a couple of days ago may have been a bit too fast, and ok that could be why I have a cold now…
But I needed to get into town to pick up some things, and having added throat sweets and orange juice to the list, what better way to get there than a gentle jog? I couldn't bear to leave out my favourite woods so built those into the route. And off I went, Runkeeper pace updates switched off, just listening to my breath, keeping it slow. Rather than pushing for 'mental toughness' on the hills, I gave myself full permission to walk whenever I felt like it. In the end I covered a good 6km, and it felt good. I realised running is now a treat for me – getting out in the crisp frosty air, autumn colours in the leaves, and smell of pine needles underfoot. What better way to feel better?

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Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture
August 25, 2010 - December 12, 2010
The very best of Japanese art in this country goes on display at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in the exhibition Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture. Featuring 112 works, the exhibition reflects the broad collecting interests of the Center's founder Willard G. Clark. His passion for Japanese art and culture has resulted in a collection ranging in date from the late Heian period (794–1185) to the twenty-first century that includes all major areas of artistic endeavor in Japan—screens, scrolls, wood sculptures, textiles, ceramics, and works of bamboo.
Clark studied architecture at UC Berkeley and animal husbandry at UC Davis in the early 1950s. He began his art collection with modestly priced artworks purchased on several visits to Japan from Hawai'i, where he was stationed as a young officer in the United States Navy. After his discharge from the military in 1963, he took charge of the family business, quintupled its size, and embarked on an even more successful venture exporting bull semen overseas. As Clark's businesses grew, so did the size and scope of his immense art collection. In 1995 he founded the Clark Center, a museum for Japanese art, to better protect these precious works and to make them available for public viewing. From 2002 to 2003, highlights from the collection traveled from the Center in Hanford, California to five cities in Japan, including Tokyo and Osaka, where they were admired by thousands of visitors. Given the Center's relative remoteness, too few in the United States have had a chance to view this important collection. The BAM/PFA exhibition will change this by presenting to the public the most significant pieces from each of the key areas of the collection.
Occupying three main galleries, this exhibition is one of the largest displays of Japanese art in the museum's history. The artworks are arranged by themes that elucidate the beauty and special characteristics of Japanese art and culture, as well as the unique nature of this collection. With a great breadth of subjects and media, this multilayered exhibition explores an array of themes, including Buddhist art; the distinctive form of ink painting developed in Japan; the classical literary world; Japanese humor, design, and eccentricity; and contemporary art forms in ceramic and bamboo.
Buddhist images, including paintings and sculpture dating from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, are among the earliest material in the collection. A fabulous image of Daitoku myō-ō perhaps one of the most commanding and rare sculptures of its type, sets the stage for the other four important Buddhist sculptures in the exhibition. Daitoku myō-ō, one of the Five Great Kings of esoteric Buddhism, is dramatically rendered in wood. With a three-faced fierce countenance and multiple arms, he sits astride a kneeling bull, radiating the commanding power associated with the deity. Other Buddhist imagery, such as a fourteenth-century painting of Daikinten, demonstrates the unique Japanese connections between esoteric Buddhism, Shinto religion, and the Inari cult of the fox.
The introduction of ink painting from China to Japan led to the blossoming of a distinctive Japanese interpretation of the medium. The Clark collection features examples from the Muromachi (1392–1558) and Edo (1603–1868) periods. Chinese subject matter is explored in the painting Lin Hejing Searching for Plum, attributed to Kano Gyokuraku (fl. 1550–1590). Yet the style of the painting, with its background wash and characteristically Japanese angular lines, belongs firmly in the Kano tradition. The artist Kano Tan'yu (1602–1674) pursues idealized beauty, as described in Chinese poetry, in his large single-panel screen depicting the Chinese theme of Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang.
A revival of Japanese interest in things Chinese occurred in the eighteenth century with the arrival of Nanga, or Southern School paintings. In this school artists like Nakabayahi Chikuto (1776–1853), in his 1829 painting Landscape with Man Seated by a Stream, demonstrate how the Japanese transformed a Chinese tradition into their own distinctive style and interpretation.
Whether depicting a literary scene from an idealized past, the everyday life of ladies of the court, or a vibrant glimpse of the natural world, the uniquely Japanese large format screen commands attention. Screens of gold, decorated with brilliant color, and large screens with subtly applied ink painting, both traditionally served as room dividers. In the exhibition they can be appreciated as freestanding works of art and also understood as elaborate furnishings for large spaces.
Nature is a recurring theme in all of Japanese art. Sensitive, detailed, and almost botanical studies of flowers are a frequent motif, as in Saito Ippo's lovely screen, Flowers of the Four Seasons from the late Edo period (eighteenth–nineteenth centuries). Numerous other paintings in traditional formats explore nature in exacting detail. Mr. Clark's involvement in animal husbandry, specifically with bulls, led him to collect wonderful images of these animals, as well as of many other creatures, including birds and monkeys. Often expressing a wry sense of humor, these artworks delight and entertain viewers with their light-hearted renditions of the natural world. Indeed, each piece in the collection, having been personally selected by Mr. Clark, reflects his own refined and exquisite taste.
Yearning for the Classics
The literary classics of China and Japan play an important role in the visual culture of Japan and are often the source of narrative paintings. One of the thematic sections of Flowers of the Four Seasons, "Yearning for the Classics," explores the depictions of these familiar topics in paintings on hanging scrolls and screens. The large folding-screen format, which allows for the expansive treatment of figures, is especially suited to this genre, as seen in the single six-panel screen illustrating the Chinese-inspired classic Emperor Ming Huang and Yang Guifei, attributed to Kanō Mitsunobu (1565-1608). In this work, the costumes and settings are allowed full expression and a story unfolds with grandeur and drama.
Emperor Ming Huang and Yang Guifei depicts a scene from the "Song of Everlasting Sorrow," an epic poem written by the Chinese poet Bo Juyi in 806. This tragic story of the emperor and his consort was particularly popular among Kanō school artists of the Momoyama period. Ming Huang (685–762), the sixth-generation emperor of the Tang dynasty (618–907), enjoyed great peace and prosperity in the early years of his reign. But in his later years, the emperor became distracted by his love for Yang Guifei, who embroiled him in the An Lushan Rebellion (755). The poem romanticizes how Yang Guifei was executed in the rebellion by the emperor's own troops, and how Ming Huang mourned her death and set out in search of her soul. This work had a great impact on Japanese Heian court literature such as the Tale of Genji.
In smaller works, such as Woman of Takayasu by Sakai Hōitsu (1761-1828), the story is expressed subtly and requires literary knowledge of the Heian classic the Tale of Ise. In this painting, a gentleman dressed in the robes and headwear typical of a courtier of the Heian period stands at a lattice window taking a peak at a woman busy with kitchen work. Those who have read the Tale of Ise will recognize this character as Ariwara no Narihira (825-880), whose interest in a woman from Takayasu is stifled when he sees her at domestic chores.
Other images, such as Huts, Mountain, and Snipes by Suzuki Kiitsu (1796-1858), a triptych depicting poems known collectively as "Three Evening Scenes," refer to traditional and famous waka (thirty-one-syllable) poems. All three poems from a famous Kamakura period anthology end with the same line "Aki no yugure" (In the Autumn Dusk). Kiitsu has taken this topic as the visual focal point for each of his paintings and rendered them in a beautifully atmospheric soft-focus landscape.
Often the literary references in such paintings are remote, even for a Japanese viewer, so it is all the more remarkable that the genre is a significant part of the Clark collection, since many collectors would not have recognized the subtle meaning hidden in the works.
Julia M. White
Senior Curator for Asian Art
Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture is organized jointly by the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture, and is co-curated by BAM/PFA Senior Curator for Asian Art Julia M. White and Clark Center Director Andreas Marks.
Public programming for Flowers of the Four Seasons is supported by Bonhams & Butterfields, Bonhams Japanese Art North America, the Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies, and the Center for Japanese Studies, UC Berkeley. Additional support provided by SCRIPTUM Fine Japanese Prints, Berkeley; BAM/PFA Endowments for Asian Art; and the BAM/PFA Board of Trustees.
Special thanks to Asia Society Northern California Center, the Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco, the Japan Society of Northern California, and the Society for Asian Art for publicity support.


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Doping is the act of consuming artificial and often illegal substances to gain an advantage over others in sporting competitions.
Such substances include anabolic steroids, human growth hormones, stimulants and diuretics.
Organized crime and professional sports
Doping damages the integrity of sport and is linked to other forms of crime and corruption, such as match-fixing, illegal gambling, bribery and money laundering.
While doping is often viewed as a crime committed by an individual, the reality is that when an athlete takes illegal performance-enhancing drugs, this is just one piece in a larger network of crime.
Victory in professional sports can be highly lucrative, increasing the motivation for players to take illegal performance enhancers, and for coaches, managers and other officials to put pressure on them to do so. The market is 'low risk - high profit' and therefore increasingly attractive to organized crime groups worldwide.
A wider public health issue
Also of concern is the mass trafficking of performance-enhancing drugs which has major consequences for public health.
Doping products are often counterfeited, illegally produced, trafficked and distributed. As they are rarely tested or approved for public use, their consumption is dangerous and poses a serious health risk to both professional and amateur sportspeople.
The increase in the abuse of doping substances in elite sports is mirrored by a rise in the use of such substances in amateur and recreational sports and among young people.
A key partnership
February 2009 saw the signature of a cooperation agreement between the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and INTERPOL.
WADA supports INTERPOL's anti-doping activities and provides scientific expertise, particularly when it comes to identifying new doping substances. WADA has also published the World Anti-Doping Code which harmonizes anti-doping policies in all sports and all countries and which lists all prohibited doping substances and methods.
The collaboration between the two organizations provides a strong basis to encourage the implementation of the relevant legislation in all INTERPOL member countries, which in turn can enable law enforcement bodies to efficiently fight the trafficking of doping substances.
INTERPOL's anti-doping activities
Criminal intelligence
INTERPOL's anti-doping project provides tactical, operational and strategic intelligence related to doping in sport and the trafficking of performance enhancing drugs. It includes a systematic analysis of each doping case known to INTERPOL, especially an analysis of products (types, pictures, brand names, origin, supply chains, modus operandi, trends, and so on).
The project provides a framework for investigations requiring international cooperation, for instance INTERPOL played a role in investigating the case of professional cyclist Lance Armstrong. INTERPOL also contributes to international operations to dismantle criminal organizations related to the trafficking of performance-enhancing drugs.
Training and on-site support
INTERPOL participates in the training courses that WADA delivers to national anti-doping organizations on intelligence and investigations. INTERPOL is also involved in international sport competitions when authorities request any assistance: for instance working with French law enforcement officers in the field during the Tour de France cycling competition.
Orange notices
A key tool in the fight against doping is INTERPOL's orange notice. This is an international alert, used to notify INTERPOL's global membership about an event, a person, an object or a process representing a serious and imminent threat to public safety. In April 2015, INTERPOL issued a global alert for 2.4-dinitrophenol (DNP), an illicit and potentially lethal drug used as a dieting and body-building aid (see the media release).
Purple notices
The purple notice is used to seek or provide information on modus operandi, objects, devices and concealment methods used by criminals. In 2015, several purple notices have been issued to alert police to new methods used to disguise performance-enhancing drugs in attempts to pass them undetected through customs controls.
Finnish fugitive arrested in Albania with INTERPOL support
Combating criminal gangs focus of INTERPOL Americas conference
INTERPOL fugitive probe nets most wanted suspect
Drug trafficking: 55 tonnes of narcotics seized worldwide
INTERPOL Chief accepts Peruvian award on behalf of Organization
Organized crime underpins major conflicts and terrorism globally
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The Real Marriage Podcast
If you know anything about us, you know that our desire is to help "imperfect & normal families" just like ours. The Real Marriage Podcast is a place where you can listen in as we have honest and transparent conversations about the issues that affect us all. Our goal is to provide both practical and scriptural counsel in a brief 15 minute broadcast. It is perfect to listen to in the car or with your spouse on a weeknight once the kids are in bed.
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Enjoy our final talk with four guys about their marriages. Their "lessons learned" are the perfect discussion starters for your relationship.
Listen in as four guys discuss why every man needs to have a "band of brothers" to walk though life with.
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On this Real Marriage Podcast, a panel of four men share some great insights on what husbands can do to connect more effectively with their wives.
Our honest conversation with some older teenagers and young adults about their parents' relationships was incredibly insightful.
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In a world full of distractions, your marriage needs friends who will keep you focused on the things that really matter.
You may have thousands of friends on social media, but what your marriage really needs is a few friends you can go deep and wide with.
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"You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out," wrote Warren Buffett. He was talking about the recession in 2002, but it also describes the lives of prosecutors and regulators following the financial meltdown in 2008. Now that markets and the economy are rebounding and the tide is rising, will the white-collar watchdogs get a rest in 2014?
Don't bet on it.
Cybercrime, corruption and mortgage fraud are still alive and kicking. And the new year will bring new frontiers. Here are four predictions from the corporate crime beat for 2014.
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New sheriff in town
After five years marked by a variety of controversies, look for Attorney General Eric Holder to step down soon. Holder has had some notable successes in white-collar enforcement, but in that realm he may be best remembered for Senate testimony last March—which he says was taken out of context—that some banks have become too big to prosecute.
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has been mentioned as a possible replacement, but don't bet on it. No question he has the chops, and those who know him say he is ambitious. But he doesn't need to burnish his law-enforcement credentials, nor does he need the headaches (and controversy) that come with the top job.


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A blood test is when a sample of blood is taken for testing in a laboratory. Blood tests have a wide range of uses and are one of the most common types of medical test. For example, a blood test can be used to:
A blood test usually involves the phlebotomist taking a blood sample from a blood vessel in your arm. and the usual place for a sample is the inside of the elbow or wrist, where the veins are relatively close to the surface. Blood samples from children are most commonly taken from the back of the hand. The child's hand will be anaesthetised (numbed) with a special cream before the sample is taken.
You can find out more about blood tests, their purpose and the way they are performed on the NHS Choices website.
An X-ray is a widely used diagnostic test to examine the inside of the body. X-rays are a very effective way of detecting problems with bones, such as fractures. They can also often identify problems with soft tissue, such as pneumonia or breast cancer.
If you have a X-ray, you will be asked to lie on a table or stand against a surface so that the part of your body being X-rayed is between the X-ray tube and the photographic plate.
An X-ray is usually carried out by a radiographer, a healthcare professional who specialises in using imaging technology, such as X-rays and ultrasound scanners.
You can find out more about x-ray tests, how they are performed, their function and the risks by visiting the NHS Choices website.
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text: Brewing strike action in the coal sector is "deeply concerning", Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba said on Friday."I am deeply concerned about the industrial action that has kicked off in the coal sector," he told reporters in Johannesburg.Coal is a critical input in electricity production.Speaking at power parastatal Eskom's report on the state of the electricity supply going into summer, Gigaba urged the mining sector to resolve the industrial action taking place at some coal mines in Mpumalanga.Eskom CEO Brian Dames, said the utility had been closely watching coal mines as wildcat strikes in the mining industry hit South Africa over the past two months."We have seen some protest action on some coal mines over the last week or so," he said.Coal deliveries to power stations had already been put at risk by the transport workers' strike, which ended on Friday.Eskom had lost a day's supply of coal due to the transport strike.If the coal strikes continued it would have a severe impact on the security of coal supply and commodity prices, Gigaba said."The sustainable price and supply of coal over the next five years is critical, and has been cited as pivotal for the management of electricity prices going forward," he said.The minister urged the mining sector to resolve workers' concerns.President Jacob Zuma said on Thursday that R118 million in coal production had been lost due to strikes from mid-September.


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For lovers of plantain and small chops, this is a two in one special. This yummy snack is in between puff-puff and fried plantain…it cannot get any better! If you would like yours spicy feel free to add in chilli pepper, but for this we went all sweet. What is small chops without mosa?
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3 pcs overripe plantain
1 cup plain flour
2 teaspoons yeast
3 tbsps sugar
1 teaspoon nutmeg powder
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
3 cups vegetable oil
1 pinch salt
Pour the yeast into a bowl of warm water, mix until there are no lumps and set aside for about 15 minutes.
Peel the plantains (ideally overripe) and mash until smooth. You can use a blender or food processor to achieve the consistency required.
Mix flour, sugar and salt in another bowl. Add in the yeast solution and mix. Pour in the mashed plantain and mix with a spatula until well combined. Cover the bowl with a cling film and allow to sit for about 15 minutes.
Add in the nutmeg, vanilla essence and pepper (optional).
Add the oil into a deep pan and place over high heat. Reduce the heat after a while and scoop in the batter with your hands. Fry until golden brown.
Using a slotted spoon remove the mosa from the oil and allow the excess oil to drain on paper towel.
Best served warm. Sprinkle over confectioners' sugar (optional).
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Hey listeners! It's been a while, but those of us at Radio Liberty are back with a huge scoop!
You heard that right--this is bigger than the zerg and the protoss put together. This time we're hitting close to home with a lead on missing ghosts in the Terran Dominion.
A few hours ago, we were contacted by a very prestigious informant. Now, we can't name names, but you can trust me that this guy is the real deal, and he's not gonna lead us down the wrong path or anything. However, he's on to something so high-stakes that he's getting to be a little worried for his safety. Once his intel goes public, it could be traced back to him, and he doesn't want any trouble.
Now, we don't know what kind of opposition he's facing. But if the information is as critical as he's saying it is, it's worth the risk, and he's always been true to his word before.
Out of concern for his safety, and as an act of appreciation for his tireless efforts to spread information throughout the Terran Dominion, we've offered to give him a helping hand. He's been hiding his intel as carefully as he can to keep the wrong people from finding it, and we just received the first document from him. Whatever message it contains is encoded somehow.
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As I type this, I am listening to ARR's Mental Madhilo from OK Bangaram and I don't know if I like it or dislike it. I know I am inviting trouble but the magic of ARR(and Ilayaraja) seems to have faded in recent times. Let's talk about "I". No, it's alright. Let's get back to the topic. I respect ARR and IR's respect to their professional integrity by reusing their own compositions but it has become a tiring exercise to start enjoying and stop thinking about their old songs which new ones are reminding of. For example, all those who thought that mental madhilo is brand new and has no slightest tinge of ARR's other songs can raise your hands now. (Kamal- you can lower your hand because you do not count).
Not just that, the visuals of OK Bangaram have a striking resemblance to Sakhi and Yuva. A guy who is not into commitments and a pretty girl with curly hair who tries to talk him into marriage plus maniratnam -what strikes you if not Yuva? You can say that any scene on the Chennai local train need not be that of Sakhi's but sorry, romance on the local trains with hero and heroine on opposite ones does not remind of anything else. The same genius of ManiRatnam created that magic which has not still faded away. On a separate note, dear unmarried ladies, do not expect that you would spot Madhavan(s) when you footboard Chennai trains. Try looking elsewhere or at least settle with the name like I did.
The plight of Telugu movies is better not talked about because the way it is being ridiculed nowadays (by our own people) is sad. Twitter is a fresh break from facebook's nonsense and it is where I learnt how much Tollywood is picked on. To my dismay, not all of the twitterage is nonsense. First they called our film industry nepotistic because all the active heroes we have are from the families who are being here from Indus valley civilization and never left ever since. How true because there is no stopping of heroes coming from those families. Acting skills are no longer a requirement to act in movies. We do have a few good actors who are either reluctant to experiment or falling for the urgency to make as many movies as possible to stay in light. Such movies are lacking good scripts.
Coming to scripts, I read an interesting comparison about them- that they are much like a white elephant with wings. No, not precious or something, such things don't exist. I realized that two things which are common to every Telugu cinema these days are 1)basic outline of one hero, 1 or more heroines falling for him without even a second thought about why they should, family drama with extended members and 2)Brahmanandam. Point 2 reminds me of comedy. This was one aspect which was okay until recent times but it has started degrading too. The dialogues and comedy used to be catchy once upon a time but the increasing importance to so called "punch dialogues" has ruined the total thing. The unnecessary importance to make catchy one liners is interfering with the pace of the story. As an example, how many of you do not think Trivikram is losing it and is a better dialogue writer than a director?
Then some people said whatever innovation our directors have done are copied from Hollywood. They also said instead of spending on twitter, film makers should spend time on Youtube and learn not to copy the ideas so blatantly. I did not watch many Hollywood movies but I can vouch for two facts- Julai has a scene directly lifted from Dark Knight. Manmadhudu is not even close to "What Women Want" even though both Nagarjuna and Mel Gibbson used lipstick on their eyes. I mean there are some honest thoughts which are getting lost in this generalization and the others are just giving us a facepalm followed by a slap for watching.
Few people said we need scripts like Raghuvaran Btech because it is innovative. I was looking for the so called innovation but I slept through the movie ( well almost). There was NONE. Also, I ended up spending that night thinking about which last dubbed movie had a plot in which nobody died. May be it is a kind of sentiment there like our obsession with an "item song".
These days I wonder if the films are getting bad or we have become so critical that we want everything to be super fresh and flawless (Is it too much of a requirement or is it okay asking because we are spending some time and money on movies? I don't know). Please do not say that viewers do not have right to complain because they don't know the ABC of film making. Film makers also seem to have forgotten the ABC and hence there is no good movie that we want to watch again when it is on TV on a lazy Sunday afternoon. Or a movie which we don't mind watching in the theaters for a second time. Or the one we want to recommend to a friend. Or the one which is going to win some recognition.
I know liking/disliking is a personal choice and cannot be generalized. But there is a concept of majority that determines the success/failure of a film in its all dimensions like above. I also think the decade before this and even before, we saw some such movies. What do you think will their fate be had they been made today? What would happen if a film like Geethanjali is released today? Will it be a box office hit? Will our so called film critics say it is a master piece and give it a good rating? Will the twitterage accept the film or just say the film should have been a trailer for Apollo hospitals or Ooty tourist development corporation?


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Eleanor Mae Cunningham
1922 - 2017
Funeral Service
Interment at: Volusia Cemetery
Obituary of Eleanor Cunningham
WESTFIELD - Eleanor Mae (Burroughs) Cunningham, age 95, of Douglas Rd., Westfield, entered into the presence of her Lord on Wednesday, July 26, 2017 at Alleghany General Hospital of Pittsburgh, PA.
Eleanor was born on February 8, 1922 in Mansfield, NY; the daughter of the late Milton and Mildred (Fisher) Burroughs.
She married Allen "Dutch" Cunningham on October 8, 1941 in Eddyville, NY.
An area resident since moving to Ripley in 1952, she and "Dutch" settled on Douglas Rd., Westfield in 1961. Eleanor worked at the former WT Grant Co in Westfield and retired from the C&E Telephone Company after many years as a telephone operator. She then provided private in-home health care for her neighbor.
Eleanor accepted Jesus Christ's gift of Salvation at an early age and lived her life for her Lord. She was a member of the Brocton Baptist Church. She loved taking care of her home and family, and often put the needs of others before her own. She cherished the time spent with all of her children, grandchildren and anyone she befriended. Her kitchen was always open and she always offered food to everyone who came to visit, (and insisted you eat). She was a fantastic cook.
She is survived by her three sons: Ronald (Alice) Cunningham of Portland, NY; Thomas (Patty) Cunningham of Ripley, NY; and James (Renee) Cunningham of Westfield, NY; and by her daughter-in-law, Sandy Cunningham of Westfield, NY. She is further survived by her 14 grandchildren and many great-grandchildren. Also surviving is her brother: Howard (Audrey) Burroughs of East Otto, NY.
Eleanor was preceded in death by her husband of 54 years, Allen "Dutch" Cunningham; her son, John Cunningham; her grandson, James Michael Cunningham; her granddaughter, Corinne Marie Cunningham; her great-great grandson, Brody Emanuel Bannister; her sister, Pauline Updyke; and her two brothers, Cleo and Clifford Burroughs.
Friends may call on Friday, August 4, 2017 from 2-4 pm and 7-9 pm at the MASON Funeral Home, 37 Clinton Street, Westfield, NY and again on Saturday, August 5th from 10-11 am at the Brocton Baptist Church, 35 West Main Street, Brocton, NY where the Funeral service will be held at 11:00 am with Rev. Larry Morrison officiating. Private burial will be in Volusia Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Brocton Baptist Church, 35 West Main Street, Brocton, NY 14716; to the James Cunningham Scholarship, c/o WACS, 203 East Main Street, Westfield, NY 14787; or to the Westfield Volunteer Fire Department, 23 Elm St., Westfield, NY.
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Many LDS, don't agree with all of the doctrine or policies of the church, and they have to decide if they will publicly protest against those differences. This essay gives my view of the issue. The essay does not discuss interpretation of doctrine or policies.
The Church
Latter-day Saints have chosen to be members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. With a few exceptions, of course, these people are not in decision-making positions. Their choice of membership, either to become members or to remain members, implies acceptance of the decisions made by the senior hierarchy of the church. Their membership does not imply agreement with all aspects of doctrine or policies. I believe that members who disagree with doctrine or policies have only two decisions: to remain members of the church, recognizing that they disagree with some aspects of the church, or to leave the church. I do not believe that members should publicly protest against the church, with the hope that the church authorities might change the doctrine or policies.
The Family
Latter-day Saints are, of course, head of their families, and they have the right to make decisions about their families. Their decisions may or may not agree with all aspects of church doctrine or policies. If persons disagree with church doctrine or policies, these persons have the right, as head of their families, to speak out publicly to protest the doctrine and policies. However, in order to avoid hypocrisy, these persons should, in my opinion, leave the church before public protests are made.
Individuals do have the right to publicly protest doctrine and policies of the church and of their families. Again, such persons should leave the church or their families before public protests are made. Of course, there are legal constraints on young people leaving their parents to establish their own families, and these restrictions must be complied with to avoid the penalties of breaking the law.
Membership in the church implies acceptance of the positions taken by that organization. Persons disagreeing with such positions should either remain members of the church and remain quiet (publicly) about their differences or should leave the organization before disagreeing publicly with the organization. People do, of course, have the right to privately discuss their differences with persons in decision-making positions.


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Art and Sole || The Perfect Mother's Day giftApril 25, 2014
I'm so excited to share this gem of a book with you all today. Not only does it make the perfect Mother's day gift, but it would be fabulous addition to your coffee table book collection. Art and Sole is Jane Weitzman's first book which showcases 150 pairs of shoes that she has discovered or commissioned for display since the first Stuart Weitzman shop opened in NYC in the 60's. It is beautifully made with a linen cover, gold-edged pages, and features such inventive shoes. 100% of the profits of the sale of this book are donated to Ovarian and Breast Cancer research. Really, it is the all-around perfect gift for any shoe and art lover, and fashionista.
Precious right? You can get your copy here.
I'm delighted it's Friday because this is a good weekend. I'm having dinner with some fab bloggers tonight (follow me on Instagram to find out who). We are taking little Miss A to the Beauty and the Beast musical on saturday and then we have a sweet friend's birthday celebration on Sunday. I hope all your weekends are relaxing and exciting all in one. xx
[all photos by AC. The book was courtesy of Stuart Weitzman, but all opinions are my own]
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That is a great coffee table book. I mean, who doesnt love shoes?!ReplyDelete
What a beautiful book, I would actually frame some of the images:) Have a great weekend!ReplyDelete
What a gorgeous book. And I love your styling!ReplyDelete
This looks like the perfect gift for any girl! So cute. Happy Friday Albertina!ReplyDelete
Que lindo libro Albertina ! Un perfecto regalo para el día de la madreReplyDelete
This is the perfect gift for my mother in law! Thanks for the suggestion!ReplyDelete


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Ok, so while I was making the best damn Blizzcon 2011 Gallery on the Net, I stumbled on you guys, I asked to take a picture and you gave me stone faces, thank God Kina knows who I am geez. Either way get familiar with me, if not you'll just miss that train. Here are your images, before Live Raid and after with Scott Mercer as well. If you wan't Ultra Poster Size resolutions have one of your folks get in contact with me.
Congrats on the win, but like I said earlier I wish it would have been a tighter race.
"Oh snap, you DC'd son! you better run!"
Also if you all want like the super high res poster size just have Kina email me for them.
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- I blogged three out of the four weeks & commented on blogs and Google+ posts on an almost daily basis. Google+ is an excellent discussion board for genealogists. There are so many thoughtful and interesting posts and I am "finding" many new-to-me genealogists to follow. The immediate give and take on Google+ is something I don't experience with my blog, so I appreciate the sense of community and helpful comments and tips.
- I cleaned up my Legacy genealogy database ~ including:
- the master surnames list
- the master locations list
- the master sources list
- I reviewed my 2011 genealogy goals as well as what I accomplished this year. Now it is time to grade myself:
- Data Entry (inputting records from my Newfoundland Research Trip) Grade = C
- I continue to work on this research data entry project but it is slow going and will take more time than originally planned. This is a project to put on my list for 2012.
- Organization (spending one hour each week) going through both my paper and computer files to be better organized in 2012. Grade = B
- I got through a great deal of paper (scanning, shredding, and recycling). I am slowly moving in the direction of having most of my genealogy on my computer (with backups).
- Working Smarter Not Harder = Overall Grade B+
- Research Logs ~ I started using Legacy's To-Do lists and kept track of the results (both positive and negative). The more I used the To-Do lists the easier it became and the more useful they were. [I was quite jealous when I saw the RootsMagic 5 Research Log and am hoping for this improvement in Legacy Family Tree] Grade = A-
- Sources ~ I am happy to say that I have converted and cleaned up all of my master sources. I finally came up with a system that works for me and keeps my sources consistent. It involves becoming a confirmed "lumper" and learning to use the Sourcewriter templates (and some cheat sheets) to my advantage. Grade = A
- Data Entry ~ I made a conscious effort this year to clean up my data entry so that it would be clear and consistent. Since my database is not as large as most others, I decided to focus on records I already had and made sure my downloaded copies and scans were correctly named, legible and transcribed or abstracted. I started with the various census entries, moved on to military registrations and enlistments, continued with immigration records, naturalization records, and finished up the year with all my Swedish Church records. There are additional classes of records to get through but I have made significant headway. Working on this project took time away from new research BUT it was worthwhile as it gave me an opportunity to take a second look at all my records, spend time analyzing them, and oftentimes I found new or overlooked information. Grade = B+
- Back Ups ~ I was very good this year backing up my data and thank Thomas MacEntee for his monthly reminders! The peace of mind backing up my data gives me is priceless. Grade = A
- Learning Legacy ~ I spent about five hours each month learning how to do more with my Legacy database program. I reread the Legacy manual, re-watched the Legacy training CDs, attended Legacy webinars, and used the Legacy User's Forum to learn more about Legacy and how to make it do what I want and need. Grade = B+
- What did I learn how to do?
- manipulate the sentence structure in fact/event sentences,
- use the search capabilities find particular people, events, and time frames,
- use global search and replace to clean up my database, and
- make good use of research guidance (together with a stand alone program GenSmarts) to come up with research plans and research logs.
- Using Facebook and Social Media ~ I have not taken advantage of Facebook as much as I should for corresponding with family and extended family. So many people are on Facebook but I do not find the conversation on Facebook as interesting or immediate as that on Google+. Since lots of family and extended family are on Facebook, I need to work on making better use of it in 2012. I started using Google+ when it was first offered by invitation and I love it! It is incredibly intuitive to me ~ I like the Stream, Circles, and the ability to interact and post and/or read others' posts in one place. I hope that 2012 brings lots of genealogy Hangouts! Grade = B-
Overall my grade this year is "not bad but needs improvement." Stay tuned as I will post later this week about my goals for 2012.
So how did you do on your 2011 resolutions and what are your goals for 2012?
|DigitalArt at FreeDigitalPhotos ~ Thanks


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How to design the socket sets and tools kit?
Thousands of tool sets are in the hardware shops or Amazon, but the price range is quite large from ten dollar for a 32 pc Set to thousands dollar for a 556 pc Set.
How to design a market-favor tool set? Who is the target customer? What is the customer's background? These are the questions that Tien-I R&D Team will ask themselves before proceeding the design.
1) Socket Drive Hole Size (Square) – The usage
Drive Hole Size have different design purpose. The bigger size, the higher torque, designed for heavy duty application in open space. In contrary, small driver hole size, the torque is smaller and mainly used in home improvement or delicate equipment.
Drive Hole size decides the purpose of the set. Following chart is application and the size range. (For detailed explanation, please refer "Socket Size Basic Knowledge".)
For example, one tool set has cover all size from 1/4" to 1/2" , which cover all functions, but the price is higher and the transportation is less convenient. Also the user may feel too many sizes they already got.
2) How many sockets is best number? Standard or deep socket? SAE (Inch) or MM (Metric) system?
A tool set is labeled as how many components it contains. For example a 159 PC tool kit or 32 PC Socket Set. To DIY Home improvement, 32 PC Socket Set is enough, but definitely not for auto repair.
Common sense, the more the better. But, it doesn't work here. The number represents how many pieces of components. The number might include small less value piece such as bits. You should count how many piece of sockets wrench rather than all components. The more sockets means the complete size for end users. But it also means heavier, inconvenient to carry and less attractive price. Balance is the key.
In addition, deep socket is necessary in some special equipment or machine repair. Pro user or professional mechanism must have. When tool kit have deep and regular sockets together, the deep ones usually are popular size since the deep hole nut or bolt are usually popular size either.
Metric (MM) and SAE (INCH) are the two main systems in the tool market. Usually European and Asia go for Metric (MM). England, US. and Australia use both SAE (INCH) and Metric (MM). But it still depends on the specific target market. For example, professional auto shop may have SAE and Metric at the same time since they need to fix German car as well as US. Car. It is perfect to cover two systems, but back to the main question, how many socket/wrenches is best number?
Double Color Blow Mold Care Socket Sets - Tool Kit
3) Ratchet wrench, heart of the socket set and tool set
Quality ratchet brings good user experience. It is the fundamental for the socket set. Basically, when the ratchet meet ANSI specification or DIN, the common user shouldn't have any torque problem.
The ratchet teeth number is also another key feature. The more teeth means the less angle required to move. (72 teeth = 5 degree, 36 teeth = 10 degree) For detail, please refer to Ratchet Handle Design (Standard + Round head)
Additionally, three critical features for ratchet: 1) Quick Release Structure, 2) Trigger Design, 3) Handle
4) Bits, screwdriver or bit socket?
Heavy user or light user? Where do you use tool? For what? The common one is screwdriver for most of home improvement, even some professional usage. The bits would be suitable for rare use or combine with some other accessory. If torque requirement is high, bit socket is good choice.
Normally the tool set is designed to include the bits instead of screwdriver due to cost and utility. The screwdriver would be worthless if its tip wear out, but the bit can be replaceable. The bit socket is often used in repairing machine equipment or automobile with various length.
Philips, Pozi, Slot/Flat, Hex/Allen Key are the common size. It is quite common is every work space.
5) Tool Case or Blow Molded Case
Basically, the tool kit or socket set have two type boxes: metal and plastic. Different market have different preference. Here are the general key points of blow mold case:
1) The tools or component is well gripped in the case, so that they resist strong impact but the user can still easily take them out.
2) The durability of plastic or alloy metal lock. The alloy metal clip lock is stronger and more durable than plastic one.
3) The connection between upper and down case part is whether plastic or metal. The metal can not only make the whole set more professional and sharp but also more durable.
4.) The color and design of tool case. It is another big topic and we already say too much in this article. So instead, we will show you the best example:
Tien-I's double color anti-impact design is the definition.
Welcome to contact with Tien-I Team if you have interests with tool set or socket set design. Tien-I is the professioanl tool kit and socket set manufacturer in Taiwan.


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What is Honey Money?
Honey Money helps you track your progress across the MoneyComb platform. You can gain coins for everything from reviewing a transaction to completing our Spend Wizard planning tool. You will also get Honey Money by staying on track with your financial goals and spending in your Sweet Spot. In the future, MoneyComb hopes to tie these positive actions to real rewards such as discounts or bonus points for your credit card. We're not there yet, but are working hard to make it a reality!
So why do we have Honey Money now? One of MoneyComb's key advisors is Dan Ariely, Ph.D., of Duke University. Dan found in his behavioral economics research that having something as simple as a gold colored coin to help keep track of weekly saving goals can lead to greater savings. In fact, in a real world field study, it prompted people to save more than twice as much as those without any such incentives. Pretty amazing stuff!
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Most cloud services tell you that their data stores are safe, that your data is encrypted in transit and on their drives, that employees don't have access, etc. For the vast majority of the stuff I store in the cloud, this is more than good enough for me—the data isn't overly sensitive, and if someone were to hack their way in, all they'd get are a bunch of work and personal writing files and some family photos.
For other files—primarily financial and family related—those assurances just aren't enough for me. But I still want the flexibility and security that comes from having a copy of these files in the cloud. So what's a paranoid user to do to take advantage of the cloud, with added security, but with a minimum of hassle?
The solution I came up with involves using local encrypted disk images and a shell script. Using this script (and some means of scheduling it), you can automatically encrypt and back up whatever files you like to a cloud service.


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I can't believe I hadn't done this before, but it's an absolutely incredible experience. Airfoil allows to hijack audio from whatever application and pipe it directly to an Apple TV and also your local computer (at the same time without out-of-sync issues).
I have the Apple TV set up for 5.1 surround and while Pandora doesn't supply that kind of audio source, it still sounds pretty fantastic.
The demo runs for ten minutes before it degrades the audio, but the full application only costs $25… well worth the price.
I am enjoying my Rush channel at the moment while the snow falls outside. I can't wait to use this during project work at home.


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E3 2011: Ubisoft unveils Kinect support for all future Tom Clancy titles
posted: 6/6/2011 12:35:00 PM
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Ghost Recon: Future Soldier
pledged full support of the Kinect peripheral in all future Tom Clancy titles on the Xbox 360, starting with
Ghost Recon: Future Soldier
. A demonstration of some of the uses in the new Ghost Recon title were demonstrated on stage at the press conference this morning.
The section that was shown on stage focuses on the gaem's weapon customization options. Players will be able to construct more than 20 million custom weapon combinations, including the alteration of the inner parts of the gun(s). Using the Kinect camera, players can manipulate their weapons through both gestures and voice commands. The response time for both seemed to be pretty short, much shorter than most Kinect games that I have experienced.
The game will likely feature the same commands during gameplay as a shooting gallery / weapon test mode was shown as well. Shots were fired by simply opening and closing your fist and reloads occurs by making a motion as if you were grabbing a magazine from your pack. This looks better than I thought it would.....
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Hello, my friends!
Welcome to the December Challenge of the Cards and More Shop Blog.
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Here's what I made.
It's a fun little winter tag!
Isn't he cute?
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Now it's your turn!
You can make whatever you want:
a card, a layout, art journal page, or mixed media
...anything goes!
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In case cramming for an exam that determines high school graduation and college placement wasn't stressful enough, grade 12 test-takers will now have to do so under the scrutiny of independent observers tasked with manning every exam-room window.
As part of a slew of reforms to crack down on endemic cheating at the national exam this year, the Anti-Corruption Unit has recruited 2,000 independent observers from NGOs, universities and individual volunteers.
For the past three years, the ACU sent its own observers to monitor the exams, but this is the first time it will invite civilians to bolster the ranks.
"We could put our observers at all 154 exam centres, but we won't. We want to monitor in a transparent way," Om Yentieng, president of the ACU, explained yesterday at an informational session for recruited observers.
Yentieng warned monitors that they have not been endowed with the powers of educators or government officials during the August 3 and 4 exam period; monitors cannot stop the proceedings even if they witness cheating, bribery or other corruption, and will not even be allowed into the exam room.
"You have no right to enter the class; you must watch from the window and observe," he said, advising that monitors capture evidence of irregularity on their phones and bring the pictures to proctors.
But education monitors said such a limited role renders them incapacitated to do much.
"Monitoring at the window is not really going to be effective," said San Chey, a coordinator for ANSA-EAP. "But we can still monitor the centre as the students go in, and then interview them afterwards."
Yentieng, however, maintained that cheating at the exam was not nearly as rampant as outsiders assume, part of the reason that outsiders will be allowed in to "see the reality."
But a university student registered as a monitor said everyone, himself included, has used an illicit trick or two to boost their scores.
"No one in my year was perfect and didn't cheat, even the best students," said the student, who decline to provide a name.


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Cormac, youngest of the Earthlords is held prisoner by Balor. Through him, the Emperor has control of the Earthlore, the magic of the rocks and soils: he has the power to raise mountains, create islands, turn soil barren or make it incredibly fertile. The once proud De Danann people are little more than his slaves.
Catapulted back in time, Ken and Ally seek Faolan the Windlord and Paedur the bard. The band of companions must land on the Fomor Isles, homeland of the Emperor's warriors.
And time is running out. Every time the young Earthlord calls upon his power he weakens the very fabric of the De Danann Island. Unless he is stopped, the land will be torn apart…
This epic fantasy set in the time of shape-changers, sorcerers and flying serpents is the second of the De Danann tales and follows Windlord of which the critics wrote:


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Enterprise-class SSDs have begun to penetrate the datacenter at an increasing rate. One area that has held huge promise is the burgeoning entry-level segment and with the RealSSD P400E Micron looks to capitalize on this largely underserved market.
The P400E is a SSD geared for customers that are looking to integrate a flash solution in the most cost effective manner. Micron's goal is to address an increasing trend of enterprise customers using consumer class SSDs in enterprise applications. Unfortunately, this exposes these users to a host of issues that are the very antithesis of what enterprise class storage stands for. Data loss and corruption are the unforgivable side effects of trusting data to SSDs that aren't designed for the enterprise environment. Another penalty is unpredictable performance and reliability that comes along with utilizing consumer SSDs in environments they weren't designed for. Predictability is the gold standard of effective enterprise solutions and devices designed for average desktop users simply do not fit the bill.
The root of this problem is the prohibitive cost of enterprise class SSDs. The intoxicating speeds that they promise can be a big motivator for some to cut corners. The thought of the massive gains in productivity and performance are simply too good to pass up for many, even those on a budget.
In these cases, the users decide to get into the flash arena at bargain basement prices, buying cheap consumer drives that will wear out quickly. Even with the higher failure rates and lower life expectancy, simply by employing a "rip-and-replace" model they are able to afford flash integration at a lower price point than previously possible. The approach of buying a multitude of low cost SSDs results in multiple replacements of these SSDs as they fail and/or their write cycles are quickly exhausted.
Considering that some of the heavyweights of enterprise SLC SSDs can weigh in at $7000 for a 400GB SSD ($17.5 per GB), there is certainly an attraction to buying consumer class devices at around $1 per GB. Even with the cost of replacing lesser quality drives multiple times, the users still come out ahead in the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) game.
Micron has approached this growing market segment with the P400E. This MLC SSD is designed to accommodate the need for enterprise class features at a more palatable price point. Optimized for read-centric applications, this SSD isn't designed for the "typical' picture of the enterprise SSD workloads that many wrongly hold in their mind.
As the price of NAND falls and the technology matures, the price structure of SSDs has fallen to the point that SSDs can be a viable alternative in many of the less-thought-of applications that just were not realistic even a few short years ago.
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The 19th Annual Lantern Floating Hawaii Ceremony will take place on Memorial Day, May 29, 2017. More than 6,000 candle-lit lanterns bearing individual and community remembrances and prayers will illuminate the ocean off of Magic Island at Ala Moana Beach Park.
The event brings together more than 40,000 Hawaii residents and visitors from around the world and from various cultures and traditions who cast afloat lanterns at sunset in remembrance of loved ones who have passed, or as symbolic prayer for a harmonious and peaceful future. The ceremony will also recognize those who have passed due to various causes afflicting humanity throughout the world. The theme of Lantern Floating Hawaii is "Many Rivers, One Ocean."
"Lantern floating is a spiritual tradition that welcomes people from all backgrounds to come together in remembering their loved ones, healing their grief, and praying for a harmonious future," said Roy Ho from Na Lei Aloha Foundation. "We hope that Lantern Floating Hawaii allows people to experience a feeling of warmth, joy, loving kindness, and compassion, whether they participate from shore or view from their homes."
2017 Ceremony and Lantern Floating
This year's 90 minute ceremony and program will commence at 6:15 p.m. and will include Shinnyo-en Shomyo and Taiko Ensembles. Also included throughout the program are videos that explain the lantern floating tradition in Japan and offer personal reflections of the experience.
At 6:45 p.m., Her Holiness Shinso Ito, Head of Shinnyo-en, will address the crowd, followed by the lighting of the Light of Harmony. After the lighting, the lanterns will be set afloat onto the waters of the Pacific Ocean at Magic Island by the general public and volunteers. At the conclusion of the ceremony, as in past years, all lanterns are collected from the ocean and restored for use in the upcoming years.
The Lanterns and Messages
Volunteers begin constructing the lanterns in March and the public is welcomed and encouraged to participate in the event to remember those who have passed. Those attending the ceremony may choose to float their own lantern, or write their remembrance or prayer on special paper that will be placed on on collective remembrance lanterns to be floated by volunteers.
The Lantern Request tent will open at 10 a.m. on the day of the ceremony. Families or groups who wish to float a lantern are kindly asked to limit themselves to one lantern per family or group so that all who wish to float their own lantern are able to do so. Multiple remembrances can be written on each four-sided lantern.
The public is also invited to submit their remembrances ahead of time at Shinnyo-en Hawaii (2348 South Beretania Street) during temple hours through May 17. To accommodate those in and outside of Hawaii who are unable to visit the temple, online submissions are being accepted through Sunday, May 29 at www.lanternfloatinghawaii.com. The messages received will be placed on lanterns to be floated during the ceremony.
More information and updates about Lantern Floating Hawaii are available on the event website and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/lanternfloatinghawaii.
Free event parking is available at the Hawaii Convention Center from 7:00 a.m. until midnight. A complimentary shuttle will transport attendees between the Hawaii Convention Center and Ala Moana Beach beginning at 3:00 p.m. and back to the Convention Center beginning at 7:30 p.m.
The first Lantern Floating Hawaii Ceremony was held at Ke'ehi Lagoon on Memorial Day 1999 and has grown each year in response to community demand. Shinnyo-en and sponsor Na Lei Aloha Foundation have nurtured the community event as a vehicle for cross-cultural cooperation, understanding, harmony and peace which engages hundreds of volunteers and thousands of participants annually.
There is no cost to participate in the Lantern Floating Hawaii ceremony. However, any voluntary donations received prior to the event day go toward supporting the ceremony, and donations received on the event day at the beach are gifted to the City & County of Honolulu for the maintenance and beautification of Ala Moana Beach Park.
For further information on making a donation, please email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Viewing the Ceremony on TV and Online
Those unable to attend Lantern Floating Hawaii in person may watch the entire ceremony live on KGMB9 from from 6:15-7:30 p.m or online at www.lanternfloatinghawaii.com beginning at 6:15 p.m. Hawaii time.
My Experience in 2010
I attended the event in 2010 and found it to be a lovely and magical night. Lantern Floating Hawaii is ultimately about the people who get a lantern, write their special messages to deceased love ones, prayers to their God, hopes for the world and much more, and then place it in the water for the tide to take out to sea. (As mentioned previously, all of the lanterns are recovered to be used the next year.
It is very much like lighting a candle in a Roman Catholic Church or writing a prayer on a piece of paper and then burning it as you watch the smoke rise to the heavens. What you ultimately take from it is up to you. It comes down to faith. For some the event was just fun, for some symbolic, but, for far more, something very spiritual as you could clearly see in their tears.
I floated a lantern and included messages for many of my loved ones long gone and even our first cat who died of cancer 35 years ago. Do I believe that they will get them? I don't honestly know. But, I do hope so.


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A lot of people know what it's like to overdo it with marijuana edibles. A new method could make it easier for buyers, sellers, makers and regulators to know just how potent that pot brownie really is.
THC—tetrahydrocannabinol—is the main psychoactive molecule in marijuana. It's what gets you high. It's also how edibles in pot shops are labelled; you might buy a bar of chocolate with 60 milligrams of THC, which is somewhere between 4 and 6 doses depending on the person.
That is, the bar should have 60 milligrams. A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association last year found that only 17 percent of the edibles the authors tested had accurate THC labelling.
– Read the entire article at CBC News.


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Ross and I have released our first full Moongold album which is free for download. Thank you so much to everyone who helped with the album; it sounds excellent.
Resolume and Flash
This is a recording of my show at the Meadowlark in April 2010. The music is all from my various music projects.
Resolume and Flash
I did visuals for a show by my friends Josh and Mike of Future Global Society. I converted some of the footage to music videos for them which you can view on my vimeo account.
Resolume and Flash
I made this music video by photocopying myself and a friend of mine. I can't remember how much money it cost, but I did it over a couple days and several angry photocopier users. I'm sure I also used all of the ink in the copier.
Photocopier, animated in AfterEffects, mixed in Resolume
This was my first Processing and first OpenGL project. I made it for part of my live audio set. Unfortunately, I don't have a way to render it in real time for my shows if I want to mix it with other video clips, so I render the animation to video and then work with it in Resolume.
Processing, OpenGL, mixed in Resolume
I made this video because Dianne wanted to prove that Beatport is the coolest company to work for in America. Dianne, Mike and I came up with the story and everyone around the office pitched in to help make it come together.
Adobe Premier
Moongold is one of my music projects. You can download a bunch of awesome free music.
Cubase, Reason, Logic
Beatport sells dance music online. We call it "iTunes for DJs." I helped develop the Beatport website as the lead Flash developer. Moving to Beatport was a hard move for me because it meant giving up on ManiaTV! and leaving behind some of my best friends.
Flash and PHP
One of the few projects at ManiaTV! that I was really happy with was this photo shoot we did for a set of promotional postcards. Each postcard presented one of our anchors representing the theme for one of their shows. I directed the shoot. I wish I could find the URL for the photographer because he did an amazing job.
Silly ideas
These are just some miscellaneous projects from my time at ManiaTV!. I ended up doing a lot more Flash and AJAX development at Mania than creative direction (which was my title). I ended up hiring my friend Chris of changethethought.com to replace me on the creative end of things.
Illustrator and Photoshop
I helped Drew Massey start ManiaTV! in 2004. I'd actually been working with him off and on for two years before that. ManiaTV! is a live Internet television network. The goal was to be the MTV of the new millennium. I worked as Creative Director there.
XHTML and Flash
I was just messing around and created this short promotional animation for myself.
I comped this interactive training cdRom for Mc Donalds to increase the efficiency and productivity of their drive thrus. It was also made to be distributed in 7 languages to Mc Donalds restaurants around the world. Unfortunately, I left Xylem before development on the project started.
I made this invite for my best friends from college Kara Roux and Ben Wilkoff.
I really enjoyed working on this television spot because I finally got the chance to do the sound design. Xylem had bought a sound booth and Jeremy left a guitar in the office. I put the two together to create the radical shred you hear in this 5 second TV spot.
This was one of the few video projects I ever did at Xylem. We were under a crunch to finish a group of 5 and 15 second television commercials for Chipotle and I got the chance to help out with a couple.
I rebranded a version of the Chipotle desktop alarm clock for a pitch to Mini Cooper. I'm not sure if it was ever used, but I believe Xylem ended up doing some work for Mini Cooper.
I created this website while at Xylem. Miniat is a Chicago based meat preparation company who supplies meats for Chipotle, among many others. The design was done by Jim Darling.
The best part of being at Xylem was getting to work on the Chopotle emails. After working on Chipotle DSL for so long, I was really happy to take on the stampede email. It's also the only legitimate use of the browser shake functionality in existence, IMHO.
This update the Chipotle Alarm Clock reminds you to please eat responsibly. You can drink however you like.
This update the Chipotle Alarm Clock shows you how to make a burrito martini. Sound design as always was done by Jeremy Irwin.
I built Chipotle DSL (Don't Stand in Line) while working at Xylem. I left Xylem before the site launched and several other people worked on it before it's public debut. Unfortunately, the flash version of the site is no longer online.
This is my favorite piece from my days at Xylem. The couple days I spent on this just flew by. Ross Maupin made the really cool Boo-Rito title text.
This promotional email advertised Chipotle's store opening in Orlando, Florida. The sound design for this was really fun. The owner of Xylem, Jeremy Irwin, was responsible for all of our sound design at the time. Ross and I would've killed to have that responsibility.
I made this CD cover for a friend of mine in Houston who was playing under the moniker of DJ Grey.
This was definitely my favorite of the animations we made for the Chipotle Alarm Clock. This one came bundled with the clock, so if you didn't have an Internet connection, you would still get to see this and the "Ants" aniamtion.
This was another of the animations that came bundled with the Chipotle Alarm Clock. I had a lot of fun working on all of the animations for this project.
This was one of the first animations we made for the Chipotle Alarm Clock. When your alarm goes off, several little Chipotle workers steal your burrito. This was my first green screen shoot and after effects work.
While at Xylem, I created this desktop alarm clock for Chipotle. The really cool thing about the clock was that it allowed Chipotle to upload new animations to run when the alarm went of. I built a number of different animations for the clock.
This was the first data driven website I had ever created. At the time I hadn't heard of XML so the data was all formated in pipe deliniated strings; yikkes! All the hardwork payed off though because I learned an immense amount and won a Macromedia site of the day.
This promotional email took me forever. Trying to make the hair look like it was somewhat affixed to the burrito's head took about a week of frame by frame tweaking. This really stressed me out at the time because I was still pretty new to Xylem.
This was another banner I made for the Red Robin website promoting their Guac Burger.
This was a banner for the Red Robin website promoting their eClub. I was still new at Xylem and getting the chance to make animations like this was still magical to me. I couldn't believe I was being payed to do this.
The first project I worked on at Xylem was to create a touch screen kiosk for Jeppesen, the worlds leading maker of arounautical maps. I don't remember the name of the designer who comped this project.
This is a suicide print I made while at DU. A suicide print is a wood cut that is printed, cut further, and then printed again. In this way you can never reprint the first print. This print was used on the cover of that year's Foothills literary magazine.
I made this painting while I was in France. I liked the under painting for the original so much that I decided to make a second version of just the under painting.


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Janice Dick has woven the threads of a life-long love of books into a beautiful plaid of historical fiction, devotional collections, inspirational articles and mentoring workshops for other writers, deeply fringed by a flow of reviewing and editing. I enjoy her elegant, descriptive style and am so pleased that she is a part of the author community at Helping Hands Press. I was honored to be included in a blog tour at Janice's blog "Janice L. Dick | A Writer's Life" earlier in December, 2013.
Janice has presented a writing lesson for readers for her appearance on the JoyRossDavis.com blog tour. Your questions about GENRE are addressed in the following article.
The word is pronounced john-ra or zhon-ra , and it simply means kind or variety. In our case, it refers to the kinds of stories we read and write.
Here are some basic genres and examples of each:
* Mystery (Anne Perry's William Monk or Thomas and Charlotte Pitt series)
* Thriller/Suspense (Brandilyn Collins)
* Horror (Ted Dekker)
* Sci-Fi ( DragonKeeper Chronicles by Donita K. Paul)
* Fantasy (J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings )
* Western (Louis L'Amour)
* Romance (Karen Kingsbury)
* Historical Fiction (Bodie Thoene's Zion Covenant and Zion Chronicles)
* Children (classics like A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle)
* Young Adult (excellent theme books by Melody Carlson)
* Short Fiction (Linda Hall's The Weather Ladies)
Each of these genres can be broken up into sub-genres, with new off-shoots developing daily. See the following link for more:http://www.cuebon.com/ewriters/genres.html .
What's your genre? The key question is usually: what kinds of stories do you most like to read? I say usually, because I love reading mysteries, but I haven't published one…yet. I also love reading historical fiction, and the more I read, the more I learn about how it's done.
Based on your favorite genres of fiction, which would you most like to write? Why? I like Historical Fiction because it reminds me that every historical figure I write about has actually lived and died, loved and hated, succeeded and failed. When I create fictional characters in my historicals, it is with the hope that they will become as real as their historical counterparts.
Of course, there's always genre help on the web. Here's one site of many to check out: http://fictionwriting.about.com/od/genrefiction/a/How-To-Choose-A-Genre-For-Your-Novels.htm
The conundrum with genre selection is whether to write from the heart or for sales stats. The answer depends on our goals. If our number one objective is to sell our story, then we must research and write what's selling. We can still be creative when we write for the market, but we must make sure we're okay with it.
Personally, I need to write from the heart, whether it sells immediately or not. Pair that with the premise of Kevin Costner's movie, Field of Dreams: "Build it and he will come." Write it, and the readers will come, so we hope and pray. We must make the choice.
For the Christian writer, published or not, the choice of genre is important. If we plan to build a platform (the genre and style of writing that people think of when they recognize our names, also referred to as our brand), we will need to concentrate on writing in one genre until we are known by our readers.
Janice Dick writes historical and contemporary fiction,
inspirational articles and book reviews.
She also edits and presents writing workshops.


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Essay on Casinos in Cincinnati
Casinos in Cincinnati Essay
The provisions within the entertainment within a given location have been included to establish the developmental features to boost the economic progress. Cincinnati has been developed through the involvement of development aspects promising to boost the economy and satisfy the population that promises to offer economic support. However, the obstacles to achieving development have been mentioned to be included in the constraint that personalities face in providing the social amenities. Casinos have been developed to offer a substantial entertainment form within the society to present the resources needed to offer economic development. Casinos have also been the leading forms to accord recreational traits needed by the population in Cincinnati to achieve the entertainment form desired. The design involved in the erection of the structures. The development of casinos has promised to increase the returns needed to achieve community development, and provide employment ventures for the community members who are presented with the challenge of adapting to harsh environmental provisions. The states within the US hold a defined measure to offer developmental attributes to community member. Cincinnati in Ohio has identified the casinos as a leading measure to accord the attributes needed to acquire returns that boost developmental activities. The processes to develop the casinos in Cincinnati have been linked to the presentations that the casinos hold to developing the area, with the provision placed on their location and result accorded….