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SACRAMENTO (AP) — From owner to general manager to coach, no other NBA management team has had as little time to prepare for the draft this year as the Sacramento Kings.
The Kings have had so much turmoil and turnover since the season ended that focusing on the future has been an ever-present process of acceleration. The uncertainty that clouded the franchise for so long hit its peak May 21, when Keith Smart represented the Kings at the draft lottery at the request of the Maloof family.
Smart has since been fired as coach and replaced by Mike Malone. Pete D'Alessandro took over as general manager for Geoff Petrie last week. And new owner Vivek Ranadive has wiped away just about every memory of the Maloofs inside Sacramento's suburban arena as part of the franchise's "new era."
The Kings can begin adding to that next chapter on the court come Thursday night, when they have the seventh and 36th overall picks in the draft.
"I see real potential in this draft," D'Alessandro said.
The first-time general manager has relied heavily on the scouting he did in Denver's front office and leaned heavily on Malone — whom D'Alessandro jokingly called "a seasoned veteran with two weeks' experience" at his introductory news conference — to decide how that information might translate to the coach's style and Sacramento's needs.
D'Alessandro also brought over Mike Bratz from the Nuggets to be his assistant general manager. As for filling out the rest of his front office, that will have to wait.
"The beauty of this business is you have a network," D'Alessandro said. "It's like any business — you have people that you trust. Even without having a staff, I have the people that I trust in this industry that are excellent."
This year's draft will shed some insight on what direction D'Alessandro and Malone want to take the team.
The Kings could go for a point guard to complement big man DeMarcus Cousins. Michigan's Trey Burke will likely be off the board by the time Sacramento makes its selection. Lehigh point guard C.J. McCollum, who has worked out twice at the Kings facility in recent weeks, would be the most likely candidate left.
If the Kings are searching for more athleticism inside, UNLV power forward Anthony Bennett, Pittsburgh center Steven Adams and UCLA forward Shabazz Muhammad are also options.
Help is needed no matter what position Sacramento selects. After making eight straight playoff appearances, the Kings have failed to make the postseason the last seven years and have the second-worst record in the NBA during that span. The franchise had become more frugal each year under the Maloofs, putting pressure on Petrie to find success in the draft, where talent can come cheap.
The Kings seemed to channel Petrie's past success when they took Tyreke Evans with the fourth pick in 2009. Evans turned into the NBA Rookie of the Year, though the combo guard has been saddled with knee injuries and inconsistency ever since, and now he's set to become a restricted free agent.
Drafting Cousins fifth in 2010 had the same risk then as signing him to a long-term extension does now: he's a talented center who could blossom into one of the league's best big men, but he's also a player who has shown a lack of discipline and defense, getting suspended three times this past season — twice by the NBA, and once by the team.
While getting point guard Isaiah Thomas with the 60th and final pick two years ago might be considered a steal at that slot, the rest of Sacramento's recent draft history has been forgettable.
Jimmer Fredette, the former BYU sensation selected 10th overall in 2011, has yet to live up to the hype. Thomas Robinson was such a disappointment after been taken fifth that the Kings traded him to Houston midseason. That missed pick was magnified even more because Damian Lillard, the NBA Rookie of the Year, was drafted by Portland one spot after Robinson.
But as with everything else in Sacramento now, the revamped franchise is looking forward and not back.
"I think this team is more of a clean canvas," D'Alessandro said. "We have some strong pieces in there, but there's a lot we can do to get it in the right direction."
SACRAMENTO (AP) — From owner to general manager to coach, no other NBA management team has had as little time to prepare for the draft this year as the Sacramento Kings.


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Sydney, Australia-based metallers KUNVUK have finished mixing and mastering their debut album, "Immute:Jackals", for a late September release via the band's own label, The Light of Damnation Records. The CD was recorded, engineered, mixed and produced by the band's lead guitarist/vocalist David Hart and mastered by Rick O'Neil (FAITH NO MORE, GRINSPOON, BOB DYLAN) at Turtlerock Mastering.
Recorded at the band's own Shadow Mekanik Studios, "Immute:Jackals" will be released as a two-disc digipack edition. The first disc will contain 12 new compositions rallying from the brink of insanity to the pinnacle of clarity. Coupled with this will be a second disc which will contain the reconstructed, re-recorded, remixed and remastered version of the band's demo EP, "The Gone Mekanik Anticipation Demonstration".
Painstakingly recorded over a two year period and representing the culmination of years of no sleep and damaged nerves, "Immute:Jackals" has been completely independently funded and produced.
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Facebook cover photos aren't just a banner at the top of your profile page; they're an art form. We were impressed when we saw these masterworks from Libby Cooper. And apparently so was Nikki, who took them as inspiration to make an awesome batch of her own.
From Game of Thrones to Monty Python, these new covers run the gamut from timely to classic, and they're pretty much all great. And the Photoshopping skill is definitely a step up.
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A set of thirteen spoons, usually silver, the handles of which are adorned with representations of Our Lord (the Master spoon) and the twelve Apostles. Anciently they were given by sponsors as baptismal gifts to their godchildren, the wealthy giving complete sets, others a smaller number, and a poor person a single spoon. The Apostles are distinguished one from the other by their respective emblems:
APA citation. (1907). Apostle Spoons. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01626b.htm
MLA citation. "Apostle Spoons." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01626b.htm>.
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Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. March 1, 1907. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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DANBURY -- The Danbury High girls basketball team added another victory to its undefeated season with a 54-34 FCIAC victory over Trinity Catholic on Friday night.
The victory, however, did not come easy for the Hatters who went into halftime with a narrow 21-19 lead.
Both teams started the game in strong zone defenses that led to poor shooting by both teams.
Danbury stars Rachel and Rebecca Gartner started off the game cold. Shots that normally fell for the junior twin sisters were not falling.
The Crusaders' 3-2 matchup zone forced Danbury's guards into difficult shots and costly turnovers.
Despite the frustration, the Hatters maintained a lead throughout the majority of the first half.
The Gartner twins give all the credit to their teammates.
"Allie (Smith) and Kayla (Handberry) were huge for us tonight," said Rebecca.
Smith led the Hatters with 13 points while Kayla contributed eight to go with a game-high 12 rebounds.
"We know that when our shots aren't falling, our teammates will step up for us, and that's what they did tonight," added Rachel.
According to Trinity Catholic coach Tom Kriz, the contest was a "tale of two halves."
Danbury came out strong at the second half, outscoring the Crusaders 18-3 in the third quarter.
"We executed our defensive plan in the first half," Kriz said. "But in the third quarter we came out flat and allowed Danbury to get their break going."
Additionally, the Hatters executed a near-perfect defense in the third quarter, only allowing one Trinity Catholic field goal.
Danbury forced multiple Crusader turnovers and capitalized on fast break opportunities.
The stellar quarter by the Hatters extended their lead to double digits, giving them a comfortable cushion.
"We knew we had to make some adjustments after the first half," said Danbury coach Jackie Dinardo. "The second half was a complete team effort, and that's what it takes to be a great team."
The victory is the first time in seven games that the Hatters won by less than 25 points.
Rebecca and Rachel Gartner are not getting overconfident, however.
"We are a competitive group," Rachel Gartner said. "We work hard everyday and we aren't lazy. Our team is motivated and we always strive to get better."
The Hatters look to continue their success on Tuesday when they play host to St. Joseph. Trinity Catholic will travel to Darien.
Danbury 54,
Trinity Catholic 34
Nahla Ward 0 0-0 0, Cassandra Almonte 0 0-0 0, Rachel Gartner 3 3-4 12, Allie Smith 6 1-1 13, Uniqua Tucker 2 1-2 5, Kellie Gaston 0 0-0 0, Kasey Boisvert 1 0-0 2, Rebecca Gartner 3 4-4 11, Kaitlin Aldridge 0 0-0 0, Lindsey Eanniello 0 0-0 0, Kayla Handberry 4 0-0 8, Janine Kerr 0 0-0 0, Shannon Geary 0 0-0 0, Melissa Peachman 1 1-2 3. Totals: 20 10-13 54.
Kellie Hurd 2 9-12 14, Nat Senoble 1 0-0 2, Amy Hurd 1 0-0 3, Katelyn Spielman 0 0-0 0, Anne Peltier 0 0-0 0, Erin Frederick 0 0-0 0, Siobhan Kirby 0 0-0 0, Alison Palma 3 1-1 7, Gina DeVito 0 0-0 0, Nicole Fay 0 2-4 2, Anne Margaret Eilertsen 2 2-4 6, Wendy DiMartino 0 0-0 0, Kaitlyn Prackup 0 0-0 0. Totals: 9 14-21 34.
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Recent comments by those who administer our city seem to assume that the city government can decide for everyone what are the "values" that must be held by citizens of Chicago. I was born and raised here, and my understanding of being a Chicagoan never included submitting my value system to the government for approval. Must those whose personal values do not conform to those of the government of the day move from the city? Is the City Council going to set up a "Council Committee on Un-Chicagoan Activities" and call those of us who are suspect to appear before it? I would have argued a few days ago that I believe such a move is, if I can borrow a phrase, "un-Chicagoan."
I'll cop to it that I've been belaboring the point about Chicago politicians in recent days, but I haven't seen it better expressed than what I've posted here. There's more, of course:
People who are not Christian or religious at all take for granted that marriage is the union of a man and a woman for the sake of family and, of its nature, for life. The laws of civilizations much older than ours assume this understanding of marriage. This is also what religious leaders of almost all faiths have taught throughout the ages. Jesus affirmed this understanding of marriage when he spoke of "two becoming one flesh" (Mt. 19: 4-6). Was Jesus a bigot? Could Jesus be accepted as a Chicagoan? Would Jesus be more "enlightened" if he had the privilege of living in our society? One is welcome to believe that, of course; but it should not become the official state religion, at least not in a land that still fancies itself free.
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Big screen Superman movie producer Ilya Salkind has been reported missing in Mexico.
Friends and family reported Salkind, 63, missing to Mexican authorities Sunday night, telling police he was last seen in Mexico City.
Information posted on a website by friends and family noted Salkind went "missing from his family home in Tepozlan Mexico about one hour south of Mexico City in Morales County, and the next largest city is Cuernavaca which is further south from Tepozlan.
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Salkind was last heard from on Sunday at about 8:00 p.m after speaking with friends and business partners in Los Angeles, although it is believed that he left his house on Monday to do some errands and for a dental appointment."
He was reported missing after he did not return for a followup appointment.
Friend James Buccelli said that when he last spoke with Salkind on the phone, the call was cut off.
"Never in a million years do you think that's going to happen to someone you know or someone close to you," said Buccelli.
Buccelli said Salkind often returns to the home to write.
According to the website "Ilya is credited with producing and supervising (with his deceased father) the filming on "Superman" and "Superman II," simultaneously, as the father and son team had done with "The Three Musketeers" and "The Four Musketeers." Later, Ilya also acted as Executive Producer on "Superman III" and was involved in the production of numerous other films including most recently "Young Alexander the Great."


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Misinformation on Iran
Last week, Canada's National Post ran a revolting and disturbing report that the Iranian majlis had passed a law instituting "separate dress codes for religious minorities, Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians, who will have to adopt distinct colour schemes to make them identifiable in public." Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the story was that
Religious minorities... will also have to wear special insignia, known as zonnar, to indicate their non-Islamic faiths. Jews would be marked out with a yellow strip of cloth sewn in front of their clothes while Christians will be assigned the colour red. Zoroastrians end up with Persian blue as the colour of their zonnar.
Several news outlets and blogs picked up on the story, and the New York Post ran the original column under the headline "Iran OKs 'Nazi' Social Fabric."
As it turns out, however, the reporting appears to be false.
The National Post ran a story backing away from its original claims:
Sam Kermanian, of the U.S.-based Iranian-American Jewish Federation, said in an interview from Los Angeles that he had contacted members of the Jewish community in Iran -- including the lone Jewish member of the Iranian parliament.
They denied any such measure was in place.
Mr. Kermanian said the subject of "what to do with religious minorities" came up during debates leading up to the passing of the dress code law.
"It is possible that some ideas might have been thrown around," he said.
"But to the best of my knowledge the final version of the law does not demand any identifying marks by the religious minority groups."
The New York Sun similarly admitted that "The National Post story turned out to be incorrect":
Over the weekend, the representative of Iran's Jewish community in the Iranian legislature, Maurice Motamed, denied that the proposed dress code changes would require minorities to wear distinctive clothing or badges. The chairman of the parliament's cultural committee, Emad Afroogh, also told wire services that the initial reports of such restrictions were "worthless."
A summary of the legislation that appeared on the Majlis Web site contained no specific language designating special dress codes or markers for minorities, either.
Mr. Motamed's claims were actually stronger than the Sun indicated:
"Such a plan has never been proposed or discussed in parliament," he said. "Such news, which appeared abroad, is an insult to religious minorities here."
CBS News outlined its own decisionmaking process, and why it decided against running with the story:
CBS News Radio has also decided against running the story, according to Exective Producer Charlie Kaye. "There are too many red flags here," he says. "The best we can determine is this has originated with Iranian dissidents in Canada. We have spoken to a CBS News correspondent just back from Iran and her producer, we've spoken to the Iranian mission to the UN, we've spoken to our State Department Reporter Charlie Wolfson, and at this point we're not comfortable putting it on the radio."
Amir Taheri, the author of the original article, has now issued a classic non-denial denial through his PR firm, Benador Associates.
The Iranian government is reprehensible enough on its own. The awful policies enacted by Tehran are too numerous to count. (The very fact that the government is working on legislation concerning the way people dress being a good example.) But irresponsible reporting that leads casual observers to believe that Iran is directly drawing on Nazi Germany for the crafting of its social policies is incredibly detrimental to the debate over US policy.
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April 1, 2012
WASHINGTON — Law enforcement tracking of cellphones, once the province mainly of federal agents, has become a powerful and widely used surveillance tool for local police officials, with hundreds of departments, large and small, often using it aggressively with little or no court oversight, documents show.
The practice has become big business for cellphone companies, too, with a handful of carriers marketing a catalog of "surveillance fees" to police departments to determine a suspect's location, trace phone calls and texts or provide other services. Some departments log dozens of traces a month for both emergencies and routine investigations.
With cellphones ubiquitous, the police call phone tracing a valuable weapon in emergencies like child abductions and suicide calls and investigations in drug cases and murders. One police training manual describes cellphones as "the virtual biographer of our daily activities," providing a hunting ground for learning contacts and travels.
But civil liberties advocates say the wider use of cell tracking raises legal and constitutional questions, particularly when the police act without judicial orders. While many departments require warrants to use phone tracking in nonemergencies, others claim broad discretion to get the records on their own, according to 5,500 pages of internal records obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union from 205 police departments nationwide.
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An acknowledged visionary, rebel and architectural genius, the artistry of Frank Lloyd Wright remains unique and unparalleled to this day. While many consider the Guggenheim in Manhattan to be his most seminal work, many important buildings throughout New York State were also stamped with Wright's distinctive signature and can be viewed by the public today. Seven Wright structures can be visited in Buffalo and the surrounding area, making for a unique architectural journey back in time and a first-hand appreciation of this rebellious genius' work.
Wright felt a kinship to local Buffalo executive Darwin Martin, who hired him to create several structures, including his own home and who remained a close friend for 30 years. Completed in 1904, the Martin Complex in Buffalo encapsulated the elements most closely identified with the rustic signature of Wright's celebrated Prairie Style. A known lover of nature, Wright's combination of warm, natural elements and encapsulated, comfortable spaces housed within majestic, sweeping environments became known as American architecture at its finest. The Martin Complex personifies Wright's vision and is considered by many to be the most significant private work of his career. Comprised of five interconnected buildings, including one built for Martin's sister, the Complex was designed around a unified theme, creating the feeling that all five buildings were part of one astonishing whole. Martin's home was given landmark status in 1986, and the entire complex is available to the public today. Tours and ticket information can be found here.
It is said that Wright "broke the box" of traditional architecture, and nowhere is this more apparent than at the Blue Sky Mausoleum in the Forest Lawn Cemetery. Seemingly blending into the natural landscape surrounding it, the Mausoleum sweeps outward as if to touch the sky and ground simultaneously in an organic ode to nature. The Mausoleum was also commissioned by Darwin Martin, who was committed to supporting his long-time friend's architectural vision. The Mausoleum is the most unique in all the world and its design has been retired.
Situated high on a cliff overlooking Lake Eerie, Graycliff was designed for Martin's wife Isabelle, as their summer residence. Built in 1927, the 6,500 square foot estate incorporates some of Wright's beloved Prairie style elements with more concrete design elements and features sweeping views of the lake and natural landscape surrounding it. After the deaths of Martin and his wife, Graycliff was sold to an order of Roman Catholic Friars. Currently, it is managed by the Graycliff Conservancy and a number of tours are available but must be reserved in advance. These can be for one or two hours in duration at various times of the day and include Summer Twilight and Yuletide tours. Children under 10 are not permitted.
Corey Whelan is a freelance writer in New York. Her work can be found at Examiner.com.


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Dear Otto is an occasional column where I answer questions I get from readers about teaching tech. If you have a question, please complete the form below and I'll answer it here. For your privacy, I use only first names.
Here's a great question I got from Cheryl in Indiana:
It seems that my well-structured primary tech classrooms fall apart when it is time to print. Some students just keep pushing Print & end up printing multiple copies, 25 students scramble to the printer to collect their printouts. Total chaos! Any ideas?
I have a two-step solution to that:
- Teach students how to print. I take lesson time to show them the print box, the varied spots where things can be changed, and how to do it right. After that, I know it's not lack of knowledge causing problems
- I don't let them go to the printer. First, it gets to be the lab water cooler–everyone hanging out back there, chatting, while they wait for the stuff to print. That's no good. Second, I' can't monitor that everything printed is appropriate if they're taking papers from the printer. Third, if they print more than one, I want to chat with them about it.
- Consistent offenders aren't allowed to print. I'll email it to parents/teacher, but they lose the privilege
Most times, they are cured when I talk to them. I never let it slide because it would descend into chaos.
Does that help? Any other pieces I didn't mention?
Good luck!
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Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years. She is the editor of a K-8 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum, and creator of technology training books for how to integrate technology in education. She is webmaster for six blogs, CSG Master Teacher, an Amazon Vine Voice book reviewer, Editorial Review Board member for Journal for Computing Teachers, Cisco guest blogger, a columnist for Examiner.com, featured blogger for Technology in Education, IMS tech expert, and a monthly contributor to TeachHUB. Currently, she's editing a techno-thriller that should be out to publishers next summer. Contact Jacqui at her writing office or her tech lab, Ask a Tech Teacher.


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EtherWAN systems releases Ethernet Products
The Ethernet switch series EX96000, EX93000 and EX43000 from EtherWAN systems enable mounting and power flexibility to fit industrial control, transportation and applications. The ports provided with the units may be configured for multi-mode or single mode fiber optic interfaces. Management systems for the units are accessed in a variety of ways, including SNMP or through a web browser. The EX93000 is an eight port hardened switch built on the same platform as the EX96000, but it is an unmanaged switch that does not provide gigabit capability.
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Oh, man. It's been a whopping four years since the original "High School Musical" came out. So much has happened since that faraway, more innocent time. The iPad, for example. Didn't have that in 2006, that's for sure. Anyway, the folks at Disney know just how ancient that franchise is in today's hustle and bustle world. Why, Zac Efron is already 22! That's, like, after college old! That's SO old! We clearly need a new batch of ready-made Disney stars who will captivate tweens and have the good sense to not pose nude for Annie Leibovitz. So the company is making "Prom," a new Disney Channel flick featuring ten up-and-coming young actors. Nellie Andreeva at Deadline explains:
Disney has assembled the cast of Prom, its high-school comedy feature revolving around a group of teens and the emotional ups and downs they go through prepping for the big dance. The studio stuck to its original plan to cast mostly unknown young actors as the leads in the movie, which is eyed as a potential launching pad for a franchise in the mold of High School Musical and whose tone is said to be similar to John Hughes' Sixteen Candles and Pretty in Pink. Cast as the leads in Prom are: Thomas McDonell, Aimee Teegarden (Friday Night Lights), Danielle Campbell, Nolan Sotillo, Yin Chang (Gossip Girl), Jared Kusnitz (Surviving Suburbia), Nicholas Braun (10 Things I Hate About You), Ben Esler (The Pacific), Kylie Bunbury and DeVaughn Nixon. Joe Nussbaum is directing from a script by Katie Wech. Ted Griffin and Justin Springer are producing.
It's not clear that "Prom" will be a musical. It appears it will be a straight live action comedy. Thus, the only things it will really have in common with "High School Musical" are a young cast a comically generic title for itself. I'm very excited for Disney's next iteration of TV movie franchise, titled, "Young People Who Send Text Messages And Stuff." It's gonna be wild.
Anyway, expect the Disney marketing machine to turn "Prom" into a giant phenomenon that you, Mr. Ten Years Too Old, won't have any knowledge of until it's already passed its cultural zeitgeist. After that, it's on to casting the next group of fresh faces. Because they get old just so darn quickly, don't they?


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Cerno Capital is shortlisted alongside BNY Mellon, Standard Life and Quilter Cheviot, in the Sponsorship of the Year category for the Investment Marketing and Innovation Awards 2017.
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Robots at CES 2014
5 Adorable Robots at CES 2014
5 Adorable Robots at CES 2014
Our partners at ReadWrite share this look at some of the cutest finds on the CES floor.
By Lauren Orsini
If the Consumer Electronics Show is even a glimpse of the future of technology, then the future is going to be downright adorable.
This week, the Las Vegas Convention Center was teeming with nonthreatening robot helpers eager to make our day-to-day lives a bit easier. And rather than the rigid, cold 'bots we were expecting, many of these robots go above and beyond the call of duty to charm even the most skeptical human beings.
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Turkey used to be more secular than it is now. It's going in the wrong direction. It's going backward. Of course, theocrats think it's going in the right direction, and going forward, or else that going backward is a good thing.
Torcant sent me this example from Hürriyet, in which a woman is fired because cleavage.
A television presenter has been dismissed over a low-cut top she wore on a television program, following criticism from ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) spokesperson Hüseyin Çelik.
Çelik criticized the presenter's costume during a TV program, without giving a name, saying he found the dress "extreme" because of its open cleavage.
"We don't intervene against anyone, but this is too much. It is unacceptable," he said.
We don't intervene against anyone, except when we do. We, the political party in power, decide what is acceptable in the way of women's shirts. When we turn our thumbs down the woman is kicked out of her job.
Following Çelik's remarks, it was revealed that the host in question was Gözde Kansu, who was taking part on the show "Veliaht" on the ATV station, and rumors spread that she had been fired.
The show's producer, Caner Erdem, previously said nothing had been resolved, adding that Kansu might not take part in the program next week "due to her busy schedule."
However, after discussions between the channel and the producer, Kansu's dismissal was confirmed on Oct. 8.
The company that produces the show released a statement on Oct. 9, denying that Kansu was fired due to her low-cut dress.
The company said it no longer wanted to work with Kansu after the first episode because her way of presentation and style was not in line with the show's aims, the statement said.
And those aims were…to jump when the party in power said jump.
Gözde Kansu is more direct about the matter.
Gözde Kansu, the television presenter who was fired from a TV show after a government official criticized her low-cut dress, said her firing was political, as nobody at her station was "willing to stand against the political will."
"Sacrificing me was the easiest thing they could have done and they did. A woman again," Kansu said in an interview with daily Hürriyet, speaking for the first time in public after reports of her dismissal from private broadcaster ATV surfaced.
She objected to the show producer's claim that said they had parted ways because "her way of presentation and style was not in line with the show's aims."
"Look, if they didn't like my performance they would tell me, right? They are investing a lot of money in this business. But they didn't tell me anything. When [Hüseyin] Çelik talked, things changed," Kansu said, insisting that her presenting had previously been praised and encouraged by the producers. "This is only the excuse. The ratings were not bad. But nobody wanted to act contrary to political will that slammed my décolleté. This is obvious," she said.


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Red Sox - 000 000 100 - 1 9 0 Yankees - 062 001 00x - 9 9 0
Russell Martin's bloop single to left glanced off Carl Crawford's glove for two runs, as he tried to make a diving catch. Then Derek Jeter hit a first-pitch, opposite-field, three-run homer.
Amid the underachievers and out-of-their-leaguers that Boston has been sending to the hill this month (Lackey, Weiland, Miller, Wakefield, Bedard), Lester was supposed to have been someone we could depend on.
Instead, his last three outings have been horrific: 13.2 innings, 21 hits, 16 runs, 8 walks, 10 strikeouts, 10.54 ERA.
Terry Francona asked for input on today's lineup from his coaches and a few players, and made some changes:
Ellsbury, CFTito:
Crawford, LF
Pedroia, 2B
Ortiz, DH
Gonzalez, 1B
Aviles, 3B
Scutaro, SS
Reddick, RF
Saltalamacchia, C
We didn't swing the bat very well last night. Spoke to Demarlo and some of the players [including Pedroia] ... I asked for their opinions. ... When I got let go in Philadelphia I told myself that if I ever got another chance I'd be true to myself. Whether people agree with me or not, that's the way I feel bout it and that's important for me.Theo Epstein:
We had a rough April and we played close to .700 ball for four months and now we're having a real rough September. ... I don't think there's a sense of doom of inevitability at all because this isn't inevitable. If we score more runs than the other team tonight, we'll win. If we do it the next night, we'll win two in a row and we're back. ... Everyone gets knocked on their ass sooner or later. It's what happens afterwards that matters. ... I will say this. Win a game or two in a row here, I do think this team could feel unburdened a little bit and get dangerous in a hurry. It starts with winning one game.Meanwhile, the Daily News is making a fool of itself:
Red Sox 88 68 --- Magic# Rays 86 71 2.5 4 Angels 85 72 3.5 3Remaining Games
Red Sox - 3 at MFY, 3 at BAL Rays - 2 vs TOR, 3 vs MFY Angels - 2 vs OAK, 3 vs TEXCool Standings has the up-to-date wild card chances: Red Sox (95.2%), Rays (3.7%), Angels (1.1%).
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Zeeburgerdijk 209-265 in Amsterdam
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|Gert Jan Knevel, Benjamin Robichon
|project team:
|Giacomo Garziano, Loran Kampen, Vid Kurinçiç, Stan Korthagen, Philip Rutten, Narcis Pujol, Lard Joordens
|Knevel Architecten BV
|Zeeburgerdijk 209-265 Amsterdam
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|floor area:
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|start design:
|January 2008
|urban framework adopted by city district Zeeburg in August 2008
The intervention area concerns a strip at the north side of the Zeeburgerdijk between the project "de Lijn" on the corner of the Van Lohuizenlaan and the existing low-rise houses. Currently, several businesses are located in this strip. The owners of the strip and the city district of Amsterdam wish to demolish the current volumes with the aim to intensify the use of the area by planning mixed urban functions.
Next to this, parking and rentable business spaces should be integrated in the proposal for new developments in the area. This urban substance gains opportunities and shows potential to develop a number of real estate projects with an own identity. In the framework, the absence of a continuous plinth is explicitly demanded.The rules of the framework formulate statements on functions, phasing, infrastructure, parking and building lines. The area could be completed with a combination of office/studio functions and housing. Next to this, in the housing program there's a possibility to insert a health care function which can be linked to the development concerning the Flevohuis and the Noordoostkwadrant.
The assignment concerns an urban framework for the future development of the building strip Zeeburgerdijk 209 – 265 in Amsterdam.
For the proposal of this plan, there has been made a clear choice to take leave of the current DNA of the area. Then there is the explicit wish of the city district Board Members to take into account elderly housing.
The urban plan also addresses the maximum building volume, the designated areas for parking and enhancing the quality of the public space. The character of the urban plan can be described as a uniform building front with the possibility for expression and identity of every single building.


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"It wasn't super dangerous. Ten meters¿thirty feet, maybe forty. I was doing a lot more dangerous shit than this," Marek Schneider says. Knowing him¿something you couldn't help in just a single conversation¿the possibility for serious harm is never far. "It wasn't that bad a slam. It happens to people who fall down three stairs: Bad luck."
What else can you call it? To fully live is to accept risk, but what do you do when a little bad luck rearranges your entire existence?
This 23-year-old now breathes the answer. After sticking a switch 720 over that Austrian gap thirty times by his recollection (as seen in the video Nobody's Heroes), Schneider slammed on his butt, crushing his L-1 vertebrae and snapping the spinal column. Just as his promising career as a pro snowboarder was taking off, Marek Schneider was paralyzed at 21 years old.
"Luckily I got into an Innsbruck hospital with the best doctor in Europe¿his son is actually a pro snowboarder riding for Smith," Schneider says. "They flew the doctor in to do my surgery so I don't have problems with pain at all. I have a little progress with feeling¿I have muscle movement in my legs, but I can't feel too much on my ass, for example. Some people have trouble pissing and shitting¿I don't have that. And I can f¿k, which is good. It's good exercise for my body," he says with a broad grin.
Flipping grim reality on its bright side is a Schneider specialty. It comes naturally having grown up in Prague, Czechoslovakia (he still lives in the same house) during the Russian communist occupation. As a boy Schneider remembers people waiting in food lines, a fence on the border and guards waiting to shoot you if you dared heading west. His parents printed anti-Communist literature while people were tunneling out of the country.
"The first time I saw the stores in America I was freaking out," Schneider laughs. "In Czech you had one kind of anything but you didn't have to work."
Schneider can speak five languages¿English, German, Russian, Czechoslovakian and a little Slovak-Polish. Skiing by age three, he's also fluent in the universal language of action. "I was skateboarding but they were really lame. There was no skate shop, my father bought it for me in West Berlin," Schneider says. "People were freaking on it. Going down the street on a big board with big wheels, people were like, 'What the f¿k?' I'm used to people's attention."
At this, his friends in the room, the crew of Mt. Bachelor riders who have known him from his many trips there, snicker knowingly. With his hilarious, outgoing personality, Schneider could crack up a convention of grief counselors.
He laughs at this, too, then addresses reality totally without irony or bitterness, "Now I'm a cripple in a wheelchair and people are looking at me wherever I go."
At fourteen he bought a used snowboard from Czechoslovakia's champion rider and took to it like the natural athlete he is, cutting up his much-loved home mountain of Chopok, Slovakia. While riders in America were being banned from ski slopes, Schneider's talent on a board was earning him a following, since, "After fifty years of Communism, anything that was American and fancy was the shit."
By age eighteen he was a Czech rock star and probably the best rider in Eastern Europe, getting flow from Burton. By nineteen he built Chopok a halfpipe and was inviting his many rider friends to his own snowboard camp. I opened the charming and hilarious letter he sent to SNOWboarding Magazine inviting us to check out his camp, probably the only one that far east at the time. I can still see his handwriting, in just a short couple pages effectively conveying all the stoked, senseless passion for riding that made¿and keeps us¿all snowboarders.
On Burton's rookie team, Schneider got an improbable offer from Purged Snowboards and signed a contract for $25,000. He never saw a dime, but kept at it, rriding for Crap and Soupkichen', getting money from Northwave and Black Flys, riding in contests and shooting videos¿a shoo-in for the first Olympics until a single unfair accident changed everything.
Or did it? According to his many friends, Schneider lost the use of his legs but none of what makes him so much fun to be around. A guy who wants to drive an ambulance but swears he'll never work ("I worked in McDonald's for two days¿gave too many hamburgers for free to my friends and they kicked my ass out.") still travels and enjoys many pleasures.
"Not many people in Czech live as good as I do," Schneider says. "They usually live in small flats¿huge, ugly Communist style. Czech is fun in the way it's corrupt; you go through shit you would never go through in America. To fly here is like flying fifty years forward."
Still, he adds, "You wouldn't believe what kind of problems you have in Czech, especially in a wheelchair. I'm flying to Zurich then Cincinnati to Denver and they're like, 'In a wheelchair? Alone?' Some fat guy had to carry me onto the airplane. The airport in Prague doesn't even have handicapped access to the bathroom. The buildings all have stairs and stone, it's all f¿ked up. But on the other hand it's more freedom than here. You don't worry about drinking beer on the street."
Doctors tell him he may walk in a couple years¿even ride again someday. Schneider admits he can't sit in the chair all day, and that the best way to heal is to do things, so to pass the time he pilots a 1958 motorcycle with a sidecar. He has parachuted out of a plane and rolled his wheelchair on a suspended ropes course (on the rim, without tires). He rides horses and swims. He surfs, shoots guns and rides a sit-ski until he completes his design of a sit-snowboard.
"I was back on the hill four months after the accident," Schneider says. "It was a trip¿having the same clothes, the same pants, shoes, bags, feeling the same everything. I was in the mountains but couldn't move my legs. It was still f¿king heaven."
Maybe more than ever before, Schneider lives his life like an example of what is possible. He flies in the face of how one terrible setback can keep you down forever. He is still rad¿staring right in the eyes of people who look away because they're afraid of what they might see.
"No bro-brah style here," Schneider says of the companies that he has tried to get interested in handicapped snowboarding. "They're scared of it. They think, 'He's f¿cked, dead, can't have fun in his life. It's not true. They should be happy it never happened to them instead of afraid it will."


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Hi, First of all. I know this is not the right place to post. I unable to post to suggestion thread.
I have code qzdoom to allow model change via DECORATE and its working. The problem is its not working as intended. Whoever want to check the code and try it can download it from here.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/dro44zgriclr0 ... e.zip?dl=0
1. Drag and drop skinmodelreplacement.pk3 into gzdoom.exe
2. At your front you will see a morphing 3d model object. This have been done via custom DECORATE code
3. on your left side, you will see a shape. This shape is the same actor name. When you shoot the shape. The other shape actor will change too and its not intended to happen(will explain it later)
4. On your right side, You will see 2 space marine. These 2 space marine is the same actor name. Shoot 1 of them and their texture and model will change. The other space marine able to retain the model due to using special hackery script.
The point is, I want to make a unique 3D Model Change via DECORATE. But due my limited knowledge in c++, I unable to solve this problem. What the actually the code does its just replace the data in the Struct array table. When GZdoom launched, It will create a data table for the model. I try to inspect the data table and try to make it more flexible and accept new unique data. I failed to find a solution for this.
I hope the drdteam can inspect my code and find a proper solution for this. Hopefully Its does not need a complete overhaul for gl_models.h
Change Actor 3D model via DECORATE/ZSCRIPT
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Re: Change Actor 3D model via DECORATE/ZSCRIPT
Suggestions and bug reports are posted in the bug tracker, here:Jitan wrote:I unable to post to suggestion thread.
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Re: Change Actor 3D model via DECORATE/ZSCRIPT
This isn't a suggestion anyway but an editing quesion.
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Moved to Editing.
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Since this have fall into editing category. I have inspect the code
I just wondering how to make the data in this struct unique by actor. The data table only unique by actor name. What reference should I look at ?
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struct FSpriteModelFrame
int modelIDs[MAX_MODELS_PER_FRAME];
FTextureID skinIDs[MAX_MODELS_PER_FRAME];
FTextureID surfaceskinIDs[MAX_MODELS_PER_FRAME][MD3_MAX_SURFACES];
int modelframes[MAX_MODELS_PER_FRAME];
int actorTIDs[MAX_MODELS_PER_FRAME]; // actor tid
float xscale, yscale, zscale;
// [BB] Added zoffset, rotation parameters and flags.
// Added xoffset, yoffset
float xoffset, yoffset, zoffset;
float xrotate, yrotate, zrotate;
float rotationCenterX, rotationCenterY, rotationCenterZ;
float rotationSpeed;
unsigned int flags;
const PClass * type;
short sprite;
short frame;
FState * state; // for later!
int hashnext;
float angleoffset;
// added pithoffset, rolloffset.
float pitchoffset, rolloffset; // I don't want to bother with type transformations, so I made this variables float.
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|Top Online Data Backup Rankings
Record Fourth Quarter Revenue of $23.7 million; increases 37%
Record Full Year Revenue of $84.0 million; increases 39%
BOSTON, MA – February 4, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ — Carbonite, Inc. (NASDAQ: CARB), a leading provider of cloud backup solutions for consumers and small businesses, today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2012.
"During the fourth quarter, we achieved record revenue, realized ongoing operating leverage, and generated significant free cash flow, even after accelerating the payment of our annual cash bonuses into the quarter," said David Friend, Chairman and CEO of Carbonite. "As we enter 2013, the company will further invest in the small business market where our recent acquisition of Zmanda has bolstered our offerings with comprehensive backup and database archiving. While we continue to enhance our consumer value proposition, our small business offerings are experiencing faster growth, higher margins, and better retention and will be the key drivers of our growth going forward."
Financial and Operating Metrics for the Fourth Quarter Ended December 31, 2012
Financial and Operating Metrics for the Full Year 2012
An explanation of non-GAAP measures is provided under the "Non-GAAP Financial Measures" below and reconciliation to the most comparable GAAP measures is provided in the tables at the end of this press release.
Recent Business Highlights
Business Outlook
Based on information available as of February 4, 2013, Carbonite is issuing guidance for the first quarter and full year 2013 as follows:
First Quarter 2013: The Company expects total revenue for the first quarter to be in the range of $24.3 million to $24.6 million and non-GAAP net loss per common share to be in the range of ($0.17) to ($0.19). Carbonite's expectations of non-GAAP net loss per common share for the first quarter excludes amortization expense on intangible assets, stock-based compensation expense, and patent litigation expense and assume a tax rate of 0% and weighted average shares outstanding of approximately 25.8 million.
Full Year 2013: The Company expects 2013 total revenue to be in the range of $104.0 million to $106.0 million and non-GAAP net loss per common share to be in the range of ($0.40) to ($0.44). Carbonite's expectations of non-GAAP net loss per common share for the full year excludes amortization expense on intangible assets, stock-based compensation expense, and patent litigation expense and assumes a tax rate of 0% and weighted average shares outstanding of approximately 25.9 million.
Conference Call and Webcast Information
Carbonite will host a conference call on February 4, 2013 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) to discuss the Company's fourth quarter financial results and its business outlook. To access this call, dial 800-992-7415 (domestic) or +1-913-312-0708 (international). A replay of this conference call will be available until February 11, 2013 at 877-870-5176 (domestic) or +1-858-384-5517 (international). The replay pass code is 7516543. A live web cast of this conference call will also be available in the investor relations section on the Company's website at http://investor.carbonite.com under "Events and Presentations" and a replay will be archived on the website as well.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
This press release contains non-GAAP financial measures including bookings, non-GAAP net loss and non-GAAP net loss per common share, and free cash flow. Bookings represent the aggregate dollar value of customer subscriptions received during a period and are calculated as revenue recognized during the period plus the change in total deferred revenue during the same period. Non-GAAP net loss and non-GAAP net loss per common share exclude amortization expenses on intangible assets, stock-based compensation expenses, a lease exit charge associated with our data center relocation, and patent litigation expenses from net loss and give effect to the conversion of preferred stock and issuance of common stock in connection with the Company's initial public offering as if both had happened at the beginning of the period. Non-GAAP free cash flow is calculated by adding the cash portion of the lease exit charge and subtracting cash paid for the purchase of property and equipment from net cash provided by operating activities. Quarterly retention rate is defined as the percentage of customers on the last day of the prior quarter who remain customers on the last day of the current quarter.
The Company believes that these non-GAAP measures of financial results provide useful information to management and investors regarding certain financial and business trends relating to the Company's financial condition and results of operations. The Company's management uses these non-GAAP measures to compare the Company's performance to that of prior periods and uses these measures in financial reports prepared for management and the Company's board of directors. The Company believes that the use of these non-GAAP financial measures provides an additional tool for investors to use in evaluating ongoing operating results and trends and in comparing the Company's financial measures with other software-as-a-service companies, many of which present similar non-GAAP financial measures to investors.
The Company does not consider these non-GAAP measures in isolation or as an alternative to financial measures determined in accordance with GAAP. The principal limitation of these non-GAAP financial measures is that they exclude significant items that are required by GAAP to be recorded in the Company's financial statements. In addition, they are subject to inherent limitations as they reflect the exercise of judgments by management. In order to compensate for these limitations, management presents its non-GAAP financial measures in connection with its GAAP results. The Company urges investors to review the reconciliation of its non-GAAP financial measures to the comparable GAAP financial measures, which it includes in press releases announcing quarterly financial results, including this press release, and not to rely on any single financial measure to evaluate the Company's business.
Cautionary Language Concerning Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements represent the Company's views as of the date of this press release based on the current intent, belief or expectations, estimates, forecasts, assumptions and projections of the Company and members of our management team. Words such as "expect," "anticipate," "should," "believe," "hope," "target," "project," "goals," "estimate," "potential," "predict," "may," "will," "might," "could," "intend," variations of these terms or the negative of these terms and similar expressions are intended to identify these forward-looking statements. Those statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding guidance on our future financial results and other projections or measures of future performance, and our expectations concerning market opportunities and our ability to capitalize on them. Forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which involve factors or circumstances that are beyond the Company's control. The Company's actual results could differ materially from those stated or implied in forward-looking statements due to a number of factors, including, but not limited to, the Company's ability to profitably attract new customers and retain existing customers, the Company's dependence on the market for online computer backup services, the Company's ability to manage growth, and changes in economic or regulatory conditions or other trends affecting the Internet and the information technology industry. These and other important risk factors are discussed or referenced in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is available on www.sec.gov, under the heading "Risk Factors" and elsewhere, and any subsequent periodic or current reports filed by us with the SEC. The Company anticipates that subsequent events and developments will cause its views to change. Except as required by applicable law or regulation, we do not undertake any obligation to update our forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances.
About Carbonite
Carbonite, Inc. (NASDAQ: CARB), is a leading provider of online backup solutions for consumers and small and medium sized businesses. Subscribers in more than 100 countries rely on Carbonite to provide easy-to-use, affordable and secure online backup solutions with anytime, anywhere data access. Carbonite's online backup solution runs on both the Windows and Mac platforms. The company has backed up more than 300 billion files, restored nearly 20 billion files, and currently backs up more than 350 million files each day.
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Top 10 games with the highest composite score released in the last 12 months: Disco Elysium, The Last of Us: Part II, Yakuza 5 Remastered, Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince, Half-Life: Alyx, Deliver Us the Moon, DARQ, Gwent: Merchants of Ofir, Children of Morta and Blasphemous.
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Railroad involved in Lac-Megantic disaster stops hauling oil
Train derailment destroyed much of city's downtown
The Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway is no longer hauling crude oil over its rail lines – effective immediately, officials said.
The decision came on the one-month anniversary of the train derailment and explosion in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, that killed dozens of people and destroyed much of the city's downtown. Edward Burkhardt, chairman of the board for the railway, confirmed the decision.
Demolition crews dug through a pit of rubble Tuesday as hundreds of people passed by to see the crater that used to be downtown Lac-Megantic.
"It's very hard to see my city like this," said Tamara Vachon-Gaulin during her first visit to the downtown since the explosion. "It's too much."
Vachon-Gaulin worked in one of the 30 buildings that were destroyed when a runaway train hauling crude oil exploded July 6. She had left work just a few hours before the fiery crash.
The death toll stands at 42 with five more people still missing.
In a church across the street, there were candles, messages from children and pictures of some of the victims.
"It's a big tragedy because of the amount of people who died. It happened so fast," said Jacques Proulx of Baie-du-Febvre, Quebec.
Visitors to the city said they're surprised to see the magnitude of the devastation in person.
"It's terrible. It's terrible," Proulx said. "From what we see on TV, we cannot imagine how big this thing is."
The Quebec Provincial Police said the downtown area is no longer a crime scene, so they are turning it back over to the city. Members of the media got to see the hardest hit part of the town for the first time Monday.
"Time stopped. That's what it looks like," said Sgt. Martine Asselin of the provincial police.
Frozen scenes from a Friday night in July that turned tragic before the sun rose the next morning.
"On the other side of the city, where there was no explosion, you can see all of the shops as if they were closed like a Sunday morning at 5 o'clock," Asselin said.


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DUTCHESS COUNTY, N.Y. -- State Sen. David J. Valesky (D-Oneida) and Assemblymember Shelley B. Mayer (D-Yonkers) recently introduced a new bill (S-4361/A-6424) which would require telemarketers to disclose that the phone call is being recorded at the start of the call.
In addition to the existing law requiring that telemarketers communicate their name, the person on whose behalf the solicitation is being made, and the purpose of the phone call, this bill would require that the telemarketer let consumers know at the start of the phone call if they are being recorded, according to a release.
The bill was introduced in response to a resurgence of suspicious telemarketer phone calls to help protect residents from scammers.
Recently, there have been a number of phone scams in which callers record a person's voice and then later use the recording to deceive the consumer into paying for goods and services he or she did not agree to buy, the release said.
The bill was referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection in the Senate and the Committee Consumer Affairs and Protection in the Assembly.
The new legislation sponsored by Valesky and Mayer presumes that by requiring legitimate telemarketing calls to let consumers know when a call is recorded, consumers will have a better opportunity to decline to speak further and end the call.
"This legislation will help protect consumers from a deceptive practice perpetrated by illegitimate telemarketers," said Valesky. "Notification that a call is being recorded gives the consumer the knowledge needed to choose whether to continue the call or hang up. It is my pleasure to work with Assemblymember Mayer again on an issue of consumer protection."
Mayer said, "Consumers have the right to know when they are being recorded so that they have the option to decline to speak further. The phone scammers are persistent and creative in their techniques, which is why we have to work to stay one step ahead of them."
"This bill will give regulators additional tools to pursue scammers trying to take advantage of residents, especially seniors," Mayer added. "I am pleased to join Senator Valesky to take action on behalf of our residents so we can protect our community from phone scams."
In June of last year, Valesky and Mayer were also the sponsors of bill S-977/ A-371, which prohibits all telemarketers from transmitting inaccurate, misleading or false caller identification to consumers, the release said.
That bill was signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo; and Valesky and Mayer are hopeful about the prospects of their new bill as well.
"Consumers have a clear right to know in advance if a telemarketing call is being recorded," said Chuck Bell, programs director for Consumers Union. "This common-sense bill will help improve transparency, and protect New Yorkers against unfair sales tactics to secure oral authorization for product orders and payments."
"While many disreputable telemarketers will continue to flout New York and federal law, this bill establishes clear rules of the road that can be used to hold lawbreakers accountable in enforcement actions," Bell concluded.
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1Thus says the LORD:
Where is the bill of divorce
with which I dismissed your mother?*
Or to which of my creditors
have I sold you?
It was for your sins you were sold,
for your rebellions your mother was dismissed.a
2Why was no one there when I came?
Why did no one answer when I called?*
Is my hand too short to ransom?
Have I not the strength to deliver?
See, with my rebuke I dry up the sea,
I turn rivers into wilderness;
Their fish rot for lack of water,
and die of thirst.b
3I clothe the heavens in black,
and make sackcloth their covering.
4* The Lord GOD has given me
a well-trained tongue,
That I might know how to answer the weary
a word that will waken them.
Morning after morning
he wakens my ear to hear as disciples do;
5The Lord GOD opened my ear;
I did not refuse,
did not turn away.*
6I gave my back to those who beat me,
my cheeks to those who tore out my beard;*
My face I did not hide
from insults and spitting.c
7The Lord GOD is my help,
therefore I am not disgraced;
Therefore I have set my face like flint,
knowing that I shall not be put to shame.d
8He who declares my innocence is near.
Who will oppose me?
Let us appear together.
Who will dispute my right?
Let them confront me.
9See, the Lord GOD is my help;
who will declare me guilty?
See, they will all wear out like a garment,
consumed by moths.e
10Who among you fears the LORD,*
heeds his servant's voice?
Whoever walk in darkness,
without any light,
Yet trust in the name of the LORD
and rely upon their God!f
11All you who kindle flames
and set flares alight,
Walk by the light of your own fire
and by the flares you have burnt!
This is your fate from my hand:
you shall lie down in a place of torment.
* [50:1] Responding to the people's complaint of utter abandonment by God, the prophet asserts that their sins were responsible for their banishment. Since there was no bill of divorce, the bond between the Lord and his people still exists and he has the power to deliver them (v. 2).
* [50:2] Israel's faith in God is weak; the people do not answer God's call, nor believe promises of deliverance.
* [50:4–11] The third of the four "servant of the Lord" oracles (cf. note on 42:1–4); in vv. 4–9 the servant speaks; in vv. 10–11 God addresses the people directly.
* [50:5] The servant, like a well-trained disciple, does not refuse the divine vocation.
* [50:6] He willingly submits to insults and beatings. Tore out my beard: a grave and painful insult.
* [50:10–11] The Lord offers a choice to those who walk in darkness: either trust in the true light (v. 10), or walk in their false light and suffer the consequences.
a. [50:1] Is 54:6–8; Dt 24:1–4; Mt 19:3; Mk 10:2–4.
c. [50:6] 2 Sm 10:4–6; Mt 26:67; 27:30.
e. [50:9] Is 51:6–8; Ps 102:27.
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In recent years, students have increasingly faced the challenge of deciding which college admission tests to take. They are receiving conflicting, vague, or incorrect advice from counselors, parents, blogs, internet experts, admission officers, concerned citizens, and busybodies of all varieties. Instead of solving the problem and making the decision easier, this information overload can often increase the confusion. To help you make a decision (and hopefully not just add to the noise), we've started this "ACT vs. SAT" series, which will provide specific points points of comparison and clear (hopefully) unbiased information that will help you create your ACT vs. SAT scorecard. To kick things off, we'll dispel a few of the most egregious myths we've heard in the ACT/SAT discussion.
5 Common Misconceptions
1. The ACT is easier.
Not true. Which test is easier depends on your personal strengths and weaknesses. It's much like the difference between baseball and softball, where some will find one game easier than the other. In theory softball is easier that baseball, but not in practice and not for everyone. Also, if the ACT actually is easier for one student, it's probably easier for everyone. Thus your percentile rankings, compared to other test-takers, would still be roughly the same. It's like asking whether to have a race on a straight or curvy racetrack. For most runners the race track won't make a difference since everyone will be on the same track. You can also think of it as the difference between plain and peanut M&Ms. There seems to be a big difference, but health-wise they are almost the exact same thing.
2. The ACT Math tests harder topics.
Sort of true. The SAT and ACT are both primarily Algebra and Geometry tests, though the ACT includes some Trigonometry. The SAT does not contain any Trig, however the ACT only has 4 Trig questions out of the 60 math questions. So for everyone but the test-takers who are striving for a perfect score, those 4 questions are not going to make any real difference in the final score. If you skipped all 4 Trig questions (though we should all know that you should never leave a question blank on the ACT) you could still get a 34 on the ACT.
3. You should take both tests.
No. The shotgun approach to testing is inefficient and often ineffective. A student should only take a test when they have prepared for it. If you just take the ACT, without preparation, because you didn't like your SAT score, odds are you won't score in a higher percentile than you did on the SAT. The best approach is for students to take a practice test of each early (like summer before 11th grade or in the fall of 11th grade) and then decide which test is better suited to their skills and then prepare fully for that test.
4. Colleges prefer the SAT (or ACT).
Nope. At our last check all US colleges don't care which test gets submitted, so students should take the test that suits them best and submit that test.
5. The ACT is better for African-Americans, women, first generation college students, low income, or any subgroup you choose to name.
Unproven. We have yet to find any research to support that the ACT favors one particular subgroup that the SAT disadvantages. Overall, groups perform about the same on each test. Individuals might have a preference or a performance advantage on one versus the other, but there have been no large group preferences found yet.
Hopefully this helps dispel some of the myths. To truly determine which test is better for you, take a practice test of each and then compare them using a concordance chart.
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CHICAGO � Gov. Pat Quinn attended Chicago�s gay pride parade Sunday, trying to capitalize on his opponent�s comments about same-sex marriage, while Republican challenger Bruce Rauner spoke at a Mexican restaurant, trying to convince a group that traditionally votes for Democrats that he�s the candidate who shares their values.
With months to go before the November election, both candidates talked about helping families.
Quinn spoke of how families �in Illinois deserve the opportunity to come together,� while Rauner told a Hispanic audience that he wants to help make it easier to provide for their families.
On Chicago�s north side, surrounded by participants in one of the largest gay pride parades in the United States, Quinn said that Rauner�s statements that he would have vetoed the Illinois same-sex marriage bill that Quinn signed into law suggest a candidate who does not represent the values of the state.
�The other side, I think, will find the voters of Illinois are very disappointed in their failure to support marriage equality,� Quinn said. He also noted Rauner�s comments that he would not advocate repealing the law unless voters say they want it changed in a referendum.
�I don�t need a referendum to tell me what the right thing to do is,� Quinn said.
Rauner, though, countered that Quinn is simply �trying to manufacture a controversy that doesn�t exist� because �he�s desperate to take attention away from himself� amid a federal lawsuit alleging patronage hiring and investigations of Quinn�s anti-violence program.
He also suggested that Quinn was attempting to scare voters into believing that he is out to repeal the law. �I�m comfortable with the law, and I do not seek to change the law,� he said.
Rauner had his own message at the Mexican restaurant on the city�s southwest side: He is the candidate who can most help Latino voters. Launching a coalition of supporters from the Latino community, to loud applause he said his running mate, Evelyn Sanguinetti, will be the �first Latina lieutenant governor in Illinois history.�
In an effort to build support in a community that traditionally votes for Democrats, Rauner drew comparisons between immigrants from Latin America and his own family, which came from Sweden, as he spoke at the crowded restaurant plastered with �Amigos de Rauner-Sanguinetti� signs.
�We are all from somewhere else,� he said.
Rauner also tried to connect with his audience as a businessman trying to help small businesses, many of which are owned by Hispanics, which he said have been hurt by high taxes and unreasonable government regulations during Quinn�s time in office.
Whether he can win over many Hispanic voters remains to be seen, but some in attendance said they were impressed that he�d selected Sanguinetti, the daughter of immigrants from Cuba and Ecuador, as his running mate.
The Rev. Ruben Cruz, who helped introduce Rauner at the event, said he was angry Quinn didn�t select a Hispanic or black running mate, and that while he voted for Quinn in the last election, he would not this year.
�It�s time that Hispanics be involved with government at the state level,� he told the audience, to loud applause. With the selection of Sanguinetti, Rauner �not only gets my vote, he gets my support.�


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Jill at Delicate Arch in Arches National Monument (now National Park) in the 1960s.
Kim Kowallis, Robert Garner, and Bart Kowallis sledding on the Mantua Hill probably about 1966.
Mid-summer photo of the Jensen barn and granary (actually the home that Joseph M. Jensen was born in and lived in as a boy). I'm not sure who is on the tractor. The photo was taken from the west side of 1100 West in Pleasant View, Utah looking to the east-northeast.
Cheryl Kowallis, Lynn Humphreys, and Norma (Jensen) Kowallis. I'm not sure if this was before, after, or on Cheryl and Lynn's wedding day.
Marriott family in the snow. From left to right: Jan Marriott, Mark Marriott, Scott Marriott, Kevin Marriott, and Glena (Jensen) Marriott. Jan was obviously not happy about standing in the snow.
Reinhart Kowallis and Norma Jensen while they were courting.
Phyllis Jensen, Norma Jensen, and Ruth Jensen.
Sunday dinner at the Kowallis home. On the left side of the table, front to rear: Kim Kowallis, Norma Jensen Kowallis, Grandma Ethel Jensen, Jill Kowallis, Cheryl Kowallis. At rear: Grandpa Joseph Jensen. On right side, front to rear, Bart Kowallis (with a nice grape juice mustache), Reinhart Kowallis, and Kent Kowallis. Photo taken about 1958.
Lamar Jensen, Cheryl Kowallis, and Glena Jensen in about 1945.
Grandma (Ethel Jane Chamberlain Jensen) with a baby blanket she had made for one of the grandchildren.
Baby Cheryl with Dad (Reinhart Kowallis) in the winter of 1944-45.
Monday, November 28, 2011
A few more Jensen Family pictures
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Lindsay Lohan's escalating legal woes have been accompanied by rumors about the future of her career.
But a spokeswoman for Fox's upcoming "The X-Factor" says the talent show isn't part of the equation.
Ann-Marie Thomson said Saturday that producers have not talked to Lohan (LOH'-un) about joining the show, despite online speculation that the troubled actress was being courted as a judge.
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"The X-Factor" is the creation of former "American Idol" judge Simon Cowell. It is set to premiere in the fall.
Lohan was arraigned this week on a charge that she stole a $2,500 necklace from an upscale Los Angeles jeweler.
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Turn out the light in the soda machine. Fix the salt-spreader on the snow plow. The best way to save is to ask public employees for their ideas.
In 1991, Texas faced a whopping $4.6 billion budget deficit. The legislature asked state Comptroller John Sharp to review the budget to find some face-saving cuts before they raised taxes. Sharp assembled a crack team and not only found a few savings here and there: He found enough to close the entire deficit. And then he kept going.
Over the course of the next decade, Sharp's Texas Performance Review (TPR) saved the state $10 billion and won awards for government innovation from admirers as diverse as Harvard and the Heritage Foundation. Sharp and his colleagues were called to Washington to help advise President Clinton and Vice President Gore on a National Performance Review -- whose most famous image was the $400 hammers at the Pentagon -- which resulted in $106 billion in savings the first year and helped to reduce the federal payroll to its lowest level since the Eisenhower Administration.
TPR staff also advised California's Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on a similar state review. My firm eventually absorbed some former TPR staff and adopted its methodology. We have since conducted similar reviews of individual agencies, local governments, or entire state bureaucracies in about a dozen states. Such reviews routinely identify annually recurring savings totaling roughly 5 percent of total operating spending. (By "annually recurring," I mean that cheap gimmicks and one-time savings likeselling the state capitol don't count.)
Let me give a few favorite examples: By unscrewing the tiny light bulb behind the big plastic display that covers almost the entire front of most soda machines -- which serves no purpose but to make the can of Coke look more delicious -- Texas saved about $200,000 a year in energy costs. (There are a lot of soda machines on state property!) Colorado used three different entities to deliver mail on the state office campus, including two government agencies and a private firm (proving that privatization alone isn't always the answer). You could literally stand outside the capitol and photograph three mail trucks following each other around from building to building. And West Virginia had never properly calibrated the salt-spreaders on its snowplows, so that whenever it snowed it was dumping far more salt on the highways than needed. Simply adjusting these devices saved the state about $3 million a year. None of these make a significant dent in structural deficits -- but put together 100 small changes like that and, as the saying goes, pretty soon you're talking real money. It's hard for anyone to be against that (well, except salt companies).


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Networking the CityBy Eileen Feretic Print
Carole Post, CIO of New York City, has one of the toughest IT jobs in the world. Undaunted by the challenge, she has developed a technology road map to move the city forward.
Networking the City
In response to another recommendation in Post's 30-day plan, DoITT will create a new Office of Telecommunications and Broadband Policy. This office will be responsible for developing, maintaining and implementing the city's telecommunications strategies. It will also coordinate efforts "to increase public access to broadband technologies through public computer centers, school programs and the expansion of WiFi in parks."
Communications technologies play an important role in the life of the city. The NYC Wireless network (NYCWiN) is a high-speed mobile data network that is operational across the city's more than 300 square miles. DoITT operates NYCWiN, launched in May 2009 in conjunction with Northrop Grumman, as an extension of CityNet, a fully redundant fiber-optic network.
"We've been running the fiber network for a number of years and have been upgrading it over time," Bimonte said. "We now need to make the next big upgrade, WDM [wavelength-division multiplexing] capacity, and that's currently in the works."
Though most agencies use the city's network, some still run their own. However, DoITT is in the process of moving some of these agencies to CityNet, which will save them a significant amount of money. At this time, an analysis of the move is taking place at the Department of Education.
The wireless network was developed primarily to support public safety, and it gives first responders high-speed access to large data files. DoITT is planning a major upgrade in police cars and fire engines that will enable the police to transmit warrant photographs and streaming videos to police cars, and the fire department to send maps and building layouts to fire fighters on their way to a fire.
But the city's broadband initiative goes far beyond the agencies. "We've applied for two grants on the broadband stimulus from the federal government," Post said. One recently resulted in a $22 million award to provide free computers, discounted broadband service and support services to more than 18,000 low-income sixth-grade students and their families. This is part of a program to increase broadband adoption among underserved populations. The second grant is for a program to expand the availability of public computer centers in the city's highest poverty areas.
New York City has a number of partners involved in this initiative, including Verizon and the cable companies. However, the initiative depends on getting the broadband stimulus funds from the federal government.
Another major networking goal is to make WiFi available as widely as possible. Later this spring, DoITT will release an RFP to expand the availability of WiFi in public spaces.
Mobile technology is another communications arena managed by DoITT. It currently hosts 20 to 25 mobile solutions, which are a boon to agencies that have a lot of field workers. These employees can handle all their work remotely, without having to go to the office, and this has resulted in a huge increase in productivity for the agencies.
Securing New York
Information security is a huge challenge and an onerous responsibility for every CIO, but when you're responsible for the security of New York City's IT infrastructure and data, the task can seem Herculean in scope.
"We've made some great strides is this area," Bimonte said. "We've developed a number of IT security policies, including acceptable-use policies for employees and application accreditation policies. And the IT security office sends out cyber-security awareness materials on a regular basis.
"In addition, we're entering into an enterprise license agreement with a top security provider to make it easier for agencies to procure a standard set of security products. Rather than having each agency go through the procurement process on its own, we could do that once for the whole city, which would save a lot of time and money.
"We've also introduced some standard procedures so that a new application has to have a thorough security accreditation before it's put into production. All our Internet-facing applications are set up in a way that protects our internal systems, so no one can use an application to get into our systems."
Another growing security challenge is social networking, which has been "growing organically throughout the city," according to Post. Until recently, there hadn't been any central oversight of these efforts, but that's about to change.
"In partnership with the city's Law Department and policymakers, we are going to encourage the use of creative networking sites, with appropriate guidelines and structures around them," she explained. "We will serve as something of a moderator for these sites, creating policies for the agencies to follow. We are not looking to police them or limit them, but we don't want agencies to unilaterally develop social networking policies."
The city agencies will be asked to register their social networking efforts with DoITT so that it can centrally track these sites and accounts.
The massive technology changes taking place in New York City government are requiring an equally huge cultural change. To facilitate this change, DoITT is working with agency CIOs to relieve them of technology obligations that are not core to their mission.
Post put it this way: "If the agencies let us manage their IT infrastructure, we will save them money and time, and enable them to focus more effectively on their core missions."
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A newly released report by FMI, a consulting and investment banking firm to the building and construction industry, predicts that worsening economic conditions may forestall the housing recovery until 2009, with this year's residential building activity declining 10 percent for single-family housing, 7 percent for multi-family and 2 percent for remodeling.
The Construction Outlook report also saw decreases in the commercial, office, religious, amusement and leisure segments, all of which are tied into the economy. But certain publicly funded non-residential sectors -- health care, educational, public safety and Homeland Security -- will fare better, according to FMI. Health care construction will benefit from facility upgrades across the country; educational institutions will fund new projects with endowments or voter-approved bonds in several states; new police and fire stations, as well as prisons, are in the construction pipeline; Homeland Security improvements to U.S. ports and border areas are underway; and airport delays will necessitate expansion projects.
The full report, available at www.fminet.com, also addresses manufacturing-related construction, which FMI believes will remain flat in 2008 and 2009 based on "several multi-billion dollar projects under construction at the same time." Increases in cement capacity, refineries and steel manufacturing will contribute to these gains, the research said.


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