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In this series, James Kidder provides an intriguing study on transitional fossils and the evolutionary history of modern humans. He begins by discussing the fossil record, explaining how new forms are classified. He then explains the physically distinguishing trait of humankind—bipedalism. From the discovery of Ardipithecus, the earliest known hominin, to the australopithecines, the most prolific hominin, Kidder focuses on the discovery, the anatomy, and the interpretation of these ancestral remains.
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In our current culture, we're defined by our jobs. It's having a vocation. I wanted to shift away from that. I didn't want to be a doctor first and foremost, or a scientist, but one who praises God.
Humanity as and in Creation
Christian theology asserts that humans are spiritual creatures, a unity of body and spirit or "soul," integrated, not reducible downwards to mere matter or upwards to mere spirit.
Awe in Science
If we can understand the experiences of the people who work every day in the lab, our dialogues concerning science and religion will be far more fruitful.
Katharine Hayhoe: Evangelical Christian, Climate Scientist
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Denisovans, Humans and the Chromosome 2 Fusion
The Denisovans, an extinct hominid group that interbred with modern humans, made the news again lately with the publication of a more detailed study of their genome. One of the many interesting findings was that the Denisovans share the same chromosome 2 fusion that modern humans have.
Being Human (Infographic)
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Hominids Lived Millions of Years Ago, but How Can We Tell? (Videocast)
This BioLogos videocast addresses the age of recently discovered hominid fossils and how scientists are able to obtain those dates.
The Beauty of Being a Scientist and a Christian
I am a Christian. I believe that God is the ultimate reality and that the world, including me, was created by God. But this is not just an idle affirmation, a faith statement to be recited in church on Sunday.
Being Fruitful
Many people use the words "dominion" and "subdue" as "unconditional permission to use the world as they please." I came to realize, like many, that such an interpretation is contradicted by the rest of the Bible.
Adam's Dream
While the specific "how" of our being made into the image of God will probably always remain a mystery, the Bible and creeds are clear on the "why" of our creation: we were made to worship the Lord, and be in relation with Him and each other.
Scientists Tell Their Stories: Owen Gingerich
When it came time to go to graduate school, one of Owen Gingerich's science professors told him "If you feel a calling to go to astronomy, you should give it a try, because we shouldn't let atheists take over any particular field."
Satan's Toady?
A member of a church that I was attending once told me that I was "giving bullets to the enemy" because I claimed to be a Christian and an Evolutionary Biologist.
Series: Science as an Instrument of Worship
In this brief series (taken from a 2009 paper), Jennifer Wiseman uses an excerpt from the famous hymn "How Great Thou Art," to explain why the study of God's creation can lead Christ's followers into meaningful worship and overcome the obstacles which impede true praise. Creation as encountered through our senses is pondered by our minds, which flows into wonder-filled songs from the soul. She further explains how knowledge of creation will help Christians to address the moral dilemmas of science, and she encourages all to see the process of scientific inquiry as a means to discover God's truth.
Series: He Who Has Ears
Scholar and musician Jeff Warren addresses the questions of how music is meaningful, and where that meaning resides, by looking at the popular ideas that musical meaning is entirely subjective to the listener and that the meaning of music can be universal. He also explores the recent trend of attempting to explain music via neuroscience. Finally, he looks into the reasons why music continues to play such a critical role in the worshiping life of the Church.
Science as Our Priestly Vocation
I wonder whether or not the growing dualism or growing conflict between science and religion is actually a rebellion of the creature, failure of us to see the generosity of God.
Series: Understanding Evolution
This blog series by Dennis Venema undertakes the task of clarifying numerous aspects of evolution that often become misconstrued by Christians. He first discusses the idea of speciation in a population over time, later applying it to the speciation process that occurred among hominids (human ancestors) which led to modern humans. He continues to support this idea by exploring so called "Mitochondrial Eve,""Y Chromosome Adam" and other compositional clues of the human genome.
Worshipping God with Science: The Test of FAITH Tour
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Every day is like Christmas for a fantasy hockey writer. It just is. A few weeks ago in a Ramblings I asked you to send in any questions you might have about this field for today's blog, which was to be written in advance of Christmas Day. Cuz it's one of my few days off between October and April. Many of the queries overlapped, but here's a sampling of them. Oh... and the Lundqvist pic on the front page cuz he may or may be my favourite player and having him in your fantasy line-up nightly has been a gift for poolies for years and years now. THE BEGINNING... Richard in St. Louis: "Hey Chris, I have loved your addition to the Ramblings each week and have become a regular with your Sportsnet.ca work. Love it! Especially the nightly recaps. I can't even begin to tell you what a huge difference they've made to my team this year. I wish I'd known about them years ago! Anyway, in terms of the offer to ask you questions about the job – how did you get into this? You obviously have a talent for it, but where did it all begin for you? I read your bio on Sportsnet, but maybe you could go into a little more detail? Thanks and thanks for your dedication." Chris: Thanks Richard, that's nice of you to say. I basically had a broadcasting background and was working in the news world more than a decade ago when I started to do a freebie thing with ESPN.com where you could be the correspondent for your favourite team and write fantasy notes on them a few times a week. I did that for the Oilers for a season (and went above and beyond by writing a quality segment after each and every game) and made contact with the people running the hockey section there. I used the work to showcase my writing and talked my way into penning their front page content, which actually paid. I think it was a once a week column, but it actually paid pretty well and was a nice supplement to my day job. I became really friendly with Eric Karabell, who's evolved into a fantasy superstar with ESPN, and he quickly trusted me with some other paying projects at the site. I owe him a lot and it was then that I realized that I actually might have a chance to do something like that for a living. He's a really, really nice guy that looked out for me and went the extra mile to help me out. Sometimes that's what you need to get your foot in the door and show them what you have. And now that I look back, ESPN basically financed all of my entertainment centre components at the time. Since I wasn't relying on those payments each month, the money was gravy for me. Mmm. Entertainment gravy. My memory isn't great when it comes to things like this, but I think I wrote for ESPN for three or four seasons as a paid freelancer doing fantasy hockey and the side projects. It was also at that time that I approached Canoe.ca/ SLAM! Sports about fantasy content for their site, which didn't exist at the time. That's where I met my editor, Jon Cook; another key piece of the puzzle to getting me on the path to doing this full-time. He and Eric were instrumental to getting some traction into this world. SLAM! is where the Q&A portion of my blog really exploded and Jon let me run with the proverbial ball there. I was doing that five days a week and was answering an insane amount of questions. The core of my following was built at that point and they've stuck around through thick and thin. Ask them about the number of questions. It was nuts. Way more than I needed to, but it was well worth it.
I had actually been making enough money to do only fantasy hockey when I was first with both ESPN and SLAM!, but when you have a mortgage and a wife you tend to be pretty cautious financially. And I was (and still am) a total money whore... so I kept my full-time job and worked both sites on top of that. I basically worked from the time I woke up to the time I went to sleep all the time for several years, but it was worth it to get myself to the point where I felt comfortable enough in the situation that I could do this and only this as a means of support. I still work seven days a week in-season with a ridiculous amount of hours per week, but it balances out during the playoffs and summers when I don't have to work evenings and weekends on top of just weekdays. Plus, I love doing this job. It's actually fun to get up and know you'll be writing about hockey every day. It's a good feeling and you can't put a price on that. HOW CAN I DO THIS? Jason L. in Edmonton "You probably get this alot, but how can I get a job writing about fantasy hockey?" Chris: Yes Jason, people do tend to ask that one quite often. Following up to the first question asked for today's blog, you'll note that in every single case it was me that approached the employer about creating a job that didn't exist before I got there. Like with anything in life, initiative and work ethic can go a long way. Today I'd still suggest the tact of approaching sites for whom you might want to write, keeping in mind you're more than likely going to need some writing samples off the top and also a willingness to write for free or very little money for awhile. It's just the way it is. Given the explosion of the internet since I began, the dynamics have also changed a bit. The site you target will already likely have fantasy hockey content, whereas I was bringing something new to the table in each of my instances. You really have to want it and be willing to work hard to get it. A lot of people would love to do this, but not many may have the time on top of their normal job and family commitments or even the willingness to do anything to get there. You also have to have your own voice, obviously, which people will hopefully want to hear through your work. SATURDAY ACTION Jen in Vancouver: "Chris, what's a typical Saturday night like now that you've added Ramblings into the fold? I couldn't believe it when I first heard you were going to do it because that's the craziest night of the week!" Chris: Great question Jen and you've been a regular reader of mine for years, so you know the routine pretty well. And to be completely honest, if I had really understood the timing of the Ramblings in the first place I might have initially been a little gun shy about this gig. I thought it'd be more of a Sunday afternoon thing, which is when I have a bit more time to write, but it lends itself better to the cause if I publish it near the end of Saturday night. But now that I've been doing it for a few months, I think I've found a good rhythm and have blended the two blogs fairly well. A typical Saturday, which is generally the busiest night of the week, begins with me building the skeleton of my Live NHL Recap when I wake up. That just includes each game spaced out with spots where all of the goalie info, line combos, scratches, top power play times and trending info would go. Then I can go about my morning and get stuff in my non-work life done. Around 1pm or so (I'm a West Coast guy, so games begin at 4pm for me), I'll strap myself into my desk and get cracking. That's when I'll go through my Twitter feed and get caught up on the day's news. If there was an early game and I didn't get a chance to watch it, I'll go over that (DVR, box scores and/or highlights) and get it caught up for the blog. It really begins to get busy around 3:30pm, which is when I can often get a jump on the line combos that are known from warm-up or even the morning skate. Then, once the first games begin, it's just a firestorm of action that includes gathering all of the info included in the recaps, flipping from game to game, writing the trending info as the box scores begin to fill up... and in between all of that, I make notes for Rambings that I may want to include. Info for the recaps is posted from the time it's published before the first games to the time the final buzzer sounds on the last tilt and I can fill in the final stats. 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James Van Der Zee was an African American Photographer born in 1886. He was a pioneer during the Harlem Renaissance and is best known for his amazing portraits of black New Yorkers. The likes of Marcus Garvey and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson just to name a couple of well known and iconic figures from our past.
In addition to being an accomplished and nationally recognized photographer, he was also an extremely talented pianist and violinist in very tough times in American history. A time, during which many African Americans were denied basic rights, let alone an exploration of the arts.
It is amazing to think how much change and progress James witnessed in his life, having lived until 1983. We admire his commitment and dedication to the arts throughout a very long life. James has frequently been honored for his contribution to US History, especially in Harlem, NY and we honor him here today with a post to celebrate great Americans during Black History Month!


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Speaking in Tech: We find someone who hasn't heard of Prof Brian Cox
Podcast Brit physics heartthrob yet to conquer US - plus actual tech views
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Once again it's time for the weekly Speaking in Tech podcast, hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela - although this week Sarah is hiding.
So it's just Ed and Greg with special guest Ben Kepes - the well-known tech evangelist, investor, commentator and …
Google erases G8 venue from Earth: Microsoft doesn't
Cameron and chums to hold confab in empty field, apparently
As all the world that cares knows, the leaders of the eight most powerful nations in the world have just been holding a summit meeting at the Lough Erne Resort in Northern Ireland.
Most accounts suggest that this is a 5-star golfing hotel complex, but according to Google Maps and Google Earth it is just a muddy field:
Damn, …
Speaking in Tech: Doc, I've got a cough. Here's my DNA, now find a cure
Podcast High-powered systems behind personalised medicines
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This week, Speaking in Tech regular Greg Knieriemen has fled to Germany, leaving the ever-capable Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela to host a panel session at the Dell Enterprise Forum in San Jose, California.
Today's special guests are Tim Carroll, a director at Dell Research …
Speaking in Tech: Endorsing LinkedIn skills on LinkedIn implodes the web?
Podcast Just like typing 'google' into Google
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For the latest Speaking in Tech podcast, Ed and Greg catch up after Greg's recent disappearance on secret-squirrel IT missions, while regular SiT co-host Sarah Vela is AWOL. Maybe her and Ed are the same person and they just alternate every week?
Among the hard-hitting tech …
Twitter, Facebook are 'a MENACE to society', says Turkey's PM
Nowt to do with tweets revealing huge anti-gov riots
Turkey's Prime Minister has labelled Twitter and other social networks as "the worst menace to society" following days of unrest in the country.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan's comments came after tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Istanbul to protest against government plans to demolish a public park to build a shopping …
Speaking in Tech: 'It's the democratisation of the internet GONE MAD'
Podcast Movie-streaming services suck, come read comics instead
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For El Reg's latest Speaking in Tech podcast, Greg Knieriemen and Sarah Vela are joined by Irish tech monster Storagezilla (aka EMC bod Mark Twomey), while regular SiT co-host Ed Saipetch disappears on a secret mission.
Storagezilla waxes lyrical about comic book characters …
Speaking in Tech: Portland hipsters gagging for yesterday's web tool
Podcast Someone came in two years ago and set up our Drupal instance... what NOW?
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For El Reg's latest Speaking in Tech podcast, Ed Saipetch is hosting the chat live from DrupalCon 2013, which is in hipster central Portland this year, while co-hosts Greg Knieriemen and Sarah Vela put out fires elsewhere.
Eddie is joined by special guests Joaquin Lippincott …
Oi, Google! Stop LIBELLING us Germans, fix your autocomplete
Wie möchten Sie es, Herr Adman?
Google has been ordered by a German court to block defamatory words appearing in its search engine's autocomplete function.
The Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe ruled that the advertising giant must remove libellous material from its algorithms that automatically attempt to guess what one is searching for - but only once …
Speaking in Tech: All our stuff's on Amazon's cloud... what if it goes titsup?
Podcast Should private firms be grilled on biz viability for the 'public interest'...
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It's another banter-packed episode of El Reg's one-and-only podcast, helping you catch up on everything that has happened this week in enterprise and consumer tech. This week: does a private company have a duty of disclosure in the public interest? Is it really a cost saving …
Integration gets back on track with the vertical stack
We don't need no vendor lock-in
What is the role of integrated stacks, in which compute, networking, storage and management are vertically integrated? And how do you avoid vendor lock-in?
Let's get the discussion started with three expert submissions, one from an analyst, one from an IT practitioner and one from a vendor. And tell us what you think in the …
It's official: Nokia's Verizon Lumia 928 is here
More likely to follow next week
Nokia's long-rumoured exclusive phone for Verizon, the Lumia 928, has been officially announced.
It's really a Lumia 920 with a more tapered body, an AMOLED (Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode) screen, and a proper, grown-up Xenon camera flash.
It's also lost some weight: at 161.5g, it's a fair bit lighter than the 920' …
Speaking in Tech: 'You can't NOT look like a douche wearing Google Glass'
Podcast It's an '80s brick mobe now, but one day it'll be like the iPhone
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It's another episode of El Reg's weekly enterprise tech podcast, hosted by Ed Saipetch, Greg Knieriemen and Sarah Vela. Do only white guys wear Google Glass? Just what did Sarah get up to at school with Reid Hoffman? And what the hell kind of weirdo endorses people for " …
Has any employer ever delivered the training it promised?
Minipoll Personal Development for Dummies? You tell us...
Does this sound familiar? You tell the interviewer you're willing to learn, they tell you they are deeply committed to funding ongoing personal development of all their employees.
Three months in you're still spending your free time reading through The Idiot's Guide to ERP that you paid for yourself.
Six months on you're …
US Labor Dept website serving malware to innocent visitors
Blag bears signature of notorious Chinese DeepPanda
The US Department of Labor's website has been hacked and malicious code stuck behind the scenes, security tools firm AlienVault says.
Since yesterday, the DoL site has been serving out malicious code that installs malware on unsuspecting users' computers, AlienVault's labs director Jaime Blasco told The Register.
The DoL said …
Speaking in Tech: Explicit vid reveals hot tech stars in LIVE STRIP SHOW
Podcast Topless VP shows some skin after losing 'humiliating bet'
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It's the first anniversary of El Reg's weekly enterprise podcast and hosts Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela have an incredible all-star lineup this week - plus an EXPLICIT VID of a topless EMC veep.
Their special guests this week are Chad Sakac, senior VP Global …
Speaking in Tech: Your OpenStack plug-in is NOT a meaningful code contribution
Podcast Talking smack about vendors ... Plus: How to unfollow Amy Lewis
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It's another episode of El Reg's weekly enterprise tech podcast, hosted by Ed Saipetch, Greg Knieriemen and Sarah Vela. Ed's in the driving seat this week as a jetlagged Greg rides shotgun. Cisco's Amy Lewis joins as our special guest this week... and jumps right into a chat …
How long will it take Facebook Home to hit 1bn downloads? 76 years
Android app installed 500,000 times since its release
Facebook Home has been downloaded 500,000 times from Google's Play store since it was released by the free content ad network earlier this month.
If the app was to continue to be downloaded at that pace then it would roughly take 76 Gregorian years for Facebook to have 1 billion Android users running the software, which skins …
Speaking in Tech: Put away the tissues - come have beers in London with us
Podcast Whether they be tears of rage or sorrow, join us for a post-funeral StorageBeer
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It's another recap of the week in tech at El Reg's sole podcast - coming to you live from England's capital this week. Join your host, Greg Knieriemen - Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela remain Stateside - for a wrap-up of all the latest in consumer technology, and specifically …
Speaking in Tech: Facebook's BETTER than Twitter ... for stalking your ex
Podcast Plus: Putting a bounty on keyboards of tweet-happy Cisco bods...
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Facing another tedious commute home with only the dead-eyed grumblings of your fellow passengers - or the blaring radio of other motorists - for entertainment? Download this banter-packed episode of El Reg's one-and-only podcast and you could be catching up on everything …
Kissinger and tell: WikiLeaks scrapes 1.7m US diplomatic reports from the '70s
Six-fingered* Assange republishes America's national archives
WikiLeaker-in-chief Julian Assange, who is languishing in self-imposed confinement in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, has kept himself busy by scraping more than one million documents from the US national archives.
The latest collection of reports to be published on his news leaks website - some of which are labelled "NODIS" ( …
Hate being stalked by Facebook? Why not try Google+ stalking
Offering ad guys that crucial Bieber-Beeber demographic
Google is fattening up its single sign-in feature that was opened up to mobile and web apps in February. This is the feature that allows netizens to use their Google+ usernames and passwords to log into accounts on third-party systems.
The web giant said developers who use "social infrastructure platforms" Janrain and Gigya - …
Speaking in Tech: Forget BYOD, now there's Bring Your Own CODE
Podcast Our panel of IT bods pass judgement on PaaS
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For this latest Speaking in Tech podcast, Ed Saipetch is flying solo: his co-hosts Greg Knieriemen and Sarah Vela are away this week.
But fear not, Ed has plenty lined up and has recorded today's session live from DeployCon at CloudConnect in Santa Clara, California. The …
Speaking in Tech: In-flight fondling, hands-free servers, what could go wrong?
Podcast And suspect stains - all on this week's sysadmin confab
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Another seven days in tech, and another banter-packed instalment of El Reg's one-and-only podcast. Join your your hosts, Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela for everything you need to know about business-grade IT. This week, the gang is together again, and their …
Branson, Berners-Lee, Google, £2m: LET'S SAVE THE WORLD
Who will defend us from privacy-stealing mega-corps? Oh
Google is waving £2m in front of charities, promising to donate dollops of the dosh if the orgs develop tech that improves people's lives.
The not-for-profit bodies are invited to apply and compete for the cash; four "data-driven" projects that successfully prove their worth will each get a £500,000 cheque from the advertising …
Another MYSTERY evacuation: Google UK empties swanky offices
Picture Gather round kids, no nipping off for a pint
Googlers have been chucked out of their central London office behind Tottenham Court Road station for the second time in about a month. There's no word yet on the reason for the latest evacuation, during which the entire plush building - home to various tech and media companies - was cleared out.
People standing outside St …
Speaking in Tech: Smash that Kickstarter piggy bank and MAKE IT RAIN
Podcast We chat to Google-style storage startup man about how to, er, crowdfund
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It's another recap of the week in tech at El Reg's coolest (and only) podcast. Join your your hosts, Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and - fresh from Austin nerdfest SXSW - Sarah Vela for everything you need to know about the business of tech. This week, the whole gang is …
Email and collaboration checkpoint
Tech Panel How is your office productivity solution working for you?
With all the talk about Twitter, Facebook and other forms of social media, it's all too easy to forget that for the vast majority of businesses, communications and collaboration are built on email. Whatever your personal opinion, the reality out there is that this is mainly Microsoft Office clients talking to an Exchange and …
AdBlock Plus BLOCKED from Google Play
Apps 'for rooted phones only' still on shelf of software shop - for now
Google has zapped the Android app version of AdBlock Plus from its Play store.
The ad giant has also kyboshed other ad-blocking applications from its online shop. Adblock Plus revealed the Chocolate Factory's snub in a blog post:
In a rather surprising move, Google removed Adblock Plus and other ad blocking apps from the …
BAN SMUT, rage MEPs: Purpose of internet must be EXTERMINATED
Euro grumble-flick block bid bashed as attack on freedom
MEPs are being urged to back a non-binding resolution that calls on the European Parliament to, in effect, ban pornography from the internet. A group of Euro politicos hope the web filth block will bring about a "genuine culture of equality" online.
A motion was tabled this week by the EU's committee on women's rights and gender …
Google AXES another 1,200 employees from Motorola workforce
'In markets where we're not competitive and we're losing money'
Google is cutting loose another 10 per cent of its Motorola Mobility workforce - which means 1,200 employees at the smartphone maker face redundancy.
The move comes after 4,000 jobs in the Motorola wing of Google's biz were axed in August 2012.
According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Motorola workers were told about …
BRITAIN MUST DECLARE WAR on Cervinaean menace
Doe! Citizenry urged to eat corpses of enemy
Brits need to take up arms and shoot* half of Blighty's deer population in a war to save the countryside from destruction.
There are more Bambi-like creatures in need of shooting than ever before in the UK, we're told, and their numbers have reached heights not scaled since the last Ice Age. With no natural predators, the deer …
Bees use 'electrical SIXTH SENSE' to nail nectar-stuffed flowers
Sparks fly when bumbles see plants for plundering, say Brit bio-boffins
There's electricity in the air when bees meet flowers: according to a new study, the blooms and approaching insects uses electrical signals to find out whether there is nectar and pollen to spare.
A bee covered with pollen on a flower My spidey bumble senses are tingling
As they fly through the air, bumblebees acquire a …
Mobile World Congress: Rise of the machines, er, mobiles
Live Chat Thursday, 1400 GMT: Chat to the El Reg team back from Barcelona
This year's annual Mobile World Congress marks a major departure, with machines battling the usual line-up of handset-makers for control.
From Monday 25 February, there will be cars on show plus an entire street filled with machines talking to each other.
The Reg is descending on Barcelona to parse this talk of machine-to- …
Perfect sex minx calculated from 'deep' probe of X-rated flicks
10,000 web smut stars analysed, vital statistics checked and double-checked
Hardcore data analysis of hardcore web filth has produced a surprise finding: the average female porn star is NOT blonde nor does she sport oversized Bulgarian airbags.
Investigative writer Jon Millward dedicated six months of his life to the task of crunching through vital statistics in the largest database of adult performers …
Speaking in Tech: Tesla's Elon Musk takes on NYT - ballsy move, man
Podcast Plus: Open file systems and the commoditisation of infrastructure
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Want to hear a quick and funny wrap-up of everything - well, everything important - that happened in tech this week? El Reg's enterprise and consumer kit gurus Greg Knieriemen and Ed Saipetch are here to discuss the business of tech, the tech of storage, and the quality of …
Speaking in Tech: VMware plots to build data centre that RUNS ITSELF
Podcast Virty vendor's Virsto slurp, virtualised vomit, Dell and more...
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It's another recap of the week in tech, all ready to download to your phone or tablet to make your commute home that much more informative and funny. Join your hosts, consumer and enterprise tech gurus Greg Knieriemen and Ed Saipetch - guru number three, Sarah Vela, is ill …
New cunning linguist computer has got ancient tongues licked
Boffins build system to reconstruct man's protolanguages
Boffins have put together a new computer system that attempts to translate protolanguages, the ancient "parent" tongues from which modern languages evolved.
The sophisticated Rosetta Stone-like system can quickly reconstruct the languages of yore from today's vocabularies with 85 per cent accuracy, we're told. The system's …
Speaking in Tech: HP's snarky Dell jab 'doesn't seem very Meg-like'
Podcast Plus: 'NetApp's too expensive to be acquired right now'
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It's another episode of El Reg's enterprise tech cast, with your hosts Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, they're guest-free, which means Sarah can consolidate her high score on Temple Run while the crew get really honest about what they think of the …
Speaking in Tech: 'ARM makes enterprise chips? Over my dead body!'
Podcast But we will design 'em for you, explains ARM veep in grilling by Reg panel
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It's another episode of El Reg's enterprise tech cast, with your hosts Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. Our special guest this week is Ian Ferguson, vice-president of Segment Marketing at ARM, who talks about the growth of the chip-design company from 12 people in …
Revealing new pics of galactic princess Andromeda
Really big lens lets astro-paps get nice new snaps
New, nifty pictures have been released by astro-boffins which reveal further glories of "the elegant spiral galaxy Andromeda, named after the mythical Greek princess known for her beauty".
Without further ado:
That's a proper long-distance princess snap
A bit blurry maybe, but this kind of pic often is
We're indebted for the …
Speaking in Tech: 'VCs hate open source because the path to money is longer'
Podcast The big Dell bet, OpenStack, stalk tech on Facebook and more...
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This week's enterprise techcast has Neanderthal babies, bets with vice presidents, arguing about taxes ... and even mixes in the odd bit of tech. It doesn't have any guests either, but it hardly needs those, as we have the full complement of the Speaking In Tech crew this …
Record numbers of you are reading this headline right now
Another year, another 700,000 readers
It's that time of year when we at The Register get our annual letter from the Audit Bureau of Circulation, confirming just how well we did during our regular November audit.
The scores on the doors are these: 7,326,907 unique users visited the site that month, up from 6,657,164 in 2011 - a climb of just over 10 per cent and the …
Nokia axes 300 IT bods, outsources 820 to Tata, HCL
Former mobe king downsizes ahead of financial results
Nokia will outsource 820 IT staff and make 300 more redundant, leaving a skeleton IT operation at the troubled phone maker.
Up to 560 staff will transfer to Tata Consultancy Services and 260 to HCL Technologies, both of which are headquartered in India. Nokia says it has a relationship with the pair.
Only small teams will …
Speaking in Tech: Why EMC is like a club, geek gifts and more
Podcast Chad Sakac: 'There is no API that defines storage services'
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Welcome to our first enterprise and consumer tech cast of the year. Join your hosts Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela along with repeat offender Chad Sakac, senior veep of Global Systems Engineering at EMC, as they discuss the hiring culture at EMC, what they got …
Speaking in Tech: It's not a CLOUD fail, it's a cloud FIRM fail
Podcast C'mon, Netflix, own up...
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Pop on your headphones: Greg Knieriemen and co-host Ed Saipetch are back with another enterprise tech-cast and this week they've bagged a very special guest in the form of George Reese, co-founder and CTO of enStratus. It's fair to say he knows a little bit about cloud …
Steve Bong's 3D printing special Xmas showcase
¡Bong! Join the MAKERS' REVOLUTION with these INCREDIBLE GIFTS
2012 has been the year of 3D printing. It's what happens "when DIY meets Web 2.0", says Chris Anderson - and it's going to be the next industrial revolution - the biggest disruption since the last big disruption, only bigger.
We're as amazed as you are by the quality of today's additive printing technologies. So here's a …
Speaking in Tech: Like Kinect - only a THOUSAND times better
Podcast This year in tech... plus the team grills another American VC
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This week is our year-end podcast spectacular... Your hosts Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela review the year in tech and chuck in some predictions for next year. They also have a chat with very special guests Brad O'Neill, CEO of TechValidate Software, and Peter …
WIN! A Viewsonic Pro9000 HD projector worth £1600
Competition Start 2013 with a big-screen home cinema
WIN! A Viewsonic Pro9000 HD projector featuring the latest LED lamp tech that's cool running, energy saving and outlasts them all.
ViewSonic has given us one of its first to market, state-of-the-art laser hybrid LED projectors for you to win. Simply answer the three questions below, and if you're looking for clues, check out …
Speaking in Tech: The day Dell's server guys said 'Cloud is bulls**t'
Podcast Hunger Games meets IT: 'Not everyone is going to make it through'
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Live from Austin, it's an enterprise and consumer tech cast with some of the biggest brains in the cloudy business. Weirding you out today are humble hosts Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Ed and Sarah take over the podcast live at Dell World 2012 while Greg Knieriemen …
Speaking in Tech: So you've built a data centre - but is it UNDER THE SEA?
Podcast The things you come up with while in Amsterdam
Welcome back - it's another Speaking In Tech hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Ed has taken over the podcast with this special - and shorter - episode from Structure Europe 2012 in Amsterdam.
Our special guests this week are Sam Johnston, director of cloud and IT services at Equinix, and Lane …


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Guinness Chocolate Cake with a glass of Guiness Stout. (Little Star Baking)
Guinness Chocolate Cake with a glass of Guiness Stout. (Little Star Baking)
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INDIANAPOLIS - As St. Patrick's Day nears, serving and eating festive dishes of the Emerald Isle seem only appropriate. What better way to celebrate than with a slice of cake and a draught of beer.
Photos: 10 St. Patrick's day inspired recipes
And what better way to bake a cake than with one of Ireland's very own malty creations, Guinness Stout.
Although it might sound crazy, baking with beer makes complete sense. Especially in a rich, moist creation like this Guinness chocolate genoise-style cake. The maltiness of the beer blends well with the chocolate, creating a multi-faceted flavor experience.
Cocoa and creamy stout fuse with butter, eggs and molasses to create one of the moistest cakes I've ever known. Each level of bitterness and sweetness hitting the taste buds make this a complex dish.
Although you won't immediately think "Guinness" when you take a bite, you should taste the subtle undertones this beer adds to the overall flavor.
If you are anything like me, you'll have to recover from sheer happiness after that bite.
The cream cheese icing that finishes the cake may be too sweet for you, but think of it as the frothy head on a tall pour of Guinness.
If I had a top ten cakes list, this cake would most definitely be on it. It's easy to make, easy to serve and easy to disappear! It's the pot o' gold at the end of the rainbow!
The Recipe:
1 cup Guinness
10 tbs. of unsalted butter
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
1 cup sugar
1 cup light brown sugar
3 tbs. molasses
3/4 cup sour cream
3 eggs
1 tbs. pure vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 ½ tsp. baking soda
Pro-tip: Last but not least, cut yourself a slice and serve with a pint of cold Guinness. Sláinte!
Photos: 10 St. Patrick's day inspired recipes
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Still Writing Checks?
By: Bob Hansen, KNSD
Updated: March 10, 2009
So is it time to leave your checkbook home?
Thousands of transactions everyday at this Wal-Mart store, but it's hard to find anyone paying with a check.
"I only write checks for one thing. Everything else is done online," said one shopper.
In fact, when it comes to traditional check writing, people seem to be breaking with tradition.
"I wouldn't leave home without the checkbook 10 years ago, and we just went on vacation last week and I didn't take the check book with me," said Claire Barclay who admits she seldom writes checks.
Barclay is part of the growing number of check writers who are breaking the habit, she says checks are too personal.
"Well you don't have to give everybody your name and address with an ATM card. And it's right there. Your address, your telephone number needs to be on a check."
Claire now pays many of her bills online, writing fewer and fewer checks.
"I do think this piece of paper, the check, is on its way out," said Beth Givens of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse.
Givens says a check in the hands of a crook can be a nightmare.
That's why she recommends for most transactions using cash or a credit card.
"Look at all of your accounts and convert as many as you feel comfortable with to an automatic deduction, either from your checking account or from your credit card. And then of course monitor those accounts very carefully," said Givens.
Online transactions don't get put in the mailbox. No envelopes, no stamps to deal with. So will we be pulling out the checkbook 10 years from now?"
"No. I think in the future we'll use cash and we'll use credit cards. I don't think we'll use checks," Givens said.
Now whether you use a check or a credit card you need to be good about watching your balance.
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ChiRunning + Asheville Marathon at Biltmore Estate
Chi Running is the official training prgoram for the first Asheville Marathon at Biltmore. Join us as we train runners from both the Asheville community and around the country for the first ever Asheville Marathon held at the Biltmore Estate. Danny Dreyer has created a race-specific training program for this event, which you can find here. You will also find special packages which include a workshop with Danny and the e-Chi Training program of your choice (beginner or intermediate). As an added bonus to locals, Danny Dreyer will also be holding additional technique clinics to help you prepare for this marathon.
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Join us on October 9 at 11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m. as we continue to celebrate National Hispanic Herigage Month. Food lovers get ready to eat your heart out; the Culinary Arts students will be selling Latin food to satisfy your hunger. All events are free and open to the public.
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Material check-outs are free and are good for two weeks.
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Catie '10 supports the 15th, 20th, and 55th reunions, student-alumni relations, Homecoming, and all alumni athletic networks and programs. Catie also coordinates broadcast email for the office and volunteers, works with the Carleton Connects Program, and provides updates and support to the Alumni Network site.
Erin coordinates the annual Reunion weekend. In addition she assists in coordination and support of the Alumni Council.
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thl wrote:I start watching martial art movies around the late 80s. Actors/actresses I remembered are Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh and Sammo Hung. They're all big name stars that dominated the Hong Kong movie industries, as well in Asia and the rest of the world.
The film that's likely to be remembered is Enter the Dragon. It's still regarded as a classic thanks to the impact that Bruce Lee brought and created in front of the cameras. Ataaaaah!!
felgekarp wrote:Got quite a few martial arts films, lots of Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung stuff, Ong Bak's worth tracking down to see some of the crazy stuff that Ja can do, but my favourite martial arts film at the moment is Kung Fu Hustle and I'd never been a big fan of wire work until I saw that.
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Favourite Jackie Chan films are Project A, Police Story, Wheels on Meals, Dragons Forever, Armour of God and Drunken Master II.
Shaolin Soccer is another good movie to see for its comedy thanks to Stephen Chow.
The Last Ginja wrote:I watched Fearless in the cinema and I thought it was excellent. It's out on DVD soon and I would recommend anyone to watch it, great story and brilliant, well choreographed fight scenes.
I vaguely remember some Ninja films with Sho Kosugi in the mid/late 80's.
I also used to love the American Ninja films, however, watching one recently, they have dated very badly!
James A wrote:I lost interset in Martial arts films until i saw Ong Bak with Tony Jaa. One of the best martial arts films i've ever seen.
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Spice Up Your Holidays with Cooking & Gift Giving Ideas From Cordells
By: Alex Hayes & Monica Tassoni
Updated: December 5, 2011
Ladies, beware, Cordell's store is filled to the brim with Chocolate this season!
"These are really great gift items for the Christmas season," says Cordell's Owner, Jason Beard, "if you've got someone that's hard to buy for, or if you've got someone with an exquisite taste for chocolate these are the gifts that you want to give them."
One of those chocolate creations? It's called sipping chocolate, which features five different types of 100% chocolate ground up in one container.
"Mix it with water, or hot milk, and you sip it," explains Beard, "it's not like hot cocoa, it's actually just melted chocolate."
For coffee fans, Cordell's is featuring an almond coffee this holiday season.
"It's toasted almonds mixed with caramel, then dipped in milk chocolate, and then dipped in toasted almonds again."
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Hartford Underground is a non-profit organization which promotes vintage swing dancing and has been preserving lindy hop, charleston, balboa, & blues in Hartford since 2007. Check out our website, www.hartfordunderground.com, for additional info.
Promise of Freedom: The Emancipation Proclamation
Exhibit and programs commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation and its significance over time, featuring Abraham Lincoln's signed copy, rare slavery artifacts, prints, political cartoons and more.
Promise of Freedom: The Emancipation Proclamation
Exhibit and programs commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation and its significance over time, featuring Abraham Lincoln's signed copy, rare slavery artifacts, prints, political cartoons and more.
Franklin Street Works celebrates its one-year with the original exhibition 'Working Alternatives'
Franklin Street Works presents the original exhibition Working Alternatives: Breaking Bread, Art Broadcasting, and Collective Action, on view from October 27, 2012 - January 13, 2013. The exhibition looks at three threads of alternative art space histories and examines how engaged, inclusive strategies are still being used to break down perceived barriers between contemporary art and its audiences. The themes covered in Working Alternatives are conviviality and food, artists who use media (newspapers, television, and radio) as platforms for artworks, and artist collectives in the US, explored through an open archive gathered specifically for this exhibition.
Originally Working Alternatives was designed to be the backdrop for our first annual fundraiser, but Franklin Street Works is postponing that event until the spring so the indoor/outdoor extravaganza will coincide with warmer weather and have less proximity to long-standing regional art events. If you saved the date for our fundraiser, however, don't despair and keep it on your calendars – there is still a party! Working Alternatives will open on the same night, October 27, from 5 p.m. -8 p.m. with a free, public reception. The evening will include a lively performance of San Francisco artist Tom Marioni's "Drinking Beer Sonata with 13 Players" where thirteen people will create music by blowing into beer bottles based on Marioni's instructions.
For Working Alternatives, curators Mackenzie Schneider, Terri C Smith, and Jess Wilcox explore three threads of alternative art platforms and production: conviviality and food as components in alternative art space programming and mission (Wilcox); artists using media such as radio, television, and newspapers as alternative venues for presenting work (Schneider); and artist collectives presented in a living archive with weekly changing exhibitions using archive materials (Smith). In addition to historical examples, the exhibition also includes original artworks by contemporary artists that reflect and expand on the show's themes. Working Alternatives' artists include: Paul Branca, Jaime Davidovich, ESP TV, Group Material, Ann Hirsch, Tom Marioni, Anna Ostoya, Legacy Russell, Chris Sollars and Jerome Waag. Franklin Street Works is also excited to collaborate on several off-site artworks, including the live radio broadcast of an Ann Hirsch performance on WPKN, Bridgeport, and collages by Anna Ostoya in the Stamford Advocate via four, monthly ads during the show's run.
Guilford Art Center's Artistry Holiday Sale of Fine American Craft
Guilford Art Center's annual Artistry Holiday Sale of Fine American Craft features handmade works by more than 300 artists from across America, including pottery, jewelry, glass, fiber, ornaments, accessories, toys, specialty foods and more. New works are added throughout the course of the event, encouraging visitors to return to find one-of-a-kind finds. Support American artists, the arts, and small businesses.
Syntax Showtime: Art at Center Stage
This mixed media exhibition will be held at the Center Stage, Shelton, from November 30 through January 12, 2013. It opens with a reception on Friday, November 30, 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., at the first performance of, "A Christmas Carol: The Musical." Admission to the reception and exhibition is free.
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In Pegasus Gallery
November 16, 2012—January 3, 2013
Reception on Thursday, November 29th, 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Judith Randall De Graffenried's painting process considers the varying degrees of analytical, emotional, sensual and spiritual human sensibilities. In watercolor works like "Resort City," pictorial plays of space and compositional juxtapositions create a multilayered series of visually charged settings. In other works painted in oil, figure model session poses are adapted into invented backgrounds.
Judith de Graffenried is associate professor of fine arts/graphic design and program coordinator at Middlesex Community College. She earned a B.A.at the University of South Carolina, an M.A.T. at the University of South Carolina, and an M.F.A. at City University of New York. She also attended a year-long painting program at the Art Academy of Munich, Germany and studied art at Queens College and Indiana University. She has exhibited her paintings in more than 50 national juried exhibitions and received awards at: Maryland Federation of Art, (2008, 2005) The Montpelier Center for Arts & Education, Montpelier, VA (2008, 2006), Strathmore Award for Excellence, "Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Exhibition", Golden, CO (1995).
Pegasus Gallery is located within the library on the first floor of Chapman Hall
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Mystic Aquarium's Winter Waterland
Mystic Aquarium's Winter Waterland holiday celebration returns Saturdays and Sundays in December and Thursday, Dec. 27 – Tuesday, Jan. 1 with festive entertainment for all to enjoy. This month-long series of events features visits from Santa, elves diving among fish, live music by local artists, seasonal crafts and scavenger hunts, all against a backdrop of fascinating marine animals and holiday décor.
Guests can also enjoy The Polar Express 4-D Experience, a holiday favorite brought to life with the visual drama of a 3-D film and a variety of sensory effects, including wind, snow and scents.
Winter Waterland activities and entertainment take place Saturdays and Sundays in December (1, 2, 8, 9, 15, 16, 22 and 23) and December 27 - January 1 from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. and are included with aquarium admission. The Polar Express 4-D Experience is included with Mystic Aquarium membership and the value ticket option, or tickets can be purchased inside the aquarium for $6 each.
January Exhibit at the Geary Gallery in Darien, CT
Through January, the Geary Gallery of Darien proudly presents "By Land and By Sea," featuring the stunning landscapes and seascapes of Fairfield painter, Karl Soderlund. Also featured this month, "Essence of a Painting," the work of the late New York artist, Michael Lowenbein (1935-2009). The Geary Gallery is open Wednesday to Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 576 Boston Post Road, Darien, CT 06820. (203) 655-6633. www.gearygallery.com


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By Tom White, guest columnist
I stopped by my girlfriend's house the other day and saw that, once again, she was moving furniture. Lots of ladies enjoy rearranging their furnishings from time to time, but she takes it to a whole new level. Not only does she move the furniture, but she generally changes it somehow. She is the queen of re-purposing.
We need to have standards and stick to them.
We have to be moral and decent and honest and trustworthy of course. How we behave at work has an effect on our fellow workers.
Here are eight other rules to help you become fantastically successful along the way:
Besides my hymnal collection, and the refrigerator magnets I pick up to commemorate my travels, I'm not much of a collector. In fact, I'm kind of the opposite.
I get tired of having stuff around, so I am constantly decluttering. With seven people in our home, things tend to accumulate rather quickly, and I start to feel like I'm suffocating.
Arriving in La Grange for the first time last November, I was as giddy as a 5-year-old to see a train run through the middle of town. The attraction of trains for boys is a somewhat odd trait of male genes, but one that has always captured my attention from the small-scale toy trains to standing and analyzing the mechanics of large diesels sitting on sidetracks.
My least favorite mommy task is attempting to sufficiently slather sunscreen onto a wiggly toddler. My second least favorite is potty-training. Unfortunately, there is no way to combine these tasks into one really miserable event. When we decided to have more children, it had been 10 years since our last.
Your success in business, sports, friendship, love, and nearly every enterprise you attempt is largely determined by your own self-image. People who have confidence in their personal worth seem to be magnets for success and happiness. Good things drip into their laps regularly, their relationships are long-lasting, and their projects are usually carried to completion.
Congratulations to all Oldham County School employees, parents, board members and community stakeholders for another great year. Once again our school system has earned the No. 1 ranking on the state test in 2010 among all county school districts in Kentucky.
I love reading biographies and histories. I learn a great deal from reading the way past heroes handled everyday events and what impact they made.
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By: The Razorback Nation
Updated: December 5, 2012
He replaces John L. Smith, who was let go as head coach of the Razorbacks on November 24th, after serving seven months of his 10-month contract at Arkansas. Smith took over for Bobby Petrino after serving three seasons on Arkansas coaching staff.
The new coach would take over a Razorback team coming off a 4-8 season including a 2-6 record in SEC play.
The Arkansas Razorbacks had great success under Petrino, winning 21 games between the 2010 and 2011 seasons. Under Petrino, the Razorbacks were 34-17, including 2-1 in bowl games, in four seasons. The Razorbacks returned 17 starters for the 2012 season, leading some to believe they would be National Title contenders in Petrino's fifth season.
But the season turned in a different direction on April 1st when Petrino was involved in a motorcycle accident in Madison County, near Crosses.
Petrino said he had been on the bike by himself on multiple occasions, including a news conference on the U of A campus.
A few days after the news conference, an Arkansas State Police accident report revealed Petrino had been riding with a passenger, former Arkansas All-SEC volleyball player Jessica Dorrell.
After the report was released Petrino admitted to an "inappropriate relationship" with Dorrell, who he had just hired to a position on his staff in a recruiting role. Petrino was placed on administative leave by Athletic Director Jeff Long.
On April 10th, Long fired Petrino with cause, saying that Petrino "engaged in a pattern of misleading and manipulative behavior designed to deceive me and members of the athletic staff, both before and after the motorcycle accident."
In the news conference announcing Petrino's firing, Long revealed that Petrino had paid Dorrell $20,000 cash and used his influence to ensure that she was hired from an applicant pool of 159 people for a position on the football coaching staff.
On April 23rd, Long surprised many by hiring former Arkansas Special Teams Coordinator and Linebackers coach John L. Smith to take over the Arkansas Football team as interim head coach. Smith was signed to a 10-month contract worth $850,000. Smith left his alma mater months after taking over as head coach at Weber State.
The rocky season began with a win over FCS opponent Jacksonville State. It quickly took a turn with an overtime loss to Louisiana-Monroe in Little Rock after starting quarterback Tyler Wilson was knocked out of action in the first half.
The losing streak continued as Arkansas lost four straight, including embarrassing losses to Alabama (52-0), Rutgers (35-26) and Texas A&M (58-10). Arkansas finally picked up a win on the road at Auburn, then at home against Kentucky, before losing another game in Little Rock to Ole Miss. The final win of the season came a week later against Tulsa in Fayetteville.
The season came to an end with three straight losses, giving the Razorbacks the first eight-loss season since 1990.
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The advertising department is located on the third floor of SCAD Atlanta. Students enrolled in these classes learn to create and produce integrated marketing communications campaigns that include traditional advertising media, such as print, outdoor, direct, radio and television, along with new and alternative methods such as online, interactive and guerrilla.
Courses are taught in several different types of classrooms: hybrid studios, lecture rooms and fully-equipped labs.
SCAD Atlanta is located in midtown Atlanta, which offers a diverse music scene and numerous theaters, galleries and museums.
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Lesson 8
Taking It Grassroots: Initiative - Referendum - Referral
If you live in Oregon, you will want to understand the differences between initiatives, referenda, and referrals and how they make it to a ballot. This lesson explores how they have been used throughout Oregons history and how they can be used now to effect change.
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Lesson 8
Taking It Grassroots: Initiative - Referendum - Referral
55 minute class period
Understand the differences between an initiative, referendum, and referral and how they make it to a ballot. Additionally students will learn how these have been used throughout Oregon's history and how these can be used by voters to effect change.
Oregon Standards
HS.28: Evaluate how governments interact at the local, state, tribal, national, and global levels.
HS.29: Examine the structures and functions of Oregon's state, county, local and regional governments.
HS.57: Define, research, and explain an event, issue, problem, or phenomenon and its significance to society.
HS.59: Demonstrate the skills and dispositions needed to be a critical consumer of information.
HS.61: Analyze an event, issue, problem, or phenomenon, identifying characteristics, influences, causes, and both short- and long-term effects.
HS.63: Engage in informed and respectful deliberation and discussion of issues, events, and ideas.
Oregon Common Core State Standards
Reading Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies
1: Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
2: Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
Writing Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies
1: Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
NCSS Standards
Theme VI: Power, Authority, and Governance; X: Civic Ideals and Practices
- Teacher background handout Lesson 8
- Student Handout: "Initiative, Referendum and Referral"
- Oregon Blue Book: Initiative, Referendum, and Referral Introduction - http://bluebook.state.or.us/state/elections/elections09.htm
- Oregon Blue Book: Oregon Election History Page - http://bluebook.state.or.us/state/elections/elections06.htm
- Ask students the following questions: What new law should be passed in Oregon? Why? What law should not be in Oregon? Why?
- Discuss with class that making and altering laws is something voters have the power to do (initiative).
- Define: Initiative, Referendum, Referral
- Research in Blue Book: compare/contrast the three (Note: could use the provided Oregon Blue Book link or the student handout).
- Discuss historical instances and impact (i.e. effectiveness/ineffectiveness). For example, approving the use of medical marijuana within limits – effective/ineffective? Why/why not? (Note: students can go to the "Oregon Blue Book: Oregon Election History Page" to access links for historical instances.)
- Write persuasive arguments and a petition for an initiative, and then attempt to get people to sign petition. When writing the initiative persuasive argument, the following areas should be addressed:
- Why is the initiative important?
- What would the initiative provide?
- Who would be benefited?
- What are some potential hazards of this initiative and how would they be alleviated?
- How much would implementation of the initiative cost?
Extension Activities
Compare Oregon initiative, referendum, or referral to grassroots campaign in another state. Each student could take a different state and do a poster depicting that state's initiative, referendum, or referral (for example, immigration in Arizona, class size amendment in Florida).
Background Material
Lesson 8
Teacher Background Handout
Initiative: Registered voters may place on the ballot any issue that amends the Oregon Constitution or changes the Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS).
Referendum: Registered voters may attempt to reject any bill passed by the Legislature by placing a referendum on the ballot.
Referral: The Legislature may refer any bill it passes to voters for approval. It must do so for any amendment to the Oregon Constitution.
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Lesson 8
Initiative, Referendum and Referral
In 1902, Oregon voters overwhelmingly approved a legislatively referred ballot measure that created Oregon's initiative and referendum process. In 1904, voters enacted the direct primary and, in 1908, Oregon's Constitution was amended to allow for recall of public officials. These were the culmination of efforts by the Direct Legislation League, a group of political activists that progressive leader William S. U'Ren founded in 1898.
This system of empowering the people to propose new laws or change the Constitution of Oregon through a general election ballot measure became nationally known as "the Oregon System."
Registered voters may place on the ballot any issue that amends the Oregon Constitution or changes the Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS).
Registered voters may attempt to reject any bill passed by the Legislature by placing a referendum on the ballot.
The Legislature may refer any bill it passes to voters for approval. It must do so for any amendment to the Oregon Constitution.
Since 1902, the people have passed 120 of the 352 initiative measures placed on the ballot and 23 of the 64 referenda on the ballot. During the same period, the Legislature has referred 426 measures to the people, of which 251 have passed.
Both houses of the Legislature must vote to refer a statute or constitutional amendment for popular vote. Such referrals cannot be vetoed by the governor.
To place an initiative or referendum on the ballot, supporters must obtain a specified number of signatures from registered voters. The number required is determined by a fixed percentage of the votes cast for all candidates for governor at the general election preceding the filing of the petition. In the 2010 General Election, 1,453,548 votes were cast for governor. Therefore:
- Referendum petitions require four percent, or 58,142 signatures.
- Initiative petitions for statutory enactments require six percent, or 87,213 signatures.
- Initiative petitions for constitutional amendments require eight percent, or 116,284 signatures.
The original constitutional amendment, passed in 1902, provided that a fixed percentage of the votes cast for justice of the Supreme Court would determine the number of signatures required to place an initiative or referendum on the ballot.
Both a statutory enactment and a constitutional amendment required eight percent of the votes cast, while a referendum required five percent of the votes cast. In 1954, the people amended the Oregon Constitution to increase the required number of signatures to 10 percent for a constitutional amendment. In 1968, a vote of the people established the current requirements.
Prior to 1954, measures on the ballot were not numbered. The 2001 Legislature amended state law to require that ballot measure numbers not repeat in any subsequent election. Numbers assigned for each election begin with the next number after the last number assigned in the previous election.


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Wilmington Delaware Marketing Strategy
Thursday, March 21st, 2013In the 17 year history of Mobius New Media, we have built a reputation on understanding the ever-changing landscape of traditional and online marketing. One of the biggest trends we've noticed over time is that more and more companies understand that a sound marketing strategy is a multi-year effort, and that one-off marketing solution don't always meet their expectations. Those that rush to push a short-term tactical marketing activity aren't always looking at where their brand will go in the long-run. Successful businesses are those that understand the need for a broader long-term view of how to effectively manage their marketing strategy, and how to navigate the new landscape of 21st century marketing.
There are several important aspects to developing a long-term marketing strategy:
- Know the ins-and-outs of your product or service and set tangible goals for your sales and business growth.
- Create a target audience and find where they are located: Are you marketing for just the local Delaware tri-state area or are you selling your product across the US, or around the world?
- If you are marketing Delaware, building a strong brand through the various Wilmington Media outlets – print, video, radio, outdoor, online – is key.
- Use social media in intelligent ways as part of an overall strategy but not as your sole effort. One good use of social media is to attract an audience to your website: Is your social media effective enough at pushing an audience to your website? Do you have an up-to-date website and a recognizable identity package?
- Understand the the opportunity that microtargeting provides. In the new world of online marketing, Search engine marketing (SEM), Search engine optimization (SEO) and advertising through Facebook and other social networks are a highly cost-effective way to hit a specific demographic and reach those looking for your services or products.
Success comes from understanding the ever-changing landscape and developing a long-term marketing strategy. If you are interested partnering with an agency that can design and execute effective marketing campaigns, contact us at Mobius New Media today.
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