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The five characters 'old' actresses are allowed to play
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Why dragging out marriage equality is a slap in the face to us all
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Pro Player Funding says it's no longer issuing the type of high-interest loans it gave to a number of football players during the NFL lockout.
According to a spokesman for Platinum Partners, a New York based hedge fund of which Pro Player Funding LLC is a subsidiary, the loans were nixed because of "a returns issue."
The spokesman declined to comment any further.
The company has filed lawsuits against seven people in New York state in the past year after loans of more than a million dollars were not repaid on time. The loans carried interest rates between 18 and 24 percent.
Former first-round draft pick Vince Young filed a suit last week against the company claiming they gave the loan without his knowledge or consent.
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The video montage features clips of Savage, Zeus and Sherri verbally attacking Hogan and Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake in promotion of their SummerSlam showdown. The villainous group would come up short in their pay-per-view encounter as Hogan struck Zeus with Sherri's loaded purse while the referee was distracted, which was followed by a scoop slam and leg drop for the pinfall victory.
WWE.com has also added Zeus to their Alumni section, who parted ways with the organization in December 1989 after losing a SummerSlam rematch. He resumed his feud with Hogan in World Championship Wrestling in 1996 as a member of The Alliance To End Hulkamania. His band of misfits came up short in a Doomsday Cage Match versus Hogan and Savage at Uncensored—the match is currently airing on WWE Classics On Demand as a great WCW moment.
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An entertainment area for children at Wildhorse Resort & Casino will be temporarily closed while the casino undergoes construction.
The Children's Entertainment Center will be closed starting Sunday for the mega expansion of the casino. The Children's Entertainment Center is expected to re-open late next summer next to the Cineplex that will be constructed on the southwest corner of the current structure.
The Mission, Ore., casino is working on a $45 million expansion that will add 184,000 square feet, including a new 202-room hotel with an indoor/outdoor swimming pool building and retail space.
The expansion will also add 600 slot machines and the four-theater Cineplex. Nevada firm Thalden, Boyd & Emery designed the project. Construction is by Portland-based J.E. Dunn Contractors, the same company that recently constructed the Nixyaawii Governance Center for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. About 75 permanent jobs will be created through the expansion, and more than 100 construction jobs will be generated through the work expected to be completed next September. For more details call 541-966-1580.
Do not adjust your calendar. An item in Tuesday's Strictly Business column may have put a rush on Veterans Day.
Southgate grocery store Walla Walla's Harvest Foods will be honoring veterans and servicemen and women with free coffee and a treat from one of the store's "Donut Dollies." But it won't be happening this week. The event will instead take place Thursday, Nov. 11, from 7-11 a.m.
Rusann Brooks has been promoted to vice president/real estate compliance and quality assurance manager at Banner Bank's Walla Walla corporate office, the company announced.
Brooks previously was assistant vice president/real estate loan production administration support.
She has more than 20 years of banking experience with Banner Bank and is a Graduate of Mortgage Lending from the National Association of Professional Mortgage Women.
Walla Walla resident Allen Pomraning has graduated from the Western College of Auctioneering.
According to an announcement on the graduation, Pomraning completed an intensified course at the nationally recognized auctioneer training center in Montana. The course included auctioneering, public speaking and auction business management. The completion qualifies him to conduct public auctions. During his time at the Western College of Auctioneering, Pomraning specialized in charity benefit, real estate, heavy equipment and automobile auctioneering.
Stone Creek Manor Bed Breakfast is bringing a taste of fine dining to its 1926 property at 756 Bryant Ave.
Chef Gene Soto will prepare a four-course meal paired with wines from Garrison Creek Cellars for the Nov. 20 event.
The menu includes sweet onion and ch?reg;vre cheese tart, roasted Yukon potatoes with white truffle-lemon dressing and sauce verte, roasted natural tri-tip, root vegetable risotto, warm Brussels sprouts and mushroom jus; and vanilla-scented poached pears, among other things.
The cost for the 7 p.m. event is $115. Reservations can be made at 593-4770.
Strictly Business is a local business column. Vicki Hillhouse can be reached at email@example.com or 526-8321.
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It is possible to use rapid re-housing successfully in high cost, low vacancy markets. We've learned from the innovative rapid re-housing programs that creativity and flexibility are the key to making this work.
There are three Core Components of Rapid Re-Housing: housing identification, rent and move-in assistance (financial), and rapid re-housing case management and services. I've listed some tips that successful rapid re-housing programs in challenging rental markets have shared with us in conferences and webinars below. (I recommended reading through the core components first before reading this blog post, if they are new to you.)
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Rapid re-housing isn't easy, but it is simple. And it's bringing us closer and closer to ending veteran homelessness by the end of this year. The Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) grants to community organizations across the country have taken the rapid re-housing intervention to a scale previously unseen, and the impact on veteran homelessness has been astonishing.
It isn't easy. People experiencing homelessness often face numerous barriers to getting into and retaining stable, permanent housing. Data from Fiscal Year 2013 shows that more than half of the veterans participating in SSVF services had a disabling condition; 44 percent had a substance use disorder; and nearly a third had no income at the time of program entry. Yet 84 percent of participants exited the program to permanent housing with a median length of 90 days of services.
How has SSVF managed to achieve such dramatic outcomes?
Today when a family facing a housing crisis seeks shelter in Los Angeles or Mercer County, NJ, they will encounter a very different homeless service system than they would have just a few short years ago. That's because both communities have radically transformed their homeless service systems to increase their capacity to help families.
In the past, families in L.A. would call programs all over the county to find a vacancy. Due to the county's size, they might find a program 25 or even 50 miles from their previous residence. Too often, they would be forced to turn to an adult shelter program or a facility in Skid Row that was poorly equipped to support families with children. Today, the city has Family Solutions Centers strategically located through the county to assesses families' housing needs and refer them to the most appropriate shelter or housing intervention in their own community.
Earlier this week President Obama released his proposed budget for fiscal year (FY) 2016, which begins Oct. 1, 2015. The proposal includes strong measures to help communities re-house homeless people and prevent people who are at-risk from becoming homeless. As has become typical over the past several years, however, grave disagreement between the administration and Congress over larger budget issues means a lot of uncertainty for the future of homeless programs. The President's budget presents a feasible best-case-scenario for progress on homelessness. (The worst-case-scenario is decidedly grimmer.) It's based on some commonsense assumptions about homelessness.
As we head into the New Year, we're highlighting some of our most popular blog content by rerunning three of our most read blog posts. This post was originally published on May 6, 2014. It's our second most read post of 2014.
As rapid re-housing increases in popularity as a strategy to address homelessness, not surprisingly, it is coming under closer scrutiny. Rapid re-housing is designed to help families experiencing homelessness by providing them with the financial assistance and services they need in order to return to permanent housing. It has been proven to be incredibly successful at doing that, but like any new idea, it has its detractors. Naturally, some people who have worked in the homeless assistance field for years, relying on strategies they are more familiar with, might be skeptical. With today's blog post, I'd like to take a look at three of the most common criticisms of rapid re-housing that I've heard, and discuss why these criticisms aren't valid.</
There is a lot going on at the Alliance these days as we work to raise the visibility and understanding of rapid re-housing, which is an essential component of every community's overall strategy to end homelessness.
We have a couple developments this week that I'm excited to share with you. First, we are announcing a new, monthly newsletter that will start in January 2015. This newsletter will be your go-to source for any new reports, briefs, and studies on rapid re-housing, as well as details on upcoming or recent webinars and a heads-up on Alliance activities and events. If you are signed up for the Alliance's regular newsletter, you probably received an announcement today on how to sign up for this one.
It's almost 2015, and here at the Alliance we are reflecting back on what we as a nation have accomplished in 2014 in the fight to end homelessness. We will have a lot to be grateful for in the New Year, but we will also have a lot of work still ahead of us, particularly when it comes to ending family homelessness.
Here are some startling statistics: On a single night in January 2014, more than 200,000 people in families were either staying in a homeless service program or in a place not intended for human habitation, according to the most recent Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress. That number represents a 3 percent decline (or 6,000 people) since 2013, a significantly smaller decline than the one we saw among veterans (11 percent).
In recent years, policymakers and homeless service providers have made a sustained effort to improve our response to family homelessness. They developed new tools and resources, and they increased investment in rapid re-housing, an intervention that provides temporary financial assistance to homeless families to help them return to permanent housing. (Between 2013 and 2014 rapid re-housing capacity nearly doubled.)
A couple weeks ago the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) released an intriguing research brief looking at their Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) Program, its homelessness prevention and rapid re-housing initiative for homeless veterans and their families. The study was conducted by the National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans.
The study tracked 36,363 veterans served by the SSVF program during 2012 and 2013 to see how many of them fell back into homelessness after exiting (and were no longer receiving subsidies to pay for housing). They followed these households until January 1, 2014, which means some households were tracked for as long as 27 months, but most were followed for shorter periods. The findings were encouraging.
When researchers crunched the numbers, they found that only 9.4 percent of the veteran families who exited the program had returned to homelessness one year later. The number had increased to the 15.5 percent mark two years later. The success rate among single veterans was slightly lower, with 16 percent returning to homelessness one year later and 26.6 percent returning within two years.
When I travel around the country talking about or training on rapid re-housing, one of the statements I make that gets the most reaction is this: rapid re-housing isn't an anti-poverty program, it is an anti-homelessness program. Without fail, several folks in the room will sit back and consider this statement, seemingly for the first time, even though it should be obvious. Although, as someone who has spent the better part of 25 years working on economic and social justice, I get why this statement can cause a few eyebrows in the room to go up.
Let's face it; a lot of us get into this line of work because we can't see abject poverty in our society and simply walk on by. And you can't hit bottom worse than being poor and homeless. But when I talk about rapid re-housing as a solution to homelessness, a lot of folks raise questions about how a family is going to survive after the support ends. They worry that helping a family or individual into an apartment will set them up to ultimate failure. Many ask, "Wouldn't they be better off with a housing voucher?" My answer is always the same.
Of course they would. But the reality is that there are not nearly enough housing vouchers to meet the need. However, when that family or individual is living on the street, what they need right away is a home.
Here is how a 20-year-old described his vision for a Housing First approach to helping homeless youth in Canada. This description comes from Conor, a member of the Youth Leader's Committee of The Street Youth Planning Collaborative in Ontario. You should be pleased to learn that it accurately describes what is already happening in the best homeless youth provider programs across the United States.
"Some people are more independent than others, some have different issues and things like that. It's a really great idea because it will give people a chance – a fighting chance. The way I would imagine it is like if there is some young person who is at risk of being homeless, they would have an interview with someone who would assess their needs, their strengths and weaknesses and build their plan of care around that." – "A Safe and Decent Place to Live: Towards a Housing First Framework for Youth."
The Housing First approach prioritizes getting homeless people into housing immediately, without forcing them to meet preconditions, then providing them with the services they may need in order to remain stably housed. Over the years, this approach has led to significant declines in homelessness among veterans, families, and the chronically homeless. Yet an important component of the strategy, rapid re-housing, has yet to be applied to the problem of homeless youth on a national scale. If it can work for everyone else, why can't it work for homeless youth?
Since the first Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress in 2007, the number of people experiencing homelessness on a given night has decreased by 9 percent. That's almost 62,000 people. To what can we attribute this considerable decrease?
Since the majority of the decline occurred between 2010 and 2013, following the implementation of the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program (HPRP), it's safe to say Housing First had a lot to do with it. Getting homeless people back into housing as quickly as possible, without requiring them to meet preconditions such as employment, income, absence of criminal record, or sobriety, is a key element of the Housing First approach and the rapid re-housing model. And it's reducing homelessness.
At our 2014 National Conference earlier this month, several experts speaking in the "Research on the Efficacy of Housing First" workshop discussed the effectiveness of Housing First and how the approach doesn't just help reduce overall homelessness, but also improves provider-consumer interactions, increases housing stability, and saves money.
If you attended our 2014 National Conference on Ending Homelessness, you were probably overwhelmed by the sheer number of workshops. With 90 workshops and almost 300 presenters, it was impossible to catch them all. But I did get a chance to sit in on several great rapid re-housing workshops and listen to some pretty talented folks talking about their programs and research.
One workshop I found particularly powerful was "Providing Rapid Re-housing for Victims of Domestic Violence." You can access all of the presenter's presentations here, but in this blog post I'd like to draw attention to some points from the presentation by Kris Billhardt, of Home Free in Oregon, "Rapid Re-Housing with DV Survivors: Approaches that Work." You can find her presentation here, as well as embedded directly below.
Yesterday, Ann Oliva, Director of HUD's Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs (SNAPS), sent a letter indicating HUD would open registration for the FY 2014 portion of the FY 2013 - FY 2014 CoC Program Competition shortly. The NOFA released in November 2013 covers two years, 2013 and 2014, so CoCs will not need to complete a full application, but they will need to submit new project priorities and project applications soon.
While Oliva's letter did not include anything we haven't heard before, it is a helpful reminder of HUD's priorities and how communities should prepare for the next competition. I've highlighted three things below that your community should be working on now to prepare.
Over the last month or so, I've been writing a lot about the core components of rapid re-housing. As a refresher, there are three, overarching components of the rapid re-housing strategy. I've already written about the first two, Housing Identification and Housing Move-in and Rent Assistance. Today I'm going to write about the third and final component: Case Management and Support.
I like to compare the three components to the three legs of a stool. Each component is just as important and vital to the successful implementation of rapid re-housing as the other. Remove one, and the whole process tumbles down. If you have read about the other two components, you know that they are fairly straightforward and easy to summarize. What distinguishes the Case Management and Support component is not its importance, but its complexity.
As the title suggests, the case management and support component is the "services" side of rapid re-housing; where short to mid-term assistance that a family may require to obtain and retain permanent housing is outlined.
As I've written previously, successfully implemented rapid re-housing strategies can significantly reduce homelessness and move a wide range of families and individuals out of shelter and into their own home. However, in order to successfully implement rapid re-housing, a solid understanding of the core components is essential.
In a previous blog post, I discussed the first of three, overarching core components related to rapid re-housing: housing identification. If you are looking for general information on rapid re-housing, you can find a ton of it here.
Like housing identification, the second core component, Housing Move-in and Rental Assistance is pretty simple, yet it plays a key role in moving a household out of homelessness and into housing. Here's the core component in its entirety.
If you checked out the Core Components of Rapid Re-housing, you probably noticed it's a pretty short, concise document. We created it to identify the basic elements that every rapid re-housing program must contain. While we were working with federal agencies to hammer out the list, we wanted to make sure that the end document was easy enough to quickly read and digest. Mission accomplished, right?
Well, not so fast. When dealing with something as complex as a strategy to end homelessness, we get that it would be helpful if we went into a bit more detail on each of the three, overarching components. If you want to take it in all at once, we have a longer document here, but in today's blog post, let's take a look at the first core element on the list: Housing Identification.
While it's a pretty innocuous term, Housing Identification is really critical to the success of any rapid re-housing program. Housing identification is so much more than just finding a home for a household experiencing homelessness. In fact, the primary "customer" in this context isn't the household at all, but the landlord.
A couple weeks ago, I wrote about the history of rapid re-housing. Today, I'll review what evidence there is of the effectiveness of rapid re-housing.
Unfortunately, there are few national studies on rapid re-housing. In fact, there are few national studies on any interventions to end homelessness. The national data on rapid re-housing that does exist comes from the evaluation of federal programs.
As rapid re-housing increases in popularity as a strategy to address homelessness, not surprisingly, it is coming under closer scrutiny. Rapid re-housing is designed to help families experiencing homelessness by providing them with the financial assistance and services they need in order to return to permanent housing. It has been proven to be incredibly successful at doing that, but like any new idea, it has its detractors. Naturally, some people who have worked in the homeless assistance field for years, relying on strategies they are more familiar with, might be skeptical. With today's blog post, I'd like to take a look at three of the most common criticisms of rapid re-housing that I've heard, and discuss why these criticisms aren't valid.
Often-times, someone will say to me, "So, tell me about this new rapid re-housing model," not realizing that rapid re-housing is far from new. Rapid re-housing is a Housing First intervention that prioritizes moving homeless families or individuals into permanent housing as quickly as possible. It first emerged as a promising model decades ago when a number of programs like Beyond Shelter in Los Angeles; Rapid Exit in Hennepin County, Minn.; and the Shelter to Independent Living program in Lancaster, Pa. began practicing it.
Still, it's hardly surprising that many people are under the impression it's a new model. Only relatively recently, the federal government made rapid re-housing a federal priority. In 2008, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) dipped a toe in the water by announcing the Rapid Re-Housing Demonstration Project, which eventually distributed $25 million to 23 communities to pilot rapid re-housing.
Then, in quick succession in 2009, Congress appropriated $1.5 billion for the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-housing program (HPRP) in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and enacted the Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing (HEARTH) Act, which reauthorized the McKinney-Vento homeless assistance programs administered by HUD. HPRP served an estimated 1.4 million people with prevention and rapid re-housing assistance over three years. And, the HEARTH Act recognized rapid re-housing as a newly eligible activity proven to be effective at reducing homelessness.
Since I started this series almost exactly a year ago, we've received quite a few inquiries from communities interested in conducting Rapid Re-Housing Learning Collaboratives. Today I'd like to address two important questions we often get, that thus far I've neglected to mention on this blog: What will be the cost, in terms of time and capital? And how many staff will this take and what will the roles be?
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The confounding problem of unfilled jobs amid high unemployment has New York education and business leaders brainstorming for solutions.
NY education, business leaders tackling skills gap
"I think what we've got is a skills crisis and not a jobs crisis," said Stanley Litow, a vice president at IBM, which has been pursuing collaborations with high schools and colleges to create pipelines of potential employees.
The Pathways in Technology Early College High School in New York City, for example, blends high school and college in a six-year program that produces graduates with an associate degree in applied science, workplace experience and a crack at a job at IBM or an industry partner. The school, a joint effort of the Armonk-based IBM and the City University of New York, opened its doors in September 2011.
It's the kind of collaboration that will be held up as a model during a state Education Department conference in Albany on Friday that's co-sponsored by the Business Council of New York State and IBM. Innovative career and technology initiatives under way in high school Board of Cooperative Education Services, or BOCES, programs also will be showcased with an eye toward being replicated, organizers said.
"We see these partnerships as not only a way to tackle our state's economic development challenges but also to tackle the achievement gap and some of the challenges we see in student performance," Education Commissioner John King said.
The conference comes as New York is moving toward adopting two alternative high school diplomas, one focused on science, technology, engineering and math, collectively known as STEM, and the other on career and technology education, or CTE, with the idea of giving students more career-specific pathways toward graduation and the working world.
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I have a two part question relating to sending query results as attachments using sp_send_dbmail.
Problem 1: Only basic .txt files will open. Any other format like .pdf or .jpg are corrupted.
Problem 2: When attempting to send multiple attachments, I receive one file with all file names glued together.
I'm running SQL Server 2005 and I have a table storing uploaded documents:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[EmailAttachment](
[EmailAttachmentID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
[MassEmailID] [int] NULL, -- foreign key
[FileData] [varbinary](max) NOT NULL,
[FileName] [varchar](100) NOT NULL,
[MimeType] [varchar](100) NOT NULL
I also have a MassEmail table with standard email stuff. Here is the SQL Send Mail script. For brevity, I've excluded declare statements.
while ( (select count(MassEmailID) from MassEmail where status = 20 )>0)
select @MassEmailID = Min(MassEmailID) from MassEmail where status = 20
select @Subject = [Subject] from MassEmail where MassEmailID = @MassEmailID
select @Body = Body from MassEmail where MassEmailID = @MassEmailID
set @query = 'set nocount on; select cast(FileData as varchar(max)) from Mydatabase.dbo.EmailAttachment where MassEmailID = '+ CAST(@MassEmailID as varchar(100))
select @filename = ''
select @filename = COALESCE(@filename+ ',', '') +FileName from EmailAttachment where MassEmailID = @MassEmailID
exec msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail
@profile_name = 'MASS_EMAIL',
@recipients = 'email@example.com',
@subject = @Subject,
@body =@Body,
@body_format ='HTML',
@query = @query,
@query_attachment_filename = @filename,
@attach_query_result_as_file = 1,
@query_result_separator = '; ',
@query_no_truncate = 1,
@query_result_header = 0;
update MassEmailset status= 30,SendDate = GetDate() where MassEmailID = @MassEmailID
I am able to successfully read files from the database so I know the binary data is not corrupted.
.txt files only read when I cast FilaData to varchar. But clearly original headers are lost. It's also worth noting that attachment file sizes are different than the original files. That is most likely due to improper encoding as well. So I'm hoping there's a way to create file headers using the stored mimetype, or some way to include file headers in the binary data?
I'm also not confident in the values of the last few parameters, and I know coalesce is not quite right, because it prepends the first file name with a comma. But good documentation is nearly impossible to find. Please help!


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Nick Swisher, Tribe reach $56M, 4-year deal
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Wow! What a crazy few weeks. Hey Cleveland! Are you ready? Because I'm coming home! #RollTribe— Nick Swisher (@NickSwisher) December 23, 2012
The Indians, after signing free agent Mark Reynolds to play first base, will use Swisher, a switch-hitter, as a replacement for Shin-Soo Choo in right field.
The team recently traded Choo to the Cincinnati Reds in a deal that eventually landed them four players from the Reds and Arizona Diamondbacks, including center fielder Drew Stubbs and right-hander Trevor Bauer.
While the Indians' approach appears curious – the team is signing a major free agent at a time when it is entertaining trades for right-hander Justin Masterson, closer Chris Perez and others – the club has an explanation.
Masterson and Perez are two years away from free agency. Choo was one. The Indians, a low-revenue club, are trying to thread the needle, and improve the team both short- and long-term.
The way the Indians see it, they have a strong core of pre-arbitration players, including second baseman Jason Kipnis, catcher Carlos Santana and outfielder Michael Brantley; third baseman Lonnie Chisenhall and reliever Vinnie Pestano.
The Indians' primary goal in any trade is to find young starting pitching that can A) add to their 0-to-3 core and B) make their 2013 rotation more presentable. That is why the acquisition of Bauer, the No. 3 overall pick in the 2011 draft, fit the plan.
Swisher, in the view of the Indians, would remain good enough for long enough to contribute when the team got good again. He recently turned 32, but has been a remarkably consistent offensive performer throughout his career. In his four seasons with the Yankees, he averaged 26 home runs an .850 OPS.
The Indians will lose their second-round pick for signing Swisher; their first-round pick was protected because they had one of the 10 worst records in the majors last season. The Yankees, who had made Swisher a qualifying offer of $13.3 million, will receive a compensatory pick at the end of the first round.


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As David's first birthday approaches, I wanted to take this opportunity to write to wish YOU a Happy Birthday as well.
While a child hardly realizes the significance of a first birthday, to the parents, it is a wonderfully joyous occasion as they pause and reflect on the events of the past year (and nine months :-). I don't have to tell you, but profound changes have taken place in your life such as lost sleep, sacrifice of personal time, juggling of schedules, etc. Logged in Members, CLICK HERE to view full text!


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Post-mortem conducted on the body of murdered Nigerian national Obado Uzoma Simoen on Thursday revealed more than 25 injury marks. The analysis was conducted at the state-owned Goa Medical College hospital.
The State police described the death as the fallout of a turf-war in the drug trade prevalent in the coastal belt of North Goa.
Keywords: Goa drug peddling, Manohar Parrikar, India-Nigeria relations, Nigerian death, Goa Minister remarks, controversial remarks, Obado Uzoma Simoen
3 more held for Nigerian's murder
Goa police to clamp down on illegal stay of foreigners
Thirty-nine arrested Nigerians without valid documents
Nigerian murder case: Goa sends report to MEA
Parrikar blames Home Ministry for Goa's policing woes
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WILSON, TEXAS (Collin County). Wilson was a rural community near the site of present Princeton in east central Collin County. It was named for George A. and T. B. Wilson, who were landowners in the area. Settlement occurred sometime in the late 1880s. Wilson most likely served as a church and school community until the early twentieth century. No population statistics were available for the town.
Roy Franklin Hall and Helen Gibbard Hall, Collin County: Pioneering in North Texas (Quanah, Texas: Nortex, 1975).
The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article.David Minor, "WILSON, TX (COLLIN COUNTY)," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hvw58), accessed May 27, 2015. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.


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"Industrial media" are commonly referred to as "traditional" or "mass" media.
One characteristic shared by both social media and industrial media is the capability to reach small or large audiences; for example, either a blog post or a television show may reach zero people or millions of people.
In his 2006 book The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom, Yochai Benkler analyzed these distinctions and their implications in terms of both economics and political liberty. However, Benkler, like many academics, uses the neologism Network Economy or "network information economy to describe the underlying economic, social, and technological characteristics of what has come to be known as "social media."
Social media utilities create opportunities for the use of both inductive and deductive logic by their users. Claims or warrants are quickly transitioned into generalizations due to the manner in which shared statements are posted and viewed by all. The speed of communication, breadth, and depth, and ability to see how the words build a case solicits the use of rhetoric. Induction is frequently used as a means to validate or authenticate different users' statements and words. Rhetoric is an important part of today's language in social media.
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What is it?
And would it be ok for Steven?
This appears to have passed me by completely.
What is it?
And would it be ok for Steven?
Hi Dawn
Well we seem to have been waiting for this movie for ages. The were cardboard models of Wall-E in the cinema when we went to Florida at the start of the year. My six year has been nagging me ever since.
It opens 18th July I believe. It looks suitable for a five year old although it does involve mushy issues like robots falling in love.
Oh god! Well as long as there's no robot snogging I might take him.
That's one day of the summer break taken care of then. 5 weeks and 6 days left to sort.
I took Baleigh and the Grandparents to see this last night...Andrew opted to go see Hancock with Will Smith instead (go figure).
It was a good movie. Baleigh really enjoyed Wall E and the other robots and their were some *really* humourous and touching moments.
Having said that, I'd have to say that in my opinion, Steven might well get bored. I saw several younger 'lets in the theatre (ages 3-6) who seemed to get quite restless during the "bulk" of the show. I think that the lack of actual conversation (meaning human interaction; actual spoken word) can be a challenge for younger children to grasp. The beeps, body language and inuendo is brilliant but I think it may sort of be lost on a younger audience.
Fortunately, near the end, it has some really great action scenes and the human involvement picks up, so it ends on a great note...for any age; but I still think it's more geared for children a bit older, say 7 and up and adults.
I will say that I think it can certainly be a "teachable moment" movie. There are loads of great "green" ideologies...about caring for the Earth and caring for ourselves; so I can't say that I'd rule out taking Steven altogether....I'd probably just make sure I had lots of popcorn to occupy him in the beginning of the show....and be sure to throw out your garbage afterwards
I've not seen it yet, but do want to! A young woman that I was training (she's from Newcastle by the way!) has just been and she loved it.
I do think though, that becca has it hit on the head. My trainee said that it was rather adult (in that it might be over younger children's heads in many parts) which is why she liked it.
On the other hand, Steven has always been advanced for his age, so he'll most likely be fine!
Hmmm, he's not really one for sitting still if it won't hold his attention.
We loved this movie...it is rather depressing though for adults...that seems to go over the heads of the kids though. Jordan wasn't bothered much (he's 11 now)
There was a very small boy sitting behind us and it was his first trip to the theatre ever. (Mom and Dad were both making a huge fuss, taking pictures, telling him what to expect, etc.) I think he was easily 5 or less and he was an angel....never made any fuss at all. His mom said he loved robots.
I have to say that Jackson LOVED the movie!! Honestly, he was never bored once. I really is a great movie. Chris is already checking out the toys...for Jack's birthday, or Christmas, so he claims...I *know* he's just checking them out for himself..lol
OK Daddy got some free cinema tickets so Wall-E it is. :D


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The Indian film industry's obsession with superstars seems to have infected animation too, with big names being sought after not only for dubbing Hollywood blockbusters in Hindi but also for original Indian animated films.
Several big stars have been roped in by producers to lend their voices to animated characters, in the mistaken belief that the mere presence of Bollywood stars will increase the marketability of a film.
This trend began in 2004 when Shahrukh Khan dubbed for Mr Lajawaab aka Mr Incredible in the Hindi version of Pixar's The Incredibles. Until then, dubbing had strictly been the domain of professional voice-over artists. When Disney released Aladdin in India, they needed someone who could match the talent and versatility of Robin Williams to voice Genie.
After several auditions, the folks at Disney chose the talented Chetan Sashital, who brought a delightful Indian flavour to the character of Genie. He went on to voice several other popular characters on TV and film, including Baloo the Bear in Jungle Book 2 and Homer in the Simpsons TV series. Yet, when there was talk of The Simpsons movie being dubbed in Hindi, the producers chose instead to cast Boman Irani as the voice of Homer. It's another story that the project never took off.
H'wood takes it seriously
In Hollywood, stars voice animated characters all the time. Jack Black added a whole new dimension to Po in Kung Fu Panda, while Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman not only spoke, but also sang as penguins in Happy Feet.
The difference is that most Hollywood actors are trained in voice acting. They understand what it takes to breathe life into an animated character, to shape its personality with pitch, intonation and accent.
One wouldn't think of Antonio Banderas as a puny little cat. Yet he reprises his role from Shrek as Puss in Boots in the upcoming release by the same name, subduing his own personality and taking on that of a charming but bumbling feline hero.
When Woody Allen voiced Z, the protagonist of Antz, he wasn't being Woody Allen, he was Z. Each of these actors stepped out of their star selves to become the characters they were bringing to life with their voices.
The wrong kind of buzz
But that kind of seamless blending between character and voice is rarely seen when our own Bollywood stars dub for animated films. Whether it is because of poor casting or because the actor does not have the ability to act with just his voice, the result is most often a flop.
Like in the case of the 2008 release, Roadside Romeo, which was largely touted as a Saif-Kareena film. A huge buzz was created around the film's star cast, with the animation itself getting barely any publicity. Animation has long been stereotyped in India as something that only children watch, so it seemed like an attempt by the producers to bait the adult audiences.
But this tactic backfired. Saif sounded like himself, and not like Romeo the dog. It was the same with Kareena. Neither made an attempt to step outside the limitations of their own star personas and modulate their voices to suit the character.
There was no difference between Saif and Kareena in Roadside Romeo and the two of them in any other Bollywood movie. It was as if the director deliberately wanted audiences to identify the voice of their favourite actor, as if the audience not recognising the actor's voice would defeat the purpose of getting a big film star in the first place!
And the audience verdict was clear. Neither Javed Jaffrey's fantastic rendition of the simultaneously vicious and hilarious Charlie Anna, nor the fairly remarkable animation could save the film. Roadside Romeo's failure to set the cash registers ringing proved to be a big setback for all the other Indian animated films that were set to release after that.
That same year, Akshay Kumar too made his foray into dubbing with Percept Pictures' Jumbo but that too was a miserable flop, proving once again that big stars are no guarantee that an animated film will work. Yet, Bollywood persists.
So Nikhil Advani's animated feature Delhi Safari will finally see the light of day after languishing for close to two years (since its completion in 2009) for want of a distributor. The movie will be released in English and Hindi, and its fate lies in the hands of a huge star cast, with Akshay Khanna, Govinda, Sunil Shetty, Urmila Matondkar and Boman Irani dubbing for the Hindi version.
The only notable exception to this trend has been Toonpur Ka Superhero, where all the animated characters were voiced by professional voice actors and theatre personalities. Sadly, most animated features still rely on Bollywood stars to attain the popularity bestowed on live-action films.
A point to ponder on is that these superstars cannot guarantee the box-office success of even live-action films. So wouldn't it be wiser for the makers of animated films in India to stop depending on the voices of Bollywood stars, and instead divert the budget towards improving production quality, better animators, and a superior animated film that can stand tall on its own merit?


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Cinder, the 18-month-old bear cub rescued from the Carlton Complex Fire near Wenatchee, is improving, Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care says.
The 39-pound cub suffered burns on her paws and stomach. A man who lost his home in the fire found her.
She was initially taken in by PAWS, but then flown to Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care, where they have experience with these types of injuries.
The little cub, who was underweight, is still on pain medication, since burn victims have severe pain, said Tom Millham with LTWC.
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Kosher coffee.
The first is "fact," according to Rabbi David Heber of the STAR-K of Baltimore and Rabbi Yosef Wikler of the magazine Kashrus. Roasters and blenders of pure coffee beans from any plantation around the globe do not need rabbinic certification to prove their product is kosher.
The second is "false." Kosher food is neither blessed nor cursed by the rabbi, but checked for nonkosher ingredients. Additives, from decaffeinating agents to flavors, do require kosher certification. A roaster featuring flavored as well as singleorigin beans needs rabbinical supervision for both in order to reach the kosher market.
How can a flavor be unkosher? Without getting into complex chemical compounds or Talmudic law, it's safe to say the problem begins at the source. For the kosher consumer, a flavor derived from animals, grapes, or alcohol is problematic. Glycerine and oleic acid, which impart creamy notes and mouthfeel, are sometimes made from nonkosher beef tallow. Civet, a strawberry-flavor enhancer, can come from a cat. What many roasters and tea blenders don't know is that many flavor companies including Flavor & Fragrance Specialties (FFS), Flavor Technology Corporation, Melchers, Flavor Dynamics, and Beck all produce kosher flavors synthetically at no greater expense.
In October, 1994 Green Mountain Roasters of Vermont received kosher certification from the Orthodox Union, and The Coffee Beanery, Ltd. was approved by Organized Kashruth Laboratories. In May, Gillies Coffee Company of New York was certified by the STAR-K of Baltimore. Since 1990, Cadillac Coffee of Michigan has been selling 600,000 pounds annually of gourmet coffee certified by the Chicago Rabbinical Council. What motivates these companies to switch? What changes are necessary and at what cost?
"We were getting inquiries asking if we were kosher from our wholesale department, especially in New York and New Jersey," said Betty Omansky, assistant to Robert Stiller, president of Green Mountain. Queries arrived from retail and specialty food stores, a university, mail-order customers, and bulk carriers.
"The idea of kosher certification," said Donald Schoenholt of Gillies, "is driven by the perception that it's of higher quality. I see it in my customers in Kansas and Nebraska. And it's carrying the specialty food market with it."
Foodservice operations, a yacht club, and a country club asked Cadillac Coffee Company to become kosher, according to Guy Gehlert, president.
Step I entails submitting a list of ingredients to the supervisory agency. In Step 2, a rabbi must inspect the plant and examine the process.
"There was no need for us to switch equipment," said Omansky. "One or two flavors were dairy and we switched those to nondairy."
Working in the industry's favor is a "kosher-friendly" method of flavoring fresh roasted coffee beans. To begin with, beans roast in dedicated equipment. Second, they're flavored in batches and in isolation. As it happens, Green Mountain had been using kosher certified flavors even before they contacted the Orthodox Union, further simplifying procedures, as had Gillies and The Coffee Beanery.
Dairy ingredients, though kosher, nevertheless concern those abiding by Jewish dietary laws, which proscribe mixing meat and milk products and equipment. A kosher consumer in the mood for a good dessert coffee immediately following duck a l'orange couldn't have it if the beans absorbed dairy Irish Creme concentrate.
Gillies's STAR-K certification confirms three facts: their equipment is dedicated; their flavors are kosher; and they're nondairy. The Coffee Beanery and Green Mountain's certification states the same. Cadillac, however, opted for separate dairy and nondairy certifications. For each category, written confirmation is crucial because kosher consumers will ask to see it.
The expense of certification varies, but all have to develop new film to add the kosher logo. Also, there is an annual fee to pay for periodic inspections and kosher renewal.
How interested is the kosher consumer in specialty coffees and teas? In March 1994, G.W. Communications of New York commissioned Bruskin/Goldring Research, a national market research firm in Edison, New Jersey, to conduct a study. The study, among other things, asked that question of kosher consumers who reside or work in New York City, and of the 183 phone interviews completed; 87% said they keep a kosher home. The sample comprised several Jewish groups: 91 undergraduate and graduate students (30 males from yeshiva University, 31 women from Stern College; and 31 coeds from Columbia/Barnard); 71 professionals -- lawyers, accountants, and media-related careerists; and 21 adult residents of Manhattan.
All were asked to describe their ideal cafe and to rate, on a scale of 1-10 (where 10 means very much and 1 means very little), how much they'd like to see world coffees, flavored coffees, world teas, and herbal teas at a kosher cafe.
The Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) estimates that approximately 23% of Americans nationwide consume specialty coffee. The results of the Bruskin/Goldring survey indicate that in New York City, the kosher market is poised to exceed the national average by a wide margin.
Responding to "How much would you like to have coffees from all over the world at a kosher cafe?" 31% gave the item a 10, and 7% gave it a 9, making 38% the "top banner" for world coffees. Flavored coffees fared even higher. Top banner was 41%: 31% gave it a 10, and 10% gave it a 9. Among them, 43 out of 91 Jewish students, and 30 out of 71 professionals keep kosher. Teas were a close runner-up. Top banner for herbal teas was 37%; world teas garnered 34%.
For the open-ended "Describe your ideal cafe," interviewees talked not only about ambience and clientele, but 21% free-associated their ideal with "good coffee," "different types of coffee," and "a large selection of coffees."
Willy Palmer, vice president of sales at FFS, observes: "Coffee is an urbane drink -- and Jews live in urban areas. We view the kosher population as a market expander."
Is the kosher market receptive to specialty coffee and tea? Yes, in areas with significant concentrations of Jews. The correlation between specialty coffee or tea and education, sophistication, and affluence is borne out in the kosher market as well. But it's still largely untapped.
Kosher certification can be bewildering. A specialty coffee or tea company needs to consider several questions:
* Is the target market regional, national, or international?
* How will you reach the kosher consumer once you're certified?
The Orthodox Union, OK Laboratories, the Kof-K, and the STAR-K are the best-known certifications domestically and abroad. All four also have their own PR apparatus -- in-house magazines, access to Anglo-Jewish media nationwide -- to update the kosher consumer. A relatively unknown regional certification, though perfectly reliable, may not see the interests of a company with plans for national distribution.
And let the industry beware. There are some rabbis who don't adhere to the rigors of reliable certification; such sources need to be checked to avoid fraud. Nor may roasters append the aforementioned logos without authorization. Maximizing kosher status means getting to know the neighborhood as well as the highlights of the Jewish calendar and lifestyle.
Take Sue Berndt of Cuppers, a small batch roastery in Baltimore, Maryland, that opened in December, 1993. Today, the beans are STAR-K and Berndt is attracting the local Jewish market through holiday gift baskets and PR/advertising in the Baltimore Jewish Times, Jewish calenders, and synagogue bulletins.
Historically Jews have lived on every continent and imbibed an international gamut of hospitality traditions involving coffee and tea. Multicultural marketing is in vogue, and kosher consumers are clearly part of the ethnic mosaic inside that global village.
Orthodox Union, 333 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10001. Tel. (1)(212)563-4000, Fax (1)(212)564-9058. Contact: Rabbi M. Genack. Clients: Green Mountain Roasters, Barrie House, Fairwinds, Brother's Cafe du Jour, Ellis Coffee Co., Firmenich
STAR-K Kosher Certification, 11 Warren Road, Baltimore, Maryland 21208-5324. Tel. (1)(410)484-4110. Fax (1)(410)653-9294. Contact: Rabbi David Heber. Clients: Gillies Coffee Company, FFS, FTC, Melchers, Western Flavors, Quest International (Owing Mills, Md). Most but not all their flavors are kosher; a list of kosher flavors is available from each company.
Organized Kashruth Laboratories, 1372 Carroll Street, Brooklyn, New York 11213. Tel. (1)(718)756-7500, Fax 718/756-7503. Contact: Rabbi Don Yoel Levy. Clients: The Coffee Beanery, Ltd., Gevalia Coffee (Gavli, Sweden), David Michael & Company (upon request), Flavor Dynarnics (customizes kosher flavors upon request), Flavor Innovations, Inc.
KOF-K Kosher Supervision, 1444 Queen Anne Road, Teaneck, New Jersey 07666-3514. Tel. (1)(201)837-0500, Fax (1)(201)837-0126. Contact: Rabbi Dovid Senter. Clients: Comax Manufactuing Corporation, Givaudon-Roure.
Kashrus Magazine, P.O. Box 204 Brooklyn, New York 11204 Tel. 718/336-8544 Fax 718/336-8550 Contact: Rabbi Yosef Wikler
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A respite from the clatter and two years of budget semi-certainty (everything is relative in the age of gridlock) are in the public interest. The Murray-Ryan budget deal is cringe inducing for partisans on both sides, but it trumps inaction. Absent a deal, Congress would pinball from crisis to crisis; the center -- such as it is -- cannot hold.
The agreement zeroes out $63 billion in military and domestic spending cuts over two years. The partial rollback of sequestration means programs such as Head Start and critical medical research will be spared the ax (Good news for Snohomish County, which saw the shuttering of a North Everett Head Start program earlier this year.). Domestic and military spending would tick up from $967 billion for the current fiscal year to $1.012 trillion. The package trims the deficit by between $20 and $23 billion.
Who takes a hit? Federal workers will need to contribute more to their pensions, saving $6 billion, and military pensions will reflect a slower cost-of-living adjustment. Long-term unemployment benefits will expire at the end of the month, a Christmastime blow to 25,000 Washingtonians. Republicans wouldn't budge on taxes; Democrats on entitlements.
"This agreement breaks through the recent dysfunction to prevent another government shutdown and roll back sequestration's cuts to defense and domestic investments in a balanced way," Murray said. "It's a good step in the right direction that can hopefully rebuild some trust and serve as a foundation for continued bipartisan work."
Member by member, hidebound Republicans and liberal Democrats from all ten Congressional districts in the state voted yea, with all the relevant qualifiers.
"If Congress passes this budget and then follows through with spending bills by the middle of January, we will avoid the threat of more government shutdowns and fiscal cliffs," Rep. Rick Larsen, D-Everett, said. "Breaking this cycle of shutdown politics will give Congress time to debate other issues that have been put on the backburner."
Murray shepherded the deal, took her lumps for advancing an imperfect package, and exhibited political courage. She did the right thing, not the popular thing, as did Republican Rep. Paul Ryan. It's emblematic of leadership.
Murray-Ryan is the worst form of a budget deal except all the others. A grand stopgap, not a grand bargain. But Murray squelched the screamers and revived bipartisan lawmaking. Now, at last, a time to govern.
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The more things change, the more they stay the same.
The 2014 high school football season gets under way in Madison County Friday, Aug. 29, with three home games and another on the road for the county teams. Three of the squads will also be doing so against the same squads they opened the season with last year and the other will be squaring off with a neighboring rival they've played for years.
Mechanicsburg at
West Jefferson, 7 p.m.
You'll be hard pressed to find another game across the state better than this match up between state semifinalist from a year ago.
The Roughriders and Indians will renew their neighborhood rivalry with both teams replacing key components off last year's state playoff teams.
West Jefferson coach Shawn Buescher knows that his team will need to be ready against a team that is always ready to play.
"We're excited to start the season against Mechanicsburg," Buescher said. "That's two state semifinal teams from a year ago going against each other. It's two great communities that love their football going against each other."
West Jeff (12-2 last year) topped Mechanicsburg 21-6 in the road opener a year ago. The Indians were able to recover and finish the year 11-3.
Urbana at
London, 7 p.m.
The new-look Red Raiders take the field against a familiar foe in Urbana.
The two squads opened the season against one another a year ago with the talented Hillclimbers coasting to an easy 64-3 victory. In fact the last two openers between the two squads have resulted in lopsided London losses. The Raiders were outscored 65-14 in 2012. The last competitive opener was a 35-43 Urbana triple overtime win in 2011.
The Hillclimbers (10-1) still have the same signal caller making the decisions as Nathan Mays returns for his senior year. He started his first game as a freshman against London in the triple overtime contest in 2011 and has amassed more than 7,000 yards and thrown for 92 touchdowns heading into this season.
"Urbana has a great quarterback and we're going to have our hands full," first-year London coach Kyle Cutler said.
The young Raiders (2-8 last year) will be relying on a number of younger players who will be making their varsity debuts on Friday night.
Cedarville at
Madison-Plains, 7 p.m.
The Golden Eagles have experience on their side this season when they open with 2013 state playoff qualifier Cedarville.
With its returning quarterback (Jake Vallery), running back (Travis Chaffin) and top wide receiver (Eli Williams) there is some definite firepower on the offensive side of the ball for Madison-Plains.
The biggest question mark facing coach Jason Hunt's team is how they deal with the heightened expectations that come with a team with more experience and talent.
"We had moments of shear brilliance last year," the coach said. "We just need to be more consistent and balanced this year."
In last year's opener Ceadrville (7-4) got the best of the Golden Eagles (3-7) pulling away in a 26-7 victory. Hunt expects his players to be ready from the opening kickoff.
"We know they're going to be a very well coached team," he said. "They're going to be fundamentally sound and their offensive line will be big and strong. I know they graduated a lot but I expect them to be good again."
Jonathan Alder
at Marysville, 7:30 p.m.
The Pioneers (3-7) are also going to be playing in the debut of a new coach as they play their neighbors to the North with Brett Glass at the helm.
Glass has spent the last six seasons as the defensive coordinator for Alder so the experience of running onto the field as a coach won't be a completely new experience, neither will be squaring off with the rival Monarchs.
In fact some of the school's biggest rivalries will come in the first part of the season.
"Our biggest rivals are in the early games," Glass said. "With Marysville, West Jefferson and Clinton-Massie those are some good programs. We're going to find out where we are real fast."
A year ago Marysville (7-4) won a Week 2 game against Alder 13-0.
Alder which has had back-to-back losing seasons is attempting to get back to the playoff form it had for 12 years prior.
Chris Miles can be reached at 740-852-1616, ext. 1618 or via Twitter @MadPressSports.


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Kate Wilkins
Aug. 30, 2012
The Montana soccer team will be in Boise, Idaho, this weekend for the Bronco Invitational and face Boise State and Idaho. The Grizzlies will play the Broncos Friday at 6 p.m. and the Vandals Sunday at 11:30 a.m.
The tournament's fourth team is Idaho State. The Bengals will play Idaho Friday at 3:30 p.m. and BSU Sunday at 2 p.m. All four tournament matches will be played at the Boas Soccer Complex.
If you can't make it: Griz soccer fans unable to make the trip can monitor the matches via live stats at BroncoSports.com.
Where they stand: Montana is 1-3-0 after dropping a pair of matches last weekend at TCU's tournament. The Grizzlies lost the host Horned Frogs, 1-0, on Friday and 4-0 to Texas Tech on Sunday.
Boise State is 2-2-0 with two very different weekends under its belt. The Broncos opened the season at home two weeks ago with 1-0 and 4-1 victories over New Mexico State and North Dakota State. Last weekend BSU lost at Washington State, 6-0, and 2-1 at Gonzaga.
Idaho is also 2-2-0. The Vandals have an opponent in common with Montana in Texas Tech. Idaho opened the season with a 2-1 loss at Tech. Since then the Vandals have victories over South Dakota, 1-0 in overtime, and North Dakota State, 2-0, and a home loss to Gonzaga, 3-2.
Tight matches expected: Montana played Boise State twice last season -- once at Boise, once at Idaho's tournament -- and came away with a pair of dramatic double-overtime victories. In the Grizzlies' match against Idaho last fall, the teams scored goals back and forth until the Vandals netted the match-winner in the 78th minute.
Montana and Boise State have met 11 times previously, and nine of those were one-game matches. One was a draw, the other a two-goal differential.
"These are two teams we're very familiar with," UM coach Mark Plakorus said. "They are both very well coached and will be very prepared this weekend. I expect two really good, competitive matches for us.
"The teams are close enough (geographically) that they are somewhat rivals with us. We usually play them every year, so the kids are excited about getting after it and seeing what we can do.
"I'm hoping we learned some lessons last weekend that we can apply to these matches and keep growing as a team."
More on Boise State: The Broncos went 8-11-1 a year ago and finished fifth in the Mountain West Conference at 2-4-0. ... Boise State was picked sixth in this year's MWC preseason poll. ... Six different players have scored BSU's six goals this season. ... Redshirt sophomore Maddy McDevitt has played all 360 minutes in goal. She replaced Liz Ruiz, who graduated as Boise State's career leader in wins, shutouts and goals against average.
History: Montana has split its series history with Boise State, 5-5-1. The Grizzlies are 2-2-0 in matches at Boise, with wins there their last two trips, including last year's season opener in Plakorus's first match when India Watne scored in the 108th minute.
More on Idaho: The Vandals went 8-11-3 last season and finished fifth in the Western Athletic Conference at 3-3-1. ... Idaho was picked fifth in the preseason WAC poll. ... The Vandals return a stacked roster of nine returning starters and 19 returning letterwinners, none more dangerous than senior forward Chelsea Small. The Solana Beach, Calif., native is a three-time first-team All-WAC selection and has 33 career goals, one fewer than Montana's entire 2012 team has for its career. She scored Idaho's second goal in the teams' meeting last season. ... Just the opposite of Boise State, Idaho has great experience in net. Senior Liz Boyden has 59 starts for her career.
History: Montana holds a slim 5-4 edge over Idaho in the teams' history that dates back to 1998. The teams have split their two neutral-site matchups.
Something else to watch: Idaho State sits atop the Big Sky Conference standings through two weekends at a perfect 3-0-0. The Bengals have wins over North Dakota State, 3-2, New Mexico State, 2-0, and Minot State, 4-0. ISU, which was picked seventh in this year's preseason coaches' poll, started 3-0-0 last season, then went winless in its next 10 matches.
No cause for alarm: Montana scored 10 goals in its first four matches last season. Through four matches this season the Grizzlies are sitting on two goals and have not scored since early in the second half of their season-opening 2-0 victory at Wyoming.
It's nothing to be worried about, claims Plakorus, and the numbers back him up. Montana has taken 32 shots in its three-match scoreless streak and put 15 of those shots on goal. The Grizzlies' opponents have put 20 shots on goal in those matches and have scored on six.
"That's just soccer," Plakorus says. "We are creating chances to score. There has not been a game this year when we did not have our opportunities to score. We just have to do a better job of staying composed when those opportunities come our way.
"We're doing the right things and putting ourselves in the right position. If we keep doing those things, the goals will come. It's not something you can force."
Upcoming: Montana will be on the road for the fourth straight weekend to open the season when the Grizzlies play next weekend in the UNLV Nike Invitational at Las Vegas. Montana will face Indiana State Friday and the host Rebels Sunday.
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J. L. Doob Research Assistant Professor
From January to December 2013, I visited the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics.
Academic parents:
Research interests
Analytic number theory, special functions, symbolic and numerical computation, enumerative combinatorics
More specifically, objects of particular interest include
- Apéry-like numbers and their properties, particularly supercongruences,
- modular forms and arithmetic differential equations,
- hypergeometric functions, multiple polylogarithms and Mahler measure.
Fall 2014 semester
- Applied Linear Algebra (Math 415)
- IGL project: p-adic properties of sequences and finite state automata
- Number Theory Seminar
- Graduate Student Number Theory Seminar
Recent publications
- Densities of short uniform random walks in higher dimensions
Jonathan M. Borwein, Armin Straub, Christophe Vignat — Preprint — 2015
- Congruences for Fishburn numbers modulo prime powers
Armin Straub — International Journal of Number Theory — 2015
- Special values of trigonometric Dirichlet series and Eichler integrals
Armin Straub — The Ramanujan Journal — Special issue dedicated to Marvin Knopp — 2015
- Multivariate Apéry numbers and supercongruences of rational functions
Armin Straub — Algebra & Number Theory — Volume 8, Number 8, 2014, Pages 1985-2008
- On a secant Dirichlet series and Eichler integrals of Eisenstein series
Bruce C. Berndt, Armin Straub — Preprint — 2014
Recent talks
- On a q-analog of the Apéry numbers
2015/05/12 — International conference on orthogonal polynomials and q-series (University of Central Florida)
- Supercongruences for Apéry-like numbers (AKLS)
2015/03/11 — Seminar Aachen-Köln-Lille-Siegen on Automorphic Forms (Universität zu Köln)
- Properties and applications of Apéry-like numbers (South Alabama)
2015/02/26 — Mathematics Colloquium (University of South Alabama)
- Congruences for Fishburn numbers modulo prime powers
2015/01/11 — AMS Joint Meetings 2015, Special Session on Partitions, q-Series, and Modular Forms (San Antonio)
- Trigonometric Dirichlet series and Eichler integrals
2014/10/20 — Number Theory and Experimental Mathematics Day (Dalhousie University)


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SAN FRANCISCO If fewer people are interested in buying a new personal computer, then fewer investors want to own stakes in companies whose fortunes are tied to the sales of laptop and desktop machines.
That logic ruled Thursday as Wall Street reacted to fresh evidence that PCs are turning into a dying breed of technology as consumers and businesses embrace smartphones and tablet computers as their preferred computing devices.
The stocks of PC software maker Microsoft Corp. and PC maker Hewlett-Packard Co. absorbed significant hits on the news that PCs suffered an unprecedented sales decline during the first three months of the year. Other companies connected to the PC industry, such as Intel Corp., also were affected, although not to the same degree as the industry bellwethers.
Microsoft's stock fell $1.35, or 4.4 percent, to close at $28.93, while HP's shed $1.44, or 6.5 percent to finish at $20.88. Intel shares decreased 43 cents, or nearly 2 percent, to $21.83.
First-quarter shipments of PCs plummeted by 11 percent to 14 percent from a year earlier, according to separate estimates issued late Wednesday by Gartner Inc. and International Data Corp.
By either measure, it was biggest decrease recorded by either research firm since they began tracking PCs sales. For IDC, the data goes back to 1994 - just before Microsoft released a revamped PC operating system called Windows 95, which played a major role in triggering a sales boom that turned laptop and desktop machines into a household staple.
Microsoft hoped to revive PC demand last year with the debut of the most dramatic makeover of Windows since the 1995 redesign. The changes imbued Windows with some of the qualities of mobile software, including touch-screen controls and a display of applications in a mosaic of interactive tiles.
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In its report, IDC blamed Windows 8 for accelerating the sales decline by confusing too many people who had become accustomed to using the old operating system. Another problem: The PCs designed to run on Windows 8 are coming in a befuddling array of styles and are demanding significantly higher prices than older models, at a time when the initial out-of-pocket expense for a smartphone is as low as $99 and tablet computers go for less than $200. In a sign of how sensitive consumers have become to prices, Amazon.com Inc.'s top-selling laptop is a $249 Samsung laptop running a new operating system based on Google's Chrome Web browser.
Count Sterne Agee's Shaw Wu among the analysts worried about the future of Microsoft and its partners in the PC industry. "We frankly believe (Microsoft's) strategy of forcing user interface changes that nobody wants has proven to be a disaster," Wu wrote in a Thursday research note.
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