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Fabio Borini will fight for his place at Liverpool this season after his agent admitted Lazio have yet to make contact over his availability.
Brendan Rodgers was reunited with the Italian last summer as the manager made the move to Merseyside following a previous spell together at Swansea City, but his season suffered as a result of a broken foot and dislocated shoulder and as a result the 22 year old didn't score a goal for the club until the end of April.
Rodgers has continually maintained faith that Borini will show his worth for Liverpool, though the January signing of Daniel Sturridge and the summer addition of Iago Aspas has increassed competition for a starting spot ahead of the new season.
But Borini's agent has confirmed that despite recent reports of a possible move to Lazio he is happy to stay and prove himself to Rodgers.
"I can confirm that Lazio sporting director Igli Tare has always been a fan of Fabio, but I have not had any contact with Lazio," Marco De Marchi told Radio Sei.
"What I can assure you is that Borini is concentrating on doing well for Liverpool to beat the competition for places in attack.
"At this moment in time he only has Liverpool in his mind, we are talking about one of the greatest clubs in the world."
The news will be a welcome boost for Rodgers, who has been continually fielding questions about the future of another one of his strikers, with Luis Suarez insisting he wants a move away from Liverpool this summer.
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The Upper East Side's Guggenheim Museum is honoring American Abstract Expressionist sculptor John Chamberlain with a retrospective exhibition until May 13th. Chamberlain, who recently passed away, had the innate ability to transform disused cars into sculptures that appear to be feather-light. The incredible exhibition highlights a comprehensive collection of the artist's work from the 1950s to his last works made in 2011.
Chamberlain's sculptures are essentially recycled, squished cars. The vibrantly colored elements of heavy metal were removed from cars made during a time before automobiles were made from streamlined plastic. Instead, one can see the clunky and heavy fenders, thick doors and solidity of the metal used to make automobiles in a time before the weight of a vehicle was taken into consideration due to concerns of fuel efficiency. Describing his sculptures as creative re-use, many simply saw them as junk when he began using cars as material in the mid 1950s.
But the world finally accepted Chamberlain's vision, and he soon became one of the world's most renowned artists to use recycled materials. For many years up until his death in December 2011, Chamberlain worked in a studio on Long Island, acquiring vintage car scraps and bending them into incredibly heavy sculptures which see to defy gravity. Treating metal like fabric, he had the impressive ability to make metal gently fold like drapery. This treatment calls to mind the traditional study of sculptural drapery in marble sculpting, a practice dating back to the ancient Greeks.
Chamberlain's sculptures are now in museums across the globe, and namely in the permanent collection at Dia Beacon, located a short train ride upstate. Visitors will experience a real treat, with the large chronological collection of his work arranged around the spiraling floor plan of the Guggenheim.

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The following are all preventable with regular vet examinations and the proper vaccinations. Zoonosis occurs when diseases are transmitted from the family dog to a family member. Left untreated, there are several parasites that can be transmitted from dogs to humans. Mange and fleas can cause skin infections and rashes in humans. Rabies and Leptospirosis are not a parasite but can transmitted to humans.
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If heartworm is not treated it can kill your dog. Preventive measures should be taken to safeguard from all of the above.
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This can be fatal if a puppy contracts this infection.
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This is another cause of coughing in dogs. It is a viral respiratory infection. This infection can infect adult dogs and puppies. It can be very severe when combined with Bordetella.
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Infectious Hepatitis
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Rabies attacks the central nervous system and the brain. Rabies can be transmitted to humans. It is transmitted mainly through saliva when bitten by an infected animal.
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- Dog avoids contact with people
- In the late stages, dog becomes very aggressive
Once infected rabies is always deadly. Vaccination against Rabies is mandated by law to protect not only your dog but humans as well.
Leptospirosis is a bacterial diseasae and can be spread to humans. It can cause blood clotting disorders and or liver failure.
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A day after signing 21 new players for next season's roster, Colorado football coach Dan Hawkins on Thursday joined former coach Bill McCartney in speaking to boosters about the future of the football team.
Hawkins was the featured speaker and talked about Wednesday's signed recruiting class. Boosters watched a highlight video of recruited players who signed.
Two announcements were made during a recruiting luncheon at a Denver hotel:
CU athletic director Mike Bohn said plans include a commemorative jersey, both for the 1990 team and also the current Buffaloes team. The latter could wear the jerseys during the game and perhaps for other games this coming season. Although plans have not been finalized.
CU running backs coach Darian Hagan, a quarterback on the 1990 championship team, said: "It's time that we get all those guys together. It will be great."
Bohn said enough money was raised through the athletic department, through donors, to give a go-ahead to the project. Although total funding has not been completed.
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writer of Arabic expression and a communist politician, son of a Christian family.
In 2005, he was voted the 143rd-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website
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to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.
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on Aug. 29, 1922 in today's
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, which at that time was part of the British Mandate of Palestine.
Born into a Protestant Palestinian Arab family (his family had originally been
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but converted to Protestantism due to disputes within the Orthodox church)
In his early life he worked on an oil refinery and later was a radio announcer.
Under the Mandate he became one of the leaders of the
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. When the
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began in 1948 he stayed in Haifa while many others chose or were forced to leave the country. As a result he was granted Israeli citizenship. After the war he helped to create the Israeli Communist Party and established the Israeli communist paper
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He stayed in Haifa his whole life. His gravestone reads (at Habibi's own request): "Emile Habibi – Remained in Haifa."
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during the Mandate era. He supported the
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. When Israel became a state he helped form the Israeli communist party ICP.
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between 1951 and 1959, and again from 1961 until 1972, first as a member of
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, before breaking away from the party with
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to found Rakah. After a conflict about how the party should deal with the new policies of
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he left the party in 1991.
Habibi began writing short stories in the 1950s, and his first story, "The Mandelbaum Gate" was published in 1954.
In 1972 he resigned from the Knesset in order to write his first novel:
The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist
, which became a classic in modern Arabic literature. The book depicts the life of an
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, employing black humour and
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. It was based on the traditional anti-hero Said in Arab literature. In a playful way it deals with how it is for Arabs to live in the state of Israel, and how one who has nothing to do with politics is drawn in to it. He followed this by other books, short stories and a play. His last novel, published in 1992, was
Saraya, the Ogre's Daughter
Literary prizes
In 1990 Habibi received the Al-Quds Prize from the
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Two years later (in 1992) he received the
Israel Prize
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for Arabic literature. His willingness to accept both reflected his belief in coexistence.
Though after accepting the Israel Prize a debate set off among the Arabic intellectual community. Habibi was accused of legitimizing the Israeli anti-Arab policy. Habibi replied to the accusations:
"A dialogue of prizes is better than a dialogue of stones and bullets," he said. "It is indirect recognition of the Arabs in Israel as a nation. This is recognition of a national culture. It will help the Arab population in its struggle to strike roots in the land and win equal rights".
Published works
Sudāsīyat al-ayyām al-sittah
Al-Wakāʾiʿ al gharībah fī ikhtifāʾ Saʿīd Abī al-Naḥsh al-Mutasāʾil
(translated as The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist)
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The first of the principles is the notion of whether any proposed restriction on liberty is a legitimate objective of general concern... Is the restriction provided for and carried out in accordance with the law? Many democratic countries have legal structures in which coercive public health interventions are sanctioned.... A second principle questions whether available alternatives that are less intrusive and restrictive have been tried.... Another principle addresses the arbitrary, unreasonable or discriminatory manner in which a sanction might be imposed.When we look to the Principles themselves, we can see specific language regarding public health as a justification for limiting individual rights:
Public health may be invoked as a ground for limiting certain rights in order to allow a State to take measures dealing with a serious threat to the health of the population or individual members of the population. These measures must be specifically aimed at preventing disease or injury or providing care for the sick and injured.The question is, which "certain rights?" Or, more to the point, which rights cannot be infringed--or, in legal terms, are "nonderogable?"
No State party shall, even in time of emergency threatening the life of the nation, derogate from the Covenant's guarantees of the right to life; freedom from torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, and from medical or scientific experimentation without free consent; freedom from slavery or involuntary servitude; the right not to be imprisoned for contractual debt; the right not to be convicted or sentenced to a heavier penalty by virtue of retroactive criminal legislation; the right to recognition as a person before the law; and freedom of thought, conscience and religion.These rights are not derogable under any conditions even for the asserted purpose of preserving the life of the nation.The rights concerned are detailed in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. And note that last sentence, which is about as strong a statement in favor of the Neg as you are likely to see in international law.


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Highlights include plenary talks on information theory and signal processing, and on transforming the world's massive photo collection into visualizations of sites, cities, and people.
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International experts in 3D imaging, digital photography, multimedia processing, mobile displays, computer vision, and related fields will present their latest findings on the 25th anniversary of the IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging Science and Technology Symposium in Burlingame, California. The meeting will be held 3-7 February at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport Hotel.
The program includes approximately 800 presentations organized into 23 technical conferences on topics in 3D imaging, interaction, and metrology; visualization, perception, and color; image processing; image capture; computer vision; media processing and communication; and mobile imaging.
Event highlights include:
- 2 plenary talks, on information theory and signal processing, by Sabine Süsstrunk, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; and on transforming the world's massive, unorganized photo collection into reconstructions and visualizations of the world's sites, cities, and people, by Steven Seitz, University of Washington
- The popular 3D Theatre, featuring new, original 3D footage from around the world, as part of the Stereoscopic Displays and Applications conference
- A demonstration and evening panel discussion on lessons learned by the video team who recorded the Red Bull Stratos Project "space dive"
- A panel discussion moderated by Bernd Girod, Stanford University, on how technology is transforming higher education around the globe
- 18 educational courses on fundamental and current topics on digital imaging systems, image processing, analysis, displays, and more
- A symposium-wide keynote track including 10 featured talks such as "World, environment, umwelt, and innerworld: a biological perspective on visual awareness," by Jan Koenderink, Technische Universiteit Delft, and "The future of mobile imaging," Edward Delp, Purdue University
- Highlighted talks from articles recently published in the Journal of Electronic Imaging
- An interactive, hands-on demonstration session showcasing the latest hardware, software, imaging and display products.
Guarav Sharma, University of Rochester, is symposium chair, and Sergio Goma of Qualcomm, is symposium co-chair. Choon-Woo Kim of Inha University chairs the short course program.
Conference proceedings papers will be published individually in the SPIE Digital Library as soon as approved after the meeting, and also in collected print and digital volumes.
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Microsoft announced to release two lumia smart phone in a press conference.From November Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL will be available in market. Lumia 950 Screen comes with 5.2 inch and Lumia 950 XL screen size comes with 5.7 inch and resulation 2560 x 1440 pixels.Both phone comes with 3 GB RAM, 32 GB storage, USB-C connector, QUI wireless charger, Micro SD card, Office skype, quantinum, HDMI support, 4K Video play back, Windows Hello( face unlook system) etc.
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So I'm slightly OCD when it comes to numbers, I have a thing about odd numbers...moving on! I realised the other day if I only get one new tattoo then I'd have seven, so maybe I should get two like last time so I'd have eight! I was thinking I want one behind my ear and I want a feather tattoo. There are loads of pictures on Google and such that show truly horrific feather tattoos behind the ear and elsewhere which has put me off for ages, then I came across this picture and, well, perfection!
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San Jose's Santana Row: The Future of Shopping?
We take shopping malls for granted, although they're actually a relatively new phenomenon, all things considered. The first indoor shopping mall in America opened in 1956 and is -- not surprisingly -- located in Minneapolis, which seems during wintertime to be located above the arctic circle. James Lileks has a section of his sprawling Website devoted to its history.
But malls change and adapt to current trends, or risk dying (and for shopping mall necrophiliacs, Dead Mall.com is your Website). Around 20 years ago, Starbucks and other retailers began to implement the idea of the Third Place, a term which was coined by sociologist Ray Oldenburg in the late 1980s, and explored by Virginia Postrel in her 1998 book, The Future and its Enemies:
Or consider the proliferation of coffee houses in the 1990s. Until recently, many U.S. social critics made much of the lack of "third places," neither home nor work, where people could hang out and chat. Unlike Europeans, they complained, Americans have no café culture; shopping malls, suburbia, and commerce in general, they charged, have destroyed the democratic conversation of bars and social clubs.25 Such criticism was overstated, ignoring the many informal interactions that occur in such places as malls, restaurants, and doughnut shops. But the "third place" critique did identify a real source of discontent—as Starbucks discovered when its stores took off in ways the company never expected.
The original idea, writes CEO Howard Schultz, "was to provide a quick, stand-up, to-go service in downtown office locations." Instead, the fastest-growing Starbucks stores turned out to be those near where people lived—the ones that functioned as neighborhood watering holes. The young adults who had grown up hanging out in shopping malls were looking for safe, friendly places to be with other people, places where, in Schultz's words, "No one is carded and no one is drunk." In focus groups, Los Angeles customers said they went to Starbucks because the place felt social. The company adjusted its strategy accordingly, building more and larger neighborhood stores, with more tables to sit around. It now deliberately seeks to foster a social, European-style café environment.
But what happens if you build a whole mixed-use development, a combination of stores, restaurants, professional offices and apartments around that notion of "a social, European-style café environment"? You get San Jose's Santana Row development, which opened slowly in November 2002 and has since expanded into a sprawling project, despite California, and America's, current sluggish (dare I say European-style) economy.
As I wrote on my blog back in early 2005, my wife and I stumbled onto our own local European-style development rather by surprise:
There's a sort of mixed use shopping center/condominium complex that opened in San Jose a couple of years ago called Santana Row. (No relation, best as we can tell, to the psychedelic guitarist.) It's located opposite a conventional indoor shopping mall that's existed for decades. Whenever we've driven past its new opposite number, all we've seen are a few megastores, such as an enormous Best Buy and a surprisingly large Crate & Barrel. One night in 2003, we drove over there--I think to check out the Crate & Barrel, or maybe just to explore. After parking the car in the requisite multistory concrete garage, we emerged...in the Village.
[Enough with the Village stuff, OK??-Ed]
I dubbed it that when I first saw it, because its developers chose to house its group of smaller high-end boutique stores and restaurants in a sort of pretend 19th century-ish Parisian block, with condominiums on top of them (and a high-tech network underneath. But for better or worse, no signs of evil weather balloons patrolling the perimeter). Leaving the sprawling suburban section of San Jose that it's located on and entering this alternate universe for the first time really does feel like you're Patrick McGoohan being knocked out in London and waking up in the who-knows-where-in-the-world Village.
The photo above gives a sense of the Santana Row's McGoohan-esque feel. Its the facade of a small stone chapel imported from France, and serves as Santana Row's "Vintage Wine Bar."


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IRL MP Marko Mihkelson will continue as the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, despite the fact that his party was booted out of the government at the end of March.
Kristen Michal, head of the ruling Reform Party faction in Parliament, told uudised.err.ee on Wednesday that the heads of parliamentary committees are usually coalition members, as they are tasked with initiating government policies, but the Foreign Affairs Committee was left untouched by the government switch to keep balance.
The deputy chair of the committee is a Center Party MP, also an opposition party, while the head and deputy of the European Union Affairs Committee are from the two coalition parties - the Reform Party and the Social Democrats.
There are 11 permanent committees in Parliament, with the rest divided up equally between the Reform Party (EU Affairs, Cultural Affairs, Economic Affairs, Constitutional Committee and National Defense) and the Social Democrats (Environment, Rural Affairs, Finance, Social Affairs and Legal Affairs).


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Big Giants of the Smartphone market are really getting serious about the camera sensor. Not too long ago we heard that HTC is planning a 16 Mega pixel Camera phone which will be a Windows Phone 7 device. But till now it's just a plan. We haven't noticed any kind of exclusives coming out from this one. Well the platform is all set and again we will be watching Samsung and HTC fighting in the Smartphone Market and this time the "X" Factor will be the Camera.
Yes, you read it right… Samsung has developed a 16 Mega Pixel sensor and this sounds better than Sharp's AQUOS 007SH. Samsung announced its S5K2P1 chip which is loaded with a 16 Mega Pixel Sensor and is all set show off its presence in standalone cameras, camcorders and Smartphones (which gives this one a center of attraction). The sensor uses backside illumination which reduces the noise to a great extent. It's a 1 / 2.3 inch component. Cool. Isn't it?
The chip can snap full 16 Mega pixel shots at 30 fps and can record 60fps videos at 8.3 Mega pixel. That's pretty awesome. But it will record 108p videos at just 2.1 Mega Pixel Resolution.
Well the thing which will matter at the last will the performance of the sensors. Just counting the Mega pixels won't do at all. In the market you will notice that this Mega pixel has become a common "tag" in the camera market all over the world. But we have noticed some kind of awareness in the minds of the people when it comes to optics. Well if this happens with each and everyone then companies might stop wasting their time in increasing the mega pixel count.
Well this one from Samsung looks a good one. Lets see what change it will bring in the upcoming Smartphones. So just wait and Watch.


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Hi! I'm getting ready for Easter :)
These egg decorations are for The Play Date Cafe - colour splash challenge ( I used washi tapes and egg template).
These ones are for Scrap Time - the task is to use real newpaper or magazine and bright paints ( I used magazine paper, acrylic paint, stamps and embossing).
All the eggs in the vase - ready for Easter! How ready are you?
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Hard but nice and fun. I agree with snekdev on the fact that a little bit of (low) gravity would make the game feel more dinamic, and would make the navigation more interesting in my opinion. Would like to see how this would be with a little bit of polishing.
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- In love with the artstyle and the unconventional format of the game.
- Gunfeel is great.
- Nice music.
- Slow down when hit is really interesting here since enemies shots are random so you have some time to predict and dodge.
- The narration is simple but it works well, feels like a lot of effort went into that and it pays off.
- Level design, while pretty good for navigation, isn't really suited for combat
- Enemies shots are random which makes the combat even worse, predictable patterns should be way better and at least allow for more interesting combat and positioning than waiting behind a wall. Or maybe make the gun able to fire in any direction so you don't have to put yourself in front of the enemy to dodge unpredictable bullets, also this solution would make killing enemies above you less tedious.
This game is hard! I played it the first time thinking that it was an arcade-type game, so I end up dying a lot, but even playing it with patience and using the covers is pretty hard, the bullets are too long and having more than 2 guys shooting at you at the same time make the game feel like a bullet hell, the inexistence of an invincible effect after getting hit was unexpected too, but that's probably what you wanted on your game.
Besides that is pretty decent, the sound effects are juicy and taking hit is pretty dramatic, It's a really intense game in general.
- As always, love your artstyle. The one who puts you back together is a qt.
- The wall tile sprite is meh.
- Recoil is great.
- Health and money is invisible against the background. You can make it red.
- A platformer without jumping is mathematically equivalent to a topdown shooter.
- Between the bullet size and speed, the player hitbox, and the screen size, getting shot is easy and punishing. I played the game as a puzzle, staying in cover as much as possible. Both viplike and SSJJRT have this conflict between fast game elements and slow game elements.
- If you want to emphasize the cover shooter gameplay, make the screen bigger so you can see who's shooting at you.
- Or you could make the game faster, by letting the player take more risk. More health, smaller hitboxes.
- Kekked at your title screen giving me a blurry screen and telling me not to change it.
- Looking forward to more of your games!


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Financial Advisers Often Overlook Wife's Future Needs
In my article called "Do Financial Advisers Hate Your Wife?" I explained a discussion I had with Dan McGrath, one of the authors of "What You Don't Know About Retirement Will Hurt You!."
Dan's point was that the traditional approach of financial planning for retirement and beyond is flawed given many of the realities and impacts of health-care costs on living well in retirement and one's later years.
"The rules for retirement have changed and advisers have been slow to adapt to these new rules and thus we see many seniors, particularly women, get hurt financially as they need to adjust to the new costs that no one helped them to plan for," McGrath says.
In the last article Dan painted a scenario that a widow may encounter after the loss of her husband. The widow is now faced with lowered income overall including less Social Security income along with increased health care costs due to her age and health and lack of long-term care coverage. In Dan's scenario, the adviser held to the age-old approach of spending cash and non-qualified assets first.
Dan says, "this is a scenario that is occurring every day in this country. The last part about having all of her non qualified assets spent first, including her Roth, is particularly troublesome given the means tested nature of Medicare. It's very similar to what happened to my mom."
In fact, in the book, Dan discusses a conversation that he had with his mother, who felt that her son was able to address her financial planning needs and she would be in good hands. What Dan discovered is that the new rules of retirement require an approach that many advisers have avoided and one that he feels they need to utilize to help investors going forward.
This new approach would have addressed Dan's scenario with a different strategy.
"While the couple was alive and implementing a retirement financial plan, I'd include products such as life insurance with LTC riders for each of them along with a LTC product such as Lincoln's MoneyGuard or Pacific Life's PremierCare. I'd also start using those precious tax deferred assets once they reach the qualifying age, while allowing the cash, the non qualified assets and the Roth accounts to grow, " Dan says.
He goes on to recommend what he feels are two things that most advisers avoid for clients and he feels that they should be considered given the new rules of retirement: opening a home equity line or Reverse Mortgage to allow access to potential income, and use some of their non qualified assets to purchase a Single Premium Immediate Annuity the year they retire.
How would this have changed the scenario?
Dan reveals, "When the husband gets sick, the LTC is triggered, allowing her to hire someone to tend to him and helping her maintain her health. The life insurance kicks in to supplement the lost Social Security income when he passes away. Along with paying her bills with her cash, non qualified assets and Roth assets, she can tap her home equity or reverse mortgage to help as well."
In the first scenario, Dan points out that the woman in declining health could find herself in a Medicaid situation which may lead her to a facility far from home and family. When Dan's strategy is used, the widow doesn't lose her home and uses her LTC coverage to hire someone to help her and stay in her own home.
"Along with the fact that her income from the SPIA, her home, cash and the Roth are either not taxed or taxed at a lower amount, the best part", Dan says, "is that they are not recognized by Medicare so her health costs remain low and her Social Security benefits remain constant."
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I've been a member in 2 dojos (well, sort of in one of them) where eliminating ranking has been actively discussed.
On one level there's an argument to be made for owning your experience and the responsibility therein. I think this or it's like is a good thing.
On another level, who gives a damn, lets cut out the crap and practice. If you are good it will show.
On still another level, the more senior you get the less regularly you get feedback. There's good, bad and ugly here. The good is that you are good. The bad is that people tend towards subserviance around authority and rank represents such. The really bad is when you bashed someone who gave you feedback (even when it was really stupid).
Then there's all the really negative crap that can come into play: power, abuse, money and the like.
In my own case, my best practices have come about when rank was a non-issue: beginners who didn't know any better or at seminars where no one knew what anyone was.
Enough prattle, and it's really late.
Your thoughts?
[Edited by Erik on June 23, 2000 at 12:09am]
I have only been practicing aiki for a year with 6 months in two separate dojos. Each dojo has two different approaches to rank. The first school I started with(Juko-Kai Dai-yoshin Ryu aikijutsu) had the colored belts and stripes to mark our progression. My second school (Aikikai Aikido, Florida Aikido) has the white belt/ black belt system. And the ranks are posted on the wall.
I really got myself caught in that trap of ranking when I saw someone get promoted before me in my first school. This really is more of a character issue for me since I do have a competitive nature. But I have found in the Aikikai school that I forget about who is what rank and that I am able to focus on my training.
the Uni of West Australia Aikido club uses a coloured 5 belt system.
i wore a white belt from 1991 until 1996 when our head teacher came over from japan and ended up grading me purple (2nd kyu). while i could have kept wearing the white belt i was beginning to feel needful of a badge of some sort, qualifying myself in the eyes of novices that i had something to teach.
there was a deficit of teachers after our japanese sensei left, an irony because he'd graded 6 shodans. most of them were heading overseas at the time, a weird coincidence. there were times where i was the most senior person on the mats and i knew that the aikido club was going to need some senior students, just to hold things together and train the rank beginners.
this accompanied the beginnings of my sense of our dojo's special style and my role/responsibility - giri - in transmitting that style in the way i learned it. i choose that latter phrase carefully as i doubt i can ever transmit it in the way i was taught it, i cannot hope to be the confluence of teaching influences that have shaped my aikido to what it is today. i can simply transmit what i've learned, i.e. what's important about aikido to me.
nowadays i am not nearly so opinionated, but back then i was making a personal statement: i wasn't interested in grades or hierarchies, therefore i wouldn't take on the trappings of an experienced student. i insisted on being at the far left of the class lineup. the only people i let sit to my left were people in civvies who understood and felt embarrassed that someone more experienced than them was sitting to their left.
one of the advantages of being at the far left of the class in a white belt, was that for training i felt compelled to get to a senior grade as quickly as possible. i consciously chose my training partners, and there was no stigma placed upon me for selecting the most senior people i could find because i was a white belt and in theory everyone was more senior than me.
being at the far left also made me feel more humble. i somehow felt closer to a beginners perspective if i sat with them. i enjoyed making complete newbies feel welcome, showing them what to do and stuff like that.
with hindsight i wonder if i was also afraid of being graded. perhaps i didn't want someone to tell me that i wasn't the "bestest and fastest" learner of aikido ever. maybe i didn't want to feel like there were any limits to my abilities. or that if i failed a grading that i'd wasted the previous seasons' training time for nothing. historically speaking our sensei would be lucky to hold one grading per year.
dunno really why i didn't get into the grading system. but whatever those reasons were, they began to become less important as i saw the grade/belt not as an achievement yardstick but rather as a teaching tool. the grade doesn't mean that my aikido is better or worse than someone else's, i get less and less certain that it's possible to compare people's aikido anyway. it does mean that i've been on the path longer than a beginner though, and that i can show the path ahead for the beginner's first few steps.
one strong reason for my taking on a coloured belt and a grade was because of my experiences in another dojo during all of 1994. the belt system was a black and white affair. the number of times i got told what was good and what was bad by idiots who thought i was a newbie, convinced me that some sort of visual prompt denoting seniority would be helpful. i guess i always could have asked people what their grade was, but i was too shy.
while the white/black system may work in some dojos, i think coloured belts can be helpful if they're not focussed on the competition, as giriasis and erik said.
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This is a very good issue. Personally, I can see both sides of the coin here. While there are very vaid reasons for rank, such as allowing visiting senseis to quickly spot uke's with more training time! oh boy...... I think people sometimes place way too much emphasis on rank and situations like the one giriasis described can then develop and really interfer with a persons training.
I didn't get involved in Aikido or Iaijutsu with the goal of attaining rank. I don't track my hours of practice and I could really care less if I ever test again. In fact, I made the mistake of telling a senior student I wasn't going to test at all anymore because I didn't think testing and rank was that necessary or important. Well, this person felt obligated to pass this info along to my sensei. That Monday night, for some strange reason, sensei felt it necessary to open class by having me test. Big fun.... After this, it was explained to me that the test and promotion (rank) was not just for my benefit, but it helped everyone else in the dojo as well.
How can this be? Well, newer students SEE what techniques you should be capable of doing at that particular level (rank). Sensei and the senior students that help teach see their reflection in your movements which help them adjust their teaching methods (as in: who the %$&* taught you that crap?) HA! just kidding! . You also receive excellent feedback on your techniques, which hopefully you implement on your way to the next rank.
With all that in mind, I changed my view on rank and testing. I didn't really care for it before, at least now I can tolerate it......
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As with all things, rank has both positive and negative aspects.
I think the responsibilities which are involved in rank are the most important part we should think about.
Chuck Clark wrote:
As with all things, rank has both positive and negative aspects.
I think the responsibilities which are involved in rank are the most important part we should think about.
I like your post here...ranks do serve a purpose, but not every purpose.
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I like your post here...ranks do serve a purpose, but not every purpose.
Drew, I liked your post. Excellent way to say it. Rank obviously can serve different purposes for different people, and should all those purposes be served?
I was told a story by my late Sensei, about the origins of belt colors.
You see, in my dojo, we are taught not to wash our belts. Nor drag them on the floor, or wear them outside of training. We always wrap them in furoshiki when they are not in use. The common understanding in our dojo is that any wear and tear on the belt be gained through honest training. My Sensei's belt was so old and tattered that you could literally see the threads hanging from it, and he had to effect repairs, for it had started to part.
The story he told was of the first judo dojo in Japan, which was really not that long ago. The dojo floor was of wood and only 10 feet square. At that time, all of the belts were white. Of everyone.
One accidental and interesting thing is that the belts that they had were made of flax. Flax is strong enough, but it weakens and falls apart when you wash it. So they learned not to wash their belts, unlike their gi's which they took pains to keep crisp and white.
Over time, the belts of the more experienced judo-ka became quite grimey. Eventually they became downright dark. New students quickly came to realize that when they are faced opposite someone with a dark belt, look out.
After some time, the Dai Nippon Butokukai was formed. This was an eclectic organization of many different martial arts; judo, karate, etc. It was from this organization that many of the war leaders of the second world war would eventually get their schooling.
Well, the interesting thing about getting all of these different arts together, is that often a judo-ka had a difficult time determining exactly how good a karate-ka was at his art; or a karate-ka, a kendoist.
So from the judo experience, they adopted a ranking system. Black belts for those who are certified as "proficient" in their art, and a white belt for those who were still working on it.
The different colors of belts as we have today did not come into existence, as I understand it, until the West got involved. You see, Westerner's are impatient -- we need those little bits of encouragement along the way.
I like having colored belts for the younger ranks. I DO think that it makes a difference in OUR culture for many people. It helps them feel they are accomplishing something along the way.
And somewhere along THAT way, you stop giving a damn.
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I like having colored belts for the younger ranks. I DO think that it makes a difference in OUR culture for many people. It helps them feel they are accomplishing something along the way.
Where I come from there is only OUR culture, and my dream is for OUR culture to keep a sense of open communication. If some white belt is obviously more advanced than me, I will simply ask him / her, "What rank are you?" or perhaps the more British prim and proper "Which rank has been bestowed unto you m'lady?" The point is, I can go into any martial arts store I want and buy a black belt for $10. Whoop dee doo. I think belt colors are great for the more sport-oriented martial arts, but not for aikido. Aikido is not a sport, it is a way to reconcile the world and make all human beings one family.
Watching the practitioners of a Vietnamese form of karate (Chung Nu I think is the spelling), I said to myself, these guys and gals are having an intense mental, physical, and spiritual workout, and they look like they are having a hell of a good time as well. I don't know if they have colored belts or not, but -if so- maybe that is good because it helps remind them that they are partaking of a sport, and not training to be some kind of bone-breaking, real life heroes. If every martial art was aikido, I fear the world would be kind of a boring place. In conclusion, I vote white and black belts for aikido, and I've never done another martial art, so I have no fair vote in their decisions.
My understanding of belt colors, which I think is supported by the literature, is that there were only white and black in arts, if there were belts at all.
Jigoro Kano is credited with instituting belt colors with judo, and the color idea was based on awards in swimming competitions in Japan.
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Friday, April 1, 2011
First National Bank commercial
I'm not sure why I'm even putting this up because it's actually kind of embarrassing but it's funny and you know what they say- if you can't laugh at yourself... So here it is, the First National Bank commercial that I was recently in. Yes, little ol' me was in a commercial. Not a real commercial (a national spot) but just a regional commercial airing only in Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio but nevertheless, it's a commercial, my first one and it's hilarious!
Hilarious because all I can do whenever I see it is just cringe and laugh out loud. I knew I was going to feel very awkward when I saw it and I definitely do. Awkward and critical. I think I look funny and the height difference between me and the other actress is just too much! It's definitely like hearing your recorded voice and going, "That's what I sound like?" When you see yourself in a video or on TV you think- "Ugh, that's what I look like?".
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"Chuck Close" at Pace Gallery in NYC
Photos by G. Art by Chuck Close.
New York! You're definitely going to need to pay a visit to the Pace Gallery to see new works by Chuck Close. The exhibit features recent paintings, prints, and tapestries, many of his famous friends.
If you don't know much about Chuck Close's life, you should definitely investigate as his life and times are as interesting as his works of art. To briefly summarize, a spinal artery collapse left him paralyzed and his style changed as a result. His earlier works looking more like the above photo of Lou Reed and his more recent output is stylized like the below painting of Lou Reed's wife and fellow musician, Laurie Anderson. Oh, and did I mention that Chuck Close has face blindness?
This exhibit runs through December 22, 2012 so you should not miss it!
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Your Social Media Guide to New York Fashion Week Spring 2014
With Spring 2014 Fashion Week in full swing, we've got your social media guide so you don't miss a step on the runway. Stay tuned below for a list of five quick tips to following fashion week and a schedule of the 'not-to-miss' shows this week.
Are you an aspiring fashion designer? Read these tips on Social Media for Fashion.
Following the Trend: 5 quick tips
1. Hashtags to Follow
The hashtags to follow are #NYFW, #FashionWeek and #MBFW.
Don't forget to add a search stream to your dashboard and join the conversation — try adding a keyword to filter out some of the noise.
2. Where to Listen
Pinterest has partnered exclusively with dozens of Fashion Week insiders to deliver a comprehensive collection of professional, behind the scenes and magazine content. If you're going to pin, pin from here.
Follow all the official channels on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.
3. Who to Listen to
Add a stream containing the Council of Fashion Designers America (CFDA) Twitter list — our secret key to following the hottest people and brands at fashion week.
4. Behind the Scenes
Tumblr sent 18 photography bloggers to be paired exclusively with major designers. Here are our top five:
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- Sara Zucker for Anna Sui
- Bryant Eslava for Band of Outsiders
- David Urbanke for Marc Jacobs
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5. Watch From Home
Watch the live runway action from your desktop. Leandra Medine explains how social media is changing the way we watch fashion week both online and off:
"The seating system is no longer a meritocracy. It's not about your work as an editor or as a buyer; … it's about how many Twitter and Instagram followers you have. It's about the brand getting exposure through those outlets."
Showing Sept. 10th
11:00 – Vera Wang
Guaranteed to be a sensual mix of youth and sophistication, watch Vera Wang SS14 live.
13:00 – Jenny Packham
Jenny Packham is the design house of choice for evening dresses and bridal wear, watch live.
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Tune in to see the most anticipated trends in handbags, footwear, watches and more. Watch live.
13:00 – Rachel Zoe
"Style is what one creates….glamour is a state of mind." Watch Rachel Zoe live.
18:00 – Anna Sui
Careful experimentation with colour, cut and pattern — all timed to Anna Sui's unique runway soundtrack. Watch live.
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JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken: Stardust Crusaders 2nd Season
English title JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders - Battle in Egypt
Japanese Title ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 スターダストクルセイダース
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Airing Status Finished Airing
Duration 23
Air Date 2015-01-10
End Date 2015-06-20
Producers Yomiko Advertising Warner Bros. KlockWorx
Producers David Production
Season winter 2015
Joutarou Kuujou and his allies have finally made it to Egypt, where the immortal Dio awaits. Upon their arrival, the group gains a new comrade: Iggy, a mutt who wields the Stand "The Fool." It's not all good news however, as standing in their path is a new group of Stand users who serve Dio, each with a Stand representative of an ancient Egyptian god. As their final battle approaches, it is a race against time to break Joutarou's mother free from her curse and end Dio's reign of terror over the Joestar family once and for all.
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#1: "Last Train Home (ラスト・トレイン・ホーム)" by Pat Metheny Group (eps 1-2, 4-11, 14-16, 18-22)
#2: "Aku Yaku♢Kyousoukyoku ~ Oingo to Boingo~ (アク役♢協奏曲〜オインゴとボインゴ〜)" by Oingo (Makoto Yasumura) and Boingo (Motoko Kumai) (ep 3)
#3: "Aku Yaku♢Kyousoukyoku ~ Hol Horse to Boingo~ (アク役◇協奏曲~ホル・ホースとボインゴ~)" by Hol Horse (Hidenobu Kiuchi) and Boingo (Motoko Kumai) (eps 12-13)
"JoJo - Sono Chi no Kioku: end of THE WORLD (ジョジョ その血の記憶〜end of THE WORLD〜)" by JO☆STARS~TOMMY, Coda, JIN~ (eps 1-2, 4-10, 12-15, 17-24)


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There were a couple of television shows on around this era (mid 1960's) that were geared to young guys that liked guitars, drums, organs and bass and girls that liked the guys playing the guitars, drums, organs and basses. One of the shows was called Shindig! (with an exclamation point).
Shindig! had everything that appealed to these two audiences.
There were musicians, mostly imported from the U.K. that wore Mod clothes, played groovy instruments and had Fab haircuts. There were also dancing girls that wore min skirts and go-go boots.
And the house band was at one time comprised of James Burton, Leon Russell, Delaney Bramlett and a few other guys.
The show was hosted by a D.J. named Jimmy O'Neil that had that 60's radio patter down pat. They also had a 'house band' called the Shindogs, which featured Glen Campbell, Billy Preston, Delaney Bramlett, Larry Knechtel (on bass), Leon Russell, Glen D. Hardin, Ray Pohlman and Bill Aken. No one watching realized these were LA's top session players and members of The Wrecking Crew.
In those days James Burton was play a Fender Duo-Sonic instead of a Telecaster and the show's bass player used a Danelectro Longhorn bass, one of the things I found unusual about the show was the guitar preference of a young singer/guitarist named Glen Campbell.
Most of the acts on Shindig played Gibson, Gretsch, Fender or Epiphone guitars exclusively. These were well known cool guitars. Campbell played this weird looking off brand type of guitar that looked sort of cheap. But as the song goes, he played that guitar like-a' ringin' a bell.
The original name was Aoi Onpa Kenkyujo, which translated is Hollyhock Soundwave or Electricity Laboratories, which is a mouth full in any language.
Teisco was acquired by Kawai Musical Instruments in 1968 and the guitar brand was discontinued in 1969. I believe the English translation for Kawai is "that appears to be a piano, but is not."
|Teisco TB-64 six string bass
Teisco produced a six-string bass similar to the Fender Bass VI.
|Teisco T-60
The shape is off-set and somewhat like a Fender Jazzmaster, however the top horn is extended and there is a handle cutout on the lower bout as well as on the headstock. This guitar was offered in 1960 through '61 and did not have the Del Ray designation. The bridge saddle looks like it is right off of an old Telecaster.
|Ibanez Jem


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Breakfast at Poltrona Frau's
The night shrouds everything, sounds die down and life opens up into a dream.
Breakfast at Poltrona Frau's. The Poltrona Frau bed collection and the emotion of the night with the pleasure of awakening. The aromas and colours of a magical breakfast that enhances the meaning of "savoir-vivre". A multi-sensory experience, a journey through shapes and materials with the memory of the night and the fragrance of the morning.
Poltrona Frau
via Durini, 1 Milano
Monday from 2.30 pm to 7.00 pm
Tuesday / Saturday from 10.30 am to 7.00 pm


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T.J. Auclair is a Senior Interactive Producer for PGA.com and has covered professional golf since 1998, traveling to over 60 major championships. You can follow him on Twitter, @tjauclair.
John Daly's song 'Hit It Hard' hits the airwaves
Series: Golf Buzz
Published: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 | 12:39 p.m.
We've known for a long time now that John Daly is passionate about music.
The former PGA and Open Champion even has a song that's been getting play on SiriusXM The Highway.
The name of the track is, "Hit It Hard."
Earlier this month, Daly sent this tweet when he heard the song on his radio:
So excited to hear my song Hit It Hard on the Highway off my album I ONLY KNOW ONE WAY #Sirius56 #wow pic.twitter.com/BJqEXGxgMJ
— John Daly (@PGA_JohnDaly) August 11, 2014
If you're a fan of golf, John Daly and country music, there's a good chance you'll like this tune, which includes lyrics like this (click here to listen to the song):
Most people would have given up by now,
All the rough I've seen,
These ups and downs,
Somehow I just keep on playin' through
According to Dayne Shuda, a writer for www.countrymusiclife.com (who knows far more about the genre than this author), the song is pretty good.
John is very honest with his music. But if you've ever seen him in an interview you know that's exactly who he is all the time. He's an open book. He's not afraid to talk about the things he's done in his life. He's quite the character and people love it. I think in a way, all of John's fans are inspired by his honesty.
The fact that this song is getting played on SiriusXM now caught me off guard. The album that John put out came out back in 2010.
Shuda goes on to speculate about why the song is suddenly on satellite radio (perhaps Daly has a friend pushing it?).
Though I don't know much about country music, I do know I like this song better than another Daly hit -- "All My Exes Wear Rolexes."
Here's Daly covering one of his all-time favorite songs a while back -- "Knockin' on Heaven's Door":
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2005 Whitewater Slalom US National Champions Crowned On The Kern River
Mens K1
Brett Heyl
Scott Parsons
Eric Giddens
Womens K1
Jamie Tidmore
Sara Potvin-Bernal
Paris Robinson
Mens C1
Ryan Bahn
James Cartwright
Jeff Larimer
Mens C2
Mark Poindexter
Chris Wiegard
Trevor Soileau
Club Trophy
Bethesda Center of Excellence
Brett Heyl (Bethesda, Md.) was not going to be denied the national championship this year. After coming up second for the last few years, Heyl decided he'd had enough of that. He outpaddled his competition on Sunday at the Whitewater Slalom US National Championships, winning by nearly half a second.
"It feels great," said Heyl. "I'm happy to finally win this one. Now the rest of the team and I can focus on the Slalom Worlds (Championships)." Heyl and six other US Team members will travel to Penrith, Australia for the ICF Slalom World Championships happening at the end of September.
Finishing second to Heyl was Scott Parsons (Bethesda, Md.), who finished sixth in last year's Athens Olympics. Coming in third was Eric Giddens (San Diego, Calif.) who paddled for the local Kernville club. Last year's national champion in the men's kayak, Scott Mann (Bryson City, N.C.) did not compete as he chose to stay home and train for the Worlds.
Jamie Tidmore (Bryson City, N.C.) was all smiles after winning the women's kayak class. Tidmore paddled very strongly, and won by nearly twenty seconds over second place Paris Robinson (Atlanta, Ga.) Zuzanna Vanha (Dillsboro, N.C.), fresh off her victory Saturday at the Pan American Championships, had a couple costly mistakes on Sunday and finished third.
In the men's canoe, Ryan Bahn (Bethesda, Md.) put down two amazing runs to win in dramatic style. Bahn injured his shoulder last summer while paddling, and had been out for months while his shoulder healed. However, he came back in style this year, qualifying for the US Team and winning the National Championship on Sunday. Jeff Larimer (Marietta, Ga.) and Erik Amason (Arlington, Va.) finished second and third, respectively.
The men's double canoe class was hotly contested on Sunday, and the boat of Mark Poindexter (Austin, Texas) and Ben Kvanli (San Marcos, Texas) pulled out the win over Chris Wiegand (Lafayette, Colo.) and Nic Borst (Boulder, Colo.) Finishing third in the class were the Soileau brothers Chris and Trevor (Washington, D.C. area).
Although they are important, the individual medals are not the only awards given at the US Nationals. There is also the Club "Club" Trophy, which is given to the US Club amassing the most points in Nationals competition. This year the top club honor went to the Bethesda Center of Excellence (Bethesda, Md.). Paddling for BCE were the above listed medalists Heyl, Parsons, Bahn, Amason and the Soileau brothers.
Full results are available on the USA Canoe/Kayak website at www.usack.org or at the official Kern slalom website www.kvrc.org/kernslalom.htm


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Autodesk have just made the Maya2011 Subscription Advantage Pack available on the Subscription Center for download. Great another bug fix build and a few new toys to play with, then never use again.
BE WARNED: point release 2011.5
They've made this a full point release so it now makes a ...docs/maya/Maya2011.5 for your prefs. Ok, this is fine, our pipelines can easily cope with this but what they've also done is had the program install into:
\Autodesk\Maya 2011 Subscription Advantage Pack
Not only not following their own naming conventions, but also filling the path with WHITE SPACES! How the hell are large scale studio pipelines which need to support multiple versions of Apps meant to deal with that one in a consistent manner? We can no longer guarantee any naming conventions and that's going to make life really tough. Our pipeline installer adds a python sitecustomize.py file into the Python\lib\site-packages dir so we need to be able to find it.
Oh, and to make it even better `getApplicationVersionAsFloat` returns 2011 not 2011.5! Great, thanks guys not that really has scuppered us.
WHY... and if somebody from Autodesk uses the word "Interoperability" again to try and persuade me that moving between apps is a good idea, just because they own them all, I'm going to kill them then dance over their still burning embers!


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PARIS (Reuters) - Christian Dior will on Friday become the biggest fashion brand in recent history to present a catwalk collection at Paris Fashion Week without a star designer to applaud.
Dior — the jewel in the couture crown of the world's biggest luxury group LVMH — fired chief designer John Galliano three days ago for making anti-Semitic comments in a video where he expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler.
Cancelling the runway presentation would have meant the loss of an entire collection in which the company had invested heavily as well as the loss of a season's worth of orders from buyers sent by retail outlets from around the world.
While Dior was quick to part ways with Galliano after 15 years at the top of one of the world's best known fashion labels, industry experts did not expect the couture house to announce the British designer's replacement on Friday.
Possible successors at Dior that have been mooted include Riccardo Tisci, designer at Givenchy, Dior's sister brand within the LVMH group.
In Galliano's absence, Dior's design team is expected to bow at the end of the show to whomever it is that turns up.
Fashionistas said they would pay close attention to whether the event would be attended by the usual group of celebrities such as French actress Marion Cotillard, who has been the face of Dior, or LVMH head Bernard Arnault.
Arnault, who founded LVMH, usually attends the Dior show.
The show for John Galliano's own label on Sunday afternoon in the gardens of the Rodin museum will also go forward but it has been downsized to a presentation, a spokesman said.
It was not clear what will happen to the John Galliano brand as it cannot survive without Dior's financial backing. Dior owns 92 percent of the brand whose wares are sold mainly in department stores and multi-brand stores.
It has only one directly operated boutique in Paris.
Some fashion editors and buyers this week said they planned to boycott the John Galliano show.
Galliano also faces trial over accusations he made racist remarks in public last week and in October.
"He is no longer in Paris and he is being looked after," a spokesman for his John Galliano label said on Friday.
Editing by Paul Casciato


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Press Release from Phil Bredesen, Tennessee Governor, Sept. 29, 2010:
NASHVILLE – Governor Phil Bredesen today announced three appointments to the Tennessee Board of Regents, which oversees a system of six state universities, 13 community colleges, and 26 technology centers with a combined annual enrollment of more than 200,000 students.
Named to the Tennessee Board of Regents today were Tom Griscom of Chattanooga, Emily J. Reynolds of Nashville, and Danni Varlan of Knoxville. They will fill positions created by the resignation of three members – Pamela P. Fansler, Judy T. Gooch, and J. Stanley Rogers – who volunteered to step down from their positions on the Board of Regents.
"I want to thank the three former members of the Board of Regents for their honorable service and their contributions to higher education and the state of Tennessee," said Bredesen. "Pam, Judy and Stanley are true heroes, both for their service to the Board of Regents and for their willingness to help me reconcile issues that have been raised regarding the makeup of the Board. These three individuals have more than 20 years of combined service to the Board of Regents and have always acted in the best interests of the students and faculty of these institutions."
Rogers was first appointed by Governor Ned McWherter and served on the Board of Regents for 16 years. During his tenure he held the position of vice chairman of the Board and helped govern the system during a period of significant enrollment growth. Rogers participated in the hiring of the majority of current presidents and directors at universities, community colleges and technology centers.
Fansler served on the board for three years and most recently served as chairman of the Finance and Business Operations Committee. Her responsibilities have included managing the Regents system budget during difficult economic times. She has also overseen the Board's management of its capital budget and capital outlay priorities.
Gooch served on the Board for five years and devoted a significant portion of her service as an advocate for the state's 26 Technology Centers. She served as chairman of the Technology Centers Committee and was a champion for increasing the awareness of the important role Technology Centers play in the state's higher education system.
"I appreciate the willingness of those appointed today to serve the state in this important capacity," Bredesen said. "These individuals will help the Board oversee the TBR system and direct our efforts to achieve the goals of the Complete College Tennessee Act."
Tom Griscom recently resigned after 11 years as executive editor and publisher of the Chattanooga Times Free Press newspaper. Griscom's previous experience includes serving as director of communications for President Ronald Reagan, press secretary for Senator Howard Baker, and he has taught at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga. Griscom graduated from the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga.
Emily Reynolds served as secretary of the U.S. Senate, was chief of staff to Senator Bill Frist, and served as special assistant to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Howard H. Baker. Reynolds is currently Senior Vice President of Government Relations at TVA. Reynolds graduated from Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri.
Danni Varlan is president of East Tennesseans for Airfare Competition, which works to bring competitive air service to McGhee Tyson Airport. She has served as program director of Leadership Knoxville and is chairman of the board of directors of the Salvation Army and is on the board of directors of East Tennessee Children's Hospital and Habitat for Humanity.
Learn more about the Tennessee Board of Regents at http://www.tbr.state.tn.us/default.aspx


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Following a short traditional apprenticeship of just 4 months, Eve began her professional career as a sculptor at the tender age of 17. Primarily self-taught she has worked as a full time sculptor ever since, apart from a break in her mid-twenties when she attended the Chelsea College of Art. She is currently an elected member of both The Society of Portrait Sculptors and The Royal Society of British Sculptors.
Developing her own unique and recognizable style, Eve currently works from her studio in Hove where she produces both traditional and mythological sculpture alongside the more complex emotional portraiture her collectors are more familiar with.


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Due to the difficulty
and complexity of Manhunt it was decided to do this in two parts,
including, a general overview of the story with no real spoilers
in the way. This is advised for those that are interested in buying
the game and those playing the game.
Then there is a more thorough spoiler ridden story
which takes us from before the start of the game until 6 months
after the game finishes. This is advised for those that don't
mind spoilers and those that have finished the game.
The game starts with us finding out that
Cash has been sentence to execution by lethal injection,
after 3 years of being on death row. As he is taken over
to the bed to be injected, he struggles to get free but
is overwhelmed. Cash is later woken up by a mysterious voice
over a speaker. The first words he hears are: "Hey
tough guy, wake up. You're not dead. Well, not yet, anyway.
You're getting a second chance, another throw of the dice.
As far as the world is concerned, you died back in the chamber.
Justice was served; James Earl Cash is rotting in hell."
Clearly still dazed Cash tries to escape from the room.
The voice instructs him to insert the ear piece; still not
sure of his surrounding Cash spots a surveillance camera
and attempts to take it out. It is at this point that he
is "You've had an unexpected reprieve...do exactly
as I say, and I promise, this will be over, before the night
is out." As Cash inserts the ear peace, the door opens
and Cash is freed upon Carcer City.
Little does Cash know but this is just
the beginning of the longest night of his life. The voice
in his ear is that of Lionel Starkweather, a once big shot
in Hollywood that now deals in snuff movies. Starkweather
is working in conjunction with Darkwood Penitentiary to
cast his leading man. It is at this point that Cash is instructed
as to what Starkweather is asking of him, hundreds of cameras
have been set up throughout the city filming every movement
that Cash makes. What Cash must do is eliminate anyone that
comes in his path, the bloodier and more brutal the execution
the better, all for the sake of Starkweathers sick videos.
A spanner is thrown into the works when
the local news reporter catches on to Starkweathers game.
She discovers that something is up and is out to reveal
the true identity behind Valiant Video Enterprises and take
them down. In order to do so she has to track down and talk
to Cash.
Warning: this
section is very spoiler heavy. If you do not wish for the
story of Manhunt to be ruined for you then do not read past
this line.
In the opening scene Starkweather decides to test Cash, instructing
him to kill the first gang member. He has set the hunter up
to see if Cash has what it takes to be his leading man, Starkweather
proceeds to direct Cash through the basics of surviving the
streets of Carcer, upon learning the basics Cash jumps down
a shoot, landing to an alleyway.
The alleyway leads to another abandoned
section of Carcer City that is cordoned off in order for
Starkweather to create his illicit movies. Cash is forced
to take to the shadows, taking anyone out that comes in
his way via the means of stealth. Cash finds himself stood
in front of a set of locked gates. Forced to look for away
past the gate Cash comes up against a hood packing a crowbar;
Cash quickly takes the crowbar wielding hood out and proceeds
beyond the gate to the Abandoned Library.
Continuing on his way to the abandoned library, Cash finds
himself passing through building to building, taking out hoods
as they appear, along his way passing through a cellar. Once
back on the streets Cash must use a crowbar to open the locked
gate, the Cerberus are waiting on Cash's arrival from
the alleyway, Starkweather says to them "Get ready boys
he's coming" After pointing a gun in Cash's
face one of them hits the back of his legs, knocking him down,
they then beat Cash until he can't move, they waste little
time taking him to the next scene.
The Cerberus drop Cash off at the local
junkyard that is being patrolled by the Skinz, whom are
brought in by Ramirez, when one of the Skinz gets in Ramirez
face he breaks their neck, demonstrating his dominance,
he proceeds to instruct them to take Cash out.
Cash makes his way through the junkyard avoiding death only
to find himself blocked in by another gate, however this time
it is blocked off by members of the Skinz wielding nailguns.
Cash quickly takes them out and proceeds to the next area
of the junkyard, the security is heavy, the Skinz are everywhere.
Cash must cut the power in order to proceed past the Skinz
member that is watching porn. Up ahead there is away out,
however this is not without problem as it has been blocked
of by fridges, there is a huge crane near by but it is out
of gasoline. Cash finds himself forced to fill the crane up
with gasoline, forcing a way through, along the way taking
out tens of Skinz. As Cash sneakily makes his way out of the
junkyard, he is ambushed by the Cerberus, one of which sneaks
up from behind and puts him in a chokehold.
Some other Cerberus are shown feeding some crazed man wearing
a pigs face on his head that is chained up in the attic. The
Cerberus proceed to drop Cash off at Carcer City zoo, the
zoo is being patrolled by the deadly Wardogs, headed by Ramirez,
who once again instructs his men as to what to do. Cash must
make his way from one end of the zoo to the other, leaving
a bloody path of death along the way. Cash finds himself passing
through the gates only for a bombshell to be dropped on him,
his family has been tied up and in order to move onto the
next scene Cash must save at least one of them. Along the
way we discover Cash and his family aren't really close,
he even calls one of them an idiot.
After Starkweather is pleased the Cerberus
once again shows up and captures Cash, one aggravated Cerberus
member can be heard uttering the words 'you just wont fucking
die will you' towards the ever charismatic Cash.
Ramirez is shown rounding up the troops,
he splits the Innocentz up into packs, sending some of them
to the mall and the others to the graveyard. Cash is given
a series of orders, first get a video camera and then the
tape, he is then told that the video camera is broken and
that he should use the TV in the bar within the mall to
view the tape. The tape has footage of his family being
killed, Cash is not pleased and lashes out, smashing the
TV. Starkweather proceeds to tell you that he couldn't let
them escape and that he is the only family you need now.
You are soon informed that Starkweather has a partner for
you, however he has been locked up by the Innocentz, Cash
must free the bum and take him to through a serious of gates
which Starkweather has locked and is viewing from a camera.
The only way for Cash to get through is to get the bum out
alive. Once arriving at the graveyard, Cash must take out
the remaining Innocentz and enter the tomb.
Cash finds himself in a not so abandoned
factory, the factory is polluted with Cerberus but fortunately
Cash is now wielding a shotgun and is more than a match
for them. As Cash is about to leave the factory he is ambushed
by the Cerberus, they sedate Cash and take him off too "dark
woods penitentiary" that is the local nut house to
me and you.
We are told that there are over 1000 inmates,
and unfortunately for Cash they have broken free and are
packing heat. Cash makes his way through the penitentiary
and hits a road block, Starkweather wants the head of the
dress wearing lunatic, upon providing Starkweather with
his head he gives Cash the gift of a shotgun and allows
him to proceed. Not long after giving Cash the gift he asks
that Cash give it back as he must drop all weapons and jump
down through the hole in the floor to the abandoned lock
up below.
Cash then has to play a game of simon-says as Starkweather
gives out commands as to the various gruesome ways he wants
Cash to take out the crazies that roam the corridors. Starkweather
has the place on lockdown so the only way to advance is to
do as he says, once he has had his fill he allows Cash to
proceed. Cash no sooner thinks he is regaining control of
his sanity than it is taken away from him. There is a crazed
killer stood up ahead in a white rabbit suit, that wants to
play chase. The White Rabbit holds the prison key and Cash
wants it, the rabbit leads Cash through the prison where Cash
takes out dozens of Smilies, with no where to go the rabbit
runs for the control tower outside. As Cash leaves the cells
it becomes apparent that Starkweather didn't have too
much faith in the Smilies as he has the Cerberus monitoring
the whole operation. Forced to take on the Cerberus, Cash
heroically takes them all down, not before stripping the rabbit
of both the key and his head. Ramirez is shown getting informed
that Cash has slipped his leash and that he has to be brought
to heal, under Starkweathers command.
Just as Cash believes he finally might
be out of this mess, the Wardogs intervene. Ramirez takes
Cash by surprise and throws him a beating, once again stripping
him of his weapons. The Wardogs then allow Cash to regain
his balance and run for his life. Ramirez has strength in
numbers and is out for a game of hide and seek, weaponless
Cash takes to the shadows slowly but surely eliminating
every last member of the Wardogs, sensing death Ramirez
takes refuge in an abandoned apartment complex where he
is able to call for backup. Cash attempts to take Ramirez
out the same way he did all his dominions, stealthily and
quietly but Ramirez is to strong and throws Cash over his
shoulder. Ramirez runs out from the building and hides in
the roughage outside. With the place heaving with more Wardogs
Cash resorts to taking Ramirez out with a sniper shot to
the head.
As Cash runs away from the gunfire from
the Wardogs a car pulls up with a woman insisting "get
in you idiot, get in" confused by the whole situation
Cash instructs her to pull over so she can fill him in.
It is here that Cash finds out Starkweathers name, the reporter
informs Cash that she was at his execution and has been
following Starkweather for months, building a report on
him. Cash insists they make their way to her apartment so
that she can get the report, file it and take Starkweather
down. Starkweather communicates with the CCPD over the radio
instructing them that it is there job to take care of the
city's mess, obviously referring to Cash being on
the loose. The corrupt Carcer City Police have surrounded
the reporter's apartment and secure the surrounding streets
by order of Starkweather. Anticipating the ambush Cash instructs
the reporter to pull over two blocks from her apartment
that way they can have the element of surprise. Cash instructs
the reporter to hide as he battles his way up to her apartment,
once in the apartment Cash decides that he will go and thank
the Director personally for his second chance, leaving the
reporter behind. Cash then takes to the streets heading
in the direction of the subway station.
Cash exits via the subway after a battle
with the Carcer SWAT, in the process killing most of them
off. Piggsy is shown escaping captivity from an unknown
area. Cash then exits the subway at the other side to find
himself at the train tracks where he again is forced to
battle with yet more Swat and CCPD.
At the end of the scene it looks as though
it is all over for Cash as he is surrounded by SWAT team
members, then from no where the Cerberus come from behind
the SWAT and kill them all, taking Cash with them.
They pull up inside a garage near by Starkweathers
mansion, to discover that Piggsy has broken free and is
on a killing spree. The Cerberus contemplates finishing
Cash off just as they become aware of the disturbance and
are forced to leave to investigate. They leave Cash outside
the van, within the garage; from here Cash escapes from
the garage and makes his way through Starkweathers mansion,
he enters the cellar door and navigates his way through
the mansion, slaying Cerberus as if they where nothing.
Cerberus guards hear of Cash's arrival and lock down the
elevator, the lead Cerberus member demands that he be given
the key from another and instructs him to go down and turn
the elevators motor off. Cash kills them and turns the power
back on then escapes to the attic using the elevator.
Cash quickly finds himself under attack as Piggsy is attempting
to rip him apart with his chainsaw. Cash is forced to escape
through the roof of the elevator, in the process dropping
his weapons. He now finds himself in an attack with a madman
with murder on his mind, Cash is forced to take to the shadows
once again and use whatever weapons he can find to take Piggsy
out. After a few select attacks Piggsy runs off with his tail
between his legs, Cash gives chase but soon finds himself
once again under attack by the madman. Cash discovers a way
to take Piggsy out via a loose vent on an upper level of the
attic, Cash runs over the vent with Piggsy not far behind,
as he steps on the vent he falls through the floor dropping
his chainsaw, as Piggsy holds on for his life Cash quickly
grabs the chainsaw and finishes Piggsy off once and for all.
Cash attempts to get to Starkweather behind the locked door,
Starkweather immediately sends the Cerberus out after Cash,
forcing Cash back down into the attic. Cash uses the chainsaw
to take the Cerberus out once and for all before heading back
up for Starkweather. As Cash opens the door Starkweather opens
fire, Cash takes cover before taking Starkweather out via
cutting him up with the chainsaw, not before Starkweather
pleads for his life.
Afterwards the reporter is shown, doing
a report on TV, revealing to the public exactly what has
went on in Carcer City, revealing Starkweathers evil ways.
Two weeks later… The journalist is locked
up in a psychiatric ward, undergoing therapy. The state is
trying to cover the whole situation as she is a thorn in their
side. Cash is still out there, his whereabouts unknown.


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Sanaker pa Karl Johans
Type: Men's Clothing
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Well-known designer and brand names are the hallmark of this fine men's clothing store. Labels include D & G, Hugo Boss, and Dale of Norway in styles suited for casual events, business meetings, or a formal occasion.
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