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Birk, who attends Washington Junior High School, is the son of Mark and Shana Birk of Washington. His grandparents are Janet Burris and Pat Birk of Washington and Mr. and Mrs. Roger Clark of Montgomery.


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Carolina Biological Supply Company in Burlington, N.C. is shown in this Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011 photo. A young college student from Saudi Arabia who studied chemical engineering in Texas purchased explosive chemicals over the Internet as part of a plan to hide bomb materials inside dolls and baby carriages to blow up dams, nuclear plants or the Dallas home of former President George W. Bush, the Justice Department said Thursday. One of the chemical companies, Carolina Biological Supply, reported suspicious purchases by Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, 20, of Lubbock, Texas, to the FBI on Feb. 1. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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The evacuation continues. Plus, we learn Alan Ball's middle name.
Texans waive Javarris Williams. Not unexpected, given Justin Forsett's arrival.
Former Seattle RB Justin Forsett will reportedly work out for the Texans next week. Good fit or not?
I make highlight video's over at California Golden Blogs and did a Forsett one for his past year. Thought you guys might enjoy this too.
Justin Forsett 2009 Highlights . Dude was a beast this year. Killing time till the season starts.
Justin Forsett and Glenn Seaborg face off in the first round of the 2010 California Golden Blogs Hall of Fame. Vote for your favorite Bear Cal fans!
Justin Forsett punt/kick return highlights vs Minnesota (HT to CGB)
Justin Forsett returning a punt in the 4th quarter as a Colt. Forsett had 114 yards in kickoff and punt returns, including a 25 yard punt return (looks like this one) that put the Colts in game winning field goal range (although it was called back due to an unnecessary roughness penalty).
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TACOMA, Wash. -- A visitor who was the last civilian to speak with Margaret Anderson before she was killed believes the Mount Rainier National Park ranger saved his life by happenstance.
Jeremy Best tells The News Tribune of Tacoma that he and some friends from church went to the park on New Year's Day to snowshoe. He said Anderson had shown the group where to park and they chatted briefly.
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Anderson was interrrupted by a call about a motorist who illegally drove past a snow-tire checkpoint. She drove out of the parking lot and back down the road.
Moments later, at a roadblock, a gunman opened fire on her before she could get out of her car. The 34-year-old mother of two died at the scene.
The man believed to be the killer, Benjamin Colton Barnes, a 24-year-old Iraq War veteran, was found dead on Monday in a snowy creek on the mountain. Authorities believe Barnes, who was also a suspect in an ealier New Year's shooting at a house party in Skyway, south of Seattle, that left four people injured, died because of the hypothermia.
"I'm positive she saved my life," Best said of Anderson.
"I was talking to her just minutes before it happened. If that car came up the road, if he had an automatic weapon, I wouldn't be here. If it wasn't for what she did – we were 10 minutes away from walking over to put on our snowshoes. He would have been up there and doing ..."
You can read the full News Tribune story about Jeremy Best's account here.
Other hikers and park visitors also mourned the loss of a park ranger.
On NWHikers.net, a person with the username "kayakbear" described seeing planes and helicopters circling the mountain over their campsite in search of the gunman.
"The chopper swoops back over us, and drops a coffee cup that reads: "A ranger has been shot shooter at large. Call on cell if able to Pierce Co sheriff" so we hurry even more to get out. An hour later cup #2 comes: "Take road to falls and sheriff deputies. We will keep an eye on you. Do not drive from paradise w/o armed escort."
After we are all packed, the chopper comes back over us, gives us a signal to go ahead, and we start up the road. The chopper alternates between flying around the area and staying just ahead of us on the road. I've never had a helicopter escort before! At this point, we are all pretty worried, since we have nothing but snow shovels and we are having paranoid visions of a sniper bearing down on us. As we just turn the bend in the road, we run into the US Forest Tactical team sent out to get us. They are all armed with assault rifles, camo and enough gear to keep them out for a few long days. As we meet them they get a radio call that the shooter has been found, facedown in a stream dead. They escort us back to the end of the road just above narada falls where the ranger's truck is. Bullet holes and everything.
Another person with the username markh752 wrote on a NWHikers.net forum:
"As someone who got turned away at MRNP this morning, I would like thank the unknown ranger who recognized this person and/or his vehicle and tried to initiate the original stop. The park officials also did a great job of shutting down the park and locking down their facilities. There is a lot of law enforcement still up their in the cold and dark trying to apprehend this individual. And I am guessing that there is a 100 or so people at Paradise who are thankful for Margaret Anderson's bravery and heroism in not allowing this individual to reach the facilities at Paradise."
"A very unfortunate incident to all that were involved. Margaret was a good lady, wife, mother, and Ranger. She will be missed," read another post by HundsSolo.
Read msnbc.com's previous coverage of the search for the gunman here.
The National Park Service has also set up a memorial page where people can leave reflections on Anderson.
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DALLAS — For musicians like Chris Semmelbeck, the audience makes the difference. When they respond well, "it's just really fulfilling for everybody, all around, I think," he said.
Semmelbeck and his Denton-based band Seryn say that's why they're such big fans of the music movement called Sofar, which moves concerts out of clubs and into private living rooms.
Semmelbeck has both played in and hosted an event.
"It's all people that want to be there and that want to listen to the music, actively," he said.
Singer Sarah Sellers of Richardson is also a big fan of the intimate Sofar audience.
"They love music and they're open-minded," she said.
So, what makes a Sofar audience so great? Simple: The organization keeps the bill a secret until just before the show begins. And to go along with such a strategy requires an audience that truly appreciates the music.
News 8 asked a few Sofar concert-goers who they were about to see.
"I have no idea," said Anthony Marks.
"I don't know, it's a surprise," Rachel Bach said.
Rafe Offer, an American living in London, co-founded Sofar with the unique idea to keep the lineup secret and that no money change hands.
"We've now done about 230 of these around the world and we've never — knock on wood — had an incident," he said. "I think that really says that the people that seek this out really just go to enjoy something different and check out new music."
At a show earlier this month, Sarah Sellers played to about 70 people at an East Dallas home. A much larger global audience also tuned into a live stream of the Sofar event.
"You come to the house and you get to see everybody's faces," she said. "Smaller groups, intimate settings. Definitely more nerve-racking," she added.
And though she's played the House of Blues before, playing a plain old house was equally great.
"Amazing, amazing, I would do it again in a heartbeat," Sellers said.
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Whether you're sipping an espresso alongside the locals, exploring the mighty Colosseum or Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel, or people-watching from the Spanish Steps, you'll surely be mesmerised by the delights of the Eternal City.
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The Dawson Community College Art Department is proud to present the outstanding art works of the talented and creative student artists of Dawson Community College. Thirty-seven students will be exhibiting their artwork in the Dawson Community College Annual 2011 Fall Juried Student Art Show.
Awards and Artist Reception
Wednesday, December 7th at 3:30 PM
Visit and vote for your favorite!
Undergraduate Transfer Scholarships
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation's Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship honors excellence by supporting outstanding community college students with financial need to transfer to and complete their bachelor's degrees at the nation's top four-year colleges and universities.
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Tradition will be the theme for the 20th Annual Dawson Community College Madrigal Dinner. Old favorites, as well as new traditions will await guests December 3 at Toepke Center on the DCC campus. The castle doors open at 5 p.m. to a Renaissance Fair of local crafters and vendors with feasting and festivities commencing at 6.
The Dawson Community College admissions department is hosting two campus view days this year. The first view day is available on Monday, November 14th. All high school seniors, juniors, and parents of prospective students are invited to join us on-campus in Glendive to experience a day in the life of a DCC student.
Dawson Community College Theater Department will present a true turn of the century murder mystery entitled: 'Frontier Justice 1898', written by John M. Watkins Ed.D. and directed by Ron Conrad. This play is a unique Glendive historical drama about one of the most fearless officers in the state of Montana-Sheriff Dominick Cavanaugh.
Techniques to make your holiday treats easier, more attractive and most importantly tastier. We will cover pie pastry and croissant making.
Date/Day: Dec 4, Sun
Time: 1-4pm
Location: DCHS
Cost: $15
Presenter : Chef Garth Clingingsmith
Dawson Community College Buccaneers Head Softball Coach, Jim LeProwse, is pleased to announce that Jamie Aiken and Bryce Mitchell have given verbal commitments for the upcoming 2012-2013 season. Both are from Roy Utah.
This season, Aiken pitched and played third base for the Roy High School Royals. Touted as calm under pressure with a strong desire to win by her Utah high school coach, Mandy Koford, Jamie will be a positive force for the Lady Bucs.
DCC will host the District 2C Volleyball Championships on October 27-29. Nine area teams will be vying for the right to participate in the Eastern C Divisional Tournament in Sidney on November 3-5. Four teams will advance from the District Championship to the Divisional Championship and a chance to earn a spot in the State Tournament.
Dawson Community College Gallery 126 is pleased to present Losing Color, paintings by Mika Holtzinger. Mika will be conducting an all day Figure Drawing Workshop on Saturday, November 5th 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. (register at http://www.dawson.edu/workshops or call: 377-3396) followed by an artist reception from 5 to 8 p.m. (also, on Sat, Nov 5). As always, everyone is welcome to come meet the artist, enjoy the artwork, conversation, and refreshments. If you can't make it then, the show will be up until December 16th. Gallery 126 hours are Monday - Friday 8 a.m.


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SAN DIEGO (CBS 8) - Military veterans say our vets deserve better. People visiting the graves of loved ones at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery have been shocked and outraged by the landmark's current condition.
The majority of the grass is dead or dying, creating in the minds of many a disrespectful and disgraceful site for our fallen heroes. It's a sentiment shared by visitors, who say it appears as if the 77-acre site has been abandoned.
Point Loma resident Robin Tweed couldn't believe her eyes when she walked by on Father's Day. She let her son-in-law, who's in the Navy, see an image of the final resting place of thousands of veterans.
"When I saw this and I sent a picture to him, they were just flabbergasted basically," Tweed said.
Cemetery director Thomas Mullen says during an automation upgrade of the facility's irrigation system, a large number of PVC ball valves failed. He also says given the amount of water which could destroy huge parts of the cemetery, he shut the system off until repairs got underway.
Mullen also blames the die-off on a headstone realignment program, which requires no watering. Areas being readied for alignment are also not being saturated. Employees are being paid overtime to save as much of the grass as they can.
But that's not good enough for Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter, who sent a letter to Steve Muro, the Under Secretary for Memorial Affairs in the Department of Veterans Affairs.
"What is most disconcerting is how poor the conditions have been without any action by the cemetery staff until recently. We owe them the dignity and respect that they deserve by ensuring that this property be maintained with the highest standards," Hunter wrote.
The cemetery director is promising to return the property to national shrine levels. Hopefully, he says, without any further issues everything should be back to normal sometime in August.


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For other uses, see Podunk (disambiguation).
In American English, Podunk, podunk, or Podunk Hollow denotes or describes a place of small size or "suburb", and is often used in the upper case as a placeholder name in a context of dismissing significance or importance.
The word, of Algonquian origin, denoted both the Podunk people and marshy locations.
The earliest citation in the Dictionary of American Regional English is from Samuel Griswold Goodrich's 1840 book, "The Politician of Podunk":
The book portrays Waxtend as being drawn by his interest in public affairs into becoming a representative in the General Assembly, finding himself unsuited to the role, and returning to his trade.[1] It is unclear whether the author intended to evoke more than the place near Ulysses, New York by the name "Podunk". Possibly the term was meant to exemplify "plain, honest people", as opposed to more sophisticated people with questionable values.
In 1869, Mark Twain wrote the article "Mr. Beecher and the Clergy" defending a friend, the Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, whose preaching had come under criticism. In it he said:
At the time he was living in Buffalo, New York, moving to Hartford, Connecticut in 1871, in a home within 4 miles (6.4 km) of the Podunk River). Elmira, where Twain had lived earlier, is within 30 miles (48 km) of Podunk, New York, so it is not clear to which village Twain was referring.
An 1875 documentation of dismissive usage is:
The modern usage of the term has been credited to the American entertainer, George M. Cohan. This explanation is is especially credible, because during his youth Cohan spent his summers with his relatives in Podunk, Massachusetts[3] (now part of East Brookfield). He loved Podunk[4] and its "hayseed hicks," and made it famous, describing it in his comedy acts. Other vaudeville entertainers later picked up on Cohan's use of the word Podunk and used it in their acts.[5]
The United States Board on Geographic Names lists places named "Podunk":
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Naples Police are investigating the theft of a wildlife camera that was on Naples Preserve property. The camera was installed to aid in the research of gopher tortoises.
According to the City of Naples employee who installed the camera on the property at 14th Avenue N and 9th Street N, she last saw the camera at 6 p.m. July 8.
She had placed the camera about 45 days prior to the theft.
The camera was a Bushnell Trophy Camera in a metal bear case. It was placed on a cinder block with boards added for support. It was secured with a cable that went through the metal case, a nearby fence and was locked with a master lock.
The camera unit is valued at $350.
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UCC Media Justice Update
Faith Community Supports Net Neutrality!Submitted by Cheryl Tue Jul 15 2014 11:16:00 GMT-0400 (EDT)
This week is in important deadline for preserving net neutrality for an open Internet. These policies, being considered by the Federal Communications Commission, impact how everyone can use the Internet -- and as you may have heard in the news, a key part of the proposal will permit some companies to pay Internet companies so that their content will be faster and better for users. Here at UCC's media justice ministry, we have been long-time proponents of open Internet, and so have many of our friends in the faith community.
Sign up to receive updates about an open Internet from UCC's media justice ministry, and check out these great posts from around the web about Net Neutrality from the faith community:
10 Reasons Net Neutrality Matters to Progressive Christians Our own UCC brand of affirmatively inclusive and justice-driven perspective, written by Kimberly Knight of our board. "We as compassionate livin', justice seekin', radically inclusive Christians can be, should be, role models for the whole world groaning toward justice. … We cannot condone a system that conditions a critical right on the ability to pay."
Killing Net Neutrality Kills the Dreams of Young Entrepreneurs Joshua DuBois, the President's former head of faith-based outreach, connecting Net Neutrality to Obama's signature initiatives on equity--showing a young African American boy who is helped in so many ways by progressive policies, but is forced to abandon creating his own start-up because he can't compete with the big companies who have a built-in advantage enabled by the paid fast lane.
Life in the Fast Lane: FCC Plan on Net Neutrality Draws Criticism From the Catholic News Service, "Everyone, at some point, has shifted over from one Communion line to another during Mass because it seemed shorter and, thus, faster. Now imagine what it would be like if you could always have a 'fast lane' to receive Communion -- but you had to pay for it."
National Council of Churches Communications Commission Open Internet Resolution The NCC is a coalition of virtually all major Protestant churches: "We see every day the vital connection between a free and fair communications system and the achievement of important social justice goals… and therefore … urge the Federal Communications Commission to take any and all action to adopt network neutrality, including reclassification of broadband services as a telecommunications service, as a fundamental and necessary part of the framework for all forms of broadband Internet service…"
Parker Lecture 2014 Honorees AnnouncedSubmitted by Samuel Mon Apr 28 2014 17:12:37 GMT-0400 (EDT)
For immediate release
FCC CHAIRMAN WHEELER TO DELIVER 32nd ANNUAL EVERETT C. PARKER LECTURE;
Tom Wheeler, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), will deliver the 32nd annual Everett C. Parker Ethics in Telecommunications Lecture and Makani Themba and Catherine J.K. Sandoval will be honored at the 2014 Parker Lecture and Breakfast. The event, organized by the United Church of Christ's media justice ministry, the Office of Communication, Inc., will be held at 8 a.m. EST on Tuesday, Oct. 7 at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., in partnership with the Newseum Institute. The program will be live streamed at www.newseum.org.
Wheeler was appointed by President Barack Obama and became the 31st chairman of the FCC on Nov. 4, 2013. For more than three decades, he has been involved with new telecommunications networks and services, experiencing the revolution in telecommunications as a policy expert, an advocate and a businessman. He is the only person to be selected to both the Cable Television Hall of Fame and The Wireless Hall of Fame, a fact that President Obama joked made him "The Bo Jackson of Telecom." An avid student of history, Wheeler is the author of Take Command: Leadership Lessons of the Civil War and Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails: The Untold Story of How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War. Wheeler is a former trustee of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a former board member of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), and the former chairman and president of the Foundation for the National Archives.
Themba, executive director of The Praxis Project, will receive the Everett C. Parker Award, given in recognition of an individual whose work embodies the principles and values of the public interest in telecommunications and the media. Themba helped to pioneer the developing field of justice communications, first as media director for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Los Angeles and then as a media strategist supporting a range of progressive causes. At SCLC-LA, she first engaged in media policy work to support community engagement around station licensing. During her tenure as director of the Center for Media and Policy Analysis at The Marin Institute, Themba began advancing media advocacy as a mainstream practice in public health. She is co-author of Media Advocacy for Public Health: Power for Prevention, Talking the Walk: Communications Guide for Racial Justice and Fair Game: A Strategy Guide for Racial Justice Communications in the Obama Era.
Sandoval, a Commissioner of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) since 2011, will receive the Donald H. McGannon Award, given in recognition of special contributions in advancing the roles of women and people of color in the media. Sandoval, the first Latino to serve as a commissioner at the CPUC, also serves as a co-vice-chair of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) Telecommunications Committee and as policy chair of the Federal Communications Commission's Federal-State Joint Conference on Advanced Telecommunications Services. Sandoval, the first Latina to win a Rhodes scholarship, directed the FCC's Office of Communications Business Opportunities during the Clinton Administration and is a tenured faculty member of the Santa Clara University School of Law. Sandoval authored and co-authored a number of important FCC filings and articles addressing inclusion in communications policy and published a major study on commercial radio ownership by people of color. As a CPUC commissioner she helped bring about the first telephone service available to the Yurok nation in Northern California.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Rev. Dr. Everett C. Parker's petition to the FCC, which challenged the broadcasting license of WLBT-TV in Jackson, Miss., for its failure to serve the public interest, most notably in its coverage of that city's African-American residents. Parker's petition ultimately established the right of individuals to intervene in matters before the FCC.
This year's lecture, in the Newseum's Knight Conference Center, will be held in conjunction with the Newseum's three-year exhibit "Civil Rights at 50," chronicling major developments in the civil rights movement from 1963 to 1965 through news media reports.
The Everett C. Parker Ethics in Telecommunications Lecture was created in 1982 to recognize the Rev. Dr. Parker, founder of OC, Inc., and his pioneering work as an advocate for the public's rights in broadcasting. The event is the only lecture in the country to examine telecommunications in the digital age from an ethical perspective. Past speakers have included network presidents, Congressional leaders, and FCC chairs and commissioners, as well as academics, cable and telephone executives and journalists. More information is available at www.uccmediajustice.org/parker.
The Cleveland-based United Church of Christ, a Protestant denomination with more than 1 million members and nearly 5,200 local congregations nationwide, recognizes the unique power of the media to shape public understanding and thus society as a whole. For this reason, the UCC's OC, Inc. has worked since its founding in 1959 to create just and equitable media structures that give a meaningful voice to diverse peoples, cultures and ideas.
The Newseum Institute provides a forum for educational programs and thought-leadership initiatives, as well as educational materials, addressing the five freedoms of the First Amendment: speech, press, religion, assembly, and petition. The Newseum's 250,000-square-foot museum in downtown Washington, D.C., offers visitors a state-of-the-art experience that blends news history with up-to-the-second technology and hands-on exhibits.
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Digital Advertising Targets Youth of Color - Tweet Chat RecapSubmitted by Cheryl Thu Apr 17 2014 15:58:37 GMT-0400 (EDT)
UCC Media Justice participated today in a tweet chat, co-sponsored by the Digital Ads campaign, which is a joint project of Center for Digital Democracy and Berkeley Media Studies Group, discussing the negative impact digital advertising has on children, and in particular children of color. There is much to be said on this topic, including the horrible immorality of targeting children whose health is already in danger. According to the CDC, 17% of kids today obese, higher for African Americans and Latinos: 22% and 20%; 1 in 5 kids! As the American Academy of Pediatrics noted, exposure to advertising is associated w/ child obesity, poor nutrition, and cigarettes & alcohol.
Digital marketing takes advantage of big data to target children in subtle ways. Extensive studies show that younger kids have a hard time understanding advertising -- that the advertisers do not have their best interest at heart in the same way that a teacher who gives advice has. In addition, the tweet chat discussed new marketing techniques using neuroscience to subtly reach around parents into a teen's subconscious to make unhealthful food more desirable. And digital marketing is ubiquitous, as children spend more and more time online.
Digital advertising directed toward kids is based also on the techniques perfected by Big Data, which has begun to gain the attention of the civil rights community. An important safeguard is giving users, including parents, control over their own data. While data can be helpful, it can also target communities and individuals in harmful ways. A large number of public interest organizations encouraged the White House to consider health in its current study of Big Data.
Studies have shown that children of color are on the receiving end of much more advertising than white children. For example, a recent study by researcher Dale Kunkel showed that more than 84% of all foods and beverages advertised to children on Spanish-language television shows are unhealthy. Another study showed African American children and teens see at least 50% more fast food ads than their white peers.
There are more resources online to learn about this issue. Salud Today has several great online videos about junk food marketing to Latino children, including this one. We particularly liked the Rudd Center's resources, including one on the challenges of weight bias and bullying directed toward kids who are overweight, and this report that discusses marketing to African American and Latino children.
As we said toward the end of the tweetchat:
#socialjustice & #mediajustice mean treating all fairly -- don't target youth of color with junk food #digitalads harming their health!
— UCC OC Inc. (@UCCMediaJustice) April 17, 2014
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Move toward Competition, But Where is Diversity?Submitted by Cheryl Fri Mar 07 2014 12:00:10 GMT-0500 (EST)
FCC Chairman Wheeler yesterday announced his intention to make an important step forward toward more media competition. The really good news is that Chairman Wheeler is not proposing to permit additional consolidation, which is a significant improvement over the ill-conceived proposal of the prior Chairman, Julius Genachowski.
In addition, Wheeler is proposing to close some loopholes in the existing rules addressing jointly-run (but not jointly-owned) TV stations. Many years ago, the Supreme Court said about jointly-run news outlets, "it is unrealistic to expect true diversity from a commonly owned … combination. The divergency of their viewpoints cannot be expected to be the same as if they were antagonistically run." The same holds true today. When two TV stations merge, they join staff, news teams and sales teams. There are fewer journalists, and fewer places for members of the community to share stories or to get news. If one reporter isn't interested in a news story, no one is, because there is only one reporter! We see the same effects when those two TV stations are operating together using a complex financial agreement as when the joint ownership is out in the open.
And yet, it is still unclear what Chairman Wheeler is proposing to promote media diversity. Today, ownership diversity is devastatingly low. The inadequately collected and analyzed data released by the FCC in 2012 indicated that we have virtually no TV stations owned by people of color or women in the United States, and that number will surely be lower when the more recent data from last December is released. TV still holds an unprecedented sway over our national conversation, political dialogue and values. Two hundred eighty-three million people (that's out of over 310 million total) in the U.S. watch an average of 146 hours of TV every month. Without owners from all walks of life and reflecting the full diversity of our nation, our national and local dialogues suffer.
The last Obama FCC Chairman Genachowski kicked the can down the road and left office without addressing these issues. The new FCC Chair is pointed in the right direction, but he needs to get across the finish line.
Which is better: Ignorance or Knowledge?Submitted by Cheryl Thu Feb 27 2014 09:21:00 GMT-0500 (EST)
Last week Federal Communications Commission Chair Tom Wheeler concluded that he was not comfortable with part of a comprehensive study of the media marketplace and decided to eliminate the portion of the study that gave him concern.
Why would the chair of an independent federal regulatory agency want to stop conducting research? Well, in this case he was falsely accused of launching a government effort to tell reporters and journalists what to write and report. If the FCC had been planning to do such a thing, all of us would have breathed a sigh of relief that such an effort was cancelled.
But the truth of the matter is that last week conservative activists scored a victory in favor of ignorance over facts. This so-called controversy has a lot in common with the false debate over whether greenhouse gas causes climate change or whether smoking causes cancer. It is entirely possible next week we'll hear accusations that the studies are really all about affirmative action or voting fraud or some other conservative lightening rod.
But, I can hear even my friends on the left asking, shouldn't the government always steer clear of any hint of impacting journalism? The truth is, a wide variety of laws and policies already impact journalism. Everything from libel laws, to copyright rules, to cable access channels, to broadcast indecency prohibitions impact journalism and media. The real question is, do you want an agency that makes media and communications policy to do so without a fundamental understanding of how the media marketplace works? Apparently the critics last week would rather the FCC function from a place of ignorance rather than knowledge.
This lack of knowledge has been a real problem for the FCC. In fact, a number of policies that many of last week's critics presumably support have been overturned in court because the FCC did not have the facts and analysis to support its decisions. George Bush's FCC tried twice to substantially relax rules that would have led to significantly more consolidation in the media. The courts said no--not because the court has a view on whether big media or competitive media is better--but because the FCC didn't have enough legitimate data to back up its rule changes.
We can all agree that media and journalism functions best when many outlet and many journalists compete with one another for stories. Journalism functions best when reporters reflect the wide variety of people and communities that are part of these United States. Could a reporter that has never set foot in rural Alabama or remote Wyoming do justice to the stories that impact people there? Shouldn't our media cover both Latinos who are personally or professionally impact by immigration reform in addition to people who strongly oppose it? Often our very lives depend on the media. Just ask people out west evacuating from wild fires or people trying to find safe drinking water in West Virginia. People use media of all kinds to find jobs, learn how to safeguard their own health, pinpoint this morning's traffic jam, or figure out which candidate to support in the next election. It matters to all of us that the systems we use work well. We can allow the media to get bigger and bigger and swallow up all different points of view into a single, infotainment-producing monolith. Or, we can adopt policies that promote competition and vibrancy in the marketplace of ideas.
So back to the studies debated so intensely last week. That research protocol was part of a multi-year deliberate process to assemble all the scholarship on the media's function, building on a comprehensive study and a literature review of more than 500 studies conducted by the University of Southern California Annenberg Communications and Journalism School and a phalanx of the leading scholars in the field. The research design was available to the public since last May, when the FCC sought input and comment. The process underway was designed to test the research instrument to verify its effectiveness in the field.
And what of the so-called secret army of "media monitors" spreading out across the country to intimidate journalists into giving the "right" answers and covering the "right" stories? They don't exist. What we did have government-funded researchers conducting a voluntary, anonymous series of questions to understand better the decision-making process in newsrooms generally. The study would have permitted the FCC to start from a place of knowledge and facts when it makes policy, rather than merely guessing about what is driving news and story production in this rapidly-changing media environment. When reporters are sometimes simultaneously video reporters, bloggers, free-lance journalists and ideological activists, when ownership structures of media get more complex and misleading every day, when TV viewers in cities around the country see the same exact newscast on two or three different networks every evening, we know that things are changing at a pretty rapid clip. And it is up to the policymakers to at least try to keep pace.
This data is important. A knowledgeable expert FCC is important. Policies to promote a multiplicity of viewpoints and as many journalists as we can muster (covering stories from all perspectives) are important. Scholars have been working on this type of research for years and hopefully they can continue to do so now that the self-appointed First Amendment defenders have declared victory. Maybe the FCC will at least be permitted to read these studies if they are completed by scholars and academics. Because how can the FCC help safeguard journalist independence if it doesn't have data on how journalists operate?


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On July 5, 1975, the first national flag of Cape Verde was hoisted; it was confirmed by law on April 19, 1976. The basic design was derived from the flag of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC), adopted in August 1961. Designed to represent both Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau after their liberation from Portuguese colonial rule, the flag incorporated the pan-African red-yellow-green and a black star to symbolize the African peoples and their hope for dignity, liberty, and peace. The vertical red stripe at the hoist represented the blood of national heroes and the revolutionary struggle for development. The yellow horizontal stripe was for national well-being and culture, and the green horizontal stripe was for hope and agriculture. (See also Guinea-Bissau, flag of.) When Cape Verde became independent, the black star was framed by ears of corn and a seashell.
In free elections in 1991 the Movement for Democracy defeated the ruling party. To symbolize the break with the socialist and pan-Africanist policies, a new national flag was established. It had a blue field and stripes bearing a ring of 10 yellow stars to symbolize the 10 main islands of Cape Verde in the Atlantic Ocean. The horizontal stripes of white-red-white suggested peace and national resolve on the pathway to nation building. The colours red, white, and blue were a link to Portugal and the United States, countries with which Cape Verde has strong historical and ethnic ties. The new flag became official on September 25, 1992, reflecting the new future chosen by the country.
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The family of the two little boys who police said were kidnapped and killed by the grandmother spoke out for the first time since the incident Thursday afternoon.
"Just can't explain it. I mean these were two babies, innocent little children," said Robert White, who is the great uncle of Alton and Ashton Perry. "I'm just trying to absorb it."
On Tuesday night, police said the boys' grandmother, Debra Denison, 47, picked up Alton, 2, and Ashton, 6 months, from daycare and disappeared.
Troopers said they found a suicide note from Denison and issued an Amber Alert.
Hours later, all three were found dead in Denison's parked car near Lake of Isles in Preston. Police believe it was a double murder/suicide.
"They are in dire need of their space and privacy as they try to grieve and mourn the unbearable loss of their two children," White said about the boys' family.
Police said Denison was on the pickup list at Kidds & Co. Daycare where the children attended, and on Thursday, the family said it does not blame the company in any way.
"Jeremy and Brenda know the proper protocol was followed on releasing the children to their grandmother that afternoon," White said.
Court documents show mental illness had plagued Denison long before. In divorce proceedings filed in 1989, her second husband alleged she had attempted suicide twice.
He was concerned his children were in danger with Denison and she wasn't able to care for them, according to court documents. The judge agreed in that instance and granted custody of the two children they shared together to Denison's ex-husband.
Denison's oldest son, Christopher Allen, is currently in jail after being convicted of stabbing a man to death during a robbery on board a boat in Mystic.
In their statement Thursday, the Perry family said Denison suffered from DID, or dissociative identity disorder, which they describe as a split personality disorder.
However, they said she had been in remission for nearly a year and a half and cleared by a physician.
"What caused it and why is unknown," said North Stonington First Selectman Nick Mullane. "But, we have to be more aware that people who have mental health problems have to be helped and have to be treated different. And treatment has to be made available to them, so these types of things don't happen."
A candlelight vigil is planned for Friday at the North Stonington Recreation Facility on Rocky Hollow Road at 7 p.m.
"They want to show the family that they really care," Mullane said. "This is an unbelievable tragedy and it just didn't make sense in any way, shape or form."
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A Fayetteville couple is coping with the loss of their baby, who died after being born without a brain.Lauren and Nick Bishop have faith in God and each other to get them through one of the toughest days in their lives."There's two things in my life that Ethan has brought me closer to, that's the Bible and my wife," said Nick Bishop, a Peachtree City firefighter.Their son, Ethan, was delivered by C-section at Piedmont Newnan Hospital on Wednesday. The joy of Ethan's birth was clouded by a defect the baby has called anencephaly, which means Ethan doesn't have a brain and won't survive."Is there such a thing as coping when you have to bury a child," said Lauren Bishop. There were glimmers of hope."Last night, I got to fall asleep feeling my son move in my wife's stomach," said Nick. "I couldn't think of anything better to fall asleep to."But that hope was dashed by the reality of the condition."Everything that is in the brain that tells everything to work is missing, including feeling pain," said Lauren Bishop. "Most are born blind and deaf."The deadly diagnosis has been tough for older brother Leo and 2-year-old sister Ryan too.)Lauren said her prayer was to hold little Ethan alive, even if it was momentarily. As reality set in, she's also planned a funeral for this Saturday."Because of the age of the baby and some circumstances with the casket we chose, we have to bury fast and it would have to be a closed casket," said Lauren Bishop. "So, there will be no healing for me, if Ethan goes today or tomorrow."The Bishops say the metro Atlanta community has been more than kind. Burial items and thousands of dollars have been donated during the difficult time.Baby Ethan was born at 1:15 p.m. on Wednesday and survived 21 minutes.
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Everyone wants to have a big day at the races.
It's how big that differs.
Some folks chase the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and play the Pick 6 (correctly selecting the winners of six straight races).
Some are content to place a $2 win bet.
Somewhere in between the two comes the Pick 3, which offers less risk than a Pick 6 and three times the reward of a win bet.
Many tracks now offer rolling Pick 3s throughout their cards, allowing handicappers to focus on their prime wagering opportunities. For example, if you happen to like a horse in both the 4th and 6th races, then playing them in a Pick 3 and using a number of horses in the middle leg of the sequence could yield a nice payoff.
Sequence wagers like the Pick 3 or Pick 4 are best suited for those times when you spot a vulnerable favorite. While a Pick 3 with three victorious odds-on favorites might return a $20 bill, a winning combo with just three second-betting choices may return that $20 bill plus a Benjamin.
While there's always some measure of luck involved in gambling, playing the Pick 3 requires sound strategy.
If, for example, you like an 8-1 shot in the 5th race, playing a Pick 3 in races 3-4-5 and hitting the first two legs will enhance your position heading into the 5th race. By knowing you're sitting on a $500 payoff, it can give you the cushion you need to hedge your bet and make exacta or triples wagers that might enable you to turn a profit even if your horse runs second or third.
The Pick 3 also provides a much better chance of cashing a ticket than a Pick 6 since there are dramatically fewer combinations to cover than a Pick 6, provided you attack it properly.
For instance, you can pick three horses in each race, box them and cover every possibility so that you win as long as one of your three horses wins. The math on that ticket is 3 x 3 x 3, which equals a $27 ticket for $1 and $54 for $2.
That strategy is perfect if your third choice wins each leg. But if your top choice wins each time, you might be disappointed at the return for a pretty impressive handicapping hat trick.
If you're confident in your top choices then it might make sense to construct a ticket that gives you a chance to collect as many as 3 winning tickets if you're right, right, right.
What you would do is buy one ticket with your top choice in the first race with your three choices in the next two races. That's a 1 x 3 x 3 ticket for $9/$18. Then you use your top choice in the second leg with the three horses in the first and third races. That's a 3 x 1 x 3 ticket for another $9/$18. Finally use your top choice in the last race with the three in the first two races for a 3 x 3 x 1 play. Again it will cost $9/$18.
In the end you'll be spending as much money as you did in a 3 x 3 x 3 ticket, but you can have two or three winning tickets instead of just one.
The downside with that play is that if all three of your top picks lose, you can rip the ticket up – even if your second or third choices win each time.
As Dirty Harry might say, it all comes down to whether you're feeling lucky.


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We are the Environmentally Concerned Organization of Students (ECOS) at Sierra College. We support and promote environmental advocacy, sustainability, stewardship and education. ECOStudents pursue local, state, national, and global issues that affect directly or indirectly the environment.
We strive to make positive changes happen on campus and in our community. We attend conferences, go on field trips, do restoration projects, volunteer with local non-profits, have a student garden and much more. Each spring semester we organize the Earth Day celebrations on campus. Join us and see how you can help make a difference!
Get involved. Get active. Get to know your world!
We meet every WEDNESDAY at 5 p.m. in S-110, Sewell Hall. (Spring semester 2014). We look forward to seeing you at our next meeting.
Theme: "Natural Resources — 100% Reliant"
We are emphasizing the human reliance on natural resources for all of our needs and promoting sustainability in our families, businesses, and communities. We will be promoting the "6-R's" (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Return, Refuse, Rethink), conservation and preservation, local foods, local sustainable businesses, local music as well as local watersheds, native flora and fauna, public transportation, and more.
Clubs interested in participating can get more information at the Campus Life Office (J7, next to cafeteria).
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Crab Shack Beach Rental in Birch Bay
- bedrooms 2
- baths 1
- sleeps 8
- pool no
- hot tub no
- pets allowed yes
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/ night
$ 560 - $ 1,350 / week
vacation rental description
The Crab Shack Beach Rental is a cozy and relaxing place to enjoy a beach retreat with friends and family.
Our non smoking, warm and inviting rental is located in the central part of Birch Bay across the road from the beach. Walking distance to many tourist attractions, restaurants, and steps away (across the road) to the beach were you can enjoy beach combing, sand castle building, clam digging, kite flying, & swimming in Birch Bays warm salt water.
Enter our lower level rustic design beach rental, you will step into an open and spacious living room leading you to the bright and cheerful kitchen. With the open design and fully wood laminate flooring, you will have be relaxed and enjoy quality time to visit whether cooking a gourmet meal or playing board games by the large white wash stone fireplace.
Take a rest on our Hotel brand bedding and fresh linens whether you choose to settle in the master bedroom with queen bed, TV, spacious walk in closet and "picture window" view of the bay or guest bedroom with queen bed, twin bed, and a view looking out at Terrell Creek.
The cute & cozy beach design bathroom has a shower & small tub. Perfect for washing the sand off your little ones. You will find white high quality fluffy towels & face clothes to make you feel pampered and refreshed.
As you awake in the morning, enjoy some R & R on the large fully furnished patio that sits directly on Terrell creek. Watch the waters rise and lower as the tides change. Be entertained by the otters who like to swim & play here or the Heron's as they fish for food. Children also love to fish this creek as there is many small fish to catch. Don't be surprised if you see little fuzzy heads peaking over the roof at you, as Seagulls have been known to have babies here. Our previous guests who got to experience this was amazed and excited.
- If you are looking for something either bigger or smaller to fit your vacation needs, please check out our other rentals available in Birch Bay.
Light House Look-Out -1 bedroom, 1 bath (sleeps 7)
OTTERS COVE -1 bedroom,1 bath (sleeps4)
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house rental amenities
- Master Bedroom: 1 Queen Bed(sleeps 2),Walk In Closet w/ twin roll-a-way bed(sleeps 1), Alarm Clock, Large picture window w/View of the Bay
- Guest Bedroom: 1 Queen Bed (sleeps 2), 1 Twin bed(sleeps 1)
- Livingroom:1 Queen Hide A Bed Couch, Interior Fireplace, TV/DVD/VCR, Movies, Games, Puzzles, Playing Cards, Books.
- Kitchen / Dinning Room: Large dinning table,Fridge, Stove/Oven,Microwave,Toaster, Coffee Pot(12 cup), Tea Kettle,Dishes, Utensils, Pots & Pans, Cups & Mugs, Dish Soap, Paper Towels, Dish Towels, Dish Clothes, Spices, Coffee Filters, Coffee Starter Pack(includes 1-coffee pack/12 cup pot, tea, creamer, sweetner).
- Bathroom:Shower/bathtub,toilet, sink, Mirror, Bath Towels, Face Clothes, Hand Towels, Hand Soap,,
- Patio: Lounge chairs and cockail table, Table w/ comfortable Sling Back Mesh Chairs, Gas Grill(propane included, BBQ Utensils)
Extras Included
- Fresh Linens & Pillows
- Outdoor Fire pit
- Parking
- Sand Toys
- Boat Launch(located less than a mile @ State Park)
*much more to make your stay enjoyable!!!
activities and attractions in Birch Bay Washington
Birch Bay is a family recreational area located in the Northwest corner of Washington State. Just 30 minutes south of Vancouver, BC and 2 hours north of Seattle,WA. We are known for our warm bay water, beaches w/ amazing variety of animals you can find in our tide pools, excellent crabbing in late August - September. We have world class golf courses,variety of restaurants, Water slides, Go- carts, Mini Golf, train rides, Surrey bikes, kayak, & scooter rentals, Ice cream, Candy & Coffee shops, and much more.
We are a warm and friendly community who loves to offer others the enjoyment that Birch Bay brings.
Boating, Fishing,Whale whatching (Fishing & Whale watching tours )
Clam Digging, Beach Combing,Sand Castle Building,Skim Boarding, Kite Flying, swimming.
Golfing(many courses available from begginer to pro).
- Shop the local markets and boutiques
- Birch Bay Waterslides & Minature World(Minature Golf, train rides, & GoKarts)
- C-Shop(Watch how candy is made & enjoy a ice cream cone,snow cone, homemade bake goods, or the worlds best homemade candy assortment).
- Bay Cafe(Family friendly Deli & Espresso shop that has a variety of retro candies, and the best clam chowder). They also offer free WIFI!
- Enjoy the Interprtive Programs @ Birch Bay State Park
- Annual Festivals (Wine & Food Tasting, Discovery Days, Bark on the beach, Polar Swim, Ring of Fire, etc.)
- Bike or Walk the many trails.
- Enjoy the beautiful Sunsets
- Wine Tasting (Tours Available)
- Variety of Ski Mountians( Mt. Baker, Whisler, Grouse, and many more to enjoy)
- Variety of local Spa's
Enjoy Birch Bay in the Spring, Fall, and Winter and take advantage of our Off Season Rates and Specials!
vacation rental rates
Low Season: September 15th - June 12th (Require 2 night minimum charge)
- $80/night Sunday - Thursday
- $100/night Friday - Saturday
- $560.00 Weekly Rate
- $150/ night - Holidays (All Holidays and spring break require 3 nights minimum charge except Thanksgiving, Christmas, & New Year Holiday require a week rental)
$65.00 cleaning fee is applied to all reservations.
Peak Season: June 12th - September 15th (Require 4 night minimum charge)
- $130/night Monday - Thursday
- $175/night Friday - Sunday
- $995.00/ week (Price Excludes Holiday Weeks)
- $200/night - (All Holidays require 4nights minimum charge except July 4th Holiday requires a week rental - $1350.00)
$65.00 cleaning fee is applied to all reservations.
Equal to 1/2 of the total balance for lodging & cleaning is due to secure reservations and the remaining balance due 30 days prior to check In date. Reservations made within 30 days of check In, Full balance is due to secure reservations. Reservations will not be guaranteed until payment is received.
All Rates are US funds.
Required Damage Deposit:
- Damage Deposit: we require credit card information to hold until check out unless damage or extra cleaning is required (or) $800 damage deposit can be made thru PayPal and money will be refunded in 7 days after check out unless damage or extra cleaning is required.
*Until confirmed, rates are subject to change with out notice.
accepted payment methods
Prior to paying a reservation deposit, always verify payment instructions by calling the phone number displayed on this listing page. By contacting the owner directly and paying by an approved method - credit card, paypal, check or bank transfer - your reservation payment will be protected up to $1,000.Learn more in our Security Center
Top things to do in Birch Bay
- Beach Combing, Sand Castle's, Skim Boarding, Swimming
- Clamming, Crabbing, Fishing, Whale watching
- Golfing
- Day Trip to Vancouver or Seattle
- Rent Scooters, Kayaks, & Surrey Bikes
Top things to do on a budget
- Bonfire & Marshmallows
- Beachombing, Build Sand Castles, Swimming
- Walk & Bike (miles of trails along the beach)
- Enjoy the Amazing Sunsets
- Play Indoor / Outdoor Games (provided)
Top things to do with a family
- Water Slides
- Miniature World (go-carts, mini golf, train rides)
- C-Shop (watch how candy is made)
- Rent Surrey Bike, kayaks, or scooters
- Whale Watching Tour
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Can't access domain resource when establishing a VPN from Vista
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Can ping FQDN but not host name
Can't ping VPN client by name
cant resolve server by DNS when connecting using PPTP VPN
Connection issues on DC, ISA, DNS and WINS server as VPN server
DNS and Split Tunneling for VPN?
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and WINS on VPN client manually
Name resolution Issue in a
VPN client
Outlook doesn't work over VPN
VPN name resolution issues
Name resolution on VPN
"No domain server was available" while the dialup
connection is active
VPN Name Resolution
VPN server is a Virtual Multihomed Server
VPN client don't appear in Network Neighborhood/My Network Places
VPN clients can't browse remote computers in Network Neighborhood/My Network
Can ping
FQDN but not host name
Symptoms: after establishing VPN, you can't
ping the server name. However, you can ping FQDN, for example,
Cause 1: The VPN user can
access all servers using host name except one. However, we can ping the
server using iP or FQDN. We found hiss laptop has lmhosts pointing the
server using different IP address. Removing the IP address from the lmhosts,
it works.
Case 2. Missing the DNS suffixes. Setup DNS suffixes.
Case 3: install the WINS server on the VPN server and
assign the WINS server to VPN client.
Can't ping VPN client by name
Connection issues on DC, ISA, DNS and WINS server as VPN server
Symptom: You have a Windows 2000/2003
server is configured as VPN running DNS, WINS, you may experience some
connection issues. 1) the internal computers can't ping the server by
name; 2) if the server is a DC and Master Browser, you may have a computer
browsing issue; 3) you may receive Event ID: 4319 - A duplicate name has
been detected on the tcp network; 4) You may receive error messages like
"No Logon Servers Available to Service your Logon Request" when you try to
open file shares or map network drives to the Routing and Remote Access
server; 5) if the server is also a DC, you may not be able to logon the
domain; 6) if the server is also running ISA, you cannot browse the Web
from client computers on the local network, regardless of whether the
computers are configured to use Web Proxy or the Microsoft Firewall
Client. For example, "The page cannot be displayed" may appear in the Web
browser with a "cannot find server or DNS" error message.
Name resolution and connectivity issues on a RRAS that also runs DC, DNS
or WINS
How to assign
DNS and WINS on VPN client manually
Name resolution is big issue in VPN access. If your VPN
server doesn't setup correctly or the VPN client can't receive the VPN DNS
and WINS settings, you may setup them yourself. To do this, go to the VPN
connection>properties>TCP/IP properties>Advanced. Click DNS and WINS tabs to
assign the VPN server's DNS and WINS.
Name resolution Issue
in a VPN client
To assign the DNS and WINS to a VPN client
for name resolution, you should configure VPN server with the IP addresses
of the appropriate DNS and WINS servers. The VPN client inherits the DNS and
WINS configured on the VPN server. If name resolution does not work from the
VPN server, it will not work for VPN clients. Note: WINS is name resolution
for host name or NetBIOS name and DNS is for FDQN. If you can't ping the
host name, you may try to ping FQDN.
Note: Refer to MS Q292822
"No domain server was available" while the dialup connection is active
Symptom: you have windows 2000 domain
controller with DNS, DHCP, WINS and Dialup connection. Whenever the dialup
connection is active, none client can't logon and gets a message "No domain
server was available to to validate your password. You may not be able to
gain access to some network resources"
Resolution: On the server, make sure you
don't have "Register this connection's addresses in DNS" checked under
TCP/IP Advanced DNS settings. To check this, go to the Properties of the
dialup connection> the Properties of the TCP/IP>Advanced>DNS, uncheck
"Register this connection's addresses in DNS"
VPN server is a Virtual
Multihomed Server
After enabling RRAS on a DC with WINS and DNS server, you may have some
Master Browser, WINS or/and connectivity issues. That reason is that VPN server is a Virtual
Multihomed Server. The resolution is to disable NetBIOS Over TCP/IP and DNS
register on all
interfaces including RRAS interfaces except the internal interface.
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- U.S. stock futures were falling Monday as a victory by the Greek pro-bailout party failed to quell longer-term uncertainties about the eurozone.
Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average were lower by 71 points, or 54.2 points below fair value, at 12,639. Futures for the S&P 500 were down 7.5 points, or 6.3 points below fair value, at 1330, and futures for the Nasdaq 100 were falling 8.5 points, or 10 points below fair value, at 2556.
Official projections show that Greece's pro-bailout New Democracy party was set to win 29.7% of votes and 129 seats in the 300-member parliament, trumping the 26.9% of votes and 71 seats obtained by the leftist Syriza party. The New Democracy Party now faces the challenge of forming a viable coalition government.
"A temporary relief rally in the euro and risk assets does not mean that uncertainty has been eliminated," said HSBC analysts. "Antonis Samaras, the [pro-bailout] New Democracy leader, has said that he, too, wants to renegotiate some of the terms of the bail-out which means that a temporary halt to Troika funding cannot be ruled out. More immediately, New Democracy needs to form a coalition involving [center-left] Pasok, which has suggested forming a national unity government including [anti-bailout party]Syriza."There are rumors that Pasok, the party that came in third place, won't form a coalition with New Democracy unless Syriza is involved, implying that there could be no government in Greece for a while. "The uncertainty now begins," said Paul Donovan, a global economist with UBS, in reference to the composition of the new government and how the renegotiation of Greece's bailout terms will progress. Meanwhile, other ongoing worries about the eurozone returned to the forefront, with the Spanish 10-year bond yield earlier rising above 7% Monday, saddled by reports that bad bank loans in the country have reached an 18-year high. The FTSE in London was ahead by 0.48% and the DAX in Germany was rising 0.89%. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index closed higher by 1.01% and Japan's Nikkei Average settled up 1.77%. July crude oil futures were up 5 cents at $84.08 a barrel. August gold futures were down $2.90 to $1,625.20 an ounce. The benchmark 10-year Treasury was down 1/32, raising the yield to 1.585%, while the dollar was flat, according to the dollar index. The U.S. economic calendar Monday includes the National Association of Home Builders Housing Market Index for June, which is slated to be released at 10 a.m. EDT. Economists surveyed by Briefing.com expect the reading to slip to 28 from 29. In corporate news, Microsoft (MSFT) has a media event scheduled for Monday at which the software giant could unveil a tablet computer developed in conjunction with Barnes & Noble (BKS). According to TechCrunch, Microsoft has a tablet/e-reader on tap and it will be entertainment-driven. Microsoft and Barnes & Noble announced a strategic partnership in late April with Microsoft investing $300 million in the venture. PetSmart (PETM) announced Monday it is raising its quarterly dividend to 16.5 cents a share from 14 cents, an increase of 18%. The company also said Monday that it will repurchase $525 million of stock. The program will begin on July 30. Chevron (CVX) sold an equity stake in its Wheatstone project in Australia and agreed to supply additional liquefied natural gas to Tokyo Electric Power . Chevron's $29 billion Wheatstone gas-export project is expected to begin exporting gas in 2016.
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Today @JustinTuckNYG91 from the @Giants visited firefighters from #FDNY Engine 16/Ladder 7 in #Manhattan. pic.twitter.com/bgqRruXprG— FDNY (@FDNY) December 3, 2013
"We really appreciate the support we get from local fans," said Tuck.
Tuck, who is coming off a big game on Sunday where he sacked Washington Redskins' Robert Griffin III four times in the Giants' 24-17 victory, says the team is in it to the end.
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Tottenham Hotspur 3-0 Inter Milan
Spurs dealt out a deserved thrashing to Inter and this tie looks over already. Gareth Bale opened the scoring with a towering header, before Gylfi Sigurdsson added another. Jan Vertonghen got in on the action from a set-piece in the second half to round off the victory. Full match report here.
Basel 2-0 Zenit St Petersburg
The biggest shock of the night. Marcelo Diaz gave Basel a late lead over a surprisingly-defensive Zenit, before a late penalty was converted by Alexander Frei, after Neto saw red for a last-man challenge which was highly debatable. The Russians aren't out of it, but they have a huge task in the home leg now.
Levante 0-0 Rubin Kazan
Levante tried, but they couldn't find a way past one of the world's most boring teams as Rubin played out an oh-so-predictable away 0-0 in an utterly unwatchable encounter. The only lively parts of the game were two red cards, one apiece, Cristian Ansaldi getting sent off for Rubin before Michel followed almost immediately. It'll be a hard task for the Spaniards to progess now, with them needing a score draw or a win in Siberia.
Benfica 1-0 Bordeaux
A decent result for the Portuguese club, although they will still have a difficult home leg to encounter. It wasn't a great game in Lisbon, but an absolutely fantastic goal from Rodrigo gave them the victory they needed. It may go down as an own goal to Bordeaux goalkeeper Carrasso, however, after a long-range effort crashed into the net via both the crossbar and the keeper.


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A 'MYTH which has passed into folklore' surrounding the rights of couples living together is causing anguish and chaos in people's lives, warns a Ledbury family law expert.
Wayne Phillips, head of family law at DF Legal, said beliefs surrounding the rights of co-habiting couples is leading to the lives of many being thrown into turmoil after relationship break-ups.
"It is a sad state of affairs, which we see too much of" said Mr Phillips, whose firm has branches in Ledbury, Tewkesbury, Stroud, andCheltenham.
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Mr Phillips comments come after a new survey by Co-Op Legal Services showed that since 1996 the numbers of couples who co-habit has more than doubled to six million, with a quarter of those surveyed having no desire to either marry or enter a civil partnership.
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Building the Fantastical Soundscape of 'The Hobbit' with SoundWorks Collection
Speaking of The Hobbit, thanks once again to Michael Coleman's indispensable SoundWorks Collection we now have another angle of the rather extensive amount of behind-the-scenes material on the film (trilogy). Previously we've had a look at the environment the crew created to be creatively conducive, questioned the aesthetic nature of its 48 frames-per-second acquisition (and delivery, in many cases), all the way back to the films' truly epic on-location shooting and production design. But foley work, mixing, and sound design in general are things that end up getting less making-of attention than the imagery of films, so check out the SoundWorks mini-doc that rounds out The Hobbit BTS goods below.
We've already shared the ninth Hobbit video blog, which details the film's post production process in general — but since it includes a bit more material on sound design, I'll re-include it here as well (sound-specific stuff starts happening at 08:40).
The soundscape of a film like The Hobbit is truly staggering in the variety it contains and the scale on which it exists. Everything from open fields, earthy Hobbit holes, castles, cavernous underground spaces, and waterfall-side Elven outposts must be represented — not just in terms of ambient or background sounds around it, but also in the way each space reshapes the discreet sounds happening within it. Dialogue, the clanging of armor, footsteps — the 'texture,' envelope, or overall quality of every sound must be affected by its surroundings, and feel at home in that space.
This why impulse response is a truly amazing development for sound design, because a customizable effect can be created to represent the reverberative (or absorptive) nature of virtually anywhere. Of course, that's only part of honing in the soundscape — if an orc's battle-shriek doesn't pack the punch, it still won't work even with authentic reverb settings applied. So really,
Which of you guys have used impulse response for convolution reverb purposes in sound design? What manual techniques or work-arounds have you used to simulate a sound effect's 'belonging' within the space of a scene? What's the strangest thing you've ever used to create the sound of something else?
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Razor on 12.16.12 @ 8:48AM
Dolby's Atmos is truly a revolutionary step in sound delivery. Learn all about how it works in this video: http://www.dolby.com/us/en/professional/technology/cinema/dolby-atmos-video.html
Thanks Dave, hadn't seen that and really enjoyed it. Still waiting for the release over here in Australia!
Well… honestly it's all about tweaking until it sounds right for me. Start with close settings/preset, then move sliders and knobs till it sounds 'right'.
But hey, that's pretty much all media design lol. So I guess post didn't really have too much to add
Once I´ve used the sound of a bike chain to give personality to an old mattress (spring sound)!
Jason on 12.18.12 @ 3:38PM
I haven't seen a movie in Atmos yet, but there is a theater around me that is showing the Hobbit at HFR and Atmos. I'm going to see it this week.
Freda Tocchio on 02.17.13 @ 1:01PM
I consider Lord of the Rings to be among the finest cinematic achievements in motion picture history. As for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the closest approximation is The Phantom Menace. I liked The Phantom Menace back in May 1999 and I still do (in defense of… ). But I now know exactly how those who disliked or hated Episode One felt on that fateful evening 12.5 years ago. I feel your pain, for now it is my pain as well.;
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