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Bob Horton, a field support engineer in the Pulverizing Machinery Division of Slick Industrial; Larry L. Carpenter, Sr., of Nuclear Shielding Services; Walter Mork of Hale Sanitary Supply, "New Mexico's Oldest and Largest." Theirs are three business cards among the thousands that were collected by an unknown employee of Los Alamos National Laboratory, the birthplace of the atomic bomb, between 1967 and 1978. Now, decades later, they have been arranged into a book called "Los Alamos Rolodex," by the Center for Land Use Interpretation.
Prior to their rediscovery by the C.L.U.I., the cards spent many years in the Black Hole, a museum-junkyard housed in a former Shop 'N' Cart and evangelical Lutheran church. The Black Hole was run by Ed Grothus, who had worked for twenty years as a machinist in the L.A.N.L. Weapons Group, measuring the ultra-precise conventional explosives that are required to detonate a fission device. He quit in 1969, disillusioned by the war in Vietnam, and spent the rest of his life campaigning for nuclear disarmament. He founded the First Church of High Technology, where he held Critical Mass, and opened the Black Hole. For forty years he bought cast-off equipment and office supplies from the lab—oscilloscopes, laser assembles, a vintage radio purportedly owned by J. Robert Oppenheimer, several of the adding machines that Enrico Fermi and his colleagues might have used in building the first bomb.
Grothus died in 2009, and, although the Black Hole is still open, it is in its final throes, according to Matt Coolidge, the director of the C.L.U.I. "People recognized the good stuff early on," he told me. The Rolodexes—seven in all—were sitting at the bottom of a cardboard box, surrounded by broken typewriters and other detritus. They were an arbitrary and incomplete fragment of the lab's history, just one set of contacts among thousands. The letters "A" and "C" were missing. Nonetheless, Coolidge realized, the cards were an important reminder that the bomb was built, as he put it, by "people talking to people." Without Horton's pulverizers or Mork's sanitary supplies, there would have been no warheads with which to guarantee mutually assured destruction.
From an aesthetic point of view, the cards are a visual feast of retro typography. Many of the company names evoke a postwar enthusiasm for all things nuclear, from Bio-Rad Laboratories to Interactive Radiation, and the logos tend to be variations on whirling atoms or stratosphere-bound rockets—or, in some exuberant cases, both. The cards' original owner noted the date of acquisition on the back of each one, and if they are arranged chronologically, Coolidge said, it becomes possible "to see the sixties becoming the seventies, just through the graphic design and the occasional head shot with a bushy mustache." With only one or two exceptions, the cards conjure up an image of a corn-fed, male America, full of Hanks, Bills, Buds, and Dons. "We did find one woman's business card," Coolidge said. It belonged to Mrs. Corinne Bond, of David's Work Gloves, the "Goliath of the Work Glove Field."
The cards and their owners hailed from all over the country—Southern California to eastern Massachusetts, Texas to New Jersey. During the Second World War, Coolidge said, the lab itself represented a "vast national machine that gathered material from the entire landscape, from Oak Ridge, Tennessee, to Hanford, Washington, and processed it into a couple of grapefruits of material with the power to destroy the world." After the war, the defense-industrial machine's hold only strengthened. From the perspective of the C.L.U.I., which seeks to spread "knowledge about how the nation's lands are apportioned, utilized, and perceived," much of the contemporary American landscape was shaped by it. The business cards tell the story not only of Los Alamos but also of atomic America—its casual sexism, its techno-optimism, its vast reach across the economy that it both fuelled and existed to defend.
Coolidge and his colleague Aurora Tang, the program manager who first fished the Rolodexes out from their box, have tried calling some of the numbers on the cards. All of them were out of service. Nonetheless, Coolidge said, he still imagines that "we could find some of these people, as old men, living their lives." In the meantime, these fragments give us a way to begin to wonder about all the nuclear stories that we don't know and will never hear.


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Sharp's Windows 8 Mebius Pad Tablet Revealed, Here are its Specs and Looks
If you're looking for a Windows 8 powered tablet with a stylus to use for professional purpose (and not only) then you should head your attention towards Sharp's latest accomplish, the Mebius Pad. Further aspects (such as specs and other hardware performances) are being detailed below, so don't hesitate and check the same.
Announced last year, the Sharp Mebius Pad was officially revealed during Computex, when everyone was impressed by its amazing display. The tablet is featuring a 10.1 inch touchscreen that provides 2,560×1,600-pixel resolution, which is close to 300ppi, similar with what we currently have on Google Nexus 10. So, with such a display you will be able to use this Windows 8 based tablet for completing various tasks, whether we are talking about your work projects, or for your own entertainment.
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Sharp Mebius Pad: Water and Dust Proof alongside Windows 8 and IGZO screen
Mebius Pad specs are also including the new generation of Bay Trail Atom Z3370 quad-core processor, which performances are similar with what we can obtain on an Intel Core 2 Duo chipset. Furthermore, this tablet is also coming with 4 GB of RAM, an 8 MP rear facing camera and 64 GB of internal storage.
Mebius Pad is water and dust proof, supports LTE connectivity, weights only 600g and looks quite similar with the Sony Xperia Tablet Z, though on Sony we don't have glass on the back like we have on Sharp. The handset brings Windows 8 right of the box and access to Windows Store from where you can anytime download your favorite apps and programs.
So, bottom line, the Mebius Pad is a great new Windows 8 featured tablet that comes with an impressive display and with decent to high end hardware performances. The tablet is currently available in Japan and there are still no words related to its upcoming release to other markets such as Europe or US. Anyway, stay close as we will update you with fresh info as soon as something new comes out.
Read Also: iPad Air vs Windows 8 Tablets: a Short Analysis

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Joined by good friend Carl, Gredgie and I continued our Ludum Dare 72-hour jam participation with an extra brain and a spring in our step.
The theme for LD31 was "Entire Game on One Screen", and again we had been overconfident that the seemingly-popular ASCII Snowman theme was going to be chosen and the side-scrolling wintery beat-em-up we had planned to make was going to be in the bag.
Unfortunately, Snowman wasn't picked so we instead made a beat-em-up that fit all on one screen!
You play as a child (or children with a second player) forced to take part in a gladiatorial Christmas massacre incited by those evil elves. With a variety of weapons at your disposal, you must survive as man rounds as you can while the bodies pile up.
Carl made a trailer:
We didn't place too well this time (in fact, at 219th overall it is our worst-placed LD game yet), but as usual it was a thoroughly enjoyable weekend and having an extra team member really took some of the pressure off, especially in the final few hours.
We'll be back in 2015, hopefully for all three Ludum Dare competitions!
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Every time we find out about a big company swallowing up a smaller company for a ridiculous amount of money, we get a feeling something fishy is going on. They're probably just trying to squash the competition and become enormous monopolies to force us lowly consumers into paying higher prices for their products, right?
We can imagine, though, that these types of firm mergers and acquisitions are not all bad. We might just be witnessing a beautiful love story blossoming into a happy marriage. In fact, we (the lowly consumers) might reap some serious benefits from these mergers. To explain, we need to learn more about yet another Nobel Prize winner in economics: Oliver Williamson.
Oliver Williamson won the prize for providing a theory of why "some economic transactions take place within firms and other similar transactions take place between firms, that is, in the marketplace." Further, "when should decision power be controlled inside the organization and when should decisions be left to the market."
This, like most Nobel Prize-winning theories, is a fundamental economic question that can be applied to our own lives. In lieu of the most lovey-dovey (or depressing) holiday of the year, let's get into the firm-style behaviors of our romantic relationships.
It's About That Time…
Say you've been dating your significant other for some time now and you think it's time to move forward. You decide it's time to move in together. Without bringing love into it (too much), we can provide a Williamson-esque analysis to this decision. The decision to move in together makes sense economically. Particularly, it's due to what Williamson calls "asset specificity."
In his seminal paper, Williamson notes that "Asset specificity can arise in any of three ways: site specificity, as when successive stations are located in cheek-by-jowl relation to each other so as to economize on inventory and transportation expenses; physical asset specificity, as where specialized dies are required to produce a component; and human asset specificity that arises from learning by doing."
Your significant other has a particular asset (relax the implicit pun in that term), that makes it economically efficient to bring it under one roof.
Furthermore, you and your significant other are effectively "locked into" the transaction to a significant degree, especially after deciding to exclusively date each other. The cost of turning to alternative sources for the particular asset is way too high. Just think of how it would play out if you simply switched to an alternative. Also, it's good to remind ourselves how difficult it is to get back into the dating game even after one year of sharing information and getting over each other's' quirks.
In any case, for some reason or another, though there are arguably many substitutes out in the world—fish in the pond—there is something about this one that is specific to your production process. "Doing business" with each other for the extended amount of time, the product that your significant other brings to the table has become a necessary component of the overall product–a happy life.
While you're not living together, there are several factors that can create inefficiencies in this overall product. An obvious inefficiency is the presence of two rent payments. In cities like Washington D.C., this can be a serious pain in the ass-pocket. Living under one roof is similar to Williamson's "site specificity".
The "specialized dies" he talks about, could be a number of things. Perhaps your significant other makes a delicious lasagna or talks about economics in a way that really gets your engine going. Whatever it is, you realized you can't live without it. (All together now, "Awwwwwww.") Just another reason to move in together.
We're all just trying to minimize transactions costs
Williamson's theory of the firm is rooted in Nobel laureate Ronald Coase's theory of transactions costs. Couples, like firms, bring processes under one roof to minimize the cost of transacting. Facebook acquired Instagram, not necessarily to rule the world, but to minimize the cost of having to contract out with Instagram for Facebook users to share pictures on such a fun and unique platform. Instead of dealing with the contracting headache Amazon would have to endure to start innovating in the grocery sector, it simply just has Whole Foods move-in. Oil companies, pharmaceuticals, restaurants, cable and tech companies all do this for this reason.
Sure, one reason companies make acquisitions can be to squash some of the competition in these markets. But sometimes, acquisitions help eliminate some inefficiencies in the production process. These inefficiencies can translate into better products and lower prices for consumers. A win-win situation for everyone.
This Valentine's Day, if you feel it's time to take the next step, you now have a quasi-romantic, economic defense for moving in—asset specificity, sweetcheeks.
It could minimize the cost to produce a happy life, for the both of you.
Disclaimer: Williamson notes "bounded rationality". This is the idea that the decisions people make are limited by imperfect information, the cognitive limitations of their minds, and the amount of time they have to make decisions. ReasonablEconomics is not responsible if this turns out to be a horrible move. Please move-in with caution.


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Right from the inception Xtend has adopted an innovative approach towards the development of products and solutions. Below given are details of few of the discontinued products that are no longer available for sale.
Xtend CNA is an electronic device that welcomes all incoming calls with an automated announcement saying that the dialed number has changed and announces the new number to the caller. This ensures a hassle free transition from your existing phone number to a new phone number. Multiple languages are supported and the number to be spoken, the required languages, the order in which the languages should be spoken and the number of repetitions can be configured using a computer.
Xtend Fixed Cellular Terminal (FCT) is a telecommunication equipment that can be used to connect a Telephone or EPABX to the GSM/CDMA Mobile Network. Xtend FCT provides instant phone connections similar to landlines; even in remote areas, construction sites, project offices, offshore oilrigs, and ferries. They can also be used to provide emergency backup phone lines when conventional phones fail during road repairs, floods, etc. Xtend FCT is a boon to call centres and other organisations with a large number of outgoing calls. Organisations with one or more branches can benefit from the facility of making interoffice calls and calls to field staff using Xtend FCT.
Xtend SMS is a cost-efficient toolkit to easily develop M-Commerce applications that can reliably be integrated with different compatible programming environments. Xtend SMS provides the ability to route Short Text Messages between GSM phones and PCs. Xtend SMS programming toolkit works with its compeer hardware unit to fetch and ship SMS. The toolkit eases the tedious and wearing effort which otherwise would be committing for the developers especially in the implementation of wireless protocols. Most of the early value-added services have been related to information on demand, but the target for many operators is to support information pushing, for either case Xtend SMS proved to be an ultimate solution.


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Harvard, Stanford and Cornell studies have shown that the factor that most increases a person's happiness is whether or not he spends a few moments each day contemplating whatever it is he is grateful for ... maintaining, in other words, a gratitude journal.
Read more posts on this blog about happiness here.
Now researchers at the University of Texas have come up with data indicating that it is also the family that is a great predictor of happiness. CBS News brings this story:
For Happiness, Seek Family, Not Fortune
Money might buy happiness for some, but for most people having strong family ties is a much bigger predictor of contentment than income, a new study show.
When researchers analyzed data tracking married people over a decade, they found that while income did contribute to happiness up to a point, the quality of family relationships was much more important.
The study is one of the first to examine the impact of economic and family changes over time. Read more.
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Gratitude and the Family Bring Happiness
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In my experience there is nothing like family - good family relationships - to bring happiness.ReplyDelete
Also, there is nothing like family trauma or heartache to create emotional havoc.
Best to work on keeping the bonds strong and investing in the people closest to us. As always, there is nothing like an ounce of prevention, and there's nothing like building good things for the future. When it comes to family, it pays off.
Thanks for that entry!
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Actress Olivia Thirlby accepted one of her earliest on-camera roles when she signed to work for director Paul Greengrass on his acclaimed docudrama United 93 -- and thereby delivered a haunting onscreen evocation of the late Nicole Carol Miller, 21-year-old college student and victim of one of the September 11th hijackings. Thirlby subsequently tackled supporting roles in such productions as David Gordon Green's explosive small-town drama Snow Angels (2007) and Jason Reitman's seriocomedy Juno (2007), then teamed up with Lili Taylor and X-Files stalwart David Duchovny for Vincent Perez's supernatural thriller The Secret (2007). The following year Thirlby made her stage debut in the 2008 off-Broadway production of Farragut North, and in 2009 she played the recurring role of Suzanne, Jonathan's ex-girlfriend, on HBO's Bored to Death. A supporting appearance in No Strongs Attached preceded a leading role in the sci-fi dud The Darkest Hour, and after lending her voice to David Gordon Green's animated comedy series Good Vibes, she landed the plum role of a young artist who upsets the delicate balance of a California household in the low-key drama Nobody Walks. But that was all talk, and Thirlby fans who craved a bit more action got exactly what they were looking for when she teamed with Karl Urban to battle a vicious gang of futuristic drug dealers in Dredd -- a feature adaptation of long-running comic strip that originated in the British science fiction comic 2000 A.D. (and was previously adapted for the screen in a 1995 Sylvester Stallone vehicle).
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Planning board delays decision on proposed assisted living facilities on Marco Island
It is not a question of whether there is a need for assisted living facilities on Marco Island.
All members of the Marco Island Planning Board were in agreement about that during Friday's meeting, but with questions about whether the projects were commercial or residential and consistent with the comprehensive plan, the board chose to hold off making a decision on two applications for amendments to the land development code that would have pushed the projects along.
The type of designation is significant because it determines the density limitations for developers and can stop development if amendments are not made.
"Currently under the land development code, if this is a residential facility, it's not feasible economically to build a group home," Chairperson Erik Brechnitz said. "It's probably not feasible even if we decide this is commercial without significant changes."
Walt Chancey, owner and developer of The Watermark of Marco Island project, said he wants to build a facility with assisted living, independent living and memory care capabilities at the corner of Heathwood Drive and San Marco Road.
While the NCH Marco Healthcare Center currently controls 12 acres, it is selling the westernmost five acres and using those funds to build a state-of-the-art 12,000 square-foot urgent care facility.
Chancey said his project is currently proposing 203 units, which includes 82 units of independent living, 96 units of assisted living and 25 units of memory care.
"It is not a condominium," Chancey said. "It is a senior residence."
Prior to the vote of continuing the discussion to next month's meeting, Craig Woodward, an attorney representing The Watermark, said Friday's meeting to seek a text amendment to the group housing standards was just the first step in the process.
Woodward said his client would also seek to rezone the property to a commercial planned unit development (PUD) that would encompass both the assisted living facility but also the urgent care facility.
The final step would be to seek approval of a site development plan, Woodward said.
Under the current C-1 zoning, assisted living facilities are not permitted on the property. Commercial use density is also limited to 12 units per acre. If an assisted living facility was permitted on the NCH property, current zoning would allow for 144 units.
The other project, which is not related to The Watermark, is for 81 units of assisted living and memory care on South Barfield at the old Sonitasole property.
Bob Mulhere, vice president of Hole Montes, Inc., said his client owns three contiguous parcels spanning 1.4 acres that are zoned C-3, including the Sonitasole property, which sits in the middle.
"We're going to design the project to utilize that facility," Mulhere said. "That would be a common area there in the middle."
From all of the public comments made during the meeting, it would appear Marco Island is also in favor of more assisted living facilities.
Mary Lee Kocourek, the widow of former NFL tight end Dave Kocourek, spoke about how difficult it was for families to have to leave Marco Island to visit other facilities.
"I don't know what I would have done if Sanitasole was not here," Kocourek said. "It was the best thing that ever happened to me and my husband [...] I can't tell you how much it helped me, and we need this on the island."
While members of the planning board were in agreement about that sentiment, there were some that objected to the plans they saw before them.
"On the second proposal we had, that's 1.4 acres and they're talking about 81 apartments of which half of them are going to be occupied with memory care patients," Ed Issler said. "I think that's a ridiculous number, personally, on 1.4 acres when you are talking about a comprehensive plan density of basically a total of 16 units permitted on that 1.4 acres."
Board member Joseph Rola also warned of the impact of to the comprehensive plan if the planning board approved amendments to the land development code.
"We're talking about every commercial lot, every commercial acre on the island can start to drag this sort of thing up if we make these changes," Rola said.
City staff has also issued a recommendation to deny the applications.
Dan Smith, director of community affairs, said it was his interpretation that the facilities were residential and would require a different application. If the projects are determined to be residential use, an equivalency factor would have to be established.
With the planning board not prepared to make a decision, attorney Paul Gougelman suggested that staff meet with the applicants about finding the right track for their projects and explaining the hurdles they might face.
Following the board's meeting, Issler emailed fellow Planning Board members and the City Council his thoughts about the projects.
With a subject line, "The Sharks are Circling," Issler wrote that Marco Island was "under attack by those wanting to drain the last bit of money out of what our Island has to offer."
"All the reasons and excuses they tried to use to justify the LDC changes they could have used in PUD applications," Issler wrote. "But, as our colleague and friend, Joe Rola, so aptly pointed out during the meeting, if we were to pass any changes to the LDC on this subject, it could apply to other parcels and as Eric pointed out, could even apply to other uses."
Issler called an assisted living facility a necessity for Marco Island and expressed a willingness to permit the use of the NCH property but not through amending the land development code.
"We, as the Planning Board need to be strong and represent all the citizens of Marco Island," Issler wrote. "We cannot let Developers come in and just build out properties as they wish for the benefit of their financial backers. I guarantee that if we allow 12 units per acre for the NCH property, it will be built."
Although there was some push-back from members of the planning board, Chancey said those were the only negative comments they've heard thus far though there is a timeline they must meet for the project to move forward.
"We feel confident we're going to get it," Chancey said. "We just have to go through the proper route to get it done. If it can't be done by January, the contract goes away."


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Maybe we need to take the instigator rule out of the NHL's trade deadline day. Rogers Sportsnet hockey analyst Nick Kypreos gave vivid evidence of the friction between Team Sportsnet and Team TSN in their current turf war. On Saturday, Kypreos (no stranger to dropping the mitts in his playing days) tweeted about the trade of Bryan McCabe to the New York Rangers from the Florida Panthers.
The tweet drew some derision in Twitterdom. Which led Kypreos to send an angry message to a friend. "I'm confident it will get done. Those [expletive]at tsn try to discredit me all the time. I'm really [expletive] As always … thanks for yo …" Except Kypreos sent the message as a tweet, not a text, making it public.
Needless to say, the Twits (in both languages) went wild at Kypreos' profane diss of his BlackBerry-toting rivals at TSN. Kypreos quickly took down the tweet and made light of his gaffe. "Opps!!!!! [sic]Was I thinking out loud again? My apologies to all … I meant to say how much fun and stress free this trade deadline day is … I passed my Blackberry to Charlie Sheen for one minute and look what happened."
His TSN counterparts had fun with him. Bob McKenzie: "@RealKyper Funny, I always thought when you start thinking we don't hear you so much as we smell the wood burning. :-)" Darren Dreger "@RealKyper. Thinking??? Hmmm." CBC's Elliotte Friedman chipped in with "@RealKyper outstanding."
In an interview Saturday with Usual Suspects, Kypreos first apologized for his language. "I know a lot of kids read these things, and there was no excuse for my language. I'm sorry." But it's clear there's no love lost between the network TV types who'll battle for scoops in the 10-hour deadline day marathon.
Kypreos acknowledged that the defection of executive Keith Pelley to Rogers from TSN has escalated tension between the big cable sports networks. "Absolutely, that competition has made its way down to our level," Kypreos said. "It's definitely changed in the last year."
Rogers broadcasting president Scott Moore said he's talked to Kypreos. "He made a mistake in sending something out to Twitter that was supposed to be a private correspondence. His language was inappropriate. He apologized immediately as soon as he realized what he did. Case closed." Good thing for Sportsnet as Kypreos is Sportsnet's best (only?) asset in breaking stories against TSN's Hydra-headed team of McKenzie, Dreger and Co.
Tamed Tiger
If only NBC golf analyst Johnny Miler would speak his mind about Tiger Woods's wonky comeback. Miller appeared on Golf Channel last Friday and was asked about Woods, who bombed out of the Accenture Match Play Championship in the first round last Wednesday. "It's a little bit like a Mike Tyson story to be honest with you," Miller said. "Sort of invincible, scared everybody, performed quickly under pressure, and until the Buster Douglas came along …"
Miller continued: "His life crumbled and it's like Humpty Dumpty. He was on the high wall way above all the other players and had a great fall, and there's pieces all over the place and [he's]trying to put them together."
Workout Warriors
"My name is Usual Suspects and I'm an NFL combine addict …" The NFL talent evaluation is under way in Indianapolis and, symbolic of the NFL's cultural clout, it's a must-watch on the NFL Channel for football junkies. One player testing is Canadian offensive lineman Danny Watkins, the fourth overall pick in the 2010 CFL draft by the B.C. Lions.
Glib host Rich Eisen noted Watkins has a hockey background. "When asked what position he played in hockey he said, 'Glorified goon.' His parents stopped going to hockey games because they were getting tired of watching him sit in the penalty box."
The big name on display is quarterback Cam Newton, who led Auburn to the BCS Championship. Newton has claimed his goal is to be "an icon and an entertainer." Hello, JaMarcus Russell. Already the predraft hype for Newton is stifling, NFL Channel talent scout Mike Mayock says. "I'm already Cameron'd out. As media, we are low-hanging-fruit guys. We are going to talk about one guy 80 per cent of the time the next two months."
Duke Snider's Expos connection
One of the outstanding vestiges of the Montreal Expos' legacy has died. Duke Snider, the Hall of Fame centre fielder who was the Expos' TV and radio analyst from 1973-1986, passed away this weekend at age 84. Ralph Mellanby, who produced Snider on Expos' broadcasts remembered him Sunday as a "class act. For a superstar he was very humble, laidback-- a good ol' boy. No ego. He was like your brother. He loved Canada and the Expos. He helped make baseball in Canada with his TV work. He was the guy who taught baseball."
Mellanby recalled producing instructional videos called Pro Tips with Snider. "We were doing Pro tips at Expos' training camp. I told him he had sweetest swing I'd ever seen when he played. I said, 'I'll throw a few pitches for you to swing at'. He didn't want to do that. 'I'm 58' and all that... Finally he got up at the plate and he took a couple of warmups. After a couple of swings, I threw one down the middle and he hit it over the centre field fence. He dropped the bat and said, 'Ralph, that's it. If you didn't get that one I wouldn't get another in 100 swings'.
"With no warmup he hit it over the centre field fence. Amazing. It's funny how Duke dies the same year his broadcast partner Dave Van Horne gets into the Hall of Fame. He was one of the greats."
Snider was also a central figure in one of the greatest sports books ever, The Boys Of Summer by Roger Khan. The book catalogued the Jackie Robinson Brooklyn Dodgers for whom Snider was the power hitting centre fielder. The book captured Snider both as a player an in retirement in his native California.


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Matt Damon's better (?) half is strapping on some plastic wings for the role of Batman in Warner Bros.' Man of Steel sequel. Twitter is going wild debating whether or not he's the best choice, but it's happening so we're all gonna have to down some wine and deal.
"Ben provides an interesting counter-balance to Henry's Superman. He has the acting chops to create a layered portrayal of a man who is older and wiser than Clark Kent and bears the scars of a seasoned crime fighter, but retain the charm that the world sees in billionaire Bruce Wayne," director Zack Snyder said in a statement. "I can't wait to work with him."
The sequel will open worldwide on July 17, 2015, with Henry Cavill, Amy Adams and Diane Lane reprising their roles. Excited? Eh?
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2010 V-6 Shootout: 2011 Ford F-150 STX 3.7L
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It's a testament to how fuel efficient V-8 engines have become that Ford didn't offer a V-6 in the 2009 and 2010 model years. The F-150's previous 4.2-liter V-6 was dropped because it had the same fuel economy as the old two-valve overhead-cam 4.6-liter V-8, which has been discontinued for 2011.
Ford's standard V-6 occupies the opposite end of the F-150's engine lineup from the premium 3.5-liter EcoBoost V-6. It's a dual-overhead-cam 3.7-liter mill. The naturally aspirated Duratec 3.7-liter V-6 is the F-150's standard engine, rated at 302 horsepower and 278 pounds-feet of torque. It features composite upper and lower intake manifolds to feed air to the engine and four valves per cylinder (two intake, two exhaust) that are combined with twin independent variable camshaft timing. Ti-VCT varies valve actuation throughout the power band so there's improved torque at the low end, cleaner emissions and better fuel economy.
Another new feature in the 2011 F-150 is the first application of electric power steering in a half-ton truck. EPS replaces conventional hydraulic power steering and promises up to a 4 percent improvement in fuel economy because it's not pump driven. EPS also eliminates harmful hydraulic steering fluid.
The STX trim is one step up from the F-150's base XL trim, but that step added almost $4,000 to the starting price, even though the truck still had cloth seats and a vinyl floor. On the outside are upgraded wheels and tires, exterior paint and trim. Inside, you get power windows and door locks, plus additional power ports and improved lighting. The price as tested was $28,565.
Our tester also had a few upscale features, including Sirius-XM Satellite Radio, a CD player and Ford's Sync hands-free entertainment and mobile phone system. It's also the only truck that included a USB port to plug in an MP3 player or recharge USB-equipped devices. We believe USB ports have become as important as conventional "cigarette lighter" power ports in trucks, and at least one port should be standard. While we had many options at our fingertips, there were too many buttons in the center stack. The steering wheel had radio volume and channel controls, cruise control and Sync-command buttons.
The gauge cluster was basic. The oil, coolant and transmission temperature gauges show a hot-cold temperature range but don't provide numbers. The two-line driver information computer had a helpful fuel-efficiency gauge in addition to displaying fuel economy, the odometer and trip distances.
The F-150's seating was a 40/20/40-split folding bench seat with adjustable headrests and a fold-down center armrest. There was no storage in the armrest.
While a welcome mix of textures visually breaks up the interior, nearly every plastic surface we touched was hard, and all of it was in a shade of dark gray.
Interior storage is critical in regular cab pickups. There was an excellent amount of room behind the rear seats, but there was only a raised surface to set stuff there. A cargo net or bin would have improved space management so that we wouldn't have to worry about smaller objects rolling off the shelf and under the seats. Side-door storage could be improved by smoothing out the metal grates that covered the stereo speakers so that drivers wouldn't scrape their knuckles reaching inside the cubbies.


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Adults (Over 16)
€28 per person
Youths (Under 16)
€20.00 per person
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Our strong Bubble Balls allow for a great time, make sure to listen carefully to your instructor! If you forget about what team you are on or what players are on your team, you will have a brilliant time playing bubble ball soccer.
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How Long Does it Last?
Bumper Ball (as it is sometimes known as), the fun and tiring game where you get in an inflatable bubble ball suit and play a basic game of football, it will last for roughly 45 minutes, but can go on for longer! Some can't stop playing zorb soccer!
What to Bring?
Change of Clothes.
Towel (Available to rent on site).
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The Memphis Grizzlies and star center Marc Gasol have agreed to a five-year max contract worth an estimated $110 million, sources told ESPN.
The deal includes a player option that would allow Gasol to opt out and become a free agent after the fourth year of the contract, according to sources.
The exact monetary value of the deal, which was agreed to Monday, will be determined by the league's salary cap.
As ESPN reported last week, Gasol shunned the opportunity to let interested teams court him in free agency, signaling to the rest of the league that the 30-year-old essentially was unavailable to everyone except Memphis.
Teams such as the Los Angeles Lakers, New York Knicks and Milwaukee Bucks -- all of whom had designs on making a run at the Spaniard in free agency -- abandoned all plans to pitch Gasol before free agency began.
Players and teams can come to verbal agreements on deals, but no contracts can be formally signed until Thursday, when a leaguewide moratorium on roster business is lifted.
Gasol, 30, was selected with the 48th overall pick by the Lakers in the 2007 draft. In the 2008 deal that brought his brother Pau to the Lakers, Marc Gasol's rights were sent to the Grizzlies.
In seven seasons with Memphis, Gasol has developed into one of the league's premier big men, winning NBA Defensive Player of the Year in 2013. He was selected as first-team All-NBA last season, second-team All-NBA in 2014, and he has twice been named an All-Star (2012, '15).
Gasol has averaged double-figure scoring in all seven of his NBA seasons, with a career-high 17.6 points per game last season in 81 games, all starts. He was regarded as the anchor of one of the league's best defensive teams despite not being an elite rim protector (1.6 blocks per game last season).
Gasol was an integral piece to the Grizzlies' rise, leading them to 55 wins last season and a first-round playoff victory over the Portland Trail Blazers. The Grizzlies have appeared in five consecutive postseasons and made it to the Western Conference finals in 2013 before bowing out in four games to the San Antonio Spurs.
In 2011, Gasol signed a four-year, $58 million deal with the Grizzlies.
Before graduating from Lausanne Collegiate School in Memphis, the 7-foot-1 Spaniard played professionally as a teenager for Barcelona (2003 to '06) and Akasvayu Girona before declaring for the 2007 draft. He played for Akasvayu Girona from 2006 to 2008.
Gasol holds career averages of 14.1 points and 7.9 rebounds in 517 games.
ESPN.com's Royce Young contributed to this report.


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The first stage we played was a introductory level, meant to teach you Batman's moves. The demo began with some thugs hanging out in a building, but they're suddenly interrupted by a man being tossed through the ceiling. With his dying breath, the fallen man warns that Batman is coming. Seconds later, the Dark Knight himself leaps through the hole in the ceiling, and the action beings.
Tactical Espionage Batman
The combat in the game is easy to get the hang of. You have the standard punch and kick moves as well as a finishing move that can be pulled off when you see an onscreen prompt. The demo that I played didn't feature any of this, but the final game will also feature plenty of Batman's trademark crime fighting tools like the Batarang, Batgrapple, Optic Cables and Lock Picks. There will also be a heavy emphasis on stealth, allowing Batman to stalk criminals from the shadows and take them out without being detected.
Eventually, I encountered one of the film's main bad guys, the Scarecrow. He tossed a mysterious powder in Batman's face, causing the screen to blur and Batman's movements to slow. It was a pretty cool effect, but before anything else could happen, the demo ended.
I also got a chance to try out one of the Batmobile stages. Here's you're driving through the streets of Gotham, dodging civilian traffic and bashing criminals' cars. Fortunately, the bad guy's vehicles are indicated by large arrows, so it was easy to tell who to knock off the road. The Batmobile is equipped with a booster, which is perfect for slamming into cars. During this mode, there is a reputation meter on the screen. Just smash into crooks, and the meter goes up. Take out innocent cars, and the Batman becomes less popular around town. This stage is very arcade like and a nice break from the standard gameplay.


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Azienda Agricola Luciano Sandrone - Barbera d'Alba 2011Sheer Harmony
Country of OriginItaly
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- Grape TypeBarbera
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The Barbera d'Alba 2009 impresses for its silkiness, finesse and sheer harmony.
This is a mid-weight vintage for the Barbera, but here, too, the wine's balance is totally irresistible.
This shows lovely mid-palate pliancy in a feminine style that is incredibly appealing.
Sweet dark cherries, flowers and subtle hints of French oak linger on the polished, impeccable finish.
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A truly special race that not only takes in many of Bath's beautiful attractions but also has the longest underground sections of any running race in the UK!
Cutting right under the city of Bath, the two tunnels offer a truly unique running experience. The Somerset & Dorset Railway closed in 1966 and until April 2013 the tunnels have been sealed and inaccessible until they were refurbished by Sustrans and the Two Tunnels Group. The Devonshire Tunnel is 408m long and the second Combe Down Tunnel is 1672m long. Both tunnels are well lit and well surfaced.
The Half Marathon course which takes you further afield through some of Bath's famous attractions and Industrial history including Bath Abbey and the famous Palladian Pulteney Bridge (1 of one 4 in the world!)
These races are packed with history, beauty and the novelty of underground running. It's a magical experience not to be missed!
The final race in the Two Tunnels Mini Challenge Series; complete a 5km, 10km & Half Marathon through the Two Tunnels over the summer and collect a special finisher's trophy!


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4 Weeks Until RNA Therapeutics
Presenting issues and real-life examples within the RNA space, SMi welcome insights and discussions into new technologies for single-stranded RNA, epigenetics to develop first-inclass drugs in oncology, patenting RNA Therapeutics and exploring the latest developments in delivery systems, including Exosomes and Nanocomplexes.
The Keynote Address on day 1 will be presented by Paul Agris, Founding Director & Professor at The RNA Institute. Gain a deeper insight into his presentation 'Engineering a Novel Antibiotic Against a Unique RNA Target that Prevents Resistance'. His session will be looking at how novel antibiotics can bind to target RNA and prevent resistance with low cytotoxicity and toxicity.
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I am not prepared….
Yep, this is basically another "not dead" post. I've been trying to get a mountain of work out of the way prior to November so I can have a hope of doing NaNoWriMo again. Being a freelancer, "mountains of work" sounds great, aside from the fact that it's not exactly well paid work. But we still have our heads above water, so I'm thankful for that.
Last year, for my first NaNoWriMo, I was absolutely petrified but extremely well-prepared. I had a full chapter and scene outline for most of the book, all my research was done and it was all sitting there in a shiny new trial version of Scrivener just waiting for me to begin. Not so this year. I have a vague idea of plots and characters, no outlines, no prep work. Not being a pantser in any sense of the word, this is not a good thing and doesn't bode well for my eventual success.
So, more than halfway through October, I need to start getting back in shape:
1. Get up earlier. Last year I woke up at 6:00am in order to have a proper breakfast and begin work. I am definitely more creative and more productive in the mornings – waiting until night just doesn't work for me.
2. Regarding that "proper breakfast"? Last year it was protein, eggs and bacon, sausage or ham. Not a handful of dry breakfast cereal* with coffee, which is what I normally have.
3. Discipline isn't a problem – I work harder freelance than I ever did at the career job. I work weekends and recently have been shutting down at 10:30 or so at night. Writing is hard, though. And scary.
4. Outline!!! I need to get a reasonably complete outline done this month. That "not a pantser" thing? Yeah, not a hope of doing it without.
So, that's the rest of my month. October…the most terrifying month of all.
*I can't eat cereal with milk. When I was a kid, the first time I remember smelling someone with body odor was on the schoolbus, and it smelt of Cheerios and milk. Can't stomach milk with cereal.
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Hey Ravven,
It's been a bit since I last "talked" to you. You know how life can be: full of unexpected challenges. I've had a few of those and they've made the already rocky-road of writing even more difficult to navigate. That you plan to do NaNo gives me hope though. I too need to outline; indeed, it is a must or I can't write–like looking for treasure without a map. When taking such a route, nine times out of ten I end up with a chaotic mass of semi related scenes from which a coherent story might be teased if one were a master of knots or someone who likes rubics cubes. I think, I'll take a page from your book…er, blog, and work for the balance of this month to achieve plot-outlined-ness. If I can do that, I'll give the month a go. Anyway, good to hear you've got you sights set on NaNo. Good luck with your outlining!
Hey, you. :) I've been reading your blog, but haven't done much commenting, or writing of my own, or anything else other than trying to get through all the work.
I hope that you do participate again this year. Having the support of the community was what made it all possible, and you have no idea how much I appreciated your notes during it all. It really, really helped.
No one can be more unprepared than I am this year, so let's just jump in and try to keep each other from drowning – what do you say?
Sounds good, Pard! Thanks for reading the blog. I ran into a rough patch…you know what I'm talking about: family, finances, etc. and didn't do a lot of "public" writing. The stuff I was doing was pretty stream of conscious, workin' through it, type stuff that I didn't feel was blog appropriate. I want to get back to blogging though. I have a few entries simmering in the back of my mind I'll pen in the not so distant future.
Your work keeps getting better and better, girl! I can't wait until I have something finished that's worthy of a cover and commission by you. They're top-shelf…so, soooo, much more adroit than the majority of so called "professional" covers I've seen lately. I know it's not paying like you'd like it to, but I have a feeling that one day it will at the rate you're going!
I've been on the fence about NaNo'in', but if your going to give it a go, so will I. You're right; the community made all the difference and kept me going. Any ideas what you might try your hand at? Same genre or something else? I'm going to stick with fantasy. Scions of the Moon didn't die so much as dried up. I nailed about 70K altogether before I shoved it "under-the-bed" as a bad attempt. I know there's a story in there, something I want to tell, but there's something wrong too that I can't identify. I am happy to report that I didn't give myself over to a new idea and slight Scions; it just dried up of its own accord. Maybe something will click later on and I'll come back to it. Until then, onward and upward. I have an idea about an urban fantasy that involves a local Sage-type who investigates some mysterious deaths connected to an artifact unearthed in the desert and brought to town. It's still sketchy in my mind, but I'm kicking the tires to see if it's worthy enough to make 2K a day. We'll see :-)
Red-stripped swimmers? check!
Rubber duck ring? check!
Fins? Check!
Snorkel and mask? Check!
Sunblock? Check!
Let's do this, Sis!
I would love to do a cover for you. Any time, the offer will always stand. :)
I was being completely honest about being entirely unprepared for NaNo, so my chances of success this year are sketchy at best. During the year I'd worked on an idea for something that I'd been thinking about for a long time, and it died on me. For NaNo, I'm thinking about a sequel to last year's project, as I wanted to do more with a group of secondary characters (the part-clockwork children living under the streets of London, the Tatters) and a travelling fae carnival. But we will see…


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Chapter 7: Remembering those definitely not worth to remember experiences.
Hearing a familiar voice, Luan Jose subconsciously turned his head to the one whose repeatedly calling his name and as confirming his guess, his mouth slowly turned into a big 'O' as he hastily said, "Aunt Mei, what are you shouting for? Calm down first, just now you look like a person who had been innocently scammed by a promoter of some whitening soap. I'm telling you right now Aunt, were a family whose never been afraid of anything and always remained calm and collected as possible. Say, what just happened that made you that nervous?"
"You? Calm and collected? Maybe while sleeping indeed, idiot! Nevermind, just come with me, we need to go to someone quickly!" Aunt Mei said as she held Luan Jose hand, pulling him anxiously.
Luan Mei was still in her prime, as she just turned twenty-five this year. A bit taller than Luan Jose with her hair which was casually tied up by a thin rope, added by her fine nose and gentle curves which had its own selling point. Even though she looks paled and tired its still can't hide her beauty that even when compared to some most beautiful women, she still wouldn't seem inferior in any way.
Hearing those words, Luan Jose calm expression suddenly stiffened. Remembering those definitely not worth to remember experiences.
"Woah Woah Woah, Hold It Aunt Mei, I said it many times! I'm done! I'm not doing those anymore! I'm not your scapegoat who will always clean your mess. Tell me whose the unlucky one you beat this time?"
Every time the words 'we will meet someone ' escape from his Aunt's mouth it will surely bring him into trouble.
He clearly remembered the day he heard those words for the first time, he thought he would be given a gift by his aunt or if not perhaps a surprise yet he had been brought to a dark alley which was full of lying hooligans. Terror crawl into his whole body on what he witnessed, wondering on whose the person who could beat all of this hooligans into this state. They were clearly beaten like a pig as fresh blood was still flowing from their mouth and nose. Some were treated as trash, piled up inside a waste container, on another side were a bunch of hooligans intertwined into each other. Broken bones, bruises and black eyes, just one look and one could know how devastating what happen to them. What more shocking was all of them were covering their crotch as if they were celebrating a' Grand Balls Party' as tears trickled down from their face.
"Uhm, Aunt Mei what on earth happened to these guys? Who did these cruel things?" Luan Jose whole body trembled as he wiped the cold sweat from his forehead with his hands, silently thinking to himself what disaster might befall to him.
"Ah! Jose, you know, these guys try to harass me while I'm on my way to the market. So I just teach them a little lesson, maybe broke a one or two of their bones." Luan Mei confidently said as if saying that these things were absolutely normal for her.
"A little lesson?"
"Yeah, a little lesson."
"Just bones?"
Luan Mei paused for a moment as she tilts her head before answering. "Certainly just bones." She still nodded twice while constantly blinking her eyes, seemingly confident in her answer.
Luan Jose gulped as he looks at those innocent blinking eyes. those were definitely not eyes of a normal human! Silently stepping backward, a thought of running to escape drift into his mind, but after thinking that he doesn't want his aunt to be unhappy he instantly brushed it away into his mind. Actually, he was just scared of what will happen when the time he came back home if ever he escaped.
"Eh, why are you shaking that much? Do you feel not well? Are you okay?" Luan Mei walks towards Luan Jose, confused on why his nephew acting this way.
Seeing her walking to him, Luan Jose shriek as his hands instantly covered his lower part.
"No No No, Please no Aunt Mei! Mercy to the eggs, Mercy to the eggs!"
Luan Mei stood dazedly looking at Luan Jose who was holding his lower part. Her face instantly turned red in embarrassment and anger, throwing all vicious words she can think of. She wants to beat Luan Jose so much but as if she had remembered a certain memory, she forcibly stopped herself from doing something she might regret later.
"Wh-wha-what are you saying?! Grrr! You truly don't want to value your life ha? Nevermind, Tie all of them for me if not, he he he." Luan Mei smirked as she placed her hands together, releasing a crackling sound while twisting her head.
Luan Jose was truly confused seeing his Aunt expression, trying to understand whats on her Aunt mind. Of course not those 'ready to beat someone expression' although it's really frightening. What really confused him is every time he did unpleasant things he was always being forgiven no matter how heavy it was. Not just his Aunt, all of the people close to him are acting like that as if their afraid of hurting him? He's not even sick or what.
"Surely nothing bad will happen, right? I was even beaten black and blue by Yan Fu and his so-called underlings. Perhaps they're just overreacting or… maybe they just love me so much? Right! That's it! Maybe they just love me so much that even the God of Love will be jealous of the love I've been receiving!" Luan Jose told to himself.
"Don't worry Aunt, consider it done. Is there anything you still want me to do? Anything, so long you order it!" Luan eyes were brimming seemingly pleased to himself.
The words came from Luan Jose mouth could be only described as trustful and pleasant to one's ears added by those pair of brimming eyes. All in all, it was overly perfect, the only problem is…
"LUAN JOSE!!!! Do you still see me as your Aunt!"
"Wh-why Aunt Mei? Did I say something wrong?" Luan Jose was confused facing his aunt. Her body was constantly shaking and veins bulged out on her face.
"Wrong? Nah there's nothing wrong, it's really kind of you to say those words to me while COVERING YOUR CROTCH! You idiot!" Luan Mei angrily said.
"Just tie them up and return home once you are finished. I still need to buy some things in the market."
Luan Mei turned around, stomping her feet as she walks away. But on the way, luan mei steps become a bit sluggish as she faced the sky weakly muttering words that only she can hear.
"If only… if only you're a normal person."
Gazing at the silhouette slowly disappearing in his sight, Luan Jose quickly removed his hands on his lower part acting completely natural as if nothing happened a while ago. Walking towards those hooligans lying around, Luan Jose decided to vent his frustrations to those guys on the ground instead.
.Luan Jose started kicking all of them while tying them group by group.
"Pl-please stop bro-brother! We already learned our lesson so please calm down, and let the word 'peace' rule your heart."
Luan Jose stopped his actions, seeing one of the hooligans woke up as it saw him beating some of its companions while tying them up in the corner.
"Alright, I'll help you understand what the real peace means."
"Thank you, thank you brother, no, no, I mean thank you, Boss." The man that just woke up thank Luan Jose nonstop, but on his mind, he already planned to beat the guy in front of him once their leader arrives.
"Brother can you help me stand up, ah, it still hurt down the-" But before he completes his words, a terrible pain suddenly assaulted the once already beaten balls of him.
"Ahhhhh, My balls! My balls!" The man that just woke up painted again after he'd been kicked by Luan Jose when he tries to stand up.
"Those who do not understand true pain can never understand true peace." Luan Jose said as he continues what he left earlier. (AN: It's from Nagato( Pain) )
"Are you one of the people who did all of these?"
Luan Jose turned around, catching a sight of a youth at the end of the alley. As he ready to deny the man accusations but as if he had been enlightened by something he immediately swallowed his words, puffing up his chest proudly saying,
"Nope, I'm not the one, I'm the only one!" Luan Jose smirk as he slapped a person near to him, waiting for the person frightened expression.
But things never goes on what he expected.
"Yeah boss, he's the one! The one who beat our brothers!"
"Wh-what? Ehem I Will not pursue this matter any further, let bygones be bygones forever. I'm out, goodbye. Hehe, you don't need to escort me anymore it's alright guys, I can walk by myself, sending me away will only tired you guys." Luan Jose quickly said after sensing an imminent doom.
"You're truly daring to touch these King Xiong men ha?"
A strongly built man appears at the end of the dark alley, not sparing any second as it loudly shouted on his back.
The moment Luan Jose saw that ugly looking muscular man, he already know that he had kicked a steel board.
"Get him!" Yelled by the strongly built man which appear to be the hooligans leader.
"No No No, brothers! I'm not the one, I've been forced! Please ahhh."
"Boss, I think all of our brothers had turned into a eunuch!"
"Grr, break his manhood! No! Skin it while it's hard." Green veins appeared on Xiong's forehead after it heard how much his men suffered,
"Please, no brothers! Their eggs had already been crushed when I arrived here. Ah ah ah, mercy to the eggs, mercy to the eggs!"
It's like a tom and jerry scene where Luan Jose is 'Jerry' and there's a lot of 'Tom' chasing behind him. Fortunately, his speed is above them, so he safely escapes with only torn clothes. Naturally, he said it to his Aunt which the latter took justice for him, an entirely different justice.
Yet that is not the last time. Misfortune was always knocking his door whenever his aunt will bring him to someone. Even just running some errands cause him to be a real eunuch. What worst is all of the people his aunt wanted him to meet were those bad people or what they called gangs. With that, he'd been given a name known to all of the gangs in the city. The 'Ball crusher sidekick'.


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Freezing the Web - Darmstadt's scientists uncover vulnerabilities in JavaScript-based Web Servers
Darmstadt, 05.04.2018. Scientists at the Center for Research in Security and Privacy (CRISP) demonstrate that malicious intentions may cause such scenarios. The scientists discovered vulnerabilities in JavaScript software modules, which allow cyber criminals to freeze specific web sites, so that other users cannot access the web site anymore.
Together with his team Michael Pradel, Professor of TU Darmstadt and Head of the Software Lab, checks the web sites of well and lesser known companies and examines them for vulnerabilities. He focuses on web sites that use JavaScript-based modules.
During their latest tests Pradel and his employee Cristian-Alexandru Staicu discovered a total of 25 so called ReDoS-vulnerabilities in popular JavaScript software modules. Over 300 web sites, whose JavaScript-based server implementations use these modules are affected. These vulnerabilities allow for a web site to be frozen. Other users are no longer able to access the site, because the server, which is connected to the web site, takes so long for processing one request that it becomes unavailable to all other requests.
The scientists identified hundreds of popular web sites, which can be blocked for some seconds or even minutes by such a well-aimed HTTP request. These vulnerabilities could be used, e.g., by politically motivated attackers to reduce the availability of specific news web sites or by economically motivated attackers to make a competing web site unavailable.
Thanks to the effort of Pradel and Staicu, the vulnerabilities were taken up by the Node Security Platform – a platform, which collects security-related mistakes in JavaScript modules. The module providers were informed by Darmstadt's scientists as well, and were warned about the security breaches. Fortunately for Pradel and his team – and in the end for all Internet users: most of the vulnerabilities have already been removed.
Pradel and his team are part of CRISP, the biggest union of cybersecurity institutes Europe wide. He does research for one of the two flagship projects of CRISP: Secure Web Applications. The scientists develop scalable program analysis for JavaScript-based software, which are to uncover and find vulnerabilities. A new combination of analysis in the execution of this software and methods generating interaction sequences make it possible to analyze the behavior of such complex Web Applications fully automatically and to uncover security breaches.
About CRISP: The Center for Research in Security and Privacy, CRISP, is comprised of the Technische Universität Darmstadt with its CYSEC profile area for IT security research, the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, and the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology SIT and the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD and is the biggest alliance of research institutes in the area of cybersecurity. About 450 scientists concern themselves with central issues of cybersecurity in society, economy and authorities. They consult the economy and public administration regularly, help company founders and prepare an expert opinion for political and economic use.
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Katie Mager, 27, of Apple Valley, Minn., a teacher, and Ryan Reiersgaard, 27, of Burnsville, Minn., a ride sharing driver, had a ton of fun last week, claiming they were robbed and, as is often the case in these sorts of things, claiming the perpetrator was a person of color.
The Chicago Tribune reports it was Ryan's birthday and they thought one way to celebrate was to claim three men approached them with a knife and took her engagement ring, along with $5,000 cash, $3,000 Louis Vuitton suitcase, a Burberry purse, a $2,000 MacBook Air laptop, a $300 suitcase, a wallet and a $150 iPad Mini.
Mager told police she could recognize one of the alleged attackers because he "looked like a milk-dud or Fat Albert, reeked of marijuana and was short in height and heavy-set," according to Assistant State's Attorney Joseph Carlson.
Reiersgaard said the whole scam was Mager's idea and that "he doesn't know her motives." He said that sometimes, their "shenanigans" get out of control and that he was only trying to have some fun on his birthday, Carlson said.
All the men who allegedly mugged them were black, she said, according to the Chicago Sun Times.
Barney Fife could've solved this caper, particularly since security film at the airport showed they didn't have any luggage or carry-on baggage.
Video from where the assault allegedly occurred showed nothing.
They told officers they had landed at O'Hare International Airport from Minneapolis around 9 p.m. and spent about three hours trying to find a rental car.
Mager said she was trying to meet her friend in Evanston for pizza but couldn't remember the restaurant name. They told police they got lost near Lower Wacker Drive, parked the car and got out on foot with their luggage.
Reiersgaard told police he couldn't track the Apple items because they were turned off. Maher said she was too stressed out to think about why they would have gotten out of the car to walk around to look for their hotel with their luggage, according to prosecutors.
Police said the couple was unable to provide serial numbers for the luggage, electronics and jewelry. Airport security footage showed them traveling without luggage.
After being arrested, Mager told police she "made a mistake, had bad friends and is sorry." She said she would only be honest with police if they promised to let her go home, prosecutors said.
Right. Because that's exactly how it works when you're charged with felonies.


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i seem to love studios -art and Pilates, so why not combine both? The wonderful owner of LOVE Pilates, Dena Lombardo, is hosting an art show featuring my work Saturday, April 30th, from 2 to 5 PM. I'll have lots of paintings available for sale so I hope you can stop by! The address is Love Pilates, Suite 105, 16161 Springdale St, Huntington Beach, CA 92649.
Katy Brack
Sharing some thoughts with you all, thanks for visiting!
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Bitten (novel)
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Bitten, a fantasy novel published in 2001, is the first book in the Women of the Otherworld series. It is Canadian author Kelley Armstrong's first novel, and has often been described as the werewolf novel with the most authentically wolf-like werewolves.
Plot summary[edit]
The main character of "Bitten" is Elena Michaels, a strong, intelligent woman - who also happens to be a werewolf. She lives in Toronto, Canada and writes for a popular newspaper. Elena is also the only known female werewolf in the world. She struggles to deal with her other-ness and to assimilate to the "normal" human world. She also contends with her terrible childhood, and with the man who bit her and turned her into a werewolf.
Elena has managed to settle into a somewhat normal existence, living with her ad-exec boyfriend and ignoring her wolf side as much as possible. However, she learns that her Pack (the governing body of werewolves) is in trouble, and comes to their aid, flying to Stonehaven, the country estate of the pack Alpha. It is in Bear Valley, a fictional city in up-state New York. When Elena arrives, she is greeted by her ex-lover, Clayton Danvers, who is also the man who bit her and made her a werewolf (without her consent). Clayton is also the bodyguard and foster-son to Jeremy Danvers, the pack Alpha (leader). Elena learns that a local woman was found murdered on Stonehaven's land, and that she had been savaged by what authorities thought to be a dog. However, the Pack has determined that she was murdered by a Mutt, a rogue werewolf.
Soon, the rest of the Pack arrives on the scene to help with the problem: Antonio Sorrentino, his son Nicholas Sorrentino, Logan Jonsen, and Peter Myers. They soon discover that there is not just one rogue Mutt, but a whole group intending to take down the current Pack and start their own, where they can do whatever they want, especially killing humans.
Characters in "Bitten"[edit]
The Pack[edit]
- Antonio Sorrentino - Pack werewolf and father of Nick. Once the Pack's top fighter, currently still strong. The best friend of the Alpha Wolf (Jeremy). Born a Hereditary werewolf.
- Clayton Danvers aka Clay - Bitten as a child, is seen as more wolf than human. Is Jeremy's foster-son-turned bodyguard, and the werewolf who bit Elena. He is also Elena's ex-lover and is still in love with her. Bitten as a child, the story of which is told in Kelley's first online novella, Savage. Blessed with drop dead gorgeous looks and genius intelligence but with all the charm of a "pit Viper". Also an anthropologist (which is how he and Elena initially met).
- Elena Michaels - Journalist and the only known female werewolf. Bitten by then-lover, Clayton. Parents died in car crash at a young age, which sent her into many abusive foster families where she was chosen for her innocent looks. Determined to leave that life behind, she focused on her school work and succeeded in going to college where she would meet Clayton. Has a violent temper.
- Jeremy Danvers - Alpha werewolf and leader of the Pack. Possesses some psychic abilities to contact other Pack members. Hereditary werewolf. Has a hobby for all kinds of marksmanship.
- Nicholas Sorrentino aka Nick - Pack werewolf. Son of Antonio, and best friend of Clayton. Hereditary werewolf.
- Logan Jonsen - werewolf, close friend of Elena. On the outskirts of the pack, lawyer in Los Angeles. Hereditary werewolf. Is killed by an unknown mutt in Bitten.
- Peter Myers aka Pete - werewolf, good friend of Elena. Also on the outskirts of the Pack. Works as a sound engineer for top bands on tour. Once accidentally murdered two women, was rescued by Jeremy. Killed by Mutt; Thomas LeBlanc.
The Mutts[edit]
- Daniel Santos - Once a Pack werewolf, but left the pack after Clayton killed Stephen Santos, his brother. Loathes Clayton and believes Elena should be "his". Man-killer. Dangerous Mutt. Not entirely sane. Hereditary werewolf. Killed by Mutt; Thomas LeBlanc.
- Jimmy Koenig - Werewolf Mutt, ex-drug addict/alcoholic, man-killer. Nephew of Billy Koenig. Killed by Clayton.
- Karl Marsten - Hereditary werewolf. Extremely wealthy professional thief, seeks territory to settle in. Considered the second most dangerous Mutt by the pack. Very sociable. Wyoming is his home territory.
- Scott Brandon - Werewolf mutt. Serial killer turned werewolf. Bitten by Karl Marsten. Killed by an 18 wheeler delivery truck.
- Thomas LeBlanc - Werewolf mutt. Serial killer turned werewolf. Bitten by Daniel. Targets women. Killed by Elena.
- Victor Olson - Werewolf mutt. Pedophile turned werewolf. Bitten by Zachary Cain. Killed by Elena.
- Zachary Cain - Werewolf mutt. Huge, excellent fighter, but not very bright. Killed by unknown pack member.
- Philip Madden - Elena's live-in boyfriend. Lives in Toronto. Works as an ad-exec.
- Anne - Mother of Philip (Elena's boyfriend), Judith and Diane.
- Larry - Father of Philip, Judith and Diane. Husband of Anne.
- Diane - Phillip's sister.
- Ken - Diane's husband.
- Judith - Phillip's older sister. Lives in the UK.
Werewolf mythology in Bitten[edit]
In the Women of the Otherworld series, werewolves transform into full wolves in an agonizing transmogrification. Unlike many modern horror fiction stories, in this series werewolves are not sensitive to silver, nor are they immortal. Although transformations have to occur regularly, Armstrong's werewolves can turn into wolves at any phase of the moon, and Pack members can shapeshift at will. While in human form, werewolves have wolf-like characteristics, such as greater strength, better hearing, and a keener sense of smell.
Awards and nominations[edit]
- Nominated Best First Novel by the International Horror Guild
- For a while, there was discussion of making a movie adaptation of this novel. Angelina Jolie was approached to play the central role of Elena. This has however been scrapped for now but there is still a script floating around for it.[1][2]
Release details[edit]
- First released in the U. S. by Viking Press in September of 2001, in hardcover.
- Released in trade paperback in January 2003 by Plume books.
- Released in mass market paperback in August 2004 by Plume books.
External links and quotations[edit]
- "Frisky... Tells a rather sweet love story, and suggests that being a wolf may be more comfortable for a strong, smart young woman than being human." - New York Times review
- "[Does] the same thing for werewolves that Anne Rice did for vampires in her Interview with the Vampire."- Rocky Mountain News
- Author's Official Website
- Review of "Bitten" at rpg.net
- Review of "Bitten" at sfsite.com
- Author's page at agent's website
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Albright's perilous debut
America's secretary of state has arrived in the Middle East at a time when Arab-Israeli affairs are at their least propitious
FOR the best part of her first year as secretary of state, Madeleine Albright has given the Middle East a wide berth. With reason: Arab-Israeli quicksands have sucked in several of her predecessors. Bill Clinton and, even more, Vice-President Al Gore, his would-be successor, were said to be reluctant to re-involve themselves in a process that was bound to lead to friction with American Jewry. The official explanation of American officials was that the situation needed to ripen.
But the ripening has become a rotting. Now that Mrs Albright has at last stepped in—she began a six-nation, one-week tour on September 10th—she is having to invest her effort in containing the immediate crisis, coaxing and cajoling leaders back from disaster. And with no time to draw breath: in Israel, her first stop, hardline members of the ruling coalition are proclaiming, with grim satisfaction, the death of the peace process worked out in Oslo and signed in Washington exactly four years ago this Saturday.
The final rites took place, according to these hardliners, on September 5th when the Israeli cabinet announced, in response to a triple suicide-bombing in West Jerusalem the day before, that it would hand no more land on the West Bank to Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority (PA), as it is required to do under the Oslo accords. This, said the government, was because the authority "is failing to carry out all of its obligations, especially those requiring it to fight terrorism in the areas already under its control".
The cabinet statement implies conditionality: if the PA were to fight terrorism to Israel's satisfaction, then the process of further redeployments prescribed by Oslo might be resumed. But this is deliberately not spelled out. Instead, the announcement pointedly goes on to urge that "diplomatic efforts be directed at accelerating negotiations on the permanent-status issues". Since these issues include Jerusalem, borders and Israeli settlements, any talks on them would certainly run swiftly aground if the parallel process of gradual Israeli withdrawal envisaged in the Oslo accords were halted.
Many Israelis blame Oslo, and its architects in Israel's Labour Party, for all the acts of terrorism that have been perpetrated since it was signed, including the most recent bombings. Although Israel's prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, in his pronouncements this week tried to put a gentler spin on what was decided at his cabinet meeting, the political debate seems to have regressed to the pre-election period, when the Likud and its allies campaigned on an anti-Oslo platform. David Levy, the foreign minister, confirmed this impression when he let it be known that he would quit if Oslo were abandoned.
The cabinet's action reflects the grief, anger and frustration of Israelis after the triple suicide-bombing, at a pavement café in Jerusalem's main pedestrian precinct, which killed five and injured scores. The incident came five weeks after a double suicide-bombing, also in Jerusalem, had killed 14 shoppers and workers at a market.
On the night of the triple bombing, a sea-borne raid on a Hizbullah target in south Lebanon went horribly wrong, killing 12 officers and men of an elite Israeli commando unit. One soldier's dismembered body was left behind in the pre-dawn rescue, to be displayed in gruesome triumph next day by the guerrilla group. Adding to the pain was the suspicion, voiced in some political quarters, that the raid, or at least its timing, was designed to bolster public spirits after the Jerusalem bombs.
Mrs Albright wisely began her stay in Israel by visiting victims of the bombings in a Jerusalem hospital, together with President Ezer Weizman, a strong supporter of Oslo who urged the Americans to be more intrusive in their peace-making. She stressed, time and again, that the United States "stands with" Israel in its demands that the PA act more vigorously in the battle against terrorism. Before she left Washington, senior members of Congress had urged her to come down hard on Mr Arafat. But she was careful, even in statements crafted for Israeli consumption, to insist that although much emphasis must be placed on security, peace and security were inextricable: "One goes with the other; neither can go it alone."
For the Palestinians, the peace side of the equation means, first and foremost, further withdrawal by the Israeli army and the transfer of more territory to the PA. The scheduled date for withdrawal was September 7th. This was missed. But the PA is still disputing the dimensions of the last withdrawal: the stingy 2% of the West Bank offered in March.
There is no doubting the sincerity of the Israeli government's bitter resentment of what it insists is Mr Arafat's laxness in taking on Hamas and other militant Islamists. Even so, the secretary of state and her aides face the question whether Mr Netanyahu is also seizing on security as a pretext not to do what he does not want to do: implement the Oslo accords. The Labour opposition and sections of the Israeli press are unequivocal in asserting that this is precisely the case. For them, the conclusion is simple: criticise and oppose. But for Mrs Albright, these are not useful options.
She may, perhaps, find a less unpromising vein to explore in the long-dormant Israel-Syria negotiating track. Here the political forces at play, at least inside Israel, are even more complex. Some of the Israeli hardliners who cannot reconcile themselves to ceding tracts of Greater Israel take a fairly pragmatic view of the Golan Heights. Yet there are hawks on Golan withdrawal, both in the coalition and in the opposition, who contemplate with equanimity the eventual creation of a Palestinian state in most of the West Bank and Gaza.
The latest disaster in Lebanon has compounded the confusion, with the hardest of hardliners, Ariel Sharon, and an avowed dove, Yossi Beilin, both publicly discussing the possibility of the unilateral withdrawal of Israeli forces from south Lebanon. The prime minister, supported by people in both the government and the opposition, insists that there can be no separate deal over Lebanon without Syria (which is what Lebanon and Syria also say), and certainly no precipitate pullback.
Could these confusions create a diplomatic opportunity for the secretary of state? One Israeli politician recalled that, on a previous visit, Mrs Albright, then still a professor, felt hot and bothered at the Sea of Galilee, just below the Golan Heights. Nobody had brought swimsuits, but without hesitation she stripped off and plunged in.
This article appeared in the International section of the print edition under the headline "Albright's perilous debut"
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Take those out the way. Move back to level three that's three yards away now three putters lengths away from the hole and again another 10 puts around the circle at times for two and a half laps around. Now within that process you should have now taken 30 putts on your target score is 20. If you don't achieve 20 you setup and you do it again. So what you're looking for really would be to achieve probably 9, 10 maybe from level 1 that would be good to get 9 or 10 from level 1. Six in from here, four in from here. That would be the sort of thing we'd be looking for so you're getting a good percentage from your first level less from there, less from there. Now the benefits of taking these putts is you will start to learn the line of the green. You will start to appreciate that this one curves a bit right to left for example. That one is a bit downhill. So by the time you get out to your three yard put it shouldn't be quite as difficult as a standard normal three yard putt.
Now if you can do this exercise before you tee off on the golf course it has to have massive positive benefits for the putts that you get on the golf course, the short putts you get on the golf course because every putt you will get on the golf course from 9 feet and in, you've already had in practice. You've had a 6 foot right to left. You've had a 9 foot downhill left to right. You've had a 3 foot downhill. You've had a 9 foot pillar. You've had all the different various options you're going to get. You might get slightly different degrees of those options, but you've had got all of them and hopefully you've got your 20 out of 30 putts under your belt. You've hold a good successful level of those putts. You go on the golf course with renewed confidence. Suddenly you feel like you were a good short putter and you can put with a lot more confidence. If you get less than 20 set it up again. Repeat the exercise. It doesn't take too long, but also it's not a quick walk after than well on to the first tee. Get there 10, 15 minutes early, just complete this exercise before you tee off and I guarantee you'll be a better putter for it.


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"Hasty is a crosser: mother is red merle Australian Shepherd and father is brown Flat-Coated Retriever. He is a perfect guide dog for the blind." Photo courtesy of Helena
The Aussie-Flat is not a purebred dog. It is a cross between the Australian Shepherd and the Flat-Coated Retriever. The best way to determine the temperament of a mixed breed is to look up all breeds in the cross and know you can get any combination of any of the characteristics found in any of the breeds in the hybrid. Not all of these designer hybrid dogs being bred are 50% purebred to 50% purebred. It is very common for breeders to breed multi-generation crosses.
Harry is a brother of Hasty. He is a guide dog for the blind, too. Photo courtesy of Helena
These are Aussie-Flat puppies that will be trained to be guides for the blind. (Australian Shepherd / Flat-Coated Retriever hybrids) photo courtesy of Helena
Flat-Coated Retriever mother with her Aussie-Flat puppies— the puppies' father is an Australian Shepherd."They are sweet puppies and future dogs for handicapped people. These crossers have very good hips." Photo courtesy of Helena