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The best gift I ever received was a soccer ball. Soccer was the first sport I actually played and loved so much. That ball was my teddy bear and it was held snug and tight in my arms. I was consumed by the game so much that I was oft reminded not to forget about my grades because they began to strangely resemble footballs.
There was this old sports almanac that I read during days when classes were suspended because of the weather. That well-thumbed book became a bible of sorts as I read and re-read what accounts I could of the New York Yankees which soon became my first favorite professional team. Going down to the Bronx many years later to regularly make a pilgrimage to baseball's hallowed cathedral was a nice way to complete the circle.
As I grew older, I was amused no end by the howls, cheers, and jeers of a Toyota-Crispa match and a slick playing Golden State Warriors team. Years later, I would fly down to Chicago to watch the Bulls and drive up to the Meadowlands to watch the Nets just to get my hoops junkie fix.
Now grown up, I need no prodding to get into sports. I have lived and breathed it and it's a part of my everyday life. Having lived in New York, I soaked in the Islanders and the Yankees; the Nets and the Giants. I've balled at West 4 and watched the cats rock the rim at Rucker. I've learned how to play hockey and have spent a lot of time in the penalty box (for fighting and high-sticking). I've paid huge sums of money to watch the visiting Arsenal and Bayern Munich football clubs. I've made like Roger Clemens back in the day rubbing the bronze plate of the Babe at Monument Park. I've been in that baseball heaven that is Cooperstown and have come full circle with the players whose lives and stats I have learned much from that well-read almanac. I've made Modell's and the NBA Store on Fifth Avenue regular stops on my way home from work.
And most recently, there was this day when I couldn't sleep a wink. Tip-off was at 12 noon and sure enough I needed the rest. Come game time, I tried to remain impassive and oblivious to the people and excitement of a basketball game. When I saw my son put on his jersey with our name neatly stenciled in the back above #12 (he's a fan of Larry Fonacier), I was ecstatic. The final stat line was un-Fonacier-like: 0 points, 2 rebounds, 1 steal, and 2 fouls. But I was proud. Never mind that they lost. I was happy for him and his teammates because they took the defeat graciously and in stride. My other son for some reason I cannot fathom would rather mind the net than try score as many goals as his old man did. Yet I'm perfectly content to be there in the bleachers and on the sidelines cheering them on instead of trying to out-coach the coach.
On this Father's Day, I'd like to say a heartfelt thank you to my Dad for introducing me to sports. For instilling in me the sense of fair play and giving it my all. I don't have that soccer ball and that almanac I was given all those long years ago. But I have this, my two young sons, Matthew and Anthony, who have brought me full circle to the games I've always loved.


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Anthrax's Charlie Benante Talks Mayhem Set, 'Worship Music' + Much More
We recently had the chance to speak with legendary Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante. As one of the main acts on the 2012 Mayhem Festival, Anthrax chose to take a 'guerilla' style approach to their Mayhem set, pumping out song after song in an unrelenting series of bursts.
Along with discussing Mayhem Fest, we spoke with Benante about 'Worship Music,' the return of singer Joey Belladonna, zombies, the recent death of his mother + much more.
Check out our exclusive interview with Anthrax's master of the drum kit, Charlie Benante.
Anthrax are playing this year's Mayhem Fest and what I think is really interesting is that you guys, because of your shorter set time, have committed to play a really fast, blitzkrieg of a set like the Ramones used to do. Is that something you've always wanted to try as a musician?
Well when you're put in a situation, you have to figure out the best way to handle the situation. How effective can you be in 40-45 minutes of getting the message across? You basically have to go out and do it and you have to live by that. If it's going to be 40-45 minutes, lets try and hit it as hard as we can in that amount of time, so when we're finished people are like, "Wow that's killer!" you know what I mean? It was only 40-45 minutes but it felt like a fricken hammer coming over me, ya know? That's the plan.
Were either Tommy Ramone, Marky Ramone or even Richie Ramone influences on your drumming?
No. Johnny Ramone was an influence on my drumming.
Johnny? Really?
He was very percussive on the guitar.
Yeah, he kind of invented the all downstrokes thing.
Downstrokes, exactly. He was the man.
This year's Mayhem Fest is getting a lot of attention because the lineup is so good. Do you think this is the best lineup in Mayhem history?
Well, for sure I can tell you it's more like the European festivals than any other American festival. I mean, [there are] four bands that have had pretty much influenced many other bands. I mean, Motorhead influenced us a hell of a lot. You may not hear it in our music, but in the beginning of the band, Motorhead was the band that I looked up to because they didn't care about getting on the radio or how they looked. They were the people's band and that totally just stayed with me, you know what I mean? And I think Slayer would probably agree with me on that too. So I think this lineup is definitely not eclectic — it is a heavy metal lineup and it's a heavy metal fan's gift.
When you guys released 'Worship Music,' it got hugely positive reviews by critics and fans. It's not the easiest thing to do to make a new comeback record. Other bands in the past weren't able to do it so successfully. What is it about Anthrax that made it work so well?
I think throughout the history of the band and throughout our career we've always been a band that, kind of, has taken some chances musically. We've gone this way and we've gone that way and we never stayed a stranger. But the thing that bothers me sometimes [is] when I hear myself talking about it. These are good things to do — to take musical chances or you want to expand your musical horizon. But it also hurt us.
If I've learned anything it's that heavy metal fans don't want you to go to the left or to the right. They want to say to you on the street, "Please don't go to the left anymore" or "Please don't go to the right anymore," "We want Anthrax to stay metal." And for me, it almost makes me feel like, "Oh my god, this is music and you should be open minded."
I took music as going in a different direction. It started to, and I think when that nu-metal explosion happened, I think people just got very like — when I talk about people, I'm talking about traditional heavy metal fans. When that happened, the nu-metal thing, I think a lot of the metal fans went, "I hate that," and I really think they should be held responsible for a lot of that happening.
When recording 'Worship Music,' when in the process did you first think, "Wow, we've really got something here."?
Well, a lot of these songs I've had for a long, long time and I … we knew, some of us in the band knew that this would be something really special. It wasn't until Joey got involved that this record really started to take shape and I'll never forget the day I heard him sing the first song and I heard it back and said, "That's it. Yeah, that sounds like Anthrax!" I just knew that everything was going to be okay.
What song was that?
It was 'Fight 'Em 'Til You Can't.' That was the first song. It just has this feel of a late '80s, early '90s Anthrax kind of persistence. It just had that type of vibe, and when Joey started singing … It was funny how we said, "That's what been missing."
I think fans, especially with 'Fight 'Em 'Til You Can't,' have really, really embraced the song. It's sort of become one of the fan favorites now and that song is all about zombies. Is the whole band made up of zombie fanatics?
[Laughs] I wouldn't call [myself] a 'zombie fanatic.' I mean, speaking for myself, I've always been into horror movies since I was a little kid and I've always felt that heavy metal and horror go hand in hand together and I've been obsessed with the "zombie holocaust" thing for quite a while now. Ironically, we're in Europe and this whole bath salts thing happened.
Yeah, that was weird.
Yeah, it's weird. So I always felt if there was going to be a zombie holocaust, it would be caused by drugs and here it was. It was like entertaining art.
Author's note: This interview took place before 'bath salts' were ruled out in the 'Florida Zombie' incident.
[Laughs] When it comes to touring with Joey back in the band, how would you compare touring with him 20 years ago to touring with him now?
I hate him a lot more! [Laughs] We're together quite a bit and we are much more mature than when we were in our 20s — back then we were just like goofy kids. You know, now we're much more mature and we deal with things in a much more mature way and we actually enjoy each other's company a lot more.
That's probably a part of the Ramones you don't want to take into your band. They didn't seem to like each other all that much.
You know what? People don't understand this, but being in a band for a long time — you become a family. And when you are a family, you can't help but have issues because one person decides that he's going to do things differently than everybody else does and all of a sudden that one person becomes the outsider of that group and then the other guys start to "click" and then before you know it, that one guy is out of the band. If we had more communication, and I'm not speaking about just being in a band, but if we all had more communication I think our problems could have resolved a lot sooner.
I got the chance to see you guys in New York City in February, and unfortunately that was very soon after your mother passed away. Where did you and [your nephew] Frank [Bello, bass] find the strength to just keep going and play that show?
Well, my mom was always, always, always so supportive, and I knew, she always knew, for me the happiest place was me sitting down and playing my drums. I know that it's cliche to say, "Oh, she would want us to do that show," but we talked about it. So, she wanted me to go do this show, and for me the best thing was about a month before when we played Yankee Stadium. I was chatting with my mom there and it was one of the last shows she got to see and she was just so happy about it and it was a great night. So it's hard to put everything into words but it was just … that night, everything was just special.
Yeah, it certainly was to a ton of metal fans. Can we expect any future 'Big Four' dates?
I get this question everyday. I would give you Lars [Ulrich's] number but I don't think he would be happy about that. [Laughs] I always joke [that] they (Metallica) gave all the bands this hotline and whenever it rings, we answer it.
Do you think the guys from Slayer and Megadeth feel a similar way to that? Are Metallica really the ones you're all getting the call from? Do they feel the same or can you not really speak for them?
Oh, I think they do. Oh yeah, I think they do too. I think, you know, Slayer are really into the shows. Those guys loved it and we had a good time. And I think, you know, Metallica makes the call and hopefully everyone's schedule works. The thing about the Big Four is, to me it's all about the music and the fans that have made us all what we are today. So why not give them what they really want? That's the way I view it.
I've had the pleasure of asking a lot of thrash metal musicians about who their favorite thrash drummer is. In your opinion, who's the best thrash guitarist and who's the best thrash frontman?
The best thrash guitarist? Wow, I would have to break it down to maybe sub-categories. I really love the riffing on 'Bonded by Blood,' so that's Gary Holt (Exodus). If I'm going for really heavy type of chunking stuff, I'd say James [Hetfield] on the 'Master of Puppets' record. I think his wrist is awesome on that record. If I'm going for sheer brutality I would have to say Kerry [King] on 'Hell Awaits.' Best thrash frontman? I'd have to give it to Joey [Belladonna], because he's the best frontman.

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AMSTERDAM - Spanish airline Vueling says that fears that one of its planes was hijacked en route from Malaga in Spain to Schiphol Airport were unfounded.
The airline said on Twitter on Wednesday that "Amsterdam's protocol for security was activated owing to a temporary loss of communication between the plane and air traffic control."
National Dutch broadcaster NOS spoke by phone with a person it identified as one of the passengers on board who said that the plane was calm and there was no hostage situation.
Media had reported that the plane was escorted to Schiphol by two F16 fighter jets.


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For over 40 years Morgan Community College has stood has a county cornerstone, inspiring knowledge and education to students in all stages of life and learning. Not only has the college provided instructional services to enhance communities throughout eastern Colorado, but has also become a beacon of hope and community outreach to promote and aid businesses, individuals and organizations.
From its humble beginnings in 1970 as a center for basic education classes held in a basement at 300 Main Street in Fort Morgan, to a thriving campus that provides education to a service area of over 11,500 square miles of eastern Colorado, the entire state has watched MCC develop into an award-winning institution that continues to entice students, programs and even grant funding entities alike to connect with the college.
The very first commencement of what was then known as Morgan County Community College took place in 1972 and included five associate of arts degrees, four one-year certificates and 29 Waivered Licensed Practical Nurse certificates. Flash forward to the present day and MCC's success in nurturing area academics has expanded to feature over 1,830 students enrolled in the Fall 2012 semester with over 3,000 students attending each year.
The college also boasts a staff of 94 regular employees and 123 adjunct faculty that has joined what the Chronicle of Higher Education has rated a "Great College to Work For" for a second consecutive year.
The campus itself has enjoyed a virtual expansion as well. Since its groundbreaking ceremony in 1978 at its present location at 920 Barlow Road in Fort Morgan, MCC has managed to connect through technology to provide distance learning opportunities for high school students in several area schools, from Bennett and Burlington to Wray and includes five center locations for students of any age in Bennett, Burlington, Wray and Limon.
The building itself has expanded to include an Adult Basic Education building, a nursing, health science and technology addition and an Automotive Technology building, all in the past 12 years.
In 2010 MCC was ranked one of America's top 50 community colleges by Washington Monthly and the tradition of providing premier service to students, staff and to the community at large continues to be a standard. The institution's list of accolades reiterates the goal.
From receiving a $15,000 Colorado First Grant for existing industry customized training, to hosting a new Entrepreneurship Business Plan course, MCC has endowed community businesses with a sprit and education needed to advance.
The College for Kids program continues to introduce the youth of Morgan County to the college experience and the college's annual participation in the 9Health Fair continues to reach area school children on a personal level.
As a community college, personalization has become key in enticing new students, providing personal services to help individuals walk through the financial aid process, get one-on-one help from instructors and even community-based internships to provide hands-on training.
With service agreements in place to help two-year students transfer to all of Colorado's state colleges, MCC also prides itself as a stepping stone for those who wish to continue their quest for knowledge and training.
In instituting such programs as the Community Garden, Tax Help Colorado, Rural Philanthropy Days, the Older Adults Health Fair and even through the Center for Arts and Community Enrichment (CACE) program, MCC has also extended their reach to give back to the community that helped them develop.
More information on MCC, including programs, course offerings and programs, can be found by calling them at 1-800-622-0216, by e-mailing them at firstname.lastname@example.com or by visiting their webpage at www.morgancc.edu.
Business Spotlight of the Month…MCC
For over 40 years Morgan Community College has stood has a county cornerstone, inspiring knowledge and education to students in all stages of life and learning. Not only has the college provided instructional services to enhance communities throughout eastern Colorado, but has also become a beacon of hope and community outreach to promote and aid businesses, individuals and organizations.


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Craig Morgan to Host 8th Annual Charity Event in Tennessee
Craig Morgan loves his hometown of Dickson, Tenn. and every year he hosts a charity event to raise money to help foster children in the town, as well as throughout the rest of Middle Tennessee.
The country singer is now set to host this year's 8th annual charity event on July 20 and there are some events for fans who want to help a good cause and also hear some great live music. The day kicks off bright and early at 8 am with an autograph singing by the celebrities who will take part in the Celebrity Off-Road Trail Ride.
Then, motocross experts will be on hand to show off their skills before a group trail ride and lunch. Later that evening country fans will want to check out the outdoor concert at the War Memorial building. The concert will include Morgan and some of his country music pals taking the stage -- the participants have yet to be named. During the show, a silent auction will also take place.
All proceeds from the event will go towards the Dickson County Craig Morgan Foundation. Tickets go on sale on May 9 and they'll be available on Morgan's website.
Craig Morgan Explains How His Music Literally Saved a Life


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Thanks to Catholic Word for sponsoring this week's giveaway!
This week's giveaway:
Fr. Bartunek Retreat Pack
Pack includes: Retreat Guide Pack, Volume 1 (Unleashing the Power of Pentecost and The One Thing Needed: DVD and Retreat Guide Books)
Through meditations, a conference, and reflection questions, join Fr. John Bartunek, LC, S.Th.D., as he helps refocus your soul while exploring the many facets of our faith. Designed to help you open your heart to Christ, these Retreat Guides will provide the right amount of insight and depth to recenter and recharge your life.
The Retreat Guide Pack includes everything you need – the Retreat Guide Volume 1 DVD and the Unleashing the Power of Pentecost and The One Thing Needed participant books. Nothing is more important than giving time to God – and in today's world, nothing is more difficult. This Retreat Guide is designed to help. Each of the three meditations will help you focus your soul's attention on God's Word, making it easier for you to open your heart to him in prayer, and to hear whatever he wants to say to you. The conference will help you discover afresh the beauty and the power of your faith, as you learn (or relearn) a little bit more about some aspect of our Catholic heritage. (The personal questionnaire will help you apply what you learned in the conference to your own life.)
The Power of Pentecost – Every new liturgical season is a spiritual fresh start, a spiritual clean slate. Are you getting ready? This Retreat Guide will help prepare you. The First Meditation tours the gifts of the Holy Spirit that renew our mind in Christ. The Second Meditation plugs you into the gifts of the Holy Spirit that strengthen and purify our interior freedom. The Conference gets practical, explaining four ways that each one of us can actively cooperate with the Holy Spirit on a day-to-day basis.The One Thing Needed – Today's world offers us so much! Wherever we go, products and possibilities battle raucously for our attention and our commitment. Amidst all the noise, how can we focus on what really matters? In this Retreat Guide, we will set our sights on the most important aspect of life. In the First Meditation, we will find that Jesus calls this the "one thing needed." The Second Meditation looks at the relationship between the one thing needed and all the other things that make up our daily life. And the Conference reviews God's own not-so-secret formula for helping us keep our priorities straight: the Third Commandment.


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I'm currently at Zynga HQ in San Francisco, where they're having a mondo press event called "Zynga Unleahed."
I've never been to Zynga HQ before and… well man, this place is intense. It's the size of a mini-mall, with all sorts of kiosks lining the main hall. Pets are always welcome at Zynga (hence the dog logo, and the "unleashed" pun in the event title), so there are dogs and cats running all over the place.
I shot this video of the event just before they started talking, with a bit cut in in the middle where the entire Zynga SF team lined the many levels above us. This building looks like a converted parking garage? It's intense. See for yourself.


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For introverted speakers who want to use their type to advantage, she recommends:
I learned that introverts prefer to think before they speak, while extroverts tend to think as they speak. I also learned what energizes introverts (solo activities) versus extroverts (social activities). While I'm not typically shy, or socially anxious, and I thoroughly enjoy people — in doses — I catch my breath during my quiet time.
What does that look like on Monday morning? They prepare well for meetings and negotiations; they've done their reflective thinking in advance. They also schedule down time in order to recharge. And they seek out allies as trusted sounding boards and champions who can help spread the word about their quiet strengths.All those tips work just as well when the introverted speaker is giving a presentation or speech to a larger audience.
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These freebies are only available in my TpT store:
3 fun pages to color in your spare time...
These black and white backgrounds are designed to save ink. Print on colored card for added color.
Fun and bright film strips.....use in your projects or resources or even in your digital scrapbooking.
Fun to use in your projects at Halloween, but also any time of the year.
Full 2016 printable calendar. Includes December 2015 and January 2017 as well as a full 2016 to a page.


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More than 27,000 Cadillac SUVs worldwide are being recalled so dealers can tighten the tires, which could fall off, according to General Motors Co.
The recall affects the 2013 Cadillac SRX with 18-inch wheels, the company announced. Canadian safety regulators said the wheel nuts may not have been tightened enough at the factory.
GM said the problem hasn't caused any crashes or injuries, and no wheels have fallen from vehicles.
Dealers will rotate tires and tighten the nuts at no cost to the owners.
The recall affects almost 19,000 SUVs in the U.S. and another 913 in Canada. The rest were exported to other countries.
To learn if your vehicle is included in the recall, click here.
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Season 11 3rd Place Winner Bristol Palin Writes About Dancing With The Stars In New Memoir
….and I have to say some of her words are not VERY NICE!!! What's more, she sounds ungrateful and conceited (Heidi: and insecure, projecting and hypocritical). I will let the below quotes speak for themselves and you see if you agree? I feel more disgusted with Bristol right now more than I ever did when Bristol was on the Dancing With The Stars. I bet producers are wishing they never asked her to dance.
Below is a take from ABC (which these words were also discussed in the video below in more depth).
Palin also shares not-so-fond memories of her 2010 stint on "Dancing With the Stars," where she and her professional partner, Mark Ballas, finished in third place.
"I noticed some of the contestants rolled their eyes when they realized we'd survived to dance another day," she writes, adding that some of the contenders voted off "literally would not speak to us or acknowledge our presence."
Below is an excerpt from the book provided by ABC. Bristol writes…
After Dancing with the Stars, I knew more about "body makeup," paso doble, and David Hasselhoff than I ever wanted to know. I left with great friends, newfound confidence, and a hefty check that I used to invest in real estate to help secure my future with Tripp.
But none of it was "real." Though emotions sometimes got carried away, they were the kind of emotions that spring from unusually cool circumstances, glimmery disco balls, and lots of television cameras. The producers made some pretty poignant "backstory" segments to add emotional interest while the contestants rehearsed. That's where viewers learned that Kyle Massey's family was just about to move back to Georgia when he finally got work on That's So Raven, about Jennifer Grey's automobile accident, and about Florence Henderson's grief over her husband's death. Though the segments were sleekly produced tearjerkers, they at least hinted at the "reality" that this "reality television show" had taken us away from. The backstories, were, of course, the real stories.
When the show was over, we all faded back into life and Dancing with the Stars became just a chapter in our lives. (In my case, quite literally!) I was happy to return to my normal life, to help forge a new "backstory" for myself into something better than being a "teen mom" or "teen activist." After all, I'm twenty years old now!
I relaxed in Arizona, where I had just purchased my new home with my earnings from Dancing with the Stars, after the show before I returned to Alaska for Christmas. I was thankful to get back to a simpler life—the kind that consisted of just Tripp and me and snowmachines and absolutely no spinning around in heels and sequins.
One of the cool things about my "backstory life" is that sometimes I get wonderful opportunities to have eye-opening adventures. Dancing with the Stars was one of those experiences,….
And here's a video from ABC.
So, who plans to buy Bristol's book? I sure won't be!! Also, more than anything, I think it's sad too that Bristol would write a book scathing her own son's father. Is she not only thinking of herself or what? She writes of the McCain greed, but, what about her own? Lastly, what kind of people would encourage her to write a book like this?
(Heidi: What an utter ___. So, the McCains are greedy, but I don't see them working on reality show number 2, writing a book at age 20 for a huge upfront fee, or speaking about abstinence for hefty fees. Typical Palin – so totally lacking in self awareness that the hypocrisy and irony is completely missed. And yes, Vogue, I was appalled at what she had to say about Levi – the kid is also an idiot, but he is your child's FATHER and perhaps it would be good to think about that before putting nastiness in print for the whole world to see – for money, ironicially.)


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Conservation and Environment in Mexico: Monthly Updates
Conservation in Mexico - Monthly Update April/May 2010
Waiting for the rains to come.
We're now almost half way though the year! The maintenance work on our camp facilities has been completed; this would not have been possible without the help of all the volunteers. Now we can enjoy all the improvements and are ready for the future volunteers to come and help us over the next few months.
With the infrastructure issues solved, high season is now approaching. We have been able to buy an extra quad bike and hopefully we will see this addition reflected in the amount of eggs we collect. The staff are ready and the number of volunteers also increase over the next couple of months, so hopefully we will see this high season through with results that will make us very proud of the work we deliver.
The number of nests we collect every night has increased as well, it is becoming more and more common that we get the chance to spot an Olive Ridley sea turtle laying their precious load of eggs on the beach we protect, hence the more frequent chance to release the hatchlings into the ocean.
It is just as the rainy season starts that the conditions for the turtles to come out to lay improves and the rains mark our busiest time at the conservation project.
Biodiversity Study, El Chupadero Lagoon
With the constant monitoring of El Chupadero lagoon we have spotted over 90 different species of birds that inhabit the area. It has now become imperative that we create a new system to obtain new results that will make this list larger. We have decided to create new sighting areas all along the lagoon. Each sighting spot will be an anchor point for our boat, giving us the chance to see a more detailed view of the species that surround us. We have already started placing the first of the anchor points in the calm waters of the lagoon in strategic areas that are well known by us for being the best for bird watching.
Crocodile Farm
With the constant monitoring of the wild crocodiles that nest around the area in the Crocodile farm, we estimate around 26 nests have already been laid in the perimeter. The last couple of weeks our staff and volunteers have joined the local vet to collect the precious eggs the crocodiles have come out to lay. So far we have already collected 2 nests, with 56 and 62 eggs in each one. Armed only with sticks and rope, the local vet along with our staff collect the eggs. Volunteers watch from behind a protected fence from a safe distance to observe how this work takes place. We have to encourage the volunteers to be really quiet as we have to pay attention to every single noise that would warn us of the proximity of the female crocodile coming to protect its nest.
The main reason why we protect the crocodile nests is because we know that the survival rate of the baby crocodiles left in the wild is very low. By controlling their birth conditions we secure their first and second year of survival before hopefully releasing them in the wild.
Beach Clean ups.
Supporting the families in the area, the government has created a series of temporary jobs to provide a source of income for local people in need of extra financial support. One of the main programs is the litter collection. Our staff and volunteers joined the local people to clean up areas that otherwise would be left unattended, at the moment we are focusing on the 24 km that we protect.
Hopefully we will start to join all the different collection programs in the area, this kind of activity is the type that leaves a real social mark with the locals. We are responsible for the impression people get from our presence and it's great to set a good example. We hope that this kind of work will create a better ecological consciousness in the local people.
Finally, the reason why I've combined the April and May updates is due to being away from Tecoman for a couple of weeks. I had the chance to travel to Peru to visit the Conservation project there in the rainforest and some of the other projects in the Sacred Valley. Many thanks to Stuart and Tim for their hospitality.
Oliver Garcia
Conservation Director
May 2010
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Your Friends and Mine
By now anyone who cares about what happened on the last episode of Friends knows the results. I was a bit shocked – I didn't think the writers would have Ross end up with Monica.
Okay, so that didn't happen. Ross got together with Rachel again, which is lame cause it's happened several times already. Why not have Rachel and Monica declare THEIR love for each other? Now that'd be television.
I am a casual Friends viewer, meaning I only watch it when it's on in syndication seven times a day. I haven't been able to follow the storyline this season because I don't care, but I have noticed that having a Friend in a movie is usually the kiss of two thumbs down. (The Whole Nine Yards being the obvious exception). And now that the series is over, we may see more Friends appearing on the big screen. Hopefully without monkey co-stars (I'm looking at you, Matt LeBlanc).
I was working the night of the finale, so I only saw the last five minutes. Which was like watching the last five minutes of a basketball game. I pretty much figured out what happened earlier just by the last few shots. And the last episode of Friends had about as much plot as the next Bulls/Clippers game. (In which I fully expect Ross to end up with Rachel).
I should correct myself – the last five minutes of the finale of Friends were not completely important. Just that fifth to last minute. The final four minutes were spent having the cast look around the set and make obvious call backs to jokes from previous episodes.
I've seen the last episodes of a few other NBC shows – Seinfeld, Cheers, and Mad About You (I couldn't find the remote and I was REALLY sick).
I don't remember what happened on the final episode of Mad About You because I was concentrating on not dying. And Cheers ended marginally. It was cool that Diane came back, but the end was so anti-climactic I actually fell asleep. When I woke up, I said, "what happened?" and my brother responded, "nothing." I thought he was just messing with me, but I saw it again a few years later and he was right.
The merits of the final episode of Seinfeld have been debated ever since it aired. Some people loved it. Most hated it. But the big fans of the show, myself included, enjoyed it for a few reasons. We got to see all the characters we loved from previous episodes (even Keith Hernandez!) and the end was so bizarre that it was memorable. It would have been too easy to have the four stand around Jerry's apartment or Monk's Coffee Shop or some such set and say, "we're really going to miss it here." Aww, you're tapping into what the audience is obviously feeling. Not all that clever, albeit overdone.
Seinfeld fans also really liked the end because the conversation about George's button was the same conversation from the first episode. The writers recognized that the humor of the show was not in the ongoing plot, but in staying true to some of the most ridiculous characters ever created for public consumption. The writers of Friends instead relied on their viewership's desire to watch a soap opera with better jokes.
I usually enjoy watching Friends when I have no choice, and it is much better than a lot of the other "sitcoms" people like. Anyone could write the scripts for a full season of Will and Grace. Just watch the previous season and recycle the same jokes the writers already recycled from the season before that. But I am not sad that Friends is over. It did not change the sitcom format like Seinfeld did, and it should not be revered by any TV historians in the future, even while they're doing research projects to find out what happened to Matt LeBlanc's career. (I'm looking at you, monkey). Friends was on for ten years, and it was good, but that's it. It entertained us and now it's over, with not much of a lasting impression left.
We will eventually discover whether or not Friends was a good show by the actors' ability to get successful work afterwards. If you can move beyond a character, it wasn't all that memorable. The central Cheers and Seinfeld casts have done hardly anything following the end of their shows. (You can't count spin-offs, cartoons, or terrible shows named "Becker"). Mad About You, on the other hand, is not lasting. Helen Hunt is a major movie star because no one cares that she was Jamie Buckman. And I know what you're saying. Jamie who?
We'll wait and see if any of the Friends can break out of the roles they kind of successfully made us occasionally care about. And if not, there's always a reunion special.
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If you've driven past the museum—or kept up with some LA art blogs —in the last week or two, you've likely seen some of Choi Jeong-Hwa's artworks taking over LACMA's campus as part of the upcoming exhibition Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea. His HappyHappy hangs in the BP Grand Entrance, and last week he wrapped the Ahmanson Building in bright fabrics—a work called Welcome. Choi has been at the museum installing his work, so Michele Urton, our assistant curator of contemporary art, asked him a few questions.
Why do you always do site-specific installations?
I don't like inside museums. I like outside museums, so everybody can have the art. Because people want to feel and have communication with the art. Art is life. So everyone, anyone, can be the artist. I wanted them to make their own art from this experience.
The Ahmanson Building, it is a medieval color. L.A. is so spread out, I wanted to make something eye-catching. I use usual colors and simple design to make folk art.
Speaking of Los Angeles, this is your first outdoor installation here. What are your thoughts on the city?
Every day when I am here I take transportation by bus or I am walking and I see the city has not so many colors. I want to give to the city something bright. I want to shine a light on L.A. And always I love people's reaction. If it is art or not art is not important; people know on their own what it is. Contemporary art doesn't need a paper label to explain it.
While you where installing HappyHappy, you had a chance to talk with visitors about your work. What did they say about it?
First, all the plastic is from the local 99¢ Store. This is very important to me. Art is 99¢. Some people asked me, may I make this and hang it in my kitchen? And I answer, yes please. Your heart is my art. And also touch is important—touch the art.
What would you like to say to the public?
Happy Welcome.
You often repeat the words in your titles, like HappyHappy.
Yes, we wanted to make our own paradise, like a utopia, because in our daily life, we have only a short time to forget our troubles and be happy. Art is everything, everything is art. Art is not in the museum, art is your own daily life. I think so.
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01.02.2012 – I was thinking of finding three pictures to represent 2011 but I could barely get through last December. So much has been happening this year, I decided to change careers and open a frozen yogurt cafe, I took up salsa dancing lessons to "unwind" and I've met a great group of people who are like a small family and I've settled into my new home country, Finland. Wow. This is only scratching the surface. When I think of what's transpired over the last year, at times I think things aren't happening soon enough (the cafe!) but I can't help admitting the last year has been a blur. I can't say I hope 2012 will be better because I've loved so much about 2011 (the friends and family!) but I am looking forward to seeing what 2012 has in store. I know it's going to be interesting 😉 I hope yours is too!
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When Lindsay Lohan made her appearance on "The Tonight Show," she told Jay Leno "I'm in the clear now."
Well, she might not want to count those particular chickens just yet.
Deputy District Attorney Danette Meyers tells RadarOnline that the actress isn't even close to being out of the woods just yet.
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"I hope Ms. Lohan is taking this seriously. She keeps violating the terms of her probation," says Meyers. "For her sake, I hope she has learned from this. Only time will tell."
Meyers goes on to say that she "respectfully disagree[s]" with Judge Stephanie Sautner's decision to lessen the charge from felony theft to misdemeanor theft.
"Ms. Lohan was brazenly wearing the necklace three blocks away from the jewelry store several days after it was taken, and that is felony conduct, plain and simple. You don't forget to take a necklace of," says Meyers.
Lohan is due back in Los Angeles court on May 13th, and it will be decided in the next few days whether the District Attorney or the City Attorney will try the case. If it's a misdemeanor charge, there is a very strong liklihood that the City Attorney will handle it.
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A build notification tells you the results of a build. Did it succeed? Did it fail? And if it failed, why? And which module caused the failure? Continuous integration (CI) servers have a rich notification repertoire. Windows tray icons, e-mails, instant messaging, and IDE plug-ins are just some of the possibilities. This variety of options is a proof for the thesis that build notification is one of the most important parts of CI.
In fact, it's so important that some CI practitioners sacrifice an additional monitor or even a whole machine to provide constant monitoring for the team. It's usually an old computer with an old monitor that stands in a visible place in the developers' room or some place where everybody can see it. The sole purpose of this machine is to provide the team with up-to-date information about the build processes. The dashboard page may refresh every few minutes, or special custom software may monitor the CI server. If your team can benefit from something like this, set it up. Or get geeky and use the following LED message board to provide a broken build notification.
Providing Feedback via an LED Message Board
An LED message board is a gadget that comes from a big family of crazy USB toys from the China Seas area. The one this example uses is a matrix of 7×21 LED lights sealed in a small black plastic casing (sometimes called a human interface device, or HID). If you aren't a USB geek, the only thing you have to know is that the HID driver makes it easy to interact programmatically with an HID-enabled device. If you want to buy one, search for "USB LED message board" or "scrolling USB LED message board."
Let's write a simple program that checks the state of the builds on a TFS server. If it finds a broken build, it'll display a blinking red circle on an LED message board. This display should be hard to miss if the board is in the developers' room.
First, let's find out whether the last build in a given build definition was broken. The following listing shows the details.
Listing One: Sniffing around the last broken build in TFS 2010 round the last broken build in TFS 2010
NetworkCredential Credentials = new NetworkCredential("marcin", "password"); TeamFoundationServer tfs = new TeamFoundationServer( "http://tfs1:8080/tfs/CiDotNet", Credentials); IBuildServer buildServer = (IBuildServer)tfs.GetService(typeof(IBuildServer)); IBuildDetailSpec buildDetailSpec = buildServer.CreateBuildDetailSpec( "CiDotNet.Ch4.Tfs", "Ci.CiDotNet.Ch4.Tfs"); buildDetailSpec.MaxBuildsPerDefinition = 1; buildDetailSpec.QueryOrder = BuildQueryOrder.FinishTimeDescending; IBuildQueryResult results = buildServer.QueryBuilds(buildDetailSpec); if (results.Failures.Length == 0 && results.Builds.Length == 1) { IBuildDetail buildDetail = results.Builds[0]; if (buildDetail.Status == BuildStatus.Failed) { MyLedNotify(); } }
This example uses the Microsoft.TeamFoundation API to sniff for the latest build output. You use the Microsoft.TeamFoundation, Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client, and Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Client namespaces to first connect to the TFS server and team collection using network credentials (lines 1-7). Then you get the build server from the TFS instance and query it for a given team project and build definition (lines 8-10). You take only the last build result (lines 11-13) and check its state. If it fails, you turn on the big red dot (14-23); see Listing Two.
Listing Two: Using an LED message board to notify you about a broken build.
HidDevice MessageBoard; HidDeviceList = HidDevices.Enumerate(0x1d34, 0x0013); if (HidDeviceList.Length > 0) { MessageBoard = HidDeviceList[0]; MessageBoard.Open(); Thread.Sleep(1000); byte[] Packet0 = new byte[] { 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0xff, 0xfe, 0xff, 0xff, 0xfd, 0x7f }; byte[] Packet1 = new byte[] { 0x00, 0x00, 0x02, 0xff, 0xfb, 0xbf, 0xff, 0xf7, 0xdf }; byte[] Packet2 = new byte[] { 0x00, 0x00, 0x04, 0xff, 0xfb, 0xbf, 0xff, 0xfd, 0x7f }; byte[] Packet3 = new byte[] { 0x00, 0x00, 0x06, 0xff, 0xfe, 0xff, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 }; for (int i = 0; i
This example uses a generic .NET HID device library from Mike O'Brien. The library provides a way to connect and use any HID-enabled device. All you have to do is to get a manual for the interface used in this device. The manufacturer of our LED message board was kind enough to provide one when asked.
To connect an HID device, you have to find it using a unique identifier provided by the manufacturer (lines 1-2). After you find the device, you must connect to it (line 6) and wait a while for the hardware to snap in. Next, you define the big red dot using a report formatted according to the manufacturer's interface description (7-16). For now, you'll have to believe us that the lights form a big red dot on the LED message board. You then send the light definition to the device (17-23), after which the device will look like the one shown in Figure 1. The packets sent to the LED message board light up the device for only a few milliseconds, so you have to refresh the signal to light it up periodically.[Click image to view at full size]
Figure 1. LED message board blinking with a red eye to indicate a failed build.
It doesn't cost much to provide a new way to notify your team about a problem. Buying a flashing emergency vehicle roof light and installing it in the developers' room is an even better idea (of course, including the siren!). But because the Taiwanese LED device is a lot cheaper (around $10-$20), you can start with it. It's that important to react immediately to a broken build.
What if the blinking lights, emails, and sirens aren't doing the job? How about something more intrusive? Send an SMS message to every team member.
Providing Feedback via SMS Notifications
It's a scary idea to send someone an SMS message with a build notification. But what if you're on vacation climbing Mount Kilimanjaro and you want to know if your team is dealing with the broken build fast enough? No problem. You can take the easy route and send yourself an SMS message using Skype and an online computer in your office. Here's how.
Skype provides a COM library to automate some of its tasks. One of the methods provided by this API is SendSms, which we'll use here. This method requires you to have Skype installed and some money in your Skype account because, unfortunately, SMS isn't free.
You can download the Skype library here. Check the Tools and SDK area. To do the build-state sniffing, you can use a variation of the program shown earlier in Listing One. The hitch is to detect only the change in the state of the build from successful to broken, and then send one SMS message. After such an event, it's a matter of implementing the foll ***a***owing code to send the SMS message:Skype Skype = new Skype(); if (Skype.Client.IsRunning) { Skype.Client.Start(); } Skype.SendSms(PhoneNumber, Message);
From now on, you can sleep well, knowing that an SMS message will alert you if something goes wrong with your build. Isn't that comforting?
Access to immediate and accurate information about the state of your build process is vital to your CI quality. The faster you get the information about a change in the quality of your source code, the more quickly you can react to fix the problem. The faster you fix the problem, the better your team will work. You'll know where you journey is taking you and whether your project is starting to veer off the road. In this article, we discussed how to extend your build notifications.
Marcin Kawalerowicz works for European customers in the automotive and financial sectors, among others. He blogs at iprogrammable.com. Craig Berntson is a Microsoft MVP. He blogs at www.craigberntson.com/blog. This article was adapted with permission from the authors' recently released book, Continuous Integration in .NET, published by Manning Publications.


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If you watch children at play, you'll notice that the more they are smiling and laughing together, the more fun they are having. Play is a fundamental necessity of a child's development. Play is just as important for older adults because it combats their often sedentary lifestyle.
Our clubs, our programs and, more importantly, our leaders can provide the opportunity for play for seniors. Just look at what works with children and why it works, and incorporate the principles of play into your exercise programs.
What is the most fun and the most active part of a child's day at school? It's recess! Recess is never more than 30 minutes long, but children run out of a school building, run away from stress and sedentary time to join their friends in games, sports and all sorts of activities. Recess energizes them, gives them renewed spirit and prepares them for a more productive learning experience.
Gerontologists will tell you that as people age, it's healthy to recall and relive childlike (not childish) experiences. The most productive fitness programs for your older adult membership should include exercises that incorporate "playtime" within the exercise routines.
Many ways exist to include fun, upbeat, social experiences within many of the programs you already have, but first you must make sure that you and your program leaders are fun. Are they someone who your members would like to play with? Are they willing to provide the "play" in your programs?
Don't take this for granted. Learning the skill of providing supportive play in exercise programs for our older market takes training, practice and a sincere desire to succeed with this market. Initially, you may have to tap into your creative juices, your childhood experiences, and some innovative tools and equipment not traditionally considered "fun." However, soon you will feel the energy from your members as they respond with a greater joy while exercising their bodies with their minds and spirits.
For example, stationary bikes and sophisticated chairs on the market today come with cookie-cutter programs, educational DVDs and booklets full of pictures and explanations about how to perform the exercises properly. However, how much positive attitude, excitement, high energy or enjoyment can participants get from this option? If your senior programs don't illicit these feelings from participants, your members may perform their fitness routines sporadically or for a two-week period at best. That certainly doesn't ensure an active lifestyle or a commitment to a lifestyle of exercise.
Children love to play with toys. Using balloons, hula hoops, balls or even paper plates can add a challenge as well as a giggle to a simple walk around the room. Adding instruments like tambourines, bells, cymbals, drums or harmonicas add coordination and rhythmic skills to a march, as well as high energy and laughter. Music molds attitudes. It's far more fun to exercise to music with familiar lyrics and tunes than to a bass beat that forces you to count to eight or 16.
Costumes such as hats, shirts or anything with matching colors or logos add an element of fun, camaraderie and sociability to any activity. Children love them. So will your seniors.
Research has shown that structured and unstructured play for children are essential for academic achievement and help to ensure social, emotional and physical development. The International Playground Equipment Manufacturer's Association notes that Albert Einstein referred to play as the "highest form of research." I strongly urge you to include play in your senior programs, too.
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Army veteran and North Lake College graduate Wesley Wilson experienced a life-changing moment on a battlefield in Afghanistan in September 2011. His convoy had just been ambushed; fortunately, he escaped injury. Once back on base, he decided he was ready to move on with his life.
"It put everything in perspective. I thought: if I'm going to live my life, what's the best thing I could do? What do I really want?" Wilson asked himself. "First thing, I wanted a family, but I didn't want the military life."
Wilson left the Army, moved to Texas and enrolled at North Lake to study finance, but after talking to friends and family, he decided to major in accounting instead. "I liked the idea of a better work-life balance that a job in accounting offered. Being a financial advisor meant selling a lot, meeting clients after hours, and bringing in new clients," Wilson recalled. "I wanted something more stable where I could work from 9 to 5."
Numbers for the Dallas-Fort Worth indicate that Wilson should find the accounting job he wants in the area. In March 2016, more than 4,200 accounting positions were posting (non-duplicated), according to EMSI. The Dallas-Fort Worth area added 8,400 accounting and auditing jobs between 2001 and 2015 alone.
In the U.S., the number of jobs for accountants and auditors climbed 10.9% between 2001 and 2015; in the DFW region, that number grew 29.6% during the same period. And in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, the median hourly earning is $33.31 per hour, compared to $32.20 per hour nationally.
Wilson, who worked in graphic design in the Army, took his first accounting course in 2014 at Brookhaven College and enjoyed it. He enrolled in his second accounting class at North Lake with faculty member Stephanie Swaim.
"She's a great instructor," Wilson said about Swaim. "We did practical exercises, and she taught me what I would be doing as an accountant."
Swaim, who also studied at North Lake before she became an instructor at the college, said students in accounting need to learn that what they are studying matters on a day-to-day basis, so she tries to find context in the material she teaches.
"If you're just studying something, you have no idea what it's about. You have no concept of how you might use the information, and it becomes difficult to learn it," Swaim added. "If I just tell them how to apply the material, it's difficult to absorb it, so I try to bring context and relevance to the material."
Swaim said every business needs accounting, and she compared businesses to sports. "Every sport has a score, and accounting is score-keeping for business. You figure out how much is coming in and how much is going out. If students can think about accounting in the way you keep score in business, then they can compare statistics, just as they do in baseball," she stated.
Accounting is a very client-driven business, according to Swaim, and accountants "need to be collegial and detail-oriented. If anything slips through the cracks, it can generate significant errors," she explained.
Wilson said his Army experience as a graphic designer prepared him for a career in accounting: "It taught me to think outside the box, how to talk to people and to be diplomatic."
Cencelia Pierre, an accounting faculty member at Mountain View College, said, "In accounting, you can 'get it' or you can learn it, and some students just 'get it.'" She added that she knew from early on that accounting was for her, and she can tell when students "get it."
"They see how credits and debits work. They have a good work ethic, and that ethic in academia carries over into their work," Pierre said. "I love students who walk into my office because those are the students who have a keen interest in learning. Students who seek me out, ask for help and ask questions--they get it instinctively, or they roll their sleeves up to get it."
Pierre teaches the CPA Starter program for the Dallas County Community College District. The program is designed for people who already have a bachelor's degree or higher credential, and it is required by the state in order to get a Certified Public Accountant's license. Mountain View is one of only four institutions that are allowed to administer the program. Pierre said her students have a variety of academic backgrounds.
"We have a lot of students who have undergraduate degrees in accounting. Others have degrees in economics and finance – and some even have law degrees. The ones with law degrees realize there are not enough jobs for attorneys and that there are more opportunities for CPAs, so they take our course," Pierre added.
Valerie Marembo enrolled in the CPA Starter program after she earned a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in business administration from a university in Canada. She said one of the best things about accounting is that "accountants are always in high demand. I never had a tough time finding a job. It's highly transferable, and you can work anywhere in the world."
Marembo said she hopes to work in corporate America, and eventually she wants to work overseas, maybe in China, after she takes the CPA exam later this year. "I want to travel, and that's a big sell in accounting," she stated. "The work pays well, and with little tweaks, I could do it anywhere."
Swaim said accountants can choose from several areas of specialization. "Accountants, like lawyers, learn a bit of everything and then specialize. When I was an accountant, I went into audits. Tax and forensic accounting are specialties, too."
Wilson, who is enrolled at the University of North Texas in a dual bachelor's and master's program, said he would like to go into tax after he gets his CPA credentials. "Eventually, I would like to work for the federal government because I could retire in 14 years, since the government would count my military service," he added.
Pierre said students also can opt to get an accounting certificate. "That would give those who are sharp and committed a foot in the accounting world. They can go to a small company and work as bookkeepers, or they can go to corporate America and become entry-level accounting clerks," she added. "But those who earn an associate degree in accounting have an edge over those who complete a certificate. In the corporate world, the associate (degree) commands a little more respect. Obviously, it depends on the individuals involved and how well they sell themselves."
Wilson said the firefight he was in was an "eye-opening experience. Every time I left the base, I would think about what I wanted to do with my life. It put everything in perspective." He found his passion in accounting and hopes to start a family in the future, too.
For more information about the accounting programs at North Lake and Mountain View colleges, contact Stephanie Swaim at
firstname.lastname@example.com or Cencelia Pierre at


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At the age of 82, after heart surgery, the first human being to set foot on another world, Neil Alden Armstrong, has died. He wasn't specifically picked to be humanity's first interplanetary ambassador. There are those who say NASA wanted a civilian to be the first man on the Moon, and perhaps there was some careful scheduling such that Armstrong was made commander of Apollo 11. However it happened, it was Neil Armstrong who first put booted foot to lunar regolith.
All those who worked with Armstrong had nothing but respect for Armstrong's skills, expertise and coolness. There was even a rumour that he remained so cool because he believed a person was allotted a finite number of heartbeats per lifetime and he was making sure they lasted.
After a worldwide publicity tour for Apollo 11, Armstrong became a recluse. He stopped being an astronaut and instead turned university professor. When he felt strongly enough on space-related matters, he stepped up and spoke his mind. There are a number of books about Neil Armstrong, but perhaps the best is James Hansen's First Man – see here.
Neil Armstrong is the fourth of the twelve Moonwalkers to die. That means eight are left. Will I see more Moonwalkers during my lifetime? I'm beginning to suspect not. I hope I'm wrong. Even so, should some astronaut, cosmonaut or taikonaut set foot on the Moon in the next twenty to thirty years, technological advances will mean their achievement can never really compare with those of the Apollo astronauts. They were at the sharp end of the one of the greatest engineering projects of the twentieth century. They travelled 250,000 miles through space to another world on less advanced technology than we now find in our pockets. The astronauts made the footprints in the regolith, but their achievement is just as much the achievement of all those who supported them – the people who designed, built, tested, maintained, managed and operated all the equipment used by the Apollo programme.
History will remember Armstrong's name because he was first. But what they all did deserves celebration.


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BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Dozens of heavily armed Muslim rebels opened fire in a hospital in Central African Republic, killing at least 16 people, including three local health workers for Doctors Without Borders, officials said Monday.
In further violence, a convoy transporting more than 1,300 Muslims to safety in the country's far north came under attack, leaving at least two people dead, according to a spokesman with the African peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic.
The weekend attack on the hospital was the first time the international aid group has lost staff members in this country since sectarian violence began in December. The group, also known as Medecins Sans Frontieres or MSF, is the only group working in much of the impoverished country and has kept up its efforts despite the fighting.
The massacre took place in Boguila, in the northwest near the border with Chad, where MSF has operated since 2006. The heavily armed rebels assaulted the compound as health workers met with community leaders.
"While some of the gunmen robbed the MSF office at gunpoint and fired shots into the air, other armed men approached the meeting place where MSF staff and community members had gathered together on benches," the group said Monday. "Unprovoked, the armed men started firing heavily into the crowd, leaving both dead and critically wounded."
The group will suspend activities in Boguila following the killings, said Stefano Argenziano, the head of MSF in Central African Republic.
"While we remain committed to providing humanitarian assistance to the community, we also have to take into account the safety of our staff," Argenziano said. "In reaction to this unconscionable act, we are also examining whether it is feasible to continue operations in other areas."
Sylvain Dofone, a legislator from the Boguila area told The Associated Press "it's indescribable what is happening there."
"People are completely at the mercy of the Seleka forces and there is absolutely no international peacekeeping force present in the area," he said.
Earlier this month, almost 7,000 people fled into the countryside after a convoy came under attack in the area. As many as 40 people sought refuge at the MSF clinic at the time, the group said.
Some 2,000 French troops and nearly 5,000 African peacekeepers are trying to stabilize Central African Republic, a country the size of Texas that is home to 4.6 million people. The violence also has targeted clergy, including a priest killed earlier this month, and a worker with the International Committee of the Red Cross who was slain in the town of Ndele in March.
The group known as Seleka was forced from power in the capital back in January nearly a year after its fighters overthrew the president of a decade. Although ousted from Bangui, Seleka militants have been regrouping in the north and have staged a series of attacks on towns in recent weeks.
However, one Seleka leader denied that his militants were responsible, accusing another armed group from neighboring Cameroon of having carried out Saturday's violence.
"There are no Seleka in this region," said Mohamed Moussa Dhaffane, a one-time general with the rebels who later fell out with now-sidelined President Michel Djotodia.
The Seleka forces, which include mercenaries from Chad and Sudan, were blamed for numerous atrocities against civilians during their violent 10-month rule. While their agenda was not religious in nature, the disproportionate violence carried out against Christians prompted a vicious backlash when Seleka lost control of the government. Christian militia fighters known as the anti-Balaka began launching attacks on Muslim civilians, carrying out massacres that prompted tens of thousands of Muslims to seek refuge in neighboring countries.
Some of the people trying to escape have been killed even while trying to flee.
Maj. Patrick Fidodugingo, spokesman for the Rwandan peacekeeping contingent, said Monday that grenades had been launched at the convoy that left Bangui on Sunday with more than 1,300 Muslims aboard some 20 trucks.
The convoy is bound for two northern towns still inside Central African Republic, though suspected Christian militants launched grenades that killed two and left at least six wounded, he said.
Associated Press writers Steve Niko and Hippolyte Marboua contributed to this report.
Follow Krista Larson on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/klarsonafrica.


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Rentt brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 112 Designs von 40 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Please see below for brand name options.
We are real estate professionals who understand that potential renters live online and research online and we want to bring their perfect rental property to them with ease by letting them research, view, tour, and rent properties from anywhere. We have decades of experience in the traditional real estate market, and have a full-time staff dedicated to this project's success- we're not just another "dot com"!
We are targeting real estate purchasers (who need a temporary home while their home is built), and renters who would would prefer to rent than own for any reason.
Our brand name candidates are below, please pick one or two and have fun with the design!
Rentatastic.com needs to be as vibrant as it sounds. Envisioning a very Web 2.0 approach, the logo could possible have a rich green palette to it with a logo icon enclosed altogether with the text inside a seal of sorts (like a plaque). It could provide for easy integration into print collateral and always allow for the icon and logotype to be kept properly in place.
The direction for this brand name option would be to explore various conceptual avenues with a tie-in to the reference of the kangaroo. One concept could be to work the illustration of a kangaroo and her joey in the pouch to be the "K" in Kangarent.com, allowing it to be a both part of the logo in a very sleek, stylish web logo while also being able to stand alone on its own as a versatile brandmark. Open to suggestions on color palette.
As the name is tightly linked to the word 'rent', our take on this would be to create a typography-based logo providing a unique or uncommon and easy-to-read font. By applying slight tweaks to the typography, the logo could be displayed in both a flat color version and a more stylized version, with gradients and text treatments to really pop off the page (think Skype's presentation).
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text: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 CMS Clarifies Implementation Date for Home Health Functional Reassessment Requirements for 2013 As a follow-up to the issuance of the Home Health Prospective Payment System Calendar Year (CY) 2013 Final Rule, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has updated its website to clarify that the therapy provisions will be effective for episodes beginning on or after January 1, 2013. This clarification can be found under the first bullet on the CMS HHA Center Webpage. In the CY 2013 final rule published November 2, CMS finalized 3 revisions regarding the requirement that a qualified therapist complete a functional reassessment of the patient at the 14th and 20th visits and every 30 days: 1. If a qualified therapist missed a reassessment visit, therapy coverage would resume with the visit during which the qualified therapist completed the late reassessment, not the visit after the therapist completed the late reassessment. 2. When multiple therapy disciplines are involved, if the required reassessment visit was missed for any one of the therapy disciplines for which therapy services were being provided, therapy coverage would cease only for that particular therapy discipline. 3. In cases where the patient is receiving more than one type of therapy, qualified therapists must complete their reassessment visits during the 11th, 12th, or 13th visit for the required 13th visit reassessment and the 17th, 18th, or 19th visit for the required 19th visit reassessment. However, CMS also states in instances in which patients receive more than one type of therapy, if the frequency of a particular discipline, as ordered by a physician, does not make it feasible for the reassessment to occur during the specified timeframes without providing an extra unnecessary visit or delaying a visit, then it will still be acceptable for the qualified therapist from each discipline to provide all of the therapy and functionally reassess the patient during the visit associated with that discipline that is scheduled to occur closest to the 14th Medicare-covered therapy visit, but no later than the 13th Medicare-covered therapy visit. Likewise, a qualified therapist from each discipline must provide all of the therapy and functionally reassess the patient during the visit associated with that discipline that is scheduled to occur closest to the 20th Medicare-covered therapy visit, but no later than the 19th Medicare-covered therapy visit. APTA is working with CMS to address issues that may arise regarding implementation of these provisions. For a comprehensive summary of the final rule, visit APTA's website. E-mail email@example.com with questions regarding implementation of the 2013 functional reassessment requirement changes.


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Wednesday, October 05, 2011
Underwear Bomber Jury Selection Hearing October 4, 2011
Yesterday, I went to the first day of jury selection in the underwear bomber case. I was the only passenger from the flight present. Lori could not attend as she had a hearing in Mt. Clemens that she could not get out of. The process involved picking 40 potential jurors to bring back on October 6, 2011. The selection of the jury will be made that day from the remaining 40 potential jurors. The process I witnessed involved the judge asking questions of each juror, then the prosecution asking questions and finally the defense asking questions. The prosecution and the defense were given 6 minutes each to question each juror. Only one juror was allowed in the courtroom at a time. I was in the courtroom when Umar arrived. When he entered he said "Great Mujahideen, Anwar is alive" referring to Anwar Al Awlaki and his reported recent death. He then said "We will wipe out the U.S., the cancer that is the U.S." Judge Edmunds had not yet arrived. When Judge Edmunds got there, she told Umar he should dress better to make a better impression on the jurors. He was dressed in a white t-shirt as he always is. Umar said "I wanted to wear a Yemeni belt with a dagger, but nobody would let me". Judge Edmunds then said "I don't think you'll be bringing a dagger into my courtroom". Umar then said that he wanted to change and the court went into recess. Umar returned shortly thereafter and was dressed in a tan collared shirt and a black suit coat. When he entered the court this time he said "Allah Akbar Anwar is alive". Judge Edmunds again was not in the courtroom. Jury questioning then began. I stayed for 4 hours and watched 18 jurors get questioned. Of the 18 that were questioned, 5 were sent home and 13 told to come back on October 6, 2011. Judge Edmunds indicated that either Umar or stand-by Attorney Chambers could question the jurors, but only one could question each juror. Umar only questioned one juror. He actually did a good job in questioning the one juror. He sounded intelligent and well spoken. The juror Umar questioned was juror #119, a 60 year old white female who stated that "I am concerned about being attacked after the verdict". That is what Umar questioned her about. He wanted to know if she was concerned about being attacked after a guilty verdict or a not guilty verdict. She stated that she was concerned both ways. This juror was told to come back. What was most interesting to me was the type of questions asked by Judge Edmunds and Chambers. The following questions were asked multiple times with slightly different variations:
1. Do you think after listening to the evidence that you will be able to determine whether the Defendant actually possessed a "bomb"?
2. Do you realize that sometimes the media does not always report the truth?
Obviously, each of these questions points directly at what I've been saying for months. Umar was given a fake bomb and put on this plane intentionally to stage a false terrorist attack. Also, the question about the media indicates knowledge that the media has been complicit in the lie. I spoke to several reporters once again. They were from Reuters, AP, UPI, CNN, Detroit News, and a couple of others. Also, the Detroit Free Press reporter asked to talk to me and I said "Why? You never actually report anything that I say". Sadly, the AP was the only one to report anything that I said. Here is a link to the article (The AP is used by several media outlets):
The CNN reporter did indicate that we would continue our interview on October 6, 2011. This time, as opposed to others, it seemed as if the reporters were starting to realize that my theory of events is indeed correct. I had more of them agreeing with me instead of grilling me over the evidence. This had not previously been the case. Also, I am now seeing a change in the language in regards to how this story is reported. Previously, articles would read, Umar is "being charged with attempting to detonate . . ." Now articles are stating that "The government says" Umar intended to blow up the plane . . ." This is a small but significant change. It shows that the media is now reporting that what the government says may not be what really happened. See this story for an example:
Note that none of the major media outlets reported anything in reference to the two questions I listed above, however, except for the live blog from the courthouse running on Freep.com, which only indicated the following:
12:17 p.m.
"The media is taking a beating in juror interviews. The 15th person to be questioned for jury duty – a computer analyst for a major retailer -- agreed with Edmunds that the media doesn't always get it right. It's the same response Edmunds got from other jurors, several of whom don't read or listen to the news. But based on what she has seen and heard, she thinks Abdulmutallab is guilty. "I don't believe that was an innocent act," she said in response to Chambers' questions."
You can look at it here for now, but look quick as the Free Press is known for erasing evidence that supports the real story of events from its website:
Lastly, I did have a chance to talk to Chamber's associate attorney for a minute and found out that my status as a witness is currently "undetermined". That's an improvement over what I thought it was. We agreed to meet in Chambers office soon. Final jury selection is tomorrow and I will be going down to watch the festivities. Sadly, this is the only way to find out what is really going on.
4 comments:
- rembie said...
Hi Kurt,
Thank you for keeping this record. I will be checking it daily, to see what happens. In fact I considered asking you if you thought Umars exclamations were authentic or staged. The link you provide answers that. Thanks.
I wonder what inducement he might have received to shout out what he said? Or was it hypnotic programming from a handler?
Hi Kurt and Lori - just some background to 9/11: interview with Dr Alan Sabrosky, formerly Director of Studies at the Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College..
Best wishes from Jason in Cape Town, South Africa
Australians are watching too. Thanks for your courage !! Weztheaussie


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DescriptionDark Seed is an adventure game which capitalizes on the drawings of famous horror designer H. R. Giger as a source of background artwork and inspiration.
You play Mike Dawson, an ad company manager who, in pursuit of his goal in life to become a writer, purchases a solitary mansion in a small town called Woodland Hills. Although the low cost and hush-hush transactions when purchasing the house do raise your suspicion, the solitary environment and sheer beauty of the house crush common sense and you decide to buy the house. That's when trouble begin. Upon reaching the house, you suddenly feel tired. You find a bed and fall asleep...
... and wake up from a terrible dream, only to find out that your life has just become a worse nightmare: an unknown source has implanted a seed of darkness in your mind, and you only have three days to find a way to stop it.
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Alternate Titles
- "黑暗之蠱" -- Chinese spelling (traditional)
- "זרע האופל " -- Hebrew spelling
- "Dark Seed 1" -- Common title
- "Darkseed" -- Alternate spelling
- "ダークシード" -- Japanese spelling
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User Reviews
Critic Reviews
|Amiga Computing
|Mar, 1993
|95 out of 100
|Jun, 1992
|91 out of 100
|ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)
|Apr, 1993
|10 out of 12
|The One Amiga
|Amiga CD32
|Sep, 1994
|79 out of 100
|Amiga Format
|Mar, 1993
|72 out of 100
|Power Play
|Jun, 1992
|66 out of 100
|High Score
|Jun, 1994
|3 out of 5
|PC Review (UK)
|Jul, 1992
|4 out of 10
|Computer Gaming World (CGW)
|Sep, 1992
|# Posts
|Last Post
|Win 3.x evidence?
|Kabushi (243795)
Oct 12, 2016
|RIP HR Giger
|Pseudo_Intellectual (62519)
May 13, 2014
German versionThe German version of Darkseed suffered from its translation. There were lots of spelling and grammatical mistakes (the first one on the very first screen of the intro, written in big letters), the rendering from English into German was clumsy and inapt, and sometimes English idioms, which are unknown in their respective form in German, were translated literally, which made them sound unintentional ludicrous or rather stupid. And there were points in the game, when several of these things came together, where it was hard or even impossible to comprehend the meaning of some sentences at all.
- There isn't a single Giger design made especially for this game. Giger looked through all of his past work and chose those which he thought would fit better for Darkseed.
- It is one of the first (if not the first) point-and-click adventure games that used higher resolution (640x350). Rumour has it that it was made on Giger's demand.
Mike DawsonMike Dawson, the main character of the game, is based on the game's producer and designer Mike Dawson. Acting and voice acting was also provided by him.
Rumour has it that Dawson, went mad after that game was produced. In an interview with Gamasutra, he comments this myth: "Actually, I have no idea where it came from. In fact, I'd never heard that urban legend until just now. But frankly, I like it – and so do my six other personalities."
ManualThere was this strange advice in the manual (translated from the German version): "Think logically. We tried to give all puzzles in the game a logic meaning. Only sometimes the logic may seem hard to comprehend. If you are stuck anywhere, try to use everything that you already carry. That may be successful." That doesn't sound too confident in the own game design, doesn't it?
PackagingThe cut-out in the front of the box holds a small, removable diamond shaped box that originally contained the floppy disks. The small box shows a portrait of H. R. Giger's beloved wife Li who passed away in 1975. This painting (Li II, 1974, Work no. 251) measures 200 x 140 cm and contains a number of elements symbolizing death. The oversized head is decapitated and fed intravenously.
References: CybersoftNot only Mike Dawson, refers to (a member of) Cyberdreams:
- Mike Dawson lives, according to the manual, in an old Victorian house on Ventura Drive, Woodland Hills. The first office of Cyberdreams was located at 21243 Ventura Boulevard, Woodland Hills. Moreover, that's the same address as printed on Delbert's business card, Mike's neighbor in the game.
- The store in the game is called "Klug's Food Market". Rolf Klug was the owner of Cyberdreams (so he provided "the food").
- The clue on the microfiche card that you examine in the library on day 3 is signed by Ryan Ketchum. Pat(rick) Ketchum was the President of Cyberdreams.
- However, Pat gets his own signature. The cracked mirror note in the DOS version is signed by Timothy, but in the Amiga CD-32 version it is signed by Pat.
ReferencesIn the real side, at the graveyard, read all tombs. You will find one for G. Threepwood, the main character of The Secret of Monkey Island.
Differences between versions
- Amiga floppy edition of the game bears version number 1.0 while Amiga CD32 version is marked as 1.1.
- Graphics of Amiga CD32 version are slightly improved, polished and retouched, however the game still does not make full use of AGA chipset.
- Amiga CD32 was enriched with Mike Dawson's voice
- Amiga Joker
- Issue 02/1994 – #3 Best Adventure in 1993 (Readers' Vote)
- Power Play
- Issue 02/1993 – Best Packaging in 1992
Related Web Sites
- Game Nostalgia (Provides extensive background info for Dark Seed, examples of voice-overs, credits, a demo of the game, details about the game, all musical themes, shots of every location in the game, saved games, a list of reviews, including a "nostalgic "review.)
- IGCD Internet Game Cars Database (Game page on IGCD, a database that tries to archive vehicles found in video games.)
- Playing Dark Seed in Windows XP (Inferno tells you how.)
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Executive Producers:
Matt Nathan (at the Dreamers Guild)Sound Effects:
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