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Internal Improvement Candidates: Pacific Division
We continue our division-by-division look at candidates for internal improvement on each team with the Pacific Division, which features teams at every stage of the building process. The Los Angeles Clippers and the Golden State Warriors are contenders with a foundation in place, the Phoenix Suns are trying to establish themselves as a perennial playoff team and the Los Angeles Lakers and Sacramento Kings are trying to find a foundation.
The Clippers and Warriors built through the draft and then swung for the fences when their young core was on the cusp of contention, with Los Angeles adding Chris Paul and Golden State adding Andrew Bogut and Andre Iguodala. They have pretty much set rotations and are only looking to tinker around the edges, either by adding a young player or bringing in a veteran who can offer a different look to their rotation and help with a match-up in a playoff series.
The Suns were supposed to be at the very beginning of a rebuilding process last season, but they skipped their place in line when a bunch of young guys - Eric Bledsoe, Miles Plumlee and the Morris Twins - broke out simultaneously. Winning brings its own set of problems, as they have already had to shell out over $120 million to Bledsoe and the Morrii and now have to prove they aren't a one-year wonder but have a group ready to win over the long-haul.
The Lakers and the Kings, meanwhile, have made noises about contending, but they have gone about it in the exact opposite way as the Suns. Instead of taking flyers on young guys with room to grow, they have been bringing in name brand veterans like Carlos Boozer and Darren Collison, in the hopes that they can cobble a back-door run at an 8 seed. This approach, if not done carefully, can end up impeding internal development and keep a team stuck in place.
- Los Angeles Clippers: Reggie Bullock
Like most rookies on contending teams, Bullock's first season in the NBA was essentially a glorified internship, running errands for veteran players and competing against them in practice without ever having much of a chance to earn consistent playing time. JJ Redick, Jamal Crawford and Matt Barnes will still get the majority of the minutes on the wings, but Bullock still has a chance to carve out a role for himself as a 3-and-D player this season.
At 6'7 205, he has prototype size and athleticism for a perimeter defender and he displayed a good shooting touch at UNC, where he shot 44% from 3. The Clippers loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder in the second round of the playoffs showed they need a player like Bullock, as Barnes had to spend his time defending Kevin Durant and neither Chris Paul nor Redick had the size and athleticism to prevent Russell Westbrook from going crazy.
- Golden State Warriors: Draymond Green
Green had a breakout performance in last year's playoffs, when he was inserted into the starting line-up as a small-ball PF in the aftermath of an injury to Bogut. He averaged 12 points, 8 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals and 2 blocks a game on 47% shooting and his ability to spread the floor from the PF position allowed the Warriors to come this close to stealing their first-round series with the Clippers, which they lost in a Game 7 heartbreaker on the road.
With a new coaching staff in place in Golden State, it will be interesting to see how much they stick to a two-post offense as opposed to trying to spread the floor and creating more opportunities for young guys like Green and Harrison Barnes. The key for Draymond is becoming a more consistent three-point shooter - while he had a green light to shoot from deep in the post-season, he was only at 33% in the regular season and 28% in the playoffs.
- Phoenix Suns: Alex Len
The Suns unexpected emergence into a playoff contender last season meant there was little time for Len, the No. 5 pick in the 2013 draft. He has become a bit of a forgotten man - a raw young center whom many considered a reach and didn't have the chance to get much playing time as a rookie. Nevertheless, he is still an intriguing prospect with a lot of tools and he represents one of the best avenues for internal improvement in Phoenix, going forward.
At 7'1 255, Len is a big body with the athleticism to run up and down the court and play in the Suns uptempo system. In a best-case scenario, he can replicate Plumlee's ability to set screens and finish at the rim while also providing a defensive presence in the paint and a more balanced skill-set on the offensive side of the floor, with the ability to post up and knock down the perimeter jumper. Len is only 21 and he is very skilled for a guy his size.
- Los Angeles Lakers: Wesley Johnson
The Lakers went all-in on building a super team around Kobe Bryant, Dwight Howard and Steve Nash in 2012 and they are still feeling the after-effects two seasons later. After selling off most of their draft picks, there wasn't much young talent on hand when the whole thing fell apart and they had to scour the waiver wire for reclamation projects. Johnson, one of their best finds, began turning his career around last season under Mike D'Antoni.
The No. 4 overall pick in 2010, Johnson was unable to shoulder much of an offensive burden in Minnesota, but he has re-invented himself as a 3-and-D player in Los Angeles. He shot 37% from 3 and matched up with multiple positions on defense, giving D'Antoni the type of versatility his system required. The question is how Johnson will fit in Byron Scott's more conventional system, without the type of space he was able to play in under D'Antoni.
- Sacramento Kings: Ben McLemore
After a disappointing rookie season where he shot only 38% from the floor, the Kings seemed to lose faith in McLemore, the No. 7 pick in 2013. They drafted over him this season, taking another SG (Nik Stauskas) in the lottery and now the two young players will have to compete for playing time as well as a place in the pecking order, going forward. McLemore may end up being a bust, but it's still way too early to make that declaration with any certainty.
Stauskas showed more of an ability to create his own shot and distribute the ball in college, but McLemore is a far better athlete who projects as a much better defensive player down the line. The problem is that it's going to be hard for them to grow together, as neither has the game to be a full-time PG or the size to swing to the SF position. The crazy part about doubling up at SG is that the Kings still don't have a long-term answer at PG, SF or PF.


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Samsung hedges Android bet with 3 new Bada smartphonesSamsung on Tuesday took the wraps off of three smartphones running its proprietary Bada mobile operating system in a move to reduce its dependence on Google's Android platform.
As noted by Reuters, the South Korean electronics giant unveiled the Wave 3, Wave M and Wave Y smartphones. The Wave 3 sports a 4-inch Super AMOLED screen, a 5-megapixel camera and a "full metal" body. The Wave M features an 832MHz processor and 3.65-inch screen, while Wave Y, which will go on sale in October, is an entry-level device with a 3.2-inch display.
All three of the smartphones will run the Bada 2.0 operating system, which includes new features such as NFC, voice recognition and direct Wi-Fi sharing. Samsung recently opened up the SDK for Bada 2.0 in hopes of attracting more developers to expand the platform's limited app selection, which numbers just 13,000 applications.
Bada, the Korean word for "ocean," was unveiled in late 2009. The first phones on the platform, which is built on top of Linux, arrived in early 2010.
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Shortly after Google announced its intention to purchase rival handset maker Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion earlier this month, reports emerged that Samsung would "strengthen Bada" in order to remain competitive. Though Google has pledged that it will continue to work with its Android partners, industry watchers expect companies like Samsung and HTC to diversify their product portfolios as a defensive maneuver.
The company is also reportedly investigating possible opportunities for mergers and acquisitions in order to make up for lost time. One recent rumor has suggested that Samsung may be interested in buying webOS from Hewlett-Packard.
Samsung rose to become the second largest smartphone maker in the second quarter, behind only Apple. The company's popular line of Galaxy phones helped it grow shipments from 3.1 million in the second quarter of 2010 to 19.2 million in the same period of this year.
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BMW Motorsport has announced the Z4 GT3, featuring the M3′s V8 engine, bumped up to 480hp!
German and Russian tuning houses are joining efforts to create bodykit and tuning packages for the F10 5-series. Full set of renderings inside. TopCar and Cardi are the russian tuners and Lumma Design is the german tuner. Their renderings show an aggressive front end package including a new front bumper aggressively sculpted with huge air inlets, carbon fiber front lip, LED lighting and honeycomb grill.
One version of the kit also features super wide wheel fenders and aggressive side skirts. … CONTINUED
The F10 5-series is now available for online configuration on the bmw.de German website! Spec out your F10 and see it in all possible color combinations (interior and exterior).
The official catalog for the F10 5-series is now available, which lists all standard and optional equipment, as well as some eye candy photos. Excellent reading for the weekend!
Automobile Mag picks its 10 favorite new cars, including the 335d, which it says is the most important car this year to get lost in the crowd.
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Since the Holidays are here, I figured Id start a thread with Holiday-ish pics. Please post any holiday pics with your rides here!
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Here is BMWs first official commercial for the new Concept ActiveE car, based off the 1-series coupe.
Here is the official release and technical info behind the ActiveE: http://www.1addicts.com/forums/showthread.php?t=332082
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UCLA picks up a commitment from top 60 big man Thomas Welsh
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Frank Kaminsky nets 43 points as No. 12 Wisconsin tops 100 in a win
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Pat Forde joins the SportsDash to discuss college hoops upsets, OSU-Memphis
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There are 33 private schools in Oregon belonging to the Northwest Association of Accredited Schools, serving 6,292 students.
Northwest Association of Accredited Schools Private Schools
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BeavertonAgia Sophia Academy
14485 SW Walker Road
Beaverton, OR, 97006
(503)641-4600(Greek Orthodox)17 students | Gr. PK-5
Coos BayAlternative Youth Activities Inc
575 S. Main St.
Coos Bay, OR, 97420
(541)888-2432Alternative School75 students | Gr. 9-12
CorvallisAshbrook Independent School
4045 Sw Research Way
Corvallis, OR, 97333
(541)766-8313152 students | Gr. PK-8
SalemBlanchet School
4373 Market St Ne
Salem, OR, 97301
(503)391-2639(Roman Catholic)357 students | Gr. 6-12
PortlandBridges Middle School
716 NE Marine Drive
Portland, OR, 97211
(503)688-2922Special Education School38 students | Gr. 5-8
Grants PassBrighton Academy
1121 N.E. 7th Street
Grants Pass, OR, 97526
(541)474-6865158 students | Gr. PK-12
RedmondCentral Christian School
Po Box 639
Redmond, OR, 97756
(541)548-7803(Christian)215 students | Gr. PK-12
Saint HelensColumbia County Christian School
Po Box 448
Saint Helens, OR, 97051
(503)366-9209(Christian)88 students | Gr. K-12
LebanonCommunity Services Consortium - Lebanon
380 Market Street
Lebanon, OR, 97355
(541)451-1071Alternative Schooln/a students | Gr. 9-12
PortlandDe La Salle North Catholic High School
7528 N. Fenwick
Portland, OR, 97217
(503)285-9385Special Program Emphasis (Roman Catholic)320 students | Gr. 9-12
BeavertonFaith Bible Christian School
16860 SW Blanton Street
Beaverton, OR, 97007
(503)642-4112(Christian)305 students | Gr. PK-12
HillsboroFaith Bible High School
2299 Se 45th Ave
Hillsboro, OR, 97123
(503)681-8254(Christian)114 students | Gr. 9-12
PortlandGaarde Christian School
11265 Sw Gaarde Street
Portland, OR, 97224
(503)639-5336(Assembly of God)134 students | Gr. NS-8
HarrisburgHarris Private School
Po Box 347
Harrisburg, OR, 97446
(541)995-6444(Christian)68 students | Gr. PK-12
BoringHood View Junior Academy
Po Box 128
Boring, OR, 97009
(503)663-4568(Seventh-Day Adventist)109 students | Gr. PK-8
TualatinHorizon Christian Elementary
7400 SW Sagert Street
Tualatin, OR, 97062
(503)692-9312(Christian)516 students | Gr. NS-12
BeavertonLife Christian School
5585 Sw 209th Ave
Beaverton, OR, 97007
(503)259-1329(Assembly of God)439 students | Gr. PK-12
SalemLivingstone Adventist Academy
5771 Fruitland Road NE
Salem, OR, 97317
(503)363-9408(Seventh-Day Adventist)165 students | Gr. K-12
Oregon CityNorth Clackamas Christian School
19575 Sebastian Way
Oregon City, OR, 97045
(503)655-5961(Christian)204 students | Gr. PK-12
EugeneO'hara Catholic Elementary School
715 W 18th Avenue
Eugene, OR, 97402
(541)485-5291(Roman Catholic)446 students | Gr. NS-8
MarylhurstPark Academy
PO Box 34
Marylhurst, OR, 97036
(503)-63-5-3088 orSpecial Education School50 students | Gr. 4-12
Portland Portland Jewish Academy
6651 Southwest Capitol Highway
Portland, OR, 97219
(503)244-0126Special Program Emphasis (Jewish)192 students | Gr. NS-8
PortlandPortland Lutheran School
740 SE 182nd Ave
Portland, OR, 97233
(503)667-3199(Lutheran Church -- Missouri Synod)214 students | Gr. PK-12
SalemQueen Of Peace School
Po Box 3696 4227 Lone Oak Road, SE
Salem, OR, 97302
(503)362-3443(Roman Catholic)117 students | Gr. PK-5
CorvallisSantiam Christian School
7220 Northeast Arnold Avenue
Corvallis, OR, 97330
(541)745-5524(Christian)594 students | Gr. PK-12
ScappooseScappoose Adventist School
54287 Columbia River Highway
Scappoose, OR, 97056
(503)543-6939(Seventh-Day Adventist)56 students | Gr. PK-8
BanksSt. Francis Of Assisi School
39085 Nw Harrington Road
Banks, OR, 97106
(503)324-2182(Roman Catholic)94 students | Gr. PK-8
BeavertonSt. Stephen's Academy
7275 SW Hall Blvd
Beaverton, OR, 97008
(503)646-4617(Presbyterian)213 students | Gr. K-12
PortlandThe International School
025 SW Sherman Street
Portland, OR, 97201
(503)226-2496Special Program Emphasis320 students | Gr. PK-5
BendTrinity Lutheran School
2550 NE Butler Market Road
Bend, OR, 97701
(541)382-1850(Lutheran Church -- Missouri Synod)261 students | Gr. PK-12
PortlandTrinity Lutheran School
5520 NE Killingsworth Street
Portland, OR, 97218
(503)288-6403(Lutheran Church -- Missouri Synod)79 students | Gr. NS-8
WilsonvilleVictory Academy
27960 SW Canyon Creek Road
Wilsonville, OR, 97070
(503)784-9717Special Education Schooln/a students | Gr. K-12
SalemWestern Mennonite School
9045 Wallace Road Nw
Salem, OR, 97304
(503)363-2000(Mennonite)182 students | Gr. 6-12
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|3,689,420 people
|304,788,332 people
|Age 25+ w/College Degree
|Median Household Income
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"The MLB All-Star Game: This One Counts."
This is the message Major League Baseball has pushed almost endlessly for the last decade every time the Midsummer Classic rolls around. That's because the MLB All-Star Game does decide something important: Home-field advantage in the World Series, which on the surface, seems like an odd thing to attach to an exhibition game in which players routinely get a single at-bat before spending the rest of the game on the bench.
As a rule, the winning league in the All-Star Game is awarded home-field advantage in the World Series, a change instituted for 2003 and beyond to give everyone something to play for as opposed to… well, whatever myriad reasons players had for competing in the All-Star Game before that. (The change was a reaction to the much-lampooned 7-7 tie in the 2002 All-Star Game.)
Analysts often complain about giving the All-Star Game this kind of power. After all, if a team posts the best record in baseball, shouldn't it get home-field advantage instead of having it be determined by the bloops and variances of a single game held in mid-July featuring players from other teams who probably aren't trying all that hard anyway?
But just how important is home-field advantage in the World Series? Let's do some quick and dirty number crunching to find out.
We'll start with the games just since the rule change. From the 2003 World Series onward, there have been 50 World Series games; the home team has won 30 of those, a nice and tidy .600 winning percentage. What's more, of those 10 series, the team with home-field advantage has won the championship seven times. If you add in the three prior World Series to get a rough idea of the decade, the winning percentage for home teams jumps to .630, or 43 of 68 games. All of the World Series-winning teams from those three years had home-field advantage.
Going further back, the trend still holds. The 1990s featured 48 World Series games, with home teams prevailing in 28 of them, a .575 winning percentage. That decade was even crueler to the road team than the 2000s. Only two of the nine teams that had home-field advantage lost the World Series that decade: Atlanta in 1992 and again in 1999. All told, from 1990 onward, home teams have a .610 winning percentage in the World Series, or 71 out of 116 games.
Pushing back even more, in the 1980s, there were 59 World Series games; the home team won 38 of them, a .640 winning percentage. Just like the 1990s, only twice did a team with home-field advantage lose the Series: The Padres and the Yankees, in 1984 and 1981, respectively. Added to the previous decades, from 1980 onward, the home team in the World Series has won a staggering 109 out of 175 contests, for a .620 winning percentage.
No matter how many years you go back, home teams in the World Series maintain a winning percentage just around .600. Home-field advantage occasionally has hiccups — in the 1970s, just three of the 10 teams with home-field advantage won the World Series — but since 1980, 25 of 32 teams with home-field advantage have taken the championship, a winning percentage of .780. There's no doubting that the team at home in the World Series has a leg up on the visiting squad.
How sure of that can we be? As one test, we can check to see what the expected winning percentage would be according to runs scored and allowed by the home team, otherwise known as the Pythagorean expectation. Since 2003, home teams in the World Series have scored 219 runs and allowed 183. Plug those numbers into the Pythagorean expectation formula, and you get an expected winning percentage of .589, or not far at all from the actual .600.
The home team has won the last seven Game Sevens in the World Series: 2011 (St. Louis), 2002 (Los Angeles nee Anaheim), 2001 (Arizona), 1991 (Minnesota), 1987 (Minnesota), 1986 (New York Mets), and 1982 (Cardinals). In all seven of those series, the home team was down three games to two going into Games 6 and 7, and in all seven series, the home team rallied and won those two final home games.
In 2011, 2002, and 1986, having the final at-bats in Games 6 and 7 proved crucial to winning. The Cardinals rallied from being down 7-4 in the seventh inning of Game 6 in 2011 to Texas, winning on a walk-off home run in the 11th inning. The Angels came back from a 5-0 deficit with just nine outs left in Game 6 in 2002 against San Francisco to win 6-5. And the Mets shocked the Red Sox in 1986 by tying Game 6 in the eighth, then rallying from two runs down in the 10th to win 6-5.
Home-field advantage does matter, which is something baseball's higher-ups probably know all too well. Should that kind of gift be given to whichever All-Star team, featuring several players who won't even be in the World Series, tries hardest in a single July game? It's hard to argue for that. Though it's better than MLB's old system: Before 2003, leagues simply alternated home-field advantage every year.
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The Internet of Things is not new. Historically, smart businesses have used its basic concept of leveraging data to drive better decision making and have capitalized on those insights to realize additional revenue opportunities. So, what has changed to make the Internet of Things one of the hottest topics in tech? In his session at @ThingsExpo, Chris Gray, Director, Embedded and Internet of Things, discussed the underlying factors that are driving the economics of intelligent systems. Discover how hardware commoditization, the ubiquitous nature of connectivity, and the emergence of Big Data a...
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Almost everyone sees the potential of Internet of Things but how can businesses truly unlock that potential. The key will be in the ability to discover business insight in the midst of an ocean of Big Data generated from billions of embedded devices via Systems of Discover. Businesses will also need to ensure that they can sustain that insight by leveraging the cloud for global reach, scale and elasticity.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Windstream, a leading provider of advanced network and cloud communications, has been named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9–11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York, NY. Windstream (Nasdaq: WIN), a FORTUNE 500 and S&P 500 company, is a leading provider of advanced network communications, including cloud computing and managed services, to businesses nationwide. The company also offers broadband, phone and digital TV services to consumers primarily in rural areas.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that IDenticard will exhibit at SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. IDenticard™ is the security division of Brady Corp (NYSE: BRC), a $1.5 billion manufacturer of identification products. We have small-company values with the strength and stability of a major corporation. IDenticard offers local sales, support and service to our customers across the United States and Canada. Our partner network encompasses some 300 of the world's leading systems integrators and security s...
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IoT is still a vague buzzword for many people. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Mike Kavis, Vice President & Principal Cloud Architect at Cloud Technology Partners, discussed the business value of IoT that goes far beyond the general public's perception that IoT is all about wearables and home consumer services. He also discussed how IoT is perceived by investors and how venture capitalist access this space. Other topics discussed were barriers to success, what is new, what is old, and what the future may hold. Mike Kavis is Vice President & Principal Cloud Architect at Cloud Technology Pa...
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The Industrial Revolution in the 18th to 19th centuries was a period during which predominantly rural societies in Europe and America became industrial and urban. Advances in steam technology, transportation, mass production and the telegraph collectively transformed industry and society. Today, the Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential to once again transform industry and society just as the Industrial Revolution did. Analyst firm IDC forecasts that the IoT market will grow to $8.9 trillion by 2020 with anywhere between 30 to 50 billion connected autonomous things, making the potential g...
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Cloud Expo 2014 TV commercials will feature @ThingsExpo, which was launched in June, 2014 at New York City's Javits Center as the largest 'Internet of Things' event in the world. The next @ThingsExpo will take place November 4-6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, California. Since its launch in 2008, Cloud Expo TV commercials have been aired and CNBC, Fox News Network, and Bloomberg TV. Please enjoy our 2014 commercial.
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From a software development perspective IoT is about programming "things," about connecting them with each other or integrating them with existing applications. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Yakov Fain, co-founder of Farata Systems and SuranceBay, will show you how small IoT-enabled devices from multiple manufacturers can be integrated into the workflow of an enterprise application. This is a practical demo of building a framework and components in HTML/Java/Mobile technologies to serve as a platform that can integrate new devices as they become available on the market.
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The 3rd International Internet of @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY - announces that its Call for Papers is now open. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the biggest idea since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
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Located in booth #314, the Bsquare team will present DataV demos and discuss how DataV will help customers put their data to work to improve business outcomes. DataV is unlocking new initiatives across a wide landscape of customers in industries such as industrial manufacturing, transportation, retail and mobile. The solution is designed to complement a new project start or help to enrich an existing machine investment.
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The Physical Web incorporates beacons that can be put in any small retail store, for example, so that every store now has "an app" for its customers. In this Birds-of-a-Feather session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Scott Jenson, Product Designer at Google, will discuss the Physical Web and how it is an open standard so any device can broadcast a URL wirelessly, so any phone/tablet/watch nearby can see, and rank those devices. When the user taps on one, they just go to that web page. It's really that simple. It's about thinking small, enabling micro-information (what is in my prescription bottle...
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October 14, 2014
Turkish officials have denied offering to let the U.S. use their air bases for air strikes against IS in Syria and Iraq.
October 13, 2014
Yemen appointed a new prime minister on Monday.
Twenty-six suspects were referred to court over their involvement in riots in downtown Amman on Saturday night
Turkey will let a U.S.-led coalition use its bases to battle IS militants in Syria and Iraq.
October 12, 2014
At least 21 people have been killed and many others wounded after tribal clashes broke out in the western region of Libya's capital city, Tripoli.
Turkey closed the border with Syria on Sunday leaving thousands of people who had fled Kobani stranded in a minefield in no-man's-land on the border.
Tunisia's Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa has announced that his country has arrested some 1,500 militants as part of efforts to secure its transition to democracy.
October 10, 2014
Security forces in Turkey continue to clash with protesters who are voicing their anger over the Turkish government's inaction in Kobani.
October 9, 2014
Nabeel Rajab, a prominent rights activist in Bahrain, faces trial over tweets that the Bahraini government sees as insulting.
Amid fresh US-led airstrikes, Kurdish forces look to be holding out in the strategic Syrian town for now.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius will meet with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu in Kuwait Friday to discuss the ongoing struggle against Islamic State militants.
The death toll in Yemen has risen to over 40, following a suicide bomb attack in the country's capital, Sana'a. The bomber is believed to have attacked a Shia checkpoint prior to a rally.
The Jordanian government insists its border remains open, but humanitarian agencies say it is now closed to Syrian refugees.
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I finally tore myself away from Hervey Bay and Fraser Island. I had already changed my vote for favorite place from Byron Bay to Hervey Bay so it was very hard to leave but the guide book said that Airlie Beach (500 miles north) had a lot to offer so I rode north a bit reluctantly (you know how wrong guide books can be). There wasnt a lot to see on the main road except sugar cane harvesting
or maybe a bird hitching a ride
or another big.
I resisted the urge to take some of the side roads
down to the beach since I had set my sights on Airlie Beach. I was NOT disappointed. This was my first view of Airlie Beach.
This town is the jumping off point to the Whitsunday Islands off the coast and it is said to be some of the very best cruising waters in the world. From the number of boats that were set up and cruising the area, it must be true.
I checked in to my first backpacker hostel (I am DEFINITELY the oldest dude here) and booked a 2 day 1 night sail around some of the islands on an ex-maxi ocean racer (70 feet). It turned out that there werent enough people signed up for the cruise so I was upgraded to a 3 day 2 night cruise that would have cost more than twice as much. SCORE!!! This is the boat I originally booked,
this is the one I finally sailed on,
and THIS is the one I really wanted to cruise on. :=)
Lots of islands, sailing, snorkeling, relaxing, swimming, and yes there were adult beverages available. :=) One of the best places we stopped was Whitehaven Beach.
The claim is that it is one of the best beaches in the world. The sand was fine and white, and the water warm and inviting.
I took advantage.
And just to show Julia that I was thinking of her (even while frolicking on the best beach in the world),
I immortalized her name forever in the sand (or until high tide, whichever comes first). :=) The sunsets at the nightly anchorages were spectacular
but then the sunrises were just as good.
This is our course for the three days,
and this is the crew on 1 foot reef (yup, only 1 foot is above water at high tide).
So my vote for favorite place has once again changed, to Airlie Beach. Too bad I have to leave and keep heading north. Townsville and Cairns are next then I turn east toward Darwin (only about another 2000 miles to meet Cory). Many more pictures here if interested. http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/4659871_pddif/1/375563987_ZLahU Posted by Rick McDermed at September 19, 2008 08:20 AM GMT
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Scourge of game-fixing disrupts Europe's elite for the first time
Asian betting rings target young players across world, reports Robin Scott-Elliot
Tuesday 29 May 2012
Not long after 6am yesterday morning two blue-and-white police cars drove through the gates of Coverciano, Italy's well-appointed national training centre near Florence. It marked the moment a match-fixing scandal that has linked far-flung corners of the global game touched the elite of the European game.
Simultaneously Antonio Conte, fresh from steering Juventus to the scudetto in his first season in charge, was being informed he was under investigation in the same inquiry. His home in Turin was searched. In Rome, the early-morning operation saw detectives arrest Stefano Mauri, captain of Lazio.
Fixing football matches is almost as old as the game itself, and fixed football matches in Italy are also far from a new phenomenon. But yesterday's dramatic developments are striking.
This is an entirely different operation from the one that saw Juventus stripped of their Serie A crown in the wake of the Calciopoli scandal of 2006. That was an Italian affair, centred around an attempt to ease the Old Lady's path to the title. This is international, but centred around south-east Asia, and is about, simply, money – fixing matches or moments in matches to win potentially millions of pounds.
"A can of worms" is how one betting industry expert familiar with the on-going investigation by Italian police put it. Operation Last Bet, into 33 matches over the past two years, largely involving Serie B games, has already seen Cristiano Doni, the former Italy striker, imprisoned and Beppe Signori, a Lazio great, arrested and banned for five years. The level of painstaking detail in what has become a sprawling inquiry – 22 clubs and 61 individuals have so far been named by the Italian football authorities in connection with the affair – has impressed sources.
But this is not just an Italian problem. The man on the top of the Italian police's wanted list is a Singaporean, Tan Seet Eng, also known as Dan. He is believed to be at the heart of a match-fixing ring run by south-east Asian crime syndicates that has targeted matches at club and international level from Finland to the Baltic nations to Africa, China and South America. It is a global market estimated by Interpol to be worth some $90bn (£58bn) a year.
Dan is part of a sophisticated network that targets players from an early age – large sums of money are spent effectively grooming players who are then expected to deliver when they reach first-team level. It can start, according to a source, as early as under-16 level when players are "adopted" and given "tips" – €100 here, €100 there – for scoring or winning matches. That develops as the players climb towards the higher level, through "nights out and girls" as the fixers build relationships. And in due course they demand something for their outlay.
"It may cost millions to fix a game but that is more than offset by the payback," said the source. "We're talking the chance to make many millions."
The process of slow corruption was much how Wilson Raj Perumal operated – he first helped players from Africa find clubs in Europe. Perumal now sits in a Finnish prison, serving a two-year sentence having been convicted last year of fixing games in the country's domestic league. Perumal and Dan have history. Perumal is supposed to have been one of Dan's fixers but the pair fell out and Perumal has claimed since his conviction that it was another of Dan's men who tipped off Finnish police that Perumal was in the country illegally.
Dan and his fixers have been linked to a range of high-profile cases: the fake Togo team that played a friendly against Bahrain in 2010; the international friendly double-header in Turkey last year that ended with six referees banned for life; wide-scale fixing in Zimbabwe.
Perumal's conviction was a rare triumph for those involved in the bid to check the poisonous advance of fixing. Uefa and Fifa have linked up with Interpol in an attempt to address the problem, but each investigation has to be carried out by the police force of the particular country involved and they are both time- and resource-consuming, as well as expensive.
"It will be impossible to go right to the end with this because my office is not equipped to do so," said Roberto Di Martino, the Cremona prosecutor leading the Italian investigation. "If people wanted, we could go on forever but there's very few personnel. It will be impossible to go ahead with this for a long time." The onus then is on football authorities to find a balance between drastic sanction and education. Fifa has recently sent a memo to all national associations involved in the Olympics stressing the need to inform players to be aware of any approaches.
"There are a lot of people who are prepared to betray their sport," said Doni after admitting his involvement last year. "An omerta [code of silence] is destroying Italian football and we have to blow that wide open. We must have the courage to say how rotten football is."
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