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Kelsey Morris
Jan. 17, 2014
BOISE, Idaho – The No. 11 Boise State gymnastics team earned wins over No. 14 Denver and No. 23 BYU at the 2014 edition of the Beauty and the Beast competition at Boise State, Friday night. The Broncos scored a team total of 195.150, topping DU's 194.825 and BYU's 194.675 scores in front of a crowd of 3,393 at Taco Bell Arena. The attendance was the third-largest at a Boise State Beauty and the Beast event.
Three Broncos captured individual titles on the night with Kelsey Morris taking the all-around win while also tying with Ciera Perkins for a win on the uneven bars. Perkins also collected a win on floor exercise and Amanda Otuafi added a win on vault.
The Broncos opened the night on vault earning a 49.175 team total. Otuafi led the team with a score of 9.90, earning her sixth-career win on vault. Perkins followed just behind with a 9.875 score and a second-place finish while Maddie Krentz tied her career-best of 9.850 to tie for third. Kelsey Black placed seventh (9.80), Morris tied for eighth (9.750) and Paige Urquhart tied for 11th (9.725) to round out the Broncos' lineup on vault.
Helping the Broncos to a 48.975 team bars score, Perkins earned her first win of the night in the second rotation, sharing her fifth-career uneven bars title with Morris, who earned her third-career win on the event. The pair earned scores of 9.850, while freshman Diana Mejia earned a 9.80 to tie for fourth. Black tied for sixth (9.775), while Krentz placed 10th (9.70) and Krystine Jacobsen tied for 13th (9.60).
A handful of underclassmen led the Broncos to a 48.10 score on balance beam with sophomore Marissa Wossner leading the Broncos' lineup, tying for second-place with her 9.80 score. Urquhart, a freshman, earned a 9.775 and tied for fourth, while fellow freshman Mejia placed ninth with a 9.675. Morris tied for 10th with a 9.650 followed by Jacobsen in 17th (9.20) and Krentz in 18th (8.30).
Perkins led an energetic bunch on floor, helping the Broncos to a 48.90 team total. The junior earned her second-career floor title after scoring a 9.875. Krentz and Wossner shared the sixth-place spot with 9.775 scores, while Otuafi tied for 10th (9.750). Black tied for 12th with a score of 9.725 and Morris tied for 15th (9.70) as the final two Broncos in the lineup.
Morris' efforts earned her a score of 38.950 as well as her first-career all-around title. Krentz competed in the all-around for the first time in her career earning a score of 37.625 and placing third overall.
BYU's Megan Bain was the only non-Bronco to win an event outright, claiming the beam title with a 9.850. Denver's Moriah Martin shared the bars title with Perkins and Morris, while teammate Nina McGee shared the floor win with Perkins.
The Broncos hold a 14-1 record in Beauty and the Beast competitions held at home, while improving to 4-1 on the season.
Boise State continues its season in one week, hosting Southern Utah, Friday, Jan. 24 at 7 p.m. in Taco Bell Arena.


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Planners give green light to Barrow businesses
Last updated at 16:50, Wednesday, 07 November 2012
BARROW is set for a double jobs boost, after two companies were given the green light for major new developments in the town.
Up to 80 new jobs are set to be created when a new Premier Inn and Tesco Express store open.
Barrow Borough Council granted planning permission to both developments at a meeting at Barrow Town Hall yesterday afternoon.
The committee chose to approve plans for a hotel with 80 bedrooms in North Road, next to the Dock Museum.
The plans also include a Brewers Fayre pub and restaurant to be built on the side of the three-storey building.
Planning officer Charles Wilton said the new hotel would be positive for the area.
He said: "The planning process encourages developments on brownfield sites in built up areas. This fits in with the planning policy like a glove."
Premier Inn's parent company, Whitbread PLC, held confidential discussions on the project with the council for more than two years before finally going public in 2011.
The development hinged on the council's executive committee agreeing to sell the Dock Museum car park to Whitbread for an undisclosed fee.
Premier Inn runs more than 650 hotels across the UK and this will be their first hotel in Furness. Plans for a new Dock Museum car park on the opposite side of the museum were also accepted, with a new entrance to the attraction set to be created.
And councillors voted unanimously to grant planning permission for new signage to be fitted at the former Hitchens site in Rawlinson Street.
Supermarket giant Tesco has taken over one of the units and submitted plans for a new shopfront, doors, windows and the installation of an ATM cash machine.
Around 20 new jobs are set to be created when the store opens and the Evening Mail understands that this will happen before Christmas.
Mr Wilton said that access to the store would only be from Rawlinson Street and the existing car park will be used by customers.
The former Hitchens building was purchased by developer the Northhold Group and occupants are being sought for the other units.
First published at 16:10, Wednesday, 07 November 2012
Published by http://www.nwemail.co.uk
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The new tesco store car park at hitchens is set to cause chaos to that area including the abbey rd holker st/rawlinson st junction. Should be interesting.
Great, perhaps when every square metre of Barrow is covered with either tarmac or concrete Barrow council will be happy.
The area surrounding the dock museum is bad enough now for congestion, lets make it even busier. Planners and highways dept have destroyed the whole area........

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Archive for October, 2005
ILM Causes Virtualization Difficulties – Not
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On October 14, Chris Mellor published an article on Techworld.com, entitled "ILM causes virtualization difficulties – Multiple tiers means multiple virtual pools" In this article Chris states that the purpose of virtualization is to create a common pool of storage in order to increase utilization of storage. He then points out that a fundamental part [...]
Yet another storage Blog and how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
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The best part of my job as CTO of Hitachi Data Systems, is to meet with customers, developers, vendors, regulators, and analysts to share ideas and try to understand what is and will be required to store, secure, and access data. To gather this data I have become the unofficial Chief Traveling Officer for HDS. [...]


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Girlfriend of accused shooter charged with hiding gun during the investigation
DENVER - The girlfriend of a man charged in a drive-by shooting that injured an 8-year-old boy is now charged with hiding the gun during the police investigation.
The shots were fired from another passing car near Sixth Avenue and Knox Court, striking the rear of the Jeep around 6:30 p.m. on April 30. A bullet passed through the tailgate, a seat and hit Jacob Valdivia in the back.
Lynn Kimbrough, spokeswoman for the Denver District Attorney, said Marina Pena, 22, was charged Wednesday with hiding the gun her boyfriend allegedly used in that shooting. She faces two felonies, tampering with physical evidence and possession of a weapon by a previous offender.
Pena was just 18 when she was convicted of felony aggravated auto theft, CBI records show. She was also convicted of driving while ability impaired in Adams County.
Pena is currently free on a $2,000 bond. Her next scheduled court appearance will be a second advisement on July 30.
On June 17, Paul Lovato, also 22, was charged with firing the shots. He faces six counts of criminal attempt to commit murder in the first degree, assault in the first degree and illegal discharge of a firearm. All of those charges are felonies.
Lovato will also be in court on July 30 for his preliminary hearing.


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South Carolina's superintendent of education has recommended cutting Holocaust education funding to help make up a significant budget deficit.
The $31,000 to the South Carolina Council on the Holocaust for Holocaust education programming is part of $71 million in cuts proposed by Superintendent Mick Zais.
State lawmakers decried the suggestion and said they would work to preserve the funding, the Post and Courier reported.
The South Carolina Council on the Holocaust is a volunteer organization dedicated to Holocaust education throughout the state. No money goes to overhead or administrative costs, the newspaper reported. Programs include teacher workshops; student field trips to Holocaust exhibits; speakers and exhibits for the public; and books and classroom materials.
The state curriculum requires the Holocaust to be taught at three times during a student's educational career. The elimination of the funding would not change the requirement, according to the newspaper.
About a dozen Holocaust survivors live in South Carolina, down from 40 in 1990, according to The State.
Members of South Carolina's Jewish community have pledged to raise the funds privately if the budget is cut, The State reported.
Zais' father is Jewish and a World War II veteran, according to reports.
The state is facing a more than $800 million deficit in its $5 billion budget that began on July 1.
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American Idol
American Idol Top 5 Power Rankings
Things are moving and shaking on the Power Rankings this week, y'all. We've felt pretty confident for weeks about the way things would go, but after seeing our #3 contestant Casey Abrams eliminated last week, we're starting to think we've been approaching things all wrong. This week, we've changed our algorithms (okay, we don't really use algorithms) and we're giving the Power Rankings a fresh approach.
Lauren Alaina
This week's ranking: 5 (Last week: 4)
Crazy? Maybe. But we're starting to think that Lauren just doesn't have the staying power we originally thought she did. Teens and country fans should be her voters, but we're pretty sure those groups belong to Scotty. A few weeks of so-so performances and some obvious confidence issues could put Lauren in the danger zone this week, especially with the added pressure of two performances to prepare.
Jacob Lusk
This week's ranking: 4 (Last week: 6)
We've been expecting Jacob to go for weeks. While he no doubt has talent, his performance style and vaguely snotty attitude — not to mention last week's awful/clownish performance ensemble — have frequently left us cold. That being said, we've accepted that someone is voting for him. A lot of someones, at that. We're pretty sure he'll survive this week.
Haley Reinhart
This week's ranking: 3 (Last week: 5)
It's tricky not knowing whether Haley was in last week's bottom three. Our theory, though, is that while Lauren is likely splitting the young/country vote with Scotty, now that Casey's been eliminated, Haley's locked up the growly vote. (And surely his fans were won over by their obvious chemistry, even if Casey denied a romantic relationship.) Earlier this season we would've never picked Haley to be the last woman standing, but we're going out on a limb and saying she just might be.
Scotty McCreery
This week's ranking: 2 (Last week: 1)
Oh, snap! Yup, we went there. While Scotty's take on "You've Got a Friend" was terrific, we're still waiting for him to really wow us. Two performances this week could give him a great chance to show versatility... or they could prove that he really is a one-trick pony, no matter how fantastic that trick is.
James Durbin
This week's ranking: 1 (Last week: 1.5)
While we don't always love James, there's no denying that he's exciting, and with Casey's elimination, James is definitely left as the artist of the group. His cover of "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" last week was sensational, and the two-performance format this week should allow him to both rock out and show his sensitive side. Way to be, Durbz!


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LOSING a longtime lover when on the verge of tying a knot, evicted from the Big Brother House and failing to win an award after being nominated in over three categories is what Mampi experienced last year.
Zamtel Entertainment caught up with the diva on her recent private and public life happenings.
Mirriam Mukape, 27, is one of the most happening female artists in Zambia but her works were not honoured in any way in 2012.
Mampi missed out on the ZNBC Music Video awards and Ngoma awards, the matter which has troubled her.
"Walilowelela was one of the most played songs in 2012 and for me not to win any award is like my works are not appreciated or maybe someone is against me," said Mampi.
Mampi was also unlucky as she was beaten by her nemesis Kay in the Best Female video at the ZNBC Music video awards.
Missing out on awards is not the only bad thing that happened to the diva in 2012 as she had her engagement to footballer Dominic Yobe called off, for reasons that she has kept close to her heart.
"It is not easy to break up with someone that you have been with for a long time and the fact that we were close to getting married it really hurts but I am managing well," said Mampi with an indignant face.
After being there for the diva, while most people were against her stay in the Big Brother House, Yobe and Mampi broke up, in a move that shocked the followers of the singer and footballer's lives.
However, the relationship breakdown did not deter the Chimo ni Chimo singer from having a successful musical 2012.
"One thing I appreciate about the Big Brother House experience is that it exposed me to many parts of Africa and as such I travelled a lot and made a lot of money," she said.
Mampi said she held more than 20 international shows and she competed with South Africa's most happening singer Zahara in Namibia.
The organisers of the show said that she pulled a similar crowd with Zahara which was no mean achievement.
"You know Zahara is big and for me to have the same crowd as her, it was a big achievement," said Mampi who was relaxed in the comfort of her newly acquired Black Toyota Allex.
Her Facebook page following has doubled to over 30, 000 after her Big Brother Africa stint where she did not last.
On 2013 prospects, as she has a huge task to impress her fans locally and abroad, Mampi said she will consider releasing an album depending on how her new single fares on the market.
Late last year, the diva released the single Nikutantula which she has been promoting locally.
Last weekend she perfomed at Eastpoint where her fans sampled the single track.
"I am promoting my new single and depending on how the song performs, I will decide by the end of February if I can come up with an album."
However, Mampi has this year been nominated in four categories for the Mosi Lager Zambian Music Awards where heavyweights like JK, K'Millian, Dalisoul and Zone Fam are missing.
Though nominated in Best Female Album Contemporary, Best Female Artist Contemporary, Best Dancehall Artist and Best Female Vocalist categories, Mampi feels a lot needs to be done about awards in Zambia.
"I think the awards are more of popularity awards than achievement awards.
"To my fellow artistes like JK, K'Millian, Sakala Brothers, B1, Dalisoul, Angela Nyirenda, Sister D, Nalu, Hamoba, Ozzy, Lily T, MC Wabwino and Zone Fam they shouldn't feel like they haven't contributed to the industry or that they are not amongst the best," said Mampi.
The Swililili star said her main target this year is to produce quality videos and songs that will see her get a nomination for the MTV Africa Music Awards and the Channel O Music Video Awards while she said she will take time to change her relationship status.


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Glasgow is the area of Scotland with, at 18%, the highest level of children living in severe poverty.
Shocking yes. But wait a minute. The City of Westminster, housing the UK parliament, has 24% of children living in severe poverty.
A rate 33% higher that the highest local authority in Scotland. Save the Children figures not mine.
In the last part of 'Scotland is doing OK' we compared the level of children in workless households that turned out to be lower in Scotland (15.3%) compared with London (22.4%) and also lower than many regions in England.
A new report from Save the Children published this week confirms our findings and the link between the level of children in workless households and the level of severe child poverty.
The results are not just startling but actually JAW DROPPING.
Our friends in much of the Scottish media in reporting the Save the Children's findings have concentrated on the headline results for Scotland creating an impression that Scotland is doing significantly less well than other areas of the UK.
The reverse is in fact the case.
Let me be clear. No level of children living in severe poverty is acceptable in a civilised society.
This series is not about pretending that we do not have challenges.
It is about helping to place them in context when other parts of the UK, that we might assume are doing better, are actually lagging behind progress made in Scotland.
We are always ready to believe that we are no daeing sae weel. We have become used to this because for a long time it was often true.
The rate for Scotland as a whole is 9% and that means fewer Scottish children are living in severe poverty than the average for England (13%) or that of Wales (14%).
When we study the breakdown for the regions of England only East England and the South East regions match Scotland's low score.
The Top 10 of local authority areas in the UK with the highest levels of severe child poverty is an all England affair, headed by Manchester at 27%.
In fifth place is the aforementioned City of Westminster Council area.
I wanted to know why the results were better in Scotland compared with England and if still more could be done to improve the situation of Scottish children locked in severe poverty
So I asked the people who should have some of the answers.
Douglas Hamilton, Head of Save the Children in Scotland, told me that targets were set in 2005 for all nations and regions to reduce the level of child poverty but only Scotland had met the target.
He referred me to a Joseph Rowntree Foundation report – Monitoring poverty and social exclusion in Scotland 2010. This is a much respected foundation who have produced some excellent work.
Douglas Hamilton told me Save the Children believed that Scotland's position was better than that of England because the employment statistics in Scotland were better than that of England until the start of the recession but that the relative position had changed slightly because unemployment rose in Scotland as the recession bit.
He concluded that we could expect the level of severe child poverty to rise when the 2010 data became available.
The relationship of severe child poverty with unemployment levels would seem a reasonable and understandable conclusion but the extent of the correlation does not actually add up.
Areas with similar unemployment levels in England in the tables Save the Children provided me with had much higher levels of severe child poverty.
Housing costs in London are higher so that could be a factor but heating costs are higher in Scotland.
Scotland's Housing and Communities Minister, Alex Neil, told me 'Our robust efforts to support jobs, skills and training are paying off as Scotland has a higher employment rate and lower economic inactivity rate than the UK as a whole.'
Indeed the latest employment statistics show that our relative position to England is turning positive again following a brief blip.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation report speculated on the small narrowing of the gap of households in poverty between Scotland and England as the recession took hold, on which the Save the Children Scotland report places some emphasis.
That speculation may have been premature.
Alex Neil added, 'We are supporting thousands of families with innovative home-grown policies such as freezing council tax, free heating help, progressive abolition of prescription charges and the extension of free school meals.
'However, to achieve lasting change it is crucial that we secure real financial powers and importantly, responsibility for the benefits and tax credits system in Scotland.
'This is more important than ever as the UK government embarks on sweeping and savage changes to welfare which we know are going to penalise the poorest families in Scotland.'
BBC Scotland reported the story (24th February) under the heading 'Job Crisis causing child poverty in Scotland'
The article is overwhelmingly negative and paints a picture that suggests the situation in Scotland is dire when Scotland is actually doing better that England and Wales.
Save the Children Scotland is a campaigning organisation and are seeking action at UK Government and Scottish Government level.
But do they do themselves any favours by stressing the negative rather than the achievements that have been won and for which they can claim a share of the credit?
What my fellow journalists have not done is go through Save the Children's own statistics. Doing that presents a very different picture
Save the Children list 204 local authority areas in a table profiling the performance from the worst to the best performing local authorities across Scotland, England and Wales.
They have banded all Local Authority areas in England, Scotland and Wales into the following levels of severe child poverty-
- Over 25% severe child poverty – No local authorities in Scotland
- 20 to 25% severe child poverty – No local authorities in Scotland
- 15 to 20% severe child poverty – one (Glasgow) in Scotland out of 61 in GB
- 10 to 15% severe child poverty – 12 Scottish local authorities out of 87 in GB
- Less than 10% severe child poverty – 19 Scottish Local Authorities out of 32
So when the Save the Children Scotland figures are reported by the BBC as nearly half of Scottish local authorities with a performance worse than the Scottish overage we are not getting a sensible picture of relative performance.
That's the way averages work with usually around half on each side of the central point.
Scotland has something to be proud of in achieving a much better performance than is the case south of the Border.
Only 15.68% of all local authorities in England, Wales and Scotland have less than 10% severe child poverty.
60% of these best performing local authorities are in Scotland.
And among them is Argyll & Bute at 8%. Just one third the rate of severe child poverty in the City of Westminster.
Scotland is doing OK. But some it seems like to suggest otherwise.
Russell Bruce, Books Editor
Sources and notes
Save the Children: UK Briefing, Scotland Briefing, Northern Ireland Briefing
Save the Children: LA Estimates EMPLOYMENT MARKETS xls
Joseph Rowntree Foundation: Monitoring poverty and social exclusion in Scotland 2010
Save the Children's latest research findings were commissionede from the New Policy Institute
There is a recognised basis for establishing households in poverty that is widely used.
There is not so far a widely accepted formula for determining households or, in the case of this study, children, in severe poverty. Save the Children have made a serious attempt to address this problem. That is to be welcomed.


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Story of In the Woods No. 3 Feeling 9/11 and Undying Hopefulness
A Polaroid of our view
from our terrace
of The Towers.
I'm feeling it today.
Remembering watching them come down
the way they did.
That smell.
Making way through debris.
Utter panic. Terror.
The kind of shock to the nervous system that makes you stronger,
if you're lucky.
The kind of shock that makes you aware that our world crisis is alarmingly real.
Watching the second plane come toward us and then continue into the Tower was… something.
"The" Prologue from the upcoming film series The Being Experience aka …In the Woods,
in order of appearance: Aimee Mullins, Paz de la Huerta, Famke Janssen, Rufus Wainwright,
Gale Harold, Rosie Perez, Debra Winger, Marlo Thomas, and Yoko Ono.
Undying hopefulness plus change will make change.
Otherwise change, in and of itself, is a fairytale.


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Maintains a gallery of cross-platform tools for simple making of diagrams, flowcharts, and project plans.
Diagramming and collaboration tool simplifies the task of making mind maps, flowcharts, wireframes, UML, and other graphical information representations.
Free online diagram creation and sharing application. Features a wide range of drawing tools, shapes, and text tools.
Brainstorming tool that is interactive and helps to solve problems.
Offers a pictoral way of organizing information and thoughts for comprehension, memory, and documentation purposes.
Presents a graphic technique for Math, computer programming, studying, note taking, and knowledge representation problem solving.
Resource for advanced mind mapping, mind management, and visual thinking. With applications for different operating software platforms.
Online mind mapping tool allowing users to create highly customizable and colorful diagrams, organization charts, and flowcharts. Features a drag-and-drop interface and supports finished mind maps exporting.
Site offers products and solutions to help improve business productivity through team collaboration and information visualization.
Online class diagram editor. Features preloaded metadata and the ability to visualize diagrams with contextual documentation.
Free-form web-based mind mapping and brainstorming tool. Supports the adding of text files, images, geographical locations, and calendar entries. Also enables sharing and collaboration.
Mind mapping and brainstorming tool that integrates to-do list, sharing, and collaboration features.


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Ticket #335 (closed enhancement: fixed)
[PATCH] First step to allow case-insensitive font search for subtitles
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ATSUFindFontFromName does a case sensitive search for the given fontname.
There are ASS subtitles where the font is all lowercase or uppercase. In this case, the fail-over font is used although the font exists in the MKV file.
I think the best solution would be to use NSFontManager but this means larger changes. The attached patch is just a quick fix that works with the "problem"-files I have here.
Change History
comment:1 Changed 7 years ago by astrange
- Owner set to astrange
- Status changed from new to assigned
- Milestone set to 1.2
Changed 7 years ago by maru
- attachment font.patch added
Use NSFontManager in the failover case.
comment:2 follow-up: ↓ 3 Changed 7 years ago by astrange
It might be a bad idea to link to AppKit?. Let me ask someone else...
comment:3 in reply to: ↑ 2 Changed 7 years ago by maru
Replying to astrange:
It might be a bad idea to link to AppKit?. Let me ask someone else...
Well another way of doing this would be to get all Font IDs of the system with "ATSUGetFontIDs" iterate over the list with "ATSUFindFontName" and do a case in-sensitive for the font. I am pretty sure this will take longer than with NSFontManager but on the plus side we do not depend on AppKit? any longer.
comment:4 Changed 7 years ago by astrange
As long as we can only get one name per font, we still need a final ATSFontFindFromName, otherwise the bugs in ATSUI on 10.4 mean we'll never find some fonts. I have an example file for that somewhere...
Still, that's not a problem since it's all done while the file is being opened. I'd like to move some of these arrays into the renderer class instead of the stack, but I'll look at it later.
Other notes: use kFontMicrosoftPlatform and just do 'font = fontIDs[x]'.
Changed 7 years ago by maru
- attachment atsu-font.patch added
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Owen Rubin joins Tim Robertson to discuss their favorite television series, SSD's in Macs, and much more!
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OWC Mercury Pro External Blu Ray Burner
Manufacturer: OWC
Physical media is dead, right? Well, I think we should just wait a moment here. There are still tons of great uses for physical media today. One of the best I can think of is for backing up. However, with today's large files CDs and DVDs don't hold enough data. It's now time to think about Blu-ray. Blu-ray may conjure up thoughts of the latest Hollywood films, but you can fit quite a few gigabytes on a Blu-ray disc.
Guy Serle from the MyMac Podcast joins Tim and David for a spirited episode of TechFan. WhatApp is now owned by FaceBook, we discuss Google+, advertising during online videos, Cortana from Halo coming to Windows Phone, Tesla and Apple, and much more!
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Newer Technology miniStack Max
Company: Other World Computing
Price: $319.19
There are many types of products on the market that help you cope with your storage, DVD/CD playback, or connection needs. You can easily go to a local store and pick up a few pieces of hardware like a Blu-ray player so you can view movies ,or a hard drive to store extra files of backups, or possibly a USB hub so you can meet your demand of USB connections.
Or instead you could use a product called the miniStack Max. The miniStack Max packs a whopping amount of hardware in a sleek aluminum body. You have many options when purchasing a miniStack Max. In total, 20 options. There are four different kits; within the first three kits there are six different storage size options from zero GB all the way to 4.0 TB.
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Voyager S3 External HD Dock
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Price: $37.99
NewerTech offers a variety of hard drive docking solutions for those of us who prefer to use bare hard drives for external storage. These docks also come in handy for those who need access to a hard drive they pulled out of a Mac or Windows machine.
MyMac's David Cohen reviewed the NewerTech Voyager Q Hard Drive dock back in September of 2009.
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Guy's audio on the floor was pretty bad (Tim has the GOOD Microphone), so Guy waited until he got home to try and clean it up. You can be the judge of how well he (or didn't) do. These are the last five developer interviews on the Macworld Expo floor from Guy and Tim.
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Comixology by comiXology Free
CoPilot iOS GPS app by ALK Technologies
Sennheiser Microphones
iRig products by IK Multimedia
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If you own a MacPro, like me, then you know that this is Apple's most expandable Macintosh computer though there have been rumors as of late as to whether or not Apple will continue to manufacture them. I think not building some kind of expandable Macintosh computer would be a mistake. Apple needs one model of computer that can be customized by the user.
The current MacPro model can hold up to four internal hard drives, you can add PCI Cards, and you can even install a second optical drive. The geek in me loves to play with all of these options, if for no other reason, just because you can.
Today we are going to look at a variety of "stuff" for our MacPro.
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Macworld Expo Day 1 coverage kicks off with Guy Serle, Tim Robertson, and Owen Rubin hitting the showroom floor. Interviews include Rick, a Macworld attendee, Other World Computing, and Algoriddem.
Six unusual items you'll want to buy for yourself: FireWire adapter plug, 10.6 training DVD, cooling pad, photography book, Snow Leopard tutorial, and laptop battery.
FireWire 800-400 Adapter Plug
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When I bought my MacBook it came with a "spacious" 80GB hard drive (HD). That HD filled up pretty quick and I moved to a 160 GB HD which was the largest 2.5" drive (that is the thickness HD measurement that fits in a portable) available at the time. Now I've filled that up. After watching HD capacity grow over the past year (it's up to 500 GB now) I decided to upgrade my MacBook drive.
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The mission of the Ben Carlson Berne Scholarship Fund is to provide the highest quality private music lessons for underserved youth in the Cincinnati community who show an interest in classical music and commitment to lessons.
There are unique and distinctive features of this Scholarship. The scholarships are awarded based on commitment and financial need, versus strictly ability or talent. Once awarded, the scholarship is renewable yearly through the end of high school to encourage a mentoring relationship to develop between the students and their professional music teachers who are invested in their success. Their teachers are either CSO members or of similar caliber. To insure this continuity, enough money is kept in the Fund to support each student throughout their middle and high school career. Currently most of the youth are students of the School for Creative and Performing Arts.
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The Benjamin Carlson-Berne Memorial Scholarship was established in 2004 by Susan Carlson and Philip Berne, in memory of their son Ben. Ben was a serious student of piano. He loved classical music and grew into a young man full of vitality and spontaneity, with a deep sensitivity for beauty. In high school Ben took it as his mission to help ensure that his love of classical music could be shared with underserved youth. He volunteered his time and talents to help connect youth to classical music, to teach music lessons and to locate instruments for students who could not afford them. Ben's short life ended in 2002 at age 19 in a hiking accident. Ben's vision has inspired others who also want to spread the love of classical music, making the scholarship a growing success and a living legacy to the inspiration of one youth.
Ben was a serious student of piano. His love was classical music, and he spent many years with his parents attending CSO concerts as a child, then later on his own as a teen. He began learning the basics of rhythm and music through lessons at the Toedtman School of Music here in Cincinnati at age 3 in their Orff classes with Melissa Toedtman. At age 5 he began piano lessons. He was taught by Atarah Jablonsky. Elizabeth Pridonoff, and Christopher Taylor. He further honed his skills through summers at Interlochen Arts Camp. He grew into a young man full of vitality and spontaneity, with a deep sensitivity for beauty.
When Ben was 16 he told us that he had been thinking about how little exposure that disadvantaged children and youth have to classical music. He said he had been thinking about how he could help to make a difference in this situation, and related that he wanted to volunteer his time to expose inner city disadvantaged children to classical music. He envisioned playing recordings of the pieces he loved for them, and getting them as excited about this art form as he was. We put him in contact with Paula Sherman at the Cincinnati Arts Consortium, and together they planned a project where Ben would do just that. After Ben began getting the young people excited about the music, he wanted to teach them piano lessons. He then started looking for used pianos that people would donate in order to teach the children the lessons. Again, on his own (with the help of a U-Haul truck, his mom, and his friends), he found and moved several pianos to the children's homes, and one into the Arts Consortium, which he then used to teach the lessons. This project continued until Ben went away to college.
Our son's life was a short one. He died in 2002 at age 19 in a climbing accident. In memory of our son, we have created a scholarship in his name that offers musical instrument lessons to a youth with interest in classical music, who could not otherwise afford lessons on their own. It is administered by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, but funded solely by outside contributions. The CSO locates the students through their connections in the community, then matches them with a CSO member for lessons. Once a teacher and student are matched, the commitment the teacher makes extends until the youth reaches age 18. Thus, a student will receive ongoing support once they start receiving the funds, as long as they maintain interest and progress. It takes approximately $1,000. a year to fund a teacher for weekly lessons for one student. With each individual young person given this opportunity, we are continuing to make Ben's vision a reality.
Our son had the following quote above his desk at home:
"In the end I think of music as the saving grace for all humanity. As the universal language it transcends the boundaries of nationality, social strata, and political ideology. Whether we are educated or uneducated, rich or poor, whether we speak the same tongue or not, we still possess the ability to communicate our feelings to one another through music. The world would be a terrible place without it, a miserable place."
- Henry Miller, Reflections
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AJ McCarron's Reaction To LeBron James Following His Girlfriend On Twitter Is Hilarious
AJ McCarron's girlfriend, Katherine Webb, broke the Internet during the snooze fest of a National Championship game. Every guy in America was stunned with how beautiful she is.
In the midst of celebrating Alabama's 42-14 win versus Notre Dame, reporters told McCarron about Katherine's sudden popularity.
Apparently she went from 300 Twitter followers to 100,000 and one of those followers just so happens to be LeBron James. This also happened within a 3 hour time span.
AJ's reaction is priceless. Not only does he have to watch out for King James, he also has to keep an eye on Darnell Dockett's crazy ass who offered to take her to Wing Stop and King of Diamonds, an offer that seems to sweep women off their feet.
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School Overview
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|Religious Affiliation
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|Grades Offered
|Grades Kindergarten - 12
|Year Founded
Student Body
|Total Students
|192 students
|Student Body Type
|% Students of Color
State avg.: 35%
|Students by Grade
Academics and Faculty
|Total Classroom Teachers
|22 teachers
|Student : Teacher Ratio
National avg.: 13:1
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|Number of AP Courses
|6 courses
|Advanced Courses
|Biology, Calculus, English, European History, Latin, Spanish Language, US History
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|Average Financial Aid Grant
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The Avalon School admits new students on the basis of academic promise and achievement, character, extracurricular activities, and other interests. The Avalon School regards education as a joint venture with parents; a key aspect of the admission process involves ascertaining the parental commitment to the applicant's development, along with the parents' ability and desire to support the goals and ideals of the school.
The Avalon School admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs. The Avalon School is authorized under federal law to enroll nonimmigrant alien students.
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OSI's fourth album, written and recorded throughout 2011, once again reflects the eclectic influences and far-reaching talents of Jim Matheos and Kevin Moore.
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Wes Johnson, 2, and his grandmother, Sonya Hajicek
Two-year-old Wes Johnson gets some help from his grandmother, Sonya Hajicek, at the fourth annual "Kids Shopping with Santa" event in Grafton Wednesday. Wrapping gifts in the background are Amber Bragg, left; a resident of the North Dakota Developmental Center, and Beth Fraser, an employee of the North Dakota Developmental Center. (Herald photo by Eric Hylden)
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I am a tender woman
I nurture and I protect
I'm subservient and meek
However, I now object…
I am a woman with pride
My self-respect I hold dear
I will not let you be cruel
I will not let you come near
You chose to misunderstand
All that I do and I say
You should have known much better
Now you have chased me away
I'm sure of what I am worth
I know my heart is pure gold
But you thought me a trinket
My pure affection you sold
I will not grovel or beg
You must repent, see the light
I will go on and survive
But I'll haunt you in the night
Undressed, I'll visit your dreams
Will torture you and torment
You'll pray right down on your knees
For your angel….heaven sent
My dear man, I AM loving
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Russell Brand cancels tour dates after mother's breast cancer diagnosis
Russell Brand is taking time off to be with his mother in her time of need.
After the comedian's mother Barbara got diagnosed with breast cancer, Brand has canceled two dates of his "Messiah Complex" tour.
Brand took to Twitter to apologize to his fans. "Sorry to eff you around with gigs," Brand writes. "My mum ain't well. Tix will be honoured or refunded."
On Wednesday (March 5), Brand posted a video blog to announce his mother's diagnosis. "My mother has currently got breast cancer," Brand says. He also noted that she's attending support groups.
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WICHITA, Kan.- The Wichita State baseball team opened its first day of spring practice Fri., Jan. 25 at Eck Stadium.
Wichita State kicks off the 2013 season on Fri., Feb.
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In recognition of the vital role that teachers play in law-related education, the Texas Lawyers' Auxiliary is sponsoring its annual High School Teacher of the Year Award. The award honors public and private high school teachers in Texas who have made significant contributions in law-related education, developing and supporting programs which enhance awareness of legal rights and the American legal system. Candidates may be nominated by teachers or principals. The entry deadline is April 15, 2011. Download application.
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By Tessa Raebeck
To honor her 32 years of service to the Bridgehampton School, its students and athletics programs, the Bridgehampton Teacher Association will host a celebration of Mary Anne Jules's retirement at Almond Restaurant in Bridgehampton on Monday, November 10.
Just a year out of college, Ms. Jules started at the Bridgehampton School as a physical education teacher in 1983. She earned her master's degree and administration degree while teaching and became athletic director for the district in 1991, while still teaching physical education. From 2010 to 2012, Ms. Jules served as president of Section XI, the governing body of high school sports in Suffolk County.
The evening will include cocktails, presentations and stories about Ms. Jules's long career, with dinner to follow.
"It is to celebrate her over 30 years of service to us as a staff, Section XI and the Bridgehampton community as a whole," said Jeff Hand, a Bridgehampton teacher who has helped organize the evening.
"A true testament to Mary Anne the person is the number of friends, former students, Section XI colleagues and family members who be attending," Mr. Hand said, adding that as many as 40 people who are not part of the BTA are coming to show Ms. Jules their support and gratitude.
Although she is enjoying the rest since hanging up her whistle last summer, Ms. Jules has stayed connected to the district—and busy—by mentoring its new athletic director Eric Bramoff.
"He was a good choice for the job," she said on Tuesday, adding she had yet to return to Bridgehampton's sidelines as a fan in order to "Let Eric do his thing; he's doing a great job."
Ms. Jules said she won't be able to stay away much longer, however. "I'll definitely be at some basketball games, 'cause they should do very well this year," she said, adding she had been following the papers intently for reports from the fall season.
Lillian Tyree-Johnson, a member of the school board and lifelong Bridgehampton resident, has known Ms. Jules as the face of Bridgehampton athletics for over 20 years. Her husband, Carl, was Bridgehampton's junior high coach when they first started dating and later became head coach.
"Mary Anne has been a mentor to my husband and a wonderful friend to both of us for many years," Ms. Tyree-Johnson said in an email Monday. "Her love for Bridgehampton is unquestioned and I will miss her very much, but wish her all the best in retirement."
"She was a great example to her students as well," she added. "Her work in bringing shared sports to Bridgehampton is, I think, her most important contribution. She opened doors for so many student athletes and created and sustained an amazing program."
In her newfound free time, Ms. Jules has done exactly what she intended to do: watch her nieces and nephews play sports. She has been up to Sienna College to watch her nephew play lacrosse almost every weekend this fall and often travels to Westchester to watch another nephew play high school football. "And that's only a few out of the 16," she said of her total count of nieces, nephews and requisite games.
Ms. Jules is also taking yoga classes once a week and doing "the things that I never had time to do before," she said. "I'm not rushing around, but I do miss the kids."
Her fellow teachers organized the evening at Almond Restaurant to celebrate Ms. Jules's long career in Bridgehampton.
"I'm looking forward to seeing all of them," she said of her former co-workers. "It's great people I work with and I miss them, so I am looking forward to a few laughs and seeing all them—some of my families—coming out."
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An Australian citizen pleaded guilty to charges of spying for Hamas.
Eyad Rashid Abu Arja, who is Palestinian-born and holds dual Jordanian citizenship, was detained in Tel Aviv in March on charges of "activities on behalf of an illegal organization".
Hamas is classified as a terrorist group under Israeli law.
Under the terms of a plea bargain submitted to an Israeli court, Arja admitted to espionage for the Gaza-based group while on a visit to Israel.
He had been coerced into the mission by Hamas operatives in Saudi Arabia, his attorney, Leah Tsemel, said. "He's a person who bumped into activists of the Hamas and attempted, or rendered some very, very shallow services to them. He's in no way a terrorist," she told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. Monday.
Arja, a computer scientist, is expected to be sentenced on Jan. 5 to 30 months in prison.
The indictment cites photographing commercial centers, collecting maps and making contact with businesses in Israel, according to an Agence France Press report.
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The Act Party has elected a new president and vice-president following a vote at its annual conference in Wellington on Friday evening.
Garry Mallett from Hamilton is the new president and Trevor Louden from Christchurch is vice-president.
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SLA members and families leave Lebanon in 2000.
Daily Star archive
QLAYA, Lebanon: In the early summer of 2000, thousands of Lebanese poured across the Israeli border, close on the heels of the Israeli army. Fleeing through the Naqoura gates were members, families and neighbors of the South Lebanese Army, an Israel-allied militia that operated in southern Lebanon during the Civil War.
Fearing retribution for the SLA's cooperation with Israel during its occupation of the south, some 6,500 Lebanese left for Israel, where they received residency, eventual citizenship, and some financial support. This week, Parliament passed an urgent draft law allowing them to come home.
But the new law may not change much. In the parts of the south where the SLA – known as Lahd's Army after its leader Antoine Lahd – once reigned supreme, locals have been trickling back for years. Exact numbers are tough to find, but it is said that some 2,000 have already returned to the country.
Melissa Hajj was 10 when she left Qlaya for Israel with her parents and two younger brothers. After living in the northern Israeli city of Nahariya and studying at school and university in Hebrew, she decided to come to Lebanon after falling in love with Qlaya resident Johnny Saeed. They met on Facebook, discovered they were once neighbors, and decided to marry.
Seated next to Saeed on his father's couch, with her diamond ring sparkling through the scant space between the newlyweds, Hajj says, "It was difficult to adapt to life in Israel," and that although "Lebanon is my home, we moved on with our lives in Israel … we had to live." Most of her friends were other Lebanese, and she says she "didn't feel as if we were part of their [the Israeli] community."
But the choice to come back around five months ago still wasn't easy to make. "I didn't know if I would see my parents again. The distance is horrible. It was a one-way ticket." Hajj tears up when describing her June wedding, saying she "would never forget that my parents weren't at my wedding, it broke my heart."
Hajj's story is fairly typical for those who have already been repatriated. She was a child during the Civil War, and as a woman coming to marry was unlikely to face prosecution. Among those who have not come back, and are unlikely to do so in the future, are the SLA members or collaborators who under the new law will be arrested at the border upon their return and tried.
In the absence of a written law, the state has been allowing returns to take place with the help of international organizations. Hajj, for example, was taken to Naqoura by the Red Cross, which delivered her to General Security. There, she says she spent two nights in custody and was interrogated for three days. Eventually she had to pay a $900 fine. Most rank and file SLA returnees have received sentences of around one or two years, criticized by some, including Hezbollah, as too light.
The mukhtar of Qlaya, Joseph Salameh, says that between 1,200 and 1,300 people have returned to his village. Another 800-900 remain in Israel, he says, including his brother and one of his sisters. Another sister moved to Canada.
He says that the new law gives him "some hope," but that "the issue of return is very tragic" because of how it has divided families.
Salemeh echoes Hajj's sentiment that the decision to return, especially for SLA members, is "difficult to make. If someone decides to return, he knows what awaits him: imprisonment. And if he gets out, he will be unemployed."
Some still see the SLA members as collaborators, and others see them as victims of unfortunate circumstances. Fear of retribution by organizations such as Hezbollah was once high, but the party has said that returnees should be dealt with by the Lebanese justice system. The party did not respond to requests for comment, but its MPs supported the draft law.
Economic woes may also stand in the way of homecoming. "There are no jobs in our area … most of the jobs are in Beirut," Salameh continues. "If someone who is 20 years old returns from Israel and seeks a job in the government, they will not accept him because he was living in Occupied Palestine and his record is not clean, or because his dad worked for the SLA. They blame him for his father's deeds."
Salameh doesn't think any new arrivals from Israel should be tried. The MPs in government feel differently, and an amendment to the draft law stated that further decrees will specify measures to deal with those who grew up in Israel and are seen as potential security threats. The issue of an SLA amnesty was first raised in 2005, but never came to fruition.
Hajj and her husband welcome the new legislation, but also find it late and lacking. "It will only serve to divide families further," if adults are still subject to prosecution, Hajj says. Her parents are still too scared to return.
The SLA ran the notorious Khiam prison, where it carried out acts of torture. The return of torturers or those seen to have collaborated with Israel is bound to be a sensitive subject, but Mohammad Safa, head of the Khiam Rehabilitation Center for the Victims of Torture, welcomes the law, "especially for women and children. These are Lebanese people and the government must return them to their country to educate them, to let them into Lebanese society," he told The Daily Star.
He stresses that it is the government's responsibility to enforce Lebanese law for those returnees who participated in criminal acts, as well as to prevent potential conflicts that may arise between returnees and those who harbor resentment towards the SLA.
"For the collaborators with Israel who tortured the Lebanese people, [who tortured] the detainees in Khiam … of course there will be a court for them," Safa says. Overall though, he adds, "we are happy [with the law], all the people inside Israel must return … and be happy to return to their villages."
Qlaya resident Antoinette Salameh, known as Umm Fadi, isn't terribly optimistic about the new law.
With two daughters in Lebanon, a son in Germany, and a son and daughter in Israel, she says the current "situation makes you curse the war and how it divided families."
Her children regret leaving, she reports, "and want to come home badly."
She says her kids left fearing a massacre, and she hopes they won't be tried if they do come home.
But now, says Salameh, "parents are growing old here and dying in the village, and their children are in Israel." When her son left, she laments, "he was crying. I told him don't worry, two or three days and you'll come back. No one expected it would take this long." – With additional reporting by Reem Harb
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