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#WWDC highlights: iPhone 4 now a true smartphone. Steve leapfrogs rivals by years with iOS, gets really anxious about Google
There were quite a few interesting things presented during Steve Jobs Apple Apple WWDC keynote.
iPhone 4 attracted the most attention. And, it really is a great device. Specwise, iPhone 4 caught up with other latest high end smartphones in every way that matters. Given that iPhone OS already had the best user experience all around, and other vendors relied a lot on missing iPhone features to promote their flagships, this is a really big deal.
But, IMHO, one, even more important thing, happened during WWDC keynote. Hidden behind the simple iPhone OS name change to iOS4, was Apple's official statement that they have a new main computing platform – iOS. And announcement new computing paradigm, based on a lightweight, power and resource efficient, connected OS. Most of the competition was caught completely off-guard by this new shift, and will take at least a year to even start catching up.
Except for Google, which emerged as the main Apple competitor from now on.
iPhone 4 finally becomes a true high end smartphone
My big takeaway from the iPhone 4 announcement is that iPhone has finally became a true high end smartphone.
Yes, iPhone has been high end, wildly popular, provided the best user experience, tons of interesting apps, and what not. But, feature/spec wise, it has been still catching up to the market standard for smartphones. All the while justifying that this, or that missing feature doesn't matter, until it became a great, must have thing, in the next iPhone.
Remember "Who needs 3G, when we have Wi-Fi?", Bluetooth, copy paste, 2 megapixel camera is good enough, multi-tasking?
The strength of the iPhone was always about the vastly superior user experience, not the specs. But those missing features and specs in the top of the line, high end handsets, allowed competitors to promote their offerings as a superior, despite their shortcomings of overall UX.
Well, not anymore. With iPhone 4, competition at the high end of smartphone market became significantly tougher. iPhone 4 is now good enough to 95% of potential high end smartphone customers. My guess is, the writers of the next "Droid Does" campaign will have a lot of rethinking to do.
For the next 4-6 months, at $5-700 smartphone price range, iPhone's only viable competitor remains Android. Though it is a bit lacking in the overall ease of use, Android (2.1/2.2 and upcoming Gingerbread release) already has a good enough UX, tight integration with Google, and other cloud and social services. Plus, it is a much more open platform, with strong appeal to the more technically oriented audience.
The latest Android handsets –HTC Desire, Incredible, EVO 4G, Samsung Galaxy S, Motorola MIlestone XT720 – looked very attractive, compared to iPhone 3GS. But, with iPhone 4, the game for the Android vendors became much tougher.
Other vendors/platforms in 2010 – Nokia Symbian, Samsung Bada, Palm WebOS, pricey feature phones – are non-players here (at the high end), and will be competing only in the mid-tier/mass markets, at $450 and lower price points. Rumored Nokia Meego device is a bit of a wildcard, but it is not coming until Q4, and even if very good, it will take time to ramp up the sales, so it will probably be a moot point for 2010 competitive landscape.
iPhone OS becomes iOS 4. A new connected computing platform for Apple
As of this week, Apple's officially got a new connected computing platform.
Until this year, we were used to thinking about iPhone OS, as Apple's platform for smartphones and other pocketable devices like iPod Touch. When it was first launched in 2007, iPhone OS was introduced as a mini version of OSX.
This year, when Apple introduced iPad – with the same iPhone OS- it became clear, that they may have some bigger ambitions for this OS. But we were still guessing. This week it became official. The new platform has shed it's baby iPhone clothes and became iOS 4.
Kind of reminds me about another big name change at Apple. Until 2007 we used to know this company as Apple Computer Inc. Back then, the key metrics of Apple's success have been tied to computers. Yes, they had iTunes, iPods, Apple TV and what not. But the big announcements were all about the new Macs, and new OSX features. The bulk of Apple's revenue was also directly related to personal computers.
Then, in 2007, by dropping "computer" from the company name, Apple clearly signaled that they do not consider themselves a computer company anymore. They are much more then that.
Fast forward to today – while computer side of business still makes a lot of Apple's income, as long as it's at least keeping up with the market trends, nobody cares much about it. Compared to the media frenzy of a few years ago, I'd say new Mac announcements are greeted with collective yawn, as are new iterations of OSX, like Snow Leopard.
And, during Monday WWDC keynote, Steve Jobs didn't mention Mac or OSX even once! Together with the iOS name change, the signal is pretty clear. Apple will continue milking it's computer business cash cow for years to come, and improving it as market demands. But it is the thing of the past.
Apple's main device platform form now on – is iOS 4. And it appears to be ready to get into every connected Apple device out there.
iOS might have been disguised as mini OSX version for smartphones and pocket sized devices, but it has been envisioned as a larger computing platform from the very start. In hindsight, you can clearly see that in multiple multi-touch patent applications Apple filed, and Steve Jobs admitted as much during his D8 interview.
This disguise now seems as one of the most brilliant moves by Steve Jobs. When you think about it, there was no big technical reason for Apple to do a phone, before putting iOS on a tablet. Actually, getting it to work on a pocket sized device, must have been a much more difficult task. But, by misdirecting everyone's attention to what iOS can do to smartphones, Apple managed to build a next generation connected computing platform, with nary a competitor noticing. Leapfrogging most of the competition by at least a year.
And to build the most vibrant and active ecosystem around the new platform. Now Apple has 100 million iOS devices out there (a number is a bit exaggerated, since not all of the iOS devices sold, are still in operation). They have hundreds of thousands of developers working on the software for the new platform. The iOS has already generated $1 billion in direct revenues for the developers. Add to that indirect advertising income, sales generated through various iOS apps, all the services that sprung up around iOS app development, and the financial side becomes even more impressive.
What about competition?
For now, Microsoft is a non-starter in this new, light connected computing paradigm. It's Windows 7 OS is barely OK for netbooks, and after the iPad, hopeless for tablets. Their smartphone OS –WP7 – won't even be ready for market for the next 5 months. Their lightweight Windows Embedded Compact 7 tablet seems to be just at a concept stage, and won't be ready for at least a year.
Nokia/Intel's Meego might become a good lightweight connected computing platform one day. And we may see the first Nokia Meego device this year, but that is again, only a smartphone. Meego won't be ready for a larger form factor devices until sometime in 2011.
WebOS? Now that HP bought them, they may have something interesting to show us eventually. But that again won't come until later next year.
Apple is pissed off/nervous about Google
Having a 1 year, or bigger head start, before your main competitors can even start thinking of catching up, is a thing almost unseen in tech industry. And, with his brilliant iPhone OS misdirection, Steve Jobs managed to achieve that.
Except for one, unlikely competitor – Google. I don't know why Google decided to get into computing platform business themselves. Maybe it's something Eric Schmidt learned, while he was on Apple board. Or maybe it was just a natural company evolution, after becoming the fabric of the Internet. But, as unlikely as it might have seemed just a few years ago, Google is the main competitor to Apple.
They are also gaining on Apple, and making Steve Jobs really pissed off and nervous about it.
Just look at Apple's knee jerk reactions to every mention that Android is becoming bigger then iPhone. A number of pot shots Steve has taken at Google in his WWDC keynote. Banning Google's AdMob network from iOS apps, with blatantly anticompetitive act, even at the risk of inviting federal scrutiny of your practices…
It shows that Apple feels really uneasy about Google. And they are right to feel that way. If only because of the speed Google's main lightweight OS is evolving.
Last year, when iPhone OS 3 and iPhone 3GS launched, Android was at 1.5. A really crude, immature, not ready for wider adoption OS. But in the time it took Apple to create iOS4, Google went through Android 1.6, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, and now has a powerful and easy to use smartphone OS. In the next 3-6 months they will transform this OS into a full fledged lightweight computing platform, that will work well on tablets, netbooks, TVs and other things.
Apple still has at least 6 month lead over Google, but that's a lot less of a breathing room then Apple would have had, if Google had stuck to it's traditional business.
Anyway, I'm looking for a quite interesting Apple vs Google showdown this fall. And next year, when other competitors had time to process what just happened, and react to that, the fireworks will only get bigger.


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Organizers spent the day on Friday getting the beach geared up for this weekend's Soccer in the Sand event, which takes place today and Sunday at Grand Haven State Park.
The Fruitport baseball team, which finished second in the Lakes Eight Conference, saw a number of its players earn postseason honors:
Extreme sports have found a home in the Tri-Cities area, and they will be celebrated once again today.
Another runner-up conference bid, back-to-back Division 1 district titles, three straight 'Battle of the Bridge" conquests and a second consecutive record-breaking season concluded with four Buccaneers being recognized with conference and
Jun 24, 2016 at 5:30 AM
The area's beach soccer scene has become very strong in recent years, so strong that the next member of Team USA might come from it.
SPRING LAKE TWP. — For the second year in a row, a Hope College golfer stands atop the Spring Lake Invitational Tournament field.
DETROIT — Steven Moya homered twice, and the Detroit Tigers withstood a shaky fifth inning from right-hander Michael Fulmer to beat the Seattle Mariners 5-1 on Wednesday night.
GRAND HAVEN TWP. —Now in its ninth year, the Mike Herman-Carter Dyke Memorial Soccer Camp has continued to grow in both attendance and recognition.
The Spring Lake softball team had perhaps its best season in school history in 2016, earning numerous team and individual awards.
SPRING LAKE TWP. — Kayla Krueger is heading back to the finals of the Spring Lake Invitational Tournament today, and she will be facing a familiar foe.
SPRING LAKE TWP. — After 11 holes of play in their opening round matchup on Tuesday at the Spring Lake Country Club, it appeared that defending Spring Lake Invitational Tournament champion Britni Gielow once again had the upper hand on the
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SPRING LAKE — After 11 holes of play in their opening round matchup on Tuesday at the Spring Lake Country Club, it appeared that defending Spring Lake Invitational Tournament champion Britni Gielow once again had the upper hand on defending
Jun 21, 2016 at 6:11 PM
DETROIT — Justin Upton hit a line drive over the left-field wall in the 12th inning for his second home run of the game, lifting the Detroit Tigers past the Seattle Mariners 8-7 on Monday night.
SPRING LAKE TWP. — The Spring Lake Invitational Tournament will see a rematch of last year's championship.
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — LeBron James cradled the shiny gold trophy and struggled to sum up what might be his sweetest championship yet, the one he is so proudly bringing home to his native northeast Ohio just as he promised to do when he returned
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Three Weeks of Wow | January Interterm
Interterm, an experience unique to Baker University, is a time to spread your wings and discover more about the world.
- Enroll in a one-of-a-kind class.
- Participate in an internship.
- Travel in the United States or abroad
Past courses have given students the chance to create a band, design a miniature golf course as art, scuba dive in the Caribbean or travel to New York to see Broadway plays and perform community service.
Once in a Lifetime Experience | Haiti 2012
Jake Bucher, associate professor of sociology, and 10 students spent 12 days in Haiti as part of a Social Justice and Service in Haiti Interterm class. The students worked on restoring earthquake damage, helped build a school, taught English and computer literacy and worked with orphans. Bucher and senior Molly Schmeidler were featured on Fox4 News and in the Lawrence Journal-World.


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Spelunky DLC adds eight new characters
Spelunky's latest content drop, the Explorers DLC, adds eight new characters for use adventure and deathmatch mode: the Eskimo, the Robot, the Viking, the Round Girl, the Round Boy, the Cyclops, the Ninja and the Golden Monk. The DLC will set you back 160 MS Points. Not familiar with the Xbox Live Arcade title? Try a free, limited browser-based version.
Thanks, Destructoid.
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Brief introduction:
Longtan Temple was built in the first year of Qianlong, Qing Dynasty and Master Yanzhi was the first one who ran the temple. Now it is 250 years old.
The natural environment around Longtan Temple is very unique, the mountain where the temple located is the part of Hada Ling which is the branch of Mountain Changbai, and has seven peaks (Guiyue, Lingxiao, Foyun, Diecui, Guanlan, Lianhua and Yiquan) that surround the temple so that the only entry to the temple is in the east side of the mountain. Longtan Temple lies among the seven peaks, and there are two ponds in front of it. One is in the east and the other in the west. Lotus grows in one and water chestnut in the other. If lotus and water chestnut are changed to the opposite pond, neither will survive. Water in both ponds never dries all the year. In the local folk story, both are called Longtan because two dragons are hidden in both to maintain the water.
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How to Get There?
Take a train from Shenyang Station to Kaiyuan Station. Then take a bus from Kaiyuan passenger depot to Weiyuan Town.
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More Tips: The best time to visit Qiding Longtan Temple is from June to October.
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"Mob Wives: New Blood" has a loyal group of fans who tune in each week. With addition of Natalie Guercio and Alicia DiMichele Garofalo, this show has more drama than anyone could have imagined. The Staten Island girls versus the Philly girls is what it all boils down to. Fans have watched Renee Graziano get a lot of attention for her outlandish actions in Vegas and as the season progresses, things are not looking up. According to a Jan. 24 report from Wetpaint, Natalie Guercio is following Drita's footsteps into the music world. Guercio's new song "Delicious" is available for purchase on iTunes and fans can get a sneak peek of the music video on Wetpaint.
Fans of "Mob Wives" know that Drita has been into music for quite some time and in the latest episode of "Mob Wives: New Blood" it is shown that Drita will be collaborating with Method Man on an upcoming track. There has been no comment from any of the women about Natalie Guercio's new path, or the title of her debut song. "Delicious" was the one word that sparked all of the drama between Guercio and Renee Graziano. Fans are wondering if the name of the song is just another "slap in the face" from Guercio to Graziano.
"Mob Wives: New Blood" is still airing new episodes for the season. The previews for upcoming episodes include Drita with Method Man and more drama between the girls. All new episodes air Thursday nights on VH1 at 9 p.m. CST.
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For more than fifteen years, she has guided fellow spirit travelers through sacred sites in Asia, Mexico, Egypt, Europe, England and Peru through her SoulQuest™ Journeys programs. This year she took three groups of seekers out into the ocean, to experience what she describes as "unimaginable bliss" swimming with dolphins in the wild. It is no wonder that she has been dubbed "a real-life Indiana Jones" in the media and by those who have shared in her adventures.
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i bought a cz pcr yesterday after reading good things about them here and at other forums.
i put 50 rounds through it today and i can say everything i read about them is true. it feels great in my hand and, for me, points well. i was hitting consistently within 4 shots.
i tried some umc 115gr. hollowpoints and ball. no problems, but that's only 50 rounds. hopefully depending on work/weather i can try it some more next weekend.
the main reason i bought it was i didn't really like my g26, nothing wrong with the glock, but i just couldn't keep my mind off the fact that the glock has no conventional safety.
i know, the safey's between your ears, but i just couldn't stop thinking about it. old fashioned i know, but to me the glock trigger seems lots easier than a d/a revolver or a gun with a safety and i couldn't overcome that.
the only things i'm gonna do to the pcr is get a metal guide rod(stock is real flimsy) and some night sights maybe.
as has been mentioned elsewhere on this forum, cz's are highly underrated.


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The most important save for Hall of Famer Rollie Fingers might be the one he's never had to make. Fingers, the national spokesperson for The Greatest Save, a safety education program aimed at protecting children and teenagers from sexual exploitation and abduction, came on board in 1991 after seven-year-old Leticia Hernandez was kidnapped and murdered in Southern California. This weekend, Fingers, along with KinderVision and The Greatest Save, will host a series of events promoting awareness in the Long Island community for their efforts.
The events will kick off on Sunday May 18, 2014 at Greenlawn Park (489 Pulaski Road, Greenlawn, NY 11740) with a children's baseball clinic from 10am-1pm. The clinic will be hosted by MLB alumni, promoting not only baseball skills, but also a station will be dedicated to learning the safety measures of The Greatest Save program.
Later that evening, a reception will be held staring at 6:15pm at Crest Hollow Country Club (8325 Jericho Turnpike, Woodbury, NY 11797), which features a cocktail reception and dinner program. Fingers, Darell Evans, and New York Yankees World Series hero Jim Leyritz will be among the two dozen former major league players expected to attend.
Closing the ceremonies will be an all-day golf tournament starting 9:00am on Monday May 19, 2014 at Bethpage State Park's Red Course (99 Quaker Meetinghouse Road, Farmingdale, NY 11753), where supporters will have the opportunity to spend time playing golf with the MLB alumni.
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In honor of the new season of Project Runway (now on Lifetime) we're featuring jewelry from everyone's favorite runner-up Korto Momolu, who appeared on the All Star Challenge pre-season special (And sadly... A runner-up again!). We love that she embraced Leet in naming her OMGness (right, $185) and OMGosh Necklaces (left, $155). Her jewelry features African-inspired chunky beading, but these pieces stand out with Korto's use of translucent, shimmering stones, and a paler color palette. They make gorgeous statement pieces, but with a softer, more feminine sensibility.
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Bathroom Remodeling Takes Off in San Francisco
From Engineering on September 14, 2011 in Bathroom Remodel
Bathroom remodeling is enjoying a recent boom in the San Francisco Bay Area, due to an assortment of incentives, seasonal low rates and customer demand.
While this is great news for homeowners, the clock is ticking.
Not only is inclement weather fast approaching, but you will want to get your bathroom renovation underway before the household gets swept up in the annual bout of holiday planning and activities.
For home remodeling contractors, spring and summer are peak periods. In the fall, contractors have to hustle a bit more to compete for business.
This fall in San Francisco, for example, a top firm is offering free estimates as an incentive.
To get an estimate for a project in your area, click here.
Another home remodeling contractor is offering a 20% discount for renovations that provide a better environment for pets. Other contracting firms lower their rates for the fall season.
And if you undertake a bathroom remodel now, rather than later, you can take advantage of green remodeling tax credits that may expire at the end of the year, such as energy-efficient product rebates and government incentives.
In San Francisco, a change in building codes is helping to spur the bathroom remodeling boom, too. Those seeking to add a bathroom to a basement or other utility space can now do so in areas where ceilings are only 7 feet high.
While the home remodeling industry is becoming increasingly competitive, it's also growing at a surprisingly healthy rate, up 23% from last year, according to the BuildFax Remodeling Index, which is based on the number of construction permits that are filed with local building departments across the nation.
BuildFax Vice President of Research and Development Joe Emison links the growth to the stagnant housing market, saying that Americans are planning on staying in their current residences and are making renovations and upgrades.
So, what makes remodeling a bathroom so popular at this particular time of year? For some, the kids are back in school, relieving the worry that theyll be underfoot during renovations.
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Some may be eyeing signs of potential problems, such as peeling paint, mold or mildew and chipped tiles, and want to address these concerns before winter. Many simply want their home to look its best for the upcoming holidays.
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Animal Planet's noted dog trainer Victoria Stilwell, host of the popular series, It's Me or the Dog, will work with 10 adoptable dogs from Fall River's Forever Paws Animal Shelter during a live stage presentation on Saturday, November 19th at the Zeiterion Theatre in New Bedford. Tickets for the 3:00pm show are priced at $41.50 and $48.50.
The British-born Stilwell has become famous for her approach to dog training, which emphasizes praising a dog when he does what is wanted, rather than on punishing for misdeeds. According to her website, she is "a passionate advocate for positive reinforcement training methods that enhance a dog's ability to learn while increasing confidence, resulting in a healthy, well-adjusted pet. She is a vocal opponent of punitive, dominance-based training techniques which often result in 'quick fixes' but ultimately cause more long-term harm than good while damaging the owner-dog relationship."
In her series, It's Me or the Dog, which debuted in the U.S. in 2007, Ms. Stilwell routinely takes on seemingly incorrigible dogs and against all odds, transforms them into harmonious companions who, after her firm but compassionate coaching, are able to assume their intended roles as cherished family members.
She hopes to do the same with the dogs from the Forever Paws Shelter, a nonprofit, no-kill facility that places no time limits on the dogs and cats it accepts into its care. Ms. Stilwell has a particular interest in rehabilitating rescued dogs, and it's with this in mind that she has partnered with Forever Paws, hoping that by demonstrating her winning techniques on dogs who haven't yet found their permanent homes, she may help them to find loving placements, and inspire a live audience of dog lovers to train their pets in a kinder and more effective way.


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Questions about visiting volcanoes.
Volcano is a rupture in the Earth's crust allowing magma and volcanic ash to escape from below the surface.
Volcanoes can primarily be found around the areas of convergence or divergence of tectonic plates, such as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the Atlantic ocean. But can also be found where the Earth's crust is thinnest such as the Wells Grey-Clearwater volcanic field.
Volcanoes and magma eruptions are responsible for creating some of the most interesting geological formations on Earth such as Hawaiian Islands, Azores, and Yellowstone Park
Volcano can lie dormant for years and possibly centuries such as Mt. St. Helen which erupted in 1980 and the more famous eruption of Mt. Vesuvius that buried the entire city of Pompeii in 79 AD.


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Kim Kardashian Serves Kris Humphries Ex-Girlfriend Subpoena in Divorce Case
Kim Kardashian has subpoenaed Kris Humphries' secret ex-girlfriend in the former couple's divorce case.
As Gossip Cop previously reported, Humphries had a five-month relationship with Myla Sinanaj while in the midst of navigating his divorce from Kardashian.
The NBA player's legal team has seemingly gone out of its way to discredit Sinanaj in order to cover up the romance because they believe it will hurt his case against Kardashian, whom he alleges duped him into a fraudulent marriage and left him brokenhearted.
Now, Kardashian's lawyer is seeking to find out whether Humphries divulged anything to Sinanaj about his fraud claims while they were together.
Sinanaj has accepted the subpoena, which means she could be called on to testify in Kardashian and Humphries' divorce case.
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A New Drumming Video!
For the past few months, the North Shore Community Drum Circle has been followed with a video created that reviews the rhythms taught in that session. One of the drummers, and volunteer videographer for LVUC, has... Read More
Getting in the Groove...
The next North Shore Community Drum Circle is fast approaching (November 24 from 10am to 12pm), and those who were at last month's session heard Lyle say he'd prepare a video demonstration of the rhythms he taught... Read More
We Have a Winner!
Congratulations to Luciana on winning the "Full Circle" annual membership to LVUC's Community Drum Circle for 2012/2013! The Lynn Valley Day free drum circle was a terrific success with hundreds of folks stopping... Read More


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|80 ejaculates were obtained from each of 4 [male][male] from a line selected for post-thawing fertility duration of their inseminated spermatozoa, and the same number of ejaculates was obtained from 4 [male][male] of a randombred line. Semen was diluted with N,N-dimethylacetamide (DMA) or glycerol as cryoprotectant, and frozen to -196 degrees C at -6 degrees per min. On thawing, glycerol was removed by dilution and centrifugation before insemination, but semen with DMA was used directly. For semen from both lines, the fertility percentage, duration of fertility, and fertility rate were significantly higher for semen frozen in glycerol than for semen frozen in DMA, but hatchability was not significantly affected by the cryoprotectant used. Semen from the selected line gave significantly higher values than semen from the randombred line for the first 3 traits..
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Mas Ysa, is the solo music project of Thomas Arsenault.
A restless spirit, Arsenault developed his craft in the Sao Paulo rave scene, and by working with avant garde artists in Ohio and San Francisco before landing in Brooklyn in 2012. There, he created Mas Ysa and established a reputation as an intensely cathartic composer and live performer. This resulted in invitations to support the likes of Purity Ring, RZA and Deerhunter, as well as producing albums for Cass McCombs and Laurel Halo in his loft studio.
At the start of 2013, Mas Ysa relocated to Woodstock where he began recording himself in earnest. His first EP, Worth, encompasses bangers, ballads and textured experimental arcs. The Best New Track'd "Why," a futuristic arms-to-the-sky "Thunder Road," is the first taste of the record, set to be released Feb. 4, 2014. Worth also brings Arsenault's talents as a singer-songwriter to the forefront on "Years" and "Life Way Up From" -- both haunting, glacial odes to fear, loss, and life on the run.


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The 2012 season of the San Francisco Ballet begins January 27th with Onegin, a three-act story ballet based on Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin's Eugene Onegin: a novel in verse. This novel is also the basis for an opera with music by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky. To read the book or listen to the music, search for the title Eugene Onegin in the library catalog.
To enjoy ballet on dvd, you can either search for an individual title, like Giselle, or search for all films of ballets or about ballet. Similarly, the music for specific ballets can be found by searching for the title of the ballet in the library catalog. To get a more complete search for ballet music, try this ballet link. For books, a subject search for ballet will yield many options.


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There comes a moment in every woman's life when the word "retro" applies to something that she can actually remember wearing. And that moment is only now upon me, since the first decade I can personally recall is the '90s. (My editor tells me that this makes her cry into her decaffeinated green tea a little, but I'm just stating facts here.) Now that it's actually happening, I have to admit that it's been a little surreal revisiting so many beauty and fashion moments from my youth. By which I mean grade school.
One of the season's "It" bags is a backpack. People are waxing nostalgic about—and even wearing—scrunchies, à la Full House (and I'm not just talking to you, Hillary Clinton). Katy Perry tweeted a photo of her Daria-tribute manicure. Kim Kardashian was bold enough to step out in that most horrific of '90s trends, the skort.
I'm obviously not the first or the last person to experience this, but it's definitely bizarre when what you once saw at the mall has suddenly evolved into a trend or something endearingly kitschy. When I was buying Pogs, butterfly hair clips, and body glitter, I never thought that years later generations would be referencing what people my age did—just like we referenced Madonna or Boy George. (I think I hear my editor weeping again.) And while it does make me feel a little old, it's also fun to see some fads coming back for a second round. Okay, maybe no Pogs sightings. Yet!
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October 11, 2011, 9:06 a.m.
Republican presidential candidate and retired pizza chain executive Herman Cain didn't take long Monday to jump into a dispute over his views on racism.
In an appearance on Fox News' Hannity, Cain said he found "offensive" comments that were made by Harry Belafonte and Cornel West in response to his assertion that people use racism as an excuse.
"Because he happened to have had good fortune hit him, because he happened to have had a moment when he broke through the moment someone blinked does not make him the authority on the plight of people of color," Belafonte said in an interview with Joy Behar that will be aired in full Friday on HLN.
"Herman Cain is just the latest incarnation of what is totally false to the needs of our community and the needs of our nation," Belafonte said. "I think he's a bad apple, and people should look at his whole card. He's not what he says he is."
West said Cain, "needs to get off the symbolic crack pipe and acknowledge that the evidence [of racism] is overwhelming."
Cain took to Fox Monday night and called the statements "offensive."
"Look, I left the Democrat plantation a long time ago," Cain said in response to Belfonte's comment. "And all that they try to do when someone like me and I'm not the only black person out there that shares these conservative views the only tactic that they have to try and intimidate me and shut me up is to call me names, and this sort of thing. It just simply won't work."
He dismissed West as someone who "has been in academia too long."
"He is out of touch with the real world," Cain said.
"I don't have a lot of patience for people who want to blame racism on the fact that some people don't make it in America," Cain said, noting that he "was able to climb the corporate ladder" at Pillsbury and Burger King.
"If you put your mind to it and you don't play the victim card, you can do whatever you want to do in this country," he said. "I am walking proof of that."
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The Los Angeles Dodgers made their first signing of the offseason Tuesday, though it will hardly register with most fans.
It will, however, potentially affect the Albuquerque Isotopes as veteran catcher J.C. Boscan was inked to a minor-league contract.
The Isotopes went through an eye-popping nine catchers last year, so depth at the position is clearly a need for the Dodgers organization.
Drew Butera, who finished last year as the Isotopes' starter, is still on the Dodgers' 40-man roster. He is out of options and would have to clear waivers and accept an assignment to Albuquerque if the Dodgers were to try to send him down.
With that in mind, the Dodgers have added Boscan, who turns 34 in December. He spent most of this past season at Iowa (.232/.297/.270, 18 RBI). Boscan does have big-league experience, having appeared in 17 games with the Atlanta Braves and Chicago Cubs the last four years, batting .250 (7-for-28) with two RBI.
Last offseason the Dodgers signed multiple catchers, though only Jesus Flores made it through spring training and eventually played for the Isotopes, though he was released after posting anemic hitting numbers early in the year.
With neither of the remaining Double-A catchers, Gorman Erickson (.199/.324/.414) and Jan Vazquez (.190/.285/.341), seemingly worthy of promotion, the Dodgers figure to sign at least one or more free agent catchers this offseason.
Here are the top candidates to be potential Isotopes in 2014 The general rule is that most of this list has at least some MLB experience.
Bryan Anderson: The former Cardinal picked up a few at-bats with the White Sox (18 total), but spent most of the year at Charlotte (.224/.302/.400, 7 HR). He is a defense-first backstop, like most minor-league journeymen. Anderson turns 27 in December, so he is still relatively young.
Ed Easley: One of the only players on this list without MLB experience, Easley swung a hot bat at Reno (.334/.394/.478, 6 HR, 49 RBI) this past season. Easley, 28 in December, was a former supplemental first-round pick of the Diamondbacks.
Rob Johnson: The 31-year-old veteran has 265 games of MLB experience under his belt, including 20 games with the Cardinals this past season. Johnson spent the bulk of the year as the starting catcher at Memphis (.236/.317/.395, 7 HR).
Matt McBride: More of a utility player than a true catcher, McBride, 28, could be a useful reserve for the Isotopes. He hit well (.328/.359/.683, 15 HR, 45 RBI) despite battling some nagging injuries at Colorado Springs. McBride has 169 career games at catcher, 170 at first base and 207 in the outfield.
Humberto Quintero: He spent most of last season in the Majors, used sparingly as a backup first for the Phillies and then the Mariners. Quintero, 34, was not much of a hitter (.237/.275/.366, 4 HR) so he might have to settle for a minor-league contract this offseason.
Guillermo Quiroz: Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti has always had an affinity for ex-Giants and that's the team Quiroz played sparingly (.186/.237/.302) this past season before being released. Quiroz, 32 on Nov. 29, has cracked double digits in home runs in the minors three times, most recently when he hit 15 in 2012 with Tacoma.
Kelly Shoppach: Once upon a time Shoppach cranked out 21 homers for the Indians in 2008. The now-33-year-old veteran has 572 games of MLB experience under his belt. He hit .193/.288/.339 with the Mariners and Indians this past summer.
Chris Snyder: He went 2-for-20 in nine games with the Orioles late in the season, spending the bulk of the year at Norfolk (.243/.305/.387, 6 HR). Snyder, 32, was once the Diamondbacks' starting catcher, posting an .800 OPS and slugging 16 home runs back in 2008.
Taylor Teagarden: A former top prospect in the Rangers' system, Teagarden was a seldom-used backup with the Orioles until late in the season, when he was dropped from the 40-man roster and sent to Norfolk. Teagarden hit just .167/.180/.300 in 23 games with Baltimore; he is a career .206/.266/.390 hitter in 163 MLB games.
Eli Whiteside: Another former Giant, Whiteside spent all of 2013 at Round Rock. He was claimed off waivers multiple times last offseason before sticking with the Rangers' organization. The 34 year old never got his bat going (.187/.242/.280, 5 HR) with the Express.


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LinkedIn Shares Took a Beating
LinkedIn stock is taking a big breather after its gangbusters IPO and meteoric stock rise.
UPDATE: After a startling afternoon rebound, shares of LinkedIn ended Monday's trading session off about 5.15% on the day, to $88.30. Earlier shares of the social networking slipped as much as 10%.
LinkedIn's stock price is still nearly double the IPO price of $45 a share, but well off the $122.69 high price since LinkedIn's stock market debut last week.
The decline takes LinkedIn's stock market value down from as much as $11.6 billion to a more pedestrian but still lofty $8.3 billion.
At least two factors are weighing on the stock right now.
1) The valuation debate continues. Over the weekend, we had a continuing wave of debates about whether LinkedIn is crazy overheated. Pick your poison. We're biased, of course, but Deal Journal's favorite tongue-in-check stat is this one we unearthed: Based on LinkedIn's 2010 profits and its market value last week, on a comparable basis Exxon would have a stock value of $19.8 trillion, more than the U.S.'s annual gross domestic product.
2) Let the shorting begin! This week, investors will get their first shot at shorting — or borrowing shares to bet against — LinkedIn's stock. "Brokers are recommending to their clients to short it," Timothy Murphy of youDevise Ltd., told our colleague Brendan Conway. "Even if you think it's a great business model, the feeling is that the valuation is way beyond what even the most bullish guys were hoping for."
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Jason Drew is talking to me about ripeness. "It's not easy to answer the question of what ripe tastes like," he says. "If the flavors are at their most optimum on the vine, then it's too late. There is that perfect moment of ripeness that occurs, but the challenging part is figuring out when to strike to get it. The perfect point isn't clear to the observer at the time, though. You have to have some kind of instinct or intuition, and to pick the grape before it crosses that line."
As I'm listening to him, I get the impression that I've done the equivalent of asking a pro baseball player when is the right moment to swing at a pitch, and not been satisfied with the answer, "whenever you need to in order to hit the ball." Drew has been humoring my insistent questions with the patience of someone who knows that you can't quite explain how you do something that doesn't exist entirely in the forefront of consciousness.
Drew seems to have an uncanny knack for tracing trajectories, whether it be the ripeness curve of a grape, or the arc of real estate prices in Santa Barbara County. The vineyards he now farms, a stone's throw from the Mendocino coast, literally bear the fruits of this intuition.
"How did we manage to buy this farm? Basically we hit the lottery," he says. "We moved to Santa Ynez in 1999, when the area wasn't so well known, and no one thought of it as the cream of the crop. But then there was Sideways and things just went crazy."
When they decided to sell their significantly appreciated home in 2004, no one could believe they were moving north. "People said to us 'this place is on fire, you're nuts to be leaving now,' but we didn't feel like we needed to ride on anyone's coat tails and wanted to explore, to have a journey and find someplace where we would best fit and belong, from a winemaking perspective."
Every vineyard owner knows the truth of the expression 'plowing money into the ground.' Drew and his wife Molly took the proceeds from their home and went shopping for land. The first place they looked at on the coast of Mendocino gave Molly a deep and lasting sense of deja vu. And it was perfect: twenty-six acres of orchards and open land on a ridge-top 3.3 miles and 1250 feet above the Pacific Ocean. Other properties were considered, but ultimately they decided to live among the scraggly unpruned trees and folded hillsides of Field Station Ranch.
Drew traces his interest in wine back to his uncle Jerry, who planted a vineyard on his parents' land in Napa in the 80s. "I was very close to my aunt," recalls Drew, "and when I was going to school in Los Altos, I would go up during the summers and help out. I developed a bond with Jerry, too, working on their six acres of vineyard off of the Silverado trail."
After spending his early years growing up on the East Coast, those summers spent with dirt under his fingernails led to a dog-eared copy of some Edward Abbey book in his back pocket, and eventually to a degree in Agro-ecology at UC Santa Cruz, where Drew (and Edward Abbey) fit right in.
After college, Drew went to work for Carmenet vineyards in Sonoma, and then for a time at Navarro Vineyards, where he had two very formative experiences. The first was living and farming in the somewhat secluded beauty of Mendocino County. The second was getting some more visibility into the winemaking process. After a year, Drew decided he wanted to go back to school to learn winemaking.
His wife Molly was game for an adventure, and so the relatively new couple departed for Adelaide, Australia, where she did social work while Drew immersed himself in his studies.
"It was a great program," says Drew, "students begin making wine immediately from the beginning."
Two years later, Drew had a winemaking degree and a new son. After a few internships, Drew landed an assistant winemaking position at Corison Winery in Napa, and after a stint making Napa cabs, landed at Babcock Winery in Santa Barbara in 1999 where he would stay for the next four years.
"When I interviewed, I let Bryan [Babcock] know that if I was going to take on the job, I wanted to make my own label eventually. I didn't want that to be a surprise," says Drew. "And he was more than OK with that. He let me use his equipment and helped me with my first vintage. That wasn't in our agreement, but he was incredibly, even unconditionally supportive. There aren't many people out there like that."
The first bottles bearing the Drew name were filled in 2000, and by the time harvest rolled around in 2003, Drew was ready to strike out on his own, having spent four years making Pinot Noir and Rhone variety wines. For the next year, Drew mixed vineyard consulting with real estate scouting until that fateful visit to Field Station Ranch gave them a place to put down roots in Mendocino.
Since then, Drew has been consulting for vineyards throughout Anderson Valley, and from some of those, buying fruit to make a small portfolio of Pinot Noir and Syrah for his label. All the while, studying and preparing his own land for grapes.
"We planted 7 acres in 2011 with a variety of clones of Pinot Noir. We've got a ton of diversity in our 26 acres, not only the soils, which range from shale, to sandy, to iron-rich, to some more clay, but also the slopes, some of which are exposed, others sheltered, and some very steep, but all with great drainage."
Drew also "scraped together some Chardonnay" to see how it would fare. "We're very much on the edge here, and Chardonnay is a little pickier," muses Drew.
2014 will be Drew's first crop off the vineyard and the beginning of a whole new chapter in the history of his wines. But the new site is only part of a greater evolution in his approach prompted by finally having an environment that belongs wholly to his wine.
"Before I moved up here, I wasn't doing much native yeast fermentation," he says. "It's something I learned along the way. You know when you get out of school you tend to stick with what you're taught. At Babcock we would occasionally let some ferments go a bit before inoculating them. That's how I began up here, but eventually, I just began letting things go all the way. It took me a few years to get used to the funky smells, and to go through the full thing. But my confidence is there and now I'm doing native ferments all the way through."
"I've gone through an evolution," Drew continues, "a learning curve towards maturity. I'm developing a personal preference or style or something."
When I prompt him for what that means to him, he considers the question, and then plows forward. "What I've determined I like best on a personal level is structure in wine. I find that there is a connection and a relationship between more exciting structure and a lower scale of ripeness than with a higher scale of ripeness. It's about the balance of acid and tannin. I've spent the last five years keying into that balance through farming. There's a perfect balance, to me, and that balance means that once you pick the grapes there's nothing you need to add. You don't add acid, you don't add water, you don't add fining. But acidity is really the key."
Acidity is indeed one of the hallmarks of Drew Wines, which have a lean vibrancy that gives a tautness to them, and lends a good measure of excitement to their presence on the palate.
I first encountered Drew's wines at a public tasting, and experienced one of my favorite moments as a wine lover -- that instant after putting something in your mouth when you realize that this wine you are tasting that you've never heard of isn't just good, it's phenomenal. Call it the "where have you been all my life" moment, when the needle gets pulled off the record and a casual attention becomes a laser focused demand to know where this wine came from and who made it and why in the world it is so good.
Jason and Molly Drew might have 13 vintages under their belts, the last few of which are astonishingly good, but the story of this winery has really just begun.
Full disclosure: the wines reviewed below were provided as press samples.
2012 Drew "Perli Vineyard" Syrah, Mendocino Ridge, Mendocino
Medium garnet in the glass, this wine smells of white pepper, cassis, and blackberry. In the mouth, bright cassis and mulberry flavors mix with white pepper and a hint of wet earth. Notes of plum skin linger in the finish with a taut, leathery tannic quality. 13.7% alcohol. Score: around 9. Cost: $45. click to buy.
2012 Drew "Fog-Eater" Pinot Noir, Anderson Valley, Mendocino
Light to medium garnet in color, this wine smells of bright raspberry and cedar with a hint of wet stones. In the mouth, bright raspberry and raspberry leaf flavors are wrapped in faint, dusty tannins even as they mix with sour cherry fruit. Sour cherries linger on the finish with dried herbs and flowers. 13.5% alcohol. Score: around 9. Cost: $45. click to buy.
2009 Drew "Valentini Vineyard" Syrah, Mendocino Ridge, Mendocino
Medium garnet in the glass, this wine smells of cassis and blackberries with hints of black pepper and wet stones. In the mouth beautiful blackberry and mulberry flavors mix with a deep crushed rock quality that is quite compelling. Supple but muscular tannins coat the mouth but take a back seat to the nicely balanced fruit and minerality. 13.8% alcohol. Score: between 9 and 9.5.
2011 Drew "Weir Vineyard" Pinot Noir, Yorkville Highlands, Mendocino
Light garnet in the glass, this wine smells of bright raspberry and forest floor. In the mouth, bright raspberry and citrus peel flavors have an electric juiciness thanks to phenomenal acidity. Notes of crushed herbs and forest floor meld with wet stone flavors in an effortless, bright and perfectly balanced package. Outrageously good. 13.3% alcohol. Score: around 9.5. Cost: $45. click to buy.
2010 Drew "Fog-Eater" Pinot Noir, Anderson Valley, Mendocino
Light to medium ruby in the glass, this wine smells of beautiful forest floor and crushed red berries. In the mouth, beautiful silky textures deliver delicate flavors of raspberry, raspberry leaf, red apple skin and wet stones, dusted with the faintest of tannins that nonetheless have quite a grip to them. A tinge of green herbs and raspberry leaf linger in the finish. Great acidity and a very lean mineral aspect make this wine quite pretty. 13.6% alcohol. Score: between 9 and 9.5 . Cost: $40. click to buy.
2011 Drew "Valentini Vineyard" Syrah, Mendocino Ridge, Mendocino
Medium garnet in the glass, this wine smells of white pepper, nicoise olives, and exotic flowers. In the mouth, lean spicy flavors of blackberry and blackberry leaf mix with white pepper and a hint of nicoise olive savoriness. Sandpapery tannins linger through the finish with notes of violets. 12.8% alcohol. Score: between 8.5 and 9.
2012 Drew Albariño, Anderson Valley, Mendocino
Pale gold in color, this wine smells of green apple, cucumber, and wet chalkboard. In the mouth, lime zest, wet chalkboard, and green apple skin flavors have an electric zip to them thanks to almost searing acidity. Crisp and refreshing and quite tasty. 12.8% alcohol Score: around 8.5. Cost: $28 click to buy.
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This past Sunday nothing worked out for LA KISS in a game that was nationally televised on ESPN2, LA KISS (2-5) got obliterate by the Spokane Shock (5-2) 70-21 at home at Honda Center. Turnovers proved costly for KISS, as the team was unable to overcome seven in total, including two balls that hit off the bar on kickoffs and gave the Shock the ball inside the KISS five yard line.
After a slow start KISS found some momentum with back-to-back touchdowns, the second coming on a spectacular missed-FG return by KISS DB AJ Cruz who dodged multiple tackles to take the ball the length of the field to bring the score to 28-14 in favor of the Shock. Cruz finished the game with seven returns in all for a total of 215 yards. However two quick touchdowns, separated by another KISS interception by the Shock to end the half left KISS down 42-14 going into the locker room.
KISS came out fighting in the second half and a quick touchdown from QB J.J. Raterink to WR Donovan Morgan brought the score to 42-21. That was as close as KISS would come however, as the Shock ended the game with four straight touchdowns to leave the final score at 70-21.
Dexter McCoil led KISS on defense with a team-leading six tackles, while Beau Bell added to his league-leading sack total with a vicious sack on Shock QB Erik Meyer to bring his total to 10 sacks. Meyer suffered a collarbone injury on the play and would not return to the game. He was replaced by Shock WR Rashaad Carter who finished the game 4-7 passing for 73 yards and two touchdowns, to go along with 12 rushes for 47 yards and four touchdowns.
KISS has holes on both sides of the ball and it seems, that the team can't work together or does not click well enough to be a succesfull football team. Head Coach Bob McMillen, was not happy in the post media briefing. He discussed everything that needed to change and pretty much made a call out to football players who had tape to get in contact with him.
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Teach Yourself Movable Type in 24 Hours. Had to look at the URL about 4 times to verify that this wasn't a joke page
Teach Yourself Movable Type in 24 Hours. Had to look at the URL about 4 times to verify that this wasn't a joke page
man, if i had known that publishers would give people a contract for this, i could've written this.
hmmm, anyone want to coauthor movabletype for dummies w/me? or maybe a movabletype quickstart guide....
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After years of riding, I finally have my first horse – a Warmblood x cob. I've kept him in the Waterford bit I tried him in, but I'd like to have a go at Prelim dressage. He is quite a heavy horse and very strong – what bit should I try to be dressage-legal? Also, I'd like to show him in a double bridle. How do I introduce a double bridle to my horse?
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Keep the bit you use as simple as possible, so you can feel your horse's reactions to your aids easily. A straight bar snaffle is the easiest to use, but your hands must be very quiet and still. A hanging cheek snaffle is permissible in dressage competitions, and this may help your horse to flex at the poll – a prerequisite of riding in a double bridle – but you must ensure that your horse accepts a correct contact with any bit that you choose, and you are not looking for a short cut.Once your horse can collect and extend in walk, trot and canter, and do lateral work in a snaffle, only then should a double bridle be introduced. It is essential that he has correct muscle development and the ability to flex at the poll, which must remain the highest point of the neck, without coming behind the vertical, and chew quietly on the bit with a relaxed jaw.If you train him well, his paces will become loose and elastic. It will feel great when you get it right, so I wish you well with your schooling.
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hiya - can i ask a wee question. i did dressage on my lass before she was put in foal, and we only got as far as elementry but at home we were practising more advanced moves. i have never used a double bridle cause we have never required that extra aid; does anyone know exactly why it's compulsory to wear one after elementry level?
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According to Dr. Crane, the standard neoadjuvant radiation therapy for
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conformal radiation, usually delivered over 5 1⁄2 weeks. This technique
is effective and well tolerated; more advanced techniques would only
increase the cost to the patient.
American Cancer Society. Cancer Facts & Figures 2013 [PDF].
Evans DB, for the Multidisciplinary Pancreatic Cancer Study Group.
Resectable pancreatic cancer: the role for neoadjuvant/preoperative
therapy. HPB (Oxford). 2006;8:365–368.
Katz MH, Wang H, Fleming JB, et al. Long-term survival after multidisciplinary management of resected pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Ann Surg Oncol. 2009;16:836–847.
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The Giants won the Super Bowl. Final score – Giants 17, Patriots 14.
I tried to engage the Patriots fans at the Boston Globe. Every post I wrote was taken down after an hour. They did not like hearing the honesty of someone from outside their mental geography. I earned this – I told you so. The Giants won the Super Bowl. Did I already say that?
The first half defined the game. The Giants maintained possession with a running game, kept Tom Brady and that explosive offensive off the field, and wore the defense down. The Giants set the stage for the second half.
The real story is the Giants Defense. They hustled and kept the New England offense disoriented and off balance. Tom Brady never found a rhythm. Eli Manning rand a fourth quarter scoring drive to win the game with 35 seconds left.
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In technical article "Leap Motion and JavaFX," Java Champion Johan Vos shows you how to use the Java API in a Java client application to interact with the Leap Motion Controller.
There might come a day when parents have to explain to their children what a keyboard is. For example, the Leap Motion Controller is equipped with infrared cameras and infrared LEDs and is capable of tracking hand and finger movements. Fortunately, a Java API is available. "Leap Motion and JavaFX," explores how you can 3-D hand movements to interact with JavaFX applications. See the Leap Motion in action:
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Brad Garrett is an American actor and stand-up comedian. He has appeared in numerous television and film roles. Garrett was initially successful as a stand-up comedian in the early 1980s. Taking advantage of that success in the late 1980s, Garrett began appearing in television and film, in minor and guest roles. His first major role was Robert Barone on the CBS series Everybody Loves Raymond. The series debuted September 13, 1996 and ran for nine seasons. Garrett's film roles include Stuart Little 2, Finding Nemo, Garfield, The Amateurs, The Pacifier, Night at the Museum, Tangled, and Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil. Garrett also played the leading role of Eddie Stark on the Fox television series 'Til Death from 2006 to 2010. Garrett has won three Primetime Emmy Awards, with three other nominations. Garrett is still prominent within stand-up comedy and is also a professional poker player. Garrett is recognized for his height and deep, gravelly voice.
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Fly Now: The National Air and Space Museum Poster Collection
Throughout their history, posters have been a significant means of mass communication, often with striking visual effect. Wendy Wick Reaves, the Smithsonian Portrait Gallery Curator of Prints and Drawings, comments that "sometimes a pictorial poster is a decorative masterpiece-something I can't walk by without a jolt of aesthetic pleasure. Another might strike me as extremely clever advertising … But collectively, these 'pictures of persuasion,' as we might call them, offer a wealth of art, history, design, and popular culture for us to understand. The poster is a familiar part of our world, and we intuitively understand its role as propaganda, promotion, announcement, or advertisement."
Reaves' observations are especially relevant for the impressive array of aviation posters in the National Air and Space Museum's 1300+ artifact collection. Quite possibly the largest publicly-held collection of its kind in the United States, the National Air and Space Museum's posters focus primarily on advertising for aviation-related products and activities. Among other areas, the collection includes 19th-century ballooning exhibition posters, early 20th-century airplane exhibition and meet posters, and twentieth-century airline advertisements.
The posters in the collection represent printing technologies that include original lithography, silkscreen, photolithography, and computer-generated imagery. The collection is significant both for its aesthetic value and because it is a unique representation of the cultural, commercial and military history of aviation. The collection represents an intense interest in flight, both public and private, during a significant period of its technological and social development.
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TAIPEI. Color photographic print advertising service to Taipei. Image on a white background portraying a woman with a shoulder-length bob wearing a purple, sleeveless qipao and holding a fan. In the background is an unfocused view of a traditional Chinese building. "TAIPEI" is printed at the bottom in a bright red serif font. Full text at top: Cathay Pacific, The Airline That Knows The Orient Best.
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The matchup most expected when the women's hockey tournament at the 2014 Sochi Olympics started is the one that will take place Thursday when the United States and Canada play for the gold medal (Noon ET, NBC, CBC).
It's a white-hot rivalry that has seen the kind of physical play and anger that wouldn't be out of place in a Stanley Cup Playoff game. The teams have met in the finals of all 16 IIHF Women's World Championships. Canada won the first nine, but the United States has taken five of the past seven tournaments. They've also played for the gold medal three times in the four Olympics that have featured women's hockey; the U.S. won the first tournament in 1998 but Canada has won the past three.
"I think intense is probably a better word than hate because we all do respect one another at the end of the day," U.S. forward Hilary Knight said. "They're at the top of their game and we're at the top of ours. It's a great battle of the border there. It's definitely a hot ticket."
The two superpowers in the women's game will play in a second straight Olympic final, with the U.S. looking to avenge their loss to Canada in the final game at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.
"There are 11 of us returning from Vancouver that in our minds came up short, so that's something that has driven all of us over the last four years," American forward Monique Lamoureux told the Chicago Tribune. "That feeling of coming up short doesn't fade over time. It's something that really sticks with us."
The Americans also will be looking to make up for a 3-2 loss to Canada during the preliminary round. The U.S. led 1-0 on Knight's goal with 2:26 left in the second period. But Canada responded with two goals in the first 3:54 of the third en route to the victory.
The U.S. took any residual anger out on Sweden in the semifinals, outshooting them 29-1 in the first period and 70-9 for the game in a 6-1 victory.
"After that game we weren't happy," Lamoureux told reporters in Sochi on Wednesday. "Not necessarily because we just lost but because we knew we didn't play our best hockey by far. We weren't great in the defensive zone, we didn't pressure pucks well and we didn't get pucks to the net. It is a matter of focusing on ourselves, playing to our strengths, and I think we will be OK."
The Americans will rely on an offense that has produced a tournament-high 20 goals in four games. The U.S. has three of the top six scorers in Sochi, with Amanda Kessel (three goals, three assists), Kendall Coyne (two goals, four assists) and Brianna Decker (two goals, four assists) all tied for second with six points. Michelle Karvinen of Finland leads the tournament with seven points.
Canada, which allowed two goals in going 3-0 in the preliminary round, put in a solid effort in a 3-1 defeat of Switzerland in the other semifinal. The win gives Canada a chance to become only the third team to win four Olympic gold medals in a row in hockey, and the first in women's hockey; Canada's men did it from 1920 to 1932 and the Soviet Union men did it 1964 to 1976.
Many of those players have what Canada coach Kevin Dineen called "a pretty special jewelry collection." And Dineen said he'll be relying on those veterans, among them Caroline Ouellette, Jayna Hefford, Hayley Wickenheiser and Gillian Apps on Thursday.
"Great players who have been in an Olympics or two," Dineen told the Canadian Press. "They've sat in this seat before."
"It certainly helps to have that Olympic experience," Ouellette told the Canadian Press. "You've been in those big games. You know how you're going to feel. You know it's going to be normal to be nervous at first and you are able to channel that energy, that nervousness into positive energy and make sure everyone around is calm and play up to their potential, play with confidence. It's our role as veterans to make sure everyone is calm, everyone is ready to go."
Despite the loss in the preliminary round, the Americans got the better of the Canadians during a pre-Olympic tour in December, winning four straight games. However, it's been 16 years since the Americans have beaten the Canadians when it counts at the Olympics.
"It's an awesome battle," U.S. defenseman Gigi Marvin told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "They're bringing their best and you're bringing your best. Every single athlete loves that. Every single athlete loves when it's all on the line and you've got to give everything and more.
"That's what's so exciting about playing against them. It's awesome to have that in our face. We're looking forward to it. We feel prepared and we're ready."
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Muschamp gives Gators a break with day of paintball
Published: Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 5:39 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 5:39 p.m.
Florida football coach Will Muschamp decided to give his banged-up Gators a break from the grind Thursday.
Orange & Blue Debut
When: Noon, Saturday
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He took them paintballing.
Here's what Muschamp tweeted on Thursday afternoon: "Decided to have a team building exercise today instead of meetings and lifting. Paintball for the Gators this afternoon!"
If any team deserves a break, it is Florida, which has been decimated by injuries this spring.
The Gators have so few healthy players still standing that UF's annual spring game Saturday will basically be a scrimmage. UF does not have enough players available to divide into two teams.
UF is down to seven healthy offensive linemen and only one true healthy tailback — senior Chris Rainey. The Gators are also paper-thin on the defensive line.
The injuries have become a major issue this spring, but Muschamp isn't bemoaning the fact.
"Nobody is feeling sorry for the Gators, I know that," Muschamp said. "I don't really worry about it. (Injuries) are part of the game. You've got to adjust and move to the next deal. We'll be fine. Times like this help you build your team depth."
The Gators will hold their final pre-spring game practice Friday. Saturday's Orange and Blue Game is at noon in The Swamp.
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