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Murder victim's family settles with ADT
ADT recently settled a lawsuit regarding a Minnesota woman murdered in her bed in 2006 after her security alarm failed to go off, and the case carries implications for the security alarm industry, according to a newspaper account of the case.
Here's more from a Minneapolis Star Tribune story earlier this week:
Four children who survived a middle-of-the-night double murder in Washington County five years ago will receive a financial settlement that will provide for them for life after a bruising lawsuit over a failed home intrusion alarm.
The case involving the estate of Teri Lee, shot dead in her bed in West Lakeland Township in 2006, could hold implications for homeowners trusting intrusion alarms to protect them and for alarm companies relying on contract language to insulate them from liability.
Just how much money ADT Security Services Inc. will pay the family to care for Lee's four children remains sealed in federal court under the confidential agreement reached Friday. But [an attorney for the family], Bill Harper of Woodbury, said the amount was "substantial" and will provide for the children for the rest of their lives.
Inquiries to ADT seeking comment Saturday were unreturned. The large national company, which has headquarters in Florida, never admitted in court filings any responsibility for the shooting deaths of Lee, 38, and her boyfriend, Timothy Hawkinson, 47.
The two were killed in a second-floor bedroom on Sept. 22, 2006, just weeks after Lee spent $2,405 on an intrusion alarm system to protect herself against the man who would murder them both.
But when Steven Van Keuren, a jealous and disturbed former boyfriend who had violated several court orders that prohibited him from contacting Lee, cut the phone lines outside her house in the early morning darkness, nothing happened. When he shattered a glass patio door with a crowbar, a sensor failed to sound.
Van Keuren crept up the stairs to Lee's bedroom with a handgun, but two new motion detectors didn't respond. The screeching alarm finally activated when Lee's two daughters opened the front door to escape -- after their mother and Hawkinson were dead.
Hawkinson's family reached an undisclosed settlement with ADT years ago, Harper said.
ADT initiated legal action soon after Lee's death to argue that a clause in the contract she had signed declared the company's maximum liability at $500. That led to a volley of legal briefs that Harper said filled 10 filing cabinets.
In the broader picture, Harper said, the case creates a legal precedent in Minnesota in that an alarm company's attempt to limit liability in fine print isn't absolute. Such a warning wouldn't cover a "known peril" such as Van Keuren when a homeowner installs alarms to protect against a specific threat, he said."
I contacted ADT, which declined to comment. I'm trying to find out more about the legal implications of this case for the industry. Stay tuned.


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INVESTIGATING COORDINATION OF LEXICAL AND STRUCTURAL INFORMATION CROSS-LINGUISTICALLY by Heeju Hwang A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (LINGUISTICS) August 2012 Copyright 2012 Heeju Hwang
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Twins making mark in AL Central standings
MINNEAPOLIS -- While the Twins still reside just below .500 with a 36-41 record heading into Sunday's game against the Royals, Minnesota did own the best record in the previous 30 games in the American League Central.
With a 17-13 in that span, the Twins have started to gain some ground in the division standings, sitting only six games behind first-place Detroit. Minnesota's 30-day record tops Kansas City and Cleveland -- each at 16-14 -- Detroit (14-16) and Chicago (8-22).
"I think other than the 10-game losing streak -- you can't throw it out, we did it, we earned it -- if you throw that out, it would look a little bit different right now," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. "We've hung in there pretty good. Over the last 30 or something games, I think our record is OK. It's pretty decent."
Gardenhire also noted the importance of winning at home, a task they've started to accomplish with a 12-5 record in their last 17 at Target Field prior to Sunday. And while the Twins search for consistency, Gardenhire feels the team is making strides, particularly from recent years.
"We just had the one bad spell and if we could stay away from stuff like that and become a little more consistent -- we're a fun team to watch," Gardenhire said. "It's fun for me. I think the fans like it a little bit better than they have the last couple of years. We've got some issues, absolutely. We've got things we're not clicking -- pitching and hitting together. We've got some guys we really need to get swinging better, but it's actually a pretty fun group with some young kids mixed in, which makes it pretty interesting for going on down the road."


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A Montana TV station's emergency alert system was hacked by someone warning of an impending zombie apocalypse.
An emergency alert interrupted "The Steve Wilkos Show," on which teens cheaters were taking lie detector tests.
"Civil authorities in your area have reported that the bodies of the dead are rising from their graves and attacking the living," an ominous voice intoned. "Follow the messages onscreen that will be updated as information becomes available. Do not attempt to approach or apprehend these bodies as they are considered extremely dangerous."
The Great Falls Police Department said it had received four phone calls asking if the alert was real.
"Then I thought, 'Wait. What if?'" Lt. Shane Sorensen told the Great Falls Tribune. "We can report in the city, there have been no sightings of dead bodies rising from the ground."
Sorensen said he wasn't sure what, if any, penalties the hacker would face if caught.
KRTV acknowledged on its website that it had indeed been hacked, and that there was no immediate danger from the undead.
Someone apparently hacked into the Emergency Alert System and announced on KRTV and the CW that there was an emergency in several Montana counties.
This message did not originate from KRTV, and there is no emergency.
Our engineers are investigating to determine what happened and if it affected other media outlets.


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The R-C Morning Report
An Indian Hills resident accused of taking up to $60,000 from her bank customers over the course of a year is scheduled to appear for arraignment in Douglas County District Court this morning. Jeanne Dey is represented by attorney Ron Cauley.
A 16-year-old Minden resident was involved in a collision with a marked Nevada Highway Patrol car on Friday afternoon. The NHP vehicle was parked on the shoulder just south of Muller Lane. Both drivers were taken to Carson Valley Medical Center with nonlife threatening injuries. The NHP is looking for witnesses. Call the Department of Public Safety-Communications Center at (775) 687-0400 regarding case No. NHP 130207719, if you saw anything.
It will be sunny and cool today with the high creeping up to 44 degrees. We'll see temperatures in the 50s again by the middle of the week. There are no storms in the forecast for this week.


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On any given episode, the cast of Glee goes through intense choreography lessons and lengthy recording studio sessions on top of the many hours spent on set filming. But star Chris Colfer had to go to even further lengths, and ...
On any given episode, the cast of Glee goes through intense choreography lessons and lengthy recording studio sessions on top of the many hours spent on set filming. But star Chris Colfer had to go to even further lengths, and greater pains, for Tuesday's new episode of the Fox musical (8/7c, Fox) in particular.
"I should have taken pictures of the welts that the wires caused," Colfer tells TVGuide.com with a laugh. "I definitely suffered for this art."
The Golden Globe winner went the extra mile in more ways than one. In addition to the injuries he sustained while in harnesses for his character's latest role playing Peter Pan, Tuesday's episode also marks Colfer's writing debut for the series.
Get scoop on the Glee season finale and more
In the years since Glee's premiere, Colfer has written a film, Struck By Lightning - in which he also starred - and two New York Times best-selling children's novels. (The third in the series hits stores July 8.) But despite his extensive writing experience, Colfer admits he was very hesitant to take the "steering wheel of the bus that is Glee," as he puts it. "Glee is not my world. These aren't my characters. I would never want to tamper or damage them," Colfer says. "I certainly have been in Kurt's head for a long time so I definitely knew how to voice him. ... I was just terrified to write for my co-stars because I would never want to write something that they didn't agree with or they didn't like."
One character in particular gave him pause. "Rachel's been such a main focus of the show for a very long time and I didn't want to give her anything that would come across as repetitive or that would make the character unlikeable or overly compassionate," he says.
However, the writers were able to convince Colfer to take the leap. "I went into it really terrified, not knowing what to expect. Not knowing if I would have guidelines and what they would be or if I would get to tell a story that I wanted to tell," he says. "I think I was very, very spoiled when it comes to this because they were really so open-minded and they really let me tell a story that I wanted."
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Although Colfer was unable to fulfill his dream of sinking a ship on stage - "that was going to be very expensive," he explains - the actor did get the thumbs up for Kurt's story line, in which he joins an assisted living home production about the boy from Neverland. "I've always wanted to do something like Peter Pan that involved harnesses and cool special effects," he says.
Starring in the (fictional) production not only symbolizes a dream realized for Colfer, but an important achievement for his character as well. "Kurt himself was feeling very much cast aside by his friends in this particular episode," he says. "It is a very, very unlikely place that he finds himself in, but he really finds the validation that he's been looking for since he arrived in New York."
Despite his initial fears, Colfer received the same validation from his co-stars about his first Glee script behind the scenes. "My phone was blowing up," he recalls. "They were very supportive, and I think they all really enjoyed the story. ... I hope so. At least that's what they said."
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In contrast to his writing anxieties, Colfer was at ease when it came time to actually shoot the Peter Pan sequences. "The costume was very comfortable. I am very, very excited that they didn't go with the typical tights and spandex that he usually wears, and the harness was actually more comfortable than I thought," he says. "I did have major, huge flesh wounds from hitting the wires constantly on my shoulders but other than that, it was pretty seamless."
It's not only the costume that deviates from the traditional Peter Pan get-up. "When they're doing Peter Pan, they do a modern twist to it. They sing 'Lucky Star' when he's talking about Neverland," says Colfer, who also picked out many of Kurt's songs for the episode. "Even though everyone knows I'm a very selfish writer and I wrote a lot of things that I wanted to do, I really picked songs that fit the story line the best. He sings 'Memory' from Cats, and I think it's very, very fitting because he's in a retirement home and that song, it's so beautiful and it's all about a life that someone used to live."
The episode may be wrapped and ready to air, but Colfer's nerves haven't completely subsided quite yet. "I think I will be tweeting up a storm leading up to it but once it airs, I might take a step back because I'm terrified to be honest. I just hope people like it and I hope its good and I hope that the message that I intended comes across," he says. "I just don't want to let anyone down. There's a lot riding on it."
Public approval from the always vocal Gleeks, Colfer says, is also a determining factor in whether he'll write another episode for Glee next season - the show's last. "Then maybe I will get asked to come back, and then I'll have to think of another story I want to tell," he says. "There's no such thing as a day off on Glee because you're either in the recording studio or in dance rehearsals. So it doesn't quite seem like the end is as close to us as it does to the rest of the world because we still have a full season to do. So I think once Season 6 is over with, I think that's when I'll be a little sad."
Glee airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on Fox.
View original Chris Colfer on Writing for Glee: I Don't Want to Let Anyone Down at TVGuide.com
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Halladay undergoes successful shoulder surgery
PHILADELPHIA -- The Phillies have called Roy Halladay's right shoulder surgery on Wednesday in Los Angeles a success.
But successful arthroscopic surgery does not guarantee he will pitch again this season. Halladay has a long road ahead of him, because he still had his labrum and rotator cuff repaired, as well as an inflamed bursa removed. But Phillies physician Dr. Michael Ciccotti said the organization is "cautiously optimistic" Halladay will be back, because the labrum and rotator cuff were not detached or torn, there were no bone spurs removed and there were no sutures required.
If everything goes as the Phillies hope, Halladay might begin a throwing program in six to eight weeks, which could put him back on the mound for the Phillies as early as late August.
"It was really the best-case scenario in our minds," Ciccotti said. "If and when he feels that he is throwing with the velocity and the control that he's comfortable with and effective, then we'd consider having him be back in a game situation. If all goes well as we and all Phillies fans hope, then it is possible that he may be able to pitch this season.
"But there are a lot of ifs between now and then. Does he get his motion back? Does he feel strong again? How is he when he is throwing a ball? There are a lot of things between now and then that might prevent that from happening."
So it also is possible Halladay will not pitch again this year, and even if he does, there is no guarantee he will pitch with success. Halladay turned 36 on Tuesday and has thrown 2,721 2/3 innings in the big leagues and 641 innings in the Minor Leagues.
FanGraphs.com found pitchers 35 years or older who spent time on the disabled list with any sort of shoulder injury since 2002 averaged only 59 innings the rest of their career. It also found 32 of the 62 pitchers on that list never pitched again. Only six pitched more than 100 innings: John Smoltz (106), Pedro Martinez (153 2/3), Kenny Rogers (173 2/3), John Burkett (181 2/3), Tim Wakefield (424 1/3) and Orlando Hernandez (438 1/3).
Ciccotti said Halladay's biggest obstacles between now and the time that he gets back on the mound are getting his full range of motion back and rebuilding strength in the shoulder.
"Given the person that he is, the motivation that he has, the dedication that he has, he has all the intangibles that are important in getting someone back," Ciccotti said. "But we're realistic about it, too. It is very possible that he is not pitching at the level that he wants or what Phillies fans and his teammates deserve him to be pitching at."
Dodgers physican Dr. Neal ElAttrache performed the surgery. He originally thought a bone spur would need to be removed, but upon looking inside the shoulder, he found Halladay did not have the traditional type of bone spur that rubs down on the rotator cuff. ElAttrache simply smoothed the underside of the bone instead.
"It won't be a problem in the future," Ciccotti said.
ElAttrache told Halladay last week he thought the surgery could turn back the clock a few years in regards to how his shoulder feels. But is that just good bedside manner or is it truly realistic? The statistics certainly suggest otherwise.
"I know he was suggesting to Roy, if everything works out well, and if you have these milder forms of injury, and if you rehab well and you're comfortable, it is possible you may feel the way you felt at the onset of your pain," Ciccotti said. "Rolling back the clock is something that is virtually impossible to do for any of us whether we were elite-level athletes or not. The translation of that is making him feel comfortable enough so he can be effective."
So is Halladay facing long odds?
"There are lots of factors that actually go beyond what happened yesterday that would determine that, and that's clearly a challenge for any elite-level pitcher, even a Roy Halladay, to get back from," Ciccotti said. "As I said earlier, given what was found at the time of the surgery -- best-case scenario -- and given the fact who Roy is and the motivation and focus he has, we certainly hope that happens and it's possible. But there's a lot between now and then to be able to precisely predict how effective he's going to be."


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Washington, D.C. -- Equine rescue owners and horse enthusiasts from around the country gathered in Orlando on May 5-7 to expand their network and share best practices at the fifth annual conference of the Homes for Horses Coalition (HHC). The HHC is sponsored by the Animal Welfare Institute and The Humane Society of the US.
Panel discussions spanned a wide range of topics vital to horse rescues, including an interactive lecture on increasing philanthropic resources; a grant maximizing discussion given by the ASPCA and former PetSmart Charities staff; a talk on making social media work, an overview of the US Trotting Association's Standardbred re-homing efforts; and advice on how to efficiently run an equine rescue.
Networking to secure humane equine treatment
This was the first year the HHC conference was held in conjunction with the 2012 Animal Care Expo, allowing HHC members to attend a broader course load of animal sheltering panels. Also new to the Expo was a track specifically dedicated to equine welfare. Christine Sequenzia, federal policy advisor at the Animal Welfare Institute, spoke during the equine track on the topic of ending horse slaughter for human consumption. "It is wonderful to see such camaraderie among animal shelters and specifically among equine rescues. Together, we can work toward passing a federal ban on the cruel act of horse slaughter, while providing safe havens for at-risk horses," said Sequenzia.
Sharing ideas to build a stronger coalition
Attendees were quick to offer suggestions to build a stronger coalition at this year's conference. Suggested concepts included building a national horse registry database with buy-in from breed groups, assisting with equine re-homing or the at-risk equine notification process; hosting webinars focused on social media techniques and technological tools; creating a best-practices document focusing on volunteer management and problem horse rehabilitation; and establishing a catalogue of humane horse trainers.
Jacque Schultz, senior director of the equine fund at the ASPCA, is a HHC conference favorite. Schultz said, "For a second year, the ASPCA was thrilled to offer scholarships to equine rescue volunteers from across the country as the Homes for Horses Conference is always a source of up-to-date information and networking opportunities. I was especially pleased to hear more about the growing trend in statewide equine welfare coalitions, an area where the ASPCA Equine Fund offers grant support."
"We are thrilled to have been able to participate in this year's HHC Conference, which brought like minded experts together. Improving professionalism within the rescue community and extending our nationwide outreach were just two of the important topics discussed during this fantastic three day event. We have attended every conference since day one and we will be back next year too," said Jo Deibel, executive director of Angel Acres Horse Haven Rescue, Inc., and HHC steering committee member.
Founded in 2007 by AWI and The HSUS, the Homes for Horses Coalition is dedicated to ending horse slaughter and other forms of equine abuse while promoting growth, collaboration and professionalism in the equine rescue and protection community. The coalition currently has more than 150 members and is the only professional organization dedicated to providing training and support to the nation's equine welfare community.
The sixth annual Homes for Horses Coalition conference will be held in May 2012 in conjunction with the 2012 Animal Care Expo in Las Vegas, NV. To find out more, visit: http://www.homesforhorses.org/.
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If you want to survive in the game of sports betting, Football Tips And Predictions in Tips then you have to use effective money management. I recommend that you follow these guidelines at all times.
- Only invest what you can realistically afford to lose. Prediction Football Today you have to remember that you really do not need to start with al a lot of money. I got started with only $100 dollars and I followed the system and my money has doubled over and over again over the course of years.
- Do not make your initial bet too high. Only invest 5% of your total bankroll for a flat betting system (in which you bet the same amount each time) and no more than 2% for a progressive system. You need to be patient here and allow your systems to do their slow and steady work.
- Increase your initial bets when your bankroll has increased by 25%. This will increase your earning power, Football Tips And Predictions just remember to stick to the suggested percentages in #2.
- Remember to Diversify your portfolio. If you have a total bankroll of $1000 and 4 systems that you would like to use, then each system should be allotted $250 and you have to keep those amounts separate.
You have to be disciplined in your use of your systems and in your money management strategy. It can be difficult especially you are doing exceptionally well or if you are losing badly. You may be tempted to deviate from the systems or the money management guidelines in either of those situations. But do not, Todays Football Prediction And Tips just remain diligent and the rewards are sure to follow.
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This is the third instalment in a series of articles on profitable betting through sensible money management. So far, I have discussed the importance of getting value when you bet, to maximise the returns you achieve when your selections win. In the most recent article you should have learned to keep your stakes in proportion to the size of your betting bank.
Today I want to examine a common mistake that often gets punters into serious trouble – chasing your losses.
I don't think there can be many of us who have not at some time, decided to get back what we just lost by betting a little bigger on the next race. It is sometimes known as progressive staking.
Let's take a simple scenario: you bet £10 on Red Rum, and he loses. What do you do? Perhaps you continue with your selection methods and come up with another pick in the next race – Best Mate. The price is 6/4F
But, rather than putting another £10 bet on Best Mate, you decide to 'chase' your loss from the last race. You add another £7 to your stake so that when Best Mate wins you will pick up an extra £10.50 to recover the bet you lost on Red Rum. Good plan? Could be, after all Best Mate is a sure fire winner, right? May be. May be not!
What happens if Best Mate loses? You are now £27 'in the hole'. But you still have a plan. Your next selection is a dead cert winner at Even money. You place your usual £10 stake plus an extra £27 to cover your losses so far. No need to worry. When this one comes in, you will have re-couped your losses and have a £10 profit to show as well.
Let's take a step back here. You are staking £37 to win a £10 profit. Think about it – you are effectively getting odds of only around 1 to 4 odds-on about a horse that is Even money in the market. That is terrible value!
You may escape this time and your horse may well win. But what if, heaven forbid, your red-hot even money favourite fails to win? After just three bets, you are down to the tune of £64 when your normal stake is just a tenner!
Long losing runs do occur, more frequently than you might think, and even with short-priced selections.
If you spent a day in a casino at the roulette tables, and analysed how many times you witnessed a run of 7 or 8 consecutive 'red' numbers, I would not be at all surprised if you saw this happen four or five times – in a single day. Here we have pretty much a 50/50 bet, even money, that the roulette ball will land in either a red or a black slot. Yet I was amazed to learn that the longest run of the same colour (reported) was THIRTY-NINE consecutive reds!!
Imagine if you were betting on black, and saying to yourself each time "no worries, it's got to be black next time…. Surely?"
But let's go back to the more common occurrence of a losing run of 7 even money bets. We will be betting on the red.
We place a £1 bet on the first spin. It's black. We chase our loss by 'doubling up' and next bet £2. If we were to carry on in this manner, after 6 spins we would be betting £64 to win our original £1
I sincerely hope my point is getting across. By chasing your losses you can very quickly see your stakes climbing to preposterous levels, to win your original, relatively small stake. The risk is way out of proportion compared to the potential reward.
One last example to really ram the point home. The Racing Post runs a tipster competition. All the leading racing journalists are involved, representing the nation's newspapers and horse racing publications. These are experts at tipping horses. Take a look at the results table any day, and see for yourself the longest losing run. Remember, these are the experts.
I looked today, and Racing Post PostData has suffered this season a losing run of twenty-seven. Twenty-seven consecutive losers from an expert tipster! And believe me, he is not on his own, just the worst offender this season so far.
There is an old saying – "Don't throw good money after bad". If your selections don't make a profit from simple level stakes betting, don't try and make them profitable by throwing more money at them. You may survive with a profit for a while, but this approach is a disaster waiting to happen. Sooner or later you WILL blow your entire bank chasing a disproportionately small profit.
If your selections don't make a profit from simple level stakes betting, change your system.
Betting on Horse Racing: From Traditional to TechnologicalIntroduction
In article one, I introduced you to the Betting Exchange concept and explained the basics of LAY Betting (Lay to Lose). Now in this article, I'm going to introduce you to another unique and powerful feature of the betting exchanges, the Place Markets.
What Are Betting Exchange Place Markets?
Place markets are as the name suggests, markets which allow you to bet on a selection to be 'placed'. Eg. a horse to finish 1st, 2nd or 3rd in a 8 runner or larger field.
Now, the first and most important thing to highlight here is that these place markets are completely different to the well known Each Way (EW) betting markets offered by traditional bookmakers. The Each Way bet is in fact 2 bets of equal stakes.
The 1st stake is on the selection to win and the 2nd is on it to be placed. So a £10 EW bet will cost you £20 in total.
A £10 place bet on a Betting Exchange is a single bet and therefore will only cost you £10. If your selection finishes in a place, you collect your winnings and smile.
Think about it for a minute. How many times have you been certain that a horse will be placed, but you have not been confident that it will win...
Traditional Each Way Betting
Take the following example. A horse named 'Im gonna be placed' that is available to back with traditional bookmakers at 4/1 (5.0). Your very confident that it will finish in the top 3 in a 10 runner field.
With a traditional bookmaker, your options are:
1) Take a chance on it winning and place a win single on it. E.g. £10 at 4/1
2) Place an EW bet on it. E.g. £10 EW at 4/1 (5.0). Total stakes £20. The bookies will pay you 1/5 odds on the place element of this E/W bet based on their standard EW rules. On our horse which is available to back at 5.0 this equates to 1.8
Now, the only time the above race will be profitable for you is if the horse actually wins. In both cases you would make a very nice profit if it did. For option 1 you would win £40 profit and for option 2, £48 profit.
BUT, if as you suspected the horse only finishes placed in 2nd or 3rd, you actually lose money in both cases. With option 1 you obviously lose all your stake money so are down £10. With option 2, you win £8 on the Place side of the EW bet but still lose £2 overall as the win part of the bet was a losing one.
Enter The Betting Exchange Place Markets
Using the above example and depending upon the prices of the other horses in the race, you would probably see the Betting Exchanges offering odds of around 1.60 - 2.00 (evens) on this horse being placed. You can therefore put your £10 PLACE bet on at say 1.8 and collect £8 profit (minus commission) as long as the horse finishes 1st, 2nd or 3rd. Only if the horse finishes outside of the top 3 do you lose your £10 stake.
I'm sure this has got you thinking and you can probably see the power in this straight away!
When combined with a good staking plan and a sensible selection process, it can be common to have very long winning streaks when backing horses to be placed on the betting exchanges. These longer winning streaks more than make up for the relatively short prices that are offered on selections to be placed.
Place Market Important Notes
A few important things to note about place markets:
1) Unlike the betting exchange win markets, Place markets DO NOT go "In-Running" when the race starts but this is true of the traditional E/W bets offered by bookies as well.
2) If a race is planned as a 8 runner or more event but a number of horses become non-runners leaving less than 8 runners, the betting exchanges still offer odds on 3 places. This is different to bookmakers who in such cases adjust their odds on the place payment from 1/5 to 1/4 of the win odds BUT they only pay out on 2 places. If a 5,6 or 7 runner field is shortened to less than 5 runners, the betting exchanges will still offer place markets and payout if the horse finishes 1st or 2nd.
3) You can make up the equivalent of an E/W bet on the betting exchanges by placing a bet on the win market and a separate bet on the place market. Depending upon the type of race and the form of the market, you will often find that this offers more value in terms of odds than an E/W bet with a bookmaker.
Backing Or Laying On The Place Markets
As explained in article 1, the ability to Lay a selection is perhaps the most important feature of the betting exchanges. You now have the ability to Lay selections to be placed. In other words, if you have a valid reason to believe that a selection will not even finish in a place, Lay it to Lose on a betting exchange. The real beauty of laying on the place markets, is that the odds are always much lower than the outright win odds so your lay liabilities are much lower.
Trading On The Place Markets
As the place market prices are much lower than the outright win market prices, they also offer a great place to learn the skill of TRADING without much risk to your balance! Betting Exchange trading is simply the process of betting on price movements for guaranteed profits. E.g. Back a horse at 4.0 and then Lay it later at 3.0 for a no risk bet or guaranteed profit regardless of the outcome!
Betting exchange trading will be covered in detail in a future betting article.
Place markets should be used as part of your betting armory. They offer you the chance to make money frequently with long winning streaks being very common. This helps to build your confidence as well as your betting bank!
Bookie Each Way bets are not always poor bets but in the vast majority of races, the odds are stacked firmly in the favour of the bookmakers. They simply love punters taking EW bets on these races as they know its their bread and butter. A small proportion of races where the market is formed in a certain way do offer the punter very good E/W value but that's for a different day...
Well that's it for part 2 of my betting exchange articles. In part 3, I will be explaining the Betting Exchange In-Running markets.


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Amiberry is an optimised Amiga emulator for the Raspberry Pi and other ARM-based SoCs, that brings you the highest performance Amiga emulation. Be it a classic A500, A1200, CD32 or up to a high-end model equipped with a 68040 and a graphics card, we've got you covered.
This installation is possible due to a collaboration with Dimitris Panokostas (Amiberry) and Daniel Knight (DietPi).
- Keyboard + Mouse is highly recommended.
- We also offer a completely automated installation image for Amiberry. Please see: https://blitterstudio.com/amiberry/
- Direct download link: https://dietpi.com/downloads/images/Die ... miberry.7z
First Run Setup
- Kickstarts (Amiga BIOS/boot system)
Amiga kickstart ROM images are required to run the system(s) you want to emulate. These can not be bundled due to copyright restrictions.
If you own the Amiga Forever product, you can legally download and use Kickstarts you are eligible for, from: https://www.amigaroms.com/
NB: Kickstart 1.3 (A500-A2500-A3000-CDTV) is highly recommended to work with most games.
Kickstarts need to be placed in /mnt/dietpi_userdata/amiberry/kickstarts
- Floppy disks (Amiga .adf images)
Amiga's floppy disk images have a .adf file extension.
You will need obtain at least one ADF image to start your Amiga experience.
Load your ADF from or place them where every you want it, e.g. create and use:
To allow uploads via file servers, remember to grant required permissions, e.g.:
chown dietpi:dietpi /mnt/dietpi_userdata/amiberry/floppy_images
- Amiberry can be started by running systemctl start amiberry
- Optionally, you can enable Amiberry autostart to boot straight into the Amiga environment as fast as possible, with the least possible interference from Linux.
Simply run dietpi-autostart and select Amiberry fast boot then reboot your system.
If you face issues with the fast boot option or need to have other service starting up first, use Amiberry standard boot.
Once Amiberry is running, you will need to configure the emulator, to tell it which Amiga system to emulate.
- Select Quickstart (from the left hand side menu)
- Under Amiga model:, select the Amiga model you'd like to emulate (example A500)
- Under Config: select the additional options for the target Amiga model (if required)
- Click the Set configuration, button to apply changes.
- Select a Kickstart (ROM):
- On the left hand side, select ROM.
- Under Main ROM File:, click the browse button (3 dots) ...
- Navigate to your Kickstarts directory /mnt/dietpi_userdata/amiberry/kickstarts
NB: Amiberry does not currently support symlinks. If you have a dedicated USB drive installation, the location is: /mnt/uuid-of-drive/amiberry/kickstarts
- Select a Kickstart (1.3 is recommended)
- Select a Floppy disk image (ADF):
- On the left hand side, select Floppy drives.
- Under DF0:, select the browse button the right hand side (3 dots) ...
- Navigate to your Floppy image directory, e.g. /mnt/dietpi_userdata/amiberry/floppy_images
NB: Amiberry does not currently support symlinks. If you have a dedicated USB drive installation, the location is: /mnt/uuid-of-drive/amiberry/floppy_images
- Select the ROM you wish to use.
- On the left hand side, select Display.
- Ensure the Fullscreen option is enabled.
This will emulate the Amiga as fast as possible, ensuring you get the maximum FPS for your SBC hardware.
- On the left hand side, select CPU and FPU.
- Under CPU Speed, select the fastest option.
- If you find this change slows down the emulation, try using the fixed value of 25MHz
It is recommended to save your settings. This will ensure the settings are applied on next startup of Amiberry
- On the left hand side, select Configurations.
- Enter the name, e.g. autostart, then click Save
When ready, select Start to launch the emulator. Have fun!
- How can I transfer Kickstarts & Floppy Images to the device?
Make sure you have one of DietPi's File Servers installed.
- Floppy Disk Image (.adf) directory as chosen before, e.g. /amiberry/floppy_images
- Kickstarts (.rom) directory = /amiberry/kickstarts
- How can I open the configuration window once the emulator has started?
The pre-defined key for that is F12.
- How can I reboot the Amiga emulation environment (Amiga reset)?
Use Ctrl + Left Windows + Right Windows keys. If you don't have a Right Windows key, try using the menu key instead.
- What are the default controls for Joystick, when using a Keyboard?
When using a keyboard, the default joystick controls are:
- Arrow Keys = Up/Down/Left/Right
- Page Down = Fire/Button 1
- Page Up= Fire/Button 2
- How can I improve performance (framerate)?
A lower resolution may improve performance on most games. From the emulator main menu:
- On the left hand side, select Display
- 640x256 is high resolution
- 320x256 is low resolution and should provide improved performance
- From a terminal, run dietpi-config
- Select the Performance Options menu
- Select Overclocking Profiles
- Select an overclocking profile, then reboot the system
- How do i set the floppy drive speed for compatibility?
Floppy drive emulation is to set to "800%" by default. This reduces loading times by upto 8x. You can lower this to 100%, increasing compatibility:
- On the left hand side, select Floppy Drives
- Change the Floppy Drive Emulation Speed value to 100&
- Some games are not in full screen:
Games run at various resolutions, from the emulator main menu:
- On the left hand side, select Display
- Change the Height value to 200 or 256
- Press the Resume or Start button
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My mother and father grew up in the little town of Amite, Louisiana, but they never took my siblings and me to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. (Can't imagine why) My first chance to see a Mardi Gras parade took place in Alabama. It was Mobile, Alabama to be exact. I'm embarrassed to say I thought New Orleans and Galveston, in my home state of Texas, were the only places to hold Mardi Gras celebrations. Now, I know better. Do you think there might be other stuff going on in America that I'm not aware of? Anyway, I now feel certain that many places have parades- just not as far North as Amarillo, Texas.
But my first Mardi Gras experience took place where it all started. Sorry New Orleans. The first Mardi Gras parade in America was held in 1703 in Mobile, Alabama. New Orleans started their party fifteen years later.
My ignorance runs even deeper. I thought Mardi Gras was maybe a week of parades and balls. Sorry, my friends, this is wrong. In Mobile the first parade of Mardi Gras is in November. During the three weeks before Fat Tuesday, the town holds parades almost every night. And the locals do it right each night. I was there on a random Tuesday and the floats were beautiful. The high school bands that played between the floats were energetic and talented. I imagine this was not the first parade they had marched in over the last few weeks but they didn't disappoint.
Amateur float makers everywhere, we need to hang our heads in shame. We have parades in my little town and we have an awesome band but our flat-topped trailers covered in hay bales and brightly markered posters would be laughed out of the Mobile parades. The one picture of a float that I took (below) shows you what I mean. These are well thought out designs and they don't use the same floats night after night. I'm guessing there are hundreds of floats housed all over Mobile year round as they prepare for Mardi Gras season.
Next let me tell you about the gifts tossed from the floats to the waiting crowds. You know about the beads and doubloons but do you know about the stuffed animals, roses, candy, peanuts and Moon Pies? Yes, I said Moon Pies. In 1956, Alabama float riders started sharing Moon Pies with the crowds. I didn't even know these treats still existed.
And what do you collect your goodies in? Many parade goers have wheeled boxes. Sacks don't work well because the torpedoed goods come quick and you need somewhere to toss your items as you prepare for your next catch. Seasoned parade goers have rakes to collect goods that don't clear the protective three-foot fence. The plastic bags from the local grocery store that we use for our little parades would never hold the plethora of loot recovered on a Mobile Mardi Gras night.
Now you understand why I didn't get a lot of pictures. You look down and you might be sporting a bead imprint across your face the next day. And the night I went, it was ladies throwing the gifts from high atop the floats.
I feel like I stumbled upon a well-kept secret. I went to a Mardi Gras parade and I didn't have to fight Time Square sized crowds. I didn't even have to flash anything to get beads.
Related articles
- On Mardi Gras Day, it's time for a Moon Pie (real-southern.com)


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With the launch today of the free Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Hosted Trial, the ultimate techie sandbox is open for business. Sponsored by Dell, MaximumASP, and PASS , the Hosted Trial provides a complete, integrated Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, SharePoint 2010, and Office 2010 environment where you can try out SQL Server 2008 R2's new BI and data management features risk-free, explains PASS Board member Douglas McDowell. Here, Douglas shares how to get started and make the most of your Hosted Trial experience.
Q: What is the Hosted Trial, and how can I and my organization benefit from it?
A: Hosted Trial is a completely preconfigured server environment that a user can remotely access to try out different features of a software product. In this case, a user can explore the new Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 release in an integrated configuration with Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010. To introduce the new features, the Hosted Trial provides seven hands-on labs that users can step through from the comfort of their own office or home.
Q: Is the Hosted Trial lab environment something I can access securely from my office?
A: Yes, in most cases. To access the labs, you connect to a Terminal Services Gateway over SSL and then the labs launch a Remote Desktop Session (RDP) that is secured by SSL as well. However, some folks could run into issues if their company blocks RDP at their firewall.
Q: Which features of SQL Server 2008 R2 do the labs cover?
A: For DBAs, there is a lab for the new Multi-Server Management features in SQL Server 2008 R2. For Business Intelligence pros, there are SQL Server 2008 R2 labs for PowerPivot for Excel and SharePoint, new Reporting Services features, and Master Data Services. There are also two Integration Services labs. In addition, developers will really enjoy jumping into StreamInsight, the new complex event processing (CEP) platform embedded in SQL Server 2008 R2.
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A: We have a Terminal Services Gateway that sits in front of a Hyper-V cluster hosting multiple Virtual Machines. Based on the last Hosted Trial, we are starting with capacity for five simultaneous labs. But we expect this Hosted Trial to be even more popular, so we will monitor traffic and add more capacity as needed.
Q: PASS has cosponsored Hosted Trials before—is there anything different about this program? Any enhancements or changes I should know about if I've participated before?
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Democrats may jettison their demand for higher taxes on millionaires as part of legislation to extend Social Security tax cuts for most Americans, officials said Wednesday as President Barack Obama and Congress struggled to clear critical year-end bills without triggering a partial government shutdown.
Republicans, too, signaled an eagerness to avoid gridlock and adjourn for the holidays. With a massive, $1 trillion funding bill blocked by Democrats, GOP lawmakers and aides floated the possibility of a backup measure to keep the government in operation for several days after the money runs out Friday night.
It all comes at the close of a year of divided government — with a tea party-flavored majority in the House and Obama's allies in the Senate — that has veered from near- catastrophe to last-minute compromise repeatedly since last January.
The rhetoric Wednesday was biting at times.
"We have fiddled all year long, all year," the Republican leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, complained in a less-than-harmonious exchange on the Senate floor with Majority Leader Harry Reid. McConnell accused Democrats of "routinely setting up votes designed to divide us ... to give the president a talking point out on the campaign trail."
Reid shot back that McConnell had long ago declared Obama's defeat to be his top priority. And he warned that unless Republicans show a willingness to bend, the country faces a government shutdown "that will be just as unpopular" as the two that occurred when Newt Gingrich was House speaker more than a decade ago.
It was a reminder — as if McConnell and current Speaker John Boehner of Ohio needed one — of the political debacle that ensued for Republicans when Gingrich was outmaneuvered in a showdown with former President Bill Clinton.
At issue now are three year-end bills that Obama and leaders in both parties in Congress say they want. One would extend expiring Social Security payroll tax cuts and benefits for the long-term unemployed, provisions at the heart of Obama's jobs program. Another is the $1 trillion spending measure that would lock in cuts that Republicans won earlier in the year. The third measure is a $662 billion defense bill setting policy for military personnel, weapons systems and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, plus national security programs in the Energy Department.
After a two-day silence, the White House said Obama would sign the measure despite initial concern over a provision requiring the military to take custody of any suspect deemed to be a member of al-Qaida or its affiliates and involved in plotting or committing attacks on the United States. U.S. citizens would be exempt.
Reid and other top Democratic senators met with Obama at the White House at mid-afternoon, and congressional aides said the topic was the end-of-year legislation.
Democrats have made the proposed millionaires' tax central to their plan for the payroll tax cut extension, and officials stressed no decision had been made on whether to drop it. They spoke on condition of anonymity to talk about legislative strategy.
Any such move would represent a concession to the Republicans in both houses who are opposed to the surtax. But it could also require Democrats to agree to politically painful savings elsewhere in the budget to replace the estimated $140 billion the tax would have raised over a decade.
In its most recent form, the surtax would have slapped a 1.9 percent tax on income in excess of $1 million, with the proceeds helping pay for the extension of tax cuts for 160 million workers. Senate Democrats have twice forced votes on the proposal in what officials have described as a political maneuver designed to force GOP lawmakers to choose between protecting the wealthy on the one hand and extending tax cuts for millions on the other.
Wednesday's maneuvering occurred the day after the House passed a payroll tax extension that contained no higher taxes. That House measure drew a veto threat from Obama that cited spending cuts the White House said would harm the middle class without requiring a sacrifice from the wealthy.
The bill would extract nearly $43 billion from the year-old health care bill; extend a pay freeze on federal employees while also increasing their pension contributions and raise Medicare premiums on seniors with incomes over $80,000 beginning in 2017. It also would raise a fee that is charged to banks whose mortgages are guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Obama's veto message also alluded to a requirement for the construction of an oil pipeline from Canada to Texas that Republicans said would create 20,000 jobs. The provision is designed to force the administration's hand, since Obama announced recently that despite three years of review under two administrations, he was putting off a decision until after the election.
The measure would permit Obama to block the Keystone XL project if he deemed its construction to be not in the national interest.
The House-passed bill also includes an extension of unemployment benefits that would scale back what is currently in place. The White House said 3.3 million people would be cut off under its terms. Another part of the bill, to block proposed regulations limiting toxic emissions from industrial incinerators, drew objections from the White House.
The legislation would avert a threatened 27 percent cut in payments to doctors who treat Medicare patients, and Obama and Democrats are willing to accept that.
Associated Press writers Donna Cassata, Alan Fram and Andrew Taylor contributed to this story
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Ubuntu for Phones Hits Developers Next Week
While the first Ubuntu-based smartphones won't be available to the general public until October, developers will gain access to preview builds of the OS next week.
Canonical — the company behind the Ubuntu project — announced that the Touch Developer Preview of Ubuntu will be available for the Galaxy Nexus and the Nexus 4 on Feb. 21, 2013.
Canonical says the Touch Developer Preview is designed for enthusiasts and developers — giving them a chance to "familiarize themselves with Ubuntu's smartphone experience and develop applications on spare handsets."
Even better, Canonical will install the new OS on the phones of developers who want it and are attending Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona Feb. 25-28.
It so happens that I have a Nexus 4 and I'll bet at MWC. I'm not sure if I'll have time to get the flash install on the Nexus 4 before I leave for Spain so I may just stop by the Ubuntu booth to get it done.
Earlier this week, Canonical released its design guides for Ubuntu apps. These guides give developers insight into the design vision for Ubuntu, as well as global patterns that need to be followed so that apps will behave consistently.
The company also released a developer SDK for developers that want to build apps using native Qt/QML, web or HTML5.
Ubuntu is just one of many companies duking it out for another spot in the mobile marketplace. In addition to Android, iOS and Windows Phone 8, we're also seeing lots of movement on the new BlackBerry 10 OS, as well as rumblings from the Tizen, Sailfish and Firefox OS.
By focusing its preview builds on the Nexus line of handsets, Ubuntu is hitting at the perfect sweet spot of developer and enthusiasts. I can't wait to give the OS a try next week.
What do you think of Ubuntu's chances on mobile? Let us know in the comments.
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Robot Unicorn Attack 2
iOS, Free
The game-making gurus over at Cartoon Network's Adult Swim have a knack for crafting entertaining, competitive experiences out of whole cloth; Robot Unicorn Attack 2 is their latest endeavor. It's an endless runner in the vein of games like Canabalt or Temple Run. There are only two buttons: jump to leap over chasms, and dash to bash through obstacles. You'll accumulate points as you run, and can also collect fairies to boost your score, and tears, which serve as the in game currency.
It's all a bit simple, but that's part of the fun: you'll get three "wishes," or attempts to earn a high score.There are also challenges to complete, in the vein of dashing through a set number of obstacles or accumulate enough points over the course of your wishes. Complete challenges to increase your unicorn rank, which unlocks new abilities, community missions, and the neverending battle between Team Inferno (yay!) and Team Rainbow (boo!).
It's free, but there are in-app purchases—standard fare for the endless runner genre. Nothing too egregious: I collected plenty of tears over the course of many runs but I never felt inclined to spend them on anything but the occasional boost or upgrade. More importantly, you're a Robot Unicorn. I mean really, this stuff should sell itself.
Star Command
iOS, $2.99
I'm trying to remember the last time I felt this level of abject terror whilst ostensibly "enjoying myself." Probably while playing Faster Than Light actually. Much like that indie darling, Star Command was borne of a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign and sees you as captain of a starship, having wild adventures while traversing the vast reaches of space. It's also just as unforgiving, if such a thing is even possible.
The game revolves around tokens: you'll earn them by winning space battles, and can spend them on adding weapons and equipment upgrades for your starship, or new crew members. Combat requires juggling timers, stationing crew members alongside weapons to fill progress bars, and then playing mini-games that rely on precision to successfully attack foes. You'll also need to send crew members into the fray to fight off enemies who manage to board your ship, which happened more often than I'd like —to be fair, I've been woefully inept at managing my shields. The game ends when your captain dies, and while you can save your game between missions I've lost more bouts than I'd care to admit when a lucky missile strike punches a hole through my bridge and sucks my captain out to the void of space.
Buy this: you won't be disappointed. Dejected possibly, and maybe even a little frustrated, but certainly not disappointed.
House of the Dead Overkill: The Lost Reels
iOS, $4.99
And now for something completely different: House of the Dead Overkill: The Lost Reels. The original House of the Dead: Overkill game singlehandedly vindicated my decision to hook my Nintendo Wii up to my television, years after Mario Kart and Smash Brothers had lost their luster. The homage to light-gun arcade shooters was violent, foul-mouthed, and ludicrously funny, and it's iOS incarnation is actually pretty good. Like traditional arcade shooters, levels are divided into a rapid succession of shooting galleries. Zombies—wait, sorry, mutants—filter in from offscreen and need to be dispatched before they get too close and swat you down.
I'm actually rather smitten with the control scheme; I usually loathe first-person shooters on touchscreen devices, but your character doesn't actually move, which eliminates the issues involved with trying to aim and shoot and move on a tablet or phone. Your left hand controls the crosshair, while the reload, fire, and weapon-swap buttons sit on the right side of the screen. The shooting gallery atmosphere couple with kitschy B-movie aesthetics and a comfortable difficulty curve just lends itself to a good time. The price is a bit on the steep side, and there are in-app purchases—including a third level which will set you back $2, which is a bit obnoxious. But I certainly got five bucks worth of entertainment out of this—if you're a fan of classic arcade shooters (or the House of the Dead series), this is a safe bet.
This story, "What I'm Playing: Wish upon a Star (Command) " was originally published by TechHive.


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Cape Town has been relatively grey this week; I woke up this morning thinking I was back in York. Having got my bearings correct I set about the morning getting ready for work. I'm the new archaeology intern at the Iziko South African Museum (www.iziko.org.za) and for Day of Archaeology I'm basically going to play the role of a journalist, going around asking people about their day and taking photos. So let's start with my day.
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Keneiloe (Kenni) Molopyane
Bioarchaeologist turned Physical Anthropology PhD candidate
At some point in the morning I finally made it to my office in the Archaeology Department bracing myself for a relatively calm day filled with admin work, gathering Physical Anthropology data for my potential PhD proposal and sorting out my relocation logistics… I quickly slip into my general intern routine that includes running up and down the stairs to collect the mass amount of prints I send to the printing machine one floor above us. Then it's a quick scanning of the notice-board, which I inherited from the last intern. I decided it didn't need any updating today besides; I have somehow managed to paste the wall around the actual notice-board with short articles, notices, comics and job/funding posts. The actual notice-board is bare!! I seem to have some mad skills there. Right, then it's my favourite part of the day, reading emails. Depending on how many emails I've sent out the previous day determines how many responses I get back and for how long I'm going to be sat in front of my computer. The most interesting bit of news from the electronic mailman is that my new office at the next institution I'll be tutoring at is in the basement! How awesome, I get a crypt-like office!! My dream of becoming "Bones" is that much closer to becoming reality; I'm a bioarchaeologist by the way. I'm more interested skeletal or mummified remains of past peoples than I am of the artefacts left behind. I'm the creepy chick in the department.
Emails, done; printing, done; coffee *slurp* finished; and so I grab my camera and dash out over to Iziko Social History centre to go bug the guys up at Historical/ Maritime Archaeology. I started my Iziko career over in that building in Maritime Archaeology, so it's always grand to just chill up there with the guys over a cup of coffee, laugh and be teased at. So, I get there and do my paparazzi gig and stare, dumb-founded, at all the shipwreck material in the lab.
Jaco Boshoff
Getting into the proposal writing zone
Jaco is the curator of Maritime and Historical Archaeology. This morning I found both him and Jake (maritime archaeology intern) in the wet lab calibrating the ph reader, so they can start using it on a series shipwreck material that dots the lab and the balcony. Once that's out of the way, it's back to serious curator business…making the hardworking interns some delicious coffee =). Hie, hie, jokes aside, Jaco gets settled in working on publications and research monies to keep myself and Jake coming back for more work experience and most importantly the awesome diving adventures that are in the works. Leaving Jaco to get on with his day, I turn my attention to Jake.
Jake Harding
The "not sure if Jaco is talking to me or himself again" look.
Jake is the maritime archaeology intern on the same funding programme I'm on (DST-NRF). Now Jake, just like Jaco, is crazy about all things maritime archaeology related, aka shipwrecks. He's day starts out with checking on the many shipwreck artefacts that are in the lab. Documenting and treating numerous cannon balls and strange iron pieces, as well as your occasional knocking off concretion with a chisel and hammer is all a part of Jake's day. I haven't a clue what's going on with all these artefacts, and Jake is just going on about each iron piece in solution and how they all fit together or not, with this pure, unadulterated excitement. I wonder if I get that way when talking about skeletons.
I had a video recording (or at least I thought it was) of Jake taking me through his day and the artefacts, but because technology is way higher grade for me, I can't find the video on the camera. =(
One cup of coffee later, I'm making my way once more to the South African museum or ISAM as it is known among the inner circles of Iziko.
So, I'm sat in my office after a quick run upstairs to the printers again and I hope to finally sit down and type out the pathology report I put together a week ago. An email pops in and it's from the University of York's alumni about taking part in their "where are you and how you doing" survey. I can foresee this is going to take me a while, so I'll put it off for Monday. Wilhelmina pops in and we sit down and go through her day.
Wilhelmina (Wil) Seconna
Now where would that Khoe pot be?
Wil is the Assistant Collections Manager…actually she's the best Collections Manager ever! She makes sure that all the operations going on in the department run smoothly and that everybody is happy. It seems that we have similar morning routine going on here. Wil's morning begins with going through a mass amount of emails and research requests for access to the archaeology collections. All the SAHRA permits applications and all things admin were taken care of with a quick session at the computer, and Wil just make's it look so easy. A quick run to the printers is followed by a mini adventure in search of a Khoe pot for the Land Act exhibition coming up soon
Naturally, when you have a department filled with girls, you can expect there to be shopping talk involved at some point in the day. Today, Wil & Erica kidnapped Pascal and went out shopping…for safety gear quotes. Overalls, boots, gloves and hard hats aren't exactly what us girls want to be shopping for, but hey, we'll take it. Why are we buying safety gear? The museum is currently going through a major revamp and so there's construction being done in the building…as you would have it, the archaeology collection is required to move. So yes, we need heavy duty outfits that can be worn while we methodologically relocated the storeroom which houses over 100 (at least) sites in and around the Cape. Shopping trip over it's time to get the shelving out from the storeroom and into the main lab, and Erica takes charge.
Erica Bartnick
"Kenni, stop with the paparazzi-ness"
Erica is the Collections Assistant working on the Physical Anthropology collection.
Her day today went along these lines: first task was to photograph the de-installation process of the casts made by former taxidermist, John Drury, in the Ethno Hall. It's been decided that the casts of the human figures are to be removed and replaced with wire figurines; it's all very futuristic and arty looking. Then there was the shopping trip followed by admin work regarding the Physical Anthropology collection. New labels for the skeleton boxes were prepared as well as a mapping system for the new layout of the collection. As already mentioned before, the archaeology storeroom is being shifted around and so today's main activities were centered the moving of the shelving and ensuring that the next site collection (Klasies River Mouth) to be moved is all prepped and ready to go.
The manpower behind moving the shelving and super heavy boxes containing Stone Age material are our resident packers!! Sam, Angus, Pascal and Manzi
These guys do all the heavy lifting so that pretty girls such Wil, Erica and (depending if it's a bad hair day or not) myself don't have to.
And that's a wrap folks, off to the pub I go!!
Ok, it's the end of the work day and I need to head off to a farewell gig for one of my SAHRA mates and dive buddy. She's heading out to the USA for some warm-water-diving adventures. Goodbyes always suck, but it's the one time in what has felt like forever since I hung out with the SAHRA (South African Heritage Resources Agency)Underwater Unit, it'll be great…they're great! Here's a short piece and video link to what my awesome Maritime Archaeology mates do =).
Sophie Winton
Can I get in the water now?
When I sat down to write something for Day of Archaeology, my mind went blank! As a maritime archaeologist in South Africa, there are just too many wonderful things that I want to share about the world below the waves.
So instead of writing a 20 page essay, I thought I would let this video sum it up for me. This was filmed during SAHRA's Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage Field School in 2012, hosted in Cape Town. Table Bay was a toasty 10 degrees Celsius and we were doing NAS training with some wonderful students from South Africa, the Netherlands, Swaziland and Canada.
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Tickets for touring Broadway, music, dance and more on sale Aug. 12
Tickets for touring Broadway, music, dance and more on sale Aug. 12
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. —Tickets for the Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State's 2013–14 season of 28 music, theater and dance presentations go on sale Aug. 12 to the general public. Performances include the touring Broadway musicals "West Side Story," "Memphis," Disney's "Beauty and the Beast," "Bring it On: The Musical" and "Rock of Ages"; Cirque Éloize in Cirkopolis; the Yamato drummers of Japan; singer-songwriters Mary Chapin Carpenter and Shawn Colvin together for an acoustic evening; Moscow Festival Ballet in Swan Lake; two-time Tony-winner Sutton Foster in concert; trumpeter Doc Severinsen and His Big Band; and Vienna Concert-Verein Orchestra with pianist Sebastian Knauer.
Go to www.cpa.psu.edu for details about the music, theater and dance presentations.
Tickets for the performances—on stage September 2013 through April 2014 at Eisenhower and Schwab auditoriums and Pasquerilla Spiritual Center—will be available online at www.cpa.psu.edu; by phone at 814-863-0255 or 1-800-ARTS-TIX; and in person at Eisenhower (weekdays 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.), Penn State Downtown Theatre Center (weekdays 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturdays 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.), and the Bryce Jordan Center (weekdays 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.). Tickets also will be on sale for two Penn State School of Music featured concerts.
Three touring Broadway musicals make their Center for the Performing Arts premieres. Disney's Beauty and Beast is on stage for two performances Feb. 25 and 26, the Tony Award-winning best musical "Memphis" arrives March 27 and "Bring it On: The Musical" comes April 17. A new adaptation of "West Side Story," based on the recent Tony-winning Broadway revival, launches the musical theater offerings Nov. 19, and "Rock of Ages" returns Jan. 22.
Foster makes her Penn State debut in a Feb. 15 concert with her trio. Foster, who won Tonys for outstanding actress in the musicals "Anything Goes" and "Thoroughly Modern Millie," has performed in 10 Broadway shows and starred in the ABC Family series "Bunheads."
Carpenter and Colvin's acoustic concert, on stage Oct. 19, features the friends performing material spanning their vast catalogues as well as some of their favorite songs by others.
Cirkopolis, the newest creation from Montreal's Cirque Éloize, dives into a vibrant imaginary world and pushes the boundaries of visual and audio innovation Sept. 27. Dance, circus, music and theater meet in this scenic universe co-commissioned by the Center for the Performing Arts.
Momix performs Botanica, a 90-minute dance-theater work that follows the cycle of seasons, Sept. 12. Compagnie Käfig makes its Penn State debut Feb. 4 performing two works, Correria and Agwa, which blend hip-hop and Brazilian influences. Moscow Festival Ballet performs Swan Lake March 20.
Trumpeter Doc Severinsen, leader of The Tonight Show Band for a quarter century, fronts his own orchestra Oct. 22. The Count Basie Orchestra, directed by Bill Hughes, returns April 3 in a concert featuring the Grammy Award-winning vocal group New York Voices.
The Classical Music Project, now in its third season, features seven concerts plus free related activities. From the final parts (St. Lawrence String Quartet Oct. 9 and Brentano String Quartet Feb. 21) of a three-season presentation of the complete Beethoven string quartets and a dramatic rendering of five of Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg Concertos (Apollo's Fire, The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, Nov. 7) to the American debut tour of a heralded Austrian ensemble (Vienna Concert-Verein Orchestra with German pianist Sebastian Knauer Feb. 6) and the sublime singing of a male vocal ensemble (Cantus April 1), the project brings a diverse roster of artists to central Pennsylvania audiences. Learn more about the project at www.cmp.psu.edu.
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- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1/4 teaspoon ground chipotle chile
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 tablespoon minced crystallized ginger
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 cup canola oil
- 1 large egg
- 1/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
- 2 tablespoons firmly packed dark brown sugar
- 1 1/2 tablespoons unsulfured blackstrap molasses
- 1 1/2 tablespoons honey
- 1/4 cup buttermilk
Position a rack in the center on the oven and preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour a 4 1/2 by 8 1/2 by 2 3/4-inch loaf pan (or similarly sized 1 pound loaf pan).
In a small saucepan, melt the butter over medium heat. Stir in the chipotle chile, remove pan from heat, and set aside.
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