September 5, 2010

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Rockland County, New York, recently received GeoWorlds Geospatial Leadership Award in the Public Enterprise category for its GIS Portal. The Portal, based upon Sewall GeoPower, is an innovative enterprise solution for the delivery of GIS mapping, applications, and associated information over the web.
The Public Enterprise Award recognizes a government entity or nonprofit organization that has pushed the boundaries of whats possible to achieve broad system buy-in and use by a large number of constituents. Rockland County was selected as one of five finalists from an international pool of candidates nominated by GIS professionals and subscribers to GeoTec Media publications and online media, including GeoWorld Magazine, GeoReport e-newsletter, and GeoPlace.com. Final voting for the nomineesthe Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), for the HAZUS Program; the Government of Mongolia, for the Mongolia National Land Information System; the Milwaukee County Department of Transportation and Public Works, AE&ES Division, for the Milwaukee County Interactive Mapping Service; OpenGeo, a Division of the Open Planning Project, for the OpenGeo Suite; and Rockland County, for the GIS Portalwas conducted online through GeoPlace.com.
The GIS Portal, developed by Sewall and implemented in October 2008, provides multiple users, including citizens, businesses, and local governments, with instant web access ...
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September 5, 2010

Rights to land in Rosses Point, Co Sligo, are being claimed by a Church of England vicar and his wife.
Some locals have received solicitors’ letters giving them 28 days to hand over their property. The letters come from representatives of shareholders of the Middleton estate, the original owners of the ground rent on the property, most of whose family left Ireland up to 90 years ago.
Some Rosses Point residents reached a deal where many bought out their ground rent for sums of about £100 after tracing Middleton family members across the globe in the 1970s.
Some of them did not clinch agreement, leaving uncertainty over the ground on which their homes were built in one of the most valuable locations in the northwest.
Now, vicar Guy Chave-Cox and his wife Heather, who claims descent from the Middleton family, are in the area checking what land they believe they have rights to in Rosses Point.
It includes a seaside home where the Yeats brothers, poet WB and painter Jack, holidayed with their Middleton cousins. The dilapidated Elsinore Lodge is now heavily overgrown with ivy.
The vicar and his wife, attached to St Paul’s church, Sticklepath Hill, Barnstaple, Devon, denied demanding that residents surrender disputed property.
However, a number of home-owners received solicitors’ letters in July with 28-day notice from shareholders of the Middleton estate, one of which has bee...
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September 5, 2010

Hey everyone! I just got my hands on the official abilities, skills, screenshots, and lore for LoL’s newest pirate champion, Miss Fortune, the Bounty Hunter. Read up!
Lore:
For those who brave the harsh seas of Runeterra, attaining one’s own ship and crew is the pinnacle of success. Sarah Fortune, a well-respected (some would say legendary) bounty hunter from Bilgewater, was able to achieve this feat just after her sixteenth birthday, etching out her name as the go-to gal for resolving special troubles. No bounty was too difficult or too dangerous for her feminine charm and her renowned use of her twin pistols, “Shock and Awe”. Her success gave her the means to legitimately purchase her own ship… with a little flirtatious haggling, of course. Things weren’t always so fortunate for Miss Fortune, though. When she was young, trade ships began to dot the horizon of her quiet home along the northern shores of Blue Flame Island’s largest chunk. Trade routes brought piracy, and the inhabitants soon found themselves caught in a frenzy of pillage.
One day, young Sarah returned home to hear gunshots and screaming. Her front door was smashed open; inside, she saw her mother lying in a pool of blood. A sudden blow to her head made her collapse next to her slain mother. The last thing she could remember were her attacker’s red eyes, as his face was blocked by a rogue’s bandana. Miss Fortune has a strong distru...
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September 5, 2010

All of the following drugs are used to treat psychosis:
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Antipsychotics are primarily indicated for treatment of psychosis associated with schizophrenia,
paranoia, and manic symptoms of manic-depressive illness.
Chlorpromazine and thioridazine are phenothiazines which act by blocking dopaminergic
sites in the brain. Two other phenothiazines are trifluoperazine (Stelazine) and
fluphenazine (Prolixin).
Risperidone, quetiapine, clozapine, and olanzapine are newer agents that not only antagonize
dopamine, but also antagonize serotonin in the brain.
Note: Haloperidol is a butyrophenone and is a potent dopamine antagonist.
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September 5, 2010

I haven't forgotten about my Top Ten Underrated Asian Dramas list. To prove that I bring a new number to the list.
In order to come up with the list, I looked at several factors: the ratings in their original country, how often they are rec'ed to people in forums and on journals, and how many people were talking about them on journals, forums, etc as they aired. Number Ten was the Japanese ensemble drama Love Shuffle. Number Nine was the Korean drama Happy Together.
Number Eight is Young Warriors of the Yang Clan, a forty-three episode drama that aired in 2006.
WARNING: SPOILERS!!!!
Drama Name: Young Warriors of the Yang Clan
Country: China
Air Dates: 2006-Oct-06 to 2006-Dec-04
Summary: This drama focuses on the earlier days of the legendary Yang Clan when most of them were not yet soldiers. It tells of how their parents, their enemies, and the women they loved shaped their characters, influenced their lives, and motivated them to become the patriotic warriors their clan is revered for. - dramawiki
Cast: The show boost a very long (and talented)cast list. Among them:
Weng Jia Ming (Legend of the Condor Heroes 2008); Amy Chan (Yi Bei Tian Xia); Peter Ho (Men and Legends, Summer Desires); Hu Ge (Legend of the Condor Hero...
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September 5, 2010

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September 5, 2010

I first tried Flying Dutchman nearly 30 years ago. As a medical resident I was attending a conference and the speaker (chief pathologist at the hospital) came in smoking a pipe. When the aroma hit me it immediately brought back the memory of what my great grandfather's pipe smelled like when he smoked. I wanted to know what the blend was so I passed by the speaker's office after the conference. I spied, literally, dozens of 50g tins of Flying Dutchman stacked up against one wall. He could have been a wholesaler for all I knew!
I bought my first 50g tin at a Rite Aid, I believe. The tin aroma had the most subtle hint of what I perceived as vanilla, unlike any other vanilla blend I have ever experienced before or since, as well as another sweetness I can't seem to place. It was fresh and consisted of a thin ribbon cut tobacco with the tiniest curls of tobacco I have ever seen. I assume those were the oriental curled tobaccos used in some Dutch Cavendish blends. As a novice pipe smoker of a few years I was in for a trial - by fire. It burned fast, hot, and my tongue was sore for I don't remember how long! I was determined to tame this beast (that's how good the room note was at the conference), and it took me a while at that! With this blend I learned the gentle art of sipping while I smoked. I would liken it to a lion tamer working with his animals. One needs to be prepared once the cage door closes behind you.
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September 5, 2010

Question by Baseball 4 Life: Ps3 vs Xbox 360 which is better?
It really aggravates me how people say PS3 is more expensive.
PS3($ 399) 80GB
+$ 50 for bluetooth headset
-$ 450 total
-Free Online
-USB controller charger
-Blue Ray Player
Xbox 360($ 299) 60GB
+$ 100 wireless adapter
+$ 60 for Xbox Live
+$ 20 for Battery Charger
-$ 480 Total
-Free Headset
PS3 Exclusives (IGN Rating)
- MLB ‘08: The Show (8.7)
- Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (10)
- Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune (9.1)
- Warhawk (8.8)
- Resistance Fall Of Man (9.1)
- Resistance 2 (9.5)
- Motorstorm (8.9)
- MotorStorm: Pacific Rift (8.3)
- Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (9.4)
- Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty (7.4)
- Grand Turismo 5 Prologue (8.5)
- Buzz!: Quiz TV (8.9)
- LittleBigPlanet (9.5)
Upcoming
- Killzone 2
- Uncharted 2
- MAG: Massive Action Game ( 256 online war game)
- Grand Turismo 5
- God of War III
Xbox 360 Exclusives
- Gears of War (9.4)
- Gears of War 2 (9.5)
- Halo 3 (9.5)
- Ninja Gaiden II (8.7)
- Fable 2 (8.8)
- Mass Effect (9.4)
- Crackdown (8)
Upcoming
- Mass Effect 2
- Halo Wars
- Halo 3: ODST
- H...
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September 5, 2010

Ryan's background is established in Patriot Games and Red Rabbit. Born in 1950, he is the son of Emmet William Ryan (1922–1974), a police homicide lieutenant and World War II veteran. The elder Ryan had served with the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division at the Battle of the Bulge. His mother, Catherine Burke Ryan, (1923–1974) was a nurse.
Successful screenwriter and now director Stuart Beattie has written an adaptation of Tom Clancy’s “Without Remorse” and is keen to make the project his next shot at directing.
First (chronologically) in Clancy’s “Ryanverse” series, the thriller spans four separate story arcs during the Vietnam Warm but primarily fills in backstory details on John Clark, a Navy SEAL who takes on a drug smuggling ring in Baltimore.
Paramount Pictures purchased the screen rights shortly after the novel was published in 1993. After several false starts, the studio is trying again with Beattie, who told MovieHole transforming the 700-page book into a script “the hardest adaptation I’ve ever done.” He sees Josh Hartnett as a possible Clark or an actor in their twenties.
The studio recently hired “Lost” director Jack Bender to re-introduce Clancy’s main hero, Jack Ryan (played by Chris Pine), in...
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