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WHEN the England squad touched down in Rio on Sunday to begin their final preparations for the 2014 World Cup, you would not have blamed Chris Neville had he pinched himself.
Blackburn Rovers' head of sports science is no stranger to major international tournaments.
He was part of the England backroom team for the 2006 World Cup in Germany and the 2012 European Championships in Poland and Ukraine.
But he admits a World Cup in the spiritual home of football will be something else altogether.
"I have been very fortunate to be involved in championships before but of all the places in the world you would want to have the opportunity to work in, a World Cup in Brazil is as exciting as it gets," said Neville, who works as a conditioning coach for the Three Lions.
"I'm really looking forward to it."
But Neville also knows a Brazilian World Cup will present new and difficult challenges.
Not only will England need to get past teams of the calibre of Italy and Uruguay to progress to the knock-out stages, they will also have to get to grips with the blistering South American heat.
All three of their Group D games will be played in higher temperatures than which Roy Hodgson's side are accustomed to.
But it is their opening clash, against Italy on Saturday (11pm), which is set to be their most physically and psychologically draining as it will be staged in the middle of the Amazon rainforest.
The heat and humidity levels are likely to be intense in the Amazonas capital city of Manaus.
But Neville, who returned to the national team fold in May 2012 after Hodgson took over as manager of the Three Lions, is confident captain Steven Gerrard and Co will be well prepared.
"There has been a lot of planning, as you can imagine, to deal with the challenges we will face in terms of the travel, the acclimatisation and the atmosphere in Brazil," said Neville, who acted as a masseur for Sven Goran Eriksson's England squad at the 2006 World Cup.
"The challenges we will face are well documented but our time in Portugal, Miami and Rio should prepare us for them.
"Manaus, in particular, will be a climate the boys are not used to playing in, either in this country or in Europe.
"It is something we are cautious but not concerned about it as it something we are really working on and something we will hopefully get right."
After having time off following the end of Rovers' Championship campaign, Neville flew out to Portugal for a training camp where the England players wore three layers of clothing to prepare them for the testing conditions of Manaus.
A friendly at Wembley against Peru and a training camp and friendlies against Ecuador and Honduras in Miami followed before the Three Lions party arrived in Rio on Sunday.
They will train at the Urca military base, which lies at the foot of the Sugar Loaf Mountain, and stay at the five-star Royal Tulip Hotel before flying out to Manaus on Thursday ahead of their first match of the World Cup against four-time champions Italy.
"There are a number of staff involved, not just myself," said Neville, who joined Rovers in January 2013 after following then manager Michael Appleton from Portsmouth.
"I'm part of a big backroom team who will work with the players.
"In terms of the difference between Blackburn Rovers and England, with the day to day at Rovers you get to learn a lot more about the players as you're working with them every single day.
"Whereas as with England we get to see them less frequently so when we do get to meet them at qualifying games it's important we get to learn as much about them as we can and as quickly as we can.
"We also have to maintain really good relationships with their clubs as it is their clubs who they play for on a regular basis.
"The information they provide us with really helps up to prepare for tournaments like this.
"Of course some players will come off the back of playing 45-game seasons while some will come off the back of 25-game seasons.
"So obviously the way we help them prepare for the World Cup will be slightly different depending on the circumstances when they first came to meet up."
After facing Italy, England will return to Rio to prepare for their clash with Uruguay in Sao Paulo on June 19 (8pm) and their final Group D game against Costa Rica in Belo Horizonte on June 24 (5pm).
Neville said: "It is going to be a real honour to be involved with the England team and I'm really looking forward to it."


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Our old Buick carried us out of San Francisco and into the welcoming mountains and forests of northern California. So many trees, so few people; but those few had built some lovely little roads. You needed no destination there because around each bend, you could stop and say: This is it. We're here for good. Beside a river whose name has slipped my mind, we camped out Native American-style. Someone had tied a rope high up in a tree, and we used it to swing like Tarzan across the river. To maximize the fun, we let go in the middle to plunge into the rapids below. After a day or so, we were joined by a father, mother and three kids. They set up camp 50 meters from us and did all the things families do: They barbecued, played games and lazed around. At some point, the mother began to sing. She was missing a few teeth and carrying a few extra pounds, but she sang with the voice of an angel – a cappella. Her soul was her instrument; her voice was as beautiful as the woods, as pure as the river. I knew the song, a country & western prayer I'd often heard Joan Baez perform. The woman by the river was equally deserving of an audience of millions, but nothing in her voice betrayed such a wish. She didn't waste her talent chasing fame or money. She sang only for her loved ones, for God and for herself. That was a good 30 years ago, and I have experienced and forgotten much since then, but over and over again, the angelic voice of that unknown woman from the woods keeps wafting back to me across the great river of time.
Helge Timmerberg
Our columnist, Helge Timmerberg, an irrepressible globetrotter since 1969, writes travel books and contributes monthly to our magazine.

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Thursday, April 10, 2008
An almost unbelievably absurd and weak hit piece against Jesse Ventura's contention that WTC 7 was deliberately imploded on 9/11 compares a 4-story church that was a stone's throw away from the twin towers with a 47-story skyscraper that was nearly 400 feet away.
Responding to the former Minnesota Governor's recent appearance on Fox News, CHQR radio host Rob Breakenridge writes, "Ventura obviously thinks this sounds very clever, but there's one point on which he's factually incorrect: it was more than three buildings. The twin towers (1WTC & 2WTC) obviously collapsed, as did 7WTC – the three buildings Ventura cites. What he neglects to mention is that 3WTC (Marriott Hotel) and St. Nick's Cathedral also collapsed that day."
Let's start with Breakenridge's absurd example of St. Nicholas Church as a building that was destroyed by the twin towers' collapse on 9/11.
This is a picture of the 4-story Church building. It stands in the shadow of the 1362-foot tall south tower. To compare this with a gigantic 576-foot tall skyscraper that would be the tallest building in most major cities and stands a full 355 feet away from the north tower is patently ludicrous.
The humble church building is like an ant compared to the colossal south tower, of course it would have been crushed when the south tower collapsed. How on earth can Breakenridge draw a parallel between this tiny building and a gigantic skyscraper that was nearly half as tall as the twin towers?
The 47-story WTC 7 following the collapse of the twin towers. Somewhat different to the 4-story St. Nicholas Church.
Breakenridge then cites WTC 4, 5 and 6 as buildings that were destroyed and "had to be brought down manually or otherwise they, too, would have collapsed."
The difference between all these buildings and WTC 7 was that they were all closer to the twin towers than Building 7 and none of them collapsed in a 7-second implosion style demolition.
All were pelted by debris and essentially hollowed out, but their basic foundation remained in place and they did not fall to the ground at the speed of gravity within 7 seconds. All the buildings remained standing until they were demolished weeks later.
In comparison, WTC had suffered little debris damage because it stood a full 355 feet away from the north tower and yet it imploded into its own footprint in an instant.
Breakenridge cites World Trade Center Building 3 (pictured above), known publicly as the 22-story Marriott Hotel, which was positioned between the twin towers. The building was sliced in half during the collapse of WTC 2, yet it did not experience uniform collapse either vertically or horizontally.
WTC 3 was in the middle of the WTC towers, whereas Building 7 was 355 feet away. WTC 3 was less than half the height of WTC 7 and yet WTC 7 experienced a full implosion-style collapse within 7 seconds, while the foundation of WTC 3 survived.
In the map above you can see that WTC 3 is sandwiched in-between the twin towers, whereas WTC 7 is more than a block away from the north tower.
A comparison between WTC 3 and WTC 7, even taking into account the fact that WTC 3 was not completely destroyed despite taking the brunt of both twin towers whereas WTC 7 was imploded, is clearly another ridiculous parallel to draw.
Breakenridge then attempts to back up his preposterous argument by citing "peer-reviewed papers on the collapse" of the buildings, including the 10,000 page NIST report.
This is probably news to Breakenridge, but NIST itself has completely failed to address the cause of WTC 7's collapse and has not yet issued a final report on the reason for the 7-second implosion. In addition, NIST itself admits that the debris from the twin towers was not the cause of the collapse.
Breakenridge also cites, "The study by a Cambridge University engineer (which) demonstrates that once the collapse of the twin towers began, it was destined to be rapid and total."
First of all, Breakenridge starts out talking about Building 7 but then suddenly switches to citing reports about the collapse of the twin towers, which is bizarre but unsurprising considering the laughable amateurish nature of his article.
Furthermore, the alleged Cambridge University report has been completely debunked because its conclusions violate fundamental laws of physics.
The report, "essentially claims that a falling body can fall through the path of most resistance. Such a claim is ludicrous and defies all logic or honest scientific integrity," according to J A Blacker MSc IMI, who wrote to the university demanding the report be corrected.
Mr Blacker's request also challenges the claim that "All the floors offered the same flimsy resistance," when in fact, "each had different construction characteristics, the lower floor core columns were over double the thickness compared to the upper floors."
"The Seffen paper claims that burning jet fuel in air can weaken ALL the steel girders evenly (hence symmetrical collapse due to gravity of all columns perfectly), yet both ends of these outer and inner massive columns were outside the fire zone to differing degrees hence heat would have conducted up and down very efficiently at different rates, and many columns were not even subjected to any significant fire. Are we really expected to believe that fire can weaken steel evenly despite the core columns conducting heat efficiently at varying rates away from varied regions of temperature?" concludes Blacker.
Breakenridge's pathetic attempt to smear Jesse Ventura is atypical of the hit pieces against the 9/11 truth movement that we've become accustomed to – setting up straw man arguments, making comparisons between completely anathema scenarios, and using arguments that violate the very basic laws of physics.
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DescriptionZuma Deluxe is an Aztec-themed action puzzler. The goal: eliminate all the balls before they reach the skull. Balls roll down a track towards this skull and the player-controlled frog-shaped idol must shoot balls toward them to stop them, earning points. Using the mouse to rotate the frog and clicking to fire, the player needs to create rows of three or more of the same color balls to eliminate them.
The catch is that each track is shaped differently. Part of the track may block others so that if the track is filled with balls, the ones behind some may be unreachable. Fortunately, the player has up to four lives, a rarity in many puzzle games.
The game offers two different play modes:
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The player must battle through multiple temples to find the secrets of the Zuma. In this "campaign mode", temples that have been defeated may be skipped by the player when the player continues the game via save game.
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The player must work the player's level up from Rabbit to Sun God. Levels used in this mode must first be unlocked from the Adventure Mode. Gauntlet Mode also offers 4 (four) additional play modes: Random, Spesific, Practice, and Survival.
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1001 Video GamesZuma appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.
LawsuitThe Zuma concept is not new. Popcap borrowed it from Mitchell Corp.'s 1998 arcade game Puzz Loop/Ballistic. In 2004, President Roy Ozaki intended to file a lawsuit against Popcap for IP infringement. The outcome is not known. Mitchell did however rework the game concept in the 2006 Nintendo DS game Magnetica.
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rock_dash wrote:Joel Fagin wrote:Yeah, some language is just too harsh. People take offence on automatic and only wonder later if it was intended in jest.
"Doody head" would have been better.
- Joel Fagin
Agreed. "Cunt" is one of the few truely offensive words left in the english language. Everything else is just sort of overused and not really shocking anymore. But for some reason, calling someone a cunt gets thier dander up. Even I feel a little uncomfortable using it in this post.
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Read here from Greg Bedard. Bedard talks about the back injury to Brad Jones opening up a new-look LB group. He says that the line-up being used from left to right was Matthews, Barnett, Bishop, Chillar. Several curious things about this. One is that Matthews played ROLB last year, rarely if ever playing on the left as far as I remember. And, there is no mention of Hawk. I think these are the 4 best LBs the team has. Of course, I don't like it that Brad Jones is hurt and I still do believe he has potential at least. But if Chillar gets the chance at OLB, we'll find that he will be more effective than Jones.
Another curious thing is that Hawk was not part of this group. It appears as though Bishop is finally pushing his way into the conversation here and I'm hopeful this translates into some more playing time this year for the guy.


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Thank goodness there are so many certifiably insane people in this world. That way the rest of us don't have to strap a camera to our helmets, ride up dozens of stories on the outside of an elevator, and plummet to near-certain doom in the middle of a busy Spanish city on a busy afternoon. Like these guys did.
For reference, these gentlemen are BASE jumping from the Gran Hotel Bali in Benidorm, Spain, a 610 ft. monster of a tower and the second-tallest building in Spain. I'm honestly not sure which would be more terrifying: the part of the elevator ascent where you're high enough up to die but too low for your chute to work? The descent into the street not knowing if a truck is around the corner? Or that one guy's facial hair? [SISTF via TDW]


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September normally promises cooler autumn breezes, but right now the weather's feeling more like August.
Wednesday marks day two in a predicted three-day heat wave in the D.C. area. Compared to Tuesday's heat index of around 100 degrees, Wednesday will be just as hot -- if not hotter -- than yesterday's scorcher, said Storm Team 4 Meteorologist Veronica Johnson.
At 1 p.m., the heat index was already at 99 degrees.
At the University of Maryland, students and staff have been asked to cut electricity use Wednesday due to a power grid problem caused by the heat.
Schools in Baltimore city and county will close two hours early Wednesday, reported the Baltimore Sun.
Hot and humid air up from the South is pouring into the Mid-Atlantic, resulting in afternoon highs in the low to mid 90s, and heat index values close to 100 degrees. The added humidity also means that overnight lows will hover around 70 degrees.
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By Nathan Woodham North Lake News-Register Editor-in-Chief
Last month around 8 a.m., the North Lake College Police Department was called to investigate a homeless couple asleep in a dugout on the baseball field.
"Whenever we found them, we just told them to move," said Corporal Lisa Reagan about the situation. "People don't realize that they are still people, and we still have to treat them with respect."
Whether it was a bad decision, bad luck or something else, the lives of that couple led them to be deprived of one of their basic needs: shelter. Regardless of what led them to homelessness, the most difficult struggle they face is getting out of that situation.
According to
The Washington Post, the number of homeless students in the U.S. has doubled since the recession.
Because colleges are not technically required to keep track of their homeless students, FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) is the only reliable source for calculating the number of homeless students, and it reports that there are 58,000 college students on campuses nationwide.
North Lake College student Wolf is part of that statistic. With only his clothes and the contents of his backpack to his name, he sleeps wherever he can.
"Everyone has their basics: food, clothes and shelter," Wolf said. "My clothes pretty much stay clean. I do well on eating every day. I don't eat well, but I'm not hungry most days. I guess the only thing that leaves is shelter."
Luckily for Wolf, NLC has several systems in place to accommodate struggling students. He often gets food from the Blazer Student Store with Blazer Bucks he receives from some of the faculty and fellow students. In addition, the student-run ENACTUS Club recently put together the Broken Butterfly Project, which helps guide homeless students.
"We try to teach [homeless students] to be self-sustaining and how to get out of their situation," said Henry Olabode, president of the ENACTUS Club. "Then, hopefully, that person will teach another person, causing a chain reaction."
Wolf, who is receiving financial aid to attend college, said that the simple fact that he was able to enroll means he has a second chance to get out of his current situation.
There are plenty of long-running, widespread misconceptions about the homeless community. Critics use words like "lazy," "indecent" and "drug addicts," when criticizing the large population of struggling individuals. But these accusations are ignorant to the life circumstances that would prevent someone from providing for themselves.
When there are people like Wolf, who are actively enrolled in school and are taking steps to pull themselves out of their situation, why are there still those who mock the less fortunate and accuse them of not trying hard enough?
"They get one small fact," said Wolf, "In this case, they see a guy sleeping outside and they think they have the whole picture. If he's sleeping there, to them it's because he's an alcoholic or he's a crackhead. In their eyes, they just don't believe anyone can be in that situation because they themselves have never been in that situation.
"Just because it doesn't happen to you doesn't mean it doesn't go wrong for someone else," he said.
Being homeless doesn't mean someone isn't striving for more. It doesn't mean they don't aspire to be free from their desperate situation. Maybe it's time to end the stigma and start helping out. The numbers certainly reflect that.
With everything stacked against them, it takes a lot of luck, support and determination to get a real second chance.
So where do we start? What can our college do to help homeless students like Wolf?
News-Register would like your input. Please let us know your thoughts regarding the situation at hand. Email us at email@example.com. A follow-up story will be featured in the August back-to-school edition.
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By Margaret Steen
If you needed to find a new job, how many people could you turn to for help? If the answer is "not many," you may need to upgrade your professional network.
"Maintaining a network should be a routine part of your career-development strategy, not just something you turn toward in a career crisis," said Janet Civitelli, associate director of University Career Services at the University of Houston, who works with both students and alumni.
Civitelli and other experts offer these eight questions for assessing the health of your network:
How many former coworkers' contact information do you have?
Focus particularly on your peers and people above you in the organization. The more people you're in touch with, the better.
Does your network include a handful of people who could serve as references?
These people need to be willing to recommend you -- and they need to know your work well. "References can't be vaguely positive," Civitelli said.
If you can't think of four to six good reference candidates, you need to step up your networking to make sure people you work with know about your achievements.
How many of your contacts have you communicated with in the past six months?
This is a measure of your active network.
"You don't need to talk to everyone in your network every three minutes," said Richard Phillips, owner of Advantage Career Solutions. But you should check in regularly, even if you just send a brief email saying you hope all is well. That way, when you do need to ask for job-hunting help, it will be "emotionally much easier" to make the contact.
Have you had lunch or coffee with someone from your network in the past month?
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Have you attended a professional event recently?
Attending professional conferences will help you expand your network beyond former colleagues. Becoming active in a professional association will also boost your resume.
Have you added any professional contacts in the past month?
Your network needs to grow in order to stay vital. Try to add new contacts -- either by getting back in touch with former colleagues or by meeting new people -- frequently.
Are you networking "outside the box" -- that is, making connections beyond your former colleagues and friends?
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Hot on the heels of the news that Luke Bryan would be serving as Blake Shelton's co-host for the 48th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards, it has been announced that Brad Paisley will host the 3rd Annual ACM Fan Jam.
The Fan Jam is scheduled to take place at the Orleans Arena on Sunday, April 7. It's offsite from the main show, but still allows fans the chance to interact and be a part of the festivities.
Throughout the three-hour ACMs telecast from the MGM Grand Garden, which begins at 8PM ET, there will be live Fan Jam performances piped in via remote. Paisley himself will perform, as will other country A-listers.
Even when the telecast ends, the Fan Jam will continue, as Paisley and friends will keep the party going with a performance. Those details, including the other acts that will participate, will be revealed at a later time.
Can't wait? Well, you can unlock a special message simply by tweeting. A special tidbit from Paisley will be delivered immediately post-tweet by visiting here.
Another ACM tradition that will continue? For the fourth year in a row, an all-star concert will be taped on Monday, April 8 at 7PM at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, featuring some of your country favorites. Which acts are involved will be revealed soon, so hold tight. That special will air on CBS at a later date. Proceeds from ticket sales will benefit ACM Lifting Lives.


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001. Went shopping with my Mum today, We always tend to go on a Sunday morning because its not as busy. I didn't really buy much, Only some denim shorts from Topshop, a ton of rings from BHS all reduced to £2 each, some nail foils, tights a skirt from Primark and a tanning mitt. The joys! There wasnt much I really wanted, Im really not loving shopping at the moment. Nothings catching my eye, All I saw was the inevitable nautical/50's look that the shops ALWAYS do for S/S. I'm very much a winter girl, so the idea of getting my legs out and not wearing a cardigan disturbs me!
002. I slept for a whopping 10 and a half hours last night. Im a terrible sleeper, I hardly ever go to bed before 1am, and I have to be up at half 7 most days. Obviously it was taking it toll on me and I went to bed at half 9! I couldnt believe it when I woke up this morning! I still highly reccomend Sleep Cycle if you a iPhone user and a bad sleeper! It really does wakes you up at the right time in the morning so your not a groggy mess!
003. I really want a nice pair of classic black or burgundy loafers. I have my eye on this Topshop pair, this River Island pair and this Office pair. Not that you will ever see them in a outfit post ;) no shoes for u!
004. I'm tempted to go see the Black Swan next week. Although I know its not the type of film I like. Im a total chick flick / American high school / lovey dovey film type of girl. I cant deal with anything to complex or harrowing. I've been reading alot of peoples thoughts on Twitter about it so I thought I'd go see it for myself!
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New pistols debuting in January 2002 (2001-12-30)As the year 2001 draws to a close, we want to show you two new pistols that are debuting soon that will hit our shelves in early January. First up is the WA 1991A1 CDP (Combat Defense Pistol) created by WA's Shibuya Custom shop in Tokyo. Based on a single stack compact 1911 body, the CDP sports a rounded silver slide and 15 round capacity. This pistol is a real beauty and a true collectors item. Our photo here does not do it justice!
For EBB fans, Tokyo Marui is releasing a nickel plated version of its popular M9 EBB! Same great features running on 4 AA batteries, this new M9 is a real looker!
Classic Army full metal M4 Carbines are set to arrive on our shelves in early January. After numerous production delays, we are keeping our fingers crossed that this batch of CA AEGs will fix some of the minor glitches found in CA's MP5 lineup. Watch for our review as soon as this new AEG hits our stores!


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Nothing in John Force's athletic background could have suggested the level of success that he has achieved: He is the most prolific driver in professional drag racing history and is entering the season-ending Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals at Pomona Raceway having won a record 11 Winston championships and an unprecedented 98 national events.
>From that experience, he learned that a quarterback is only as good as the team around him, a premise he applied in 1985 when he borrowed enough money and made enough promises to hire former Chi-Town Hustler co-owner Austin Coil as his crew chief. He subsequently filled each position on his team with the best talent available and maintained that formula each time his racing stable grew. In 1992, he hired Bernie Fedderly to work with Coil; in 1996, John Medlen was brought in to oversee a second team headed by talented driver Tony Pedregon; and this season, Jimmy Prock was selected as crew chief for a third car driven by Gary Densham.
Nevertheless, Force attributes all his success, which includes 113 victories as car owner, to his late uncle, Gene Beaver, who encouraged him to hire Coil, a decision that Force briefly questioned when Coil initially failed to end a series of final-round frustrations that extended to nine events.
"I promised Coil a million dollars, and he promised me a championship," Force recalled, no doubt embellishing the story somewhat. "But when we went through two seasons and hadn't won anything, I whined to him that he promised to make me a winner. He looked at me with that ol' toothpick sticking out of his mouth and said, 'Yeah, and you promised me a million dollars.' "
Both subsequently made good on their pledges: Coil has earned several million dollars as the principal tuner of the record-holding (4.731 seconds) Castrol GTX Ford Mustang, and Force has become the biggest winner in history, eclipsing all of Pro Stock legend Bob Glidden's records from the 1970s and '80s.
However, back in 1986, neither Force nor Coil could have anticipated the success that their collaboration would ultimately yield.
Force's breakthrough first victory was memorable. It came in 1987 at now-defunct Le Grandnational, which was contested at Sanair Int'l Dragstrip in St. Pie, Que., where he beat Ed "the Ace" McCulloch in the final round.
"I was looking around for a TV commentator to do my interview, and there was nobody down there [at the end of the track] but a couple of drunk Canadians," Force said. "For years, I'd been practicing the winner's circle interview I was going to give [NHRA television commentator] Steve Evans, then the first race I win is the one that doesn't have TV [coverage]."
Of course, Force has made up for that one missed opportunity by mugging for the cameras countless times, and in the process, he has created a dynasty that has won more consecutive series titles than any team or individual in sports history.
Force's nine consecutive NHRA Funny Car championships is unprecedented in all of sports. The Boston Celtics won eight straight NBA basketball titles, the Montreal Canadiens won five straight Stanley Cups, and the N.Y. Yankees won the World Series five consecutive times. In auto racing, the only one close is Steve Kinser, who won six straight World of Outlaws sprint car titles. The record in NASCAR Winston Cup racing is just three in a row by Cale Yarborough - the late Dale Earnhardt never won more than two straight; ditto Richard Petty.
Force, the only drag racer ever to be named national motorsports Driver of the Year (1996), owns a bevy of NHRA Winston Drag Racing Series records, including most final rounds in a season (16), most wins in a season (13), most round-wins in a season (65), most career final rounds (153), most career round-wins (755), and most rounds run (1,006).
As a result, the members of the American Auto Racing Writers and Broadcasters Association have voted him onto their Auto Racing All-America Team a record eight consecutive times. Moreover, based on his performance this season (six wins, 13 final-round appearances, and a national record), it's likely that he will make that elite lineup for the ninth straight time and 10th overall. By contrast, no other driver has been named to the team more than seven consecutive times.
Force has won at least one national event for 15 straight seasons and has won 10 or more races five different times - the combined total of 10-win seasons for everyone else in the sport is three.
Since 1990, almost all of Force's seasons have been great, but few could match his 1996 campaign, when he won 13 of 19 races, appeared in 16 final rounds, and won 65 of a possible 76 eliminations rounds. That season, Force locked up the title by late summer and finished with 2,023 points, 636 more than his teammate, Tony Pedregon, who finished second. Force's points total that season was also the most by any Professional racer since the current points-scoring system was adapted in 1994.
In 2000, Force broke a record that was once considered untouchable when he claimed his 86th national event victory to surpass Glidden's mark of 85. Ironically, the decisive victory came at the sparkling-new Route 66 Raceway in Chicago, Coil's hometown.
In winning this year's Winston Funny Car title, his 11th, Force broke Glidden's record of 10 championships - no Funny Car racer has won more than four.
On being selected as one of NHRA's Top 50 drivers, the always gracious Force was hardly disappointed to be second to three-time NHRA Winston Top Fuel champ "Big Daddy" Don Garlits.
"Naturally, I would have liked to have [been No. 1]," Force said, "but anytime you're in a group with Shirley Muldowney, Don Prudhomme, Kenny Bernstein, Bob Glidden, all the hitters, and especially 'Big Daddy,' you've gotta be proud. I want to congratulate everybody in the Top 50 because, in a period of time in our lives, we've all been part of something special.
"I want to congratulate 'Big Daddy' Don Garlits and say that no one else deserved it more because of what he has done for the sport. I'd have voted for him myself. It would have been great to be No. 1, but I guess all I can do now is try to be No. 1 in the next 50 years."
NHRA's Top 50 Drivers were unveiled on NHRA.com and through the pages of National DRAGSTER, in reverse order throughout the 2001 season. Don Garlits was named the No. 1 driver at the Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals at Pomona Raceway on Nov. 11.
As NHRA celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2001, it has emerged as one of the most
popular spectator sports, highlighted by a $50 million, 24-event, nationally
televised tour. The NHRA has developed into the world's largest motorsports
sanctioning body, with more than 80,000 members nationwide, and more than 140 member


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The Linux kernel version 2.6.24 has been released and available for download. From the announcement:
The release is out there (both git trees and as tarballs/patches), and for the next week many kernel developers will be at (or flying into/out of) LCA in Melbourne, so let's hope it's a good one. Nothing earth-shattering happened since -rc8, although the new set of ACPI blacklist entries and some network driver updates makes the diffstat show that there was more than the random sprinkling of one-liners all over the tree.
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Official team thread.
Official team thread.
President of SKAS - Kat is King | Proud member of CVAAS - One of the best | LRPLTAS - Rosco rocks!
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Originally Posted by benchmark00"Straight-Edge means I'm better than you!"
Haha Ashley. I have nothing but intense man-love for you.
Would like to welcome Sean Fuller, Rob Bowen and Ethan McNamara who have been assigned to us, along with icon and my personal hero, Ash Chaulk.
On top of this, we have head honcho James Nixon in as a special guest player.
Am pumped for the competition, tbh.
Am looking forward to getting involved, sounds great guys
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I have a cloud-based server running with CentOS 6.0 and CSF installed. Today I got a message from my host that one of my WordPress installations is hacked and used for phishing.
But I don't know how this has happened. I do not know where it is happening. What the best practice here? How can I check what has happened and stop it?
EDIT: My host said now that he wasn't sure it was wordpress, but was suspecting it. Do I really need to delete everything and reinstall. This is over 10 sites, and it will be a lot of work.


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Presentation List for Akademy 2012 Tallinn
The Akademy 2012 Program Committee is proud to present the Akademy 2012 Sessions. Given the broad nature of KDE, the proposals submitted contained a wealth of interesting and valuable topics. From those, 28 proposals were selected that we felt would address the most relevant topics and be deep enough in the areas of most interest to the KDE Community.
Session focus areas
At Akademy 2012, there will be a lot of focus on KDE Frameworks 5, which will adapt the KDE codebase to the Qt 5 release. For that reason, the committee selected a series of talks relating to the Frameworks project and to Qt 5.
Plasma Workspaces is another important topic. So the schedule will include a grouping of talks about Plasma user interfaces, the project's flexibility and the baby of the family—Plasma Active. We also included talks about open devices based on KDE technologies. In addition, there are sessions discussing a range of other KDE technologies and projects, and the Community's outreach to vendors and efforts to enlarge our ecosystem.
Full schedule overview
Please check out all of the sessions and the keynotes offered during the first two days of Akademy. As the schedule overview shows, the four days following the sessions will consist of Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions, other workshops and hacking sessions. Collaborators are encouraged to begin considering topics for those sessions. Some special workshops are already planned. There will be opportunities for attendees to schedule BoFs before and during Akademy.
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If you're planning to attend Akademy 2012 in Tallinn (or have been part of past Akademies), please blog about Akademy, your reasons, your expectations and your experiences. "I'm going" badges are available at the Akademy 2012 Tallinn wiki. Your contribution may make the difference between someone attending or not.
Akademy offers a rare opportunity for inspired, intensive work on important projects. Yours could be one of those. Register now and book your travel soon, because Akademy 2012 will take place at the height of the vacation season in Estonia.
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For most of the year, KDE—one of the largest FOSS communities in the world—works online by email, IRC, forums and mailing lists. Akademy provides all KDE contributors the opportunity to meet in person to foster social bonds, work on concrete technology issues, consider new ideas, and reinforce the innovative, dynamic culture of KDE. Akademy brings together artists, designers, developers, translators, users, writers, sponsors and many other types of KDE contributors to celebrate the achievements of the past year and help determine the direction for the next year. Hands-on sessions offer the opportunity for intense work bringing those plans to reality. The KDE Community welcomes companies building on KDE technology, or looking to begin using it.
For more information, please contact The Akademy Team.
So few talks
In Akademy 2010 we had around 28 talks per day, and now we have 28 talks for 2 days? Are we having just a single track?
By Albert Astals Cid at Fri, 2012/04/27 - 3:51pm
Two parallel sessions
According to the following aKademy 2012 video, there will be two parallel sessions (exactly, from 4:37 on):
By Laszlo Papp at Sat, 2012/05/05 - 9:11pm
Missing talks from the list ?
Perhaps it is just me, but I do not see 28 talks mentioned over there.
By Anonymous at Tue, 2012/05/01 - 9:38am
Some sessions have not been published
You are correct. Not all of the talks are listed. For example, there is the traditional KDE Community keynote talk that is still in the works. The other sessions will be added to the list published at the Akademy website.
By Carl Symons at Tue, 2012/05/01 - 12:18pm
Great, thanks!
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011
THE Trip, Dripping Springs, OR, The Last Man and Woman Outta the Mountains, The Challenge(s)
It took some time for Man and I to build up our courage (or stupidity) to attempt a little (???????) hike up to Dripping Springs. Gotta say right now, it is really a GOOD thing I had no idea how far it really was until we returned from our "little" hike!
So, in a poor attempt to show you were we were, I did the Google Maps thing, and screen captured a couple of different maps (you really are going to need to click on these images to get to the larger view):
We drove Dripping Springs (County Road 77) from the left of this map (west) to where the road takes a sharp 90 degree turn to the left (or north) and becomes Baylor Canyon Drive. Only we did NOT take Baylor, instead we took the small pencil thin, almost cannot see it road, continuing to drive east and towards the Organ Mountains.
See that single red "X". that is the Visitor's Center. That is where you park and start your walk. See that double red "X", where the pencil thin road ends? That section of the road is actually a walking trail from the Visitor's Center to Dripping Springs. The springs are at that double red "X". I suppose you could drive the walking trail with a 4 wheel drive vehicle. If you use Google Maps and continue to enlarge the map, to get more and more detail, you can see they call that walking trail, Dripping Springs Road, see:
So, that gives you a visual of one kind, now, let's see some other visuals, photos:
This sign always instills a deep sense of confidence:
Above, Man starting up Dripping Springs Road, errr, the hiking trail. The entire trail is gravel, this is a good section, no ruts, smaller gravel, sorta flat (side to side).
And, then, there were sections like this, large loose stones:
Let me tell you, I was very worried about twisting an ankle. Yes, I was treading cautiously!
It was 1.5 miles from the Visitor's Center to the "top", where Dripping Springs were. There was a 500 foot jump in elevation in that 1.5 miles. Yes, we climbed 500 feet in that 1.5 miles. Can we say, WOW?? Can we say, SORE muscles??
Can we say, come back tomorrow to see some of the views we enjoyed on our slow long walk to the springs??
* The reference in the title, to the last man and woman off the mountain, comes from the fact that we were indeed the last 2 off the mountain that day. It took us 3.5 hours to go up and come down. Oh, it took about 45 minutes to come down! LOL Other hikers started their walks from the Visitor's Center after we did, passed by us on the trail, going up and then were coming down before we ever reached the top.
The sun sets around 5:00 ish, maybe a few minutes later, we arrived back at the Visitor's Center around 4:30. The shadows were already dropping the temperatures dramatically on the trail. We were the last off the mountain that day, but, perhaps, the happiest couple that left the mountain that day. We made it all the way to Dripping Falls, and back, no twisted ankles, and we made it before dark and cold set in.
(Remember that yellow sign?? I did, all the way up and all the way down that mountain!)
7 comments:
- Brenda Leyndyke said...
You are braver than I! I would have been turning around at the mention of snakes. Glad you made it up and back.
- January 19, 2011 at 8:14 AM
- Terri said...
Congrats on conquering the mountain y'all! That sign would have put the worry in me too..
- January 19, 2011 at 9:21 AM
- Joan said...
Bravo! Dinna know why, but the sign dinna show on my blog. (I have a lot of that sort of thing lately.)
- January 19, 2011 at 11:03 AM
- Susan Clark said...
Ignorance is bliss. We NEVER would have made our best hike had we known how long the trail was. As long as you have water, layers, a stick and breadcrumbs to find your way out go for it.
So glad you kept going. Can't wait to see the pix.
- January 19, 2011 at 1:08 PM
- FranE said...
I am in awe of your trip. Thanks for including us. I love it!
- January 20, 2011 at 12:05 AM
- Chuck said...
I am enjoying the pics, maps, and commentary...
I followed along on Google Maps - it sure looks pretty bleak in the satellite view...
- January 20, 2011 at 2:23 PM
- Michelle Goodrum said...
Wahoo! Congratulations to you! I can't wait to read about your next hike.
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I'm an intermediate java programmer. So far I've written a multi fractal generator (5500 LOC), an image processing library (2000 LOC), a graphical address book (800 LOC), a text adventure game and I have completed about 3/4 of the project euler challenges (the one's I understand). So I feel like I am pretty good at 2D graphics, GUI's, persistence, multi-threading and iterative mathematics.
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Re: st: Fixed lag smoothing in state space model
Jorge Eduardo Pérez Pérez <email@example.com>
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Re: st: Fixed lag smoothing in state space model
Thu, 2 Feb 2012 14:35:53 -0500
I got the answer from F. Tusell in Stack Overflow.
"I am not aware of any package in R computing fixed lag smoothing
estimates. However, unless you have to compute a great many of such
estimates, I think that truncating the time series at t+N and
computing the ordinary smoothed value would do what you want."
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> Dear Statalist
> I would like to compute fixed lag smoothing estimates of the state
> variable in a state space model in Stata. These are estimations of the
> state variable at one point in time given information for several
> periods ahead, but not the whole sample
> Putting it in equations and Stata jargon, currently -sspace- allows
> the user to obtain three diferent types of estimations of the state
> variable through the -smethod- option of predict in -sspace
> postestimation-
> - smethod(smooth) provides S t / T, where S is the state variable. The
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> - smethod(onestep) provides S t / t-1, the estimation with information
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> I would like to compute S t / t+N, where N is a fixed number of
> periods, and t+N<T.
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smangersnes necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 471 diseños de 142 diseñadores freelance.
Sastre is a new consulting company that helps companies to develop effective multichannel marketing strategies to improve their revenues and profitability across all channels. Another word for multi channel marketing we use is 360 degree marketing. We focus on both offline (TV, print, newspapers, etc) and online marketing (web, mobile, mail etc) and seeks to optimize our clients spending in the channel mix that generates highest ROMI (return on marketing investments)
We need a logo design that is elegant ("less is more"), clean, relatively compact, and very memorable.
Today we use "Sastre - data beats opinion" - meaning that we focus on measuring every aspect of companies media spending.
We are a startup company, so the winning designer will also be considered (if he/she is interested) to design business cards, stationary, and the website for this business
The target audience are senior executives (CEOs, Presidents, Vice Presidents, CMOs) in medium to large companies. The logo should invoke in the target audience the following thoughts:
PROGRESS – Movement to a goal or higher stage, advancement
INNOVATION – Creativity, differentiation, boldness
CONFIDENCE – Reliability, trust, integrity
The logo must be elegant ("less is more"), clean, relatively compact, but also creative and memorable. The logo and fonts should appeal to a professional/executive audience.
The logo will appear on business cards, stationary, and website, and thus should be legible in various sizes. The logo should be legible in color or black and white.
Please AVOID the following:
Shadows, gradients, lens flares, or other photoshop gimmicks
Logo templates, clip art, stock designs
Cartoonish designs
The company name for the logo is Sastre (use SASTRE or Sastre if you want to) and we also want to use the tagline "data beats opinion"
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A record number of malicious hacking attempts were made this month, and anti-American groups are responsible.
So says Mi2g, the London-based security consultancy, which notes that US government on-line computers belonging to the House of Representatives, Department of Agriculture, Department of Education, National Park Service, NASA and the US Geological Survey were attacked in September.
According to Mi2g, malicious hacker groups such as S4t4n1c_S0uls, USG, WFD, EgyptianHackers, Arab VieruZ, MHA, The Bugz and FBH, as responsible for many anti-Israeli and anti-Indian attacks, as well as the US targets.
Mi2g has recorded 9,011 digital attacks to date in September, following previous record highs of 4,904 and 5,830 recorded in July and August of this year, compared with 3,499 and 2,820 for the same months last year. September 2001 saw a huge decline in malicious hacking activity with just 816 attacks recorded. This fall is attributed to the aftershock surrounding 911.
This month, US-registered domains suffered the most, with 4,157 attacks, well ahead of the number two nation on the list Brazil which suffered 835 attacks. The UK, Germany and India were next most popular targets, with less than 400 attacks each.
Mi2g also reports that systems running Microsoft Windows suffered more attacks than all other operating systems combined, with only 1,740 attacks on Linux, 933 attacks on BSD and 229 attacks on Solaris.
"Many hacker groups, in anonymous interviews with Mi2g, have said that they prefer attacking Linux systems and very rarely target anything running Windows, simply because to do so is far too easy," claims Jan Andresen of Mi2g. "Those hacking for intellectual gain or fun will generally be attracted to the greater challenge associated with hacking Linux systems."
"Hacker groups with political motivations target country or content specific on-line systems regardless of operating systems and this is where Windows comes under maximum fire."
According to DK Matai, chairman and chief executive officer of Mi2g, an increasing number of vulnerabilities are being found in generic operating systems, server software, applications and libraries deployed on mission critical systems. These flaws are often time consuming to patch and as a result, fixes on these holes are often delayed.
"Applying patches was traditionally relegated to the weekend. Invariably some mission critical machines don't get patched in time despite the best will to do so," said Matai. "Those are perfect doorways for hackers and they are being exploited ruthlessly."
Mi2g forecasts that there will be more than 45,000 digital attacks globally in 2002, up from 31,322 in 2001, 7,821 in 2000; 4,197 in 1999 and only 269 in 1998. © ENN
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Milton Erickson 1952 U.C.L.A 01
Milton Erickson 1952 U.C.L.A 01
Now, my topic for this afternoon is … eh … control of physiological functions by hypnosis. And I'm also enlisted later for hypnotic approaches in therapy. Actually, of course, I have a feeling that it is rather difficult thing to do because in any approach to physiological control one also makes use of therapeutic approaches also. And so I'm not really going to try to make a differentiation or to try to make a [00:47 – 00:48] lecture on the subject. Both topics involve a question of techniques and the both concern with the adequate functioning of the individual as the personality and his functioning in a desired manner. [01:10]
Milton Erickson 1955 Philadelphia 1 - Misconceptiions & phenomena
Milton Erickson 1955 Philadelphia 1 - Misconceptiions & phenomena
[до этого идет приветствие, речь МЭ начинается на 0:40]
One of the first misconceptions that I want to mention is not listed in your booklet. And that is this. Misconception that you can learn hypnosis from a stage hypnotist. You can learn hypnotist from a stage hypnotist, if you want to work on the stage, but if you want to do medical work or dental work or psychological work, I don't think that you can learn from a stage hypnotist. It requires a great deal of study in earnest effort and sincere effort on your part.
Another misconception that I want to mention isn't included is (that) anybody who uses hypnosis must have some very special powers, special knowledge, special abilities. Actually, of course, hypnosis is a very common phenomenon in all human living, and anybody who can communicate with somebody else, can use hypnosis. Anybody, that can communicate with somebody else, can learn hypnosis and utilize it.
Milton Erickson 1958 Pasadena Track 1
Milton Erickson 1958 Pasadena Track 1
[до этого идет приветствие, речь МЭ начинается на 0:09]
Now hypnosis is a phenomenon, that requires participation and I'm gonna ask participation of the part of the audience, because part of your instruction, part of your training should include some efforts on your part to learn and to practice. Now, I'm not going to try to teach you medicine or any of the specialties of any sort. I made mention this specialty or that specialty or this field of medicine or another. But I want you to realize that hypnosis is a technique, a methodology and approach to the patient. And that I expect you to have that amount of medical knowledge requisite for you to practice your own field. And that you use hypnosis to facilitate the contact with the patient to enable a patient to comprehend you better and to motivate your patient in the acceptance of medical care and guidance and advice and instruction. The hypnosis is primarily a method of communicating ideas to people. In hypnosis you establish upon the person into a trance eh state of receptiveness to the ideas and as they are receptive to the ideas then they become responsive to the ideas.
Milton Erickson 1960 Chicago 1
Milton Erickson 1960 Chicago 1
Too often in working with patient you politely try not to notice his resistance, you politely try to overlook it and to pretend that it isn't there. But do you treat your patient that way [0:20 – 0:22 – три слова непонятны] do you ever pretend that your patient hasn't got a gynaecological review, do you ever pretend that you OB patient isn't pregnant, why should you pretend that your resistant patient isn't resistant? You ought to accept their resistance as one of the things they bring into the office. And since they brought it, you ought to use it. You are put to willing to use their eyes, you are put to willing to use their ears [0:50 – 0:55 – не уверен насчет put], their mouth, why not use their ressistance? And so, usually dealing with the ressistant patient, you recognize that they're resistant. [1.07]
Milton Erickson 1960 Chicago 2
Milton Erickson 1960 Chicago 2
Now this question of double-bind. I think it's awfully important that you exercise that double-bind in your therapy. Because why it's called a "double-bind", it is a measure of getting your patient to face the issues at hand, because too often your patient is unwilling to face the issues. I think of one woman oh eh complained about a lump in her breast. And I think there were some 26 different physicians she consulted, and that all advised her to go into the hospital and have her breast operate on. [01:01]
Milton Erickson 1962 San Diego – That which occurs within
Milton Erickson 1962 San Diego – That which occurs within
But eh this time I'd like to take up certain other things that should be of interest to you. … [обрезка, запись внезапно начинается] this matter of the use of hypnosis I find as an editor of a journal that I am having a tremendous amount of competition. I find that the American Journal of Proctology is now publishing articles on hypnosis I would like to publish. The Journal of Anes... ehm Dermatology is publishing articles on hypnosis. In fact all of the various medical journals are publishing increasingly a large number of articles on hypnosis. And in spite of the hostility eh of general medical profession, especially in the older ranks, and the hostility of the dental profession the entrenched members of dental profession and the psychological profession hypnosis is beginning to spread increasingly. [0:01:18]
Milton Erickson 1962 San Diego – Common sense suggestion
Milton Erickson 1962 San Diego – Common sense suggestion
I've been asked to come in on several things. One of them is this matter of imaginary allergy. Wherein the patient tells you that he has a severe allergic response, when you know that it's not chemically possible for him to have a severe allergic response. Over (?) the experience of one of my friends eh in decades that one should take seriously this question of idiosyncrasy for drugs. One of my friends when he sustained practice in medicine wrote up prescription for aspirine for a patient. [01:02]
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For ages untold, a gemstone monolith has pierced the heart of the Echo Wood. Now, as civilization intrudes upon this enigmatic splinter, a strange life once again stirs in the depths—one with ties to undying evils and a might beyond time itself. The promise of wealth and power calls to glory-seekers from across the Inner Sea region, tempting them into a labyrinth of monster-haunted vaults, defiled tombs, arcane laboratories, and worse, as they seek to unveil the secrets locked below the legendary Emerald Spire.
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text: Fresh and feminine, Daisy is a playful bright and alluring scent. Daisy captivates with the luscious freshness of wild strawberry, then blooms with the modern vintage edge of velvety violet petals and finishes with a luminous blend of gardenia and jasmine. The white accords of birch and cedarwood add a bit of intensity. The bottle design features a luxurious block of weighted, clear glass topped with a playful scattering of daisies that appear to bloom from the rounded gold cap. Winner of the Fragrance Foundation's FiFi Awards for Women's Luxe Fragrance of the Year and Women's Prestige Best Packaging, 2008. Top Notes: Strawberry, Violet Leaves Mid Notes: Violet Petals, Jasmine Bouquet Base Notes: Musk, Vanilla Infusion


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LAS VEGAS — "Transformers" director Michael Bay says he's embarrassed that he walked off the stage during a presentation of Samsung's new curved ultra-high-definition television.
Video of the cringe-worthy incident at the International CES gadget show in Las Vegas circulated on social media sites late Monday and early Tuesday. In a statement posted online and confirmed by Bay's production company, Bay says: "I guess live shows aren't my thing."
The video shows Bay start to speak, then stop when the presenter speaks. Bay resumes speaking, then stops again, saying the teleprompter isn't working correctly.
Bay and the presenter then attempt to talk off-the-cuff about the 105-inch TV, but the flustered director apologizes and abruptly leaves the stage.
Bay directed the first three "Transformers" movies, with "Transformers 4" due in theaters in June 2014.


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DAVID CAMERON'S former spin doctor Andy Coulson and ex-News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks will be charged as part of the investigation into alleged corrupt payments to public officials.
The Crown Prosecution Service said that five people are to face action as part of the inquiry, called Operation Elveden.
They include Coulson and former News of the World royal correspondent Clive Goodman, who are to be charged with two conspiracies relating to the request and authorisation of alleged payments to public officials in exchange for information, including a royal phone directory known as the "Green Book".
It contained contact details for the royal family and members of the household.
Brooks, who was editor of the Sun between January 14, 2003 and September 1, 2009, is also facing charges, along with former Sun chief reporter John Kay and Ministry of Defence employee Bettina Jordan Barber.
The three are accused of a conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office between January 1, 2004 and January 31, 2012.
It relates to information allegedly provided by Barber to the Sun in return for payments of around £100,000.
So far, 52 people have been arrested as part of Operation Elveden, two of whom - a retired police officer and a former journalist - have been told they will face no further action.
A counter-terrorism detective had already been charged and is due to face trial in January.
Detective Chief Inspector April Casburn is accused of leaking information to the now-defunct News of the World about the police inquiry into whether to reopen the investigation into phone hacking.


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In a heartfelt composition, Coplu illustrates the love between family members through the symbolism of his heart trees. The brilliant convergence of hearts reminds us of the yearning desire for love and affection between those who love each other. With his saturated colour schemes and Romantic oeuvre, Coplu accentuates the wonder and beauty of family.
Born in the Turkish town of Ushak, Coplu brought into the art world his distinctive style of cartoons, filled with warm and sentimental characters that range from silly to profound. Highly recognized and exhibited, the artist has won many competitions and accolades for his artworks and has been published in various media in Turkey, South East Asia and across Europe. He has also established an Open Air Cartoon Exhibition Space and the Cartoon School of Antalya. Part of many prestigious collections, the artist has been exhibited the world over, including France, Italy, the US, Germany and Spain.
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"My work is a mirror that reflects the feelings, beliefs, thoughts, fears and experiences that we all share in life. The subjects of my paintings are the relationships between ourselves, and the environments we are connected to. My figures are mostly on the edge of contrasting feelings such as hope and despair, joy and pain, love and hate. I aim to provoke viewer's thoughts with contradictions because most of our acts and instincts encompass these.
Generally, there are three strong elements in my paintings that I have the privilege to combine, all of which I try to express a vibrancy through - color, humor and technique. Being raised alongside broad cultural diversities, where all feelings and levels of expression were represented by color, they became very much part of my life. Humor is a key element in my paintings as I try to see the funny side in all things - I believe it is one of the most effective ways to open minds and raise consciousness.
Being a self-taught artist I have had the opportunity of developing my free style and uniqueness through having a free soul and mind. I try to combine my creative elements in a simple, instinctive way so that they strike a chord with anybody who has experienced what life brings their way. I have just recently decided to publish my work for the first time in 20 years offering collectors exclusive limited edition prints. Life is Beautiful… "
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text: Starting Rosetta Stone® Foundation With the login information you will receive from Rosetta Stone after your registration, you can immediately sign in and get started. As soon as your learning account has been set up, you will receive an e-mail from Rosetta Stone with the link for the online portal as well as your individual username and password. Introductory Page Before you log in to the introductory page, you are welcome to watch the brief introductory video, which you will find under the link "First-Time Users". You can choose your interface-languages from the nine available languages. Under "Support", you will find further useful documents. Program Structure of Rosetta Stone Foundation Every learning level consists of 4 units and these each have 4 main lessons. The main lesson consists of about 30-45 individual exercises and will be accompanied by short workshops in the areas of reading, writing, pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, etc. The content will become increasingly more demanding and complex. New content will be introduced in the main lesson and then repeated and deepened in the subsequent workshops - altogether without translations! Not a Beginner? If you have signed up for a language with which you are already familiar to a certain degree, you can always switch to a more advanced level. Every unit contains 4 control exercises, described as "Overview". These repetition blocks consist of 8 to 10 single screens and can be worked through in about 2-3 minutes. As soon as you are having some difficulty with such a control exercise, you should work through the corresponding main unit. Technical Support In case of technical difficulties, you can contact the customer service from Rosetta Stone from the website http://success.rosettastone.de. You will receive an answer from the customer service within 2 business days.


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Portland-based Portland Group has released its 2012 PGI line of high-performance parallelizing compilers and development tools for Linux, OS X, and Windows. The release is noted by its new support for the OpenACC directive-based programming model for NVIDIA CUDA-enabled Graphics Processing Units (GPUs).
This release is also the first to include the fully feature-enabled PGI CUDA C/C++ compiler for multi-core x64 CPUs from Intel and AMD. In addition, PGI 2012 includes a number of performance and feature enhancements for multi-core x64 processor-based HPC systems.
"GPU accelerators are now a mainstay in HPC with NVIDIA's CUDA achieving the widest adoption so far", said Douglas Miles, director of The Portland Group. "First announced in 2008, the PGI Accelerator Fortran and C compilers provide a directive-based high-level approach to GPU programming. Targeting scientists and engineers who are not full-time programmers, the PGI Accelerator programming model frees developers from the tedious aspects of GPU programming and lets them focus instead on optimizing their algorithms."
Other benefits compared to low-level GPU programming models include enhanced productivity (Portland group claims that many developers see performance gains in just minutes) and improved source code portability achieved by retaining compatibility across GPUs and CPUs. PGI 2012 fully supports the PGI Accelerator 1.3 specification including asynchronous data transfer and kernel launch directives and enhanced data management capabilities.
Based in large part on the PGI Accelerator programming model, the OpenACC API provides a hardware-independent methodology for programming accelerators, coprocessors, and related offload engines. Currently, PGI is conducting a closed evaluation of its first Fortran and C compilers to include support for a subset of the OpenACC 1.0 specification. PGI expects to ship fully OpenACC version 1.0 conformant compilers by mid-year 2012.
Other features and enhancements in PGI 2012 include expanded support for the new Advanced Vector Extensions to the x64 instruction set architecture (AVX) in the latest Intel Sandy Bridge and AMD Bulldozer CPUs, improved auto-parallelization support, support for recursive I/O (part of the Fortran 2003 language standard), a new GNU compatible C++ compiler with all PGI features and optimizations, OpenMP nested parallelism, remote cluster debugging support, and Eclipse integration of the PGI C/C++ compilers on Linux.
PGI 2012 supports the latest operating system releases including Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2, Fedora 16, SLES 11 SP1, Ubuntu 11.10, and Apple OS X Lion.


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Considered a bird watchers paradise, Jurong Bird Park in fabulous Singapore is the world's largest. Jurong Bird Park houses over 9000 birds of different species, with 29 of them considered to be endangered. The park also provides a wide array of shows and attractions that are sure to educate even the most avid bird-watcher.
It is a landscaped park, built on the western slope of Jurong Hill. It is located within the Boon Lay Planning Area of the Jurong district and has an area of 202,000 square metres (50 acres).
Asia Pacific's largest bird park was opened on 3 January 1971. The S$3.5 million park draws in both locals and foreign visitors to a learning experience about the life and natural habitats of the birds found within the region. In recognition of this, the Park has been awarded a number of local and international tourism awards. It is also noted for housing the world's largest walk-in aviary with the tallest man-made waterfall of over 30 m.
How the plan to build the park was hatched
Jurong BirdPark owes it founding to the vision of one man, Goh Keng Swee (Dr). In 1967, during a World Bank Meeting, Goh, Singapore's Minister of Finance at the time, visited the aviary in the Rio de Janeiro zoo (Jardim Zoológico or the Rio City Zoo). Impressed by its free-flight aviary, he shared his idea of such a bird park for Singapore at the inaugural meeting of the Jurong Town Corporation in June 1968.
With rapid industrialisation taking place in Jurong then, Goh felt that the creation of a bird park would allow Singaporeans and their families to appreciate nature in an increasingly urban society.
Highlights of the park
The Park's exhibits and aviaries simulate the natural habitats for different species. It boasts the world's largest walk-in aviary where the tallest man-made waterfall is found. Its attractions and bird shows are some of the best in the region.
Some of the key attractions include the Hornbills and Toucans Exhibit that consist of 25 large aviaries covering an area of 2,000 sq m and houses the world's largest collection of Southeast Asian Hornbills and a wide variety of South American Toucans. The simulated natural habitat proved successful for the Park when it recorded the world's first hatching of the Black Hornbill and Great Indian Hornbill in captivity.
There is also the Penguin Parade exhibit, which occupies an area of 1,630 sq m, and is second in size only to that in San Diego, USA. The exhibit is home to more than 200 penguins of five to the 17 known species. The five species on exhibit are the Humboldt, the Rockhopper, the Macaroni, the Fairy and the majestic King Penguin. Visitors are able to view the birds through a specially constructed viewing gallery, which has a 30 m window.
Its Southeast Asian Birds Aviary has 260 species out of over 1,000 species of exotic birds from Southeast Asia. Some 100 species of the birds are grouped in A-framed aviaries, with a large walk-in aviary in the centre where the birds fly freely. The aviaries were landscaped to simulate a secondary rainforest environment for the birds. In addition, there is a tropical thunderstorm that comes on at 12 noon daily, but the rain falls within the centre of the aviary, away from the visitor's walkway.
Another walk-in aviary is the Park's Waterfall Aviary, which houses the world's largest walk-in aviary with the tallest man-made waterfall of over 30 m. It houses over 1,500 free-flying birds such as flocks of Ibis and Egret. Visitors can also view the impressive collection of 10,000 exotic flora of trees, bamboo, palms and ground-cover vegetation that simulates a tropical rainforest environment.
Whether it is the 'Birds of Prey' exhibit, which shows eagles and falcons soaring above, the 'Penguin Exhibition,' with more than 200 penguins and multiple species, or the insightful realm of flightless birds, one of the enjoyable qualities of the park is that many of the exhibits are as educational as they are visually stimulating. These vase collections of birds are a delightful oasis which offers a one of a kind experience for the whole family that is both educational and entertaining. So when you are in Singapore, don't forget to drop by this amazing bird park.