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Gambling operators say the state is overstepping its bounds by trying to shut down four casinos in Alabama.
The Poarch Band of Creek Indians says the state lacks the power to shut down its three electronic bingo operations in Atmore, Montgomery and Wetumpka.
The state filed suit Tuesday claiming the gambling centers are illegal.
And an attorney for VictoryLand owner Milton McGregor says the state's raid on the east Alabama casino is improper. McGregor lawyer Joe Espy says no court has ever ruled that VictoryLand's machines are illegal.
The moves were the state's latest in the state's long-running effort to shut down what it contends are illegal gambling operations.
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10 comments:
- speedyrabbit said...
See the boy's were playing tricks with you RG.But Zoe and Chico are looking fab as ever
- October 26, 2012 at 11:09 PM
- Crafty Green Poet said...
Certainly no way that Zoey and Chico can be confused with any otherbun!
- October 27, 2012 at 1:46 AM
- Marla Robb said...
Hope the happy couple have a terrific weekend!
- October 27, 2012 at 4:51 AM
- Clovie Boy said...
They are joined at the hip...er cheek. Just a lot of fluffiness!
- October 27, 2012 at 10:18 AM
- Brandi B said...
They look warm and cozy and sweet. RG, why do Winston, Racer and Princess have no bondmates? Have you tried to bond them?
- October 27, 2012 at 10:26 AM
- bunnits said...
Love those fuzzy bunnies.
- October 27, 2012 at 12:37 PM
- anonymous said...
Not "incompetent," RG. You know the word I'm thinking of, but you and BL certainly have yourselves some sweetie bunns there. Now, tell Brandi to go watch football and stay out of the private lives of your bunnies. Oh, if you want to, you could mention that sometimes bunns bond to humans and to the warren.
- October 27, 2012 at 1:38 PM
- Brandi B said...
Oklahoma Sooners vs. Jesus? TOUGH call!!!
- October 27, 2012 at 4:43 PM
- anonymous said...
Knew you would be conflicted, Brandi.
- October 27, 2012 at 5:04 PM
- Brandi B said...
1. ND's helmets look like Christmas ornaments, happy and festive. I suddenly want some peppermint hot cocoa and a snowstorm.
2. WTF! Center snaps the ball to...NOT Landry Jones! Come on, boys, YOU ARE AT HOME!
- October 27, 2012 at 5:21 PM


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OpenText lures new CEO from SGI
Barrenechea back to software
Supercomputer maker Silicon Graphics has lost its president and CEO, Mark Barrenechea – a longtime executive with a specialty in the software business – to enterprise content management software provider OpenText.
SGI announced last Wednesday morning that Barrenechea would be stepping down at the company, which makes shared memory and cluster servers primarily aimed at supercomputer centers and hyperscale data centers where performance and thermal efficiency are the main concerns.
All that was known on Wednesday morning just after Wall Street opened was that Barrenechea was resigning his posts effective January 1, 2012 to run a "global software company" as its president and CEO. OpenText this morning confirmed that Barrenechea will assume those two roles at OpenText beginning January 2.
OpenText, Silicon Graphics and Barrenechea: a history lesson
John Shackleton, who has been a director at OpenText for the past 13 years and who took over as president and CEO in 2005, pushed the company above the $1bn revenue mark through a combination of acquisitions and organic growth. Shackleton is 64 years old and wants to retire, so OpenText was looking for someone to run it.
Barrenechea was senior vice-president of application development at Oracle and managed the team that brought the Oracle Applications 11i suite to market. After he did that, he became chief technology officer at Computer Associates. Barrenechea was a director at private equity firm Garnett & Helfrich Capital (which ate the switch business from Nortel Networks, turning it into Blade Network Technologies, now a part of IBM), and came to the attention of hyperscale server maker Rackable Systems in late 2006, when he was appointed to its board of directors.
In April 2007, Rackable named Barrenechea president and CEO. This was a significant time for the company since it was two years after Rackable, a maker of exotic power-efficient servers used by online retail giant Amazon as well as other hyperscale web operations, went public and was coming under pressure from Dell and others peddling efficient machines.
Two years later, Barrenechea spearheaded the acquisition of bankrupt supercomputer maker Silicon Graphics, which had a better brand and a larger customer base. The combination of the two companies is the new Silicon Graphics. This marriage has proved fruitful and the new SGI is on track to become a billion-dollar system provider in the next couple of years – and perhaps even one that makes a decent profit, too.
OpenText is located in Waterloo, Ontario, and was founded in 1991 out of that city's university, which had started a project in 1987 to create an online version of the Oxford English Dictionary. Significantly, Tim Bray, who is the developer advocate at Google and who was formerly director of web technologies at Sun Microsystems, was working on the New OED project with Tom Jenkins, who co-founded OpenText with Bray and who is still its chairman and chief strategy officer.
Making content management pay
The content management system and search engine that OpenText created for the New OED was taken commercial, and in 1995 OpenText was the supplier of the search engine behind Yahoo! OpenText began its long line of acquisitions that year and went public on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ the following year, giving it the money to fuel yet more acquisitions. One of the biggies was the $489m purchase of fellow ECM specialist and Canadian software company Hummingbird in August 2006. Another one was this year's $260m acquisition of Global 360, a maker of business process management software.
OpenText had just over $1bn in sales in its fiscal 2011 and brought $123m to the bottom line; it has around 4,400 employees. Revenues and profits have grown more or less steadily in the past five years, despite the Great Recession, and Barrenechea takes the helm of a company that is well-versed in acquisitions and able to deal with them – more or less like his former employers Oracle and CA.
The news of Barrenechea's abrupt departure was not received well by SGI shareholders. The company's shares lost 14 per cent of their value on Wednesday, December 14 when the announcement was made, and are off a total of 25 per cent on Monday morning compared to the closing price of $14.03 on December 13.
SGI appointed Ronald Verdoorn, its chairman, as interim CEO while it conducts a search for a new CEO. Verdoorn reaffirmed SGI's prior fiscal 2012 guidance, which is for sales to be in the range of $740m and $780m - a revenue growth of between 18 and 24 per cent. The company expects earnings per share of between 15 and 30 cents.
On December 7, SGI announced that it had secured a $50m line of credit with Wells Fargo Capital Finance to fund working capital for large system orders, but significantly, on December 14, when Barrenechea's departure was announced, SGI also said that it was withdrawing its shelf registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission to raise $100m through the sale of equities or debt securities. SGI said back in November it was looking for the credit line and was trying to raise funds to do acquisitions and chase new business. The SEC had not yet processed that S-3 registration.
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Yesterday I was involved in a Google + hangout with Brian of Hot Blog Tips and Mitch of I'm Just Sharing. We got together to brain storm ideas for the Hot Blog Tips Newsletter that we all participate in. It was a very productive way to share ideas without the hassle of emailing our ideas back and forth.
Anyway, Mitch had ask if there was a way to do Screen sharing and I told him no. Well, smack me stupid (as if that hadn't already been done). Today I pop over to ReelSEO.com and see an article titled Using Video With Google Plus for Business Pages and at the bottom of the post they talk about the New Extra Features added to G+!
Yepper doodles…you can now screen share in a G+ Hangout. All you have to do is when you start the hangout look for the text link, below the Add People and the Green Hangout button, that says Try Hangouts with Extras. Click that and you will see it load.
When a new person joins the hangout they will also be loaded in with the extra features.
Yes, I made Brad do a hangout with me so I could see how it worked. Who cares that Brad was not even home…he left his mail logged in and I just helped him join the hangout he didn't even know happened (until he walked in the door).
So what are the new Extra Features s of me testing it?
The Hangout Originator can Mute or Block other participants in the hangout! "Hey, STHU I'm talking!" *Hits Mute*
At the top you will see share screen, when you click that a new window opens that allows you to pick a screen on your machine that you would like to share in the hangout.
While it says on the side of the Hangout window that sharing Google Docs is not yet supported…if you have a regular word doc open on your machine, you can share that. But, it is like a screen shot so if you are editing the Word doc during the hangout…updates will not be shown in the hangout window. You would need to Stop Sharing Screen and then re-share the doc to show updates.
A bummer is that the images in the Hangout are small. I bet my kid could read them but I sure can't. I did not find a way to make the images bigger.
Oh holy shit…I see now as I am writing this that you CAN see me editing my Word Doc on the hangout screen. So ignore the part above where I said that you couldn't edit in live screen. See, you kept reading so you get the latest and greatest info. You also get to see that I screw up as I go sometimes. LOL!
Ok, so I pulled up a web page in Firefox and shared it on my hangout screen. Yes, it shows in real time that I switched pages, opened tabs, scrolled…everything is right there as I do it! BONUS!!!
Now, how do I get the damned shared page bigger? ARGH!
Ok, I am going to live through this, I don't need to see the shared screens…I should be happy just knowing they are there even if I CAN"T read them.
So this is a new feature being tried out on Google + and I foresee in the near future that they may give us all the capability to record and upload our hangout directly to YouTube. Oh, that could put a hurtin on the webinar sites that charge for this but, oh well.
Anyway, you all know where to find me if you want to try out these new features and have no other friends willing to talk with you. LOL!
Oh, just remember that the Extra features are in a TRIAL stage. Don't get all huffy if it isn't doing exactly what you want. I am sure they will be making it all better as we go.


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March weather can be a mixed bag. Work out side on sunny days but don't rush the season. If you spaded the garden last fall and left it rough, rake out a small area to plant onion sets for green onions and a row or two of radishes. These will provide some fresh produce in just a few weeks. A few herbs and vegetables can be sown directly intp the garden as soon as the soil can be worked. Do not destroy the soil by working it when it is too wet. Plant rhubarb and asparagus. Plant or sow plants or seeds of spinanch, chives, dill, mint, oregano, and thyme. Plant peas. Plant hardy perennial plants.
Gardening has been such a big part of the family tradition that I thought I'd better get as much information written down from mom and dad as possible to pass on.


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YALTA, Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukraine's prime minister sought on Saturday to calm Russian fears over Kiev's plans to sign a free trade pact with the European Union, but a Kremlin official repeated threats of retaliatory action.
Officials from Ukraine and its old Soviet master Russia clashed at an international gathering in the Black Sea resort of Yalta over Kiev's plans to sign landmark agreements in November with the European Union on political association and free trade.
Moody's Investor Service cut Ukraine's sovereign credit rating on Friday, partly on concern over relations with Russia.
Russia says it fears its market could be flooded by competitive EU goods entering Ukraine free of import duties and being re-exported across the long border with Russia.
But Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, in a speech to the conference, dismissed the threat of illegal transit of EU goods into Russia as a "hypothetical" one that would not happen in practice.
"We are convinced that the signing (of the agreements with the EU) does not hold any risks (for Russia)," he said, adding that he would give personal assurances of this to Russia and its trade allies in the Moscow-led Customs Union.
He also expressed frustration at Russia's refusal to cut the price of the gas it sells to Ukraine and said Kiev may have to reduce further the volume of its gas imports.
Ukraine's pro-Europe drive has already drawn threats of counter-measures from Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as pressure on Kiev to join the Customs Union.
Speaking after Azarov on Saturday, Sergei Glazyev, an aide to Putin, returned to the attack, saying that Russia might be obliged to impose duties on any goods arriving from Ukrainian territory, at a huge financial cost to Ukraine.
Saying 40 percent of Ukrainians had doubts over the agreements with the EU, Glazyev, who has made hawkish comments before about Ukraine's pro-Europe policy, urged the Kiev government to ballot its people.
"Let us ... ask the Ukrainian people what choice they prefer," he said.
Azarov had sharp words for Russia over its refusal to cut the price of its gas, which hangs heavy on Ukraine's cash-strapped economy.
Ukraine pays what it sees as an exorbitant $400 per thousand cubic meters under a 2009 contract, which Russia has refused to redraw.
In a bid to break away from reliance on Russia, Ukraine hopes to find alternative energy sources through shale gas exploration and imports from other sources.
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich on Friday reiterated that Kiev was committed to signing the agreements with the EU at a November 28 summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, marking a pivotal shift away from Russia.
But he refused to say whether he would free his jailed political rival, former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who the EU says is a victim of 'selective justice'.
Tymoshenko was sentenced to seven years in jail in 2011 for abuse of office after a trial that she says was a vendetta by Yanukovich.
Former Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski, who is involved in mediation missions on behalf of the EU to get Tymoshenko released, urged Yanukovich to free her for medical treatment in Germany.
"She is ill. She needs surgery. She needs therapy and rehabilitation," he said at the conference. Freeing Tymoshenko now would mean "an absolutely open door" for the association agreement, he said.
Moody's cut Ukraine's sovereign debt rating by one notch to Caa1 from B3, citing concerns over foreign currency reserves, new debt issuance and potentially worsening ties with Russia.
Moody's said it welcomed the forthcoming EU trade pact as positive overall for Ukraine in the medium term, but added: "The short-term credit negative impact of a negative reaction by Russia outweighs these benefits."
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Like the Winter/Fall season's phones, these ones are sleek clamshells chock full of features the public probably won't use—like "Run & Walk," a mobile fitness program that offers fashion advice, a personal trainer as well as the usual calorie and step counters.
It's funny. I used to feel like Japan was on the cutting edge of designing cellphones and features. Now though, minus a few interesting novelties (the music program phone or that 3D phone), KDDI au's offerings all seem a little stale. [KDDI au]


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Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) has announced that he will not be supporting the controversial Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) Amendments Act, which he wrote, after fierce criticism arose from a variety of groups over his revision to the bill allowing federal agencies warrantless access to Americans' e-mail accounts. The revised version of the legislation was antithetical to the original measure, which included a requirement for a search warrant.
CNET News had reported of the revised bill,
Leahy's rewritten bill would allow more than 22 agencies — including the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Communications Commission — to access Americans' email, Google Docs files, Facebook wall posts, and Twitter direct messages without a search warrant.
It also would give the FBI and Homeland Security more authority, in some circumstances, to gain full access to Internet accounts without notifying either the owner or a judge.
Agencies that would be granted civil subpoena authority for electronic communications through the revised legislation include the Federal Reserve, the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Maritime Commission, the Postal Regulatory Commission, the National Labor Relations Board, and the Mine Enforcement Safety and Health Review Commission.
Leahy's revisions were significant, as the previous version of his bill required police to obtain a search warrant as a result of probable cause before they were permitted to access e-mail or other methods of communication.
But the outcry against the revisions forced Leahy to announce on Twitter Tuesday evening that he would "not support such an exception" for warrantless access. His remarks came just hours after CNET News published the article that exposed the revisions.
Leahy's original bill was intended to revise the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), which changed the privacy standards for electronic communications. Ars Technica, a website that is mainly devoted to technology, explained:
When Congress passed the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), a time when massive online storage of e-mail was essentially unimaginable, it was presumed that if you hadn't actually bothered to download your e-mail, it could be considered "abandoned" after 180 days. By that logic, law enforcement would not need a warrant to go to the e-mail provider or ISP to get the messages that are older than 180 days; police only need to show that they have "reasonable grounds to believe" the information gathered would be useful in an investigation. Many Americans and legal scholars have found this standard, in today's world, problematic.
In an interview with Ars Technica, Chris Calabrese, legislative counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union observed,
[Currently] there's a standard for what's electronic communications services, and that's where there's the 180-day rule.
There's a whole class of remote computing services, which were ones that did data processing back in the 1980s, but are now cloud computing. What this does is eliminate the distinction between the two and eliminate the 180 day rule and raise them all up to a warrant.
It's very solid legislative language. It covers all private communications and would require a warrant to access them. Something that's long overdue. We're talking about a huge class of very private information and stuff that is so undisputedly private.
Leahy's original legislation sought to address the problem, and the senator even boasted that his bill would provide "enhanced privacy protections for American consumers by … requiring that the government obtain a search warrant."
At the time Leahy first introduced his bill, he told attendees at the Computers Freedom and Privacy conference that he was required to obtain search warrants to search someone's home during his previous career as a prosecutor. "I question whether it should be that much different if I'm going to search all your files [in electronic form]," he added.
When Leahy first introduced the legislation in September, Ars Technica reported:
Right now, if the cops want to read my e-mail, it's pretty trivial for them to do so. All they have to do is ask my online e-mail provider. But a new bill set to be introduced Thursday in the Senate Judiciary Committee by its chair, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), seems to stand the best chance of finally changing that situation and giving e-mail stored on remote servers the same privacy protections as e-mail stored on one's home computer.
CNET News explained that Leahy's revisions were the result of pressure from law-enforcement agencies:
After law enforcement groups including the National District Attorneys' Association and the National Sheriffs' Association organizations objected to the legislation and asked him to "reconsider acting" on it, Leahy pushed back the vote and reworked the bill as a package of amendments.
U.S. Associate Deputy Attorney General James Baker, for example, warned that having to obtain a warrant to read e-mails could have an "adverse impact" on criminal investigations.
As noted by the ACLU's Calabrese, Leahy's revision of the original legislation "undercuts" its purpose. "We believe a warrant is the appropriate standard for any contents," he declared.
Marc Rotenberg, head of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, points to the FBI's reading of CIA Director David Petraeus' e-mails as evidence that there should be "more judicial oversight."
Eventually, criticism from a variety of civil rights groups and a petition to Congress with over 2,000 signatures entitled "Tell Congress: Stay Out of My Email," however, compelled Senator Leahy to withdraw his support for the revised legislation.
A note from Leahy's Twitter account states, "Technology has created vacuum in privacy protection. Sen. Leahy believes that needs to be fixed, and #ECPA needs privacy updates."
CNET News reports, "This revised provision will come as a relief to privacy advocates and business lobbyists, who have been scrambling since last week to figure out how to respond to Leahy's revamped legislation."
Leahy's record on privacy is a mixed one. While he introduced legislation in the 1990s to protect Americans' right to use whatever encryption products they wanted, he also helped write the controversial Protect IP Act, which constitutionalists opposed as Internet censorship. Likewise, his work on the Patriot Act, according to The New Republic, made it "less protective of civil liberties."


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There will also be close to 18 people arrested for drug charges and around 13 DUIs in Derry this year.
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Diego Maradona rolled in at the Dubai Duty Free Women's Open late on Wednesday and the Argentinian football legend was every bit the "ambassador" he is meant to be.
"Dubai is the Disneyland of sport for the rest of the world," Maradona told media in an informal chat after watching the late-night match involving Sara Errani and Sorana Cirstea.
"I love tennis as a sport and I am really delighted that they have this tournament here because it attracts such great players from all over the world. This shows the beauty and greatness of Dubai and its leaders. They know what to do to make this place better.
"There is no place better than Dubai that can have such kind of events. Everyone is so much involved in sports."
The former Al Wasl manager was made a sports ambassador for Dubai by Shaikh Hamdan Bin Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Dubai Sports Council, last summer.
So Maradona came to watch some tennis on Wednesday night with world number one Serena Williams due to play Frenchwoman Marion Bartoli. However, Williams pulled out of the event citing a lower back injury and officials hurriedly shifted the first round doubles match involving Indian Sania Mirza and her American partner Bethanie Mattek-Sands against fifth seeds Liezl Huber and Hsieh Su-weih on to centre court. "I enjoyed the doubles match. It is quick and fast and I enjoyed watching the players and meeting them later," Maradona said.
The Argentine was also sympathetic towards Cirstea after her loss to Errani. "She [Cirstea] was the much better player. She was hitting the ball well and she was winning all the good points, but she did not show patience," he said.
"On the other hand, Errani was more strategic in her approach and that is what won her the match. It was a very enjoyable day for me to come and watch such a match."
In between games, Maradona met up with former world number one and 2011 Dubai winner Caroline Wozniacki. "She has been a great number one. She is so beautiful, graceful and such an amazing person and it should have been me going and meeting her rather than her coming to meet me. I am flattered to meet such a humble person," Maradona said.
The former Barcelona and Napoli star was disappointed with the last-minute withdrawal of Williams from the Dubai tournament. "She has such a huge presence in tennis and I would have been delighted watching her play. But, as any other sport, tennis has its fair share of injuries," he said. "I wish her a quick recovery so that I can meet her personally some time soon."
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The following books and articles about J. E. Hanger, wounded at the first land battle of the Civil War in Philippi, WV and noted as the first amputee of the Civil War, can be found at the West Virginia Archives Library.
Carnes, Eva Margaret. J. E. Hanger the First Man to be
Injured by a Cannon Ball in the Civil War and the First to Have a
Limb Amputated. Philippi, West Virginia: Barbour County
Historical Society, 1961.
Surname File.
__________________. The Tygarts Valley Line June-July
1861. Philippi, West Virginia, First Land Battle of the Civil
War Centennial Commission, Inc., Clarksburg, West Virginia:
Beverage Printing Company, 1961.
Haselberger, Fritz. Yanks From the South! (The First Land
Campaign of the Civil War: Rich Mountain, West Virginia.
Baltimore, Maryland: Past Glories, 1987.
Mattaliano, Jane K. and Omonde, Lois G. Milestones a
Pictorial History of Philippi, West Virginia, 1844-1994.
Virginia Beach, Virginia, Donning Company Publishers, 1994.
"Amputee Made Leg From Barrel Staves," Beckley Post
Herald, 1-31-1970.
"Civil War's First Battle," WV Hillbilly, 6-22-1989.
"Greenbrier Man of Noted Hanger Family," Beckley Post Herald, 8-21-1963.
"Northern Army Struck First Blow in State," Charleston Daily Mail, n. d.
"Philippi As It Was in 1860 and 1861," Barbour Democrat, 9-18-1991.
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Penn State launched a Presidential Search website today (March 14), emphasizing transparency and the University community's inclusion in the search and selection process.
Updates on the search for Penn State's 18th president will be posted at http://presidentialsearch.psu.edu, where the public can offer input, learn about those tasked with finding the University's next leader and view the history of the Penn State presidency.
Current President Rodney Erickson has announced that he will retire no later than June 30, 2014. The University has established a Trustee Presidential Selection Council, and a University Presidential Search and Screen Committee that will both be assisted by executive search firm Isaacson, Miller.
Faculty, staff, students and alumni are encouraged to share their insight and make confidential nominations by emailing email@example.com. Other comments on the process, can be emailed to email@example.com. Links to both of these addresses can be found on the new site. The Presidential Search site will continue to change as the process moves forward and more information will be added in the coming weeks to provide University community members with a more informed view of the timeline for finding a president; the overall process being used for the search; the qualities and skills the University is looking for in its next president; and a host of other vital links.
In addition, a news feed on the site will keep readers up-to-date on the most current issues related to the search. In fact, listed on the site is a series of three forums focused on gathering feedback from faculty, staff and students regarding the search. These forums, being held specifically for employees and students, are scheduled for 1 to 2 p.m. March 21 in Room 117 of the HUB-Robeson Center on the University Park campus; 6 to 7 p.m. March 21 in Room 105 of the Forum Building on the University Park campus; and 2:15 to 3:15 p.m. March 22 in Room 102 of the Paterno Library on the University Park campus. The March 22 forum will be streamed online to Commonwealth Campuses, so that faculty, staff and students at those locations can participate.


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The death of a University of Michigan medical student is being investigated as a homicide, Ann Arbor police said Thursday.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) ? The death of a University of Michigan medical student is being investigated as a homicide, Ann Arbor police said Thursday.
Paul DeWolf, 25, was found dead in his apartment a day earlier. A police investigation began around noon, and university police released a crime alert just before 11 p.m. Wednesday
DeWolf failed to arrive for a scheduled assignment at the Veteran's Affairs Hospital, so it sent a colleague to the home to check on him, police said. That person discovered DeWolf had died.
An autopsy was performed Thursday, but Ann Arbor police have not released a cause of death. Lt. Detective Robert Pfannes said more information would be released on Friday.
DeWolf, a 2010 graduate of Grand Valley State University, was to graduate from the medical school next spring. He is from Schoolcraft.
"The Ann Arbor police department has met with Mr. DeWolf's family members, the university community and is coordinating efforts with them," Pfannes said in a statement.
DeWolf also was an active duty second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force, Pfannes said.
On Thursday, friends remembered DeWolf as a driven student who was expected to accomplish great things in the future.
Jen Hemberg, who had known DeWolf since the fall of 2010 when they both began medical school, said he got along with everyone and loved making others laugh.
"Paul was one of those people that knew everybody and knew everything about everybody, because he liked being around people," she told AnnArbor.com.
DeWolf was a cross country and track standout at Schoolcraft High School.
Coach Dave Sanders said DeWolf had a bright future ahead of him.
"I feel a real sense of loss, but not just for me personally," Sanders told MLive.com. "Even more so for the people in his life that would have benefited from him achieving his dream and the contribution he was going to make to society and those around him."


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Research in our lab focuses on the regulation of cardiac ion channels in normal and diseased hearts. In particular, we study the regulation of the intracellular calcium release channel/ ryanodine receptors, and how abnormal calcium release may contribute to the development of cardiac arrhythmias, hypertrophy and heart failure. These translational studies are aimed at developing new therapeutic targets for heart disease.
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NIH R01HL089598 - CaMKII Regulation of Cardiac Ryanodine Receptors in Atrial Fibrillation
NIH R01HL117641 - Determining the Role of Junctophilin-2 in Cardiac Disease
American Heart Association - Role of novel calcium release unit proteins in normal and failing hearts
Allosteros - Validating the efficacy of CAMKII inhibitors in heart failure by testing its leaf compound(s) in the mouse model of transverse aortic constriction (TAC)
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Investors Panic Over Petering iPhone Popularity
Jan 15, 2013 2:23 PM PT
Apple stock has fallen below the US$500 mark on news that it reduced orders of iPhone 5 screens, and possibly screens for other devices.
Many see the revised orders as cause for alarm, and investors have driven the stock to a closing price of $485.92, the first time it's been priced below $500 since Feb. 16 of last year.
The issue was first reported on Sunday in The Wall Street Journal, which quoted an unnamed source who said Apple had reduced its screen orders at one factory.
"The market reacted to one piece of news coming from a source that Apple cut about half the orders for screens. It's really important to put the data point into context, it's one data point from one source about a particular supplier," IHS iSuppli Senior Analyst Wayne Lam told MacNewsWorld.
Apple did not respond to our request to comment for this story.
Component Balance
It is likely that Apple is "getting into line so displays are in sync with other components being ordered," Vinita Jakhanwal, director of mobile and emerging displays and technology at IHS iSuppli, told MacNewsWorld.
Apple may need to adjust its order following the Q4 launch of the iPhone 5.
"There have been reported cases that Apple over-ordered prior to launch," said Lam.
All eyes are on the iPhone 5, the phone was just launched in Q4 of 2012, but it is not known whether the reduced order is for iPhone 5 screens only, or if it also includes other models and devices.
"I think we are looking at the entire screen orders for all phones, not necessarily the iPhone 5," said Jakhanwal.
Demand Drop?
While investors are selling their stock, thinking demand is low for the iPhone 5, that may not be the case. Lam said that the iPhone is still on track. "We believe that there is momentum behind it."
It will be a few weeks before the 2012 fourth-quarter results are released, and any current reduction in orders will affect shipments in Q1 and Q2 of 2013.
"In the universe of explanations, there are many, many answers to why orders were cut. The likely scenario is Apple optimizing their supply chain," said Lam. "We don't see so far relaxed demand. Right now, there's just too many possibilities that can answer why they cut the display orders to jump to that conclusion."
The reaction may be a bit overblown.
"The technology industry is rife with rumors, especially when it comes to companies like Apple," Scott Steinberg, strategic innovation consultant at Akeynotespeaker.com, told MacNewsWorld. You have intelligence groups hoping to gain an edge from trend spotting."
While there is some likelihood that Apple did, reduce its orders on certain components, it may be wise to put things in perspective.
"Apple has been outperforming the market by considerable measures of magnitude," said Steinberg. "Apple's been going gangbusters. It's a question of how high the roller coaster can climb before coming down."


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Classic Children's Literature-Inspired Bedrooms
If you have a favorite book from your childhood, a great way to honor it and pass it on to your own children is to use it to design bedroom decor. We've found some great rooms that use classic children's literature as their design motifs.
1. Goodnight Moon room featured at Toledo Blade: "Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere."
2. Richard Scarry Little Golden Book nursery on The Bump: "Pa wakes up from his nap. He says to Penny, "I think the next care we buy will be a Bananamobile." "Oh goody," says Penny. Would you like to have a Bananamobile?
3. Cat in the Hat room by Croatian painter Amel Memišević: "I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny."
4. Wizard of Oz room at Miscellaneous Me: "I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!"
5. Felix's TinTin Inspired Nursery on Apartment Therapy: "Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles!"
6. Charlotte's Web nursery at Heritage Homes and Designs: "Oh no...I don't understand it. But for that matter I don't understand how a spider learned to spin a web in the first place. When the words appeared, everyone said they were a miracle. But nobody pointed out that the web itself is a miracle."
7. Harry Potter room at HGTV's Rate My Room: "It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends."
8. Curious George room featured at The Washington Post: "This is George. He was a good little monkey, and always very curious."
9. The Lorax room at Reno Sparks Mom: "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."
10. Beatrix Potter nursery at Apartment Therapy: "Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter."
Which classic children's book do you dream of turning into decor?
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Remote desktop apps for the Mac and PC are reasonably common, and there are also an increasing number available for iOS. One of the most recent entrants to the arena is Splash Remote Desktop which can be used to take control of your Mac or PC using your iPhone or iPad, complete with full video and audio sharing.
As with all such apps you will need to install desktop software in order to be able to access your computer from your mobile device - this can be downloaded free of charge from the Splashtop web site. Once installed, there is virtually no configuration to worry about - just supply the password you are prompted to create during the installation process.
As things currently stand, Splashtop remote desktop can only be used with a wifi connection so this limits remote sessions to working with computers that are on the same network - a future update to the app will allow for remote sessions via 3G and easy connections when firewalls are involved.
A variety of finger gestures can be used to interact with your desktop computer and sound can be routed from your computer to your idevice. Thanks to the fact that you can view the contents of your desktop means that you can enjoy Flash video on your iPhone or iPad, or even play games.
The app can be used to control all versions of Windows from XP upwards, and there is a beta version of the desktop client available for OS X. As with all such tools, the iPad edition of the app benefits hugely from the additional screen real estate, but sterling work has been put into making the iPhone edition as useable as possible - it is just a shame that there isn't a free version available for the iPhone, although the free iPad edition only allows connection for up to five minutes.
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TIME CAN BE THE HARDEST GIFT TO GIVE. We all have busy schedules and spare hours are often in short supply. Yet DreamWorks Animation employees give thousands of hours each year to those in need, participating in both our company-wide efforts and a myriad of external organizations. We share our time and talents to make our communities better, more vibrant, more compassionate places to live.
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An amber ale brewed with rye malt and aged in rye whiskey barrels. Our first barrel aged beer here at Against the Grain is the Kentucky Ryed Chiquen. Named so because it was made in Kentucky, has a lot of Rye in it and was aged in rye barrels and it's not Chicken. As we all know (or should know) Chiquen refers to anything that is not chicken.
Now that we have all that straight, we will talk about what is in this beer. Brewed with Maris Otter from the UK and rye malt and caramel rye from Germany, imparting a spicy, fruity and dry flavor. Then hopped with enough English Nugget and Kent Goldings just to balance and fermented with our house ale yeast. After fermentation we moved the entire batch into the AtG private dining room and into used Redemption Rye barrels from our good friends at Strong's Spirits. There it aged for 5 weeks until we felt it had picked up the right amount of residual bourbon character and oak flavors. We then transferred it to our serving tank, carbonated it and the end result is on tap now, a balanced drinkable and complex barrel aged beer.


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Tech Secures Funding To Examine Exoplanets
SOCORRO, N.M. August 3, 2009 – An interdisciplinary team of scientists at New Mexico Tech is embarking on a mission to examine planets circling other stars, thanks to a NASA grant for $732,000.
|An artist's rendering of an exoplanet with a moon orbiting its star. The New Mexico Exoplanet Spectroscopic Survey Instrument project will focus Magdalena Ridge Observatory's 2.4 meter on such exoplanets to study their atmospheres. Graphic by G. Bacon/Courtesy of NASA, ESA and the Space Telescope Science Institute.
Tech scientists will team with colleagues at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, or JPL, at California Institute of Technology. The team will design, build and implement an infrared spectrometer at the Magdalena Ridge Observatory's 2.4-meter telescope. The new spectrometer will be capable of assessing the atmospheres of exoplanets – planetary bodies orbiting stars outside of the solar system. The equipment will be capable of quantifying atmospheric chemistry, temperature and winds.
The Magdalena Ridge Observatory team includes physicists Michelle Creech-Eakman, Colby Jurgenson and Dave Westpfahl and microbiologist Penelope Boston. The JPL team includes Mark Swain, Gautam Vasisht, Pieter Deroo and Pin Chen.
The JPL team, led by Swain, has devised a novel approach to using infrared data from ground-based observatories to deduce information about exoplanetary atmospheres.
The team applied for the NASA grant through the state of New Mexico's Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, or EPSCoR.
Westpfahl, the science director for the MRO, said this project is exactly the type of progress the observatory needs.
"Enough extra-solar planets have been found that there's a whole science of comparative planetology that didn't exist a few years ago," he said. "When we started the MRO we couldn't anticipate everything that would happen, but this is the kind of thing we wanted to happen."
Jurgenson, who will be designing the instrument, said working with world-renowned scientists at the Jet Propulsion Lab is an important milestone for New Mexico Tech and an exciting opportunity for him.
"That's one of the most appealing aspects of this project," he said. "This is high-level science. One big challenge for us is that we're trying to be at the forefront of this field. We have a really tight schedule. We're pushing to get it up and running quickly so New Mexico Tech and JPL can be the first to do this."
The next year will be spent designing the spectrometer, with installation in late 2010. The team hopes to begin gathering data by mid-2011.
As early as the 19th century, astronomers inferred the existence of exoplanets, but the first confirmed exoplanet was discovered in 1988. In the last decade, astronomers have been increasingly discovering new exoplanets orbiting nearby stars. As of July 2009, 353 exoplanets were listed in the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia, with more being discovered every month. This project does not aim to find new exoplanets, but will train the instruments on already discovered bodies.
An artist's rendering of an exoplanet and its star. This graphic depicts HD 189733b, an exoplanet about 63 light years from Earth. Art by C.Carreau/ Courtesy of the European Space Agency.
The New Mexico Exoplanet Spectroscopic Survey Instrument project, or NESSI, will examine exoplanets in our galaxy, mostly within 100 light years from our solar system.
"The exoplanet field of study is moving quickly," Creech-Eakman said. "We are studying them more and more every year – pending eventual missions to explore them. The field sparks the interest of the general public. What do these worlds look like? Could these exoplanets have the sort of atmosphere that could foster or indicate life?"
The "holy grail" in the study of exoplanets is the search for an atmosphere with a chemical disequilibrium – which would be a solid indicator of potential life.
"Venus and Mars have reached atmospheric equilibrium – they are essentially 'dead planets'," Creech-Eakman said. "The atmosphere might be affected by solar radiation or volcanism, but it's in a steady, stable state. They've had the same chemicals for hundreds or millions of years. When you add the presence of living things – whether simple like bacteria or complex like humans – we do things to change the atmosphere. We change the chemistry. Creatures from elsewhere looking at Earth would notice that we have disequilibrium chemistry."
Creech-Eakman, Earth science professor Boston, and biologist Tom Kieft, team-teach Tech's astrobiology course. This exoplanet survey project was partially an outgrowth of that class. Boston, who specializes in the geomicrobiology, or the study of microbial life in extreme environments, said this project will provide groundbreaking details about potential life on other planets.
"I spent more than half my life waiting for exoplanets to be confirmed," Boston said. "And I've spent the past 15 years keeping track of them. I have spent my entire life thinking about life in the galaxy. So, I'm extremely excited about this."
The physicists will interpret data to explain what state of affairs exists on the exoplanets. Boston, as a biologist, will further explain and interpret what the physicists' discoveries.
"In my mainstream research, I go to extreme environments to see how life is functioning against the envelope as practice for thinking of life elsewhere in the galaxy," she said. "The ability to do this on a large and distant scale is the other end of the spectrum for me."
Boston is most interested in studying large rocky, terrestrial planets, as opposed to gas giants.
"My interest is looking at the characterization data," she said. "The variety of extra-solar planets, how they are formed and what they're made out of and how they compare to known planets can only inform us increasingly about our own corner of the galaxy."
|This graphic depicts how the transit method allows astronomers to "see" exoplanets. Courtesy graphic
Mark Swain and Gautam Vasisht at JPL were on the team that confirmed the presence of methane on an exoplanet in March 2008, using the Hubble Space Telescope. Now, they have developed a new method of interpreting spectroscopic data, using information gathered from previous projects. With this new instrument, they propose to dedicate more human and scientific resources to the examination of these exoplanets.
Swain, et al, wrote in Nature in March 2008 that "As molecules have the potential to reveal atmospheric conditions and chemistry, searching for them is a high priority."
The study of exoplanets has truly challenged some physics models, Creech-Eakman said. Scientists are trying to understand the processes at work in alien atmospheres with different sets of parameters than we apply in our own solar system.
"We're trying to understand a completely different world," she said. "We cannot conceive of all the interesting chemical constituents and combinations involved."
"Life on other planets – that's the perfect all-encompassing scientific question," Creech-Eakman said. "If we see planets with different chemistries, what would that change? What if we found a planet with bacterial life?"
Scientists use a handful of different methods to gather data related to exoplanets. Creech-Eakman said Swain's team uses the "transit method" of viewing exoplanets – meaning, the scientists will train the telescope and the spectrometer on planets as they pass in front of their sun, creating a shadow and making the exoplanets atmospheres visible.
"They figured out this new technique for examining the spectra and we realized that the Magdalena Ridge Observatory 2.4-meter telescope is precisely the right sort of telescope to do it," said Creech-Eakman, who worked at JPL with Swain and Vasisht prior to coming to New Mexico Tech. "If you have an instrument that is sensitive enough, you can gather information from backlighting the exoplanet. By looking in the infrared light, we can see molecules in the atmosphere like water and methane, which are molecules associated with life on our own planet."
The JPL team tested this concept with other facilities and that has proven successful. The new instrument, NESSI, will be the first permanent, dedicated spectrometer of its kind. The novelty of this project involves both the instrumentation and the interpretation of the data.
"In my mind, the primary function of NESSI is to do ultraprecision spectrometry," Jurgenson said. "So the instrument has to be very stable. That's the biggest technical challenge."
Creech-Eakman said many telescopes are equipped with spectrometers, but most are attached to the back of the telescope. The NESSI spectrometer will be attached to the "Nasmyth focus," which is a stationary fork aside the telescope, thus creating a more stable setting.
The spectrometer will operate in three bands of near-infrared, the J-, H- and K-band. Direct vision prisms and a grating prism, or "grism," will disperse incoming light into the component wavelengths of light. By dispersing incoming light, scientists can determine the chemical and molecular constituents in the exoplanet's atmosphere. The light data will allow scientists to develop a model for the spatial distribution of these atmospheric constituents – vertically, horizontally and temporally. Over time, the data will create a picture of these alien environments.
All ground-based spectrometry of exoplanets has inherent difficulties associated with viewing through the atmosphere and looking at faint targets near bright stars. Space-based telescopes make the job easier, but getting access to the Hubble Space Telescope is highly competitive. Creech-Eakman said the JPL team has devised methods of minimizing the ambient noise associated with these types of measurements, making ground-based observation an effective new tool for this project.
"For a long time, planetary atmospheric scientists were a wholly different group than those astronomers who studied stars," Creech-Eakman said. "Now, these people are coming together to really understand the limitations of our models; we're updating our models and gaining a deeper understanding of what we are actually observing."
The Magdalena Ridge Observatory's 2.4-meter telescope became operational in late 2007 and is still soliciting customers. Creech-Eakman said the new instrument is certain to attract astronomers and physicists who are studying exoplanets.
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While NBC, ABC, and CBS all covered the new Senate Intelligence Committee report blaming the Obama administration for security failures leading up to the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack, none of the coverage on Wednesday's evening newscasts or Thursday's morning shows mentioned President Obama by name.
At the top of Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams announced: "...a scathing report just issued by the Senate Intelligence Committee. It says the deaths could have been prevented by better security, better communication....And the State Department, they say, gets most of the blame." CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley declared: "A critical report tonight blames American diplomats and intelligence officers for failing to prevent the attack on the U.S. Mission in Benghazi, Libya."
The closest any of the reporting came to including President Obama in the scandal was on ABC's World News, when correspondent Jonathan Karl explained: "The conclusions, there were 'no protests' prior to the attacks, as the White House first claimed." Footage of Obama appeared on screen as Karl spoke.
Moments later, Karl added: "On one key point, the report backs up the White House. It says there were 'no U.S. military resources' nearby that could have helped defend the compound. In fact, both the State Department and Ambassador Stevens himself turned down an offer from the military to keep a special forces unit in Libya a month before the attacks."
While NBC's Today and CBS This Morning provided full Benghazi reports on Thursday, ABC's Good Morning America only offered an eighteen-second news brief on the topic, with news reader Amy Robach noting: "A bipartisan Senate investigation spreading the blame for the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, saying the State Department, military, and intelligence community are all at fault for missing warning signs."
On CBS This Morning, co-host Norah O'Donnell used similar language: "The review spreads the blame around many agencies. It even criticizes the U.S. Ambassador killed in the attack." Correspondent Nancy Cordes elaborated: "The report finds that the ambassador himself may have sent mixed messages. He did warn the State Department about security problems in Libya, but he also turned down a military offer to extend a troop that was guarding him."
On Today, Peter Alexander told viewers: "More than sixteen months later, the deadly attacks in Benghazi are still fueling heated debate over exactly what went wrong there and who's to blame. This new Senate report sharply criticizes both the State Department and the CIA for poor communication and insufficient security."
The networks were happy to name plenty of people and agencies blamed for the failures – even including one of the victims of the attack, Ambassador Stevens. However, they were unwilling to acknowledge that all those players were part of the Obama administration.


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Mark and Cynthia hosted a family barbeque for their Independence Day celebration. The day dawned sunny and warm, but not too hot. A perfect day for a family barbeque! They had a flock of family drop in to visit throughout the day, but four in particular they were very happy to see – their siblings with their own families. Both Mark and Cynthia had a brother and a sister, and they didn't get to see them much as they both lived a fair distance away. Determine the name of each sibling, the number of kids each brought with them (one had no children), each sibling's relation to Mark and Cynthia, and the food each brought as an offering for the barbeque.
1. Wanda didn't have two children. Mark's sister didn't bring the cookies.
2. Ralph wasn't Cynthia's brother. Greg didn't bring the watermelon.
3. One of the sisters brought potato salad.
4. Sara had one child. Mark's brother didn't have three kids.
5. The sibling with two kids brought the salmon.
6. Cynthia's sister brought the cookies. The sibling with one child didn't bring the potato salad.
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Toews not sweating goal slump, doing the little thingsby Brian Hedger / Chicago Blackhawks
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It happened on a power play in Game 5 of the Chicago Blackhawks' Western Conference Semifinal series against the rival Detroit Red Wings.
Jonathan Toews fired a puck off goalie Jimmy Howard's mask into the upper right corner of the net from close range -- and that's the only goal the Blackhawks' captain has scored so far in the 2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Let that sink in for a second.
Toews, who won the Conn Smythe Trophy in 2010 as most valuable player of the playoffs, has scored once on 51 shots during this postseason. Despite that, his team is still set to play the Boston Bruins in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final on Wednesday night at United Center (8 p.m. ET, NBC, CBC, RDS). That's how deep the Blackhawks are this year -- and that's how much Toews has grown as a person, teammate and captain.
"There's a lot of people on the outside watching, and the easy thing to notice is when you score goals or when you score points," Toews said at Tuesday's Cup Final media day. "I mean, at the end of the day that's how you win games, by scoring goals, but I feel like there's still a lot of good things in my game, [and] that all of a sudden it could change [in Game 1]. I could score a couple goals and next thing you know, no one's really worried about that anymore. That's just the way it is. I know that's the way things are, so I'm not too worried about it."
A couple of years ago, the lack of goals would've worried him.
Toews still prides himself on being the hardest worker on the team, pretty much on a year-round basis. He still wants to lead by example, as much as by anything he says, but the difference now is how the example has changed.
In 2010, Toews led the Blackhawks in postseason points with 29 (seven goals, 22 assists) in 22 games. This year, he's not only been criticized for losing his cool while being hounded by Red Wings forwards Henrik Zetterberg and Pavel Datsyuk, and he's got eight assists to go with the one goal.
But measuring his contributions to this playoff run by sheer points would be a mistake. Toews is leading Chicago's forwards in ice time (21:02), is their top performer on faceoffs (53.1 percent) and has a plus-4 rating -- compared to the minus-1 he logged while winning the Conn Smythe. The points are down compared to 2010, but the intangibles are still there -- just ask his teammates.
"I definitely think you mature as you get older," defenseman Duncan Keith said. "I think you just get that experience and you just understand that, hey, not everything's going to go your way and not everything is going to be seen the same way from people. I think he's done a good job just keeping a level head, and that's what makes him a great player."
Right wing Patrick Kane, who's always put together with Toews as the faces of the organization, noticed another area of change in "Captain Serious."
"I don't think things affect him as much as they did in the past," Kane said. "He works as hard as anyone and I think he knows that. He's been playing great for us throughout the whole playoffs, and maybe even if the goals aren't there, he's huge in a lot of different factors of the game … penalty kill, power play, faceoffs. He plays in every situation and he's been a huge reason we're where we're at."
A good example was the goal Kane scored in double overtime of Game 5 in the Western Conference Final that gave the Blackhawks a series win against the defending Stanley Cup champion Los Angeles Kings. After Bryan Bickell chipped the puck into the Kings' zone, there was Toews swooping in to scoop it up and create a 2-on-1 rush with Kane.
His pass wasn't perfect, but it was good enough for Kane to bury a one-timer into the upper part of the net to end it. Toews could have taken the shot, but the pass was the best play to make. So, he made it.
That's what players like Toews do, and that's why they win so often.
"I think he's the same player, only he's gotten better," Kane said. "He's gotten better at a lot of different things since [2010]. I think we all have. As each and every year goes on, I think he still becomes a better leader, and for this year, it's the same."
Has Toews changed at all since receiving the Cup from NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman in Philadelphia three years ago?
"To be honest with you, I asked myself that question when pucks weren't really going in [for me] and I didn't seem to be contributing the way I knew I could throughout the playoffs," Toews said. "People can say whatever they want to say, but I think when it comes down to it, I haven't let it bother me and I haven't let any of that sort of thing hurt my confidence."
That might not be the answer some expected to hear, but "Captain Serious" doesn't really care.
"I don't know how that comes off," he said. "I know everyone has their tough moments, and for the most part I try to stay positive. I don't think there's any time for any sort of weakness during the playoffs. If you're not scoring, if you're not doing something, if something's not going well, you can always just find it in yourself to find a way to bring something good out and help your team in any single way."
That's exactly what he's been doing this spring.
"I don't think there's any time to sit there and feel sorry for yourself and let your confidence go down the drain," Toews said. "I think that's why I take being the captain of this team very seriously. You have to be very unselfish. I keep saying over and over, if you don't score goals or contribute offensively as much as you should be, you can't let that affect you. There's a lot of other things you can go out there and do to help your team. That's what I've tried to do."


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by Katie Parker, sports information graduate assistant
EVANS, Ga. - After a second half surge, No. 8-seed University of Montevallo (8-8-3) upset a No. 4-seed Georgia College & State University soccer team (10-6-5) 2-1 in the semifinals of the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) Tournament tonight (Nov. 6).
The Bobcats dominated the first period of play, looking strong after an early score. Senior Jamie Nevin (Grovetown, Ga.) netted the first goal of the contest unassisted off of a breakaway during the sixth minute. The goal was her second of the tournament, scoring the first goal in the quarterfinal contest against North Georgia Tuesday. She finishes with a team high of five goals for the 2009 campaign.
Patience worked in the Falcons' favor, as they continuously worked the ball into Bobcat territory in the second half, as Jenna Kuzemski nudged one in past Georgia College's Mary Rob Plunkett (Augusta, Ga.) to knot things up at 1-1 during the 80th minute.
In the 87th minute, Erin Duncan took a penalty kick for Montevallo after being sandwiched between two Bobcat defenders in the box. Duncan's kick sailed into the right side of the net past a diving Plunkett. The play marked the second time Georgia College has been hurt by a penalty kick against the Falcons this season, tying them during the regular season due to a similar result.
With just 30 seconds left to play, the 'Cats had all hands on deck pulling Plunkett out of box and into the play for a Georgia College corner kick taken by Daria Owen (Snellville, Ga.). Owen's ball found the head of Plunkett but couldn't capitalize on that or the ensuing loose-ball opportunity.
In the net, Montevallo's Alyssa Maxwell had snagged five saves, while all-conference Plunkett lassoed in six. Plunkett finishes the season with 86 saves and a GAA of 0.59.
Despite a difficult schedule, this was the third-straight double-digit win season for the Bobcats. Georgia College continues to be competitive in the Peach Belt, suffering just one loss in PBC play, and landing six players to the All-PBC teams this season, more than any other school.
The GCSU Department of Athletics, winners of the 2008-09 PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Georgia College prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as Twitter.com username GCSUSID for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.GCSUBobcats.com to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame.


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PlayStation 4 Video: Ominous Unboxing Ahoy
In five days, the PlayStation 4 will launch here in the U.S., and in what it likely going to be a week-long hype-fest for the next-gen console, Sony has released and official unboxing video. It sure is something.
Unlike your standard unboxing video, Sony took things to a new level of bizarre and ostentatious with this one. Set in what appears to be the set from 'Hackers,' a mysterious man in gloves approaches the PlayStation 4 box with determined interest. As the music picks up, we're given our first glimpses of all the included bits inside their packaging.
Typically, these kinds of videos are a bit more dry, so kudos for Sony for trying something a little bit different. Even though this vid is a bit on the cringeworthy side, Shuhei Yoshida is sure happy to let us know greatness awaits this Friday.


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text: A 54-year-old German farmer who lost his arms in an accident six years ago has just received two new arms in the first double-arm transplant operation ever performed (pictured is one of his new arms). A team of German doctors spent 15 hours grafting two arms from a recently-deceased teen donor onto the man's shoulders. They connected all his tissues, including the extremely-difficult blood vessels. What remains now is for the man's nerves to grow until they form connections with the nerves in his new arms. That will allow him to take complete control of his transplanted limbs. Doctors estimate that nerves grow about 1 mm every day. The BBC reports: The patient cannot move his new arms . . . it could be two years before the patient can manipulate his new hands. Hans-Guenther Machens, director of hand and plastic surgery at the Klinikum rechts der Isar clinic, said: "The regeneration process will take a long time." UK transplant expert Nadey Hakim, head of the transplant unit at London's Hammersmith Hospital, said the higher up an amputation on the arms, the easier it was to connect new limbs, as there were fewer nerves and only one bone to connect. The man may never have proper sensation in his arms and hands, even if he is able to move them. Though it is easier to connect new limbs the higher the amputation is, the opposite is true for establishing sensation. The higher the amputation, the less likely it is that a transplant recipient will feel anything in his or her hands. Several successful hand transplants have been performed over the past 7 years, and their recipients can control their hands and experience hot and cold sensations. Farmer Has Double Arm Transplant [via BBC News]


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Jason Kurylo presents the first ever CanucksCorner.com podcast, which he has affectionately titled "Bernier Is A Turd". We're not sure is this will be the permanent name of his podcasts, but we remind everyone the opinions expressed on CanucksCorner.com are those of the authors and may not reflect the opinion of CanucksCorner.com. 🙂
Jason and his co-host Chris Withers discuss amongst other topics, their dislike for Steve Bernier and Andrew Alberts, the Hart Trophy chances of Henrik Sedin, the Rocket Richard trophy, playoff matchups, hits to the head and pretty much every other recent hockey topic! To get started, click on the Ipod below!


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HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — Kobe Bryant will never escape Michael Jordan's shadow, not as long as basketball fans from different eras continue to measure one superstar's greatness against another's.
The argument gets some unique spice this time around, though, from none other than Hall of fame coach Phil Jackson.
Jackson's new book, "Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success," addresses the MJ-Kobe topic head on. The book is set to be released Tuesday but The Los Angeles Times received an advanced copy and highlights the Kobe-Phil-MJ dynamic in detail. Phil sides with Jordan in basically every instance, which kicked off a Twitter back and forth between Kobe and Phil that is sure to gain more steam when the hoops loving public gets their hands on the book, and throughout Phil's book tour.
In the book, Jackson finally details what separates Jordan from Bryant, comparing the two superstars with a perspective no one else can match. He won all 11 of his rings (six with Jordan and five with Kobe) coaching one of them. My main man Mike Bresnahan of The Times serves up the good stuff:
"Michael was more charismatic and gregarious than Kobe. He loved hanging out with his teammates and security guards, playing cards, smoking cigars, and joking around," Jackson said in the book, which was obtained in advance by The Times.
"Kobe is different. He was reserved as a teenager, in part because he was younger than the other players and hadn't developed strong social skills in college. When Kobe first joined the Lakers, he avoided fraternizing with his teammates. But his inclination to keep to himself shifted as he grew older. Increasingly, Kobe put more energy into getting to know the other players, especially when the team was on the road."
While Jackson coached, he often jabbed at Bryant's seemingly annual appearance on the NBA's All-Defensive team. Now we know why.
"No question, Michael was a tougher, more intimidating defender. He could break through virtually any screen and shut down almost any player with his intense, laser-focused style of defense," said Jackson, who coached Jordan to six championships and Bryant to five.
"Kobe has learned a lot from studying Michael's tricks, and we often used him as our secret weapon on defense when we needed to turn the direction of a game. In general, Kobe tends to rely more heavily on his flexibility and craftiness, but he takes a lot of gambles on defense and sometimes pays the price."
Jackson made many of these same points during a Thursday night appearance on the "Tonight Show with Jay Leno." He also talked about his near return to the Lakers after Mike Brown was fired, the ill-fit that he believes Mike D'Antonio to be as Lakers coach and his desire to return to the league as a front office executive and not a coach.
But the most interesting topic by far is his perspective on the differences between MJ and Kobe:
"Michael was more likely to break through his attackers with power and strength, while Kobe often tries to finesse his way through mass pileups," Jackson wrote. "Michael was stronger, with bigger shoulders and a sturdier frame. He also had large hands that allowed him to control the ball better and make subtle fakes.
"Jordan was also more naturally inclined to let the game come to him and not overplay his hand, whereas Kobe tends to force the action, especially when the game isn't going his way. When his shot is off, Kobe will pound away relentlessly until his luck turns. Michael, on the other hand, would shift his attention to defense or passing or setting screens to help the team win the game."
Jackson's most scathing observation of the two men involves the leadership qualities they possessed, and in Kobe's case did not possess, and what kind of impact that had on their respective teams (and granted, Kobe was a youngster on those Lakers teams with Shaquille O'Neal):
"One of the biggest differences between the two stars from my perspective was Michael's superior skills as a leader," Jackson writes. "Though at times he could be hard on his teammates, Michael was masterful at controlling the emotional climate of the team with the power of his presence. Kobe had a long way to go before he could make that claim. He talked a good game, but he'd yet to experience the cold truth of leadership in his bones, as Michael had in his bones."
You better believe we're going to quiz Jackson on this topic on the Hang Time Podcast, he is scheduled to drop in for Episode 119 on May 29 with the crew, yours truly along with Lang Whitaker of the All Ball Blog and NBA TV's Rick Fox.
In the meantime, there should be no shortage of debate fodder for everyone to chew on!


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Time to Review Public Subsidies For Media, Says Study Authors (GreenSlade Blog)
A new report from Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) and Dr. Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (and Geert Linnebank) concludes, "It is time to review and renew media policy arrangements and bring them in line with the principles purportedly behind them and with the times that we live in."
Miramax Launching Multi-Title Facebook Movie App In U.S., UK & Turkey (PaidContent.org)
Miramax eXperience launches on Facebook, giving users the ability to rent some 20 U.S. titles. Movies cost 30 Facebook credits ($3) and can be viewed over the course of 48 hours.
Specific Media Settles Flash Cookie Suit, Promises Never To Use Them (MediaPost)
A privacy lawsuit between web user Stefen Kaufman and Specific Media, which recently purchased MySpace, has been settled for an undisclosed sum. But the debate over Flash cookies and ETags are far from other. AOL, Hulu, and Kissmetrics, are just a few the companies that still have cases pending against them.
Tumblr Talking To Top VCs About An $800 Million+ Valuation (BusinessInsider)
As Tumblr continues its expansions reports are speculating that the blogging giant is in talks to raise $75 million to $100 million.
Fox's 8 Day Delay On Hulu Triggers Piracy Surge (FreakTorrent)
In an effort to encourage viewers to watch its shows live, Fox has stopped posting its shows online the day after the show airs. The result: viewers, who would ordinarily seek legal streams to view their shows, are now frequenting pirated sources.


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The Patriots obviously need some defensive line help, after the season-ending injury to Vince Wilfork last night.
It doesn't appear Richard Seymour is a possibility.
Seymour laughed and told Ron Borges of the Boston Herald "No way," when asked about a possible return to the team that drafted him.
Of course, there's also the possibility the Patriots would have the same reaction.
The 33-year-old Seymour isn't a like-for-like replacement for the massive Wilfork, and is obviously looking for another payday.
So even if they were inclined to bring back the former first-rounder, he might have priced himself out of the market.


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St. Martin's, Dec 2001, 22.95, 240 pp. ISBN: 0312284381 Her mother giving birth to Lorna Kent so her Aunt Belle in Donneston, England raised her. Her father left Lorna when she was five, but staying with her beloved Belle was fine to the little girl. She especially enjoyed visiting her Aunt Mabel in Canterlow; a place that Lorna felt and still feels is her Eden. In 1919 when Aunt Belle dies, Lorna is content staying with Aunt Mabel. ...