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RUSH CENTER -- Rush County Historical Society is celebrating 50 years with a year-long slate of activities.
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By GAYLE WEBER
RUSH CENTER -- Rush County Historical Society is celebrating 50 years with a year-long slate of activities.
The celebration began in December with an open house at the society's museum in La Crosse.
"It was a bigger response than we ever dreamed of," said Judith Reynolds, vice president and curator of the historical society.
She said several hundred people toured the museum that day. Each month through the end of the year, the group will host events to showcase the society's history and capture more of it.
On Saturday, historical characters from Rush County's history, including librarian Howard Barnard, slain postmaster Katie Coffey, horse-racing jockey Levi Burlingame, pioneer women and more, took part in the St. Patrick's Day Parade in Rush Center.
The group's biggest event each year is the Kansas Barbed Wire Super Show in La Crosse -- scheduled for May 2 to 4.
This year's show will include an old-fashioned barn dance, world champion splicing contest and a candlelight banquet with people encouraged to dress as their favorite historical character.
Other events include the McCracken Rodeo, Rush County Fair, Fall Fest Car Show, Veterans Day, Christmas parades in La Crosse and Otis and many more.
For more information on the society and its 50-year celebration, visit www.rushcounty.org.


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2011 All-Breakout Team Pitchers
After selecting the 2011 All-Breakout Team hitters last week, it's time to turn our attention to the hurlers. Pitchers tend to be more volatile than hitters, so there was no shortage of breakout arms. Here are my picks for the pitchers who really raised their games in 2011.
Ian Kennedy
2011 Stats: 21-4, 2.88 ERA, 1.09 WHIP, 198 K's
The Skinny: After a solid 2010 season, Kennedy ramped up his production big-time this year, becoming the Majors' least likely 20-game winner and lowering his ERA by nearly a full run.
2012 Outlook: Kennedy is one of the leaders of the D-backs' resurgence and will serve as their staff ace in 2012. At age 26, it's likely that 2011 was the first of several elite seasons for the right-hander. It doesn't hurt that Kennedy pitches in the NL West and will see plenty more starts against the light-hitting Giants, Dodgers and Padres.
Doug Fister
2011 Stats: 11-13, 2.83 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, 146 K's
The Skinny: Fister took a 3.09 ERA into the All-Star break, but had just three wins to show for it thanks to the Mariners' anemic offense. A trade to Detroit changed the 27-year-old's luck, as he won eight decisions in the season's final two months.
2012 Outlook: Assuming that he's back in Detroit in 2012, Fister has the chance to take his production to an even higher level. If he can post an ERA around 3.00 as a Tiger, he should have the offensive support to win at least 15 games.
Ryan Vogelsong
2011 Stats: 13-7, 2.71 ERA, 1.25 WHIP, 139 K's
The Skinny: An injury to Barry Zito gave Vogelsong a chance to join the rotation and he thrived in the first half, going 6-1 with a 2.17 ERA. While his second half was less impressive (7-6, 3.26), the 34-year-old was still an asset to mixed-league owners and one of 2011's biggest surprises.
2012 Outlook: Vogelsong's numbers could regress in 2012, as he posted a 1.25 WHIP and mediocre strikeout rate. Those stats usually correlate to an ERA in the 3.50-4.00 range. At Vogelsong's age, a rise in ERA is more likely than a drop in WHIP next season.
Alexi Ogando
2011 Stats: 13-8, 3.51 ERA, 1.14 WHIP, 126 K's
The Skinny: Ogando owned opposing batters during the first half, going 9-3 with a 2.92 ERA. But the 28-year-old went 4-5 with a 4.48 ERA after the All-Star break and made only three September starts as the Rangers limited his innings and prepared the right-hander for an October relief role.
2012 Outlook: At first glance, Ogando's declining numbers give fantasy owners reason to be skeptical heading into 2012. But a full season of experience as a starter could mean six months of solid production next year.
Cory Luebke
2011 Stats: 6-10, 3.29 ERA, 1.07 WHIP, 154 K's
The Skinny: Luebke was primarily a starter in the Minors, but began the 2011 season in the Padres bullpen. Injuries gave him a chance to join the rotation on June 26, and the left-hander never looked back. A 4-7 second-half record was simply bad luck, as his 3.76 ERA deserved a couple more wins.
2012 Outlook: The future is bright for this 26-year-old. Luebke strikes out more than a batter per inning and Petco Park should help him maintain a low ERA. Don't expect the Padres offense to provide more than 15 wins, but this is a great player to target in 2012 drafts.
Jordan Walden
2011 Stats: 5-5, 32 SV, 2.98 ERA, 1.24 WHIP, 67 K's
The Skinny: Entering the season, Angels manager Mike Scioscia planned to use a closer committee led by Fernando Rodney. Rodney wasn't able to handle the ninth inning in April and the job was quickly transferred to Walden. With 10 blown saves, the 23-year-old wasn't among the game's most reliable closers, but his other numbers were solid.
2012 Outlook: It looks like the Angels have finally found the anchor to their bullpen. With lefty Scott Downs on hand to set up, Walden should be in line for plenty of save chances in 2012. The right-hander can't afford to blow 10 saves again next season, but his ERA suggests that he can drop that total to a more reasonable number.
Sergio Santos
2011 Stats: 4-5, 30 SV, 3.55 ERA, 1.11 WHIP, 92 K's
The Skinny: Matt Thornton entered the season as Chicago's closer, but the left-hander struggled in April while Santos threw 11 2/3 scoreless frames. That earned Santos the closer role and he showed he was up to the task with only six blown opportunities. Lefty Chris Sale picked up a few saves when the situation called for a southpaw, but early 2012 rumors have him heading to the starting rotation.
2012 Outlook: The White Sox recently inked Santos to a contract extension and plan to have him open the season as their fireman. The 28-year-old allowed three September home runs, but a high strikeout rate ensures he'll rarely blow a save when the ball stays in the yard. If Sale is out of the picture, Santos has a chance for a 40-save, 90-strikeout season in 2012.
Brandon League
2011 Stats: 1-5, 37 SV, 2.79 ERA, 1.08 WHIP, 45 K's
The Skinny: League was expected to handle the April closing duties while David Aardsma was on the DL with a hip injury. Aardsma was never able to return, and League took the closer role and ran with it. The right-hander struggled during May but was otherwise a reliable saves option for fantasy owners.
2012 Outlook: League won't be challenged for ninth-inning duties during Spring Training. The rest of Seattle's relievers will compete to set up the 28-year-old. A mediocre strikeout rate and below average team keeps League out of the top tier of closers, but he's safely in the second group.
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No Vance Worley?? Or Axford??
How do you feel about Nova?
Where do you see Jacob Turner next year? Up with the Tigers?
What of Joel Hanrahan? Was a better option in 2011 than Santos or Walden for consistant saves.
How can you not have Michael Pineda on that list? Pineda could end up being a truly elite pitcher. With the exception of Saint Stephen there is no other young pitcher I am more excited about watching next season.
What about Jordan Zimmerman?
Does what you said about Santos change as a Jay? I a huge Jays fan and it would be nice to an elite closer like that
to have an elite closer like that

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The Laysan Albatross in Kauai
The Laysan Albatross are large seabirds, living mostly on the vast Pacific Ocean. The adult birds have white body and head feathers and dark brown wings with a wing span of 6 feet in flight. Most of their lives, albatross stay on the open ocean – fishing and sleeping on the water. However, they cannot lay eggs on the water, so they must return to land. In November each year, the adult albatross return to land to breed and raise their young chicks.
Albatross are native to the Hawaiian Islands. Most nest in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, a string of 130 uninhabited islands and atolls, stretching from Kauai to the Midway and Kure atolls, 1200 miles to the northwest. One of these islands is Laysan, which gives its name to the species of albatross.
Over the past 20 years, albatross have migrated to Kauai, nesting on the north shore in the Princeville and Kilauea areas. The majority live in a wildlife refuge on the north shore of Kauai, the Kilauea Point Wildlife Refuge, operated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). This sanctuary is located at the Kilauea Lighthouse. A few have chosen to nest in agricultural lands and even in residential neighborhoods on the north shore.
The nests in the residential areas presents the residents and visitors an opportunity to observe the albatross throughout their life cycle on land. We can watch the courting dances, the nest building, the hatching of the young, and the fledging as the chicks head out on their own.
Adapting to populated areas.
When the albatross arrived on the north shore in the 1980's, the area was already populated, so this was not a case of people invading their habitat. There were houses, streets, shopping centers, and golf courses already in place. Early, the albatross tended to nest in vacant lots, but over the years, the lots filled in with houses. This has not bothered the albatross, who continue to nest in the neighborhoods. They are very calm birds without fear of people.
Usually they build nests in hedges or under trees near the houses. Residents and visitors are used to having them around. Albatross are not spooked by lawn mowers, traffic, or other typical neighborhood activities. They are curious, often going up to glass doors and looking into houses or even walking into open garages.
When a pair builds a nest, everyone respects their space. If they nest in a lawn area, that section of the lawn is left un-mowed. If they are close to a driveway or road, cones and signs are placed to warn people of their presence. Albatross build ground nests by pulling up grass and twigs into a raised pile of dirt.
The general rule is to stay 15-20 feet away from either the adults or the chicks. Because of their calmness in a residential setting, it may appear they are not threatened. By maintaining our distance, we help keep them calm. This is particularly important when they are sitting on an egg. If an albatross does feel threatened by someone too close, they might stand up suddenly and accidentally break the egg.
Since they are calm and don't flit away, the albatross are excellent subjects for photos and videos. We use telephoto lenses to be sure we don't get into their space. We use binoculars to safely read the leg tag numbers to keep track of who is who.


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WINDERMERE, Fla. ( Stockpickr) -- Professional traders running mutual funds and hedge funds don't just look at a stock's price moves; they also track big changes in volume activity. Often when above-average volume moves into an equity, it precedes a large spike in volatility.
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Unusual volume can also be a major signal that hedge funds and momentum traders are piling into a stock ahead of a catalyst. These types of traders like to get in well before a large spike, so it's always a smart move to monitor unusual volume. That said, remember to combine trend and price action with unusual volume. Put them all together to help you decipher the next big trend for any stock.
With that in mind, let's take a look at several stocks rising on unusual volume today. >>5 Big Stocks to Trade for Gains Ocean Rig UDW Ocean Rig UDW (ORIG - Get Report) is a Marshall Islands-registered international offshore drilling contractor. The firm provides oilfield services for offshore oil and gas exploration, development and production drilling. This stock is trading up 4.6% at $16.32 in recent trading. Today's Volume: 760,000 Average Volume: 129,752 Volume % Change: 916% From a technical perspective, ORIG is ripping higher here right off its 200-day moving average of $15.75 with monster upside volume. This move is quickly pushing shares of ORIG within range of triggering a major breakout trade. That trade will hit if ORIG manages to take out some near-term overhead resistance levels at $16.44 to $16.67 with high volume. Traders should now look for long-biased trades in ORIG as long as it's trending above its 50-day at $15.36 and then once it sustains a move or close above those breakout levels with volume that hits near or above 129,752 shares. If that breakout triggers soon, then ORIG will set up to re-test or possibly take out its next major overhead resistance level at $18.43. Cyberonics Cyberonics (CYBX - Get Report) is a medical device company engaged in the design, development, sales and marketing of implantable medical devices that provide a unique therapy for the treatment of refractory epilepsy and treatment-resistant depression. This stock is trading up 0.34% at $44.13 in recent trading.Check Out Our Best Services for Investors
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0000-0001-7281-911XVincent Cocquempot received the Ph.D. degree in automatic control from the Lille University of Sciences and Technologies, in 1993. He is currently a full Professor in automatic control and computer science at Lille 1 University, France. He is a Researcher of the LAGIS-CNRS UMR 8219: Automatic Control, Computer Science and Signal Processing Laboratory from Lille 1 University and Head of the team Fault Tolerant Systems in this laboratory. His research interests include robust on-line fault detection and isolation (FDI) for uncertain dynamical nonlinear systems and fault tolerant control (FTC) for hybrid dynamical systems (HDS). He is a Member of IFAC Technical Committee on Fault Detection, Supervision, and Safety of Technical Processes.
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A spinneret is a silk-spinning organ of a spider or the larva of an insect. Some adult insects also have spinnerets, such as those borne on the forelegs of Embioptera.[1] Spinnerets are usually on the underside of a spider's abdomen, to the rear.[2] While most spiders have six spinnerets, some have two, four, or eight.[3] They move independently and in concert.
Most spinnerets are not simple structures with a single orifice producing a single thread, but highly complex structures of many microscopic spigots, each producing one filament. This is important partly because it produces the necessary orientation of the protein molecules, without which the silk would be weak and useless. It also permits spiders to combine multiple filaments in different ways to produce many kinds of silk for special purposes.
Various species of spiders use silk extruded from spinnerets to build webs, to entrap insects by running round them, to make egg-cases, to catch the wind and fly (ballooning), etc. Some insect larvae (including silkworms) extrude silk to make a protective cocoon for their metamorphosis. The insects known as web spinners weave silken galleries for protection from predators and the elements while foraging and breeding.[4]
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text: Our RDR adviser's 'helpful' meeting with a compliance consultant... By Steve Buttercase 19 Feb, 2013 at 15:02 Fresh from his first day under the RDR, Steve Buttercase takes another sideways look at life in the new world. This time, client reports and investment suitability are on the agenda... Sponsored by: With the pressure of the retail distribution review's (RDR) new compliance demands taking its toll on my time, I decided to invest a day meeting a compliance consultant to help me tackle the challenge of client reports. Consultant: 'Steve, welcome to our workshop on client reports. I suggest we start from the beginning: do you know the golden rule of client reports?' SB: 'I am not sure.' Consultant: 'It's that the report is a record of events: it is a diary of a relationship, a journal of a journey. The golden rule is: if it isn't written down, then it didn't happen!' SB: 'You mean it's hard to prove?' Consultant: 'I mean it did not happen. We depend on evidence, Steve. Evidence. Everything vital is documented, everything necessary is clearly explained. If it's not written down, then it didn't happen.' SB: 'Well, yes, but that doesn't mean…' Consultant: 'Think about history, Steve. The Battle of Hastings, the Battle of Trafalgar – what would we know about these if they hadn't been written down?' SB: 'Nothing?' Consultant: 'Exactly. Writing things down can also help us determine what didn't happen. Use the client report to document anything that could be potentially useful for denying something later on. Because of the RDR, we are not expected to just give best advice but also to predict what best advice will be in the future. In the future we will know what constituted bad advice and, applied retrospectively, we will need to produce evidence that we never gave such advice. Clear?' SB: 'Crystal. So the report is not just about giving best advice now, but protecting me against what might be considered bad advice in the future?' Consultant: 'Precisely. And for that reason, it needs to be as obscure and long-winded as possible.' SB: 'What? Why? Won't the client inquire what I have written if it's too confusing?' Consultant: 'We have thought of that: make sure the front of the report is full of stuff they already know. By the time they get to the confusingly written part, they will have drifted off.' SB: 'What would we tell them that they already know?' Consultant: 'Simple stuff: tell them whether they are married, whether they have children or a mortgage, how much they earn, how they pay tax and what they want to do in life. They will have told you all of that during the fact-find and now you just describe it back to them. The regulator loves this sort of thing. It's a bit like showing your wife or husband that you have been listening by repeating stuff back to them. The client is quietly lulled into a relaxed state, gradually losing interest. However, before the really confusing stuff, it's wise to use the secret weapon: the results from the risk assessment questionnaire. They always stop reading at that point.' SB: 'Sorry, what were you saying?' Consultant: 'Exactly! Now, with help from paraplanners and boilerplate reports, diagnostic analyses, stratified sampling, stochastic modelling and bespoke investment route maps, we eventually compile a thick document guaranteed to bemuse the client and protect us from the regulator.' SB: 'So that will protect me from retrospective complaints?' Consultant: 'Not quite. Once we have made the report as confusing as possible, we need the client to sign a piece of paper saying they have understood and agreed to it.' Consultant: 'No, but they won't want to admit that. They will be so impressed by the way you rattle out figures and projections, risk warnings and disclaimers that their heads will be spinning. They will sign so you would think they have understood.' SB: 'I don't think this is ethical.' SB: 'Sorry, what?' Consultant: 'It doesn't matter what the report says or whether it's signed or not.' SB: 'Why not?' Consultant: 'Because all complaints that are pursued eventually end up with the Financial Ombudsman Service, which will make a judgment on whether the client actually understood what was explained to him, whether it's in the report or not.' SB: 'So I need to make sure the client understands after all?' Consultant: 'Yes, but don't expect the report to help you. Now, would you mind shredding your notes on your way out? It's evidence, you see…' Steve Buttercase is a financial planner at Sense Financial Solutions. Previous Next


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Published on Feb 9, 2014 5:55 AM
DONETSK, Ukraine (AFP) - Brazilian striker Maicon Pereira, currently playing on loan at Ukrainian league side Mariupol, has died in a car crash, local media reported on Saturday.
The R-Sport news agency reported that Maicon, who joined Ukraine champions Shakhtar Donetsk in 2012, died in an accident, which happened in Donetsk early on Saturday.
"It's a terrible and heavy loss for all of us. He will remain a man of blessed memory for all of us," Shakhtar said in a statement on the club's official website.
Maicon joined Shakhtar in 2012 in a transfer move from Volyn Lutsk but failed to win a place in the starting lineup.
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Yahoo and Facebook in Advanced Negotiations to Settle Patent Lawsuits - Kara Swisher. Top execs at Yahoo and Facebook have been hammering out the outlines of a deal over the last several days to end their contentious patent infringement litigation, according to multiple sources close to the situation.
While that could change, sources said a settlement could happen in the coming weeks and that the advanced negotiations will put aside the lawsuits and counterclaims between the one-time close partners and return them back to what could be an even closer relationship. The key terms being discussed, said sources, include a massive cross-licensing of patents between the Internet giant and the social networking kingpin and an even deeper integration of Facebook into Yahoo and vice versa, which has been a key element of improved engagement of late on Yahoo.
One possible glitch: While Facebook has indicated a willingness to perhaps buy some of Yahoo's valuable patents, sources said the company is not likely to fork over a massive cash payment to Yahoo as part of a deal. Exclusive: Yahoo and Facebook Strike Patent Peace Deal. Executives at Yahoo and Facebook have completed an extensive strategic deal, as part of a final settlement of their contentious patent infringement lawsuit and countersuit.
According to sources close to the situation, the agreement will include a major expansion of their ongoing partnership, including a joint advertising sales effort, as well as cross-licensing of some key patents between the pair. The deal has gotten approval from the companies' boards — in fact, Yahoo's directors agreed to it this morning in a telephonic meeting. It will be announced sometime later today. Yahoo Warns Facebook of a Potential Patent Fight. Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesYahoo's retro-style billboard was taken down in December after 12 years of greeting visitors to San Francisco.
As Yahoo struggles to keep up with younger competitors, the Web portal company is weighing a new tactic: threatening legal action over its patent holdings. Yahoo is seeking to force Facebook into licensing 10 to 20 patents over technologies that include advertising, the personalization of Web sites, social networking and messaging, people briefed on the matter told DealBook. The two companies spoke on Monday to discuss the issue, with Yahoo contending that Facebook is infringing on 10 to 20 patents, according to these people, who were not authorized to discuss the issue publicly.
Yahoo is asking Facebook to pay licensing fees or risk facing a lawsuit. "Yahoo has a responsibility to its shareholders, employees and other stakeholders to protect its intellectual property," a Yahoo spokesman said in an e-mailed statement. The Man Who Predicted the Yahoo/Facebook IP War on Why Patents Still Matter [TCTV] When news broke this week that Yahoo is accusing Facebook of violating as many as 20 of its patents, it took quite a few people by surprise — but at least one patent expert saw it all coming from a mile away.
Erin-Michael Gill first publicly predicted a Yahoo/Facebook patent battle in an article published by Forbes.com back in November. Gill is currently managing director and chief intellectual property officer at MDB Capital, an investment bank that specializes in IP issues; his earlier résumé includes an appointment by the Obama administration to be Special Adviser to the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO. In short, the guy knows his stuff. So today we reached out to Gill to get his insights on the Yahoo/Facebook patent situation, now that things have finally started to come to a head. Yahoo Stabs Facebook In The Back, Says Pay For Its Patents Or Get Sued.
After years of positive relations, friendly blog posts, and referral traffic, Yahoo may have just been biding its time waiting to declare war on Facebook.
Today it suddenly accused its former ally of infringing on 10-20 of its patents. It demands a settlement from Facebook or it says it will sue. The betrayer only warned Facebook privately once the New York Times had publicly published details passed to it by Yahoo. Yahoo Sues Facebook for Patent Infringement; Facebook: "Puzzling" In what is either the boldest gamble of its history or the most boneheaded, Yahoo has filed a massive patent infringement lawsuit against Facebook.
The attack by the Silicon Valley Internet icon against perhaps the most powerful consumer social networking site today — also based in tech's heartland and also an important partner of Yahoo — is sure to be a controversial one, pitting Yahoo against a company that has surpassed it handily in recent years in regards to popularity among consumers. "Facebook's entire social network model, which allows users to create profiles for and connect with, among other things, persons and businesses, is based on Yahoo's patented social networking technology," Yahoo's lawsuit reads, in part. That includes, Yahoo alleges, Facebook's popular News Feed, advertising methods, privacy settings and more.
Everyone Has The Features Yahoo's Suing Facebook For: Here They Are. Yahoo reared its patent troll head this week, and it's not just Facebook that has reason to be worried — at least, judging by the extremely broad features that it's being targeted for.
Yahoo could easily sue Twitter, Pinterest, Google and many other popular web services whenever it thinks it would be most lucrative since their products are also covered by Yahoo's patents. It's not enough to simply say nasty things about Yahoo. The web's leaders need to take a united stand against patent trolling over vague, underlying concepts. Rather than give you the jargon-filled abstracts of the patents Yahoo is suing Facebook with, let's look at what features they pertain to on Facebook and across the web, which will show this is more than an assault on the popular social network. MSFT can & should save Facebook. Worst But First: Yahoo Uses Words of Facebook's Zuckerberg to Poke Him. Yahoo! Crosses The Line. It's Time for the Valley to Grab Torches, Pitchforks and Head to Sunnyvale. By Sarah Lacy On March 12, 2012 The two pieces of news about Yahoo today are likely not a coincidence.
Perhaps the exact timing of the stories is, but there's almost certainly an underlying cause and effect. Just hours after the Wall Street Journal reports details on activist shareholder Daniel Loeb's plans for his run at the company, the New York Times DealBook answers back with a story about Yahoo following up on their threat from a few weeks ago and suing Facebook for patent infringement. Yahoo is sadly a company that is running itself like a teenager trying to placate angry parents. It's unable to fix the systemic, underlying problems like its woefully bloated staff, lack of direction and complete failure to adopt any sort of modern strategy.
How Yahoo Weaponized My Work. While most of the tech world was partying at South by Southwest in Austin yesterday, Yahoo announced it was filing a lawsuit against Facebook for allegedly infringing on 10 patents from their 1,000+ patent warehouse.
I'm no fan of Facebook, but this is a deplorable move. It's nothing less than extortion, expertly timed during the SEC-mandated quiet period before Facebook's IPO. It's an attack on invention and the hacker ethic. Facebook Is Said to Buy 750 IBM Patents to Boost Defenses. Facebook Inc.
(FB) acquired 750 patents from International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), adding intellectual property that may help it counter allegations of patent infringement, a person with knowledge of the transaction said. The patents cover various technologies such as software and networking, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the deal hasn't been made public. The acquisition would swell the size of Facebook's portfolio, which includes at least 56 issued patents and 503 filed U.S. patent applications.
Facebook, the world's biggest social-networking service, is bolstering its legal defenses amid a standoff with rivals that have broader intellectual property portfolios. Yahoo reportedly has a license to patents Facebook just bought from IBM. Law360 is reporting a source has told them that the lot of 750 patents Facebook is buying from IBM "were licensed to Yahoo. " That's the extent of the insider information, but not the questions it raises. Why would Facebook do this? Is this a smart move? Facebook Smacks Back at Yahoo With Patent Claims in Counter-Lawsuit - Kara Swisher. Facebook's response to Yahoo's patent lawsuit. Like many in tech, I believe all software patents should be abolished.
That said, I think Facebook made the right move by filing a lawsuit against Yahoo's patent attack. As I see it, Facebook had 4 choices: Silicon Valley has Facebook's back in Yahoo knife fight. This much is clear about the patent showdown between Yahoo and Facebook: Yahoo is losing friends left and right. Last month, Yahoo sued Facebook , claiming the world's largest social-networking company had infringed on 10 of its patents. And yesterday, Facebook countersued , arguing essentially that it hadn't done anything wrong, but hey, as long as we're on the subject, Yahoo violated 10 of our patents . Facebook Paying Microsoft $550 Million for Former AOL Patents - Ina Fried - Mobile. Facebook and Microsoft are about to announce a deal where the social networking giant pays Redmond $550 million for access to more than 600 patents, AllThingsD has learned.
The deal comes as the social network prepares for its initial stock offering and looks to protect itself in an increasingly litigious intellectual property environment. Yahoo sued Facebook last month, alleging infringement of 10 patents. Update: Microsoft has issued a press release on the deal, which covers a portion of the patents that Microsoft paid $1 billion earlier this month to acquire from AOL. In that auction, Microsoft got the ability to own or assign some 925 patents from AOL, plus a license to AOL's remaining patents, including 300 patents not for sale. Facebook had also been interested in the AOL patents, according to Bloomberg.
Rather Than Pay Off Yahoo, Facebook Built A Patent Fortress. By Josh Constine Facebook (FB) had a choice to make: With just 56 patents to its name at the start of 2012 it could pay its way out of Yahoo's (YHOO) infringement lawsuit with gobs of money and remain vulnerable to other patent attacks, or make a long-term investment into an intellectual property portfolio it could protect itself with for years to come. Facebook has wisely taken the second path, upping its patent stockpile to over 1400 with today's $550 million cash purchase and licensing of 650 AOL patents from Microsoft (MSFT) today. These new patents cover email, instant messaging , web browsing, search, ads, mobile, and ecommerce according to a source with direct knowledge of the purchase. Surely, Facebook might have gotten better deals on this cache from Microsoft and the package of 750 patents it bought from IBM had it not been so desperate, but better late than never. Yahoo: Facebook's AOL patent deal with Microsoft shows it is weak.


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ZACHARY, LA (NBC33) — Two security officers at Dixon Correctional are locked up tonight after corrections officials say the officers had inappropriate relations with inmates.
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Facebook Makes People Depressed
The more you use Facebook, the less joy you will have in your life.
This according to a new study from the University of Michigan, and based on the findings, it sounds like smoking might actually be healthier for you than Facebook is.
Research has found the more you use Facebook, the more your friends start to hate you and the more you start to hate yourself in real life.
As people used Facebook, they found themselves less happy and less satisfied. Sure users felt more connected, but that didn't necessarily translate into feeling less lonely.
The study showed, quote "On the service, Facebook provides an invaluable resource for social connection. But rather than enhancing a person's well-being, it undermines it."
Using Facebook has a tendency to bum people out, and researchers aren't sure why. They say further studies will need to be conducted to determine the reason.
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Let's face it, if your best friend just posted a bunch of pictures of his or her vacation in the Bahamas, and you spent your vacation kickin' it on the streets of Beresford, you're bound to feel a little dissatisfied!
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RAW Returns To Charlotte (Tix On Sale Sunday), DDP Note, Morrison Comedy Bit (Video)
By Raj Giri | March 21, 2012 | Comments
-- The WWE Raw Supershow on Monday, October 29th, 2012 will be held at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, North Carolina. Tickets will be available at the house show in Charlotte on Sunday, March 25th, 2012.
-- The Whole F'n Show had the opportunity to interview Diamond Dallas Page this week. During the interview, DDP talked about who should have ended Goldberg's streak, who the benefactor was, WCW politics and more. You can check out the interview by clicking here.
-- John Morrison recently did a comedy bit with Christian Rosenberg about cutting promos, you can check it out below:
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A High-Availability Cluster for Linux
Spreading the workload evenly across the nodes in a cluster is preferable to having one node do all the work until it fails, then having another node take over. The term for this is a hot standby system.
Load balancing can take many forms, depending on the service in question. For web servers, which provide simple static pages and are often read-only, a round-robin DNS solution can be quite effective. Unfortunately, with the read/write or transactional type of services such as e-mail or database access, unless the connection and session information from the service on one node can be shared and used by other nodes, it would be very difficult to provide seamless load balancing over the cluster. It would also require the disk mirroring to be near-instantaneous and use lots of distributed locking techniques, which most daemons will not support without complex modifications. To avoid these drawbacks, I decided to use a simpler approach which stands between the hot standby and the network-level load balancing.
In my two-node cluster, I put half of the required services on node "A" (serv1) and the other half on node "B" (serv2). A mutual failover configuration was employed so that if node A failed, node B would take over all of its services and vice versa.
We had to decide which services needed to be running on the overall cluster. This involved comparatively rating how much computing resource each service would consume. For our previous Linux server, it was found that Samba and Cyrus IMAP4 were the most resource-intensive services with FTP, httpd and Sendmail following close behind. Careful consideration had to be given to which services were suited to running on two or more nodes concurrently. Examples of such services included Sendmail (for sending mail only or as a relay), bind, httpd, ftpd (downloading only) and radius. Examples of services which cannot be run in such a way are Cyrus IMAP4, ftpd (uploading) and Samba. Samba cannot be run on two servers at once, as that would result in two servers broadcasting the same netbios name on the same LAN. It is not yet possible to have PDC/BDC (primary and backup domain controller) arrangements with the current stable versions of Samba. The pages on a simple web site, on the other hand, do not change often. Therefore, mirroring is quite effective and parallel web servers can run quite happily without major problems. The servers were configured so that each one took primary care of a specific group of services. I put Samba on serv1 and Cyrus IMAP4 on serv2. The other services are shared in a similar way; httpd, bind and radius run on both nodes concurrently.
In the event of a node failure, the other node takes over all the services of the failed one in such a way as to minimize disruption to the network users. This was best achieved by using IP (Internet protocol) and MAC (mandatory access control) address takeover from the failed node onto an unused Ethernet card on the takeover node. In effect, the node would appear to be both serv1 and serv2 to the network users.
The use of MAC address takeover was preferred in order to avoid potential problems with the clients' ARP (address resolution protocol) cache still associating the old MAC address with the IP address. MAC address takeover, in my opinion, is neater and more seamless than IP takeover alone, but unfortunately has some scalability limitations.
While considering the HA network setup, it was very important to eliminate all possible single points of failure. Our previous server had many single points of failure; the machine itself, the network cable, the Ethernet hub, the UPS, etc. The list was endless. The network has been designed to be inexpensive and reliable as shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1. Network Diagram for Our Two Nodes
The network diagram shows the three network interface cards (NICs) in each server. The first NIC in each server is used for the main LAN access to clients. Each node is plugged in to a separate Ethernet switch or hub to give redundancy in case of a switch lockup or failure. (This actually happened to us not so long ago.) The second NIC is used for creating a private inter-node network using a simple cross-over 100BaseTX full-duplex Ethernet cable. A cross-over cable is far less likely to fail than two cables plugged into an Ethernet hub or switch. This link is primarily used for disk mirroring traffic and the cluster heartbeat. It also helps take the network traffic load off the main interface and provides a redundant network path between the nodes. The third NIC is the redundant LAN access card used for MAC and IP address takeover in the event of a remote node failure in the cluster. Again, they are plugged in to different Ethernet switches or hubs for greater network availability.
High-availability clusters
The problem with using Linux-based (or an OS-specific) clustering software is that you'll always be tied to the operating system.
The folks at Obsidian Dynamics have built a Java-based application-level clustering solution that isn't tied to the operating system.
I think this is the way forward, particularly seeing that many organisations are running a mixed bag of Windows and Linux servers - being able to cluster Windows and Linux machines together can be a real advantage. It also makes installation and configuration easier, since you're not supporting a dozen different operating systems and hardware configurations.
The other neat thing about Gridlock is that it doesn't use quorum and doesn't rely on NIC bonding/teaming to achieve multipath configurations - instead it combines redundant networks at the application level, which means it works on any network card and doesn't require specialised switchgear.
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(Nefeli) Ping Zhang, Ph.D., LAc., shares scientifically-based beauty remedies that blend the best of the East and West. The result? Time-tested tricks to turn back the clock – naturally. Plus: Take our quiz to see if you'll live to be 80…
Most traditional anti-aging products focus on superficial wrinkles – in other words, they treat only the surface of your skin. By contrast, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) targets the entire body and the factors that cause wrinkles. Age is the most obvious one, but lifestyle, attitude and diet all play a role, too.
TCM strengthens your internal organs, freeing blood to move smoothly to your face and distributing energy and fluid evenly through your body. This nourishes your complexion, resulting in "youthful, supple, wrinkle-free skin – naturally," says Zhang.
Follow these steps – which include homemade masks, exotic herbs and delicious meals – to get gorgeous, glowing skin.
The "Root" of the Problem
Zhang draws on centuries of Asian beauty secrets in her comprehensive herbal guide to solving skin problems. Her solutions work for anything from a lined forehead to dark, puffy bags under the eyes.
For a one-size-fits-all remedy, try Ren Shen, or Chinese Ginseng Root. "Because Ginseng is beneficial in so many ways, it makes sense for anybody to include it in any anti-wrinkle strategy," says Zhang. In fact, its genus name
means "universal remedy."
Ginseng, deemed one of the most precious herbs in China, contains triterpenoid saponins, powerful molecules that reduce stress and fatigue. It's also loaded with antioxidants, which neutralize wrinkle-causing free radicals, and panaxtriol, a natural steroid that aids in tissue formation.
From an TCM point of view, Ginseng nourishes the entire five-organ system – the heart, lungs, spleen, kidneys, and liver. It also boosts the skin's metabolism and replenishes nutrients. "All this leads to a slowdown in the aging process and decrease in wrinkle formation," says Zhang. Purchase the whole root, available at herb stores and Chinese markets. Look for the scientific name of
Panax ginseng
Panax schinseng
(not to be confused with Siberian Ginseng, which functions differently)
Soak two grams in four ounces of fresh water for half an hour, then steam in a double boiler for an hour. Drink half the resulting liquid before breakfast, and finish the rest the next day. Repeat daily for 10 days to one month, and then reevaluate your skin's condition.
If you have a medical condition or are taking medication, consult your doctor before beginning any type of supplement regimen.
Pearls of Wisdom
Zhang's book includes a variety of masks you can make at home. (Spa party, anyone?) Try this one for starters:
Legend has it that a Chinese empress renowned for her youthful skin crushed a pearl and used a stick of jade to rub it on her wrinkles – literally smoothing them away.
Asian royalty or not, you can benefit from a similarly luxurious routine.
Pearl powder contains amino acids and trace elements that rejuvenate your skin, explains Zhang. You can find it at Chinese herb stores; look for the Chinese name Zhen Zhu Mo, or the pharmaceutical name Margarita.
Next, try one of Zhang's favorite masks: Mix a teaspoon of pearl powder with an egg white and half a teaspoon of honey. Add water if necessary. Apply to your face and let set for 20 minutes. Rinse with warm water. It never fails to brighten your complexion, Zhang says.
To pamper yourself empress-style, massage your face and apply a warm, wet facecloth before and after the treatment. Moist skin absorbs the mask's nutrients more readily than dry skin, and the warm water is relaxing.
Feast On This
"Over the centuries, the Chinese identified foods with components that delay aging, improve the elasticity of the skin and reduce wrinkling," Zhang explains.
Her list of delicious anti-aging foods includes dates, honey and cherries, as well as some unexpected items, including tremella, a type of mushroom.
Tremella's skin-softening properties not only rejuvenate your complexion, but also provide a hefty dose of vitamin B, iron, calcium, and potassium. From a TCM perspective, the mushroom benefits the blood, brain, heart, and lungs, and increases energy. Buy the whole mushroom at a Chinese market and use it in your next stir-fry.
Zhang also says that "pH balance – the right combination of acidic and alkaline foods in your diet – is essential for beautiful and healthy skin."
Acidic foods include meat and other animal products, rice, white sugar, wheat flour, and citrus foods. Alkaline foods include fruits like peaches, papayas and mangos; green vegetables; beans and lentils; and sweet potatoes and yams.
Most people eat too many acidic foods and skimp on the alkaline ones. This leads to "rough, lusterless skin that tends to loosen and wrinkle," Zhang warns. Get back on track with fruit smoothies and veggie-packed soups (Zhang includes recipes for them in her book). The quest for a lustrous complexion never tasted so good.
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Zhang's acupuncture sessions, which have been featured on ABC News and WB11 in
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, can help with everything from menopause symptoms to sagging skin. She even has an acupuncture face-lift treatment. For at-home benefits, sans the needles, try acu
Like acupuncture, acupressure targets specific body points to activate and regulate Qi (energy), which is believed to travel through the body along pathways called meridians. As energy and blood flow to the face increases, facial muscles relax and skin becomes more elastic. Voila! Healthier skin is literally at your fingertips.
Zhang's book includes diagrams of energy points as well as a description of the energy channel associated with each. For starters, try this 5-minute massage:
There are five points on your eyebrow line – one between your eyebrows (it's sometimes called the third eye), one at the outer edge of each eyebrow and one at the inner edge of each eyebrow. Using the index and middle fingers of both hands, start at one point and massage in a vertical line, moving upward toward your hairline. Then lift your fingers and begin again at the next point. Give yourself this mini-massage whenever you have a spare moment or right before bed to relax.
To learn more, read
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PUBLISHED: 07 May 2013 10:19:11 | UPDATED: 08 May 2013 06:38:04PRINT EDITION: 07 May 2013North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visits a science institute in Pyongyang as reports emerge that the rogue state has moved two missiles from launch sites on the country's eastern coast. Photo: Reuters/KCNA
North Korea has moved two missiles from launch sites on the country's eastern coast, US officials say.
The move signals lowered tensions following worries Pyongyang was ready to test-fire the weapons.
The Musudan missiles had been ready to launch at any moment, but "they moved them", a US defence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP on Monday.
North Korea's move means there is no longer an imminent threat of a launch, and Pyongyang will have to make preparations before returning to a launch-ready status, two US officials say.
Amid dire threats and bellicose language from North Korea, two Musudan missiles had been deployed to the east coast, and the United States and its allies Japan and South Korea had braced for a possible test-launch in the run-up to national celebrations on April 15.
Japan and South Korea stepped up its missile defences, while the US military deployed two destroyers equipped with anti-missile weapons and a powerful radar to the area to thwart any possible launch.
Commanders told lawmakers US forces would be ready to shoot down any missile that threatened allies or US facilities in Guam.
But North Korea never launched a missile and eventually toned down its inflammatory rhetoric, with the crisis appearing to ease in recent days.
Pentagon spokesman George Little noted the change in North Korea's words, telling reporters on Monday the "provocation pause" was a positive development.
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Official Title: Princess of the Sand Sea
Other Titles / Aliases: The Scarab Princess, [Small] Siti, Sheshe, Your Highness
Gender: Female
Age: 17
Birthday: July 13th
Hair: Dark Brown - Almost Black
Eyes: Black with Tealish Tint
Skin: Golden Tan
Height: 4 foot 6
Weight: Light
Blood: Gold | O+
Physical Description: [Eshe] Has four arms, each with a hand with three Phalanges. She has long, hind-like legs that reach down into three-toed hand-like feet. While also having two Antennae, she has a set of mandibles of her mouth, along with two other sets of maxillae. On her back, she has a close-set of wings that have a wingspan of twelve feet when fully extended [this is from tip to tip of wing to wing]. She has a slim frame, instead of stout, for her short height.
Race/Species: Scarabian
Language: Scaran
Religion: Polytheism
Parents/Guardians: Pharaoh Dakarai [Father - Deceased] & Queen Chione [Mother - Missing ] | Her Champerones and Advisors Ata & Atsu
Siblings: None [Does not Count the Stillborn Children of the Pharaoh and Queen]
Friends: Badru [Servant and Friend from Childhood], Bast [Her Pet]
Allies: The Royal Guard, The People of the Sand Sea
Enemies: Dustrum Pirates | The Sandollar Revolution
Career: Governing
Affinity/Alignment: Lawful Good
Hobbies: Reading, Riding, Sun-Bathing, Cooking, Gardening, Taking long Walks
Likes: Books, Knowledge, Helping, Assisting, Baking and Cooking, her People, the Sun [Though she can't often go into it], the cool summer Nights, the smell of Sand and Paper, Being Outside
Dislikes: Being kept in her room, Being told she can't do what she loves, Bad Folk [Like the Dustrum Pirates], Fire, her Heritage, inability to Help, not being able to assist her people, being locked up
Fears: Dying, Being Trapped, Being Burned, Pain, Poison, The Dark
Strengths: Archery, Staff Defense, Blood Bending [Magic: Blood Bending; The Ability to Harden and Manipulate her Blood, due to the Gold Properties and Magic gift /of/ having such blood.]
Weaknesses: Extended Periods in the Sun, Fire, Most Close Range Fighting
Biography:Eshe was born sick to Pharaoh Dakarai and Queen Chione, their only child after many miscarriages and still-borns. She had a strange allergy to sunlight and became exhausted after a certain period of physical excertion. The Pharaoh's medical advisors kept close watch over her for a long period of time, before they began to notice that the young Princess had never bled, even from scratches she got from playing. Studying one scratch, they noticed that the tissue was strong yellow, and that, when she eventually did bleed from a deep cut she got from picking up a broken plate, the color of her blood was gold! Revealing this to the Pharaoh, he announced that it be reknown that his only child was a gift from the Gods for having such blood.Unfortunately, the news spread too fast and too out-of-control, as long-living enemies of the Crown-- the Dustrum Pirates, who were once-a-time long-ago slaves of the Scarabians--and the group revolted, raging to the palace and attempting to burn it to the ground. Eshe was saved by the Royal Guard and her father's-- and to-be-her's --advisors, Ata and Atsu. Her parents, however, were not so lucky, as her father was cut through the chest and left to burn, and her mother was never found, presumably taken by the Pirates.
After the Guard fought back the Pirates and order was restored after a few years of rebuilding the palace and city, Ata and Atsu-- who'd taken over [ as next-in-line, being cousins to the Late Pharaoh] and hidden Eshe away-- named the young princess the true heir to the throne, though they kept the knowledge within the trusted care of the Nobles, leaving the People to believe another noble's daughter ["Another Cousin"] had been taken to inherit the Crown.Eshe grew up from ages four to seventeen in the care of her twin Chaperones, using her close friend Badru and her pet Bast to ease the pain of being parentless. She grew to love her people and often sneak down to help in the marketplace with the Alias "Siti". She became well educated by the expanse of knowledge found in and brought to her kingdom. She studied all the subjects she could find. Becoming Patient and Humble, she also became a bit angry at her heritage, for she wanted to be active and not trapped in the palace.The young Princess also began to hate her blood, because some people-- a group who called themselves the Sandollar Revolution-- refused to believe the golden-blood girl had died, and began to riot, demanding that the girl be taken and sold for all her blood, to help the poor of the kingdom. Eshe blames herself for not being about to help the poor who riddle the streets, even as it is Ata and Atsu who advise against assisting those people ["The Gods cannot bless everyone, Your Highness."].
Royal or not, Eshe longs to travel and disguise herself so that she may be free of her golden prison inside the palace walls. Unfortunately, her wish may be her downfall, as the Sandollar Revolution and the Dustrum Pirates take to a treaty in order to end her Great-Great-Great Grandfather's Dynasty...


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