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"GIF," as in the file type, has been chosen as Oxford Dictionary's American word of 2012. It's short for graphic interface format. The runner up? "YOLO," which is short for "You only live once."
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Good morning. I'm Renee Montagne. It's a big year for the little word gif. The Oxford Dictionary has chosen it as the word of 2012. Short for graphic interface format, which are looping Internet animations, gif began as a noun in the 80s but caught on as a verb. For example, I giffed. That is made my own looping animations of the president's speech. Runners up include nomophobia - fear of being without your mobile phone. And YOLO - you only live once. It's MORNING EDITION.
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The 2015 Audi S5 delivers an exceptional sport driving character in a very attractive package, while offering impressive connected tech in the cabin, but its coupe styling limits its practicality.
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Smaller and less expensive than a Mac Mini, the HP Pavilion Mini focuses on big storage over fast performance.
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Coaching has evolved into a mainstream, widely accepted occupation in recent years, but it continues to change, particularly in the business context. One local company and entrepreneur is helping to drive the evolution of business coaching in Calgary.
There is an array of coaching specialties, from life coaching to business coaching to several others. Glen Klassen believes putting his own business expertise to use to help other business owners and senior leaders effect real change in their organizations and lives is most valuable.
"When a person invests time and effort into thinking of the long term, and things that are going to really add to his or her life, that is ultimately going to be a much more fruitful life and business," Klassen says.
As a chartered accountant in public practice for more than 30 years, he has the experience and business acumen people such as Nagui Bihelek are seeking.
Bihelek is the president of Business Edge Coaching, where Klassen offers his coaching services. Klassen was one of the first two graduates of a Las Vegas-based business coaching program called ActionCOACH in Calgary.
His company has been offering "master coach" training for about seven years and in May of this year was accredited by Action-COACH to offer their business coach certification program.
"There are a lot of coach training organizations popping up," Bihelek said.
"We came to a point where we wanted to grow to the next level. It's been a process of establishing reputation and credibility both locally and with ActionCOACH."
Klassen and Ursula Sherwood were the first two Calgary graduates.
"What's driving me to do this is that I really like helping business owners succeed," Sherwood said. "I also want to give something back to the community."
She's been an entrepreneur most of her life, shifting between running a couple of information technology businesses to training and teaching. Business coaching was a natural fit for her.
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Anybody can technically call themselves a coach. However, the standards have been rising steadily over the last decade to the point where coaching - in whatever specialization - has established itself as a more accredited, reputable and established occupation. Bihelek has also worked recently to become accredited, for example, by the Canadian Construction Association for business coaching certification with gold-seal approval in three areas: entry-level tradespeople; those working in large corporations; and, similar business owners looking to expand their trades firms.
"We created a program ... to educate (tradespeople) about finances, customer service and relationships," he said.
Bihelek offered a similar service for real estate industry professionals.
Klassen, who continues to work in his chosen profession of accounting while coaching, said large corporations are just as susceptible to the challenges faced by smaller entrepreneurs. Business coaches assist all of them in creating actual change, he said.
Instead of getting bogged down by mostly attending to daily phone calls and emails, coaches work to identify specific, identifiable things senior leaders can do to create a transformation.
"By entering into a (coaching) relationship, it's something you can't just ignore," Klassen said. "Even large corporations are struck by certain situations and they keep solving the same old problems instead of thinking about how to stop it."
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Klassen says business coaching is only going to grow in the future. He believes Calgary has one of the highest ratios of coaches for its population relative to other major cities in Canada.
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The Lady in Gold
Every stolen painting has a story. The tale behind this one is epic.
Family strife, Europe in convulsion, the art business, and what might have been an affair between a painter and his model are among the cross currents of Anne-Marie O'Connor's probe of "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I," Gustav Klimt's painting of a Viennese socialite in the first decade of the 20th century. Based on conversations with participants in the twisty saga, primarily Maria Altmann, the elderly woman who wrested the iconic Klimt portrait from the Austrian government, The Lady in Gold is dense – at times too dense – cultural history.
Subtitled "The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer," this excavation covers the relationships between Klimt, a volcanic talent of voracious sexual appetite; Mrs. Bloch-Bauer; her families, both nuclear and extended; and the governments of Germany, Austria, and the United States. The painting, on exhibit at Ronald Lauder's Neue Galerie in Manhattan, looks luminous; apparently, Klimt was influenced by Byzantine mosaics he had seen in Ravenna, lending the work unusual incandescence by framing the pale Adele in a sea of gold. The eye and almond shapes surrounding her deepen the ambiguity of their bond, which O'Connor never quite clarifies.


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Tomorrow's leaders are already here today, pushing things forward with a passion for data and interest in moving the needle for their organization.
I loved the lede of The New York Times story on data last year: "Good with numbers? Fascinated by data? The sound you hear is opportunity knocking." Since then, we've continued to see a growing trend in the need for qualified analytics professionals at all levels in an organization, including leadership. The need is painfully real: Gartner predicts by 2015, big data demand will reach 4.4 million jobs globally, but only one-third of those jobs will be filled. So it's no surprise that finding top analytics talent, as with any specialization in-demand, can be challenging.
Although there is increasing demand, you still need to look carefully to ensure you are getting quality talent. To help, I thought I'd share some questions to ask, and the types of responses to look for, when bringing on a new digital marketing team member. Having viewed things from the perspective of leading digital agency teams and now a marketer on an analytics product, I hope this is a balanced perspective and useful for you.
1. We have several (varying) groups that need access to analytics insights, from product to marketing/PR and customer service. How would you efficiently get them all what they need?
What to look for in an answer: If someone can share their process here for efficiently getting each group specific reports and analysis that goes with it, that's a great first step. But ideally, your hire would go beyond simply giving others their analysis and information. It's powerful to train different stakeholders to be proficient with the tools you're using and able to conduct their own analysis at whim. Your analytical lead should always be thinking of how she is going to democratize her knowledge throughout the organization. While it's probably not realistic to get everyone to be an A-list analyst, it is possible to get everyone to think like an analyst and have at least a basic understanding of what your team does.
2. How do you see a breakdown of time spent on analytics between data capture, reporting, and analysis?
What to look for in an answer: According to our digital marketing evangelist Avinash Kaushik, the ideal breakdown is roughly 15 percent data capture, 20 percent data reporting, 65 percent data analysis. Of course, what to look for isn't the exact same numbers from Avinash. The point is to understand the importance of focusing a majority of time on analysis and providing insights for the rest of your team to take action on. Someone who articulates and understands that the reporting and capture - while important - are just the basic things to get right. That's the easy part that should be made as efficient and automated as possible. The real value lies in effective analysis that leads to action: the creative, human element that can't be replaced by scripts.
3. How do you plan to be data-driven in improving your digital marketing efforts?
What to look for in an answer: Ideally, the candidate would take you through the process of metrics > hypothesis > experiment > act > repeat. She would outline how she plans to establish all the elements of this, from implementation and analysis to developing theories to acting and iterating on all key strategies a brand has. But in addition to understanding how to actually win in business through being data-driven in theory, the candidate should share with you how she actually did this while on the client side or walked brands through establishing a data-driven practice while on the agency side (or both). Theory is nice, but experience is everything here, as there can be roadblocks at all of the steps and you want someone leading your efforts versed in what she's doing.
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While many organizations (and particularly the marketing operations within) still operate on "gut feel" as opposed to data-driven, the opposite will be true tomorrow. And tomorrow's leaders are already here today, pushing things forward with a passion for data and interest in moving the needle for their organization. To sort the wheat from the chaff, ask the really tough questions and look for in-depth answers and experience from your analytics team members. Invest in them to thrive in your future.
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Vatican pressured to reveal more about Pope Benedict connection to sex abuse cases
The Vatican denies reports that Pope Benedict XVI may have known about a priest accused of child sex abuse. But a prominent Catholic publication calls for 'a full, personal and public accounting.'
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Pressure is building on the Vatican to reveal more information about a priest accused of sexually molesting boys – specifically the extent to which Pope Benedict XVI, then an archbishop in Munich, may have known about the sex abuse.
"The future Pope Benedict XVI was kept more closely apprised of a sexual abuse case in Germany than previous church statements have suggested, raising fresh questions about his handling of a scandal unfolding under his direct supervision before he rose to the top of the church's hierarchy," the New York Times reported Friday.
"Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future pope and archbishop in Munich at the time, was copied on a memo that informed him that a priest, whom he had approved sending to therapy in 1980 to overcome pedophilia, would be returned to pastoral work within days of beginning psychiatric treatment," the Times report states. "The priest was later convicted of molesting boys in another parish."
Church officials were quick to rebut the report.
"The then archbishop had no knowledge of the decision to reassign [the priest] to pastoral activities in a parish," the Vatican said in a statement on Friday, adding that it "rejects any other version of events as mere speculation."


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I just recently bought a DPMS LR308 and I like it very much evreything but the trigger ,it is terrible . I am going to use it for Hunting and target at the range mostly hunting what trigger is best suited for this application the trigger it came with is very hard when at the range any suggestions will be appreciated.
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Cmc trigger, it's drop in unit and reduces factory 8 lbs trigger to 3-3.5 lbs. USA made in Texas
would that be a single stage or a 2 stage and or a adjustable
The link is www.cmctriggers.com, the trigger is not adjustable. Read up on it and decide, lots of info.
Is there a reliable, safe, efficient, reasonably affordable, adjustable trigger out there for the LR308?
Can you provide a brand name and link? Any information would be appreciated.


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Indentured Youth
AS a young congressional staffer, I yearn to ask the elder statesmen around me if they really want to bequeath their children crumbling roads, dirty air, a mountain of debt, uncontrollable hazardous waste, and a hollowed-out industrial base. For in these days of deficits and tax tinkering, it seems that, tragically, America's political leaders have relinquished all semblances of governing - trading their children's future prosperity for reelection. Daily we are sacrificing our long-term health for our short-term wealth.
Though leveled before, my criticisms are today painfully relevant. Unheeded, they have brought us to the brink of decline, with the '80s debt draining our economy through military consumption and imports, rather then capital investment.
We can no longer hide from the fact that those of us born in the mid-'60s or later are fast becoming economically indentured by the reigning generation.
The signs of servanthood are frightening: the United States as the world's largest debtor; attempting to mask our real problems with accounting gimmickry such as the recent Bush capital-gains proposal, which will cost $21 billion over the next decade; $30 billion of the S&L bailout hidden from the deficit by taking it ``off-budget;'' and a severely weakened industrial base that jeopardizes our ability to respark a rise in stagnating living standards.
As Sen. Ernest Hollings and Charles Bowsher, head of the General Accounting Office, have pointed out, ``cooking the books'' by financing our budget deficit with Social Security surpluses can only mean one of three things when it comes time to provide for the baby-boomer retirees: dramatically slashing benefits, defaulting on a huge stack of IOUs, or sharply increasing taxes on tomorrow's workers.
Even more shocking are the GAO's estimated costs of meeting America's human and capital-investment needs over roughly the next decade: for example, $150 billion to modernize our nuclear-weapons complexes; $350 billion to repair and maintain our infrastructure; and $20 billion to rebuild America's deteriorating stock of public housing.
America is today unwilling to pay the price of prosperity, in a large part because of the economic myopia of our elected leadership. When the bill comes due, it will tighten today's middle-class squeeze like a vise - as second-rate industrial strength leads to second-rate living standards.


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Cops arrest techie for killing his friend's wife
Prachi's neighbours nabbed Jena and handed him over to police, who claimed that the accused has confessed to his crime.
Minister for Food and Civil Supplies rushed to the spot and promised the protestors a skywalk within 15 days.
Siddaramaiah and the Congress had for several months ignored Jharkhiholi's requests for a change of portfolio.
He added that changes in Pradesh Congress are likely as organisation has to be built from base on basis of issues.
K K Sharma, a 1983 batch AGMUT-cadre IAS, has held various posts including post of secretary PWD during 2009.
In the meantime, no trees will be cut at Aarey.
UD has proposed that original residents of 45 resettlement colonies be given ownership rights to their tenements.
Satyendra Jain sends phone number and email to hospitals and tells them not to miss his calls.
The question is whether bijli-paani scheme of AAP will solve Delhi's problems this summer.
Officials have estimated a 10% cost escalation for the overall project owing to the damage caused by rain.
Former MP Sanjay Nirupam, now Congress city chief, contradicts vikhe patil's stand on Development plan
'No ashaworker came to us or took us to a PHC in Tulai.'
Regular raids on drug peddlers in past few months have prompted dealers to verify all customers.
A note authored by Bhushan and Yadav also emerged, detailing "concrete steps" that the party must take in future.
Two petitions filed by agents and fleet owners operating in Mumbai and Nashik respectively.
After the forest department stopped giving spot permissions, Sasan Gypsy Association threatened to go on strike.
Budget earmarked Rs 3.40 crore for the Nirbhaya Fund, to be used for the upkeep of security of women.
8 injured 52-year-old driver held for starting fire in order to spite his estranged wife, children: Police
On completion, Phase-III will add 140 km to the existing operational network stretching over 190 km.
PWD, on Saturday, was told to be "ready" in case any changes or additions were required.
Note has suggestions & questions for party and also reveals that there are "two camps" & inner conflict in AAP.
Fadnavis said that Jaitley has kept his promise to help Mumbai develop through enhanced allocations in infra sector.
Subrata Bakshi replaced Roy as the all-India party general secretary.
The package was announced over and above the recommendations of the 14th Finance Commission.
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat also stressed on the need for a SJM's strong presence in Bengal.
'These wages likely to worsen conditions of poverty and malnutrition among tea plantation workers.'
The only project proposed for UP is in PM's constituency of Varanasi — a Cultural World Heritage site.
In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, Congress had only won two seats in UP.
Kailash Chaurasia was found guilty of manhandling and extending criminal threat to a postman in 1995.
Currently, the total number of H1N1 virus patients stands at 569 in Uttar Pradesh.
Prima facie, the object did not appear to be an explosive or a radioactive substance.
Sources said Ashish Khetan will be the vice-chairman of the commission.
Meets Uddhav Thackeray, says ready to discuss Bill with Anna Hazare and Sharad Pawar too
Letter sent to Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari informing him of the change.
State's overall tally that had dropped from 2006 peak of 2,376 to 1,297 in 2013, shot up to 1,965 in 2014.
Sources said at a day-long meeting of the AAP two days ago, discussions were held on which MLAs could be accommodated in these government bodies.
In the three-hour long meeting, senior officers gave Kejriwal a presentation on the different aspects of policing in Delhi.
Four others, who sent the woman to doctor's house after taking money, held for trafficking: Police
Trial runs began last December, rail safety clearance awaited.
On February 20, siblings, both employed as domestic help, hanged themselves at the latter's residence.
Fire at Deonar dumping ground, around 5,000 sqm area affected.
HC order to review his eligibility criteria to hold post stayed.
National convener and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and his deputy Manish Sisodia were absent from the meeting.
Social activist Govind Pansare was shot dead in Kolhapur earlier this month.
Kataria is the second top BJP politician after party president Amit Shah who was chargesheeted by CBI.
It has proposed a reduction of about 8 percent in the approved tariff for consumers using more than 300 and 500 units.
In August last year, corporation had informed court that population of stray dogs in city was around 8,700.
The Archbishop of Kolkata, Thomas D'Souza, said he was in talks with several organisations so that a protest rally can be held soon against Bhagwat's remarks.
The state's growth rate for this fiscal has been estimated at five per cent, while the national average was 4.7 per cent.
Speaker asserts dominance, members take oath in Bhojpuri to Sanskrit.
Stages walkout citing govt inaction in containing disease.
The matter was raised during the Question Hour by Congress member Anugrah Narain Singh.
For routine autopsies, investigating officers can directly approach hospitals.
Three of BJP would have to stand up for their place as the opposition.
Charan Singh, 40, was operating in Rajender Park area of city from his counter in Radha Krishan Hospital.
The new guidelines have brought in 122 more private hospitals which can treat H1N1 cases.
The daily challenges the much praised or much maligned city police face.
'They must appoint officer who can work on their behalf for various follow-ups.'
No more suicide attempts by patients since hospital hired counsellors and psychiatrists in Nov last year.
Won't allow an inch of Aarey Colony land for commercial development, says Khadse
The fourth video, recorded as fresh evidence, was found on the same phone.
Delhi Police team had detained Panja shortly after he arrived at the Kolkata airport from Bangladesh.
Son of a businessman originally from Bihar, Haque got attracted to RSS after Modi government came to power.


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text: I know I'm top-posting and ask for forgiveness. Please consider this a preface to my responses to what Bruce offered. And thanks, Bruce, for your thoughts. I am frustrated by not being able to find documentation about what the grub modules do--and now for many of the variables grub uses. A simple "this does that" would suffice. But I digress. I have so many things ricocheting around the "grey cells" that I may have unwittingly supplied muddied water in my original request. I need to focus right now on only one thing--getting LFS-7.4 to boot only once in an uefi environment. That means I do not want to use "legacy" in my firmware and I do not want grub to write to the "Protected MBR Layer" of my GPT partition. Just for the sake of clarity, and at the risk of pedantry and obtuseness, let me demonstrate the "old" vs "new" scheme. "OLD" = one bootloader ---> OS "NEW" = Boot Manager ----> bootloader1, bootloader2....bootloader128 --->OS(1),OS(2).....OS(n) To get LFS-7.4 to boot just once I need Boot Manager--->grub(ubuntu) or grub(LFS-7.4) ----> LFS-7.4 For the Boot Manager to "see" the different bootloaders, the bootloaders reside on the EFI partition. On my setup this is /dev/sda2/ or in current grub-speak (hd0,gpt2). My LFS partition is /dev/sda6 or (hd0,gpt6). The grub images, named grub.efi, reside in /dev/sda2/EFI/{ubuntu,LFS-7.4} That's the preface for my responses to Bruce's questions. I have a few more of my own. On 11/08/2013 07:48 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Dan McGhee wrote: > <snipped some great analysis of grub.cfg lines> GRUB modules. They can be here or global (my preference). Mine too with the addition of "as few as is needed." In this case, since I've copied "what works," I have "shot gunned" the approach and more than likely have loaded more modules than I actually need. >>> set root='hd0,gpt6' > Where to search for grub.cfg, kernel, and initrd. I can parrot your statement and I think it's precisely the issue that causes me not even to be able to load grub. If grub.efi exists on /dev/sda2/EFI/LFS-7.4 how do I get grub to look at /dev/sda6/boot/ for vmlinuz and /grub/grub.cfg? I need to keep it this way so that if my Boot Manager goes to ubuntu's version of grub.cfg I can boot LFS-7.4 from that grub menu. I'm not familiar enough with manipulating the Boot Manager yet and want to keep this option open. I'll snip the part about ubuntu's grub.cfg, it has two, one in EFI/ubuntu and one in /boot/grub, and include it here. > search.fs_uuid 0ef1c9a3-59ad-4637-be37-72ebcc07d660 root hd0,gpt10 > set prefix=($root)/boot/grub > configfile $prefix/grub.cfg Bruce indicated that the "search stuff" was for times when the hard drive got re-partitioned. My goal is to get this to work only once right now, so I think that to get grub.efi to look into my LFS partition to see the "real" grub.cfg there I can change the first line to set root=hd0,gpt6 Does not grub also have to know where its modules are? If it does need to know, does it look in /boot/grub by default or does it know somehow that, on my setup, they are in /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi/ ? > <snipped more good analysis> > >>> echo 'Loading Linux 3.10.10-lfs-7.4 ...' >>> linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.10.10-lfs-7.4 root=/dev/sda6 ro > Looks right. And just to make sure--this is right *after* grub knows to look in (hd0,gpt6)? Right? Does "root" here refer to grub or the mount point for the kernel? >> That long UUID stands for /dev/sda6 or hd0,gpt6 and is my LFS >> partition. All of a sudden it occurred to me that 'root' is the place >> where GRUB2 looks for its files and since they're not on /dev/sda6 it's >> looking in the wrong place. > Where are they? I hope I have cleared that up. > <snipped the rest of the message because it's beryond the focus of what I want to do right now> > > > menuentry 'LFS-7.4' { > insmod part_gpt > insmod ext2 > (hd0,gpt6)/linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.10.10-lfs-7.4 root=/dev/sda6 ro > } > > Which is pretty close to what's in the book. Occcam's razor again, Bruce. "The simplest solution is, invariably, the best" I must confess though that I am, right now, limited by my ignorance and frustrated that I'm having trouble resolving it. The next thing I want to resolve is generation of the grub-image. As a guide, I'm using an article that I've referenced in other messages, to get this uefi stuff to work. ( In it the author would have one work in the grub-core directory of the compiled source. In this article, which is ubuntu based, the author does not install the grub binaries and modules as we do in LFS. Maybe he's assuming that these already exist on the system. But that doesn't seem logical when he goes to the compiled source directories. Oh well.) I mention that because I've been doing things manually and have not used <grub-install>. I've sifted through that script quite a few times in the last few days and have run <grub-install --help> I don't know how many times. I'm absolutely paranoid that grub will write to the first sector on my hard drive and I haven't convinced myself that it won't do that even though there are options to it that would probably work. I wish there were a DESTDIR type of thing that I could test it with. Anyway--- I've tried some different options that haven't worked and I want things really, really simple. I'm going to rebuild the image using this command: <grub-mkimage -O x86_64-efi -o grub.efi part_gpt fat ext2 normal chain boot configfile linux multiboot> If I keep things as they are now, like we're used to, in /boot and /boot/grub I don't think I have to set the -d or -p options. The article I'm using doesn't reference any more than copying grub.efi to the EFI partition. Since I'm doing this by hand, is there anything else that grub-install does that I'm overlooking? As I explained in my original post, I've not been successful yet. I cannot even get LFS-7.4 to boot from Ubuntu's grub menu. I'm sure that's definitely a problem with the way I had things set up originally. So, I'm gonna work on that one too. I really appreciate any responses, challenges and thoughts any one may have. I think this research is going to be quite useful, because of what's happening in the OEM world with Microsoft and UEFI, in the future for LFS. Thanks, Dan


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September 20, 2004 RALEIGH In case you missed it, here's the nice little swipe Ohio State coach Jim Tressel recently took at N.C. State coach Chuck Amato and the Wolfpack's preparation for the post-Philip Rivers era.
"They had a young quarterback in there," Tressel said, referring to Wolfpack junior Jay Davis. "He hadn't been hit. They played two weeks ago in a game that was less difficult than a practice. They really had not been in a slugging match yet. We'd had two. That was part of it."
In fact, that was just about all of it. Davis, who played only the first half of the Wolfpack's season-opening win against Division I-AA Richmond, wasn't prepared to play against the No. 9 team in the country.
But, unlike last year, the schedule worked out just as Amato wanted. For those who had their hearing aid turned down during calendar year 2003, Amato was upset that the ACC didn't give N.C. State the week off it requested prior to last year's game at Ohio State. Instead, the league's master schedule-maker sent State to Wake Forest to open its ACC season.
The Wolfpack, which opened the 2003 season with an easy victory over Division I-AA Western Carolina, lost to the Demon Deacons with tailback T.A. McLendon on the bench nursing a knee injury. Amato harped on that unfulfilled request all year long.
This year, the schedule was set up just as Amato planned, and things still didn't work out. After the game, halfback Tramain Hall agreed that Davis needed more competition against a decent opponent before he was ready to perform against a defense the caliber of Ohio State's.
"I think so," Hall said, when asked if Davis needed more preparation. "When you have games under your belt, it won't do anything but do you good."
"That is part of the growing pains," Amato said.
Davis admitted to being overly anxious for his second career start, trying to do everything perfectly in front of a rabid sold-out crowd and a national television audience.
"I got some experience, but it wasn't the kind I wanted," Davis said. "The turnovers came from trying to do too much, trying to force balls in there. I think we have to go out there, make sure I am fully prepared going into the game."
That might have happened if Amato hadn't tried so hard to play games with the schedule for the last two years.
Sideshow: McLendon's Wild Ride
Amato played another little game on the Thursday before the game against Ohio State, having McLendon taken off the practice field in a golf cart in full view of the media. It certainly created a stir on the internet, as Wolfpack fans fretted for two days over yet another injury to their star running back.
But like so many of the things Amato does, it was just a cutesy trick. The coach had promised McLendon that if he made it through four days of practice without getting hurt, he would cart him off the field on the last day of practice to make sure he didn't pull a hamstring walking back to the Murphy Center. The players seem to love the coach's sense of humor. Most media and some fans aren't as impressed.
Amato was taken aback that it caused such a stir, saying in his post-game interview: "Nobody even bothered to ask me what was happening."
Anyway, McLendon, except for his fumble at the beginning of the second half, played well against the Buckeyes. He had a 31-yard ramble to set up the Wolfpack's first touchdown and scored on an 11-yard run. He ended up with 94 yards on 15 carries, while sitting out for much of the first quarter, when rookies Bobby Washington (impressive before getting hurt) and Darrell Blackman (unimpressive) got snaps.
Amato said he now expects McLendon to be healthy for the rest of the season.
"I think all of (McLendon's) struggles are behind him as far as injuries are concerned," Amato said.
Big Concerns: Discipline, Penalties
Looking across the north grandstand from the press box at Carter-Finley Stadium, one can see the tower at the Wolfpack's practice facility about a half-mile away. There, in 10-foot letters, is the single-word motto for this year's football team: "Discipline."
That is apparently what Amato is going to have to dole out to his players, after their mistake-laden performance against Ohio State. The turnovers were bad, but Amato also is concerned about overly aggressive penalties, which did as much to hurt the Wolfpack's chances of beating the offensively inept Buckeyes as the five turnovers.
Some might question the competence of the Big Ten officiating crew rest assured, Wolfpack fans already have in droves but not all of the 14 flags that resulted in 121 penalty yards were thrown to give the Buckeyes an advantage.
Last year, the Wolfpack hit triple figures in penalties for the second year in a row, with an even 100 for an average of 69.8 yards per game. That was last in the league, by a full five yards per game. It appears that Amato's team is headed there again this year.
Defense Looks Markedly Improved
With all of the mistakes made by the Wolfpack, it was almost easy to overlook the biggest positive to come out of the game, the performance of the State defense.
Admittedly, Ohio State is offensively conservative. Last year, the Buckeyes managed 317 yards against an NCSU team that finished ranked seventh in the ACC and 89th in the country in total defense, allowing 421 yards per game. The Buckeyes had just 44 rushing yards on 32 carries in that game in Columbus, which was extended by three overtimes.
This year, the Wolfpack defense stuffed OSU throughout the game, allowing an average of just 2.2 yards per play and only 64 net yards rushing on 40 carries. Here's the most amazing stat: Ohio State's six scoring drives averaged just 12.5 yards. Basically, after the Pack offense gave up a turnover or some other mistake, the defense stopped Ohio State cold and forced the Buckeyes to choose field goal attempts.
The only time that didn't happen was when Davis threw an interception that was returned to the Wolfpack three-yard line. The Buckeyes scored on the next play, something that sorely disappointed Amato.
"The only disappointing thing about the defense today was that it took them only one play to score," Amato said. "They just walked it in the end zone. Otherwise, the defense fought their fanny off."
Amato did make some minor adjustments on defense. He moved sophomore Stephen Tulloch into the starting lineup in place of senior Freddie Aughtry-Lindsay, and he started Marcus Hudson over Troy Graham at safety. Tulloch responded with 12 total tackles, three for losses. Aughtry-Lindsay had only three tackles, but on his first play in the game he dropped Ohio State back Lydell Ross for a five-yard loss. Aughtry-Lindsay also recovered a fumble late in the game that prevented Ohio State from kicking a sixth field goal and set up the Wolfpack's second touchdown.
"I tip my hat to the defense, because that is some of the best defense I have ever seen since I've been at N.C. State," McLendon said. "(Ohio State) really couldn't score. They did a great job up front. I can't say enough about the defense. They played their a-s-s-es off, pardon my French. I can't say enough about those guys."
There is no question the defense, with a pair of fast ends (Manny Lawson and Mario Williams) that every team in the league will fear and hard hitters such as linebackers Pat Thomas and Oliver Hoyte and safety Andre Maddox, is much-improved. Obviously, it will have to carry the Wolfpack until the offense can catch up.


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Photographer Alec Soth and Writer Brad Zellar Will Explore "Texas Triangle" for Latest Edition of The LBM Dispatch
AUSTIN, Texas — The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, is partnering with photographer Alec Soth and writer Brad Zellar to bring their limited edition, "irregularly published" newspaper The LBM Dispatch to Texas.
Magnum Photographer Eli Reed's Project Documents "Lost Boys" of Sudan
AUSTIN, Texas — The Harry Ransom Center presents "Eli Reed: The Lost Boys of Sudan," an exhibition of photographs by Eli Reed (b. 1946), Magnum photographer and clinical professor of journalism at The University of Texas at Austin.
Exhibition Explores Magnum Photos Continual Evolution
"Radical Transformation: Magnum Photos into the Digital Age," an exhibition at the Harry Ransom Center, explores the evolution of Magnum Photos from print journalism to the digital age and reveals a global cooperative that is continually in flux and exploring new relationships between photographers, their subjects and their viewers.


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Thank you Aaron! It's weird that you mentioned this 'cause whenever I look at this picture, it reminds me of one very old B/W Hindi classic movie song where the scene is exactly as you've described! It's haunting beautiful......
Great effect and contrast in B/W, Deepti! Love the mysterious half tones in the background...imagine who else is there...watching the river flow...! Wonderful capture!
Thanks so much again, bubblyk and Shaun! :)) I didn't really need to do any editing on this one... it came out just right! I only converted it to b&w. Color one was good too, but I love b&w... Angel Adams kind. 😊
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Hypoxia is a common environmental stress that influences signaling pathways and cell function. Previous studies from our laboratory have identified significant differences in cellular responses to sustained or intermittent hypoxia with the latter proving more cytotoxic. We hypothesized that differences in susceptibility of neurons to intermittent (IH) and sustained hypoxia (SH) are mediated by altered Akt signaling. SH, but not IH, induced a significant increase in Akt activation in rat CA1 hippocampal region extracts compared with room air controls. Akt immunoprecipitations followed by proteomic analysis identified valosin-containing protein (VCP) as an Akt-binding protein. In addition, VCP expression and association with Akt was enhanced during SH, and this association was decreased upon phosphoinositide 3-kinase/Akt pathway blockade with LY294002. Active recombinant Akt phosphorylated recombinant VCP in vitro. Site-directed mutagenesis studies identified Ser352, Ser746, and Ser748 as Akt phosphorylation sites on VCP. In addition, rat CA1 hippocampal tissue exposed to SH exhibited an acidic pI shift of VCP. Protein phosphatase 2A treatment inhibited this acidic shift consistent with SH-induced phosphorylation of VCP in vivo. PC-12 cells transfected with active Akt, but not dominant negative Akt or vector, induced VCP expression and an acidic shift in VCP pI, which was inhibited by protein phosphatase 2A treatment. Furthermore, VCP association with ubiquitinated proteins was demonstrated in vector-transfected PC-12 cell lysates, whereas active Akt-transfected cells demonstrated a marked decrease in association of VCP with ubiquitinated proteins. We concluded that Akt phosphorylates VCP in vitro and in vivo, and VCP phosphorylation releases it from ubiquitinated substrate protein(s) possibly allowing ubiquitinated protein(s) to be degraded by the proteosome.
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ELECTIONS next April are already casting long shadows in Nigeria. The ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) is set to hold a presidential primary next month with a victor to be announced by January 15th. A powerful challenger to Goodluck Jonathan, the incumbent, has emerged. A bout of frantic politicking is certain.
Atiku Abubakar, a former vice-president, last month became the consensus candidate of northern Nigeria. His main selling point is that he upholds the PDP's so-called zoning pact, whereby the presidency rotates between the country's mostly Muslim north and largely Christian south every two terms. The candidacy of Mr Jonathan, who hails from Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta, has ruffled feathers by breaking that unwritten rule.
So Mr Abubakar should be able to count on the votes of northern party delegates next month, despite the region's internal rivalries. A nine-man panel of elite northerners selected him from a shortlist of four hopefuls, mindful that to have more than one challenger to Mr Jonathan would split the area's votes. "If all four from the north had stood in the primaries, that would have been a serious setback," says Udenta Udenta, a senior member of Mr Abubakar's campaign team.
The challenger is an adroit dealmaker with strong networks in north and south, aided by four wives from different parts of the country. Confident and broad-shouldered, he is said to have amassed a fortune through investments in oil-service companies and printing presses. He presents himself as pro-business, saying he would reduce the state's role in the energy industry.
The former vice-president has been in national politics for two decades and was a founding member of the PDP, which has kept a tight grip on power since the end of army rule in 1999. His rivals on the shortlist offered stiff competition: a former military ruler, a sitting state governor and a former national security adviser. His next task is to woo the PDP's influential state governors, the deciding factors in previous primaries.
By contrast, Mr Jonathan is often seen as an accidental leader. Also a former vice-president, he came to power unexpectedly in May after the then president, Umaru Yar'Adua, died. He has since vowed to fix three of Nigeria's biggest problems: woefully unreliable electricity; flawed elections; and an insurgency in his native Delta region. An 18-month-old amnesty for Delta gangs is looking ever shakier, with fresh attacks on oil pipelines and abductions of oil-company staff in recent weeks.
If Mr Jonathan is hoping for an easy ride in southern Nigeria, he could be in for an nasty surprise. His party is losing sway there. A series of court verdicts since October have annulled the victories of three southern PDP governors in the latest polls in 2007. More states may fall to opposition parties in April's elections, especially in the south-west, where the Action Congress of Nigeria is gathering strength. It already controls Lagos, the country's vibrant business capital.
Yet the presidential race is still Mr Jonathan's to lose. Nigeria's system favours the incumbent, who can steer a vast patronage network serviced by the energy revenues of Africa's largest oil and gas producer.
Many voters are unkeen on all the PDP contenders, preferring candidates such as Muhammadu Buhari, a former military ruler, or Nuhu Ribadu, a former head of the anti-corruption agency. But even after the recent court verdicts, the PDP behemoth still controls 27 of Nigeria's 36 states—and is likely again to provide its next president.


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Only four of the previous 35 winners of the Audience Award at the Toronto International Film Festival have gone on to win the Best Picture Oscar: The King's Speech, Slumdog Millionaire, American Beauty and Chariots of Fire. Is that good news or bad for the movie that just claimed the 36th prize, 12 Years a […]
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What are the unluckiest movies ever made? Sure, you've got your bloated epics and ego-driven disasters like Heaven's Gate, Ishtar and Cutthroat Island. And even your chaotic, disjointed productions that somehow come together into near-flawless classics a la Casablanca and Gone With the Wind. But what about the real born-under-the-wrong-sign kind of movies, the Charlie […]
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Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling is going back to the movies – and the world of wizards – by writing the screenplay, her first, for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. It's an adaptation of the 2001 faux textbook she wrote, itself based on the same-named book from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, […]
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Media Release: South African National Parks Responds to Reports Against Auction of 50 White Rhino
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Date: 19th February 2008
Today South African National Parks (SANParks) responded to statements that have been made through the media regarding the possible auction of 50 rhino by representatives of Campaign Against Canned Hunting.
Today South African National Parks (SANParks) responded to statements that have been made through the media regarding the possible auction of 50 rhino by representatives of Campaign Against Canned Hunting.
"It must be made clear that SANParks has not announced the auction of the 50 white rhinos but has rather called for expressions of interest from possible buyers", said Dr Hector Magome, Managing Executive of Conservation Services.
"We find it ironic that the first objections against this sale were purported to be on the grounds of "flooding the market" and therefore providing competition to the private sector and yet the objections that appear in the media are based on assumptions that animals that are sold in auctions end up being hunted," said Dr Magome.
"Allegations against SANParks auctioning rhinos for hunting are rather in poor taste and preposterous. SANParks has committed in the past and still commits today to ensuring that known violators of the law in as far as the hunting of wildlife is concerned would be barred from purchasing any of our animals on auction. It is the role of law enforcement agencies to prosecute offenders."
"SANParks would also like to draw the attention of the public to the fact that hunting is not an illegal activity in South Africa and to also state that as a state organ we will not allow anyone to use the organisation in discrediting a legal activity which has been sanctioned through proper legislative processes. Not withstanding this, SANParks made a policy decision not to allow hunting in National Parks."
"It should be made abundantly clear that SANParks does not regulate hunting in the country and any protests about hunting, canned or otherwise, should be directed to the relevant authorities. Individuals who have approached SANParks have been informed of this and we hope they will do the right thing."
The Board of SANParks approved the sale of wildlife, specifically high value species, in 1997. The reasons informing this decision were that funds raised from the sales would be channeled into a Park Development Fund (PDF) that would assist in expanding the National Parks system.
Further to this, the decision by the Board, was also informed by the fact that though white rhino are a listed species for South Africa, they are not endangered species. From a founding population of 100 in the early 1900s and reintroduction in the KNP in the 1960s, the population has grown to over 5,000 in KNP alone and over 12,000 in the country. This number excludes white rhino that has been exported to other countries and removed by other means.
"The PDF funds are used to purchase new land to be incorporated to the National Parks system as well as other high value species which are rare. So far the PDF has contributed some 500,000ha of land since its establishment."
South Africa has committed to increasing the land under conservation to 8%, from the current 6%, by 2011. Currently state land under conservation is about 7,000,000ha, with National Parks constituting 4,000,000ha of the total. Therefore, another 3,000,000ha of land is needed by the state in order to meet the meet target. Registered Private Game reserves have some 20,000,000ha of land under conservation, a phenomenal contribution to the country's conservation efforts.
The sale of white rhino for improving the National Parks system is a perfectly legitimate exercise and SANParks may only review its decision to go ahead with the sale if there is extenuating evidence which may lead us to the conclusion that our rhinos may be used in illegal or illicit activities.
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