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This newly-discovered film footage of Amelia Earhart from 1937 was released in conjunction with an e-book titled "Amelia Earhart's Last Photo Shoot." Read the rest
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MotoArt, an outfit I've blogged before that transforms airplane parts into furniture, built this glorious conference table based on an engine scavenged from a Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet. (via Laughing Squid)
Air traffic data is great fodder for visualizations. Case in point, this lovely animation of a day of flights titled "North Atlantic Skies" by air traffic control firm NATS. (via Laughing Squid)
The ocean is big and deep. The most likely scenario, right now, is that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 crashed into the water and no one has yet looked in just the right place to find evidence of that crash. (You can read more about losing planes in the age of GPS in a post Rob made earlier today.) But the case made me curious about other lost planes — cases where an aircraft just "vanished" and nobody ever found a crash site or debris.
Naturally, Wikipedia has a list for that ...
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In 1910, Harry Houdini magically flew over a field near Melbourne, Australia. OK, he was in an airplane. But I hadn't known that the great magician was an aviation enthusiast. Houdini's demonstration was the first heavier-than-air flight in Australia. Apparently, it was a real nail-biter that ended in success. Now, Smithsonian Air & Space reports on the effort to find Houdini's plane, if it still exists.
He flew a Voisin biplane that he'd bought in Germany the year before. Powered by a British ENV engine capable of 60 to 80 horsepower, it sailed over trees, rocks, and fences, reported the Melbourne Argus, then wavered slightly. "Ah! Cabre, cabre!" shouted Antonio Brassac, Houdini's French mechanic. "The word signifies the action of a rearing horse," continued the Argus, "and it indicates that the plane, like the horse, will almost inevitably come to grief."
Boeing and the US Air Force have converted retired F-16 fighter jets into drones, designated as QF-16s. According to Boeing, "While in the air, the QF-16 mission included a series of simulated maneuvers, reaching supersonic speeds, returning to base and landing, all without a pilot in the cockpit." The military claims that they will use the drones for dogfight training. Video of the first pilotless test flight below. (Thanks, David Steinberg!)
Photographer Lyle Jansma captured 360º views of dozens of airplane cockpits, from a 747 to a World War II P51 Mustang. You can pan and zoom to your heart's content with the ACI Cockpit360º App for iOS or at Air & Space, "Cockpit360º: The Virtual Photography of Lyle Jansma"
Yesterday, we posted a tech memoir by Steven Ashley about the slow rise of 3D printing — from sci-fi fantasy, to toy, to creator of real tools. Towards the end of the piece, Ashley mentions how GE is starting manufacture aircraft engine parts using 3D printers. Here's the excerpt:
Rows of industrial 3D-printing units in plants will soon be fabricating turbine engine parts—fuel nozzles—from cobalt-chromium alloy powders. Each one of GE's new LEAP jet engine will contain nineteen of the fuel nozzles, which are up to 25 percent lighter and five-times more durable than traditionally manufactured fuel nozzles. In airplanes cutting weight saves fuel. The LEAP engine has already amassed more than 4,500 orders, so between it and the new GE9X engine, the corporation could end up making as many as 100,000 additive manufactured components by 2020.
In the picture above, you can see one of those fuel nozzles, in all its 3D-printed glory.
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I'm a nervous flyer. But I'm a lot better at it then I used to be. That's because, a few years ago, I learned that it's actually pretty common to survive a plane crash. Like most people, I'd assumed that the safety in flying came from how seldom accidents happened. Once you were in a crash situation, though, I figured you were probably screwed. But that's not the case.
Looking at all the commercial airline accidents between 1983 and 2000, the National Transportation Safety Board found that 95.7% of the people involved survived. Even when they narrowed down to look at only the worst accidents, the overall survival rate was 76.6%. Yes, some plane crashes kill everyone on board. But those aren't the norm. So you're even safer than you think. Not only are crashes incredibly rare, you're more likely to survive a crash than not. In fact, out of 568 accidents during those 17 years, only 71 resulted in any fatalities at all.
I was talking about this fact with a pilot friend over the weekend, and he mentioned one crash in particular that is an excellent example of the statistics in action. On July 19, 1989, United Airlines Flight 232 lost all its hydraulic controls and landed in Sioux City, Iowa, going more than 100 mph faster than it should have been. You can see the plane breaking apart and bursting into flames in the video above. Turns out, that's what a 62% survival rate looks like. (All the pilots you can hear talking in the video survived, too.)
Read more about United Airlines 232 on Wikipedia
Read the full NTSB report from 2001
In 2007, Popular Mechanics examined 36 years of NTSB reports and found that the majority of surviving passengers were sitting in the back of the plane. But that seems to depend a lot on the specifics of the crash and may not be a reliable predictor of future results.
Thanks, Shav!
Do they still make children's books with sad endings? Like The Velveteen Rabbit? Because I think I've got a doozy here.
It's all about a 747 who loves to fly. It's what she was built to do and it's what she does best. For years, she soars through the skies, ferrying cargo and, possibly, some nondescript men in nice suits. (Or maybe not. Depends on when she went into service.) But through it all, the little 747 just wants to spend as much time as she can aloft, among the clouds, where she belongs.
But then, one day, the nondescript men in nice suits tell her that it's time she retire. They take her to a place in the desert and leave her there, with lots of other retired planes who've given up and are slowly falling apart. Other men come and they take her engines. Then they take all the beautiful buttons and switches from cockpit. The other planes tell her that, soon, men will come with saws to cut away parts of her fuselage. But the little 747 never breaks. They can take her apart, bit by bit, but they can't take away her dreams. And still, sometimes, in the boneyard, she tries to take to the skies just one last time.
Seriously. Somebody call the Newberry committee.
And bring me a hanky.
Thanks to Andrew Balfour for the video, and to Shahv Press for the background on Southern Air.
A family from Washington state had to cancel an island vacation when their flight was grounded after their 3-year-old son pitched a tantrum.
The toddler had been quietly playing with an iPad while waiting for the plane to take off, the father said. When the iPad was taken away—you know how all electronics must be stowed during takeoff and landing—all hell broke loose.
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Learning how to use Adobe Photoshop efficiently and effectively is the best way to get the most out of your pixels and create stunning imagery. Master the fundamentals of this program with Julieanne Kost, and discover how to achieve the results you want with Photoshop and its companion programs, Bridge and Camera Raw. This comprehensive course covers nondestructive editing techniques using layers, masking, adjustment layers, blend modes, and Smart Objects. Find out how to perform common editing tasks, including lens correction, cropping and straightening, color and tonal adjustments, noise reduction, shadow and highlight detail recovery, sharpening, and retouching. Julieanne also shows how to achieve more creative effects with filters, layer effects, illustrative type, and the Photomerge command for creating panoramas and composites.
As you begin to work with more and more layers in Photoshop and you're adding adjustment layers, you're going to want to be able to control which layers are affected by which adjustment layers. So let's go ahead and add a hue saturation adjustment layer to this image. I'm going to click the Colorize button to make it really obvious and then we'll move the hue slider over to bright yellow and maybe increase some saturation. Now when we look at the layers panel we can see that the hue saturation adjustment layer is effecting all of the layers below it.
If I wanted the hue saturation adjustment layer to only effect the background, well that's easy, I can just change the stacking order of he layers by clicking on hue saturation and dragging it down. But what if I wanted the hue saturation adjustment layer to only effect the layer on the left here. Well, then I could click and drag up to the top again, but I would need some way to clip this hue saturation adjustment layer with only the left side. Now, I can choose Layer and then create clipping mask in order to do this, or there's actually a shortcut right here on the properties panel.
If I click on this icon, what happens is this hue saturation layer is indented. I get a little arrow pointing downward, The layer underneath that it's been clipped to becomes underlined and the Hue Saturation Adjustment layer is now restricted to only affecting the values on the layer below it. And so this is referred to sometimes as a clipping group or a clipping mask but, basically, whatever is on the lower layer will be affected by the upper adjustment layer.
Now, what if I wanted to affect both the left side and the right side photos? Well, let's use the keyboard shortcut, Cmd+Z on Mac or Ctrl+Z on Windows in order to release that clipping group and now what I'm going to do is I'm going to take the left side layer Then the right-side layer. I'm going to select them both by holding the Cmd key on Mac or Ctrl key on Windows, then I'm going to use the keyboard shortcut Cmd + G or Ctrl + G on Windows, and what it does is, it places these two layers into a group.
If you don't remember the keyboard shortcut, you can also just drag the two layers down to the folder icon right here in order to create a group. We'll go ahead and rename this Small Images. And then in order to see whats in the group, we'll click on the disclosure triangle. Now I want the hue saturation adjustment layer to be flipped not to a single layer this time but to the group. So I'll select the hue saturation adjustment layer and we can either click the icon right here. Or, theres a shortcut if I hold down the Option key on the Mac or the Alt key on the Windows. You can see there as I position my cursor right there between the top of the group and the hue saturation adjustment layer, and I hold down the Option or the Alt key, the icon changes and I get this downward pointing arrow. That will allow me to click the hue saturation adjustment layer to the group. So what's really nice about this is that it's not a permanent change at all. And I could add additional photos, to that small images folder, and they would all have the hue saturation adjustment applied to them. Or I could take one of the images, outside of the group, and it would then automatically loose the effect from the hue saturation adjustment layer. And if I needed to make a change to the hue saturation well then all I need to do is change it once.
I don't have to have multiple copies of it. One that isolated on the left side and one that's isolated on the right side. So its really easy to make a change and have that change ripple through to all of the photographs that are inside of that group. So there you have it. A quick way to isolate the effects of an adjustment layer so that it only affects either a specific layer in your document, or a group of layers.
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Check out the delights which Gran Canaria has to offer.
Gran Canaria, is the Canary Island which shines all year long! You might be forgiven for thinking Gran Canaria was just a hot destination in May for the massive annual Gay Pride, but the reality is the island is one of, if not, the top gay tourist destination in Europe, the whole year round. We ask: "What's the secret of success for this tiny little island?"
Well, obviously it's the gorgeous sand dunes of Maspalomas, fronting the iconic gay corner of the Island - no wait, it's the Yumbo Centre in Playa del Ingles, full of LGBT cafes, bars, clubs, dens etc - hang on, it's the drag scene, all those show bars with nightly comedy acts, although it could be the specialist gay complexes, men only, or the abundance of hotels offering close proximity to everything gay…stop, stop, stop. Its success lies in its diversity!
From the moment you land, your holiday in Gran Canaria can be as gay as you want it to be. Book a men-only complex, try a gay friendly hotel, or go deluxe with a bungalow, pool etc., of your own. Settle in, enjoy the weather, never less than 24 degrees, tan time is anytime! Cruise the dunes, cruise the Yumbo Centre, heck, you can get lucky here just walking down the street. There are no limits, but Gran Canaria is more than just a hotbed of men in Speedos.
By day you really should try the mountain hikes, visit the volcano, Roque Nublo, join a men-only jeep safari, cycle ride (bring your Lycra), or hit the many beaches, take a camel ride across the sands, boat trips, submarines, jet skis, see dolphins and whales, aqua parks, zoos, there is no way to be bored! It's impossible. Kiosk 7 in Playa del Ingles is the local hotspot on the beach for us gays, but there are masses of coves, tiny inlets for nudism, winkle collecting or just privacy from the crowds. Only a lazy tourist misses the days.
Take a bus to the capital Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, visiting Santa Catalina, a lovely gay neighborhood in the north, lounge over a coffee, park on Las Canteras Beach. The north is full of handsome Spanish Canarian men, looking forward to learn a bit of 'English' from a friendly tourist. Likewise, practice your 'Español' over a refreshing arehucas and cola. A bit of haute couture is also on the cards in Las Palmas city, if you have the dinero, to spend on true Canarian product.
Now…take your siesta, revitalise, shower because it's night time. It's only fair to mention the Yumbo Centre, because it's got everything. Dinner then chillout? Take your seat in a comfy open air lounge bar, or dinner then entertainment? Grab a table in a showbar. Just want to people watch? Try any of the terrace bars. Oggle the street entertainers, muscly acrobats, capoeira, clowns, artists, it's like a gay Spanish Covent Garden. Then for late night, take in a disco, or party bar, sex bar. Single? It's unlikely you will stay that way in the Yumbo.
Gran Canaria is unique: Friendly islanders, fantastic local cuisine, local drinks, sunshine, sangria and sand, winter or summer, book yourself a treat in an island paradise!
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LAWRENCE, Kan. (October 24, 2012) -- The senior quarterback has taken a seat and the freshman is under center, perhaps the clearest indication yet that Kansas is starting to focus on the future.
Jayhawks coach Charlie Weis sat Dayne Crist late against Oklahoma State two weeks ago and put Michael Cummings into the game, and he performed well enough to warrant the start last week at Oklahoma.
Weis is sticking with the Killeen Kangaroo product when Kansas (1-6, 0-4 Big 12) plays Texas (5-2, 2-2) on Saturday.


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KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 11, 2004 The number of people who have registered to vote in Afghanistan's presidential elections in October has exceeded the rosiest expectations, Afghan and American officials said here today.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said more than 9.4 million Afghans have registered to vote. Of these, 41.6 percent are women.
"The surge in registration that has taken place throughout the country has to be a very vivid demonstration of the Afghan people's determination to make democracy work," said Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld during a joint news conference with Karzai.
The United Nations is leading the effort on the presidential elections and the parliamentary elections that will follow. U.N. officials say they have every expectation of a "free and fair" election in Afghanistan.
The voter registration numbers seemed to catch people by surprise. Rumsfeld said that when officials first discussed Afghan elections, they thought it would be a success if they registered between 3 million and 5 million people.
The registration success is against the backdrop of Taliban holdouts and al Qaeda sympathizers trying to disrupt the effort. Karzai said 12 registrars have been killed during the drive.
Rumsfeld called the voter numbers "impressive," and that the accomplishment "says a great deal about the prospects for the future of this important country."
Karzai said that the progress the country is making is because the Afghan people "have the great will and enthusiasm to make the country a place where all can live properly with good will and opportunity."
Rumsfeld and Karzai also spoke of the opium problem in Afghanistan. This year many farmers have turned to the opium poppy for money. With adequate rainfall, the crop is huge, officials said.
The Afghan government is working to confront this problem and the other problems drug money can bring. Rumsfeld said the world is well aware of the problem and will work together and with the Afghans to confront it.
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Raw beef briskets with plant inspection number 969 and sell-by dates between May 12 and June 20.
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A University of Georgia scientist has gone public with video and slides showing how oil from the BP spill remains stuck on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.
The images demonstrate that the oil isn't degrading as hoped and has decimated life on parts of the sea floor.
At a science conference in Washington, Samantha Joye aired early
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She went to places she had visited much of the summer and said she expected the oil and residue from oil-munching microbes would be gone by then.
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Oregon coach Chip Kelly has an interview scheduled in Arizona today with the Buffalo Bills for their coaching vacancy a person familiar with the coach's plans confirmed late Wednesday night.
Bills newly promoted president Russ Brandon has been in Arizona since Tuesday conducting their coaching search. According to the Bills' website, the team interviewed Cardinals defensive coordinator Ray Horton on Wednesday, a day after meeting with former Arizona coach Ken Whisenhunt, who was fired Monday.
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macs are great for video editing and photo editing.
i use my mac for creating music. they are great. industry standard pretty much.
newer macs run games like SC2 well.
advantages: customer support, build quality, OSX, looks, reliability.
disadvantages: price. i would say video gaming, but you can run windows on them, so thats n/a.
you have a decent pc, but the base imac will be almost the same or slightly better.
i think thats every question answered. sorted.
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Advantages: they are much better built than you average PC, last longer, don't get viruses, have fewer overall problems*, far better customer support* and "just work."
*don't take my anecdotal word for it -- check the rankings on Consumer Reports or PC Magazine.
Disadvantages: doesn't come with solitaire.
But seriously, if you understand the difference between VALUE and PRICE, and you understand the difference between ORIGINAL and COPYCAT, then you already understand the advantages of the Mac.
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The last straw was about a month ago when my brother in law unexpectedly passed away and the family wanted all the photos I had of him. My PC wouldn't access my external drive, so I couldn't get to most of them. It also had trouble printing to my wireless printer and spent the better part of an hour installing Windows updates while I was trying to get the job done.
I'm not saying that Macs don't have problems... But they are a lot better than PCs when it comes to these kinds of things. I am very happy with my Mac mini.
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Macs aren't gaming machines. Other than that, I'd say get whatever you have a prefence for. You can get much of the same big name software on both platforms, so it doesn't matter too much about that. Macs are no longer better than PCs for video, photo, and audio editing, they're just different.
The form factor might work better for you too. I have a huge full sized ATX tower tht barely fits under my desk, if I was using an iMac, I wouldn't have the power, but I'd have a lot more space. But that's the same reason I choose Apple notebooks over wintel notebooks, I like the size and form.
You can also build a really powerful PC for cheap. My gaming computer has a 1.8GB GPU in it that will run most any PC game I've thrown against it at 2560x1600 resolution on a 30" monitor at full settings. I paid only $1,700 for it two years ago. If you're not into tweaking and building your own computers, then this is not really going to be an option though.
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A U.S. Air Force captain who hails from Derby has been awarded the Bronze Star for his work in Afghanistan. Read about it in Wednesday's edition of the Newport Daily Express for May 29, 2013.
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The grown up royal baby may look like this
A few months ago, I blogged about what Prince William and Princess Kate's baby may look like in a couple of years. Now Nickolay Lamm and Nikolett Mérész have created images of what the future prince or princess may look like several years in the future, possibly 20 or more, as reported in Daily Mail. […] [Read More]
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News broke earlier this week that Prince William and Kate Middleton are expecting their first child. The Duchess of Cambridge was hospitalized on Dec. 3 with Hyperemesis Gravidarum, a type of morning sickness most often associated with mothers who are carrying multiple babies. With this news, forensics expert Joe Mullins has "scientifically forecasted" the face […] [Read More]
Incase you haven't heard, well, you have heard. We all have. Prince William and Kate Middleton are getting married! It's so magical I don't even know what to call it! Wait…let's call it the Royal Wedding! Aside from the British followers and fanatics, the American culture has also played a part in this overwhelming obsession with […] [Read More]


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Awesome, apple is bringing the same flat and boring design to my Mac now.
Apple announces OS X 10.10 Yosemite with new look, better Spotlight, and more
Apple announced OS X 10.10 Yosemite today during WWDC 2014. OS X Yosemite features a new design, as well as features like Handoff, which keeps your Mac in communication with your iOS devices, and improved Spotlight search.
Below is Apple's official statement on the announcement of OS X 10.10.
Press release:
Apple Announces OS X Yosemite
Introduces Refined New Design, Powerful Apps & Amazing New Continuity Features
SAN FRANCISCO―June 2, 2014―Apple® today announced OS X® Yosemite, a powerful new version of OS X redesigned and refined with a fresh, modern look, powerful new apps and amazing new continuity features that make working across your Mac® and iOS devices more fluid than ever. The new Today view in Notification Center gives you a quick look at everything you need to know, all in one place; iCloud Drive™ is located within the Finder and can store files of any type; and Safari® has a new streamlined design that puts the most important controls at your fingertips. Mail makes editing and sending attachments easier than ever; Handoff lets you start an activity on one device and pass it to the other; and Instant Hotspot makes using your iPhone's hotspot as easy as connecting to a Wi-Fi network. Yosemite even gives you the ability to make iPhone® calls on your Mac.
"Yosemite is the future of OS X with its incredible new design and amazing new apps, all engineered to work beautifully with iOS," said Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of Software Engineering. "We engineer our platforms, services and devices together, so we are able to create a seamless experience for our users across all our products that is unparalleled in the industry. It's something only Apple can deliver."
With Yosemite, OS X has been redesigned and refined with a fresh modern look where controls are clearer, smarter and easier to understand, and streamlined toolbars put the focus on your content without compromising functionality. Translucent elements reveal additional content in your app window, provide a hint at what's hidden behind and take on the look of your desktop. App icons have a clean, consistent design and an updated system font improves readability.
The new Today view in Notification Center gives you a quick look at everything you need to know with widgets for Calendar, Weather, Stocks, Reminders, World Clock and social networks. You can even download additional widgets from the Mac App Store℠ to customize your Today view. Spotlight® now appears front and center on your desktop and adds new categories of results, so you can view rich suggestions from Wikipedia, Maps, Bing, App Store, iTunes Store®, iBooks Store™, top websites, news and movie showtimes.
Built right into the Finder, iCloud Drive stores files of any type in iCloud®. iCloud Drive works like any other folder on your Mac, so you can drag documents into it, organize them with folders and Tags and search for them using Spotlight. With iCloud Drive, you can access all your files in iCloud from your Mac, iPhone, iPad® or even a Windows PC.
Safari has a new streamlined design that puts the most important controls at your fingertips. A new Favorites view gives you quick access to your favorite websites, and a powerful new Tabs view displays thumbnails of all your open web pages in one window. Safari also gives you more control over your privacy, with separate Private Browsing windows and built-in support for DuckDuckGo, a search engine that doesn't track users. When you search for popular or common terms, new Spotlight Suggestions appear along with the suggestions from your search provider. Safari supports the latest web standards, including WebGL and SPDY, and with support for HTML5 Premium Video Extensions, you can watch Netflix HD videos for up to two hours longer.¹ Powered by the Nitro JavaScript engine, Safari is over six times faster than Firefox and over five times faster than Chrome when executing JavaScript found in typical websites.²
Mail makes editing and sending attachments easier than ever. With Markup you can quickly fill out and sign forms and even annotate images and PDFs from within Mail. Mail Drop allows you to easily send large videos, images or files up to 5GB from the Mail app to any email address. Messages has a new look and delivers even more options for communicating with friends and family. Now you can add titles to ongoing message threads so they are easy to find, add new contacts to ongoing conversations, or leave those conversations you no longer want to follow. With Soundbites you can create, send and listen to audio clips right in Messages.
Continuity features in Yosemite make your Mac and iOS device perfect companions. When your iPhone or iPad is near your Mac, Handoff lets you start an activity on one device and pass it to the other. Instant Hotspot makes using your iPhone's hotspot as easy as connecting to a Wi-Fi network.³ Now the SMS and MMS messages that previously only appeared on your iPhone appear in Messages on all your devices. You can even send SMS or MMS messages directly from your Mac and make or receive iPhone calls using your Mac as a speakerphone.⁴
Yosemite delivers platform technologies that make it easier for developers to create amazing new Mac apps. SpriteKit makes it easier to incorporate realistic motion, physics and lighting in games, and integrates with SceneKit to bring 3D casual gaming within reach of any developer. Storyboards for Yosemite and Xcode® 6 take advantage of the new View Controller APIs in AppKit to make it easier to build apps that navigate between multiple views of data. New APIs allow developers to integrate Handoff into their own apps and create Today view widgets for distribution through the Mac App Store. Share Menu extensions add new destinations to the Share Menu, and new APIs let developers create custom Share Sheets.
The developer preview of Yosemite is available to Mac Developer Program members starting today. To help make OS X even better, Apple is introducing the OS X Beta Program, which gives customers early access to Yosemite and invites them to try out the release and submit their feedback. Mac users can participate in the OS X Beta Program for Yosemite this summer and download the final version for free from the Mac App Store this fall. Customers interested in signing up can visit www.apple.com/osx/preview for more details.
Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with iPad.
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Apple announces OS X 10.10 Yosemite with new look, better Spotlight, and more
Or I can stay with mavs. Why would I go to windows? It has color but still flat. I don't want my women flat, so why would I like a flat OS?
Sigh go play with windows 8 then and leave us alone
I use 6 Macs and 8 PC's every day at work. I have a Mac and 2 PC's at home. I'm not a Mac or PC guy. I USE BOTH. But what was announced today was neither new nor innovative. These are all features that have been available on other platforms or in other apps. You Phan Boiz just can't see it. Tim could lay a turd on the stage and Phan Boiz would be posting about how incredible it was and his presentation of said turd was. I watched the keynote on Leo Laporte's site. It was refreshing to hear an honest, unbiased report instead of swooning.
So lets see Windows Vista??? Really go away hater!!! Mac OS 9 was better than Vista. Google Drive is Crap please compare it to Dropbox. Google Voice is NOT VoIP though neither is what Apple just introduced (and I have used Voice since it was Grand Central clue into what that product really is).
Continuity is very cool. Windows and Google cannot come close to that. As for the Flat I am not thrilled with that but all the new features available will get me to do the upgrade from Mavericks once I see it in real life and just don't hate the UI.
I just love how people hate Apple because it is the leader. Some people just have to be anti whatever is #1. I use to do the same thing with MS.
Anyone know the system requirements for the beta?
Not disappointing to me at all. They sell an experience like no other ;-), and they are the market leader in that. But they are not rushing it. And if they run into a brick wall, they have the courage to simply restart from scratch. I like that very much.
Love the look! Now if only some of icons (like Safari) could port over to iOS ;-)
Also I pretty much got everything on my wish list with Yosemite so I'm a happy camper!
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I love the new look! It's refreshing. I love the new Spotlight - it looks like Alfred now though I doubt it can compete with the latter's flexibility.


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Advisor: Dr. Kelli K. Sapp
Application to veterinary school can be made after satisfactory completion of a minimum of two years of undergraduate study (45-50 credits depending upon the program). Most veterinary schools specify their own minimum academic standards when it comes to cumulative and required course GPA. The majority of students accepted for veterinary study have already earned a bachelor's degree.
Required Courses (for admission to schools of veterinary medicine):
Composition & Writing, Public Speaking, Communications
MTH 1410. Calculus I
STS 2020 or STS 3200. Statistics
PHY 1510-1520. General Physics or
PHY 2010-2020 Fundamentals of Physics
CHM 1010-1020. General Chemistry
CHM 2510-2520. Organic Chemistry
BIO 1399. Introduction to Biological Principles and Literature
BIO 3040. Microbiology
BIO 3050. Genetics
BCH 3220. Biochemistry
Humanities/Social Sciences
**A course in Animal Nutrition is strongly recommended by most veterinary schools. Most schools, including High Point University, do not offer an animal nutrition course. Students can take this course via distance learning by an accredited college or university, e.g. North Carolina State University, Oklahoma State University, Purdue University, Rutgers University.
It is essential that each student planning to seek admission to a school of veterinary medicine be aware of the specific admission requirements for that particular school. Requirements vary. In addition to the required courses, students must take either the GRE or VCAT and have a variety of supervised experiences (in some cases the school may specify a number of hours) in the veterinary medical profession (i.e. working with small and large animals in a veterinary practice, zoological medicine) and other animal experiences (i.e. research, volunteer at animal shelter, working at an aquarium, equestrian activities).
Please contact Dr. Kelli K. Sapp via the Contact Us form.


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EDMOND, Okla. — Late one recent night, while the homeowner was sound asleep, someone broke through the backdoor of a home in the 200 block of E. Edwards in Edmond.
Authorities said the intruder quietly took the purse from a table and crept out undetected.
It's alarming to neighbors like Jerod Miles, who said crime is rare in this neighborhood near the UCO campus.
"Makes me want to start locking my doors," he said. "We haven't locked them because we have friends coming in and out but we will now."
The victim didn't know her purse and credit cards were stolen until the next morning.
But by then it was too late.
Edmond Police spokesperson Jenny Monroe said, "They used the card several times at a 7-Eleven, ATM withdrawal, gas at the Sam's and they went into the Walmart."
Investigators compared store surveillance video with the purchase times and identified two people they'd like to question.
In this Walmart footage, you can see a man in an OSU ball cap and a blonde woman with a small "baby bump."
Monroe said, "The woman appears to be at some stage of pregnancy. They did make purchases for baby items."
The couple bought $295 of baby supplies and dog food.
investigators said the couple should be easy to identify.
According to Monroe, "It shouldn't be too hard. If there is a friend or family member who's pregnant with a man in an OSU hat, you can put two and two together."


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Friday, April 4th, 2014...9:26 am
Multiple forums offer chances to get to know candidates
It is always amazing to me that as few as one-fourth of Kentucky's eligible voters cast ballots in some elections.
As much grumbling as I've heard and as much Facebook complaining as I've seen about our elected officials, it would seem voters would roll out in greater numbers.
Instead, we get a paltry number like 28 percent voter turnout in Lexington during the 2010 primary election, according to Tracy Merriman, elections department manager at the Fayette County Clerk's office.
This year there are a gob of folks running for important offices locally and statewide, and Merriman thinks that will bring voters out in larger numbers.
Maybe so.
For the May 20 primary, there is a long list of candidates, including four who want to unseat Mitch McConnell in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, and two hopefuls who want the Democratic nod for the 6th District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Also on the ballot is the office of mayor, three Urban County Council at-large seats, and five council district races with three or more candidates.
(The 7th District Council race will be on the ballot, Merriman said, but no votes will be counted. One candidate dropped out, leaving two to advance to the Nov. 4 election.)
"I'm hoping the turnout will be fairly good," she said of the primary.
Several Lexington organizations are helping us get to know who the candidates are and what they stand for.
The League of Women Voters will host three forums.
"We think the voters need to have good information beyond sound bites to make good decisions about who they will vote for," said Cindy Heine, league vice president.
There are several forums over three days. The largest is Saturday, but it will end in plenty of time to watch Kentucky play Wisconsin in the Final Four.
Scheduled to appear are candidates for the state House of Representatives' 76th and 77th Districts, 6th District U.S. House of Representatives, Fayette County judge-executive and Urban County Council at-large races.
On Sunday, candidates in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th council districts will get their chances to woo voters.
And April 13, contenders for council seats in the 6th and 8th Districts will discuss their positions on issues.
Candidates are not given the questions in advance, Heine said. Instead, audience members will be asked to write out questions, and members of the League will choose the best ones. League members might add questions on other issues.
"We are always pleased to do this," Heine said of the forums, which will be taped and replayed on the Library Channel (Time Warner Cable Channel 20) about a week later, she said.
In addition to the League forums, the Community Action Council, Central Kentucky Council for Peace and Justice and Catholic Action Center are collaborating to host an April 16 forum just for at-large council candidates.
"The hottest issues in Lexington are about homelessness, affordable housing and poverty in general," said Malcolm Ratchford, executive director of the Community Action Council. "We want to get the candidates to talk about these issues. One of the candidates could be vice mayor." (The top vote-getter among the at-large candidates in the November election will become vice mayor.)
All three sponsoring groups have worked to shore up the underserved, including the homeless or near-homeless, and they want voters to know where candidates stand on issues that affect the least of us.
The candidates will have an opportunity to reveal their positions on poverty or, perhaps, their lack of knowledge about the issue, Ratchford said.
Again, questions will not be given in advance. "We want to hear them off-the-cuff," he said.
An interesting twist will be audience comments on Twitter, using hashtag #LFUCGatlarge, about the candidates' responses. The comments, which will be monitored, will appear on a screen onstage so candidates may see them and respond if they choose during closing comments.
"We did this before in 2010 for the mayor's race," Ratchford said.
Most of the candidates have agreed to appear.
If that is not enough opportunities to get to know some of the candidates, KET will feature candidates in six U.S. Senate and House primary races on consecutive Mondays at 8 p.m. on Kentucky Tonight, beginning April 21 with the Senate Republican primary.
With all those chances to find out where candidates stand, surely we can find someone we can vote for, someone who will get us to stop complaining and start participating in the government process. That seems to be what the folks who wrote the Constitution wanted us to do.
Some of us can start by registering to vote in the primary by the April 21 deadline.
Candidate forums
League of Women Voters
April 5: 9 a.m., state House of Representatives 76th District; 10:15 a.m., state House of Representatives 77th District; 11:45 a.m., U.S. House of Representatives 6th District; 12:30 p.m., Fayette County judge-executive; 1:15-2:30 p.m., Urban County Council at-large, group 1; 3-4:15 p.m., Urban County Council at-large, group 2.
April 6: Urban County Council. 1:30 p.m., 2nd District; 2:30 p.m., 3rd District; 3:30 p.m., 4th District.
April 13: Urban County Council. 2:15 p.m., 6th District; 3:30 p.m., 8th District.
All forums will be at Downtown Public Library auditorium, 140 East Main Street.
Community Action Council, Central Kentucky Council for Peace and Justice and the Catholic Action Center: 7 p.m. April 16, 913 Georgetown St.
KET forums: April 21, U.S. Senate Republican primary; April 28, U.S. Senate Democratic primary; May 5, 5th and 6th Districts, U.S. House Democratic primaries; May 12, 1st and 3rd Districts, U.S. House Democratic primaries. All programs air at 8 p.m.


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Sophomore Sarah Bertero, junior Lacey Fraser, and junior Yasmeen Chao, (left to right) are among a dozen USF students who teach Children's Faith Formation classes at St. Ignatius Church.
Teaching third graders about the Bible and why loving their neighbor is important doesn't
always come easy. As Teresa Carino, a University of San Francisco sophomore recently learned,
you never know when one of them will interject something about "zombies" into
the conversation.
How zombies entered
the picture, she still doesn't know. "I was trying to teach them the power that
just a smile has on people, on homeless people in particular," Carino said.
It was a lesson
like many, highlighting how to treat others, especially those viewed as
"outcasts," said Carino, a theology and religious studies major and one of
about a dozen USF students currently teaching Children's Faith Formation (CFF)
classes at St. Ignatius Church each Sunday. One minute Carino was teaching, the
next, there was a zombie in the room. Of course, every third grader worth their
salt has an opinion about zombies. Before she knew it, members of the class
were trying to top each other.
"My co-teacher and I just made a joke out of it and tried
to related it back to our topic," Carino said. "We take from what the kids give
us. We've found that if we try to force them to 'read the story, read the
story' they become resistant."
She enjoys her
third graders' sometimes-humorous responses, Carino said. If one of them is
starting from zombies, so be it. It's part of the connection she feels toward
them as developing young Catholics. "I get to teach these kids about our faith
and watch them as they grow with the lessons," Carino said.
USF students from a variety of backgrounds and majors
teach CFF classes at St. Ignatius, from preschool to post confirmation (8th
grade). USF students, each of them involved through University Ministry, have
been teaching CFF classes at St. Ignatius since at least 1997, according to Dan
Faloon, who has served as the director of religious education at St. Ignatius
Church since 1998.
"USF students
introduce the children to basic Catholic beliefs, prayers, practices, the Bible, and how we live out our faith," Faloon said. As
teachers of almost half the CFF classes at St. Ignatius, USFers also share
their own faith and how they live it with their students, as well as help the
children reflect on their life experience as related to faith formation.
Teaching is a
valuable experience, both in that it gives back to younger Catholics and its
ability to challenge USF students to grow in their own faith, Faloon said.
That's the case
with Carino, who initially signed up on a whim. "Two of my close friends and I
were at Sunday Mass at St. Ignatius and during the announcements they said that
there was a need for CFF teachers," said Carino, who grew up helping her mother
arrange flowers for her old parish and was active in her high school campus
ministry. "We all looked at each other with that 'why not' look on our faces. It
was a great idea!"
"Teaching refuels
the lessons, the ceremonies, and the prayers for me," Carino said. "It reminds
me of the meaning behind the words." And, in the case of zombies, it also
teachers her patience, Carino laughed.
Julia Dowd, acting
director of University Ministry, said teaching CFF is a great way for Catholic
students at USF to understand the important role they play in the life of their
local Catholic church and that the future of the church depends on their
participation. "We want our Catholic students to recognize that they have a
right and responsibility to be full, active, and engaged members of the
Catholic church," Dowd said.
If that's the goal, then it seems to be working.
One-and-a-half years into her CFF teaching stint, Carino still enjoys the work,
the connections she's made, and the local Catholic community.
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Help Please / Drying to delete items
Newbie here. Last night while trying to dump iphoto pics to external HD ... something happened. All of my desktop icons were gone. When I click on desktop, it shows the 20k+ photos listed in that folder. I have no idea how they got there, but it will not allow me to delete them from my desktop folder. It's giving me the warning that they may be being used by another folder. I can click 'ignore' and delete ... but I obviously don't want to click this 20k+ times. Any help ... go easy on me.
Help Please / Drying to delete items
Newbie here. I just dumped a years worth of photos (20k+) from iphoto to an external HD. After the process, I noticed that my desktop icons were gone. When I go to finder>desktop ... It shows my previous desktop folders AND the 20K+ images that were dumped. I imagine that this is why me desktop is blank. When I go to delete I get a pop up telling me that "this file is being used by another program or location ..." Obviously I can hit the continue tab ... but there is no way I can do this 20k+ times. Does anyone have any idea what happened ... or what I can do to fix? Go easy on me ... :)
Also ... when I try to delete in a large batch ... the pop up will come up for each photo. Just letting you know that a batch delete doesnt work either.
Doesn't sound like they successfully made it over to the external, maybe you drag + dropped them just short of the drive icon?
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Below is the poem entitled If I can't have you, nobody can which was written by poet
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You rejected the wrong man.
If I can't have you, nobody can.
That bullet proof vest won't protect your head.
When I pull the trigger, you're as good as dead.
Very soon you'll no longer be walking.
I give new meaning to the word stalking.
This gun of mine is as loud as thunder.
I won't be happy until you're six feet under.
I just shot you in the face and you hit the floor.
When it comes to men, you won't reject anymore.
I'm going to haul your corpse to the river in my van.
If I can't have you, nobody can.
(This is a fictional poem. In real life, I believe that violence is a terrible thing.)


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Brokers still bullish on voluntary
By BenefitsPro
By Kathryn Mayer
Ask any industry insider, and they'll tell you voluntary products are big.
And next year, according to a new report, they'll be even bigger.
Eastbridge Consulting Group says voluntary sales will boom next year, with about 90 percent of respondents in the group's mid-year 2013 Voluntary Industry Confidence Index survey saying they expect sales to increase in the next 12 months.
The report's overall Confidence Index increased to 102, up from 99 at year-end 2012 and 100.9 at mid-year 2012, "indicating that confidence in the worksite/voluntary industry's future continues to be positive," Eastbridge said.
"Respondents continue to be optimistic about the voluntary/worksite industry's capacity to grow their voluntary business," Eastbridge President Gil Lowerre said.
The overall mean (with a scale of 1 to 5) was up significantly in the latest survey (4.12 from 3.99) because there was a large increase in those expecting sales to 'increase a lot.' That number jumped from 13 percent in the year-end 2012 survey to 31 percent in the latest one.
Brokers remain especially confident in increasing voluntary sales, Lowerre said
"Almost half are expecting sales to 'increase a lot,'" he said.
More and more brokers are turning to voluntary sales as a way to help lost commissions due to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
That explains why a large percentage of survey respondents (70 percent) said they expect PPACA to have "some" or a "major positive impact" on voluntary sales.
Eastbridge's report is conducted semi-annually and includes responses from individuals active in the market—carriers, brokers and vendors.
Originally published on BenefitsPro.com


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ELIZABETHTON — Carter County Mayor Leon Humphrey announced a plastics company will be locating in the Watauga Industrial Park soon, with plans to immediately hire 30 employees.
Tom Anderson, president of Carter County Tomorrow, said the Highlands Group will locate in the former Smoky Mountain Books warehouse in the northeast end of the industrial park. Highlands produces high-grade plastic for the pharmaceutical industry and other industries through recycling.
According to the company's Internet site, the Highlands Group has been well established in the plastics recycling industry since 1988. The company enjoys direct long-term relationships with major suppliers of a wide variety of plastics.
The corporate offices of the Highlands Group is in Winston-Salem, N.C., and Jeff Wade is the principal owner.
Anderson said Highlands will be a tenant in the 50,000-square-foot building that previously served as a book distribution warehouse. The building will be owned by Tittle Construction Co. of Johnson City.
"This is good news for Carter County," Humphrey said in making the announcement Friday morning. There are several other companies that are interested in starting operations in Elizabethton, most notably a recycling operation that converts tires and other carbon-based solid waste into fuel, but Humphrey said those projects take time.
"This project happened pretty quickly," Humphrey said. The talks with Carter County Tomorrow began in May and a deal was quickly worked out.
Humphrey said a more detailed informational announcement will be made later. The company currently has a production plant at 402 Steel St. in Johnson City. For more information on the Highlands Group, go to http://www.thgrecycling.com.


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PDT Staff Report
Two members of the Daily Times newsroom took home second place Sunday in the 2012 Ohio Associated Press Media Editor's (OAPME) Awards in Columbus.
Daily Times Content Manager Bob Strickley and writer Ryan Ottney learned in March that they were nominated for the OAPME Awards, Division II, Best Sports Enterprise Story category for an article on which they collaborated — "Realities of Racism," published in the Daily Times on March 16, 2012.
According to the Ohio Associated Press, "The annual APME awards represent the finest work of Ohio reporters, editors, photographers and illustrators last year — the best of the best. This year, 67 daily newspapers submitted 2,742 entries in the contest. And 31 broadcasters submitted 329 entries."
The Daily Times was recognized in Division II, which includes Ohio newspapers with a daily print circulation between 8,000 and 12,999.
The OAPME Awards ceremony was held in Columbus on Sunday, May 18, where Strickley and Ottney were announced the second place winners. Judges called their article a "Nice look at topics not often addressed," and "informative." First place went to Blake Williams, of the Lancaster-Eagle Gazette, for his story, "Multisport Athletes."
"We're proud that the Ohio Associated Press Managing Editors chose to recognize this story for second place in the Division II Best Sports Enterprise category. It shows that the Portsmouth Daily Times editorial staff, in this case Ryan Ottney and Bob Strickley, do more than just report the news and sports as it happens," Daily Times Publisher John Clark said. "It is our hope that the coverage helped to open a dialogue that will lead to better understanding and tolerance among people of all races. We appreciate the recognition from Ohio APME and congratulate Ryan and Bob on a job well done."
Prior to joining the Daily Times in 2011, Strickley worked at a series of weekly newspapers south of Boston, Mass. He graduated from The Ohio State University with a bachelor's degree in journalism and communication, and previously worked in television broadcasting and as a stringer for two Ohio web publications prior to moving to Massachusetts.
Ottney has a bachelor's degree in English with a journalism minor from Shawnee State University and has been a staff writer for the Daily Times since 2006. He previously received the "Infinity Award" from Lifeline of Ohio in 2009 for excellence in news reporting on issues of organ and tissue donation; the "Ohio School Board Association Media Honor Roll Award" from the OSBA in 2010 and 2012, and third place in the 2012 "Best of Heartland Award" from Daily Times publisher Heartland Publications (now called Civitas Media).
This is the first AP Award for the Daily Times since 2004, when the newspaper staff won second place for "Best Daily Sports Section," third place for "Page One Layout," and Honorable Mention for "Best Community Service" by the Associated Press Society of Ohio.


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ORLEANS-In a very evenly played match, the Rivendell Raptors had a little more at the end than the home standing Lake Region Rangers as they held on for a 2-1 victory. The Raptors erased a 1-0 LRU lead by scoring twice in the last 13 minutes of regulation to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.
With a large, several-hundred strong boisterous crowd on hand to witness the quarter-final between the number 4 seed, Lake Region and the number five seed Raptors it was obvious on this chilly 42 degree day that it would be tight one.
For the full story, see the Express on Monday 10-28-13.
NEWPORT-North Country's field hockey team scored two goals in the second half to advance past Fair Haven in the Division III Quarter-finals by the score of 2-1.
The Falcons got down 1-0 in the first half on a goal by the Slaters' Anna-Michelle Fabian.
As the rains intensified in the second half, so did North Country's play.
Brittany Fortier tied the contest after some good Falcon pressure in the Slater end.
She then set up Briana Bocelli for what would be the eventual game winner.
The girls will now face Stowe on Wednesday at UVM.
Game time is 3:45.
CRAFTSBURY–Iva Wright had two second half goals to lead the Craftsbury Lady Chargers as they defeated the Danville Indians 4-2 in the opening round of the Division IV play-offs.
"We did really well today and played as a team," said Craftsbury coach Ashley Maxfield.
"Plus it helps when we can play with more than one sub," she added with a chuckle.
When play got underway on Wednesday afternoon, Craftsbury was ready to go.
Melanie Sergiev was leading the attack, heading down the left side of the field trying to through balls into the center of the pitch.
ORLEANS-For a novice fan who didn't know a number fifteen seed from a number two seed, it was indeed hard to tell who was who yesterday afternoon.
The black clad team from Addison county or the white clad team from Orleans County.
Middlebury High school, having been shut out for ten consecutive games, found the scoring touch mid-way through the first half and added a second tally in the second en-route to the biggest upset of the first round of the Vermont state playoffs, defeating the Lady Rangers 2-0.
For the full story, see the Express on Thursday 10-24-13.
ST. JOHNSBURY–The St. Johnsbury Hilltoppers got scoring from four different players as they defeated the North Country Falcons 4-0 in the opening round of the 2013 Vermont boys high school soccer post-season.
The Falcons battled hard, but the talented Hilltoppers were just too much for them on this day.
"The senior's played their hearts out, just like I expected them to," said NCU coach James McKenny talking about his elder statesmen who played in the final game of their North Country career.
ORLEANS-Tied at the half in a scoreless draw, the Lake Region Rangers put together a dominant half after intermission.
Senior Alex Beauregard was the finisher in the blue and white attack as he scored all four goals to propel the Rangers into the quarter-finals this Friday.
For the full story, see the Express on Wednesday 10-23-13.
NEWPORT-Two first half goals, one by each team, was all the scoring that would happen on Saturday morning, as the North Country and St. Johnsbury field hockey teams tied 1-1 in the final regular season match-up of 2013.
Brittany Verge's rocket put the Falcons up 1-0 with 12:20 left in the first half, but the Hilltoppers' Danielle Martin tied the game 6 minutes later and that would be all the scoring the game would have.
North Country dominated for long stretches during the second half and into overtime, but could not find the back of the net a second time.
NEWPORT-Ryan Paul's performance in the North Country nets on Friday night is the stuff that legends are built upon. The senior netminder, along with the defenders playing in front of him, combined to stop close to thirty shots from entering the Falcon goal against the Essex Hornets.
Essex threw everything but the kitchen sink at the Falcons, but the entire team battled as one, giving what could arguably be called the team's finest performance of 2013.
NEWPORT-The North Country girls soccer team honored their outgoing seniors before the start of their match with Essex on Friday evening.
The girls, while battling hard for their seniors, had a tough time finding quality shots against the 6th ranked Hornets, and fell 2-0 to finish the year with a record of 4-10.
As of now, the girls are ranked 15th in Division I, and likely will face Burlington in the opening round of the play-offs.
For the full story, see the Express on Monday 10-28-13.
ORLEANS–Thursday was senior day for the Lake Region boy's soccer team, as they hosted Richford for their final regular season home match.
The five Ranger seniors, Josh Thibault, Alex Beauregard, Jeremy Dean, Isiah Palmer and Dominick Turcotte, as well as manager Corrina Cota, were honored before the game, and three of them, Thibault, Beauregard and Palmer scored in Lake Region's 4-1 over the Falcons.
"It was a good match all around," LRU coach Tom Evans said about Thursday's contest.


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The Monkey HTTP Daemon lightweight webserver for static content enters the open source arena.
The project claims to have rewritten almost 85% of the code over two years to achieve its newest milestone release. The result is a webserver intended for fast and efficient delivery of static content that can also pass on requests for dynamic content to other servers. Monkey HTTP Daemon is meant for Linux only, because the server uses particular system calls that only the kernel 2.6.28 OR newer recognizes.
The Monkey server uses a hybrid mechanism to answer HTTP requests that combines asynchronous mode with fixed threads. The webserver supports virtual hosts and conforms to the HTTP 1.1 specification. A plugin named Cheetah provides a command line shell and a security plugin adds an access restrictions option.
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A Chisholm musher has won the annual John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon along the North Shore of Lake Superior.
Nathan Schroeder was first to cross the finish line in Duluth Wednesday morning.
It's the second Beargrease win for Schroeder, who also won the race in 2010.
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The nearly 400-mile sled dog marathon began Sunday.
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A trial date has been set for former Gov. Robert F. McDonnell and his wife Maureen for July 28, following a Jan. 24 arraignment at a Richmond federal courthouse. Both pleaded not guilty to all 14 charges.
Federal authorities say the McDonnells repeatedly asked Johnnie Williams, a Richmond-area businessman, for loans and gifts totaling more than $165,000. The 43-page indictment alleges the McDonnells asked for money, clothes, golf fees, equipment, numerous trips and private jet rides in exchange for access to political clout.
The report states that under Virginia. law, certain state officials and employees – including the governor and members of his staff – are required to annually file a standardized disclosure statement of their personal economic interests on or before Jan. 15 each year.
The indictment describes specific charges against Maureen, stating she intentionally avoided annual reporting requirements by transferring a total of 5,000 Star Scientific shares into newly opened brokerage accounts in the names of her five children.
Federal documents state Williams took Maureen on an April 2011 shopping spree in New York City, in exchange for a seat beside McDonnell at a political event. The document states Williams spent about $10,999 at Oscar de la Renta, $5,685 at Louis Vuitton and $2,604 at Bergdorf Goodman, and later sat next to the governor.
Prosecutors allege that Gov. McDonnell helped promote Anatabloc, the company's new product.
Gov. McDonnell denied helping Williams in a public address last week and said he has done nothing illegal, adding that his behavior is characteristic of many elected officials in his position.
"I will use every available resource and advocate that I have," McDonnell said, "for as long as it takes to fight and prevail against these false allegations and the unjust overreach of the federal government."
Judge David Novak said the McDonnell case will be tried in the courtroom and will not be tried in the media and ordered attorneys on both sides not to comment publicly on the case.
"The gamesmanship with the media ends now," Novak said.
— James Galloway, Capital News Service
Virginia Senate legislation designed to give in-state tuition to undocumented childhood arrivals was defeated this past week by a Health and Education Committee vote of 6-7.
Senate Bill 249, patroned by Sen. Donald McEachin (D-Dist. 9) and known as the Virginia DREAM Act, sparked heated rhetoric on whether state or federal legislators should be held responsible for immigration-related measures.
"Shame on the federal government and people from both parties," said Sen. Thomas A. Garrett, R-Hadensville. "I can't vote on the bill because it's unconstitutional. We can't do this. It's stupid."
Republicans on the committee questioned the legal status of Virginia residents who've received Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a memorandum that advises U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Citizenship and Immigration Services, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement to grant undocumented people momentary pardon from being deported. The order was enacted by The Department of Homeland Security in 2012.
"I understand Senator Garrett's position, but I think it's not well-founded," McEachin said. "This legislation wasn't made to confer citizenship. All we're trying to do is give them access to the public university system at an in-state cost."
Members of the committee expressed frustration with similar measures repeatedly failing when introduced to the state legislature.
"We've been asking the federal government to do their job, but they're not," said Sen. Janet Howell (D-Dist. 32). "Meanwhile, we have a generation of students who've been deprived of a reasonably priced, higher-quality education. How long do they have to wait for the federal government to do its job? I think it's our obligation to step forward and do ours."
Two similar bills seeking in-state tuition were tabled in a House subcommittee on Tuesday.
—Chris Suarez, Capital News Service
Electronic cigarettes could be banned from the hands of minors as Virginia legislators in the House and Senate push for regulation.
In response to the growing number of young people experimenting with smokeless tobacco products, Virginia lawmakers have introduced House Bills 1111, 26 and 218, and Senate Bills 96 and 17 to prohibit people under the age of 18 from purchasing or possessing e-cigarettes.
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention press release stated the percentage of U.S. middle and high school students who use electronic cigarettes more than doubled to 4.7 percent between 2011 to 2012.
Data from the National Youth Tobacco Survey stated more than 1.78 million middle school and high school students had tried e-cigarettes in 2012.
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HB1111, HB218 and SB96 specifically call for electronic cigarettes to be grouped beneath the umbrella of "tobacco products," which may lead to regulation similar to that of traditional cigarettes.
A version of each bill — HB218 in the House and SB96 in the Senate — has passed out of committee and is awaiting further action.
The e-cigarette industry is predicted to have earned more than $1 billion in annual sales for 2013, according to statistics from the Tobacco Vapor Electronic Cigarette Association.
Some local e-cig retailers already have prepared for the repercussions of growth by carefully marketing their products.
"As a company we welcome legislation," said Donovan Phillips, co-owner of the electronic cigarette specialty store and lounge, Avail Vapor in Richmond. "As far as the 18 and under situation, this industry needs this kind of legislation as it moves from the state of a novelty to a mainstream product."
Avail Vapor, which has several store locations throughout Virginia, practices self-regulation to remain ahead of the curve.
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Jose Montiel, 17, faces three new charges of improper photography
SAN ANTONIO - A department store worker accused of videotaping a woman in a dressing room is facing additional charges related to other customers.
Live Oak police arrested Jose Montiel, 17, in June after a woman at a Kohl's store in The Forum Shops told them she saw someone using an iPhone to videotape her while she tried on clothes in the dressing room.
The woman told officers that she and the store's janitor were the only people in the dressing room at the time, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
At the time of the arrest, police seized Montiel's cell phone, the affidavit stated.
Detectives reviewed the video and still pictures on the phone, and said they found images of other women, also taken while they were in the dressing room, the affidavit stated.
Police identified some of the women in the photos and contacted them. All of them said they wanted to press criminal charges against Montiel, the affidavit stated.
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Excerpts from a recent article from the New Statesman, about one proposal for how Britain's Labour Party can deal with its financial woes:
The party's impending insolvency is beginning to concentrate minds, not least those of a group of previously Labour-friendly businessmen, who can spot a bargain when they see one. The New Statesman has learned that the unnamed, secretive group—whose members have track records in helping turn round left-leaning institutions in the past—is considering approaching hedge funds with a view to buying out the Labour Party, or rather the remaining individual members, who would be offered shares instead. "Turning the members into shareholders could offer the same opportunities as the demutualisation of the building societies," says one who is involved.
A business plan has yet to be drawn up, as the group will wait until it hears what the NEC intends to do. But the same source adds: "We have been watching how Silvio Berlusconi created Forza Italia in parallel to his business interests, and we believe that our idea offers a fascinating adaptation to British conditions."
Quite how those who are courting this rapidly declining asset stand to benefit is unclear. Another businessman who is part of the "Syndicate", as he puts it, is less guarded. If new Labour became a "limited liability party", it might be possible, he says—not entirely jokingly—to "sell non-core policies, from a customer perspective, as three-to five-year options on implementation in office". These could include policy sales to the nuclear industry or to the green lobby. "This," he points out, "could help ensure that national policies achieve the highest returns. And that could only benefit the shareholders—or, as they used to be known, the party members."
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Grace Kerina
Grace Kerina writes and helps others write, using devious methods like curiosity and healthy boundaries. As a Writer's Shepherd, she guides and accompanies authors on projects so they don't have to navigate their wilderness alone.
Grace's website is gracekerina.com.
New Friends
When I arrive,
cheeks aching
from the frozen air,
my new friend
(from Thailand)
is ready.
I smile, chiding myself
for thinking she
might have forgotten.
That old pain
of slipping through
other people's minds.
Oh, right, that was today!
But carrots are peeled,
mushrooms cleaned,
glass noodles slither
creepily in their bowl.
Everything is laid out
just so.
We stand hip to hip
in her miniscule kitchen
(don't tread on her cat)
as she teaches me
to make spring rolls
from scratch.
We struggle together
in German,
like toddlers,
as befit new friends
in a new land
wanting to be liked.
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So lovely. Image is perfectly clear in my mind.Reply
Dear Grace…. You will never slip through the memory of the magical time we shared together, with Erika, on Gabriola Island … love your poem … and so happy to you are creating new friendship memories in Germany …Reply
Ah yes. That feeling of wanting to be liked when one is in a new land. So true. Those moments of friendship seem to count for so much more. Beautiful words.Reply


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I watch you silently.
Indulging in the heart felt emotions that quake within my heart.
A blanket of peace covers me.
Your eyes are as detailed as a book; Revealing the climax of the day.
The expression on your face is enticing.
The touch of your finger tips relay a quiet message,
that pulses through out my body.
A passionate, yet delicate kiss engulfs our surroundings;
Erasing all but the two of us.
For just a moment our souls have entwined.
No longer two but one.
Our hearts race.
Chills run up and down my spine,
Leaving tracks of goose bumps on my arms.
The hormone levels are hot enough to top off a thermometer.
The music, the dancing, the orgasmic combination convulses through out my veins.
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