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Both Karegeya and Kagame played a role in ending the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. Karegeya was chief of army intelligence for 10 years, but fell out of favour with the president by 2006. He was stripped of his senior rank and fled to South Africa.
Karegeya's supporters have blamed the president for his death.
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|Adapted from: Bodi, Sonia. "Propaganda or Scholarship: How to Tell the Difference." Empowering Students; Hands-On Library Instruction Activities. Ed. Marilyn P. Whitmore. Pittsburgh: Library Instruction Publications, 1996. 15-20.
Indicators of Scholarship
Acknowledges authorship, credentials and affiliations
Describes the limits of data
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Claims absolute certainty
Ridicules and makes personal attacks
Makes emotional appeals
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Devalues thought/critical appraisal
Suppresses contradictory views and facts
Presents unfavorable information/views out of context
Appeals to popular prejudices
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Transforms words to suit aims
Relies on suggestion (e.g. negative innuendo)
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Carrie Underwood Going For Number One Again
After three number-one hits from her Blown Away album, Carrie Underwood has one of the hottest new songs on the airwaves with her album's fourth single, called "See You Again." It's a song that Carrie co-wrote several years ago, and as much as she loved it, she really didn't think that it would end up on one of her albums. Carrie had this to say about the single to Sony Music Nashville: "'See You Again' actually started – we were writing for The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and I loved 'See You Again' and honestly thought they might pick that one for the movie. And I was like, seriously, like, whatever we don't use, I want for my album. But 'See You Again' fit. It fit this album. And I'm so glad. That was the first one we had in the can. It's like, 'Okay, well, that one'll be on the album.' And I've loved it for that long."


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Court docs: Brothers' argument ended in shooting
A 45-year-old Havre man is jailed on $250,000 bond after being arrested over the weekend on suspicion of shooting his brother to death in the basement of their mother's house.
The Havre Daily News reports Shane Johnson appeared before City Judge Margaret Hencz on Tuesday on a previous privacy in communications charge. Officials have said he is also being held "pending a deliberate homicide charge."
An incident report says 43-year-old Travis Johnson died Friday night after a .22-caliber bullet went through his left cheek and into his brain.
Sgt. Michael Labaty says Shane Johnson told officers that Travis hit him, broke his nose and pushed him down the stairs, which is when the gun went off. Officers say they found three spent .22-caliber slugs and holes in the basement walls.
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S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 5906--A 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E June 21, 2013 ___________ Introduced by Sens. MONTGOMERY, PARKER -- read twice and ordered print- ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend part Q of chapter 56 of the laws of 2013 amending the education law and other laws relating to funding to SUNY Downstate Medical Center, in relation to a sustainability plan for a hospital THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Legislative intent. The legislature hereby finds and 2 declares that a strong academic medical center which controls its own 3 and its affiliated clinical facilities is the central organizing princi- 4 ple of urban health care in America in 2013. SUNY Downstate Medical 5 Center must fully maintain its public status and be the lead institution 6 in meeting the significant unmet health care needs in Brooklyn including 7 providing expanded primary and ambulatory care in the neighborhoods that 8 need it the most. All other states' experience, as well as the last 9 seven years of experience in Brooklyn, indicates that if SUNY Downstate 10 does not take leadership of this mission it will not get done. 11 Over the next three years, SUNY Downstate Hospital should develop up 12 to four decentralized, freestanding primary and ambulatory care satel- 13 lites. Funding for these satellites is anticipated from monetizing the 14 net asset value of real estate acquired with the Long Island College 15 Hospital while still operating Long Island College Hospital as a health 16 care facility. Two thirds of the net asset value of the Long Island 17 College Hospital real estate will be devoted to subsidy of SUNY Down- 18 state Hospital and Long Island College Hospitals' operations during a 19 three year transition and development period. 20 The implementation of this legislation will make SUNY Downstate Hospi- 21 tal sustainable and restore the state subsidy to its historic level. Its 22 implementation is an alternative to closing LICH and laying off a mini- EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD11556-03-3 S. 5906--A 2 1 mum of 600 health care workers in Brooklyn which has one of the highest 2 unemployment rates in New York. It makes no sense to lay off health care 3 workers if they can be retrained to provide the primary care that 4 central and western Brooklyn desperately needs. 5 S 2. Part Q of chapter 56 of the laws of 2013 amending the education 6 law and other laws relating to funding to SUNY Downstate Medical Center, 7 is amended by adding a new section 5-a to read as follows: 8 S 5-A. THE SUSTAINABILITY PLAN ADOPTED PURSUANT TO SECTION FIVE OF 9 THIS ACT SHALL NOT BE IMPLEMENTED UNTIL IT CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING 10 PROVISIONS. (A) SUNY DOWNSTATE HOSPITAL WILL OPERATE UP TO FOUR DECEN- 11 TRALIZED, FREESTANDING PRIMARY AND AMBULATORY CARE SATELLITES IN COMMU- 12 NITY BASED SETTINGS. THESE SATELLITES WILL BE STAFFED BY EMPLOYEES OF 13 SUNY DOWNSTATE HOSPITAL WHO SHALL MAINTAIN THEIR CURRENT COLLECTIVE 14 BARGAINING REPRESENTATION, OR, FOR SATELLITES LOCATED IN THE COMMUNITY 15 SERVED BY LONG ISLAND COLLEGE HOSPITAL BY EMPLOYEES OF LONG ISLAND 16 COLLEGE HOSPITAL WHO SHALL MAINTAIN THEIR CURRENT COLLECTIVE BARGAINING 17 REPRESENTATION. 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Amphibious Training Center - Tulagi, Solomon Islands - Thanksgiving Dinner Menu 1944
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Left side: Commanding Officer A. L. Hutson, Commander, USN; Executive Officer C. F. Esmiol, Lt. Comdr., USNR; Supply Officer David Sachs, Lt., USNR; Commissary Steward J. M. Roberts, CCS, USN; Cooks - Chenoweth, A. J., Dunn, F. L., Knapp, R. G., Konocheck, R. D., Phillips, W. J., Pizzurro, F., Jr., Randall, E. L., Reviea, A. L., Rivera, S. S., Roberts, C., Rock, F. O., Rollo, R. E., Scott, J. W., Scott, S. E., Steele, G. E., Willburn, E., Williams, L. E., Yates, T. D.; Bakers - Greenwood, B. C., Jennings, R. T., Plummer, J. R., Prince, L. M., Stallings, R. L., Vrabel, G. M., Withers, F. H., Woodhuhll, G. W.; Butchers - Russel, W. D., Zoen, J. G.
Right side: Amphibious Training Center, Navy 152, c/o Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, Calif.
Left side: Drawing - Japanese figure in a stew pot with native tribesman in grass skirt standing beside the pot.
Right side: Thanksgiving Bill of Fare, 23 November 1944
Menu: Egg Nog, Pickles, Olives, Cream of Tomato Bisque with Crackers, Baked Tom Turkey, Country Dressing, Giblet Gravy, Cranberry Sauce, Baked Spice Ham, Pineapple Rings, Snow Flake Potatoes, Buttered Peas, Creamed Corn, Creamed Cauliflower, Sweet Potato Souffl, Lettuce Salad with Russian Dressing, Parkerhouse Rolls, Butter, Jam, Coffee, Pink Lady, Fruit Cake a la Mode, Fruit cup, Chilled Dates, Mince Pie, Candy, Mixed Nuts.
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How Google Dominates Us
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59
The Googlization of Everything (and Why We Should Worry)
Search & Destroy: Why You Can't Trust Google Inc.
Tweets Alain de Botton, philosopher, author, and now online aphorist:
The logical conclusion of our relationship to computers: expectantly to type "what is the meaning of my life" into Google.
You can do this, of course. Type "what is th" and faster than you can find the e Google is sending choices back at you: what is the cloud? what is the mean? what is the american dream? what is the illuminati? Google is trying to read your mind. Only it's not your mind. It's the World Brain. And whatever that is, we know that a twelve-year-old company based in Mountain View, California, is wired into it like no one else.
Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing. Nowadays you can't have a long dinner-table argument about who won the Oscar for that Neil Simon movie where she plays an actress who doesn't win an Oscar; at any moment someone will pull out a pocket device and Google it. If you need the art-history meaning of "picturesque," you could find it in The Book of Answers, compiled two decades ago by the New York Public Library's reference desk, but you won't. Part of Google's mission is to make the books of answers redundant (and the reference librarians, too). "A hamadryad is a wood-nymph, also a poisonous snake in India, and an Abyssinian baboon," says the narrator of John Banville's 2009 novel, The Infinities. "It takes a god to know a thing like that." Not anymore.
The business of finding facts has been an important gear in the workings of human knowledge, and the technology has just been upgraded from rubber band to nuclear reactor. No wonder there's some confusion about Google's exact role in that—along with increasing fear about its power and its intentions.
Most of the time Google does not actually have the answers. When people say, "I looked it up on Google," they are committing a solecism. When they try to erase their embarrassing personal histories "on Google," they are barking up the wrong tree. It is seldom right to say that anything is true "according to Google." Google is the oracle of redirection. Go there for "hamadryad," and it points you to Wikipedia. Or the Free Online Dictionary. Or the Official Hamadryad Web Site (it's a rock band, too, wouldn't you know). Google defines its mission as "to organize the world's information," not to possess it or accumulate it. Then again, a substantial portion of the world's printed books have now been copied onto the company's servers, where they share space with millions of hours of video and detailed multilevel imagery of the entire globe, from satellites and from its squadrons of roving street-level cameras. Not to mention the great and growing trove of information Google possesses regarding the interests and behavior of, approximately, everyone.
When I say Google "possesses" all this information, that's not the same as owning it. What it means to own information is very much in flux.
In barely a decade Google has made itself a global brand bigger than Coca-Cola or GE; it has created more wealth faster than any company in history; it dominates the information economy. How did that happen? It happened more or less in plain sight. Google has many secrets but the main ingredients of its success have not been secret at all, and the business story has already provided grist for dozens of books. Steven Levy's new account, In the Plex, is the most authoritative to date and in many ways the most entertaining. Levy has covered personal computing for almost thirty years, for Newsweek and Wired and in six previous books, and has visited Google's headquarters periodically since 1999, talking with its founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and, as much as has been possible for a journalist, observing the company from the inside. He has been able to record some provocative, if slightly self-conscious, conversations like this one in 2004 about their hopes for Google:
"It will be included in people's brains," said Page. "When you think about something and don't really know much about it, you will automatically get information."
"That's true," said Brin. "Ultimately I view Google as a way to augment your brain with the knowledge of the world. Right now you go into your computer and type a phrase, but you can imagine that it could be easier in the future, that you can have just devices you talk into, or you can have computers that pay attention to what's going on around them…."
…Page said, "Eventually you'll have the implant, where if you think about a fact, it will just tell you the answer."
In 2004, Google was still a private company, five years old, already worth $25 billion, and handling about 85 percent of Internet searches. Its single greatest innovation was the algorithm called PageRank, developed by Page and Brin when they were Stanford graduate students running their research project from a computer in a dorm room. The problem was that most Internet searches produced useless lists of low-quality results. The solution was a simple idea: to harvest the implicit knowledge already embodied in the architecture of the World Wide Web, organically evolving.
The essence of the Web is the linking of individual "pages" on websites, one to another. Every link represents a recommendation—a vote of interest, if not quality. So the algorithm assigns every page a rank, depending on how many other pages link to it. Furthermore, all links are not valued equally. A recommendation is worth more when it comes from a page that has a high rank itself. The math isn't trivial—PageRank is a probability distribution, and the calculation is recursive, each page's rank depending on the ranks of pages that depend…and so on. Page and Brin patented PageRank and published the details even before starting the company they called Google.
Most people have already forgotten how dark and unsignposted the Internet once was. A user in 1996, when the Web comprised hundreds of thousands of "sites" with millions of "pages," did not expect to be able to search for "Olympics" and automatically find the official site of the Atlanta games. That was too hard a problem. And what was a search supposed to produce for a word like "university"? AltaVista, then the leading search engine, offered up a seemingly unordered list of academic institutions, topped by the Oregon Center for Optics.
Levy recounts a conversation between Page and an AltaVista engineer, who explained that the scoring system would rank a page higher if "university" appeared multiple times in the headline. AltaVista seemed untroubled that the Oregon center did not qualify as a major university. A conventional way to rank universities would be to consult experts and assess measures of quality: graduate rates, retention rates, test scores. The Google approach was to trust the Web and its numerous links, for better and for worse.
PageRank is one of those ideas that seem obvious after the fact. But the business of Internet search, young as it was, had fallen into some rigid orthodoxies. The main task of a search engine seemed to be the compiling of an index. People naturally thought of existing technologies for organizing the world's information, and these were found in encyclopedias and dictionaries. They could see that alphabetical order was about to become less important, but they were slow to appreciate how dynamic and ungraspable their target, the Internet, really was. Even after Page and Brin flipped on the light switch, most companies continued to wear blindfolds.
The Internet had entered its first explosive phase, boom and then bust for many ambitious startups, and one thing everyone knew was that the way to make money was to attract and retain users. The buzzword was "portal"—the user's point of entry, like Excite, Go.com, and Yahoo—and portals could not make money by rushing customers into the rest of the Internet. "Stickiness," as Levy says, "was the most desired metric in websites at the time." Portals did not want their search functions to be too good. That sounds stupid, but then again how did Google intend to make money when it charged users nothing? Its user interface at first was plain, minimalist, and emphatically free of advertising—nothing but a box for the user to type a query, followed by two buttons, one to produce a list of results and one with the famously brash tag "I'm feeling lucky."
The Google founders, Larry and Sergey, did everything their own way. Even in the unbuttoned culture of Silicon Valley they stood out from the start as originals, "Montessori kids" (per Levy), unconcerned with standards and proprieties, favoring big red gym balls over office chairs, deprecating organization charts and formal titles, showing up for business meetings in roller-blade gear. It is clear from all these books that they believed their own hype; they believed with moral fervor in the primacy and power of information. (Sergey and Larry did not invent the company's famous motto—"Don't be evil"—but they embraced it, and now they may as well own it.)
As they saw it from the first, their mission encompassed not just the Internet but all the world's books and images, too. When Google created a free e-mail service—Gmail—its competitors were Microsoft, which offered users two megabytes of storage of their past and current e-mail, and Yahoo, which offered four megabytes. Google could have trumped that with six or eight; instead it provided 1,000—a gigabyte. It doubled that a year later and promised "to keep giving people more space forever."
They have been relentless in driving computer science forward. Google Translate has achieved more in machine translation than the rest of the world's artificial intelligence experts combined. Google's new mind-reading type-ahead feature, Google Instant, has "to date" (boasts the 2010 annual report) "saved our users over 100 billion keystrokes and counting." (If you are seeking information about the Gobi Desert, for example, you receive results well before you type the word "desert.")
Somewhere along the line they gave people the impression that they didn't care for advertising—that they scarcely had a business plan at all. In fact it's clear that advertising was fundamental to their plan all along. They did scorn conventional marketing, however; their attitude seemed to be that Google would market itself. As, indeed, it did. Google was a verb and a meme. "The media seized on Google as a marker of a new form of behavior," writes Levy.
Endless articles rhapsodized about how people would Google their blind dates to get an advance dossier or how they would type in ingredients on hand to Google a recipe or use a telephone number to Google a reverse lookup. Columnists shared their self-deprecating tales of Googling themselves…. A contestant on the TV show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? arranged with his brother to tap Google during the Phone-a-Friend lifeline….And a fifty-two-year-old man suffering chest pains Googled "heart attack symptoms" and confirmed that he was suffering a coronary thrombosis.


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Barnes & Noble posts 3Q loss as Nook demand slows
NEW YORK Physical books may have a longer shelf life than expected. Barnes & Noble posted a third-quarter loss on Thursday, partly because demand for its e-books and Nook e-book readers have plummeted.
Many have predicted the eventual demise of physical books, as e-book readers and e-book demand soars. But that trend appears to be slowing, at least with the Nook, according to Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch. And digital "cannibalization" - consumers buying e-books instead of physical books - has also slowed.
The company reported said sales of digital media - including digital books, digital newspapers and magazines, and apps - rose just 7 percent during the fiscal third quarter. Sales had risen 38 percent in the second quarter and 46 percent in the first quarter.
Barnes & Noble, based in New York, has invested heavily in its Nook e-book readers and a digital library as more readers shift to electronic books and competition has grown from discount stores and online rivals.
"After the hyper growth in the e-book market over the last few years, consumers have settled into their book formats of choice, and while e-books will continue to drive growth in the book category in the future, physical book sales will have a longer tail (or longer life expectancy) than previously anticipated," he said in a call with investors.
The Nook unit has attracted investors - Microsoft owns 16.8 percent, while U.K. publisher and education company Pearson has a 5 percent stake. But aside from investor funding, it has not been profitable, and has fared worse than its competitors, Amazon.com's Kindle and Apple Inc.'s iPad and iPad Mini.
The company acknowledged it needs to take significant steps to make the Nook unit profitable, or try to spin it off. Lynch said cost cutting and other measures are forthcoming, and Barnes & Noble shares rose nearly 8 percent.
The Nook weighed on the retail stores. Revenue in the entire retail unit, which includes the bookstores and website, fell 10 percent to $1.51 billion. Revenue in stores open in at least one year fell 7.3 percent, and store closings and lower online sales also hurt results. But excluding Nook sales, revenue in Barnes & Noble stores open at least one year fell 2.2 percent in the fourth quarter.
Revenue from the chain's college bookstore unit fell nearly 2 percent to $517 million.
The company has 689 bookstores in 50 states as well as 674 college bookstores.
In the fiscal third quarter through Jan. 26, the New York company posted a loss of $6.1 million, or 18 cents per share. The company blamed the loss in part on charges stemming from the weaker-than-expected sales of Nook e-readers during the holiday shopping season. Analysts had expected a profit of 53 cents per share.
In the same period the year before, the New York company posted a profit of $52 million, or 71 cents per share.
Revenue fell 9 percent to $2.22 billion - analysts polled by FactSet predicted a more modest decline, to $2.4 billion.


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A mouthwatering read just in time for the holiday season, Tributaries #13 will present Alabama's food traditions such as stews, barbecue clubs, gumbo, lacy cornbread, and sweet potato pie as well as other topics that might remind you of some of your favorite home cooked meals or shared experiences with friends and family. Contributors to the journal include Linda Vice, an Alabama Community Scholar and member of the AFA Board of Directors; Sylvia Stephens, former Secretary to the AFA Board of Directors and also an Alabama Community Scholar; and Jessica Lacher-Feldman, another esteemed member of the AFA Board of Directors. Director Emeritus, Joyce Cauthen, contributed an essay and so did other Alabama Community Scholars, William S. Allen, Emily Blejwas, and Susan Thomas. Another contributor, Valerie Pope Burnes, Director of the Center for the Study of the Black Belt, University of West Alabama, has worked on contract with the AFA to conduct fieldwork. Allen, Cauthen, Stephens, and Thomas have also completed research for the AFA.
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Primary and Secondary Sources for the
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When searching for information on a topic, it is important to understand the value of both primary and secondary sources. This handout briefly explains what these types of sources are and provides examples of each.
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A primary source is an original document containing firsthand information about a topic.
Different fields of study may use different types of primary sources. Common examples of a primary source are:
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- Interviews
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- Original works of art
- Photographs
- Works of literature
Secondary Sources
A secondary source contains commentary on or discussion about a primary source. The most important feature of secondary sources is that they offer an interpretation of information gathered from primary sources. Common examples of a secondary source are:
- Biographies
- Dissertations
- Indexes, Abstracts, Bibliographies (used to locate a secondary source)
- Journal Articles
- Monographs
Sometimes, the same source might be a primary source for one research paper and
a secondary source for another. It all depends on the relationship of the
source to your research question. For example, if you are researching Franklin
Roosevelt's life, the book No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The
Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin would be a
secondary source. If you were researching the literary style of Ms. Goodwin, it
would be a primary source.
*From Joyner Library, East Carolina University
Additional examples of primary and secondary sources relating to a particular subject:
|Primary Source
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|Original artwork
|Article critiquing the piece of art
|Slave diary
|Book about the Underground Railroad
|Treatise on a particular genre of poetry
|Political Science
|Essay on Native American land rights
|Videotape of a performance
|Biography of a playwright
Primary sources are first hand sources; secondary sources are second-hand
sources. For example, suppose there had been a car accident. The description of
the accident which a witness gives to the police is a primary source because it
comes from someone actually there at the time. The story in the newspaper the
next day is a secondary source because the reporter who wrote the story did not
actually witness it. The reporter is presenting a way of understanding the
accident or an interpretation.
*From North Park University, History Department
However, the distinctions between primary and secondary sources can be
ambiguous. An individual document may be a primary source in one context and a
secondary source in another. Time is a defining element. For example, a recent
newspaper article is not usually a primary source; but a newspaper article from
the 1860s may be a primary source for civil war research.
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After a prolonged shooting schedule in London, Katrina wanted to work on something totally different on returning to India.
"She has been inundated with film scripts but instead she went ahead with this ad film because the idea caught her eye and it gives her a chance to play three different roles," says a source. Buzz is that Kat will be dolled up in three fairytale characters — Snow White, Red Riding Hood and Cinderella.
"Like all children, Katrina too grew up on these fairytale characters and hence was too excited to play not one but three of them," the source adds.
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Religious Group Protests Divorce Court Finding
Die-hard followers are pulling the church-and-state card. Jo-Ann De Jesus, daughter of the leader, stood among photographers in her wide-frame Armani Exchange sunglasses just after 2 p.m. yesterday. "They're limiting our ability to exercise our freedom of religion," she said, as reporters whipped out their notebooks. "We have just enough to pay the electricity and insurance at the church."
During the August 2008 trial, X-wife Torres told of the luxurious lifestyle she was used to living. That included staying at the finest Latin American hotels, driving fancy cars and taking trips around the world. She also claimed to be physically and psychologically abused by Miranda.
Outside the court yesterday, protesters wore 666 t-shirts, the group's religious symbol. Several had tattooed the number on his/her angle and many carried signs that were too small to read.
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Heerenveen on Friday and Mark Van Bommel responded by scoring first at the AFAS Stadion, his opener arriving in the 36th minute.
Dries Mertens doubled PSV's lead in the 57th minute and Jeremain Lens made the points safe four minutes later, with Aron Johannsson scoring a consolation goal four minutes from time.
Having missed the chance to rein Ajax in when losing 3-2 in last week's
head-to-head encounter at the Philips Stadion, the new four-point margin gives
PSV an outside chance of winning the title over the three-game run-in.
Elsewhere, both teams had a man sent off as Groningen edged into the final Europa League play-off spot by beating ADO Den Haag 2-1.
Goals from Genero Zeefuik (38) and David Texeira (42) were enough to secure victory for Groningen, who did wobble when Virgil van Dijk was sent off in the 64th minute.
Kevin Jansen halved the deficit in the 75th minute but 11 minutes later he was
following Van Dijk down the tunnel after seeing red.
Groningen have a four-point cushion over ninth-placed Heracles, who put any lingering relegation fears behind them with a 4-0 win over RKC Waalwijk.
Kwame Quansah broke the deadlock from the penalty spot in the 42nd minute and Marko Vejinovic (65) put Heracles out of sight before Everton added a race in the 71st and 85th minutes.
RKC remain four points clear of the relegation places after 16th-placed Roda JC
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The Tilburg club are condemned to a last-three finish but could still make the relegation play-offs by dragging VVV Venlo into 18th place.
Philipp Haastrup opened the scoring in the 52nd minute and Aurelien Joachim promptly doubled Willem's lead with a penalty on the hour mark.
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PLU is pleased to announce the visit of author, foreign policy analyst and award-winning journalist Robin Wright, who will share her views on the Islamic world and talk about her friendship with Ambassador Chris Stevens, who was killed in Libya on the anniversary of 9-11 last year when militants attacked the embassy.
The Chris Stevens Memorial Lecture will celebrate the life of an extraordinary public servant and former Peace Corps volunteer. It seeks to build knowledge in the PLU community about the Middle East and North Africa and the region's ties with the United States and to demonstrate pathways to building lasting peace. The PLU community is honored to be joined by friends and family of the late Ambassador, including a close family member, a first year Lute.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Oregon takes over the top spot in the AP college football poll, receiving 45 of 60 first-place votes from a nationwide media panel. Alabama falls three spots to No. 4 after absorbing its first loss of the season. It ends the Crimson Tide's 10-week stay at No. 1.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The undefeated Falcons are on the field in New Orleans, taking on a Saints team that has worked its way to 3-5 following an 0-4 start. At 8-0, Atlanta is the only unbeaten team in the NFL. The league's only 7-1 teams meet tonight in Chicago, where the Bears host the Houston Texans.
NEW YORK (AP) — Owners and player reps are getting back to the bargaining table on Day 57 of the NHL labor dispute that's already wiped out 327 regular-season games. The two sides met informally yesterday following formal negotiations the previous four days.
LOS ANGELES — While Phil Jackson considers a return, Kobe Bryant and the Lakers play their second straight game under interim coach Bernie Bickerstaff when they face Sacramento later today. The team fired Mike Brown on Friday, after a 1-4 start. Hours later, the Lakers went out and beat visiting Golden State.
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The named insured requested a hearing to contest the nonrenewal of a dwelling fire policy for incomplete construction and lack of occupancy. The evidence at the hearing revealed the property is an incomplete three car garage, with the potential for living space above. It is not a residence at this time and therefore the dwelling fire policy insuring it is not subject to the Maine Property Cancellation Control Act.
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All is NOT quiet here during the winter break--and IUP could not be more happy and proud.
IUP is hosting the Region II Kennedy Center Theater Festival through Monday, January 16. This means that 1,000 faculty members and students from colleges and universities from the eight-state region are here on campus for workshops, lectures, and performances. This is the second time that IUP has been selected to host the event; we also were the site for the 2010 festival, which featured keynote speaker Bill Pullman.
The keynote presenter for this year's festival is John Cariani. He's been in many television series and popular movies, including Kissing Jessica Stein, and was nominated for a Tony Award (Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical) for his performance in the Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof. He also has an interesting IUP tie: He was one of the stars of Elephant Sighs, the movie written by former IUP theater professor and playwright Ed Simpson.
There are a number of plays open to the community throughout the festival in the Performing Arts Center's Fisher Auditorium, along with four special productions for festival audiences. These plays, offered in the Waller Hall Mainstage Theater, are open to community members as seating permits (available seats will be distributed starting about 10 minutes before the performances).
Productions have to be selected for festival performances, and the competition is fierce; 80 colleges and universities are eligible to enter a production for selection.
So, IUP is very proud that festival officials selected an IUP production, Lindsey's Oyster, for showcase at the festival. The show will be presented in the Waller Hall Mainstage Theater on Friday, January 13, at 5:00 p.m. This is among the performances for which festival attendees have first priority for seating. Tickets are $10 per person.
This show, in addition to presenting outstanding student talent and excellent direction by IUP's Jason Chimonides, represents IUP's inaugural commitment to the National Theatre Conference's Initiative to Celebrate American Women Playwrights. (Note: This production may contain language and situations to which some audience members may object.)
Make sure to check out the festival website to find about more about the peformances. An amazing opportunity for outstanding theater, right in our own backyard.


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Glee Review: "Hairography"by Matt Richenthal at . Comments
In terms of its storylines, this wasn't our favorite episode of Glee.
There was too much focus on Quinn's real pregnancy and Terri's imaginary one, the latter of which is especially grating and unrealistic. It really changes the tone of the series any time its featured.
One of the great things about Glee, however, is that it musical numbers can often make up for any wayward storytelling. That was the case during "Hairography," as it delivered a slew of great numbers.
As always, you can browse through them in our Glee music section. Which was your favorite single from the hour?
Pregnancies aside, the show has set itself up well for a suspenseful sectionals episode. We love Sue Sylvester, but darn her for last night's actions!
Also as usual, the Glee cast uttered one hilarious quote after another. We've listed our favorite from "Hairography" below.
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I feel almost opposite. Terri's pregnancy is rediculous yes--but that's the point of the show. It's as over the top as theater. I actually really liked the character/plot developement for Quinn and Terri. I almost cried when Quinn hugged Will because he'd be raising her child, and I wanted to kill Puck when he revealed the sexting thing. BUT, this was my least favorite episode song wise. The Hair segment was just rediculous. the concept of hairography was interesting, and it allowed for some interesting interplay between Sue and Will, but the song was uninteresting and painful to watch. Imagine was great yes, but on it's own it couldn't redeem Hair and that one they sing at the end.
I disagree a little - this episode was very pregnancy orientated because it has to be. the finale is going to expose terri's faux pregnancy, and this episode was key to showing quinn's hesitance to give the baby up, and terri's increasing guilt over the entire thing, and her panic that she'll be exposed. I liked the character development this episode. While not my favourite episode, the musical numbers were amazing, the concept of hairography was hilarious and I cannot wait for next week!


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Sox broadcasters 'Hawk' Harrelson, Steve Stone say issues resolved
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GLENDALE, Ariz. — Ken ''Hawk''
Harrelson once shared the booth with Don Drysdale, a tandem widely praised as one of the best in baseball broadcast history.
Steve Stone broke in on ''Monday Night Baseball,'' sharing the booth with Howard Cosell, Al Michaels and Keith Jackson long before becoming Harry Caray's trusted companion on Cubs broadcasts.
Harrelson and Stone have become synonymous with Chicago baseball since the 1980s. But there was something wrong when the two shared the White Sox' TV booth last season.
''There was some tension,'' Harrelson said this week. ''It happens.''
The tension led to a meeting ordered by chairman Jerry Reinsdorf during SoxFest this winter, amid rumors Stone was ready to bolt after four seasons working with Harrelson. Both sides aired their differences and left the room with a firm handshake.
Besides, both men have contracts through 2015.
''I believe everything has been resolved,'' Stone said. ''I think this year is going to be much better broadcasts than it has been.
''We're two pretty smart guys. And the common ground that we reached and what I told him: I'm only interested in one thing, and that's to make the best broadcast possible. I want this to be our best year, and I think both of us have the ability to do that.''
Both admitted there had been growing tension the last two seasons. This came after a pretty good marriage the first two seasons.
What happened?
''I really have no idea,'' Stone said. ''I guess if you really can't pin down anything, it's never really simple. It's never really one thing; it's a number of things.
''I don't think either of us have been happy with the last couple of years. We don't need major surgery here. What we have to do is just remember that we are partners — good times, bad times, funny things, serious things, whatever the case may be. It's two guys going along on the same track, not two guys working along parallel tracks.
''I think the fans are going to be pleasantly surprised with the growth of our partnership and what both of us are going to bring to the table this year.''
During the SoxFest meeting that included Reinsdorf and Sox broadcast officials, it was stressed the two need to talk more on the air about situations that play off of Stone's knowledge of a pitcher's mind-set and Harrelson's knowledge of a hitter's mind-set. The talk hit a wall at times last season.
Before signing off after the season finale, Stone said: ''There are a lot of lessons to be learned. One of them is that the clock is always ticking. You've got to enjoy what you do.''
After an awkward pause, Harrelson said: ''All right.''
There was no hiding the tension anymore.
''I worked with 'Wimpy' [Tom Paciorek] for 10 years, I worked with D.J. [Darrin Jackson] for 10 years, before they made the change and brought Stoney over to get a pitcher and a hitter together,'' Harrelson said. ''Steve is just so good at what he does. The first two years were just fantastic. I told my wife that this is pretty close to the way I felt about Don Drysdale and myself.''
Some have speculated Hawk's homerism grates on Stone, but Stone denied it.
''There are people who view that as a negative; I view it as an extreme positive,'' Stone said. ''I like the fact that he wants the White Sox to win every day. I want the White Sox to win every day, but he has been around longer. He also believes that every call should go the White Sox' way. Obviously, as we know, it doesn't work that way.
''If they do win, he's a very happy man. When they lose, he's not such a happy man. And it all comes through the microphone. That's one of the similarities he has with Harry: You could pick the game up at any time, and by listening to the inflection in Harry's voice or listening to the inflection in Ken's voice, you can tell if the team is winning or losing.''
Harrelson vows he won't put a lid on his emotions.
''Before that would happen, then I would get out,'' Harrelson said. ''I'm not going to be scripted.''
And Stone stressed playing second banana is not an issue.
''Don't forget, I came in from the other side of town, basically, and came into Ken's broadcasts,'' Stone said. ''Just like when I came to the Cubs, I came into Harry's broadcasts. I have no problem being the other man in the booth, being the second man in the booth. A lot of people call it the second banana. I always viewed that role as being fully acceptable. I mean, Ed McMahon did pretty well as a second banana to Johnny Carson. And I have done pretty well as a second banana to Harry and now to Ken.''
The proof will be in the broadcasts, where ratings jumped from 1.8 in 2011 to 2.3 in 2012 on Comcast and from 2.3 to 2.4 on WGN, thanks largely to the 117 days the Sox spent in first place.
''We had a meeting [and] cleared the air because there was definitely some tension there,'' Harrelson said. ''And now I feel great.''
Said Stone: ''If it works out — and I certainly believe that it's going to — this will be, by far, our best year.''


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Very Good
Remake of a Solid RPG Classic
posted by RaftRider (ORANGE PARK, FL) Feb 2, 2009
Member since Jun 2007
14 out of 15 gamers (93%) found this review helpful
More Private Actions have been included as well involving Dias Flac, whom was curiously omitted from PAs in the original, and some involving the secret character (and bane of my existence)Welch Vineyard.
For those that are new:
-The game is an absolute blast. There are random battles, but combat is free roaming. Party Member A.I. is exceptional, so they'll get you out if you're in a pinch (Unlike Star Ocean 3).
-Voice acting was surprisingly good, as many of the actors are second and third rate actors from FUNIMATION. Unfortunately, there are a few bad apples (Dias and Leon, for example, felt too forced and eye rollingly haughty at times)
-Innovative item creation system. Depending on your individual characters' talents and skill levels, food, powerful weapons, armor, anti-personnel weapons (cluster bombs, grenades, instant kill items)and other unique items can be created. Hate how stores rip you off? There's a specialty to combat that!
-Easy learning curve
-Up to 86 different endings (character pairings)
-Slow start. AS SOON AS YOU GET CONTROL OF YOUR CHARACTER, go to the OPTIONS and select the "skip messages" option. You'll thank me later.
-Some places seem to have MUCH higher encounter rates than others
-Story isn't stellar, but certainly better than SO3's inane plot
Very Good
posted by greenman30 (CONYERS, GA) Jan 24, 2009
Member since Feb 2008
5 out of 9 gamers (56%) found this review helpful
Above Average
Too Much Talking
posted by Clink2208 (SILVER SPRING, MD) Mar 7, 2009
Member since Jan 2009
2 out of 9 gamers (22%) found this review helpful
Remake does not add anything for me
posted by prisoner6 (ATLANTA, GA) Jan 19, 2010
Member since Mar 2008
1 out of 5 gamers (20%) found this review helpful
I rather use an emulator and play an old RPG game with a better plot. Honestly, that was the only thing that held us to the lower-end graphics and hack-and-slash mechanics.
i love this game!!!!
posted by peterce1111 (EAST LONGMEADOW, MA) Apr 6, 2013
Member since Apr 2012
there is nothing wrong with it.
it is 20 years after first departure. so the charaters are different.
i recommend u rent first departure then this one to feel with the storyline so you don't get confused with both.
this game has two modes: claude and rena:
claude mode is where you play as claude a boy whose 19 and the son of ronaex kennedy, he gets sepurated from his dad by accident (i do not understand wat happened he just randomly teleported) but pretty much in his mode u return to his dad.
rena mode: this mode is about a young very cute 18 year old girl who can pretty much heal in battle (use healing symboligy) and she searching for her real mother.
when u play this game play both modes to get a feel to both characters, look up guides for recruitments on party members etc. etc. on youtube there is some walkthroughs (best ones are from sephiroths awakening) thats all folks!
Very Good
Great gameplay makes up for a weak story
posted by Iamnobody (WILMINGTON, DE) Sep 23, 2011
Member since Jul 2008
Let's start with the positives. Star Ocean has one of the expansive character customization systems I've ever seen. Every character can achieve up to ten ranks in literally dozens of skills that lead to specialties, which then further lead to Super Specialties. The usefulness of these skills/specialties varies heavily, but there is a certain entertainment value in increasing your character's Whistiling skill even if you're never going to need it.
SO's party development is equally impressive. It's possible to refuse every single party potential party member in the game except protagonists Claude and Rena. Don't like a character? Just tell them they can't come along and you'll never see them again.
Finishing up the positives is SO's "Private Action" system. This lets you take your main character into cities alone, leading to some interesting cutscenes and events that would not otherwise be possible.
And now for the negatives. First off, most of the voice acting in SO is downright awful. While Claude and Rena are usually passable, several other party characters and major NPCs were almost physically painful to listen to. There is no option to turn off voice acting.
The voice acting is certainly not helped by SO's convoluted mess of a story. The first half of the story is actually reasonably well-done, but it all ends up feeling pointless after a mid-game plot twist. The second half of the game feels like something ripped out of Scientology and features distractingly bad physics even for Sci-Fi, poor level design, and extremely little new plot/character development.
But in the end, these significant flaws are not enough to ruin the game. The battle system and the sheer amount of customization are more than enough to make up for lacking acting and writing abilities on the part of Square.
i didnt even make it to the first fight
posted by nettlc (LANSING, MI) Jul 10, 2011
Member since Jun 2011
Fun Times
posted by RichTown (SALT LAKE CITY, UT) Oct 21, 2010
Member since Jul 2010
Star Ocean
posted by animal91 (EAGLEVILLE, PA) Sep 15, 2010
Member since Sep 2010
hard but fun
posted by GtheGreat (VANCOUVER, WA) Aug 20, 2010
Member since Aug 2010
i had trouble at the end of the game i am lvl 50 and could not beat the fire guy and other guy that is all i am going to say dont want to spoil it but i do suggest u lvl up more then i did :)
Really Bad
Ahhhh I cannot believe it........
posted by 3nigmaPSP (MESQUITE, TX) Aug 13, 2010
Member since Aug 2010
Hey, not half bad.
posted by Pyrospazz (BROOKFIELD, MA) Dec 20, 2009
Member since Mar 2009
Each character has their own personality and emotions. If you're the kind of person who needs to get attached to the characters in order to enjoy the game, this is definitely one for you.
There were side quests so if you got stuck in the story line, you could go off on a side quest and level up with out getting bored. (Although the side quest I went on was just as hard as the story line.)
I only have one complaint - MORE SAVE POINTS PLEASE!!!!!!!!!! I often got faced with a boss that takes an hour to get to from the previous save point. So if I was defeated, I'd have to play another hour just to try again. It became more tedious than fun. (This is the only reason I didn't give this game a 10.)
All and all, this game is great and definitely worth a rent. The bosses can be very difficult and I got stuck on them for weeks sometimes. but aside from that, and the lack of save points, I love the game and recommend it to any RPG fan.
surf the stars
posted by jakeob (SACRAMENTO, CA) Oct 2, 2009
Member since Apr 2008
Above Average
pretty much the same as the 1st game
posted by dulun21 (CHANDLER, AZ) Aug 25, 2009
Member since Aug 2007
also. if you are having problem with some enemies.. plz note that in some battle you suppose to hold out for about 2 minutes while some. you supposed to die.
if you a RPG gamer.. then it is a decent game to add to the collection. Don't expect much from the story though..
decent remake/update
posted by thinkbomb (KAYSVILLE, UT) Mar 23, 2009
Member since Mar 2007
The game gives you two different options for your main hero, but the stories are mostly identical (it mostly changes whose head you're in thought wise). It centers around a young space captain who gets stuck on an undeveloped planet (no space ships for them). So he ends up saving the world for them, and there's also a young priestess type who's looking for the truth on a number of the planet's mysteries. Standard fare, but it's pretty well executed (if obscenely wordy at times).
For the most part these are brought back from the PS1, though fans of the original will note the following differences:
- Anime sequences to help with the story, but the direction of these sequences suck and carry less impact than the original in-game-engine cinematics carried ... sad.
- Portraits for dialogues have been added based on the look of the new anime sequences. These help out the story considerably since it's more interesting to look at than the b-grade chibis for the hour-long dialogue bits.
- Mulitple camera angles have been re-shot (still using the original 3D models). These help format it for the PSP and also correct some of the angle problems of the original.
- 3D models of the items are replaced with still images. Smart move since I have no idea why they were 3D in the first place.
The two main characters are actually fairly superb. Claude has his faults but does provide an entertaining performance. Rena Lanford actually has the best performance in the game and is top class, very well done. The rest of the cast is satisfactory to let-downs, and some of the NPCs provide bad readings that are flat out hilarious. Overall though they did do a pretty good job of the voice casting.
exactly the same
So yeah, fairly easy recommend =)


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The Oakland Raiders entered the game with one of the top rushing defenses in the league, ranking ninth allowing just 103.9 yards per game.
The San Diego Chargers paid that no mind, proceeding to run over the Raiders to the tune of 148 yards and a 26-13 victory.
"I'm very happy for Ryan Mathews," said Head Coach Mike McCoy. "You guys all asked early on why he isn't carrying the ball, why he isn't doing this. But the kid just kept working extremely hard. After today's game, it was a single season high for him. So give him a lot of credit. We've said from day one that we want unselfish players who just want to win. And he's one of those kids, that's all he did....There was that five-day span with 58 carries. That says a lot about him. It's very deserving to see where he is right now. But against a very good defense I think we ran the ball efficiently."
Two plays in particular symbolize the way Mathews has been carrying the rock. The first came in the second quarter. With just over three minutes to go in the half from the Oakland seven, Mathews ran hard up the middle, spun out of what looked like a surefire tackle at the line of scrimmage before splitting two Raiders around the four yard line to pound his way into the end zone.
While that touchdown showed his power, Mathews displayed some breakaway speed on a play in the third quarter. He took an inside handoff out of the shotgun and dashed through a large gap supplied by
"It's been great," he said. "He's been very consistent all year. He's had some unfortunate injuries. I'm just saying the obvious because I know what he's been worn out about. The fumbles over the years, those happen with young running backs. But I think more than anything he's had the tough injuries to deal with. You can't help when you break your collarbone twice, both of them…the thumbs. Those are just tough luck, and he's battled through and had a heck of a year. He's fought like crazy all year, and he's had a heck of a year. The running game in the last few weeks and all year long, our balance, has been a big key to our success."
While Mathews is certainly worthy of the accolades, you also can't forget about
"He's flat out done a great job for us all year long," said
Overall, it was a total team effort that led to Mathews and Woodhead's big day at Qualcomm, which McCoy was quick to point.
"(It's a) credit to the other players also," he said. "The offensive line, everyone, the whole team. All other ten guys on the field, Philip checking the right plays at the right time and receivers committing to being an impact in the running game coming down, blocking and doing it the right way."


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Another hot build of one of the top browsers, incorporating p2p and social networking — but look out — Opera Unite's EULA is an eUGLY one.
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In Life
By Daniel Kao
A Book a Week
On 04, Sep 2014 | No Comments | In Life | By Daniel Kao
At the beginning of this summer, I decided that I wanted to read one book a week.
The reasoning behind this was simple. Books are a resource that authors spends years crafting and compiling their knowledge and experience that I can pick up for less than $20 and learn about what they learned in a mere couple days of reading. The vast wealth of information, experiences, and perspectives are so immensely large that not reading books would mean missing out on a great deal of learning.
It hasn't always been easy, however, to fit in reading time in between all the different things that I have been working on this summer, but I did my best to be intentional and consistent with my reading time.
So in no particular order, I've had the opportunity to read the following books this summer:
- Inner Game of Tennis
- The Promise of a Pencil
- Zero to One
- The Obstacle is the Way
- The Art of Learning
- I'm Feeling Lucky
- In Defense of Food
- Jesus' Son
- Black Swan
From the engaging narratives of The Promise of a Pencil, I'm Feeling Lucky, and Jesus' Son to the deep philosophy of Black Swan and The Obstacle is the way, reading has definitely given me a better perspective of the world and how I approach things. It's given me frameworks to think about everyday choices, and how I can better myself and the people around me.
This is a habit that I hope to continue for years to come, and perhaps I'll write my own book one day. Feel free to follow me on goodreads, I love chatting books!
By Daniel Kao
What it Means to be an Entrepreneur
On 06, Mar 2014 | No Comments | In Entrepreneurship | By Daniel Kao
We've all heard the saying that hindsight is 20/20. While looking back is definitely clearer than looking forward, but are our perceptions of the past always completely accurate?
I often study the work of famous entrepreneurs, hoping to learn whatever I can from their failures and successes, but one very common thread among most entrepreneurs is that none of them completely knew what they were doing moving forward. Many entrepreneurs have an initial vision, but have to pivot and reposition their business and approach countless of times before they hit the ball out of the park.
No one can predict the future with much precision and accuracy. That's why venture capital firms struggle to turn a profit, why weathermen are always wrong, and investing in the stock market is a giant guessing game.
Life and entrepreneurship especially is riddled with unknowns. By definition, being an entrepreneur means that you are doing something that no one has done before, creating and shifting markets in completely new ways.
But yet, for some people, we feel like we need to have all the dots connected moving forward.
When I first started studying entrepreneurs, I used to think that I needed to figure everything out before starting my first company, driving me to read as many blogs and books as I possibly could. I would try to learn as much as I could about what works and what doesn't in order to build a strategy that won't fail.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying to ignore the advice and lessons from entrepreneurs, because mentorship and guidance is invaluable. I'm simply saying that you don't need to have everything figured out.
Sometimes the best place to be is knowing you have no idea what you're doing and go for it anyways (tweet that). That's the only way to figure out definitely whether something works or not. Don't be afraid that you are too uninformed, too under-qualified, or inadequate of making a significant change in the world, whether it be starting a company, running a nonprofit, or anything else along those lines.
An entrepreneur, at it's very core, is simply someone who makes things happen by taking risks.
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By Daniel Kao
On Reading Books
On 27, Jan 2014 | One Comment | In Life | By Daniel Kao
I've shared before that in my younger days, I thought I didn't like reading.
It wasn't until I nearly turned 18 that I found my love for reading books about real life situations and perspectives.
This year, I'm going to try to read as many books as I can. Books are pretty much a compilation of a person's life work and life lessons, and by sitting down for a couple of hours and fifteen dollars, I can get a glimpse into a successful person's process.
Even if I only get one thing out of a book, it was worth it.
In a casual conversation I had a couple weeks ago, I was sharing some of the books that had completely changed my life, and one of my friends asked me how I had so much time to read so much.
The truth is, I don't have time not to be reading. By reading the lives of people, I am effectively getting perspective from their lives about the challenges they faced and how they overcame the challenges. By reading books, I am actually helping myself save time. I become more aware of the problems and the questions long before they come up in my personal life.
Of course, this doesn't mean that I go out and read every single thing that I can find. I'm a big advocate of watching what content you consume. My focus then, is taking the time to figure out what I am learning from each book that I read. Reading reviews is a helpful way to determine whether a book will be helpful for me or not.
In the wise words in Letters from a Stoic by Seneca the Younger,
You must linger among a limited number of master thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind.
Everywhere means nowhere.
When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
And the same thing must hold true of men who seek intimate acquaintance with no single author, but visit them all in a hasty and hurried manner.
Food does no good and is not assimilated into the body if it leaves the stomach as soon as it is eaten; nothing hinders a cure so much as frequent change of medicine; no wound will heal when one salve is tried after another; a plant which is often moved can never grow strong.
Oh. And follow me on goodreads.
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In Life
By Daniel Kao
Content Dieting: Managing What you Take In
On 16, Jan 2014 | One Comment | In Life | By Daniel Kao
Many of my friends have been going on diets lately, such as becoming vegan or pescatarian. Besides wanting to cook a steak and shove it down their mouth, I have also taken the time to consider my own diet.
But it also got me thinking about the content I digest. I'm constantly finding new books to read, new blogs to follow, and new TED talks to watch. And over the last year, I don't know if I can really say that all the content that I consume has actually helped me to be a more knowledgeable and wise individual. Maybe it has, maybe it hasn't.
But I think something I did realize was that knowledge isn't how much content you are able to cover. It isn't about how many books you read or blogs you follow, but knowledge is more of what you are able to share and produce. Just like with subjects learned in school upon your daily life, it doesn't really help you to know something unless you are able to apply it and use it.
So while rethinking some critical things about the way that I consume content, I realized a couple of things, and that the content you consume can be seen in a similar way as the food you consume.
Disclaimer: The following is only meant to be an illustration, not a perfect translation of food groups. Nor is it meant to categorize every single type of content out there.
Practical Content – Bread, Starch, Rice, Pasta (carbs) This kind of content is generally things that are interesting to the average person, but also practical and applicable to everyday life. Things like learning how to do better work fall into this category. Also, the average TED talk that is simplified, inspiring, and relevant can be considered in this area.
Necessary Content – Fruits and Vegetables (vitamins) Necessary content is usually the content that contains the little details that may not be fun to read, but are necessary for the work that you do. Things like manuals, research, instructional material, etc.
Perspective Content – Meat (protein) This is the kind of content that helps build you as a person by slowly helping you to see new perspectives. These generally take a longer time of immersion and pondering before any kind of life change becomes visible, but it is always the investment for the long term that makes the difference. This is the stuff that you read about famous and successful people, or the long and involved stories and learning process that eventually helps you to grow as a person.
Entertainment Content – Candy (sugar) This kind of content is usually the kind that is at your edge of understanding and application; things that are generally "out there". Reading them gets you excited and blows your mind, but ultimately it has little nutritional value in your practical, everyday life.
None of these are bad in it of themselves, but used together and in moderation helps an individual to really learn and grow.
In Life
By Daniel Kao
Don't Talk With Your Mouth Full
On 13, Jan 2014 | No Comments | In Life | By Daniel Kao
We all learned this somewhere around elementary school.
I think I still might have a problem with this today.
I eat too fast, and maybe I don't chew before I swallow. I just eat.
And then I start talking because everyone has to hear everything that I have to say, and a piece of broccoli comes flying out of my mouth into someone else's face.
2014 is the year of learning how to listen more and talk less.
Eating with your mouth full isn't simply an etiquette that applies to the dining table. It applies to your thoughts, your learning, and any other time you're bringing new things into your life.
Talking with your mouth full makes your talk less coherent, less understandable, messier, and much less attractive.
Enjoy your food, your learning processes, and your thoughts. There will always be time to share.
By Daniel Kao
Providing Value at No Cost: Giving out Free Books
On 21, Oct 2013 | No Comments | In Entrepreneurship | By Daniel Kao
One thing that business principles revolve around is the basic idea of providing value. All businesses revolve around the exchange of value.
Cost then, is merely the determination of value. If I price something at fifty dollars, that means that I am determining that the value of my product is worth the value of fifty dollars. In fact, by selling something for fifty dollars, that means that the value of fifty dollars is more valuable to me than the value of my product to me.
However, as Seth Godin comments, the internet age is now throwing a curveball into the game.
"In a competitive, undifferentiated market, the price will generally be lowered by competitors until it is just above marginal cost. Think about that… If it costs a dollar to make something, and your competitor is selling for $1.10, then in an efficient market, you have every incentive to sell your item for a penny less than that. It's better than not selling it.
There are many implications of this, the first being the explanation of why so much stuff online is free. Free is a magical concept, the place where trial and virality live. If the marginal cost of a new user is virtually zero (and in an ad supported business, a new user is actually profitable, not a cost) then it's no surprise that it's hard to charge for your app when there are other apps that do precisely what yours does.
Big, established companies have traditionally had a difficult time understanding this concept. The market for ebooks, for example, ended up in Federal court because otherwise smart people in book publishing couldn't get their arms around the idea that their marginal cost of an ebook delivered by Amazon was precisely zero. No paper, no shipping, no ink." – Seth Godin
The reason that Facebook is able to offer a social network for free is because there is nearly no marginal cost for adding another user, and by adding another user, they have a larger collection of users that they can leverage for advertisements, publicity, etc.
As a new experiment on diplateevo, I have decided to give away one free book every month through a random drawing. It is called polyglot, and you can check it out here. I am doing this for a number of reasons.
- I want to provide a resource for people to learn more. By providing a free book, hopefully someone will be able to benefit from the wisdom written in the book. This will hopefully also be a way for my readers to expand their knowledge of what people are currently publishing.
- I want to experiment with the idea of giving away free books and see how people respond. I am interested to see what kind of community I can build by giving away free books, and have a better feel for what people need.
- I want to see how knowledge gets passed around. As part of the polyglot program, books that have been given out for free are encouraged to be continually given away and passed around for free. I am interested to see where my books will end up.
So go ahead and let all your friends and family know, and I will be picking the first winner next Wednesday!


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Virgin Atlantic Cargo Enhances Performance With Descartes' Cloud-Based Global Air Messaging Solutions
WATERLOO, Ontario, May 30, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Descartes Systems Group (Nasdaq:DSGX) (TSX:DSG), the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that Virgin Atlantic Cargo, a leading global air carrier, is successfully using Descartes' cloud-based Global Air Messaging Gateway solutions to help standardize and automate its air cargo processes supporting higher levels of customer satisfaction.
"Using Descartes as our sole electronic messaging provider, we benefit from increased transparency and improved efficiency across our air cargo operations," said Gill Launders, Head of Corporate Services at Virgin Atlantic Cargo. "Descartes' Global Air Messaging Gateway helps support our ability to better manage shipments and effectively fulfill our customers' expectations."
Descartes' Global Air Messaging Gateway is based upon Descartes' cloud-based Global Logistics Network (GLN). The GLN provides its members with a wide array of value-added services that span the entire shipment management process, from contract management, to freight bookings, shipment tracking, security and trade compliance filings, and more."We're pleased that our broad offering of air cargo solutions helps the world's leading air carriers to connect to their trading partners and regulatory organizations to improve performance and drive higher levels of customer satisfaction," said Jan Markill, EMEA Sales Director at Descartes. "Virgin Atlantic Cargo is a valued customer, and we're excited to support them in enhancing performance and driving high levels of customer satisfaction." About Virgin Atlantic Cargo At Virgin Atlantic Cargo, our customers are at the heart of everything we do and inspire our passion for offering a reliable and award-winning service. We don't want to be the biggest; we are passionate about being the best. Today, our route network serves Boston, Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Orlando, San Francisco and Washington DC in the Americas as well as destinations in the Caribbean, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Dubai, Delhi, Mumbai, Tokyo, Lagos, Accra, Vancouver, Abu Dhabi, Johannesburg and Cape Town. Along with our direct network, we can offer our customers another choice to over 350 onforwarding destinations worldwide and the list is constantly growing. These include routes operated by our partner airline, Virgin Australia, where we exclusively market Virgin Australia's cargo capacity, producing a win:win for both airlines.
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