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With 75 people already confirmed dead following the 6.3 earthquake in Christchurch, Prime Minister John Key says people need to prepare for that death toll to climb.
Early on Wednesday, Key said 55 bodies had so far been identified around the city and 20 remain unidentified since Tuesday's devastating quake.
"We know there are a number of sites that are likely to have suffered other fatalities," Key told ONE News last night.
"It is a very tragic situation and it's a time of great agony."
The fire service said there are seven buildings confirmed with people trapped inside. Those buildings are the CTV building, PGC building, Christchurch Cathedral, The Press building, Smith City carpark, St Asaph/Colombo, and 92-95 Cashel Street.
Police abandoned their rescue efforts at CTV yesterday, saying they did not believe the site of the building was survivable.
With search and rescue teams pulled back, firefighters are now moving into the building to try and put out a large fire in the basement.
Civil Defence said today diggers are also being used to remove large amounts of rubble.
Fears for hotel
Meanwhile, there are fears that one of Christchurch's major hotels is also on the verge of collapse.
Emergency services have pulled back from the Hotel Grand Chancellor, one of the tallest buildings in the CBD for safety reasons.
It is significantly structurally damaged.
"If the Hotel Grand Chancellor falls, and three engineers say it is a significant risk, that will be dramatic, a domino effect in the central city of other unstable buildings. It will be a major disaster," said police Superintendent Dave Cliff.
A large number of cordons remain in place in central Christchurch to prevent access into the restricted central city high risk area.
Police said entry within the cordon area is strictly prohibited. The only exceptions are residents and legitimate workers who must produce identification.
Parts of Sumner evacuated
Houses on Kinsey Terrace and the Clifton Hill areas of Sumner were evacuated last night as a precaution after cracks were noticed on a nearby hillside. Engineers are checking the area.
Residents are being told to stay with friends or family, or go to welfare centres.
National emergency
Key declared a national emergency when he addressed media at about 11.00am after meeting with Cabinet.
He said he had enormous faith in the leadership in Christchurch but a national emergency would give more control to central government.
Key said that in practice "this enables the strongest possible focus of local, national and international resources working together to achieve the best possible response in the shortest timeframe".
He said there were no other differences between the powers under the existing state of local emergency and a national state of emergency.
Those powers would be exercised working in close support of and in cooperation with Mayor Parker, and the Christchurch Civil Defence team.
Key said he had been in contact with Parker to inform him of the decision.
He told residents in Christchurch that New Zealanders feel "your pain as only a small nation can".
"We are witnessing the havoc caused by a violent and ruthless act of nature. Many people have lost their lives. Families have lost their cherished loved ones. Mates have lost their mates.
"These deaths are the greatest loss."
Key said he was a "proud son of Christchurch".
"I was raised there, I got my first job there, my sister lives there, my mother died there, I know what a wonderful place it is. But my connection to Christchurch is no rare thing.
"All New Zealanders have a piece of our heart in Christchurch. All of our lives are touched by this event," he said.
Key is calling for people to rally around those who are grieving, offering both tangible and emotional assistance and says no act of kindness is too small.
"Things will get better. Christchurch will rise again," he said.
"There is no reason that can make sense of this event, no words that can spare our pain."
Focus on victims still alive
Meanwhile, rescue workers said some survivors have been pulled out with barely a scratch while others have had to have limbs amputated to get them out.
Police Superintendent Russell Gibson told ONE News on Wednesday morning that bodies were littering the streets and that many people were still unaccounted for.
However he said the focus was on saving the people who are still alive, trapped under rubble.
"We are finding bodies all through the city and we are having to leave those, as our focus is on the people who are still alive," he said.
He said police were in communication with some victims, through text messages and knocks and cries from collapsed buildings and that all agencies involved were working as hard as possible.
Gibson said it was a difficult to speculate on the total death toll, as it was a "rapidly evolving situation".
"We know it will be significant and we know there are a lot of people going through the nightmare ordeal of waiting for news of their loved ones," he said.
Australian death confirmed
An Australian has been confirmed as one of those killed in the quake.
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard confirmed the death yesterday, saying they were still working through details.
The man was assisted by a passer-by in the last hours of his life, Gillard said.
"Our thanks would go to that stranger and I think that's an emblem of the kind of spirit that we see in Christchurch as people get together to help each other."
More search teams arrive
Australian search and rescue teams have arrived in Christchurch.
Forty search and rescue specialists from New South Wales arrived on Tuesday night to help the rescue effort. Another 30, bringing specialist equipment, were due in the city yesterday.
Civil Defence's John Hamilton said they were working with the government to consider offers of other international assistance.
New Zealand had accepted help from Britain, Singapore, Japan and Taiwan.
A specialist Disaster Assistance Response Team from the United States is also heading to Christchurch.
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) Dart team, is made up of more than 70 specialists, including members of the Los Angeles County Fire Department urban search and rescue team.
The team will also bring "all necessary equipment to make live rescues in even the most precarious situations".
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royalcourtier said on 2011-03-14 @ 21:33 NZDT: Report abusive post
The whole focus of this debate is wrong. There is no reason for any of these buildings to be demolished. It is not a case of which should be saved, but which should be demolished. There are few which cannot be saved. What people are missing is that if a building is demolished unnecessarily, and illegally, there won't be any insurance. Only the city can approve demolition - civil defence cannot do so.
Adam Chc said on 2011-03-09 @ 14:44 NZDT: Report abusive post
As a small business based near the epicentre in Christchurch we are strugeling to survive and simply can not afford a day off. I also do not think I or my staff are reasdy for a day of mourning yet. I am surprised the govenment would even consider this, it shows how out of touch they are to the impact this is having on business and staff.
annej said on 2011-03-08 @ 15:09 NZDT: Report abusive post
I must congratulate Bob Parker for his leadership and his caring nature to all people in Christchurch and his unfaultering continual contact with his people, a fine leader and the restoration of Christchurch should go through him and the council and not left to those who do not care about the uniqueness of Christchurch, sack Brownlee, send him back where he come from.
annej said on 2011-03-08 @ 15:04 NZDT: Report abusive post
At a time when the suffering is entering an unacceptable time frame of two weeks, John Key throws the baby out with the bath water and states that the government will buy the land off people who have suffered so much,this is akin to pulling the rug from underneath those who are stressed,do not know their fate and have lost loved ones, more thought and empathy is needed from central govt and to deal with the bulk of the people and not just the business sector.Thoughts and prayers to all.
Huatoki said on 2011-03-08 @ 13:37 NZDT: Report abusive post
As with every issue he's dealt with, Brownlee crashes in with an ill-advised and inflammatory attitude, then scuttles behind his officials and is unavailable for comment. Christchurch needs unifying, reassuring and competent leadership and Brownlee consistently fails on all three counts. We need resources, not divisiveness. If the minister cannot deliver them quickly and efficiently, he needs to go. We deserve better.


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opinionBy Vincent Nuwagaba
The twists and turns of events in Uganda threaten to leave my head spinning.
While in Murchison Bay prison on November 5 and 6, I was amazed to watch on TV as policemen's wives demonstrated, protesting the lack of electricity and their miserable lives. Let nobody fool you that it was actually the policemen's wives protesting. It was really policemen themselves demonstrating by proxy.
Don't be deceived into believing that the women demonstrated without their husbands' approval. The Bible, in Mark 10:8, says:"And the two shall become one flesh, so they are no longer two, but one."
Besides, policemen have, in the past, asked me to organise a demonstration highlighting their plight. When I wrote to the IGP, Gen Kale Kayihura, during the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) conference in Kampala, I received a barrage of threats which were later to be followed by my dehumanization.
Indeed, there are several reasons why the police should go on strike. To begin with, no police officer earns a living wage. The police is housed in asbestos-roofed and condemned houses, contrary to ILO convention 162, which Uganda ratified. Some police men and women share unipots; others sleep in tents; they share the substandard food with the inmates; they are not spared the high costs of living and they almost work twenty-four hours a day.
Amidst all these, while the law doesn't bar them from unionizing, I have been told by the police that any efforts to unionize will be vehemently thwarted by the government for they will be deemed to be planning a mutiny. Generally, the Ugandan policeman is the wretched of the earth. Paradoxically, when the opposition proposed an increment in the remuneration of teachers, the police, prisons and military personnel that pays allegiance to the ruling NRM frustrated the proposition.
Mid this year, a policeman was visited by his wife at the Constitution square. I noticed the man was very depressed. When I asked him why, he told me he couldn't have any privacy with his wife because of the nature of his deployment. We have sometimes condemned the police for being brutish against civilian demonstrators. However, we have failed to appreciate the fact that the police are themselves psychologically tortured through, among other things, miserable pay and the degrading conditions of work.
As the cliché goes, a hungry man is an angry man; these hungry, dehumanized, frustrated and dejected gallant sons and daughters of Uganda cannot uphold law and order and protect citizens' human rights when their own rights are violated by the very state they serve. Surely, you cannot give what you don't have.
The demonstration by the police shows that the centre can no longer hold. We have, since the aftermath of the 2011 elections, which were ostensibly won by President Museveni with 68%, witnessed civil action by traders, bodaboda cyclists, trade unionists, teachers, university lecturers, women activists, taxi drivers, lawyers, and the list goes on. It is only the military, the police and prisons personnel that hadn't gone on strike. Sooner or later we may see the military also go on strike as the situation is unbearable for almost everyone.
Ironically, the powers that be continue deluding themselves and believing that they are in control. Do the police and military take their children to a different planet? In 2009, we saw tuition fees hikes in public universities of up to 126%. But salaries were increased by a paltry 5%!
Consequently, a magistrate who has six children in school and four dependants will sell justice in order to meet these domestic obligations; a policeman who has a family of six and has a gun will stage robberies to make ends meet; a civil servant on salary scale U4 but has control over public funds will swindle the funds allotted to his/her office; a medical doctor in a government hospital will either erase the labels on drugs and sell them or will spend 80% of his time in his/her private clinic; a teacher will use the would-be time for prep to ride a bodaboda; a state attorney will connive with the judge or magistrate to subvert justice, and so forth. Ultimately, we will continue reaping incompetence, corruption and a kind of Acquired Integrity Deficiency Syndrome (Aids).
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New at 11:10 p.m: Below is Oakland Tribune video of today's protest and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. If you watch until the end—it's only two and a half minutes so probably you can hang in there—you get to see the governor say one of the most amusing/perplexing things that's been coming out of his office lately. He talks about how education in California is currently 'overfunded.'
Thanks to school board member Mike McMahon for the link to this KPIX story on today's protests. Enjoy the video of parents and students talking about why public schools matter. Hopefully more links to come.
New at 4:46 p.m: Here's the KCBS story.
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"Why didn't my church tell me that?" If you have every asked that question, then this seminar is for you.
Because there are few places in our society, including the church, where religious issues are discussed seriously, a huge knowledge gap exists between the pulpit and the pew. There is also a strange silence about the church's ongoing conversation with culture, as well as about the principles and practices of biblical and theological scholarship. Consequently, many Christians cannot reconcile their belief system with modernity. Some dismiss religion as irrelevant, while others erect firewalls to defend the faith. Church members want to know if you can read the Bible and the newspaper with the same eyes, if you can engage the brain after entering sacred space, and if you can trust with your heart what your head rejects. Silence about the vast resources of the tradition has created church secrets that, over time, rob us of our Christian identity from within.
The church's failure to teach its own intellectual history, whether intentional or not, undermines Christian identity by denying itself the staples of the faith and thereby making it vulnerable to distortions from within and temptations from without. In short, faith formation does not happen by accident. Unless the church deliberately and willfully passes on the tradition, its mission will be gradually compromised and its members will be thoroughly enculturated.
This seminar will examine and expose church secrets in the hope that this process will empower church members to rediscover the church's meaning and mission, regain the church's vigor and vitality, and liberate the church from its comfortable complacency and its cultural conformity. A time for questions and discussion will be included in each session.
The Genesis of Church Secrets and "There Is No Meaning without Context" (Deadly Secret #1)
The opening session will begin by describing the ways in which the church and the American culture contribute to the strange silence in the church. Then, the session will reveal the first deadly secret by identifying the Western cultural assumptions and intellectual presuppositions—our mental maps of reality—that inform how we think and act in the world. Two foundational questions will be answered: How did the Western worldview of cultural relativity emerge? What are the implications for religious life today?
Friday, 7:30-9 p.m.
The Twin Temptations of the Tradition: "Faith Means Trust, Not Belief" (Deadly Secret #2) and "The Bible Is Not the Word of God; Jesus Is" (Deadly Secret #3)
This session will expose the second deadly secret by arguing that faith, like trust, is a relational category, and that belief is a cognitive category that attempts to make sense of a prior experience of the holy. The role of doubt in the faith journey will then be addressed. After debunking the popular misunderstanding that faith and belief are identical, the session will uncover the most volatile and misunderstood deadly secret: the Bible is not the Word of God. The session will conclude with a theological answer to the question: Is the Bible the Word of God for Christians?
Saturday, 9:00-10:15 a.m.
How to Interpret Scripture: "Read the Bible Critically, Not Literally" (Deadly Secret #4)
This session will directly challenge the pervasive and persistent notion that the Bible should be read literally because God is its author. In sequence, this session will present a critique of literalism, will advance the necessity of a critical reading of the Bible, and will highlight religious implications of a critical reading of scripture.
Saturday, 10:30-noon
A Case Study: "Jesus' Miracles are Prologue, Not Proof" (Deadly Secret #5)
This session will illustrate the difficulty of interpreting an ancient book in the modern world by examining Jesus' miracles. Since miracles play an indispensable role in the belief system of many Christians, people want to know if they really happened and if they prove that Jesus is divine. By exploring both the past and present interpretive contexts, this session will propose an alternative way to investigate this complicated and controversial topic.
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A bridge is a structure built to span a gorge, valley, road, railroad track, river, body of water, or any other physical obstacle, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle. Designs of bridges will vary depending on the function of the bridge and the nature of the terrain where the bridge is to be constructed.
The first bridges were made by nature — as simple as a log fallen across a stream. The first bridges made by humans were probably spans of wooden logs or planks and eventually stones, using a simple support and crossbeam arrangement. Most of these early bridges could not support heavy weights or withstand strong currents. It was these inadequacies which led to the development of better bridges.
Epic literature of India provides mythological accounts of bridges constructed from India to Lanka by the army of Rama. The Arthashastra of Kautilya mentions the construction of dams and bridges. A Mauryan bridge near Girnar was surveyed by James Princep. The bridge was swept away during a flood, and later repaired by Puspagupta, the chief architect of emperor Chandragupta I. The bridge also fell under the care of the Yavana Tushaspa, and the Satrap Rudra Daman. The use of stronger bridges using plaited bamboo and iron chain was visible in India by about the 4th century. A number of bridges, both for military and commercial purposes, were constructed by the Mughal administration in India.
The ancient Romans built arch bridges and aqueducts that could stand in conditions that would damage or destroy earlier designs. Some of them still stand today. An example is the Alcántara Bridge, built over the river Tagus, in Spain. Most earlier bridges would have been swept away by the strong current. The Romans also used cement, which reduced the variation of strength found in natural stone. One type of cement, called pozzolana, consisted of water, lime, sand, and volcanic rock. Brick and mortar bridges were built after the Roman era, as the technology for cement was lost then later rediscovered.
Although large Chinese bridges of wooden construction existed at the time of the Warring States, the oldest surviving stone bridge in China is the Zhaozhou Bridge, built from 595 to 605 AD during the Sui Dynasty. This bridge is also historically significant as it is the world's oldest open-spandrel stone segmental arch bridge. European segmental arch bridges date back to at least the Alconétar Bridge (approximately 2nd century AD), while the enormous Roman era Trajan's Bridge (105 AD) featured open-spandrel segmental arches in wooden construction.
Rope bridges, a simple type of suspension bridge, were used by the Inca civilization in the Andes mountains of South America, just prior to European colonization in the 1500s.
During the 18th century there were many innovations in the design of timber bridges by Hans Ulrich, Johannes Grubenmann, and others. The first book on bridge engineering was written by Hubert Gautier in 1716.
With the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century, truss systems of wrought iron were developed for larger bridges, but iron did not have the tensile strength to support large loads. With the advent of steel, which has a high tensile strength, much larger bridges were built, many using the ideas of Gustave Eiffel.
Another theory suggests that "bridge" comes from Turkish "köprü" (lit. bridge). It is highly possible that Turkish lent this word to Eastern European languages and then, in time, it arrived in English. "Köprü" itself is derived from "köprük (köpük)" which literally means "foam".
Arch bridges are arch-shaped and have abutments at each end. The earliest known arch bridges were built by the Greeks and include the Arkadiko Bridge. The weight of the bridge is thrust into the abutments at either side. Dubai in the United Arab Emirates is currently building the largest arch bridge in the world, which is scheduled for completion in 2012.
Truss bridges are composed of connected elements. They have a solid deck and a lattice of pin-jointed girders for the sides. Early truss bridges were made of wood, and later of wood with iron tensile rods, but modern truss bridges are made completely of metals such as wrought iron and steel or sometimes of reinforced concrete. The Quebec Bridge, mentioned above as a cantilever bridge, is also the world's longest truss bridge.
Bridges are subject to unplanned uses as well. The areas underneath some bridges have become makeshift shelters and homes to homeless people, and the undersides of bridges all around the world are spots of prevalent graffiti. Some bridges attract people attempting suicide, and become known as suicide bridges.
A bridge's economic efficiency will be site and traffic dependent, the ratio of savings by having a bridge (instead of, for example, a ferry, or a longer road route) compared to its cost. The lifetime cost is composed of materials, labor, machinery, engineering, cost of money, insurance, maintenance, refurbishment, and ultimately, demolition and associated disposal, recycling, and replacement, less the value of scrap and reuse of components. Bridges employing only compression are relatively inefficient structurally, but may be highly cost efficient where suitable materials are available near the site and the cost of labor is low. For medium spans, trusses or box beams are usually most economical, while in some cases, the appearance of the bridge may be more important than its cost efficiency. The longest spans usually require suspension bridges.
Double-decker bridges have two levels, such as the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge, with two road levels. Tsing Ma Bridge and Kap Shui Mun Bridge in Hong Kong have six lanes on their upper decks, and on their lower decks there are two lanes and a pair of tracks for MTR metro trains. Some double-decker bridges only use one level for street traffic; the Washington Avenue Bridge in Minneapolis reserves its lower level for automobile traffic and its upper level for pedestrian and bicycle traffic (predominantly students at the University of Minnesota).
Robert Stephenson's High Level Bridge across the River Tyne in Newcastle upon Tyne, completed in 1849, is an early example of a double-deck bridge. The upper level carries a railway, and the lower level is used for road traffic.
Another example is Craigavon Bridge in Derry, Northern Ireland. The Oresund Bridge between Copenhagen and Malmö consists of a four-lane highway on the upper level and a pair of railway tracks at the lower level.
The George Washington Bridge between New Jersey and New York has two roadway levels. It was built with only the upper roadway as traffic demands did not require more capacity. A truss work between the roadway levels provides stiffness to the roadways and reduced movement of the upper level when installed.
Tower Bridge is different example of a double-decker bridge, with the central section consisting of a low level bascule span and a high level footbridge.


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A major data breach rivaling Heartland Payment Systems may not have occurred in 2010, but that doesn't mean organisations still aren't getting hit hard. That is because the prevalence of so-called "micro-breaches" has increased, said Todd Thibodeaux, president and CEO of nonprofit IT association CompTIA. Micro-breaches, essentially, are attacks that take advantage of a single technique, such as data theft through open Wi-Fi networks, to steal large amounts of personal information from many different individuals – not just a single source. Unlike traditional data leakage incidents, micro-breaches often do not make headlines, even though they happen with regularity, said an audience member. Meanwhile, the decrease in large-scale data breaches is likely the result of a number of factors, Thibodeaux said. Organisations are increasingly moving sensitive data to secure cloud environments, he said. Also, the value of stolen financial data has decreased because of the recession, making credit card theft less profitable.Of course, it could be that organisations just have not detected or disclosed major data loss incidents, he said. Regardless, the trend will not continue forever, and it is inevitable that massive data breaches will again start to emerge with greater frequency, Thibodeaux predicted.See original article on scmagazineus.com
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My wife and I decided to head to argentina on motorcycles so we picked up a couple of adventure bikes. My bike of choice was the 2012 tiger 800xc which I bought in january of 2012 in cash.
I love this bike! It was fast and smooth on the road and great for playing in the utah mountains as well. After a 6 hour drive or so down to moab utah, my wife and I stopped to take a break and wait for some friends. We turned the bikes off and I left my key in the ignition. When i went to turn on the bike all I saw was a red alarm light in the lower corner of the panel. There was absolutely no sound or other activity. No pump prep, nothing. We fiddled with everything; kickstand, killswitch, battery, ignition button, key positions, gas tank (couldnt hurt). We tried everything, eventually, after about 45 mins the bike roared to life and we were on our way. I gave triumph a call right then and there and said... wtf... what happened. They couldnt explain it and said that since there wasnt a showing problem I should wait to bring it in. The rest of the trip was awesome... tearing up the moab hills on a tigger was awesome!
Unfortunately this wasnt the end of the issue. Shortly after the trip the bike did the same thing in front of bestbuy in my home town. Luckily my wife was able to pick me up and take me to work and I picked up the bike after work. It started! So I looked up on the internerd to see what the deal was and if anyone else had experienced this. There are a few different cases of it but all were resolved by replacing the immobilizer.
I took my bike down to the dealership in salt lake city and they started to diagnose the problem. They got the exact same result as me and decided that the immobilizer should be replaced. Here is where the story goes from bad to worse. The immobilizer took 3 weeks to get here from the UK and it didnt work!
They then decided that it was necessary to replace the computer. So they did that. No change. I was still out a great bike for the beginning of good riding weather. The service headquarters decided that it could be the wire harness and they should check that out. So the dealer went through the wiring harness with a comb and didnt find anything. Still NO JOY.
At this point in the story the bike has been in the shop over a month and the main service headquarters decides that the immobilizer that was a replacement must have been a dud on arrival. They send a new one. This time direct! It still takes 2 weeks and FAILS to fix the problem. The bike is now giving another error on top of the other one and is failing ot sync with the keys.
The bike has now been in the shop since may and has had the following parts repaired or replaced:
wiring harness
Immobilizer (again)
The tiger is still not fixed and the main service headquarters in the states are frankly handling the situation very poorly. The law in Utah states that if a bike has had 6 or more repairs OR has been out of your possession due to repairs for a business day month, then the bike is a lemon and needs to be replaced or bought back. My situation clearly fits the description (using the 30 business day rule) and triumph will not give me a new bike..
I am now talking to the state about starting a law suit and I have warned triumph that I am beginning the process.
I would like to know what the community thinks about this kind of outrage. I would also like the owners and future owners of the tiger 800 xc to know what they potentially could find at their door. If anyone has experience with lemon law cases or maybe what I should do in this situation... please help!... you are my only hope!
Sorry to hear of your issues. Any news ?
doG I bloody hate shit like immobilizers - I don't want one and I don't friggin' need one (and nor do I want to bloody pay for one).
So....is there a way to override/disable the immobilizer
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March 4, 2009 | 1:37 pm
By Chris Meadows
I hope TeleReaders will forgive the preponderance of Kindle stories this morning, but it is a pretty newsworthy event in the e-book world. (And besides, David has made two Kindle posts to my one, and I need to catch up!)
Did you know that the expressions "the writing on the wall" and "days are numbered" come from the same Biblical incident? When King Belshazzar of the Persians committed sacrilege, a disembodied hand appeared and wrote on the wall, and the prophet Daniel interpreted the words to mean that God had numbered the remaining days of the Persian kingdom.
I fear that Amazon's recent actions with its Kindle reader mean that the encrypted Mobipocket format's days are also numbered.
The Kindle App: What It Can and Can't Do
I've been reading the MobileRead discussion of the Kindle app, and thinking about its capabilities and incapabilities. What it can do: download e-books and sample chapters directly from the Amazon website. (You have to buy them in Safari or the Amazon iPhone app.) What it can't do: read Mobipocket-format books from anywhere else.
MobileReaders report that if you've jailbroken your device, you can upload unencrypted Mobipocket books directly into the Kindle app's directory—but nobody has yet discovered how to extract your iPhone's device ID so there is no way to re-lock Mobi DRM'd books from other vendors to work with it, even if you could upload them. (Of course, removing the DRM on them is still as easy as it ever was.)
The Mysteriously Missing Mobipocket App
Ever since Apple first introduced the app store, Mobipocket users have been clamoring for Mobi to release an official iPhone reader for its file format. This would let people who had bought DRM-encrypted Mobipocket books from Mobipocket.com, Fictionwise, or someone else before they bought their iPhone go back into their store account and re-lock those books to work on their iPhone.
Without an officially-blessed Mobipocket reader, only unencrypted Mobipocket books could be read on the iPhone (in readers such as BookShelf or Stanza that had unencrypted-Mobi capabilities). DRM-encrypted Mobipocket books could be unlocked using utilities such as "mobidedrm"—illegal in many places, but since it is something you would do in the privacy of your own home, the chances of being caught are slim.
Last May, it looked as though the legions of iPhone-owning Mobipocket users were finally going to get their wish. Mobi President Martin Gorner announced at an industry conference that there would be an iPhone Mobipocket by the end of the year.
Amazon Sitting on Mobipocket App?
Since then, Gorner and the rest of Mobi have completely clammed up about it. When I phoned him to ask, Gorner would not even confirm or deny what he had said at that May conference. A highly-placed industry source I know and trust who spoke on condition of anonymity claimed to have certain knowledge that Mobi had its app complete and ready to go as of August, but Amazon would not let them release it.
It would be foolish to claim a single anonymous source's statement as solid fact, so I cannot say with certainty that Amazon stopped Mobipocket from releasing its reader. Still, what else are we to believe? iPhone apps don't take that long to develop, and Mobi encryption is not that hard to implement. The programmer of BookShelf could add it to Bookshelf within days if he were not afraid of legal repercussions, but Mobi has never gotten back to him about his request.
Amazon is now in the business of selling e-books, and is under no obligation to make things easer for its competitors. Hence, Amazon has taken a page from Microsoft's book and "embraced and extended" the widely-used Mobipocket format to create a totally incompatible version for its own reader.
Amazon vs. Fictionwise
Compare and contrast Amazon's actions to Fictionwise's behavior on buying eReader. Within a year, Fictionwise had released reader apps for several other platforms (including iPhone and Mac OS X), dropped the requirement that other publishers who wanted to use the eReader format must pay royalties, and even licensed its encryption scheme to Lexcycle and set up a separate bookstore for Lexcycle's Stanza app! And Fictionwise has taken on the mammoth task of upgrading all its reader applications to use a new format based on the open ePub standard by the end of this year.
And let's not forget that the reason Fictionwise bought eReader in the first place was that it wanted an e-book format it owned, that could not be taken away at the whim of a competitor. This rationale seemed to be borne out earlier this year, when Overdrive stopped processing encrypted Mobipocket books for Fictionwise.
But Amazon's recent actions in failing to support other Mobipocket vendors' format for the iPhone suggest Overdrive may only be the beginning. After "embrace" and "extend," the next step is "extinguish."
The E-Text on the Wall
Amazon is in a singular position: an e-bookstore itself, it also owns the company whose similar-but-incompatible encrypted format is used by the majority of other e-bookstores. Most of these bookstores outright require a book be encrypted before they will carry it, in fact.
I have little doubt that licensing the Mobipocket DRM brings in a considerable amount of earnings to the Mobipocket subsidiary—but how much could those earnings be compared to what Amazon might earn from selling the whole book rather than licensing on the DRM used by the book?
I don't know the terms of the licensing agreements between Mobipocket and DRM distributors such as Overdrive, so I don't know whether Amazon has the ability to pull out of them unilaterally, or simply fail to renew them as Overdrive did with Fictionwise. But I strongly suspect that if Amazon did decide to stop licensing Mobipocket encryption, it could cripple much of the rest of the e-book industry.
It would also put a crimp in the reading habits of people with a lot of investment in DRM'd Mobi books. The books could still be read on whatever devices they were locked to when they were downloaded (up to 4 devices at a time), but without the DRM servers to relock the books as new devices are bought and old ones discarded, readers would not be able to move those books to new devices—even ones that do have official Mobi readers available.
If I were one of Amazon's e-book competitors right now, I would seriously be thinking about what I could do to limit my dependence on Mobipocket encryption, and looking at formats such as ePub and eReader as alternatives.
And if I bought a lot of books from Amazon's e-book competitors, I would shift my future purchases to other formats than Mobi—and take whatever steps I could to make sure my existing Mobi library remained accessible to me on any device whether the DRM servers remained available or not.
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I completely agree…I am sitting on 48 Mobi books with nowhere to take them. I am fighting hard to start buying books from Amazon (I have the iTouch) since I feel like they are still being less-than-straight with us in the formatting war. I think eReader's approach to all of this has been a much better way to interact with and respect readers.
Strip the DRM and take those 48 Mobi books where you want. Use Calibre to convert them if need be. Then you have the content you paid good money for to read where you want.
As has been mentioned a large problem for ebook readers is the investment made in the DRM Mobipocket books but another not mentioned is the investment the Libraries such as NYPL have made. This can impact sales in the sense that borrowing books from the library can "turn on" someone to a particular author or genre and generate further sales. I would think it wise at this point for Amazon to consider some method of resurrecting these books either through a decryption kit or the release of a reader. Changes in devices and attitudes seem to have doomed the Mobipocket DRM format.
As history of drm content shows repeatedly, do not complain about losing access to your content if you do not convert it.
I learned my lesson with the original drm pdf's bought from Amazon way back, and even now with inept, one is dead – I kept backups and tried to renew the drm license whenever Adobe changed it, so luckily all but one of those books are ADE, but one is dead though it's still available for 5$ if I want to repurchase it in ADE Inept –
So de-drm the prc's or stop complaining and buy again your content. It's your choice and be lucky that you have it since for example lrx books are still locked, hopefully not for long…
Interesting speculation. At this time, Mobipocket is the major format that works with Blackberry, one of the major platforms publishers want to reach. It might make sense for Amazon to Kindlize the Mobipocket format–simply rebranding it as Kindle because Kindle now has much more market exposure than does Mobi (I wonder if the Kindle-on-the-iPhone is the long-awaited Mobi product with a different brand). Still, I don't see what benefit they could get from shutting their Mobi operations without first adding the other platforms.
From a publisher perspective, Mobi is an access point to Kindle. When I submit to Mobi, I also submit to Kindle. Obviously I'd prefer for both to sell a lot of my books.
Rob Preece
Publisher, http://www.BooksForABuck.com
I switched the majority of my DRM purchasing to eReader a while ago and the DRM scheme was a major reason for it. I also purchase primarily from Fictionwise because they are the only place I can buy bestsellers that has made a public commitment against DRM.
I think Amazon wants the same kind of control over the ebook ecosystem that Apple has over the music ecosystem, and that DRM mobi is going to end up filed under the heading "There are necessary losses."
The problem with Ereader is that there is no ebook reader, as far as I know, that today support encripted ereader ebooks. That is a problem, and I do not see a solution soon. It does not seem easy for ebook reader software developers to implement it, what with the device DRM exclusivity deal everybody talks about, that Mobipocket enforces on those who want it.
I know this is sort of tardy, but Fictionwise/eReader is attempting to make your mobi books purchased from them available in eReader format – despite their disclaimer that when you purchase a protected format you can never get it in another protected format.
If you have mobi protected books purchased from Fictionwise or eReader, you can probably get them in eReader (.pdb) format.
If you purchased direct from mobipocket.com, you're pretty much stuck with removing DRM to read it on modern devices like the iPhone.
Well, I would love for Mobipocket to issue their Apple/Android application, or at least for Amazon to create an import function into their kindle software that allows reading of previously purchased mobipocket DRM protected files.
As for de-DRM-ing my ebooks… well, I am simply too inexperienced or stupid to use Calibre, and I have not been able to find an easily understandable step-by-step instruction for "idiots" like me.
Plus, it is illegal – not that I intend on sharing those files with someone afterwards, but I would really like to read them on my android, and I do not see why I should buy them all over again!
I mean, Mobipocket has my money for the books, Amazon bought Mobipocket, and now I should by the books AGAIN from Amazon ?!?! NO WAY!


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For those who supported Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election, reliving the pain of his defeat may not seem like premium family entertainment. Yet if watching Mitt, Greg Wheatley's documentary about the Republican nominee now appearing exclusively on Netflix, is not always easy viewing, it does provide a clear portrait of the man who was beaten by Barack Obama.
This is not a film about the issues that divided the country or the merits of the Obama presidency. ObamaCare is never mentioned nor is RomneyCare, the Massachusetts health-care bill that helped undermine the candidate's critique of the president's plan. Campaign strategy is mentioned only in passing and the strategists and aides who worked feverishly to put Romney in the White House are almost completely absent. Instead, the focus is solely on the candidate and his family, in footage shot in hotel rooms and on the campaign trail where Mitt is with the people closest to him: his wife Anne, their five sons and daughters-in-law and grandchildren. That means we don't learn as much as we might wish about why the protagonist should have been president. But what we do learn what an extraordinarily decent man the GOP nominee is. That's something a lot of Americans who saw Romney as a remote, rich guy who didn't understand them should have learned while the issue was still in doubt.
The Mitt Romney of Mitt is funny, kind, and loving. He's also skeptical about his prospects for success, introspective, aware that he is a "flawed candidate" and frustrated by the way his opponents smeared him. He has a sense of his limits as well as a healthy perspective on all the advantages he received from his father George, who remains his hero. Contrary to the narrative hammered home by the Democrats' unprecedented barrage of negative advertising, this is not a privileged character who was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple.
This Mitt seems nothing like the one who came across on television in two presidential campaigns (the film begins in 2006 and also includes his defeat by John McCain in the 2008 GOP primaries) as a plastic, almost robotic politician who seemed allergic to the business of retail politics. It's difficult not to like or to care about the man at the heart of this movie, a verdict that should cause Romney's 2012 brain trust to wonder how it is that they failed to bring these qualities across to the nation during the campaign.
But even if they had, it's important to remember that the mission Mitt Romney accepted in 2012 was probably impossible. Republicans were immune to Barack Obama's charms and largely ignored the way most Americans responded to his historic status as our first African-American president. Nothing short of a cataclysm could have convinced a majority not to reelect Obama. Protected as he was 24/7 by the fawning support of the mainstream media—a fact that is highlighted in the documentary in its footage of the second presidential debate when CNN's Candy Crowley intervened to insert an erroneous correction of one of Romney's statements during an exchange over the Benghazi terror attack—the president's victory was probably never in doubt even at the moment when Romney hit his stride in their first debate.
At the beginning of the film we see Romney gathering his family to debate the pros and cons of a presidential run. Most seem skeptical and deeply aware of how a campaign and being elected would have a negative effect on their lives. But his oldest son Tagg reminds him that he had a duty to his country and to God to run and therefore try his best to make things better. Romney did just that, and if he failed it was not for lack of effort or a sincere desire to lead his nation back from the dangerous path on which Obama had placed it. As he says at one point in the movie, the candidate "left it all on the field" in 2012. Despite his shortcomings as a politician, it's not likely that any other Republican could have done better. For all the recriminations about 2012 that have convulsed the Republican Party since the election, conservatives should watch this film and remind themselves that the person they nominated was a good man who would have been a good president.


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Better safe than sorry…..don't open anything you don't recognize, anytime.
VERY IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ THIS - These e-mails are floating around currently in HP
Anyone-using Internet mail such as Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL and so on. This information arrived this morning, Direct from both Microsoft and Norton Please send it to everybody you know who has Access to the Internet. You may receive an apparently harmless e-mail titled "Here you have it" If you open either file, a message will appear on your screen saying: 'It is too late now, your life is no longer beautiful....'
Subsequently you will LOSE EVERYTHING IN YOUR PC, And the person who originated it will gain access to your Name, e-mail and password. This is a new virus which started to circulate on Saturday afternoon.
AOL has already confirmed the severity, and the anti virus softwares are not capable of destroying it.
The virus has been created by a hacker who calls himself 'life owner'.
PLEASE SEND A COPY OF THIS E-MAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS, And ask them to PASS IT ON IMMEDIATELY!
I looked at the Snopes article. It appears you can't get infected by just reading the email you have to open the attachment. Snopes says the URL referenced in the email is no longer active. This virus is probably ineffective at this time, but it is always best to be careful about opening attachments to unsolicited emails, even from someone you know.
We all need reminded of that at times...
I, like I am sure most of you, get loads of spoof emails supposedly from various banks asking me to contact them or re-state my pass words. Also from other financial concerns. Over the passage of time in getting these I find out the security department for the firm in question and forwrd the email to them. Every time I get a email thanking me for this action and the knowledge they will close this site down.It's my small contribution to socking the crooks in the eye.


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Cootham's population numbers around 200 and there is one public house named The Crown, parts of which date from 1555. As a well known coaching inn 'The Crown' had its own stables. They were situated on the south side of the road opposite the pub and were converted, some years ago, into houses that are known today as Crown Cottages.
The hamlet lies in the lee of the South Downs, between the country estate of Parham (included in the Doomsday Book) and the town of Storrington, where the nearest facilities are located. The main road running through the middle of Cootham is the A283 that runs west to Pulborough and Midhurst and east to Storrington and Washington.
The pronunciation of the village name is traditionally COAT-um or /'kəutəm/ with the first syllable sounding like the item of clothing, although these days many people pronounce it as it is spelt.
Items of local interest include the Southdown Gliding Club which operates flights from a field at the western extremity of Cootham; Cootham Village Hall which hosts various local community activities and Parham House itself, one of the south east's finest country houses.
Public transport is limited to one bus, the Compass Travel 100, that runs to Pulborough mainline station on the Portsmouth to London Victoria line.
In the 1980's, oil was discovered beneath a large part of Cootham and a small pumping station was constructed at the corner of the gliding field. This is still operational and features two 'nodding donkey' pumps and a gas burner. Much of the area surrounding Cootham is protected from development, though housing has encroached significantly since the late 1980's and there is now little untouched land between Cootham and Storrington.


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Sometimes you need subtitles when you're watching movies, for example, those movies which don't speak your mother tongue, and a subtitle also can be necessary even the movies speak your language. But not all videos have subtitles. Then adding a subtitle to movie turns to be a good idea. When you have an external subtitle in srt, ass or ssa for your movie, you can easily add subtitles to a movie.
But subtitles can't be loaded to all videos: you can only add subtitles to videos in MKV, MP4, AVI or other video format which has the ability of adding subtitles. Well, it's not a tough work if your movie isn't in the proper video formats, you can convert the video to MKV or other available format first, then add your subtitles to movie. iSkysoft Video Converter for Mac is a powerful video tool which can both convert video in all popular formats and customize subtitles for movies:
Take Pirates of Caribbean movie file and the srt subtitle for example. If your original video isn't MKV, AVI, MP4 or other subtitle-supported format, you can convert video to MKV first as the step 1 shown, If your movie is in the proper format like MKV, you can go to step 2:
Convert video to MKV on Mac (Lion included) (Option)
Open the Mac Video Converter, drag your source movies and drop to the Mac app. Batch conversions are supported. Then click the format icon to open the format list and choose MKV as your output format, click Convert to start the conversion. Detailed info: User Guide of Video Converter for Mac.
Load (reload) the MKV movie to the Mac Converter
Load your MKV movie or reload the output files you just get in the step 1 to the Mac app.
Add subtitles to movie
There is a subtitle box besides the thumbnail of your movie on the video info bar. Click it and you will see a drop down menu where you can choose Add subtitle, load your external subtitle.
Start the subtitle adding task
After the subtitle added, you need to set the default output format to MKV, click Convert at the right bottom of the main interface. The Video Converter for Mac also provides other available formats like MP4, AVI.
After the task, you will get a MKV movie with subtitle.
Note: After the subtitle task, you are unable to remove the subtitle from the converted movie.


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Department of Visual Arts
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Chair's Message
Newsletter (PDF) — October, 2012
A child begins to draw before he or she can read. We can all find ourselves reflected in a work of art that expresses a mood, feeling or thoughts. Monuments in a cathedral, paint on a canvas or scribbles on a cave exist to visualize one's thoughts and ideas, and preserve the culture of our ancestors for decades or centuries. Before we could communicate via blogs or email, before letters and books, humanity expressed themselves visually.
The Visual Arts department at Eastern shares with its students, majors and non-majors alike, the power of visual communication. Students can learn the ancient art of Chinese calligraphy or render 3-D animations in the virtual world. Carving stone, making paper, painting a tree in a field, organizing an art exhibition, or traveling to the far corners of the world to see a work of art, are all integral parts of the program at Eastern. The Visual Arts Department requires all students to experience all aspects of the art making process before focusing on a single medium. They then can choose to work on illustrations, advertising, create a portrait or abstraction, put found materials together, draw from the model, create a new design for products packaging, or carve a woodblock print. In their Junior and Senior year our students often move on to other unique opportunities. They have interned at the Wadsworth Atheneum, the New Britain Museum, Disney and ESPN; created public service announcements for the Governor's census committee, and a website for Windham No Freeze Zone, and have worked at the United Way as well as the Special Olympics of Connecticut.
The Visual Arts faculty are mentors and are exemplary of what an artist can do. Faculty have been in exhibitions throughout New England, NYC and Miami, they curate exhibitions at museums in Connecticut and Louisiana, have written blogs for Huffington Post, and scholarly articles for Art Journal. They have been reviewed in the Hartford Courant, New England Art Journal, Art in America, New York Times, Art Forum, and have participated at the College Art Association and Art Basel, as well as conferences in Buffalo, Chicago, Cuba and Barbados.
Students from our program go on to be art directors for advertising agencies and newspapers, perform Art Therapy, exhibit in galleries and museums, and become art educators and museum professionals. They use their creativity in all walks of life so that they can in turn help others to visualize their thoughts, ideas and feelings.
- Gail Gelburd, Chair of the Visual Arts Department


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This is nostalgic in a new face, same name kind of way. Capcom's Gamescom 2012 trailer for Devil May Cry includes a thorough look at Vergil, Dante's brother and a mainstay of the DmC series.
Vergil appears white-haired sporting a black coat with blue accents. He has a cool demeanor that clashes with Dante's traditional hot head. In the trailer below, we see that Vergil has come into contact with Dante in order to bring him into his group, The Order.
They get into a spat later on in the video when Dante opts to save the girl instead of do his duty. Perhaps that's a sign of what's to come?


text: I have been looking at the manuals for my FTdx401 and my Heathkit SB200 and unless I am missing something there is no information in the FTdx manual for interfacing the rig to an amp. I know that the RF output has to go to the RF In on the amp but I don't see anywhere for the ALC and Relay connections on the radio. Are they on one of the multi pin connectors on the back of the radio? If so, does anyone know which pins?


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Market Value For Noblesse Oblige?
Posted 18 August 2012 - 23:59
Hoping to get some info on market value for a chrome Noblesse Oblige, with 14k medium nib:
The $300 price seems a tad high for this pen. I haven't been able to find any completed auction on the 'bay, so I'm not sure what a fair offer would be for this. The seller has had the pen listed several times which tells me they may be stuck on their price.
Any advice, or opinions would be greatly appreciated.
--William Makepeace Thackeray
Visit my blog to see the pens I have for sale
Paul's Pens
Posted 19 August 2012 - 01:45
How pierceful grows the hazy yon! How myrtle petaled thou! For spring hath sprung the cyclotron - How high browse thou, brown cow? -- Churchy LaFemme, 1950
Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way suffers a severe handicap. -- jar
The last pen I bought will be the next to last pen I ever buy! --jar
Posted 19 August 2012 - 02:47
Very, very rare, maybe the only Noblesse Oblige like that in the whole world. BUT...there are lots of Montblanc Noblese Slimlines jess like it.
I see what you did there That will teach me to do more research before posting a question.
--William Makepeace Thackeray
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Paul's Pens
Posted 19 August 2012 - 04:26
Glenn (love those pen posses)
Posted 19 August 2012 - 13:49
I love the simple, plain, fat nibs on this line of Montblancs.
Not got one, but do fancy getting one, if funds allow.
Not keen on the cartridge idea, but was wondering if one would convert to an eyedropper?
See the Noblesses and Slimlines on ebay UK often, going for well under £100 in the auction format. Especially nice ones (eg Gold body, white body etc etc) may go for more of a premium, but I'd think $300 is way over the odds for this one.
As ever, just my opinion.
Good luck!
Posted 19 August 2012 - 14:22
Posted 20 August 2012 - 19:15
Glenn (love those pen posses)
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WCC Announces 2013 All-Conference Baseball Team
May 22, 2013
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SAN BRUNO, Calif. --- San Diego junior third baseman Kris Bryant and Gonzaga junior left-handed pitcher/first baseman Marco Gonzales have been named the 2013 West Coast Conference Co-Players of the Year. Gonzales' teammate Tyler Olson was named the West Coast Conference Pitcher of the Year, and Bulldogs head coach Mark Machtolf was voted WCC Coach of the Year by his peers. Loyola Marymount senior catcher Colton Plaia was recognized as the West Coast Conference Defensive Player of the Year, and BYU outfielder Jacob Hannemann garnered WCC Freshman of the Year accolades. Based on conference play, the awards are voted on by the league's nine head coaches.
San Diego junior Kris Bryant has put together a season to remember, hitting .326 with 13 home runs and 28 runs driven in during conference play. He earned WCC Co-Player of the Year honors after compiling an .876 slugging percentage against WCC opponents, while reaching base in 50% of his conference plate appearances. Overall in 2013, Bryant leads the nation with 30 home runs, 57 walks, and 72 runs scored through May 19.
Gonzaga junior Marco Gonzales earned Co-Player of the Year recognition after establishing himself as one of the finest two-way players in the nation. Gonzales started eight games on the mound during West Coast Conference play, posting a 3-1 record and a 3.35 earned run average. At the plate, the Zags' first baseman hit .325, driving in nine runs and scoring eight against WCC opponents.
Gonzales and Bryant were Co-Players and Co-Freshmen of the Year in 2011, and Gonzales was the WCC's Pitcher of the Year last season.
Gonzaga senior Tyler Olson was selected West Coast Conference Pitcher of the Year in 2013 after putting together a sensational campaign on the mound. In eight conference starts, Olson posted a 7-1 record with a 2.35 earned run average and three complete games. Olson allowed just 50 hits and 15 earned runs over 57.1 innings, striking out 50 and walking just 14. Olson is the fourth Bulldog to earn WCC Pitcher of the Year honors in the last five years, joining Marco Gonzales last year, Ryan Carpenter in 2011 and Matt Fields in 2009.
Loyola Marymount senior catcher Colton Plaia was named the 2013 West Coast Conference Defensive Player of the Year. As the Lions' starting backstop, Plaia led the West Coast Conference with 162 putouts, and gunned down nine would-be base stealers. Plaia did not commit an error during WCC play. He is the first LMU player to be named Defensive Player of the Year - an award that has been handed out since 2008.
BYU outfielder Jacob Hannemann is the 2013 West Coast Conference Freshman of the Year. Hannemann led all WCC freshmen with a .380 batting average during WCC play, ripping 15 extra-base hits and scoring 26 runs. Hannemann slugged .630, posted a .426 on-base percentage, and stole seven bases in eight attempts against WCC opponents. Hannemann is the first Cougar to earn Freshman of the Year accolades from the WCC head coaches.
After leading his team to its first West Coast Conference title since 2009, Gonzaga head coach Mark Machtolf has been named the 2013 WCC Coach of the Year by his peers. It is the second such honor for Machtolf - who also won in 2009 - and the third all-time for the Gonzaga program (Steve Hertz, 2001). After being picked to finish third in the coaches' pre-season poll, the 2013 Bulldogs posted an 18-6 West Coast Conference record en route to capturing the conference title and earning the top seed at the WCC championship, held later this week.
The complete 2013 All-West Coast Conference Team follows.
Honorable Mention: Ricky Boas, Saint Mary's; Alex Bonczyk, Gonzaga; Aaron Brown, Pepperdine; Adam Cimber, San Francisco; David Edwards, Loyola Marymount; Scott Frazier, Pepperdine; Zac Fujimoto, Loyola Marymount; Austin Green, San Diego; Ben Grubb, Portland; Drew Hacker, Pepperdine; Cody Lenahan, Portland; Ranny Lowe, Pepperdine; Justin Maffei, San Francisco; Jason Mahood, San Francisco; Cullen Mahoney, Loyola Marymount; Patrick McGrath, Loyola Marymount; Markus Melgosa, Saint Mary's; Sam Meyer, Pepperdine; Matt Milke, BYU; Corey Miller, Pepperdine; Hayden Nielsen, BYU; Desmond Poulson, BYU; Arturo Reyes, Gonzaga; Michael Swanner, Pepperdine; Caleb Wood, Gonzaga
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Sordelet, Rick
Rick Sordelet (Fight Director) has staged 50 Broadway productions, including
The Scottsboro Boys, The Royal Family, Disney's The Lion King, Beauty and the
Beast, Tarzan, and Aida. Recently, Angels in America at the Signature Theater
and his 80th Romeo and Juliet for Chicago Shakespeare Theater. He has staged
the fights for the opera Cyrano de Bergerac, starring Placido Domingo, at the
Metropolitan Opera, The Royal Opera House, and La Scala in Milan, also Don
Carlos at the MET directed by Nick Hytner. Rick has staged fights for 52
productions on five continents including Ben Hur Live. Film credits include The
Game Plan starring Dwayne Johnson, Dan in Real Life starring Steve Carell,
Juliet Binoche and Hamlet starring Campbell Scott and Blair Brown. He was the
chief stunt coordinator forGuiding Light for 12 years and staged the fights
for First Jedi, a CD-Rom for George Lucas.
Mr. Sordelet teaches at The New School for Drama, the Yale School of Drama and
The Neighborhood Playhouse. He is a Board Member for the Shakespeare Theater
of New Jersey, and the author of the play Buried Treasure.
He holds an MFA from Rutgers University.


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Photo by Romulo Yanes
YIELD: Makes 6 servings
ACTIVE TIME: 20 minutes
TOTAL TIME: 1 hour
Preheat oven to 375°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Pulse flour, oats, almonds, 1/3 cup sugar, baking powder, and salt in a food processor until finely ground. Add butter; pulse until only pea-size pieces remain. Add 1/2 cup cream and 1 teaspoon vanilla; pulse until large moist clumps form. Transfer to a work surface.
Knead until dough comes together, about 4 turns. Pat into a 4x6" rectangle. Halve lengthwise, then crosswise into thirds. Arrange on prepared baking sheet. Brush with cream; sprinkle with 1/2 tablespoon sugar.
Bake, rotating sheet halfway through cooking, until golden brown around edges and a tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 20 minutes. Set biscuits on a wire rack; let cool. DO AHEAD: Biscuits can be made 8 hours ahead. Store cooled biscuits airtight at room temperature.
Meanwhile, combine strawberries, 1 tablespoon sugar, and Grand Marnier, if using, in a large bowl. Toss to coat. Let strawberries sit, tossing often, until juices release. Whisk 1/2 cup cream, 1/2 tablespoon sugar, and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla in a small bowl until peaks form.
Cut warm or room-temperature biscuits in half; place bottom halves on plates. Divide whipped cream and strawberries over. Top with remaining biscuit halves.
Per serving: 440 calories, 29 g fat, 4 g fiber
Nutritional analysis provided by Bon Appétit


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The Deering Estate at Cutler provides a beautiful natural setting for a variety of activities. Regular tours of the lush natural areas and historic buildings are offered daily by our Education and Interpretive Staff and are free with regular Estate admission. EcoAdventures programs, specialty tours and a full calendar of enriching cultural programming make the Estate the ideal destination for family outings, community meetings and corporate groups.
Be sure to check our tour pages and calendar to verify dates and times, as programming may be seasonal or contingent upon weather.
Daily Guided Tours: Join our dedicated Interpretive and Educational Staff members on a guided tour through the wealth of history and nature contained within the Deering Estate at Culter's 444 acres. Experience the history of human habitation in Miami-Dade, explore a hidden wine cellar and enjoy the variety of South Florida's unique ecosystems.
Self-Conducted Tours: Explore historical homes, stunning coastline and open-access natural areas at your own pace! Maps and informational materials are available in-park.
DeeringAdventures: An exciting lineup of DeeringAdventure Tours are available at the Deering Estate for an additional fee. While reservations are not required, large groups and groups with special requests are encouraged to book their tours in advance to better accommodate particular interests and needs.
Specialty Group Tours: Customize your next trip, birthday party or corporate outing by selecting from our variety of programs. With the expertise of our Interpretive and Educational staff at your disposal, you can always do Deering your way!
Lectures and Film Series: With a wide roster of free and ticketed events, there's always something to learn or observe at a Deering Estate lecture.
Community Classes: Broaden your horizons in a beautiful, tranquil environment. Check this section often to learn more about our ever-expanding class offerings.
Deering Estate Walking Club: Deering Estate Foundation Members receive early morning access to the Deering Estate before normal operating hours. The Walking Club will meet every Wednesday and Saturday, beginning November 5, 2014, from 7:30 am to 9:00 am at the Deering Estate Main Gate.


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A Wedding Video You'll Want To Dance To by I Do Films
By choosing an upbeat rock song for the thematic music ("Read My Mind" by The Killers) and transitioning to a party favorite ("Good Life" by Kanye West) Megan and Mike's wedding video translated all of the energy from the day into film. Trust us, you'll wish you'd been on the guest list (and more importantly the dance floor) at this Chicago wedding!
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The Villages Area Attractions
- Villages Regional Hospital(1.53 miles)
- Beacon College(9.56 miles)
- Leesburg Regional Medical Center(10.00 miles)
- Don Garlits Museum-Drag Racing(14.45 miles)
- Heritage Lake Tours(16.00 miles)
- Florida Hospital Waterman(16.86 miles)
- Marion County Museum-History(19.61 miles)
- Central Florida Community Clg(20.14 miles)
- Munroe Regional Medical Center(20.21 miles)
- Ocala Regional Medical Center(20.24 miles)
- Silver Springs Natural Theme(20.69 miles)
- Wild Waters(20.69 miles)
- St Leo University(20.85 miles)
- Ocala International-Jim Taylor Field Airport (OCF)(23.48 miles)
- Citrus Memorial Hospital(24.42 miles)
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Sand Stompin' Beach Party
There's nothing better than going to a fundraiser where the suggested attire is flip flops and cabana-wear - especially when the event benefits sick children.
The Mariner Sands Friends of Treasure Coast Hospice under co-chairs Dee Way and Bill Clifford will oversee the transformation of Mariner Sands Country Club into a beach lover's paradise on March 1. Proceeds benefit Hospice's Little Treasures Program, a pediatric palliative care program for infants and adolescence with life limiting and life threatening chronic conditions.
Tickets are $75 each and include dinner. Call Kristin Williams at (772) 286-6079 or Marilyn Dankner at (772) 287-2151 to buy yours.
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