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Scumbags that run around preying on productive people
November 24, 2011
|From John Roskam
Here's why I go on about freedom of speech in Australia…
As of yesterday you can't call public servants in the New South Wales Environment Department 'scumbags that run around preying on productive people'.
Well. Not if you're Sydney talkback radio host, Alan Jones. Here's the story. And here's the IPA media release on it.
I'm sure Environment Department public servants are extremely productive! Such as…the 'Senior Project Officer, Cluster Coordination' (Environment Officer Class 11). Clusters don't organise themselves you know!
Maybe someone from the Occupy movement will apply. Don't laugh. They probably will. Watch this very funny video about Occupy protesters and paid employment.
A few days after I laughed at Julia Gillard's 'showerhead-led-recovery' in the Australian Financial Review last week – this story appeared.
Here's another crazy (but true) EU story. If you're selling bottled water in the European Union you can't claim drinking water stops dehydration. On Monday the UK Telegraph tracked down the story.
Watch out for Climategate – The Sequel. Find out the latest here. Back in December 2009 in Hey I showed you how the Australian media ignored Climategate – The Original. Let's see what happens this time.
Avoid the new Margaret Thatcher movie (and don't watch this new clip for it!). Norman Tebbitt explained why last week. Some very good (and long) reading on Thatcher is this 8,000 word profile in next month's Vanity Fair by her biographer Charles Moore.
Oh – in case you missed it – there's been more shenanigans in Canberra, and as of a few hours ago the Commonwealth Parliament has a new speaker. The Australian's Chris Kenny in his great new blog covers it all.
The IPA is launching Ian Plimer's new book about climate change, How to get expelled from school, in Sydney on Monday 12 December (with John Howard) and in Brisbane on Thursday 15 December. The Melbourne launch is tonight and is booked out. You can buy the book from Connor Court here. If you're in Sydney and you know who Bastiat was – go to this on 1 December.
Here's what else the IPA said this week:
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The President reads Hey
November 17, 2011
From John Roskam
Here's a quick quiz.
Guess the three countries where people live the longest on a government pension. (Clue: 2 of the 3 are about to go broke.)
Michael Lewis, whose pieces on the Europe disaster we've previously told you about (on Greece, Germany and California), has a new book reviewed in Forbes.
Paul Krugman is at it again. In the New York Times last week, he said the Euro project 'was cheered on by American right wingers'. He didn't quote any, so we did a survey. Milton Friedman hated it. The Heritage Foundation was opposed. The American Enterprise Institute was sceptical. And the Cato Institute didn't love it either. As Chris Berg said in August, it was technocrats that caused the Euro disaster. So what does the Guardian think will fix it? You guessed it – more technocrats!
Remember how we pointed out a few weeks ago that Barack Obama had not mentioned Australia's 'world-leading' carbon tax? Well, he finally did yesterday upon arrival in Australia. (He must be one of our regular Hey readers). Greg Combet says the White House 'expressed a lot of interest in what we have done' – just not publicly I guess!
Surprise, surprise! The end of Communism means the world is more peaceful and prosperous. That's the totally unexpected finding of Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker in his controversial new book, The Better Angels of our Nature. Read his interview with The Economist last week or watch him talk to Reason TV. And then read left-wing philosopher John Gray in Prospect who thinks Pinker is wrong.
This week IPA researchers Julie Novak and Asher Judah released an important report on how Australia's health system could be $4 billion cheaper if we had more productivity. The report is here.
On Thursday 24 November in Melbourne we are launching Professor Ian Plimer's new book, How to get expelled from school, the sequel to his best-selling Heaven and Earth. It's also our end of year celebration for members and friends of the IPA. RSVP and full details here. (There will be other launches around Australia in the coming weeks – details available soon).
Here's what else the IPA said this week:
- Chris Berg, Commonwealth Games bad news for the Gold Coast – The Drum
- Julie Novak, Cutting the slack and saving the budget – Online Opinion
- Tim Wilson, For and against an ABC-run Australia Network – The Drum
- James Paterson, The best way for the Right to win culture wars is to privatise them – The Australian
- Alan Moran, Pursue productivity in order to slash the costs – The Herald Sun
- Sinclair Davidson, Politics and economics of a balanced budget – The Drum
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Here's what I spilled my latte over this week
November 10, 2011
From John Roskam | Thursday, 10 November 2011
Well, at least Al Gore is happy. He thinks we should 'celebrate' the carbon tax. I disagree – click here to read a special message written exclusively for IPA members and supporters from Professor Ian Plimer. If there's one graph that shows why our government is crazy, it's this one.
Meanwhile everyone – and I mean everyone – except The Economist blog and a Brazilian website, missed this report released on Sunday. It's from Toronto University on G20 countries fulfilling their public commitments. And guess what? 'China has not complied with its commitment to rationalize and phase out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies…' (it's page 272) That's a bit different from Greg Combet's claim that China is doing 'extraordinary' things on climate change. But as an Australian you'll be proud we're the best at keeping our promises – while countries like the US, Germany, India, and China ignore theirs (page 8).
Today is the 22nd anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Here's a video of Reagan's 'Tear down this wall!' You know that everyone told Reagan not to make that speech? I explained this in my review of James Mann's The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan. And this week's New Yorker has a good and long piece piece on the new biography of George Kennan.
I spilled my latte reading this bizarre piece in The Age on Monday. It advocated a Cuban-style communist healthcare system. So how do the Cubans do it? They make up their statistics. In Hey last year we compared the Australian and Cuban systems. Still…Cuba is heading in the right direction I suppose. It's now legal to own a car!
Remember how we told you in August that Milton Friedman's grandson wanted to set up new libertarian paradises on abandoned oil rigs? Well, he's got a new scheme – to buy jungles from South Americans and turn them into free-market utopias. I hope he's more successful than William Lane.
Finally – this is a great piece on literature and liberty, by Mario Vargas Llosa from the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday.
The IPA's lunch with George Weigel in Melbourne next week is now booked out – but don't worry – we're taping it and we'll put it up on the web.
Here's what else the IPA said this week:
- Chris Berg, Media inquiry motives: accountability or revenge? – The Drum
- Tim Wilson, What happens to carbon trading after Durban? – The Australian
- Tim Wilson, Lack of policy leadership in Australia – Online Opinion
- Tim Wilson, Market lessons from the financial crisis – The Sydney Morning Herald
- Chris Berg, Memo to unions: White Australia was a bad idea – The Sunday Age
- John Roskam, Owners have the final say – The Australian Financial Review
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The Occupy movement ARE the 1%
November 3, 2011
From Chris Berg
If you listened to the Occupy Wall Street people, you'd think inequality in America was getting worse. Well…
(The Gini coefficient is the standard measure of inequality – in the US if anything it's going down!) This excellent EconTalk podcast with University of Chicago economist Bruce Mayer explains why everything you think about inequality in America is wrong. And I bet most of the occupiers don't realise they are in the global 1% – or that inequality is actually worse in Communist China than Capitalist America.
John Roskam is in New Zealand today for the funeral of one of the giants of free market advocacy over the last 30 years, Roger Kerr. Here's a great piece about his achievements from the New Zealand Herald this week. The American economist William Niskanen, another great free market advocate, has also sadly passed away. Monday's Washington Examiner had an excellent profile of "the most honest man in Washington."
The Qantas debacle highlights the need for industrial relations reform, as the IPA's John Lloyd argued this week in this article in The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. Here's what he said on MTR, and ABC Radio National. Ken Phillips had this important contribution in The Australian on Tuesday.
Who is more important to French history – Napoleon or King Kankou Musa? The new French national curriculum isn't sure. Sounds like they're having similar problems to us.
This video from last year – "I'm in Love with Friedrich Hayek" – is pretty funny. The sequel (which goes after John Maynard Keynes) – came out last month.
If you're looking for something long to read, try this fascinating article from the Autumn edition of City Journal on the decline of meritocracy. Or James Paterson's essay from the November edition of Quadrant, on how conservative governments should tackle the culture wars.
The IPA released a new report on Tuesday which finds the Productivity Commission may have overestimated the extent of problem gambling. Download it here and read Julie Novak's article about it in Tuesday's The Australian. Tim Wilson also released this report on protectionism in Australia.
All the videos from our Western Civilisation symposium in June are now online. New this week are talks from Sally Warhaft, Jake Niall, Michael Duffy and Giles Auty.
Here's what else the IPA said this week:
- Tim Wilson, Free trade movement must look beyond tariffs, – The Drum
- Chris Berg, The battle between political and economic freedom – The Drum
- John Lloyd, A throwback to union militancy – Business Spectator
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This article is the essence of 'balanced' reportage. It is thoughtful, thought-provoking, and fair, as well as open-minded about the 'personalities' involved in politics.
As such, it represents exactly what is hideous and hopeless about the 'liberal' media. Nowhere here does a role for citizens appear, except to 'pour their expectations' into hoped-for ideals that a candidate may or may not have.
Until journalism--and more particularly NationOfChange, sees fit to include in its informational sallies more of a mandate for participation, a call for people's stepping up to the plate as leaders instead of as followers--or as mere observers of the 'participant-observer' politicos--democracy will remain a far-off hope that will fail to manifest. In times like these, such a failure could easily spell the end of time for all the cousins on the planet.
When will we-the-people have a 'press' worthy of the verb as well as the noun? Inquiring minds would like to know.


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Football Season Preview: The Defense
This is part two of a two-story preview for the 2012 University of Sioux Falls football team. Part two features the 2012 schedule, defense and special teams.
Stats to Cheer: 89% Red Zone completion percentage (31-for-35), good enough for top-10 in the NCAA D-II in 2011; kick return average of 24.9 yards (6th in NCAA D-II).
Stats to Fear: held opponents to just 38% on third down conversions in 2011 (91st in NCAA D-II). The Cougars also averaged 67.4 yards in penalties per game; only three NSIC squads (University of Mary, Wayne State and Concordia University) averaged more than 60 penalty yards per game.
Times are a changin' for USF Football.
The 2012 season for the Cougars was about improvement and development as USF wrapped up its final year as a provisional member of NCAA Division II and is now a full-fledged member of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC).
USF finished 5-4 in 2012, marking the program's eighteenth-straight season with a .500 or better overall record. The Cougars carried positive momentum going into the offseason, winning five of their last six games after starting the year 0-3 for the first time since 1987 (3-7).
The Cougars begin their inaugural NSIC season on Thursday, August 30 with a road game against St. Cloud State University. USF's first NSIC home game is slated the following weekend (9/8) versus Minnesota State University-Moorhead. The Cougars then travel to Minot to take on the Beavers (9/15), return to the Bob for a two-game homestand with Bemidji State (9/22) and Southwest Minnesota State (9/29), go on the road to face the Winona State Warriors (10/6) and host Concordia University (10/13).
October 22 is the date that fans have circled on their calendars, as USF will make the short trek to Augustana College to renew their long-lost rivalry. The squads first clashed on the gridiron in 1916 (Sioux Falls College won 46-0) and last met in 1986 (a 20-0 Augustana victory). Augustana holds an 18-2 edge all-time over Sioux Falls.
The Cougars will wrap up their inaugural NSIC campaign with a home contest versus Upper Iowa (10/27), road game at Minnesota State (11/3) and end the season at home against Wayne State (11/10).
Defense: There are some clear-cut assets on this Cougar team, but perhaps the brightest strength is the linebacker corps. The Cougars lost two-year starter Brandon Andersen to graduation but with the returning senior trio of ILB Eric Anderson (58 tackles, six TFL, one sack, one INT), OLB Nick Bonte (56 tackles, 12 TFL, two sacks, three forced fumbles) and ILB Matt White (80 tackles, 2.5 TFL, 1 INT), the Cougars are not going to be fun to run the ball on and should provide ample pressure on opposing quarterbacks.
When practice begins in August, there figures to be a fierce competition for the Cougars' vacant OLB position with junior Ryan Adams and Sierra College transfer John Talbot battling for the final spot. Redshirt freshmen Clint Wilson, Cameron Ostrum and Carter Ahlers will rotate in behind the starters and also see time on special teams.
In terms of the secondary, the group bears a strong resemblance to its 2011 counterpart. Anderson's unit is experienced with both starting safeties and one cornerback with starting experience returning.
The starting senior safety duo of Michael Frericks and Robert Virgil return and will be supported by Thad Campbell, Adam Heck and Bo Bearshield.
With a year of starting experience under his belt, Frericks should make even more plays while becoming a greater vocal leader on the field. He posted career-highs in tackles, interceptions, and passes defended last season to earn a spot on the All-Dakota Transitional second team. Frericks enters his final Cougar campaign six tackles shy of the century mark.
Lightning quick and All-Dakota Transition first team selection Robert Virgil is penciled in as the other safety. He led the Cougars in interceptions (5) and passes deflected (8). He also had two pick 6's, two fumble recoveries and finished fourth on the squad in total tackles (48).
Campbell saw backfield and special teams action in seven games in 2011 and could earn a starting role this season. He recorded five tackles (1 TFL) and his first career interception in the Cougars' win against South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (10/22).
Heck logged minutes in every game last season and led the Cougars with three interceptions in 2010.
The Cougars will be without the services of two-year starting corner Angelo Pree (75 tackles/ 2 INT/11 BU/13 PD/4 BK in two seasons) but have five capable cornerbacks who will compete at the field cornerback spot.
Incumbent senior Brett Jensen is a capable player who Coach Anderson expects to have a banner final campaign. The Viborg native recorded 23 tackles last year, including 2.5 TFL, forced one fumble and picked off a pass in the Cougars' home win against William Jewell (10/1).
In the mix for the open slot are sophomore Ryan Graber, redshirt freshman John Tidwell and junior college transfer Aaron Hanna.
Hanna twice garnered first team all-conference honors at Sacramento City College and finished his junior college career with five interceptions, three forced fumbles, 88 tackles and 41 PBU's.
Graber served as a reserve defensive back and special teams member for the Cougars last season. He saw action in all nine games and tallied 10 tackles, one interception, one pass breakup and one blocked kick during his redshirt freshman campaign.Jon Anderson's defensive front was certainly a bright spot last season, as the unit led the charge with 20 sacks, while holding opponents to 113.9 yards per game on the ground, which would have been the 23rd-best mark in the NCAA D-II last season. Only two NSIC teams gave up fewer yards than USF did in 2011: Minnesota State-Mankato (101.57) and Bemidji State (110.5).
The Cougars return two starters on the line and with a bevy of highly touted newcomers expected on campus this fall, position battles will be hard-fought.
Returning for his final campaign is highly acclaimed defensive end Jameel Medlock. Number 99 is being counted on to have a big senior season after an excellent junior campaign that saw him earn First Team All-Dakota Transition Team honors. Medlock (6'2, 250) has all the tools to be one of the best in the NSIC at his position and gained extensive experience last fall as he transitioned from junior college to college ball.
Medlock led the Cougars with seven sacks (46 yards) and was credited with 20 tackles. He also logged 10.5 tackles for loss with a team-high 51 lost yards. Medlock had a career day against Minot State (10/29), recording six tackles, (4 TFL., 15 yds.). He also picked up three sacks during a relentless harassment of a pair of Beaver quarterbacks.
Expectations are also high for sophomore Michael Tolkamp. Tolkamp took advantage of an increased role in the defensive line rotation last season, finishing his redshirt freshman campaign with 16 tackles (one TFL), one sack and a pass breakup. He recorded at least two tackles in each of the final seven contests with a season-high four tackles in the win against William Jewell (10/1).
Junior college transfer Devin Flescher is in the mix and the coaching staff believes that he has the potential to make an early impact. The former Butte College Roadrunner tallied 31 tackles (nine TFL) and 4.5 sacks in 2011.
Senior Corey Hartley and Sacramento City College transfer Brock Murdock also figure to wage a battle for one of the starting spots. Hartley is a fifth-year end that has seen action in 13 career games. A steady contributor throughout his Cougar career, Hartley posted three tackles and two assists in seven games last season. Brock Murdock arrives in Sioux Falls after two solid campaigns at Sacramento City College, where he charted 36 tackles (5 TFL), four sacks and a fumble recovery in two seasons with the Panthers.
The man in the middle is a two-player battle between sophomore Jarrett Grabbe and junior college transfer Jerry Brady (American River College). Grabbe worked his way into valuable minutes last season after taking a redshirt year as a freshman at UNO in 2010.
Brady recorded 31 tackles (11 TFL), five sacks and one forced fumble in two seasons with the Beavers and also anchored a line that allowed just 62.5 rushing yards per game in 2011.
Special teams: Placekicker and punter Braden Wieking returns for his senior season. The Sioux Falls native will begin the 2012 campaign seventh on USF's all-time scoring list with 309 points and is on pace to become the Cougars' career leader in field goals, PATs and career leader for points scored by a kicker.
Wieking converted 8 of 12 field goal attempts last season and was also 29 of 32 on extra points.
A three-year starter, Wieking is 39 for 54 on field goal attempts in his career (66.7 %) and holds USF's consecutive points after touchdown record (162).
He also averaged 40 yards per punt last year and had 12 punts downed inside the 20. Last season the Cougars ranked 41st in NCAA D-II in net punting (34.3 yards).
In the return game, gone is special teams ace Michael Hicks, who last year amassed more than 1500 all purpose yards and six TDs. Coach Stugart is confident Michael Lindsey has the potential to be just as explosive for the Cougars. Lindsey was the top return man at American River College and last season set a new school record with 85-yard return in 2011.
Impact Newcomers on Defense: There's multi-purpose backs, and then there's multi-purpose athletes, and Pomona (Arvada, Colo.) running back Dylan Carter definitely falls into the latter category. An "Under the Radar" pick by ESPN HS, Carter last season rushed for four touchdowns, booted two field goals and converted six extra-points, scoring 36 total points in Pomona's 48-14 win against Fairview.
Denver Post writer Neil Devlin quipped that "it was as if Carter was playing a video game . . . by himself," after the 6-foot, 197-pounder ran 26 times for 142 yards and three touchdowns in Pomona's 28-0 win versus Ralston Valley. He also kicked off and was good on four extra-point conversion kicks.
Carter was named the #2 prep athlete in the state by Colorado Football Magazine after he amassed 197 points (22 TDs, five FG, 50 PATs) to go along with All-State, All-Colorado, All-Conference and League Offensive Player of the Year as a senior. The USF coaching staff projects Carter as a defensive back.


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Today's a great day for us over at Theme.fm because just last night our very first free WordPress theme has made it through the review process and has been approved for the WordPress.org Theme directory! San Fran is quite a minimalistic, typography-based WordPress theme that provides a few different color schemes to pick from and many other exciting features.
This post will briefly take you through the features of the San Fran theme, the planning, design and development process. We'll dive into some structure and code and see how San Fran makes it possible to customize it using child themes and plugins. We will also briefly cover the WordPress.org review process and the issues that we have faced while submitting our theme there. But hey, if you're here for the download, go ahead:Demo & Download
Planning the Theme
Honestly, there wasn't much planning here and San Fran was more of a way to get us relaxed from day-to-day jobs we were doing for clients, so it was mostly mockups going back and forth, without any internal approval process but with feedback of course. We didn't plan several color schemes and typography changes, we weren't planning post thumbnails and multi-level navigation menus.
Post formats were indeed part of the plan as well as that lovely GPL icon set we released yesterday. Widgets and sidebars, a full-width page template and a layout that provides easy access via child themes was thought of since day one.
Designing San Fran
As mentioned, these were mostly mockups of pages going back and forth throughout all the process of creating the theme. One aspect we didn't think of in the first place was providing several color and typography options, so they came after the Arial/Tahoma variant was already implemented and running on WordPress, so then we said "hmm, let's spice it up a little!" and we came up with three color and typography sets and decided to call them "color schemes".
We were thinking about the name "skins" for a while but really had a slight problem at defining what a skin is since it was easy to change colors and fonts of things, but not actually move them around, shape them and structure them differently, so we went ahead with color schemes. It was much easier to see the constraints from the designer's point of view.
The Development Process
Developing San Fran was quite simple at first, the slight problems occurred during cutting the image files into HTML templates after which WordPress'izing them was a breeze. But hey, then came the icons, thumbnail images for archives and the three different color schemes, so we were stuck cleaning up the CSS code and separating it into different files, and eventually got through it — what a relief! At around that time we published the color schemes options tutorial here on our blog.
The Theme Options page in the admin panel is implemented via the Settings API, one thing we can't wait to see in the upcoming update for the Twenty Eleven theme. This makes it possible for themes and plugins to extend the page and add their own theme options to add some extra features for the theme.
Next, we separated some of our template files into multiple files to allow child themes to override how various post formats are displayed on the front page of their blog, the archives and search pages, sidebars and pagination. This took a while to lay out and there's a big chance that we'll be making even further separations in the coming updates to the theme, but from what we learned — it's worth the effort.
Finally some browser and version testing, some quick check on how plugins play with the theme and deployed the theme with some test data to the playground server for everybody to take a look and provide feedback. Minor issues were quickly taken care of and we were soon ready for the review process.
The Review Process
To be honest, this was our second free theme published in the WordPress.org repository after Minimal Georgia and this time it was so much easier and smoother. Of course we weren't expecting to get it approved with a single review, so the good guys from the review team helped us out finding the issues.
There were a few minor issues with localization that were fixed, a
.gitignore file that we forgot to remove from the archive we uploaded and oh the categories and the multi-level menus were the worst. The review guidelines clearly state that our categories and tags have to be displayed, while we, from design reasons decided to hide some of them if there are too many to fit in that funky meta bar.
Turned out that we were allowed to provide an extra option in the Theme Options that we called "Legacy Categories & Tags Display", turned off by default, but allowing end-users to get rid of the initially-designed meta bar in order to show their categories and tags in full. That was a brilliant idea and one that has actually worked!
Multi-level navigation was scary since we had three different color schemes, so had to dive into the CSS code again for all four stylesheets (main and three schemes) to figure out the menu children, the hover effects and the colors. But once that was done, we were ready for a second try, which was way faster than we expected — literally minutes! So we were up and running on WordPress.org in no time!
Future Plans
Yes, we do have future plans for San Fran, no scope has been defined yet, but we'll probably introduce a few other color schemes and typography options, maybe a few exciting customization settings for the Theme Options page. One thing we're definitely going for is a bunch of new filters and actions throughout the whole theme for child theme developers to really take advantage of San Fran as a parent theme.
That's about it folks! Hope you enjoy our freebie and we'll be really happy if you provided any kind of feedback on the design and code. What features would you like to see implemented in the next update and whether you're willing to use San Fran as a child theme for one of your projects. Use the comments section below to share your thinkings and give us a shout on our Facebook page too!


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May 11, 2002
Los Angeles - In the NCAA semifinal match between No. 1 UCLA and Loyola Marymount at USC's McDonald's Swim Stadium, the Bruins jumped out to an early lead en route to the 11-2 victory. With the victory, UCLA advances to the Championship game, where they will face No. 2 Stanford, who defeated Michigan 13-3 to advance to the finals.
True freshman Amber Stachowski kicked things off for the Bruins, netting the first goal of the game at the 6:32 mark. Senior Kelly Heuchan notched two of her game leading three goals in the first quarter. And, junior Ashley Stachowski also contributed a goal, pushing the Bruins ahead 4-0 at the end of the first quarter. The Bruin defense allowed just one shot on goal by LMU in that quarter, which was saved by junior Jaime Hipp. In the second quarter, senior Jenny Lamb and sophomore Natalie Golda each netted a goal to put the Bruins up 6-0 at half time.
In the third quarter, Thalia Munro, Heuchan and the Stachowskis each netted a goal. Jamie Kroeze put LMU on the board, netting a goal with 5:08 to go in the quarter. LMU's Julia Wald also netted a goal in the third. Redshirt freshman Kristyn Pulver netted UCLA's only goal of the fourth quarter. Also in the fourth, senior Eleanor Murphy had a huge field save on Wald before UCLA clinched the victory. Hipp ended the day with eight saves, while her LMU counterpart, Devon Courtney, had seven.
Tomorrow, at 5:00 PM, UCLA will face Stanford in the NCAA Championship game. It will be the second-consecutive time that the Bruins and Cardinal will face each other for the NCAA Championship. In last year's game, the Bruins won 5-4 to clinch the inaugural NCAA Women's Water Polo National Championship.
The NCAA Championship game can be heard on the Internet at www.uclabruins.com. The broadcast will begin at 4:55 PM.
NCAA Semifinal - UCLA vs. Loyola Marymount
1 2 3 4 Final LMU 0 0 2 0 2 UCLA 4 2 4 1 11Scorers: UCLA - Heuchan 3, Am. Stachowski 2, Ash. Stachowski 2, Golda, Lamb, Munro, Pulver; LMU - Kroeze, Wald
Saves: UCLA - Hipp 8; LMU - Courtney 7


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Bryant Air Conditioners
What Bryant Heating and Cooling Systems lack in options, they make up for in energy efficiency. Bryant has been around for decades, and is still considered to have some of the most durable systems in the industry. If you're considering installing a Bryant Heating and Cooling system in your home, here's what you need to know to get started.
The cost of a Bryant air conditioning system depends on the size, make and model. The company has a fairly large catalogue with various prices. You can find a dealer here, or contact a licensed HVAC installer near you for help selecting a system.
The company's Evolution System received the Consumer's Digest Best Buy status.
Bryant offers air conditioning systems with SEER ratings up to 20 and no lower than 15. These are excellent ratings in the industry.
Bryant Heating and Cooling carries both compact and larger units.
Bryant carries less unit options than other companies.
The durability of a Bryant air conditioner depends on the type of unit purchased, as well as how well it's maintained. The industry average, however, is 12-15 years. It's recommended to properly clean and maintain any air conditioning system to avoid costly repairs.
To keep Bryant air conditioning systems up and running, clean the filter once a month with warm, soapy water. Also, make sure to regularly remove any dirt and debris from the unit that may be blocking air flow, and have a professional come out once a year to make sure everything is running smoothly.
Common Questions and Answers
Why do Bryant dealers quote a SEER rating that is different from the one on the Energy Guide provided by the manufacturer?
The nominal SEER rating can be increased with an upgrade of the indoor unit, so the dealer has a better idea of the actual combination rating of each system.
Where can parts for a Bryant air conditioning system be purchased?
Just like the actual units, you must contact your local Bryant dealer in order to buy replacement parts.
HistoryCharles Bryant started Bryant Heating and Cooling Systems in 1904. Since then, they have built manufacturing sites all over the United States that make a variety of products: humidifiers, ventilators, hat pumps, boilers, furnaces, and air conditioners.
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Understanding Maqasid
al-Shari'ah calls for the development of a juridical sense that is finely
tuned to the higher objectives and purposes of Islamic rulings, the aims
of which are the formulation of a new methodology in understanding
the revealed texts and the reform of Muslim thought and its application.
The author draws attention to the importance of understanding
various levels of maqasid, including distinguishing between primary
aims (al-maqasid al-asliyyah) and secondary aims (al-maqasid al-tabi'ah).
Al-Qahtani asserts that a positive understanding of the
objectives of the Shari'ah should produce affirmative human and
cultural development in Muslim societies. The real strength of this
work, however, is in the author's application of higher objectives and
aims to different areas of jurisprudence, such as in deriving and issuing
religious rulings (ifta'), and to important social issues and problems
present in Muslim societies, such as extremism, jihad, commanding
right and forbidding wrong, social change, crisis of Muslim thought,
countering religious excessiveness, the need for recreation and leisure,
citizenship and nation-belonging, spreading beauty and harmony in
Islam, and the role of Muslim women in society.
New Turkish & Kurdish titles just published.
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New titles published for February 2014.
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The Qur'anic Worldview - A Springboard for Cultural Reform by AbdulHamid AbuSulayman has been translated into Arabic.
Epistemological Bias in the Physical and Social Science by A.M. Elmessiri has been translated into Turkish.
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Two AMSS UK Lifetime Achievement Award recipients, Professor Bekir
Karliaga (2011) and Professor Fuat Sezgin (2005) received
the 2013 Turkish Presidential Culture and Arts
Grand Awards at a ceremony in Ankara on
24 December 2013.
Click here for Information flyer (pdf)
New book: Ethics of Assisted Reproductive Medicine by Sharmin Islam.
New Occasional Paper: No 24 The Arts of Islamic Civilisation by Isma'il al Faruqi.
New Book-in-Brief: Mapping the Secular Mind: Modernity's Quest for a Godless Utopia.
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Turkish translations of AUTHENTICATION OF HADITH: REDEFINING THE CRITERIA by Israr Ahmad Khan, and THE SOCIO-INTELLECTUAL FOUNDATIONS OF MALEK BENNABI'S APPROACH TO CIVILISATION by Badrane Benlahcene have been published.
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New books, Books-in-Brief and Occasional Papers for October 2013.
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IIIT publications on Maqasid Al-Shariah.
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Dr. Anas Al-Shaikh-Ali, Europe Executive Director, attended The International Silk Road Congress and
10th ACTR Conference in Istanbul 27-29th October organised by The Presidency of the Republic of
Turkey, Ankara Centre for Thought and Research (ADAM), Yildirim Beyazit University, Istanbul
Commercial University, and Istanbul Medeniyet University. Dr Anas addressed the international audience on: Rethinking Education: Multicultural Education, Peace Building and Sustained Cooperation along the
Silk Road and Beyond."
Lecture and Book Launch by renowned scholar and specialist in Islamic Law and Jurisprudence, Professor M. Hashim Kamali
The subject of Halal and Haram, notably meat, and meat products, is of central importance to Muslims with growing focus on ethical
aspects of meat production, food safety and cleanliness, and
the welfare of animals demanding greater attention. But there is
more to the Halal industry than simply meat. The issue of Halal
touches many areas of Muslim life. Because the industry is driven
by the market realities of supply and demand, better understanding
of Islamic principles is vital.
The AMSS UK is deeply shocked by the violent, barbaric and horrific murder in Woolwich
and condemns such unjustifable acts of criminality and terror in the strongest terms
possible. We express our deepest sympathy and condolences for the family of the victim.
British people of all communities, cultures and faiths must stand united to defeat this
evil attempt to create division, mistrust and fear within our rich and diverse society.
The First IIIT European Summer School was held from 24th August to 7th September 2013 in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina. The programme was designed for European undergraduate and graduate
students who are majoring in Islamic studies, humanities or the social
sciences. Eight days were reserved for
seminars, two days for presentations and workshops by participants
of their current research, and three days for local educational trips.
During the course of the programme, participants completed a total of
80 hours of direct research and instruction and received a certificate of
attendance from the organisers and the International University of Sarajevo.
The Conference was
held in English.
Organised by
IIIT London Office,
UK, Institute for Epistemological Studies Europe, Brussels
and Centre for Advanced Studies, Sarajevo,
in cooperation with
The Fairfax Institute, USA, and hosted by
International University of Sarajevo.
Parent-Child Relations - A Guide to Raising Children by Hisham Altalib, Abdulhamid Abusulayman & Omar Altalib is due for release
in Spring 2013. This comprehensive guide contains what you need to know on how to parent with
confidence. Packed with advice and powerful tips, using the latest research on child development
and parenting techniques, it offers a mine of information on how to let children flourish, take the
frustration out of parenting and develop happy family relations. Authors provide guidance on developing character, knowledge, values, and skills, as well as a faith-based outlook in children, benefitting
parents with kids of all ages. The many strategies and techniques offered include: teaching children how to
problem-solve, make decisions, and develop self-esteem. Raising God conscious, moral, successful children,
with a sense of civic responsibility in today's world is not easy. It is also not impossible. Effective parenting
is the key. Click here for more information (pdf).
ISBN: 978-1-56564-582-0, 500 pp
Details of new IIIT publications for 2013 can be seen in the latest publications flyer. See Publications page for more information.
Two books have recently been published on Professor Isma'il al Faruqi. Islam & Knowledge: Al Faruqi's Concept of Religion in Islamic Thought, published by I.B. Tauris in association with IIIT and the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA, is a collection of essays written and presented in honour of al Faruqi's work. Islam: Religion, Practice, Culture & World Order is a reprint of the book originally written by al Faruqi, presented with a new introduction.
Arabic translations of three Maqasid themed Occasion Papers have been published:
AL-SHARIAH MADE SIMPLE by Mohammad Hashim Kamali
GUIDE by Jasser Auda
AL-SHARIAH by Mohammad Umer Chapra
Oxford University Press published in 2011 Islamophobia: The Challenge of Pluralism in the 21st Century, edited by John L. Esposito and Ibrahim Kalin. Dr Anas Al-Shaikh-Ali, CBE, chair of AMSS UK, contributed a paper entitled Islamophobic Discourse Masquerading as Art and Literature: Combating Myth through Progressive Education. Click here for more information about the publication on the publisher's website.
Two separate Occasional papers on the theme of Maqasid Al-Shariah written by Mohammad Hashim Kamali and Jasser Auda have been reviewed in the Arabic edition of Asharq Al-Awsat. Click here to read the review in full (external link to the Asharq Al-Awsat website). Publications are in English and the review is in Arabic.
Dr Anas Al-Shaikh-Ali CBE, Academic Advisor to the IIIT in London UK, has been interviewed for the Arab newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat. Click here to read the Arabic interview in full (external link to the Asharq Al-Awsat website).
The IIIT London Office was established in 1987 as a branch of the main IIIT Head Office in the United States. An
intellectual cultural foundation the Institute aims to provide a comprehensive
Islamic outlook to relevant issues of contemporary thought.
The London
office oversees the production of English
Language titles as well as commissioning translations and promoting the objectives and work
of the Institute both in the UK and Europe.
As well as producing
publications in English the London Office has produced an Occasional Paper Series as well as audio and CD versions of a selection of the latter.
The London Office is also involved in the organisation of conferences seminars and workshops and to date has
organised over ninety conferences, seminars and workshops, as well as
management skills training programmes throughout the UK and Europe.
Previous press releases can be viewed on the
archive page.
Parent-Child Relations:
A Guide to Raising Children
by Hisham Altalib, Abdulhamid Abusulayman, and Omar Altalib.
978-1-56564-582-0 (hbk)
"...the book proposes Islamic solutions to problematic issues in raising children."
"...most insightful and comprehensive books on effective parenting."
"...well researched and thought provoking book...emphasis on
engaging the whole family in the challenging area of parenting."
Ethics of Assisted Reproductive Medicine
by Sharmin Islam.
978-1-56564-561-5 (pbk)
978-1-56564-556-1 (hbk)
"...compares and contrasts Western and Islamic models of bioethics
to make the case that the Islamic perspective...provides a viable and clear alternative..."
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I'm off to visit my Mum in San Francisco tomorrow. While I was packing, I realized that it's not so hard to choose music for the train ride, now that my cd's are organized. Deciding which shoes to pack still presents a bit of a problem, but I'm pretty sure I'll figure that out by tomorrow.


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Our goal is simple: to build an electorate that accurately represents the diversity of America's citizenry. Through advocacy, litigation, and technical assistance, Project Vote is fighting to make sure that every eligible citizen is able to register, vote, and cast a ballot that counts.
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Judgment and GraceBlog, General
The message of God's prophets in the Old Testament amounted to this- God is not pleased with what you are doing. Repent. We miss that prophets were agents of grace as were the judgments promised. The purpose, in both instances, was to be a goad to repentance, a wake-up call. The same is true today as God works in and through providence. For the believer, judgment is always a work of God's grace, a goad to repentance. Many Christians have bemoaned the destruction wrought by the Ashley Madison hack. The truth of the matter is that just as Ashley Madison did not create unfaithful hearts, so this hack did not create damning exposure. Rather for some it was a means of His grace.


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Recently, Abdul Kamal was killed by Irvington police officers. Mr. Kamal's family demanded answers regarding the killing of Mr. Kamal. However, the family has run into road blocks and red tape in their pursuit to get the answers that they are requesting.
To assist the family in their pursuit for justice, the Irvington NAACP held a march & rally on Mr. Kamal's birthday to bring attention to this case and hopefully get answers as to what happened on that cold night on a dead in street in Irvington, NJ.
The march started off with Mr. Larry Hamm from the People's Organization for Progress. Many dynamic speakers took to the podium to encourage the crowd to rally and march for justice in the Abdul Kamal case.
Many of those in attendance held signs which stated "Stop Brutality", and "Justice for Abdul Kamal". The march started at Town hall in Irvington, NJ and ended at the street where Mr. Kamal was killed.
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Women's Soccer Drops 2-1 Decision At Saint Joseph's
Oct. 12, 2012
AMHERST, Mass. - Sophomore midfielder Moa Mattsson recorded her team-leading eighth goal of the season at Saint Joseph's on Friday evening; however, UMass women's soccer faltered, 2-1 at Finnesey Field in Philadelphia, Pa. Mattsson now owns 19 points on the 2012 campaign, while freshman Jen Coppola notched her first collegiate assist against the Hawks.
Saint Joseph's (7-5-2 overall, 2-1-1 Atlantic 10) opened scoring in the 34th minute as Mo Hawkins slotted an attempt into the upper-left quadrant from the top of the box. Kersten Formento added the second Hawks tally in the 75th minute, knocking home a close-range attempt following a scramble in front of the UMass net.
Mattsson's attempt came during the final minute of play. Coppola controlled possession and sent a pass to Mattsson at the top of the right side of the box, with the sophomore from Uppsala, Sweden, firing an attempt into the left corner at the 89:54 mark.
UMass led the Hawks in shots, 8-4 and fouls, 5-3. Neither team recorded a corner kick while senior goalkeeper Emily Cota stopped a pair of attempts in net for the Minutewomen. Saint Joseph's goalie Christine Neal allowed Mattsson's goal at the end of regulation without recording a save during the contest.
The Minutewomen continue their season on Sunday, Oct. 14 at 1 p.m. at Temple.
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I'm using PLASMA 2.4.6 in an Intel Core i5-2500 (4 cores)
I'm trying to use the *_Tile versions of the functions DGEQRF and DGETRF but I have some problems. Attached I send two test programs that uses PLASMA_dgeqrf (PLASMA_dgetrf) with the tile size by default, PLASMA_dgeqrf (PLASMA_dgetrf) with the tile size fixed as a size lower than the matrix dimensions (#define NB, in the code) and PLASMA_dgeqrf_Tile (PLASMA_dgetrf_Tile).
The problem is that for the *_Tile functions the results are totally wrong. I used PLASMA_dLapack_to_Tile before and PLASMA_Tile_to_dLapack after the function, so I don't know what I'm doing wrong (if I set NB greater than the matrix dimensions the results are right). In the case of PLASMA_dgetrf_Tile, how can I convert the IPIV output argument to right order?
When I use the no tile functions setting tile size lower than matrix dimensions the results are right in absolute value, but sometimes (depending of NB, 2,3, etc.) signs in the numbers are changed compared to the right results. Why this occurs?
The reason I'm using the *_Tile versions of DGEQRF and DGETRF is that I need the output results in matrix A in Fortran format, but the functions outputs them in tile format and I don't know how can I convert to Fortran (PLASMA_Tile_to_dLapack works with PLASMA_desc and DGEQRF and DGETRF outputs normal double*). Exists any method to transform the results?
And finally, DGEQRF stores auxiliary data in a descT output arguments. These data are needed to reconstruct the Q matrix from the QR decomposition. This argument corresponds to TAU vector in the DGEQRF Fortran function. How can I extract the data from the descT struct and convert it to TAU vector?
Can anyone run my test programs?


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Jan. 21, 2008
The fifth-ranked UCLA men's volleyball team travels to No. 11 USC Jan. 23 and No. 2 Pepperdine Jan. 25 for a pair of MPSF showdowns.
The Bruins and Trojans will tangle at the Galen Center and UCLA and Pepperdine will meet at Firestone Fieldhouse. Both matches start at 7 p.m.
Both matches also will be broadcast on www.uclabruins.com with Darren Preston calling the action.
USC is vastly improved from last year's team that finished 12-16 overall and 9-18 in league play. The Trojans welcomed one of the nation's top recruiting classes in the Fall and are considered one of the MPSF's most dangerous teams. The rivals have split their matches the last two seasons after the Bruins enjoyed five years of series sweeps.
Last season, unranked USC upset No. 5 UCLA 3-0 in Pauley Pavilion, out-blocking its cross-town rival, 15.5-2.0 and out-hitting the Bruins .533 to .232. The victory also enabled the Trojans to claim the Kilgour Cup for the first time in eight years. The Bruins avenged that loss with a 3-0 victory at the Galen Center on Mar. 31.
Two and a half Lexus Gauntlet points also will be at stake as the two rivals continue the annual series to determine which school claims the gauntlet trophy for another year. In men's volleyball, UCLA is 10-2 in the Lexus series, 26-2 in the last 28 matches and 85-31 in the all-time series. USC leads the 2007-08 Lexus Gauntlet race, 35-10.
Following Wednesday's match, the Bruins travel to Malibu where they have not won since 2004. The Waves, ranked No. 2 with a 4-0 overall record, have defeated the Bruins in five of their last six meetings. The lone Bruin victory in that span was a 3-0 sweep in the 2006 MPSF semifinals during the Bruins' run to their 19th national championship. UCLA leads the all-time series, 71-29.
Entering the week, Pepperdine was 4-0 overall and in league play, and ranked No.2 behind BYU. The Waves were also tied with Long Beach State for first place in the MPSF race.
Bruin Notes: On Thurs., Feb. 6, UCLA will retire the jersey of former All-American and two-time Player of the Year Jeff Nygaard. Nygaard, who wore No. 9, led the Bruins to three consecutive trips to the NCAA Championship, winning titles in 1993 and '95. He was inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame in November. The Bruins will host USC at 7 p.m. that evening and the match will be broadcast on FSN Prime Ticket. ...The 31st Annual Kilgour Cup is scheduled for Sat., Feb. 9 against Pepperdine at 7 p.m. in Pauley Pavilion.


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Joint Colloquium Distinguished Lecture Series
What do Matroids have to do with Cell Phones?
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
David Tse
Cooperation between wireless devices is a powerful technique to improve the capacity of future systems. What is the maximum rate of information flow achievable by cooperation? In wired networks, this is answered by the max-flow min-cut theorem of Ford-Fulkerson in 1956. Due to the complex nature of signal interactions over the wireless meduim, generalizing this theorem to wireless networks has been a 30-year old open problem. In this talk, we provide such a generalization. On the engineering side, our result provides architectural insights to the design of cooperation schemes. On the mathematical side, there is an interesting connection to matroid theory via the concept of linking systems introduced by Schrijver in the 70's.
He received the B.A.Sc. degree in systems design engineering from University of Waterloo, Canada in 1989, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991 and 1994 respectively. From 1994 to 1995, he was a postdoctoral member of technical staff at A.T. & T. Bell Laboratories.
In 1995 he joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley. He received a 1967 NSERC 4-year graduate fellowship from the government of Canada in 1989, a NSF CAREER award in 1998, the Best Paper Awards at the Infocom 1998 and Infocom 2001 conferences, the Erlang Prize in 2000 from the INFORMS Applied Probability Society, the IEEE Communications and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award in 2001, and the Information Theory Society Paper Award in 2003. He was the Technical Program co-chair of the International Symposium on Information Theory in 2004, and was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory from 2001 to 2003. He is a coauthor, with Pramod Viswanath, of the text "Fundamentals of Wireless Communication". His research interests are in information theory, wireless communications and networking.
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No. 20 Texas Tech Tops UTEP, 7-0
Caroline Starck recorded her 88th career singles win on Friday morning against UTEP.
March 22, 2013
LUBBOCK, Texas - No. 20 Texas Tech got a wakeup call during doubles, as the Lady Raiders were tested early, woke up and then proceeded to walk away with a 7-0 win over UTEP at the McLeod Tennis Center in the first of two matches on Friday.
It was Texas Tech's 14th straight win at the McLeod Tennis Center.
The Texas Tech doubles tandem of Elizabeth Ullathorne and Caroline Starck had only lost once this season, but never got on track on Friday, as the two seniors fell behind 6-0 before ever winning a game to Marie LeBlond and Gabi Vazquez. The Tech duo lost to the UTEP tandem, 8-1.
Sandra Dynka and Nikki Sanders were down a quick 3-0 at No. 3 doubles to Anastasiya Sylenko and Matlda Rose Tench, but gradualty fought back and won, 8-5 to tie the team score 1-1, with one match remaining.
Texas Tech's nationally-ranked tandem of Samantha Adams and Kenna Kilgo, who are ranked No. 34, dug a deep hole to Martina Trierweiler and Rebeca Calvillo, trailing 3-0 and 4-1. Suddenly it was 4-4 and then 5-5, before Tech took its first lead at 6-5 and never looked back en route to an 8-6 win.
Kelli Hine added a quick, 6-1, 6-2 win over Sylenko at No. 6, while Ullathorne dispatched LeBond, 6-1, 6-4 to give Texas Tech a commanding 3-0 lead.
The Lady Raiders secured the win, as Kilgo finished up at No. 2 with a 7-5, 6-3 victory over Trierweiler and Adams topped Calvillo, 6-3, 7-5 at No. 1.
Starck the notched her 88th career win with a 7-6 (7-5), 6-4 triumph over Vazquez at No. 4 singles. Starck is the winningest singles player the Lady Raiders have had over the last 25 years.
Dynka closed out the match with a pro set win over Matilda Rose Tench, 7-6 (7-4), 4-6, 1-0 (10-7).
The Red Raider return to action at 6 p.m. tonight as they host Wet Virginia (4-9, 0-2) in Big 12 action at the McLeod Tennis Center.
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North Colorado Medical Center's Spirit of Women plans for Girls Night Out
GREELEY, Colo. (Sept. 18, 2012) — North Colorado Medical Center's Spirit of Women invite women to be dazzled during a special night out with girlfriends, sisters, daughters and mothers. Be Dazzling – Girls Night Out is Oct. 11 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the UNC Ballroom, 2045 10th Ave. in Greeley.
Tickets may be purchased before the event for $15:
- At NCMC Gift Shop or Accessories with a Flair, 1335 Eighth Ave., Greeley
- By calling (877) 277-8975; choose option 2
- At the door for $20.
This year guests will hear musicians Lance Garrett and Jerry Nelson on "Dueling Pianos." They also will have a chance to see the history of cancer and watch it become a future of hope. Along the way, guests will see the stunning and sometimes humorous changes women have experienced through the years.
Refreshments and drinks also will be available.
A portion of the proceeds from the event will go to the NCMC Breast Center Fund to provide mammograms for under-insured women in Northern Colorado.
For more information, please visit Spirit of Women.
Spirit of Women hosts events throughout the year featuring timely health education topics, physicians and health practitioners, Spirit Business Partners, and of course...fun, innovative and unique activities enjoyed by women of all ages! In addition, Spirit of Women frequently hosts community lectures or events that include topics of interest to men.


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Artist Eric Standley with a laser cut out of cardboard the stunning stained glass windows. Enjoy it!
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Serge Birault artist from France. His main area of work – digital painting. It creates a vivid illustration, book covers and portraits. He is perfectly able to create images in his drawings of beautiful and sexy girls.
Stunning horse from Andrew MacGibbon
Commercial photographer Andrew McGibbon was born in Johannesburg. He currently lives in Durban. I propose today to see a series of his works, "Wild Horses." In my opinion, turned out pretty cool! Or am I just really love horses. [...]
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Dave Spengeler from Switzerland to his blog, as presented in his opinion, should look to all known logos in the light of modern trends towards minimalism and colorless.
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Dalton Ghetti makes sculptures out of pencils, including a tiny saw and a pencil whose center has been carved into a chain, which is framed. Dalton has made about 100 carvings, and is currently working on an epic piece inspired by the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. He said: "I decided to [...]
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Take a look creative photos with fire and match. A photographer creates these pictures from Ekaterinburg under the pseudonym of poltergeist.
Lovely house for complete ladies and gingerbread men from Sarah Jane Szikora
Sarah Jane Szikora was born in Hungary 40 years ago. She believes that art should make people happy and give a smile, and that's why trying to draw his characters so it was fun and funny. Sarah Jane believes that happiness does not depend on the number of pounds and the size of clothing. Complete [...]
Paper creative Peter Callesena
Danish designer Peter Callesen uses in his work exclusively paper. From this he creates magnificent works of sculpture. Size used by the sheet varies from small, A4, up to huge. Peter Callesen born in Denmark in 1967 and studied at Goldsmiths College in London. Currently, Peter is engaged in its many exhibits.
Carving on shells or glyptics
Glyptics – is the art of carving on base and precious stones. One of the most ancient arts. In this case, the carving on shells. Very elegant and beautiful, in my opinion. The most highly prized shell for carving is the emperor helmet shell, Cassis madagascariensis. This shell has white and dark brown layers and [...]
Pencil Art by T. S. Abe
Pencil drawings are always interesting. It is nice to watch how artist has managed to draw something like it was photographed by camera. However, the plenty of the pencil drawings you have seen by now probably cannot be compared with the following drawings which are literally mind-blowing.


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Sony has plans to start selling a limited edition white PS3 on January 27 for $299.99. This new model will have a 500GB hard drive and will include a full year of PlayStation Plus. Assuming you have an internet connection, this bundle will afford you with a lot of free games for both the PS3 and Vita thanks to PlayStation Plus. Granted the games won't work after your subscription expires, but it's well worth the $50 a year.
PlayStation Plus also gets members into betas (God of War: Ascension being the latest), free themes, wallpapers and discounts that non-members can't have. You'll also get 1GB of cloud storage for your PS3 and Vita saved games.
Time will tell how well this promotion does. Rumors are circulating regarding what Sony will announce either during or before its E3 2013 press conference. The general assumption is a PS4 announcement, but it could very well be something completely different.
I still feel that $299 is a slightly intimidating price point six years into the PS3's life cycle. Even though the value is definitely there when PS Plus is included, less knowledgeable customers may not realize that. I think they will be more comfortable spending not too much more than $200 for the console with a free physical game included.
Source [PlayStation Blog]