text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - a picture. Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Gallery/Finished Work View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "a picture." IsricmemberMember #Joined: 23 Jul 2000Posts: 1200Location: Calgary AB Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2001 8:16 pm I haven't done anything lately thats taken over 2 hours. This one did. I was sitting around and couldn't think of any character ideas, until I finally decided to draw me and my friends. Fro left to right are characters BASED on: Me, cept thiner and with a beard Shaun, the easy going playful one Femi (short for Alluafemi Aderemi Daniel Ajayi, Not sure if I got that one right femi, sorry) The athletic energy adict. Hope you like it, I think it's finished, if not, just tell me. There's a story here, but as usual, I'm not telling Back to top BinkememberMember #Joined: 27 Oct 1999Posts: 1194Location: Sweden Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2001 8:23 pm Hm I cant see the picture.. ------------------ Art Dimensional Back to top jasonNmemberMember #Joined: 12 Jan 2000Posts: 842Location: Sydney Australia Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2001 9:03 pm Cool pic Isric and a very nice concept too! The head of the middle dude seems a little big but it's a cartoon so it doesn't matter too much. The colours in the pic seem to go niceley. You look like you're scheming? Plotting an evil plan! Back to top EviLToYLeTmemberMember #Joined: 09 Aug 2000Posts: 1216Location: CA, USA Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2001 9:50 pm Great picture isric. I really like the emotions you've captured on the faces of the characters. The middle one looks so happy with his dolls....the right one so serious about his weight lifting...and th eleft one..rofl that guys ploitting something. Just one wierd thing i notice is the two black lines that seem to be the table..... might want to change that. Back to top silbermemberMember #Joined: 15 Jul 2000Posts: 642Location: Berlin Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2001 5:26 am can't see it either ------------------ silber http://silber.atariflys.de Back to top CosmemberMember #Joined: 05 Mar 2000Posts: 1332Location: UK Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2001 8:20 am ditto Back to top mickememberMember #Joined: 19 Jan 2000Posts: 1666Location: Oslo/Norway Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2001 8:56 am d1tt0, d00dz!! ------------------ Mikael's artwork Back to top CosmemberMember #Joined: 05 Mar 2000Posts: 1332Location: UK Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2001 9:47 am heheh micke I told you it was too soon to stop your medication! Back to top mjmcchesneymemberMember #Joined: 26 Nov 2000Posts: 218Location: CT, USA Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2001 4:35 pm There ya go. Nice pic isric, love your style. Back to top skyediverjunior memberMember #Joined: 10 Dec 2000Posts: 49Location: earth Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2001 6:56 pm Love it, Matticus! Especially the chairs, I want one... The colors are awesome, and it's nice to see a pic of yours where you spent more time on it than usual, harhar. I could go on about it, as most of your art of course, but I'll spare everyone. =) So did Femi shave his head? Or did you just feel like coloring him bald in the same way you grew a beard? (laughs) It's a nice beard, but I was always more of a goatee chica. =) Back to top IsricmemberMember #Joined: 23 Jul 2000Posts: 1200Location: Calgary AB Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2001 8:44 pm Okay, now that it actually works, could you guys comment now? I'd love to hear what u have to say. by the way, just a personal note, I really don't like how the third figure turned out. He looks really dumb. Back to top FlinthawkmemberMember #Joined: 14 Oct 2000Posts: 415Location: Los Angeles Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2001 9:41 pm Hey, nice image going here, as usual, Isric. S'not my favorite from you, seems a little boring to me I guess but nonetheless I really dig your drawing style. I tend to think about Disney films or the Prince of Egypt when I see your characters...their proportions and facial features seem to be fooled with in much the same ways. Question though, how do you like to paint: with the opacity checked on or off (I'm for some reason assuming you use Photoshop here, not sure if Painter has a similar option) I'm curious as to how some of the various painters on the board work. Personally I started out checking the Opacity box which gave me a somewhat painterly look like in this image from a while ago but I've recently left it unchecked. It's forcing me to choose colors more wisely but it also leaves stuff looking too cartoony. Anyways, just posing the question to various people on the boards...I'm always curious I guess. But keep up the nice work man! It's talent like yours that keeps me visiting the boards. -Flinthawk Back to top IsricmemberMember #Joined: 23 Jul 2000Posts: 1200Location: Calgary AB Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2001 11:01 pm Thats the picture! I was trying to remember it, absolutely perfect dream lighting. Anyway, no more rant. When I use painter its always full opacity, as though I've got the thickest paint in the world. In PS, I go in first with no opacity, then I handle values and what-not with the opacity on. Not sure if that helps, but hey, thanks for the compliments Back to top RagnarokmemberMember #Joined: 12 Nov 2000Posts: 1085Location: Navarra, Spain Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2001 11:10 pm I like that image a lot. I don't the third guy looks dumb, but he would look better with out trying to do exercise in a relaxed way. I would change that arm to make him in a more relaxed and confident way, although I don't know how the real guy is, so maybe I'm going in the wrong direction Back to top IsricmemberMember #Joined: 23 Jul 2000Posts: 1200Location: Calgary AB Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2001 11:21 pm no no, that makes sense, good idea Back to top FlinthawkmemberMember #Joined: 14 Oct 2000Posts: 415Location: Los Angeles Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2001 11:39 pm Heh, it's nice to be remembered. I still have to find time to go back and finish that piece up...gotta do justice to what I consider my first digital painting But yeah, that helps. I'd usually forego the non-opacity-checked beginning and just keep the box checked front start to finish. I've actually started my current three pieces much like you've explained by blocking it in and then checking the box to get softer gradations. We'll see how they come out. That and I need to get some time to fool with my Wacom version of Painter. I'm still trying to experiment with many different ways of attacking paintings. Anyway, enough rambling. Got plenty of work to do Keep these great images coming. -Flinthawk Back to top silbermemberMember #Joined: 15 Jul 2000Posts: 642Location: Berlin Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2001 1:07 am oh I like that one the first two characters are great crits?..hmmm maybe the head of the second guy is a bit too big compared to the others ;the ear of the third guy is a bit too big and flat and his pose bothers me a bit but as mentioned I like the pic as it is ------------------ silber http://silber.atariflys.de Back to top AxlmemberMember #Joined: 11 Mar 2000Posts: 411Location: London, England Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2001 10:27 am Another quirky piece. I think that the bg could use something in it as it looks slightly uninteresting but maybe you've done that so the attention goes towards the characters. I like the designs for the characters, a ranger, a wizard and a warrior. The men on the left and right look as though they're having some sort of posing standoff. I have to agree with silber that the middle character's head looks big compared with the others. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Sijun Forums Forum Index -> Gallery/Finished Work All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Digital Art----------------Digital Art DiscussionWork in ProgressGallery/Finished Work Miscellaneous----------------Random MusingsArchive : Sep99 - Dec00 You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2005 phpBB Group


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Five Below: Teen Dream or Solid Investment?
Five Below is one of the fastest growers in retail, but is the pre-teen dollar store's stock worth more than 50 times earnings? Jack Hough has details on MoneyBeat. Photo: Five Below.
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... alright your and with the show revenue growth ... in a tough thing for most companies to come by one surprising retailers apparently found a way to drive sales ... is a worth a look for investors is it worth going into the low five ... Barron's Jack Kallis here to talk about this one ... all I get the idea the last five well below high for a five below for ICI that never gone into one of them I'm not a trainer you know you don't like a sour patch candies and flip flops and nail polish in the midst ... of things going on ... when the dollar and five dollars getting the money goes along with I let's talk about the company can be big sales growth and last quarter and this morning they reported thirty three percent revenue growth on four percent growth at longstanding stores ... now I don't know really another company in retail right now that's this much growth potential this isn't ... a chain has two hundred fifty stores in their concentrated mostly in the east and ... management thinks a lot of analysts agree that this can one day have ... two thousand stores or more so you can see this storm is really multiply in coming years ... nothing about the realists or economics because there's been about three hundred thousand dollars in cash to open up a new store that's what your restaurant bill for you're at ... it and they are done that morning about ten months ... so it's a company that can sell farm ... very fast growth the problem of course ... is that the stock is very popular among people know what this company right that's it then read a lot of people caught onto this one already so there it ... is actually the big your stock market value then some really well known retailers like Ed and Taylors corporate parent Joseph banks ... it was like their Opel style ... so those are nationwide chains and there in a world class in this fire alarm and so is it time to get into the stock and ... look here for years or Alec in one when Ellis says this company has long-term earnings power Goldman to get the pun working on more than five dollars a share ... the compares with forecasts this year for about sixty seven cents ... so the prom is that it's more than fifty times earnings right now this year's earnings ... the fuel to the aid to the number that if you remember that we look at that ... that number is the well eventually it cited a spotless me fifteen times that higher mineral earnings fall ... and you look at Torrey their opening stores like I do this next home or work the mapping orbit ... you can conceive ... of this coming reaching maturity in about ten years warehouses much larger store base ... much higher earnings but also a more modest share price multiple on those earnings ... I fear that works out to about a soccer tourney yearly stock returns twin town of about seven percent ... as of the worst return on Wall Street but I don't think it's the gigantic return you're going after him to go into a higher price ... highflying stocks listed on those we look at it I don't think wildly overpriced and the valuation is in line with the tremendous potential this company has ... I just think it's a little to me it's on a big enough with more for someone heading into the stock right now that the risk ... that you're in love with a ... whole on the way they might get more popular you might get a bigger ... better sell price ... but basically for courses more long-term investors ... I don't see any reason a POW on the stock for now ... even with the great progress and alliances so certainly interesting to be really speak human ions are really interesting company as it is really doing well right now dollar stores ... these young teen retailers and this is the sort of festival was Arike checkout great stuff as always think you're a much thank you

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Parents, Students, Teachers and Administrators See Standards as Necessary but Not Enough; School Environment and Adequate Funding Are Bigger Priorities
New York City -- In a sign of the success - but also the limits - of the standards and testing movement in public education reform, new research released today by Public Agenda concludes that key elements of the public believe high standards and testing are necessary but not enough by themselves to lead to further progress.
In Reality Check 2006: Is Support for Standards and Testing Fading? (the third report issued this year in the Reality Check 2006 series), Public Agenda found that, five years into the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act and over a dozen years into the so-called standards movement in American education, the public now sees these reforms as necessary, but not sufficient. This is consistent across a number of indicators among all groups surveyed by Public Agenda - parents, students, teachers and administrators.
Reality Check 2006 shows that relatively few parents, teachers, principals or superintendents see more of the same as the best course for the future. In this year's survey, respondents were asked to choose among four hypothetical candidates for the local school board - one running on a platform of standards and testing, a second backing vouchers, a third backing charter schools, and a fourth calling for more money for schools and smaller classes. Among parents, the standards and testing candidate comes in a distant second to a candidate backing smaller classes and more funding. Fewer than one in four parents picked the standards candidate out of the four options. Among the educators, support for a school board candidate focusing primarily on standards and testing is in the single digits.
Jean Johnson, Executive Director of Public Agenda's new initiative Education Insights and an author of the report said, It is important to remember that much of the public's initial support for raising standards grew out of anxiety over basics and the fear that too many youngsters were floating through the system without mastering even fundamental reading and math skills. But as promotion standards toughened, as graduation standards were raised, as parents began to see their own children doing harder work than they did when they were in school, the problem of 'low standards' began to lose its edge.
Falling Concern about Basics and Low Standards
In addition to the tepid support among parents for a school board candidate running mainly on standards and testing, other indicators in the Reality Check survey point to some changes in perceptions in this area. The percentage of parents who say low academic standards is a very serious problem in their child's school has dropped from 26% in 1994 to 15% now. The percentage of parents who say lack of emphasis on basics is a very serious problem at their child's school has dropped from more than a quarter (28%) in 1994 to one in five now (20%).
Historically, teachers have been among the most concerned about the standards movement, and the results here confirm their broad dissatisfaction with the amount of testing and how No Child Left Behind is affecting local schools - 70% of teachers say the law is causing problems in their district. But few teachers (19%) say standardized tests do more harm than good, and most (77%) say their district has been careful and reasonable in putting in place higher academic standards.
Like teachers and parents, most principals and superintendents see money, rather than low standards, as a priority. More than half of principals (52%) and 6 in 10 superintendents (60%) say that schools not getting enough money to do a good job is a very serious problem in their district, while just 4% of principals and 2% of superintendents see low academic standards as a very serious problem. Like parents and teachers, these school leaders would support a school board candidate focusing on funding and class size rather than one calling for more emphasis on standards and testing.
Living with No Child Left Behind
Relatively few principals (22%) and superintendents (9%) name the No Child Left Behind Act, the federal law requiring regular standardized testing, as the most pressing issue facing them, but fewer than half (42% of principals, 44% of superintendents) think the law will actually raise student achievement. Principals and superintendents are divided on the usefulness of breaking out test scores by race and for English-language learners, which the NCLB act requires. Still the vast majority of principals (97%) and superintendents (95%) say student data can be helpful for improving educational leadership.
The growing sense among the groups that standards and testing is not the be all and end all of improving public education is not a rejection of the idea itself, the Reality Check 2006 report concludes. Nor is it the much-feared backlash against testing. Neither parents nor students report significant concern about the number or kinds of tests youngsters currently take. The majority of teachers are troubled by testing, but even here, the main concern is the amount of testing, not its basic usefulness.
About Reality Check 2006
Reality Check 2006 is a set of public opinion tracking surveys on important issues in public education. From 1998 through 2002, Public Agenda conducted an annual survey of parents, teachers, students, employers and college professors covering standards, testing and accountability. In 2005 and 2006, Public Agenda revised and updated these surveys to cover a broader range of issues, including high school reform, school leadership, teacher preparation and quality, school funding and other issues. The tracking survey will be repeated periodically as a service of Public Agenda's Education Insights initiative.
Funding for Reality Check was provided by the GE Foundation, the Nellie Mae Education Foundation and The Wallace Foundation.
For the full report go to: http://www.publicagenda.org/reports/reality-check-2006-issue-no-3
The findings in Reality Check 2006: Is Support for Standards and Testing Waning are based on two focus groups with parents and telephone interviews with a national random sample of 1,379 parents of children now in public school, 1,342 public school students in grades 6 through 12, 721 public school teachers, 254 school district superintendents and 252 school principals. Interviews with parents and were conducted between October 30 - December 18, 2005, interviews with students were conducted between October 30 - December 29, 2005 and interviews with teachers, principals and superintendents were conducted between November 19, 2005 - March 7, 2006. The margin of error for the sample of parents is plus or minus 3.8 percentage points; the margin of error for the sample of students is plus or minus 3.4 percentage points; the margin of error for the sample of teachers is plus or minus 4 percentage points and the margin of error for principals and superintendents is plus or minus 6 percentage points. It is higher when comparing percentages across subgroups. Full survey results can be found at publicagenda.org.
Public Agenda is a nonprofit organization dedicated to nonpartisan public policy research. Founded in 1975 by former U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Daniel Yankelovich, the social scientist and author, Public Agenda is well respected for its influential public opinion surveys and balanced citizen education materials. Its mission is to inject the public's voice into crucial policy debates. Public Agenda seeks to inform leaders about the public's views and to engage citizens in discussing complex policy issues.


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The portfolio recommendation is based on two low-volatility strategies: a long-only minimum-variance portfolio and a "130:30" minimum-variance portfolio, which is long 130% and short 30%.
These strategies use advanced Optimization and Statistics techniques to hedge against the estimation risk of the associated models. As a result, they attain consistently better risk-adjusted returns than market indexes, as these portfolio recommendations show.
For more details about the implementation of these strategies, please read the following post: Some efficient low-volatility portfolios: the minimum-variance policy.
Although I recommend a portfolio composition every two months, it is desirable to maintain this composition for a quarter year, and then rebalance with the new composition.
The current long-only portfolio composition contains 21 stocks and has changed a bit respect to the previous quarter (three stocks have been purchased and one has been sold). The turnover is 24% (due to this change and the portfolio growth). On the other hand, the 130:30 portfolio contains 60 stocks and the corresponding turnover is a bit larger: 49%.Regarding the performance, over the last year (52 weeks), the long-only strategy attained a volatility of 9% (versus 12% of the S&P 500). The volatility of the 130:30 strategy is even better: 8.4%.
The weekly 95%-VaR of the long-only portfolio was 1.9% (versus 2.4% of the S&P 500). The corresponding VaR for the 130:30 portfolio was 1.5%.
The last year annualized Sharpe ratio of the long-only strategy was 1.65 (after proportional transaction costs of 40 bps were discounted). On the other hand, the SR of the 130:30 strategy was 1.90. Finally, the SR of the S&P 500 was 1.17 over the same period.
In the next figure, you can see the compounded return over the last 52 weeks of the three considered portfolios.
But let add information about the risk. The next graph shows the risk-return space for the three considered portfolios.
The red point represents the mean return and volatility of the long-only portfolio over the past 52 weeks. On the other hand, the green point represents the 130:30 portfolio, and finally the blue point represents the S&P 500 index over the same 52 past weeks.
We can see the two low-volatility portfolios have better mean returns than that of the S&P 500, and also their volatilities are better. In this case, we say the low-vol portfolios dominate the index.
I have computed the same risk-return space for every week over the last year, using the same 52-weeks historical method to estimate the mean returns and the volatilities. The long-only and 130:30 portfolios attained a higher return than that of the S&P 500 (60% and 67% of the time, respectively). Moreover, the volatility of both low-vol portfolios was always less than that of the S&P 500.
As a summary, the low-volatility strategies dominate the market index most of the time, showing they attain consistently better risk-adjusted returns.


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Copperstate 1000 Road
Rallye visits April 2
|Ever seen an Aston-Martin, Bentley or Porsche racing car up close? Visitors had a chance to stroll amidst an eye-popping automotive array Wednesday, April 2, during the lunch hour when the Copperstate 1000 Road Rallye rolled into Boyce Thompson Arboretum for a picnic.
|Each year this road rally has drivers traverse 1000 miles of Arizona roadway in a fundraiser for the Phoenix Art Museum; this year the Copperstate ended with a lunchtime pit-stop at the Arboretum before completing the final hour's drive to Pheonix.
|Some of the 60 rallye cars represented makers Porsche, Maserati, lamborghini, Aston-Martin, BMW and Bentley. Participants each paid more than $4,000 to participate in the rallye, funds which benefit the museum. For details about the 2004 Rallye CLICK HERE


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NEW YORK, May 14, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Levi & Korsinsky announces that a class action lawsuit has been commenced in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona on behalf of investors who purchased Apollo Education Group, Inc. ("Apollo" or the "Company") (Nasdaq:APOL) securities between October 11, 2011 and April 1, 2014.
For more information, click here: http://zlk.9nl.com/apollo-education-group-apol.
The complaint alleges that the Company made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (a) the Company manipulated federal student loan and grant programs to appear to comply with new federal regulations enacted as of June 2011; (b) the Company employed deceptive recruiting practices that were in violation of newly enacted federal regulations; (c) the Company engaged in numerous practices, including loan forbearance programs, in an attempt to appear compliant with relevant government regulations.
On June 30, 2012, Senator Tom Harkin, chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee issued a report that contained troubling statistics and findings, some specifically about Apollo. As a result, Apollo's shares fell 4.1% or $1.17, to close at $27.22 on July 30, 2012. On April 1, 2014, Apollo disclosed that the Department of Education is conducting an investigation into the Company. On this news, Apollo shares dropped $3.10 to close at $32.06 per share on April 2, 2014.
If you suffered a loss in Apollo you have until June 23, 2014 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff. To obtain additional information, contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. either via email at firstname.lastname@example.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500, toll-free: (877) 363-5972, or visit http://zlk.9nl.com/apollo-education-grou-apol.
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Night at The Roxbury
March 30, 2011
Even with spring officially here, New York is feeling rather drab. Which is why you need an escape, preferably somewhere with a little whimsy.
Two and a half hours north of Manhattan, The Roxbury is a 1960s motel-turned-thematic-suite getaway (you'll know it by its not-so-subtle, neon green lights). Owners Gregory Henderson and Joseph Massa have a background in theater, and the hotel's 27 tricked-out rooms ($90 to $305 a night) draw inspiration from old films and TV shows like The Partridge Family and Breakfast at Tiffany's. It's just the right amount of camp, without crossing the line into tacky.
This past December, the hotel expanded with a new addition of nine rooms that range from playful love nests to 1970s throwbacks. Plus, there's a brand new spa that twinkles with iridescent blue tiles--unwind at the sauna and hot tub, or choose from a handful of luxurious treatments.
Located in downtown Roxbury, the retro-chic hotel is within walking distance of several restaurants, most notably the local watering hole, Public Lounge. But it's worth the drive for dinner at Peekamoose--run by New York expats Devin and Marybeth Mills--where the fare is fresh and the farmhouse locale undeniably romantic (a great mood-setter for a night at your weekend love pad).
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To the Editor:
This letter is in regards to the article that was in the Beacon on 4/19/12. Apparently there are members of the School Committee and the City Council that are at odds over the funding of the improved (stricter) fire codes that were implemented after the Station nightclub fire.
Council President Bruce Place questioned whether those requirements to fund the fire code improvements were due to the stricter codes after the Station nightclub fire. As for the school committee, Eugene Nadeau wants the fire codes relaxed and wants the legislators to rush through that process.
I hope Mr. Nadeau doesn't have any children/grandchildren in the Warwick school system. These new fire codes were implemented on the backs of the 100 people that died and the 200 that were injured during the Station nightclub fire. Those 300 families will never be the same; I know that firsthand. Why would the state want to take steps toward helping to prevent another senseless tragedy and then want to go backwards by relaxing the fire codes? This does not make sense.
Why would the school committee or the city council want to put a price tag on our children's safety? It should not matter how it is funded. If the city council and the school committee are concerned about the funding, maybe they need to look in the mirror and ask themselves why don't I take a pay cut to help fund the fire codes and protect our school children? The city of Warwick can raise my property tax as much as they need to so the cost of the funding can be covered. I am not willing to put a price tag on my daughter's safety while she is in school.
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Over the weekend I went for my long run, actually, my longest run ever. I ran 5 miles without stopping and I felt awesome!! It was such a great feeling of accomplishment and I'm glad I can say that I've reached this milestone. This week's running schedule is pretty mild and I'm just preparing for my upcoming 5k race this Saturday. I'm so excited because I have a really good feeling about my pace and I think I'll definitely be able to get that sub 30 time!
Today's run was a 1.5 easy run. I ran it in under 14 minutes, which is the perfect pace for Saturday. Just hope I can hold on to that for twice as long.
My big treat of the day: a tall mocha frappuccino. SO good on this super hot day.
Short post because I'm in the midst of writing a 20 page paper that's due Wednesday 😦 I'll be back to normal after the race this weekend!
What's your most recent running/fitness milestone?
Any big plans this weekend?
– Other than my race, I'll be celebrating my 22nd birthday with my friends and also picking the winner of the giveaway!!


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The art of being a nuggety bugger
The swag of television shows Paul Holmes has fronted include This is Your Life - now it's his turn to talk candidly about his own.
The prostate cancer he subdued more than a decade ago has returned - and is more aggressive than before - but in the sun-drenched porch of his Hawke's Bay home, he isn't much in the mood to discuss his health.
All that needs to be known, he says, is that he's not well - the cancer is back and it's aggressive.
"Tell people that. That's all they need to know," he says.
"One of the things people keep telling me now is 'you've got to slow down if you want to survive and live longer'.
"A friend told me 'you could have years ahead of you, having a lovely life that you've deserved and lived for, if you just take it easy'.
"My farm manager Nigel the other day said 'I think you've just got to slow down, don't you'. I said 'Nigel if I slow down any more I'll be going backwards'. He said 'yeah by your standards'."
Fan or not, you can't question Holmes' drive and work ethic, including fronting a morning radio show and a 7pm current affairs programme at the same time.
"I am unrelenting, yes, you're right. I've never forgiven myself. For what, I don't know," he says.
"I can look you in the eye and say, 'Look, I'm 62. I've worked pretty continuously since I was 22 in radio and TV and writing books - three books now.' I've done my work, I've retired."
For good?
"I think so. The thing was my health simply can't do this stuff. Going to Auckland and my little apartment every weekend, my health just wasn't up to it. I just packed up.
"There was no future. Do you know the honest truth? I've said just about everything I want to say on radio and TV. What I love now is my writing. I'll persist with the [newspaper] column, health permitting."
It seems then, Holmes' last broadcasting moment was a Kim Dotcom interview on TVNZ's Q+A, which he felt was a good way to finish.
"Someone the other day said 'you started your career with Dennis Conner and you finished it with Kim Dotcom'. I did an interview I am very proud of with Kim Dotcom a few weeks back. I was very sick that day. The medication for my cancer was making me very ill that day. I think I had a throw up and we carried on. I liked him, and I think he liked me. Intellectually I found him extremely interesting. I forgive anything if there's an intellect . . . almost."
The grand house and striking grounds he shares with wife Deborah at Poukawa, south of Hastings, is just 25km from the small roughcast house his father built in a paddock at Haumoana after returning from the war.
It's 46 years since Holmes left that house as an impish teen with a love of radio. Enough time to survive a fatal helicopter crash, two plane crashes and a car crash that nearly killed him and robbed him of his sight in one eye from the age of 23.
And to change forever the nation's broadcasting.
"If I'm remembered at all, people will probably remember me for being a complete arsehole for the way I interviewed Dennis Conner," he says.
On the evening of Monday, April 3, 1989, Holmes launched his eponymous show and New Zealand was treated to a diminutive newcomer in oversized spectacles eviscerating one of the world's most competitive men, and New Zealand's public enemy No 1 at the time.
Conner, the four-time America's Cup-winning skipper who scuttled Michael Fay's Big Boat Challenge in 1987, infamously stormed out of the pre-recorded interview.
"I got so much flak for that interview. I never really watched it until 18 months ago when I sat here at home in Hawke's Bay and watched the whole seven-and-a-half minutes. It was the first time I watched it. Even until the very end of the Holmes era, we would only played parts of it very cautiously. It was so inflammatory to people."
It certainly struck a chord at the time. The TVNZ phone lines were bombarded by complaints in an unprecedented siege that lasted more than a week.
"So I watched it. And I thought, if you don't mind my saying so, 'this is very good work'.
"I really needed that interview. It was the most important of my life, and I was terrified. I remember those blue eyes [of Conner's] almost turn black. Michael Fay once said to me 'did you suddenly find yourself looking into the face of the toughest competitor in the world'. I said yes.
"He's never, never forgiven it. He'll tell anyone he's sitting beside on a plane what an arsehole Holmes is. But it was 20 years ago. I think people have to get over stuff, don't you? Also, all's fair in love and war too, eh?"
Like my topiaries?," he says suddenly, in the habit he has of leaping between topics.
"I bought them from a mate recently to replace a bloody old magnolia."
They are nice topiaries. The whole property is breathtakingly beautiful, and immaculate. Holmes delights in it.
"This is my treasure, this property, my dream."
There is a hot dry nor'wester. The hills are a light brown beneath a blue sky and a few fluffy clouds.
"My father and mother were very beautiful people, very decent people. We weren't flash, but they always taught me I should be good to people.
"In journalism that's hard because you have a hard job to do, and you know sometimes you're going to be writing stuff, or speaking stuff, that people are going to be deeply offended by. So I've always been mindful that you should be fair when you have power. I believe in kindness," he says.
"It's a very important part of my belief system that you get back what you put out."
He quotes John Lennon: "The love you take is equal to the love you make" and St Paul's Letter to the Corinthians. "There's this wonderful line at the end '. . . but the most important of these is love'. And I totally - in my core - believe that."
Holmes' core was certainly shaped by his parents' Presbyterianism and extended family's strong Left-wing leanings, but mostly it's innate, he says.
"I'm not really of the Left anymore. Economically. I started in a Left family, with the picture of Michael Joseph Savage on the wall sort of thing, and my great heroes were the Labour leaders of the '35 government. This was a household where there was only one way you voted, and if you didn't you were a godforsaken f...... Tory. And Tories were never to be forgiven. For what, I don't know.
"Somewhere along the line I felt we're all responsible for our actions and we've got to get off our arse and make a life. You can't expect a government or anyone else to do it for you all your life.
"There are things you want to do that no-one can help you with. There are things you've got to do alone, or you'll never be happy.
"Come on, let's go for a drive, I'll show you the place," he says.
We drive down the long limestone driveway toward a field of olive trees and lavender.
"I've done a lot of work here but the bones of it were all here. Swing a right, we'll get a nice gap in the trees," he says.
"I used to feel terribly guilty when I was interviewing National Party politicians. I'm thinking, 'You have no idea about my family. We ain't National.' Mine was a public service family. I came to learn I could get on just as well with National people as Labour people. What's more, I found I enjoyed the company of National Party people even more than Labour Party people," he says.
Holmes is candid about life's highs and lows. Walking out on his first wife Hine Elder and young family to take up a disastrous and short-lived relationship with colleague Fleur Revell ranks highly amongst the latter.
"I left my children. I look back and I can't believe it. But that's what happened. But there was no going back, and things do end for a reason. I had no reason not to be happy, but I was not happy. I would like to think I did right by Hinemoa in terms of settlement and everything like that. I tried to be friends but it never quite worked out," he says.
"Hinemoa and I have an agreement. I don't talk about her and she doesn't talk about me. I have no attitude towards Fleur now. She was too young. I was too mixed up."
Son Reuben, 21, flew home from his OE last week and is upstairs sleeping.
In Holmes' study are recent photos of daughter Millie at a surprise party held for him in Auckland a few weeks back. That was another low - the years of Millie's drug abuse.
"My daughter has now left that mad episode of hers behind and is now just flying into life. Look at her now, look how stylish she is. She's so beautiful. She's the greatest kid," he says.
He still doesn't think much of former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan but acknowledges calling him a "cheeky darkie" was a mistake. He apologised. What appears to have hurt him most over that episode in 2003 was his own reaction to Tariana Turia's call that he resign.
"I made a very obnoxious and unpleasant attack on her in one of my radio programmes. My mother rang me straight after the programme and said, 'Do you want to get fired? Why did you say that to Mrs Turia?' Months later I said to Tariana I was sorry about saying that, but I felt upset that you demanded my resignation. She said 'I know, I understand'. And we've got on beautifully ever since. I really do like her. She knows her onions. I love her and I love Pita Sharples," he says.
"See the bricks in that wall over there?" he asks. "They come from a building that came down in the '31 earthquake".
"Why are you trying to take off in f...... fifth gear?" he fumes, as we leave the lavender.
A column he wrote about Waitangi Day in February threw him back in the maelstrom. "I got whacked hugely for that column. What I hadn't realised is that it would make me seem anti-Maori, and I so am not. My son's third name is Apirana. I wasn't objecting to everything about Waitangi. I just objected to that discourtesy. But, nevertheless Hone Harawira makes a good point, there's a lot to be discourteous about. I accept many have that view.
"One day in the Green Room before Q+A I was sitting down with Tariana Turia. I said 'Tariana, I'm sorry about the column. Not that I'm sorry I wrote it, but I'm sorry it hurt and offended so many and that it may have been misinterpreted'. She looked at me and she leaned forward, didn't take her eyes off my eyes, and she said, 'Well sometimes things just have to be said.' I said 'thank you'.
"See that seat there," he says pointing to a red bench seat in one of the dells, "I painted my study that colour. I ordered 12 litres and used two. Because I'm a f......."
Asked what he is most proud of, Holmes replies quickly that it was his Erebus book, published last year.
"That was a massive project. There was a terrible injustice there. Yes, I'd have to say the book. I'm proud of the Dennis Conner interview and I'm proud of the [Newstalk ZB] radio show, which was on its arse and I brought it back to number one.
"I would love to do another book. I rang my publisher the other day and said I'd do another book. He said, 'Great, what is it?' I said 'I don't know yet'.
"I had the vain idea when the Erebus book came out that I would take on and do a readable and exciting biography of Captain Cook.
"The world of academia thinks it owns Cook. I'd like to take him off them. Imagine the reaction if I wrote that book. 'Holmes has done it this time', 'he's gone too far this time', 'who the hell does he think he is'.
'I just love working around this place. It's got a lovely charisma. I felt it on the first day. It's hungry on the maintenance. My aim has been that no-one will have to worry, not in terms of having to be dragged down with expenses."
He points to a large glass conservatory that extends from the house. "That was Deborah's idea. She's very, very clever, my wife. I love her dearly."
Is there anything else he thinks people might remember him for?
"God knows. Being a nuggety little bugger? Yes, being a nuggety little bugger will suit me."
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There is currently no automatic way to check a Gentoo system for identified security holes or auto-apply security fixes. This GLEP proposes a way to deal with this issue
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Additional to sending the GLSA to the gentoo-announce mailing list it has to be stored on a HTTP/FTP server and in the portage tree. I'd suggest a script should be used to release a GLSA that will:
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By extending the current farm program, AFBF President Bob Stallman said, "We will move forward with a policy that helps ensure U.S. farmers have the support they need to survive in today's contentious global trading environment."
Stallman said Farm Bureau remains committed to world trade reform, but the failure by trade ministers to break the deadlock made it nearly impossible to conclude the WTO talks by the end of the year.
"We will continue to evaluate the opportunity for global trade talks, but the current situation dictates it is time for the United States to move forward for the sake of the economic health of America's farms, and that path leads us directly to at least a one-year extension of our current farm program and the extension of trade promotion authority."
Those sentiments may be a tough sell in Congress. The day before Stallman's press statement, Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., told DTN's Jerry Hagstrom that proposals for a one-year extension of the farm bill are "too simplistic."
The Senate Agriculture Committee chairman said he finds a lot to like in the current law, but…. "If we do an extension, we've got to do some tweaking." He said he also prefers a five-year bill to provide stability to the industry.
Chambliss' comments amounted to an endorsement of the current law compared to those of Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns in one of the press conferences following the suspension of the Doha Round. Asked what the collapse meant to the farm bill, Johanns said it made "reform" of U.S. farm subsidies even more important.
Although farmers repeatedly called for keeping the current law during the 50 or so farm bill forums USDA conducted last year, Johanns has said the listening sessions provided a mandate for slashing subsidies for the program crops.
"Keep in mind, 60 percent of U.S. farmers receive virtually nothing from the farm bill," he said. "Ninety-three percent of the subsidies go to five crops — corn, wheat, rice, cotton and soybeans.
"This is truly a situation where every four or five years we get an opportunity to examine farm policy," he said. "It's important for all farmers to examine farm policy, to draft farm policy that is equitable, that is predictable, that is beyond challenge."
Later, Johanns conceded farmers in Lubbock, Texas, had asked him not to change a word of the farm bill. "But that was not a universal theme that I heard as I was out across the country talking about the legislation."
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Germ Theory
Germ theory states that many diseases are caused by the presence and actions of specific micro-organisms within the body. The theory was developed and gained gradual acceptance in Europe and the United States from the middle 1800s. It eventually superseded existing miasma and contagion theories of disease and in so doing radically changed the practice of medicine. It remains a guiding theory that underlies contemporary biomedicine.
Awareness of the physical existence of germs preceded the theory by more than two centuries. Discoveries made by several individuals also pointed the way to germ theory. On constructing his first simple microscope in 1677, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek was surprised to see tiny organisms - which he called 'animalcules' - in the droplets of water he was examining. He made no connection with disease, and although later scientists observed germs in the blood of people suffering from disease, they suggested that the germs were an effect of the disease, rather than the cause. This fitted with the then popular theory of spontaneous generation.
The observations and actions of Ignaz Semmelweis, Joseph Lister and John Snow would retrospectively be acknowledged as contributing to the acceptance of germ theory. But it was the laboratory researches of Louis Pasteur in the 1860s and then Robert Koch in the following decades that provided the scientific proof for germ theory. Their work opened the door to research into the identification of disease-causing germs and potential life-saving treatments.
Related links
Techniques and Technologies:
J Waller, Discovery of the Germ (London: Icon Books, 2004)
M Worboys, Spreading Germs: Disease Theories and Medical Practice in Britain, 1865-1900 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, new edition, 2008)
A tiny single-celled living organism too small to be seen by the naked eye. Micro-organisms that cause disease are called bacteria.
A historic expression referring to the transmission of disease between people by means of direct contact.


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New Spring Titles: Medaka Box, Queen's Blade Rebellion and Dusk Maiden of AmnesiaPost Reply
Hi guys,
Earlier we added Dusk Maiden of Amnesia and Queen's Blade Rebellion to our spring lineup. Let's add on one more with: Medaka Box!!!
Medaka Box will be available to Crunchyroll's audience in the following territories: U.S.A, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
Here's a little something to get you hyped for this series:
"Medaka Box is a new blockbuster from Ishin Nishio, one of the hottest fantasy novelists today known for the Monogatari franchise, and GAINAX, the producers of the Evangelion series. The homonymous magna series is currently published in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine and has sold over three million copies in fourteen volumes in Japan. Charming and intelligent, Medaka is a martial art master in the 10th grade: a girl of simplicity and fortitude. And what's more, she is heiress to a mega rich family. It is no surprise she is elected as a member of the student council. Anytime you have a problem, file a complaint with her office and she will find a practical solution, even though it will be a very eccentric one. "
Queen's Blade Rebellion will be available to Crunchyroll's audience in the following territories: U.S.A, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.
For those who are tantalized and titillated by the return of Queen's Blade, here's what you can look forward to seeing:
"Set after the events of QUEEN'S BLADE, Gainos and the entire Continent has fallen under a tyrannical rule led by Claudette, the Thundercloud Queen and victor of the last Queen's Blade tournament. Annelotte, a brave young knight and exiled princess, leads a band of rebels called the Rebel Army to overthrow Claudette and restore peace and order to the Continent."
Back to our earlier announcement with Dusk Maiden of Amnesia:
Dusk Maiden of Amnesia will air on Sundays at 9pm PDT in the following territories: U.S.A, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand
Dusk Maiden of Amnesia revolves around a first-year high school student, Teiichi Niiya who had just enrolled at Seikyou Private Academy. One day while wandering the hallowed halls, he gets lost in one of the school's old buildings and encounters Yuuko Kanoe, who reveals herself as a ghost with no memories. While investigating her death by looking through the school's seven mysteries, they discover the truth about these ghost stories and help those who are troubled…
Is this the end of our announcements? It might be, but then again...
3/5 - Hiiro No Kakera
3/5 - Nyarko-san: Another Crawling Chaos
3/29 - Space Brothers
3/29 - Folktales from Japan
3/30 - You and Me 2
3/30 - Saint Seiya Omega
4/2 - Yurumate3Dei
4/2 - Naruto Spin-Off: Rock Lee & His Ninja Pals
4/3 - Sengoku Colleciton (Parallel World Samurai)
4/3 - Polar Bear's Cafe
4/4 - Saki
4/4 - Upotte!!
4/5 - Kuroko's Basketball
4/5 - Phi Brain
4/6 - Kids on the Slope
4/6 - Mysterious Girlfriend X
4/6 - Tsuritama
4/9 - Dusk Maiden of Amnesia
4/9 - Queen's Blade Rebellion
4/9 - Medaka Box
"more announcements"
But there's only one left, right? Why plural, I wonder...
Not my country soooooo, E7AO globally please?
Yawn. Region restricted. It's just as I predicted.
You start off with announcing a batch of titles available worldwide and then it dies down and then introduce all the biggest titles, which are not worldwide.
Well whatever, UTW is subbing this show.
omg THANK YOU CRUNCHYROLL.
though i just watched it this morning...
this will be easier for me to watch.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ what
Good job, Crunchyroll. This is one of the few that I wanted to watch xD
Boku No Hero Academia is Here!
Too bad It's look like the best shows are the most restricted. It's pretty stupid, as exactly these shows would gain the most from worldwide licences (and increase of premium users from these countries). I'll wait until announcement are done, so I can decide whenever renew my premium in hope of bright future. Well region restricted or not, I probably end up with watching crunchy subs in Neverland:P
Only idiots can learn to fly. [4LCDN8WLAUD]
Awesome, can't wait!
A week late?
This is one of the series I wanted to check out this Spring so ty CR :>
Animanga hunter extraordinaire
Yes! Crunchyroll got the ones I wanted except for one, which Funi got instead. I was hoping you got Dusk Maiden, and I don't mind this being a latecast(I assume first two will be posted on Sunday April 15). And knew you would have at least 30 simulcasts total for Spring.
Thank you! Crossing my fingers for Hyouka as the final announcement
No. I do not want to be your friend.
Checked the CR site a moment ago, freaked out when I saw the announcement!!!
CR is amazing for getting this, this is one of my most wanted anime this season xD
One more announcement, crossing my fingers that it is either Medaka Box or Eureka Seven AO
Whatever we get though, I'm already happy with this season
What even
Hoping it will be Eureka Seven AO!!!!!!
Its time to drop Adobe Flash in the Manga Section.
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A week late?
I'm hoping they will catch up, because yeah the first episode did come out yesterday.
Personally for me this season I'm not too worried about delays so I'm so far behind on everything from last season that I wanted to watch, but I'd still prefer them getting stuff on time so no one has an argument about how they could watch it elsewhere sooner, even if it isn't a legal source.
Anyway this looks like a great title... CR has really been connecting in the past few announcements with everything I've wanted to watch... as always... they start off slow and usually finish up quite strong.
So far behind on anime... need to catch up
They still are one box shy of 30 at this point.
It will be interesting to see if they add another box after the next announcement, or just say something like, "Is that all? Just wait and see".
I see on the publisher page that this one was a Media Factory title, just as Medaka Box, so I suspect we will find out later this was a co-op license with Sentai.
The only other simulcasts left to announce after CR finishes are the ones Nico Nico will bring to the Funico party. As they made no announcements themselves at either Sakura-con or Anime Boston, I hope they are not planning on waiting until the next big con, which isn't until the end of the month. If they follow their past pattern we probably will see no announcement from them until the end of this week or sometime next week.
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Sens. Charles Grassley and Byron Dorgan have re-introduced legislation that would put a "hard" limit of $250,000 on the amount of annual farm program benefits an individual farmer can receive.
The bill introduced by Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, and Dorgan, a North Dakota Democrat, has a new name, the Rural America Preservation Act of 2007, but it's basically the same measure the two Midwesterners have introduced almost annually since the writing of the 2002 farm bill.
The legislation drew ringing endorsements from Washington think tanks that have claimed that a small percentage of large farmers receive the lion's share of farm payments made by USDA.
"The Dorgan-Grassley proposal helps level the playing field for family farmers by limiting the ability of the largest producers to bid land away from small and beginning operators," said Ferd Hoefner, policy director for the Sustainable Agriculture Coalition.
"The act also provides a means to increase funding for popular farm bill initiatives in a year when spending is constrained. This is a common sense, pro-family farmer way to help provide needed support for value-added agriculture, new markets, improved nutrition, rural development, beginning farmers and conservation."
The Grassley-Dorgan bill would establish effective caps of $40,000 on direct payments, $60,000 on counter-cyclical payments, and $150,000 on loan deficiency payments and marketing loan gains, including gains on generic certificates and forfeited commodities.
The nominal limits would be half these amounts, according to a statement issued following the bill's introduction. The combined limit would be $250,000. (Current law caps direct payments at $80,000 and counter-cyclical payments at $130,000. Loan deficiency payments and marketing loan gains are not limited.
The bill would establish one comprehensive payment limitation per person for all commodity payments, rather than two sets of payment limitations for two different sets of commodities, as is currently the case, the authors said.
"Qualifying for the maximum legal payment would be greatly simplified," they said. "Farmers would not need to reorganize under the three-entity rule as they do under current law. An individual who participates in just one farming operation could receive double the nominal limit, just like an individual who reorganizes his/her farm under the three-entity rule.
"That would reduce farmers' legal costs by allowing them to receive the maximum payment without hiring a lawyer to restructure the farm."
The bill would retain the spouse equity rule. Married couples that qualify under the spouse rule would receive up to twice the nominal payment limitations, as under current law.
Farmers would no longer be able to use generic commodity certificates or forfeitures to the government to "evade the limits," according to the senators. "Those mechanisms could be used, but their value would count against the limits. Also, all payments will be tracked through entities and partnerships directly back to the individual who is the ultimate beneficiary."
All payments would count toward an individual's limit, whether received directly or through a corporation or other type of entity, and beneficial interests in an entity would be subject to payment limitations, making it more difficult to create "paper" farms for the purposes of exceeding the limits, the statement said.
To prevent farms from reorganizing in a manner that frustrates the intent of the limitation, USDA would be directed to issue regulations to attribute payments on a farm to the person exercising primary control over the operation.
The senators say the current lack of a defined active management test in law and regulation is a major loophole facilitating huge payments. Instead, the bill improves the "measurable standard" by which USDA determines who should and should not receive farm payments.
"It requires that management be personally provided on a regular, substantial, and continuous basis through direct supervision and direction of farming activities and labor and on-site services," the statement said.
"The combined labor and management standard is 1,000 hours annually or 50 percent of the commensurate share of the required labor and management. Landowners who share-rent land to an actively engaged producer remain exempt from the "actively engaged" rules provided their payments are commensurate to their risk in the crop produced."
The bill would also improve USDA's enforcement ability by instituting firm penalties for fraud. "A person who commits fraud in connection with a scheme or device constructed for the purpose of evading existing payment limits will be ineligible to receive farm payments for the crop year from which the scheme or device is adopted and the succeeding five crop years," the statement said.
The senators say the bill would also:
- Place a real limit on the amount of money any one entity can receive and close loopholes to distribute scarce federal dollars in a more equitable way.
- Level the playing field for family farms by limiting the ability of mega farms to drive them out of business by bidding land away from them.
- Improve farm income by reducing land price inflation caused when program benefits are bid into land prices.
- Help the United States comply with WTO standards by reducing incentives to overproduce, which put downward pressure on commodity prices, encourage dumping, damage agricultural development efforts in poorer countries, and harm the environment.
- Produce budget savings, which can be used to reinvest in, or reduce budget pressure on, programs providing long-term solutions to the social, economic, and environmental problems of agriculture and rural communities.
- Eliminate current loopholes in law and regulation that "invite abuse and compromise the integrity of farm programs, making a mockery of the intent of Congress in enacting payment limitations in the first place."


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Oct. 13, 2007
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. - Amid much cooler temperatures and on a shortened course, MIT men's cross country gave notice to the rest of New England after downing the region's top-ranked team, Williams College, on its home course at the Plansky Invitational. Tufts finished a distant third in the eight-team field.
No. 14 Williams produced Saturday's individual winner as Edgar Kosgey broke the tape on the 6000-meter course with a time of 19:10. Tech junior Jake Ruzevick finished just off Kosgey's pace during the final sprint toward the chute, crossing the line in 19:13. Although Williams enjoyed an advantage by owning a familiarity with a course that featured numerous hills and sharp turns, MIT's top group remained close throughout the race.
With a fast 400-meter sprint serving as the finish, Yermie Cohen blasted ahead and held on for third place in a time of 19:18. The Engineers secured fourth place as well after Joseph Roy-Mayhew out-kicked the top two runners from Tufts to close in 19:20.
Tufts finished 40 points behind Williams for second place, but the Jumbos strength up top displaced some of the Williams talent to help MIT ensure a seven-point win. Trevor Rundell (19:34), Gihan Amarasiriwardena (19:34), Chris Bruce (19:35) and Paul Welle (19:36) capped the scoring for the Cardinal and Gray.
RPI finished fourth on the Mt. Greylock course with Assumption and NEWMAC-rival Babson rounding out the top six. Of the first 29 finishers in the meet, 13 were from MIT and 12 were from Williams.


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Can Sol is a unique, authentic house, built of only natural materials . It is not an impersonal, cold design-villa, but a cozy and raw style retreat immersed in nature.
June 30, 2014
Can Sol in Ibiza
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June 28, 2014
Bringing Rio a Bit Closer
Cristiane Peixoto, a floral designer, and her husband, Marcus Silberman, an investment banker, are from Rio de Janeiro, and as Ms. Peixoto said, "Life in Rio is all about being on the beach and outdoors." So when the couple bought an apartment for their family in Manhattan, they chose one with as much space outdoors as there is indoors.
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June 27, 2014
Rustic Eclectic Farmhouse in Sonoran Desert by David Michael Miller Associates
Set in the Sonoran Desert, this contemporary/eclectic interpretation of a rural French farmhouse strikingly blends furniture and finishes that are old and new. Antique building materials are set against modern and contemporary interior features, working together to create a relaxed and sophisticated home.
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June 26, 2014
Rustic chic house in Formentera by photographer Enrique Menossi
A typical construction based on simplicity and the use of indigenous materials such as stone and natural wood. A beautiful retreat with neutral and elegant exterior and irresistible rustic chic interior.
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June 21, 2014
Casa Sisal by Reyes Ríos + Larraín Arquitectos.
Casa Sisal is located in Yucatan, Mexico and was constructed by Reyes Ríos + Larraín Arquitectos in 2010.
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Is PHP 5.3 Terminal? Well, It's Getting One For Namespaces
By Edgar Hassler on October 27th, 2008
A language lives and dies by how easy it is for a person to express something within that language. But the ease in expression is much like the type I and type II error rate in a statistical test: as you adjust one to be nearer to where you want it to be, the other gets farther away. So the architects of a language have to choose between adding more keywords and constructs or having longer, but simpler sequences of existing ones.
PHP is a very easy language to learn and use because it has a syntax that is a simplified sampling from C++/Java and Perl. People who use these languages pick up PHP fast, and people who haven't used any languages often learn PHP with as much ease as they would learn Perl.
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