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The International Four Days Marches, a physically challenging walk in Nijmegen, the oldest city in the Netherlands at 2,000 years old, is so popular that 46,000 people from all over the world participated this year.
Traditionally held on the third week of July, the walk promotes exercise, and is the largest event of its kind on the planet.
"People came from Israel, Japan, Peru, Norway, South Africa, Kenya – everywhere," said Jane Van Haaren, who grew up in Nijmegen and moved to Massachusetts 53 years ago before relocating to Warwick in 1964. "It was one big group of people. We had a fabulous time."
Van Haaren traveled to Nijmegen a few weeks ago with her husband, William, their grandson Alex Van Haaren, 23, and his friend, Zack Aprea, 24, for the walk, which first took place in 1909 and began being held in Nijmegen in 1916. It started July 16 and continued through the 19th.
While Alex and Aprea hoped to take part in the walk, they visited as spectators. As more than 51,000 people registered, event organizers held a lottery to limit the number of walkers, a practice that has been in action since 2004.
"You can imagine how bad the traffic is," Van Haaren said. She and William didn't register for the walk but have visited Nijemegan "many times" through the years to watch.
Alex was disappointed he and Aprea didn't get the chance to participate.
"It's gotten some of the biggest attention the walk's ever seen," said Alex, who has been an active runner since his freshman year at Bishop Hendricken High School, where he graduated in 2007. He played soccer and rugby, sports that require a lot of running and stamina, and is now studying business at the University of Rhode Island.
"I've known about it since I was really young and I figured it was worth a shot. It would have been really cool achieving that accomplishment with a lifelong friend," he said.
Van Haaren advised him to keep his registration number, as it will give him a better chance at qualifying in the future. He is optimistic he and Aprea will partake in the event eventually.
"I'm sure we'll get in next year or the year after that," Alex said.
Alex has attended the event as a spectator once before when he was a child and was amazed by the music and firework show that occurs before the walk begins. He said the opening ceremony is the "coolest" part.
"Picture the Opening Ceremonies at the Olympics, but smaller," said Alex. "Everyone walks in with their country's flag. It's a big celebration."
Seeing it as an adult was just as thrilling.
"It was an incredible experience," he said. "All my expectations were surpassed."
Speaking of celebrations, people always gather to celebrate with music on the last night. Bands and musicians perform in the streets, serenading tired walkers and spectators alike.
Alex, a musician who works full-time as an operations manager at Guitar Center on Bald Hill Road, particularly enjoyed the musical aspect. He plays piano, guitar, ukulele and bass, and chimed in during the festivities.
But it's safe to say walkers needed a little more than music to get through the event. Band-Aids and ice packs were used to soothe blistered feet and toes. Depending on age and gender, participants walked 30, 40 or 50 kilometers daily. They began in Nijmegen, going north, east, south and finally west before returning to Nijmegen each day.
"The third day is the most difficult because there are lots of hills," Van Haaren said. "It is so hard to describe the emotions you have seeing the people come in on that Friday. Some of them weren't able to walk because of the blisters."
As if walking long distances isn't difficult enough, she said, some participants make it harder by walking in wooden shoes, which they stuff with newspaper or straw. Several limp across the finish line, or drop out because they are too tired and hot, as the weather in Nijmegen during this time of year is much like summertime in Rhode Island. Sadly, a few people died while walking the event in 2005 due to extreme heat exhaustion.
That's one reason participants train extensively leading up to it. They are advised to walk 400 miles from February to July to best prepare their bodies and minds. Still, the challenge is what keeps walkers coming back year after year.
"Some people have participated in the walk 20 or 30 times," said Van Haaren. "There are people who are 70 years old that do it. Their families welcome them in holding signs."
Upon completing the walk, participants receive royally approved medals, along with a Gladiola, a flower that symbolizes force and victory.
Walkers are mostly civilians, but a few thousand military members also participate. In contrast, they are expected to walk 40 or 50 kilometers daily wearing their uniforms, plus a 10-kilogram backpack, depending on age. The walk was originally established as a military event that allowed civilians to participate, but these days it's the other way around.
No matter citizen or soldier, Van Haaren pointed out that many people attend to watch and cheer everyone on. She said at least 1.5 million people were there this year.
"There is no comparison of the excitement of these people," she said, adding that she's thrilled King Willem Alexander and his wife Queen Maxima were there.
Mostly, Van Haaren said she's happy she's able to visit her native land with loved ones. She thinks it's "wonderful" that Alex and Aprea wanted to participate, as they are carrying on a family tradition.
"When [my three children] were smaller, we went every other year," she said. "Now, we go with our grandkids. We're very familiar with that exciting scene."
For Alex, his grandmother is the one who is wonderful and exciting. He enjoys that she's so willing to educate him – and his friends – about his heritage.
"Between her and my grandfather, I'm always learning so much," Alex said. "Getting these opportunities is great."
While Van Haaren is humble, she's more interesting than she'll admit. But she might have an idea. After all, she and her husband are each writing memoirs about their lives. Her ancestors came from Germany, France and the Dutch East Indies, and she traveled to the United States from Nijmegen at the young age of 20.
For now, she's basking in the excitement of her recent trip to Nijmegen, a story she's likely to include in her writings, while Alex can't wait for next year's walk.
"I'm really looking forward to it," he said.


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Anderson Shelter
This Anderson Shelter
is a replica of one type of
Air Raid Shelter
used during the war.
They were given to homes
which had a garden.
They were part buried in the soil
and covered in earth.
When the Air Raid siren sounded
families would run to their shelter
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Rosemary remembers
sleeping in a shelter:
"Inside the Anderson shelter
there were four bunks,
so you could get four adults
or however many children.
I remember I slept on the bottom bunk.
It was dark
and you had to have a candle.
One particular night
the two houses close by
had direct hits in the air raid
and although rubble
blocked the entrance to the shelter
and they had to dig us out,
and our house was in a terrible state,
the shelter wasn't damaged.
I think these shelters
did save a lot of lives.
I used to worry about our cat
because he wouldn't come down with us.
And I used to dig holes
in the side of the shelter
and bury my little teddy bears in there.
They had been killed in the war
and I would bury them
and then dig them up again
and bury them again.
I was a bit ghoulish as a child."
Sheltering from the bombs
During World War Two
the government knew that air raids
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John Anderson was the minister
responsible for the protection
of the public.
Anderson Shelters were free
if you earned less than £250 a year.
Others had to pay £7.
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People who didn't have a garden
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I always do a shrimp column during Lent, and I love the research. I scoured my old cookbooks, and I bought a new one called, "Strictly Shrimp," by A.D. Livingston. It's full of good shrimp recipes and information. I enjoyed reading it.
I haven't tried out all 125 recipes in this book yet, but give me time. Here are four I really liked, plus an old Paula Deen recipe for an Easy Shrimp Bake I made last year. Shrimply delicious!
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The MS Balmoral, the Titanic centenary cruise ship was forced to turn around on Tuesday due to a medical emergency on board. This second setback comes just days after the ship was battered by high winds and 30-foot waves while en route to Cobh, County Cork, crossing the Irish Sea.
Just hours after the ship had set sail from Cobh the ship's captain announced their journey would be interrupted as one of the 1,309 passengers was suffering a medical emergency. Relatives of Titanic passengers are on board the ship.
The gentleman in his 50s, a BBC journalist, who is yet to be identified, is believed to have suffered a heart attack. His condition is not life-threatening. It is believed the journalist was on board the ship in a professional capacity.
The managing director of the travel company directing this memorial cruise, Miles Morgan, said "The passenger's condition is not thought to be life-threatening," according to Guardian reports.
The cruise is scheduled to last 12 nights, arriving at the point in the Atlantic Ocean where the Titanic sank. In the early hours of the 15th April 1912 they planned to hold a memorial service for the more than 1,500 who lost their lives.
Morgan was unable to say whether these two delays would mean the cruise would be running behind schedule.
The ship returned towards Ireland so that the journalist could be airlifted to safety to receive necessary medical attention.
Rachael Jackson, public relations manager for Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines, told MSNBC on Tuesday "The ship is turning around and heading approximately 20 nautical miles east to bring it nearer to the coast and within reach of a helicopter…Fred. Olsen and Titanic Memorial Cruises are working with the Irish Coast Guard to coordinate the relevant arrangements, and making sure that all agencies involved are being kept informed."
The journalist was taken to hospital in Tralee according to RTE.
A statement issued by Miles Morgan Travel, on Tuesday, said "The safety and wellbeing of all guests and crew is paramount, and this decision has been made in conjunction with Titanic Memorial Cruises, as charterer of Balmoral for this voyage. Once the guest is off the ship for medical treatment the cruise will resume as scheduled."
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Kokopellis owners: Troy cops out to 'destroy' night club
Notice of claim contends post-melee business drop, police harassment, tows
Owners of Kokopellis Night Club claim they have been harassed by police who have lied to the public about the circumstances of a January melee and the police tactics used to quell it at the Fourth Street establishment.
As a result, Barry and Joseph Glick, the father and son who own Kokopellis, say in a notice of claim filed against the city Tuesday that they have lost business because of the bad publicity fueled by alleged police comments. They also contend that police park cruisers in front of their bar almost every night, scaring away their clientele.
The Glicks' attorney, Elmer Robert Keach III, said they also claims cars are regularly towed near the business. The owners have had to close on Sundays, Mondays and early on Tuesdays because of a drop-off in businesses, according to the notice of claim, a necessary precursor to filing a lawsuit, which was filed with the City Clerk's office.
Capt. John Cooney said police and traffic enforcement in the area is normal for the street.
"We maintain high visibility on that block especially on weekends due to the large late night crowds coming down for the food establishments on the block and any cars towed would be towed pursuant to a parking violation and obviously it would have no attachment to any type of business establishment presence in the area," Cooney said.
The Glicks claim they have lost thousands of dollars of income because police are "trying to destroy a legitimate business."
Police Chief John Tedesco has said that outnumbered cops marched into a bar fight to rescue a bouncer in the early morning hours of Jan. 25.
"This is not an athletic contest where rules are being followed. It's chaos," former Police Commissioner Anthony Magnetto has said.
But the Glicks claim police were called the first time when their employees smelled marijuana and called a second time when one of their workers was assaulted as they tried to close the bar for the evening after people started smoking pot.
The case has been a battle of the videos.
The Glicks released a short video to the press after the incident that shows an officer beating a man with a baton and a fire extinguisher discharged into a crowd at the bar.
Police followed that up three weeks later releasing video from a number of angles both inside and outside the bar which shows pushing and shoving, confusion and some violent acts on the part of patrons with police responding to those acts.
The Glicks claim that at 2:45 a.m. that morning, "numerous Troy Police Department officers stormed in Kokopellis and brutally assaulted Kokopellis patrons."
Police said eight officers were injured, including six who were treated at Samaritan Hospital, and three bar patrons were hurt.
Magnetto said the officers acted properly in their application of force and in the use of batons.
Roshawon Donley, 25, suffered a black eye and a cut on the back of his head when he was struck by an officer. On Tuesday, police identified that officer as Sgt. Matt Montanino.
Donley was charged with harassment, obstructing government administration and resisting arrest.
Angela Rollins, 34, of Slingerlands, a bartender, was charged with first-degree unlawfully dealing with a child for allegedly serving liquor to Zyjee Lind, 19, of Troy, who is accused of breaking the rear window of a police patrol car.
So far, seven other other people have been arrested, including one man who tried to wrest a baton from an officer's hand.
The Troy African American Pastoral Alliance came together and have held several meetings where claims of police brutality have been made. The group has also filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice requesting a civil rights investigation into the police department's operations.
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Seems like his is improving in this area.
MontanaHawk05 wrote:Giacomini, Giacomini, Giacomini. I can't believe some people are saying that our pass protection is passable. Giacomini is constantly getting beaten, inside and outside.
amill87 wrote:To me, Wilson looks like he is thinking too much. I've been getting frustrated and often yelling at the TV for him to make a decision. It seems like he can't decide whether to step up, roll out, throw the ball, or throw the ball away.
This does concern me a little bit because one of his strengths was supposed to be his mental game. As of now, his mental game seems to be what is holding him back. He has shown flashes of brilliance physically (mobility, arm strength, and accuracy) but it seems like he can't do it consistently because he is thinking about what is the best option while the game is going on around him.
This should be something he can without a doubt eventually shake off, the only question becomes how long will it take?
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007
How The Rubinius Compiler Works: add, @output, And Compiler Specs
The core file I looked at was compiler/bytecode/compiler.rb. The method I was looking at was process_alias(x). If you click the link, you'll see what's going on in there is very simple. The code pops two vars off a stack, and then "adds" a series of small text strings using a method called add. The small strings are instructions.
add appends instructions to a newline-separated string called @output. In the code example linked above, add adds things from the stack and also adds a series of custom instructions. This is a very common idiom in the code for Rubinius' compiler. Very often a process_* method will add two things from its stack, along with a couple custom instructions. I thought the stack might be a call stack, or a context stack - a term I'd glimpsed in a PDF on Smalltalk virtual machines, but not fully understood - but in fact it's a list of s-expressions.
The two things added to @output from the stack in this case are the first two things on the stack, identified as cur and nw. I think that stands for "current" and "next word." The alternate idiom in the code is to name these variables start and fin, and in one place they're name and val. It's a repeating pattern in this code to have a process_* method start by popping two vars off the stack, maybe enough so to justify a refactoring. However, there are plenty of process_* methods that work differently as well.
For a compiler n00b like me, this is all a bit confusing. The good news is that although I still don't know exactly where all this stuff goes further down the line, it is the core information you need to write compiler speces. Rubinius uses a custom RSpec clone. The Rubinius project is essentially on the RSpec bandwagon, but RSpec uses dynamic features unavailable to Rubinius at this time. Obviously when a language implementation is still approaching version 1.0, you're going to be using a subset of the entire language's functionality.
Anyway, if you've played with RSpec, the code will look familiar. Here's a typical sample from spec/compiler/rubinius/compiler_spec.rb. This code really just says that if you compile a given list of s-expressions, you'll get back a given string of instructions. The instructions include some symbolic stuff, but are mostly literal enough that encoder will then translate them into integers (bytecodes) and store them in .rbc files, to be run by Rubinius' bootstrap, the small VM in C which provides the foundation for the more fully-featured VM in Ruby.
This means a compiler change is very easy to spec, because all you have to do is assert that a given list of s-expressions compiles to a given sequence of instructions. (Obviously, it would be a lot harder if you had to debug actual bytecodes.)
Update: thanks to rue and Defiler for corrections.
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About your confusion:ReplyDelete
the confusing parts aren't really related to compiler construction. What you're looking at is a SexprProcessor, which is basically a tool shipped with the ParseTree library, which defines the s-expressions.
If you want to iterate over a ParseTree/s-expressions, you'll need a visitor, and SExprProcessor helps with that.
In short: you can define process_* methods for the AST node types you want to handle.
process_alias handles nodes like [:alias, :foo, :bar].
The reason that you need to do a lot of shifting (x.shift, etc) is a bit of an ugly spot in SexprProcessor. It has nothing to do with stacks, it's simply the AST node the process_alias method gets as argument, formatted as a list [:alias, :foo, :bar].
So, to get at the 2nd and 3rd argument of the node, you call shift on the x argument. (To make things slightly more confusing, SExprProcessor can be configured to omit the node type in the list, ie. you could get either [:alias, :foo, :bar] or [:foo, :bar] - I'm guessing the 2nd is used here).
Frankly, this always reminds me of the way Perl (used to?) deal with parameters.
It'd be nicer to have the process_* methods to have signatures that deconstruct the lists, eg.
process_alias(from, to)
Problem is: some of the more complex node types can vary in structure, and lacking overloading or multi-dispatch or pattern matching, this doesn't really work with plain Ruby. (I have a solution hanging around on my HD that uses Pattern Matching for this... need to release it some day - samples can be glanced in this slide set - look for "ParseWeasel" slides:
Stop in on #rubinius. I'm behind on releasing something too, I know how it is, but you should check in on the irc channel, because it could be that your solution may make compiler stuff easier.ReplyDelete
Why not just splat the remaining arguments by default, eg:ReplyDelete
type, *args = [:alias, :foo, :bar]
send "process_#{type}", *args
And then use
def process_alias from to
The mentioned more complex node types can just do
def process_case(*args)
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With AppRadio Mode, Pioneer has taken the technology from our revolutionary, game-changing AppRadio and placed it in the AVIC-X850BT so you can experience control of compatible apps directly on your dash! When connected to an iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, or iPhone 4 with the correct interface cable (sold separately) and loaded with Pioneer's free AppRadio application, you can enjoy full on-screen access and control of your contacts, calendar, maps, and more! The intuitive interface is formatted and designed specifically for safer in-vehicle operation. Pioneer has teamed up with app providers to offer compatibility with many of today's most popular in-vehicle apps, while also developing an expanding catalog of compatible apps for future features and functions that can be easily and seamlessly added.
Aha Radio provides you with up to the minute content made available from the convenience of Pioneer's touchscreen interface. Listen to the latest Facebook® updates or Tweets from your friends. Listen to thousands of stations that include internet radio, podcasts and audiobooks. Receive traffic information, restaurants and coffee locations personalized to you instantly, safely and easily.
Compatible with Apple iOS, as well as Android devices that support the Bluetooth Serial Port Profile (SPP). Simply download the free Aha Radio app to your iPhone or Android device and connect to the AVIC-X850BT to control your own personalized entertainment experience.
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Pandora is personalized internet radio that is designed to help you discover new music that you'll love mixed in with music that you already know. With the AVIC-X850BT, you can enjoy superior sound quality and full control of the Pandora experience in your car directly from the touchscreen display of the receiver. You are able to give tracks "thumbs up" or "thumbs down," bookmark a song so you can purchase it later, easily switch between your personalized radio stations, and view full track data and album art.
Compatible with Apple iOS, as well as Android devices that support the Bluetooth Serial Port Profile (SPP). Simply download the free Pandora Radio app to your iPhone or Android device and connect to the AVIC-X850BT and take your music to the next level.
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57 Northwest Indian Tribes Voice Opposition to Legalizing Marijuana [AUDIO]
The Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians has announced its opposition to the legalization of marijuana.
Executive Director Terri Parr Wynecoop said on Wednesday, February 26, that her organization has announced its partnership with the Smart Approaches to Marijuana project.
"We first became introduced to SAM vis members of a tribal community who were already working with them," Parr Wynecoop said. "SAM is a health-first organization with regards to marijuana policy that are in line with the stands that we take here at ATNI. Tribes all over the northwest are looking to provide a safe and healthy environment for all of their members, especially their youth, and the element of legalized marijuana doesn't always provide for that."
Parr Wynecoop said that many of the tribes in Washington do not recognize the new open marijuana laws in their state.
"Although marijuana is legal in their state, many tribes in Washington have maintained that it will continue to be illegal within their jurisdictions," Parr Wynecoop said. "For those who are making safe and healthy communities a priority, that stand is being well received. From the broader perspective of illegal drug use, marijuana is a gateway drug, in that people who use harder drugs cite marijuana as their first drug. So, yes, it's already an issue with tribes in Washington."
The group represents tribes in Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Nevada, Alaska, Northern California and Montana. The Salish-Kootenai and the Crow tribes in Montana are affiliated with the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians.
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5 hospitals earn spine surgery Blue Distinction
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield has selected the following Sentara Healthcare hospitals as Blue Distinction Centers for Spine Surgery, as part of the Blue Distinction Specialty Care program:
- Sentara CarePlex Hospital
- Sentara Leigh Hospital
- Sentara Norfolk General Hospital
- Sentara Princess Anne Hospital
- Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital
Blue Distinction Centers are nationally designated healthcare facilities shown to deliver improved patient safety and better health outcomes, based on objective measures that were developed by Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies with input from the medical community.
Spinal surgeries are one of the most frequent types of elective surgeries in the U.S. According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, there were more than 465,000 spinal fusion operations in the U.S. in 2011, a procedure commonly done in the lumbar region of the lower back to treat back pain.
Hospitals designated as Blue Distinction Centers for Spine Surgery demonstrate expertise in cervical and lumbar fusion, cervical laminectomy and lumbar laminectomy/discectomy procedures, resulting in fewer patient complications and hospital readmissions compared to other hospitals. Designated hospitals must also maintain national accreditation to be designated.
Sentara is proud of these hospitals for being recognized by Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield for meeting the rigorous selection criteria for spine surgery set by the Blue Distinction Specialty Care program.
"Achieving excellence in our orthopedic and neuroscience services – specifically in our Sentara Back & Neck Centers – is an important focus for Sentara," said Carole Guinane, Vice President, Sentara Orthopedic Services. "Our Dedicated Spine Navigator helps provide education and assistance for our patients before, during and after surgery, our proven clinical pathways help motivate patients to be mobile sooner for faster recovery and we have innovative methods for managing pain to help with ongoing recovery. We appreciate Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield's recognition of the hard work and dedication our teams apply to these efforts every day."
Since 2006, the Blue Distinction Specialty Care program has helped patients find quality providers for their specialty care needs in the areas of bariatric surgery, cardiac care, complex and rare cancers, knee and hip replacements, maternity care, spine surgery, and transplants, while encouraging healthcare professionals to improve the care they deliver.
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Short review: I like the ladies I found to this website. Not only were they bold, courageous, cunning and down right dirty, I could really associate with them. Ok, so my age now throws me into the MILF category, but it's not a bad thing when you think about holding the traits such as the ones I found on Cougars In Heat. High quality played out through my entire time here, with no exceptions, only a smile.
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Required or recommended tools for development and using KDE libraries and applications under MS Windows.
"Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded." (freeware, for all Windows versions) more
"Console is a Windows console window (cmd.exe) enhancement, useful for using when you depend on this shell, e.g. with msvc. Console features include: multiple tabs, text editor-like text selection, different background types, alpha and color-key transparency, configurable font, different window styles." (GPL, for Windows 2000 or newer) more
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By Candice Green
Chestnut Hill artist Lara Cantu-Hertzler's compelling work is attracting much favorable attention at Woodmere Art Museum's 71st Annual Juried Exhibit, which opened July 28 and will continue through Sept 30. Lara also expects to participate in Chestnut Hill's Annual Fall for the Arts and will be taking an arts residency for the month of February, 2013, in Northern Vermont.
The whiff of paint strongly lingered in the air as I stepped into her studio for the first time. Her paintings were arranged everywhere in the room; I was in a mini art gallery. After a close examination of each of her paintings, I realized she was diverse in her subject matter. Lara's paintings vary from nude portraits of women to inanimate objects. Lara uses oil paint, a paint brush and a rubber brush. She also uses a pallet knife and Gessoboard, which is used for oil painting "because it has a nice smooth surface that helps you move the paint around more easily."
Lara, 26, was born in Boston. Her mother, of Spanish descent, was born and raised in Mexico, and her father, of German descent, was born and raised in Goshen, Indiana. Since childhood Lara knew she was born to be a painter. She made sure every school she attended was established in the arts so she could perfect her skills and progress to higher levels. Growing up in Chestnut Hill, she attended Project Learn School in Mt. Airy and C.A.P.A. (Creative and Performing Arts High School), where she graduated in 2004.
In 2008, Lara graduated from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with a Certificate in painting and two years later earned a B.A. degree in Fine Arts from PAFA. She explained, "My schooling and teachers basically gave me methods and varied ideas, but after a while you need to become your own artist, making your own decisions. Listen to the painting."
Lara uses collages made of photos and images to grasp her own perspective in what she sees and makes it her own. She said, "Sometimes I like to work from life to get more feeling, but I like collages because I feel it is more creative. I always paint very painterly, always keeping a sense of the brush stroke and a sense of the mark. My paintings are representational; however, there are elements of abstraction. Areas of the paintings are left as broad brush strokes. I want the viewer to see paint as well as an image. Mood and emotional content come from my reaction to the subject matter."
We all know how difficult it can be to let your dreams as a child slip away as time goes on, but Lara was very adamant that this would not happen. "My ultimate goal," she insisted, "is to be a practicing artist and make a living off of my artwork and be seen by the world. If I make money off of my artwork, I can make more art. You have to keep a good work ethic, keep working hard and find your niche; eventually you will get somewhere if you believe."
Part of that work ethic is using your talent to help those who cannot help themselves. Early in 2011 Lara painted a copy of a newspaper photograph published in the days following the catastrophic earthquake which had just taken place in Haiti. The 24-by-36-inch painting shows a nurse spoon-feeding an injured child, while a small girl with a bandaged elbow hugs a fourth person.
Diane Speaks, who owns a boutique in Roanoke, Virginia, but was visiting Philadelphia at the time, happened to walk into the Chestnut Hill Gallery, where she saw Lara's painting. She was so moved that she began selling prints of the painting, entitled "Haiti Rescue," and donated 10 percent of each sale to the Roanoke Valley Chapter of the American Red Cross, marked for aiding Haitians. After just one week she had sold 17 of the prints for $200 each.
Lara has had several private commissions and has received numerous awards for her work such as Third Place in the 2010 Philadelphia Sketch Club, Small oil paintings exhibition; Third Place in the 2009 National Arts Program, Art in City Hall, Professional Category; Mabel Wilson Woodrow Award, 2007 PAFA, Annual student exhibition; Carlson Landscape Painting Residency Award in 2006 at PAFA, Juried student exhibition; and First Place, 2005 National Arts Program, Art in City Hall, Intermediate Category.
Her work has also been in several local exhibits in addition to the current Woodmere juried exhibition, e.g., 2010 La Pelle Gallery Group Show, Chestnut Hill Gallery Emerging Artists Show and Sketch Club Small Oil Paintings; and 2009 National Arts Program Art in City Hall, and many others.
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Chuck's first steak house opened in Honolulu in 1959 and introduced America to the concept of the grill and a salad bar in the dining room. Customers loved the informal, high value concept. Chuck's expanded to the mainland in the 1960's and opened here in Danbury in May of 1973.
Chuck's takes great pride in serving only premium quality foods to our valued customers. We offer top choice, hand cut and aged Midwestern grain-fed beef, fancy boneless chicken breast and the freshest seafood and shellfish.


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Dates Unveiled for 2012 Decibel Magazine Tour Featuring Behemoth and Watain
Boasting one of the most crushing lineups in recent history, dates for the 2012 Decibel Magazine Tour have just been revealed. The publication has put together a package containing Polish metal giants Behemoth and the Swedish trifecta of Watain, the Devil's Blood and In Solitude.
Beginning their month-long journey in Columbus, Ohio, on April 11, the tour will welcome Behemoth frontman Adam "Nergal" Darski back to the stage after his triumphant victory against leukemia. Handpicked by Decibel themselves, the featured acts have been assembled not only to entertain, but to push the boundaries of what a major tour is capable of.
"Considering the fact that we'll be sharing the stage with the most evil and uncompromising bands around — Watain, The Devil's Blood and In Solitude — this already makes it a legendary bill that you can't miss out on!" raves Nergal. "Watch out. We won't show up — we will ARRIVE with all the strength and might!"
The 2012 Decibel Magazine Tour promises to strike a creative and twisted form of original entertainment into the top-tier of the metal scene. If you like your metal evil and unrelenting, be sure to check out the official tour dates below.
2012 Decibel Magazine Tour Dates
Apr. 11 – Columbus, OH – The Bluestone
Apr. 12 – Pittsburgh, PA – Mr. Smalls
Apr. 13 – Chicago, IL – Bottom Lounge
Apr. 14 – St. Paul, MN – Station Four
Apr. 16 – Lawrence, KS – Granada Theater
Apr. 17 – Denver, CO – Summit Theatre
Apr. 18 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Complex
Apr. 20 – Seattle, WA – Studio Seven
Apr. 21 – Vancouver, BC – Rickshaw
Apr. 22 – Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theater
Apr. 23 – San Francisco, CA – Slims
Apr. 25 – Los Angeles, CA – House Of Blues
Apr. 26 – Phoenix, AZ – Nile Theater
Apr. 27 – Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theater
Apr. 29 – San Antonio, TX – White Rabbit
May 01 – Tampa, FL – Orpheum
May 02 – Atlanta, GA – Masquerade
May 04 – Charlotte, NC – Amos Southend
May 05 – Baltimore, MD – Rams Head
May 06 – Philadelphia, PA – Trocadero Theatre
May 08 – Toronto, ON – Opera House
May 09 – Montreal, QC – Club Soda
May 10 – Quebec City, QC – Imperial
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Tim McGraw, Faith Hill Unknowingly Help Couple Get Engaged With Sweet 'It's Your Love' Proposal [Watch]
Second chances are beautiful things, and such was the case on a recent episode of Steve Harvey's eponymous TV show. A young couple got engaged while members of the studio audience sang Tim McGraw's 1997 smash hit 'It's Your Love,' on which he duetted with wife Faith Hill.
It turned into a full-on serenade, so essentially, the country duo helped a young couple start their journey get together without even knowing it. That's the power of music -- it is not confined by time or space.
A young gentleman named Jason first asked his beloved Jessica to marry him without even presenting her with a ring. He didn't get down on bended knee, either. But in this clip, he made everything right, with the flash mob serenade of Tim and Faith's insanely romantic song.
"I know I've made some mistakes. A lot of them," Jason, a boxing coach, admits. "But there's one that I know I really need to fix. I messed up our first wedding proposal and I want to make it right."
He then pulled the ring out of her pocket and knelt down to ask her properly this time, with a little satellite help from Tim and Faith!
She said yes, of course.


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Jsimmons needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 34 designs submitted by 13 freelance designers.
I need logo design for OfficeLeaseSpace.com. The logo should be scalable and will be incorporated into Stationary, Business Cards, Advertising and Signage.
This is a young firm that specializes in helping companies find and negotiate terms for new office and industrial lease space. Our clients are companies and organizations that need to expand or relocate to new and/or different facilities. We help them with this process. The logo should be modern\contemporary but have professional business appeal. It will be used for stationary, web site and advertising
- Item 1...Hopefully something eyecatching and unique.
- Item 1...No cartoonish figures.
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The Bureau of State Payrolls (BOSP) and the Bureau of Accounting's EFT Section would like to thank those agencies that participated in the recent Payroll Survey. Your honest response to each of our survey questions along with the many comments and suggestions you gave provided us with valuable input on how well we are doing and in what areas we need to improve. The purpose of this letter is not only to thank you for your survey participation, but also to provide you with a summary of the survey results, including both positive and negative points, and to let you know what actions we intend to take based on the input received.
Beginning with the positive, 92% of the agencies responding rated the payroll services provided overall as either "good" or "excellent". In addition, particularly high ratings were received for taxation matters, such as W-2 accuracy and timeliness, federal tax deposits, and reporting of Social Security, Medicare and income tax payments. High ratings were also received for the timeliness and accuracy of payroll payments and for satisfaction with EFT payroll payments.
Some of your responses to the survey questions did indicate, however, that certain payroll services were in need of improvement. The concerns raised and the action we intend to take to address these concerns follow:
The availability of payroll training by BOSP staff was not sufficient according to most of the agencies that completed the survey. As a result, the Bureau is now offering more training opportunities. Since April 1998, nineteen workshops and training sessions have been held. During FY 1998-99, we will have quarterly workshops/training sessions designed to meet agencies' state payroll needs thus better equipping agencies with the tools necessary to complete all required payroll processes. Additionally, training sessions will be available when new enhancements are put into production. Our intent is to provide training immediately prior to the enhancement being placed into production. We ask that should you have any specific state payroll training needs you either fax your request to Lora Crutchfield at 922-5181 (SUNCOM 292-5181) or e-mail her at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Some agencies were not satisfied with our responsiveness to agency questions. Having found that telephone calls were often not directed to the right staff person, we recently updated our website (http://www.dbf.state.fl.us/bosp/bsp.html) to include a listing of contacts and their backups who can assist with specific state payroll subjects. We hope that this will better assist agencies in getting answers to their questions. The Bureau is also exploring other ways to improve the timeliness of its responses to questions and concerns, such as developing Bureau telephone standards. BOSP staff have been advised to respond to telephone calls as received, if possible, but no later than the same day the call was received, even if it is to just let agency personnel know that the call was received and that we will be working toward an answer.
One-third of the agencies responding to the survey rated us below average on our manual and other written procedures and instructions. We are currently reviewing the entire Payroll Preparation Manual for accuracy and clarity. The revised manual is scheduled for release during November 1998. Please note some areas of payroll processing are very technical, but we will continue to work toward non-technical communications. However, you are encouraged to call us for clarification on any correspondence disseminated by the BOSP.
Assistance with data submission problems was an area of concern for one-fourth of the agencies that completed the survey. Most of the agencies, however, did not clarify the types of problems that have been encountered. The Bureau requests that system limitations be reported to Zadok Coxwell at 414-1872 (SC 994-1872) or you can send him an E-mail at email@example.com. Please report all other data submission problems to Pat Manning at 414-1817 (SC 994-1817) or you can send her an E-mail at email@example.com.
Several comments were received that identified a need for additional agency data submission time. Currently, the deadline for paper change orders allows BOSP staff a very small window of time to enter and process changes. The deadline is 12:00 p.m. the day before processing. BOSP staff routinely receives a barrage of paperwork during the last hour prior to cut-off. This allows for a very small amount of time to perform the following procedures prior to processing: batching, keying, verifying, and approving each batch. If the deadline is moved back, it will be impossible, with the limited resources available in the Bureau, for the payroll to be processed timely. Unfortunately, we do not have the resources available to satisfy this request. We will, however, continue to look for a viable means for improving this process.
A few agencies expressed a desire for twelve months of on-line pay history. Our plan is to have thirteen months of payment history available on-line. This should follow the completion of a current project to re-write the adjustment processes, which should be finished by the end of 1998.
Another problem noted by agencies on the surveys involved the routing of W-2 forms to the correct agency. This primarily occurs when an employee has been paid by more than one agency during a calendar year. Also, routing problems occur when employees switch agencies in January, and the W-2 has been routed to the last agency paying the employee in the calendar year. We are looking at solving this problem with a system enhancement. We anticipate this routing deficiency will be eliminated beginning with issuance of the 1998 W-2 forms.
Some comments were received concerning the length of time it takes to activate a direct deposit authorization. Many steps are involved in making sure that the authorization is set up correctly. These include reviewing the authorizations for accuracy and completeness, microfilming, data entry and verification and pre-notification to the receiving bank (processed on the next available payroll). The pre-notification takes 20 calendar days. The authorization is then active, but a payment is not made until that payee's biweekly or monthly payroll is processed. Generally, authorizations become active within 30 days of the date signed. These steps are taken in order to ensure that payments are deposited correctly the first time. This protects the payee and the State. When we first started to promote the Direct Deposit program, we were understaffed and developed a backlog of EFT forms to process. This has since been rectified and authorizations are processed within the six-week time period.
Finally, comments were received relative to the timeliness of EFT cancellations. The agencies indicated a desire to have more time to cancel an EFT. As of June 1, 1998, an on-line payroll warrant/EFT cancellation system was put in place. Agencies can cancel EFT payments until the 11:00 a.m. cutoff time two business days prior to the payday. After this time, the payment records are no longer in our control as they have been sent to the Federal Reserve Bank for distribution to the receiving banks throughout the United States. Once the payment is in the account, it can not be retrieved. Incorrect payments should be collected from the payee after the cancellation cut-off time. The new on-line cancellation process is expected to be a time-saver for agencies since it eliminates the necessity of calling the EFT Section and the submission of back-up documentation. If your agency would like to receive training on the system, please fax your request to Diana Flagg in the Bureau of State Payrolls at 922-5181 (SC 292-5181) or you can E-mail her at firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Bureau of State Payrolls and the Bureau of Accounting's EFT Section plan to send surveys out annually, and we encourage your future participation. Your comments and suggestions are important to us and will greatly assist us in providing the type of service that you need and want. Again, thank you for your participation in the Payroll Survey.


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Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker LaMarr Woodley has plenty of experience knocking down quarterbacks. His newest venture involves knocking down something else altogether.
Bowling pins.
According to the Associated Press, Woodley has become an owner in a new bowling league run by the Professional Bowlers Association. The eight-team league has Woodley, former Steelers running back Jerome Bettis, free agent receiver Terrell Owens and Los Angeles Clippers point guard Chris Paul all involved.
Woodley will be the celebrity owner of the Pittsburgh Jack Rabbits. The league will begin its inaugural season next month in Detroit.
Woodley is expected to play for the Steelers this week after missing the last two games with an ankle injury.


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Being Charlie Sloth #37 - Change Has Come! (Life of an Independent British Rap Artist)
This weeks episode is the last in this Series!!! Where is Charlie Sloth??? Being Charlie Sloth Series 2 starts in September! www.charliesloth.com
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Firelight needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 25 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
This logo is for a website that will give out information about healing from depression without drugs. It will be mostly used for a header on the website however, it should be a logo that also works, if put on a workbook cover, or put onto a t shirt
New website looking for a logo with a cacoon that turns into a small butterfly, then a bigger butterfly, and then a third bigger butterfly. This will be used for the header on the site. The symbolism is: when you are depressed, you are in a cacoon sheltering yourself away from the world, in hiding. Then as you heal from depresssion, your self esteem & confidence grows a little, into the 1st butterfly. Then as you heal more and find your life becoming better, you grow into the 2nd butterfly. And then finally you become a Beautiful, Confident, Self Assured, Happy, Live Life To Fullest, Completely Healed, Solidly Grounded Butterfly.
- Logo for http://www.LiveDepressionFree.com
- Bright colours, but not too bright that it would bother a depressed person looking at it. Probably cheerful, or pleasant are better words to use, or alive, healthy looking
- -Perhapes, purples, pinks/fushia, yellows, indigo, green
- -If you don't like the cacoon/butterfly idea, We are totally open to whatever idea you have
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§18A-2-12a. Statement of policy and practice for the county boards and school personnel to minimize possible disagreement and misunderstanding.
§18-2-38. School committees and school teams; legislative findings; state board study.
(A) Emphasizing teacher collaboration and leadership;
(B) Enhancing school and classroom effectiveness;
(C) Creating and maintaining involvement and support of stakeholders; and
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More Random Royals Thoughts – 2009 World Series
Well that was two more doubles for Raul Ibanez in Game Two, but the Phillies just couldn't push across the runs to get the 2-0 jump on the Yankees in New York. But Raul isn't the only former Royals player in the series this year to be sure, there are actually a several more.
The most obvious is Johnny Damon with the Yankees – though he is the only former Royals player on the New York World Series roster. Does it seem to you that his time in Kansas City was so long ago now it feels like he is a former Red Sox more than a Royal? Maybe so, but he still spent more years with Kansas City than he has with any of his other major league stops.
The Phillies have four former Royals on their World Series squad. Raul Ibanez along with relief pitcher Chad Durbin, outfielder/pinch-hitter Matt Stairs, and back-up catcher Paul Bako. I guess that is another reason to root for the Phils. The Phillies (Durbin, Stairs) beat the Rays (Howell) in former Royals last year and won the title. Maybe that was their key…
Just A Bit More: If we extend the former Royals to those that appeared for either World Series team this year the numbers get a bit bigger for the Yankees, but the Phillies still lead 4-3:
2009 Philadelphia Phillies
2009 New York Yankees
Former Royals
Raul Ibanez
Chad Durbin
Matt Stairs
Paul Bako
Johnny Damon
Angel Berroa
Brett Tomko
Plus the Phillies had John Mayberry, Jr on their roster this year and that name counts for something as a Royals fan. Enjoy the last weekend of baseball this year!
(Curt Nelson, Director – Royals Hall of Fame)


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The nice thing about TOR is that you can run multiplayer content without setting foot in a Flashpoint or a raid (aka an Operation) by simply running a few Heroic missions**. Heroics take a lot less time than the average WoW Instance or TOR Flashpoint, so you can squeeze them fairly easily into any free time you have. In some respects the Heroic concept is similar to Scenarios in Mists, but whereas Scenarios went for more of an instance feel with mobs and bosses (initially at least) the TOR Heroics can span the entire gamut between the old WoW group quests to more standard instances. Certain Heroics, such as Fall of the Locust, have more of an Azjol-Nerub feel in their focus and speed, while others such as Destroy the Beacons is more a standard group quest.
Although Heroics provided me with some familiarity with multiplayer content in TOR, I still wasn't sure what to expect in a Flashpoint. A dungeon is a dungeon is a dungeon, right? Well, not really.
Well, that's not quite a fair assessment, since the tank and healer in a TOR Flashpoint are expected to pull their weight in DPS too, but their primary responsibilities lie with threat management and keeping their squadmates upright. And everyone --I do mean everyone-- is expected to provide CC as needed.
A case in point: I've been in instances where people have simply refused to CC something --even when asked-- as if they were personal affronts on their core abilities. Runs I'd prefer to forget in Magister's Terrace, Arcatraz, and Blackrock Depths come to mind. But in the TOR 4-man Heroics I've been in, that's never been a problem. In fact, the one time that someone tried to chain pull ala Drak Theron or Lost City of the Tol'vir, we wiped and the Jedi Guardian said "Okay, THAT was a stupid idea."
So. I had a pretty good idea what to expect, but I decided that the smartest move for me was to take an alt and queue up for a low end Flashpoint. My expectation was that the lower level flashpoints would have easier mechanics than the higher level ones. Just like you wouldn't want to throw a noob into the deep end of the pool and queue up Magister's Terrace at level, I didn't want to find out about all sorts of esoteric boss mechanics the hard way with my max level Gunslinger.
Therefore, I pulled out my Jedi Sentinel and queued up for a random. In short order I found myself on Athiss, being told to jump down the hole to the entry. (I found out on a later run that the hole had a sliceable elevator. Oh well.)
Athiss is the classic "send an expedition in to examine ruins, they run into trouble, and you have to rescue them" instance. This kind of defines Brann Bronzebeard's entire modus operandii, if you ask me. It's a part-outside part-inside Flashpoint, which does make it interesting. I've been wracking my brain on anything similar that I've run through, and about all I can come up with is something like Halls of Origination or Utgarde Keep, where the dungeon goes outside for a bit. The thing is, WoW's instances tend to be very narrow affairs, shuttling the party from one boss to the next, and Athiss' outdoors areas feel much more wide open. Maybe not as wide open as Old Hillsbrad, but still very broad. If you wanted to spend a lot of time you could clear it all, but that wasn't why we were there. Instead of the game imposing an artificial narrow scope, the party ourselves did by negotiating from point A to point B.
Inside, naturally, is a more traditional affair with anyone involved with instance running. There are a few trash mobs involved, and then a mini-boss or two, and then a boss. For the Republic faction, you're learning about the area as you go; I suspect an Imperial group would already have a good grasp of the background given that it was a Sith area to start with. The end boss fight has a few interesting mechanics --think of Ionar in Halls of Lightning and you get the idea-- but it does take a while to win the fight. The healer was certainly kept busy, and I'm glad that it wasn't my job.
Okay, enough basic review (as if you haven't seen this sort of thing around the net already). What did I think?
I liked the assortment of enemies to fight. They ran the gamut from Weak through Champion (Boss), and that disparity made DPS-ing down a mob harder than usual. The Weak enemies still pack a punch, and if you don't take care of them quickly their attacks can take out one of your group. Group dynamics are still the same as always: somebody focuses on the bigger bad while others perform clean-up duty.***
However, one thing that WoW does have that TOR doesn't is add-ons, and you really start to feel that lack in Flashpoints. Maybe it's because I've used add-ons as a crutch for so long, but in a Flashpoint you end up using a lot more buttons than while out questing or in your average Heroic, and I missed the UI add-ons that WoW has. You have to adjust to a standard UI, and that means making sure that you have your button priorities set up properly.****
Still, that's a minor quibble, and something I have to make a mental adjustment on.
On the whole, I liked the feel of the Flashpoint. What I saw in both Athiss and Mandalorian Raiders (the second Flashpoint that I ran, this time as a DPS Commando) was a way to use voice and sound that Blizz has yet to implement in WoW. Sure, WoW has the occasional voiceover/intro scene/cutscene, but it also has the standard aggro - PC death - different phase - boss death type of commentary. Anything else tends to get put in the scrolling text. Using voiceovers from a boss (or someone else) while running the Flashpoint provides flavor that you don't see in WoW, especially when the voiceovers are from people that you don't encounter for a long while. Being taunted (via audio) every step of the way through Mandalorian Raiders by the leader of Clan Varad has a completely different feel for it than "Prince Taladram Yells: Who trespasses in the Old Kingdom?" Imagining what a WoW instance would look like if the Svala Sorrowgrave scene in Utgarde Pinnacle were throughout an entire instance is what Bioware was shooting for.
However, I can see where a large number of WoW players wouldn't give a damn about flavor or text or voice at all; "see it and kill it" is their mantra, and if they run the same Flashpoint a dozen times, they don't want to have to "see all this crap again", as one WoW player I know put it. "I play this to kill things and to down raid bosses, I don't play this to think."*****
The player who is predisposed to like a story driven game like TOR will like their approach to instances; for other people it is more of a hit-and-miss proposition. I can see where the lack of add-ons will drive some people nuts, and they flee to the safety of WoW (or Rift) and its numerous add-ons. But I'll be honest in that once I got used to having to prioritize differently, it wasn't so bad to run without add-ons. You stop worrying about damage meters and trying to fine tune your threat management; you just roll with it and do what is best for the group.
And for the record, my old Core Duo processor machine held up pretty well throughout the Flashpoints, thank-you-very-much. Sure, it would have been nice for the graphics to draw a bit quicker at the intro, but I survived.
*Or Age of Conan's 2:2:2. Yes, AoC's instances are designed for two tanks, two heals, and two DPS. The mobs hit pretty hard in AoC's instances, just like their elites out in the game world.
**For the uninitiated, Heroic missions (Heroics for short) are the equivalent of extended group quests in WoW. They are entirely optional, can be run for badges as dailies, and are a great way to essentially perform mini group content without sacrificing too much time. Since they're not part of the main story line, you don't feel required to run them, unlike those group quests in Age of Conan. Also, since the groups are entirely player built you're not stuck with a complete trinity of tank-DPS-healer; I've been in heroics that had three DPS and a healer, or one tank and three healers. If you remember pulling an impromptu group together to try to kill Knucklerot and Luzran in the Ghostlands, then you get the idea of how putting together a Heroic operates. So, if you're in TOR and you see someone ask in Gen Chat about running Heroics, they're not talking about Heroic level dungeons like you would in WoW.
***Just like in Alterac Valley there are some people who actually stay and defend the towers while everybody else rushes off to attack Vann or Drek.
****In PvP, that means everybody is on the same UI and add-on footing, which is always a good thing.
*****This sort of person is also most likely to start yelling "I'm bored!" after blitzkrieging through the content in Mists, but I digress.


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Saturday, January 27, 2007
OT: The Webroglio At The Times
Latimes.com was established in April 1996. Its stated strategy is to be an indispensable "information retailer" for Southern California, providing news, listings, reviews, databases and the thousands of other tidbits people need to navigate their lives.The keys to unraveling this is to immediately note that latimes.com
This vision is unfulfilled. The website's own research demonstrates that latimes.com is virtually invisible in greater Los Angeles. By some measures, the site is losing traction even faster than the newspaper. Latimes.com reports that traffic is growing and has reached 5.1 million unique visitors and 73 million total page views per month. But ComScore Media Metrix, an independent traffic monitor that uses an array of indicators, says overall traffic to the site dropped 9% in September, compared with the same month a year earlier. Visits to nytimes.com were up 10%, at Yahoo News 15%, at AOL News 11%. Overall, traffic to news sites grew an average of 4%, according to ComScore.
Latimes.com has slipped from the list of 500 most-visited websites in the world to 766th and does not make the U.S. top 100, according to Alexa Internet. By contrast, nytimes.com is ranked 95th in the world (21st in the U.S.), and washingtonpost.com is 264th (54th in the U.S.). Even in Southern California, the reach of latimes.com is dwarfed by that of sites such as MSNBC, Yahoo News and the New York Times. A 2005 study by outside consultants concluded that few in Southern California consider latimes.com a source of news or entertainment.
- has much less traffic than its competitors
- is reporting about a drop in traffic reported by Media Metrix and Alexa Internet despite their own numbers showing an increase during the same period.
Furthermore, the discrepancy between latimes.com traffic numbers and those from Media Metrix — not just a discrepancy in value but in direction — leads me to suspect something that hit my day job about six years ago when we, too, started hyperventilating about the numbers being reported by Nielsen Netratings. As I found out then, the dirty little secret of the online traffic measuring business is that error bands are generally much worse because the Net is so fragmented to begin with. The coup de grâce comes when you try to measure traffic for a small(ish) website: suddenly you're looking at a random number generator. Worse, error bands are almost never reported unless with great screaming and kicking from the rating agencies, whose word is supposed to be both authoritative and impartial. It's hard to imagine that the situation has improved appreciably over the intervening years; sampling costs money. For latimes.com, it reminds you of Groucho Marx's quip "who are you going to believe? Me, or your own eyes?" There are other, better ways to get solid, impartial traffic data for the purposes of selling advertising, and latimes.com should be investigating them.
The article goes on to describe the internecine war that Tribune Corp. has set up between Spring Street and the honchos in Chicago, a conflict that has led to the understaffing of latimes.com, which in turn seems to be taking most of the blame for how poorly the site has fared of late. Some of this is no doubt true; the Times wish to improve web services without additional manpower seems doomed to fail, though, given the sprawling nature of the site. The proposal to reintroduce calendarlive.com as a paid site amounts to a timid step in the direction of charging for content. Given that newspapers used to live or die on their classifieds, Craigslist has utterly kicked the wheels out of that revenue stream, and probably will for the forseeable future, too.
As a result, it's fairly clear that the Times will ultimately need to charge for latimes.com, however divisive that turns out to be; the question is, can they sustain the kind of reporting they currently have even with an online subscription base? Unprivy to the balance sheet, it is a question I cannot answer. Nonetheless, I offer up the following obvious suggestion: $110 a year for latimes.com, $137.80 for the print edition (with free access to the online version), leave the opinion section free, and close the rest of the site off.
(You can read more reactions to the latest fusillade by following the links in this summary post.)
so it's near and dear to my heart. all that said, i wouldn't pay to read it i'm afraid. i'd just go to the OC Register as long as it remained free.
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As part of our Geisinger Healthy Selections program, we are doing Wake Up for Wellness Wednesdays. We feature healthy items for breakfast like low-fat baked seasonal potatoes, oatmeal and turkey sausage, and we are pulling unhealthy things like bacon and whole eggs. It's slowly getting people accustomed to eating healthier.
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If Crohn's disease sufferers follow all the advice found on the Internet or in books about which foods to avoid in their Crohn's diet, they may risk nutritional deficiencies from such a limited list of allowed foods. Your physician or a dietitian or nutritional expert recommended by your doctor should be consulted before you remove foods from your diet.
Some popular Crohn's diets recommend eliminating particular carbohydrates. However, the scientific evidence for this is far from conclusive. While a few people with Crohn's report relief from symptoms on these strict regimes, the effect is often short-lived or leaves sufferers on such a restricted diet that they cannot sustain it. Those continuing on these diets may risk nutrient deficiencies from the narrow choices of foods. (Read more about keeping your body in balance in the Summer 2010 issue of Crohn'sAdvocate magazine.)
Everyone is an individual. True food allergy usually means that if you eat even a trace of the offending food, you will have a reaction. Food intolerance means that you can tolerate small amounts of a food, but larger quantities trigger discomfort.
For example, people who avoid milk because they are lactose (milk sugar) intolerant can often cope with small amounts of milk in foods, but they will suffer discomfort if they drink a big milkshake. When Crohn's is very severe in the small intestine, lactose intolerance may occur. But unless your doctor has diagnosed this, there may be no reason to avoid milk as it contributes a significant amount of protein, calcium, and vitamins in your Crohn's diet plan. There are also lactose-free milk alternatives available, such as sweet acidophilus milk or soy milk containing calcium.
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You should probably avoid foods high in fat and added sugars, as well as the foods you know you can't tolerate. Do not cut out healthy foods from your Crohn's diet just because they may bother other patients unless you have had a bad reaction to these foods on more than one occasion. It is important to understand that allergies and food intolerances vary in individuals and you may not be bothered by food that others cannot tolerate. Avoid missing out on your favorite foods unnecessarily.
Advice about foods containing fiber can be confusing, depending on what you read. Choose soluble fiber sources or resistant starch for your Crohn's diet plan, as they provide short-chain fatty acids.
Historically, starch has been thought to be 100% digested as glucose in the small intestine. But research over the last few decades has found that a significant portion (about 10%) is not digested in the small intestine and passes into the large intestine, where it helps gut bacteria with fermentation. This starch is called resistant starch and many nutritionists think that it should be classified as a component of dietary fiber. The bacteria in the large intestine produce short-chain fatty acids from the resistant starch, which may help maintain the health of cells lining the colon (colonocytes). These fatty acids are also absorbed into the bloodstream and may play a role in lowering blood cholesterol levels.
Having fiber in your Crohn's diet plan provides food for your good gut bacteria. Soluble fiber is found in oats, rice, or barley bran, but not in wheat bran. Pectins, another source of fiber, are found in fruits and seeds. Plantago ovata (psyllium) is another good source of soluble fiber.
Resistant starch occurs in cooked, cooled foods like potatoes and rice. The cooling process allows gels to form, which resist digestion in the small bowel. Instead, the food enters the large bowel to be digested by bacteria and form volatile fatty acids. These compounds provide fuel for the large bowel cells and may be protective in Crohn's disease. Thus, increasing the resistant starch in your Crohn's diet by eating cooked, cooled potatoes, rice, and pasta may be beneficial (see the Pesto Pasta [or Rice] Salad recipe).
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Employee performance review is a continual process that takes place regularly with a supervisor's frequent, informal assessments of and conversations about an employee's work performance. On an annual basis, supervisors are expected to conduct a formal meeting with an employee that will most often summarize and/or highlight performance accomplishments, areas for improvement, and goals for the coming year. The formal session should hold no surprises if effective and frequent conversations about expectations and performance have been taking place throughout the year. Employees should have the opportunity to understand and clarify their job responsibilities and expectations, how their work will be evaluated, what work performance standards are, and how work performance should be improved.
For most employees on campus, the standard performance review program will involve the procedures, guidelines, practices and forms contained in the documents below.
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The formal performance review gives a supervisor the opportunity to review and discuss an employee's performance of the duties as outlined in the job description, to evaluate whether previously-set goals have been met and past deficiencies have been corrected, and to set new goals for the coming year. The supervisor will confirm this discussion in a formal, written performance review document, the original of which will be included along with any documents and/or comments from the employee, in the employee's official personnel file in the Office of Human Resources.
Performance review is the method of objectively assessing an individual's success and contribution in accomplishing the assigned work; this includes comparatively reviewing the individual's performance to the particular expectations/specifications listed in his/her job description. Although the purpose of the formal employee performance review program is primarily developmental, the results of the performance review will be a significant factor in salary recommendations, promotional considerations, or disciplinary notice.
For employees who are relatively new to their positions at Ithaca College, it is expected that your supervisor will carefully and continually work with you on performance expectations during your probationary period. Toward the end of the probationary period, your supervisor is encouraged to conduct a formal meeting with you to provide you with feedback on your performance progress and to set goals for the upcoming period.
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This is the radio controlled, electric powered,
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For Beginner Modeler/Fliers.
Construction: Elapor foam white in color
Wings: Two-piece all foam
Radio Compartment: Accessible under wing
Aileron Control: Dual servo
Landing Gear: Main, prebent fixed wire 0.087" (2.2mm) diameter,
tailgear, prebent 0.039" (1mm) diameter wire
Wheels: Main, two Elapor foam 4.75" (120mm), foam 2" (51mm)
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Porn legend Ron Jeremy is in shockingly amazing spirits after his near-death aneurysm last week -- and why wouldn't he be ... Ron tells us, he'd be a DEAD MAN right now if not for the amazing docs who saved his life.
Ron called in to TMZ Live moments ago from Cedars-Sinai -- and even though he sounds a little tired, he was in a great mood cracking jokes ... even describing how he'd direct a porn scene in his new hospital room.
Ron says his aneurysm -- located near his heart -- was caused by his weight and high blood pressure ... and if he waited any longer than he did to see a doctor, he'd be dead.
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Coupled Hearts 2*
by Peter Grabarchuk
Place 5 rectangles onto the uppermost board in order to obtain 4 coupled hearts, each consisting of two hearts placed on the adjacent cells. The pieces can be rotated and turned over, but not overlapped. To move a piece, drag and drop it. To rotate a piece, click it. To flip a piece over, click it holding the SPACE key.
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Coupled Hearts puzzle by
Serhiy Grabarchuk, Jr.