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Hello Fritz,
The likely reason for the error message is that either the .exe is write-protected, or it requires administrator permissions to write which is likely since it's residing the Program Files folder.
No there is no global "Encrypt all data" command, but you can select many files, or a folder, and encrypt many files in one go.
Encrypting data files like those that are "fixed' to a given program like your tax software is usually troublesome. You need to be careful, since if you start the software without having decrypted the files first, it will get confused and may do unexpected things such as creating new empty files etc.


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UPV stands for UN-plasticized polyvinyl chloride, and it is a popular home improvement choice when looking to make your home energy efficient. UPVC windows have a wide range of benefits in buildings and are widely used. They reduce heating costs and improve sound insulation and energy conservation. Besides, these windows are secure, durable and need minimal maintenance.
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Home > LLS > LAW_REVIEWS > ELR > Vol. 36 > No. 2 (2016)
The 1994 Supreme Court case Campbell v. Acuff-Rose established broad protections for parody in U.S. copyright law. While the case is well known, the facts behind the case are not. None of the three courts that heard the case were told that the alleged parody by 2 Live Crew appeared only on a "sanitized" version of the group's controversial album. Thus the work had a heightened commercial purpose: filling up a meager album so that album could serve as a market stopgap for its controversial cousin. Although commercial purpose is a key factor in the fair use calculus, no court heard this argument.
The case is also ironic because Acuff-Rose maintained that 2 Live Crew's song was by definition not a parody in the first place, but was unable to argue this due to procedural maneuvers in the district court and due to the Sixth Circuit's desire to address fair use in a music context. Furthermore, 2 Live Crew's expert Oscar Brand demonstrated a deep misunderstanding of the rap genre, and his analysis essentially relegates rap artists to participants in a minstrel show. Ironically, that was the winning argument for a black rap artist. In short, Campbell v. Acuff-Rose is a case that came out wrong—wonderfully wrong.
Recommended Citation
"If That's The Way It Must Be, Okay": Campbell v. Acuff-Rose On Rewind,
36 Loy. L.A. Ent. L. Rev. 137
Available at: https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/elr/vol36/iss2/2
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Nasi Kerabu – When Eating is Art
"Nasi Kerabu" literally means assorted vegetable rice or rather "Salad Rice". Gastronomically speaking, it is rice served with special coconut-based gravy called "tumis" together with local herbs, leaves and vegetables. Apart from that, it is also served with fried fish, "keropok" (fish crackers), salted egg, "solok lada" (fish fillet and coconut-stuffed chillis) and pickled garlic. Of all you know the beautiful flower in the picture is the key to the real aroma and taste of nasi kerabu.
Nasi Kerabu is one of the classic specialties originated from Kelantan, a multicolored state of Thailand border in the northeastern coast of the Malaysian Peninsular with multi-faceted and interesting people as her denizens. The only not-so-cool thing about them is the potential of running amok and start burning things when their darling state team loses in the football match (soccer to the Americans), but as a counterbalance, I can assure you this is the land that produces the most beautiful girls in the country.
If one is adventurous in trying out different taste of victuals and gamed for gourmet foods, the right place to be at is no other than Kelantan state, located some 450 km from Kuala Lumpur. If you ever planned for a visit to this country, I'd advise you to take connecting flight right away upon your landing at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA).
One of those that ought to be tasted is "Nasi Kerabu". No, no, no…. it's not like the one you tasted from the stalls in Kg Baru, Keramat and Pantai Dalam in Kuala Lumpur, different from the one selling over in Permas Jaya, Johore, dissimilar to the one offered in Geylang, Singapore, and far off from the taste that selling in Ipoh and Penang for that matter. I even ate nasi kerabu in Bloomington, Indiana in the USA those days, but my taste benchmark is rather of a higher bar.
The real taste of "Nasi Kerabu" is not easily found as the recipe is a well-kept secret, closely guarded that being passed down from one generation to another among the Kelantanese people, as much as pizza is eaten the world over, and yet the real taste can only be found in Italy, perhaps the pride of the Sicilian folks. Just like sushi can be found in New York, Paris, London and Kuala Pilah but the real thing can only be enjoyed in certain districts in Japan, and tell me about Cajun cuisine and beignets (pronounced like "ben-yays"), the unique specialties to the descendants of Acadian exiles in Louisiana or maybe some parts of Mississippi, USA. Oh, it reminds me of the best Burrito, Taco de Harina and Tortilla I have ever tasted just a few miles crossed the border from El Paso, Texas, in the Mexican territory. But, the paradox of them all, I couldn't find "Mee Bandung" when I was in Bandung, Indonesia, same goes to "Nasi Pattaya" when I was in the coastal resort township of Pattaya, Thailand. (LOL! Errr…. we have foodstuff named after foreign places, thus, understandably, they don't exist in the actual locality)
One of the myriad secrets in preparing "goooood" nasi kerabu is the use of the flower in the picture above as coloring for the rice to be served (although some sellers in the city use artificial equivalents). Beats me on the name of the flower because I only know it called as "Bunga Nasi Kerabu" ("Bunga" is flower). Handful of these flowers need to be grinded and squashed to yield its juice with little water add. The precious extract of it is then mixed with water the time rice is cooked. And voila, it will result with blue-colored rice when it is ready.
Blue-colored rice for Nasi Kerabu is no fun and game as it is always served like that for centuries in this colorful state of Kelantan.


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Be sure to stay is on track by attending TRIO events and following the checklist below (see the Planning Your Future PDF here).
9th & 10th Grades: Start Your Engines
- Tell your teachers & counselor that you plan on going to college.
- Develop strong study habits – pay attention in class, complete your homework on time and ask for help when you don't understand something
- Get involved in activities after school. Join clubs, play sports, get a job or volunteer in your community.
- Stay involved in these activities throughout your high school career to demonstrate consistency
- Work with your school counselor to take the PSAT and/or ACT PLAN/EXPLORE.
- Be open to explore new possibilities. Here's a great resource to start with: http://www.act.org/profile
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- Make sure you are on track to meet the minimum course requirements for college admission
- Continue to take challenging courses.
- Register to take the SAT and/or ACT multiple times.
- Narrow down your list of colleges based on where you will thrive best. Keep in consideration the school's size, location, whether they have the major you're interested in and extracurricular activities available. You can research schools on College Board: https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/find-colleges
- Attend college fairs in your area to speak with admissions reps from schools you are interested in.
- Find an internship or volunteer opportunity in the field you plan to study.
- Use breaks you have from school to visit colleges.
- Make a list of teachers, coaches, and community members that you may be able to ask for recommendation letters when you apply to college.
- Research scholarship deadlines and requirements for your senior year.
- Remind parents/guardians to prepare tax information for your financial aid application.
12th Grade: Home Stretch
- Select 3-5 colleges – a reach school, safety school and others you're interested in attending.
- Mark application deadlines on your calendar.
- Ask your TRIO coordinator for a fee waiver!
- Take the SAT and/or ACT again before college application deadlines.
- Keep up your good grades.
- Reach out to your teachers, coaches, and community members for letters of recommendation.
- Aim to apply by early application deadlines.
- Visit https://fsaid.ed.gov/ to get an FSA ID number to e-sign your Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).
- On October 1, start and complete your financial aid application – be aware of institutions priority deadlines. Visit: https://fafsa.ed.gov/.
- Student athletes: register with the NCAA Clearinghouse for eligibility certification.
- Think back on your life and make a list of moments that could potentially become a part of your personal essay.
- Focus on finishing your high school career strong.
- Compare admissions decisions and financial aid packages.
- Take AP/IB exams and send results to your future college.
- May 1 is the national deadline to confirm your enrollment – decide which institution you wish to attend.
- Join admitted student groups to connect with future classmates.
- Send an official final transcript to your future college.
- Figure out housing arrangements, orientation dates, and placement testing requirements.
- Apply for education loans, if needed.
- Check out the Transition to College Checklist from BigFuture.com.
- Celebrate!


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PGA golfer Brendon Todd was playing some great golf all weekend at the Travelers Championship. With just seven holes remaining, Todd found himself in second place and just two strokes off the lead. He had to be feeling good about that position.
But golf — at any given moment — has a tendency to humble even the most talented of golfers.
On Sunday, it was Todd's turn.
Todd went into the par-4 12th two strokes off Dustin Johnson's lead, but he'd end up heading to the 13th five strokes off he lead and basically out of contention. That's because Todd — seemingly out of nowhere — experienced a golf meltdown that had him looking like a regular, amateur golfer.
Brendon Todd with a regular guy shot. Yikes! pic.twitter.com/in21j6H06l
— John Thayer (@johncthayer) June 28, 2020
Golf is hard. Winning is really hard.
Triple bogey for Brendon Todd.
The overnight leader now trails by 5 shots. pic.twitter.com/gLm3nhpNOR
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) June 28, 2020
It doesn't get much more relatable than that: Finding yourself chipping just off the edge of the bunker and blasting the ball over the green completely. We've all been there.
Brendon Todd made triple bogey from here. This is the closest I've ever felt to being a professional golfer. pic.twitter.com/zURWDFIriW
— Josh Vitale (@JoshVitale) June 28, 2020
Todd would have to escape the 12th with a triple bogey. But hey, at least there wasn't a crowd to witness that meltdown in person.


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Two-thirds of French people want a law limiting the use of face-covering Islamic veils such as the niqab and the burqa, with only a minority backing the government's plan for a complete ban, a poll showed Saturday.
President Nicolas Sarkozy's government is expected to present a bill in May on banning full veils from the public sphere, against the advice of legal experts who recommend a milder rule focusing on state institutions.
Sarkozy has personally defended a strict ban, arguing that the veil hurts gender equality and demeans women.
The TNS Sofres/Logica poll, which was carried out on Thursday and Friday, showed that 33 percent of French people want a complete ban, while a further 31 percent want a more narrow law applying only to certain public spaces.
The results of the survey of 950 people were roughly the same for men and women. Support for some kind of legal restriction on the full veil cut across age groups, professions and political affiliation, though it was stronger among right-wing voters – more than 80 percent of them favored a law.
By opting for a complete ban, Sarkozy is taking a constitutional gamble since the practice of veiling oneself can be defended on the grounds of religious freedom.
A narrower law asking women to bare their faces in town halls or when they pick up their children from school would have been less legally risky, since it could have been justified as a security measure rather than a question of values.


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Bastogne, Belgium
Today I started my military history weekend and currently, I'm in a hotel in Bastogne, Belgium. I visited La Gleize, Belgium, and the German War Cemetery in Recogne, Belgium. Photos will follow later.
In Bastogne, I finally got to see the Bastogne War Museum and the Mardasson Memorial. When I first visited Bastogne a couple of years ago, the memorial and the museum were under renovation.
Here are some photos from the outside, showing the Mardasson Memorial and a sculpture by Seward Johnson, called "The Kiss." I used my Nikon D5300 with a Nikon DX VR AF-P NIKKOR 18-55mm 1:3.5-5.6G lens. Editing with Adobe Lightroom CC.


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Toshiba Excite 7.7 – A high-end device with an equally high price [Hardware Review]
With a gorgeous design and beefy insides, the Toshiba Excite 7.7 is a 7 inch tablet looking to compete with the Kindle Fire, Galaxy Tab, and Nexus 7 tablets. Despite the overwhelming market-share of the iPad and Kindle Fire, smaller, non-Amazon tablets are finding their niche as evidenced by the new Nexus tablet. However, to stand out in this crowded market, you have to have a great design and internals that you can't believe fit into a small package. The Excite 7.7 fits this model nicely, and may be the nicest device I've held since I began reviewing gadgets. Is there anything that can keep this tablet from taking a nice slice of the market away from the Kindle Fire?
The Excite 7.7 is a magnificently crafted device in the realm of the iPad. The dimensions, heft, thinness, and sleek design make the Excite one of the best feeling devices in your hand. Aside from the overall outstanding design, the Excite holds a quad-core processor, 1GB of RAM, and either 16GB or 32GB of storage depending on your needs. Around the gray frame and black bezel, the Excite exhibits all the usual ports with a few welcome extras. It has the standard power and volume rocker on top with a very welcome silence switch. As much as I used the Excite, I could not get used to the volume rocker changing the volume from right to left instead of what I though was up and down. Strangely, the lower volume button was closer to the power button and front-facing 2MP camera (which I kept thinking was the top of the device) so instead of raising the volume, I would continuously lower it and vice-versa. Unlike it's direct competition the Kindle Fire and Nexus 7, the Excite 7.7 rounds out its hardware features with a mini-SD port, HDMI-out port, and a proprietary (read: Huge) charging port. The whole device measures around 13.4 ounces which gives it the perfect holding-weight, and the texturized back panel makes the Excite a joy to hold.
The screen on the Excite is absolutely stunning. Rich, vibrant colors and deep blacks make gaming and multimedia-ing a blast. Ultimately what you want from a 7 inch device is high contrast for reading, and the Excite delivers handily. As bright as the Excite is though, direct sunlight was still a burden. I do adore the 7 inch tablets as they are perfect for the crowd that wants to get through a PDF file, read a Kindle book, or play a quick game without having the extra pounds and inches of a bigger device or squinting to read on their phone.
The camera, as on most tablets, isn't going to win any Instagram awards, but it's serviceable when needed. The back 5MP camera comes with an LED flash, and the front 2MP is there for Google+ hangouts and a few glorious self-shots. The camera app received a nice upgrade in Ice Cream Sandwich from Honeycomb, and it's simple to change settings and achieve your desired result whether that's panorama, snapshots, or anything else.
Software Performance
With very high-performance hardware, the software side of the Excite held up its end of the bargain too. Perhaps the greatest compliment I can pay Toshiba and the Excite is they left Ice Cream Sandwich alone. Paving the way for quick updates (See: Jelly Bean 4.1) and an already beloved UI, Toshiba got out of Google's way and let Android purists rejoice. No different settings layouts or app drawers or color schemes means we can enjoy Android the way it was meant to be enjoyed, and Toshiba doesn't have to hear the complaints and groans of a notoriously grumpy AOSP fan base. I hadn't had an ICS tablet before the Excite, but the experience is very similar to Honeycomb with a few small UI changes to the app drawer and widgets as well as a noticeable improvement in lag-time and responsiveness. That isn't to say that the whole experience was lag-free because even on a sparse homescreen, tapping the sides of the screen to change screens there was some very noticeable lag. The only other annoyance that probably can't be fixed was the very delayed and weak haptic feedback. But ICS is a great step up from the Honeycomb OS, and with no changes to vanilla Android, you should be able to hack and tinker away.
App Performance
Big things are always expected of new devices, especially with new processors like the Tegra 3, and the Excite handled these admirably. The Excite readily beat my Jelly Bean'd Galaxy Nexus, which surprised me, in tests of opening and switching between Angry Birds and Temple Run. With a new processor and room for more power, I shouldn't have been surprised, but the small, designer-like case of the Excite made me forget it was a workhouse underneath. Despite the Excite's vanilla ICS build, it, unfortunately, comes with a lot of apps pre-installed. The good thing is most of them are removable if you don't want them. I understand making deals, but the non-necessary, pre-installed apps doubled the Google Apps that are necessary for the OS to function. From Solitaire and Spades to multiple Toshiba apps meant to compete with Amazon books, Google Music, and Google Movies, there were just a lot of extras that you probably won't ever use. On the other hand, running these apps was great as they all ran smoothly and with very little lag. The battery held out very well, and I easily ran over a day or two with light usage. Heavy usage could deplete the battery within 12 hours, but that was with movies and music at full blast with the brightness turned all the way up.
Final Thoughts
With all this praise, what could I say to make this great device bottom out? The price. The 16GB version comes in at $480 on Amazon while the 32GB will cost you another arm at $560. Granted, the Excite came along a few weeks before the Nexus 7′s existence, but with very similar hardware, what makes the Excite 2-3x more expensive than the Nexus? Maybe it was just bad timing mixed with the Nexus 7 probably selling at a loss, but a well-respected electronics manufacturer should know the market's price-range and what their competition will be doing. The hardware is at the forefront of it's weight-class, and giving us the stock ICS is extremely appreciated, but the $480 price tag is an albatross around the Excite's neck.


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Sat., Aug. 3, 2013
EWU bass fishing team holds on to finish fourth in college nationals
TOURNAMENT FISHING — The Eastern Washington University bass fishing team placed fourth in today's finals of the 2013 Carhartt College Series National Championship, missing first place by more than 8 pounds of fish, but earning a berth to another select national fishing tournament.
Nick Barr and Jarred Walker of EWUcaught five fish totaling 9 pounds 4 ounces today at Lake Chatuge near Young Harris, Ga., to end the event with a three-day total of 14 fish weighing 34 pounds 8 ounces.
Jacob Nummy and Tom Frink of Auburn University-Montgomery won the championship with a total of 15 fish weighing 43 pounds 3 ounces.
The team from EWU was the farthest from home at Chatuge, adding to the amazement locals with their first-day performance to take the lead among 64 teams with 19 pounds, 4 ounces of fish — almost 6 pounds ahead of the field.
On Day 2, Barr and Walker had a drought, catching only four fish totaling 6 pounds. Competing with the five finalist teams on Day 3, EWU did only slightly better, but held on to fourth place overall.
The top four teams qualify for the Carhartt Bassmaster College Bracket Championship, the winner of which will earn a spot in the 2014 Bassmaster Classic set for February on Alabama's Lake Guntersville.


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Establishing nursing leadership skills is critical to producing and fostering exceptional nurses who lead by example and are equipped to make the serious decisions necessary in their line of work. Creating these leadership skills can come about as early as in nursing school, where the student nurses are beginning to develop her technical skills as well as emotional ones for dealing with a career in the medical field.
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Have nursing students come up with one or several areas they could improve upon in the nursing field or an idea that they believe would better the profession in some way. Have the students give a presentation outlining what their idea or suggestions are, how they will improve an aspect of nursing and their suggested procedure for implementing them. Nursing, as with the medical field as a whole, is forever changing and evolving with technological advances and developments. Since nurses are on the front lines dealing with patients, doctors and procedures on a daily basis, they are dynamically positioned to make effective and educated suggestions. Developing their comfort level in doing so can increase their confidence and leadership ability in making these suggestions on the job.
Mentor Project
New nurses or clinical rotation nurses are often paired with nursing mentors or established nurses when they enter into the professional workforce or their clinical rotation. Foster the student-to-teacher relationship present in these professional circumstances while the students are still in school. Pair up older students with younger students to be their mentor and student adviser throughout the school year or semester. This will allow the nursing students the opportunity to become the authority in the relationship and will increase their confidence by becoming a mentor to someone younger. Their ability to lead will be increased and they will become more comfortable with the dynamic.
Role Playing
Nurses often have to take the lead and make difficult decisions in their line of work. Nurses are at the patient's bedside much more often than most doctors and they have a higher degree of contact with the patient's families as well. Because of this they will need strong conflict resolution and leadership skills, as they will often be the professional voice in the room. Nurses also need to be able to make the decision as to when the appropriate time to call in a doctor is, and when they should handle situations on their own. Set up a variety of scenarios of possible conflict between the nurse and the patient, the nurse and the patient's family and the nurse and the doctor. Have the students take turns role playing and practicing the best way to handle high-stress situations with leadership and authority.


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In June, Microsoft announced that a number of major companies had signed up to run ads on Microsoft's Xbox 360 console. These were not ordinary TV or video commercials but what Microsoft called "NUads," which, combined with the Kinect motion gesture add-on, allowed people to interact with the video ads via polls and more. People could also interact with the ads via their regular Xbox 360 controllers.
The first NUads started appearing on several of Microsoft's streaming video apps last fall in the U.S., the U.K. and Canada, with companies like Subway and Toyota participating. Today, the company said about 37 percent of those people who saw the videos engaged with the ads when prompted. Of that number, 71 percent voted in the interactive polls and 97 percent saw their vote included in the final poll results.
So what does all this mean? It likely means that Xbox 360 owners will see even more NUads pop up in the future. Microsoft stated, " ... you can expect more investment from us when it comes to this new ad format and video advertising in general." However, the company stopped short of revealing just how many more NUads it would launch, nor did it comment on what new advertisers will join their efforts.
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Off-campus SJSU users: To download campus access theses, please use the following link to log into our proxy server with your SJSU library user name and PIN.
Publication Date
Spring 2013
Degree Type
Thesis - Campus Access Only
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
English and Comparative Literature
Samuel Maio
Aestheticism, Women
Subject Areas
Gender studies
This work delves metaphorically into the objectification of women and their decline in value as they age under the male gaze. This is exhibited through the viewpoint of one male character, Adam. He believes that he is saving women from a fate of harsh judgment and mistreatment by killing them as they age and become undesirable. He thinks that he is offering them a better option because he is allowing their bodies to feed his roses, an age-old symbol of beauty that is often associated with femininity. This gives them the power to be reborn, not only as plants, but also to flower each spring, as opposed to enduring the long and arduous aging process that human beings must endure
Recommended Citation
Minks, Katie, "Blood Burning Rose" (2013). Master's Theses. 4294.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31979/etd.he4t-n6gy


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A rugby great confronts his greatest challenge.
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- HarperCollins
- Publish Date
- August 2015
It's the unthinkable - to be blindsided by a life-threatening illness in the prime of life, with no prior warning. We all hope it doesn't happen, but for some of us, inevitably, life plays out that way. On an April day like any other in 2012 Michael Lynagh - retired rugby great - set for a successful career in commercial property and rugby analysis was suddenly forced to re evaluate everything. While with friends in Brisbane having a relaxed beer or two, a seemingly fit and healthy Lynagh suffered a stroke and was admitted to the Royal Brisbane Hospital. He was just forty-eight years old and a father of three young boys. Everything about his life and how he viewed it was about to change. For three days, as his brain swelled to the point of catastrophe, his life hung in the balance. What followed is an inspiring story of recovery, rehabilitation and remembering. Blindsided is a life-affirming memoir about luck, family, mates and rugby; and a timely reminder of how you play the game of life, as much as rugby, matters ... even if you happen to be a Wallaby legend. Michael Lynagh won 72 Test caps and retired from international rugby in 1995 with a world record 911 points scored - a number that remains an Australian record.
Other titles you should consider ...
We Are Wolves
Katrina Nannestad
The Odds
Matt Stanton
Fire Wombat
Jackie French & Danny Snell
How to be a Real Ballerina
Davina Bell & Jenny Lovlie (Illus)
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Arson attempt on hostel leaves building damaged
A MAN has allegedly tried to set a Fortitude Valley hostel on fire.
Police say the man smashed his way into the Gipps Street building around 6.40pm.
They say he has then gone to a room inside and used an accelerant to start a fire, causing the alarms to go off and the building to be evacuated.
He was allegedly then seen leaving via the smashed window and was followed to a nearby carpark where he was found by police and charged.
The 28-year-old Brisbane man was charged once with attempted arson and once with entering a premisis with intent to commit an indictable offence.
There was minor fire and smoke damage to one room in the building as well as smoke damage to an adjacent room. No one was injured as a result of the fire.
The man is due to appear in the Brisbane Magistrates Court today.


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Pres. Buhari is not ready to resolve Niger Delta crisis – MEND
Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has passed a vote of no confidence in President Muhammadu Buhari over its handling of the Niger Delta crisis.
MEND, a major militant group in the Niger Delta region, was the only group in the region that backed Buhari against former president Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 presidential election.
The group had been a pillar of support for the Federal Government in its quest to find a lasting solution to the crisis in the region.
It had endorsed the commencement of talks between Niger Delta stakeholders and the Federal Government by throwing its weight behind Chief Edwin Clark leading the Niger Delta team.
However, in move that indicated that the militant group was ready to dump Buhari, MEND said its decision to pass a vote of no confidence is a direct reaction of Buhari's inactions on the crisis in the Niger Delta region.
MEND spokesman, Jomo Gbomo in a statement while listing four reasons for the vote of no confidence expressed regret that since Buhari's meeting with Niger Delta stakeholders under the auspices of Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), the president 'has been carrying on arrogantly and making controversial, prejudicial, conflicting and contradictory statements about the politics and economy of the oil-rich region.'
MEND declared that Buhari on assumption of office has demonstrated that he holds the people of Niger Delta region in contempt and has been blackmailing its leadership for not showing commitment to dialogue whereas, it is the Federal Government that has refused to name its negotiating team.
The group said Buhari should stop what it called, 'cunning, crafty and unstatesmanlike rhetoric' about the Niger Delta region, adding that they have only served the purpose of jeopardising the fragile peace in the region.
According to Gbomo, steps already taken by Buhari including reneging on several concessions agreed upon during MEND/Federal Government meeting and writing a damaging letter to South African government to sabotage legal options open to MEND leader, Henry Okah.
MEND advised Buhari to urgently set in motion the process of dialogue with Niger Delta stakeholders and also demanded that all Niger Delta militants in custody of security agencies be allowed access in line with international best practises.


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If you've never read Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand, it's a fictional (we use the term loosely) account of how government intervention in and control of industry stifled innovation and eventually drove the best and brightest from its throws. The book also casts social welfare and altruism, in general, in a negative light. Atlas Shrugged has remained a fairly popular book since its publication in 1957.
Free market champions frequently cite it as an example of what will happen to America with the expansion of government regulation and social programs. Recently, no group has promoted the philosophies of Rand more than the American Tea Party. Go to any Tea Party rally and you're guaranteed to see at least one sign referencing Rand or her book.
After all, why should the government be responsible for the general welfare of the indigent and unwell? Shouldn't we rely on the private sector to provide support when we find ourselves incapable of self-sufficiency or reach an age when we are no longer able to engage in the level of productivity that once supported us financially? Not if you're Ayn Rand.
According to an interview conducted by the Ayn Rand Institute in 1998, Ayn Rand and her husband, Frank O'Connor, signed up for for Social Security and Medicare in 1974. –Associated Press. Atlas stood in line; Atlas signed up for social welfare programs; Atlas was on a "fixed-income;" Atlas shrugged. Even Ayn Rand was not impervious to the perils of aging and the need to make ends meet.
To understand where Rand was coming from, one should know that Rand was born in the former Soviet Union and saw first hand the oppression and corruption brought on by years of government expansion and control. After being educated in Russia (on the state's dime), Rand moved to the US and pursued her career as a writer and produced Atlas Shrugged thirty-one years later.
Was Rand wrong? Do we need the government to provide a safety net for the poor, sick and indigent? Maybe the issue is complex. Maybe the answer is complicated. Maybe situations change over the course of our lives that make a one-size-fits-all solution impractical. The fact remains that, given enough time, we will all grow old. Many of us will become ill to the point of not being able to support ourselves financially and many of us will incur medical bills that deplete our life savings leaving our loved ones in a state of despair and insolvency. The future does not always reward the hard work and fiscal responsibility of an individual.
Maybe the answer lies with Rand. Ayn Rand did not necessarily ascribe to any particular form of government in spite of what her proponents claim. Instead she promoted reason and action as a extension of reasoning rather than ideology.
"I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; and I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one recognizes the supremacy of reason and applies it consistently, all the rest follows." Rand, Ayn (September 1971). "Brief Summary". The Objectivist.
If we throw off the armor of ideology and embrace rational thought when it comes to problem solving, then the best solutions will be discovered. When we put the cart of ideology before the horse of rationality then we end up turning into jackasses.


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Thanks to Art Wagner for sending me Hammond's clearly written paper.
"There is yet other evidence of the probity of thisapproach reaching back to the 1970s. It was shownthat general relativity with torsion could be formu-lated as a local gauge theory under the Poincaregroup. Now, we know there are two Casimir in-variants of this group, P^2 and L^2–the square of the translation operator and
Pauli-Lubanski spin operator.
Although this was formulated with a symmetricmetric tensor, so was the spin theory resulting fromthe torsion potential.[7] In that case, the ideas notonly carry over to the non-symmetric case, they pro-vide an interpretation as well as a raisond'tre for thenon-symmetric metric tensor. In any case, we havecome to think of mass and spin as being associatedwith the gravitational field, and the above resultsshow a very natural framework for just that.In this approachthere is a natural string coupling:The symmetric part of the metric tensor is associ-ated with the Nambo-Goto term
and the antisymmetric part with the Kalb-Ramond term
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalb–Ramond_fieldThis gives a natural union between gravity and string theoryThe necessity of torsion, from a potential, has already beendemonstrated in two ways. First it was in shownin [11] the correct law for the conservation of totalangular momentum plus spin can only be achievedwith torsion. This in itself is a strong enough argu-ment for its presence, but it was also shown that itis necessary from gauge invariance arguments.In the final analysis then, we have particles withintrinsic spin giving rise to a field. The potentialof this field is the antisymmetric part of the met-ric tensor. This is a new physical interpretation ofthe antisymmetric part of the metric tensor entirelydifferent from previous work"http://xxx.lanl.gov/pdf/1207.5170v1.pdfBegin forwarded message:


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The estimates for per capita CO2 emissions are truly comprehensive as these include all carbon emissions embodied in international trade and global commodity chains. Even if we find evidence suggesting a decoupling of production-based CO2 emissions and growth, consumption- based CO2 emissions are monotonically increasing with per capita GDP. We draw out the implications of these findings for climate policy and binding emission reduction obligations.
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The President Looks Like Me & Other Poems
Written By Tony Medina
In 2008, the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American to serve as President of the United States, marked a pivotal point in the history of a nation too often preoccupied with race, color and identity. President Obama's re-election in 2012 underscored the important progress that has been made despite challenges that seem to not want to go away, such as racism, sexism and inequality.
Millions of people around the world have been inspired by Mr. Obama's historic victories and his personal story of determination and success - especially children of color. In The President Looks Like Me and Other Poems, Tony Medina celebrates the diversity that President Obama symbolizes through poems that are multicultural in scope and wide-ranging in style. With distinctly urban settings and an urban flavor, the collection covers a myriad of themes that include childhood, family, friendship, identity, spirituality, social justice and Hip Hop. Medina's poems realistically capture the impact of what it means to be young in a complex world is explored. Yet, they offer hope that resounds more prominently when a child of color can say, the president looks like me.
Reading Level: Ages 9-12; Paperback: 86 Pages
Medina taps into the hopes, dreams, and lives of young people of color through 44 poems divided into 6 sections. Wide-ranging in their variety and styles, these selections are specifically multicultural and distinctly urban in setting. The poems range from the everyday "Ode to Potato Chips" to the profound "Haiku for Three Voices" to the raw "At the Bottom of His Father's Secret Drawer," about a gun that makes its way to school. The pages are unadorned except for the addition of a cover fragment at the opening of each section. This is poetry meant to be read aloud. The author includes a discussion of the different forms he's chosen, definitions of vocabulary used, and notes about historical and musical figures who appear in the verses. Readers who enjoyed his Love to Langston (Lee & Low, 2002) will appreciate this collection. For tweens and young teens who are looking for poetry with real voices and relatable experiences, Medina's down-to-earth tone and urban flavor might just hit home. A great offering for reading aloud and sharing with others, this collection may inspire young poets to put their own pens to paper in response. School Library Journal
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Of Banners, Sagas, Microtransactions, And Balance
The Banner Saga Blowout, Pt 2
Last week, you (probably, I hope; otherwise we can't be friends anymore) read my impressions of The Banner Saga: Factions, the soon-to-be-released F2P multiplayer spin-off of Stoic's gorgeously animated Viking strategy epic. Those are some of my favorite adjectives stacked together into a scrumptious sentence sandwich, so I came away predictably pleased. But after finishing my session and quaffing a hearty Viking
ale grilled cheese from a towering flagon paper plate, I had questions. For instance, how do microtransactions work? How will multiplayer tie into the multi-part single-player storyline? How will Stoic balance all of that? What's the deal with, er, the banners? Then we huddled around a centuries-old storytelling flame desk lamp, and Stoic told me a tale for the ages.
RPS: So Banner Saga: Factions is set to release before Banner Saga proper and herald its arrival, but what happens after that? Is this just a quick promo, or are you in it for the long haul?
Arnie Jorgensen: Even after chapters one, two, and three of the Banner Saga are done, we hope to continue supporting it. Players are going to have tons of content that we keep back-filling from the single-player that hopefully will keep this thing going.
RPS: What sort of content? What kind of things are you going to add from the single-player to Factions?
Alex Thomas: The main thing is, we're going to have a lot of specific classes for the story. As those come online, we're adding multiplayer versions of those. We're going to be adding different gameplay modes, like skirmish, playing against the computer. As we develop the AI for the single-player game, then we can add an AI version to the multiplayer. It really is like every time we add a feature, we want to see if we can leverage that in Factions.
RPS: And I assume you're trying to keep those different – but not better or worse, so it all stays neatly balanced?
Alex Thomas: We're very aware that we don't have a big team to constantly be rebalancing. Doing the hardcore balance playtesting. Part of it comes down to… Similar to Magic: The Gathering, when you're building a deck, you may make a crap deck, or you may make a very specific gimmick deck, or you may make a well-balanced deck. It's up to you to make the deck that you like to play with and tweak and fine-tune. We're doing something very similar here, because you don't have just one character. Most hands will have six characters. Some may be better in combination with others. You might put together a team that sucks and you'll retry it completely. We're hoping that, balance aside, as long as we keep in mind that some classes have certain roles in combat, and you need to have a little bit of everything, it's up to the player to make their team work.
Arnie Jorgensen: The idea here is that we've got lots of different classes. You can only play six at one time. We'll be launching with 12 to 16 classes, so you have to choose. Which six do I want to roll into combat with? That's where we're hoping people come up with crazy permutations… If you like the Siege Archer, you can do six of her on your team. There might be some that are freakin' nasty that way. I'm hoping.
Brian Mumm: Six Thrashers? That's my dream team.
Alex Thomas: We're probably going to have permutations come up that we didn't consider or that are just uber, and that we'll have to [correct for that].
RPS: In a game with this many possible permutations that – at least, on paper – sounds like it'll be constantly evolving, how do you go about doing that, exactly?
Arnie Jorgensen: There's two different ways, I think, that games balance. One way is that they make everybody so exactly equal that the game's balance becomes static. It's not fun. It doesn't matter what class I take, it's the same game. It becomes boring to me really quickly.
The chancier thing is to let it be a little more dynamic, or a lot more dynamic, and let players find something we never thought of. Then we have to balance against that. Just like StarCraft does. That, to me, is way more fun, because the game has a lot more flux in it. Really, if a game is fun, a game is fun. The last thing I want to do is design a game that's so balanced that it's static. So in order to do this, we're making classes wildly different from each other. You have giants that have massive strength and massive armor. Then you have humans that have less strength, but hopefully they'll come together well. So far, the classes that we're going to be launching with initially, we haven't had any games where we don't have classes that are viable. That's the important thing to me. We haven't found a team that can just beat every team yet. That's perfect. And when people do, that'll be when we have to rebalance it.
Brian Mumm: Another thing, too, is to get a lot of variety in our battles. We've been playing with a lot of the same roll-outs, but the battles can turn out drastically different. The way the battle shifts, too. Sometimes you can feel like, "Oh my gosh, there's no way I'm going to win this game." Then you pull out a move that shifts the battle in your favor again. I haven't had too many matches yet where it's just a complete slaughter.
Alex Thomas: It's amazing how dynamic it is now. Arnie and I play each other, and it's never the same.
John Watson: We're playing the same exact classes, the same exact order, multiple times and getting very different results that can turn the tide halfway through. So far, the system itself seems to be really dynamic and interesting. Any game with a strategic element that goes on for a long time, people figure out the optimal way, but I think learning what that is along the way is a large part of the fun for the players. It'll take years before people can say, "Okay, this is the best possible thing versus that." Same with Magic: The Gathering. High-level players will see a deck and say, "Okay, I can't beat that deck." But every time they release a new pack, there's the fun of learning what that new strategy is going to be.
Alex Thomas: Basically, each class has a cap. What we wanted to do is, we don't want the player to be able to max out all of their stats. So you could have two Warhawks, for example, who are built very differently and serve different roles in combat. When you hit your stat cap, you get the option to promote. Promotion will reset your stats. It gives you another level in your ability and adds one to the stat cap. You can promote your characters multiple times, and you have to build them back up
Arnie Jorgensen: We could have two Wardogs. Let's say Wardogs can get 18 strength. They're the strongest giant in the game so far. And we'll have built our Wardogs completely differently. He'll have 18 strength and I'll have 12, because I put it all into willpower and exertion and other things. And they're both equally viable. But the cool thing, as we said, is that two rank threes in the same class are going to have unique builds depending on how you want to play them.
RPS: How exactly does all of that work in practice with the semi-persistent nature of Factions? Do you have a consistent team of characters that's leveling up, and as you level you move into different brackets?
Arnie Jorgensen: It's very similar to that. Factions is different than the Saga. In the Saga you'll be playing characters we give you, with actual names. People from our story. In Factions, you're going to be taking characters, naming them, leveling them up from one through five as far as rank.
Alex Thomas: Like you saw before, [the city, Strand] is your hub, where you can go everywhere in the city. Every time you play a match, for every kill that you make, whether you win or lose, you get some Renown. Renown is the overall currency that you do everything with. You use Renown to buy new characters and to buy custom banners. When you buy new characters, they go in your overall party. You'll be able to have as many characters as you want. Like they're talking about before, we want you to build a huge collection of characters – like action figures, that kind of thing.
RPS: Factions is free-to-play, though. So where do the microtransactions enter the picture? How do they tie into Renown, class balance, and whatnot?
Alex Thomas: We're trying to keep it as simple and un-harassing- I know that's not a word – as possible.
Arnie Jorgensen: Unobtrusive? That's a word.
RPS: Unobtrassive, got it.
Alex Thomas: Basically, your Renown is your currency for everything. Like we were saying, every time you get a kill, you get one Renown. You can buy Renown if you want to speed up your progress, and that's it. You're basically deciding, "Well, I could play a bunch of matches," or "I'm really interested in this character so I'm just going to get some Renown and pick him up and play with him."
Within each character, and this is using the same pool of Renown… You'll play a match. You'll get an idea like, "I really wish that guy had higher armor." You can come back here, use the Renown that you just earned – one for each kill that you got – and upgrade your character. Or you can buy it.
Arnie Jorgensen: There's a couple of reasons for that. One was the whole… "We're playing D&D, we want you to play with us this weekend. If somebody hasn't been playing for a while, we'll roll you up a higher character."
The other reason is, since we're multiplayer-only when we ship, we need full servers of people at your level. If you're a level 60 power-group team, we need lots of people in that server, or you're going to be looking for matches and not finding any. So as far as we're concerned, the more full servers, the better. That comes back, also, to the achievements. Somebody says, "Well, I work all day, but I really like these games. I want to try the high-level characters." They can purchase them and throw down. But they'll be matching up with people where they'll see, "Oh, he's got one achievement, so he probably isn't…"
John Watson: He's got a badass deck, but he doesn't know how to play it.
Arnie Jorgensen: The achievements are a good way to say, "Yeah, I've been playing this game hardcore." We're balancing all the awarding of the Renown so it can easily be played without purchasing everything.
Alex Thomas: Right. We want to go out of our way not to make it a pay-to-win game. That's always tricky when you have to make revenue somehow. The bottom line is, you can do everything just by playing the game. If you want to speed it up a bit, you can purchase Renown.
RPS: And because whenever you make a team, it measures your total team power level – which basically measures all of your characters' stats – so it'll still match you with people who have equal stats, right?
Arnie Jorgensen: In this, you're the same power level. Your opponent's not ahead of you. You're matching up against a guy like you. It just gives you somebody else to play.
Why Single-Player And Multiplayer Are Inseparable
RPS: What sorts of characters and items will we see trickle in from the single-player story? Also, how will that affect the balance? What happens to free players when owners of The Banner Saga proper start charging in with crazy story classes?
Arnie Jorgensen: Everything in our game revolves around this big story-based idea that we've got. The whole game started with this story. Factions takes place on the map, in the story-based world. These aren't two different worlds. As things happen in this world, things happening in your story, they're going to happen to Strand and the other areas on that map. Not to go into it too much, but Strand is going to be an evolving city as you play. Easily updatable and changeable.
Alex Thomas: That was a big theme I think we glossed over a bit. When Chapter One comes out, what happens in Chapter One is going to have a direct relation to what happens in Factions. As you unlock characters in Chapter One, you'll unlock them in Factions as well. We want free players to see [story classes in action]. We're calling our magic-users Menders. They get hooked up in a match where they're fighting against Menders casting these spells, and they're like, "Holy crap, how do I get that?" You get the single-player game and you play through it, and now you know who these characters are and you can use them.
Arnie Jorgensen: Since Factions is a free-to-play game, we are hoping to pull people along into the single-player story-based game. If you only want to play Factions, you don't have to pay anything. It's a free game. But eventually, when you're playing against the story-based people, you're going to be fighting against guys who have Centaurs and Menders and crazy crap like that. You're going to go, "Okay, I think it's time."
John Watson: "I want one of those!"
Alex Thomas: Again, it's not like the Menders are going to ruin you and kick your ass. It's just that you've never seen that guy before, and he's awesome.
Arnie Jorgensen: It gives the other players, though, far more options. One more thing you can have in your mix.
I think we're going to have to be tweaking the whole way along. Just like DOTA. DOTA's got, what, more than 80-something units to play? It's very hard to balance, but you know what? Some of those units suck. Some are awesome. But we have six per side. Even if you have one that generally doesn't work well, with a particular six, it might be awesome. We're hoping that the six really helps to balance itself out.
But the whole time, I think we're going to be continually updating and balancing units and teams. If we ever do run across a team that's the flavor of the moment and nobody can get beat using this team, then we're definitely going to be balancing that. But we want people to have fun with it for a while. And I'll tell you, if I can make a team that could beat that, we might just leave it and let people rebalance the game themselves.
John Watson: The great thing about an online game where we host from a central server, the server can just record everything that happens. We can see things that are aberrations. People with two Archers in their party winning every time. Nobody ever plays this class, I wonder why? Let's figure out how we can make it better.
Banners! Sagas! Thes!
RPS: So, multiplayer seems like it could contain some pretty saga-y moments. But what about banners?
Alex Thomas: When you go to the weaver's hut, we're going to have all of these [guild crests] available, and you'll build your flag. It's a very basic Diablo III sort of thing. You pick the flag background. You pick the crest that you want to represent you. Every time you match up with someone in versus, you'll see you on the top, them on the bottom. You'll see the crest that they chose on the flag.
The interesting part is, as you get achievements, you'll be able to sew them onto your banner. When you match up with somebody, you can see that they've decided to sew in these particular things that they're proud of, or point out that they're a badass. My thing has always been… I understand the appeal of achievements. Personally I don't care at all. They don't compel me, because they're just this personal thing. Nobody looks at your achievements. You just feel good when you see "achievement unlocked."
But I was thinking, "What would make it compelling for me, someone who doesn't care about achievements too much?" And it would be this ability to show somebody what you've done. It has the same feeling in Call of Duty when you pick which little unlockable you've earned every time you kill somebody.
Arnie Jorgensen: Beyond that, also, usually when you go into multiplayer, you're not entirely sure what kind of player you're up against. But if I have two achievements and this guy has 30, I think, "Oh, crap, he's been playing a while." It's a way of showing you, "Hey, just how good is this guy?"
Check back tomorrow for so much information about single-player – both the main story and a "narrative mode" downloadable add-on for Factions – that you'll probably die. (Of entirely natural and hopefully unrelated causes.)


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What better way to get to know each other than to dump out the contents of our handbag. (If you're a man reading this blog–think of your wallet and your pockets and the front seat of your vehicle.)
I carry a small purse because I have a shoulder issue. Big bags cause my arm to hurt. So I've learned to pair down what I need. I'm going to dump it out in front of me right now and let you know what's in there.
- Wallet
- ACT mints
- Small fingernail file
- Lip gloss
- Lip stick
- Gum
- Pill box
- 2 pens
- Large fingernail file
- More lip gloss (why do I have 2 in this little purse?)
- Pen
- Ticket stub
- Hair clip
- Keys
That's it. Sometimes I try to fit my Kindle Paperwhite in there, but mostly I carry that around in my hand. And if I take my sunglasses, I have to leave that case on the front seat, or carry a larger bag!
Now how about you? What's in your bag? I draw one winner from each post's comment section. If your name is drawn, I'll send you a paperback book of my choice from my supply closet. If it's one you already have, you can donate the unsigned copy to your local library or a friend. Our last winner was Patricia B.
Announcements for this week:
- When the Bishop Needs an Alibi is now available everywhere books are sold. Thank you for all the reviews!
- My book Hidden and Protected are now enrolled in the KU store. If you're a member of KU, they're free. If you're not a member of KU, they're still only $2.99 each.
- My new Rafflecopter giveaway has started and includes a set of my Amish books, a quilting kit, and other fun stuff!
- I'm working on 2 new indie books that will release in the fall. Stay tuned for more details about Coyote's Revenge and Roswell's Secret in the coming weeks.


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Mighty Ships
Mighty Ships allow viewers unprecedented access to everything above and below deck on the world's most sophisticated vessels. From the mechanics of modern seafaring to the human dramas faced by the crew, each voyage is filled with high stakes and big risks.
Sapura 3500 (S10E5)
On most offshore projects, the work that goes into laying a natural gas pipeline, installing a platform foundation and landing the platform that will draw the gas up to the surface on top would be three separate jobs, completed by three different ships. Off the coast of Malaysia, Sapura 3500 lays a pipeline and builds an offshore gas platform in just three weeks.
Exploration Production Inc. (Discovery Channel Canada)
August 27 - September 10, 2017


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It's Whiteout Friday and defensive coordinator Bob Shoop is in the same head-to-toe blue sweats he often wears on the Penn State practice fields.
Kickoff against Ohio State may still be 30 hours away, but Shoop already has his game face on.
As he slowly walks through the oversized second-floor lobby of Lasch building, Shoop nods in recognition of a visitor, his face half-grimace and half-grin. He looks in a bit of a daze.
With apologies to Jay Z, Shoop is in a J.T. Barrett State of Mind.
Shoop goes over to the drink counter, makes himself a cup of 2 o'clock wake-me-up coffee, pads through the lobby and heads back down the hallway to his office. It's the ultimate Man-Up Cave. That's where he's really at home, using his B.A. in economics from Yale to plot the Nittany Lions' defensive game plan.
Well, that's not entirely true. He's also at home in the press box, calling schemes; in the film room, breaking them down; and on the practice field, teaching them.
Shoop, there he is.
At one point, there was a very outside shot that Bob wouldn't be the first Shoop from Oakmont, Pa., to work in Lasch. John, his younger brother by three years, is currently the offensive coordinator at Purdue. But the bulk of John's coaching experience is in the NFL, with Oakland, Tampa Bay, Chicago and Carolina. Mostly, John was an offensive coordinator and QB coach. From 2007-11, he was the offensive coordinator for the University of North Carolina.
Near the end of that final season, you may recall that Penn State was looking for a new head coach. John Shoop's name made it to the search committee, which was impressed by his credentials. He had two decades in the coaching business, including a stint as a coordinator on a team that made it to an NFL conference championship game. And he was a quarterback whisperer, to boot. (John was Carolina's OC/QB coach in 1996, when it went 12-4 under second-year quarterback Kerry Collins.)
Ultimately, the search committee hired a guy with those credentials. Guy by the name of Bill O'Brien. And OB's departure after two seasons in a not-so-Happy Valley opened the Lasch doors for a Shoop, after all. Bob Shoop.
James Franklin brought along as many as 16 coaches and staffers from Vanderbilt. That Shoop rode the figurative shotgun on Franklin's 697-mile journey from Nashville to State College has resulted in the biggest on-the-field impact since Franklin was hired in January. The numbers tell the story.
The NCAA released its weekly FBS statistics early Sunday morning and the Nittany Lion defense was in the Top 7 in eight key defensive categories. That 7 is definitely a lucky number for Penn State's hobbled offense.
The rankings are below; 2014 is first, followed by the final national rankings and numbers for 2013.
1st -- Rushing yards allowed, 86.6 per game (2013: 36th, 144).
3rd -- Total defense yards allowed, 267.6 per game (2013: 48th, 381).
3rd – First downs allowed, 14.7 per game (19th, 19.4).
3rd – Opponent passing efficiency, 100.03 (50th, 123.3).
6th – Points allowed, 16.6 per game (59th, 26.2).
7th – Fourth down conversions, 20% (32th, 42.9%).
8th – Third down conversions, 30.4% (39th, 36.5%).
Here's another number for you: In six Big Ten Conference games in 2014, the Nittany Lion defense has given up just 86 points in regulation time and scored 6 itself (on an Anthony Zettel pick six against Michigan). That's 80 points net – or 13.3 per game.
"If times are getting tough," said Franklin after Penn State's 13-7 win over Indiana on Saturday, "let's try to get our defense in a position to try to win the game. I'm proud of them. They've stepped it up time and time again."
It's not all Shoop. Also led by co-coordinator and assistant head coach Brent Pry, Penn State's most concentrated coaching experience is on defense. You can also include 20-year coaching vet Sean Spencer, who has maintained Penn State's D-line legacy, and the only Penn State grad on the staff, cornerback coach Terry Smith – a high school and college coach for 18 years.
Ultimately, it's the players. The Nittany Lions have a swarming group of defenders that does whatever Shoop tells it to – including pitching a defensive shutout of Indiana and holding national rushing leader Tevin Coleman under 100 yards on Saturday.
The leader of that group is fifth-year senior middle linebacker Mike Hull, whose 99 tackles on the season – 11 per game – rank him ninth in all of major college football. Hull and Shoop huddle, as a diabolical pair of sorts, early each game week. The pupil offers his input, then learns from the teacher so he can then be an on-the-field peer counselor.
Hull is on his sixth defensive coordinator in a half-decade at Penn State. He's a man of few words, most comfortable around numbers as a finance grad, solitude as a fisherman and a few fellow fifth-year guys as a close friend. In each of those circumstances, his actions speak louder than words. Just not when discussing his mentor.
"I would say Coach Shoop is definitely the best defensive coordinator I've played under so far," Hull said early in the 2014 season. "Hopefully it keeps on continuing that way. He really puts everyone in a good position to make good plays."
Hull's fellow linebacker, sophomore Brandon Bell, also has a laconic bent. But Bell is also not hesitant to give the blitz-happy coordinator his due.
"With Shoop, it's always about being more aggressive," Bell said. "That's what he tell us. It's definitely more fun. Coach Shoop pretty much decides what the weakness is on a play and we have blitzes from every angle, so he flips the page and finds something he likes. We do them all in practice. We have 'em from every angle and from every position."
Penn State is the latest on a 13-stop tour of college football for Shoop. That includes three stays at Yale – as a two-year undergrad starter at wide receiver, as a grad assistant and as the defensive coordinator. That's one more line on his resume than his boss Franklin has. Of course, Franklin being the classic over-achiever, is six years younger. Shoop's list of employers reads like an NE Corridor schedule for Amtrak: Yale, Virginia, Northeastern, Yale (again), Villanova, Army, Boston College, Columbia, UMass, William & Mary, Vanderbilt and Penn State.
It's likely that Shoop will move on to his next stop before Franklin. Shoop tasted the head coaching world in his 30s, regrouped and is now gaining national prominence for the Nittany Lions' success, and not the Columbia Lions' failure. When Shoop took over as head coach at Columbia in 2003, he was a boy wonder, having just turned 37 a few weeks before the season opener. It started out OK, with Columbia going 4-6 that first year. But after 1-9 and 2-8 seasons, Shoop was shown the back stoop. Fired and not yet 40.
His punishment? Back to being an assistant. And not even at the major college level. He spent 2006 as the secondary coach at UMass. The Minutemen went 13-2 and lost to Appalachian State in the FCS championship game. Three of Shoop's DBs were named all-conference, two to the first team. A spoonful of sugar helped the medicine go down.
His reward? The defensive coordinator's job at William & Mary. More responsibility, but at first it seemed more like a punishment. In 2007, Shoop's first season in Williamsburg, W&M ranked 111th in the nation in points allowed, yielding 38.8 per game, and 84th in total defense. The numbers were more than halved in 2008, when the W&M defense was ranked 55th and 37th, respectively. And respect was coming.
The reward came the next two seasons. In 2009, William & Mary's defense was No. 1 in fewest points allowed and No. 2 in fewest yards allowed. In 2010, W&M was ranked No. 6 and No. 30.
Shoop's reward? A phone call from Franklin, who offered Shoop the defensive coordinator's position at Vanderbilt. Off he went. And another defense took off. Vandy was in the Top 25 for total defense each of the three seasons Shoop and Franklin were there – 18th (2011), 19th (2012) and 23rd (2013).
Now, at Penn State, Franklin and Shoop are among the first to arrive at Lasch early each morning. Franklin because he cartwheels out of bed and loves what he does, loves who he does it with. Shoop loves his job, no doubt. And he has extra time. The ones he loves – his wife and two sons – have not yet moved to State College.
No one seems to be more appreciative of Shoop's presence than battered Nittany Lion quarterback Christian Hackenberg, who's been sacked 35 times – sixth-most in all of college football in 2014.
If John Shoop had somehow ended up at Penn State instead of O'Brien, Hackenberg certainly would not have become a Nittany Lion (no offense, John).
So, what about Bob?
"The defense has done a fantastic job," Hackenberg said. "They're one of the best in the country. Coach Shoop does a fantastic job with them, knowing you have a chance to win every game. We love what they bring to the table. They really help us out."
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Since the "Report a bug" posting is locked, I guess I'll do it here.
But the subspace heavyfighter says it's available for use at level 33. I started dropping cruisers for the heavyfighters. When I attacked someone, it wasn't showing my heavyfighters in "more info" and thought it was a primary fleet selection error. When I went to change my primary fleet to the heavys, it says they aren't available until lvl 34.
....or I coulda just said "heavyfighters aren't able to be used until lvl 34 but it says 33."
But it's whatevs.


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College presidents--Illinois--Evanston
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Henry S. Bienen Papers
Identifier: 3/20/2
Abstract Henry S. Bienen was born on May 5, 1939, and received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University in 1960. His M.A. and PhD were received from the University of Chicago in 1961 and 1966 respectively. He is best known for being the president of Northwestern University from 1994-2009. The Henry S. Bienen Papers span the years 1956-2009, comprise 35 boxes, and document his experiences teaching and being an administrator at Princeton and Northwestern, as well as his work on various boards...
Daniel Bonbright Papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 3/10
Abstract During Daniel Bonbright's 54-year career at Northwestern University (1856-1902), he taught Latin, served as University Librarian, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, and interim President from 1900 to 1902. He was instrumental in shaping the University's early curriculum, establishing the Library, and getting University Hall built. This sparse collection of his papers offers an overview of his life and legacy.
Joseph Cummings (1817-1890) Papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 3/8
Abstract Joseph Cummings was President of Northwestern University from 1881-1890. This sparse collection of papers consists of correspondence, biographical information (including genealogy and memorial materials), and two sermons.
Abram Winegardner Harris, Sr., (1858-1935) Family Papers
Identifier: 3/13
Abstract The Abram Harris Family Papers span two generations of the Harris Family. The first, that of Abram, Sr., is represented here by the period from 1897 to 1935 during which Abram reached the peak of his productive career as an administrator in secondary, higher, and religious education. The generation of Abram, Jr., is represented here primarily by the period from 1929 to 1947, from shortly before the last of his three marriages to the end of these papers.
Lynn Harold Hough (1877-1971) Papers
Identifier: 3/14
Abstract The Hough Papers reflect the brief tenure (July 1, 1919, to October 1, 1920) of an individual who had had no previous pertinent experience for the position of a university president, who apparently had been elected out of desperation as a compromise candidate, and who was absent from his office during most of his presidency because of preaching activities, travel, and illness. Hough was evidently an excellent preacher of sermons (in the U.S. and abroad), a competent writer of essays and...
Records of President Arnold R. Weber
Identifier: 3/19/1
Abstract Arnold R. Weber had a long history in academia prior to his election at Northwestern. His teaching career began at M.I.T., where he was an Assistant Professor of Industrial Relations from 1957-58. He went on to hold positions at University of Chicago, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Colorado. In 1984 he accepted the presidency at Northwestern University. He was known for role in addressing budget issues and his forceful leadership style. These papers cover a wide range of subjects...
Henry Wade Rogers (1853-1926) Papers
Identifier: 3/9/1
Abstract Henry Wade Rogers was born October 10, 1853 in the small town of Holland Patent, New York. After serving as a law professor for 2 years and Dean of the Law School at the University of Michigan for 5 years, Rogers became President of Northwestern University in 1891. As President, Rogers instituted many changes that shaped the future of the University, including uniting all professional schools under the power of the Board of Trustees, pushing for co-education, and insisting on supporting...
Walter Dill Scott (1869-1955) Papers
Identifier: 3/15/1
Abstract The Walter Dill Scott Papers provide a partial view of a pioneering psychologist interested in the classification of military and industrial personnel, and a fairly comprehensive portrait of the administrative role of a Northwestern University president who sought to integrate the disparate components of a university in crisis and develop for it a national reputation. They also illustrate some of the problems faced by an American university during the Depression. The Walter Dill Scott Papers...
Franklyn Bliss Snyder (1884-1958) Papers
Identifier: 3/16/1
Abstract Franklyn Bliss Snyder joined the Northwestern faculty in 1909 as an instructor in English. Snyder took a particular interest in the Scottish poet Robert Burns, publishing in 1932 The Life of Robert Burns and, later, Robert Burns: His Personality, His Reputation and His Art. In 1934, he was promoted to Dean of the Graduate School, taking over the role from James A. James. Among the more important roles Snyder played outside the University were his memberships on the Commission on School Board...
University Presidents J. Roscoe Miller Papers
Identifier: 3/17/1
Abstract J. Roscoe Miller was Northwestern's twelfth President. He served from 1949-1970. These papers document his time as president. They are comprised of 98 Boxes.


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Learn to create fun stuff at home, assorted by craft categories and more.Upload Your Own Creations
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Take waste paper and keep it in water. Immerse the frame in the mixture (blended recycled paper+water) lift the screen out of the basin, to remove the extra water from the pulp.
After the water stops dripping (or nearly so), gently place a piece of fabric (felt or flannel, preferably) or a piece of Formica (smooth-side down) in the frame on top of the "paper". Very gently press down to squeeze out excess water. Use a sponge to press out as much water as possible from the other side of the screen, and periodically wring out the sponge.
Let it dry completely. This is how the Dried sheets of paper look...
Decorate and enhance to create Greeting Cards, Tags etc.
Water, Scrap Papers, Plastic storage tub, Kitchen blender, Mould & Deckle (a screen attached to a frame), Towels, Wool blankets, cloth, Pellon, Shamwow's or other absorbent material


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Welcome to Heartfelt Images
What started out as a photography contest using disposable point and shoot cameras has evolved into a full fledged art contest. Each year 100's of submissions are submitted by first year UBC medical and dental students artistically conceptualizing the human heart and circulatory system.
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text: "Sanctus" was created in grateful memory of Mary Elizabeth McGehee Joyce, whose estate gift made the renovation of Oxnam Chapel possible. The painting silently invites all who enter the chapel to join the saints and angels and all the company of heaven to join their unending hymn of praise. Acrylic and copper on wood, 9″ x 240″