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In regard to recent writing about the Emergent Church, author Tony Jones has pitted the struggles of people of color and queers against one another. Special Communion would like to offer an antidotal dose of come-to-Jesus analysis for those coping with anti-racist critiques of their movement.A few points:
1) Be careful about whose team you claim to be on. Tony Jones's immediate response to being called out was to divert, distract, derail: in short to do anything and everything to actually confess to being a part of a movement with racist practices. His blog began with the question, "Actually, the first thing I thought was, Is this really the time for us to be criticizing other Christians who are on the same team as us? Really, with everything that's going on in the world, a critique of the emerging church is worthy of a cover article?" Our team believes that when white, straight, middle-class, academia-educated, 1/3 world men keep insisting that their emergent church is an answer to the church's problems, it is in fact the appropriate time to challenge that claim. We abhor and condemn the all-too-common practice of white people's denial of the possibility of racism in their lives. White people (including "progressive" white people) seem to have an infinite number of tricks to deny their own privilege or the possibility that they perpetuate racism or have any responsibility in ending racism.
2) We refuse to be set against one another. We refuse to participate in plantation politics/Oppression Olympics. The whole reason our community, Special Communion, exists is because we are a group of friends and co-disciples who've found *no sanctuary but each other*, be it in the hallowed halls of "progressive" seminaries, in the mainline, in the Emergent Church, or in single-issue justice movements. Collectively speaking we are people of color, we are queer/trans, we are poor, we are survivors of sexual assault, we are women, and we live with disabilities. And we aren't all living the same exact struggles, but when and where we differ, we are STILL allies of one another. We refuse to have our particular issues pitted against one another, we refuse to say that one struggle can be prioritized over another, and we refuse to shut each other up in our respective processes of speaking truth to power.
3) There are people who are, in fact, on the same team as us. Please learn from them.When we see white progressives answer critiques of racism in the movement by derailing, and claiming other issues to be more important, we know what's up. Tony Jones' post responding to the Sojourners article does NO favors for queer/trans people of color. Have you considered that for the MAJORITY OF THE WORLD'S QUEERS, WHO ARE POOR BROWN RESIDENTS OF THE 2/3 WORLD, state-sanctioned access to marriage may not be a top priority? By attempting to "answer" critiques of racism with claims that homophobia is a more pressing issue, Jones left MANY of our queer Christian people behind. Here at Special Communion, our queer politics are devoutly Christ-centric. That means our queer politics are FIRST accountable to queers who are poor, queers who live under the daily threat of state and police violence, queer people of color, queers who do sex work, queers who are immigrants, our transgender and gender non-conforming family members, and queers living with disabilities. We can quote you a whole lot of Bible on why we frame our work this way– hopefully you're familiar with some of it already.
We decry all attempts to leave ANY of these sisters, brothers, and family members behind. On this blog, we do not try to answer injustice one single issue at a time– we do not have that luxury. In our community, we do not silence one another because we recognize that we are called to lead Gospel lives. This entails a comprehensive accountability to ALL the identities and experiences that made up Christ's own life, as well as the lives of his people. Jesus never said, "Sorry sex workers, but the issues of fishermen are more dear to my heart. They go first." Jesus demanded all of them to FEED ONE ANOTHER. Jesus demands the same of us.
4) Watch the video. For guidance, may we direct you to this video, entitled "6 Rules For Allies"? Please pay attention to Rule Number 5, which addresses appropriate responses to being called out. I quote,"When called out about your racism, sexism or homophobia, don't cower in embarrassment, don't cry, and don't silently think "she's crazy" and vow never to interact with her again. We are all plagued by racism, sexism, and homophobia. Be grateful that someone took the time to expose yours—remember, exposure allows the wind to whip away isolation and fear. Exposure is a step toward freedom. Allies welcome an opportunity to see how their choices, ideas, words may be erasing those around them. It's not about your intent—that you did not intend to be sexist when you consulted with men rather than with women even though the women were in charge—it is about the effect—the damaging effect your choice had on others, the reinforcement of patriarchy that your choice made. Allies want to know when they have been contributed to the very oppressions they oppose. Allies know they are not above reproach."
There are so many queer-positive, intersectionally-committed communities and resources out there. Please read, digest, and share amongst yourselves:
The Sylvia Rivera Law Project http://srlp.org/
The Audre Lorde Project http://alp.org/
Queers for Economic Justice http://q4ej.org/
QuIR (Queer Immigrant Rights) http://quir.org/
Feminists With Disabilities http://disabledfeminists.com/
Spread magazine http://www.spreadmagazine.org/
make/shift magazine http://www.makeshiftmag.com/
Feministe http://www.feministe.us/blog
Incite http://www.incite-national.org/
UPDATE: Tony Jones responded twice, once defensively (http://blog.tonyj.net/2010/04/responding-to-charges-of-racism/) and then once co-opting his critics and pretending like he agreed with them all along, except minus any sort of power analysis or anti-racist analysis when discussing Dr. Rah's physical descriptors of emergent leaders (http://blog.tonyj.net/2010/04/emergents-white-problem/). We will deal with the reasons it is different for a marginalized person to use racial descriptors for people usually coded "normal" (white, straight, male, cis, etc.) than for a person coded "normal" to use such descriptors in another post.
In Christ, For Justice:
The Special Communion Collective


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Moose Asian TTR Championships & KTA Freestyle X - Pranburi, Thailand
12-18 March 2017 - Khao Khalok, Pranburi Beach, Thailand
IKA Continental TTR Race Championships and KTA Freestyle X - World Ranking Events.
It's a whole new Asian competition season and a whole new approach for the KTA, with something in the mix for kite racers, freestylers, wave riders, big air junkies and even an outing or two being planned for the paddlers.
You can find the full event schedule on the KTA web home page
The season that is set to take the KTA to over 9 countries, is kicking off with a return to a favourite spot - Pak Nam Pran beach, Pranburi, Thailand with the 'Moose 2017 Asian TTR Kiteboarding Championships & KTA Freestyle X.
http://www.kiteboardtour.asia/event/moo ... pionships/
The first event of the year comes with a great prize package also – a cash prize purse of 200,000THB. Courtesy of tile sponsors Moose http://moosecider.com/ and key local sponsors Surf Spot http://www.surfspotthailand.com/ combined with 12, 000 USD of cool equipment prizes from international brand sponsor, Cabrinha https://goo.gl/ue16MN
Pak Nam Pran is situated about 30km south of Hua Hin on the Gulf of Thailand and is part of the district of Pranburi. This fishing village and its surrounding area is still kind of a hidden gem as it remains undiscovered by many foreign tourists. It is a favourite for Thai weekend getaways and has a tidy traveller infrastructure, which along with the famous warm Thai welcome, will make sure this will be an event to remember.
Our hotel partner Evason Hua Hin is offering an amazing deal for single or shared room at 2800 the per night all taxes covered, this includes a phenomenal breakfast for 2 - contact them direct and mention KTA for your discounted room rate - firstname.lastname@example.com
March is one of the best wind and weather times for the location, with wind strengths averaging between 12 – 20 knotsan the water is warm, so no need for wetsuits. The strand stretches south from Pak Nam Pran town at the mouth of the Pran River, which is known for its colourful fishing boats specializing in squid, for around 7km to the Khao Kalok headland rock and the tiny Thao Kosa Forest Park. All worth checking out and grabbing a bit of peaceful headspace at, when you are not out on the water.
On the water though it's great for the racers outback and close in the sandbars that appear that time of year will create perfect flat water sections for the Freestyle X riders.
The disciplines that will feature in this event will be KTA Freestyle X and IKA TTR Racing.
As you all know by now kite racing has become Olympic. It's all confirmed for the 2018 Youth Olympic Games (YOG) and appears to have a strong chance to be part of the 2020 Olympic Games also.
In line with the Olympic campaign the IKA have decided that all championship TTR competitions will run under the YOG format. This is going to be pretty exciting stuff for all you TT racers out there and our first chance to try out the Slalom/Boarder X format in Asia. The new format will allow for TT racing in less winds than a normal windward/leeward courses, while at the same time adding a more exciting knockout approach to the event, making it fast and furious racing for all involved on the water and spectacular for spectators to watch.
Pranburi has also been chosen for the location of the YOG qualifiers in March 2018, so all you young riders out there, this gives you an awesome opportunity to practice for the big one next year
KTA Freestyle X:
We felt that the first event of the new season should also be for the freestylers as well as the racers. So, Freestyle X is back, the KTA's own take on freestyle that combines both old school and new school into the same event.
It has gone down a storm in first few outings, so it's time to work on those hooked and unhooked routines again and show us what you have got. The crowds are going to love it for sure, soon as you start busting out those big air jumps and wake style moves – they won't be moving from the spot until the last trick has been landed.
Freestyle X has brought a lot of fun back, so come along and join in the show. Does not matter if you are not breaking out all the latest, as your trusty old moves are back in play and you are in with a shout of the podium.
Kitesurf Association of Thailand National Series:
Over the years the KTA has worked closely with the Kitesurf Association of Thailand (KAT) in timing its events to link up with key rounds of their national series, to help cut down on the travel for the local riders. We are pleased to say that we are carrying on this tradition and will be welcoming and supporting the KAT National Series competition that will run directly before the Asian TTR Championship week.
Contact Pop for more info on the association - email@example.com
So a bonus event for all you international early birds as the guys from KAT will be happy to see you join them.

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Vancouver, Wash. — Direct Focus Inc. has completed its acquisition of substantially all of the assets of StairMaster Sports/Medical Inc. for approximately $25 million in cash. The company was the high bidder at a bankruptcy auction in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Washington In January.
Based on unaudited financial information, StairMaster had revenue of approximately $70 million for the full year 2001, according to Direct Focus. During the coming months, Direct Focus plans to concentrate on StairMaster's core products, which include steppers, stepmills, treadmills and exercise bikes. Direct Focus will integrate StairMaster's core products, operations and sales organization into its existing retail and commercial business segment. StairMaster products are expected to contribute over $45 million to Direct Focus' revenue during the remainder of 2002, and to be slightly accretive to earnings for the year.
"We are very excited about the long-term potential of this acquisition. StairMaster strengthens our position as a leader in the worldwide fitness market by bringing us an exceptional product line of commercial cardiovascular equipment and complementary retail products, as well as enhanced manufacturing capabilities and international distribution," said Brian Cook, CEO of Direct Focus. "We also gain more great brand names in the fitness area, StairMaster and Quinton, adding to our powerful combination of the Bowflex, Nautilus and Schwinn brands."


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ForumsTime ManagementOrganize the ToTos
Organize the ToTos
I like Toodledo more and more, and I try to organize all my tasks. What would be really great is the following:
A tool which collects my todos which have a length AND a Start- or Due-Date. Out of these times and Priority/importance it should calculate (on basis of a dailiy "usable hours"-plan) Calendar-entries. So one can see how the task can be done, or if they can be done at all within the given time.
With such a tool you can show, i. e. your chief, that you cannot take any more tasks without moving any other tasks. If you like to, you can move the task around.
Does anybody know such a tool, bet with an importing-tool which understands Toodledo-XML?
Thanks a lot ...
OR does anybody have a php or asp-script which shows a calendar, then I could use the Toodledo-API for getting the data and show them with this script?
Toodledo Founder
Thanks for the suggestion.
Yes, excellent idea. this is similar to a program called Taskline for Microsoft Outlook. It takes into consideration the available time on your calendar and schedules out the tasks based on due date, priority and time available. You get an idea of when you will be done with your current tasks, when each task might be worked on AND you can run scenarios by injecting tasks in and seeing how they affect the overall schedule...
This, combined with better reports on how time is spent would be tremendous.
Posted: Mar 18, 2009
IMHO this could be done really easily if Toodledo added a daily time tally to the multi-day views.
Toodledo already gives you a total of scheduled hours in the Today view. All that is required is for Toodledo to add a subtotal to each day in the Next 7, 7-14 and Next 30 days views.
Then you would be able to see how much work you hve scheduled each day and balance things up acordingly (taking into account known time required for meetings etc)
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The Gamers With Jobs community is filled with many fine, upstanding Goodjerati, worthy of our time and attention. But when recently asked to choose my favorite besuited carcharodon, one thought sprung immediately to mind: "Can you really get a shark drunk?" Apparently, you can. Once Wordsmythe let me borrow his dictionary, though, I realized that this week's profile subject could only be none other than our favorite progenitor of cyber-bunnies, BadKen.
You see, BadKen may be most famous around these parts for one post in particular. As inclusive as they may be, not all of us can claim to have an entry in the Goodjer Commandments, and fewer still can claim to have spawned a mini-meme of sorts. Granted, BadKen's mark may not be as indelible as those of ColdForged and Dejanzie (Oh look! A scavenger hunt!) but his had better pictures. You don't know this thread of which I speak? Keep reading, and all shall be revealed.
1) Who the devil are you?
I'm Ken Badertscher. No, not that Ken Badertscher, that's my dad. I was born in 1961 in Ohio. I escaped at a very young age, and grew up in Arizona listening to Earth, Wind & Fire; Led Zeppelin; and Herbie Hancock. I escaped Arizona by joining the navy, got married, had a couple kids, got discharged and got divorced. Being a loudmouth on message boards got me a job in Silicon Valley, where I spent most of my career writing software for various large software companies: Atari (back when they made computers), Apple (back when they made computers), Microsoft, Yahoo, and later Amazon. My career ended in Seattle when fifteen years of sixty-hour work weeks, constant release pressure and little-to-no vacation took their toll. Now I'm back in Arizona again (ugh), taking care of my dog, helping my elderly parents get along and trying different occupations looking for one that won't make my head explode.
2) What are you supposed to be doing when you're reading GWJ?
Living with disability can give you a lot of woolgathering time. Participating in the GWJ community gives me something to do when I'd otherwise be staring off into space, dwelling on the past.
3) When you're not working or gaming, what do you do with your time?
Since I'm not really working, I spend most of my time looking for things to do that I might be able to turn into a job. I've tried news blogging, reviewing, taking writers' manuscripts and making them into ebooks, I've even tried writing myself. I haven't yet found something I can stick with and make work long term.
4) How about family? Kids? Pets? Particularly meaningful inanimate objects?
My dog Jette saved my life when I found her at the county animal control shelter seven years ago. They told me I saved her life, but really it's the other way around.
Weirdly, after moving all over the country, just about all my family lives in Tucson, Arizona now. I have two younger brothers. One works for the city of Tucson, one sells beds. My two kids are grown now, but I don't see them much (long story). My son is a mechanic in the USAF, out soon, and my daughter @BethaniePB is currently a bartender and 2011 Playboy Cyber Girl of the Year. Yep.
That's my GWJ claim to fame, I guess — the GWJ Commandments includes the thread where I shared that my daughter had done a test shoot for Playboy.
5) When and/or how did you get into gaming?
My earliest video game memory is feeding quarters into a Pong machine at a golf course where I worked as a teenager. Ever since then, I've owned computers or consoles of one kind or another and played games on them. I got into online gaming with Warcraft II on Kali, and I became completely obsessed with online gaming playing Myth: The Fallen Lords on a dialup network connection with a fine group of gentlemen called Clan Plaid, who have get-togethers to this day.
6) What is your fondest gaming memory?
It would have to be acting as captain in team games of Myth: The Fallen Lords with Clan Plaid. Something about the tactics and pace of that game just made it an ideal multiplayer experience for me. Plus I was a good captain. The only thing that has come close since has been raiding with GWJ Alliance on WoW, before everyone started playing SWTOR.
7) Why do you play games? Why haven't you outgrown them?
I have a bit of a Peter Pan complex. I don't know where I first heard this quote, but I'm fond of it: When you stop playing, you start aging. While the "start aging" part has caught up with me, I have no intention of stopping playing.
Another reason I keep playing games is for the cognitive exercise. Not every game is brain-challenging, but most involve learning new things, and some exercise your brain's strategy and tactics muscles.
8) What is your favorite game over the last year or so? Why?
The Assassin's Creed series, particularly Assassin's Creed II. I had played the original on my Xbox when it first came out, but never really got into it. Thanks to the generosity of some GWJers, I was able to play through the whole series and I really enjoyed Ezio's story. Plus I could climb around on buildings and shoot down guards all day long. The graphics are outstanding, the controls are smooth, and the gameplay is engaging.
9) What is your favorite game that you're playing right now? Why?
Right now I'm loving Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. Finally, an RPG with decent action combat! The story, art direction and world design are really sweet, too. It's not a perfect game, but it could be the best introduction to a new IP I've ever seen. I got this game and Skyrim at the same time (Skyrim... another GWJ gift! You people are insanely generous!). Anyway, I haven't played much Skyrim yet, but I have 260 hours in Reckoning.
10) Which upcoming game are you looking forward to most? Why?
Darksiders II. I would say SSX, but that's already out and it's not available for PC. Whimper. (I loved me some SSX on Dreamcast). I really got into the original Darksiders; I played it all the way through, which is rare for me. The pre-release info for the sequel looks fantastic. Diablo 3 is around the corner, too, but after playing the beta, I've cooled a bit on it. I'm sure I'll still log a lot of hours with Diablo 3 though.
11) What first brought you to GWJ? What keeps you coming back?
I don't remember for sure what it was that first brought me to GWJ. I think it was actually just the name — I saw it somewhere and thought I had to check it out, and it lived up to my expectations. Grown ups discussing games, how rare. Still rare!
12) Is there a particular forum on GWJ that you frequent/favor? Why?
I like Everything Else, oddly enough. I feel like I can participate more. The Games and Platforms topics are all over the place since this crowd has such varying tastes. I do have my favorites in the Games forum, of course. P&C is right out, though I did venture in there for a brief period for a specific topic.
13) What is the story behind your handle?
Well, my name is Ken Badertscher. So... BadKen. In high school I had the dorky nickname "Kbad" — I guess it's not far from that to BadKen. I first used badken when Gmail was just starting out, and it was my work email at Amazon, too.
14) What is the story behind your tag?
If I recall correctly, Grenn picked it. It's perfect. Say it like you're scolding a dog or a wayward child.
15) Thanks for taking the time to answer our hard-hitting questions! Any last words?
I want to thank our benevolent overlords for running such a fantastic site. Gamers with Jobs has the best moderation I've seen in any internet community, and I think it's the tone set by Certis that really makes the site work. And I'm not just saying that to suck up to the boss. Of course it helps that there are so many fantastic people all over the world contributing. Vive la GWJ!
Sure. Anyone would look at that face and think, "I bet he sired a Playmate."
Sure. Anyone would look at that face and think, "I bet he's a George R.R. Martin impersonator."
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Sure. Anyone would look at that face and think, "I bet he's a George R.R. Martin impersonator."
Mind = Blown.
Cool profile again
Write faster, Ken! WRITE!!!!!! FASTER!!!!!
Mind = Blown.
BadKen, there is so much I don't know about you. This is surreal and incredibly interesting.
Goodjer commandment and mini-meme links don't seem to work.
Nice work (Profile-wise and siring-wise)!
Huzzah Ken! Grats.
ALSO: They're all coming back for MoP. Just you wait.
Links in the second paragraph are broken. Looks like the use of " instead of " may be confusing something, since other intra-GWJ links are fine.
And the whole world has to answer right now, just to tell you once again: who's bad?
Ken is. Ken is the one who is bad.
Great profile, but the big news is the GRRM thing. They even have the same glasses.
BadKen, get the hat, silver up that beard, and start fleecing convention goers. You won't need to worry about the job market!
My only joke concerning his daughter:
BadKen, NaughtyBethanie.
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Goodjer commandment and mini-meme links don't seem to work.ChrisGwinn wrote:
Links in the second paragraph are broken. Looks like the use of " instead of " may be confusing something, since other intra-GWJ links are fine.
Stupid "smart" quotes. Fixed. Thanks.
You know, I caught those. I just didn't fix them.
Surprisingly enough, this had nothing to do with the link BadKen's daughter on Twitter.
BadKen is GRRM living backwards in time, which means he's really Merlin.
I don't see the ressemblance. One is a stoic writer of epic fiction with some sort of beard. The other is George RR Martin.
...this had nothing to do with the link BadKen's daughter on Twitter.
What exactly did BadKen's daughter do to the link on Twitter?
Oh man, Bethanie has a tweet asking about photographing jewelry, which my wife Yellek does, but I am not going to tell my wife that I was browsing a Playboy model's twitter and hey, here's a question that you could answer....
Does that mean I can direct my feelings on how Denna's acting like a bitch to BadKen?
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...this had nothing to do with the link BadKen's daughter on Twitter.
What exactly did BadKen's daughter do to the link on Twitter?
She's a preposition thief. Ask anybody.
I've gotten to know BadKen through his posts on the Amalur thread. It's nice to get a complete picture. Of him.
Oh man, Bethanie has a tweet asking about photographing jewelry, which my wife Yellek does, but I am not going to tell my wife that I was browsing a Playboy model's twitter and hey, here's a question that you could answer....
Just tell her that you follow her feed for the articles.
Huzzah Ken! Grats.
ALSO: They're all coming back for MoP. Just you wait.
Most of us are still f-in paying for it. Just no one shows up!
I like BadKen because he's got a scary avatar.
Finally got around to reading this- was excited to hear BadKen would be profiled!
Congrats on the profile, Ken!
Thanks everybody. I do hope Mists of Pandaria brings everybody back to WoW. I found myself getting frightfully bored when I wasn't doing regular raiding with goodjers in my ear.
I am enjoying playing other games than WoW, though. My pile is... large.


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Plastic leaded chip carriers (PLCCs) are used in surface-mount technology where electronic circuits are produced, and components need to be mounted or placed directly onto a printed circuit board (PCB). The chip carrier is placed in a PLCC socket, which is either surface-mounted or features through-hole technology. A specialised tool called a PLCC extractor is needed to remove the chip carrier from the PLCC socket.
What are PLCC sockets used for?
PLCC sockets are used in surface-mount device (SMD) and surface-mount technology (SMT) applications. PLCC sockets made of heavy gauge copper alloy are compatible in high shock / high vibration applications. PLCC sockets made of rolled-leaf copper are useful in low-cost computer applications.
Types of PLCC sockets
The two primary categories of PLCC sockets are:
- Surface-mount PLCC sockets, which are used in devices sensitive to heat from the reflow process. These allow for component replacement without redesigning or reworking the entire PCB.
- Through-hole technology PLCC sockets are necessary when a device requires stand-alone programming with flash drives or memory devices. These are also beneficial for prototyping activities where wire wrapping is required.


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Happy Holidays!
Wow, another year of hard work and great results in the community is slowly coming to a close. One more chance to say thank you to Brian Ching on December 13th at his testimonial match (still did not get an invitation to play … maybe Matt wants me for color commentary ….)—tickets still available and remember proceeds go to the House that Ching Built—a Habitat for Humanity project led by the man himself.
I am so proud of the accomplishments of the Dynamo Charities Board in 2013 with tremendous help from Maria Duran, the Sidekicks, and the Dynamo office staff.
We started with the best ever Fire Sale in the history of Fire Sales – and with a team led by the 2013 Forever Orange Award winner Rob Denton (well done, welcome to the Club) and Frank Arnold, and (finally) having bags, we almost doubled our sales from 2012!
Our Dine with the Dynamo led by the Sidekicks was a sellout and raised funds for Community Family Center's soccer field (we hope to have the grand opening of the field early in 2014). Brad Davis and Tally Hall brought a record number of service personnel to the July 3rd game. Will Bruin and Mike Chabala had their friends come let the kids shave their heads (and Salon on Kirby did just a bit of cleanup work). Bobby Boswell booted breast cancer. Andrew Driver showed us what golf attire really is at the Tommy Bahama Island Classic.
We were the top corporate fundraiser (again) for ADA Tour de Cure, even though the rain cancelled the actual ride. Brian Ching recognized some of the many community champions that are also Dynamo fans through Ching's Champions. The runners got to go through the stadium for the Go for the Goal 5k—and PWC donated $750 for each home goal to Ronald McDonald house. We even had Diesel step up for the Toy Chest; everyone pitched in this year. In addition to the recognized events, many of the players went to visit hospitals and fire stations and community centers and schools and are Big Brothers.
Thank you to everyone who participated in, donated to, was part of, and/or somehow contributed to our events this year—we hope you will be back with us in 2014. If you have specific comments on how you believe our events could be improved (please be both polite and detailed), please drop me an email at firstname.lastname@example.com I will read them, and we will use the good ideas you provide—this is your chance to help us be greater in 2014!
Special thank you to the University of Houston Bauer College and Dr. Patrick's marketing classes for their presentations and ideas—we will definitely be looking at them for 2014.
Lastly, every season brings changes to the roster—a big thank you to those players that will no longer be part of the organization next year. You make us at Dynamo Charities what we are—and if we can ever help you out in anyway, please let us know.
We are Dynamo Charities, proud and thankful to be sponsored by Halliburton Charitable Foundation.
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Skitter necesitaba un nuevo diseño de otro y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 127 diseños de 17 diseñadores freelance.
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We are creating an internet TV solution based on Adobe AIR and Flex (the Flash platform) and need to create an exceptional UX. This software will be used on the TV as your TV management software including your program guide, main menu, channel changing, volume control, etc.
As such, the design must factor in the user requirements of being viewed from 10-20 feet away (typical viewing distance while watching TV) and must be fairly high contrast for this environment. Also, gradients may not reproduce well on all display devices (TVs) so a simple design will be essential. We need several professionally designed elements to complete the first version of our software.
PC, Mac and set top box TV users. This will touch all types of users/skill levels/demographics/etc.
1) Product logo. The product name is "SkitterTV". The logo must be clean, sharp and it may be useful to include a symbol/character along with the text.
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2e. Small elements. We need a "stars" graphic that shows a program's rating (4/5 stars). We also need our "waiting" or "progress" animation designed to match the overall design.
3) Color palette. Currently, the software is designed around the following green value: 0x77a511. Will need a new palette 3-4 colors max
4) Program icon. This software will be installed on PCs/Macs as well and thus must contain a professional icon. We need ICO/PNG/JPG/AI formats and 16x16, 24x24, 32x32, 48x48, 128x128, 256x256 24bit color with alpha channel transparency.


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Chinese Style Barbequed Pork ~Char Siu
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I'm RUNNING to my freezer as soon as I am done commenting to thaw out some pork for tonight's dinner. This looks so great, I can't wait to try it!ReplyDelete
I so enjoy coming here and seeing your beautiful photos and the wonderful things you share!
Marsha, you made me giggle! You are so kind, I hope you like the pork. Hope you have a great week.ReplyDelete
Oh My Gosh, Oh My Gosh, Oh My Gosh. That looks so good. Can this sauce be used with a long slow roasting (like 4-5 hours) at a low temperature or would it dry out and burn?ReplyDelete
Greg, it would work perfectly! That's how I do the pork shoulder or pork butt. The long and slow methodod, works best with pork with some fat left on (or throughout it), so it won't dry out. Most of the fat renders out during the longer roasting process. I hope you love it as much as I do.ReplyDelete
That was supposed to be "method"!*Grin*ReplyDelete


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This painting has been hanging in the Tipton for nearly a hundred years.
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|March 25, 2011
The Suite Life Movie is a comedy-drama science fiction Disney Channel Original Movie based on the pair of Disney Channel Original Series The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and The Suite Life on Deck. The film is directed by Sean McNamara and written by Michael Saltzman. The film premiered on March 25, 2011 on Disney Channel. A sneak peek was shown on the Disney Channel Shake It Up New Years.
After Zack (Dylan Sprouse) loses billion-dollar submarines during Cody's (Cole Sprouse) internship, they are both approached by a leader of the Gemini Project, requesting their participation. Though the twins end up "connecting" through each other's senses, thoughts, and feelings, it also lands them in grave danger.
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After making the plans to spend spring break with Bailey, Cody ditches the plans and goes off to work for an internship to obtain a scholarship to Yale. Cody tries to write her a letter explaining everything, but Zack loses the letter when trying to get Cody's car. When Bailey finds out she is infuriated and refuses to speak to him as she doesn't know about his intention to attend Yale.
Zack follows Cody to the marine biology reserve, where he is doing his internship, but gets distracted when sees a cute girl and follows her. She asks him if he knows how to operate a submarine, and he says he can try. But after Zack runs a billion-dollar submarine into a seawall, making Cody do so, the equipment is lost and Cody is kicked out of the program, furiously vowing to never forgive Zack, saying that they are twins, but definitely not brothers.
Dr. Olsen approaches the boys and tells them that they would be ideal for the Gemini Project, a massive project studying the effects of twins. Though it takes them much thought, they eventually decide to participate, and land themselves among dozens of other twins.
At first, the project seems normal. The first phase of the project is to eat a delicious fruit, which connects the boys physically. But before long, the two suddenly find themselves connected metaphysically in a way they never have been—the second phase is they are able to think each other's thoughts and feel each other's pain. As tension builds, the two find themselves not only emotionally conflicted, but end up in an actual fight as well.
But as their week on the Gemini Project campus goes on, they soon discover that all is not what it seems. They overhear Dr. Olsen telling Nellie that it is a shame that Cody must lose his brain. The boys sneak into his lab to discover what the project is truly about. It turns out that stage three is a merge, which makes the twins combine together to make one brain. After that, Dr. Olsen can control them. Zack and Cody are confronted by Dr. Olsen, so they decide to make a run for it. The only problem is Dr. Olsen can control all of the other twins and he orders them to get Zack and Cody.
Meanwhile, Bailey has mixed feelings about Cody. She tries to ignore him to cause him pain, but Cody never calls again once Bailey doesn't answer the first time (Only because Dr. Olsen confiscated Zack and Cody's cell phones.) She doesn't know that Cody is in grave danger. She tries to talk it out with Woody and London, but that does not work. She is totally confused until she discovers the letter that Cody wrote, and how he only went on the internship to obtain a scholarship to Yale. She now understands, and thinks he is the "sweetest fella on Earth". So London, Woody, and she head of to apologize to Cody.
When they get to Cody's original internship, they discover that Cody has been kicked out. Because she earlier ate the dolphin food, London can understand what the dolphins say and finds out that Zack and Cody are in the Gemini Project. Dr. Spalding tells Bailey, Woody, and London that the twins may be in grave danger. Bailey calls Mr. Moseby as she goes with London, Woody and Dr. Spalding to save Zack and Cody.
Dr. Olsen captures Cody and Zack using his twins, and they are pinned to chairs in order to complete stage three. But Bailey, London, Woody, and Dr. Spalding rush in to stop Olsen. Olsen puts an electric wall up though, so no one can stop him. Dr. Spalding tells Dr. Olsen to show everyone who he really is, and it is revealed that he is Dr. Spalding's evil twin brother. He pushes the button and Cody and Zack begin to merge. Little does anyone know that the thing the twins do best actually saves them. The twins argue while they are merging and they destroy the machine. The twins are freed and they rush up to their friends. Cody and Bailey share a romantic kiss to celebrate. Dr. Olsen is still trying to merge the twins because he is extremely upset. Bailey captures him using her rope tying skills. Then, they give him the same fruit as he gave to Zack and Cody. They also give one to Dr. Spalding and tell him to think good thoughts about his brother. This turns Olsen good again, and Mr. Moseby comes in with the police, taking Olsen away after he and Spalding make plans for lunch once he gets out of prison.
Cody and Zack reflect on what happens when they work together, and it is decided that they make a very good team.
Back on the ship, Bailey tells Cody that she had the best spring break ever, and they accomplished everything on her list. Zack receives the car from Cody, and he parks it in a restricted parking zone. Suddenly, a large shipping container for London's summer wardrobe drops down and smashes the car to Zack's disgust. Moseby says that spring break is over, now he only has to wait until summer vacation.
The movie was mostly filmed in Vancouver, Canada, but all of it was filmed in British Columbia locations. Locations such as the Vancouver Aquarium also played a major role in the production of the movie.
|The Suite Life Movie trailer
- The movie takes place during spring break and is supposed to be set between "Prom Night" and "Graduation on Deck".
- The themes that the movie was intended to convey are to "believe in yourself," "celebrate your family," and "follow your dreams."[1]
- Dr. Olsen's last name may be a reference to celebrity twin sisters Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.
- Although this takes place between "Prom Night" and "Graduation on Deck", Zack has a crush on Nellie despite dating Maya, likely as an extension of Zack's "player" personality or this could be a continuity error.
- The Gemini Project is named after the Zodiac sign Gemini which represents twins.
- When Woody touches the electromagnetic forcefield he gets shocked and his hair stands up. Moments later you can see that his hair was the way it was before he got shocked.
- Maddie, Carey & Marcus are the only Main Characters of The Suite Life Series are not appeared.
- Woody is the only recurring character is on this movie.
- Main article: The Suite Life Movie/Gallery
Notes and references
- ↑ SprouseLand: "More About the Suite Life Movie", retrieved February 24, 2011.
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The Fray Interview: New Album, 'Love Don't Die,' Adam Duritz's Advice + More – Off the Recordby Ashley Iasimone | PopCrush
"A song that reflected the excitement of where I'm at, the fresh new love, is 'Love Don't Die.' For me, it came out of that place," the Fray's Joe King tells PopCrush.
After a several hours-long shoot to film a live performance session for PopCrush's Off the Record series on the release day of their new album, 'Helios,' the band still lit up and gladly turned into storytellers during our interview — at least, three quarters of the band (drummer Ben Wysocki couldn't make it, as he and his wife were expecting a baby at any moment during the time of the shoot). Known for heartstring-pulling pop-rock hits like the emotional 'How to Save a Life' and the ballad 'You Found Me,' the Fray ventured to a new place when making their latest record, and what they had to say about it felt totally genuine: "It's a happy time. It's bright. It's sunny. And the music is reflective of that."
Watch the Fray Perform 'Love Don't Die'
"We had just written the song," Joe continues of 'Love Don't Die,' "and I was heading overseas with my girlfriend (at the time), and I was planning my proposal to her like four days after that. I remember getting there and we were in Italy, and Ryan [Tedder], the guy we co-wrote the song with, sent the track over and it was the first time I heard it since we'd wrote it. We were there in this little town of Cinque Terre in Italy, on this tiny little cobblestone street. I had my headphones on and it took me like 20 minutes to download it because there was no Internet. I downloaded the song, and I was so pumped up when I heard it. I let her hear it, and I'm just watching her expression to see if she likes it or not, and she's smiling. And then after the song, she just gives me this big kiss. And I was like, 'Yes! Marry me, darling!'"
"The next week, I ended up proposing. It just came out of that place and exciting time of life. I'll always have that special memory to that song," he explains.
This is just one of many sweet stories that the band opened up about during our conversation about the making of 'Helios' and the evolvement of their music and careers. From marriages to babies to just having plain old fun recording in the studio, the band — Isaac Slade, Joe King, Dave Welsh and Ben Wysocki — collectively seem to be in their happy place right now.
Still, it's probably fair to say that tracks like the previously mentioned 'You Found Me' and the moving 'Break Your Plans,' the Fray's new single, are the core of this band: piano-driven (except in their gorgeous acoustic performance of the song for Off the Record, which is all guitars and vocals) and likely to bring fans to tears because they can personally relate to the lyrics. Isaac admits that laying his emotions out on the table for the world to hear night after night sometimes affects him, too — but he was lucky enough to get some solid advice from an idol who helped him realize that this was normal and OK, and not a bad thing.
"Something Adam Duritz from Counting Crows said that really struck me … He said that if the songs feel like you could totally sing them, no problem, they're probably not going deep enough."
"I remember I was struggling with that on our second record with this song called 'You Found Me.' It was hitting really close to home, and I was getting emotional at shows and having a hard time and singing it," Isaac recalls. "Something Adam Duritz from Counting Crows said that really struck me … he said he's really worried if the songs don't feel like that. He said that if the songs feel like you could totally sing them, no problem, they're probably not going deep enough. He said he wants songs that cut to the bone, and those are the ones he knows are actually going to reach people. So that one comment, I was like, "Ohhh, this is a good thing! It's a good thing that I choke up every once in a while at shows thinking about the original stuff in these songs."
Watch the Fray Perform 'Break Your Plans'
Watch the Fray Perform 'Heartbeat'
"I'm not close with Adam. We text a little bit. And by 'we text,' I mean I text him and sometimes he writes back," Isaac adds with a laugh.
Isaac, the lead vocalist of the Fray, may be a bit starstruck by Adam — he is one of the band's early influences, after all — but it's his former tourmate Ben Folds that may have given him the best life advice of all.
"I wanted to perform 'The Luckiest' mainly because I like the song so much and I'd never played it," he says of the Ben Folds song that he chose to perform, with a dedication to his wife, Anna, at the band's Off the Record session. "Actually, it's a pretty special song for me."
"My girlfriend at the time [now wife] and I were at a Ben Folds show back in '05, when we were opening for Ben, and I asked Ben if I could propose onstage during that song," Isaac continues. "He said, 'Why don't you just let me play it, and I'll dedicate it to you guys, and you can propose somewhere else?' And I was like, 'No, man! This'll be great! It'll be a moment!' and he's like, 'You're girl's not gonna wanna do that in front of everybody. Your whole life's about to be public.' Dude, she would've hated it. Ben knew my wife better than I did. So we were at Radio City [Music Hall, in New York City], and Ben said something really cool right before the song and played it, and then I chose not to propose that night. I proposed earlier that morning already. So it was our first engaged musical moment."
Watch Isaac Slade of the Fray Perform 'The Luckiest'
The Fray formed in 2002 and released their first album in 2005. It went double platinum and birthed multiple hit singles, including the commercial diamond 'How to Save a Life,' which is still the band's biggest success to date thanks to its prominent run in 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes and promos.
"I view our band as an art-making collective first and then I view it as a business second, because we do balance those two things all the time. When the opportunity comes up for us to put a song on something, we just make sure it's legit and classy and go for it, and then you hope it goes big. That piece we did with 'Grey's Anatomy' was awesome because it was SO much exposure – like 24 million people a week, every week," Isaac says.
"In the '90s, would Pearl Jam have put a song on 'Grey's Anatomy' if that show existed? We all said, 'Hell no, they wouldn't.'"
"I think when the opportunity came around, we were still basing a lot of what we thought about the music business with bands that we grew up liking," Dave adds. "In the '90s, would Pearl Jam have put a song on 'Grey's Anatomy' if that show existed? We all said, 'Hell no, they wouldn't.' But we were also at that moment in time … I think there was a shift happening. Looking back on it, if we had an qualms then, I feel like they were trivial at best. Now, looking back, it was just simply an opportunity to get your song to more people than not. Now it would be an easy decision."
"And then 10 years later, Pearl Jam did the Target commercial," Isaac says, laughing and kind of proving a point: licensing music to movies, commercials and TV shows is just part of the new normal in today's music business.
As the band continues to navigate their way through Top 40, they look to fellow pop-rock musicians to help hold a spot for songs that sound something like their own on the radio. Imagine Dragons and Mumford and Sons dominating the charts keeps them optimistic — because it means the door stays open, that people are still interested in hearing the kind of music that they do best.
"I end up listening to half the stuff my little girls listen to anyway," Joe is happy to admit. "They love Lorde."
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PopCrush Mini-Mix 12: Featuring Ed Sheeran, Lorde + More [LISTEN]by Michelle McGahan | PopCrush
Happy weekend, PopCrushers! Start your Friday night off right with the latest installment of the PopCrush Mini-Mix, featuring remixed pop tracks from some of our favorite artists like Ed Sheeran, Lorde, Pharrell and more. Turn it up!
If there is one thing better than Ed Sheeran's fast-paced 'Sing,' it's that same track infused with some slow jam beats — the perfect way to kick off PopCrush Mini-Mix 12! Pairing such an up-tempo song with a slow jam may seem a little strange at first, but the combination totally works and gives the track an entirely new vibe. The playlist then transitions into Tiesto's 'Red Lights,' which gets the club-like treatment with some heavy, vibrating beats that are sure to get the party started.
The mix then switches into a sped-up version of Lorde's 'Team,' backed by the same fast-paced background tracks that transition the tune from a more alternative hit to an EDM-like anthem. And since no weekend playlist would be complete without Pharrell's 'Happy,' everybody's favorite feel-good jam comes up next, pumping out electric beats which soon tie into Disclosure's hit 'Latch,' featuring Sam Smith.
PopCrush Mini-Mix 12 closes with John Legend's iconic 'All of Me,' but with an EDM twist, and fades out with the thumping of addictive and vibrant beats.
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Tiesto, 'Red Lights'
Lorde, 'Team'
Pharrell, 'Happy'
Disclosure, 'Latch'
John Legend, 'All of Me'


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Mark Ballas and Chelsea Kane opened tonights episode of Dancing with the Stars by dancing the waltz to Sia's "My Love" from the Eclipse soundtrack. We've seen Twilight Saga music used on many performance shows. What has been your favorite dance or performance featuring music from one of the Twilight Saga's soundtracks?
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In this quirky comedy, Somebody Up There Likes Me, a subversive film directed by Bob Byington, growing numb without a sense of time seems to be the everyday life of its characters. The film skips through 35 years in the life of Max Youngman (Keith Poulson), his best and only friend Sal (Nick Offerman, "Parks and Recreation"), and the woman they both adore (Jess Weixler, Teeth). They stumble in and out of hilariously misguided relationships that are strung together with animated vignettes by Bob Sabiston (A Scanner Darkly) and an original score by Vampire Weekend's Chris Baio.
In the midst of getting a divorce from his bitter wife (Kate Lyn Sheil), who openly admits she wore yellow to their wedding because this 'wasn't her first rodeo.' Max then pursues the woman of his affection, Lyla (Jess Weixler), and daughter to cop (Marshall Bell). With a strange admiration to breadsticks the two get hitched and together still do not have a grasp on life. Onlookers are told that time progresses; however the main characters do not age as they are oblivious of the outside world throughout the duration. Max never ages as well, holding on to a mysterious briefcase that may or may not contain the secret to life- he remains perpetually youthful and lives his essentially joyless stagnant life which does not show through his emotions.
Through a large sum of money left by Lyla's deceased father, Max and Lyla get a house together and start a life. Max then sees another weakness, Clarissa (Stephanie Hunt) on the corner, and hires her as their housekeeper. Throughout the years Lyla and Max's relationship deteriorates, as Max takes a liking to Clarissa. Max and Lyla not only begin to resent each other, but Max is callous towards their son Lyle as he jokes "maybe we should send this one back."
Max's best friend, Sal (Nick Offerman), moves into their guest house when they find prosperity. Fortunately for Lyle, he finds a father figure in Sal, and a mother figure in his nanny. Eventually, Max's marriage to Lyla ends, and his subsequent relationship with Clarissa ends as well.
The movie's writer/director, Bob Byington, sees perpetual youth not as a blessing of health and good looks, but as a curse of eternal callowness. Relationships are almost consistently doomed in this film. He never gives the characters any reasons as to why they would want to pursue a relationship in the first place. Perhaps the never-ending want to fill a void regardless of the lack of substance within.
The only person who seemed to breathe life into his character was Offerman, who plays a reliable and loyal friend to Max, even when he's angling to sleep with his wife. There's a good deal of imagination here, and quite a few laughs, but ultimately, when a story is conceived in which the characters are this hollow I couldn't help but relate this back to our everyday life. Many people today are going through the movements, but emotionless. Could a briefcase that delivered a 'fountain of youth' be the answer to this black hole of despair in which we have set before us and has left us deterred off the main road? We do not know, however, we can always rely on Bob to sketch another comedic revelation and of course a lullaby from Megan Mullally couldn't hurt either.


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Dr Ameer Abdulla's passion for the sea knows no limits. He works in the most isolated places where political instability and lack of security contrast with the thriving diversity and uniqueness of marine life. Working to preserve this incredible beauty and engage local communities in conservation, he continues his fight to make this world 'a better place'.
Ameer's love for the sea and the creatures that live in it goes back to the times when he was a toddler.
"I would go to the seashores and tidal pools of Egypt or Kuwait, where I grew up, and observe crabs, pistol shrimp under the rocks or the juvenile and estuarine fish trapped in pools by the receding tides" recalls Ameer. "I was fascinated by them and their stories. I imagined every tidal pool as its own, separate world, a microcosm of sorts that had a storyline and plot with different marine characters!
Since then, Ameer has worked on marine conservation science in the Mediterranean, Red Sea, Arabian Gulf, Indian Ocean and the Great Barrier Reef. He has studied the resistance of coral reefs to climate change, identified key biodiversity areas for conservation and designed and developed marine protected areas.
More broadly though, he has been interested in the role that science plays in environmental management. His PhD focused on the ecology of coral reef fish and predator-prey interactions, but his original motivation was to understand the ecological implications of removing top predators from coral reefs through fishing.
Currently Ameer works on understanding how people interact with and affect the marine environment. His work keeps him in the field most of the year either on expeditions or on field projects working with local communities and dedicated partners. He's particularly interested in generating the necessary knowledge that can link global policies, tools and funding opportunities with local conservation needs and management priorities. Ameer believes that fieldwork should focus on developing countries, as that is where the richest biodiversity lies - much of it endemic to these regional seas.
"Countries that are most difficult to work in are most in need of marine conservation science and there is an impetus to address that. My biggest challenge is not undertaking field activities in these areas but attracting the attention of the global community and raising awareness of the plight of these areas. Time is quickly running out for them."
Indeed, the challenges Ameer faces in his everyday work often go far beyond pure science.
"You have certainly heard of the seas referred to as the 'tragedy of the commons'. Well, there are some areas that are more 'tragic' than others. Areas, such as the Red Sea, are often forgotten or ignored by global policies and conservation efforts because of their political instability. These areas fall through the cracks of conservation efforts and fundraising for them and implementing the work is always challenging.
But even such potentially dangerous situations have not stopped Ameer from pursuing his work.
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Montego Bay's Crisis of Leadership - Will the bramble lead?
There was a time when St. James boasted of leaders who when they spoke Kingston listened. Men who were not intimidated by the powerful, nor by the urban intellectual elite. Leaders like Alan George St. Clarke Coombs, Herbert Eldemire and the 'Dean of Cornwall' Howard Cooke whose legacy can be seen by the monument they left behind.
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BERLIN (AP) - Berthold Beitz, who was honored for saving hundreds of Jews in occupied Poland during World War II and became one of post-war West Germany's leading industrialists, has died at 99.
BERLIN (AP) � Berthold Beitz, who was honored for saving hundreds of Jews in occupied Poland during World War II and became one of post-war West Germany's leading industrialists, has died at 99.
Steelmaker ThyssenKrupp AG, where he was the honorary chairman of the supervisory board, announced Beitz's death on Wednesday. It said in a statement that he died Tuesday and gave no further details.
Beitz and his wife, Else, were honored by Germany's main Jewish group in 2000 for saving hundreds of Jewish workers at an oil field he managed in occupied Poland from deportation to Nazi death camps.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel called Beitz one of the country' most distinguished and successful businessmen and stressed his "brave and exemplary support for Jewish workers during World War II."
The President of the German Council of Jews in Germany, Dieter Graumann, said of Beitz: "He was a great man. His humaneness in dark times remains a role model for us today."
"Together with his wife he saved the lives of hundreds of Jews � I wish there had been more people like him," Graumann told The Associated Press. In 2000, the Jewish Council awarded Beitz its highest honor, the Leo-Baeck Award.
In 1973, Beitz was given the Righteous Among the Nations honorific by the Israeli Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum� the highest honor given to a Gentile, or non-Jew, for saving Jews.
Beitz was born on September 26, 1913, in Zemmin in what was then Germany and now belongs to Poland. He studied to become a banker and took a position at an oil field in occupied Poland in 1939.
He saved many of the Jewish workers there from the Nazis' death camps, sometimes by even hiding them together with his wife at his home. The couple had three daughters.
In August 1942, he saved 250 Jews from being deported to the Belzec death camp by claiming they were indispensable to keep up production, according to Yad Vashem's biography of Beitz.
Asked after the end of the Third Reich about his personal motivation, Beitz said, according to Yad Vashem, "There was no anti-Fascism, no resistance. We watched from morning to evening as close as you can get what was happening to the Jews. ... When you see a woman with her child in her arms being shot, and you yourself have a child, then your response is bound to be completely different."
In the 1950s, Beitz agreed to administer the Krupp steel company, which was heavily involved in armaments production during the war. He headed the company in various positions for around 60 years.
In 1967, he launched a foundation with the late Alfried Krupp's fortune, supporting projects in Israel among others.
Until recently, he went to work at his office in Essen in western Germany almost every day, according to German news agency dpa.
In a rare interview with Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper in March, he said, "I'm going to continue this as long as I can, as long as I'm clear in my head."
Besides being one of Germany's outstanding industrial leaders, he also was an honorary member of the International Olympic Committee and, via the Krupp Foundation, invested heavily in the arts and the revitalization of Ruhr Valley Region � which used to be West Germany's industrial heartland after the war and the base of steelmaker ThyssenKrupp.


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Somebody has to pay for cheap beer
Late last month, the Fair Trade Commission issued a warning to three liquor wholesalers whom the commission suspected of violating the Antimonopoly Law by selling beer to the supermarket chain Aeon at below cost. It was the first time the FTC ever made such a warning about dumping for alcoholic beverages, and while the media is reporting that the commission apparently does not have enough evidence to prove a clear violation of the law, the FTC has made an exception and issued the warning anyway, which would seem to indicate that it strongly believes some hanky-panky is going on.
The main reason for the warning in this instance is to protect smaller liquor retailers located near Aeon outlets who can't hope to compete with such low prices. In fact, a closer reading of the coverage would seem to indicate that it is really Aeon who is bending the rules to its advantage rather than the three wholesalers — Mitsubishi Shokuhin, Nihon Shurui Hanbai, Itochu Shokuhin — but in any case the warning was mainly directed at them. Nevertheless, Aeon decided that the adverse publicity attached to the warning was serious enough for it to hold a press conference on July 23. A representative stated that the company made no such demand to the three suppliers to sell them beer at below cost.
Apparently, the FTC was suspicious of dumping as long ago as 2005, when it heard that 10 brands of beer and happoshu (malt liquor) were being sold to Aeon at prices that were below the price they paid to the manufacturers, even with ancillary costs like transportation factored in. Aeon would then add its own margin and, supposedly, still undersell competitors. For instance, the wholesaler would buy a case of beer from a manufacturer for ¥3,800 and then sell it to Aeon for ¥3,700. The wholesaler would supposedly make up for the beer loss by carrying out a business practice known in Japan as arari-mikusu, which means jacking up the prices of other alcoholic beverages they sold to Aeon. Consumers would pay more for these products than they normally would. Such a practice violates National Tax Agency guidelines for fair trade.


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Most stories coming out of Double Fine are the type to make you smile, but here's one to make you shake your fist like a cranky old-timer.
Last month, thieves broke into the studio, and amongst the stuff they stole were some...duffel bags.
It's resulted in a raft of security improvements, including wooden golf club patrols, giant owl stickers and foot-slicing axe traps.
OK, so maybe those aren't real countermeasures, but if any studio was actually going to use a giant owl sticker as part of an elaborate anti-crime puzzle, I'd like to think it would be Double-Fine.
PS - the burglary stuff is at the start of this vid, but stick around, because the rest of it is about some of the games from Amnesia Fortnight 2014.
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Jean Denis Barbie du Bocage (1760 - 1825) and his son Jean-Guillaume Barbie du Bocage (1795 - 1848) were French cartographers and cosmographers active in Paris during late 18th and early 19th centuries. The elder Barbie du Bocage, Jean Denis, was trained as a cartographer and engraver in the workshops of mapmaking legend J. B. B. d'Anville. At some point Jean Denis held the post of Royal Librarian of France and it was through is associations with d'Anville that the d'Anville collection of nearly 9000 maps was acquired by French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The younger Barbie du Bocage, Jean-Guillaume, acquired a position shortly afterwards at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and, in time, became its head, with the title of Geographe du Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres.


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Woman Hooked on Eating Her Husband's Ashes on 'My Strange Addiction' [VIDEO]
Casie Adams is addicted to snacking on her late husband's ashes, sometimes as often as five times a day. Recently widowed, Adams admits on TLC's 'My Strange Addiction' that she fell into the odd, arguably grotesque habit of dipping her moistened finger into her husband's cremains and licking off the charred powder and can't stop doing it.
The practice began when Adams accidentally dirtied her hands with her late husband's ashes and felt it would be disrespectful to just to wash them off. Though she found the experience unpleasant at first (she compares the taste to rotten eggs), the act eventually came to give her pleasure. She also says it has helped her lose weight–she claims to have lost 47 pounds since her husband passed away.
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Wouldn't it be nice if you signed up for a cell phone plan and walked away with a free iPod touch? Yeah, I would too. Well, if you are planning on getting the Orange Solo, Orange Venture, or Orange Momentum plans from Orange Business Services, you could get just what you're looking for.
Ostensibly the device is offered for busy, on-the-go types whose personal and private lives intertwine. Orange feels these folks need to take a break once in a while, and "iPod touch is a great me-time device with which to do that." Couldn't agree more.
"Yeah, um, I need some me time. I'll be checking out YouTube videos for the next hour. So, yeah, I'll get back to you later."
This deal, which is just one of the many Orange offers subscribers, is only available to business users who sign up for a plan that's at least 18 months and £35 (about $52) a month. Orange's web site didn't list the deal at the time of this writing. Only available at select Orange shops while supplies last. So, you know, quit dawdling on the computer and go sign up now.


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Royal Alliance Associates said late Tuesday that a group of 50 independent advisors, with $1.4 billion in assets and some $8 million in yearly fees & commissions, has just affiliated with it.
Savage & Associates of Toledo, Ohio, which previously used Walnut Street Securities as its broker-dealer, cited Royal's technology, service and open-architecture platform as key reasons for the move, says the independent broker-dealer, which is part of the AIG-owned Advisor Group.
"We are honored to have a firm as respected in the industry as Savage & Associates join Royal Alliance," said Royal Alliance President & CEO Arthur Tambaro (left), in a press release. "Their commitment to success and quality client support exemplify the high standards we look for in an affiliating firm."
The Savage news comes about three months after Royal Alliance added two independent teams in Chicago and Salt Lake City with combined assets of more than $400 million and nearly $3.5 million in yearly fees and commissions. Overall, Royal Alliance has close to 2,000 affiliated advisors with total assets under management of about $45 billion.
"We have strong momentum in a still challenging recruiting environment," said Kevin Beard, senior vice president of recruiting with Royal Alliance, in a statement. "Savage & Associates is the largest single group we have brought on in 2013, but we have been affiliating quality advisors and OSJs all year, and we have a strong pipeline of recruits looking to join us in the second half."
Savage & Associates was founded in 1957. It now has offices across Ohio and an affiliate, e3Financial, in Newport Beach, Calif. According to Royal Alliance, Savage & Associates has a strong reputation for educating its clients while meeting their financial-planning needs. In addition, the group does work in benefits and insurance, custom-employee benefits packages, and retirement products and services.
"We were looking for a partner that not only had the resources and technology to support our business, but also had a true open-architecture philosophy that would allow us to run our firm and take care of our clients as we feel best," said Savage & Associates President and CEO J.R. Toland, in a statement. "We decided early on that Royal Alliance was the perfect fit for us."


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'Pen session goes well, Fister set for rehab start
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WASHINGTON -- Doug Fister appears ready to make his next rehab appearance this weekend, according to Nationals manager Matt Williams.
Williams, in his pregame news conference Thursday, said that Fister (lat strain) felt fine after a 40-pitch bullpen session earlier in the day. His next start is scheduled for Sunday, which the manager thinks will be with the Class A Potomac Nationals of the Carolina League.
"He felt good in the bullpen today, so he's good to go for his next one," Williams said.
Williams said Fister would probably go around four innings and/or 60 pitches on Sunday. Fister has yet to pitch with Washington in the regular season, and Williams said the Nationals want him to build up and get stronger.
In fact, the manager said once Fister can get through five innings and be around 75 pitches that they'll consider him ready for a Major League start. But the Nats just don't know exactly how close Fister is to that yet, and they will monitor him once more after the next rehab outing.
"He feels good, ready for his next one," Williams said. "We look at it. It depends on how he feels. [When Fister returns] is still unclear."


text: Former minister George Papaconstantinou has denied any wrongdoing [Reuters]Greek legislators have approved the filing of criminal charges against former finance minister George Papaconstantinou in a scandal over a list of potential tax evaders that sparked outrage among crisis-hit Greeks. News of the existence of the "Lagarde list" of about 2,000 Greeks with money stashed overseas caused a political scandal last year, with many Greeks angry that successive governments failed to pursue those on the list while heaping austerity cuts on everyone else. Papaconstantinou, a US and British-educated economist who served under former Socialist prime minister George Papandreou in 2009-2011, was expelled from the co-ruling PASOK party after prosecutors last year found that the names of three of his relatives had been deleted from the list. Of 283 politicians in Greece's 300-seat assembly who voted in a secret ballot on Tuesday, 166 voted in favour of charging Papaconstantinou with tampering with the list, 208 in favour of charging him with misconduct, and 220 with breach of duty. Under Greek law, ministers are protected from prosecution unless parliament lifts their immunity and decides to press charges. A five-member judicial council is now expected to launch a new investigation into the case. If found guilty, Papaconstantinou could face a prison sentence. Charges denied Papaconstantinou has denied any wrongdoing, saying he is the victim of an attempt to incriminate him. "I'm not responsible for all of the country's ills," Papaconstantinou told parliament before the vote. "Not only is it unfair to attempt to wash the sins of many governments on my back, it's something more: it is dishonorable." Tax evasion is a major problem in Greece, and among the reasons why the country slid into a debt crisis, which has triggered six years of recession. On Monday, a prosecutor ordered that two former heads of the financial crime unit be charged with breach of trust and removing files in connection to the list. They have denied any wrongdoing. Named after former French finance minister Christine Lagarde, now managing director of the International Monetary Fund, the list was first handed to Athens by France in 2010, but little was heard of it until its existence was revealed in September 2012. SOURCE: Agencies Politics Europe US & Canada France Greece


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AMD Radeon HD 4830: Affordable Performance And Heavy Competitionby Derek Wilson on October 23, 2008 12:01 AM EST
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Update: AMD has confirmed to us that there were some issues with the BIOS on our sample board. Rather than 2 disabled SIMD units, our review sample 4830 had 3 disabled SIMD units. AMD has assured us that no retail boards will be affected and this is only a problem that affected reference boards built as review samples. We are working on resolving the issue with our review sample and will complete updated tests as soon as we can. This will affect our performance results, but until we run the tests we can't be sure how much more performance we will get out of retail 4830 hardware.
Update 2: We have updated all the performance graphs in the article with data re-run on a card that actually has all the SIMD's available. There was a difference, but it hasn't changed the overall conclusion of the article. For more information, see our update article with details on the problem, the situation, and performance differences.
Since the launch of the RV7xx GPU, AMD has been steadily filling out a top to bottom Radeon HD 4000 series lineup. The first markets addressed were gamer centric with the 4850 and 4870. Next in line was the hardcore enthusiast class with the dual-GPU 4870 X2. Since then we've seen the 4670, the 4550 and the 4350 filling out the bottom end value and mainstream segments. But there was a bit of a performance and price gap between the 4670 and the 4850. This gap has now been filled.
Today we see the introduction of the Radeon HD 4830 which is to be priced at or below $130. This part is poised to split the difference between the 4670 and 4850, and filling in this market segment should finish rounding out AMD's line up of RV7xx based cards for now. At least we hope.
In the past both ATI and NVIDIA have flooded the market with way too many different models that overlap in price and performance in ways that just confuse their customers. While AMD has been releasing cards at a fairly steady pace, all these parts have been well positioned and have served to disseminate their new architecture. We have been really happy to see how quickly AMD has gotten their new GPU out into the world.
By now, we've covered the architecture and other versions of the hardware quite a bit. The really interesting bit about this launch is the price and the prices of competitive hardware.
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crimson117 - Tuesday, December 30, 2008 - linkIt's all relative... both are Powercolor brand...
Best price AGP 3850: $118.24 shipped after $10 MIR.
Best price PCIe 3850: $68.24 shipped after $10 MIR.
So no it's not $200, but in this low-price example AGP is still a $50 price premium over PCIe.
If current performance is acceptable, and preserving your current system is worth the price premium, then stick with AGP and delay your move to PCIe. But if you'd like to put that cash towards performance instead of legacy preservation, and don't mind spending extra time reinstalling everything, then take the plunge and upgrade your mobo and all your legacy components.
I built a ~$800 computer for a friend in July 2006 right when the C2D came out. Because we went with the newest technology at the time (PCIe, DDR2, socket 775), he's been able to use it for 2.5 years now. He also just easily upgraded the GPU from a 7300LE to a 9800 GT for about $100 (unlike in 2006, he now likes to play PC games), and is considering moving to faster and more DDR2 ram to take advantage of the current low prices. He could also grab a new C2D if he wanted to. He's left with tons of easy upgrade options, none of which require a reinstall, even 2.5 years after it was first built, and chances are it'll last him another year or two if he wants.
For your situation, however, considering that the Core i7 uses a new socket and a new ram type (DDR3), and there'll be no PCIe 3.0 graphics cards until at least 2010, it's a great time to bite the bullet and upgrade all your components at once, even if it means an OS reinstall today. IMHO it's okay to skip one major product cycle, but you're tying your hands too much if you try to preserve legacy components when they're two, three generations old.
(of course, this depends on your other parts - perhaps you have all the latest stuff like DDR2 and socket 775, but just kept AGP for some reason - in that case upgrading everything is slightly less compelling). Reply
DerekWilson - Thursday, October 23, 2008 - linki haven't heard anything about AGP availability ... i sort of doubt it, but anything is possible. it would definitely be up to a vendor to add a bridge to the board, as this isn't likely to be something AMD will push themselves. Reply
chrone - Thursday, October 23, 2008 - linknice review Derek :) Reply
leexgx - Thursday, October 23, 2008 - linkthe card you got may be an card with only 540 sp (5 out of the 8 working) please run GPU-z on it and check that thay are all working or all of the results will not be correct as the powercore one that 2 other web sites have tested have come into this problem from cards from ATI test cards but not from OEM makers
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/10/23/amd-introd...">http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/10/23...roduces-... Reply
Spoelie - Friday, October 24, 2008 - linkhttp://www.techpowerup.com/articles/other/155">http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/other/155 is linked in there with a better explanation.
Apparently there's a bios fix.
Any word on what version AT used? Reply
leexgx - Friday, October 24, 2008 - linknote has been added
as there is likey to be an 4810 or something like that can you just add the results to the charts (like all the other sites have) of the fixed bios or an retail card that does not have this problem
not sure what about the comments tho on each page as the card is going to operate an bit faster and is going to move the card up the chart an bit Reply


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In 2013 do we live in an age of equality? Do men and women have equal human rights? Equal pay? Equal social standing? This is a topic that is still heavily debated. On the radio this morning I heard how toy stores are going to have gender labels removed from the toy departments, no longer will we see 'Girls Toys' or 'Boys Toys'. Although this is important in some schools of thought, I fear that we as a globally society sometime forget the problems faced by others in less developed countries.
In many countries across the world women are faced with a very different dilemma, this is summed up eloquently in this quote from Prof. Mahmoud Fathalla: "Women are not dying because of diseases we cannot treat. They are dying because societies have yet to make the decision that their lives are worth saving."
Professor Fathalla is talking about the silent tragedy of maternal mortality. I say silent because every year 287,000 women die due to pregnancy or birth related complications. That is 1 woman every 90 seconds. Around 800 women are dying every day, 800 mothers, sisters and wives. But these deaths do not make headlines, we do not hear about them on the radio, in fact many deaths do not even appear on death registers, they simply occur, silently.
What's more, these deaths are not due to diseases that we cannot cure, they are not due to conditions that require complex medicines and treatment, instead almost all of these deaths could be prevented. Most of these women could be saved with low cost and simple interventions.
With this in mind I ask the same questions again. In 2013 do we live in an age of equality? Do men and women have equal human rights? Equal social standing? Would society permit 287,000 men to die needlessly each year?
We have looked to the global society to help tackle the issue of preventable maternal death, and although the tide is changing there is still a long way to go before we reach Millennium development goal 5 and reduce maternal death by 3/4th but whose responsibility is it to tackle the injustice of maternal mortality? The government's? The World Health Organisations? Mine? Yours?
One woman who sees this as her responsibility is Dr Sophia Webster, an obstetrician and a pilot from Newcastle, who is flying a small aircraft across Africa stopping at the countries with the highest maternal death rates, to raise awareness of the tragedy of preventable maternal death. She has visited some of the most "dangerous" places in Africa on her journey, receiving enormous amounts of press attention in her campaign.
http://www.flightforeverymother.com/ aiming to give a voice to the many voiceless pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa.
But our actions do not have to match this. No matter how small we believe our voice is, we still have a voice. We can all make a stand. We can all lobby. We can all campaign. We can all support women who are unable to speak up about the injustice that they face. But first we must answer one question…..can we as a global society make the decision that so many women's lives are worth saving?
Further links:
Maternal mortality for 181 countries, 1980–2008: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5. Hogan et al.: http://tinyurl.com/qahmpvy
Maternal mortality: who, when, where, and why. Ronsmans & Graham: http://tinyurl.com/pd74y6c
Too far to walk: Maternal mortality in context. Thaddeus & Maine: http://tinyurl.com/q54doaz
The worldwide incidence of preterm birth: a systematic review of maternal mortality and morbidity – Bulletin of the WHO
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