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March 8, 2013Which Private Cloud Should You Choose? by rachelbalik
Host private cloud has become a fast-growing industry, and there are some emerging leaders in the market, as noted in Forrester's recent report, The Forrester Wave: Hosted Private Cloud Q1, 2013.
February 12, 2013Why B2B is the Place to Be by rachelbalik
Two and a half years ago, Aaron Levie wrote a contributed piece in TechCrunch announcing that "Enterprise software is sexy again." Levie predicted that solving problems at scale for large companies would offer bigger payoff than "creating the eighth service that lets you post photos of yourself to the web."
January 23, 2013Joyent and Hadoop: Making Big Data Better by rachelbalik
What? You haven't? Well perhaps that's because it's not quite famous yet, but once word gets out about the new Apache Hadoop-based solution we launched today, we expect this phrase to be top-of-mind for companies who are looking for better performance from Hadoop and have ambitious goals when it comes to managing big data.
January 10, 2013Joyent and Node.Js Win InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award by rachelbalik
Anyone who works with "Generation Y" has no doubt heard that they've been dubbed the "trophy generation" because everyone gets a trophy just for playing, no matter if they win or lose. We're proud to say that the criteria for recognition was a bit more stringent in the InfoWorld Technology of the Year awards, and we managed to earn ourselves a "trophy" not just for showing up to the game, but for truly showing that our cloud services are a cut above the rest.
September 12, 2012Voxeo Labs Adds Telco APIs and Mobile VoIP to Joyent's Global Cloud Network by joyentlindsay
Voxeo Labs, a San Francisco-based technology company leading the industry in real-time carrier APIs, today announced that it has joined the Global Cloud Network (GCN); an alliance of mobile carriers who run their cloud on Joyent's SmartDataCenter fabric. In joining the GCN, Voxeo Labs is helping to deliver the world's first Mobile PaaS.
August 14, 2012DIY IaaS vs PaaS Approach Webinar and Meetup by joyentlindsay
August 1, 2012Lessons from an Open Source Veteran by joyentlindsay
June 29, 2012On Google, performance, scale, value and trust in the cloud by lreitman
June 29, 2012Telefónica launches Joyent-powered cloud service in Spain by shogatwo
January 25, 2012What is Node? Answers from Node Summit by jacksonwest
January 23, 2012Joyent Gets New Funding by shogatwo
November 30, 2011eBay chooses Node.js as the runtime stack in ql.io: a data-retrieval and aggregation gateway for HTTP APIs by brauneric
November 28, 2011Node.js: #1 Most Watched GitHub Repository by alexsalkever
November 25, 2011Why SmartOS? KVM, DTrace, Zones and More by deirdrebstraughan
November 11, 2011A Cloud (and Then Some) for Every Service Provider by dangeiger1


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If you use Safari rather frequently on your jailbroken iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch you may want to check out BackForwardList for Safari. The main purpose is to enhance the functionality of the back and forward buttons.
Instead of tapping to go back a page, you can hold down on the back or forward button to gain quick access to your history. I've found this useful when I want to go back to a site I was browsing a few pages back. It's much easier than just tapping on the back button multiple times.
The tweak doesn't add any shortcuts or icons to your springboard and there are no setting to configure. Just download it from Cydia and you're good to go. You can also swipe sideways within your history to delete individual items. BackForwardList for Safari is a free download from the Cydia store.
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As a precursor to tomorrows iOS 5 update and iCloud explosion, Apple today released iTunes 10.5 to the masses. Here's what's new:
iTunes in the Cloud. iTunes now stores your music and TV purchases in iCloud and makes them available on your devices anywhere, any time, at no additional cost.
Automatic Downloads. Purchase music from any device or computer and automatically download a copy to your Mac and iOS devices.
Download Previous Purchases. Download your past music, TV, app, and book purchases again, at no additional cost. Previous purchases may be unavailable if they are no longer on the iTunes Store.
Sync with your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iOS 5.
Wi-Fi Syncing. Automatically sync your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iTunes any time they're both on the same Wi-Fi network.
For information on the security content of this update, please visit: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222.
If you're going to be updating to iOS 5 tomorrow, update to iTunes 10.5 today. (Jailbreakers, we don't expect any trouble but air on the side of caution and let others test the waters first.)
Everyone else, hit Software Update, and keep your browsers locked on TiPb for lots more iOS 5 and iCloud coverage!
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3 Completely Free and Easy Painting Projects
1. Paint some branches.
For week 2 of Creating with the Stars back in March, I did the Anthropolgie Knockoff Plate Art. When I was setting up my photo, the right side seemed bare and needed some height and color. Since I wanted to spend as little money as possible (none if possible), I looked for things I already had. Branches! One trip into the yard with some clippers, a coat of leftover spray paint from the Side Chair Makeover, and they were ready for their closeup. Cost: $0.
2. Paint some jars.
For a while my grocery store had a certain brand of spaghetti sauce on sale. I stocked up (don't be confused, I'm not a couponer... no one has coupons for organic kale... getting off track). I bought them not only because I like pasta, and I'm too lazy to figure out how to make my own sauce, but because the jars were really big! I knew I could use them for something. I think we have collected 12 so far. I simply squirted a few colors of craft paint inside and swirled a brush around until they were coated. You could use any jars for this. Different sizes would look cool too. Yay for recycling!
3. Kid art.
Do your kids love to paint? Mine do. They love to paint themselves- their hands, their arms, their faces, their hair... as well as paper. I have stacks and stacks of finger painting masterpieces laying around. Frame some of them. This one my son did when he was 2 and I put it in a crystal frame I got as a wedding gift. It's probably the most expensive frame I'll ever own, framing completely free kid art. Love that!
There you have it. Crafting for free!
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fun! A great way to get those kiddos involved :)ReplyDelete
xoxo Jamie || Hello Little ScoutReplies
Yep. They love helping on every project. It's pretty much impossible for me to work, blog, and be a mom without combining some of those. Thanks!Delete
Love the free painting projects!ReplyDelete
Free art is some of the best! (I just painted some branches gold, myself.)ReplyDelete
And I loved all your projects for the Creating with the Stars contest. My favorite was your plate wall! (Super cool!) It would look great above my fireplace mantel as the wall is painted black.Replies
That would look awesome! We are planning on having a fireplace in our house we are building. You just gave me a great idea on where to put the plates! Thanks!Delete
Looks great!ReplyDelete
I´m your new follower and your blog looks so good!
Welcome to visit my blog, you can look the pictures, i write in finnish :)


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venture1 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 61 designs submitted by 24 freelance designers.
repoapp is an online software as a service solution that enables businesses and organizations to manage lost and found items and customer claims. The logo should boost the credibility of the software/website. More information can be found at http//www.repoapp.com
target audience are typically security and guest services personnel who work in different industries (universities, mall, hospitality, transportation companies)
Logo must have a "web2.0" theme to it - not too "cartoony", yet mature (like 99 designs!). repo "stands" for to take back - hence an application that takes back lost and found items. Please do not use stock images or proprietary fonts. Also, don't be biased by current logo on website. I'm open to all colors. Show off you WEB2.0 creativity skills!
Contest winner must submit PNG/JPEG and corresponding PSD or AI file.
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Friday was the start of PAX, and it thankfully began at 10:00 AM. I needed extra sleep due to jet lag. We walked to a Subway shop for breakfast, and continued on to enter the expo. We went an awkward way that first day and ended up in the building, well, before we should have. Realizing the place would be way more crowded if they were open, we discreetly exited and went around to enter with everyone else.
Afterward, we hoofed it to a nearby theater, for the Penny Arcade Q&A. It was super exciting to see Mike and Jerry, so we were feeling pretty nerd-happy, when the SO leaned over and said, "You should go ask Jerry what he's been reading lately." So I did. I stood in line to ask a question and got to talk to Mike and Jerry! Squeeeeee! Sadly, Jerry didn't have any suggestions, but Mike had recently read The Sparrow. Yay!
Then it was onto the Swag!!! Yay free stuff! We got Magic: The Gathering bags and coloring books, drawn by none other than Mike himself!, and a magazine and a few brochures and a pack of Magic cards. I grabbed the red, because I prefer the color: the way it plays, the spells, etc. My own deck is completely red, and say what you want, but I love it.
After checking out all the booths showing off the newest console and computer games, we had dinner, at the same Subway we'd had for breakfast. By this time we were exhausted. We felt bad about not enjoying the expo til 2 AM, but we were both practically dead on our feet. Nothing a good night's sleep didn't fix.


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Hotele w Jaipur
Jaipur is the capital of the state of Rajasthan and one of the most splendid cities in all of India. Known as the Pink City, Jaipur is on the 'Golden Triangle', the popular tourist route that takes in Jaipur, Delhi and Agra.
The city gets its name from its founder, the Maharaja Jai Singh, who ruled from 1688 to 1744. He was from the Rajput clan that traced its lineage back to the 12th century and who built the magnificent Amber Fort, 11km outside of Jaipur. Jai Singh created the city in 1727 to accommodate a growing population and due to a lack of water at Amber.
Jaipur was designed with precision according to ancient Hindu principles and was India's first planned city. In 1876 Jai Singh's successor, Maharaha Ram Singh, painted the city pink to welcome the Prince of Wales, and Jaipur became known as the Pink City.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, Jaipur outgrew its city walls and its organic sprawl paid little attention to the planned precision of the Old City. Today it is a chaotic and crowded city, but a largely prosperous one, attracting investment as a commercial, business and tourist centre.
In 2008 Jaipur was ranked 31 in the Top 50 Emerging Global Outsourcing Cities. Several large multinational corporations have their BPOs there and the World Trade Park is a hub for modern business.
When to go:
The weather is best for visitors to Jaipur between November and February, although there are some wonderful festivals in March and April.
- Take a walking tour of the splendid Old City, with its wide boulevards, bazaars and pink buildings.
- Visit Amber Fort, a magnificent Rajput citadel and palace that served as the Royal Palace from 1600-1727.
- Say hi to the old royal family who still reside at the City Palace. Taking up one-seventh of Jaipur's Old City, the sprawling complex is a magnificent combination of Rajput and Mughal architecture.
- Gaze into the stars at the World Heritage listed Jantar Mantar, or Royal Observatory.
- Watch the passers-by through the honeycomb windows of Hawar Mahal, the Palace of the Winds, which was built for the women of the court to observe outside life.
- Bargain hard in the specialist bazaars of the Old City. An evening visit is especially captivating.
- Check out the collections at the Central Museum in Albert Hall, which is a splendid combination of English and North Indian architecture.
- Take the 1km walk uphill from the Amber Fort to visit Jaigarh Fort. The spectacular gardens and vista over Amber and the surrounding hills makes the walk worthwhile.
- Pay your respects to Lord Krishna at the Govind Devji Temple, near the City Palace.
- Stop by the opulent Jal Mahal on the way to Amber Fort. The Rajput palace sits in the centre of Man Sagar lake (when it has water in it).
- Try to time your visit for the colourful Gangaur festival in March-April, which celebrates the love between Gauri and Lord Shiva.


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Well if business were always this exciting maybe I'd pay more attention. It's finally time for Grayson Global to elect a new CEO. Will Conrad retain control and keep his son out of danger? Or will Daniel manage (against the odds) to out-maneuver his father and win?
None of the above! No, this episode is all about how bad-ass Daniel thinks he's being with his own scheming. Little does he know about all the strings the real grown-ups are pulling behind his back. But he's showing promise as future Grayson creep, I'll give him that. Too bad it's a future without Ashley, poor thing. You guys, this is our last taste of Revenge until after the holidays!
So, the beginning was a little hard to follow (was anyone else trying to get their kid to STAY in bed during the first 10 minutes?). But if I understand correctly, Nolan is sacrificing Nolcorp to Grayson for the Great Revenge Cause. But don't worry -- Nolan says he's got something up his sleeve that'll ease his pain. Something about being a Trojan horse -- nice. I wonder what his plan is?
There's a new guy in town, and he's a big fish investor named Salvador. He gets to vote on Conrad vs. Daniel, but he's actually just managing his wife's money. One of those little details they hit you over the head with a few times since they use that info later. Did you miss that?
And poor Conrad and Victoria -- they did not bring their A game, did they? The Initiative lady calls to let them know that if Conrad doesn't get voted on the board they're dumping him for Daniel. And if they try to interfere they'll just kill Daniel. No pressure!
Aw rats, just like we knew would happen, Marco is here to screw things up for Nolan. Marco didn't tell Daniel that the "missing" money was for Amanda. Phew! But now Grayson has a 51 percent controlling interest in Nolcorp, as expected. The other icky part? Daniel didn't bring Aiden along for the sabotage.
Daniel is distancing himself from Aiden because Ashley's been turning him against Aiden. (Why? Did I miss something between them? Someone tell me.) Anyway, remember how Ashley used to be a prostitute? SIGH.
Of course there's a video of Conrad and Ashley doin' the do. Time to deploy! Oh, but surprise, Emily sends it to Victoria first. Victoria confronts Conrad (whatever, infidelity, old news with those two) and they decide it's the Initiative trying to drive a wedge between them.
Which means: Time to send Ashley off to do the do with Salvador so he'll vote for Conrad. She's willing to cheat on Daniel because Victoria has that video. Poor Ashley... she's so screwed. Literally and figuratively.
Because now Aiden gets to send Daniel off to catch her in the act. And Daniel can blackmail Salvador into voting for him because's now he's got video he can send to Salvador's wife! (Remember all those references to the wife's money?!?) And Daniel thinks he's all smart, like this was his idea or something. He has no clue he's being played like a little sock puppet. Doy, Daniel, remember when you wanted to be a POET?
In other Revenge news, we finally understand why Nate and Kenny invested in the bar. Their dad was the man who confronted Jack's dad six years ago -- and then turned up dead with the man named Matt killed him. (P.S., the only black character on this show besides Ashley.) Turns out Nate and Kenny think Jack's dad did it. And Jack finds this all out after Nate and Kenny beat the life out of him. His dying words are to warn Jack and to tell him the gun used to kill Nate and Kenny's dad is on the boat. Yup, it's still there. And you know what? This particular storyline is boring.
I don't know... the boardroom politics, The Initiative, Jack and the bar. I kind of liked this show better when it was more about cat fights and people sleeping with each other. Can we go back to that, please?
Anyway, my other favorite part, besides watching Daniel strut around like some guy who Knows What's Up, came at the end. Emily and Aiden, reclining with their wine before the fire like the gods that they are. Musing about happiness and ordinary mortals. It's now that I realize that of course it would never work between Emily and Jack. Or Emily and Daniel, for that matter (even if the preview hints that they'll get back together -- I'm sure she's just using him). Both guys are too simple for her.
Have we seen the last of Ashley? And what do you think Nolan's plan is?
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France: The Land of Opportunity; The Best Place on Earth; The Red Planet! Oh, no, wait, I'm thinking of America, British Columbia and Mars….
France does have one thing going for it, even if it isn't necessarily the country's motto (Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, for those who are unaware): French wine is unbelievably good. So good, in fact, that French wine travels the world and is some of the most sought after liquid in the world (just behind clean water and reliable fossil fuels). Oftentimes, however, wine buyers the world over are confused by what appears to be intentional obfuscation when it comes to a French wine label. I went to the internet and found one that should be fairly common across wine stores in America:
Now, granted, finding this particular vintage will likely prove a difficult, and expensive, endeavor. Just look for the 2012 vintage if you're interested in this absolutely beautiful Bordeaux.
Just looking at the label, you can determine quite a bit about the wine, but some of what you can determine requires previous knowledge. France, like many old world countries ("old world" is defined ((by me)) as wine-growing/making regions of the world that have been producing wine for over 400 years) tends not to put the grape(s) that go into the bottle on the label. Sadly, the best ways to know what's in this bottle is a) email me at [email protected] with the heading "Wine Question", b) check the internet, or c) ask your local wine store personnel.
Some useful information: Pauillac is a wine-growing region in France, specifically located on the left bank of the river Gironde in the region called the Haut-Medoc (or "upper" Medoc). The dominant grape here is Cabernet Sauvignon, but up to 5 varieties grow in the region: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot and Malbec. A typical "Bordeaux blend" will incorporate 3-5 of these grapes.
Chateau Lynch-Bages, the estate where the wine originated, is what you would call Grand Cru, and it says it right on the label. Grand Cru is the best of the best coming out of that region, and "Grand Vin" is a notation explaining that they are the top house putting out a top wine. Lynch-Bages is not alone in that status. Other great houses, such as Ch. Lafite-Rothschild or Ch. Mouton-Rothschild, also hold Grand Cru status.
Additionally, you can see the vintage of the wine written under the seal which reads "Mis en bouteille au chateau" which means that the wine was made and bottled at the estate. The small text at the bottom gives information about the owners. "Cazes" is the family which currently holds the estate, and they are largely responsible for the upsurge in interest in French wine in the Chinese market.
The good news about French labels is that some houses are modernizing their labels to reflect a global market's interest in the wines. More and more often now, you can find French wine labels that read "Cabernet Sauvignon" or "Merlot" or "Chardonnay". Keep looking and trying wines. The most important thing to remember is that it isn't what's inside the bottle that matters: what matters is your personal enjoyment of the wine.


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Revered South Aussie blogger River has recently shared photos of the cheeses she found (and is contemplating tasting) at Adelaide's Central Market.
Cheesus.....! The variety here is mind boggling. Even modest old Migros, home to everything made in Switzerland with Swiss ingredients by only certified Swiss-nation-loving, national interest folk, has a fridge section that's a hundred metres long and full of cheese. If that's not good enough you can also visit their deli and have someone cut off a specific chunk of something different for you or get the unrefrigerated long-life soapy stuff next to the eggs.
In France, a mere 5 kilometres away, LeClerc has three aisles dedicated to cheese + the separate deli section but our newest discovery, Carrefour, outranks them both.
People with lactose intolerances start to double over in abdominal pain the moment they pull into the car park because this place sells not only televisions, champagne and bullock tongues but cheese. It's easily the largest supermarket I've ever been inside and roughly 40% of it is devoted to all things cheesey. Think goat, sheep, cow, buffalo and also ash, fig, garlic, vine leaf, straw, cloth and a ten thousand moulds and you might be partway there.
But cheese is the tip of the culinary iceberg (lettuce). Australia, Switzerland and France may all be commonly considered as well-off western nations with similar cultural concerns but foods found here still surprise me.
Take the humble yoghurt, for example. Plain, Greek or fruit is about all you get at Coles, but here we can freely grab pots of hazelnut, maple leaf, coconut and chocolate (nowhere near as nice as you'd think), mocha (ditto), prune and pineapple, rhubarb, cranberry, orange and ginger, caramel, winter chestnut.
The Christmas selection not only included Apple Strudel and Marzipan flavours but also caramelised pear and coffee bean. There might be a couple of reasons why these are only placed on the shelves for a couple of weeks per year: you only want to try them once and you either have locals with bad memories or trustful new UN arrivals who like the sound of them.
My utter favourite (apart from all and every permutation of berry) was fig and honey in Greek-style yoghurt. Sweet, creamy and delectable, so why-oh-why did I go and ruin it all by turning around to the back to read the nutritional (read: depressional) panel? Thirty grams of fat. Oh. Might as well be scoffing mascarpone...
The French-Suisse don't shy away from fats (see cheese above) or the origins of their foods. Some birds still have their heads, beaks and feet on not just in rustic market stalls but also in the supermarket meat section and nine times out of ten LC and I look at a tray of meat and, once the usual suspects of chicken, beef, pork, veal, duck, horse and rabbit are eliminated, are still none the wiser. Lambs' brains are vacuum packed in groups of three and were right alongside sheep hearts; inexplicably glad-wrapped in fours. (Did the butcher feel peckish and have the fourth brain on a baguette during his lunch break?)
Frogs (grenoille) started appearing just before the Silly Season all stacked up on kebab sticks like pink scallops, and snail cooking kits were lining the shelves next to the fondue kits. Yes, fondue is truly honestly eaten here by the locals, with Gruyere and Emmental (prepared ready for the pot) outselling the other million varieties of cheeses by ten to one.
Frozen fish comes from Alaska and Iceland and one particular brand caught my eye: Colin. Colin comes crumbed, but I've yet to find out what they did to Trevor or Dennis.
Yesterday, as we dawdled up and down the immense aisles of Carrefour in the afternoon***, at the end of each one, like Australia, there featured a small display of a special (or 'action') for the week. Packets of chips on one, bottles of pear cider on another and the obligatory stale Christmas cakes further along. However, seeing rabbit set up at aisle five was a bit confronting. They may have been mercifully stripped of their fur, but the butcher had displayed them agonisingly stretched out and left their eyes in, so we had an meaty mix of painfully nude and melted-wax-like pink bugs bunny displayed to win over our stomachs (nope) and our wallets (double nope).
I vowed to Sapphire that I would never eat rabbit. We owned and loved the adorable mini-lop bunny Skipper for three years before tearfully seeing him head off in Taka's car to the fertile, green organic garden of their home in Murrumbeena. The little bugger's apparently having a better time there than he ever had with us, with free reign to eat all the spinach he can handle, dig wherever he likes and stroll inside to take his place in front of the flatscreen in the evenings.
So when Love Chunks was peering at some pots of terrine to try, I hissed, "NO! Not that one! Try this one instead!" Not having Google Translate with us meant that we didn't know that the other flavours were, so he said, "Oh, she won't know," and popped it into our trolley.
My heart sank with shame: I had promised our child that no relative of Skipper's would end up in my stomach and I'd stick with that to the very end.
..... My heart sank again later in the same day when I took the time to read the peel-back foil lid from Milly's dinner. Lapin !
They say things happen in threes, so I'm reading every single label before inserting whatever's inside into my mouth. Perhaps I'll stick to chocolate; it's a much safer option.
Ah Skipper - I miss the little guy.
*** The best time to go shopping is after 3pm when the rush is over. Peaceful and quick to the checkouts even if the crazy day's specials have all been snapped up and you're left with buying the 'Razzle Dazzle' scented laundry detergent based only on price and not knowledge of what the hell 'razzle dazzle' smells like.....


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Walker praises Neville influence
Kyle Walker has hailed the impact England coach Gary Neville has had on his game as he prepares to make his first competitive start for his country.
The Tottenham defender is poised to replace the suspended Glen Johnson at right-back for England's World Cup qualifier with San Marino at Wembley on Friday.
Walker said: "I'm young, I want to improve, I want to become the best I can be and Gary Neville is really helping me with that aim."
He added: "He a player I looked up to and watched often. He had a fantastic career. He gives me tips and coaches me through things. I'm excited to be working with him.
"I've always liked to go forward but he has helped massively in terms of myself improving defensively. I just want to keep on learning. My defending is improving every time, every week. I think it is just about experience and learning off people like Gary plus the likes of Joleon Lescott, Phil Jagielka and Gary Cahill.
"The decision-making has to be key. There is club level but then you step up to international level and have to be even more precise."
Johnson's absence will give Walker a chance in a meaningful game which may have happened earlier but for the injury which ended his Euro 2012 hopes.
He said: "On a personal note it is a fantastic opportunity for me to get into the team. I've been patient and waited for that. Hopefully on Friday I can show everyone what I can do and have a good game.
"A first competitive start is what I've been waiting for, for a long time now. For all my career, since I was seven, I've wanted to play for England, and put that jersey on. It's been a very up and down year for me. I won the young player of the year at club level so it's been good in that sense.
"At the end of the season it was a disappointment, having worked so hard to get into the England team, to have that little niggle on my toe. But it was fantastic the manager gave me the phone call, saying it was sad he couldn't take me there but saying I was in his plans and he had belief in me."


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"I am Beyazid. My rebellion is not towards my father, but towards my fate. I am the Beyazid who got defeated to his anger and got exiled from his father's heaven."
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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Increasing concerns about Rio de Janeiro's tardy progress in preparing to host the 2016 Games may have played a decisive role in Tokyo being awarded the 2020 Olympics ahead of Istanbul and Madrid, newly elected International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice-president John Coates told Reuters on Tuesday.
While Coates acknowledged it was "only a matter of time" before a Muslim country was awarded the biggest extravaganza in sport for the first time, he added that fears about Rio's slow progress could have helped tip the scales in Tokyo's favor.
"There's no doubt about that. All the bid cities had a few issues. Economic, fundamental, issues in Spain, trouble in Turkey a few months ago, then what's happening over the border (in Syria) now, then Fukushima in Tokyo," Coates said in an interview.
"At the end of the day, Tokyo was the best technical bid. It was the best bid for the athletes, the venues were the most proximate to the village, it'll work very well and there was no issue with money.
"But in the back of the minds of some (IOC members) I'm sure, is the fact that we've got a difficult one to deal with Rio so let's make sure with the next one."
Speaking shortly after he was elected unopposed as an IOC vice-president, Coates said Rio was shaping as a difficult Games and facing a mad scramble to be ready.
"We were there last week and action is being taken. The government is supportive, they want this to work, there just has to be a little more co-operation," he said.
"It's not an issue of money, it's just better integration and co-ordination between the ...government and the organizing committee over who is doing what."
Coates described Rio's preparations as being even further behind than Athens, where budget overruns and construction delays prompted the IOC to warn organizers to get a move on.
"This is a little bit more (of a crisis) compared to Athens," Coates said.
The Australian said he feared some venues in Rio may still not be finished in time and some competitors may have to live outside the athletes' village because their venues were too far away.
"In Rio, the issues are being behind in construction, not just venues, some of which are at real risk now of not being ready for test events which is generally a year before; the transport infrastructure, those sorts of issues," Coates said.
"It's going to a very difficult games for some of the sports who have got a fair way to travel from the village.
"With our Australian team, we've just decided that the rowers, the canoeists, sailors, the divers, they are going to be too far away and we'll have to take separate accommodation outside the village for them, so that is not ideal."
Coates said Rio was sure to be the single biggest immediate problem facing the IOC, even more so than Sochi, the host city for next year's Winter Olympics.
Russia's controversial laws on homosexuality have triggered international condemnation, prompting calls for countries to boycott the Games and worry among key Olympic sponsors.
But the IOC has played down concerns, saying it had received written assurances from the Russian government that the issue would not affect anyone at the Games, including participants and spectators.
Even so, it promises to be a baptism of fire for German lawyer Thomas Bach, the former Olympic fencing gold medalist who was elected as the new IOC president on Tuesday.
"His immediate challenge, having regard to our biggest responsibility, is running the Olympic Games," Coates said.
"I think Sochi is in pretty good shape but there's still a fair bit to be done before Rio."
Coates said Bach was the right man to lead the IOC, following in the footsteps of Belgian surgeon Jacques Rogge, whose 12-year tenure ended of Tuesday.
"He'll bring great vision and he'll bring great leadership," Coates said.
"He's absolutely the perfect fit."
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Porsche Owners Club
The Porsche Owners club (referred to as "Porsche Owners Club" and "POC") are a car driving and racing club primarily in Southern California. Having provided track driving events and driver training/education as well as club level time Trialing and racing events for more than 50 years. The clubs events are not limited to the Porsche brand, and include any brand, but mostly performance vehicles from BMW, Ferrari, Lamborghini etc.
http://www.porscheownersclub.org - original content
http://www.porscheownersclub.me - new transition url
Homepage general Layout, utilizing the Wordpress Theme as a starting point found at http://www.porscheownersclub.me. Wordpress theme used is a customization of "Glossy Stylo 1.0.4 by aliwkbg". Essentially, the look and feel is already set as found at http://www.porscheownersclub.me, the requirement is to arrange the elements as listed below in the requirements, and to create titles, buttons and containers for particular media, i.e. random video container for the homepage, a "Join" button, "Sponsors title" etc. Take a look at the original site found at http://www.porscheownersclub.org for content and some pictures.
We can budget (initially) up to $50 for photo stock if required. Use water marked images in your designs and we can purchase the final images as required. Look to the photo galleries in the Forums sections for possible member photos to use.
Homepage general Layout & presentation "containers".
To include the following elements;
1. Navigation to run horizontal across the page for the top level pages, with Subpages cascading below on mouse over (need the concept, not the CSS coding)
2. Video Gallery Link with one Random/Preview video window
3. Photo gallery Link with one Random/Preview photo window
4. Velocity Magazine Link, can use the thumbnail from the latest issue
5. New to POC, click here
6. Join POC
7. Log in button/link (signed in user display)
8. Current Sponsors display is sufficient, but it needs a "Thanks to our Sponsors" title
9. POC on Facebook link (can use from current .org site)
10. Performance Driving Series (PDS) / Time Trial (TT) / Cup Race (CR) links
11. Shopping Cart link
12. Bonus Items;
a. Events Calendar, calendar layout needs to represent events (see current site .org);
i. "online" sign up
ii. Fax sign up
iii. Link to registered members attending event (report)
iv. results links per event
v. location link (small map icon sufficient to open map in new window which we will program)
vi. links to Championship ongoing and final standings
b. POC Board Member and Staff member display, some kind of "container" for the image and detail (title, phone, email list) (see current site .org);
Existing site http://www.porscheownersclub.org transitioning to the new site http://www.porscheownersclub.me
Target Audience;
High end customers. Track driving and racing are expensive hobbies. A track weekend can cost in excess of $1,000 average per driver when you consider $300-$650 in entry fees, track tires from $850 and up a set, fuels, wear and tear on vehicles etc.


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TPWD Restricting Cave Access on Agency Owned Lands to Protect Bats
White Nose Syndrome is No. 1 threat to bats
AUSTIN – Access to Gorman Cave at Colorado Bend State Park has been closed to the public and additional precautions are being taken at other Texas Parks and Wildlife Department caves to protect bats from the spread of White Nose Syndrome (WNS), a contagious disease that can be fatal to bats.
"Gorman Cave is home to a hibernating colony of Cave Myotis, a bat species known to be susceptible to White Nose Syndrome," said David Riskind, TPWD Director of Natural Resources for Texas State Parks.
Operation and public visitation of Longhorn Caverns, near Inks Lake State Park, will not be affected. Private show caves are also not affected, though landowners may impose similar precautionary actions on their own.
Public viewing of bat flights at Old Tunnel Wildlife Management Area, Stuart Bat Cave at Kickapoo Caverns and Devil's Sinkhole near Rocksprings will not be affected. However, public access inside those caves is now off-limits.
These precautions are being implemented under a TPWD executive order and only affect agency-owned sites.
Since 2006, when WNS was first discovered in a cave in New York, more than a million hibernating bats of eight species in 14 states have died from the disease. Five of those eight species also inhabit Texas, where more than 50 species of bats live. The fungus that causes WNS has not yet been detected in Texas, but was confirmed in Oklahoma in May 2010.
Riskind said the department's strategy to prevent the spread of WNS includes increased public awareness for park visitors and decontamination procedures for researchers who are working around or in the caves.
"All of this is being done out of an abundance of caution," he said.
White Nose Syndrome (WNS) is named for a white fungus that is found on the noses and wings of infected bats. Bats with WNS awaken prematurely from hibernation and leave their caves, using up their fat reserves that they need to last through the winter which can cause them to freeze or starve to death.
John Young, a TPWD mammologist, says scientists still know little about the disease or how to treat it. He said because bats are migratory, the fungus is often spread when bats from an infected cave migrate to another cave.
Young also said there is some speculation that humans can spread the fungus through spores on their clothing and backpacks, but this method of transfer has not been confirmed. Nonetheless, he said, it's a method officials can control.
"We know we can limit the potential for people accidentally transporting the fungus by limiting or restricting access to caves," Young said.
Young said the need to protect bats from WNS is urgent, adding that bats play a vital role in the environment.
"Bats eat millions of insect pests," he said. "We can't even begin to estimate the impact that a massive loss of bat species would have on crops, the Texas economy and our environment."
Young added that anyone whose sees a bat behaving strangely or has questions about WNS can contact him at the number above or the TPWD Kills and Spills Team at (512) 389-4848.
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This article provides information on importing the settings of a Group Policy Object into another Group Policy Object, specifically one in another domain.
You may sometimes find it necessary to copy Group Policy Objects (GPOs) from one Active Directory domain to another. This can be useful when you want to apply the same policy settings to groups of users or computers in different domains within a multi-domain forest, or when you are performing a migration from one domain to another.
GPOs can be backed up and restored using the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC), but a GPO backed up in one domain cannot be restored in another. However, the settings of the backed-up GPO can be imported into an existing GPO in the new domain. The GPO in the new domain should be empty, as its settings will be overwritten by those of the backed-up GPO during the import process.
There is one potential issue when importing settings from a GPO in another domain: the source GPO may contain domain-specific references, such as a UNC path to a server in the source domain, that will not be valid in the destination domain. If this is the case, a migration table must be used to convert those references to ones that are valid in the destination domain. Migration tables can either be created ahead of time or during the import process.
To import the settings of a GPO in one domain into a GPO in another domain, follow these steps:
Back up the source GPO as discussed in How to Back Up Group Policy Objects Using the Group Policy Management Console. Make sure the backup is accessible from a domain controller (DC) in the destination domain.
Using the GPMC on a DC in the destination domain, create a new, blank GPO and give it an appropriate name.
Right-click the new GPO and select Import Settings...
Click Next on the welcome screen.
Since you are importing into a blank GPO, it does not need to be backed up first. Click Next on the Backup GPO screen.
Specify the location of the backed-up GPO and click Next.
If the specified backup location contains multiple backed-up GPOs, select the correct one from the list. You can click View Settings to see the policy settings contained within the selected GPO if you wish. Click Next once you have selected a GPO to import.
The wizard will then scan the GPO being imported to determine whether it contains domain-specific references, which may need to be modified in order for machines or user accounts in the new domain to function properly with the imported GPO. The wizard will report whether it finds such references. Click Next.
If the wizard found domain-specific references, you have two options:
To leave the references as-is, select Copying them identically from the source and click Next. The references will not be changed at all, which may cause problems in the new domain.
To modify the references, select Using this migration table to map them in the destination GPO.
You can use the Browse button to locate a migration table not listed in the dropdown list, or the New button to create a new one. For information on creating a migration table, see Using Migration Tables with Group Policy Objects. You may also click the Edit button to modify an existing migration table before using it. Click Next when you have chosen a migration table.
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The biggest revelation to me, that we didn't already presume, was the confirmation that Griffith wasn't merely targeting Flora but all such magical sites. It definitely suggests the gang won't be leaving by choice and has me excited for what's likely to be a cataclysmic penultimate battle when Griff sails/flies his unholy army to Skellig looking to finish the job.
I also think it's interesting that, considering the players and the stakes, it could really be a most worthy finale since I think we've always presumed, at least I have, that Guts and co. would eventually come to him.
I'm not sure Griffith is going to send his army to attack Skellig. To do that would mean his apostles would have to battle Guts & co as well as all other wizards on their ground, meaning they would be at heavy disadvantage. I imagine the island itself would try to fight, including nature spirits, elements as well as other astral creatures. Guts alone can plow through average apostles and the rest of them are capable of fighting them off as well. That's not including all the wizards, possible astral creatures on Skellig that are allied to Elf King, and Guru Mage is there as well.
now that he doesnt have an access to his crossbow anymore.
But a speculation's foundation should be built on information we already know. The information we have says they aren't much of a problem. Especially for an army of apostles.
And yet, they've heretofore been relegated to an island, far, far away thanks to the actions of humans. The Idea of Evil's means of control stems from humanity, and humanity has done a pretty stellar job of distancing itself from those elements and constraining their role on the world stage. My point being, they're probably exactly where they're supposed to be for whatever it is the God Hand have planned.
Still not sure about that "World Seals" thing.
I do wonder if Griffith has maybe already dispatched a team to try to destroy Skellig and kill its inhabitants. At least that way we can see the powers of the inhabitants of the island in their full view and Guts defending them (and thus gaining their trust) as well as push for a return of Skull Knight to the island to help with the defense (this could mirror the failed defense of Flora's home; here Guts and his newfound allies are actually successful in the defense). Might be an excuse for Guts and co. (Schierke and Isidro especially) to finally meet the likes of Sonia and Mule again [...] I wonder who Griffith would send for the siege and who would stay behind?
For some reason, I feel like a member of the God Hand is going to show up on the island at some point. I'm hoping it's Conrad, since we haven't seen as much of him as the others. I just can't see a bunch of apostles, Sonia and Mule arriving by boat or on the backs of flying apostles. Who knows what we're in for, though?
In the podcast, it was supposed that Flora spoke to Ged from the astral world. If that's the case, I wonder if Schierke will be reunited with Flora through some form of astral communication in the next few episodes.
I think all of us are betting on seeing the Skull Knight at some point, too, but I have a feeling we may end up meeting him and the King of the Flower Storm at the same time. I have this image in my head of the king's reveal, with SK standing behind him and off to the side, as if they had been conversing before the group entered.
The continued destruction of spirit trees explains what Zodd and Grunbeld have been doing while the other commanders attend to needs in Falconia. Their jobs clearly didn't end with Flora or Ganishka and i presume they went back to leading their armies as soon as Falconia was established.
Guts still has his crossbow. Also, "guru" is a title, like "master", not a name. The guy is called Gedflynn or something similar.
In any case, what's implied is that those forests act(ed) as seals keeping the two worlds apart.
Yeah but he doesn't use it anymore since he acquired the berserker armour. Still, I would like to see some new weapons in his arsenal, or some new modifications to his armour. Sure, Im aware what guru means.
Btw, speaking of the things to come, do you guys think we may meet dwarves? Probably not on Skellig, but later on.
This is very, very interesting. It adds a whole new layer to what we understood of the situation. Man, I can't wait for what else we might learn in the next several episodes.
Also, since we were talking about apostles earlier, here's a food for thought: I don't think Guts will ever be in an apostle fight again that won't feature one of Griffith's five lieutenants, and that won't end with said lieutenant coming down.
Except maybe Volkov, I think that one is owed.
Am i the only one who was surprised how fast the Wicker Man implications were dropped by the core cast. I expected either Guts or Schierke to be left with lingering and visible doubts.
Oh he'll go down for sure, but I don't expect that to be a serious, multi-episode fight. Guts will be mangling apostles right and left and Volkov will grab onto his arm with his mouth, just like old times. Then Guts will turn his head towards him and light the cannon. As Volkov shrieks and tries to understand what happened, he'll see the Dragon Slayer falling down on his miserable face. Oh yeah.
What do you think would be the best outcome for Casca being sane again?
Since Guts was babysitting her for 20 years now, it has to come to an end, but do we actually want this to end badly?
I want Guts to get on the revenge path again, as many other people I believe, but does it have to be related to Casca? For me personally I would like to see her just staying on the island (assuming it doesn't get destroyed soon), recovering slowly but surely.
I never liked her character, I've always seen her as a hypocritical burden rather than anything else.
But if she stays and nothing bad happens, how would Guts go on killing spree once again? Will Elf King be responsible for that?
You're wrong, Guts has used his crossbow since volume 26. When they fought their way out of Vritannis, for example.
Your loss.
Except maybe Volkov
he'll see the Dragon Slayer falling down on his miserable face. Oh yeah.
Without her, he'd have died inside the armor the first time he wore it and every single after that. His love for Casca is the only reason he's still alive.
Your loss. A hypocritical burden? I don't understand.
I don't get the question.
Guts and Casca resuming their romance and going together (and along with their friends) to Falconia, to face off with the one who took everything for them, and to save their son.
Yes? I mean, Casca is one of my favorite characters in Berserk, and I think it's high time she comes back to herself. It'll be a huge boost to the group dynamics and will be character development heaven, especially for Guts.
Er? I cannot think of the single situation where he used a crossbow after he donned the armour for first time. Then again, I havent read that part in a while, so I may have forgotten.
So its Volkov not Borkoff? I assume the latter is bad translation?
In any case, I think Guts may kill Grunbeld too and not just Volkov, cause you know, the whole Dragon Slayer thingy ( Grunbeld being a crystal dragon )
I disagree with that. She is important to him but to say that he owes her not being devoured by the beast of darkness isn't really true, unless there's something i am missing. Schierke is keeping Guts sane, Moonlight Boy aswell, occassionally.
Well, that is something i would like to elaborate in a different thread but to be honest I am not feeling doing it anytime soon for various reasons. In short she was mad about Guts following his dream and ignoring her, but at the same time she chose Griffith over Guts later on. I understand it's not the same but every choice comes from something and I don't believe her love for Guts was actually really that big. She is important to Guts, but the way she was set up and was useless for so long, I, as a viewer dislike her. I hope you understand that.
The question was based on "if Casca stays on the island, what other thing will drive Guts mad"
That is kinda cheap in my opinion. The child has no relevance so far, he was just a tool for a greater being to come. We will get something more about him (officially we almost know nothing), that is for sure, but for now he isn't that much relevant to think that he needs to be saved. We need to know if he even needs to be saved.
I am not saying that this isn't true, but Guts' party is already large. I can see someone leaving soon for any reason, we have to wait and see.
Well you are missing something, obviously. I suggest you re-read those parts of the story and pay attention to what is the catalyst for Guts to regain his senses, every single time (hint: it's Casca).
...But... Casca isn't driving Guts mad? I still don't get it.
The reason Guts' party exists is because of Casca. The most important member of that party, to Guts, is definitely Casca.
I don't get your objection. You asked what people's opinion for the best outcome was. I gave you mine. The boy is their son, I'm pretty sure that's very highly relevant to them, and it's all the reason they'll need to want to save him once they learn about his condition.
That probably was brought up lots of times but since I am new here, I am gonna ask it
Since Guts was babysitting her for 20 years now
Schierke is keeping Guts sane
What I meant is that he would kill her anyway, if not for Schierke. He wants to be sane for Casca, but Casca isn't actually the one to "take him back".
Maybe my choice of words was poor... if Casca gets sane and okay, how will Guts get back on his revenge path? We all can say that he doesn't really feel the hatred now, it's not so important now. I would like to see something happening to Casca, not dying in particular, just something that will make Guts mad/sad. Something that was foreshadowed by SK long time ago.
To Guts. She won't be useful even after recovering since everyone is a lot stronger and she can't fight without getting properly trained. Guts needs a power-up to defeat his enemies, not just Casca and I don't see Berserk as a simple story where power of love defeats the ancient evil. It has to be more complex than that.
Their child isn't even important now, he doesn't exist for now. We are just assuming things, we can't tell for sure what his role will be.
Oh, you mean you haven't yet realized the Boy in the Moonlight is their son? I see.
Yeah, to Guts, the main character and the leader of the group. That doesn't count to you? Also, you're assuming a lot regarding her fighting prowess. I'm willing to bet you'll be proven wrong. As for the complexity of Berserk, clearly from this discussion I don't think you quite grasp it.
There are a myriad of ways the story could go that would set the group on a path to Falconia. Like I said above, it doesn't even have to be revenge. Stopping Griffith could mean stopping a worldwide catastrophe. It could also be to save their son. I've talked about this a million times before so I'm not going to go on, but you get the idea. And contrary to what you say, Guts still feels a strong hatred for Griffith, he just sits on it because he has other priorities. The idea that Guts absolutely needs to feel bad for something to happen seems extremely simplistic to me, almost puerile really.
Nice assumption. Let me know when this is actually confirmed and not just a theory.
I don't grasp what exactly? That Guts is still underpowered compared to the Godhand and he needs a real power, not some love shenanigans? It's not a shounen, but Guts will fight again and again and he needs a lot more, curing Casca will be only a small step in that regard I believe. He will get some confidence and possibly something more from seeing her being normal, but that won't make him strong enough to kill the antagonist.
Guts never really cared about the world itself. He is less "edgy" now, but to make him care about the whole world seems almost impossible without involving his own agenda. He is not that kind of a hero. The best option I can see for that is him killing the Godhand just because they stand in his way to Griffith and thus saving everything.
Side note: "God Hand" is written as two separate words, just like "Dragon Slayer".
Oh sure thing, I will. It won't be long now.
You don't grasp why this isn't a shounen. Why Guts doesn't just need a "power-up" (and using video game lingo in itself is already reductive, as far as I'm concerned). Your focus on Casca being useful in a fight (which I have no doubt she will be) and your dismissal until now of the importance of her presence at Guts' side are examples of this. Yes, Guts is fighting against much stronger enemies. That's a core aspect of the story. He'll never be as strong as Femto. Never. But he'll win regardless. He wasn't as fast as Rochine, he wasn't as powerful as the Slug Count, he wasn't even an appetizer to the Sea God. But he beat them all. Maybe he'll be given some new equipment in Elfhelm. Maybe the Berserk's armor will be modified to help him in battle. But that's not more important than Casca's return. It's not more important to him, and it's not more important to the story. And if you think otherwise, well, you're going to be disappointed.Now that being said, I don't understand why you think those things are opposites and can't happen concurrently? I mean it's not either one or the other. Casca will probably return and Guts will probably get some help, as will all the others. It seems to me that you're the one trying to simplify things here and for no reason.
And for the record, I don't think each member of the God Hand will be lined up in a corridor for him to defeat on the way to Griffith. This isn't a video game.
It's just not really cool to take any assumption as a given. It's very plausible but not confirmed.
I keep in mind that Guts is not only for killing some monsters, he has his feelings and his desires aswell, yes. I am just trying to see the big picture where Guts has to be strong enough to fulfill his path of revenge (because in the end it is the story about revenge). We have to remember that he is actually getting weaker, losing his humanity and that kind of stuff.
And no, we don't actually need Berserk armor getting stronger, do we? Guts already does too much even with its potential drawback. If you mean Beast of Darkness, that is what keeps Guts interesting in my opinion. One of the most important themes in Berserk is the struggle. He has to fear himself, think about how far hecan go until the end. If he gets healed of any drawbacks on the elf island, well, the story will suffer a lot from that.


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Matt Shaw announces intention to transfer
Matt Shaw, a 6-7 forward from Kennesaw, Ga., has asked for his release from the Lipscomb basketball team.
Shaw redshirted during the 2008-09 season for the Bisons. He played six minutes in three games for Lipscomb this year. He scored one point and had one rebound.
"Matt brought a great effort to the floor day in and day out," coach Scott Sanderson said. "I wish him the best throughout the remainder of his college career and in his future endeavors."


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The Challenge is "urban and landscapes".
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Remember when the iPhone was truly innovative? Think hard, because you'd have to go back to 2007, and the release of the first iPhone. But since then, Apple has been tossing out retread after retread, and this year's iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S represent a curious creative nadir for the firm. A new Windows Phone video shows how hard Apple must have worked to come up with these turds. Hint: Not that hard.
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GenieLamp wrote:You can of course help by uploading saves
method4ever wrote:So what if I want to locate 2E? Do I just search by 0x2E?
Tacoma44 wrote:Thanks for the tutorial, I seem to be having a little problem though, just got the GG recently and when i try to copy a code and paste it in the quick mode window nothing happens, so that leaves me only the option of typing them in. Copy paste works fine with other applications but won't seem to paste in the GG quick code window.
roberthawke2992 wrote:trying the quick mode today with ffx all/max spheres community codes.question-do I put all the codes in the codes box all at once?
or do I have to enter them in sets(i.e.-item code/amount code)individually?or does each code get put in individually?
ss4gogeta069 wrote:Well, if the codes are separate, like an item code that is 4 lines and then an XP code thats 3 lines, you can separate them. You don't have to separate them, you can do it all together. Just remember that it only holds so many lines of code.
ss4gogeta069 wrote:I don't know what's going on. When I get home I will try them and see what happens. In the mean time upload your save for me that you're trying to mod.
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Nickelback Get a Motown Makeover
Nickelback recently performed during the halftime show for the Thanksgiving Day Detroit Lions vs. Green Bay Packers match-up, but not without a little drama that including an online petition trying to prevent them from performing along with their own Funny or Die clip in response.
The whole situation opened the door for some creativity, too, including an alternative halftime option in the form of a Motown tribute to Nickelback. Scott Bradlee and his musically inclined friends recorded their version of the Nickelback tune 'How You Remind Me' Motown style and offered it up for the halftime show as "an alternative that is bound to make both sides happy."
Nickelback set to tambourines and saxophone takes some getting use to; you have to hear it it to believe it. Watch the video for yourself below and answer this question: Is that one happy tambourine player or what?


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What do you do when you're writing about the aimless, lost generation? You make a connection to video games, that's what.
Though to Girls' credit—the edgy HBO show created by Lena Dunham—the topic of video games comes up because someone's clearly not sane. The connection to video games isn't made because the character is aimless, there just happens to be an aimless character in the show.
Check out the funny clip above showing the scene in action. I'm looking forward to seeing the thing in full come this Sunday.


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Tuesday, February 5, 2008
The Gailliot Line- Introduction to First Generation
The first image above includes Anton Gailliot and the five children by his SECOND wife, Johanna "Helene" Theodora Schlebusch. Relatively more recent portaits of individual family members were miniturized and superimposed on the larger family portrait. A copy of the original, larger portrait was emailed to me by Beth Holycross Gailliot. However, the whole project was made possible through an international effort. The portraits of the parents, Anton and Helene, were emailed to me two years ago by Gunter Lade who resides in Halle/Saale, in former East Germany. Gunter is descended from Elise Gailliot, on far left, who married Friedrich Meier. She and her descendents remained in Germany. Gunter is my third cousin, once removed; our common ancestors are Anton and Helene. Gunter stumbled onto one my genealogical web sites for my mother's branch of the family tree at GeneaNet. Gunter recognized the connection, and later sent me pictures, including his 3x great grandmother, Elise. He also sent me images from several family documents, called Familienbuchen in Germany, which linked him to the Gailliot family and eventually to me.
In the second image, birth and death dates are included- some dates are unknown or approximated. Two brothers in this first generation, Karl Anton and Heinrich Casper, eventually emigrated to America after which they anglicized their names to Charles and Henry. Henry was my maternal great grandfather. The genealogy behind these photographs has also been an international effort. The family portrait was probably taken in Wesel, Germany which turned out to be significant. Indeed, a very special relationship has developed between myself and Herr Rudolf Kerbitz, who is a resident of Wesel. Our initial contact was through a simple email inquiry. Some of my father's ancestors were from Pommern (Pomerania in English) and I posted a baptismal note from a Bertha Johanna Kramp on my Father's branch website. She was baptised in Beckel, Kries Stolp, Hinterpommern (now part of Pomorski, Poland) and her patron was a man named Albert Kerbitz. Though we have not made a genetic connection between Rudolf Kerbitz and my family yet, we continue to search for the identity of Albert Kerbitz so that perhaps we can determine a family link.
Wesel, Germany, lies on the right bank of the Rhine River near the mouth of the Lippe tributary. During WW II, about 90 percent of the town was destroyed by Allied bombs. Every building and every church was reduced to rubble and obviously many church records as well as other historic items were lost. Amazingly the City of Wesel was rebuilt and is thriving today. I visited the city in 2001, and took many pictures of the rebuilt town and particularly its two Catholic churches, St. Mariae Himmelfahrt (Assumption of the Virgin Mary) and St. Martini. And I visited my friend, Rudolf Kerbitz and his family.
Remarkably, Rudolf has been a great help in providing data and history to the Gailliot genealogy. He enjoys rummaging through flea markets and has discovered several graphics of what the former city and churches looked like before the war and has generously shared these items with me. One Christmas, Rudolf sent me a phonograph record of a concert performed in St. Mariae Himmelfahrt, where my great grandfather, Henry Gailliot, was baptized in 12 Feb 1862. Incidentally, the baptism was recorded on microfilm by the LDS church, which apparently survived in the archives at nearby Munster. Rudolf was instrumental in translating this record first into German from the Latin and then from German into English. Though the source of this particular record was the LDS church, there have been many other records which were obtained only through the efforts of Rudolf Kerbitz, such as a vintage map showing the likely home of Helene's maternal family, the Offenburg family. And, a photograph of the actual house and the chapel in the Offenburg's home town. There is so much more.
I can't resist giving one more example here. The Gailliot patriarch was a Schumachermeister- a Master shoemaker or cobbler. In an old city directory, Rudolf found a listing of the former address of Anton's cobbler shop at No 913 Kreuzstrasse. In addition, Rudolf discovered a vintage photograph of the same street which showed a distant view of Anton's cobbler shop. With the help of Adobe Photoshop, Rudolf focused, magnified, and rendered a picture of the cobbler shop which now hangs in my house. Can you imagine the good fortune.
Labels: GailliotLine-Intro, Mother's Branch, Technical-notes
3 comments:
- babysealbashing said...
Hmm I wonder if i'm related at all. Seeing as there aren't that many people with the last name of Gailliot out there. Great job on this by the way.
- Sat May 15, 10:37:00 AM
- Bob Kramp said...
Oh yes, if you were born in America then you are probably related to one of the two immigrants, Charles or Henry Gailliot. I've only come across one other "tribe" of family Gailliot in America- and they resided in Louisiana according to turn of the century censuses. By the way let me know if you can find your particular branch of ancestors.
- Sun May 16, 06:06:00 PM
- Unknown said...
Im Arthur Gailliot, Joe, my Dad, Harry, my Grand Father, Charles my GG, and Anton, my GGG, but what about Anton, Father????
- Thu Oct 18, 06:29:00 AM
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LAGUNA BEACH — When it comes to those mysterious British royals, no one knows what's going on inside — or on top of — their heads better than the ultimate confidant.
"The media would say, 'If you want to find out anything, just ask the hairdresser,'" said Richard Dalton, stylist to the late Princess Diana.
But it was mums the word with Dalton, who says he never spilled a single royal secret in his 12 years dressing Di's famous golden locks.
Today, Dalton lives in Dana Point and works as a consultant and wigmaker at Charles' Wigs in Laguna Beach. Like much of the world, he was taken with the news that Diana's son, Prince William, had become engaged to longtime sweetheart Kate Middleton.
After all, it was Dalton who gave William and his brother, Prince Harry, their first haircuts.
Knowing William when he was a "kind and wonderful boy," Dalton said the prince would guide Middleton through the ins and outs of royal living.
"I just hope she doesn't try to be a Princess Diana," Dalton said. "She's cool in her own right, but she'll never be a Diana."
Middleton will, of course, be carrying a bit of the late princess of Wales with her every day. William gave Middleton his mother's sapphire and diamond ring.
"Every day it was on the dressing table as I was doing her hair," said Dalton, who declined to give his age. "The ring was a wonderful gesture on William's part, and Diana would have loved it."
A Scot, Dalton won a competition for a free apprenticeship with Vidal Sassoon in London at age 17, moving there from Edinburgh.
In the late 1970s, at an upscale salon on London's Bond Street, he met then-Diana Spencer and was invited to become one of her personal hairdressers.
While Dalton originally worked with a team of assistants, he became Diana's sole hairdresser after her marriage to Prince Charles in 1981. From then on, he traveled with the British Royal Family and, at any hour, found himself perfecting the world's most closely watched tresses for the cameras.
"Whatever I did to her hair became front-page news," Dalton said, still perplexed by the media scrutiny he termed obsessive. "We had to be very careful. When she wanted to cut her hair short before traveling to Africa, we had to do it one-fourth of an inch at a time over several weeks."
Dalton left Diana's employ and England in 1991.
"It's a daunting experience to be in such a fish bowl," he said.
In that very media glare, Diana, boyfriend Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul died in a high-speed 1997 car crash after being chased by photographers.
Other notable clients have sat Dalton's chair. They include Sophia Lauren and singer Katy Perry.
Then there are the everyday women of coastal Orange County.
"He treats his clients like royalty," said Doreen Quaglietta-Hughes, a customer from Huntington Harbour. "I go into another world with Richard; who else has known duchesses and princesses? Each week the time just goes by too quickly."
Quaglietta-Hughes goes to Charles' Wigs to have her hair shampooed and set.
"He's my treasure, and someday the world is going to steal him," she said. "But, he's so good, it's what he deserves, rather than being hidden here in Laguna."
The high-esteem is shared by just about everyone who comes in, whether or not they are Dalton's client, said shop owner and stylist Marsha Carroll. She purchased the business from local icon Charles Thompson in 2006 and turned the 40-year-old wig shop into a full-service salon.
"The guy is so talented," Carroll said. "He's just magic with the way he works, whether it's hair on a head or a wig."
Dalton does not plan to return to England to make an effort to meet with the Royal family. And he is continuing to hold onto Diana's confidences, at least when it comes to reporters.
"I have my memories of the princess," he said. "But, I would love to meet William again and talk with him. I'm sure he has questions about his mother."


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