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Paris - Joey Barton clashed with Olympique Marseille team-mate Kassim Abdallah during training on Tuesday but the argument has been amicably settled, the English midfielder said on Wednesday.
OM said in a statement on their website (www.om.net) that English midfielder Barton and French defender Abdallah had a "verbal clash" during a public training session, without elaborating.
"During my career, I've seen 30 or 40 clashes on a training pitch," Barton told OM TV.
"These clashes should be dealt with in private. We are competitors... and sometimes we go a little bit too far. The most important thing is to make peace and move on - that's what happened yesterday."
Barton arrived in France on loan from QPR following a colourful career in England during which he spent two and a half months in prison for assault during a night out in Liverpool.
At the time of the attack, he was already on bail for attacking former Manchester City team mate Ousmane Dabo and he also stubbed out a cigar in the eye of a youth-team player at the club in 2004.
"It's certain that where I am, there is always a little bit more noise and exaggeration," Barton said. "I'm aware of that, that's why I said yesterday: 'let's stop it, calm down. If there's a problem, let's deal with it in private'." - Reuters
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It's the end of an era for "Two-Buck Chuck," the wine that earned a nickname and notoriety for its surprisingly low price.
For the past decade, shoppers at Trader Joe's stores in California have paid just $1.99 for a bottle of Charles Shaw shiraz or cabernet sauvignon. But the new price, $2.49, takes a little longer to roll off the tongue.
So what will the shoppers, who came up with the moniker "Two-Buck Chuck," call it now?
"Inflation Chuck," said Matt Tucker, 28, a cook from Santa Rosa.
"Upchuck," said Lisa Garrett, 50, of Stewarts Point, saying her suggestion reflects the price increase, not the wine's drinkability.
The Charles Shaw brand was able to maintain such low prices for so long in part because its parent company, Bronco Wine Co., owns 45,000 acres of vineyard land, said Harvey Posert, spokesman for Bronco. That helps the company ride out wild fluctuations in grape prices like those the industry has seen in recent years.
"If there's one grape too many, the price dips," Posert said. "If there's one grape too few, the price zips up. In the sense of being the largest grape grower, Bronco can ride many of these ups and downs.
"But there were bad crops in 2010 and 2011, and that certainly impacted the industry," he said.
Even so, the retail price is set by Trader Joe's, Posert said. A display case in the store's wine aisle labels Charles Shaw as Trader Joe's best-selling wine. The brand sold about 5 million cases last year, Posert said.
"In general, our retail prices change only when our costs change," Alison Mochizuki, director of public relations for Trader Joe's, said in an email. "We've held a $1.99 retail price for 11 years. Quite a bit has happened during those years and the move to $2.49 allows us to offer the same quality that has made the wine famous the world over."

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When I began my career as a CIO in 1997, success was function of the basics - email delivery, network connectivity, and application functionality. I personally wrote code, experimented with new operating systems, and created analytics using web servers, SQL, and ASP pages.
In 2011, CIO success is much more complex to measure.
Infrastructure success can be defined as 99.99% uptime of all systems and no loss/corruption/breach of data. The magical belief in the cloud sets expectations that IT infrastructure should be like heat, power, and light - just there as a utility whenever it is is needed in whatever amount is needed.
Application success could be defined as on time, on budget delivery of go lives according to project plans. Two important forces make this more complex:
- Consumer software stores set expectations that enterprise software should be easy - we need to fix revenue cycle workflow, isn't there an app for that?
- As the economy forces downsizing and efficiency gains, there's an expectation that workflow automation is a pre-requisite to organizational change so there is more pressure on the IT department to deliver application solutions quickly.
This all sounds impossible - deliver massive infrastructure with constant change but keep it entirely reliable and secure. Deliver applications that support business processes in increasingly short timeframes with limited IT and business owner resources.
Thus, the modern CIO is no longer a technologist or evangelist for innovation. The modern CIO is a customer relationship manager, a strategic communicator, and a project manager, delicately balancing project portfolios, available resources, and governance.
Modern CIOs have little time to get infrastructure and applications right, so they must "skate where the puck will be", thinking more like CEOs about business needs and future strategies, so that critical information technology is deployed by the time it is needed.
What am I doing in FY12 to become a more effective modern CIO?
1. I've defined key business customers (BIDMC senior management and chiefs). I'm meeting with each one to ensure their priorities for the next year and beyond are reflected in the FY12 IT operating plan and the 5 year IT strategic plan. Planning much more than 5 years in IT is problematic given the pace of technology change. Working with the governance committees, I will trim this list into those projects that have the greatest impact on business strategy, quality/safety, and efficiency.
2. I'm standardizing communication so that key customers receive monthly updates about their priority projects.


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Today a reader emailed me to spill the beans on something very cool. Apparently there is some subtle advertising for Batman vs Superman in Will Smith's I am Legend. I have not seen the movie yet and can not confirm this but the reader says quote;
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The 6-foot-4, 215 pound QB received the offer last week. He is Alabama's 16th commitment for the 2012 signing class.
Earlier in the day, Alabama picked up a commitment from First Coast (Fla.) wide receiver Chris Black, who picked the Crimson Tide over Florida State.
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Guess Who?
Guess Who? is a two-player guessing game created by Ora and Theo Coster, also known as Theora Design, that was first manufactured by Milton Bradley in 1979 in Great Britain. It was brought to the United States in 1982.[citation needed]
Each player starts the game with a board that includes cartoon images of 24 people and their first names with all the images standing up. Each player selects a card of their choice from a separate pile of cards containing the same 24 images. The object of the game is to be the first to determine which card one's opponent has selected. Players alternate asking various yes or no questions to eliminate candidates, such as "Does this person wear glasses?" The player will then eliminate candidates by flipping those images down until all but one is left. Well-crafted questions allow players to eliminate one or more possible cards.
Special editions which have different faces have been released, including Star Wars,[1] Marvel Comics[2] and Disney.[3] There are smaller, "travel" editions which have only 20 different faces. In 2008 and 2010, extra and mix and match games were released.[citation needed]
In the United States, advertisements for the board game often showed the characters on the cards coming to life, and making witty comments to each other. This caused later editions of such ads to carry the spoken disclaimer line "game cards do not actually talk" in order to meet Federal Trade Commission advertising guidelines requiring full disclosure of toy features unable to be replicated with the actual product.[citation needed]
- ^ Guess Who Star Wars: Toys & Games. Amazon.com. Retrieved on 2012-01-23.
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- ^ Guess Who – Disney Edition: Toys & Games. Amazon.com. Retrie
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|22 sept. 1960
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|22 sept. 1960
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|Firestone William L
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W. L. FIRESTONE Filed Sept. 22, 1960 CIRCUIT COUPLING MEANS BETWEEN STAGES Jan. 8, 1953 INVENTOR. William L. Firestone N re United States Patent Cfifice 3,072,849 Patented Jan. 8, 1963 3,072,849 RADIO RECEIVER HAVING VOLTAGE-CON- TROLLED RESONANT CIRCUIT COUPLING MEANS BETWEEN STAGES William L. Firestone, Highland Park, Ill., assignor to Motorola, line, Chicago, Ill., a corporation of lllinois Filed Sept. 22, 1960, Ser. No. 57,744 4 Claims. (Cl. 325319) This invention relates to radio communication systems, and more particularly to a circuit for controlling the intermodulation of adjacent channel signals in receivers of such systems. It finds particular use in transistorized mobile radio communication receivers, which must often be adapted to receive both weak and strong signals in a spectrum of closely spaced signals, in order to reduce the tendency for intermodulation therein.
It is known in the communication art that a strong received signal often times intermodulates with another signal in certain stages of a radio receiver. Thus, the first tuned stage in a frequency modulation communications receiver may not provide sufficient selectivity to prevent intermodulation at certain levels of signal input and with certain frequency spacing of adjacent channel signals. The problem of such signal interference can become particularly acute in mobile communication systems where a receiver unit may, on some occasions be in strong signal areas, and on other occasions be in weaker signal areas. Some adjustment in the selectivity and sensitivity of the equipment may be desired or even necessary in order to insure proper reception of weaker signals as well as stronger signals under different adjacent channel conditions.
In general, there are two well known types of automatic sensitivity and selectivity control arrangements adapted for use with radio receivers. In one type the gain char acteristic of one or more of the electron discharge devices of the receiver, usually an amplifier stage, is regulated. In the other type of transmission of signal energy through the receiver network is regulated by controlling the high frequency coupling between stages in the receiver network. The first type of gain control arrangement, involving the changing of certain of the operating characteristics of the electron discharge devices intended primarily for amplifying purposes, has a number of disadvantages, among which are tendencies to produce even worse intermodulation, cross-modulation and harmonics in the radio frequency amplifier as the overall gain or sensitivity is decreased. This is due to increased non-linearity associated with reduction of gain of an active stage. In transistorized receivers, these effects produced by AGC control of the first type are aggravated, and there is the additional disadvantage of power consumption in the AGC circuit since biasing current is required.
Hence many arrangements of the second type have been proposed for controlling the transfer of radio frequency energy between receiver stages, but these have generally suffered from such defects as complicated, and therefore expensive circuitry, non-linearity, limited range, etc.
Accordingly, it is an object of this invention to provide a simple, eiiicient and reliable automatic system for con- 2 and thereby reducing the tendency for intermodulation interference.
A feature of the invention is the provision of an improved communication receiver in which the transfer of signal energy between stages thereof is regulated by a tunable inductance capacitance network, the impedance of which is automatically controlled by a direct current potential related to the received signal strength to thereby reduce the coupling at high signal levels.
Another feature of the provision of a transistorized receiver with an automatic intermodulation control circuit connected in series between a tuned input circuit and a radio frequency transistor amplifier. The intermodulation control circuit includes a varactor diode (capacitor) which goes into resonance with an inductance coil as a control potential is applied thereto to provide a controllable attenuation to input signals while inversely varying the selectivity of the tuned input circuit.
In the accompanying drawing:
FIG. 1 is a schematic and block diagram of a radio receiver incorporating the invention;
FIG. 2 is a graphical representation helpful in under standing the operation of the invention; and
FIG. 3 is a diagram of a modified circuit of the invention.
This invention provides an automatic control system for a communication receiver which automatically reduces the coupling between stages thereof while increasing the selectivity thereof when signals above a certain strength are received. The system includes a variable coupling circuit connected in series between two successive stages of the receiver, the variable circuit being responsive to a control signal for regulating the amount of coupling between the stages. The coupling circuit includes a tunable inductance-capacitance network to which a control voltage is applied to cause a shift in the resonant frequency of the network. In one form, the network utilizes a capacitive element, such as a varactor diode, having a characteristic such that its capacitance varies in accordance 'with the direct current potential difference thereacross. The control voltage is applied across this capaci tive element, causing it to go into resonance with a voltage stable inductive element associated therewith in the coupling network. The resonant frequency of the network is related to the frequency of signals being transferred between stages so that coupling is reduced as the impedance of the resonant circuit increases for the frequency of transferred signals. When the coupling circuit is connected between antenna tuned circuits and a first transistor radio frequency amplifier, the selectivity of the tuned circuits is also increased due to the reduced loading thereof as the impedance of the coupling-circuit increases, thereby further reducing the tendency for intermodulation in the receiving equipment. 'The direct current control potential may be obtained from a stage of the receiver providing rectified signals which vary in ac cordance with strength of received signals.
Referring in more detail to FIG. 1 of the accompanying drawing, a mobile communications frequency modulation receiver embodying the invention is shown which includes a first radio frequency transistor amplifier 10 to which the received signal is applied from antenna 11. Amplifier 10 selects and amplifies the received signal which is then applied to a second radio frequency amplifier 13 which may include any desired number of stages. The second radio frequency amplifier 13 is coupled to a mixer circuit 14 where the signal is heterodyned with a signal from a first oscillator 16 and the resultant output applied to an intermediate frequency amplifier 17. A second mixer circuit 18 may be provided for heterodyning the signal with another signal from a second oscillator 19 to produce a still lower intermediate frequency signal which is applied through a passive filter section 21 to second intermediate frequency amplifier 22. Amplifier 22 may include any number of stages, the last one of which feeds a limiter circuit 23. The signal is then applied to a discriminator network 24 where the frequency modulated intelligence is recovered, and after further amplification in an audio amplifier 26, the signal is applied to a loudspeaker 27 or other reproducing device for translating the received signal. The operation of the receiver as briefly described thus far is known in the art and may be seen to be that of a double conversion superheterodyne frequency modulation radio receiver, although the inven tion may be used in other types of equipment as is apparent from the following description.
Returning to the first radio frequency amplifier 10, the antenna 11 is coupled through capacitor 31 and 32 to a center tap inductance coil 33. A capacitor 34 is shunt connected with elements 31-33 and together therewith comprises a first tuned circuit resonant at the particular carrier frequency of the channel desired to be received. The amplifying element of the radio frequency amplifier stage is a PNP transistor 36 which may be connected with its base 37 as the common or grounded electrode. An emitter electrode 38 serves as the input electrode and is connected to a biasing resistor 39 which in turn is connected through another resistor 40 to a source of direct current labeled B+. Base 37 is connected to the junction of resistors 39 and 40 by a biasing resistor 41, and to ground through a resistor 42 and a b pass capacitor 43 in shunt therewith. An A.C. path for input signals is provided by a blocking capacitor 44 connected to the junction of resistor 39 and emitter 38, and by a radio frequency bypass capacitor 45 connected between resistors 39 and 40 and ground. A collector electrode 46 serves as the output electrode of the transistor 36 and is connected to a tuned output circuit consisting of a coil 47 connected in parallel with a capacitor 48 between collector 46 and ground.
In accordance with the present invention, received signals at the carrier frequency are coupled from tuned circuit 31-34 to the input circuit of transistor 36 by means of a variable coupling circuit. This coupling circuit includes a varactor diode type capacitor 51 connected in series between a center tap 33a of coil 33 and blocking capacitor 44. The capacitance of coupling capacitor 51 may be controlled by an applied direct current voltage as is well known in the art, and it may comprise a potential variable condenser such as that sold under the trademark Varicap. A voltage stable inductance element, such as coil 52, is connected across the terminals of capacitor 51 in parallel therewith. The inductance of coil 52 is selected with respect to the unpolarized capacitance of capacitor 51 such that an inductance-capacitance network is formed which resonates at a frequency differing by a predetermined amount from the carrier frequency.
A control potential for capacitor 51 is applied thereto by means of a lead 61 which is connected through a radio frequency choke 62 to one terminal of capacitor 51. The opposite terminal of capacitor 51 is connected through another radio frequency choke 63 to ground. The control potential is developed in a suitable rectifying network 66 which may be connected before the limiter stage 23 in such a manner as to provide a direct current voltage which varies with the strength of signals received by the receiver.
In describing the operation of the circuitry of the invention it will first be assumed that weak signals of a predetermined amplitude are being received by antenna 11. The components of these signals which are coupled at this level from the tuned circuit 31-34 to the coupling network 51-52 are primarily in-channel components, with adjacent channel components being suppressed to sub-audible levels by the normal selectivity of tuned circuit 31-34: For this low signal level, a given direct current control potential is taken from network 66 and applied across the terminals of capacitor 51, thereby establishing a predetermined capacitive reactance across capacitor 51. This capacitive reactance in parallel with the inductance of coil 52 causes the coupling network 51-52 to resonate at a frequency P which ditfers by a predetermined amount from the channel frequency F Curve A of FIG. 2 illustrates the impedance characteristic of the circuit 51-52 for this predetermined weak signal for the frequencies F and F. The in-channel signal is then developed principally across the input impedance of radio frequency amplifier 10 consisting of capacitor 44, resistor 39 and capacitor 45.
When the received signal level rises above the predetermined low level, the control potential applied across capacitor 51 varies accordingly to thereby change the capacitance of capacitor 51. By matching the control potential variation to a varactor diode selected to have the proper characteristics to serve as capacitor 51, the resonant frequency of the coupling network 51-52 may be made to shift towards the channel frequency of F The values may be selected such that at maximum signal levels the impedance characteristic of network 51-52 is represented by dash curve A, which would then be centered on the channel frequency F It will thus be seen that as the signal level rises the impedance offered by the network 51-52 to the received signals increases, the network thus forming a trap circuit offering a large attenuation to all in-channel signals and thereby preventing a further increase in intermodulation, resulting in overall intermodulation decrease for strong signals. The breadth of the impedance curve may be designed to attenuate adjacent and alternate channel signals as well as on-channel signals. The coupling trap circuit is operable over a large dynamic impedance range and therefore provides a wide range of attenuation control.
The invention also operates to increase the selectivity of the receiver as its sensitivity is decreased. Since the coupling network 51-52 is in series with the input circuit of transistor 36, a voltage divider network is formed with the coupling network portion thereof having a regulated impedance. For weak signals the impedance of the coupling network is at a minimum, and the coupling between the tuned circuit 31-34 and the impedance presented by the input circuit of transistor 36 is set for critical coupling, e.g. maximum loading of the tuned circuit consistent with bandwidth limitations. Increasing the impedance of the coupling network 51-52 to signals of channel frequency F also increases the total impedance presented to the tuned circuit 31-34, thereby decreasing the load coupled to the tuned circuit. This reduction in the load coupled to tuned circuit 31-34 increases the Q thereof and decreases the pass band thereof. Thus the decoupling action of the L-C trap circuit 51-52 when it is associated with a preceding tuned circuit increases the selectivity of the receiver.
It will be understood that, in place of the rectifier circuit 66, any suitable source of direct current control potential which varies with the amplitude of the received signal may be used as a source for the control potential. The correct polarity for capacitor 51 may be easily provided by connecting lead 61 to the appropriate terminal thereof.
The variable coupling network may also be provided in the form of a series resonant circuit as shown in FIG. 3. In this form, coil 52a is connected in series with capacitor 51a between center tap 33a and blocking capacitor 44. The control potential may be applied across the terminals of capacitor 51a. However, the values of inductance and capacitance are here chosen so that the trap circuit resonates at the frequency F for a minimum received signal level. An increase in signal level is reflected in the control potential to drive the series trap circuit oif resonance from frequency F or in other words, shifts its resonant frequency by a predetermined amount. Hence, the impedance of the series trap circuit is increased at the receiver tuned frequency, F as the signal level increases. The regulation is between minimum and maximum values in the manner of the parallel trap circuit to provide automatic attenuation at strong signal levels.
It is evident that the invention provides a simple and economical system for automatically reducing the tendency for intermodulation of signals in a communication receiver. The system provides automatic response to signals of increased strength so that the signals are attenuated between stages of the receiver without varying the gain of the stages. The system operates linearly with signal variations. Moreover, the coupling device of the invention when associated with tuned circuits increases the selectivity of the receiver at an operating point where this characteristic is most needed. Accordingly, it is possible to improve the reception of signals of various strengths which may be closely spaced in frequency. In transistorized receivers, the coupling device is particularly advantageous when used in lieu of conventional automatic gain control circuits since almost no power is needed to provide the attenuation effect compared to that drawn when transistors are current biased for the A.G.C.
It will be understood that it is intended to cover all changes and modifications of the examples of the invention herein chosen for the purpose of illustration which do not constitute departures from the spirit and scope of the invention. For instance, a similar result is obtainable by reversing the potential variable elements such that the inductive branch of the coupling network varies with the control potential while the capacitive branch remains insensitive to the control voltage.
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1. A wave signal intermodulation attenuation system for a receiver, including in combination, first and second receiver circuit portions having output and input circuits respectively, said first receiver circuit portion having a tuned circuit tuned to the desired signal, resonant circuit means connected in series between said output and input circuits and being the sole intercoupling between said receiver circuit portions, said resonant circuit means in cluding inductance means and potential variable capacitance means and having values of inductance and capacitance respectively so as to provide low impedance at the frequency of signals coupled between said receiver circuit portions, means for applying a direct current potential across said potential variable capacitance means which potential is proportional to the level of a signal translated by said system, said resonant circuit means providing a higher impedance between said output and input circuits as said direct current potential varies with increasing signal level and said resonant circuit means is variably resonate with respect to the frequency of the desired signal to thereby reduce overall intermodulation effects for strong received signals.
2. A wave signal input system for coupling an antenna to a receiver including in combination, a tuned circuit coupled to said antenna for selecting signals of achannel frequency and having an output terminal, a radio frequency transistor amplifier stage having an input circuit for applying received signals thereto, potential variable capacitor means connected inseries between said output terminal of said tuned circuit and said input circuit of said transistor amplifier stage, a source of direct current poten- 6 tial directly related to the strength of signals translated by said system, means for applying the direct current potential across said capacitor means for varying the capacitance thereof in relation to the strength of signals translated by said system, inductance means connected in parallel with said capacitor means and having a value of inductance selected to resonate therewith at a frequency differing by a predetermined amount from said channel frequency when the direct current potential across said capacitor is below a given value, whereby said capacitor means being resonated with said inductance means at said channel frequency as the strength of signals being received by said receiver on said channel frequency increases to increase the impedance between said tuned circuit and said input circuit of said transistor amplifier stage and the selectivity of said tuned circuit.
3. A wave signal input system for coupling an antenna to a receiver including in combination, a tuned circuit adapted to be coupled directly to the antenna for selecting signals of a channel frequency, a first transistor amplifier stage having an input circuit for applying received signals thereto, a varactor diode and an inductor connected as a series resonant circuit between said tuned circuit and said input circuit, a source of direct current potential variable in direct proportion to the strength of signals translated by said system, means for applying the direct current potential across said diode for varying the capacitance thereof with respect to the strength of signals translated by said system, said varactor diode and said inductor having respective values selected to resonate at substantially the channel frequency to offer low impedance to signals of channel frequency when the control potential across said diode is below a given value and to resonate at a substantially different frequency to offer higher impedance to signals of channel frequency as the direct current potential applied to said diode is increased.
4. A wave signal input system for coupling an antenna to a receiver including in combination, a tuned circuit coupled to the antenna for selecting signals of a channel frequency, a radio frequency transistor amplifier stage having an input circuit for supplying received signals thereto, a resonant circuit connected in series between said tuned circuit and said input circuit, said resonant circuit including a variable reactive element responsive to a changing potential thereacross to change the reactance thereof, a source of direct current potential directly related to the strength of a selected signal translated by said system, means for applying the direct current potential across said reactive element for varying the same in relation to the strength of the signal translated by said system, the values of said resonant circuit being chosen with respect to the values of the direct current potential to provide high signal transfer between said tuned circuit and said amplifier stage at low signal levels and to provide low signal transfer between said tuned circuit and said amplifier stage at high signal level with reduced loading and increased selectivity of said tuned circuit.
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Civic leaders will be honored for public service at Opening Convocation ceremonies marking the beginning of a new school year at 10:15 a.m. Wednesday, September 8 in John Gano Memorial Chapel on the William Jewell College campus in Liberty, Mo. The program includes Jewell faculty members in full academic regalia. Alumni and friends of the College are invited to attend the ceremonies free of charge. This year's convocation celebrates the 30th anniversary of the awarding of the William F. Yates Trustee Medallion for Distinguished Service. The recipients for 2010 are R.C. Crosby Kemper, III, Chief Executive of the Kansas City Public Library; Dr. William B. Neaves, President Emeritus of the Stowers Institute; and Roshann Parris, President and CEO of Parris Communications Inc. Special guest artist is the internationally renowned mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, who will offer a musical tribute in memory of Richard Harriman, co-founder and artistic director of the Harriman-Jewell Series. Harriman died July 15. The William F. Yates Trustee Medallion for Distinguished Service is named for a William Jewell College graduate of the class of 1898, a longtime member of the Board of Trustees and major benefactor to the College. The first Yates Medallions were awarded in 1980, and the list of recipients includes a "Who's Who" of Kansas City leaders. Many Yates Medalists from past years will be in attendance. President David Sallee will offer the remarks for the ceremony. Yates Medallion recipients for 2010: R.C. Crosby Kemper, III, is Chief Executive of the Kansas City Public Library. He served as the chairman and CEO of UMB Financial Corporation and UMB Bank, n.a. He has also served in other senior positions with UMB Bank in St. Louis and Kansas City, as the executive director of the British Institute of the United States in New York, and as an English instructor at the University of Sichuan in Chengdu, China. He was appointed by Gov. Bob Holden to chair the blue-ribbon Citizens Commission on the Future of Higher Education in Missouri. He also founded successful, free, outdoor Shakespeare festivals in Kansas City and St. Louis. He is vice chairman of the Truman Presidential Library and Institute Board of Directors. He is on the Board of Trustees for the Kansas City Symphony and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, the private, nonprofit corporation that has owned and operated Monticello since 1923. He has also served on the boards of the Jefferson National Park Association, Westminster College in Fulton, Mo., and Webster University in St. Louis. He edited the book Winston Churchill: Resolution, Defiance, Magnanimity. Kemper received a bachelor's degree in history from Yale University.
Dr. William B. Neaves became President Emeritus of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City in July 2010. He joined the Stowers Institute in June 2000 and served as President and Chief Executive Officer through June 2009 and as Chief Executive Officer through June 2010. From 1972 until joining the Stowers Institute, he held various positions at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, including Professor of Cell Biology, holder of the Doris and Bryan Wildenthal Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Science, Dean of Southwestern Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Dean of Southwestern Medical School, and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs. He received an A.B. magna cum laude with highest honors in Biology from Harvard College in 1966 and a Ph.D. in Anatomy from Harvard University in December 1969. Dr. Neaves currently serves as a member of the Boards of Directors of Stowers Resource Management, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, BioMed Valley Corporation, and BioMed Valley Discoveries; professor in the School of Medicine of the University of Missouri at Kansas City; member of the National Council of the Washington University School of Medicine; member of the Board of Trustees of Washington University; and member of the Board of Directors of Cerner Corporation.
Roshann Parris is President and CEO of Parris Communications Inc., a Kansas City-based public relations and strategic communications firm. Now in its 22nd year, the firm maintains a vigorous focus on strategic corporate communications, media relations and crisis communications. She began her career in the United States Senate in Washington, D.C. in the late '70s, where she served for five years as a legislative aide to the senior senator from her home state of Kentucky. Since that time, while serving clients throughout Greater Kansas City, she has managed dual roles in the Clinton and Obama White House and on eight presidential campaign staffs. As a Lead International Advanceperson for President and Mrs. Clinton, she led White House teams to over 50 countries worldwide in support of the President and First Lady's travel. In the summer of 2008, she led a team to Europe to coordinate then-Senator Barack Obama's first overseas trip. Since that time, she has served the White House in several capacities, including coordination of the President and First Lady's visits to the NATO Summit in Strasbourg, France and Baden-Baden, Germany and Moscow, Russia. She is the recipient of the 1999 Kansas City Spirit Award, the 2003 Central Exchange Woman of the Year Award, and the 2005 Chamber of Commerce Athena Award. Her firm was named as the 2003 Kansas City Small Business Philanthropist of the Year, and in 2007 and 2008, was named Kansas City's #1 Small Business "Best Place to Work" by the Kansas City Business Journal. She is a native of Louisville, Kentucky, and an honors graduate of Indiana University and the University of Kansas. William Jewell College is committed to bringing together talented students and gifted faculty mentors within a vibrant community sparked by a rigorous and intentional liberal arts curriculum. A full range of personal and professional development experiences are presented by the selective national liberal arts college's location within the Kansas City metroplex of more than two million.
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Thanks. This was the third year of News-Herald Media's Stock the Shelves campaign, and the generosity of this community continues to astound us and make us proud.
Marshfield-area readers donated $4,620 to help nine local food pantries. For St. Vincent de Paul and Soup or Socks, the funds will be used to purchase perishable food items not received during local food drive campaigns.
People young and old, single and in families rely on those services - if, for some, just for a little while, in hard times. The gifts our readers gave - the gifts you gave - will help keep those local food pantries full.
Stock the Shelves is a statewide initiative of Gannett Wisconsin Media. All told, the campaign raised $637,421 this year - a record total for the still-young initiative. Together, we broke the 2010 record by $86,407.
The Central Wisconsin Board of Realtors partnered with the four Gannett Central Wisconsin Media newspapers for this year's Stock the Shelves effort, and more than 20 local real estate agents and offices contributed to Marshfield's campaign.
We are humbled to live in a community that shows such a willingness to dig deep and to remember those less fortunate - especially at the holidays. Thanks to everyone who participated. You're helping to make our community a safer, happier place for those in need.
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? Rotary Winter Wondlerand continues to collect food and cash donations to support local pantries. The night-time light display at Wildwood Zoo gives visitors a visual feast while helping providing food for others in need. It is open from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. nightly through Dec. 31.
? Local residents helped stock St. Vincent de Paul's Outreach Center with toys, clothes and food to help people who lack the money to provide Christmas for their families. Among the special Christmas services the center offers is a toy room where the walls are loaded with donated baby dolls, games, trucks and other assorted gifts for babies, children and teenagers.
"Any parent that is facing a difficult time is welcome to come here and pick out some toys for their children. The toys are free and don't require they fill out a lot of forms," said Deb Steltenpohl, director of the Outreach Center.
? Burnstad's Market in Spencer gave free potatoes to customers and toys to children Saturday afternoon.
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Burnstad's has been distributing toys to children at its Black River Falls, Richland Center and Tomah stores for four years, and company owners wanted to continue the tradition at the Spencer store that opened in April.


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Please review the MostHauntedCastles. Looking forward to everybody's feedback on this site and it's castles in Scotland and Ireland.
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Please review the MostHauntedCastles. Looking forward to everybody's feedback on this site and it's castles in Scotland and Ireland.
I like the site color it's great for that type of site. I clicked around a bit :)
I am not a fan of Tags just a personal thing. If I would change anything it would be the sidebar. Move Latest Articles to where the tags are it would also allow the other google ad to be closer to the top.
The site looks very nice and it has a good domain name.
I am also not a big fan of tags or large numbers of links on a page. Too many links makes a site look confusing and dilutes the effectiveness of inheritance factors that you want to pass to the inner pages. There are over 160 links on the home page. From my viewpoint, anything over 50 is probably too many. I've seen too many sites with inner pages that never rank well due to an overuse of links in the internal linking structure.
Doing a castle tour of the UK is actually on my bucket list. I did that several years ago in Germany and really enjoyed it. When I get the chance to fulfill the UK goal on my list, I will use your site as a reference. :D
Great-looking site and bags of content, plus good on-page SEO.
I just noticed a heck of a lot of HTML comments in the source code that serve no purpose for visitors to the site and should ideally be stripped out when the template is uploaded to the web.
Thanks for the review, removed tag cloud and changed the ad position as you have suggested. The ads are different on the home page and post pages for example. Not sure if the home page image ad in the sidebar should be changed to text as well. What do you think?
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Thanks for your review as well Über Hund! I reduced on the tags, there should be less links now on the home page, willl do a count later today. There are more haunted castles articles planned, so when you make your UK castle tour my site should really be helpful as a guide.
As you might have noticed I also have a site dedicated to England, haunted places in England. I just mention it because the site you have reviewed is about Scotland, Ireland and Wales. If the design on my new site is a success in terms of CTR then I might change the old site to the new theme as well.
The England site needs to see many changes as well, I know that. There are some early posts which will have a makeover, yet the new articles are really worth reading.
Thanks Andy! I noticed this before, and I guess the theme developper uses it as a form of advertising :-)
As you have probably found out the site runs on the HeatMap Theme which I can really recommend checking out!
I like that much better. The conglomerate of tag cloud links on the right side was very confusing.
Users are comfortable with sites that stick to a standard design layout. When you stray from that too much, you will see your bounce rate go up.
Thanks again for the review guys. Now I am tackling how to rank well, not only for most haunted castles. I would also like to rank for the particular castles.
I intend do some one site SEO by inserting links to relevant sites. Backlinks seems to be the more difficult part, the niche is relatively small. Any good ideas are welcomed :-)
Nice site, images of the interior would be good if you can get them and information as to whether the castles are open for ghost tours. Have been on a few and a site that provides the details for all the ghost tours in the UK would be a great idea, can also have a section for other haunted buildings, but the main thing would be more imagery.


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Pitt coach Paul Chryst will herd his players onto buses Friday for the annual Blue-Gold scrimmage — the last of 15 spring practices. The game begins at 7 p.m. at Bethel Park High School.
He'll watch with a careful, critical eye to see if his players are starting to understand the playbook and how to execute its plays.
But an equally important part of the preseason will begin at the end of the semester when players gather on their own without coaches, according to NCAA regulations.
That's why Chryst and his staff spent most of Thursday preparing players for the summer.
"We are teaching them how to make it their program," he said, "and I think they are getting there.
"We got a big chunk of time in the summer, and we have to make sure we use that to our advantage. They can watch film on their own, work out, throw. (Coaches) just can't be there."
How players use their so-called free time in the next four months will go a long way to determining if Chryst will have enough capable players to build what he really needs in his second season: depth at every position.
"In the spring, you want to find out what guys you think can find a role," he said. "That pool is pretty good. There is some depth, and we are going to need it."
Some positions are better stocked than others. Rushel Shell's transfer depletes the depth at running back and makes it imperative that Isaac Bennett and Malcolm Crockett remain healthy.
Meanwhile, the promising spring play of defensive linemen Shakir Soto, Darryl Render, Devin Cook, Jack Lippert and K.K. Mosley-Smith — none of them starters — offers hope for the fall.
Depth also will be helped in other areas by a few incoming freshmen, and Chryst sounded encouraged that some can help this season.
Chryst didn't identify any potential freshman contributors, but wide receiver Tyler Boyd and offensive lineman Dorian Johnson are likely to be two of them.
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This handbook is designed to provide users with an introduction on how to understand, manipulate, and analyze data from the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), which was installed on-board the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) during the 2009 Servicing Mission 4 (SM4). It is presented as an independent and self-contained document, referred to as the "WFC3 Data Handbook."Information about HST not specific to WFC3 is not discussed here. Users are referred to a companion volume, Introduction to the HST Data Handbooks, for more general information about the details of acquiring data from the HST archive, HST file formats, and general purpose software for displaying and processing HST data.For detailed information about the instrument's capabilities and design, and how to plan observations, users should refer to the WFC3 Instrument Handbook.


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HortenCC represented CAXA Technology Co., Ltd., a Beijing software company, in the formation of a strategic alliance with Dassault Systèmes S.A., a large public French software company, that grants CAXA the right to distribute and localize Dassaults computer aided design software products in China.
Hanna Strategies Holdings, Inc. is an engineering services firm that offers software development with centers in Shanghai, China, Atlanta, Georgia and Pune, India. HortenCC represented the company in a transaction with Autodesk, Inc., a large public California software company, pursuant to which Autodesk made a substantial equity investment in the company and received an option from the companys founders to acquire their stock at a predetermined formula price. The engagement required a pre-acquisition restructuring of Hannas Atlanta and Shanghai operations. A year later, HortenCC represented the company in its sale to Autodesk under a renegotiated merger transaction.
HortenCC represented Masisa S.A., a large public Chilean manufacturer of value-added wood products, in the restructuring of its North American operations.
HortenCC represented Groupe Rians S.A., a large French cheese producer, in its first US acquisition. The company purchased the brand and cheese-making operations of Laura Chenels Chèvre, Inc., a Sonoma, California, based company. Laura Chenels, which produces a fresh goat cheese that many call the best in America, almost single-handedly turned America on to goat cheese in the early 1980s.
HortenCC represented Mann Bracken, LLC, one of the countrys largest collections law firms, in the formation of Axiant, LLC, a joint venture debt collection business owned by the Mann Bracken partners and Accretive, LLC, a New York hedge fund. The transaction required the development of a complex legal structure to comply with the regulatory requirements to which law firms and collection agencies are subject. The transaction was a first in the legal industry in that it allowed the Mann Bracken partners to monetize their ownership interests in the law firm.
HortenCC represented Phoenix Holdings, LLC, an Atlanta hedge fund management company, in the formation of several hedge funds that produce medium-term cash returns through the acquisition of portfolios of charged-off consumer credit card receivables sold at steep discounts by various originating financial institutions and third-party resellers.
HortenCC represented Industriaplex, Inc., an Atlanta integrated, diversified manufacturer and distributor of retail, commercial, industrial, and office infrastructure products and services, in a major acquisition program to acquire local distribution and service companies in the eastern part of the United States.
HortenCC represented IronCAD, LLC, an Atlanta software company, in a merger transaction with CAXA Technology Co., Ltd., a Beijing software company, that resulted in IronCAD and CAXA becoming subsidiaries of a newly created British Virgin Islands holding company owned by the former owners of CAXA and IronCAD. The transaction required the development of a complex legal structure to minimize the impact of the US international outbound tax rules.
DrTango, Inc.is the leading provider of culturally-optimized Hispanic content and health management programs to the U.S. healthcare industry. HortenCC has represented the company on a variety of commercial matters, including value added reseller agreements, services agreements, e-commerce agreements, content licensing agreements and co-branding agreements with major healthcare providers, hospital corporations and media companies, including Yahoo, Univision, Terra Networks and Tenet Healthcare.
Contact At Once!, LLC has developed a service that monitors the availability (i.e., presence) of online merchants and offers various communications channels between shoppers and online merchants. HortenCC assisted the company on several equity and debenture capital raises and developed its key commercial agreements.
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The Portuguese bailout: ruinous, illegal and ignored by the MSM
There was a discussion on the Today Programme this morning about the bailout terms that Portugal has just agreed. The money, we were told, would be put up in three equal parts: one third by the IMF, one third by the eurozone and one third by "the European Commission". British taxpayers, we were assured, would not be liable.
Where to begin? The European Commission has no money of its own. Its third will come from the other 26 EU member states (including, absurdly, Ireland and Greece). Britain is the second largest contributor to the EU budget after Germany, and so will make the second largest payment: a total of £4.2 billion. Even in these debased and wastrel days, £4.2 billion is a massive sum: here are some of the things it could pay for.
Don't give me any nonsense about this being a loan. That's what we were told about Greece, which is now openly negotiating a default. In Portugal, as in Greece, debt is growing faster than GDP, making a default more-or-less inevitable.
More to the point, the whole scheme is against the rules. The only reason that Germany and the other net contributor states agreed to the single currency in the first place was that a clause was written into the treaties prohibiting EU-backed loans to indebted governments. The treaties are now being rewritten to remove that clause. In the mean time, though, no one in Brussels is trying to pretend that the bailout is legal. So why is Britain ponying up?
And why, in any event, should we have to pay to support a currency which we declined to join? Is the survival of the euro more important to us than the interest of British taxpayers? When are broadcasters going to start putting these questions?
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The Grammy winner shared a series of snapshots of her in a pair of super-short black denim shorts and a flowy black-and-white crop top complete with a gold headpiece.
But it wasn't her fun sense of fashion that caught everyone's attention…
Bey inadvertently (or maybe not) flashed quite a bit of under boob in one of the photos. Blue Ivy's famous mom appeared to be trying to cover up after a gust of wind blew up her blouse, but the cameras still managed to capture her cleavage.
But enough about her mini wardrobe malfunction—look at her abs, people!
The 32-year-old flaunted her washboard stomach in the sexy ensemble and recently did the same in a revealing outfit during a trip to K1 Speed in Torrence, Calif., where she, Blue, Jay Z and their pals went indoor go kart racing.
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Online learning is rapidly becoming the go-to resource for busy students and as a cost efficient solution for cash-strapped school systems. The jury is still out, however, regarding whether or not it is a viable option for its students. That's why the research done by Raaaya Marimuthu and his research team from Universiti Tecknologi MARA about effective strategies for online learners is of great interest for anyone considering online learning to complete academic requirements for a program. Marimuthu's findings were the focus of the Science Daily article, "Online Learning Strategies of Male and Female Students." The team's research considered five variables:
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- Internet Literacy
- Internet Anxiety
- Concentration of Student When Engaging in Online Studying
Even though the researchers found no differences between genders in their online learning experiences, they did note that when the students were engaged in online learning, the respondents showed high levels of internet literacy and concentration levels. This research suggests that all students can benefit from online learning if they are highly motivated, able to monitor their own learning, and are not easily distracted when working online.
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Is it a cold or the flu? Here's how to tell
November 17, 2009
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"My body aches and my head is throbbing. Do I have the flu or is it just because I'm stressed or tired? Do I need a flu shot? Do I need the H1N1 vaccine, too?"
Millions of Americans will be asking themselves these and other questions this fall and winter as news reports and health care providers continue to warn about seasonal influenza and H1N1 influenza, commonly known as swine flu.
The flu symptoms self-assessment tool on MayoClinic.com can help you assess whether you or your loved ones have some form of flu, or just a cold. If you possibly or likely have the flu, you'll also learn whether antiviral medication is an option. And you can check a concise list of high-risk groups who should seek medical attention for the flu.Flu — influenza — is caused by a virus that attacks your respiratory system. Health experts agree that if you're generally in good health, the flu — either seasonal or H1N1 — will likely do no more than make you feel rotten for a few days. You probably won't develop complications or need to go to the hospital. If, however, you have an already weakened immune system or are among those considered high risk — such as infants, young children, pregnant women or the elderly — the flu can be a serious and even fatal illness.
Common symptoms of both the seasonal and swine flu include:
Sudden onset. Colds usually develop over a few days and are only a nuisance. Flu hits you quickly and hard.
Chills, sweats, headache and body aches, especially in the back, arms and legs.
Fever higher than 101 in adults and up to 103 or more in children.
Nasal congestion but a dry cough.
Overall weakness and fatigue.
No appetite in adults and children, and diarrhea and vomiting in children.
Worsening of chronic ailments, like asthma, diabetes and heart disease.
Most healthy adults will only need to treat the symptoms and let the illness run its course. Infants, young children or adults at risk of complications, however, should see a doctor right away. Antiviral drugs, taken in the first 48 hours that symptoms develop, may trim the length of the illness and help prevent the development of serious complications, like pneumonia.
Ultimately, getting vaccinated is the best way to protect yourself and your loved ones from contracting the flu. Talk to your health care provider about getting vaccinated. Go to www.MayoClinic.com for more information about managing your health.
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Baylor Bears schedule breakdown: Week 3 versus ULM
This is part of a 12-part series analyzing Baylor's schedule and its opponents. The projected record is what the Bears will be heading into the current matchup.
Game No. 3 – Sept. 21, time not announced yet
Baylor's projected record – (2-0, 0-0)
Opponent – Louisiana-Monroe
Returning starters – 8 offense, 9 defense
Baylor's first rematch from last season will come against the unorthodox Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks. The Warhawks became well known last year after defeating the then No. 8 ranked Arkansas Razorbacks and nearly taking down Auburn before losing in overtime. Their next game was against Baylor, which ended in a 47-42 loss.
The Warhawks offense was also a bit tricky. At times in last year's game against Baylor, quarterback Kolton Browning line up with a running back on either side of him. When the ball was snapped, Browning could do one of five things.
1) He could hand the ball off to the back on his right
2) He could hand the ball off to the back on his left
3) He could keep the ball on the option after faking a handoff to either back
4) He could fake a handoff to his right, roll left and throw with his left hand
5) He could fake a handoff to his left, roll right and throw with his right hand
Baylor's defense was just as confused as you are after reading those possible scenarios.
In last year's game, Warhawk head coach Todd Berry challenged the school's fans to flood the stadium and they did just that. The place was packed and Baylor quickly got down 14-0 before taking a 24-21 halftime lead. ULM actually had more total yards than Baylor, but turnovers ultimately cost ULM at another upset.
Lousiana-Monroe's offense should be just as good as it was last year, but playing at Floyd Casey Stadium is going to be a different animal. Having thousands of fans screaming for you is completely different when the fans are against you. Baylor will limit Browning – who led the Warhawks in both passing and rushing – in this game having played him once before. The Bears' offense has many skilled weapons and that'll be too much for ULM to overcome.
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Here's how I feel about most non-dance exercise: running longer than around the block is awful and makes me question my whole world. I have literally tried to eke out a few more steps by imagining that I'm trying to catch a terrorist, or that someone's holding M over a cliff and will drop him if I stop. Not (emotionally) healthy.
Little did I know that my need for mind games while exercising could actually be harnessed for good. A new app called Charity Miles tracks how far you run, bike or walk, and lets you donate the sponsorship money you earn to a charity of your choice.
I could not be more in love with this app (or the people who created it) if I tried. Everything about it is all to the good: the interface is simple, and the feedback loop means that people are motivated to do two hyper-important things (help others and exercise) that usually get tossed in the "when I have time" pile. They have an initial sponsorship pool of $1 million. I'd love to see this idea just explode, so that other major funds looking to motivate activity or minimize hunger jump on this bandwagon. The synergy of it all just makes me a little twitchy with excitement . . . if I run another mile, another person gets to eat dinner. This blows my "husband-is-in-danger" scenario right out of the water, and I couldn't be happier about it.