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Sherwood sweepers officially installed in Hall
They were at the head of the class.
The Alberta Sports Hall of Fame's 2019 class of athletes and builders was formally inducted with a lavish banquet and ceremony on Friday in Red Deer — a field that was headlined by the legendary Ferbey Four curling team.
The Sherwood Sweepers, a team that included Sherwood Park residents Randy Ferbey, David Nedohin and Scott Pfeifer and one-time Archbishop Jordan student Marcel Rocque, is widely considered one of the best teams in curling history, having won four Brier Men's Canadian Curling Championships and three World titles.
Going into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame was a richly deserved honour and all four of the champion curlers got their turn at the podium at the ceremonies on Friday night to explain what heading into the hall meant to them and to reminisce about their record run.
"We would like to thank the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame for this prestigious honour," Ferbey said. "We have always been proud to be Albertans and one of the things we always looked forward to was wearing Alberta colours at the Brier, the blue and gold. That was something very special that we held in high esteem.
"First off, it was not the Randy Ferbey curling team, it was our team, the team. It was never meant to be the Randy Ferbey curling team. We have our wives to thank the most here — Raylene, Chantal, Heather and Wendy. They gave us support and belief that we didn't even know that we had until it was all over. We went to a bonspeil in Spain once in the middle of summer, just the four guys to bond, or that's what we told them. It was a great event, but the first prize was a bottle of wine. We won that bottle and we were scared to phone our wives and tell them that we won the bonspeil because they would be expecting 20, 30 or 50 thousand dollars. But that wine was good.
"Marcel was the best roommate a guy could ever have. Scott was our travel agent and he knew every airport, every bus, every plane, everything that we needed to do. Together they formed the greatest front end ever to play the curling game. To be successful in curling, everybody knows that the skip has got to be in bed before their games in the morning. The three of us didn't have to, but we convinced Dave that the only way that we were going to win was if he was in bed by nine or 10 o'clock. I'd just like to tell him now, Dave, you missed a lot of good times. At our first World championships he missed a pretty easy shot to get us to the final and we were moping around after the banquet and he stood up and tried to apologize. Marcel would have nothing of that. He said we win as a team and we lose as a team. I was still pissed off. I'm still pissed off to this day. But because of that shot, he went on to become the greatest clutch curlers to ever play the game. We owe it to him, what he did for us. I was just along for the ride. These are the best players I ever could have had, the best friends I ever could have had and I thank them all."
Nedohin was next up to the podium.
"This is family for us," he said. "We haven't all been together like this for a while, and it wasn't just four guys who curled together, it was a family, so to see each other again and give big hugs… the only thing that has changed is that our kids are getting way taller. I didn't know Randy was so mad at me, by the way. But this doesn't happen without Randy. He's the most successful curler in the history of the game and that wasn't by luck. He put together what he saw he needed and formed great friendships."
Pfeifer also got his two cents in.
"This is a great honour," he said. "It hit home today when we were at the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and looking at the gallery and all of the very worthy inductees. I went back to see what the last curling team to go in as a group was and it goes back to 1999 and the (Pat) Ryan Express. That was the year that our team formed. I was 22 at the time and Marcel and Dave were also in their 20s and we got his old guy who was 39 years old at the time. We didn't really realize at that time just how accomplished he was and that he was being inducted into the sports hall of fame for the first time with that Ryan team. Maybe we took it for granted at the time. It says something for a guy to have been inducted twice with two different teams, what kind of character he has and the type of people he surrounds himself with. This has been an amazing experience."
Rocque got the final word.
"We would never take credit ourselves, we would always give credit to our teammates and I think that is fundamental to what we had that was very, very special," he said. "I was a very humbling experience for me today. I was just the lead. But the one without sin casts the first stone. I could have gotten danger pay for being Randy's roommate because he kept me up way too late way too many nights. Words can't say enough about how special this is."
Also in the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame class of 2019 were Kreg Llewellyn (water skiing athlete), Mike Rogers (hockey athlete), Lyndon Rush (bobsleigh athlete), James Donlevy (hockey/football builder), Dorothy Padget (artistic swimming builder), Edward Thresher (wrestling builder), Herman Dorin (Pioneer Award, wrestling), George Stothart (Achievement Award, multisport) and Rob Kerr (Bell Memorial Award).
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So... it kinda looks like the old thread was purged off the face of these boards. Time to start over?
I guess I'll restart by reposting yesterday's news from the Akiba Gundam Expo:
Gundam SEED revival's in full force. We already know about the updated re-releases of the HG kits, but there's lots of new stuff coming our way, too:
HG LaGowe
RG Skygrasper + Launcher and Sword Striker, plus web-shop exclusive Strike Phase-Shift Down colours.
But I think the most exciting news for me was:
MG Duel Gundam Assault Shroud!
Now that's a biggie. If they're going for Duel, there's almost no way they're going to stop at just that one. So it's a very high likelihood that we're getting MGs of all 5 GAT-X Gundams (well, 4 remaining. Unless they do a Strike 2.0 or something. Duel's frame does look a bit different than the Strike's...), which is huge.
Also, MG Blu Duel suddenly becomes a very possible reality, and that has me extremely excited.
And for you AGE fans:
MG Gundam AGE-1, due in February, with MG Titus and Spallow following closely in March and April respectively, and MG Gafran following after them in May.
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Confidential support and help for a range of issues.
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The Quick & Funny Musicals are now accepting video submissions for new company members and writers. The company performs a new one act musical and short musical sketches every month at the UCB Theater.
We are looking to to cast up to three new performers. For the performers formal music experience is not necessary, but you should be able to write lyrics to a song.
We would like to see you sing! Fill this out this form and include a video link. (more info below)
DEADLINE: Wednesday, November 22 @ 11pm
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The first month will be a writing/learning music month. There will be a weekly meeting until the two weeks before the show where we will have morning rehearsals, 10am-noon. There will be a tech/full dress on the day of the show.
Never seen the show? Come check us out on October 24 & November 28
2018 Dates: January 23, February 27, March 27, April 24, May 22, June 26, July 24, August 28, September 25, October 23, November 27.
I only want to submit as a writer, do I have to videotape myself singing?
No! You can have someone else sing for you, as long as you wrote the song.
I want to submit as both!
Great! Send a link of you singing a song you wrote!
I am just a performer, what do I send in?
Well, send a video of you singing a hilariously funny song.
Performer: Completion of UCB Improv 201
Writer: Completion of UCB Improv 201 or Sketch 101
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Day Three in Vienna and the hot news is the results of the microbicide study in South Africa, known as CAPRISA. There was an energy and excitement in the air and the crowd at the presentation was so large that it had an equally large overflow room, also filled to capacity. People stood and gave a long standing ovation after the presentation, even in the overflow room. I note this because in that room we were applauding a PowerPoint ... that's a lot of excitement! Now don't get me wrong, this study is a major breakthrough along the complicated path to women controlling their risk for HIV infection, but let's think about the reality for a couple of minutes.
CAPRISA 004 was a double-blind, randomized controlled trial (meaning half of the participants received the vaginal gel with Tenofovir -- an antiretroviral -- and half received a placebo vaginal gel). It enrolled 889 HIV-uninfected women at two sites in South Africa. While the overall reduction in HIV risk was 39%, there was a trend toward higher effectiveness -- a 54% reduction -- among women who reported the best adherence to product use. Analyses for safety identified no significant concerns. The vast majority of the participants (97.4%) found the gel acceptable (i.e., not irritating or sloppy, etc). That's great news! Women were on product on average 18 months and study retention was 95.2%. That means 95% of women came in for regular study visits where they were interviewed and reminded about gel and condom use. With that, regular and consistent condom use, including condom use at last intercourse was equal in both groups, about 30%. Meaning that regular and consistent condom use was less frequent for 70% of women on study. The study also indicated that use of the gel reduced the risk of herpes virus (HSV) by 51% among women participating in the trial. This is an interesting observation that will be important to investigate further, not only to prevent HSV on its own, but also because of the role that genital ulcers play in increased HIV transmission.
The next step is a study called VOICE (nice name) that has already started enrolling 5,000 women in Southern African countries, looking further at the Tenofovir gel and includes looking at PrEP, pre-exposure prophylaxis (taking oral antiretrovirals before a possible HIV exposure).
So here are the things I wondered about as I heard the study summary: I wondered what success rate would a gel need to have to be approved for use in the United States. Would the FDA accept a rate here that would be meaningful in high-incidence areas of the world? Would the FDA approve a gel for use in the United States that had a 39-54% success rate? How long will it take to get the new information? The good news is the CAPRISA study was complete in two and a half years -- that's super quick for research -- but the next study will take at least that long and then who knows if that will provide enough evidence for approval, or if more studies are needed.
The other thing to think about was this gel was used with condoms, not 100% of the time, but condom use was part of the equation. Our prevention strategies for girls and women will still need to revolve around empowerment, including condom negotiation. Additionally, we who work in the field will need to make sure that the message is clear: this was a research finding, not yet an available product and not connected to currently commercially available gels. We know women, especially young women, are desperate for something to protect them that they can control. It's just not here yet. Hopefully, microbicides will be a part of the prevention tool kit in the coming years, and that will include the toolkit for women in the United States. But it's a toolkit, not any one single magic bullet.
To quote Dr. Fauci from the NIH: "The CAPRISA 004 study is an exciting scientific achievement that moves us one step forward to gaining another effective tool to prevent HIV infection. However, because no one approach will be appropriate or acceptable to all, we must continue to pursue a range of HIV prevention modalities, including microbicides, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), and vaccines, as we simultaneously pursue scientific strategies designed to bring us closer to finding a cure for HIV/AIDS." (Underline and bold emphasis is mine.)
Founded in 1994, AIDS Alliance for Children, Youth & Families (AACYF) is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to advance the partnership between consumers and providers -- they are the voice of women, children, youth and families living with and affected by HIV/AIDS. AACYF works to enhance and expand access to quality, comprehensive, family-centered care to America's women, children and youth affected by HIV/AIDS. For more information on AIDS Alliance, visit www.aids-alliance.org.


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Scents May Sway Your Sense of Beauty
Small study found women seemed prettier when pleasant odors were near
TUESDAY, June 3, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Women may be seen as more attractive if they use scented products or perfumes, a small new study suggests.
"Odor pleasantness and facial attractiveness integrate into one joint emotional evaluation," study author Janina Seubert, a cognitive neuroscientist and former postdoctoral fellow at Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, said in a Monell news release. "This may indicate a common site of neural processing in the brain."
The study, published online recently in PLOS ONE, involved 18 young adults. Of these, two-thirds were female. The participants were shown photographs of eight women and asked to rate their attractiveness. They were also asked to determine the ages of the women in the photos.
As the participants viewed the photographs, one of five different smells was released. The odors, which included a blend of fish oil and rose oil, ranged from unpleasant to pleasant. The participants were also told to rate the pleasantness of the odor they smelled.
The study showed that the pleasantness of the odor had a direct influence on the attractiveness ratings of the women in the photographs. Meanwhile, visual age cues, such as wrinkles, were linked to the perception of older age. The odors, however, also played a role.
Pleasant smells enhanced visual age cues, the researchers found. So, older faces appeared to be older and younger faces seemed younger. Unpleasant odors on the other hand, weakened this effect. As a result, younger and older faces appeared to be closer in age.
"These findings have fascinating implications in terms of how pleasant smells may help enhance natural appearance within social settings," study co-author Jean-Marc Dessirier, lead scientist at Unilever, said in the news release. "The next step will be to see if the findings extend to evaluation of male facial attractiveness."
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Volosozhar and Trankov of Russia win pairs gold RACHEL COHEN, AP Sports Writer
SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Maxim Trankov hopes young figure skaters all over Russia will take inspiration from what he and Tatiana Volosozhar accomplished at the Olympics.
The two restored the country to the pinnacle of pairs Wednesday, and their teammates made it almost total domination. Volosozhar and Trankov won gold, while Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov took silver.
"I think tonight all of the country will celebrate this beautiful victory," Trankov said.
Russia or the Soviet Union had won gold in 12 straight Olympics in pairs before the streak ended four years ago, when the Russians failed to take home any medal in the event. In the stands for both days of the competition in Sochi was the pair who started it all: Ludmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov, the Olympic champions in 1964 and '68.
Trankov and Volosozhar rose to the top of the sport at the perfect time, winning the 2013 world championship. A new generation of Russian figure skating hopefuls will now look up to the two pairs who stood atop the podium Wednesday.
Volosozhar and Trankov scored 152.69 points to finish with 236.86, 18.18 ahead of their teammates. Stolbova and Klimov had a near-flawless free skate to move up from third.
Four-time world champions Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy of Germany had to settle for bronze for the second straight Olympics.
Skating to "Jesus Christ Superstar," Volosozhar and Trankov had a few small bobbles. But with a lead after a stellar short program and the difficulty of their elements, they knew when they finished without any big mistakes that gold was in their grasp.
As Russian flags waved throughout the stands, Trankov slid on his knees across the ice like a soccer player celebrating a goal, and Volosozhar buried her face in her hands, the tears flowing.
"To win it here is more special than anything," Trankov said. "But there was pressure. We were nervous, very nervous. It was huge for us to skate in front of this audience in our country, but it was hard, and to do this makes us very happy now."
The two Russian pairs also won gold in the new team event. Trankov and Volosozhar become the first figure skaters to take home two golds from one Olympics.
Stolbova and Klimov handled the team free skate for Russia on Saturday and looked sharp, declaring themselves medal contenders. They were even better Wednesday to "The Addams Family" in the night's most captivating performance.
The music is hauntingly beautiful, though it does include a brief snippet of that famous TV theme song. At the end of the program, when Stolbova must be exhausted, they do a throw triple salchow, which she still managed to land effortlessly.
"Last year we were not at the world championships and we didn't believe or even hope that we would be at the Olympics," Klimov said through a translator. "We didn't ever think of medals."
The Germans finished nearly three points behind Stolbova and Klimov after Szolkowy fell on a jump in the free skate for the second straight Olympics. He tumbled to the ice on a triple toe loop on their first side-by-side sequence Wednesday.
"It's two steps away from the gold medal," he said. "That's very far away for us."
Pang Qing and Tong Jian, the 2010 silver medalists, were fourth. Tong said this was probably their final competition.
Four years ago, the U.S. had its worst showing ever in pairs with a 10th- and 13th-place finish. The outcome in the standings was only slightly better this time: two-time national champions Marissa Castelli of Rhode Island and Simon Shnapir of Massachusetts took ninth, while Felicia Zhang of New Jersey and Nathan Bartholomay of Pennsylvania moved up to 12th from 14th after the short program.
But it was a much more encouraging performance this time, with both pairs skating four solid programs despite little experience in major international competitions.
Castelli and Shnapir also won a bronze medal in the team event. She landed upright on their throw quad salchow Wednesday, though she stepped out. That still earned them big points, and they set a personal best in international competition with 120.38.
"We got four season's bests out of four performances, four great programs," Shnapir said. "I don't think we can ask for anything more."
And Russia can't ask for anything more through the first two events of figure skating.


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SA Liberal Party leader Isobel Redmond resigns
THE Leader of the South Australia Liberal Party Isobel Redmond resigned on Thursday after months of speculation about her position.
South Australian media reported the state Opposition leader resigned, sparking furious speculation former Foreign Minister Alexander Downer could stand for the job.
But Mr Downer hosed down such speculation in Canberra on Thursday, saying he did not plan to enter state politics.


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Let us Prey?
I admit, I never got around to playing any more of Human Head's shooter than the demo. However, I return from London Town to see that if I had any spare time, now would be a good chance to change that. For this weekend – and this weekend only! – it's on sale on Steam, for a mere $4.95. And for Europeans, that means it's at least seven ultracheaps. It divided critical opinion upon release – I know Jim was a big fan of the physics-warping levels, but it was critiqued even more than Bioshock for its repawning system. Those who've played it: Worth five dollars? Seriously, how could it not be.


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Shalamar are the vocal group Soul Train created. And the more I get into their music,the more I realize its potency. The band were the youthful embodiment of the post disco/boogie sound of the late 70's to mid 80's. It was also the springboard for the solo careers of the rangy singer Howard Hewett and the ultra funkified Jody Watley. One of the key members in terms of their performance ethic was guitarist,songwriter and above all choreographer Jeffrey Daniels. He'd been a partner dancer with Watley on the Soul Train line during the shows salad mid 70's era. By the early 80's,he was an unsung icon.
The reason I view Daniels as an icon today is because he showed Michael Jackson the dance move that made MJ's career. Originally referred to as the back step,it became more popularly known as the Moonwalk-originally the name for the dance done in a complete circle. Daniels eventually helped choreograph the music videos for "Beat It" and others. On his own,Daniels ended up living between Osaka Japan and Nigeria,the latter of which he's a judge on the local Idol program. His biggest creative input for Shalamar was on their 1981 album Go For It. In particular its closing jam "Rocker".
Crowd sounds regarding band producer Leon Sylvers begin the song,continuing throughout. First the stomping,percussive funky drum kicks in. Then the thick,chord heavy slap bass kicks in before an open wah wah guitar kicks into the similarly themed refrain during the drum break. That refrain adds multiple keyboard and synth brass into the same brew with Daniels' leading backup vocals. Towards the end of the song,the synth brass takes a strong and sustained presence over the main groove and crowd sounds. The lead vocals return as the song fades out.
"Rocker" has a rather different flavor than most uptempo Shalamar jams. Most of them were more lead/harmony vocal based in terms of the groove. Everything on this number is built around percussive drum breaks and slap bass solos. It was composed and sung primarily by Daniels himself. With its stripped down rhythms and atmospherics,this is the perfect type of funk for popping,locking or just about any type of 70's era funk dancing Daniels was continuing to innovate during the videocentric early 80's. On a purely musical end,its also some of Shalamar's heaviest straight up funk.


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Petrino Apologetic In Text Messages
Texts Obtained By Freedom Of Information Act Request
Former Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino was apologetic in text messages sent to a series of athletic department employees, including athletic director Jeff Long, following the revelation of his affair and the presence of a 25-year-old employee during the April 1 motorcycle accident that led to his downfall.
The content of Petrino's text messages still available on his phone were obtained by The Associated Press through a Freedom of Information Act request Thursday night.
In the messages, Petrino tells Long he appreciated how he handled the April 5 news conference in which Long placed Petrino on paid leave.
Petrino was fired Tuesday for failing to disclose his relationship with Jessica Dorrell, whom he hired last month without disclosing his relationship with her or the fact he had once paid her $20,000.


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Evolution Hoax
The Believers are the Guardians of One Another
There are several verses in the Qur'an that relate to us of believers as the guardians of one another. The following is one of them:
And (as for) the believing men and the believing women, they are guardians of each other. They command what is right and forbid what is wrong, and establish prayer and pay alms, and obey God and His Messenger. They are the people on whom God will have mercy. God is Almighty, All-Wise. (Surat at-Tawba: 71)
The word "guardian" means intimate, protector, helper and supporter. In this sense, believers, honest, sincere and conscientious people with high moral values, should support each other, and be helpers and protectors of one another.
Just Saying "I Believe" is Enough for a Person to be Considered As a Good Person
One of the attributes of Muslims and the conscientious is that they do not discriminate between people because of their sex, culture, social status or any other reason. For instance, one does not have the right to say "You are not a believer because you fail to do this..." to someone who clearly maintains that he is a Muslim. No prejudice is held against a person who says he believes. In any case, people should always be eager to help when such a person is in need. God commands in a verse as follows:
You who believe! When you go out to fight in the Way of God verify things carefully. Do not say, 'You are not a believer", to someone who greets you as a Muslim, simply out of desire for the goods of this world. With God there is booty in abundance. That is the way you were before but God has been kind to you. So verify things carefully. God is aware of what you do. (Surat an-Nisa': 94)
The Support of the Good to One Another Should Not be Limited to Words
The majority of people actually have a good grasp of what good, righteous and conscientious conduct is. For this reason, when talking to others, one will find that the majority of people usually accept the good and positive and affirm their commitment to side with the good. However, when it is time to act, most of them remain silent and passive. Although they encounter many situations for which they could side with the good and defend them, they remain ambivalent.
There are many reasons for this silence. Fear of material loss is one of them. For instance, someone defending an innocent person from the alliance of the evil may attract the reaction of the evil and thus, with the fear of some material loss, stop defending him. Accordingly, he may be seized by certain concerns; he may fear that his status, career and reputation may be tarnished, or that he be subjected to slander. Paralysed by fear, they may not say or do what they actually know is just.
However, these people should be aware of the fact that words only please God when they are turned into action. God informs us about people who promise to engage in good deeds but withdraw when it is time to take action:
More fitting for them would be obedience and honourable words. When some matter is resolved, it would be better for them if they acted sincerely towards God. (Surah Muhammad: 21)
For this reason everyone who has faith in God, who is aware that he will give an account of his deeds on the Day of Judgement and, who believes himself to be a sincere and conscientious servant of God, must absolutely ally himself with the good and act with them. God warns people who fail to side with the righteous as follows:
You who believe! Why do you say what you do not do? It is deeply abhorrent to God that you should say what you do not do. (Surat as-Saff: 2-3)
Nobody Should Say "Will My Support Be of Any Help?"
It would be wrong for a person, who witnesses the violence committed against the innocent, recognises the cruelty, mercilessness, immorality, faithlessness around him, and thus feels restless and longs for the establishment of a peaceful and positive environment, to remain passive. Everyone must invest his best effort to spread the moral values of the Qur'an, which is the only way to resolve problems originating from evil, and strive for good and righteousness.
As long as one is determined to do what is right and remain conscientious, there are great things that can be accomplished for the cause of good. For example, let us assume that there is a very heavy weight to carry. If only 4 people among 15 commit themselves to carry this weight while the others stand aside because they think "they are too weak to carry the weight", it would not be a wise assertion. However, when 15 of them take on the responsibility and do their best to carry the weight, it would surely lessen the burden of the first 4. What really matters is not "Who does what, to which extent" but to what extent one exerts his own strength.
In a verse of the Qur'an, God informs us that He does "not impose on anyone more than he can stand". For a good person, there is always an easier way of doing things:
Such people are truly racing towards good things, and they are the first to reach them. We do not impose on any self any more than it can stand. With Us there is a Book which speaks the truth. They will not be wronged. (Surat al-Muminun: 61-62)2010-04-06 22:57:26


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Reducing Image Colors in DeBabelizer
- Reducing Image Colors in DeBabelizer
- To reduce pixel depth in an image
- To reduce colors in an image
- Reduce Colors options
- To reduce colors with a stand-alone palette
- Tips
- Set Palette and Remap Options
DEBABELIZER OFFERS THREE ways to reduce an individual image's color depth: by reducing its pixel (bit) depth, by reducing the number of colors it contains, or by applying a stand-alone palette.
Reducing the pixel depth of an image will cause colors to drop out of an image--without letting you control which colors are eliminated. By instead using the Reduce Colors command, DeBabelizer gives you a palette to pick the colors that are eliminated. It also lets you use dithering, which can use colors remaining in the palette to simulate colors you eliminate. Here's the pixel depth/color depth tradeoff: Changing the pixel depth is fast but imprecise since DeBabelizer may wind up creating a different palette for each image. If you're trying to shrink a group of related images, the Reduce Colors route gives you more control.
Note: In this lesson, Windows-only text items and figures are marked by , while Mac-only features are noted by . When menus for both versions appear in the same figure, the Windows version takes the left spot and the Mac version runs on the right, unless otherwise noted.


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BMW is the first automobile maker to integrate the iPod Out functionality of the iOS 4. This means that you'll be able to view your iPod's screens and menus right on your car's built-in display.
It might not seem like a huge deal, but there are benefits to such a setup:
The benefit of using the iPod Out connection is that it allows the interface to change and grow with the connected iPhone or iPod. If Apple adds, changes, or removes an iPod feature in the next revision, the connected BMW or Mini should immediately be able to reflect those changes.
BMW plans to add the feature to its cars starting in 2011. [CNET via MacRumors]


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Courtesy of GoGriffs.com
BRIDGEPORT, CONN. – The Canisius men's basketball team scored 51 second-half points and senior Chris Manhertz recorded his 12th career double-double with 14 points and 10 rebounds as the Golden Griffins cruised past Fairfield with an 84-58 win Saturday afternoon in Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport, Conn. The win is Canisius' fourth-straight and improved the team to 16-7 overall and 10-2 in MAAC play, while the Stags fell to 4-18 overall and 1-10 in MAAC action. The win gives Canisius a half-game lead over Iona atop the MAAC standings.
Manhertz was one of four Griffs to record double-figures in the scoring column on Saturday after he went 4-for-4 from the field and 6-for-8 from the free-throw line to go with 10 rebounds, seven of which came off the defensive glass. Senior guard Billy Baron had 17 points and a game-high four steals, while redshirt sophomore Dominique Raney came off the bench and provided the Blue and Gold with a scoring spark, as he posted 15 points (11 in the second half) in 26 minutes. Freshman Zach Lewis provided 11 points to the Griffs' winning effort as Canisius finished the day shooting 43.5 percent from the field and 78.1 percent from the free-throw line in the victory.
"This was a great team win, and it comes after we had a battle at Quinnipiac on Thursday," Canisius head coach Jim Baron said. "We started off a little slow, but the guys kept to our game plan and I thought our pressure, especially in the second half, really forced their young guards to make mistakes. Chris Manhertz was a beast today. He is a match-up problem for Fairfield and he went to work at both ends of the floor. I'm proud of the effort we got from everyone today."
The host Stags jumped out to an early 7-0 lead before the Griffs' scored their first points of the day on a lay-up by Lewis 2:09 into the game. Midway through the first half, Fairfield held a 17-15 lead, but a jumper by Raney from the right wing tied the game at 17-17 with 8:33 left before the half. After the Stags went empty at on their next possession, Canisius took the lead for the first time, a lead they would not give up the rest of the day, when Lewis drained a 3-pointer with 8:02 left before the half to make the score 20-17. The Griffs went into the locker room at the break leading 33-29 despite shooting 38.7 percent from the field and 33.3 percent from 3-point range in the contest's opening stanza.
In the second half, Canisius jumped Fairfield early, out scoring the Stags 10-2 in the first 4:51 of the half to take a 12-point lead at 43-31. Manhertz scored the first eight points of the second frame for Canisius and a jumper by Lewis put the Blue and Gold up by a dozen with 15:09 left to play. Fairfield was able to trim the Griffs' hold to 48-36 with 11:45 left to play, but a 10-2 run for the Blue and Gold over the game's next 1:12 gave Canisius a 20-point lead at 58-38 with 10:22 left on the clock.
The Griffs led by as many as 30 points in the game after Raney connected on a 3-pointer from the top of the key with 1:05 left to play. In the second half, Canisius shot 48.4 percent from the field and turned 12 Fairfield turnovers into 16 points. The Stags ended the game by shooting 33.3 percent from the field, 24.3 percent from 3-point range and just 38.5 percent from the free-throw line. Fairfield has 19 turnovers in the loss and each team pulled down 44 rebounds for the contest.
Canisius will return to action next weekend with a pair of home games, starting Friday, Feb. 7, when the Griffs play host to Manhattan in the Koessler Athletic Center. That game will be broadcast live on ESPNU, with tipoff set for 7 p.m. All fans will receive a "Gold Rush" T-shirt as the Griffs turn the Koessler Athletic Center gold for the program's first nationally-televised home game since 2010-11.
Game Notes: This was the 76th all-time meeting between these two Jesuit schools, with Fairfield holding a 44-32 lead in the series… After dropping nine straight to Fairfield, Canisius has taken two of the last three meetings… This is the team's first four-game winning streak since 2006-07… The Griffs' 26-point road win is the largest road conference victory in school history… Canisius has now won back-to-back MAAC road games by double-digits for the first time since the 1996-97 season… The Blue and Gold is 10-2 in MAAC play for the first time since joining the conference before the 1989-90 academic year… The team's 44 rebounds are the most for the team this season – the previous high was 43 boards in the season opening win over South Dakota… Of Manhertz's 12 career double-doubles, five have been against Fairfield… Baron's 17 points are the fewest for the senior guard since Dec. 21, when he had 16 points in a home win over Lamar… Baron led the team in assists with three, the 44th time in his career he's been the Griffs' leader in assists… Senior Jordan Heath had nine points and his younger brother Josiah Heath, chipped in six points for the Blue and Gold… Canisius had all nine players score at least two points for the second consecutive game.


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Jimibob007 wrote: »You paid an extra 50% for 2 weeks' play. Where else can you keep yourself entertained for ~100+ hours for £35? Even the cinema costs about £15 these days...
Even full price for £70 is worth it when I know that I will spend over 300 hours on this.
They have to cover R&D costs and make up for a botched launch.
I do agree, however, with the disgruntled sentiments. The game launched clearly unfinished in terms of both bugs and content. Fewer maps and gamemodes than ever, no Dolby Atmos support etc.
Where the discount is anyway? I only see 33% off in the store.
TheHangingBrain wrote: »It's total bull crap. If anyone started a class action suit for at least a refund of the inflated amount the loyal fans paid, I'd be down. I've seriously contemplated looking into legal recourse.
A few months after release, this would be ok, but we're talking weeks. It's a scam.
montreal961 wrote: »Wow, thank god I paid full price for this two weeks ago!
I'm honestly actually really really happy that I wasted 90$ on this garbage at launch. When you think about it, 90$ is really a bargain price to pay for a reinvigorated interest in playing BF1 again.
Oh wow, and I almost forgot to mention that EA also had the kindness in their hearts to give me a whopping 2 whole weeks of FREE EA Access because I preordered this extended Beta game. Praise EA.
I pre-ordered the Deluxe, and then I saw Premier would have an even earlier access.
So I got the premier, then now I see the 50% off for veterans.
Easy money eh?
WhiteRabbit_swe wrote: »What they did was very fishy, what they don't realize is that they screwed up this time, because battlefield loyal fanbase aren't stupid, and this wont be forgotten... I expect very few will preorder in the future, and that they lost alot of costumers...
Every time I heard people calling ea/dice bad etc., I allways though they were exaggerating... Now I believe them! They were right all this time...
MachineHead0013 wrote: »COD BO4 is also on sale for 50%
Seems like BFV going on sale prompted BO4 to also go on sale prematurely. I wonder if this a new trend in tactics moving forward with these two titles that are released before the holidays.


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WASHINGTON (AP) - You've heard it all before.
The government is headed for a fiscal crisis caused by partisan gridlock. The stakes are high. U.S. credibility is on the line. The economic recovery could be derailed.
Is this a faux crisis that will quickly pass or the real deal?
Time to sort through the reality and the hype.
There are two dates to watch on the fall crisis calendar:
-Oct. 1: The coming Tuesday is the start of the government's next budget year. If Congress doesn't pass a new budget by then, or at least approve a temporary spending bill, parts of the government would be forced to shut down. (More on that later.) It's also when a big chunk of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul takes effect, unless Republicans manage to starve it of money. ("Defund it," in the awful parlance of Washington).
Oct. 1 also is when the next installment of across-the-board government spending cuts, known as the sequester (another awful word), kicks in if there's no deal to cut federal spending in a big way. No one's even attempting to do that right now.
_"X Date." Sometime around mid-October to early November, the government won't have enough cash to pay all of its bills on time if Congress doesn't raise the federal debt limit. Then the government would start to default on its obligations. That's a way bigger deal than a short-term government shutdown. It's never happened.
Yes, there's been similar hand-wringing before. Threats of a government shutdown and-or default have become increasingly common in recent years, particularly since the 2010 elections when voters elected to Congress a big tea party contingent made up of lawmakers intent on reining in the federal government and slashing spending.
The last time the government shut down - a double whammy late in 1995 and early in 1996 - politicians (especially Republicans) caught so much grief that they've generally avoided that tactic ever since. But the tea partyers didn't live through that shellacking, and many of them aren't afraid of bringing the entire government to a halt to extract concessions or at least get a little attention.
Even some tea party people are balking, though. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., a favorite of that group, has called closing the government "a dumb idea."
In truth, a government shutdown probably wouldn't be that drastic. Think of it more as a government slowdown than an outright shutdown. It looks like the Obama administration will follow past rules regarding which federal employees work and which don't. If that's the case, less than half of federal workers would be forced off the job. (Sensitivity alert: There could be a lot of bruised egos among the 800,000 or so people whose jobs aren't considered essential enough to keep them working during a shutdown.)
A lot of programs would keep running - air traffic control, food inspection and much more - but there would be plenty of annoying disruptions. Closed museums and parks. Unanswered phones. No trash collection in the District of Columbia. Possible delays in nonurgent (except, perhaps, to you) services such as passport applications. As well, based on what happened in the last shutdown, the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says to expect delays in processing applications for Social Security and Medicare benefits, but no disruption in checks to existing beneficiaries. It also expects disruptions in some delinquent child support and bankruptcy cases, applications for federally guaranteed mortgages and some law-enforcement hiring.
Oh, and one potentially annoying nondisruption: Members of Congress don't get furloughed.
Government shutdowns tend to cost money, not save it, according to the committee. Already, there's a lot of time being spent simply preparing for a shutdown, regardless of whether it comes to pass. The 1996 shutdown cost taxpayers $1.4 billion, according to estimates from the Office of Management and Budget. That's a lot of money to make a point about the need to save money.
No hype, a government default could have ramifications that ripple through the whole economy. Even the threat of a default had big ramifications in the summer of 2011, when the stock market dropped, the U.S. credit rating was downgraded (making future borrowing potentially more expensive), consumer confidence slipped and businesses stopped hiring. But because default is unprecedented, no one's sure exactly what would happen.
While the Treasury Department probably would continue to make interest payments to bondholders, it wouldn't be able to make other payments on time, which could mean delays in Social Security benefits and in paychecks for federal workers and U.S. troops.
How exactly would a default work? The government could decide to pay some bills and sit on others, or it could wait until it has enough tax dollars to make an entire day's worth of payments - all of them late.
The first strategy would be hard to implement because the government might not have the legal authority to do it or the computer reprogramming ability to quickly pull it off. Under the latter scenario, nobody would get paid on time but everybody would wait in the same line, which would create its own problems.
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew thinks the government will exhaust its borrowing authority no later than Oct. 17, with $30 billion left in cash on hand, and before long wouldn't be able to pay all its bills. The Bipartisan Policy Center, a Washington think tank, calculates that if X Date arrived on Oct. 18 and Treasury then decided to gradually make all payments, Social Security payments due on Nov. 1 wouldn't go out until Nov. 13.
Remember when everyone was worried about threatened budget cuts called the sequester? Sequestration seems so yesterday - last March, to be exact. But it's still around, driving defenders of military and social services budgets crazy, and not disappearing any time soon.
This budget animal reduces spending across the government, with the goal of saving $1.2 trillion over a decade, and stays in place until politicians agree on something big to replace it with. Do not hold your breath.
If lawmakers find a short-term budget fix to prevent a partial government shutdown or to end one, that alone won't do away with sequestration. It's going to take a megadeal to accomplish that. Right now, even a microdeal on budget matters is hard enough to get.
In early 2013, Obama administration officials came forward to warn that the public (known by all politicians as The American People) would feel great pain if these automatic budget cuts went into effect. Terrible lines at airports, food inspection hiccups, "a perfect storm" at national parks and much more.
But while many federal workers have had to take unpaid furlough days, most Americans have barely felt a pinch. So the administration doesn't have a ton of cred when predicting fiscal doom and gloom. Yet there's fairly widespread agreement that the longer these cuts go on, the more they will hurt.
It's like fasting, says Paul Light, a New York University professor who specializes in the federal bureaucracy and budget. "The first couple of hours, not so bad. But just thinking back to Yom Kippur, by 3 o'clock you're saying 'Holy moly.' So I'm not yet willing to say, the sequester - it wasn't that bad and therefore the shutdown wouldn't be that bad."
Whether there is another round of across-the-board reductions in January depends on the level of spending that Congress sets for this fiscal year. If lawmakers exceed sequestration spending caps when they finally pass a spending bill, another round of cuts will be required.
The president's health care law has nothing - and everything - to do with the budget battle. Conservative Republicans latched on to this fall's fiscal deadlines as the perfect leverage to reach a goal that's eluded them for three years, driving a stake through what they derisively call "Obamacare." So House Republicans approved a budget bill tied to a provision that would simultaneously defund it.
All sides know that strategy is doomed in the Democratic-controlled Senate, setting up the potential impasse that could lead to a government shutdown and/or standoff on the debt ceiling. Light says it's "beyond belief" that legislators would allow the government to default, with dire consequences for both the economy and their own political futures. "If the tea party forces a default and the economy collapses," he says, "that's a party that's going to be dead."
The budget battle sounds kind of like a movie called "Grim and Grimmer." But even downer movies usually have some comic relief.
Sure enough, comics are finding some laughs in the government's budget travails and the fight over Obama's health care law:
-"President Obama warned that the government could shut down in two weeks. Obama added, 'Not because of a budget impasse but because we'll all be watching the last episode of "Breaking Bad.'''" - Conan O'Brien.
-"Obamacare is coming, folks. Run for your lives. No, wait. Don't run for your lives. That will make you healthier. And that is just what he wants." - Stephen Colbert.
- "If Republicans and Democrats can't get together, there's a strong possibility of a federal government shutdown. You know what the legal definition of that is? A government shutdown is when Congress continues not to work, but they do it from home." Jay Leno.
If legislators decided to drop all the bluster and do what most people want, they could be in a pickle.
People don't know what they want. They are no help at all.
To wit:
-Almost three-quarters in a Washington Post/ABC News poll this month predicted serious harm to the economy if the government can't borrow more money to pay for its operations. Yet they were split on whether it's better for Congress to raise the debt limit (46 percent) to enable more borrowing or to default on paying its bills (43 percent).
So a significant share essentially said: terrible idea, go for it.
-In an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll this month, only 22 percent said Congress should raise the debt ceiling, 44 percent said it shouldn't and fully 33 percent said they didn't know enough to have an opinion, despite being given a description of how the debt ceiling works.
-In a Pew Research poll this week, most respondents (57 percent) said the lawmakers they agree with on budget issues should be willing to compromise to get an agreement. Only one-third wanted them to stick to their principles to the point of closing parts of the government. Fine, but compromise how?
The public is no guide when it comes to the nitty-gritty of cutting spending, public opinion research has found for years. People love the idea but don't love higher taxes, and they want their roads, schools, Social Security checks, Medicare, armed forces, food inspectors, safe flights, cleaner water and so on.
Who gets the blame for a government shutdown could well depend on whether the conventional wisdom is right.
Democrats believe, and many Republicans fear, that the GOP will take the hit, because they did last time, in 1995-1996.
There's little question Republicans lost the last showdown. After all, they ended up settling for a deal very close to the one President Bill Clinton was offering before parts of the government closed for a week in late 1995 and three weeks in early 1996. Less clear is the political toll that exacted on the GOP. Clinton, whose presidency had once seemed on the ropes, won a second term months later. Even so, Republicans held on to their House and Senate majorities in that election.
A leading poll during that showdown found 47 percent blamed Republican leaders in Congress for the shutdown, 25 percent blamed Clinton and 21 percent said both sides were equally to blame. Advantage Clinton.
But another poll, taken when the dust settled, found little change in the public's perceptions of Congress or Clinton. The president came out of it with the same approval rating as before the crisis, 47 percent, and Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich emerged with the same disapproval rating as before, 57 percent.
There's no guarantee, of course, that public opinion history will repeat itself.
In the Pew poll this week, close to as many are blaming Obama (36 percent) for the potential shutdown as are blaming the Republicans (39 percent), and 17 percent found equal fault with both sides.
The health care law will survive. Beyond that, there's a lot of uncertainty. Many people think legislators motivated by self-preservation will pull off some kind of last-minute compromise to avoid both the government shutdown and the default. But then again, a lot of people never thought the sequester would take effect, either.


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March 11, 2003
Midtown's Final Frontier
Forty years isn't very long in the life of a city, but it's long enough to reinvent an entire district. So the Bloomberg administration hopes. Recently city officials, including Amanda Burden, head of the City Planning Commission, and a deputy mayor, Daniel L. Doctoroff, unveiled the Hudson Yards Master Plan, the city's vision for the redevelopment of Midtown West. Merely to walk out of the Javits Convention Center into the low dark streets that surround it is to understand why this section of the city, between 28th and 42nd Streets west of Eighth Avenue, is regarded as the last frontier in middle Manhattan.
No subways serve Hudson Yards. As the name suggests, much of the area is taken up by rail yards, parking lots and warehouses. The core of the Hudson Yards Master Plan is to extend and connect the transportation links that run nearby. This means, especially, an extension of the No. 7 subway line into the heart of the district. By itself, that would prompt a lot of development. But to their credit, city planners want to guide growth so the district becomes a coherent neighborhood, shaped by new streets, new open spaces and new public buildings.
Much of this plan makes sense. The Javits Center would expand northward and add a hotel that would give it access to 42nd Street. There would be serious efforts to bring the waterfront into play. On the other hand, the city's plan to create a double row of skyscrapers flanking 11th Avenue unfortunately recalls the street-level dreariness of the Avenue of the Americas in Midtown.
But for now, the big question is the "multi-use facility," which still amounts to a stadium, possibly for the Olympics and certainly for the Jets. Officials have said that the Hudson Yards plan does not depend on the stadium, but they also argue that the logic of the redevelopment design makes much less sense without it. Its feasibility will clearly depend on two things, a financing plan that does not depend on public money and a way of making "multi-use" more than a euphemism. No one wants a publicly financed hulk that sits empty most of the time and floods the city with traffic when it is being used.
The plan will have to compete with the city's other big redevelopment program, the plan to rebuild the World Trade Center site. There is not enough money now to move ahead on both fronts, and there is just as obviously a pressing emotional and civic need to make sure that ground zero comes first. Phasing is a word we are all going to learn the nuances of in the next few years. One of the virtues of the Hudson Yards Master Plan is that its phasing takes us all the way to 2040.
Copyright 2003 The New York Times Company


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Glenn Harris
Glenn R. Harris is Professor and Culpepper Teaching Fellow. He received his undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University, a Masters degree in environmental science from the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina, and a Ph.D. from the College of Human Development at The Pennsylvania State University. Glenn teaches courses on the health effects of pollution, land-use planning, and foundation of environmental thought. He also teaches Seeing History: Reading the Natural and Cultural Landscape, an entirely field-based course that has been highlighted in The Chronicle of Higher Education, a major publication of trends in university education. Glenn's research specialties are environmental history, land-use planning, and environmental policy. He is the author of An Environmental History of New York's North Country: The Adirondack Mountains and the St. Lawrence River Valley, published by Mellen Press in 2012, as well as over fifty scholarly papers and twenty-five technical and community service reports, many co-authored with students. He has received the SLU Piskor Faculty Lectureship, the Owen D. Young Outstanding Faculty Member Award and the J. Calvin Keene Faculty Award, given annually to a faculty member for "high standards of personal scholarship, effective teaching, and moral conscience." A member of numerous professional and community organizations, Dr. Harris takes particular interest in the Adirondack Park and the St. Lawrence River Valley.


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Let the scapegoating continue.
Adam Lanza, the person who shot and killed 26 people at Sandy Hook elementary in Connecticut last month, reportedly played Call of Duty, among other games. So for quite a while now, pundits and politicians have been drawing links between his heinous actions and the video games he played.
Most recently we have Senator Chris Murphy, a newly-elected Democrat in CT, who spoke yesterday during a press conference to introduce a bill on assault weapons.
"I think there's a question as to whether he would've even driven in his mother's car in the first place if he didn't have access to a weapon that he saw in video games that gave him a false sense of courage about what he could do that day," the senator said.
This is probably a good time to remind the world that there is no scientific evidence linking violent video games and violent behavior.
Dem Senator: Video games gave Sandy Hook shooter a 'false sense of courage' [Washington Examiner]


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Monday, March 12, 2012
A little bit of sunshine - yeah, yeah.
Anyway, I don't frequently do these type of bloggy awards things anymore - but it's a beautiful sunny day, I'm in a pretty sunny mood, and well, hot-da-amn, if all ya'll don't make me feel warm and fuzzy inside.
Favourite colour – Orange. Duh.
Favourite animal –I do not discriminate, I like ones with paws.
Favourite non-alcoholic drink –Half ice tea-half lemonade!
Facebook or Twitter – hm, twitter! facebook gives me the creeps.
Getting or giving presents – giving. A well executed gift just makes me so happy.
Favourite flower – Johnny Jump Ups!
Favourite pattern – stripes!...or polka dots...
Passion – sustainability. gardens. organic veggies.
Favourite number – 3.
And now, I nominate five of you sunny people!
The Yellaphant - I've been reading Bridget's blog for a long time! Like a LONG time. Like before I was with Inspector Climate, before she (AND I) were married (not to each other. obviously), to before she had a giant gaping hole in her stomach. But she makes me laugh even when the universe gives her errant scar tissue - and that's the gift of sunshine.
There is only one kind of me - Oh, Ruby. I can't even tell you when Ruby found my blog but her comments have always made me smile and I've LOVED meeting her in real life too.
The Titleless Blog - Sara is just one of those people who I have yet to meet, and who I already feel like I know quite intimately. Reading her blog is one of the highlights of my day. I fear the day we do meet, as we both seem to have that x-factor that brings the crazies to us. Moths to a flame, people. Moths to a flame.
On Anna's Plate - this is one of my favourite cooking blogs! It has absolutely fantastic recipes and the most personable and sunny people!
Stay Gold Autumn - Has the most beautiful and sunny pictures...
22 comments:
I love Johnny Jump Ups!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the lovely comment!ReplyDelete
Facebook freaks me out too.
- AnonymousMarch 12, 2012 at 5:32 PM
Arnold Palmer what what!!!ReplyDelete
I love giving gifts too, so much fun! Thanks for stopping by my blog!ReplyDelete
aww congrats on your award hon!! i LOVEEE arnold palmer's too they're my absolute favorite drink!ReplyDelete
Cool list! I'm not a Facebook fan, either.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 12, 2012 at 11:29 PM
Ahhh! I'm touched that you remembered me in your post! Thank you! You know the feeling ins mutual, right? (I was refering the the mutual bloggy like, but it looks like we've got the creepers factor in common, as well.)ReplyDelete
My second favorite color is orange! And I've never heard of Johnny Jump Ups, so obviously I'm googling now.ReplyDelete
I love all animals too :)ReplyDelete
Congratulations on the award! I too am on Team Twitter! :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 13, 2012 at 1:44 AM
Awesome list! Oh and I deactivated my personal facebook account last week. Just makes me feel 'free.' xReplyDelete
I loove half tea/half lemonade. YUM. And I'm also a big fan of Twitter. Facebook instantly makes me grumpy. lolReplyDelete
Haha I love your favorite animal answer!ReplyDelete
The good thing with these type of awards are that you always find new blogs to read. I have to go an check these out :)ReplyDelete
I'm not on Facebook either. It makes me feel funny. Thanks for the links to the blogs you enjoy. It takes the work out of finding them myself!ReplyDelete
I like Arnold Palmers too! Great answers.ReplyDelete
Aww you're a sweetie, aren't you! I'm glad you appreciated our conversation - they are my favourite too.ReplyDelete
Of course I have no idea what a Johnny Jump Up is so I looked it up. Wikipedia just confused me even more.
Yay for the number three. It's the sh*t.
I love giving gifts too :) Knowing I put effort and thought makes me happy. Especially seeing the reaction.ReplyDelete
Ah how lovely! Such a nice surprise! I've been so behind in my blogging and Tweeting life with the return to work thing currently happening (ugh, how did I do this before?) and I'm just catching up today!ReplyDelete
Thank you for the shout out!
Love me a good old fashioned Arnold Palmer.ReplyDelete
Twisted Susan - They're such happy little flowers (and edible too).ReplyDelete
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NEW DELHI – An assailant hurled black ink Tuesday at an Indian tycoon accused of multibillion-dollar fraud, shouting "he has cheated and robbed us" outside the country's highest court.
Subrata Roy, head of the Sahara India conglomerate, was entering the Supreme Court building in New Delhi with scores of police and security guards when the man splashed him with ink, blackening his forehead and the side of his face.
"Subrata Roy is a thief. He has cheated and robbed us!" said the assailant, who was identified by Indian television channels as Manoj Sharma, a lawyer. Police detained Sharma and led him away.
India's securities regulator has accused Sahara India of raising nearly 200 billion rupees ($3.2 billion) through bonds that were later found to be illegal.
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court ordered that Roy and two other directors of the company be sent to jail until further orders from the court. It fixed the next court date for March 11.
The court also directed Sahara India's lawyers to come up with a proposal for how it would pay back the money it owes investors.
The court issued an arrest warrant for Roy last week after he missed a court date, saying his mother was ill. He surrendered to police Friday.
Roy apologized to the court on Tuesday for his absence.
Sahara is well known throughout India because it co-owns a Formula One team and sponsored the Indian cricket team until recently. It also sponsors the Indian hockey team.
Investors have grown increasingly angry at Roy and are upset over what they see as his pampered treatment in custody. Roy has been staying in a plush forest guesthouse since his arrest and travelled to New Delhi for the court hearing in a luxury sedan, escorted by half a dozen police cars.
His company was ordered to return billions of dollars to investors, many of whom are poor Indians who lost their life savings. Sahara India says its liability was much less and it already has repaid many investors directly.
Sahara has vast real estate holdings and interests in microfinance, media and entertainment companies and hotels, including the Plaza Hotel in New York and London's Grosvenor House. The company says its net worth is $11 billion.


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The Oakland Tribune reports the exploding streaks were especially visible Wednesday night over the San Francisco Bay area and other parts of Northern California, with reports of bright fireballs and loud booms from Santa Cruz County to Mendocino County.
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"Happened to look over, saw like a crescent shaped object, reddish orange in color," Edward Pierce told KGO-TV. "As it went away it started getting larger. Kind of expanding."
Jonathan Braidman, an astronomer at Oakland's Chabot Space and Science Center, told the station what Pierce and others saw were small, car-sized pieces of rock and metal from the ashtray belt.
It crashed through the earth's atmosphere, "ionizing and setting the air on fire in its wake," he said.
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National Weather Service forecaster Steve Anderson tells the Tribune that warm temperatures and cloud-free skies are making the bright lights more visible, a phenomenon that should only increase as the weekend approaches and the shower continues.
The fireballs are part of the large, fast Orionid meteor shower, so-named because it has the Orion constellation as a backdrop.


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Syria uncertainty hangs over Obama's overseas trip
Deep uncertainty surrounding military action against Syria hangs over President Barack Obama's three-day overseas trip to Sweden and Russia, which takes him away from Washington just as he's seeking support on Capitol Hill for a strike.
Before he departed Tuesday night, Obama urged lawmakers meeting with him at the White House to support his plan to punish Syria for allegedly using chemical weapons to attack its own people. The president won the backing of House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California, though that hardly guarantees support in the fractured House of Representatives.
The president also will seek to bolster international support for a strike during talks with world leaders this week at the Group of 20 summit. Those efforts will pit him against Russian president and summit host Vladimir Putin, who has perhaps done the most to stymie international efforts to oust Syria's Bashar Assad.
Obama and Putin's clashing views on Syria have worsened a relationship already rife with tension from differences on human rights, missile defense, and the Russia's decision to grant asylum to National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden.
"It's been like watching a slow-moving train wreck for nearly two years," Andrew Kuchins, a Russia expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said of the Obama-Putin relationship. "Mr. Putin and Mr. Obama don't like each other at all. I think there's a deep degree of disrespect."
While Syria isn't officially on the agenda at the economy-focused G-20 summit, the potential for imminent military action is expected to dominate conversations on the sidelines of the summit. World leaders will be seeking guidance from the U.S. president about whether he plans to proceed with a strike if Congress rejects his proposed resolution - a question Obama's aides have refused to answer.
Votes in the House and the Senate are expected next week, just after Obama wraps up his trip.
During his meeting with lawmakers Tuesday, Obama said he was confident he'll be able to work with Congress to pass a resolution authorizing a strike.
Air Force One left Washington late Tuesday for an overnight flight to Stockholm. The White House hastily added the Sweden visit to Obama's schedule after he scrapped plans to meet one-on-one with Putin in Moscow ahead of the G-20 in response to Russia granting Snowden temporary asylum.
Snowden's leaks to American and foreign news organizations about secret government spying programs have sparked outrage overseas, particularly in Europe. Obama is likely to face questions about the scope of the programs while overseas, as he did earlier this summer during meetings with the Group of 8 industrial nations.
Even before the Snowden incident, relations between the U.S. and Russia were already on the rocks amid differences on missile defense and nuclear weapons, as well as American concerns over human rights and a new Russian law that targets "homosexual propaganda." Russian gay rights activists say they have been invited to meet with Obama while he is in St. Petersburg this week.
Putin also has appeared to relish blocking American and Western European efforts to weaken Assad throughout Syria's 2 1/2-year civil war. Russia remains one of Syria's strongest military and economic backers.
In a pointed jab last week, Putin asked Obama to reconsider a military strike, saying he was appealing to Obama not as a world leader, but as a Nobel Peace laureate.
"We have to remember what has happened in the last decades, how many times the United States has been the initiator of armed conflict in different regions of the world," Putin said. "Did this resolve even one problem?"
Administration officials insist the U.S. and Russia can still work productively together during the G-20, though in a slight to Putin, the White House has gone out of its way to characterize the trip as less of a visit to Russia than a trip to the G-20 that happened to be taking place there.
The White House also has ruled out a one-on-one meeting between Obama and Putin on the sidelines of the summit, though the two leaders certainly will spend time together in the larger summit sessions.
Obama will hold meetings at the summit with French President Francois Hollande and separately with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Hollande has become an increasingly important ally in the deliberations about military action in Syria. France has indicated a willingness to join the U.S. in a strike, though Hollande said Tuesday that he's waiting for a decision from the U.S. Congress and insisted France won't strike alone.
Obama has been trying to cultivate deeper ties with China's Xi. The two held a rare two-day summit in California earlier this year.
Obama's stop in Sweden on Wednesday will focus on issues such as climate change, security cooperation and trade. The trip marks the first time a sitting U.S. president has made a bilateral visit to Sweden.
While in Stockholm, Obama will hold private meetings with Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and King Carl XVI Gustaf, and will break bread with Nordic leaders from Finland, Denmark, Iceland and Norway. He also will highlight Sweden's technical research programs and celebrate Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who is credited for saving at least 20,000 Jews during the Holocaust before mysteriously disappearing after being imprisoned by authorities in the Soviet Union near the end of World War II.
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