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dacarr writes "The five remaining members of Monty Python will be performing in the O2 Arena, and their last show as a comedy troupe will be simulcast across hundreds of theaters in the UK, and roughly 1,500 more across the world, according to the Guardian. Michael Palin says this is really going to be the last time before the Pythons cease to be. Well, at least, before Monty Python, as a comedy troupe, runs down the curtain and joins the bleedin' choir invisible."
sciencehabit writes: "Does reading faster mean reading better? That's what speed-reading apps claim, promising to boost not just the number of words you read per minute, but also how well you understand a text. There's just one problem: The same thing that speeds up reading actually gets in the way of comprehension, according to a new study (abstract). Apps like Spritz or the aptly-named Speed Read are built around the idea that these eye movements, called saccades, are a redundant waste of time. It's more efficient, their designers claim, to present words one at a time in a fixed spot on a screen, discouraging saccades and helping you get through a text more quickly. But that's not what researchers have found."
New submitter electronic convict writes: "Hulu, apparently worried that too many non-U.S. residents are using cheap VPN services to watch its U.S. programming, has started blocking IP address ranges belonging to known VPN services. Hulu didn't announce the ban, but users of the affected VPNs are getting this message: 'Based on your IP-address, we noticed that you are trying to access Hulu through an anonymous proxy tool. Hulu is not currently available outside the U.S. If you're in the U.S. you'll need to disable your anonymizer to access videos on Hulu.' Hulu may make Hollywood happy by temporarily locking out foreign users — at least until they find new VPN providers. But in so doing it's now forcing its U.S. customers to sacrifice their privacy and even to risk insecure connections. Hulu hasn't even implemented SSL on its site."
digitalPhant0m writes: "A story at the L.A. Times details how Verizon Wireless has started pushing the envelope (or downright abusing it) when it comes to tracking users without their knowledge. The company said, 'In addition to the customer information that's currently part of the program, we will soon use an anonymous, unique identifier we create when you register on our websites. This identifier may allow an advertiser to use information they have about your visits to websites from your desktop computer to deliver marketing messages to mobile devices on our network.' While newsworthy, the rate of privacy abuse revelations over the last few years makes it unsurprising."
Today Elon Musk announced that SpaceX has decided to challenge the U.S. Air Force's restrictions on rocket launches related to national security. Such launches are done with a Russian rocket right now, and that contract is not up for competition with other rocket makers, like SpaceX. Musk says the company has exhausted other options to become part of the bidding process. "We're just protesting and saying these launches should be competed. And if we compete and lose, that's fine, but why were they not even competed?" He also said it's the "wrong time to send hundreds of millions of dollars to the Kremlin," referencing events in the Ukraine.
At the same press conference, Musk announced that SpaceX's recent attempt to soft-land a rocket booster stage was successful. It landed and was in "healthy condition" immediately afterward. Unfortunately, they weren't able to recover it because it landed in the middle of a rough storm, which eventually destroyed the stage. The storm was rough enough that the Coast Guard wouldn't even send a boat out to help recover it. Musk said, "We'll get much bigger boats next time." SpaceX also plans on landing the stage on shore at some point, which makes recovery easier. Musk made this prediction: "I expect we will be able to land a stage back at Cape Canaveral by the end of the year."
Brandon Butler writes: "Supporters of the faceless collective known as Anonymous have taken up the cause of a young girl, after the State of Massachusetts removed her from her parents earlier this year. However, the methods used to show support may have unintended consequences, which could impact patient care. On Thursday, the Boston Children's Hospital confirmed that they were subjected to multiple DDoS attacks over the Easter holiday. Said attacks, which have continued throughout the week, aim to take the hospital's website offline. Similar attacks, including website defacement, have also targeted the Wayside Youth and Family Support Network. Both organizations are at the heart of a sensitive topic, child welfare and the rights of a parent." Members of Anonymous are now calling for a halt to the attacks.
Advocatus Diaboli (1627651) writes "For years the U.S. military has been waging a biometric war in Afghanistan, working to unravel the insurgent networks operating throughout the country by collecting the personal identifiers of large portions of the population. A restricted U.S. Army guide on the use of biometrics in Afghanistan obtained by Public Intelligence provides an inside look at this ongoing battle to identify the Afghan people."
dcblogs (1096431) writes "The 75 students in the 2014 Master of Science in Analytics class at North Carolina State University received, in total, 246 job offers from 55 employers, valued at $22.5 million in salaries and bonuses, which is 24% higher than last year's combined offers. But the problem ahead is admissions. There may not be enough master's programs in analytics to meet demand. NC State has received nearly 800 applications for 85 seats. Its acceptance rate is now at 12.5%. Northwestern University's Master of Science in Analytics received 600 applications for 30 openings its September class. That's an acceptance rate of 6%"
mdsolar (1045926) writes "The tiny Pacific republic of the Marshall Islands, scene of massive U.S. nuclear tests in the 1950s, sued the United States and eight other nuclear-armed countries on Thursday, accusing them of failing in their obligation to negotiate nuclear disarmament. The Pacific country accused all nine nuclear-armed states of 'flagrant violation of international law' for failing to pursue the negotiations required by the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. It filed one suit specifically directed against the United States, in the Federal District Court in San Francisco, while others against all nine countries were lodged at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, capital of the Netherlands, a statement from an anti-nuclear group backing the suits said. The action was supported by South African Nobel Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation said."
An anonymous reader writes "A band of space hackers and engineers are trying to do something never done before — recover a 36 year old NASA spacecraft from the grips of deep space and time. With old NASA documents and Rockethub crowdfunding, a team led by Dennis Wingo and Keith Cowing is attempting to steer ISEE-3, later rechristened ICE, the International Cometary Explorer, back into an Earth orbit and return it to scientific operations. Dennis says, 'ISEE-3 can become a great teaching tool for future engineers and scientists helping with design and travel to Mars'. Only 40 days remain before the spacecraft will be out of range for recovery. A radio telescope is available, propulsion designs are in hand and the team is hoping for public support to provide the small amount needed to accomplish a very unique milestone in space exploration."
An anonymous reader writes "A group of tech companies including Google and Apple have agreed to settle an antitrust lawsuit over no-hire agreements in Silicon Valley. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. From the article: 'Tech workers filed a class action lawsuit against Apple Inc, Google Inc, Intel Inc and Adobe Systems Inc in 2011, alleging they conspired to refrain from soliciting one another's employees in order to avert a salary war. Trial had been scheduled to begin at the end of May on behalf of roughly 64,000 workers in the class.'"
sciencehabit (1205606) writes "As eagerness to explore the Arctic's oil and gas resources grows, the threat of a major Arctic oil spill looms ever larger—and the United States has a lot of work to do to prepare for that inevitability, a panel convened by the National Research Council (NRC) declares in a report released yesterday. The committee, made up of members of academia and industry, recommended beefing up forecasting systems for ocean and ice conditions, infrastructure for supply chains for people and equipment to respond, field research on the behavior of oil in the Arctic environment, and other strategies to prepare for a significant spill in the harsh conditions of the Arctic." Shortest version: no one has any idea how any spill cleanup techniques would work in the arctic environment.
peetm (781139) writes "Having visited with me and my wife recently, the girlfriend of an ex-student of mine (now taking an M.Sc. in pure CS) asked me to suggest useful books for her boyfriend: '... He recently mentioned that he would love to have a home library, like the one you have, with variety of good, useful and must-have books from different authors. ... Mostly, I was thinking your advice would be priceless when it comes to computer science related books, but .. I would appreciate any sort of advice on books from you. ...' Whilst I could scan my own library for ideas, I doubt that I'm really that 'current' with what's good, or whether my favorites would be appropriate: I've not taught on the M.Sc. course for a while, and in some cases, and just given their price, I shouldn't really recommend such books that are just pet loves of mine — especially to someone who doesn't know whether they'd even be useful.
And, before you ask: YES, we do have a reading list, but given that he'll receive this as part of this course requirement anyway, I'd like to tease readers to suggest good reads around the periphery of the subject."
I'll throw out Pierce's Types and Programming Languages (and probably Advanced Topics in Types and Programming Languages ), and Okasaki's Purely Functional Data Structures .
jfruh (300774) writes "Up until three years ago, Meredith Attwell Baker was an Obama-appointed FCC commissioner. Now she's the newly minted CEO of the CTIA, the nation's largest lobbying group for the mobile phone industry. How can we expect regulators to keep a careful watch over industries when high-paying jobs in those industries await them after retirement? One of the most damning sentences in that article: 'More than 80 percent of FCC commissioners since 1980 have gone on to work for companies or groups in the industries they used to regulate.'"
jones_supa (887896) writes "The PC-BSD project is developing a new open source (BSD license) desktop environment from scratch. The name of the project is Lumina and it will be based around the Qt toolkit. The ultimate goal is to replace KDE as the default desktop of PC-BSD. Lumina aims to be lightweight, stable, fast-running, and FreeDesktop.org/XDG compliant. Most of the Lumina work is being done by PC-BSD's Ken Moore. Even though Lumina is still in its early stages, it can be built and run successfully, and an alpha version can already be obtained from PC-BSD's ports/package repositories."
wiredmikey (1824622) writes "Technology giants including Microsoft, Google, Intel, and Cisco are banding together to support and fund open source projects that make up critical elements of global information infrastructure. The new Core Infrastructure Initiative brings technology companies together to identify and fund open source projects that are widely used in core computing and Internet functions, The Linux Foundation announced today. Formed primarily as the industry's response to the Heartbleed crisis, the OpenSSL library will be the initiative's first project. Other open source projects will follow. The funds will be administered by the Linux Foundation and a steering group comprised of the founding members, key open source developers, and other industry stakeholders. Anyone interested in joining the initiative, or donating to the fund can visit the Core Infrastructure Initiative site."
Dega704 (1454673) writes in with news of the latest FCC plan which seems to put another dagger in the heart of net neutrality. "The Federal Communications Commission will propose new rules that allow Internet service providers to offer a faster lane through which to send video and other content to consumers, as long as a content company is willing to pay for it, according to people briefed on the proposals. The proposed rules are a complete turnaround for the F.C.C. on the subject of so-called net neutrality, the principle that Internet users should have equal ability to see any content they choose, and that no content providers should be discriminated against in providing their offerings to consumers."
Bennett Haselton writes: "If you watch a movie or TV show (legally) on your mobile device while away from your home network, it's usually by streaming it on a data plan. This consumes an enormous amount of a scarce resource (data bundled with your cell phone provider's data plan), most of it unnecessarily, since many of those users could have downloaded the movie in advance on their home broadband connection — if it weren't for pointless DRM restrictions." Read on for the rest of Bennett's thoughts.
Rambo Tribble (1273454) writes "The B612 Foundation, a U.S.-based nuclear test monitoring group, has disclosed that their acoustic sensors show asteroid impacts to be much more common than previously thought. Between 2000 and 2013 their infrasound system detected 26 major explosions due to asteroid strikes. The impacts were gauged at energies of 1 to 600 kilotons, compared to 45 kilotons for 1945 Hiroshima bomb."
An anonymous reader writes "AT&T officially announced on Tuesday their intention to launch a Netflix-like service in collaboration with an investment group run by a former Fox president. AT&T is following in the footsteps of Verizon, which partnered with Redbox in 2012 to offer the same type of service, and like Verizon, is also still negotiating with Netflix on payments to not throttle Netflix traffic."
An anonymous reader writes "On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that police officers are legally allowed to stop and search vehicles based solely on anonymous 911 tips. Justice Clarence Thomas, writing for the majority opinion, reasoned that 'a 911 call has some features that allow for identifying and tracking callers' as well as for recording their calls, both of which he believed gave anonymous callers enough reliability for police officers to act on their tips with reasonable suspicion against the people being reported.
The specific case before them involved an anonymous woman who called 911 to report a driver who forced her off the road. She gave the driver's license plate number and the make and model of his car as well as the location of the incident in question. Police officers later found him, pulled him over, smelled marijuana, and searched his car. They found 30 pounds of weed and subsequently arrested the driver. The driver later challenged the constitutionality of the arrest, claiming that a tip from an anonymous source was unreliable and therefore failed to meet the criteria of reasonable suspicion, which would have justified the stop and search. Five of the nine justices disagreed with him."
The ruling itself (PDF).
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes: "The Supreme Court, by a vote of 6 — 2, has upheld a Michigan law banning the use of racial criteria in college admissions, finding that a lower court did not have the authority to set aside the measure approved in a 2006 referendum supported by 58% of voters. 'This case is not about how the debate about racial preferences should be resolved. It is about who may resolve it,' wrote Justice Anthony Kennedy. 'Michigan voters used the initiative system to bypass public officials who were deemed not responsive to the concerns of a majority of the voters with respect to a policy of granting race-based preferences that raises difficult and delicate issues.' Kennedy's core opinion in the Michigan case seems to exalt referenda as a kind of direct democracy that the courts should be particularly reluctant to disturb. This might be a problem for same-sex marriage opponents if a future Supreme Court challenge involves a state law or constitutional amendment enacted by voters.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor reacted sharply in disagreeing with the decision in a 58 page dissent. 'For members of historically marginalized groups, which rely on the federal courts to protect their constitutional rights, the decision can hardly bolster hope for a vision of democracy (PDF) that preserves for all the right to participate meaningfully and equally in self-government.' The decision was the latest step in a legal and political battle over whether state colleges can use race and gender as a factor in choosing what students to admit. Michigan has said minority enrollment at its flagship university, the University of Michigan, has not gone down since the measure was passed. Civil rights groups dispute those figures and say other states have seen fewer African-American and Hispanic students attending highly competitive schools, especially in graduate level fields like law, medicine, and science."
Daniel_Stuckey writes: "Silk Road, the online marketplace notable for selling drugs and attempting to operate over Tor, was shut down last October. Its successor, Silk Road 2.0 survived for a few months before suffering a security breach. In total, an estimated $2.7 million worth of Bitcoin belonging to users and staff of the site was stolen. Some in the Silk Road community suspected that the hack might have involved staff members of the site itself, echoing scams on other sites. Project Black Flag closed down after its owner scampered with all of their customers' Bitcoin, and after that users of Sheep Marketplace had their funds stolen, in an incident that has never been conclusively proven as an inside job or otherwise. Many site owners would probably have given up at this point, and perhaps attempted to join another site, or start up a new one under a different alias. Why would you bother to pay back millions of dollars when you could just disappear into the digital ether? But Silk Road appears to be trying to rebuild, and to repay users' lost Bitcoins."
An anonymous reader writes "The U.S. general population is often the butt of jokes with regard to their understanding of science. A survey by the Associated Press now shows just how arbitrary and erratic the public's dissent can be. 'The good news is that more than 80 percent of those surveyed are strongly confident that smoking causes cancer; only four percent doubt it. Roughly 70 percent accepted that we have a genome and that mental illness is seated in the brain; about 20 percent were uncertain on these subjects, and the doubters were few. But things go downhill from there. Only about half of the people accepted that vaccines are safe and effective, with 15 percent doubting. And that's one of the controversial topics where the public did well. As for humanity's role in climate change, 33 percent accepted, 28 percent were unsure, and 37 percent fell in the doubter category. For a 4.5-billion-year-old Earth and a 13.8-billion-year-old Big Bang, acceptance was below 30 percent. Fully half of the public doubted the Big Bang (PDF).'"
An anonymous reader writes "Andrew Kelley was a big fan of the Amarok open source music player. But a few years ago, its shortcomings were becoming more annoying and the software's development path no longer matched with the new features he wanted. So he did what any enterprising hacker would do: he started work on a replacement. Three and a half years later, his project, Groove Basin, has evolved into a solid music player, and it's still under active development. Kelley has now posted a write-up of his development process, talking about what problems he encountered, how he solved them, and how he ended up contributing code to libav."
theodp writes: "You may recall that inBloom is a data initiative that sought to personalize learning. GeekWire's Tricia Duryee now reports that inBloom, which was backed by $100 million from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and others, is closing up shop after parents worried that its database technology was violating their children's privacy. According to NY Times coverage (reg.), the inBloom database tracked 400 different data fields about students — including family relationships ('foster parent' or 'father's significant other') and reasons for enrollment changes ('withdrawn due to illness' or 'leaving school as a victim of a serious violent incident') — that parents objected to, prompting some schools to recoil from the venture. In a statement, inBloom CEO Iwan Streichenberger said that personalized learning was still an emerging concept, and complained that the venture had been 'the subject of mischaracterizations and a lightning rod for misdirected criticism.' He added, 'It is a shame that the progress of this important innovation has been stalled because of generalized public concerns about data misuse, even though inBloom has world-class security and privacy protections that have raised the bar for school districts and the industry as a whole.' [Although it was still apparently vulnerable to Heartbleed.] Gates still has a couple of irons left in the data-driven personalized learning fire via his ties to Code.org, which seeks 7 years of participating K-12 students' data, and Khan Academy, which recently attracted scrutiny over its data-privacy policies."
Nerval's Lobster (2598977) writes "Last month, a report suggested that Austin has the highest salaries for tech workers (after factoring in the cost of living), followed by Atlanta, Denver, Boston, and Silicon Valley. Now, a new report (yes, from Dice, because it gathers this sort of data from tech workers) suggests that more tech people are earning six figures a year than ever. Some 32 percent of full-time tech pros took home more than $100,000 in 2013, according to the findings, up from 30 percent in 2012 and 26 percent in 2011. For contractors, the data is even better: In 2013, a staggering 54 percent of them earned more than $100,000 a year, up from 51 percent the previous year and 50 percent in 2011. How far that money goes depends on where you live, of course, but it does seem like a growing number of the world's tech workers are earning a significant amount of cash."
ananyo (2519492) writes "Overall working hours have fallen over the past century. But the rich have begun to work longer hours than the poor. In 1965 men with a college degree, who tend to be richer, had a bit more leisure time than men who had only completed high school. But by 2005 the college-educated had eight hours less of it a week than the high-school grads. Figures from the American Time Use Survey, released last year, show that Americans with a bachelor's degree or above work two hours more each day than those without a high-school diploma. Other research shows that the share of college-educated American men regularly working more than 50 hours a week rose from 24% in 1979 to 28% in 2006, but fell for high-school dropouts. The rich, it seems, are no longer the class of leisure. The reasons are complex but include rising income inequality but also the availability of more intellectually stimulating, well-remunerated work." (And, as the article points out, "Increasing leisure time [among less educated workers] probably reflects a deterioration in their employment prospects as low-skill and manual jobs have withered.")
An anonymous reader writes with news about a scam with a twist. The scammers purchased login details to internal Comcast systems from an employee using them to lower the bills of Comcast customers, for a price. "Alston Buchanan, the mastermind of a two-man scam to lower the bills of Comcast customers for a price, pleaded guilty last week and awaits sentencing. His accomplice, Richard Justin Spraggins, who also pleaded guilty in February, will serve 11-23 months in prison and pay Comcast $66,825. Their operation purportedly cost Comcast $2.4 million, and Comcast claims that the loss has forced them to raise the rates on all their customers. However, the allegedly huge financial loss went undetected until a Comcast customer reported his/her suspicions to Comcast customer service."
Nemo the Magnificent (2786867) writes "In this guy's opinion most IT workers can't think critically. They are incapable of diagnosing a problem, developing a possible solution, and implementing it. They also have little fundamental understanding of the businesses their employers are in, which is starting to get limiting as silos are collapsing within some corporations and IT workers are being called upon to participate in broader aspects of the business. Is that what you see where you are?"
Hugh Pickens DOT Com (2995471) writes "Paul Monies reports at NewsOK that Oklahoma's legislature has passed a bill that allows regulated utilities to apply to the Oklahoma Corporation Commission to charge a higher base rate to customers who generate solar and wind energy and send their excess power back into the grid reversing a 1977 law that forbade utilities to charge extra to solar users. 'Renewable energy fed back into the grid is ultimately doing utility companies a service,' says John Aziz. 'Solar generates in the daytime, when demand for electricity is highest, thereby alleviating pressure during peak demand.'
The state's major electric utilities backed the bill but couldn't provide figures on how much customers already using distributed generation are getting subsidized by other customers. Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. and Public Service Co. of Oklahoma have about 1.3 million electric customers in the state. They have about 500 customers using distributed generation. Kathleen O'Shea, OG&E spokeswoman, said few distributed generation customers want to sever their ties to the grid. 'If there's something wrong with their panel or it's really cloudy, they need our electricity, and it's going to be there for them,' O'Shea said. 'We just want to make sure they're paying their fair amount of that maintenance cost.' The prospect of widespread adoption of rooftop solar worries many utilities. A report last year by the industry's research group, the Edison Electric Institute, warns of the risks posed by rooftop solar (PDF). 'When customers have the opportunity to reduce their use of a product or find another provider of such service, utility earnings growth is threatened," the report said. "As this threat to growth becomes more evident, investors will become less attracted to investments in the utility sector.''"
An anonymous reader writes "In a claim brought by The New York Times and the ACLU, the Second US Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the administration must disclose the legal basis for targeting Americans with drones. From the article: 'Government officials from Obama on down have publicly commented on the program, but they claimed the Office of Legal Counsel's memo outlining the legal rationale about it was a national security secret. The appeals court, however, said on Monday that officials' comments about overseas drone attacks means the government has waived its secrecy argument. "After senior Government officials have assured the public that targeted killings are 'lawful' and that OLC advice 'establishes the legal boundaries within which we can operate,'" the appeals court said, "waiver of secrecy and privilege as to the legal analysis in the Memorandum has occurred" (PDF).'"
An anonymous reader writes in with an interesting look at how important plate tectonics may be to life and why the crust on Venus works differently than it does on Earth. "Without plate tectonics, carbon would build up in the atmosphere. Venus, which does not have tectonics, shows the results: an atmosphere that is 96 percent carbon dioxide. It's toxic. Yet Venus is about the same size and composition as our planet, so why doesn't it have plate tectonics? Some researchers made a model to explore how Earth initiated plate movements, and these same researchers made one model of its neighbor for comparison. A 1.5-billion-year-old Earth and a similarly aged Venus were modeled as a hot, mushy material made of tiny particles of rock. The model uses physics at the one-millimeter rock grain scale to explain how the whole planet behaves. According to David Bercovici, a geophysicist at Yale who was an author on the paper, the model also shows how plate tectonics emerged on Earth but not on her twin."
An anonymous reader writes "Here's an interesting look at the battle for mobile video game money between Google and Apple. 'Last August, for the launch of "Plants Vs. Zombies 2," a highly anticipated sequel to a popular zombie-survival strategy game, publisher Electronic Arts Inc. struck a deal with Apple, which promoted the game prominently in its App Store, according to people familiar with the matter. In exchange, one of these people said, EA agreed to give Apple about a two-month window of exclusivity for the title, which wasn't released on Google's Android software until October.'"
darthcamaro (735685) writes "The Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability has dominated IT security headlines for two weeks now as the true impact the flaw and its reach is being felt. But what will all of this cost? One figure that has been suggested is $500 million, using the 2001 W.32 Nimda worm as a precedent. Is that number too low — or is it too high?"
theodp (442580) writes "In a NY Times interview on How to Get a Job at Google with Laszlo Bock, who is in charge of all hiring at Google, the subject of grit-based hiring came up. Bock explained: 'I was on campus speaking to a student who was a computer science and math double major, who was thinking of shifting to an economics major because the computer science courses were too difficult. I told that student they are much better off being a B student in computer science than an A+ student in English because it signals a rigor in your thinking and a more challenging course load. That student will be one of our interns this summer.' Bock also advised, 'You need to be very adaptable, so that you have a baseline skill set that allows you to be a call center operator today and tomorrow be able to interpret MRI scans.'"
New submitter Chipmunk100 (3619141) writes "Using corn crop residue to make ethanol and other biofuels reduces soil carbon and can generate more greenhouse gases than gasoline, according to a study published today in the journal Nature Climate Change. The findings by a University of Nebraska-Lincoln team of researchers cast doubt on whether corn residue can be used to meet federal mandates to ramp up ethanol production and reduce greenhouse gas emissions."
An anonymous reader writes "A high school science teacher at Grand Arts High School in Los Angeles was suspended from the classroom in February, after two of his science fair students turned in projects deemed dangerous by the administrators. "One project was a marshmallow shooter — which uses air pressure to launch projectiles. The other was an AA battery-powered coil gun — which uses electromagnetism to launch small objects. Similar projects have been honored in past LA County Science Fairs and even demonstrated at the White House."
An anonymous reader writes "The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a Scientology front group, has received a 'grant from Google in the amount of $10,000 per month worth of Pay Per Click Advertising to be used in our Orange County anti-psych campaigns.' CCHR believes that ALL psychiatrists are evil. They believe that psychiatrists were behind the holocaust, and these shadow men were never brought to justice. CCHR also believes that psychiatrists were behind the 911 attacks. Scientologists believe that psychiatrists have always been evil, and their treachery goes back 75 million years when the psychiatrists assisted XENU in killing countless alien life forms. Thanks Google! We may be able to stop these evil Psychs once and for all!"
Hugh Pickens DOT Com (2995471) writes "The Christian Science Monitor reports that once again, the Obama administration has pushed back a final decision on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline possibly delaying the final determination until after the November midterm elections. In announcing the delay, the State Department cited a Nebraska Supreme Court case that could affect the route of the pipeline that may not be decided until next year, as well as additional time needed to review 2.5 million public comments on the project. Both supporters and opponents of the pipeline criticized the delay as a political ploy. Democratic incumbents from oil-rich states have urged President Obama to approve the pipeline but approving the pipeline before the election could staunch the flow of money from liberal donors and fund-raisers who oppose the project. The Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell said in a statement that "at a time of high unemployment in the Obama economy, it's a shame that the administration has delayed the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline for years." Activists say its construction could devastate the environment, but several State Department reviews have concluded that the pipeline would be safe and was unlikely to significantly increase the rate of carbon pollution in the atmosphere. Even if the pipeline was canceled, it said, the oil sands crude was likely to be extracted and brought to market by other means, such as rail, and then processed and burned."
New submitter CrAlt (3208) writes with this news snipped from BSD news stalwart undeadly.org: "After the news of heartbleed broke early last week, the OpenBSD team dove in and started axing it up into shape. Leading this effort are Ted Unangst (tedu@) and Miod Vallat (miod@), who are head-to-head on a pure commit count basis with both having around 50 commits in this part of the tree in the week since Ted's first commit in this area. They are followed closely by Joel Sing (jsing@) who is systematically going through every nook and cranny and applying some basic KNF. Next in line are Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) and Bob Beck (beck@) who've been both doing a lot of cleanup, ripping out weird layers of abstraction for standard system or library calls. ... All combined, there've been over 250 commits cleaning up OpenSSL. In one week.'" You can check out the stats, in progress.
As the San Francisco Chronicle reports, "People who have accounts on the enrollment website for President Barack Obama's signature health care law are being told to change their passwords following an administration-wide review of the government's vulnerability to the confounding Heartbleed Internet security flaw." Take note, though; the article goes on to immediately point out this does not mean that the HealthCare.gov site has been compromised: "Senior administration officials said there is no indication that the HealthCare.gov site has been compromised and the action is being taken out of an abundance of caution. The government's Heartbleed review is ongoing, the officials said, and users of other websites may also be told to change their passwords in the coming days, including those with accounts on the popular WhiteHouse.gov petitions page." Also at The Verge
Three former astronauts — Ed Lu, Tom Jones, and Bill Anders — say that reassuring figures about the rarity of asteroid collisions with Earth are perhaps too reassuring. The B612 Foundation, of which Lu is a director, has been established to draw public awareness to the risks of a large asteroid hitting a population center -- which these three men say is a far more serious public danger than has been acknowledged by NASA and other agencies. And beyond awareness, the Foundation's immediate goal is to raise money to " design and build an asteroid-finding space telescope and launch it by 2017," and then, Armageddon-style, to follow that up with technology to divert any asteroids whose path would threaten earth.
Gud (78635) points to this story in the Washington Post about students
having trouble with paying for both food and school. "I recall a number of these experiences from my time as grad student. I remember choosing between eating, living in bad neighborhoods, putting gas in the car, etc. Me and my fellow students still refer to ourselves as the 'starving grad students.' Today we laugh about these experiences because we all got good jobs that lifted us out of poverty, but not everyone is that fortunate. I wonder how many students are having hard time concentrating on their studies due to worrying where the next meal comes from. In the article I found the attitude of collage admins to the idea of meal plan point sharing, telling as how little they care about anything else but soak students & parents for fees and pester them later on with requests for donations. Last year I did the college tour for my first child, after reading the article, some of the comments I heard on that tour started making more sense. Like 'During exams you go to the dining hall in the morning, eat and study all day for one swipe' or 'One student is doing study on what happens when you live only on Ramen noodles!'
How common is 'food insecurity in college or high school'? What tricks can you share with current students?"
Rambo Tribble (1273454) writes "The aficionados of beer and distilled spirits could be in for a major price-shock, if proposals by the Food and Drug Administration come to pass. Currently, breweries are allowed to sell unprocessed brewing by-products to feed farm animals. Farmers prize the nutritious, low-cost feed. But, new rules proposed by the FDA could force brewers to implement costly processing facilities or dump the by-products as waste. As one brewer put it, "Beer prices would go up for everybody to cover the cost of the equipment and installation.""
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alphadogg writes: "Americans are optimistic about scientific inventions on the horizon, though are cautious about future uses of DNA, robots, drones and always-on implants, according to the latest Pew Research Center survey on future technology (PDF). Asked about the likelihood of certain advances 50 years from now, survey respondents were most sure that lab-grown custom organs for transplant will happen (81%). Only 19% expect humans will be able to control the weather by then. When asked how they felt about possible near-term advances, 65% thought robot caregivers for the elderly is a bad idea, 63% didn't want to see personal drones in U.S. airspace, and 66% thought parents altering the DNA of prospective children was a bad idea."
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I am already spayed and up to date with shots.
Meet Sadie! She is a four month old Terrier mix with wire hair. Sadie is a very smart girl, have a treat in your hand and she will try her best to do anything you ask of her. Unfortunately Sadie was abandoned at our facility so we do not know if she is good with cats or other dogs. However, due to her sweet disposition and young age we think she can learn to live in harmony with other animals. To add to Sadies list of great qualities she is also housebroken. Sadie is spayed, up to date on vaccinations and microchipped.
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Sadie, a Jackson Fox Terrier (Wirehaired) puppy was adopted! Here's how you can benefit by looking at adoption as an option to buying a Fox Terrier (Wirehaired) for sale in Jackson, or seeking a Fox Terrier (Wirehaired) puppy from a breeder in Jackson.
- Rescues and shelter volunteers in Jackson already know the personality and tendencies of their pets. This means they can match you with the right pet. That will makes it much easier transition to owning a pet for yourself and your new pet.
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Hollywood producer Adrian Askarieh has revealed that Bruce Willis has signed up for the role of Kane in the upcoming Kane and Lynch movie, a remake of the Eidos game.
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Born in London to parents who were both classical ballet dancers, Odinn was exposed to the atmosphere of predominantly classical music in his early formative years. He began his formal music training at the junior department of Trinity College of Music. On completing his course, having been awarded the Hambourg award for improvisation, he went to London College of Music, where he studied with Patricia Lynden and Rainer Schuelein , graduating with Honours. Odinn's repertoire is wide and varied, ranging from Baroque to 20 th . Century and contemporary, and includes most of the flute repertoire's popular major works. He has attended several master classes with William Bennett and most recently studied with the international flautist Susan Milan. A winner of several competitions, including Croydon and Ealing festivals in the Solo Recital and Concerto classes and having played at the Purcell Room, Odinn made his recital debut in Reykjavik, Iceland. Since then, he has performed for music clubs, societies and festivals in England, Switzerland and France - including Paris - and has been offered several return visits due to popular demand. He performed in a series of concerts at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2006. For a number of years Odinn has performed regularly for the local community in North and North West London, as well as in most of central London churches including St. Martin's in the Fields and St. James's Piccadilly where he appears regularly. As a soloist, he has played with the Brent Symphony Orchestra, and was principal flute with the Millennium Sinfonia. He runs a private teaching practice in North West London. In 2007 he started a duo with the pianist Patricia Romero and they have given several concerts in and around London, including St. James's Piccadilly and St. John's in Harrow on the Hill. This is their first recording. |
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Hi Guys,
I'm currently having a problem with the source / destination cross reference symbols (see image attached)
The Sheet number in the cross reference symbol (2080) always returns the %S - Sheet value. I actually need it to show the %D value and not %S.
In the drawing properties - under cross-references i have written %D, yet %S still keeps being used int he reference symbol.
I tried using symbol editor to change the "SHEET" attribute to the %D attribute - but that didn't work.
Any help would be greatly appreciated as this is a major problem on our project at the moment.
Thanks for your help
Did you check that the drawing properties are the same for all the sheets?
Try to do a project update on the signal tag/retag to see if it works.
Hi, i've checked that the drawing and project properties all match.
I changed the %D%N to only %N, updated the source cross reference symbol, and it still displayed the %S sheet number.
This means that the cross-references in the drawing properties aren't linked to the Source cross reference symbol?
Maybe, you can double check that the destination from arrow is correctly reference to the source arrow.
Or you can use the IEC sample project in ACE, and try editing the sample source arrow and cross references format to see if the same issue happened too?
Hi lionSG
I believe that the arrow style that you are using actually uses the sheet number automatically. You may want to try copying those blocks and modifying them to create a new style (#5-#9 are open for user custom styles) to meet your exact needs. Here are a couple of links to some further information in the help that may be of further assistance:
Add custom signal arrow styles
Look for the heading "Source/Destination Wire Signal Arrow Symbols"
Hopefully this information will be useful!
Hi Jared,
i've created a custom source cross reference symbol by copying HA3S and renaming it to HA5S.
My next question is, how to i get the attribute "SHEET" to show my %D value which i have assigned to the attribute 'REF-NO' in my title block?
I renamed the attribute "SHEET" in the cross reference symbol to "REF-NO" but it doesn't update it with the %D value.
I imagine this issue has been resolved since its been quite a few months.
But if not, and I understand you right I believe you are looking for the "DWGNAM" attribute.
Im not an experienced ACADE user but I hot think it matters what you rename the attribute in the WD_TB you still have to use the original name. For instance I've assigned 'SHEET" to "D_SHT" but I still have to use the SHEET attribute name.
I have a question of my own regarding signal arrows
. Whats the difference between HA2XX and HA3XX attribute wise? They both have sheet numbers but HA2 only uses XREF and HA2xx has to use SHEET. Even if you delete the SHEET attribute on HA3 and just use XREF it wont have the SHEET value like HA2 does.
Any idea why this is? Im not just curious, its been a problem for me.
Ok, so forget my question above.
I just spent some time with it and found out why it wasnt working.
I was using the Swap and Update tool to purge and get latest signal arrow and i hadnt checked Update Attributes. Needless to say it wasnt updating the XREF, but just deleting SHEET...
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you win sometimes you don't. But still, despite the fact of having 50% chance of not winning, many people are interested to play the game and take their chances as the prize at stake is often too high and unimaginable. Powerball Lottery is among the many kinds of lottery played by thousands of people each day and tries out their luck. The mechanics of the game is that there will be six balls drawn: 5 from the 59 white balls and 1 red ball out of the 39. Though only 6 balls will be drawn out of the 98 balls inside the box, there are nine ways on how one can


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A WALKING program FOR SCSU Faculty & Staff
Save the date!! Kick off walk Monday, October 6th @ 12:15pm
We'll be walking 'Monday Miles' every Monday in the Fall semester at 12:15pm, meeting at the Moore Field House lobby. Make sure to keep a pair of sneakers at your desk or in your car, and dress for the weather! If the weather is really poor, we'll walk inside the Field House track!
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Americans have a right to know that the money Washington takes from them is well spent. And Americans deserve an efficient, effective and responsive government to the people for whom it exists. The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is responsible for conducting oversight, advancing transparency, and instilling accountability throughout the Executive Branch.
The Committee also has legislative jurisdiction over the District of Columbia, the government procurement process, federal personnel systems, the Postal Service and other matters. There is no program or agency beyond the reach of the investigations and oversight of this Committee. I intend to actively engage on this committee, particularly on the two subcommittees to which I was appointed.
Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job Creation and Regulatory Affairs
This subcommittee's broad focus on Washington bureaucracies will review rules and regulations that are weighing down jobs and economic growth in the nation and in Wyoming. Wyoming deserves to know what is driving this hyper-regulatory agenda that is taking priority over people, jobs, and sound science. Taxpayers also deserve a fair and transparent tax code that promotes economic growth and is conducive to free market savings and investment.
Subcommittee on National Security
This subcommittee helps ensure our national defense readiness and foreign operations security. As Congress focuses on debt reduction, we need to be transparent and accountable with our overseas dollars and ensure they are spent wisely and in the best interest of the United States. I intend to use this position to advocate for wise spending and wise policy both nationally, and as it relates to Wyoming's military installations and National Guard units. The subcommittee also has jurisdiction over immigration, emergency management, criminal justice and drug policy.
For more information: oversight.house.gov
COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, SPACE, and TECHNOLOGY
This committee's jurisdiction includes non-military research and development, including energy and environmental research and development, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, among others. With oversight of a $39 billion budget—more than 80% of which is focused on research and development—the committee encourages the research and development that leads to new innovations and technological advancements that will help strengthen our economy.
As a member of the Science Committee, I will work to bring sorely-needed accountability to the government's scientific judgment. With Wyoming's thriving energy market; unique land, water, and air quality needs; burgeoning science-based small businesses; and the new NCAR Supercomputer, it is imperative for Wyoming that sound science governs federal decision-making.
Subcommittee on Energy
I am honored to serve as the Chairman of the subcommittee on energy. This subcommittee has jurisdiction over the Department of Energy's research, development and demonstration programs, as well as DOE's laboratories. It also has jurisdiction over uranium supply and enrichment; DOE's waste management; fossil energy research and development; clean coal technology; and, energy conservation research and development. From my perch in the Chair, I intend to carefully review DOE's budget and activities as it relates to energy research and development, particularly DOE's activities in both fossil fuel and renewable energy technologies.
Subcommittee on Research
This subcommittee has legislative jurisdiction and general oversight and investigative authority on all matters relating to science policy and science education. Its scope includes the Office of Science and Technology Policy; the National Science Foundation; science, technology, engineering and mathematics education; university research policy and partnerships; computing, communications, networking, and information technology; and, agricultural, geological, and biological sciences research. The University of Wyoming, and other public and private groups in our state, is at the forefront of science research, particularly in the fields of energy and agriculture. I intend to highlight Wyoming's expertise on these and other issues on this subcommittee.
For more information: science.house.gov
The Natural Resources Committee has jurisdiction over many issues central to Wyoming and to the west. In particular, the Natural Resources Committee has oversight authority on Wyoming's expansive government-owned land; mineral production; all matters regarding national parks, forests, monuments, wilderness, and wildlife refuges; and Native American affairs. For Wyoming, there is not another Committee in Congress more meaningful to Wyoming than the Natural Resources Committee. In essence, the Natural Resources Committee is Wyoming's committee in the House.
Energy and Mineral Resources
With authority over American energy production on federal lands – both on and offshore – this subcommittee concentrates on a true "all-of-the-above" energy plan by increasing domestic energy production, expanding American energy jobs and reducing America's reliance on foreign energy. Wyoming is the number two energy producing state in the country, behind only Texas.
Public Lands and Environment Regulation
The Subcommittee on Public Land and Environmental Regulation is responsible for the vast network of federally owned lands including national parks and US forests throughout the country. This subcommittee works toward striking a suitable balance for the multiple use, protection and enjoyment of federally owned land. This subcommittee is newly charged with oversight of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). NEPA's affects on Wyoming's resource, agriculture, and recreation industries cannot be overstated.
Water and Power
Handling issues ranging from irrigation projects to hydropower throughout the country and interstate water rights, the Water and Power subcommittee deals with the contentious battle over our nation's water. The subcommittee has a commitment to clean emissions free hydroelectric power and is working towards more cost manageable, regulation-less water project developments. This subcommittee also has jurisdiction over water use from Wyoming's seven river basins. As a headwaters state, water use and storage is critical to Wyoming's livelihood.
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Santa Rosa House Rental Rates
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- $500 deposit.
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This lovely patio home in on the 4th tee of the West course at Oakmont. This is the long course. Easy walk to the pool, library, market, banks, lawn bowling & many amenities. There are over 100 activities in which to participate, here in Oakmont.
Very short distance to about 200 wineries along with many very fine restaurants. Santa Rosa is served by the Charles Schultz airport for private planes and regional carriers. Just 54 miles to the Golden Gate bridge and San Francisco. Enjoy nature walks in Annadel State Park and Hood Mt.
Many theaters for live shows and musicals in Santa Rosa & the surrounding towns. Close to Russian River and Bodega Bay.
Keywords: Patio home
My husband and I have owned this property for over 10 years. Most of our tenants are regulars who come back year after year to escape the heat or cold, where they live. They also enjoy spending time with their local families. We cater to their needs very promptly and keep the place sparkling.
Jaci Rienecker purchased this house in 1999
The weather and all the amenities that I mentioned above. We love Sonoma county.


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Fabulous cluster and paper. Thanks so much, Angie. :balloons:
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I've published an article, "Getting on Track for a Sustainable Retirement: A Reality Check on Savings and Work" in the current October 2011 issue of the Journal of Financial Planning. I'd like to think that with some further development, the methodology outlined in this article can provide a useful contribution to the field of retirement planning. I finished writing the article at the end of June, and I discussed it here then, but these days have been working on other issues.
CanadianInvestor, who runs a blog named How to Invest Online, has written up an excellent summary of the article. I couldn't have said things better myself, so let me refer you to his/her (?) write-up if you are looking for a brief summary of the article, accompanied by extra interpretations with which I fully agree.


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The Comfy Cone is the only soft cone shape e-collar, which is veterinary tested and approved, for dogs & cats. Made of nylon laminated onto ½ " foam the unique design allows your pet to eat, drink and heal in comfort. The Comfy Cone is soft and yielding while being very sturdy and protective. Has a reflective outer edge for safety when walking at night. Is both water resistant and repellent and is easy to wipe clean. Uses Velcro closures that adjust to many different sizes and has elastic loops to thread your pets own collar through, keeping it secure in place and keeping your pet from pulling it off.


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[We are looking for a house sitter that is fond of animals and enjoys the countryside. We would like to have a few weekends away before going on a proper holiday abroad just to see how thing work out.
[We have 2 donkeys, 2 horses,3 dogs and some chickens so we need an animal lover that is able to handle all the above with experienced confidend care.The dogs will need walking daily.
We are require a non smoker that is honest and reliable
[The property is a well presented barn conversion in beautiful surroundings, overlooking ancient abbey .All mod cons including internet access. We are next to the coast to coast walk and the river Swale and within walking distance of the historic Georgian market town of Richmond in North yorks, swimming baths, cinema and restaurants.
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Academic Requirements
You are required to complete all business prerequisite courses by the end of the semester in which you apply to the program. In addition, you should complete the majority of Emory's general education requirements by the time you begin the BBA Program.
Once you are in the BBA Program, you will enroll in a core curriculum that provides a solid foundation in the fundamentals of business. All students must first obtain a firm basis in the liberal arts through a series of humanities, science and social science courses. All undergraduate BBAs are required to complete Emory's general education requirements prior to graduation.
Please note that the BBA Program requires that students be enrolled for a minimum of two full academic years. Summer semester does not count towards this requirement. The residency requirement is in place to allow students adequate time both to complete academic requirements and to engage in meaningful opportunities to apply the skills learned in the classroom.
Business Pre-requisites
You are required to complete all pre-requisite courses prior to matriculating in the BBA Program, but it is acceptable to be enrolled in one or more of the pre-requisite courses in the semester that you submit your application.
All pre-business students must complete the following:
- Math 111 (Calculus I) OR AP Calculus credit for either AB or BC Calculus (AB credit suffices) Note: Math 115, Life Sciences Calculus I, may satisfy this requirement.
- BUS 201 Business Economics (for Emory College students)
Econ 101 Microeconomics OR AP Micro credit
Econ 112 Macroeconomics OR AP Macro credit -
Emory College students: Bus 350 Data and Decision Analytics OR AP Statistics credit
Oxford College students: Math 117 Introduction to Probability and Statistical Inference OR AP Statistics credit
- BUS 210 Financial Accounting
- One Continued Writing (CWR) course in the College
*Completion of lab science prior to enrollment in the BBA Program is highly encouraged.
Advanced Placement Credits
If Emory University College Credit for Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Statistics, or AB or BC Calculus is posted on your transcript, these classes do not need to be repeated at Emory University.
General Education Requirements
The outline below is a suggested method for satisfying the general education requirements (GERs) while also completing undergraduate BBA prerequisite courses. You should plan to enter the BBA Program after completing most of your GERs.
In addition, some BBA core classes count towards fulfilling the GERs for BBA students. There is sufficient flexibility in the BBA curriculum to complete your remaining requirements, if necessary.Area I. | First Year Seminar (FSM) (Emory College students only.) |
Area II. | Freshman English/Writing Requirement (FWR) (One course) Please note: ENG 101, ENG 181, LIT 110, ENG 185 (Oxford) and AP English all fulfill this area. |
Area III. | Continuing Writing Requirements (CWR) (Three courses, grade of C or better)
Area IV. | Mathematical and Quantitative Reasoning (MQR) (One course) Please note: AP Calculus Credit, Math 111/112 or Math 119 fulfills this area. |
Area V. | Science, Nature and Technology (SNT) (Two courses, one of which must have a lab) Please note: BUS 351 Process and Systems Management (required BBA core class) fulfills one non-lab course in this area. Completion of a lab science is highly encouraged prior to enrollment in the BBA Program. |
Area VI. | History, Society, Cultures (HSC) (Two courses) Please note: ECON 101, ECON 112, and BUS 201 (BBA pre-requisites) and BUS 330 Organization and Management (required BBA core course) all fulfill one course in this area. |
Area VII. | Humanities, Arts, Performance (HAP) (Four courses; must include 2 courses in a single foreign language with possible exemption of one course by AP credit) |
Area VIII. | Personal Health (One course, one credit hour, Emory College students only. Oxford College students must complete an additional PE course in lieu of Personal Health.) |
Area IX. | Physical Education and Dance (Two one-hour courses, including one PPF, may be taken on a satisfactory / unsatisfactory basis. Oxford students must complete 3 PE courses.) |


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Congratulations Lou! While I only listen to one other podcast that was nominated for this award (Netcot), I would imagine that the other nominees would have to be pretty good to take your place. Keep up the good work!
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Well deserved Lou!
When you wish upon a star.....
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Congratulations on your well deserved win.
Thanks for all the hard work so we may be informed and entertained.
Way to go Lou! WHOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
We appreciate all you do for us!!!!!!!!
BETH ~ I BELIEVE in Make Believe,Dreams & Wishes
Is It time To Go Back Yet??
Happy DVC Member - Beach Club Villas
BCV - October 2011 - Family Trip & Food & Wine Festival (Met up with Lou and the Walk-about Crew! Met Deanna!
Met the Petermans!)
BCV - October 2010 - Family Trip & Food & Wine Festival and MNNSHP!!!
BCV - June 2009 - Family Trip
BCV - October 2008 - MNNSHP-Just the two of us!
BCV - May 2008 - Flower & Garden/Epcot - Just the two of us!
BCV - January 2008 - Marathon Weekend - Just the two of us! (We finally got to meet Lou & his wonderful family)
BCV - May 2007 Family Trip, Flower & Garden/Epcot and Star Wars!!!
BCV - October 2006 Family Trip, Anniversary, Food and Wine/Epcot & MNSHHP!!!!
ASM & BCV - June 2006 Family Trip, Flower & Garden/Epcot and Star Wars!!!
BCV - October 2005 - Family Trip, Anniversary, Food and Wine/Epcot & MNSHHP!!!!
OKW & BWV - March 2005 - Quick and needed fun trip! Just the two of us!
BCV - June 2004 - Family Trip
BCV - October 2003 - Family Trip, Anniversary, Food and Wine/Epcot & MNSHHP!!!!
BC - Honeymoon- April 2002
Off Site - 1997 - I was a poor college student staying with my favorite aunt!
Well desirved... AGAIN!!!
Congrats Lou! Well deserved.
Congratulations Lou!!! Way to go!!
Before you know it, they'll name the award after you!
Keep up the great work and thanks again!!
Mahna mahna....
Officially escaped the Box on January 4, 2012!
I have short term memory loss. It runs in the family. Well, at least I *think* it does. Hmmmm... where are they???


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Staff Sgt. Daniel Eugene Tallouzi
Birth: May 12, 1984 in Bryan, Texas
Death: Feb. 28, 2009 in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Staff Sgt. Daniel Tallouzi of Albuquerque, New Mexico was raised in the Albuquerque North Valley. Daniel attended North Valley Schools and graduated in May 2002 from Valley High School where he was a member of the Valley High School Football Team as a Lineman. Upon graduating, he joined the military, as his three uncles and his older brother had before him. Two of the uncles each did three combat tours in Vietnam. Daniel flourished in the Army, becoming a helicopter electrician and reaching the rank of sergeant at 22. Daniel was assigned to the 4th Infantry Division where he completed Army Basic and AIT. He deployed to Iraq in October 2005 and on September 25, 2006 was seriously wounded in a Mortar Attack. Daniel's ordeal after being wounded was outlined in a book titled "Pediatrician Soldier". He suffered head wounds during the mortar attack. Daniel was awarded the Purple Heart for the sacrifice that he has made in support of his country and freedom. Daniel is survived by his loving and devoted mother, Mary Tallouzi; his sister, Jennifer; his brother Christopher Quinteros and wife Cornelia; uncles Mariano Aguirre and wife Chris, Francisco Aguirre and wife Linda, Martin Aguirre and wife Demaris, Domingo Aguirre and wife Cathy; aunts, Sister Pauline Aguirre, Natalie Ohnesorge and husband Danny.
Burial is at Santa Fe National Cemetery in Santa Fe, New Mexico Sec 20 Site 1276
Staff Sgt. Daniel Eugene Tallouzi by Freedom Remembered, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.


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When families first come to the Hasbro Children's Partial Hospital Program, parents are asked to provide us with information about their child's medical history. That information allows us to develop a highly individualized treatment plan, specific to each child's needs.
We would also like to be able to use some of that information to evaluate the effectiveness of the program. Part of our evaluation involves following up on some of our children after they have been discharged from the program. For that reason, we may invite parents back to check on the outcome of the child's treatment. By participating in this follow-up, they help us help other children and their families.


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Am a biologist by training, but changing gears to head into education.
Must admit, I have a sweet tooth, but also enjoy italian dishes. Several family favorites: chicken parmesan, mediterranean chicken. Friends and family rave about my enchiladas.
Love holiday cooking. Throw christmas parties just so I have an excuse to try out new holiday sweets and appetizers!


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Soundin' Off
Bridgeport Sound Tigers
Monthly Archive for May, 2009
What a moose, what a moose*
From the box score, I'm disappointed to have missed Game 1 of the Calder Cup Final. Moose go up 3-1, fail on a penalty shot that would have made it 4-1, blow the lead and trail going to the final 4:30, get a five-on-three and score to tie it with 1:16 to go… …and then […]
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Sertich to Croatia
Official announcement here, complete with funky music. That team has apparently just recently joined the Austrian League.
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Haley, Morency returning
The team has announced that Micheal Haley has an NHL contract for next year (two-way), and Pascal Morency is coming back on another AHL deal. Edit: Thanks to the birdie who points out that Haley, signing at 23, probably signed for two years.
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Job No. 95 is elsewhere
As just about everybody guessed, Bridgeport's PR guru, Kimber Auerbach, will replace Corey Witt on the Island. Four years is a long time to have to take the beat writer's guff (especially since it was incoherent for a year or two). Hope Logan goes easier on him.
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Best and worst
So it's Hershey (minus Keith Aucoin for the time being) against Manitoba for the Calder Cup, beginning Saturday in Winnipeg. Elite Prospects points out that Rauman Lukko says it has signed Kurtis McLean (apparently; can't read Finnish), which would mark the first semi-official departure. That team includes Tomi Pettinen, recent signee Jakub Petruzalek, and a […]
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Going on elsewhere
(Not counting the Mets and Sox tonight) Friday night's games look like a couple of good ones. The Bruins go up 3-0, then 4-2, then lose to the Bears, 6-4. Then Houston leads Manitoba 3-0, the Moose get one back, then score two in the final 42 seconds to tie it. It's not until 24:19 […]
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Happy anniversary
From the league's "Morning Skate": May 22, 2002 – Raffi Torres breaks a scoreless tie with 1:27 left in regulation and Rick DiPietro posts the fifth Game 7 shutout in AHL history as Bridgeport advances to the Calder Cup Finals with a 3-0 win over Hamilton. That has stopped feeling like yesterday and now feels […]
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Good things happen to… wait.
The Islanders have let go of Corey Witt, one of the good guys on their PR staff. And while the chalk says this means good things for another good guy we know well — if so, here's hoping he either has about 95 fewer jobs to do up there, or at least they pay him […]
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Home opener: Oct. 3
(The 58th anniversary of… and the 10th anniversary of… oh, sorry, wrong sport.) That's a Saturday. Five other home dates, with times and opponents TBA: Friday, Nov. 27 (day after Thanksgiving); Sunday, Nov. 29; Saturday, Dec. 26; Saturday, Jan. 9; Sunday, Jan. 17.
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Inexact science
We have been tearing the house apart lately*, and one of the things that came down from the attic Sunday was the 1989 Hockey News draft preview. Fascinating stuff. Especially since it's one of those drafts that goes to my theories about the draft itself (as I may have mentioned). And it's of a time, […]
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Avast has just launched its Mobile Security app for Android, integrating the pure power of Theft Aware (see our review) with some amazing new features. If you remember, Avast swallowed up ITAgents, the small company behind Theft Aware, back in September and promised to integrate it with its upcoming software. Even in its beta state, Avast's Mobile Security looks to be a very strong contender among the dozens of other security apps floating around in the Android Market.
Whether you're out to find a way to limit data usage or just want complete control over your device's data connection (or both!), then DroidWall is the perfect app for you. With wireless carriers doing away with unlimited data plans and others throttling, more people have to worry about hitting data caps. If you're still one of the lucky few with unlimited data and are merely looking for more control, this app could still be the answer.


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PP's screed, complete with out-of-date insults, hasn't prompted Crawford, a seven-year Army vet, to reassess his own patriotism. "Sending an unsigned letter is a bunch of crap, especially since he/she signed it 'Proud Patriot,'" Crawford says. "Hitler would like this person's kind of patriotism. If I could see him eye to eye, I would simply say, 'I respectfully disagree with you.' But since he is choosing not to see me, I'd like to kick his ass."
Come out, come out, wherever you are.
No one expected the Catholic Inquisition: If Proud Patriot hates Crawford, he'll really hate Gen. JC Christian, Patriot and his satirical blog, Patriot Boy, http://patriotboy.blogspot.com.
JC recently wrote to Bishop Michael Sheridan in Colorado Springs, suggesting a return of the Inquisition to ferret out Catholics who take communion but support stem-cell research and the right to an abortion:
I think we need to put the fear of God into them by reinstituting the Inquisition. Imagine how quickly errant parishioners would remove their Kerry bumper stickers once they'd been shown the instruments of confession.
Heterosexually yours,
Gen. JC Christian, Patriot
Could be the Church is stuck in the Dark Ages, having not heard of Google or even checking a URL. Or perhaps it's just missing a sense of humor. Either way, the bishop's executive assistant, Peter Howard, sent this response to JC:
On behalf of Bishop Sheridan, I wish to acknowledge that he has received and read your email. He is sincerely grateful for your kind and supportive words. Please remember him in your prayers, as there are many Catholics, sadly, who disagree with the Catholic Church's teachings in these critical areas and attack the Church instead of support her.
Thus encouraged, the nameless blogger from Utah sent another missive to the Bishop, this time titling his letter "Excommunicating Coach Shanahan."
I did a bit of research and found three Catholics from your diocese who have contributed money to candidates who support abortion and stem-cell research. You may know them personally. Their names are Mike ShanahanEd Haselten and Jack Vickers.
All three gave contributions to retiring Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell, who supports stem cell research. Mr. Vickers also supported Gale Norton in her various campaigns. She is pro-choice. That's a start. Please don't hesitate to write me if you need any further help. I'm also willing to assist with the Inquisition once you get it going.
Pass the communion cup.


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Donald H. "Dan" Bain All Around
Frankie Battaglia Boxing
Jim Bulloch Basketball
Ernie Draffin Soccer
Theo Dubois Rowing
Frank Fredrickson Hockey
Leible Hershfield All Around
Vince Leah All Around
Culver Riley All Around
Frank Stack Speed Skating
Jim Trifunov Wrestling
Joan Whalley Curling
Howard Wood, Sr. Curling
1970 & 1971 Don Duguid Rink Curling
Theo Dubois was introduced to rowing at the Winnipeg Rowing Club just before his fifteenth birthday. By 1930, Dubois gained a spot on the junior crew and participated in the Northwestern International Rowing Association Regatta, an event which included clubs within a 500 mile radius of Winnipeg. As a junior and senior, Dubois figured prominently in this bi-annual competition and in 1934, he claimed four gold medals in the Singles, Doubles, Fours, and Eights categories. By 1939, Dubois captured the Northwestern Singles Championship on 5 consecutive occasions. That same year Dubois won the Singles title and, with partner Ab Riley, the Senior Doubles at the 57th Royal Canadian Henley Regatta. With the Henley victory, Dubois and Riley were considered the best Senior Doubles pair on the North American continent.
Dubois twice qualified for Olympic competition but was thwarted from participation. In 1940, the outbreak of WWII forced the cancellation of the Games while in 1948, the Olympic Selection Committee decided that Dubois, at the age of 37, would not be a potential point scorer. Interestingly, the winning Singles time at those Olympics was slower than Dubois's time.
Dubois has been coach and/or captain of the Winnipeg Canoe Club since 1950 and was appointed its Honourary President in 1978. Perhaps the most outstanding award Dubois has received during his career was the Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada's Outstanding Athlete of the Year in 1946. From 1931-1955, Dubois acquired more trophies at the Northwestern Regatta than any other oarsman. Dubois did not rest on his laurels and in 1976 and 1977, he captured the Veterans' Singles titles.
During the rowing season, Dubois can still be found rowing daily at the Winnipeg Rowing Club... the place where it all began.


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Moto Guzzi Motorcycle Insurance
You don't have to ride a Moto Guzzi very far to realise that you are on a motorcycle that represents decades of racing pedigree and innovation. Founded in 1921 by a mechanic, an airline pilot and a racer, Moto Guzzi is one of the world's most iconic motorcycle brands.
Moto Guzzi is credited with designing the first rear swingarm suspension, the first compact reactive drive shaft and the first DOHC V8 motorcycle engine. They were even the first motorcycle manufacturer to use a wind tunnel.
Because the Moto Guzzi founders took such pride in creating their machines, we think it is only right that Carole Nash offers motorcycle insurance policies that offer your bike the care it deserves. Whether you ride a Bellagio, Stelvio, California or any other model, you could enjoy great benefits with Moto Guzzi bike insurance through Carole Nash.
Because we know just how important your Moto Guzzi is to you, Carole Nash offers you a range of bike insurance solutions to make sure that your pride and joy has great cover.
Every motorcycle insurance policy gives you a range of benefits included as standard, such as UK & European accident and breakdown recovery, including Homestart assistance worth over £100 and up to £100,000 of motor legal protection in the event of an accident which is not your fault. If you want to enjoy your Moto Guzzi on a tour of Europe, we think you'll also be delighted to know that you can enjoy up to 90 days of European cover.
When you approach Carole Nash for a Moto Guzzi bike insurance quote, you can also rest assured that Carole Nash will search a panel of insurers to help find you a great deal – without compromising on service.
If you ride a Moto Guzzi that is more than ten years old, you could be eligible for our 'future classic' bike insurance policy, which could save up to 55% on insurance1 and includes free agreed value and low excesses2.
No matter what model of Moto Guzzi you ride, you could enjoy excellent benefits from your bike insurance. Our UK-based call centre is available to answer any queries, so get a Moto Guzzi bike insurance quote today, call 0800 804 7952 or get an online quote


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sponsored by Dick's Sporting Goods, the Official Sporting Goods Retailer of MSYSA
If you are interested in hosting the MSYSA State Cup Tournament (in the Fall of 2016), please download the 2016 Fall State Cup Request for Proposal and submit it to the MSYSA State Office on or before Friday, August 1, 2015.
What is the MSYSA State Cup?
The MSYSA State Cup is the first level of competition in the US Youth Soccer National Championship Series. Teams who win the State Cup earn the right to represent Michigan at regional and potentially national competitions. In the State Cup, each team plays three self-scheduled games. Teams who do well will advance to the Round of 16 (U13 - U15 age groups only), Quarterfinals, Semifinals, and then eventually the Finals.
The U14 - U18 girls team play State Cup in the fall season, and the U13 & U19 girls teams play State Cup in the spring season. All teams who meet eligibility requirements are encouraged to apply. While not all teams will be accepted, those who do will have the opportunity to partake in some of the best competition in Michigan!
What: 2015 MSYSA Spring State Cup
Who: U13 & U19 MSYSA Affiliated Girls Teams
When: March - May, 2015
MSYSA State Cup Preliminary Games: March 14 - May 3, 2015
MSYSA State Cup Round of 16 & Quarterfinals: May 16 - 17, 2015
MSYSA State Cup Semifinals & Finals: May 30 - 31, 2015
Where: State of Michigan
Application Fee: $455 per U13 team, $3,445 per U19 team
U19 Application Deadline: December 15, 2014 at 4:30pm
U13 Application Deadline: February 2, 2015 at 4:30pm
Application - Click here for the 2015 Spring State Cup Application
2015 State Cup Information - FALL
Fall Schedules & Scores
U14 - U18 Schedules, Scores, and Standings
Tournament Administration
State Cup Rules
State Cup Seeded Teams
State Cup Point System (Seeding)
Red Card Suspension List - Updated 10/29/14
Referee Pay Scale - State Cup Rule #21
MSYSA Severe Weather Policy
MSYSA Photo/Video Release Form
US Youth Soccer Concussion Forms
US Youth Soccer National Championship Series Rules
Instructions for Teams
Scheduling Games in GotSoccer - Due 4:30pm on 7/18/14
Creating/Submitting a Tournament Roster - Deadlines Vary - Click here for more info
MSYSA State Cup Tournament Roster Form - Deadlines Vary. See Instructions Above.
Printing Game Reports from GotSoccer
Reporting Game Scores - Due 24 hours after each game
List of Fields NOT Approved for State Cup - None as of 6/30/14
Saginaw Township Soccer Complex - 3575 McCarty Rd. Saginaw, MI 48603
Pontiac Ultimate Soccer Arenas - 867 South Blvd E., Pontiac, MI 48341
Tournament Mementos/Souvenirs
State Cup Apparel
The MSYSA State Cup is extremely competitive. Please keep in mind that the aspect of sportsmanship is very important during the State Cup competition. Any inappropriate conduct by players, coaches, team officials, and/or parents will not be tolerated. Coaches, parents, and players should not approach referees after the game with questions or concerns. Please address any questions or concerns with MSYSA directly.
Team Contacts - Click on "Schedule" in your desired age group
MSYSA State Cup Committee - firstname.lastname@example.com
Game Day Cancellation Contacts - email@example.com AND email@example.com
State Cup Feedback Form - Tell us how your State Cup is going! Accepting compliments, concerns, and suggestions.
Past State Cup Results
2014 Girls State Cup l 2013 Girls State Cup l 2012 Girls State Cup l 2011 Girls State Cup l 2010 Girls State Cup l 2009 Girls State Cup l 2008 Girls State Cup l 2007 Girls State Cup l 2006 Girls State Cup l 2005 Girls State Cup


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Wholefoods and Complementary Remedies
Healing Harvest is an independent health food shop based in Kinvara, County Galway, Ireland. Our online health food shop has a wide range of herbal teas, natural body care products, seaweed products, supplements, incense, soaps, confectionary and much more. We value our customers opinion and welcome feedback on products. If there are products you would like to see on this site, please let us know by clicking here and filling out the contact form.


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The site originally consisted of dunes and cliff top vegetation at the southern end leading northwards into a pine plantation, planted by the Wentworth Lodge Estate. The gardens came into Bournemouth Borough Council's ownership on 15th July 1912, being purchased from the Wentworth Lodge Estate as a freehold for the sum of £5200. The Right Honourable W.H. Berkeley, Viscount Portman sold the land on the understanding that it would be used for the purpose of public walks and pleasure grounds - and maintained as such.
Landscaping was undertaken initially with the laying out of paths which followed the tracks taken by local fisherman who, during the 19th century, used this route to get to the sea. The Fisherman's Walk rest garden was originally laid out in the 1930s and included a sunken garden with formal bedding and lawns surrounded by ornamental stone walling (still in existence). The rest garden was officially opened on Sunday 13th June, 1937.
The woodland was enhanced under the Gardens of Excellence programme during the winter of 1996/97 - this included removal of selected trees and clearance of rhododendron and other overgrown shrubs. The transition between the rest garden and the woodland is planted with holm oaks, being trained to form pleached columns.
The Friends of Fishermans Walk came into existence in 2007, and have helped to bring on a number of changes. These have included the planting of native bulbs, the repainting of the bandstand, and the installation of a series of wooden sculptures created by a local artist, using oak sourced from another Bournemouth park.


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Mobile app for WebStudy Learning is written in Apple iOS and Android native languages to maximize interactive capabilities
Wynnewood, Pa. – September 27, 2012 – WebStudy, a technology service and learning management system (LMS) provider, today launched a mobile application that is written in the Apple iOS and Android native languages—making it more interactive than most mobile apps and optimized for WebStudy Learning customers using smartphone devices.
"We did the mobile app the right way," says Curt Corbi, WebStudy Chief Technology Officer. "Since the application is not 'browser based,' it goes beyond informational to interactive, allowing students to participate in class forums and read/send email while heading to class on the train or waiting for the bus."
WebStudy Mobile is available on Apple iOS and Android smartphones and features:
• Events Summary: Daily summary that highlights new coursework, exams and forums
• WebStudy Mail: Mailbox to compose, reply, forward and delete email
• Timeline: Structured course timeline to navigate to forums, download course materials, or view upcoming assignments and exams
• Forums: Course forums for discussions and assignments
WebStudy partnered with CollegeMobile, a leader in custom native mobile app development, to release its mobile technology. The application can be downloaded by students and instructors free of charge at the Apple iTunes store or the Android Play store.
About WebStudy
WebStudy, Inc., (web.webstudy.com) is a technology service provider committed to maximizing student engagement and retention in higher education. The company's flagship learning management system (LMS) product, WebStudy Learning, has its roots in a student-professor collaboration and an educational consortium. Because of its academic origins, WebStudy Learning mimics the way teachers teach and students learn. The WebStudy Learning LMS seamlessly integrates technology both in and out of the classroom to empower faculty, engage students and enrich learning.
About CollegeMobile
CollegeMobile is a leading developer of powerful smartphone and tablet apps for Apple iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone. CollegeMobile's highly customizable solutions merge client needs and technology in ways that inform, communicate, and provide efficiency and value to the end-user. CollegeMobile has published over 40 apps on all of the popular App Stores, including: Carleton University, University of Saskatchewan, Credit Union Central of Canada, itracks, SaskParty, and Affinity Credit Union. To learn more about CollegeMobile's custom native mobile application development, visit www.collegemobile.com.