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Posted on June 11, 2001
Peaceful societies do not need general gun bans, and violent societies do not benefit from them. Take a look at the facts the gun-grabbers don`t want you to know.
By Don B. Kates
Americans have been gravely misled about foreign gun ownership and the severity and effectiveness of foreign gun bans. It simply is not true to state that "the U.S. has more gun availability and far less restriction than any other modern industrial nation."
That honor goes to Israel where, nevertheless, murder "rates are much lower than in the United States despite ... [Israel`s] greater availability of guns to law-abiding civilians," writes Israeli judge Abraham Tennenbaum (formerly an official with the Israeli National Police and then a professor of criminology).
Equally erroneous is the impression that Europe is uniformly anti-gun. Laws vary. Luxembourg totally bans all guns from civilian ownership. France, Belgium and Germany allow citizens to own handguns but these countries are more restrictive than most U.S. states. In Austria, every law-abiding citizen has a legal right to buy handguns, and roughly ten per cent of Austrians have done so (compared to 16 per cent of U.S. citizens).
A shooting festival in Switzerland, with the young folks carrying their STGW 90 5.6mm assault rifles.
A shooting festival in Switzerland, with the young folks carrying their STGW 90 5.6mm assault rifles.
A shooting festival in Switzerland, with the young folks carrying their STGW 90 5.6mm assault rifles.
A shooting festival in Switzerland, with the young folks carrying their STGW 90 5.6mm assault rifles.
A shooting festival in Switzerland, with the young folks carrying their STGW 90 5.6mm assault rifles.
And then there is Switzerland, where the laws are similar to those in Israel and gun availability is comparable to that in the U.S. In Switzerland, handgun licenses are available to any law-abiding applicant. In half the Swiss cantons (similar to U.S. states), licensees are free to carry their personal handguns concealed. Beyond this freedom of ownership, every law-abiding military-age Swiss male is issued a firearm and he must keep it at home to perform his mandatory militia obligation.
Switzerland`s enlisted men are required to keep at home the STGW 90 assault rifle ("Sturmgewehr") (above), which fires both full- or semi-auto. Retired militiamen may buy their issued firearms. Below: The Walther P-38, one of several pistols that the Israeli government furnishes to its citizens, including teenagers.
Switzerland`s enlisted men are required to keep at home the STGW 90 assault rifle ("Sturmgewehr") (above), which fires both full- or semi-auto. Retired militiamen may buy their issued firearms. Below: The Walther P-38, one of several pistols that the Israeli government furnishes to its citizens, including teenagers.
For the 263,000 officers and non-commissioned officers, the issued firearm is a 9 mm Parabellum semi-automatic pistol, either the SIG-Sauer P210 or its successor, the SIG-Sauer P220. For the millions of enlisted men, the issued firearm is an assault rifle: the STGW 90. The STGW 90 is a version of the SIG-Sauer 550 semi-automatic rifle that is select-fire, meaning it may be fired in either full- or semi-auto mode. When he retires, any Swiss militiaman who wishes to buy his issued firearm may do so.
Homicide rates are quite low in all the nations mentioned above. However, the homicide rate in handgun-banning Luxembourg is much higher than in the others: 2.1 per 100,000 population, versus 1.2 and 1.1 per 100,000 for "handgun-ridden" Israel and Switzerland--which have the lowest homicide rates of all. (The accompanying table provides the references for homicide and suicide rate comparisons discussed in this article.)
Western Europe, in fact, has always had very low homicide rates as compared to the U.S. This is not something caused by strict anti-gun laws, because this low homicide rate existed before such laws were adopted, and the low rate occurs also in Switzerland and Austria which have no such strict anti-gun laws.
European anti-gun laws only arrived after World War I, and they were not passed in order to curb crime. They were passed in response to the political violence of that tumultuous era (1918-1939) between the two World Wars.
Whatever their purpose, European anti-gun laws have miserably failed. They have not prevented assassination, terrorism, and other political violence--problems occurring throughout Europe on a fairly regular basis, but not so in the U.S. Neither have these anti-gun laws stopped non-political crime, which has steadily increased throughout Europe since World War II.
To this issue, the further question has been asked, "Why has Europe had so much less non-political violent crime than the U.S.?" Yale University`s preeminent historian, Dr. C. Vann Woodward, suggests an answer. He writes, "The impact upon Europe of the emigration [to the U.S.] of 35,000,000 Europeans in the Century between the Napoleonic Wars and World War I remains to be acknowledged. The importance of the West as a safety valve for American society has undoubtedly been exaggerated. But the significance of America as a safety valve for Europe and the effect of the closing of that safety valve after World War I remain to be fully assessed." 1
Nor, finally, have these anti-gun laws stopped suicide, something which has always been a much greater problem in Europe than in the U.S. In this respect, one can note a curious (but invariable) omission when anti-gun articles compare the U.S. to Europe.2
Anti-gun propaganda emphasizes suicide as well as homicide. U.S. suicide rates have risen over the past quarter century (while U.S. homicide rates have declined). However, anti-gun advocates recently have taken to combining suicide and homicide figures in the U.S. This allows them to conceal the decline in U.S. homicide rates (and to exaggerate the so-called "societal costs" of gun ownership). They have done this more particularly in the last few years while the U.S. homicide rate has been declining (despite a 100 per cent increase in handgun ownership since the 1970s).
But then, inconsistently, when comparing the U.S. to Europe, they only compare the homicide rates. They never use the combined homicide-suicide figure--because it would refute their entire argument; it shows that Europe`s homicide-suicide combined rates are higher than that of the U.S.
(*Ranked according to highest combined suicide-murder rate; nations ranked higher than the U.S. in either suicide or murder rates are in bold face)
*All information in this table dated before 1993 comes from the U.N. Demographic Yearbooks for 1993 and 1992. All information dated 1993 and thereafter comes from a draft study prepared for the U.N. Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice`s Vienna Session 28 April-9 May, 1997, except: a) the U.S. homicide figure comes from FBI preliminary data for 1996, and b) the Swiss homicide and suicide rates come from the Swiss national police.
Look to the accompanying table for the result obtained when the anti-gun forces` combined homicide-suicide approach is applied to the international figures: The U.S. combined homicide-suicide rate falls in the middle of the nations, and is lower than eight European nations. Even compared to the nations with lower combined rates, the U.S. rate is only slightly higher.
Of the 18 nations shown in the table, the U.S. ranks in the middle as to murder and suicide combined. The lowest rate of all is for Israel, the nation where guns are the most available and supplied to citizens, including teenagers.
My point is not that gun availability reduces suicide, or even murder. Statistics show that the relatively crime-free nations don`t appear to need or benefit from severe anti-gun laws.
The table clearly shows that, regardless of their gun laws, Western European nations have roughly comparable rates of both murder and suicide. This cannot plausibly be attributed to severe handgun restrictions because the highest murder rates among these nations are in the nations with the most restrictive gun laws (Luxembourg, Denmark, Germany). In those restrictive nations, the average murder rate of 2.73 per 100,000 population is over twice as high as the 1.26 average rate of Switzerland, Israel and Austria, where gun laws are least restrictive).
Even less do gun control laws benefit high crime nations like Russia and its former possessions, the countries of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Ukraine. When these and other countries were under the control of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the central Soviet government totally banned civilian handgun ownership.
The Soviet government uniquely implemented the ban by creating after World War II a unique caliber cartridge for Soviet handguns (9 x 18 mm). This cartridge is too short to interchange with handguns using the familiar European standard 9 x 19 cartridge (9 mm Parabellum, or 9 mm Luger, as Americans commonly call it); it`s too long to interchange with handguns shooting the .380 cartridge. This meant that anyone smuggling foreign handguns into the USSR (for example, soldiers returning from foreign wars) would find ammunition unavailable.3 Nevertheless, though exact statistics were never released, analysis clearly indicates that Soviet homicide rates far exceeded those in the U.S. 4
With the USSR no longer in existence, the homicide rates in the former Soviet republics and Russia continue to exceed those in the U.S., as shown in the accompanying table. Under the Soviet regime, with strict gun control, the weapons used for homicides were largely knives, clubs, and other non firearms. Today, though handguns remain virtually unavailable to ordinary Russian citizens, homicide rates remain high, being committed by those criminals in Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, etc., who seem to have no difficulty acquiring both Russian and foreign-made handguns and suitable ammunition.
Such international statistics show the pointlessness of gun bans. In any society, truly violent people are only a small minority. We know that law abiding citizens do not commit violent crimes. We also know that criminals will neither obey gun bans nor refrain from turning other deadly instruments to their nefarious purposes.
It is obvious and well-proven that the amount of violence in any particular society is determined not by the mere availability of any particular form of weapon, but by cultural, socio-economic and institutional factors that produce people willing to engage in extreme violence.5
How much violence occurs in any given society will depend on the proportionate size of truly violent people.
In sum, peaceful societies do not need general gun bans and violent societies do not benefit from them.
Don B. Kates is a San Francisco-based criminologist, professor, and constitutional lawyer. Among his many published works is, The Great American Gun Debate: Essays in Firearms and Violence (Pacific Research Institute, 1997), by Don B. Kates and Professor Gary Kleck of the Florida State School of Criminology (available for $17 plus $3 for postage and handling, and 8.5% tax for California residents, from the Pacific Research Institute, 755 Sansome St., San Francisco, CA 94111; telephone (415) 989-0833).
International/UN Gun Control Issues
Established in 1975, the Institute for Legislative Action (ILA) is the "lobbying" arm of the National Rifle Association of America. ILA is responsible for preserving the right of all law-abiding individuals in the legislative, political, and legal arenas, to purchase, possess and use firearms for legitimate purposes as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.READ MORE
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After a slow start which saw the Dallas Cowboys jump out to a 10-0 lead at halftime, the San Diego Chargers rallied for 28 points in the second half to come away with the victory.
Dallas went up 13-7 on a 49-yard Dan Bailey field goal, and the visitors were on the verge of extending their lead before the Chargers defense came up with a huge play. On fourth-and-nine,
After forcing a punt, the Chargers drove down the field again, culminating the possession with a 38-yard touchdown strike from Whitehurst to
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Turning Point
Two plays after a marvelous interception return from Shareece Wright, Charlie Whitehurst gave the ball to Jackie Battle who took flight. Looking like he belonged in the Olympics as a long jumper, he dove over the Cowboy's defensive line into the end zone to give the Bolts a 14-13 lead. San Diego wouldn't trail for the rest of the game en route to the victory.
It Was Over When…
After Shareece Wright forced a fumble with a monstrous sack of Stephen McGee, the Chargers drove a short distance down the field to the three-yard line on a trio of runs by
Play of the Game
On a pivotal fourth-and-nine on the San Diego 35-yard line, DeAndre Presley tipped the ball into the hands of Shareece Wright. The second year corner showed tremendous speed and some wonderful moves on a 73-yard return, dodging defenders left and right before finally being tripped up at the Dallas two-yard line.
Stat of the Game
Charlie Whitehurst starred in his first game back in a Chargers uniform. The seven-year pro completed seven of 12 passes for 122 yards and two touchdowns. He finished the game with a passer rating of 132.6.
Bolt Quotebook
"We have a lot of work to do. The great thing about it is our guys are working as hard as any group I've been around. They're as focused as any group I've been around." – Norv Turner
"I haven't played in an NFL game since October. It felt good and I'll feel more comfortable after the game for sure." – Charlie Whitehurst
"I ran my corner pump and he threw it. I had to get (the touchdown) because who knows when the next one is coming, so I had to get it." – Mike Willie
"It was just me coming off the ball (to get the sack). In practice, I feel like I'm going against some of the best tackles in the game, and that (helps) me work hard to get to the quarterback." -
Odds and Ends
Garrett Brown,
The Chargers won despite losing the time of possession battle to Dallas, who held the ball for 34:21 compared to San Diego's 25:39.
The Bolts were efficient on third down, converting six of nine attempts compared to Dallas who only made three of 13 tries.
Jacob Hester had a solid start and finish to the night…he opened the game with a special teams tackle inside the 20, forcing Dallas to begin their initial drive from their own 13-yard line and he closed the night with a four-yard touchdown run for the Chargers' final points in the 28-20 win.
Melvin Ingram helped end consecutive Dallas drives on the third quarter…on the first, he and
The game served as the team's Salute to Youth Football.
Dallas will stay in town for a pair of practices with the Chargers on Monday and Tuesday.
Tonight's attendance was 53,381.

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he New Child Protection Organization is by the people, and for the people, to ensure the safety of our children and families because the current system in place no longer has our children's best interest at heart and is only motivated by greed and political agenda.
Federal funding is dispersed based on statically data, therefore statics are needed, and Quotas must be met for funds to be received. There is Quota for our children. The state owned and operated child protection services in effect today must have a certain number of children in their custody to get any funding at all. Some motivation to remove huh?
Please share with us your stories and tips. Families are the very core group in any society, the nucleus, and they are being ripped apart at the seems. United we stand, divided we fall.
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If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then it seems the search engines just can get enough of each other.
AOL is the latest to earn the "copy cat" moniker, with the rollout of a new home page design that looks just like Yahoo's.
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This awesome infographic designed by O3world and Seers Interactive Media explains how many of the most famous Internet companies make money. A useful resource if you can't decide a monetisation model for your startup, or if you are just curious!
So, you have probably heard about the spoof PMO accounts on twitter being banned. If not, then you have now.
To begin with, there is absolutely nothing wrong with spoof accounts, especially when they mention in their bio that they are spoof accounts. In fact, these spoof accounts almost always make more sense than real politicians. But then again, a lamp-post in the street makes more sense than most of our politicians. Well, except one, Rajeev Chandrashekar. I don't know how this guy came into existence, and became an MP. And I am not making this up, but this is what he thinks about internet freedom –
Any attempt to expand the government's power over the internet – however incremental, seemingly innocuous or pretending to advance democracy – should be turned back
This is from his editorial piece in the Times Of India.
He finally got the government to review his suggestion,and talk to the public before taking a decision. He tweeted –
The Govt has accepted my repeated position to review it's May 2012 position & is now finally initiating my suggestion for an open public consultation on the subject ! PM supports my position !
Apart from the obvious problem of him not knowing his its from it's, he seems, overall, pretty awesome, just because of his stance on the Internet. But he can easily get outvoted by a number of
idiots MPs.
Which brings us back to reality. So, the retards, masked as the Indian government, got the ISPs to block a few twitter accounts, including @PM0India. The account is now accessible, but all the previous tweets have been deleted.
Other retarded stuff that happened in the past week on the Internet involved real people, and not only politicians. The result was SMSes being limited to 5 per day, and a number of sites being blocked, in order to curb the non-existent violence against north-east Indians. I might not be qualified enough to comment on this, but I think imagining a full-blown religious riot are symptoms of serious schizophrenia. Which means that most Indians with access to social media networks or mobile phones are schizophrenics. Or just fond of sharing shit. The only thing being shared in my feeds was content made to help de-bunk the rumor, not feed into it. Which makes me happy as that means that all of the filtering I did in my Facebook feed ( subscribing / unsubscribing ) was not in vain. BTW, most of the sites blocked, reportedly had nothing to do with the event. But who cares? Something had to be done, right? Read the detailed analysis of Prakash Prasanna, a programme manager at CIS ( Centre for Internet and Societ ), which explains what all was blocked and did it make sense ( short answer : no ).
As you can see, it's not only the government that's retarded, it's also we, the people. And it's not only about the Internet. It's about us. Maybe we just are a bunch of retarded monkeys, frustrated with our mediocre lifestyles, looking for some kind of amusement. Maybe we are all just pieces of a mob waiting to happen, waiting to wreak havoc, as soon as the gears are set in motion.
Or, maybe, there's hope.
Andrew Bosword, an awesome panographer, has stiched together photos sent by the Curiosity rover together to make an interactive panorama of Mars. Veiwing it actually feels like standing on Mars. Without wasting any more time, just click on 'Load' and then 'Full Screen' in the top left corner, and expereince Mars, first hand.
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Minute Physics did a three video series to explain about the Higgs Boson, any why it matters. And in case you don't know about Minute Physics already, and are a geek, you should visit the Minute Physics YouTube channel, and subscribe to it immediately. The channel has several videos explaining complex physics theories, in a very simple manner, in around a minute. These videos were all around 3 minutes though.
Part 1. What is the Higgs Boson?
Part 2. What is mass?
Part 3. How to Discover a Particle
Did watching these make you understand the Higgs boson better?
MoneySuperMarket.com has released two info-graphics, which calculate how much would it cost someone, if they wanted to be either Batman or Ironman.
Being Batman costs 682 million $
whereas, being Ironman costs 1.6 billion $.
And this is the very problem with superheroes. The one's that you can be, are very rich, and that one's that you can't be, well, what's the point in talking about those.
Which was your favorite superhero movie, this summer?
Have you been seeing a lot of Google+ lately? I see it everywhere on the Internet, including places like GMail, Google Search and YouTube. And I think that Google has crossed the neutrality line.
Google+ in Gmail
You can also load hidden comments to the post –
Meaning that there is AJAX involved. The comments also get posted via AJAX, from within the email, so you don't have to leave GMail.
Google+ in search results
Hover over a result, to see the share link. Sharing links in search results are good, because they let you share content in your preferred network.
Which sadly is not the case here. This one only lets you share with your two friends on Google+.
It's like Internet Explorer and Microsoft in the 1998 era. Google clearly has a monopoly of content distribution, as the two most visited search engines are both owned by Google ( Google search and YouTube ), and they are clearly misusing their position by allowing people to share easily to Google+, but not on Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn. It can easily be argued that you can still take a link and manually share it on other networks, but you could also install Netscape manually, on your copy of Windows. The only problem was that IE did not go away. Neither does the Google+ share button.
What do you think? Has Google really crossed a line, or promoting their own product is fair game?
I have been wanting to say this for a long long time. Ever since I have been on Facebook. One simple thing. Learn the rules of the Internet before you get on it.
I finally decided to make my first account on a social networking website in 2010, on Facebook ( I never went to that shitty place Orkut, which was cool because I did not have to waste my time on that horrendous UI, and crappy content. )
And since then, I have been appalled by how stupidly people use these sites. They use it like they were just talking to their group of friends, in real life. Which is not the case. No matter how much you wish for an Internet experience that just replicates your real life, online, the truth remains that this is a different place. This is the Internet. And like before visiting a foreign country, you need to learn the rules of the internet land, before stepping in. Google+ was a step in that direction, a social network that replicates real life, but that is the exact reason people don't use it. People want the "serendipity" that Facebook offers. Being able to see what your friend's friends are doing, and hence finding new friends. Which is completely awesome, given that you are not behaving like an idiot.
I have been collecting screen shots like this, for the past six months –
This one shows how people, unsuspectingly, make a lot of their friend's numbers public, by making a public event, and asking them to post their numbers, cause they lost their phone. Now take a breath, and think about the numbers of times your friend lost his contacts, and asked everybody to give him their numbers. It's not wrong that you post your number publicly, but what I am saying is that you should know that your information is public. My number/address can be easily obtained if one was so inclined, but I know that. Most people live under the false pretense of security, not understanding how social networks work. Even if you don't share something with the "public" setting, you are sharing with people who have two degrees of separation from you. Which could be anybody. Anyone could friend your friend, and get access to your info. The thing is, there is no "private" information sharing on the Internet. This is one of the reasons I like Twitter, because by default, your tweets are public, so you know that if you tweet something out, everybody can read it. It's a sad thing that people don't even get that.
So, what's so wrong if my information leaks out?
Well, I had a lot more samples like the FB event, and would explain how all the can be dangerous, but then I came across this brilliant talk by Tom Scott.
Oh crap! Is there a solution to this?
Kind of. Switch your Facebook account to public. I kid you not, do it. Your posts can be found by someone one way or the another, if someone is so inclined to do it. So if you start posting publicly, you would at least be well aware that this data is for everyone's eyes, and you just might restrain yourself from putting stuff on the Internet which shouldn't be on the Internet. There are other ways, like becoming a Facebook's privacy settings ninja, and locking down your profile more and more. But know that, some info will always leak out. Also, I think that having to tinker with the setting to use a product is a design flaw, but that's another issue.
BTW, none of this is Facebook's fault. It's the users fault. We don't really understand the Internet, but just hop on it, cause it's cool.
As one wise man once said "What's cool, is not always safe". OK, nobody said that. But, you get my point. Understand that the Internet is public, and when you are ready for the repercussions, you can move, and start living on the "Internet. You can start posting your vacation photos to tell the world where you went. You can start publicly checking into restaurants, to tell the world where you are. And you can start posting your plans, to tell the world where you will be. And other over the line freaky stuff like live video streaming of you taking a dump, and tweeting the percentages of constituents of your pee, et cetera.
DelTech is known for its mechanical engineering. Cars, robots, unmanned flying things, you get the idea, cool stuff. We sat down with Rohit Gupta of Solaris, India's only solar car team to have participated in more than one race.
What does Solaris mean to you? Why did you choose this name?
Solaris was the name of the team before we joined it. A better question will be what do the name of the cars mean, because that's interesting.
the car that we took to Australia for World Solar Challenge 2011 was christened Avenir which means the Future we perceive that the future to the Automobile Industry mobility sector in general is Electric Mobility Solutions which we aim to make more efficient accessible and cheaper
As a start-up, one of the biggest challenges is getting noticed by many people. Do you feel people in college are actually aware about it completely?
the problem is a necessity for our project
Because the scale at which we work is large..the project cost varies to about 20 lakhs to the vehicle itself. We work very hard to make the technology as indigenous as possible to reduce costs which needs the local players in the market to help us
What challenges do u face ? are they more on economical front or on the technical front?
Thank fully Mobility sector in India touches a lot of people in India so whenever something new comes up in this area..a lot of people know about it via news or our public displays. Challenges are more on economic fronts than on technical terms people lack faith in such research projects they are more open to support some fest that support such initiatives
Is everything done by you or do you outsource parts of the process? Is anything assembled by other companies?
We design everything. We build most of it ourselves, like the mechanical parts and all other things like making custom parts for the A arms in the steering assembly are all done by the team at their workshop which we rent when we are to make a car the electronics are dont ourselves except the cell encapsulation all things are done in-house the cells are encapsulated by our sponsors based on the guidelines we give them this time we are working on an In-house encapsulator too.
What has been your inspiration in the development of this project? How has the university helped you in your ambition?
The inspiration was the sheer sense of human`s basic need after food,shelter and clothing – Mobility. With the price of fuel going towards the sky the need is for us-the "To-Be" engineers to work on much more better technologies that shall be the stone turners in the way man used to move and the way man shall move electric vehicles are already there but the range limitation is a problem that reduces their sales in the reliability based indian auto sector The college has been very kind to us they have helped us in times we needed it the most. I would like to thank our VC Prof. P.B. Sharma for his support.
How many team members and their roles?
There are 15 team members. As I told you that we need a lot of funding to build our car so we need a big, bright and dynamic Corporate team.
The team is broadly composed of 3 main departments
1) Electrical
2) Mechanical
3) Corpo
You can visit these guys at their website ( beware of cool background music ), or their Facebook page.
First of all, I am not trolling you again. CERN had a conference today. A big conference. Peter Higgs, the dude after which the particle is named, and two other science dudes, who had independently suggested the existence of such a particle, were invited. And then, during a serious presentation, full with comic sans fonts, they said that they have found a boson, that is 99.999% the Higgs Boson. But they played safe, and never said that it indeed is the Higgs Boson. This is a result of two independent experiments, CMS and ATLAS. There have been a couple of times, when such claims have been made, but later falsified. The results have been given a 5 sigma
For many scientists, it was only a matter of when, and not if, the particle will be found. But it's discovery is a major milestone. How major? Well, more major than the one that proved that the earth is not flat. The Higgs Boson, completes the standard model, and helps explains what gives matter mass, and supports a lot of other important theories, that try to define our Universe. There are a bunch of other such particles, that do different things like make up light ( photons ), make non contact forces work, and other such cool stuff.
"I'm rather surprised that it happened in my lifetime – I certainly had no idea it would happen in my lifetime at the beginning, more than 40 years ago, because at the beginning people had no idea about where to look for it, so it's really amazing for me to find out that it's really enough… for a discovery claim," Peter Higgs said at the conference.
I wonder if Peter Higgs has opened the bottle of champaign yet. An excerpt from his 2008 interview by Guardian.
What will he do if data from the LHC does, as most physicists expect, confirm the existence of the Higgs boson? "I shall open a bottle of something," he says, back in coy mode. A bottle of what? "Champagne," he says thoughtfully. "Drinking a bottle of whiskey takes a little more time."
This is a great achievement for the LHC, as this was one of the major experiments happening in there. I wonder when they will make canisters that hold matter and antimatter, and can annihilate and destroy cities, if misused. Hopefully, Robert Langdon will save us, if that happens.
BTW, it will take some more time, before we can say with 100% certainty that the Higgs Boson has been found.
And here's Neil deGrasse Tyson on the discovery –
Image credit – Bloomberg
Taking a cue from Google, Twitter published their first transparency report today, which includes reports of government requests to release user information, gov. requests to withhold content, and DMCA takedown notices by copyright holders, segregated by country.
Leading the pack is USA with 679 requests out of the total 849, in the first half of 2012. This is followed by Japan with 98 requests. Another interesting thing is that US requests have a compliance rate of 75%, which is 20% for Japan.
India, and many other countries filed less than 10 requests. 0% of these were complied by Twitter, meaning, that they were all non-sensical requests. All I am thinking is, Has Kapil Sibal found a new pass time, or he just can't figure out Twitter at all ( not that he understands the Internet ). Oh! He is having a ball messing around with JEE. The man sure knows how to keep himself entertained.
Twitter plans to release these reports every six months.
Via – Official Twitter Blog
Google's Nexus 7 tablet is the definition of insanity. The good type. Have a look at the features to get started.
CPU Nvidia Tegra 3 (Quad-core)
Screen 7″ (216ppi Back-lit IPS display)
OS Android 4.1 Jelly Bean
It's long been clear that Apple rules the high-end in a market they created. Many ( Samsung ) have tried to unseat them from that position, and failed. Even if Samsung has a chance to capture a decent market share, they will first have to fight through the lawsuits Apple keeps throwing at them. There is only one way to enter the market now ( if you want a big share of the pie ), which is the $200 price point.
Comparing it to the equally priced Kindle Fire, in terms of hardware and OS, the Google's Nexus 7 is a clear winner. In terms of content delivery? Whether Google Play can beat Amazon, given their years of expertise, remains to be seen. If somebody asked me, I would my money on the Nexus 7. But for now, their prime aim is to sell. And then sell more.
Here's the bummer, though. It's not coming to India, for one simple reason – it's priced too low. It will go on sale at $200 (approx. Rs. 10k). Most people I know would buy two at that price. The problem is, they are selling it at a 0% profit margin. They are probably making losses. But, this subsidizing model works in the US because of content consumption. Kindle can be priced at $199, just because of the fact that once people have the device, you can be the gate keepers, and make money selling content. This does not work in India, not because we don't consume content, but simply because we can't afford to pay for content. Ever played Angry Birds? Yes. Ever paid 50 bucks for it. Nope. You probably even switch off your internet before starting the free version of the game to save bandwidth costs.
What's also interesting here is at what price will Microsoft launch the surface. They were smart enough to not put a price on it, before the Google I/O. According to features, the Surface is more a $500 tablet than a $200 tablet. But can they compete with Apple, where Android failed, with a completely new OS (with no apps) ? Microsoft has already upset tablet manufacturers, like LG, by competing with them by getting into hardware. This means that Microsoft is betting huge money on its success, and if they want a better result than the Windows Phone ( which is stuck at a 3% share, despite being awesome ), they will have to price it pretty aggressively, and make huge losses, just as they did for the XBOX. I think a $300 price point makes sense, for people looking for something in between the iPad and the Nexus 7. But again, don't expect to be buying it for 15K in India. If they do release it in India, it will sell at a premium price point.
The good part is that Android devices are easier to root than Apple's. Got friends/relatives in the US? Now would be a good time to say hello.
Watch the Google team blabber about how the device was created to make money via content, below.
The next major release of Android OS entitled Jelly Bean(v4.1) is here to treat our geeky taste buds, with its exciting new improvements and features. Google took the curtains off the promising OS yesterday at The Google Developers I/O Keynote, taking us from its crooks to crannies in a matter of a few minutes.
The biggest change according to Google is something they call "project butter" which now allows the whole interface to run at 60fps, something the android has not been able to lay its hands on for a while when compared to its rival iOS. The difference in speed of the whole UI is visible when comparing it with previous versions, like google demonstrated:-
Home screen has been improved with dynamic resizing and movement of widgets across different screens. Also, there is a significant change to notifications, with user being able to make changes or take actions without actually opening the notifying app.
Camera, which was already the highlight of ICS, has been further integrated with slick gallery including gestures like swipe etc to quickly manage your photos.
Another major change is in Google Search UI & its functionality which now supports Natural Language Processing, mounting a serious challenge to the Apple lady, Siri. Google Now is another new part of Google Search, which can show you public transport listings, flight information as well as sports results automatically by monitoring your activities in advance , without your slightest interference! Cool,isn't it?
A masterstroke by Google, I believe, is rendering Google Speech To Text engine offline, hence making it possible to send msg/emails on the go, avoiding the hassles of typing. Talking of text input, google has improved the predictive capabilities of the android keyboard so that now it tells in advance your next move, quite a handy feature.
For the devs out there, SDK preview of Jelly Bean is available right now, while the OS will be there by mid-July. Although most of the current devices lack even ICS, how manufacturers tackle the problem of upgrading to Jelly Bean remains as one of the major lingering issues.


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Jesse Jr. and Sandi Jackson squander gifts, goodwill
BY CAROL MARIN firstname.lastname@example.com October 16, 2012 7:52PM
U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (2nd District)
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Jackals. That's what Ald. Sandi Jackson recently called the press corps gathered outside her Sept. 25 birthday fund-raiser.
That's fine. We've been called worse. No surprise.
What is surprising — amazing, even — is that once upon a time, the alderman and her congressman husband, Jesse Jackson Jr., used to be pretty darn smart in their dealings with us jackals.
"This whole debacle, it's like being at the Indy 500 and watching one car after another spinning out," said Delmarie Cobb, president and CEO of the Publicity Works, a political consulting firm.
Cobb, who served as press secretary for the Rev. Jesse Jackson's 1988 presidential bid, is astonished. You can hear it in her voice.
"Everybody in that family is media savvy," said Cobb, "from Jesse Sr. to Jesse Jr. to Sandi to [longtime press aides] Frank Watkins and Rick Bryant. Not one of them isn't media savvy."
You'd never know it.
When Jesse Jr. disappeared in early June, it took the Jackson team two weeks to even begin to explain his absence. Ultimately, we learned of a bipolar disorder that continues to keep him at home and under a doctor's care except when Gawker.com found he wasn't at home because he was at a bar down the street.
The congressman's health and personal relationships, you could argue, are his private business. Poorly handled. But private unless they interfere with his duties.
It is two investigations that really matter. A congressional ethics probe examining allegations that Jackson Jr. tried to buy Barack Obama's former Senate seat from our now incarcerated former governor, Rod Blagojevich. And a just-revealed FBI probe focused on whether campaign contributions went for his personal use.
Neither investigation has been sufficiently explained to the public by Jesse Jr. Or by his wife, also an elected public official, whose political consulting firm, J. Donatella & Associates, advises her husband. And has been paid for that advice — $429,000 since 2003 — from his political fund. It looks terrible. but it's legal.
In addition, Sandi Jackson gets $115,000 in salary — plus health and pension benefits — as a Chicago alderman, even though she mostly lives in Washington D.C., not in the ward she represents.
And Rep. Jackson makes $174,000 in salary — plus health and pension benefits — as a congressman. Unlike less fortunate Americans who endure long illnesses, he keeps getting paychecks whether he goes to work or not.
And make no mistake, Jesse Jackson Jr. will be re-elected in November in spite of everything. That's because he is in a majority Democratic district. And because his opponents — a write-in, an independent and a Republican — have neither money nor name recognition to win.
"I wish I could write [the Republican] a check for $1 million, but the district is just too skewed Democratic," Illinois GOP Chairman Pat Brady said, regretfully.
The whole thing is skewed.
Not least of which is a power couple — well-educated, talented and attractive — who haven't had the good sense not to squander their considerable gifts.


text: SpaceX's next test flight hopes to land one of its Falcon 9 rockets on a platform -- in one piece. The company puts the odds of success at around 50 percent \"at best\" but it's apparently a major step towards reusable space rockets - and cheaper trips to space. While it's already been able to demo


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Andrea says:
Nice to look at but nothing more. Wouldn't like to live there (my clothes and haircolor wouldn't fit the concept of this (strict?) man, I guess
Lulu says:
Very anal!
allesistgut says:
Gorgeous space and pictures! :)
anordinarywoman says:
It's aesthetic, no doubt but rather lifeless in the long run. I guess that it's precisely these differences that make different environments
exciting. Thanks:)
CAISA K. says:
Emma ::emmas designblogg:: says:
Oh yes, very anal indeed. But wonderful nonetheless! :)
Erin | Holtwood Hipster says:
It's a little too sterile for my taste... that said, as I stare at the not so neat stacks of paper and art supplies I'm working to organize in my home office today, I'm wishing I had a little bit of that discipline and restraint... just a little.
Elina says:
Inés says:
Oh, my...I feel like home..!
anna k. says:
Wow, det här inlägget väckte känslor; så vackert, så strikt (motsatsen till vad jag är) och så... Så jäkla najs att jag bara måste göra vågen!
Desiree says:
He sure likes straight lines! I like it but the kitchen is not my thing ;)
editor says:
I sort and I edit and I remove, but I don't come anywhere near close.
Iris says:
Jättefina bilder!
Din bloglovin stämmer inte just nu, det gör inte min heller.. deras bloggflöde leder dina läsare vidare till en blogg på kinesiska. Mina hamnar på en nyhetssida från östergötland.. bara så du vet!
kram /iris
pam robinson says:
i think you are brilliant. truly. xx pam
F E L I C I A says:
nice blog!
Erin | Holtwood Hipster says:
It's a little too sterile for my taste... that said, as I stare at the not so neat stacks of paper and art supplies I'm working to organize in my home office today, I'm wishing I had a little bit of that discipline and restraint... just a little.
Jean says:
Veronika says:
It's aesthetic, no doubt, but seriously, how boring is that? a perfect home, nothing more to style. looks like nobody has and will ever feel comfortable in there.
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Ashley says:
Love the post!
I clicked on the link and his name is actually Todd, not Peter.
kat says:
Looks amazing!
Bobby says:
And I thought I was anal.. this is incredible. I couldn't live like that - would be guilty and scared every time I moved something! - but quite remarkable nonetheless.
Ebba says:
Gud vilka fina bilder!
Malin says:
Nästan lite creepy, men väldigt väldigt snyggt!
Emma ::emmas designblogg:: says:
Yes, OCD in it's most beautiful form. :)
Ashley, thanks! I corrected the name now. I don't know why I wrote Peter, that's weird...
Montse Gimferrer (@Gimferrer) says:
I would like to see his work when he looses his perfectionism, his colouring range is interesting and it works, I like it, but I would love more drama in his pictures, it doesn't look effortless which does my head in a little. Good post though I always enjoy following on pinterest Emma :)
Nissan says:
I find it creepy :)
Not very inviting nor cosy.
Daniel - Let me be inspired says:
Hej - vilket ställe, helt underbart! Ha det så bra!!
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Tip says:
Ah...relaxing neatness come to my house! Obviously little munchkins do not live there. :-)
Eva says:
Oh my lord! I hope he has a storage room there somewhere to keep interesting books that have a cover in the wrong colour!
Anonym says:
nice pictures! :)
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Smilla says:
Scary. Check the cellar for a body.
T. J. says:
Anyone know the maker or name of that chair in the second picture? Thanks!
Seleonora says:
Vilken bra ide för bokhyllorna! Mycket snyggare.


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$300,000 grant to support recovering businesses
High River: Rotary International funding to provide low-interest loans
By: Don Patterson
| Posted: Wednesday, Jun 04, 2014 01:48 pm
High River businesses owners struggling to get back on their feet are getting a little help from the Rotary Club's international arm.
The High River Rotary Club received more than $300,000 from Rotary International, which will fund low-interest loans for businesses still recovering from the flood.
"The idea here is to, over a fairly long period of time, to continue to supply support in the area for businesses that were affected by the flood," said Harry Riva Cambrin, High River Rotary Club President.
The organization is providing $260,000 to go towards the loans. Recovering businesses will be able to borrow up to $30,000, with no payments for a year and low interest rates. As well, $60,000 will be used to fund a series of workshops and one-on-one coaching. The funds came out of an application from the High River Rotary Club for a Global Grant through Rotary International for High River flood recovery.
Community Futures Highwood will administer and oversee the funding and loans. The loan program is based on a program Community Futures started in High River last year.
John Lockhart, Community Futures Highwood general manager, said the loans funded by the Rotary grant will help businesses to get re-established or make immediate improvements.
"It will allow someone to go out and order inventory, replace equipment, enough to get their doors open again," he said.
Lockhart expects the average loan to be around $24,000.
After the first year, businesses will have four years to repay the loan. As part of the program, interest rates will be set at five per cent, a low rate compared to what could be expected through other lenders.
Businesses interested in the loans will apply to Community Futures Highwood at www.cfhighwood.net.
The Rotary grant will also fund workshops for business owners modeled after a business boot camp held by Community Futures. Topics that are covered include business planning, marketing stress management, and risk and financial management.
Five meetings have already been held with a combined attendance of 65 people.
Lockhart said the Rotary funding will allow them to continue to host the meetings.
The Rotary funding has also freed up funds Community Futures had earmarked to work in High River it will now be able to direct to support business recovering in Turner Valley, Black Diamond and Bragg Creek. The organization will provide loans, similar to those available for High River, in the Turner Valley, Black Diamond and Bragg Creek areas. It has also received $150,000 from the provincial government to hire additional staff to provide training in this area.
One High River business owner said the loan program will greatly benefit businesses still trying to get back on their feet.
Marilyn Callaway, owner of Cottonwood Plaza in High River, borrowed money from Community Futures through the program used as a model for the Rotary grant.
She said she wouldn't have been able to go on without the loan.
"I would be at a total stand still… this has been a blessing in my life, a huge blessing," she said.
Callaway has six different tenants in the building near 8 Avenue in High River.
She wants to be able to get the building open once again to get her business and her tenants back on track.
Callaway has exhausted her own financial resources and she applied to the provincial Disaster Recovery Program (DRP), but hasn't received anything yet.
She heard about the loan program offered by Community Futures and was able to borrow $30,000.
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White Sox swept as Wilson outduels Quintana
BY DARYL VAN SCHOUWEN Staff Reporter June 8, 2014 5:42PM
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ANAHEIM, Calif. — Jose Quintana wasn't at his best.
"Four walks,'' Quintana said, "that was the problem for me.''
Coupled with seven hits, Quintana found himself in too much traffic to survive, and with Angels starter C.J. Wilson holding the White Sox to three hits into the eighth inning, he wasn't up to the task of helping the Sox avoid a sweep.
Quintana lasted 41/3 innings, his shortest outing, in the Angels' 4-2 victory Sunday. After taking two of three from the Dodgers in Los Angeles, the Sox went home with a 2-4 road-trip record in tow.
"It's a bummer now, but tomorrow is another day, and you are playing another team, so you can get right back at it,'' manager Robin Ventura said.
Ventura said the Sox were flat but credited Wilson for making it look that way. Josh Hamilton's RBI double and two-run single against Quintana were the big blows.
Danks takes it light
John Danks, who received a mound visit from trainer Herm Schneider during the first inning in his last start Wednesday in L.A. after he felt a twinge in his groin and then his left quad, has been running and is "feeling fine.'' Danks has found extra, shorter bullpen sessions to be effective between his last three starts but only did the one Sunday.
"We could have, but we decided to take the rest when we could get it,'' said Danks, who will pitch against the Tigers in the second game of a four-game series against the American League Central leaders at U.S. Cellular Field.
Expanding Semien's role
Marcus Semien played left field Saturday for Class AAA Charlotte as the Sox look to expand the infielder's versatility. Ventura talked to him before he went down and said the rookie was onboard.
"Guys who can play everywhere, they're important,'' Ventura said. "You can start moving guys around and making some substitutions. If you've got a guy who can move around at three infield positions and most of the outfield, he becomes valuable.''
Expanding Putnam's arsenal
Right-hander Zach Putnam, who has a 1.52 ERA in high-leverage situations out of the bullpen, credits better health and the refinement of his cut fastball. Putnam's splitter is his money pitch, but the cutter "has helped a lot just keeping guys off the split,'' Putnam said.
"Guys know I have the split. But having a third pitch to keep guys honest has been huge. With just a fastball and split, if you're a betting man [as a hitter], you have to like 50/50 odds.''
Putnam had surgery to remove bone chips in his elbow after struggling with the Cubs last year and said he's feeling no lingering effects. The best thing about being healthy, Putnam said, is being able to work and prepare every day.
According to Elias, Chris Sale's .145 batting average against is the lowest by an AL pitcher through his first eight starts of a season since 1980, when Mike Norris held hitters to .140.
† Micah Johnson (hamstring) returned from the disabled list for Charlotte.
† Three prospects from the White Sox Amateur City Elite program were drafted. Shortstop Anthony Justiniano of Clemente and outfielder James Davison of Morgan Park were picked in the 38th and 39th rounds, respectively, by the Sox, and Simeon outfielder Darius Day was taken by the Rangers in the 23rd round.
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Dustin Byfuglien enjoys big crowds Jets have drawn in Winnipeg
By BEN MEYER-ABBOTT firstname.lastname@example.com October 13, 2011 10:58PM
Hawks center Jonathan Toews is defended by Jets defenseman Dustin Byfuglien in the first period as the Chicago Blackhawks host the Winnipeg Jets Thursday October 13, 2011 at the United Center. | Tom Cruze~Sun-Times
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Back in the United Center for the first time since he was a member of the Blackhawks' 2010 Stanley Cup champions, Dustin Byfuglien couldn't resist a look at the banner he helped put in the building's rafters.
"Went up there and took a peek," Byfuglien said. "Still pretty white up there. Looks good."
Byfuglien, now an alternate captain with the Winnipeg Jets, played Thursday in his first game in Chicago since he had two goals and two assists for the Hawks in Game 5 of the 2010 Stanley Cup finals.
"I miss the people, but business had to move on," said Byfuglien, who signed a five-year, $26 million extension with the franchise last season when it was in Atlanta.
Byfuglien and former Hawk and Jets captain Andrew Ladd had dinner with several former teammates Wednesday, and both received a warm reception from Hawks fans.
"[The Chicago] fans are great," said Byfuglien, who was plus-2 in 22:48. "Anytime you can come back and play in the barn where you started, it's always fun."
Byfuglien talked with reporters before the game about how enjoyable it is to play for passionate fans again after playing to a half-empty building at the Philips Center in Atlanta.
"It's fun to be back in front of a full barn again," said Byfuglien, whose hometown of Roseau, Minn. is two hours away from Winnipeg. "[Philips Arena] was an empty building most of the time. It wasn't the best environment to play in. The city wasn't a bad city, I enjoyed it there. But any time you go in front of a full crowd, it's special."
Ladd said he also couldn't resist a peek at the Hawks 2010 championship banner.
"It was my thing [that season] during the anthem to look at the banners," Ladd said.


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My Little Pony: Equestria Girls (2013) Plot Summary :
In Equestria, the newly coronated Twilight Sparkle is still trying to adjust to her new status and wings. However, Sunset Shimmer a renegade former studio of Princess Celestia, steals her magic crown and escapes to another world. Twilight is charged with recovering the crown and she and her companion, Spike, pursue the thief. Crossing over, Twilight finds that she has been changed into a powerless human in a high school world populated with teenage human counterparts of her friends. To save both worlds, Twilight must rediscover the magic of friendship that transcends everything she imagined possible.
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of lightning flashes to tropospheric NO2 release has been parameterized in several ways.
Satellites have allowed mapping of other important tropospheric trace gases and have been essential in solving the mystery of "polar sunrise" tropospheric ozone depletion. Since the 1980s, Arctic ozone has been known to disappear at the surface in the first few weeks of spring (Barrie et al. 1988). Organic halogen in some form was originally implicated, but the mechanisms were unclear until GOME detection of BrO (Richter et al. 1998, Hollwedel et al. 2004) in the first sunlit days (Figure 5.10). Reactions with highly saline surface associated with annual sea ice are now believed to be the source of airborne labile halogen compounds, which cause the surface ozone depletion (Rankin et al. 2002). The same phenomenon is detected at the edge of the Antarctic continent in austral spring.
For many years satellite measurements of stratospheric composition have advanced our understanding of the chemistry and dynamics of the region above the tropopause. As this region continues to respond to changes in halocarbon concentrations and global temperature, the measurements will continue to be vital to monitoring the health of the planet. Furthermore, the present growth of greenhouse gases leads not only to warming of the troposphere but also to cooling of the stratosphere, which is predicted to affect the rate and extent of ozone recovery. Continuation of the types of measurements described above is essential to monitoring the progress of ozone recovery and to further the understanding of the complex role of ozone in the climate system.
Although satellite measurements of tropospheric species are more difficult, rapid advances in measurements of tropospheric composition are providing insights into the sources, mechanisms, and transport of many species. Combined with data assimilation schemes, continuing tropospheric chemistry observations from satellites will lead to a better understanding of the factors affecting air quality and the ability to predict its interactions with the stratosphere and climate system.


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Scientific method and problems of knowledge. Basic concepts and models of research methodology, qualitative research, program and practice evaluation in social work. Critical analysis of existing research on diverse and oppressed populations. (3 units)
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The Colosseum: Jeebeez, restoration shaman of Hyjal
The Colosseum takes us inside the world of the Gladiator to interview some of the top Arena fighters on the battlegroups. Our goal is to bring a better understanding of the strategy, makeup, and work that goes into dueling it out for fame, fortune, and Frostwyrms. We're especially focused on the people who play these games, to further shed light on the world of the PvP player. If you'd like to be interviewed for The Colosseum, please feel free to contact us -- be sure to include your armory as a link!
Today's interviewee is Jeebeez, current holder of 1st place in US-Whirlwind's 3v3 bracket. He plays a somewhat unusual composition of restoration shaman-frost mage-shadow priest. We thought it'd be interesting to ask him a few questions about arena and his 3v3 team.
WoW.com: What's the most impressive thing you've ever done as a restoration shaman in arena? Don't be modest.
Jeebeez: I 2v3'd Worlds team back in season 6 playing restoration shaman/rogue. Also, we just recently had a pretty sick kill on a warlock (playing WLD). We killed the pet, switched to warlock. I shocked Fel Domination, blanket silence into another shock on Fel Domination into death of the warlock. That was when I had about 30 ms though (almost no lag). Restoration shamans are about consistency more than anything, so its probably more important to be consistent with shocks/grounds/heals/Purges than it is to pull something crazy off.
WoW.com: Why did you choose to play your 3v3 team makeup over other possible compositions?
Jeebeez: Well, I've tried comps like RLS (rogue-warlock-shaman) and warlock/mage/restoration shaman (wizard cleave or spell cleave) and have found the skill cap on wizard cleave just isn't that high on live. RLS has a steeper learning curve than shatterplay (frost mage-shadow priest-restoration shaman) but I lacked the people to play with. I guess I play shatterplay because I enjoy the switch coordination and the high damage output it does.
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Head women's basketball coach Royce Chadwick and the Texas A&M - Corpus Christi women's basketball team are excited to announce their 2013-14 schedule. The Islanders will play 15 games in Corpus Christi this year, which will give Islanders fans plenty of opportunities to catch the team in action.
"We are very much looking forward to the season," Chadwick said. "Our schedule allows us the opportunity to open at home in the Emerald Beach Hotel Islanders Classic and close at home with three-straight games in March. We have 15 total chances for our fans to be there to watch the Islanders play. With a ton of new talent, the enthusiasm and anticipation from our team is tremendous."
The season will start off in a big way for the Islanders, as they will host the Emerald Beach Hotel Islanders Classic at the Dugan Wellness Center. It will be a four-team tournament featuring Fairfield, Western Illinois and Alabama - Birmingham. A&M - Corpus Christi is scheduled to play its first game of the tournament against Western Illinois on Nov. 8, while the Fairfield and UAB will do battle on day one. The following day, the Islanders will take on one of the other two squads at 7:30 p.m.
After concluding their homestand with a game against Southern Utah on Nov. 14, the Islanders will make their farthest road trip of the season, heading nearly 1,000 miles to Nashville, Tenn. While in the Volunteer State the team will play games against Belmont (Nov. 19) and Tennessee State (Nov. 21) before returning to Texas to finish its road trip in San Marcos against Texas State on Nov. 27.
The Islanders will then play their first games of the season at the American Bank Center, hosting in-state foes UT - Pan American (Dec. 5) and UTSA (Dec. 8).
After getting a break for finals, A&M - Corpus Christi will be back on the road, heading up to Houston on Dec. 19 to take on Texas Southern followed by a matchup with UT Arlington on Dec. 21. The team will then come back home to take on Huston - Tillotson on Dec. 30 before heading into 2014 for the start of conference play.
The Islanders will kick off Southland Conference play on the road in Conway, Ark., tipping off against Central Arkansas (Jan. 2) before taking on Oral Roberts (Jan. 4).
The first conference game in the Coastal Bend will come Jan. 9 against Northwestern State with the second slated for Jan. 11 against Stephen F. Austin.
Next, A&M - Corpus Christi will make its one and only trip of the season to Louisiana for games against McNeese State (Jan. 16) and Nicholls State (Jan. 18). Then, two Louisiana schools will head south, as the first matchup will feature the Islanders taking on Southeastern La. (Jan. 23) at the Dugan. On Jan. 25, new Southland member New Orleans will come to the ABC for its first meeting with the Islanders.
A tough four-game road trip will then ensue for A&M - Corpus Christi, playing games at Sam Houston State (Jan. 30), Lamar (Feb. 1) and Incarnate Word (Feb. 6), before making its first trip to Abilene Christian on Feb. 8 for the Islanders' first meeting with the Wildcats.
It will be an exciting finish to the season for A&M - Corpus Christi, as five of its final six games will be at home. This homestand will start with games against UCA (Feb. 13) and ORU (Feb. 15) before the Islanders play their final road game Feb. 22 at Houston Baptist.
A week later, the Huskies will make the trip down to Corpus Christi, as the Islanders will host Houston Baptist on March 1. This will mark the Homecoming game for A&M - Corpus Christi, which will be played in the Dugan at 12 p.m. The season will then conclude with games at the ABC against McNeese State (March 6) and Nicholls State (March 8).
Season tickets for the 2013-14 women's basketball team are now available at GoIslanders.com or by contacting Sean Kelly in the Islanders Athletic Ticket Office at 361-825-BALL (2255).
For the latest on Islanders Women's Basketball, like the team on Facebook (Islanders Womens Basketball), follow them on Twitter (@IslandersWBB) and visit www.GoIslanders.com.
Date Opponent Notes Result Time/Status Links
Nov. 8 Western Ill. Emerald Beach Islanders Classic - Dugan Wellness Center 4:30 PM
Nov. 9 TBA Emerald Beach Islanders Classic - Dugan Wellness Center 7:30 PM
Nov. 14 Southern Utah Dugan Wellness Center 7:00 PM
Nov. 19 at Belmont Nashville, Tenn. TBA
Nov. 21 at Tennessee State Nashville, Tenn. 6:00 PM
Nov. 27 at Texas State San Marcos, Texas TBA
Dec. 5 UTSA American Bank Center 7:00 PM
Dec. 8 Texas-Pan American American Bank Center 2:00 PM
Dec. 19 at Texas Southern Houston, Texas TBA
Dec. 21 at UT Arlington Arlington, Texas 2:00 PM
Dec. 30 Huston-Tillotson American Bank Center 7:00 PM
Jan. 2 at Central Arkansas * Conway, Ark. TBA
Jan. 4 at Oral Roberts * Tulsa, Okla. TBA
Jan. 9 Northwestern State * American Bank Center 5:00 PM
Jan. 11 Stephen F. Austin * American Bank Center 4:00 PM
Jan. 16 at McNeese State * Lake Charles, La. TBA
Jan. 18 at Nicholls * Thibodaux, La. TBA
Jan. 23 Southeastern Louisiana * Dugan Wellness Center 5:00 PM
Jan. 25 New Orleans * American Bank Center 4:00 PM
Jan. 30 at Sam Houston State * Huntsville, Texas TBA
Feb. 1 at Lamar * Beaumont, Texas TBA
Feb. 6 at Incarnate Word * San Antonio, Texas TBA
Feb. 8 at Abilene Christian * Abilene, Texas TBA
Feb. 13 Central Arkansas * American Bank Center 5:00 PM
Feb. 15 Oral Roberts * American Bank Center 1:00 PM
Feb. 22 at Houston Baptist * Houston, Texas TBA
Mar. 1 Houston Baptist * Dugan Wellness Center 12:00 PM
Mar. 6 McNeese State * American Bank Center 5:00 PM
Mar. 8 Nicholls * American Bank Center 12:00 PM
Mar. 12 vs. Southland Conference Tournament Katy, Texas TBA
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Monday, Feb. 9
Faculty on WPR's 'The West Side.' John Hildebrand, English; and Sean Hartnett, geography and anthropology, will discuss land ethic philosophy and the importance of land trusts on Wisconsin Public Radio's "The West Side" today. The show relates to the Aldo Leopold Banquet, to be held Feb. 27. The show will air on WHWC, 88.3 FM, at 5 p.m. More information.
McIntyre Library Tours. Tours of McIntyre Library will be held today through Feb. 12 at the following times: Mondays at 5:30 p.m., Tuesdays at 3 p.m., Wednesdays at 10 a.m. and Thursdays at noon. Tours start in the Grand Corridor outside the library entrance. More information.
Tuesday, Feb. 10
WOW Brown Bag Presentation. Gail Scukanec, dean of the College of Education and Human Sciences, will present "Lessons Learned" during this Women of Wisdom event. Arrowhead Room, Davies Center, noon.
Court 'n Rink Luncheon. UW-Eau Claire's head women's basketball coach Tonja Englund and head men's hockey coach Matt Loen will comment on the current season. The cost for the luncheon is $7 per person and includes a sandwich, beverage and cookie provided by Mancino's. Rosewood Room, Quality Inn, Clairemont Ave., Eau Claire, noon to 1 p.m. More information.
Academic Policies Committee Meeting. See agenda in Notice of Meetings. Schofield 202, 2 p.m.
International Education Advisory Board Meeting. See agenda in Notice of Meetings. Wisconsin Room, Davies Center, 2 to 3 p.m.
McIntyre Library Tours. See Feb. 9 item. Grand Corridor, McIntyre Library, 3 p.m.
University Senate Meeting. See agenda in Notice of Meetings. Tamarack Room, Davies Center, 3 to 4:45 p.m.
Planetarium Program. Tonight's show, "Lifestyles of the Stars," is recommended for adults and children 11 and older. Tickets are $2 and will be sold at the planetarium before the show. L.E. Phillips Planetarium, 7 p.m. See related item Feb. 14. More information.
Artists Series. Hubbard Street 2, a vibrant company of young dancers, will perform. The troupe, the second company of the ever-lively Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, is made of seven dancers between the ages of 17 and 25. They present a variety of dance techniques, movement styles and artistic approaches that reflect influences from ballet to hip-hop to improvisation. Tickets, available at the Service Center, are $17 for the public, $15 for those 62 and older and UW System/CVTC faculty/staff, or $7 for those 17 and younger and UW System/CVTC students. Student tickets are half-price ($3.50) until the day of the event. On the day of the event, students will be required to pay the full student ticket price. Kjer Theatre, 7:30 p.m. More information.
Wednesday, Feb. 11
Internship Mania 2009. Students will have the opportunity to explore internship opportunities and gather employment tips during the event. Recruiters will field questions about their companies, accept resumes for internship opportunities and share information about their industries. A complete list of participating employers is available online. Tamarack and Council Fire rooms, Davies Center, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. More information.
Foster Gallery Exhibit. See Feb. 9 item.
Faculty/Academic Staff Forums. James Walker, mathematics, and Gary Don, music and theatre arts, will present "Connections Between Mathematics and Music." Presidents Room, Davies Center, 12:10 to 12:50 p.m.
Women's Basketball. UW-Stevens Point at Zorn Arena, 7 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 12
Campus Kitchens Project Ceremony. Beginning this week, UW-Eau Claire student volunteers will join thousands of other students across the United States as they turn the unserved food from their school dining halls into nutritious meals and deliver them to low-income children, families and seniors in their local communities as part of the Campus Kitchens Project. A short ceremony today will mark the launch of the program. Speaking at the ceremony will be Erin Yudchitz, regional development director for the National Campus Kitchens organization; UW-Eau Claire Chancellor Brian Levin-Stankevich; and Donald Mowry, director of the UW-Eau Claire's Center for Service-Learning and a member of the university's Campus Kitchens Advisory Board. Tamarack Room, Davies Center, 11 to 11:50 a.m. More information.
Black History Month Presentation. Selika Ducksworth-Lawton, history, will present "Civil Rights, Martin Luther King Jr. and Barack Obama ... how we got here!" Presidents Room, Davies Center, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. More information.
McIntyre Library Tours. See Feb. 9 item. Grand Corridor, McIntyre Library, noon.
The Bridge Campus-Community Coalition Meeting. The Bridge Campus-Community Coalition is a partnership between UW-Eau Claire and the greater Eau Claire community to address and reduce underage and high risk drinking behaviors and associated negative experiences through education, enforcement and environmental changes. For information about joining the coalition, contact Jennifer Lee at firstname.lastname@example.com or 836-5111. Hibbard Penthouse, 3 p.m.
Campus Films. "The Fountain." (U.S. 2006, 96 min., directed by Darren Aronofsky, rated PG-13.) Hugh Jackman stars as an oncology researcher determined to prevent the death of his novelist wife (Rachel Weisz) from brain cancer. His search for the fabled Tree of Life reaches back to 16th century Spain — the world where his wife's novel begins — and forwards to a chapter she asks him to write, requiring a 500-year odyssey toward a distant nebula. Sponsored by the University Activities Commission of the Student Senate. Tickets are $2 at the Service Center for IFS members and UW-Eau Claire faculty/staff or $1 for UW-Eau Claire students. Davies Theatre, 6 and 8:30 p.m. Through Feb. 15. More information.
Friday, Feb. 13
University General Education Committee Meeting. See agenda in Notice of Meetings. Badger Room, Davies Center, 10 a.m.
Dulany Valentine's Day Buffet. Blugold Dining invites faculty, staff, students and the public to its buffet. The cost is $8.05 per person and includes dessert. Call 836-5261 for reservations. More information, including a menu, is available online. The Dulany, Davies Center, 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
UAC Cabin. Soap, a Chicago band currently living in Minneapolis, will perform. The group is an experimental rock fusion jam band whose clean sound has refreshed thousands throughout the country. The Cabin, Davies Center, 11:30 a.m. and 8 p.m. More information. Also Feb. 14.
College of Education and Human Sciences Meeting. See agenda in Notice of Meetings. HSS 226, 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Campus Films. "The Fountain." Davies Theatre, 6 and 8:30 p.m. See Feb. 12 item.
Gymnastics. UW-Oshkosh at McPhee, 6:30 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 14
Children's Planetarium Program. Today's show, "Larry, Cat in Space," is aimed at children 4-12. Tickets are $2 and will be sold at the planetarium before the show. L.E. Phillips Planetarium, 11 a.m. See related item Feb. 10. More information.
Foster Gallery Exhibit. See Feb. 9 item.
Campus Films. "The Fountain." Davies Theatre, 6 and 8:30 p.m. See Feb. 12 item.
UAC Cabin. Soap, a Chicago band currently living in Minneapolis, will perform. The group is an experimental rock fusion jam band whose clean sound has refreshed thousands throughout the country. The Cabin, Davies Center, 8 p.m. More information. Also Feb. 13.
Sunday, Feb. 15
'Blugold Performance of the Air.' Hosted by UW-Eau Claire student Chris Malina, this Wisconsin Public Radio show features UW-Eau Claire student and faculty groups. Today's show will feature the November 2008 "Mayhem with Mozart" performance by the Opera Workshop Ensemble. WUEC radio, 89.7 FM, 5 p.m.
'Jazz, Blues and Beyond.' Hosted by UW-Eau Claire English faculty member David Jones and student Chris Malina, today's show will feature a collection of music from UW-Eau Claire's Jazz Ensemble I. WUEC radio, 89.7 FM, 6 p.m.
Campus Films. "The Fountain." Davies Theatre, 6 and 8:30 p.m. See Feb. 12 item.
'Local Independence.' Hosted by UW-Eau Claire student David Smuhl, this Wisconsin Public Radio show features local music and interviews with people from the Chippewa Valley. Today's show will feature NOTA's art director, one of the minds behind the bands Farms and O'Israel as well as a solo project by Ben Larson. Send music requests to email@example.com. WUEC radio, 89.7 FM, 7 p.m.
Monday, Feb. 16
Investment counseling. Have you recently reviewed your investment portfolio or taken full advantage of your ability to invest in a 403(b) plan? Andrew Court from Ameriprise Financial will be available to meet with UW-Eau Claire staff members from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. today in the Maple Room of Davies Center. For more information or to reserve a specific time, contact Court at firstname.lastname@example.com or 834-7280. Walk-ins also are welcome.
Provost/Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Candidate Open Forum. Martin Tadlock, a candidate for the position of provost/vice chancellor for academic affairs at UW-Eau Claire, will present an open forum. Hibbard 102, 3 to 4 p.m. More information.
Martin Mogensen Education Lecture. Education strategies designed to help all children succeed will be the topic of a presentation by nationally recognized child advocate Rick Miller during the sixth annual Martin Mogensen Education Lecture. Miller's lecture, "Kids at Risk, Kids at Hope," lecture will focus on how schools and nonprofit agencies can adopt a cultural strategic framework to support the success of all children. The presentation, sponsored by the College of Education and Human Sciences and the Eau Claire Area School District, is free and open to the public. Schofield Auditorium, 4:30 p.m. More information.
University Bulletin • Vol. 56, No. 21 • Third Week • Spring Semester • Feb. 9, 2009
Julie Poquette, Editor, UW-Eau Claire News Bureau, Schofield 201, 715-836-4741
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Date: Saturday, 2 August 2014, at 8:19 a.m.
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*We are student orientated and not parent orientated.
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