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ARLINGTON, Texas – Shirley Garms, a United States Bowling Congress Hall of Fame member from Island Lake, Illinois, died Wednesday. She was 94.
Inducted into the USBC Hall of Fame in 1971 for Superior Performance, Garms was one of the top bowlers in the nation during the 1960s. She was named the Bowling Writers Association of America (BWAA) Woman Bowler of the Year in 1961 and 1962.
In 1962, she captured the Bowling Proprietors' Association of America (BPAA) Women's All-Star, which is now the U.S. Women's Open, and also teamed with Dick Weber to win the World's Mixed Doubles, a nationally televised event. Weber shot 254 and Garms had a 253 in the title match to beat Don Carter and Marge Merrick.
In addition to her BPAA Women's All-Star title, Garms had three other professional titles during her career. She won the second event of the Professional Women's Bowling Association, the 1961 PWBA Championships title, and the 1964 San Antonio Open. Her final pro title came at age 54, when she won the 1978 PWBA Coors Open.
Garms earned four USBC Women's Championships titles, the first in 1955 when she captained Chicago Falstaff to the team title. She teamed with Grace Werkmeister for the doubles title in 1964, won a second team title with Beaumont Bowl Pro Shop in 1965, and won the singles title in 1974.
A founding member of the PWBA, she was a charter member of the PWBA Hall of Fame in 1995. She also is a member of the World Bowling Hall of Fame (1971), the Illinois Bowling Hall of Fame (1975) and the Chicago Bowling Hall of Fame (1985). She was selected as Chicago's Bowler of the Decade for the 1960s.
Visitation will be Thursday, Feb. 1, from 4-8 p.m. at Friedrichs Funeral Home, 320 W. Central Rd., Mount Prospect, Illinois, with the funeral service at 11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 2, at the funeral home.


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Let's get it all going with some Jake Gyllenhaal. Here are some pictures of our fave boy as he takes to the streets of NYC:
It is always nice seeing pictures of Jake out and about but I wish he were out and about here in LA ... then at least there'd be hope for a chance encounter. Le sigh. [Source]
Jake has been doing the talk show circuit lately, here are some screencaptures from his visit to Live with Regis and Kelly which come courtesy of my friends at Our Daily Ripa:
It's great to see him take on the tough questions. Ya gotta love him! [Source]
Holy crap ... it's been a while since we've had a classic Kim Stewart fugly-ass fug sighting ... what a way to spend the weekend:
It wouldn't be surprised if a nest of birds have taken roost in that ratty hair she's got goin' on. PLEASE DON'T GET ME STARTED on the boots ... there isn't enough time to accurately convey what I really think of them ... are there reindeer woven on those boots?!? BOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Anyways, let's just leave it at saying that they're really effing nasty and call it a day. [Source]
Well, well, well, well ... what have we here?! Miss Haylie Duff has found a new friend it seems:
Hmm ... we never see Haylie out on her own ... and with a man, no less ... I'm not really feelin' the silk slip over jeans thing ... but she looks happy with that dude so I'll cut her some slack. [Source]
Speaking of being happy with a dude ... how about some David Beckham this fine Sunday morning?
Damn, I need to get my ass on a professional soccer team ... can you imagine all the "accidental" things I could get away with doing to Becks on the playing field. "Oh, I'm sorry Becksie ... I didn't mean to poke you there with this ..." [Source, thanks Brandon]
Pink reader Norma sent in a couple of pictures of the filming of the movie Clerks 2 which is taking place down the street from her friend's house in Buena Park California in the OC:
Firstly, Yay! for Clerks 2! And secondly, thanks to Norma for sending in these cool pictures.
Beginning with this post I'm going to feature a weekly hot guy ... I mean, I know I always feature hot guys but this is an excuse to post pictures of really, really hot regular non-famous guys because who doesn't like checkin' out hot dudes ... right? Let's say hello to Brian:
Oh yeah ... I really look forward to picking a new guy each Sunday morning. Hot! [Source]
And finally, if you are so inclined, you can pick up today's issue of The New York Times ... you can flip to the Arts & Leisure section and check out a little interview I did with them:
Click above to read the full article
Or you can click above and read it right here. I have to give much thanks to Peri for sending me the advance scan.
Les News:
- Fans of The West Wing need to tune in tonight to watch the live Presidential Debate between the Alda and the Smits.
- Jack White now wants to be called Three Quid.
- Juanes cleans up at the Latin Grammys. Yeah, I don't know Juanes but I'm just holding it down for my people.
- It wasn't really as dramatic as THIS sounds.
- Guy Ritchie did not approve of Madonna's MTV EMA outfit.
- Crossdressers heart Kelly O.
- Claire Danes likes to swing.
Jim and I spent the afternoon hanging out ... and then he had a party that he had to get to ... I almost opted out cuz I wasn't feeling in a very party mood but I decided to go in the end. Jim had talked to Alan Cumming (yeah, that Alan Cumming) earlier in the day and was invited to hang out with him ... so I figured I'd go to the party, Jim could go play with Alan and I could call it a night.
So we get to Ted and Larry's B-Movie themed party (called It Came From Toluca Lake) and proceed to have a nice time ... I got to hang out with Tony and all of his friends:
So yeah ... we're at this party and Jim gets a text from Alan inviting him to a different party ... Jim asks if he can bring a couple of friends along and BAM! Jim's friend Chris and I get drafted into becoming his wingmen ... cool, right? Yeah, it gets better ... so we go to this other party that Alan Cumming is at and decide to leave my camera at home cuz I didn't want to be bothered with carrying it ... BIGGEST MISTAKE EVER. It turns out that we were invited to Parker Posey's birthday party! YEAH, THAT PARKER POSEY:
It was the most insane thing ever ... I LOVE LOVE LOVE Parker so much ... and she was so sweet ... she told us stories about the filming of Superman Returns in Australia and really made us feel welcome even tho she had no idea who us nobodies were. I was so pissed at myself for not bringing a camera ... believe me, lesson learned ... always carry a camera. My new friend Chris (who is a huge Buffy fan which means we'll be B.F.F.s forever) was able to take a camera phone picture of Parker and me but I don't have it yet ... Alan Cumming also took a picture of us with his digital camera and now I have to have Jim get it from him so I can post it :)
So yeah ... the story ain't over yet ... the party is over by 2 AM and Alan has the skinny on another party for us to go to ... Jim really wanted to go, Chris was out and I was all what the hell ... let's go ...
So we drive Alan to this party in the Hollywood Hills ... pick up a couple of his friends and arrive at the party. People, the house was INSANE! The guy who lives there is the guy who invented the Dry Erase Board ... I swear to God, I couldn't make this shit up if I tried. One of the guys tells us about the Dry Erase Board thing and I say to Alan, "That's almost as cool as being the person who invented Post-It notes." And then Alan goes, "Oh, I did that in a movie once," which of course I knew and we all laughed.
The rest of the night was just so surreal ... I found myself overlooking Los Angeles from a beautiful mansion in the Hollywood Hills ... and just realized how far from Detroit I really was. It's so strange the way things work out ... I'm not sure where I'm heading next but I'm very much looking forward to finding out.
Blah ... and that's about it ... it's such a weird and funny story that I had to share ...
I need to go eat so I'm gonna go do just that ... hope y'all are having a great weekend ... I know I am!
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Posts tagged "floppy"
Call In The PROs When You Can't Flop (X68000 PRO Part 3)
With a new power supply and the entire insect population of Honshu removed from its case, the swamp-bogged X68000 PRO can finally start up, but can it boot floppy disks? In this exciting conclusion to the series, we'll jump through a frankly ridiculous number of hoops – many of them ultimately proving to be unnecessary – in order to make some disks and find out.
That name again is Mr.PC
Get ready to step into the cyberpunk future of the mid-late 1980s, and don't forget to bring your boxed wine. NEC pulled out all the stops on this, their final PC-6001 computer. I have to pull out even more stops to get the disk drive to work.
Dual Goteks in the PC-8801mkIISR at last
In my previous entry, I found out that my old IBM PC "DOS" floppy adapter was not sufficient when trying to read from two drives at once. Somehow, they confused the floppy controller enough that nothing could be read from the second drive.
Attempting dual Goteks in the PC-8801mkIISR
I got another couple of Gotek floppy emulators from China, and now the SR has dual floppy drives. Unfortunately, I can't use them both at the same time.
PC-8801mkIISR opening and Gotek setup
I've been wanting to get back to the SR for quite some time. I figured the Gotek adapter PCB and the HxC-flashed Gotek would be a direct drop-in to the new machine, and I was right.
Sony HB-101 and NEC PC-8801mkIISR pickup
Japanese Santa dropped by my house earlier this week and left behind a back-shredding 40lb box of microcomputer goodness. Let's investigate.
Mini-updates 2 - A501 battery, PC-98 Gotek update, SparcStation 1+ debugging
I've been up to a bunch of little projects while waiting on parts and time for the big jobs, so here is another mini-update on three of those projects.
PC98 - New floppy board, sound 'fixed,' more testing
Now that the PC98 can load a game off a flash drive, there's a lot more parts of it I can test. Today, I spent a few minutes putting together a new revision of the floppy board and inspecting the computer.
Floppy adapter board works for the PC98!
After I designed the first version of my PC88 floppy board, I thought it would be fun to put one together for the PC98 as well. Why do I need an adapter for a computer that already has 3.5" floppy drives? The PC9821AP2 I own has a 26-pin floppy drive connector, like a mid-90s laptop, and most standard IBM PC style floppy drives have 34.
Revenge of the PC-8801mkII floppy adapter board
In the last entry, I found myself with a working adapter board to allow a 3.5" floppy drive (like a Gotek) to work with the NEC PC8801mkII. This liberated me from having to source, organize and maintain 5.25" floppy disks, and opens a large library of software for this computer without having to hunt through the used market. However, like all good things, there were a lot of bugs with the old adapter.
PC-8801mkII floppy adapter board
I wanted to get a Gotek working on my PC88, and after seeing that there were a lot of Japanese hobbyists who had managed to get an HxC floppy emulator working, decided it must be possible - even if not simple.
PC-9821AP2/U8W - day two
I only had a short amount of time to play with the computer today, but thanks to a very knowledgable friend, I got a known-good DOS 6.2 image with some disk utilities written to a floppy and booted.
PC-9821AP2/U8W - day one
Months ago, I won a PC-8801mkII and a PC-9821AP2/U8W off Yahoo Auctions. They arrived, but life got busy, and so the blog hasn't been updated in quite some time. What better way to bring it back than a deep-dive into a computer whose language I literally do not speak or understand in even the slightest way?
Atari ST with broken keyboard inspection
I've decided to start working on the "bad" Atari ST, with a non-functional keyboard and floppy drive, before I tear into the "good" 1040ST I just picked up.
Atari ST pickup
Many years ago, I got ahold of an Atari 1040STF for really cheap. However, I didn't have any monitor to use it with, so it has sat in storage for quite some time.
Gotek with FlashFloppy on the Amiga 2500
I recently flashed an eBay Gotek floppy emulator for use in my Amiga 2500 with the FlashFloppy firmware (based on the phenomenal work of HxC).


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Thursday, September 10, 2015
Delicious, Comforting, Spicy And Good
This is what I decided to make for supper tonight. I knew that Mr. Moon was going to head out to the hunting camp in Georgia and I wanted to make something delicious and comforting and spicy and good for myself.
The recipe is HERE and it's a damn good one although I have substituted one acorn squash and one sweet potato for the butternut, don't ask me why, I just did. There are no recipe police who will bust into your kitchen and haul you to the pokey if you mess with recipes, even from the venerable New York Times.
Know this and feel free to fool around in the kitchen. So to speak.
Right now my soup is in the simmer stage. I have the squash and sweet potatoes simmering with spices and sauteed onions, garlic, and cashews. It smells like heaven. The kitchen is a disaster area because while I was chopping and sauteing I was also making my husband an egg and cheese and bacon sandwich to take with him on the road to Georgia. He's busted his ass six ways from Sunday to get on the road this evening and Vergil came out this afternoon to help him load the deer blinds they've built up in a trailer for him to take with him.
I doubt I've ever seen my husband happier and although that does make me happy too, it is also something I've had to learn to deal with- seeing him so thoroughly thrilled with an adventure that does not involve me in the least way.
I do my best.
And make soup.
Jessie came out with Vergil this afternoon and we got to chat and I gave her that soft, soft dress I got at the Goodwill for her to wear in labor if she wants, if she needs to slip something on if she wants to go outside while she's laboring, which I loved doing when I was having my babies. I liked walking during contractions and I think she may too. If I know my Jessie, she may dance as well. Labor is so full of unknowns- especially for a first-time mama. I have tried to be very honest with my daughters about how difficult it can be. I remind them that even I could do it and in fact, did it four times, and that I know they are strong women and they know the rewards of doing it at home without drugs, if possible. The incredible comfort of being able to take your baby into your arms in your own bed, to be surrounded by loved ones, to be able to welcome this child to life outside the uterus slowly and at your own pace and your baby's pace, uninterrupted by unnecessary and rigid medical protocols with a midwife so sensible and accommodating that all of the things which need to be done are done in such a graceful and unobtrusive way that no one is disturbed. To have the new family of father, mother, and baby (the holy trinity in my religion) treated with the respect it deserves. In the hospital, it is as if there are two patients, the mother and the baby, while the father is tolerated and yet treated almost as lagniappe instead of being given the respect and space with the baby and mother he deserves.
Jessie and I sat on the couch and talked about these things and many more and we stroked each others arms and I was once again amazed at her, the regal and natural way she carries this swelling belly, ripe and filled with life. She astounds me, as does Lily.
It rained today too. I was out in the garden weeding and at first there came heavy drops and I continued on, just happy for the coolness, until it began to rain in earnest and I came in and watched the rain from the porch in great contentment.
Now it is almost time to puree the vegetables and cashews for the soup to mix with coconut milk. The fragrance and joy in making the soup almost make the eating of it unnecessary but I am looking forward to that part too.
I am looking forward to a lot of things. For instance, tomorrow Jessie and I are going with Lily to get one more ultrasound to see if they can make a definitive determination on the sex of Lily's baby. She has already bought up half the girl baby things in Tallahassee (that's a vast exaggeration) and she just wants to know, truly, truly, if she can buy the rest of the girl baby things (another vast exaggeration, sort of).
I feel so incredibly humbled by it all.
Love...Ms. Moon
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That post was just as sweet and comforting as I think your soup will be xReplyDelete
Oh, this baby talk makes me yearn to hold one. I just loved having my babies and then holding them.ReplyDelete
Dearest Mary-How lucky your girls are to have you to guide them. Brought tears to my eyes, it did, reading your sweet enjoyment of their pregnant selves.
I sat last night with a mamma who was struggling so and crying in pain and wondering if she could do it--she gave me such deep looks and I fed her all the strength I had while telling her she could, she's strong and her beloved child would be in her arms eventually.
Women and their wisdom. I am still humbled by such glory.
Great love to you and your beloveds.
So much lovely, here and in the comments. Jessie is an Amazon. And, well, her size relative to yours, and her husband's size relative to her dad's... let's hope her babies just pop out gently and sweetly.ReplyDelete
That soup looks yummy!ReplyDelete
I wish I had had my two babies at home but both mine were born prior to 1980 and it's a wonder they even let me do it without drugs. they whisked my daughter away right off but when my son was born, it was shift change and everyone was ready to go home so they wheeled me and the my son and husband into a side room not being used for the next shift to do whatever and we were alone with him for 20 minutes or so until they found us and took him away.ReplyDelete
- HeartinhandSeptember 11, 2015 at 11:18 AM
When our daughter was born it was all medical-y and scary. I insisted during my second pregnancy that I wouldn't go in until "I could see the head" and that's pretty much how it went. I'd have had ten babies if I knew they'd all be like Gus.ReplyDelete
There needs to be a gender-neutral line of clothing for babies so that people can shop freely AND babies aren't born into stereotypical roles. There's an idea, someone please run with it and don't bother giving me credit, it's just a thought.
I think I need a craft room day!


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Stable, Secure and Strong Core
It's not all about abs. Correct core coaching improves foundational strength that carries over to each alternative exercise, decreases low back pain, fortifies you against injury and aids in useful movements. The best thanks to have confidence what specifically constitutes the core is to put a finger at the highest of your abdomen close to the breastbone, and another at the lowest of your glutes. Use all muscles between those 2 points, and you will get your core muscles. If you're simply looking to make a surprising sixpack, take a more in-depth look at your nutrition or your diet.
We give you 5 ways in which you'll be able to higher construct a solid core:
1. Stabilize Your Lumbar
Lumbar pain may be a common grievance for hard-training athletes – however it doesn't need to be. you'll be able to fortify yourself against this sort of pain, among alternative strategies, by increasing body part stability. so as to try to to this, you shouldn`t be moving your hips once in bound positions. This can be done by avoiding an excessive amount of rotation of the lower back and second, doing different forms of plank workouts. Loaded carries and planks prevent hip rotation while increasing strength of the muscles which stabilize the spine.
2. Do perform Get-Ups
The most common core coaching mistake: too several crunches and sit-ups. folks prefer to feel that abdominal burn, thinking the fat can disappear from their stomachs which their core can become sturdy. That couldn't be farther from the reality. Crunches and sit-ups simply can't reach those "deep" core muscles – during this case, the transversal abdominis – that require to be reinforced.
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Reading Challenge 2016
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Yesterday's Gone: Season One
David W. Wright, Sean Platt
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Marissa Meyer
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1:00 am 3 September 2014
Weird Wednesday
This time we get to meet
To be completely honest, when I think of man and cupcake combined it would probably look something like this
But in this case the cupcake actually
turns into
a man. Werecake - get it?
It starts of with Chase doing her grocery shopping when she spots this amazing cupcake. It is so amazing that she forgets to buy anything else in her haste to purchase said cupcake and take it home to eat it. And the book had the best description of a cupcake I have ever read..
So she gets home and starts to eat the cupcake.
But after a bite she hears a yelp! She's not able to figure out where it came from so she stops eating the cupcake to save it for the next day. Say what??
Is that even physically possible?
Aaaanyways - she falls asleep and wakes up to a surprise in her kitchen... Cake has turned into man! And somehow she manages to guess what has happened... Not the most logical conclusion maybe?
And her reaction to discovering this werecake in her flat?
Conclusion: This book might be a little weird, but it's not really shit. It gets +1 Star for amazing cupcake descripion, +1 for coming up with the consept of werecakes +1 for being slightly hot but -1 star for minor typos and Chase just guessing the man must be the cupcake...
A semi-successful Wednesday read!
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One of the supposed merits of the UK's first-past-the-post electoral system is that it delivers strong governments – that is, it gives disproportionate representation to bigger parties, which until 2010, tended to ensure that one of them had an overall majority.
This is why smaller parties don't like it. The Liberal Democrats have always been against it and as part of the coalition agreement in 2010 they secured a referendum on switching to an alternative vote (AV) system. After some quite strident campaigning against this change from the Prime Minister among others, the public voted pretty decisively against, condemning smaller parties to many more years of under-representation.
But not all smaller parties. There is one smaller party that is set to get a huge bonus in May thanks to first-past-the-post, ending up with twice as many seats as it would under a proportional system. That party is the SNP.
According to the latest projections on may2015.com, the nationals are set to get 4.08% of the vote in Great Britain, but claim 55 seats, or 8.46% of the total. This is because first-past-the-post doesn't just favour big parties – it also favours those that are more geographically concentrated.
We can see how this works by building a simple model that distributes a given vote share across different geographical areas, with some random fluctuations and a fixed victory threshold. The chart below shows the number of seats that the model predicts for parties concentrated on Great Britain, England and Scotland, compared with the projected results of the major parties. Although the model is crude, it matches up pretty well with these projections.
How many seats a party would win for a given share of the Great Britain vote, by geographical coverage, and the latest projections from may2015.com for the main parties
With votes spread evenly across the whole of Great Britain (think Labour and the Conservatives) you need quite a large share before you are likely to win any seats at all. If you are concentrated in England only (think UKIP) the threshold is a bit lower, but it's still looking tough with anything less than 20% of the vote. Smaller parties mainly focused in certain areas of England (like the Lib Dems) do a bit better. But if you are entirely concentrated in Scotland, you can get a decent number of seats in Westminster with a tiny proportion of the total vote.
The SNP presumably like the first-past-the-post system now, but 'twas not always thus. In 2011, in the run-up to the AV referendum, a party spokesperson said:
Faced with a choice between the fundamentally unfair first-past-the-post system and a step towards a more democratic system, the SNP's National Executive has agreed that the SNP will support a Yes vote in the AV referendum.
At that time the SNP were small even in Scotland and had just 6 seats. But now they are big in Scotland – they are projected to get 48% of the Scottish vote – and are forecast to cash in with a whopping 55 seats. Will they use their newfound influence to continue their push for electoral reform?
Contrast this with the fortunes of UKIP, who command much greater support overall and are expected to win more than three times as many votes as the SNP, but will walk away with a measly 5 seats. All of which goes to show that you don't need to be a big party to reap the benefits of the first-past-the-post system, you just need to be big somewhere.
If the SNP do go on to win this number of seats, and if the Union and our parliamentary system survive the arrival of the Nats in Westminster, could this have consequences for other regions? If localised parties can secure a good share of the vote in one region, they can secure disproportionate representation in parliament and use it to push local issues / sabotage the union from within / whatever else they want to do. The London Party anyone? (We are the richest region in Europe and it's time we stopped subsidising the rest of the country!) Or perhaps the Cornish Assembly, or the People's Front of Tyne and Wear?


text: SB DX @ ARL $ARLD047 ARLD047 DX news ZCZC AE47 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 47 ARLD047 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT November 13, 2008 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD047 ARLD047 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by NC1L, VU2PTT, the OPDX Bulletin, DXNL, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. MADAGASCAR, 5R. Eric, F6ICX, will be QRV as 5R8IC from Boraha Island, IOTA AF-090, from November 18 to December 14. Activity will be on 30 to 10 meters using CW and SSB. QSL to home call. SENEGAL, 6W. During his time in Western Africa, Peter, HA3AUI will be QRV as 6W2SC from November 15 to March 31, 2009. Activity will be on 160 to 10 meters using mostly digital modes, but with some CW and SSB as well. QSL direct to home call. WEST MALAYSIA, 9M2. Rich, PA0RRS will be QRV as 9M2MRS from Penang, IOTA AS-015, from November 17 to February 6, 2009. QSL to home call. TONGA, A3. Operators Nob, JA2AAU, Yoshi, JA2AIC, Iwao, JA2LSS, Iku, JA2ATE and Mori, JA2ZS are QRV as A35AU, A35IC, A35SS, A35TE and A35ZS, respectively, from Nuku'alofa Island, IOTA OC-049, until November 16. Activity is on all bands and modes. QSL to home calls. MOZAMBIQUE, C9. Igor, UY5LW is QRV as C91LW until December 2. Activity is on 160 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and various digital modes. This includes an entry in the upcoming CQ WW CW contest as a single band entry. QSL to home call. URUGUAY, CX. Members of the Sacramento de Colonia Radio Club will be QRV as CX1F from San Gabriel Island, IOTA SA-057, on November 15 and 16. Activity will be on all HF bands and modes. QSL via operators' instructions. BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA, E7. Special event station E760DPR is active until December 31 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Radio Club Trebinje. QSL via E73DPR. ENGLAND, G. Special event station GB70RAF is QRV from Shaftesbury, Dorset until December 11 to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Royal Air Force Amateur Radio Society. Activity is on 80 to 10 meters using CW and SSB. QSL via bureau. SAN ANDRES AND PROVIDENCIA, HK0. Operators AA7JV, HA7RY, HA8MT and HK3JJH will be QRV as 5K0T and HK0/HK3JJH from Serrana Bank and Roncador Cays, IOTA NA-133, from November 18 to 21. Activity will be on 160 to 6 meters. QSL 5K0T via HA7RY and HK0/HK3JJH via operators' instructions. GUINEA BISSAU, J5. During his time in Western Africa, Peter, HA3AUI will be QRV as J5UAP from November 15 to March 31, 2009. Activity will be on 160 to 10 meters using mostly digital modes, but with some CW and SSB as well. QSL direct to home call. PERU, OA. Operators Rene, DL2JRM, Daniel, DL5YWM and Jorge, OA4BHY are QRV as OA4BHY/2 from Guanape Sur Island, IOTA SA-075, until November 17. In their spare time they are also active as OA4/homecalls. Activity is on the lower HF bands. They may also be active from Lighthouse ARLHS PER-007. QSL OA4BHY/2 via DL2JRM and all others to home calls. ANTARCTICA. Alex, RV1ZC is QRV as R1ANC from the Russian Vostok base. Activity is on several HF bands using CW, SSB and various digital modes. QSL via RN1ON. CENTRAL KIRIBATI, T31. Toshi, JA8BMK will be QRV as T31DX from Canton Island from November 16 to 26. Activity will be on 160 to 10 meters using CW and SSB. QSL direct to home call. CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC, TL. Padre, TL8PRV has been active on 20 meters around 0630z. QSL via IN3EYY. INDIA, VU. To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Indian scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose, known as the father of radio communication in India, look for special call AU2JCB to be active from November 15 to December 8. Activity will be on al bands and modes. QSL direct via VU2SMN. ASCENSION ISLAND, ZD8. Ernie, W1MRQ is QRV as ZD8B until late December. He is active on 2 meters EME. QSL via K1CA. OPERATIONS APPROVED FOR DXCC CREDIT. The following operations are approved for DXCC credit: Lakshadweep Islands, VU7SJ, 2008 operation; Sable Island, CY0X, 2008 operation. CALLSIGN CORRECTION. As mentioned in last week's ARLD046 DX news bulletin, the correct Viet Nam callsign for Mike, RL3BM is XV4BM, not XV4CC. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The ARRL SSB Sweepstakes Contest, ARRL EME Contest, NCCC Sprint, JT Hamradio-50 Anniversary DX Contest, SARL Field Day Contest, All Austrian 160-Meter CW Contest, Feld Hell Sprint, RSGB 2nd 1.8 MHz CW Contest, North American Collegiate ARC SSB Championship, EU PSK63 QSO Party will certainly keep contesters busy this weekend. The Run for the Bacon QRP CW Contest is scheduled for November 17. Please see November QST, page 86, and the ARRL and WA7BNM contest web sites for details. NNNN /EX


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News about this year's Arrowverse crossover event has arrived at a steady pace since mid-May, when it was announced that Batwoman would be hanging out with Green Arrow, The Flash and Supergirl this time around. To help you keep tabs on it all, TVLine is here to offer a handy round-up of casting news, scheduling info and storyline teases.
In the attached slideshow (click here for direct access) — which will of course be updated as more and more intel comes forth over the weeks ahead — we've recapped the "special" scheduling for the three-night event, reminded you who is (and is not) a part of the crossover event, and tallied whatever is known thus far about the threat necessitating the superhero team-up.
The CW's Arrowverse launches its new seasons starting Tuesday, Oct. 9 with The Flash, followed by Supergirl (Sunday, Oct. 14), Arrow (Monday, Oct. 15) and then DC's Legends of Tomorrow (Monday, Oct. 22).
The crossover event, meanwhile, will air across three nights — Sunday, Dec. 9 through Tuesday, Dec. 11, incorporating the ninth episodes of The Flash, Arrow and Supergirl. But again, full details can be found in the attached slideshow.
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Casa Carmen in Archello, our project is located in an increasingly large square in the old Raval de Sant Joan de Elche, which has its first traces in 1265, of Muslim origin. It still has the flavour of the past, quiet streets, with activity and life impregnated with history, with the special cadence of the neighbourhood.
The Casa del Carmen faces south, towards the square, formerly called Forn Fondo street, because there was an oven and many streets are named after what was in them. The people of the neighborhood say that the people lived with the door open, in the street. Life is different now. Carmen lives in the upper floor looking for a controlled intimacy, a relationship with the square, but with natural light and sun entering from the east, through the dividing wall, and from the south, through the facade, through a perforated latticework with motifs that used to graffiti tiles and that now is a steel plate cut by numerical control, but with the same ornaments that let air and light pass, bringing the memory of the place. It also has a small garden, a sunny terrace, a living room and a kitchen overlooking a small patio. 32 m2 optimized but sufficient for a friendly and comfortable relationship with the outside.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- As desperate as the Washington Capitals were for a win, Jaromir Jagr was equally determined to produce some offense.
Jagr broke out of a prolonged slump with a goal and two assists, and the Capitals snapped a seven-game winless streak with a 4-1 victory Friday night over the Carolina Hurricanes.
"I'll tell you what, if you want to go on a hot streak, you've got to win the ugly games," Jagr said. "I think we can go on a hot streak."
Alexander Semin, Robert Lang and Bates Battaglia also scored as the Capitals recorded the 1,000th regular-season victory in the franchise's 30-year history by scoring on four of their 16 shots.
"I don't think too many teams have 1,000 wins," Washington defenseman Brendan Witt said. "It's been hanging on forever."
Washington had gone 0-6-1 since beating Montreal on Dec. 23 to move within a game of the milestone. The Capitals scored only eight goals during that span.
Jagr's drought coincided with the Capitals' slide. Jagr, held without a goal since scoring against Montreal, had one point in his previous seven games and was pointless in his last five.
"You can never fault Jags ... on his work," coach Glen Hanlon said. "He's doing all the things he (supposed to be) doing."
Jagr benefited from a new alignment that placed him with center Jeff Halpern and Lang. With Halpern holding the puck down low, Hanlon said, both Jagr and Lang had more opportunity to freewheel.
"It's a pretty good experiment," Hanlon said.
Jeff O'Neill scored for Carolina, which had won two straight. Of the Capitals' 12 victories, three have come against the Hurricanes.
"When we come into town, they look like world beaters over there," O'Neill said.
An interference penalty against Washington's Steve Eminger led to a goal by O'Neill that gave the Hurricanes a 1-0 lead 5:53 into the game. Eric Staal pushed a pass from the end line and O'Neill chipped the puck over Olaf Kolzig for his fifth goal.
Jagr tied the game in the opening minute of the second period, two seconds after a Capitals power play expired. Skating in front of the goal, he knocked in the rebound of Peter Bondra's drive from the right point.
Semin's power-play goal put Washington up 2-1 with 4:07 left in the second. Semin was at the left post to backhand the rebound of a shot by Lang past Kevin Weekes.
Lang and Battaglia scored 34 seconds apart early in the third period for a 4-1 lead.
Lang notched his 21st goal on a power play when defenseman Aaron Ward failed to clear the puck out of the left corner. Lang backed into the left circle and squeezed a wrist shot between Weekes and the left post at 2:15.
Battaglia scored an unassisted goal at 2:49 after picking up a loose puck near the left boards.


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The newest installment, Jack at the Helm, finds Jack lost in Nepal. He must raft down a dangerous river to be reunited with his parents--a river with rocks, rapids, and crocodiles. (That last one would be enough to do me in!)
To celebrate the release, Lisa Doan is here on the blog to talk about some of her own travels!
TCR: What are your top three favorite places on the planet?
LD: Kenya is number one—I've traveled south through the Masai Mara and over the border to Tanzania, west and over the border to Uganda and Zaire to see mountain gorillas, east to the coast and the island of Lamu and north, hitchhiking on a post office truck to Lake Turkana. Nairobi is a great base station to travel in any direction, depending on what you want to do.
The back roads from Pennsylvania to Vermont. Each year, I travel up to Vermont to attend the Vermont College of Fine Arts Alumni Residency. I hop in my car with a big cooler and head into the wild. These back roads are small and twisty and up and down mountains and I rarely see another car. (I saw a bear last year.) I have a friend who lives on a lake in Connecticut at about the half-way mark, so I make it a two day trip going both directions—driving through the wilderness by day and drinking wine by the lake at night.
TCR: Is there a place you've always wanted to travel to, but haven't been yet?
LD: Bhutan—It's fascinating that they have developed a Gross National Happiness (GNH) Index. And, while measuring happiness has proved to be devilishly difficult, proposed plans and policies for the country are held up against the GNH and must show that they do not negatively impact everybody's happiness. In the United States, we are given the right to pursue happiness, though there is no mention of actually getting it. How wonderful that the government of Bhutan has not chosen to confine their interests to the Gross National Product. I'm sure Bhutan has its own set of problems, every country does, but the GNH sounds like something we should be doing! I want to go there and see how it's working.
TCR: What's the best piece of travel advice you've ever received?
LD: I was on a flight from Cameroon to Kenya that slid off the runway in Burundi. The flight attendants disappeared and we were left to evacuate ourselves. As it was a stopover and most of us didn't have Visas, we were held at the airport for hours. Finally, a representative from Cameroon Air turned up and told us the following:
1. All of us seasoned travelers were to understand that birds flew into the engine. Which happens all the time to us seasoned travelers.
2. The only problem with the plane was the flat tires and new tires were being sent from Tanzania.
3. We would be taken to a hotel and should be prepared to get a phone call at any time in the night that the tires were changed and we were ready to continue our journey.
A business man sitting next to me said, "If the phone rings in the middle of the night, don't answer it." This sounded like solid advice to me, so I didn't. I flew out the next day on another plane. I never did hear if the plane with the flat tires made it to Nairobi.
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The Arole Oodua & Ooni of Ife, Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II this afternoon singned an MOU with His Excellency, Honorable Sharif Ahmad Bin Jaber Al Natour who owns GDTC Group that recently Disbursed US$ 800M Fund for Commercial Ventures in Livestock, Sugar and Sugarcane Plantation in North Central Timor Global conglomerate at his Ile Oodua Palace in Ile-Ife.
The billionaire Arab businessman cum philanthropist subsequently accompanied the highly revered African king to Abuja for a scheduled meeting with President Muhamadu Buhari on possible collaboration between GDTC Conglomerate and the Federal Government of Nigeria in the interest of youth employment, development and empowerment.
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced the availability of $2 million in intercity bus security grant funds for 2017. This latest round of security grant funding for the motorcoach industry was announced last Friday, June 2 through the DHS, www.dhs.gov and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) websites. Since 2003, DHS has awarded nearly $106 million to secure motorcoach operations.
The grant program is designed to improve security for intercity bus operators and passengers by providing funding for driver/vehicle and facility security enhancements, emergency communication technology, and training. This grant funding is a direct result of ABA's continued lobbying efforts on the Hill and with the DHS on the continuing and ongoing need for enhanced security in our industry.
This year, program eligibility has been extended to any qualified operator, including fixed route or charter service, using over-the-road buses and providing multiple trips (minimum of 50) to any of the areas defined by the DHS as Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) jurisdictions. A few new jurisdictions have been added for FY 2017 – Hampton Roads, Va., Indianapolis, Ind., San Antonio, Texas, and Salt Lake City, Utah.
There were a number of key changes to this year's program. In addition to reducing the amount of funding available, the number of submitted projects has also been reduced, changes have been made to allowable pre-award costs, and a host of other compliance items have been added.
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The FY 2017 grants will be awarded through a competitive selection process, with grant applications due by 5:00 p.m. ET on June 22. All funding will be announced for selected recipients around Sept. 1.
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For all three calls, please dial - 800-320-4330; passcode: 271792
ABA has worked hard with Congress to ensure that these funds are available to our members – in fact, during the last installment of this grant program (in FY 2016) more than 90 percent of those who were successfully awarded security grants were ABA members. We strongly encourage you to apply for these very important funds. You can also read more online by going to www.grants.gov, and typing in the CFDA number 97.057.
There are also a number of registrations that you must complete in order to be able to submit your finished application. This is a multi-step application process that can take over a week. Start those registration processes today!
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Commander's Reconnaissance
Commander's Reconnaissance
the visual study of the enemy and the terrain conducted personally by the commander and staff officers in order to obtain necessary information for adopting a plan or refining it.
Commander's reconnaissance is usually carried out along the axes of forthcoming troop actions. The commanders of subordinate, attached, and support units of all sizes and the commanders and officers in charge of branches, special forces, and services also take part in commander's reconnaissance. This form of reconnaissance is also conducted to study regions or lines for the possible location and deployment of forces and routes of movement, as well as to correct and supplement topographical maps. Special parties sent out to reconnoiter the ground may include officers from the headquarters and from the directorates of the branches, special troops, and services. To collect such information within friendly territory, helicopters, airplanes, high-speed command vehicles, and radar instruments are used.


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When I first starting buying netbooks/tablets, I started to create my own desktop backgrounds every time I got a new one. I've gotten better at them over time. :P
Shema Yisrael
This is an adapted version of this wallpaper by La Belle Ariagnee. I was looking for a dark theme to suit my new netbook, and I was trying to become more familiar with Hebrew at the time.
I believe that the original author has reserved all rights to her image.
For a film which is about a secret guild of assassins with special powers who target marks based on the dropped stitching of an automatic loom, Wanted made a significant impact on me, especially the ending.
I'm sure Universal Studios have reserved all rights to their screenshots.
Remembering London
In 2016, I moved to Israel for a year to study Jewish texts in yeshiva. One night I was extremely homesick and found myself looking at aerial views of London at night. London is my home city, and I am completely in love with it.
The verse is quite famous and from Psalm 137:6.
This aerial shot of London at night is from NASA and licenced under CC BY-NC 2.0. If I forget thee Jerusalem London desktop background by Sarah McCulloch is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Having started work on the Autistic Empire, I have been long inspired by Malcolm X and his comic inspiration, Magneto. I won't pretend that Magneto isn't kinda genocidal at times, but we all need people we know are absolutely on our side and offer us dignity and self-worth.
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Who all went out to Granny Gear's Big Bear 2×12 24hr event? I hear it was a blast. I think JJ was there too, check his site to see if he covers anything.
*Note, this footage was from 2005, but it is the same course, I believe:
Solo Goat's blog also will have some coverage in the next few days: http://sologoat.blogspot.com/
Photos from Joey's Bike Shop:
Facebook video of Gunnar and others: http://www.facebook.com/v/116485838439267
Early Results Link: http://www.iplayoutside.com/Events/2011/06/13257r.html
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By: Natalie Bohlen
I have always wondered what it's like to intern for a large company, and how one ends up landing such a great experience. Believe it or not, one of Stevenson's very own students interned for a leading sportswear brand. Venus Khosravani, a senior in the fashion design major, scored an internship with Under Armour this past summer. I couldn't wait to talk to her about her time spent there (and yes, she met Kevin Plank).
Venus interned in the Youth Technical Design Department. Her days started around 8am, and she wouldn't leave sometimes until 6:30pm. Even though these were crazy long and challenging hours, she says it was super rewarding. An average day consisted of receiving...Learn More


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Toy Story 3 is here! Midnight screenings began this morning at 12:01 AM across North America and now millions more will be watching it this weekend. I'd love to know what you thought of Pixar's new film. Comment below and share your thoughts!
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About Samad Rizvi
Samad is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Pixar Times and The Disney Times. His favorite films include The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Vertigo, Back to the Future, Children of Men, Pan's Labyrinth, and of course, Pixar's Toy Story and Inside Out.


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Asus has released in Taiwan its new mobile phone, the Z801. The Asus Z801 features a 260k color 240 x 320 pixels TFT LCD screen, a 260k color 128 x 128 pixels subscreen, a 2 Megapixel camera, built-in media player supporting H.263 / MPEG4 (3GP) video and MP3 / AAC / WAV / AMR music files and support for voice recognition. The phone has also a microSD slot, FM Radio and Bluetooth 1.2 with A2DP and USB connectivities.
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Over 6 Million Tune in to Lifetime's Flowers in the Attic
The TV movie version of V.C. Andrews' 1979 novel, Flowers in the Attic, saw 6.1 million viewers tune in to Lifetime. Additionally, it drew about 2.4 million in the always key 18-49 demographic for its initial Saturday at 8 pm premiere. According to Lifetime, it was the channel's most-watched original film since November 2012.
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Flowers in the Attic tells the story of four beautiful siblings imprisoned for years by their sadistic mother and grandmother. Most notably, the story turns incestuous, once the two older siblings reach puberty.
The 2014 update starred Mad Men's Kiernan Shipka and Mason Dye as the older siblings, with Ellen Burstyn and Heather Graham as their torturers. As The World Turns alum Dylan Bruce also starred in the telepic. Shortly before the film's debut, Lifetime announced it would also adapt the sequel, Petals on the Wind.
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Technological Treatments
There are several technological treatments currently in use or under investigation that are thought to help restore the balance of neurotransmitters in the brain and reduce symptoms of depression or bipolar disorder.
Dietary Supplements
When thinking about supplements, safety should always come first. Dietary supplements may interfere with prescription or over-the-counter medications or may cause side effects, but several are being studied for their effectiveness in helping with depression and bipolar disorder.
Healthy Lifestyles
A healthy lifestyle is always important. Even if symptoms of depression or bipolar disorder make things like physical activity, healthy eating, or regular sleep difficult, you can improve your moods by improving your health.


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Parker: Battle was about consumer rights
By Greg Parker
The battle over the ability to advertise discounted gas club prices on street signage has always been a consumer rights issue. I firmly believe that an informed consumer is an empowered consumer.
The Georgia Department of Agriculture expressed concern that advertising Parker's club pricing on street signs might be confusing to the customer. Interestingly, consumers weren't the ones complaining about our PumpPal club pricing, which saves customers up to 10 cents for every gallon of gas purchased. Our competitors complained to the department because they were the ones losing business.
At Parker's, we never received a single complaint about our club pricing structure being confusing or misleading to customers - and neither did the Agriculture Department. In fact, our PumpPal program has been extremely popular, and our discounted pricing has been exceptionally well-received at all of our retail locations. We currently have 47,000 PumpPal members enjoying discounted gas prices seven days a week.
I'm delighted that the Commissioner of Agriculture recently reconsidered his original rule, since it broadens opportunities for discounted gas prices in Georgia and ensures that consumers will have complete information about those prices. Fortunately, we've been able to reach an accommodation that addresses the commissioner's concerns while preserving truthful advertising and the Parker's PumpPal loyalty club program.
Since the PumpPal program at Parker's first launched in March 2011, this initiative has saved consumers more than $1.7 million on gas. That's real savings for our customers during tough economic times.
I'm also delighted that Parker's is becoming known as the "Give Back Leader" for our focused efforts to donate to local public and private schools. We've been able to give nearly $17,500 to area schools in Georgia and South Carolina as part of our ongoing "Fueling the Community" initiative.
The preliminary ruling by Chatham County Superior Court Judge Louisa Abbot leveled the playing field by allowing any other convenience store retailer to adopt a similar discount program as Parker's.
This strikes me as a remarkably fair opportunity for all area convenience store retailers. It only makes sense that we should all play by the same rules.
However, the real winner in the recent dispute over gas discount pricing is the consumer. Our customers have gone above and beyond to express their support in recent months. I'm grateful for their loyalty during the recent dispute with the Department of Agriculture.
Thank you to everyone who rallied behind Parker's during this challenging time. Thank you for standing by Parker's and everything our company stands for in the Savannah area.
I intend to stand by our customers by offering the area's most competitive gas club pricing and by continuing to give back to the community we are so proud to call home.
Greg Parker is the president and CEO of The Parker Companies.


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Dream ! Dream ! dream ! but how ?
What's secret of dream? Why only few people's dream come true?
Having Dream in Life motivates us to work. We all dream to have successful life, a huge amount of money in Life, happy family with name and Fame.
All successful person forces on having DREAMS in life but then why only some of us become successful ? What the secret of Dreams coming true ? What's the difference between dreams of successful Person and Straggler ?
Here you will get all answers today. Let's start with Importance of having dream.
"If you don't build your dream someone will hire you to help build theirs".
Let's think of some real life situation. What do you think before movie of you Favorite Actor/Actress is going to be released ? Booking first show ticket , right ? What do you think before appearing in an Interview or Test ? Passing with flying colors , right ?
But now think how many of us get success in booking first show ticket or getting 1st rank in test ? Very few right ? Why so that we will discuss in later part
Very few right ? Why so that we will discuss in later part.
Before that just feel the happiness of the moment when you wake up before alarm, happiness just after completing assignments and happiness of the moment when achieve something after failing a lots of time.
Dreams are important to get that happiness in Our Life. Yes Unknowingly or Knowingly every time we first dream to get it.
"Dreams transform into thoughts and thoughts result in action." - A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
This is exactly how it goes. Every time we want something we dream of it and to clear it we don't need to sleep for dreaming. Every time we think of having something our brain makes a picture of that. Just try by thinking about your crush this time.....Did you see an Image ? So now the question is why don't we achieve all we want to have ?
It's Because we always don't dream in right way. Yeah ! There is difference in between your dreams which become true and other which don't. So let's have a look at some key-points :-
1. Many times we Underestimate ourselves. When we think earning 6 figure per month we underestimate our ability and let our mind think it's Impossible. But to be honest you always don't need a job.....change the way and it's possible that you can be job creater. Just don't kill your Dream in One go.
2. Lack of clear vision - Many of our dreams are because of that 'Sharma ji ka Beta'. Believe it or not when you try to figure out why do you want to many things which you are running for, then you are going to find that many of them are motivated because someone told it has better scope or Some Ads of company impressed you or Some of your friends have that or Your parents told you to compete with 'Sharma ji ka Beta'.
I have seen many people changing their dreams in just a couple of minutes just because they found some other option more easy. This way it doesn't work. What needed is clear vision. Dream should be your .....truely Yours. It should be such that even after failing many time you are ready to try once more. Remember how bulb was discovered ???
4. Do you Know Yourself ? :- Try to recall when you talked to yourself last time ? It's quite long time before , right ? If not in your case then you are better than 79 % of population. We are so busy that we don't find time for other and for ourselves too. What do you answer when you are asked about your Weakness ? Easily getting emotional or being very kind or similar answer. It's because We don't know Ourselves.
Knowing Ourselves include Knowing Our strength , Our Weakness , Our Passion, What makes us Happy, Which environment suites us, what's our talent and don't be amazed if I say it includes Knowing our favorite Dish.
So how it is helpful ? If we Know ourselves better then we can know what we really need. We can create a clear Roadmap for making dream true based on our strength and weakness.
Now the answer of question we had at beginning. There are certain which can let us achieve anything we dream of.
1. Set your dream big, Big enough for your need but not greed.
2. Make a Routine and have control on your life. Don't waste time on unnecessary Stuffs because what matters at last is how Successful You are. Success brings happiness too.
3. Practice , Practice and Practice...... It's truly said practice makes a man perfect. When you feel you can try and do the work then Do it......If you didn't get it then try again. Give Your Best.
4. Build a good team if needed. Don't Select best one. Select those who believe in You. Be with those can direct you in right direction.Many times we have to make tough choices , at that time choose what your heart feel right. It may cause temporary loss but eventually it leads you near to your dream. Never do unethical things.
5. When you start loosing interest in your dream just thing what it can give you when your dream will be a reality. It will make you feel happy. Read real life straggler's stories. Your dream should be your reason to wake up in morning. Keep dreaming about your dream.
So what Now ? dream , set and Go !
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Introduced in 2000 by Swedish automaker, Volvo S60 is a compact executive sedan, which already has two generations to date.
The first generation was based on the S60 platform and P2 at the time of its release, was marketed as a "Revolvolution." The model shared its platform with other Volvo models such as S80, V70, XC70 and the XC90.
The second generation S60 had its world premiere at the Geneva Motor Show 2010, but had been viewed as a concept in the program last year.
The new S60 Volvo shows the new design and shares a platform with the new XC60. The S60 is designed to compete with the Mercedes C-Class, Audi A4 and BMW 3 series.
The Swedish brand introduced its first model in 1927, the Volvo ÖV4. Then, many closed top and cabriolet luxury models followed. In 1935, holding company SFK sold a great majority of Volvo Cars' shares to Volvo AB – the company that builds Volvo trucks, buses, construction machinery and many other Volvo-badged equipment and services. Volvo AB owned Volvo Cars until 1999.
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"Fly free and happy beyond
birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish,
in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.†– Richard Bach
Today is my first born, only daughters birthday.
Please wish her a happy day.
I had a bunch of thoughts, a good post and I am not in a position to write. I am weepy. I am ticked off that I am weepy. I wanted to try hard to pretend things are okay. I was hoping I had grown and matured and gotten past these awful slaying birthdays.
Apparently not.
Of course it could be the weather, it could be PMS, it could be my sons pending surgery or my moms surgery of this week.
Or it could be that somewhere, an hour from here, in upstate NY, my daughter will celebrate her birthday with someone, somehow, and it won't be me. She will get a card or a call from her replacement mom. She will blow out candles with someone else.
Will she think of me like I think of her?
One would think after twenty two years of missed birthdays I would be desensitized.
I am not.
Twenty two years ago I held her beautiful face in my hands. I counted fingers and toes and gently ran my fingers through a lock of very dark black hair. I kissed her cheeks and tickled her belly. I listened
to her coo as she snuggled in the crook of my right arm/elbow. I marveled over how much she looked (then) like her father. I imagined how she would look in the future. I took her to the window of St. Joseph's Hospital and showed her Lake Michigan. I sang to her. I talked to her. I told her stories.
I gave birth to her and began a three day vigil. Three days from today, will be the anniversary of handing my daughter over to strangers.
May 16 she was born.
May 19 she was abandoned and it was blessed by society and I was told it was a good thing and I would get over it and she would be better off without me.
I find these days hard to celebrate. I want to. I do. For an angel blessed the earth on this day in 1986 but a devil stood by all to eager to take her from her mothers milky breast and give her to strangers.
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AT&T is suing Verizon over a snarky campaign that compares Verizon's 3G coverage to AT&T's: Is this unfair? It's maybe impolite, but it doesn't appear unfair or incorrect. Is it actionable? AT&T says the ads will make customers believe AT&T has no coverage whatsoever, not just no 3G data coverage, in the white areas in the AT&T map displayed. And the map is from a few months ago, while AT&T has built out a bit more blue in that time. (AT&T isn't complaining about the accuracy of the map's depiction of 3G.)
Fundamentally, though, we're seeing a battle between the last advantages of the Qualcomm EVDO standard compared to the GSM evolved HSPA family of standards. When Verizon installed 3G, the company did it in a big way, upgrading a large majority of its 2G 1xRTT nodes to EVDO Rev. 0, and later pushing those to Rev. A for the current footprint and speed. Sprint did likewise.
Verizon had to, because AT&T and T-Mobile had intermediate 2.5G and 3G steps that would have left Sprint and Verizon at a competitive disadvantage. AT&T and T-Mobile pushed out EDGE, which is several times faster than 1xRTT (which runs at fast dial-up modem speeds), and did so relatively inexpensively. AT&T Wireless and Cingular, at the time separate entities, had distinct plans to test and deploy UMTS, the 384 Kbps low-end 3G standard on the road to HSPA. (GSM 3G HSPA standards are broken down into downlink and uplink and there are flavors and steps there, but it's nice to just say HSPA to encompass the realm.)
For AT&T, EDGE was good enough outside metro areas, because it competed effectively with 1xRTT before Verizon and Sprint had a full EVDO footprint (even with Rev. 0). The company then essentially stalled because of first the Cingular/AT&T Wireless merger, and then the 60-40 ownership split between what was then SBC and BellSouth. The two companies didn't see eye-to-eye on spending on 3G. AT&T's 3G plans really only took off after the BellSouth merger, which also gave it 100-percent control of the cellular division. Any rational wireless firm would have spent billions during the good times to get a competitive 3G footprint with the CDMA competitors.
If Verizon and Sprint had limited 3G upgrades just to major metropolitan areas, they would have been way behind the ball--and AT&T would be running ads now laughing at the companies' sub-EDGE speeds in the country, and slower than HSPA rates in the city. (T-Mobile dropped out of this speed war for a few years while it acquired 3G spectrum and deployed its HSPA offering. The firm intends to have the fastest 3G network while 4G networks are being built with a test of 21 Mbps HSPA already underway.)
Verizon has to be aggressive right now, because it's switching to LTE for its 4G network, a GSM-evolved standard. It will be years before it has a national footprint for 4G using LTE (over 700 MHz spectrum). During that time AT&T will have bumped its 3G network nationally to 7.2 Mbps HSPA, and potentially even going to 14.4 Mbps HSPA (that requires more hardware upgrades, so hard to tell), and also pushing out LTE over 700 MHz.
In a couple years, AT&T will have the bragging rights on speeds, will start having a better 3G and 4G map to compare with Verizon, and Verizon will seem like the sucker. At least briefly.


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Molecular structures represent just one kind of data that is commonly explored with visualization tools. To convey a message to your peers effectively, sometimes you need more than just a table or chart. How you present even text elements is critical.
Here are some links to resources and tools for visualizing data.
GAPMINDER Interactive visual statistics with global examples
WorldMapper A collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on according to the subject of interest.
Wordle Generate "word clouds" from text that you provide. Words that appear more frequently in the text will appear larger. See: PEER Welcome
CMAP The IHMC CmapTools program empowers users to construct, navigate, share and criticize knowledge models represented as concept maps. It allows users to, among many other features, construct their Cmaps in their personal computer. See: Pollen Concept Map
ImageJ Image processing and analysis. See: CountingSheep
Infosthetics A collection of projects that represent data or information in original or intriguing ways
Data Visualization: Modern Approaches A collection of innovative approaches to data.
Edward Tufte An expert in the presentation of informational graphics. See his books.
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Elizabeth McAlister speaks at recent Berrigan lecture
by Luke Eggleston
Sun Staff Writer
Photo courtesy LeMoyne College
The latest installment of the Daniel Berrigan Lecture Series at the Panasci Chapel on the Le Moyne College campus featured the powerful presentation of Elizabeth McAlister on Wednesday, April 1.
McAlister and her husband, the late Philip Berrigan, founded the Jonah House Community in Baltimore, Md., in 1973. McAlister, a former sister in the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary order, lectures on nonviolent resistance, community, prayer and peacemaking throughout the U.S. and Canada and has written articles on those subjects for numerous publications including the National Catholic Reporter, Sojourners Magazine, Marriage and Family Living and Maryknoll. She also co-authored with Philip Berrigan The Time's Discipline, a book on the Jonah House experience. She has been arrested numerous times for nonviolent resistance to war-making and spent two years in prison in the mid-1980s for such an action at the Griffiss Air Base in Rome, N.Y.
McAlister said she was honored to have the opportunity to contribute to the legacy named in honor of her brother-in-law — Jesuit Father Daniel Berrigan. "It's a treat. It's a gift. It's really a privilege to be part of this story that Dan has helped to start and weave and continue to inspire going so far back," she said.
McAlister's lecture was entitled "Contemplation and Violence in the Post-9/11 World." She dealt specifically with the U.S.'s reaction to the terror of 9/11 and offered Jesus' example as an alternative to violent retaliation.
Le Moyne alum Mike Pasquale offered an introduction. In addition to welcoming McAlister, he extended greetings to noted local activists Jerry and Carol Berrigan as well as their son Philip Berrigan. Pasquale also detailed a brief history of the Berrigan Lecture series, which was established in 1999.
"Dan [Berrigan] has done the simple and the profound and that's what we are called to do," he said.
McAlister opened with a quote from "the madman [Friedrich] Nietzsche, who said, 'God is dead and we have killed him.'" She countered by saying that "perhaps religion has died, not God."
Using phrases evoking ritualistic religion, McAlister illustrated the events of 9/11, as well as the response among most Americans. McAlister repeatedly described Ground Zero as a sacrificial ground and described President George Bush as acting as high priest in orchestrating the U.S. response to the attacks. She emphasized contemplation, which she described as interaction with God, as an alternative to violence.
"We want to speak of contemplation and a contemplation that is open to all," she said, inviting the attendees to "reflect on 9/11 and look at the events in the light of contemplation."
She decried the terrorists' act of piloting airplanes into the World Trade Center but also noted that the U.S. reaction was similarly savage.
"That day we were all invited to participate in something that I and others would label satanic," she said. She underscored the importance of the location, New York City, as a center for national media. "We were sucked in. We were fascinated," she said, referring to the violent retaliation that followed the incidents of 9/11. She noted that the response to retaliate against the terroristic act was bellicose. "Are you with us or against us? And that was followed by suppression," she said, adding that the atmosphere in the U.S. could be described as one of "fear and disorientation." The alternative to the war on terror, she said, is to consider and contemplate on the example of Christ. McAlister explained that the Gospel liberated humans from the illusions proffered by Satan. "We no longer have to believe [the satanic lie]," she said. Without contemplation, humans are swept up in the cycle of retaliation for its own sake. "We will likely get caught up in the world of reciprocal violence and that is not what Jesus wants," she said.
McAlister said that contemplation is not only a prescribed alternative, but a necessary one.
"We leave ourselves prey to being pulled in a thousand different directions and often in the wrong direction," she said. "What contemplation calls us to is the way of Christ in the world and without it, we're going to radically destroy that image of Christ in the world."


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Sturm: Who are we to judge?
Think Again
On a glorious springtime visit to San Francisco — where the "if it feels good do it" culture is reflected in the bumper sticker "Your body may be a temple, but mine's an amusement park" — I was struck by the tattooing trend, as if body art is the modern version of big shoulder pads or miniskirts, not a sign of rebellion. Personally, I prefer art on a canvas, not a human chest, though in healthy societies, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Then I encountered a scantily clad, tattoo-festooned woman on whose neck and jaw was emblazoned the ultimate gotcha question: "Who are you to judge?" Disarmed and unnerved by her determination to discredit judgmental passers-by, and before I could Think Again, I felt shame. After all, what compassionate, well-meaning person could answer her question without seeming prejudicial? Don't we judge people by the content of their character, not the color of their skin — even when it's multi-variegated dragons or flowers?
Like the branding on her skin, this encounter, though fleeting, stuck with me. Whether wearing a scornful signpost to the world actually makes her feel good, it made me feel bad. Was this her intention? Why provoke defensiveness and discord in a world that suffers from too much already? Wouldn't she be happier if passers-by smiled rather than recoiled, and wouldn't more smiling passers-by make the world a better place?
In his book "Living a Life That Matters," Rabbi Harold Kushner offers answers: "Because we find ourselves in so many settings that proclaim our insignificance, … some people do desperate things to reassure themselves that they matter to the world." As if anticipating Miley Cyrus' recent unseemly televised antics, Kushner wrote, attention-seekers "confuse notoriety with celebrity, and celebrity with importance. … They may come across as pitiable … but their story holds the attention of millions of Americans. They matter."
But what kind of epitaph is "She desperately wanted to matter"? Wouldn't a better tombstone read, "She did the right thing even when no one was looking?"
One needn't be the Dalai Lama to know that every day, in seemingly insignificant ways, we can promote goodness, compassion and peace and help repair the world. "And if you can't help (others)," the Dalai Lama did say, "at least don't hurt them."
Holocaust survivor and celebrated psychiatrist Viktor Frankl wrote this advice in his memoir, "Man's Search for Meaning": "Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!"
In the camps, Frankl found meaning by clinging to his beloved wife's image; finding decency, even in German guards; and helping comrades persevere, confirming Friedrich Nietzsche's insight that "he who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how."
After selling millions of books, and aware its popularity was "an expression of the misery of our time," Frankl offered this counsel in the 1992 edition: "Happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself."
It's a shame it often takes a traumatic experience to uncover these truths. Mine happened this summer after being diagnosed with breast cancer, which is the reason for the brief hiatus from this column. Cancer is a great equalizer since it knows no prejudice as to whom it afflicts and, at first, the afflicted know only disappointment, uncertainty and fear.
Yet being vulnerable opens one's heart to generosity and consolation and to random acts of kindness performed by compassionate strangers: the MRI-technician who mercifully held my hand and wiped my tears, the friends who put aside their concerns to help divert me from mine, the cancer survivors who inspired me to see hope, the doctors whose patience with my questions comforted me, and the family members who supported me through it all.
After a harrowing few weeks, and a good pathology report, I took a previously planned trip to Israel, where I stood at the Western Wall — the holiest place in Judaism — not to ask anything of God but to thank God for my many blessings. And as I welcomed the new year on Rosh Hashanah, I felt a heavenly jolt when I recited the Shehecheyanu blessing, which thanks God for sustaining and bringing us to this moment.
What makes us matter in a world where we often can feel insignificant is not how we brand ourselves as individuals — it's the mark we stamp on others' hearts and the legacy we leave the world. As the ancient Talmud teaches, "a good person, even in death, is still alive."
Think Again — rather than "If it feels good, do it," wouldn't a better life creed be "If it makes others feel good, do it?"
Melanie Sturm lives in Aspen. She reminds readers to Think Again. You might change your mind. She welcomes comments at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The 8 Best Happy Hour Deals In Astoria
Brooklyn bars steal all the attention when it comes to the outer borough drinking experience, but as Queens neighborhoods attract a younger crowd, the cocktail scene there is coming into its own. Known for authentic restaurants and a familial vibe, Astoria is now the home to many career focused twenty-somethings, as well. With trendy eateries popping up on what seems like every block, we picked out these bars and restaurants for the best happy hour deals. By Sarah Shaker.
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Happy Hour specials ($4 beers, $5 mixed drinks, $6 wines and select specialty cocktails) run every weekday from 4:00 - 7:00 p.m. and until 4:30 p.m. when stopping by for a weekend brunch. (Try the Breakfast Burger - LaFrieda beef served on country white bun with fried egg, lettuce, tomato, onions and pickles). Don't miss out on their beer battered and fried McClure's Brooklyn Pickles.
The Astor Room
34-12 36th St.
Astoria, NY
(718) 255-1947
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Formerly a private club at the historic Kaufman Astoria Studios, this restaurant's mahogany "Beaver Bar" features a drink menu designed by Lynnette Marrero and Jim Kearns. Cocktails such as The Fairbanks (London dry gin, dry vermouth, apricot brandy liqueur, grenadine and lemon juice) harken back to Astoria's heyday as a hub of Old Hollywood glamour. Look for a regular rotation of silent movies and live music to keep things interesting.
Studio Square's sister restaurant next door offers $1 oysters, Long Island Blue Points, and half-priced beer, wine and cocktails every Tuesday through Saturday from 4 pm to 9 pm.
Beer aficionados will fall for MexiBBQ's Craft Beer Happy Hour every weekday from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., featuring half-priced pints of every single beer on their menu. In addition to major labels, enjoy about two dozen artisan suds for around $4 a glass. MexiBBQ's craft beer options include New York-produced beers from breweries such as Greenpoint Harbor, Coney Island, Brooklyn and Fire Island. Their happy hour also features $5 classic margaritas, $7 flavored margaritas and $5 and under Mexican-meets-Southern barbecue bar bites by Executive Chef Jonathan VanSleet.
Sunswick 35-35 is another craft beer favorite in Astoria with a rotating selection of beers from top domestic and international breweries (from $5–$9) pouring out of 25 taps. A weekday happy hour runs from 3–7pm, giving thirsty neighbors an opportunity to try awesome beers at varying discounts. Also, check out their monthly events featuring a range of American brews.
Since their opening in 1996, Cafe Bar has been a neighborhood standard. In addition to a regular Happy Hour from 4 p.m. - 7 p.m., the bar boasts a Late Night Happy Hour from 11 p.m.- 1 a.m. There are $4 well drinks, $4 house wine, $1 off bottled beers and beer pitchers for $16 and $20. Brunch is offered daily from 10-5 p.m. for those who love a leisurely meal any day of the week.
Relive your college nights with giant pink Fish Bowls made with three different types of rum, pineapple, cranberry, orange juice, a splash of 7up at Mad Donkey for $25. Daily deals include Monday $1 tacos, Tuesday $2 Miller Lites and 30cent wings with $9 to $12 34oz beers. Thursday is Ladies' Night, where gals pay $10 to drink beer and well liquor free from 8pm-12am. Friday happy hour starts early at 11am until 7pm. And check out the long list of bar food to choose from to soak up all of the boozy sins.
Marked only by red lights, you may miss this bar if you're just wandering along. Be on the look out to stop in for happy hour 2-for-1 drinks on weekdays from 7-9 p.m. Try one of their creative cocktails, like a rosemary-infused blueberry-vodka martini. During the warmer months, take advantage of their spacious backyard lined with benches. On Sunday nights they're known to play indie flicks on a hanging screen for fun for your whole crew.
Sarah Shaker is the founder of the blog Bright Lights, My City.
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