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Death By Twilight Fangirls
There was a new rage in Konoha; it was spreading quickly, like a Black Death pandemic. It had reached over from a far end of the world, a world that the
ninja of Konoha had no knowledge of. This virus was contagious, but there was no warning to stay away from bookstands and public places where it could easily
be caught. This new virus, was none other than the Twilight Disease.
"Not another one," Naruto groaned, as he watched a group of girls flock to the bookstore. The new Twilight book had just restocked no more than
5 minutes ago, and there was already a huge lineup of crazy fangirls waiting to get their hands on a brand new copy. And because Naruto was so damn lucky,
Sakura just so happened to be lining up for this new "phenomenon".
"Ohhhhhh," she squealed, "I wonder what will happen to Bella and Edward? I can't wait to find out!"
In fact, Naruto wasn't the only cursed one. Shikamaru, Sasuke, Lee, Neji, Choji, and even Asuma were also watching from afar as the female team members
waited anxiously for the doors to open. Shikamaru facepalmed as Ino came screaming with a copy of, as he liked to put it, "that evil thing they called
"Heeeey Sasuke," Naruto joked, nudging him in the side, "you're losing all your fans to this "Pattison" guy. How does it feel?"
Sasuke rolled his eyes. "Like I care, you idiot. As far as I'm concerned, you should be joining his fanclub. I saw you secretly watching that movie the other
day. Don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about."
As Naruto raised his fist to argue (blush and all), another high pitched squeak came floating through the air. Sakura ran quickly, a lovey-dovey look in her
eyes. She treated that "thing" like a God.
Carefully, Sakura tucked the book under her arm. Her hand was ready for combat. To protect it from other raging fangirls perhaps? Naruto couldn't figure it
out. All he knew was that he was doomed to a lifetime of fairytale romance and superficial vampires.
Before they could leave, Naruto noticed that one girl was missing from the crowd.
"Hey Neji," Naruto whispered, "Where's Hinata? Isn't she here to get a book too?"
Neji shook his head. It was a relief shake, definitely. "No, Hinata doesn't like that sort of thing. She thinks it's... scary I suppose? I don't really care
though. I can only take so much of this."
Everyone else was also listening in. The boys were thrilled... one female not infected. However, the girls were determined to spread the virus as much as
possible. It wasn't easily curable either.
"How can she not like it?!" Ino yelled, nose in the air, "It's the only decent piece of literature in this whole village!"
"I agree!" Sakura nodded.
No one was listening now. In fact, Sasuke and Naruto were already half way across the village. They had waved quickly and escaped as soon as possible. The
toxins would get them too if they weren't careful.
They walked silently side by side. There was nothing to talk about nowadays. Due to the overwhelming response from the book, many of the kunoichi of the
village were requesting time off from missions. Since Tsunade couldn't help but be pulled in as well, she granted most of the girls time. Many missions were
cancelled, since there weren't enough members for each squad. It was chaotic.
Naruto stopped. A group of girls came charging by, practically knocking him to the ground. Sasuke, quick with reflexes, made it just before the mob could
trample him.
"Idiot," Sasuke mumbled, catching him before he could fall. Naruto pushed himself away quickly. There was one thing that didn't change for them in all the
mess, and that was their rivalry.
"Whatever..." Sasuke said, crossing his arms. This was completely ridiculous, in his opinion. This madness had to stop and be contained. It was wrecking
assets for the village, and reputations of the ninja.
Naruto saw a rock under a tree. There appeared to be no fangirls around, so it was a safe zone until it was discovered. Sighing, he sat down and began to
Sasuke smirked, "What's with the screwed up face?" He leaned against the tree.
Naruto ignored him. For minutes they were silent, Naruto changing positions every so often. Then, he slapped his hands together.
"Sasuke! We have to stop this! No one is as manly enough as me to do it, so I'm going to stand up against all those girls and tell them why Twilight
needs to be forgotten! And that we need the ninja back for the missions to continue!"
He snorted. "Good luck with that. You're just going to make a fool of yourself, not like it would make much difference."
Naruto stuck out his tongue. "I have a plan! We have to get all the guys in on it though!"
There was gigantic eye rolling. "Okay then genious; please, share your wisdom."
With that, Naruto quietly whispered the plan into his ear.
The boys all gathered close to the bookstand. Practically everyone was in on the plan. Little did Naruto know that it would go horribly wrong...
The sound of footsteps could be heard across the gravel sidewalks. Girls chatted excitedly, expecting a brand new and amazing announcement on the upcoming
movie New Moon. Arguments about Edward and Jacob could be heard a mile away. It was almost time.
Once all the girls were there, waiting impatiently for the announcement, Naruto got ready. The idea was to get all of the male ninja to stand up and tell the
girls the truth about the horrible disease. Yes, it was going to be perfect. Naruto stood first.
"Listen! This Twilight book is ruining not only your minds but the village's reputation! We need you on our teams in order to do missions! You need to
understand that this disease is spreading quickly, and that it has to be contained! And that Edward Cullen sucks! All of us boys agree with this! Right?!"
There were menacing glares coming from the girls. The aura around them was dark; the air suddenly chilled. Nobody replied as Naruto faced the raging females.
They all had cold feet after discovering the true horror of Twilight fangirls.
"Naruto..." Sakura cried above the rest, cracking her knuckles. He turned to his allies for support as they backed away slowly. He was getting no help from
Naruto chuckled nervously, as he realized the mess he was in. "Uhhh... I was just kidding. Just a joke Sakura-chan!"
He was charged and beaten. It was gruesome, and the men behind cringed as they watched Naruto turn blue and black. Good thing Hinata hadn't been around. It
was a true "death by fangirls."
After that, there was a lesson learned in the Village. It was to never pick a fight with Twilight fans, especially Edward ones.
There was complete silence.
The sun rose over Konoha so slowly that morning. It seemed like an absolute eternity, an eternity that of course would never end. A small figure sat inside a large window, hair tangled and untamed. But she didn't care.
The rays of the sun just managed to reach her face, and illuminated the room around her. Yes it was messy. Yes it was dusty. But she still didn't care.
Staring into the sun was bound to damage her, she knew. Somehow, in her heart, she couldn't find the strength to care at all. To care took up so much courage and power, something that she had wasted her strength on. What was the point? In the end it was all in vain. And it left her broken inside and out.
Tick, tock, tick, tock. Oh when would her nightmare end? Even by midday, when the sky was blue and the clouds were fluffy, her nightmare dragged on. She couldn't remove herself from the window. Was it because that was the last place she saw him, peeking through her window and waving to her with a friendly smile? She couldn't decide. All she knew was that he wasn't coming back for her, and she didn't care.
Wait, of course I care! I do care! W-why w-wouldn't I care?! I... She was now struggling with herself. Her mind conflicted with her feelings, raging an unfair and unjust war. She had to put her trust in one of them, but which one? The right choice, or the easy choice? It was so confusing!
She started to slump slowly towards the window. The sun was now going down, the stars beginning to shine through an endless night sky. If only she had been strong enough to protect not only him, but herself.
"Look at me..." she mumbled, "I'm a wreck. I'm useless. I'm weak."
Then, in the midst of all her pain, there was a voice. "You're not any of those things Hinata," it whispered to her, "you are what you want to be."
She jerked her head up. "N-Naruto?"
There was no response. She smashed her hand into the window, and looked down into the street. There were no people, only a few distant lights from some of the homes. She cried and cried, until her eyes were so dry that it would take days for them to rehydrate. What was she really? He believed in everyone, including her, so why couldn't she believe in herself? Why couldn't she step up?
Suddenly, an earthly voice reached out to her and woke her from her daze.
"Hinata..." Neji called from outside the door, "You can't blame yourself forever. Do you think Naruto wanted this? There are people out here waiting for you."
Her eyes grew wide in shock. She wasn't alone, not at all. There was Kiba, Hinabi, Neji, Tenten, Shino, Kurenai-sensei, Sakura, Ino, Shikamaru, Choji... everyone. THEY were waiting for HER. She would stand up! She would get herself together! The only way to get over this was to live the way he had always wanted her to live. Not in the dark, but where she was loved and she worked hard. That's how she was going to move on.
"I'm... I'm coming," she replied, wiping her tears from her face.
She would always have friends. And he would always be watching her.


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The Houston Texans created turnovers and played solid defense to beat the Chicago Bears at their own game.
The big question now for coach Lovie Smith and the Bears is how long will they be without quarterback Jay Cutler.
Arian Foster finished with 102 yards rushing and a touchdown catch, and the Texans intercepted Cutler twice before knocking him out of the game with a concussion on their way to a 13-6 victory on Sunday night.
That injury was the biggest development on a night when the Texans prevailed in a showdown between two of the NFL's best teams.
Cutler took a helmet-to-helmet hit late in the second quarter from Tim Dobbins, and coach Lovie Smith said, started experiencing symptoms at halftime.
"He took a lot of hits, more than he needed to take," Smith said.
Will Cutler be available next Monday night at San Francisco?
"We're hopeful, but you can't go that far," Smith said. "We just know he had symptoms, which started clearing up after the half. When a guy doesn't finish the game, you've just got to go with that right now."
It was a better night for the Texans.
"I think we showed them we can win any game, any situation, any time, any place, tough weather conditions, tough place on the road, a very good football team," defensive lineman J.J. Watt said. "We won, so say what you want."
The Texans (8-1) had four takeaways against a team that came in with a plus-16 turnover differential, and Dobbins delivered the biggest blow when he drove his helmet into Cutler late in the second quarter.
Foster was the only reliable offensive option on either side, particularly in the first half when he ran for 85 yards and made a sprawling catch for a 2-yard touchdown to put Houston ahead 10-3.
Otherwise, neither team got much going on a soggy night. The Texans were outgained 249-215, but they did just enough to come away with the win. Now they're tied with Atlanta for the league's best record after the Falcons were upset by New Orleans.
"It's huge for us, we were 7-1 going in, to come out 8-1 in a hostile place, given the weather and the team we were playing, that's a tough group to go against," said Matt Schaub, who threw for just 95 yards and was picked off twice by Tim Jennings.
Andre Johnson, Schaub's top target, had just four catches for 35 yards with Charles Tillman on him. Former Bear Danieal Manning helped set the tone, forcing a fumble by Kellen Davis on Chicago's first play from scrimmage and picking off Cutler later in the first quarter.
Cutler completed just 7 of 14 passes for 40 yards with two interceptions in the first half and was seen in street clothes after the game being driving off on a cart by team officials. Jason Campbell threw for 94 yards in the second half.
"You never want to lose anybody, especially our starting quarterback," receiver Brandon Marshall said. "He is our leader, he is the heart and soul of our offense so we definitely want him to have a quick, speedy recovery.
"In the meantime, Campbell is more than capable. There was no heads hanged down when Jay was down. There was no complaining. We understand we have a starting quarterback in the backup so we're fortunate to have him. There will be no drop off in our offense."
Marshall had 107 yards receiving, but also dropped a pass in the end zone. Matt Forte never got going, running for 39 yards for Chicago (7-2).
But the biggest sequence came when Cutler got hurt.
The Texans were leading 10-3 on a lunging 2-yard touchdown catch by Foster. A scrambling Cutler took that helmet-to-helmet hit from Dobbins after throwing a pass on third down at midfield late in the first half.
There were offsetting penalties on the play. Cutler got called for an illegal forward pass because he was beyond the line of scrimmage and then got drilled by Dobbins, who was called for unnecessary roughness.
Cutler stayed in and the drive ended with his second interception. Kareem Jackson picked off a pass intended for Marshall in double coverage at the Houston 27.
"It's tough," Campbell said. "That what defenses try to do."
Was it a cheap shot?
"He caught him right under the chin," Campbell said.
Smith wouldn't say if the concussion occurred on that play, adding, "He took a lot of hits, more than he needed to take."
He also said Cutler wanted to keep playing but added, "The decision was made for him."
Cutler was in for the final drive of the half, but Campbell started the third quarter, sending a big chill through Soldier Field.
After all, the Bears crumbled last season after Cutler injured his thumb, spoiling a 7-3 start. They went into a tailspin with Caleb Hanie and finished 8-8, costing general manager Jerry Angelo his job.
With Campbell now in the mix, the Bears believe they could at least survive, and that theory could be put to the test in a big way with a game at San Francisco next Monday night.
"If I have to play, of course, during the week I will get those practice reps and get the guys used to (me)," Campbell said. "And they will get used to me as a quarterback, until Jay is ready. That's something that we have all week to get ready for. We don't have to work that out during the middle of the game."
Notes: Bears DE Shea McClellin left with a concussion in the opening minutes. … Texans TE Owen Daniels was out because of a back injury. He was limited in practice on Friday after sitting out the previous two days.


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iOS Loses Market Share as Windows Phone Gains
May 16, 2013 3:23 PM PT
Android continues to rule the global smartphone marketplace with the OS accounting for 75 percent of shipments worldwide in Q1, according to the latest IDC report.
Apple's once-dominant iOS had only 17.3 percent of the market.
Windows Phone unexpectedly took third place from BlackBerry, which was relegated to fourth.
Android's dominance over iOS "is similar to what happened when Microsoft adopted the graphical user interface that Apple introduced and offered it up to many different vendors," Andrew Eisner, director of community and content at Retrevo, told the E-Commerce Times. "It's natural that, when you have lots of different suppliers offering competitively priced products, the market will move in that direction."
Meanwhile, Google has continued to improve Android to the point where it rivals iOS in some areas and outdoes it in others.
The Sorrows of iOS
Apple's situation is being hurt by the company's failure to have come up with innovative products apart from the iPhone 5, which was launched in September.
That could be why iOS chalked up its largest ever Q1 shipment volume, based on iPhone shipments. However, year-over-year market share declined and its shipment growth fell behind that of the overall market.
Apple shipped about 35 million smartphones in Q1 2012, and over 37 million in Q1 this year. Apple's iOS had 23 percent of the market in Q1 2012, but just over 17 percent this year.
"Folks upgraded their phones aggressively, but new customers fell off in favor of other brands," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group.
Further, because Apple is now available at multiple outlets, including Wal-Mart, it has "lost its exclusivity advantage and isn't really the cool phone any more," Enderle said. "They are increasingly living off customer loyalty, and their ability to grow their base has all but evaporated."
Figures from IDC
Android smartphone shipments in Q1 2013 totaled 162 million, almost 80 percent more than the 90.3 million shipped in Q1 2012. Android's Q1 market share was 75 percent, compared to 59 percent during the same period last year.
Windows Phone shipments grew more than 133 percent year over year. In Q1 2012, Windows Phone had 2 percent of the market, with 3 million smartphones shipped. This year, 7 million Windows Phone smartphones shipped in the first quarter, giving the OS 3.2 percent of the market.
The BlackBerry OS, which had 6.4 percent of the market in Q1 last year with nearly 10 million devices shipped, had only 2.9 percent of the market this past quarter, with 6.3 million units shipped.
Implications of IDC's Findings
"Samsung continues to out-execute Apple, suggesting they will sustain and grow their market share advantage," Enderle told The E-Commerce Times.
It's a critical time for Apple, and Samsung is well ahead in terms of innovation, Eisner stated. "There are rumors that Samsung, which showed some beautiful flexible displays at CES, will bring out a device with one of them soon."
Although Windows Phone has pushed out BlackBerry from third place to fourth, "it's a question of who sucks less," Eisner said. "If you don't have the apps, you don't sell the smartphones, and iOS and Android have far more apps, which compounds the fact that PCs are on the decline so Microsoft doesn't even have that advantage in creating an ecosystem now."
Google made a slew of announcements for developers at Google I/O in San Francisco this week, but "I doubt they will have much real impact other than better quality in Android apps, which could have a lagging positive impact on the platform," Enderle said.
BlackBerry wrapped up BlackBerry World in Orlando, Florida this week. Because it has changed over to the new BB10 operating system, it is "likely to bleed share at a slowing rate until BB10 reaches critical mass in the installed base," he said.
IDC did not respond to our request for more details.


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The Markets Now: Barnes & Noble Rises on News of Possible Split
In other news, investors are watching the Friday sequester deadline.
Stocks moved down after gains made Friday on news of shaky international politics in Italy and a looming sequester deadline in the US. The sequester is set to kick in Friday, prompting lawmakers to introduce proposals that would replace the reductions.
The Chicago Fed National Activity Index showed the country's economic growth fell to -0.32 in January compared to a positive 0.25 reading in December. The three-month average, however, is positive, ranging from 0.30 to 0.23.
The Dow (INDEXDJX:.DJI) inched up 0.13% to 14018.36 and the S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX) moved up 0.14% to 1517.67. The Nasdaq (INDEXNASDAQ:.IXIC) rose 0.28% to 3171.29.
Lowe's (NYSE:LOW) brought in $288 million, or $0.26 per share, in net income during the fourth quarter, above analyst expectations. It's down from a year earlier, however, when the home improvement retailer made $322 million in net income. The stock rose 0.61% to $37.85.
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) will meet with shareholders today to discuss the company's performance, Bloomberg reported. Shares fell 0.05% to $19.19.
RP Management LLC made an offer to buy Irish drugmaker Elan Corporation, plc (NYSE:ELN) for $6.5 billion. Elan made plans to sell its stake in a multiple sclerosis drug to Biogen Idec (NASDAQ:BIIB). Shares of Elan rose 6.13% to $11.25.
Sinopec (NYSE:SHI) announced it will buy a stake in Chesapeake Energy (NYSE:CHK) assets for $1 billion in cash. Sinopec stock moved up 0.51% to $39.21, and Chesapeake shares fell 2.29% to $19.62.
The UK publisher Pearson PLC (NYSE:PSO) is going to cut jobs to save money that it can then reinvest in digital segment and emerging markets operations. The stock price sank 4.77% to $17.78.
In a regulatory filing, Barnes & Noble's (NYSE:BKS) chairman Leonard Riggio made statements about purchasing the company's stores and website, excluding Nook Media and the Nook e-reader and tablet business. Shares surged 8.81% to $14.70.
Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) shares rose 1.37% to $27.50 after the social networking company disclosed that it will receive $429 million in tax refunds.
Boeing (NYSE:BA) stock fell 0.83% to $76.02 despite its announcement of a plan to confront battery problems that caused the grounding of its 787 Dreamliners.
Amgen's (NASDAQ:AMGN) shares ascended to $90.61, up 4.37% after its price target was raised by Piper Jaffray from $104 to $107 this morning.
Pioneer Southwest Energy (NYSE:PSE) was downgraded from a Neutral to Sell rating by UBS AG. Shares edged down 0.91% to $24.09.
Shanda Games (NASDAQ:GAME) will release its earnings report tomorrow. The gaming company is expected to report $0.15 in earnings per share. The stock is flat at $3.00.
Enthusiasm over the merger between Office Depot (NYSE:ODP) and OfficeMax (NYSE:OMX) appears to have cooled. Office Depot's stock has declined 3.33% to $4.07, and OfficeMax shares moved down 3.02% to $11.92. Staples (NASDAQ:SPLS) shares rose 3.01% to $13.67.
CME Group (NASDAQ:CME) refused a $5 million settlement with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The regulators alleged that CME Group and two former employees leaked data on clients' trades. Its stock inched up 0.99% to $58.89.
Hertz (NYSE:HTZ) surged 6.41% to $19.91 after it reported a fourth-quarter loss of $36.4 million, or $0.09 per share, compared to $47.1 million, or $0.11 per share, a year earlier. Its revenue increased 15% to $2.3 billion.
Caesars Entertainment Corp (NASDAQ:CZR) is expected to report a loss of $1.62 per share, an improvement from a loss of $1.76 per share a year earlier. Analysts also expect a loss of $8.68 per share for the fiscal year. Shares moved up 5.35% to $12.21.
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You love classic Slingo, but sometimes you need to mix it up a little. That's why Mixed Matrix Slingo adds a topsy-turvy twist! Spin the wheel and see if you can match the numbers that come up with numbers on the board. But unlike classic Slingo where matches must be in the same column, in this game matches can be anywhere at all. You'll need to look sharp for matches before it's time to spin again!
Click>on the Spin button to spin the slot-machine wheels. Once a set of numbers appears, you only have 20 seconds to find matching numbers on your card.
When you find a match, the card number will turn into a purple star. Your goal is to match five in a row up and down, sideways or diagonally.
Collect coins for extra points and use jokers to place a star anywhere on the board. But watch out because the red devil could steal your spin!


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During World War II (WWII), local companies in Greenfield, Massachusetts, displayed great pride and patriotism in their efforts on the home front. When their workers made the supreme sacrifice, efforts were made to remember them. This memorial from the Greenfield Tap & Die Corporation (GTD), recognizes employees killed in the war. The company was the largest maker of gages, taps, and dies in the world. Three shifts worked around the clock seven days a week producing these measuring devices that insured an accurate fit for all parts produced anywhere in the country. The small town of Greenfield, located in a semi-rural area, had a surprisingly large concentration of industries vital to the war effort, and employed an estimated 7,000 workers.
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orbistechnology necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 228 diseños de 68 diseñadores freelance.
Darling & Wolever
Darling & Wolever is a consulting group. We're Six Sigma Black Belts (look it up please) and we help companies reduce errors and increase profit. The work we do is hard and boring, but we a subtle and understand elegance in our image.
Please read out website at ww.darlingwolever.com and consult wikipedia for six sigma.
We work with logistics, manufacturing, financial services, industrial design, and machining companies. We can work with nearly any type of company, but Six Sigma lends itself to heavy industry.
The logo needs to be able to be rendered in color and black and white. It has to be simple enough that we can embroider on shirts.
Specifically, stay away from logos with complex designs, multiple small parts to the logo, multiple colors, gradients and shadows.
The logo needs to render comfortably in large, banner-size prints and in very small thumbnails.
We're a clean slate as we have no other logo. We need your creative minds. We will give you a TON of feedback.
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Barnard College is committed to creating for its students, faculty, and staff an environment in which the misuse of alcohol and drugs is minimized, which encourages moderation, safety, and individual accountability, and which provides an atmosphere free of coercion and peer pressure to abuse alcohol or use unlawful drugs. Barnard strongly supports educational and treatment programs as the most effective means to help reduce and prevent alcohol and drug abuse. At the same time, the College expressly prohibits the unlawful possession, use, or distribution of drugs and alcohol by students, faculty, or staff members while on College property or while participating in College-sponsored activities or conducting College business off-premises. Members of the College community are responsible for complying with federal, state, and local laws on the possession, use, and sale of alcohol and illicit drugs.
The College's policy on alcohol and drug abuse is published annually in the Barnard Student Handbook and in a memorandum distributed each year to all students, faculty, and staff. Information can be found on the web at barnard.edu/policy/aod.


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[Verse 1: Tyler]
The Supreme tee is kinda dingy
Pass the fucking puffer, nigga stingy with the Usher, let it burn
Skate session with my niggas
On a cloud, where's my inhaler, I can't even breath
I don't smoke weed
But I'm on a cloud high enough to give me a nose bleed
Say farewell to the brain cells, neutrons can smell us
My niggas keep enough green to get a bush jealous
Roll tighty, the joint righty, go buy a label
And busters don't get the zimper in Chris Lighty, alrighty
Or maybe a swisher, I begin to kiss her
Keepin' all the arms and limbs in a large bin
My niggas keep mary jane like a fucking Tarzan
In the fuckin toilet where my bars been
They been the shit since Riley figured out she really likes Dark men
Domo hitting bowls, nuggets size of coals
Rolling a whole 'nother blunt the size of a troll
Davon on paroll, so if the highway patrol
Sees us strolling to 7-11 to get a Arizona
And some donuts, he'll be in a hole, but we're not gonna let it happen
Im not talking music when I say were the best at wrapping
The kush, coke, Ritalin, and mushroom caps in my system, um
[Verse 2: Hodgy]
I break number 2 pencils cause I write so strong
Tyler rolling up a stick so when it lights, so long
Brass monkey, clarinet, ten drop in the gong
Gas mask, vaporizer, tranquilize you with the bong
Imagine gas and 'laxing, puff passing past tense
Future kush, cool tour, poke your arms blue or
Dream, smoke white like vanilla bean ice cream
Besides OF, Mary Jane and me make a nice team
Pause, aw you getting too fat, bitch
Munchies, gaining weight is fucking automatic
Can't fit into the plus size of that sack's fifth
She get high, get down on hot dogs and pick up the cat bitch
The powder is packed in the straw, Sammy claim he like chowder
Nostrils are allowed to scream white power
Overdose in a quince then detox, she rocks
Got em sweating like they inhaling on she cops
And we the drug, and we the drug, and we the drug
Bitch I'm high as fuck, just let it sing to you
[Verse 3: Domo]
I stay in the sky so there's no way you can get fly as me
Niggas wish that some point in their life they'll get high as me
Never though, got a dorm room filled with hella smoke
With towels under the door hoping no one outside smell the dro
Fuck it, I'm blazing up, bad bitch craving dust
So I passed it to her last thing she'll see before waking up
Strong dank leave your main bitches with throat aches
One of em half bakeing, half dressed cause her clothes stank
Rolling paper skills, it's the time I showcase
So rush down, bitches want a star beat like old Bapes
Where Davon at? cause he can Zieir too
Big Cam Lawrence kid, you can even call Lionel
Tyler dog, hit it once for the game
Give it to Hodgy Beats then dish it off to the Brain
My eyes heavy, someone give me a orange juice
Louie V shades so my thoughts don't support you
Thoughts decreases, hunger builds in my torso
Paper plane on paper plane, can I please aboard you
You, you, uh, ayo Vyron, light that one
Kush, coke, X, mushroom
I'm high as fuck
[Verse 4: Tyler]
I'm Atheist, so I let the blunt bless her
Higher then a fat nigga bitch blood pressure
On the dresser is the kush compressor
That four cents of bags of fluorescent flower pedals
Take a hit of this shit, inviting some
Bitches over to the crib, take a sniff, feeling numb
Baby girl, this is love, mixed with coke
And the eighty proof is in the pudding, so is a pint of cum
This is fun, don't you even try to run
Get you high, get you drunk, oh wait, you're not even real
This is fucking fake, snow white is in my nasal
I don't even think I'm able to shimmy passed the table
Without tripping on cables, me and Travis crying
Earl is probably dying, Cedric licking walls
And all of us tripping balls, heart beating in a trance
I'm in a submissive stance, I'm not fucking playing
When I say call the ambulance, shit
Call the fucking ambulance
I can't feel me, call the.. I can't fucking breathe
I'm not fucking.. this isn't.. What the fuck is this he..
Yo call the ambulance, my heart is beating too fast
This song is over the beat to "Up" by Wiz Khalifa, which sampled Tevin Campbell's "Could It Be." This instrumental was chosen because it is one of Tyler's favorite Wiz Khalifa songs.
From the mixtape Radical


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Men's soccer spring schedule altered
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The triple header scheduled for Thursday's men's soccer matches has been altered.
Lipscomb will face Trevecca at 5:30 p.m. at the Lipscomb Soccer Complex. Trevecca will take on Bethel at 6:45 p.m. The Bisons then take on Bethel at 8 p.m.
Lipscomb has two more spring dates following Thursday. Belmont travels down the boulevard on April 6 for a 6 p.m. contest at the Lipscomb Soccer Complex.
The Bisons close out the spring slate with a game at Kentucky on April 13.


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Megafaunal extinctions driven by too much moisture
Studies of bones from Ice Age megafaunal animals across Eurasia and the Americas have revealed that major increases in environmental moisture occurred just before many species suddenly became extinct around 11-15,000 years ago. The persistent moisture resulting from melting permafrost and glaciers caused widespread glacial-age grasslands to be rapidly replaced by peatlands and bogs, fragmenting populations of large herbivore grazers.
|Alan Cooper inspects ice age bones from the Yukon Palaeontology Program's collection, Canada, 2015
[Credit: Julien Soubrier]
Using 511 radiocarbon dated bones from animals such as bison, horse, and llamas the team was able to investigate the role of environmental change in the mysterious megafaunal extinctions, which claimed the vast majority of existing large land animals such as giant sloths and sabre-toothed cats.
|Lead Author Tim Rabanus-Wallace hunts for megafaunal fossils in the Canadian permafrost in 2015
[Credit: Julien Soubrier]
The international team of researchers, including the University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Oslo, the Yukon Government, and palaeontologists across Russia and Canada, measured nitrogen isotopes preserved in dated ancient animal bones and teeth recovered from permafrost areas and caves across Europe, Siberia, North and South America. They found distinctive biochemical signals reflecting massive increases of moisture on the landscape.
|The study shows that a peak in moisture occurred between the time of the ice sheets melting, and the invasion
of new vegetation types such as peatlands (data shown from Canada and northern United States)
[Credit: Julien Soubrier]
"The idea of moisture-driven extinctions is really exciting because it can also explain why Africa is so different, with a much lower rate of megafaunal extinctions and many species surviving to this day,, says Professor Cooper. "Africa's position across the equator means that grassland zones have always surrounded the central monsoon region. The stable grasslands are what has allowed large herbivores to persist -- rather than any special wariness of hunters learned from humans evolving there."
Source: University of Adelaide [April 18, 2017]
Labels Ancient Environment, Canada, Early Mammals, Earth Science, Fossils, Palaeoclimate, Palaeontology


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OpenLink is our effort to provide firmware which "opens" your LinkStation, thus providing full access to the LinkStation. The OpenLink firmware is built upon the most recent official LinkStation firmware release. It retains all the stock capabilities of the official LinkStation firmware while adding a number of binaries and libraries. You may download the latest release from the downloads area.
- Find out which version is the latest for your LinkStation
- Initially, the user name is set to "root", the password to "" (empty string; both without the quotes).
- The LinkStation will keep its IP address set before the upgrade.
- http://downloads.nas-central.org/LS1_PPC/Distributions/Openlink/ - For LS1
- http://downloads.nas-central.org/LSHG_PPC/Distributions/Openlink/ - For HG
Install the firmware per the instructions at:
Install the firmware per the instructions at:
Incremental Updates
Incremental Updates are created so users do not need to completely reflash each time they want to update to the latest version. Available updates:
- 0.5x -> 0.73b (Currently PPC Only)
Utelnetd is an extremely small telnet daemon.
Busybox is an extremely small program which provides many core utility functions, such as dd and wget.
They are specially designed for embedded systems such as the LinkStation
Development Tools
Precompiled C development environment, running on the LS is specifically designed to be used on LinkStations with the OpenLink firmware.
IPKG (Itsy Package Management System)
IPKG - is The Itsy Package Management System used in OpenLink firmware. This is similar to other package management systems in big distributions like Debian (apt-get) or Gentoo (Portage).
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Pages in category "OpenLink"
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Although it will be too late by now,
i would like to offer my apologies for lack of proper attitude in this forum and elsewhere (have corrected posting there but by the time i could do it here, the thread was locked).
Slaven has been very kind to re-instate me to this forum as well as to the Barca beta and i am terribly sorry for my disrespectful attitude.
Hope i can make amends somehow.


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Spica looks like one star, but it is at least two stars, both larger and hotter than our sun, orbiting only 18 million kilometers (11 million miles) apart. That's in contrast to 150 million kilometers (93.3 million miles) for Earth's distance from our sun. Their mutual gravity distorts each star into an egg shape, with the pointed ends facing each other as they whirl around, completing a single orbit in only four days. Follow the links below to learn more about Spica, brightest star in the constellation Virgo the Maiden.
History and mythology of Spica.
How to see Spica. The best evening views of Spica come from spring to late summer when this star arcs across the southern sky. Spica rises in the east-southeast as the sunset glow fades in mid-April. At that time, it is visible most of the night. Two months later it beams at its highest point to the south in early evening.
By the end of August, Spica can be viewed only briefly in the west-southwestern sky as darkness falls.
Here's how you can speed on to find Spica. First look for the Big Dipper in the northern sky. The Dipper is highest in the sky in spring and summer. Notice that the Big Dipper has a bowl and a long, curved handle. Find the Dipper, and then follow the curve of its handle outward, away from the Dipper itself. The first bright star you come to is orange Arcturus, but if you continue past it in the curving path, the next bright star is Spica. Scouts and stargazers remember this trick with the saying: Follow the arc to Arcturus, and speed on to Spica.
Virgo? Here's your constellation
Spica is the brightest light in the constellation Virgo the Maiden, and it is the 15th brightest star visible from anywhere on Earth. It's virtually the same brightness as Antares in the constellation Scorpius, so sometimes Antares is listed as the 15th and Spica as the 16th brightest. No matter. Identify this beautiful blue-white star, and – with the Big Dipper's help to spot it in the sky – it'll be your friend for life.
History and mythology of Spica. Spica is from the Latin word for "ear," and the general connotation is that it refers to an "ear of wheat." Indeed, the star and the constellation Virgo itself were sometimes associated with the Greek goddess of the harvest, Ceres.
There are many names and stories for Spica's constellation – Virgo – in mythology, and by association with Spica as well. Fewer stories refer to Spica independently. Many classical references refer to Virgo's stars as a goddess or with some association with wheat or the harvest. In Greece and Rome she typically was Astraea, the very personification of Justice; or Persephone, daughter of Ceres. In Egypt, Virgo was identified with Isis, and Spica was considered her lute bearer. In ancient China, Spica was a special star of spring known as the Horn.
One Arabic name was Azimech, derived from words meaning Defenseless One or Solitary One. This title may be in reference to Spica's solitary status with no other bright stars nearby. But Spica is not the most solitary star. That honor goes to Fomalhaut, sometimes called the Autumn Star.
Spica science. Spica is about 262 light-years away, based on data from the Hipparcos Space Astrometry Mission of the 1990s.
Spica is a binary star, with two stars which are telescopically indistinguishable from a single point of light. The dual nature of this star was revealed only by analysis of its light with a spectroscope, an instrument that splits light into its component colors. Both stars in the Spica binary system are larger and hotter than the sun, with the larger of the two, in fact, a blue giant or subgiant. The surface temperatures are estimated at 22,400 K and 18,500 K for the larger and smaller components, respectively. This compares to about 5,800 K for the sun. ("K" stands for "kelvins", a degree on the absolute scale. At high values, each kelvin is about 5/9ths the corresponding Fahrenheit degree, so these two stars are about 40,000 F and 33,000 F, compared to 10,000 F for the sun.)
Separated by just less than 18 million km (about 11 million miles), Spica's two stars orbit a common center of gravity in only 4 days. The resulting forces on these stars are so great that they are probably distorted, more egg-shaped than spherical. Although this cannot be visually seen, even through a telescope, slight magnitude variations may be evidence for such a distortion. The magnitude changes could be the result of the stars showing more or less surface area as they move through different orientations in their orbits.
The light from these two stars taken together is, on average, more than 2200 times brighter than the sun. Their diameters are estimated to be 7.8 and 4 times the sun's diameter.
Spica is one of several bright stars that the moon can occult (eclipse). Based on observations of how the star's light is extinguished when the moon passes in front, some astronomers think that it may not just be a spectroscopic binary star. Instead, they feel that there may be as many as 3 other stars in the system. This would make Spica not a single or even a double, but a quintuple star!
Spica's position is RA: 13h 25m 12s, dec: -11° 09′ 41″
Deborah Byrd created the EarthSky radio series in 1991 and founded EarthSky.org in 1994. Today, she serves as Editor-in-Chief of this website. She has won a galaxy of awards from the broadcasting and science communities, including having an asteroid named 3505 Byrd in her honor. A science communicator and educator since 1976, Byrd believes in science as a force for good in the world and a vital tool for the 21st century. "Being an EarthSky editor is like hosting a big global party for cool nature-lovers," she says.


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Modular Batch Flexibility Brings Unforeseen Benefits
Mixing Dough Requires Real Flexibility, and Makes Great Bread
One of the key benefits of a control system based on the ISA-88 standard is modularity. Modularity begets flexibility. A flexible process control system brings unforeseen benefits throughout its useful lifetime. Even simple systems can benefit from a modular, flexible control system.
Southwest Baking Co. in Tolleson, Ariz., had a problem. The batch system designed for its dough mixers was no longer supported by the OEM that developed and installed it. The bakery had a PC-based batch system connected to Rockwell Automation's control hardware. The PC could fail at any time. With the possibility of a system failure, Southwest Baking needed to do something.
Flexible Dough Mixing
The OEM offered to supply Southwest Baking with a new batch system, which would also be specifically for dough mixing. As an alternative, Southwest Baking turned to Rockwell Automation, supplier of their controller equipment, and ECS Solutions in Evansville, Ind., an RA Authorized Process Integrator and Control System Integrators Association (CSIA)-certified control system integrator. Rockwell Automation's team proposed replacing the OEM batch system with FactoryTalk Batch, which adheres closely to the ISA-88 standard.
FactoryTalk Batch is flexible enough to be applied to any process. However, implementing FactoryTalk Batch carried a higher initial cost than purchasing an upgrade from the OEM. It also raised fear, uncertainty and doubt about modifying the OEM controller code to properly interface with FactoryTalk Batch. This is a smaller system—just the size system which many might say does not need a fully capable batch management system. However, Southwest was able to see the power in flexibility.
"Southwest Baking's upper management fully supports the use of leading edge technology" says Robert Wroblewski, engineering manager at Southwest Baking. "Applying a proven, flexible, off-the-shelf solution that can adapt to our process opens the doors for continuous improvements, even if we don't realize all of the benefits immediately."
FactoryTalk Batch can be applied to any new or existing process in three general steps:
- Determine how you will apply your batch management system (BMS). You must classify your equipment and determine the tasks required to make all your products (Figure 1);
- Determine how you'll either modularize your existing controller code or how you'll replace it with new modular and flexible code; and
- Develop your product recipes.
The first and possibly most critical determination to make is which of the major pieces of process equipment need to be units and which do not. The determining question is, "Does a major processing activity occur inside this equipment?" A pump is not a unit because a pump just transfers material, while the material is unchanged. A raw or finished goods storage vessel is generally not a unit because it's for storage, not processing. ECS determined that four hoppers and the mix bowl filler needed to be defined as units in FactoryTalk Batch (Figure 2).
ISA-88 modularity includes dividing programming that supports what individual pieces of process equipment can do from the programming of how the process equipment will be used.
Programming to make the equipment do whatever it does goes into the basic process control system (BPCS). In this instance, the BPCS was a RA Logix controller system. How the equipment was to be used was "programmed" as FactoryTalk Batch recipes.
The second step ECS took was to make modifications to the BPCS code. ECS kept as much of the OEM programming as possible. The OEM BPCS code was broken up into tasks, each using specific pieces of process equipment. ECS then added logic to interface each task to FactoryTalk Batch.
Jeff Harpenau, the ECS project manager notes, "In hindsight, it would have been more efficient to scrap the OEM code entirely and start over. The code was inflexible and not modular. The wrappers we created to separate the code into phases had to be woven into the existing code, making the changes more challenging." Even Southwest Baking recognized this and asked ECS to evaluate replacing the OEM code entirely with S88 Builder. ECS recommended, and Southwest plans to use, S88 Builder on a potential second line, line one being retrofitted later.
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After have a crappy manicure on my birthday (lumpy, uneven, smudgy) I began investigating the net for something that really does dry quicky and is easy to apply.
Although I have a decent nail collection, I am completely impatient, yet a perfectionist, so it's not often I have nails I think are good enough to keep on. If it has a smudge then they all come off – isn't that a disease, like ADHD or something?!
Anyway, I got my eye on Marian Newman Inkcredible (geddit?) polishes.
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Beatrice B. Pifer, 95
Beatrice B. Pifer, 95, passed away on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013, at the Laurels of Shane Hill.
She was born on April 13, 1918, in Rockford, to LeRoy and Bertha Leininger Pifer.
Beatrice is survived by four sisters; five nieces and nephews; 20 great-nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by two sisters and one brother.
Funeral services will begin at 11 a.m. Saturday at Ketcham-Ripley Funeral Home, Rockford, the Rev. Tom Brunstrup, officiating.
Friends and family may call one hour before the service on Saturday.
Burial will be in the Riverside Cemetery in Rockford.
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Thank You, Denard
So back in 2007, Michigan had their Grbac/Griese/Brady/Henson/Henne clone in Ryan Mallett. Exit Lloyd Carr. Enter RichRod. Mallett, taking one look at an offense that, on paper, didn't play to a single one of his strengths, left (as was his right). Does anyone remember what happened next? A season of Sherthreetdammit. 3-9. Two B1G wins. A home loss to f*cking Toledo. 2009 was "better," if by "better" you mean "one conference win and no bowl game." Enter Denard. In 2010 (aka the only year he got to play in the offense he was born/recruited to play in), Denard became the only college QB ever to post a 2,500/1,800 season while almost single-handedly carrying the raging tire-fire that was the 2010 Michigan defense to a January 1st bowl game. Exit RichRod. Enter Brady Hoke and his MANBALL offense. Denard, taking one look at an offense that, on paper, didn't play to a single one of his strengths, lef... err... stayed. In 2011, playing in a square-ish offense despite being the roundest peg in the history of ever, Denard leads UM within a game of a B1G Division Championship, plays an all-but-perfect game in our first win over Ohio in 10,000 years and wins a BCS game. In 2012, he had exactly one turnover (an EOH Hail Mary against Sparty) thru 3.5 B1G games and was in the process of grinding out an ugly win over Nebraska when his elbow hit the turf.
Is Denard ever going to drop seven steps, run thru five progressions and pick apart a defense? No. Is he going to back-foot some ill-advised throws into coverage? Absolutely. Since arriving in Ann Arbor, has he put every ounce of his talent/heart/soul into what he does on a football field? Unquestionably. He isn't USC Matt Leinart. He isn't UT Vince Young. However, anyone who thinks that the Michigan Football Program would have been better off the past couple years with Denard in a "Reggie Bush" role while someone else played QB is entitled to their opinion. Unfortunately, their opinion would be wrong.
Tomorrow is Senior Day. Hoke will "The Team. The Team. The Team." because, obviously. We'll know better. The hero is the one who stays. Michigan is well on its way to being MICHIGAN again, largely due to the fact that Denard didn't bail on us when it would have been the easy (and maybe, for him, the right) thing to do. For that reason alone, he
deserves has earned our gratitude.
Denard Robinson—a "Michigan Man" if there ever was one.


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'Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close' -- 1 1/2 stars
PG-13; 2:09 running time "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" transforms the carnage and unruly grief of Sept. 11, 2001, known to its preteen Upper West Side Manhattan protagonist as "The Worst Day," into an occasion for interborough healing and emotional encounters of the cheapest kind. If actors this good cannot overcome their material, then we can only say: Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock ... Max von Sydow, Zoe Caldwell, Viola Davis, Jeffrey Wright, John Goodman ... thanks for your honest efforts in the service of a fundamentally dishonest weepie. -- Michael PhillipsRead the full "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" movie review
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President Obama has firmly rejected a complaint by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Iran was given a "freebie" on its nuclear program.
Netanyahu's complaint came Sunday, a day after key world powers met with Iran and announced that the next meeting would take place in late May.
"My initial impression is that Iran has been given a freebie," Netanyahu said. "It has got five weeks to continue enrichment without any limitation, any inhibition."
Obama took issue with the complaint.
"Now, the clock is ticking. And I've been very clear to Iran and to our negotiating partners that we're not going to have these talks just drag out in a stalling process," he said Sunday in Cartagena, Colombia, at the Summit of the Americas. "But so far, at least, we haven't given away anything -- other than the opportunity for us to negotiate and see if Iran comes to the table in good faith.
"And the notion that somehow we've given something away or a 'freebie' would indicate that Iran has gotten something. In fact, they've got some of the toughest sanctions that they're going to be facing coming up in just a few months if they don't take advantage of these talks. I hope they do."
Saturday's talks with Iran involved the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council -- the United States, France, Russia, China, and Britain -- as well as Germany, referred to as the P5+1.
The next set of talks was scheduled for May 23 in Baghdad.
Netanyahu said Iran should "take immediate steps to stop all enrichment, take out all enrichment material and dismantle the nuclear facility in Qom" and said the Islamic republic "must not have the opportunity to develop atomic bombs."
Iran insists that its nuclear program is for energy purposes only. U.N. and Western leaders suspect it of having military aims, including a possible nuclear weapon.
Last month, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. nuclear watchdog, noted what it called a sharp and troubling increase in Iran's uranium enrichment capabilities.
On state-run news agency IRNA, Iran described Saturday's talks in positive terms and said its right to a peaceful nuclear program was supported.
"Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, said after the Istanbul meeting that talking about suspending or halting uranium enrichment was an old issue now out-of-date," IRNA reported.
European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said after the talks, "We have agreed that the Non-Proliferation Treaty forms a key basis for what must be serious engagement to ensure all the obligations under the treaty are met by Iran while fully respecting Iran's right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy."


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Ocean State leaders – innovators in the fields of education, government, business and health care – will attend an all-day Rhode Island Children's Wellness Summit July 25. Organized by Rhode Island First Lady Stephanie Chafee, an honorary Shape Up RI chairperson, and Shape Up RI Founder and Chairman Rajiv Kumar, M.D., the summit is one day of thought and action designed to promote comprehensive wellness among children through a statewide engagement campaign that promotes physical activity, healthy eating, conservation, reading and good citizenship. The Hassenfeld Family Foundation is the event's lead sponsor. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island is also a major sponsor of this event.
Rhode Island Lieutenant Governor Elizabeth Roberts and Peter Andruszkiewicz, president and CEO of lead Shape Up RI sponsor Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island, will be among the attendees. East Providence native Theresa Moore, director of the documentaries "Third and Long: The History of African-Americans in Pro Football, 1946-1989" and "License to Thrive: Title IX at 35," will deliver a talk on expanding physical education programs in public schools.
The summit, which is not open to the public, will be held at the Squantum Club in East Providence.
Shape Up RI, the most successful statewide healthy eating and weight loss competition in the nation, has helped more than 75,000 Rhode Island adults decrease weight and related health conditions by increasing physical activity and eating more fruits and vegetables. Shape Up RI Founder and Chairman Rajiv Kumar, M.D. believes his Shape Up Kids program can have the same impact on elementary school students.
"This event will be an unprecedented gathering of Rhode Island community and business leaders," said Dr. Kumar. "Experts from a diverse array of disciplines concerned with childhood health and wellness will all be heard at the Rhode Island Children's Wellness Summit."
In September 2009, Dr. Kumar designed a Shape Up Kids prototype program called "Walk the World" in order to take on youth inactivity in Rhode Island. Equipped with digital pedometers, three fifth-grade classes – one each from Paul Cuffee School in Providence, Veterans Memorial Elementary School in Central Falls and St. Andrew's School in Barrington – tested the elementary school application of Shape Up RI's model in three learning environments: charter, public and private, respectively.
Dr. Rena Wing, director of the Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center at the Miriam Hospital, and researchers at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University evaluated the results and concluded that Shape Up Kids motivated healthier fitness and eating habits for participants and their families. A total of 81 percent of participants indicated that the competition encouraged them to walk more and 73 percent reported they now enjoy exercising more. Parents and family members also reported walking more as a result of the program.
A total of 550 children will participate in the Shape Up Kids competition from Sept. 28 through Nov. 9.
"One of the primary objectives of the Rhode Island Children's Wellness Summit," said Dr. Kumar, "is to explore statewide implementation of the Shape Up Kids program."


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Now I can sit back and enjoy the rest of the season. The team has everything I ever wanted and plays hard till the very end. I couldn't ask for more. I believe they have everything the need to win a superbowl.
The only thing that would make this better is somehow jumping up to the #2 seed in the NFC and getting a bye. I don't know what else to ask for. This team is just blowing up with confidence that for the first time in a while, I was actually talking so much crap on the ESPN sf sea conversation to all the whiner fans and not giving a crap since right after the bills game.
I am usually very superstitious about talking crap before a game, but I hate some of the niner fans talking crap about how they were just gonna walk into the Clink and just drop 100 while leaving us with a goose egg. Not to mention that Kaepernick was going to teach Russell Wilson how to play QB.
I am letting my faith loose and putting it all into this team. I think they deserve every last bit of it.


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Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Wandy deal could hinge on Crane
This may be a referendum on Ed Wade's tenure. It has been long-discussed about how ridiculous it was to extend Wandy in the first place. If Crane's first official act as owner is to approve the trade of a player that his GM extended 11 months earlier, that probably doesn't bode so well for Easy Eddie.
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If we can get a Pomeranz out of trading Wandy, I have no problems with it...
- November 8, 2011 at 1:14 PM
If Wandy goes, this team becomes that much more unwatchable. I doubt I'll be able to stomach following them next year as they continue their fall into oblivion.
- November 8, 2011 at 5:26 PM
Crane is looking like a bigger disaster by the day. The Astros could lose 115 games next year without Barmes and Wandy. Total disaster in the making here.
- November 8, 2011 at 6:45 PM
Neither Barmes, nor Wandy are gonna make us be a championship team. If we can get something good in return, I say go for it.
- November 9, 2011 at 3:42 PM
Where does the payroll dump end? I'm aware the Astros are rebuilding, but don't they owe it to their paying customers to at least maintain some semblance of trying to win games?
- November 13, 2011 at 9:28 AM
The dump ends whenever they can get Carlos Lee off the books. Trading Wandy isn't wholly about payroll. It's about realizing that we aren't going to be competitive for a while, so trade off guys that aren't going to contribute to a future success, to get young guys that will.
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Court Says Playing Dungeons & Dragons In Prisons Represents Gang Behavior
from the bloods,-crips-and-paladins deptSlashdot points us to a somewhat odd lawsuit in which a court determined that the game Dungeons & Dragons could lead to gang activity, and thus could be banned in prisons.
Basically, a guy who is serving a life sentence for murder, Kevin Singer, was apparently an avid D&D player as well, and had a collection of D&D books and related paraphernalia. However, it was confiscated by the prison after another prisoner complained that Singer was building a "gang" around D&D.
...Waupun's long-serving Disruptive Group Coordinator, Captain Bruce Muraski, received an anonymous letter from an inmate. The letter expressed concern that Singer and three other inmates were forming a D&D gang and were trying to recruit others to join by passing around their D&D publications and touting the "rush" they got from playing the game. Muraski, Waupun's expert on gang activity, decided to heed the letter"s advice and "check into this gang before it gets out of hand."Singer and the other prisoners named in the letter filed a complaint about the confiscation, and then a lawsuit. Singer got numerous experts to explain that D&D is not related to gang activity. The court claims that some of those experts actually claimed otherwise, but the interpretation here is fuzzy. The court says that these experts disagreed with Singer's assertions because they claimed that D&D could keep people away from gang activity, and thus it's "connected" to gang activity. I can't see how this makes any sense at all. By that reasoning anything that someone does that keeps them away from joining a gang is automatically considered, itself, a gang activity. How does that make sense?
The explanation as to why D&D serves to create gang activity seems absolutely ridiculous:
Muraski elaborated that during D&D games, one player is denoted the "Dungeon Master." The Dungeon Master is tasked with giving directions to other players, which Muraski testified mimics the organization of a gang. At bottom, his testimony about this policy aim highlighted Waupun's worries about cooperative activity among inmates, particularly that carried out in an organized, hierarchical fashion. Muraski's second asserted governmental interest in the D&D ban was inmate rehabilitation. He testified that D&D can "foster an inmate's obsession with escaping from the real life, correctional environment, fostering hostility, violence and escape behavior," which in turn "can compromise not only the inmate's rehabilitation and effects of positive programming but also endanger the public and jeopardize the safety and security of the institution."Read that a couple times. The argument is basically that (1) any activity that involves a hierarchy mimics gang activity and thus can be barred and (2) anything that lets inmates have an imagination might hurt their chances at rehabilitation. The court seems to suggest that part of the problem is that Singer failed to directly answer specific questions or make the specific points he needed to in order to prevail -- which is entirely possible. However, it still seems like a silly result all around.
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You can't say Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns isn't interested in the opinions of farmers. Since early July, USDA has conducted 23 farm bill listening sessions, most of them attended either by Johanns or Deputy Agriculture Secretary Charles Conner.
The irony is that except for a few regional wrinkles, Johanns keeps hearing the same thing: farmers like the 2002 farm bill. At USDA Farm Bill Forums from Tennessee to Alaska, growers have said they would like to slap 2007 on the current law and move on.
Farmers attending a listening session at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines put maintaining the current farm bill at the top of their priorities, followed by improved conservation programs, expanded incentives for ethanol and other alternative fuels, helping beginning farmers and, oh yeah, stricter payment limits.
Johanns rarely comments on the ideas he hears other than to say that every suggestion has merit and that he wants farmers to keep the thought processes flowing even after the listening sessions are complete. (USDA has scheduled forums in New York, Wyoming, California and Maryland with more to follow.)
When Johanns announced the first forum at the Illinois Future Farmers of America convention in Springfield, he laid out six questions he hoped the sessions would answer:
How should farm policy be designed to maximize U.S. competitiveness and our ability to compete in global markets?
How should farm policy address unintended consequences and ensure such consequences do not discourage new farmers from entering agriculture?
How should farm policy be designed to fairly distribute assistance to producers?
How can farm policy best achieve conservation and environmental goals?
How can federal rural and farm programs provide effective assistance in rural areas?
How should agricultural product development, marketing and research-related issues be addressed?
The questions were slanted toward the administration's philosophy that increased trade opportunities will provide a way out of agriculture's financial woes with little emphasis on maintaining or improving the farm safety net.
But farmers and farm group representatives attending the forums have told the secretary and other USDA officials repeatedly that the current farm bill provisions are needed to protect farmer incomes. Others have argued Congress must keep the current law as a bargaining tool in the Doha Round WTO negotiations.
If Johanns was surprised by the emphasis on safety net issues, he hasn't shown it. He did attempt to steer the discussion back to increased trade opportunities and the law of unintended consequences of farm program payments in the early sessions.
Some congressional staffers have laughed off the forums. While the House Agriculture Committee had discussed conducting listening sessions this fall, most believe neither body's ag committees will begin serious discussions until 2006.
Others have talked about extending the current farm bill to avoid the potential for debating a farm bill during an election year. Some also question writing a new farm bill before the WTO completes a new trade agreement.


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Boston Mayor Walsh Wants The Pope To Visit The City
Walsh has asked the Roman Catholic Cardinal of Boston, Sean O'Malley, to hand deliver an invitation to the pontiff asking him to visit Boston during a possible visit to the U.S. next year. O'Malley headed to the Vatican this week. According to The Boston Globe, Walsh's letter emphasizes the importance of the church in his own life as well as the importance of faith in the history of the city. He points out that the Boston Archdiocese is one of the largest in the U.S. The last and only time a pope visited Boston was 1979, when Pope John Paul II held a Mass for thousands on Boston Common during a downpour.


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I have noticed that in the 'murattal' recordings of Shaykh Basfar, he seems to prolong the harf dhaad when sakin...
Assalamu Alaykum Respected Teachers,
I have noticed that in the 'murattal' recordings of Shaykh Basfar, he seems to prolong the harf dhaad (when sakin - rikhwa ?), but at the same time (what seems like to me atleast) pronounce a slight qalqalah-like sound.
At first I thought maybe it was just a slip of the tongue, but he seems to be doing it constantly throughout the recordings... to the point that I am beginning to think it's on purpose. Could you please clarify this for me.... although I am pretty sure it can't be qalqalah.. which part of the taweed rules is he following that causes him to emit this sound ?
Jazakumullahu Khairan.
Wa alaikum assalaam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,
The timing for the saakinah is the same timing as all other letters of . The also has the characteristic of , which is a mechanical pushing forward of the tongue due to the compression of the sound. You probably are hearing the running of the sound of under the influence of the. Sheikh Basfar, may Allah preserve him, pronounces the dhaad very nicely, masha' Allah tabaarak Allah.
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MFA in directing, University of Pittsburgh, 1986
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Theater directing and costume design
Playwrights Horizons, NYC: Fabulation (assistant to Lynn Nottage)
Actors Theatre of Louisville: Amadeus (assistant to Kate Whoriskey)
Saint Michael's Playhouse: the Boys Next Door; Lend Me a Tenor; Grease; the Mystery of Irma Vep; the Fantasticks; Beau Jest; the Unexpected Guest; I Hate Hamlet.
Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival, Pittsburgh, PA.: Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet (U. S. Premiere)
Saint Michael's College, Fine Arts Department: Woyzeck (11/05); JB; Museum; And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank, Picasso at the Lapin Agile; Tartuffe; Top Girls; Hamlet; the Illusion*; Mad Forest; Company; Execution of Justice
*Alternate for American College Theatre Festival
Over 50 productions in professional and academic venues. Some recent designs include Blithe Spirit, Once on this Island, the Bacchae, and A Midsummer Night's Dream
Introduction to Performance (Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing), currently in its third edition.
I would be happy to give any prospective theater student a tour of the McCarthy Arts Center, have you sit in on my classes or rehearsals, see a show, and introduce you to Saint Michael's College students who can answer your questions.
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