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Kent Campus employees are encouraged to seek treatment at the Health Center if the injury is not life threatening and occurs during Health Center hours of operation. This assures prompt, quality care and allows for your safe return to the work site in a timely manner. Remember, you always have the right to seek care from any medical provider but by seeking treatment at the Health Center you will receive more timely care in a non-emergency situation than traveling to the Med Center or one of the local hospital emergency rooms.
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Moorpark Striders shine at National Junior Olympics
The Moorpark Striders have enjoyed a strong season at the nation's highest performance levels: the National Junior Olympic meets.
The Amateur Athletic Union and USA Track and Field each held several qualifying meets in June and July where athletes qualified to regional and national meets.
The summer concluded with seven athletes qualifying for national meets in Kansas and/or Louisiana. The Striders, who aren't sanctioned, ran unattached.
The USATF meet held in Wichita, Kan., July 26-July 31, had four Strider athletes. Moorpark competitors included Victoria Plummer, placing fifth in the high jump and 11th in the long jump in the bantam girls division. Mary Toomey represented the midget girls division in the high jump, finishing 15th. Michelle Magnani competed in the youth girls division and finished 20th in the 800 meters and 11th in the 1,500 meters. Scott Norton represented the youth boys in the high jump finishing 16th.
The AAU Junior Olympics, held in New Orleans July 30-Aug 6, had four Strider athletes. Patrick Daniels was 26th in the high jump (midget boys). Drew Daniels placed 22nd in javelin, 36th in the 3,000 meters and 76th in the 1,500 meters (sub-youth boys). Shane Peterson placed sixth in the high jump (sub-youth boys). Michelle Magnani (sub-youth girls) placed fifth in the 1,500, ninth in the 3,000 and 11th in the 800.
The coaches are Cheryl Peterson, Rob Daniels and Jim O'Tousa.
The Moorpark Striders organization is headed by Rob Dearborn.
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Oxnard Wave goes undefeated
The Oxnard Wave went 4-0 in winning the recent West Coast Futbol Classic.
Oxnard outscored the opposition 8-1 and won the championship game 3-0 over United Futbol G95 White. Kirsten Bergseth scored the first goal assisted by Angie Lumbrano. Joanna Lopez scored on a penalty kick. Alysha Dominguez scored the final goal off an assist by Bergseth. Valerie Rodriguez scored in the 1-0 win over the Nomads Soccer Club. Bergseth had the assist.
Oxnard beat San Diego United FC White 1995/96 2-0. Melissa Aldrete scored and Elena Haro scored on a header off Malia Spencer's corner kick. The Wave penned the tournament with a 2-1 win over FC Long Beach. Kaela De La Garza scored off an assist by Lumbarno. Haro scored off an assist by Karen Medina.
Other Wave players include Julianna Garibay, Kassandra Arreola, Lizcel Lumbrano, Ashley Gutierrez, April Espitia, Marissa Felix and Malia Spencer. The coaches are Igor Lumbrano, Omar Lumbrano and Hugo Nunez.
Eagles White girls win tournament
The Eagles White 10 girls team won the North-South Tournament in San Luis Obispo on Aug. 12-13 by scoring 46 goals in four games, while not allowing a goal.
The players are Anna Lumley, Clarissa Grajeda, Nicole Castellanos, Nadia Kamassah, Camille Michalak, Caroline Manzione, Sierra Klemann, Peyton Tovey, Sandy Spears, Shaelyn Rashoff and Avery Benitez-Fanslow. Ronny Shields is the coach.
Agoura/Ventura girls prevail
The Agoura/Ventura U14 AYSO girls Extra team got off to a fast start with a 5-1 win over visiting Newbiury Park at Huntsinger Park in Ventura on Saturday. Agoura/Ventura fell behind in the beginning of the game before reeling off five consecutive goals. Goals were scored by Amanda Richards (two), Sierra Conboy, Karissa Huerta and Caitlyn Fastenau.
The Waves had strong performances from Jasmine Esquivel, Bree Munroe, Marissa Chavira, Naomi Brown, Sarah Bernard, Karissa Baucom, Michaela Gennaro and Emma Carobini. Goalies Kera Warriner and Kayla Simmons played well. The Waves are coached by Mike Gennaro.
U13 Extra Waves girls top Camarillo
The Agoura-Ventura Waves U13 AYSO Extra team earned a 3-0 win over Camarillo in the opener of the Pacific Coast Extra season. Kyleigh Stolla opened the scoring midway through the first half on an assist from Gwyneth Wiebelhaus.
The Waves scored twice in the second half on goals by Wiebelhaus and Eva Hendrickson. Ashley Mandernacht and Alexis Jeffris assisted on the goals. The shutout was recorded by Kayla Simmons and Maggie Morris. The defense was led by Jaida Dinius and Jadie Silva, with help from Lynette Ramirez and Baily Ingersoll. Noor Bdairat, Katheryn Walk, Laura Hoffer and Mikayla Lutzke contributed to the win. The coach is Todd Walk.
Simi Valley's Acosta named to USA team
Anthony Acosta, 13, of Simi Valley has been selected to compete on the 13U USA Baseball national team for the identification series in Cary, N.C., in September,
The Valley View Junior High student has been playing baseball since he was 4. He started in the Santa Susana Boys Baseball Pony League before playing travel ball for the So Cal Sting and Oxnard Sharks.
Acosta has an opportunity to be selected for the U.S. national team,
He's the son of Julie and Robert Acosta.
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About Bhagavati Nani
Bhagavati (Sharon Brooks) Nani received her Master of Music in flute performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. For many years she performed and recorded with a number of orchestras and chamber ensembles in the greater Bay Area, including the San Francisco Opera and The Women's Philharmonic. She began focusing on music as a ministry after finding Ananda in 1998. Bhagavati plays and sings on various Crystal Clarity CDs, such as Secrets of Love; Relax: Meditations for Flute and Cello; I Came From Joy; and Scegli la gioia.
In 2002, she moved to Ananda Assisi (Italy), where she toured for two years as part of the Ananda Singers. Later, she and her husband, Ramesha—who are both Ananda ministers—helped lead the meditation group in Lugano (Switzerland), where they also taught meditation classes to adults and children. They moved to the United States in 2006 to participate more fully in the music ministry at Ananda Village and began performing and recording together regularly.
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St. Louis head coach Jeff Fisher will address the media later Sunday.
Bradford went down on the game's opening drive after throwing an incomplete pass. He was pressured and hit high by Browns defensive lineman Armonty Bryant.
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For half a second I felt like I was being too hard on Ben Bernanke and his Jackson Hole speech. Mr. Market certainly thinks it presages another round of quantitative easing, with stocks up big today. And it's considerate Fed-speak to merely hint and nod at a policy change before embarking on it, probably at the September 13 meeting.
But all of that went away when Joe Weisenthal got to the heart of his disappointment in the speech, and really in Bernanke's tenure as well as the whole of the economic policy apparatus. To the extent that something will get done, it will be at the margins, and really the same exact margins that has led to unresponsive and inadequate monetary policy for years now. They've missed their inflation and employment targets, and blaming the lack of fiscal accommodation from the federal government, while true, only gets you so far when assessing Ben Bernanke's jobs.
Indeed there are other "unconventional unconventional" monetary policies that Bernanke could be pursuing, but none of those ideas made an appearance in his remarks today. Morgan Stanley's Vincent Reinhart gives just one example:
The main possibility for surprise is if he addresses the ongoing work within the Fed on conditional policy rules. The last set of minutes referred several times to discussions of rules and more open-end policy commitments. Up to now, the Fed has been using its policy instruments in an unconditional way, in that it announces a program of fixed duration and fixed amount. Most academic work, as will be discussed in the formal program at Jackson Hole, suggests that a rule linking the policy instrument to economic outcomes or the outlook performs better. The idea is that the Fed could agree, for instance, to keep the funds rate target at zero as long as they have an economic forecast that is short of their mission.
And there are other ideas in this space as well. But crucially, it appears from Bernanke's actions that going out on a limb with some operation beyond QE would necessitate him essentially acknowledging that past actions failed. And he spent an entire speech today defending past actions.
Weisenthal puts it best here:
But from a bigger picture, the general tendency of political and financial leaders has been to: Do what it takes to stave off economic tail risk (collapse) but not take the steps that would actually accommodate robust growth or end the crisis.
In Europe especially, there's a lot of going 90% of the way there, but not doing the actual difficult thing that would turn the corner, which is why the crisis goes on and on and on. There's no total collapse. Just ongoing misery.
In the US, we haven't had a double dip, but very few folks are thrilled with the economy.
So that's basically Bernanke's speech. Yes, he does enough. He provides a 'put' that makes markets feel good the bottom won't foll out. But there's nothing very exciting.
Just enough is not good enough. Especially because the status quo ante has seen a shrinking of the Fed's balance sheet, mainly through attrition. So a QE program of asset purchases would recapture some of that, but would not even reach the full potential it will claim.
The problem is that pretty much every economic policymaker sees it as their job to avoid total collapse, while ignoring the massive waste of human capital that comes with a slow-growth status quo. This ship sailed a long time ago, but it doesn't get any less frustrating.


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The Premier League trio are rumoured to be interested in the Spaniard, who has been in fine form for the newly promoted La Liga club this term.
It's rumoured that all three are preparing January bids for his signature, but they face competition from Celta's domestic rivals Valencia.
Los Che are believed to have agreed a pre-contract deal with the 25-year-old ahead of summer move, after he stated his desire to remain with his boyhood club for the remainder of the season.
A fee of £8.5m has been settled between the teams, although a move is yet to be finalised.
This leaves the door open for Chelsea, Reading and Swansea, who could rival the Mestalla-based outfit in the race for his services.
Aspas has been in fine form this term, netting eight league goals to help keep his team clear of the relegation zone.
He was in prolific form during their promotion winning campaign, notching 23 goals as Celta finished runners up to Deportivo La Coruna.
Aspas has spent his entire career at the Estadio Balaidos and has been likened to Barcelona star David Villa in recent times.
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This re-release seems unnecessary at first glance, but the conclusion of Kratos' journey serves up a level of spectacle that remains impressive in 2015.
Her Story is a bold and largely successful experiment in interactive crime fiction.
Rocksteady's gorgeous-looking third Arkham game refines its open-world format a bit and lets you drive a whole hell of a lot of Batmobile.
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Two Puzzle & Dragons releases are combined into one for this North American release.
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker a standalone puzzle game based on the Captain Toad levels in Super Mario 3D World. In search of shiny Power Stars and diamonds, the almost defenceless Toad must make his way through many dangerous environments.
The game features challenges and mashups from a selection of sixteen NES classics compiled from the best challenges found in NES Remix and NES Remix 2. Supports online leaderboards, Championship Mode and a super-fast version of Super Mario Bros.
Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS/Wii U is the first cross-platform iteration of the franchise, and features connectivity functionalities between the two versions of the game. While each version has unique modes and a distinct set of stages based on handheld or console games respectively, the character roster is the same across both versions.
Mario Kart returns and makes its HD-debut with gravity-defying hover vehicles, a new spin on the traditional track designs, ATVs, the return of classic Last Man Standing-Battle Mode, custom online tournaments and Mario Kart TV, which allows for sharing of highlight videos online.
Mario Golf comes to 3DS and brings with it the return of the RPG-style singleplayer mode and the series debut for online multiplayer.
The sequel to NES Remix featuring later NES releases, video replays, a mode inspired by the Nintendo World Championship and Super Luigi Bros., a mirrored version of the original Super Mario Bros. with Luigi physics.
The first two NES Remix games are presented on a limited edition physical disc release.
8-bit NES classic games with new twists and challenges.
A Mario Party game for the Nintendo 3DS.
The Super Mario Bros. 2-cast of Mario, Luigi, Toad and Peach returns for their first 3D adventure with local multiplayer support. And cat suits. In HD.
Taiko no Tatsujin bursts onto the Wii U with many new songs and features.
The fourth entry in the Mario and Luigi RPG series has Mario traversing dreams within Luigi's mind. Players will have to interact with Luigi on the bottom screen to provoke certain events within his dreams.
A free expanded version of the AR-app on the Nintendo 3DS available on the eShop.
Mario, Luigi and the rest of the cast return for their HD debut in New Super Mario Bros. U with support for five players in boost mode, a Super Mario World-style world map with secret shortcuts and hidden levels, a brand new challenge mode and Miiverse integration.
Scribblenauts Unlimited is the 4th game in the Scribblenauts franchise from 5th Cell and WB Games.
Paper Mario pops up on the 3DS with a brand new RPG.
The 3DS sequel to Nintendo's drawing game/learning tool.
The New Super Mario series continues on the 3DS in this new installment, which puts the focus on collecting as many coins as possible.
Mario Party 9 is the twelfth game in the long-running Nintendo board game series. Wii Party developer NDCube takes over from Hudson, attempting to refresh the series with some significant gameplay changes.
Super Mario 3D Land blends elements of 2D and 3D Mario platformers, making it distinct from both parts of the franchise.
StreetPass Mii Plaza is a collection of games designed to highlight the StreetPass functionality built into the Nintendo 3DS. Two games (Find Mii & Puzzle Swap) are automatically included while other games are available as DLC.
The first Mario sequel in over 15 years to appear on the same console as its predecessor, Mario is back in the galactic platforming game, joined by Yoshi as he explores additional planets with new mechanics, power-ups, and boss battles.
Mario & Sonic go head to head once again in Vancouver. They participate in a variety of winter themed events & some brand new Dream events.
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story is the third installment in the whimsical Mario & Luigi franchise by AlphaDream & Nintendo. Mario and Luigi must save the Mushroom Kingdom from the evil doings of Fawful, with the unknowing help of King Bowser.
Chinese digitized fighter.
A nostalgic puzzle game on the DSiWare featuring art and music from classic Nintendo games. You control the game by tapping blocks on the bottom of the screen with the stylus and moving them to form shapes with falling blocks of the same color, eventually forming 8-bit NES sprites.
Wii iteration of the popular Taiko no Tatsujin drumming franchise also know as Taiko Drum master outside of Japan.
Mario Super Sluggers is an over-the-top baseball game that allows you to play as numerous characters from the Mario franchises. It is in the same vein as other Mario sports games, with many characters and levels from the series.
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and he couldn't be happier with this hire!
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and he couldn't be happier with this hire!
How's that chant go? Rock, gold bond medicated powder, Jayhawk?
is transferring! Schematic Advantage KU!
Srsly, what the hell?
an over/under on Mangino/Weis jokes. Now, I'm just going to take the over...no matter what it is. Carry on.
Overweight coaches.
Funny, Weiss' scale always takes the over too.
Well, to be fair, going 6-6 and beating Vanderbilt would be considered a great accomplishment for Kansas.
Turner Gill must be sitting there saying to himself, 'they fired me for... *him*'?
Lets be honest, Tuner Gill is half the coach Weis is, maybe less.
Subtly clever.
Watch charlie implode while blame everyone else if he fails.
If he couldn't win with 5 stars and ND's 9ish gimme's a year how the hell do they expect him to win at KU.
The new AD should be fired immediately.
Kansas is really looking forward to having a decisive tactical advantage.
may have been better off taking a coaching job at a Bolivian University.
I'm going to be contrarian. Dude has Rings and NFL contacts. He'll be able to recruit because he can legitamely tell kids "I know what it takes you get you to the next level and I can help you get there."
I think he achieves middling success at KU. Yes he never beats the cream of the B12, but he'll do well enough, get them a decent bowl, and give them some alums in the NFL to brag out. Assuming the fans don't get greedy he'll bring them success.
Two things you're missing:
1. Weis had more talent at ND than any team he played outside of USC, and he turned in a number of lousy years despite it. Those people chose ND for ND, not Charlie Weis. His talent level will be far lower in Lawrence and his schedule will be comparable. I'd be surprised if he beats 7 wins more than once.
2. He, like Mangino, is a fat person. Very fat person. This is integral to the thread, yet you neglected to mention it.
To his credit, he did use cream in his response.
Reminding us that Charlie Weis drinks gallons of cream every day to work around the constraints of his lap band.
Weis and KU really deserve each other. KU got too big for their britches when they fired Mangino, and Weis is too big for almost any pair of britches in any department store.
Britches, bitches.
Britches, bitches.
How many college teams does Charlie have to drive into the ground before people stop hiring him?
the answer to your question is, apparently: "At least three".
I decided to peruse this thread to make a fat joke. All of you guys were on top of that, and more apparently. So I guess I'll just call him FatWeiss and leave it at that.
Kind of a slap in the face to Muschamp, "Thanks for the job, I'm out!"
Yeah, Muschamp might not be all that bummed though.
"Don't let the door hit you in the front butt on the way to KU"
Apparently, the KU AD thought the hire would "put Kansas Football on the map."
Well, it makes KU visible from space, but I don't think that's exactly what he was gunning for...
Laugh all you want, but this means more FL kids goin to Ohio. Muschamp is totally gonna bounce back to Texas once Mack Brown realizes he's not a good coach anymore. Muschamp is one of those great coordinator-bad head coach types, IMO.
hired him is that they stuill have some of Mangino's clothes left...
I was looking forward to seeing Charlie in the box during the Gator Bowl.
Without his decide schematic advantage to discuss, we'll only hear about the matchup of Urban Meyer's old team against his new team.
I hadnt heard any rumors about this. Maybe we should have checked barges on the Mississippi instead of FlightTracker
We should have been on the look out for his party barge in the Great Dune Sea on Tatooine
It must be the intoxicating aroma of bacon around Charlie Weis that causes people to keep hiring him.
Mmmmm, bacon. /Homer
Do we have any openings on our schedule in the next three years? I'd love to beat Weis again, plus wins against BCS programs always look nice, and we'll have to schedule them fast before Weis gets fired.
on those BIG 12 eateries...
Hahahaha, you know it's an epic thread when there are 64 comments and 13 of them are already +5'd!
is a match made in heaven. Mediocrity, meet your new master of ceremonies!
A scheme guy. You need to be a teacher in college...if you want to succeed that is.
Come on, we all know he will succeed because of his decided schematic advantage.
I guess if Weis doesn't work out*, they can always just hire Ralph Friedgen to replace him.
*I know, he clearly doesn't work out, but that's not what I meant
So they just needed another fat guy? There must be a restaurant chain that had a say in this.
Somewhere in the country there are a batch of relatively unknown young coordinators or coaches in non-BCS conferences currently waiting for their first chance at a BCS level program. These coaches will go on to fame and great success at whichever school is smart enough to hire them.
Kansas, it appears, is not one of those schools.
42 years ago, Michigan was.
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Whether you're looking for culture, couture or just a peaceful countryside ramble, Nottingham has so much to offer its visitors in the Christmas holidays. Here are our recommendations for some great things to see and do in the city this winter.
1. Add a teutonic twist to your winter break by visiting one of the many Christmas markets Nottingham holds. The 'Christkindlmarkt' dates back to the Middle Ages and its popularity has spread far and wide over the centuries. Head to Nottingham's Old Market Square for some festive food and drink as well as live street entertainment. In nearby Ilkeston, a Christmas craft fair is running (great for gift ideas) and the village of Cotgrave is holding its own little market and lights event.
2. Catch a show, with seasonal offerings such as pantomimes and choral concerts popping up across the city and surrounding areas. Catch the Ruddington and District Choral Society performing Handel's Messiah at Sr Peter's Church. A pantomime, such as Puss in Boots at the Nottingham Arts Theatre, is a great wintertime staple. If you fancy something a little less Christmas-focused, head to the Theatre Royal or the Nottingham Playhouse where you can choose from a range of great productions, as well as performances from top-class comedians and bands.
3. Late night shopping is available at various locations, so cram in some last minute gift buying in the run up to Christmas or, if you dare brave them, take advantage of the January sales. In Nottingham, Wednesday 21st November is the date of the Christmas light switch on and marks the beginning of the late night shopping season. Late night shopping takes place on a Thursday in nearby Mansfield, where you can also enjoy horse drawn carriage rides through the town in the early evening.
4. Illuminated by winter light, the beautiful Sherwood Forest is something to behold. While once famous for its association with a certain iconic Robin, these days you'll only find the red-breasted variety; take a walk through the woods and look out for the regional birds and wildlife. For UK short breaks with family, don't miss the opportunity to visit Center Parcs, ideally located at the edge of the forest. From November the village transforms into an enchanting Winter Wonderland. Kids will love the Christmas activities, with ponies to ride to Santa's Workshop, firework displays to watch, and live reindeer to visit on site.
5. Go ice-skating at Nottingham's National Ice Centre, which is to undergo a grand transformation for the season, with a starry night sky and a multitude of festive lights decorating the Olympic-sized indoor rink. Enjoy special skating events, including the Capital FM party night.


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Remarks by Secretary of the Navy John H. Dalton and Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jay L. Johnson at the International Seapower Symposium, Newport, R.I., Nov. 4, 1997.
Dalton. It is such a tremendous honor for me to be able to address this audience of most distinguished senior naval leaders. ...
My recent visit to Chile was part of an extensive trip to six nations of South America, where I had the distinct pleasure to meet with more of you personally, including Adm. [Carlos] Marron [chief of naval operations] of Argentina and Adm. [Cristobal] Moncayo [commander] of [the] Ecuador[ian navy]. I also visited with Adm. Sir Jock Slater [chief of naval staff and first sea lord, United Kingdom] of England and Adm. [Angelo] Mariani [navy chief of staff] of Italy this summer. It is a pleasure to be with all of you again.
My trip to our Southern Hemisphere underscored the importance of the engagement of our navies there, through Unitas [unity] and our many other exercises of that region, as well as the many we undertake all over the world -- Rimpac [Rim of the Pacific] in the Central Pacific, Northern Wedding in the North Atlantic, Tandem Thrust and Cobra Gold in the Pacific, and many others.
I was rather taken by the symposium's theme this year: "Seapower and Security in the 21st Century." I say that because not only do the words "seapower" and "security" translate differently in our many languages. Even where we speak the common language of naval affairs, those words have begun to take rather broad definitions.
Seapower for the 21st century must be defined in two ways. First, it must have the ability to deter potential aggressors and if necessary, defeat them in battle. This is, of course, a rather traditional definition, but seapower for the 21st century -- what I will call effective seapower -- demands a more expansive definition.
The fascinating history of seapower as we know it has essentially been an evolution of faster and more capable ships and aircraft which could project power at increasingly greater ranges and force in support of national interests. But today, the political complexity of our world has begun to alter our understanding of the uses of effective seapower.
Quick, decisive application of combat power, combined with complex rules of engagement to minimize damage to nonmilitary targets, requires that force be delivered with precision and finesse. Additionally, battle groups must field weapons systems that both exploit information across the entire electromagnetic spectrum while still maintaining more traditional methods and tactics for sea battle.
Today's effective seapower must also be adaptable for nontraditional uses of military forces, requiring not just flexibility in equipment and logistics, but smarter sailors and Marines who are trained in additional mission areas such as peacekeeping and disaster response. These missions require our people to be not only warriors in the classic sense, but compassionate and discriminate in the human sense. This requires time, training and a truly multifaceted and motivated sailor or Marine.
Today's effective seapower must be cognizant of the expanding complexity of what defines our national interests. We as naval leaders are generally not responsible for the definition of those interests, but rather we are the defenders of them. Nevertheless, we must be increasingly aware that those interests are often transnational in character, as our linked economies and advances in technology continue to shrink the globe.
Secondly, to meet our more expansive 21st century definition, effective seapower must be more than a deterrent and a striking force, and even more than a force ready to respond to human crises or nontraditional missions. Effective seapower must be, in and of itself, an activist agent for stability on the world stage. It must be responsible for developing peace, not simply deterring conflict and restoring peace.
I believe this is revolutionary, for it goes well beyond development of naval forces and doctrine for strictly national ends. It goes well beyond sovereignty, and it forces our naval doctrine to address supranational issues, at the very least as a starting point.
Before I am accused of misplaced optimism, I must say that I am certainly not suggesting that our naval cooperation be a method to subordinate our national interests.
But I do suggest that effective seapower for the 21st century must include a belief by all of our navies that only through constant, aggressive development of our naval partnerships at every possible opportunity can our navies be agents that build regional stability. In the end, that is what our own national interests demand of our navies.
This is an exciting prospect, for I believe this type of effective seapower is our first early glimpse of a common tool that addresses human issues, while at the same time preserves the pride of our own national heritage. Each of the cultures present in this room brings unique strengths to the world that are worth protecting at a supranational level.
Allow me to address the second word in the symposium's theme: "security." Like seapower, the word "security" can take on so many different meanings. The inherent desire for security is the reason our nations have each tailored unique maritime forces. From the protection of valuable fishing rights and the maintenance of safe navigation to fears of a blue water clash of political ideologies, our national needs have produced unique navy and Marine forces.
We could never reach a consensus in this room, except at a very human level, on what security means to our nations. But that in itself is a positive thing, for those varied definitions of security have produced a spectacular array of naval capability that contains an inner strength through its own diversity.
That diversity is a virtual gold mine for all of us who will live in the 21st century. We will increasingly need an extensive toolbox to address the many complex security issues that we do hold in common.
How do we access this diversity of naval talent available to us? Access to valuable partnerships is, of course, limited by the reality of political constraints. But political constraints are often overcome by the tremendously positive experiences we enjoy so often with our naval partnerships.
We are overcoming political constraints, and all of you understand exactly how. Our constant interaction starts here in this room and extends to the many bilateral and multilateral exercises around the world.
To build effective seapower for the 21st century, we must believe that there are always new ways to operate together, there are always new forums for dialogue and there are always new tools and solutions that the largest and smallest navies bring to the table.
Many of you know that our gracious host, Adm. [James R.] Stark, was before his assignment to Newport the NATO commander, Standing Naval Forces Atlantic. One brief period during Adm. Stark's tenure is worth highlighting today, for I think it is very telling about where we are today in terms of the complexity of naval cooperation, the nuances of national politics and supranational politics and most importantly, the strength in our naval diversity.
In the early spring of 1995, Adm. Stark's flagship, the American destroyer USS John Rodgers, stood at the entrance to the Adriatic Sea. The mission performed by the ship was to carry out United Nations sanctions against Bosnia as well as to maintain the standing NATO surface force in readiness for the Atlantic region. At the same time, John Rodgers was available to the U.S. Sixth Fleet should the need arise.
USS John Rodgers flew the U.S. flag and the NATO flag while carrying out the Bosnia mission sanctioned by the greater world community. The multinational NATO staff on board stood the watch. For one week of this period, when Adm. Stark transferred to a different ship, the flag of the Western European Union flew at the mast of USS John Rodgers -- an unprecedented event up until that time.
An Italian admiral stood at the flag plot, supported by his multinational staff, simultaneously representing the U.N., the WEU and the national interests of Italy.
Where mission tasking called upon the NATO force to board a suspect vessel, the U.S. was prevented from doing so due to national political factors. Italian forces, instead, successfully carried out the boardings for the NATO force.
Meanwhile, a U.S. carrier battle group of the Sixth Fleet transited through the block of ocean ostensibly "owned" by John Rodgers en route to the northern Adriatic Sea to support Operation Deny Flight.
Once there, the U.S. carrier worked in harmony with the British carrier Invincible. Both carriers coordinated well alongside a third carrier, the Foch, on station to conduct its own national mission requirements in the Adriatic.
A complicated picture, certainly. Could the operations have been streamlined by a more coherent, political backdrop? Of course. But reality continues to dictate political complexity among our nations. The good news is that the operation in the Adriatic was ultimately successful and the diversity of naval capabilities which carried it out fostered an environment which helped erode much of the underlying political complexity.
Again, we can expect to see more of this -- naval forces of the 21st century which through cooperation at all levels, can become the embodiment of a new definition of seapower and begin in their own right to be positive agents for peace and stability.
In closing, let me say that this summer I had the tremendous pleasure of being aboard one of America's national treasures, the USS Constitution, when she sailed for the first time in over 116 years. Constitution is docked not far from here in Boston Harbor, and I urge all of you to visit her if you can.
As I took the wheel of that great tall ship and felt her move on wind power alone, it occurred to me that despite all of the revolutions we have undergone and have yet to undergo in naval matters, one thing will remain a constant. Whether we have sailed by wind, steam or nuclear power, whether we have protected ourselves with steel or stealth, it is our sailors and Marines who continue to experience the sea in virtually the same way the world over.
Once under way, our sailors face the same challenges of the elements, operate in an environment free of sovereignty and speak the common language of the sea. At sea, we are not so different. At sea, we are sailors, and people, of the same community. That is why cooperation between our navies is a unique and powerful way to build the relationship between our nations.
Our navies are, first and foremost military forces designed to protect the unique security needs of our own nations. Because those needs are so different, our navies are very different. But fortunately for the maritime community, navies are much more than just military forces in readiness. Our navies and our sailors are also ambassadors of all that which contributes to our respective national identities. Our sailors represent the very finest of our respective cultures, and they showcase the best among us.
I want to thank you for your service to your nations and our maritime community. I look forward to building upon our existing partnerships and creating new ones as we develop our collective seapower for our shared security in the 21st century.
God bless you, and may you continue to have fair winds and following seas. Thank you very much.
Johnson. It is truly a special honor for me to speak to such a distinguished group of colleagues. I want to extend my appreciation to all of you for having traveled so far to be here. The presence of 48 chiefs of service and a total of 73 nations represented demonstrates the depth of your commitment both to our profession and to its impact on peace and stability in the world.
This is a special time in history. We stand on the verge of a new century. It is a time of hope, a time of opportunity and a time of challenges. It is a time for exchanging views and for thinking together about the roles seapower can play in the next century. That is to say, it is a particularly good time for a symposium like this.
There is no escaping the magnitude of the challenge which confronts us. We are all products of the turbulent century that is passing. Many of our nations were created or forever changed by its conflicts. Many of us fought in its battles. Yet we now need to look beyond this century to the next and to think not of what has been but of what might be. We need to rethink much of what we have accepted as eternal truths about the sea and about navies.
We are being asked to innovate, to deal with new technologies, to attempt new untested missions and to prepare for uncertainties and contingencies that we cannot begin to predict. Finally, most of us are also being asked to do all of this on declining budgets as our governments move to address urgent social and economic needs.
These are the same kinds of challenges that drove the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps to produce the "... From the Sea" white paper in 1992, just as the Cold War was ending. We have since continued that effort with "Forward ... From the Sea" in 1994 and with the "Navy Operational Concept" earlier this year. All are part of a single continuing effort -- an ongoing attempt to deal with the challenges of a new age.
What began in 1992 was a process of innovative thinking about what 21st century navies could do and where our navy, in particular, was going. That process did not stop with the white papers or with the operating concept. It continues today in the thinking and experimenting that is going on across our Navy and especially here in Newport.
I won't pretend that we have found all the answers. We certainly have not. Our efforts to date have probably produced as many additional questions as they have answers. But that is a good sign. It means that we are being innovative in our thinking. Such thinking and experimenting is by no means unique to the U.S. Navy. We clearly have no monopoly on good thinking nor on understanding the problems we all face.
You have been pursuing similar efforts in your own countries. So let us think and discuss and experiment together. That is really what this symposium is all about. It is my hope that over the next few days we sailors of many nations gathered in this room can take a step toward finding at least a few of these important answers and toward further unlocking the potential of the sea.
Let me take a few minutes to share with you some of my thoughts on where we are heading.
I believe that the century ahead can be a golden age of seapower, a maritime age in which the sea will be more important than ever for the commerce that ties our destinies together, for the resources it contains and for shaping a stable and enduring peace.
That may sound incurably optimistic, but I think it reflects a reality that is rooted both in the changes now taking place in our world and in the unchanging nature of seapower itself.
What has changed?
From my perspective, our world is undergoing three fundamental "sea changes" with which we must deal: the creation of a new global security environment, the rise of a global economic interdependence and the accelerating pace of global technological change.
You will notice that I said "global" three times there. That is because the word "global" underlines a key aspect of the change confronting us. We can no longer think in purely national or even regional terms. The problems and threats which confront our navies are global, and the responses we must consider will involve us all.
I'll start with the emerging global security environment. It is clear that the end of the Cold War dramatically altered the world we knew. Potential opponents turned into partners almost overnight. We created a new basis for international cooperation and new opportunities for building a stable peace.
Perhaps because of the nature of seapower and the common bond between sailors, we have been quick to seize those opportunities and have made considerable progress in erasing the Cold War's legacy of mistrust.
However, before we start congratulating ourselves on a job well done, we need to take stock of the true magnitude of the change we have seen. The Cold War's division of the world into two camps has ended. One byproduct of that strategic shift has been the unleashing of long-dormant international disputes and a succession of local crises and conflicts around the world.
Similarly, while the danger of global nuclear war receded, we now confront spreading threats of terrorism, international drug trafficking and localized employment of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. With the Cold War's end, our world, in short, became a much more complex and unpredictable place and in some respects, perhaps an even more dangerous place.
This mix of new challenges and rapid change has forced us to reassess the Cold War roles of seapower and to ask critical questions:
A stable and peaceful world does not just happen. It must be built. We do not create stability simply by responding to instability. That does not mean that we should not respond to threats to peace or deal forcefully with terrorism or attempt to block the proliferation and use of weapons of mass destruction. We must aggressively focus on these missions. Yet a larger objective will frame these efforts and propose an even more difficult mission -- that is, to prevent these threats from arising by building a stable peace.
How do we do that?
One thing that the past few years ha[s] taught us is that we must pay greater attention to a wide range of "peacetime" operations. To be effective in keeping the peace, deterring aggression and maintaining stability, we must sustain the capability to act decisively across that entire spectrum -- and not just in high-technology operations.
That means anticipating the unexpected and being prepared for everything, including enforcing economic sanctions, combating the drug trade, assisting with disaster relief and humanitarian aid, evacuating nationals and law enforcement at sea. It means the kind of balanced capabilities that have always been the hallmark of naval forces. And it puts an unprecedented emphasis on cooperation with friends and allies.
For the U.S. Navy, more than ever, it means operating "forward ... from the sea." It means forward presence -- presence to help shape a stable peace, presence to enable us to work together, presence to help assure a favorable environment for increased world trade and presence to discourage aggression.
A large part of preventing conflict has always been the ability to act quickly and decisively with local partners before a situation gets out of hand. To do that, we must and will remain forward, visible and ready.
As you might have gathered from that last remark, another thing we have learned is that our allies and partners have never been so important. None of us can take cooperation for granted. We must renew our friendships and alliances and deepen our understanding of the new security environment. And we must update our patterns of cooperation to reflect the new challenges confronting us.
We and our navies must work together routinely in peacetime, or we will be unable to work together in crises or contingencies, and we will be unable to collectively deter threats to our common peace. We are committed to being there and working with you.
In fact, that second "sea change" -- global economic interdependence -- only reinforces the need for presence and the need for strong ties to our friends. If anyone has any doubts as to what "global economic interdependence" means, just take a look at the world's financial markets over the past 10 days. Within 24 hours, a financial crisis in Hong Kong had spread to Wall Street -- and to London, Tokyo, Paris, Mexico City, Sao Paolo. I could go on, but the message is obvious. Our economies are interlocked to a degree that is difficult to comprehend.
As the next century unfolds, that interdependence will not diminish; it will be a central fact of international life. Indeed, we will probably find ourselves dealing not only with global economic interdependence, but with global interdependence in a much broader sense. The Internet is already giving us an inkling of the scope of what that can mean to our daily lives.
But what does that mean for navies?
To start with, it means that we must move beyond the narrow notion that the economic role of navies is securing sea lanes or ensuring access to essential resources in time of war. That role is still vital, to be sure, but there is much more to it than earlier thinking illuminated.
The great naval strategist, writer and former president of this Naval War College, Alfred Thayer Mahan, used to refer to the sea as the "great common" of mankind. Today, that "great common" has taken on a new dimension. The scope and scale of our international maritime trade is mind-boggling. Products from around the world have become such a routine part of our everyday lives that we do not give a second thought as to how they reach us.
It is a testament to how far we have come in securing the world's commerce. Yet it is also a warning of how far we can fall and how great the impact would be if we fail to protect the ports and sea lanes which keep that trade flowing.
In fact, the consequences of our failure to do so would be immediate and worldwide. Repeated crises in the Arabian Gulf have underlined that any threat -- just a threat, mind you -- to the oil supply quickly translates into higher prices, which adversely impact economic growth around the world even if there has been no real change in the readily available oil supply. We also have ample evidence that when we demonstrate our collective ability to deal with such threats and to secure the sea lanes, such fears quickly diminish and economic stability is restored.
Today, however, not only the sea but the airspace above it and the fiber-optic cables under it have become a part of our global highway. Today, the resources of the sea are no longer limited to what we fish, but extend to oil, minerals and even information. The "great common" has really taken on a new importance, as has our shared stake in protecting its security. Still, the role of naval forces in our emerging global economy has another dimension.
Peace, stability and prosperity go hand in hand. When we cooperate in combating terrorism, when we prevent crises and turmoil, when we deter aggression, we help build the foundations for increased prosperity -- particularly in the areas of the globe where that prosperity is most threatened. But that also works in reverse. When we help build prosperity, we help lessen the threats to our global peace. That suggests the complexity of the task which we face in building peace and the need for cooperation. However, it also underlines that our collective efforts to deal with the unrest can have a dual impact in shaping both a stable and a prosperous world.
Finally, let me say a few words about that third "sea change": the accelerating pace of global technological change.
Frankly, the pace of technological change just in everyday life can be a bit daunting. It can be even more daunting when we begin to imagine the military impact of these changes.
It is easy to focus on the opportunities and challenges that new technologies bring to warfare. But that would ignore a key feature of the change we face: that it is global. The new technologies of the 21st century are not, and will not be, the monopoly of any one country. In the age of the Internet, it is hard to see how any such monopoly could be enforced for very long.
The new technologies, and especially the information technologies which so fascinate us, are largely the products of the civilian economy, not the result of military research and development as was so often the case during the Cold War. The vast majority were intended for commercial use.
Nowadays, the phrase "dual-use technology" has taken on a new meaning. We, the world's navies, find ourselves trying to adapt civilian technologies to military use. And we are scrambling to keep up. This situation is unlikely to change any time soon, and our predicament will only be worsened by declining defense budgets.
We must take advantage of the opportunities these new technologies present. Indeed, because the technology revolution is global, and because new technologies can be bought by those who would disrupt the peace as well as by those who would defend it, we ignore the implications of change at our collective peril.
Do the new technologies equate to a "revolution in military affairs?" The real "revolution" will be in thinking, not things.
For the U.S. Navy, any revolution in military affairs will grow out of the process we started five years ago with " ... From the Sea." That is where our revolutionary thinking is taking form, and as I pointed out earlier, we are very far from being finished. To the contrary, it is a process in which you can take part. It is a dialogue and in many ways what this symposium and its efforts to look at the role of seapower in the next century are all about.
It is appropriate that we should meet here at the United States Naval War College to do that. As many of you know, Newport and the Naval War College occupy a place that is unique in the history of the U. S. Navy.
It was here that the United States Navy undertook two previous "revolutions in military affairs." One, a full century ago, produced Mahan and the strategic linkage between naval might and national power. Another, in the 1920s and 1930s, produced the carrier Navy and amphibious warfare.
As we approach the dawn of a new century, it is appropriate that we sailors of many nations meet here where those two earlier revolutions began to chart a course for the future of sea power.
Perhaps together we can launch yet another revolution, a revolution of shared purpose, operational integration and common effort. That is really the challenge to this symposium. It is an invitation to think together, to exchange ideas, to build on each other's experience, and to consider what the navies of the 21st century can be. It is also an opportunity to renew old friendships and establish new ties for cooperation in the years to come.
The fact that we are all sailors gives us a unique advantage. We share a common love and respect for the sea, the "great common" which binds us together. We, more than anyone, know the potential the oceans hold for mankind. And we, more than anyone, appreciate its importance in peace and war.
But we know something more: The sea can be harsh and unforgiving. It teaches sailors early that they must prepare for the worst, even as they hope for fair winds and following seas. It teaches us to be realistic, flexible and pragmatic, and to adapt to changing conditions.
Most of all, the sea teaches us to work together or risk great peril if we do not. It was true in the days of sail; it is no different today. It will be even more true tomorrow. We must seize upon that timeless reality if we are to ensure the primacy of naval forces in the new century.
Thank you very much.
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Misqa Tanks
Situated on the brow of the hill to the west of the road leading from Hagar Qim to the Mnajdra temples, one comes across another interesting site unique to the village of Qrendi. In a limestone plateau, at an area know as "Il-Misqa" meaning "Watering place", several large reservoirs can be found presumably dug by Neolithic man in the quest to quench the temple workers thirst.
Bell shaped reservoirs built in such a manner allowing rainwater to be collected, channeled and stored with the minimal of losses. Their mouths covered with large stone blocks helping to reduce evaporation from the suns hot rays and providing protection to its user. Presently most of the stone covers are missing, presumably dumped into the wells themselves, however those remaining are clear examples of the workers skill and ingenuity in allowing easy access to the well whilst offering security to the person drawing water from the well.
The second well is epilictal at the surface, measuring 3.4 meters long and 1.5 meters wide. It is uncovered and of considerable depth, still capable to hold stored water.
A few meters away from this reservoir, one can find a set of a further three wells dug adjacent to each other and having different characteristics.
The well situated the lowest of this "Trio" is the most spectacular of the three due to its grandeur, having a large epilitical mouth measuring 3.3 meters long and 1.2 meters wide. The well is uncovered and connected on either side to two depressions in the limestone surface helping in the collection of rainwater through hand cut channels.
|The fourth well has a circular mouth with a diameter of 2.2 meters, and is covered with three longitudinal and three smaller latitudinal stone blocks, with the smaller latitudinal blocks resting at right angles to the others. The smaller blocks fashioned with a guide at each end, allow the user to uncover the well with minimal effort offering access to the water and security to the unwary. This well still holds water.
The fifth well also has an elliptical mouth measuring 2.3 meters long and 1.5 meters wide. It was reported to have been covered with four stone blocks of 1.8 meters in length, but presently only one of these blocks remains in situ. Looking into the mouth of this well, one can see the sunrays beneath the waterline emerging from the neighboring well just a few meters away. These two wells are also connected to third well by means of a fissure in its walls, thus maintaining an identical water level in all the three wells.
|To the north of these wells one can find
three additional wells These wells, full of lose rubble and empty from any
water are interconnected to each other by means of a large gap in the adjoining
wall. Though similar in their construction all have different mouths.
of these wells, the sixth, has a circular mouth measuring 1.2 meters in
diameter, which is covered by a solitary stone block larger than those
found in the other receivers. This stone block has a circular hole cut
out of its center from which water could be drawn out. This hole is plugged
by means of a cone shaped wedge that has got it tightly lodged denying
access to the water. Seeking an alternative, this stone block has had
one of its sides chiseled. On either side of this hole two small 15 cm.
basins are also cut out which could have served the purpose of watering
holes for animals.
|The seventh well has no stone cover and is empty of any water but full of lose rubble. This well boasts of an intriguing network of rock cut channels used for water catchment purposes.
It is believed that a mature fig tree found a few meters to the north of the rest of these wells is growing in the eighth of these wells, at a place in the ground that offered soil humidity all the year around. This site was clearly indicated in a site plan of the area dated 25th October 1927, as produced by Mr. J.A. Galizia Superintendent of the Public Works Office.
The rough chiseling of the rock inside the wells and the large stone covers are clear indication that these are the work of the earliest civilization, possible Neolithic man. The tanks cut with such attention and study of the geological rock formation must have surely been utilized to keep the temple builders supplied with a much-needed supply of precious water. Should this theory be proven, than one can clearly state that these tanks could have been dug between the years 3600 and 1500 B.C?


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Prof. Bruce Hunt's new book examines how technology has shaped science
In "Pursuing Power and Light: Technology and Physics from James Watt to Albert Einstein" (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010), Associate Professor Bruce J. Hunt looks at the historical roots of some of the main scientific achievements of the nineteenth century.
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Prof. Bruce Hunt; cover of new book in background
He shows that the laws of heat and energy, the field theory of electricity and magnetism, and the atomic theory of matter all had close ties to the new technologies of the time, especially steam engines, telegraphs, and electric power systems.
In some cases the new technologies of the nineteenth century grew directly from scientific advances, as the traditional picture of technology as "applied science" would suggest; the invention of radio, for example, came straight out of the discovery of electromagnetic waves in the 1880s.
But just as often, it was technology that took the lead: the laws of thermodynamics, for instance, were based on studies of steam engines, while the development of field theory was given a strong impetus by phenomena engineers encountered on the first undersea telegraph cables. The pursuit of power, in the form of working technologies, and of light, in the sense of intellectual understanding, drove the advance of both technology and science in the nineteenth century. Even Albert Einstein's theory of relativity had some of its roots in the electrical motors and dynamos he examined while working at the Swiss patent office.
Hunt has taught history of science courses at The University of Texas since 1985. His book, published in the series "Johns Hopkins Introductory Studies in the History of Science," grew out of both his own work on the history of nineteenth century electrical physics and his course on the history of modern science.
"None of the books out there really covered the history of nineteenth century physics the way I wanted," Hunt said. "In particular, none brought out what I see as the real relationship between the science and the technology of the time. So I finally sat down and wrote the book myself."
Hunt's first book, The Maxwellians (Cornell University Press, 1991/2005) is a study of the group of young physicists who revised and extended James Clerk Maxwell's electromagnetic theory in the 1880s and 1890s. He is now writing a book on how the cable telegraph industry shaped British work in electrical science in the second half of the nineteenth century.
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Prof. Bruce Hunt
Pursuing Power and Light, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010
The Maxwellians, Cornell University Press, 1991
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Like the charred, bereft bile that stains your tips.
The taste of your tongue, rough and fissured, hangs
Haphazardly on mine, mind alive with the
Should I take your eyes? Worthless as they seem,
As pitiful as the potholed, pits which run over your
Cheek. Do I forget my belt hung still
On the mantle of a youths old dream –
To surrender a second with you?
Time has no feeling, when only with ancient eyes
Can you implore, duty bound to protect alien kin. I
Have forgotten them; like they never touched my name
With long closed lips. You came then, blue waste in the
Poison of your breath, sterile to my protest.
Do it, unlock it, steal my heart. Take the words of great
Fallen men, call them your own lies. Deny the courage,
Carnage fought for the sweet silver of earthen skies, bite
The dripping apple still hung on my frostbitten lips.
Unlock it with the simple caress of your death enticing tips.
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and everyday
tells me
that everyday
is trying to break through
every day that's about to be tomorrow
has its sorrow
caught up in the crowds
people were meant to meet
each other with each others' day
only takes two to stop and see it that way
only takes a few minutes to make sense of hours
only a few days to weekly month up a year
the sun shows up and down
gives us all another round
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The precise nature of a widget is described in the patent as follows:
Widgets can be of any type. They can communicate with a remote server to provide information to the user (for example, a weather report), or they can provide commonly needed functionality (for example, a calculator), or they can act as an information repository (for example, a notepad or calendar). Some widgets can provide a combination of these types of functions. In one aspect, an application programming interface (API) is provided so as to allow third-party developers to create and distribute additional widgets that provide different types of functionality.
A patent like this being granted to Apple could cause problems for other developer making desktop widgets for other operating systems, but at least Microsoft won't have any issues. Their widget overlay for Windows 7, called Gadgets, has been almost entirely trashed due to security issues. It isn't available in Windows 8, and isn't even recommended for Windows 7 users any more. Apple may have gotten this patent too late for it to have much effect on major competitors, but it remains to be seen whether they'll use it against smaller developers who may still be making desktop widget software for Windows.


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Three Law Faculty Members Receive University Merit Awards
November 18, 2009
Associate Professor Richard Leo received the prestigious Outstanding Book Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences for his book Police Interrogation and American Justice.
The award honors a book that provides an extraordinary contribution to the study of crime and criminal justice.
Leo's book exposes the structure and development of police interrogation methods and examines the manipulative nature of systematic police questioning. He argues with case studies and police evidence that forceful interrogation often coerces criminals into false confessions and wrongful convictions. The book was also the co-winner of the Herbert Jacob Book Prize this year and won the 2009 Honorable Mention for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship from the Pacific Sociological Association.
The Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, of which Leo is a member, is an international association that promotes professional and scholarly activities in the criminal justice field. The awards ceremony will take place in San Diego at their annual meeting in February.
"Richard's books represent great scholarship in an area critical to the well being of our nation," USF School of Law Dean Jeffrey Brand said. "At a time when due process is under attack on many fronts, Richard's works are an emphatic reminder that undermining the constitutional rights of criminal defendants undermines the strength of our democracy."
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This is an interesting and often-exasperating look at the history of software development, concentrating on the social, business, and economic forces that shaped the profession. It concentrates on business data processing, with some coverage of system software and scientific applications. For some unexplained reason the history stops around the year 1970. Computers have evolved almost unrecognizably since then, and while the software profession has not changed quite as drastically, the entire shrink-wrap software industry, desktop computers, and all kinds of electronic gadgets that use embedded computers and software started after 1970 and are not mentioned here.
A Very Bad Feature is that the book often repeats itself, with the same or very similar wording. This gives the reader a dizzying sense of déjà vu. This bad habit is most conspicuous in quotations; rather than refer to the earlier quotation or summarize it, the book simply repeats it. One quotation by Maurice Wilkes appears four times. The demise of the AFIPS organization is described twice, two pages apart. A 1967 article in Cosmopolitan on "computer girls" is given two lengthy summaries with the same details in a different order.
This is a scholarly book and is extensively footnoted. Unfortunately many of the author names in the footnotes are misspelled; mysteriously nearly all of the names misspelled in the footnotes are correct in the bibliography. The book seems very accurate otherwise; the only really confused section has to do with the chronology of Fred Brooks, manager of the System/360 project and its operating system subproject OS/360 at IBM. The book has him managing OS/360 "in the late 1960s", and writing his famous 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month while "a technical manager in a conservative corporation". In fact Brooks left IBM in 1965 to join the faculty of the University of North Carolina, where he remains today.
Allen Stenger is a math hobbyist and retired software developer. He is webmaster and newsletter editor for the MAA Southwestern Section and is an editor of the Missouri Journal of Mathematical Sciences. His mathematical interests are number theory and classical analysis. He volunteers in his spare time at MathNerds.org, a math help site that fosters inquiry learning.


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Happy New Year to everyone! May 2013 bring joy, love and health to you and your beloved ones. Below you'll find the new promotional video for the "The Mentalist" 5×11 "Days Of Wine & Roses" episode, which will air this Sunday. Do not watch if you don't like spoilers!
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A teenager and is the second suspect in the death of a Floodwood woman whose body was found on the Fond du Lac Reservation last week.
Joseph Yellow, 17, of Duluth faces a charge of second-degree murder. Another suspect in the death, 22-year-old Michael William Siewert, also appeared in court Thursday afternoon to face a second-degree murder charge. Siewert was already in jail facing charges in another case.
Siewert and Yellow are suspected in the death of Cristyna Watson, 25, who hadn't seen her family in nearly a month when authorities found her body outside at a residence on Reservation Road on Oct. 4. Police said she died from "homicidal violence."
The owner of the property where Watson's body was found, Clifford Thompson, is charged with aiding an offender. Alyssa Peterson, 24, was also charged with aiding an offender. There is no indication that either Thompson or Peterson knew a murder had occurred.
Law enforcement said Siewert is a known member of the Native Mob Gang, which Cloquet Police Chief Wade Lamirande said is increasingly becoming a problem on the Fond du Lac Reservation.
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Michael W. Hemmer, 55, of Parma, Ohio, passed away Monday, Feb. 4, 2008.
After serving in the U.S Marine Corps for 6 years, Mike became active in the Marine Corps League, Gung Ho Detachment in Brook Park where he was a past commandant. He also was an employee of BP Oil for more than 30 years.
He was a beloved son of William and Verna Hemmer; loving brother of Faye (John) Krawcheck of Elyria, William Jr. (Maureen) of Grafton, Ohio, Steven of Broadview Heights, Ohio, Thomas (Nancy) of Strongsville, Ohio, and Tony (Cindy) of N. Ridgeville, Ohio; and dear uncle, great uncle, nephew, and cousin of many.
Cremation wasby Busch Crematory, Parma, Ohio. Committal service will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery, 10175 Rawiga Road,Rittman, Ohio. Memorials may be forwarded to Hospice of the Cleveland Clinic at the Renaissance, 26376 John Road, Olmsted Falls, OH 44138 or the American Cancer Society, 10501 Euclid Ave.,Cleveland, OH 44106.


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El Paso, TX (SportsNetwork.com) - Vince Hunter finished with 14 points, including the game-winning jumper with 43 seconds remaining to lift the Texas- El Paso Miners to a 67-64 victory over the Western Illinois Leathernecks as part of the Sun Bowl Invitational at the Don Haskins Center.
Leading the way for UTEP (9-5) was Julian Washburn, who netted 18 points on 6- of-17 from the field. John Bohannon tallied a double-double for the hosts with 15 points and 12 rebounds.
For WIU (5-8), Garret Covington scored 16 points, while Tate Stensgaard added 10 points.
WIU outshot UTEP from the field in the first half, 46.4 percent to 37.5 percent, as it carried a 29-28 lead into intermission. The Miners kept the game close by outscoring the Leathernecks at the foul line in the first 20 minutes, 8-1.
The Leathernecks used a 10-0 run early in the second half to separate themselves and led by 10 with under five minutes to play before UTEP made its move. The Miners ended the game on a 17-4 run, with Hunter's jumper proving to be the game-winner. C.J. Cooper put the game on ice in the waning seconds with a 2-of-2 trip to the foul line to secure the three-point win.
The difference was made at the foul line, where UTEP shot 29-of-39. WIU was only 11-of-16 from the stripe.
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I totally agree with this post, most sense anyone has talked on here. It seems like nvidia were conned by Futuremark/ATI, as the techniques nvidia use are not present in 3D Mark and only ATI's are hence the huge score difference between Geforce4 and Radeon Pro. Nvidia have a brilliant arguement due to this.
This is complete and total BS. Volt, how do you expect me not to get upset at what Nvidia have already done to peoples reasoning of the whole situation?? strengthened by people like Kyle???
Look at the evidence
This is all becuase people do not know anything about technology and all they go buy are the one bogus PR statement released by Nvidia after the next.
1. PS 1.3 adds no significant speed or functionality to anything
2. PS 1.3 is not supported by GF3's
3. PS 1.4 adds significatnt functionality and is already being added in patches to exsisting games, and will be used in upcomming games like Doom-III (openGL equivalent to ps 1.4)
4. PS 1.4 will be used by future developers becuase is increases performance
5. Developers cannot use ps 1.3 and maintain compatability with all of Nvidias dx8 classed cards.
6 SIS, S3, Trident, PowerVR, nor any other company backed out fo the beta program
7. Countless game developers were involved and all had input into what was included
8. Vertex shader 1.1 is going to be a staple of future games comming in the next 2-3 years.
9. all DX8 classed hardware fully and correctly support VS 1.1
10. Read my above thread.
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Each academic year the Center invites several well-known scholars to campus to speak as part of our colloquium speaker series. The colloquia run for one and one half hours, with a 45-minute talk followed by a question and answer session. Center graduate students also present their research at the colloquium series twice a year at the Graduate Research Forum.
Typically, talks are held on a Thursday afternoon in room 126 of the Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences. The Center hosts a lunch on Thursday with graduate students and/or faculty, a dinner with faculty members on Thursday night, and a breakfast with graduate students on Friday morning.
For the schedule of colloquium speakers, please see the center Calendar. For our archive of previous colloquium talks, many of which are available as streaming audio, please see our colloquia archive.
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People can't say it enough.... "WEAR A HELMET"
I've only gone down hard a couple of times. Both times I was glad I had a helmet!
I also recommend full fingered gloves to protect you hands and fingers.
Have a good ride!
Why would a candidate for Alabama Governor have a fundraiser in New York?
That seems odd.
Who cares........
You can take a few numbers and build them together to show anything you want them to show. That doesn't mean people are being targeted by the color of they're skin.
We need to make moves to be more fair.
The fact that Judge Sotomayor's ruling was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court gives me reason to question her intentions.
We do not need to move from one extreme to the other. Allowing the appointment of someone with an agenda other than the correct interpretation of the U. S. Constitution is wrong.
I applaud Senator Sessions for this. I do not applaud everything he does by any means though.
What's wrong with Nuclear Power?
Doesn't Western Europe use like 80-90% Nuclear Power?
Is that a picture of Alaska?
The pictures of the Flint River are fine, why not use them?
Yeay beer! Hooray for beer!
We must keep Governor Riley from Vetoing this.
Please email or call him!!!
For God sakes quit giving them more money. It only helps to empower them. The more power they have the more debt they can get into.
Gun Death's?? As in The good guys shot the bad guys with a gun and killed him! That is a good thing! :)
A legally owned firearm has saved my life more than once. Do I get to count that at two?
FYI, It appears John Young was one of the folks that recommended the non user fees.
Reference "What special masters recommended" above.
We could always rely on "M.A.D" (Mutual Assured Destruction). I'm sure an extremist wouldn't be willing to sacrifice his own life to kill us. What do you think?
As for me. I think I'd rather pay to keep the best missile defense in place to protect my family and friends.
(Swanstrom)Giggle Giggle...................Giggle Giggle
Another contractor just trying to stay in business.
Do not ban so called "assault weapons" from law abiding citizens. This only helps the criminals who disregard the law.
Just a reminder to be alert and aware of your surroundings.
It doesn't hurt to defend yourself with a firearm either, if you have to!
Why do we have to go more into debt to try to get out of debt?
They should not lend any money to Jeff Co. The more that they are allowed to borrow the closer we come to bankruptcy.
Why give them the money after you said it was illegal for them to collect it?
The more money we give them the more in debt we go............... Anybody see a trend here?
Good luck with that buddy!


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