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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Jerod Haase got emotional when he had to tell his longtime mentor and boss Roy Williams he was leaving North Carolina to take over UAB's program.
"When I left his office yesterday I told him I have to leave and not talk because I can't do it," said Haase, who was introduced at UAB on Tuesday. "He's been great to me."
Then he left and ran into iconic former Tar Heels coach Dean Smith, but Haase needed no further proof of the basketball tradition he's leaving behind in Chapel Hill .
"Leaving the office at the Smith Center yesterday, I crossed paths with Dean Smith. I left there seeing all the tradition, the opportunity that I had there. I left there seeing Coach Smith and thinking, `it's my time to go,' " Hasse said in a transcription of his press conference on the UAB website. "While I'll miss everything at Carolina, it's my time and I will never look back. I will be 100 percent committed to UAB with an appreciation for North Carolina and for Kansas and for back home in Lake Tahoe, California."
Haase was hired Monday, agreeing to a five-year contract worth $475,000 annually plus incentives. Mike Davis, who was fired after six seasons, was making $625,000.
The former Kansas player has spent the past 13 seasons working on Williams' staffs with the Jayhawks and Tar Heels, two of college basketball's traditional powers.
"He's a winner," UAB athletic director Brian Mackin said. "He's won all of his life. In high school, he won state championships. In college and as an assistant at North Carolina and Kansas, it is in his DNA. He knows no different, and that is very important to me. He is a fierce competitor.
"Coach Williams, in my four conversations with him over the last week, told me that he has never coached a young man that hated to lose more than Jerod. He used to cry in the locker room because hated losing, so I like that about him."
The Blazers were once regular visitors to the NCAA tournament, too, but only made it once under Davis.
Haase said North Carolina was a hard place to leave after nine seasons but that "UAB is a job I'd walk to."
"This job has everything that I could hope for," he said. "This is a dream situation because I can recruit at a high level here. This is a dream situation because it's a fantastic place to raise a family and be a part of the community. This is a dream situation because there is a current team right here right now that I just met with that I'm going to commit to.
"And the players in that locker room have a chance to win and to win big. This is a dream situation to be able to work with this staff and administration that's here right now. They are good people, they are knowledgeable people that care about this university, and I'll do the same."
Haase called UAB a "destination job" and said he hopes to stick around long enough to leave a legacy.
"I hope that I'm not just known as the guy that won and won big," he said. "I hope I am the guy that is known for building a program that started great and became even greater from running it the right way.
"The fact that our kids are going to graduate is hugely important to me. The fact that we're going to do things in a first-class manner and get the kids, myself, my staff involved in the community, all of those things are a piece of the puzzle that were going to do here."
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i have no bone to pick with him. as a customer, my orders were always received, and international shipping wasn't too bad if i remember rightly. in fact, i bought my first Sage cd from there.. still sick.
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i think i bought Personal Journals from there too and i think i got that and pornstars from earth together
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A surrender button has been suggested and rejected many times. In fact, this site used to have a surrender button but it was abused and hence the button was removed. This thread is a complilation of over 100 threads of people asking for Surrender Buttons or Resign Boxes or Forfeit Flags and the exasperated rejections of handfuls of moderators. It's not going to happen.
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No, it won't be added for certain game types (e.g., trench) either.
And no, it also won't be added if there is a minimum round requirement (i.e, the button appears after 50 rounds).
I'd also like to add that no, it won't be added even if the player remains alive for three rounds but has their turn skipped.
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Based on two those events, I started seeking out the music. Access was very limited back then. As I mentioned, Junta was out. Lawn Boy with the Fee bonus track was also released. And then there were bootlegs. Those were even harder to find. And when you did find them, the sound quality was miserable (dudes calling out for songs plus beer bottles clanging) and the songs were always labeled incorrectly. For a long time I thought "harpua" was called "hardua" because that's what my tape said.
As for the show, it was a lot of fun- mostly young kids running around without a care in the world. I remember holding up my ticket for Golgi, seeing the vacuum come out and hearing Alvenu Malkenu (at which point I turned to Skills and said don't we know this number?).
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By user12582982 on Nov 16, 2009
One of our partners is offering Managed Smartcard Services. This means that an enterprise is able to outsource all of their smartcard and PKI services to a 3rd party. Part of their card lifecycle management service is the whole enrollment, personalization and issuance of the smartcards. This means that a new employee will get an invitation to visit one of a chain of certified professional photographers in his or her hometown neighborhood to take a picture to go on the card. The smartcard is then printed with the company's and personal information including the employee's photo and is provisioned with the user's certificates. The certificate will contain the user's UPN that will also need to get into the company's Active Directory so that the employees can use smartcard login to their desktop. For this to happen, many scenario's can be thought off including a fully automated provisioning of AD by tools like Sun Identity Manager up until manually adding new users from a batch csv file. After this is all done the card is then sent to the employee's home address together with a PIN letter, ready to activate and use.
Recently I have been investigating how this Managed Smartcard Service could be used to easily give employees access to their Windows desktops via strong authentication using our partner's Managed Smartcard Service. The basis for this setup is a customer using Citrix XenApp (formerly known as Presentation Server) to access its desktops using Sun Ray thin clients.
The entire demo environment has three servers, two clients and a live Internet connection. Clients are a fat laptop client and a Sun Ray thin client. The servers are a Sun Ray server (with PCSC lite software), a Citrix XenApp server with AET middleware software (used by our partner) installed on it, and a AD Domain Controller that is setup to trust certificates issued by our Managed Smartcard Service Provider's CA. This environment is connected to the Internet so the validity of certificates can be checked via OCSP at the Managed Smartcard Service OCSP responders. As can be seen in the short demonstration video (02:27) below both fat and thin clients can be used interchangeably without any problem.
Since the issued smartcards are sent directly from the 3rd party (our
partner) to the company's employees, we needed to find a way to
register the cards in the company's Sun Ray (or VDI) environment. The Sun Ray token ID is
composed from several characteristics of the card being fabricator,
type, batch and serial number of the card. Within the Sun Ray server
software, this token ID is composed automatically by the corresponding
smartcard config file. Composing this token ID beforehand through a
script is theoretically possible but is easily broken
since e.g. type and batch numbers could change without notice. Another idea would be to register the smartcard when it is used for the first time by the customer's employee.
However, even more simple is to make the Sun Ray services layer completely 'transparent' to all the backend services (like with VDI). This is what is used in this setup where just the certificates are read and transferred to the backend Citrix XenApp servers which have the AET middleware on it and where all the OCSP checking and final authentication based on the UPN in the certificate will take place.
All in all, we found that Managed Smartcard services can be used very easy together with Sun VDI and Citrix where both fat and thin clients can be used together...
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CORPUS CHRISTI - Throughout the summer of 2012, GoIslanders.com will look back at the best moments and athletic performances from the 2011-12 school year.
Every Wednesday, we will bring you one of the top 10 individual performances, with Mondays bringing the year's top 10 moments. Be sure to keep tabs on GoIslanders.com throughout the summer to celebrate all the great moments.
Top Moments #10 - Women's Basketball and Men's Basketball Sweep Turkey Tuesday Doubleheader
The Islanders Basketball programs had an outstanding night on Turkey Tuesday as both teams gave the fans a reason to cheer as they defeated their opponents at the American Bank Center on November 22, 2011. The women snapped a long losing streak with a win over Iona, while the men stunned perennial power Utah State that night.
The women's team was powered by three players in double digits propelling it to a 77-68 victory over Iona. The win snapped a 19-game losing streak dating back to the 2010-11 season.
Juniors Damequia Montgomery and Jessica Jammer paced the Islanders in double figures. Montgomery tallied her first double-double of the season with a season-high 19 points and 15 rebounds in 27 minutes of play. Jammer posted her first double-double of the year with 17 points and tied a career-best 10 boards. Senior Myeisha Myles recorded her third double-digit scoring game of the year with 10 points and pulled down eight boards in 24 minutes. The game featured 11 ties and eight lead changes.
As for the men's team, they followed that with a dramatic OT win over Utah State. A clutch Hameed Ali three-pointer in the extra session gave the team a lead it would not relinquish in a 58-55 win over Utah State. Myron Dempsey posted a double-double with 16 points and 15 rebounds in the victory.
The win was the first in Willis Wilson's tenure as head coach of the Islanders program. Terence Jones added 14 points for the Islanders, including a 5-for-6 effort from the line.
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Published: Monday, November 19, 2012 at 11:57 p.m.
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Where: Santa Clara, Calif.
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Records: USC Upstate (1-2), Santa Clara (2-0)
Top scorers: USC Upstate — Jr. F Torrey Craig (17.7 ppg.); Bruce Haynes (15.0 ppg.); So. G Ty Greene (10.7 ppg.). Santa Clara — Sr. G Kevin Foster (29.5 ppg.); Sr. F Marc Trasolini (11.0 ppg.); Sr. G Raymond Cowels (10.0 ppg.)
Notes: USC Upstate lost, 67-59, Saturday at Texas San Antonio after leading by as many as 14 points in the first half. Craig scored 27 points. while Ricardo Glenn had 14 points and nine rebounds. Greene had 11 points. The rest of the team, however, totaled only seven points, with Adrian Rodgers having five of those off the bench. …Haynes has played in one game for 16 minutes and scored 15 points. …USC Upstate has lost five straight games on the road, dating back to last February. …Santa Clara's last game was a 74-62 win at Saint Louis, which beat USC Upstate, 76-59, in the Spartans' season opener. Foster scored 30 points to go with seven steals and five assists. He broke the school's all-time scoring record, eclipsing a mark held by former NBA star Kurt Rambis. …Last season, Foster broke the team's 3-pointers record held by current NBA star Steve Nash of the Los Angeles Lakers.
Next: USC Upstate continues in the CBE Classic in Santa Clara against Eastern Washington on Wednesday and Utah Valley on Friday. The Spartans don't play at home until Dec. 8.
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The Build-A-Bear Workshop opened in Augusta Mall June 9.
Some children got in a little early.
It was a first time treat for Briana White: bringing a bear to life and adding a little love along the way.
"I feel that I can tell her anything and she can keep a secret," Briana said of the bear she built.
Build-A-Bear Workshop wants to give this kind of friendship to others.
That's why Briana made one bear that she quickly gave away.
Her bear was a special gift for the children of the Ronald McDonald House.
Before Friday's grand opening, Briana, along with about two dozen Girl Scouts, picked little partners and put all their love inside for other children.
"I think it'll make them feel special, and they won't be lonely," Briana said. "If they are the only child they'll have their friend."
"We have so many families that come in nightly that will be staying in the area because their children are receiving medical treatment, and it's just a way to build happiness to them," says Karen Phelps-Way of the Ronald McDonald House.
The children really had a lot to choose from when they built the bears, but what they were really building was a life long friendship.
Something a lot of children don't even know is headed their way.
"It'll just be wonderful, they'll be overjoyed," Phelps-Way says.
Stitching smiles on those who need them the beary most.
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TOCCOA, Ga. (AP) -- Authorities say three people are dead after an overnight crash between a car and a passenger train in northern Georgia.
Stephens County Sheriff Randy Shirley says three people in the car were killed late Friday when the Amtrak train crashed into the smaller vehicle at about 60 mph at an unprotected railroad crossing. The car overturned in a ravine and caught fire.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports the victims were a man and two women in their 20s from Austell. Shirley says their names are being withheld pending notification of family.
Shirley says the crash happened at a crossing marked only by a stop sign in Toccoa, about 96 miles northeast of Atlanta. He says no one was injured on the train, which was traveling to Washington from New Orleans.
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Fortress Investment Group was one of the hardest-hit alternative asset managers during the financial crisis in 2008, forcing the New York-based firm to do away with dividend distribution for three years.
But in the firm's fourth quarter earnings Thursday, Fortress said it has raised the base quarterly dividend by 20% to six cents a share, bringing full-year dividend payout to 21 cents.
The amount may still be rather timid compared with the 59 cents Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. declared for last year and Blackstone Group's 45 cents, but it reflects what interim Chief Executive Randal Nardone described as "higher management fees in the near-term, driven by the substantial amount of capital raised over the past 14 months and expectations for increases in assets under management going forward."
Near-term earnings will also be driven by a small pool of shares outstanding. The firm invested $179 million in the fourth quarter to buy back nearly 10% of the outstanding shares, mainly from co-founder Robert Kauffman, who retired late December.
Fortress ended the alternative asset manager's fourth quarter earnings season with a bang, posting its highest quarterly distributable earnings in two years.
During the quarter, Fortress raised $1.5 billion across all alternatives business, bringing total alternative capital raised last year to $6.7 billion.
Like many of its peers, Fortress's funds performed well as the macroeconomic uncertainties alleviated toward the end of the year, conducive to a stable investment environment.
Its private equity funds rose 3.9% in the fourth quarter and 25.4% for the year. Its existing hedge funds' performance varied, ranging from a mild loss of 1.9% to a gain of 6% for the quarter, and a loss of 5% to a gain of 17.8% for the year.
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Seems like just yesterday we were watching teams of travelers racing 'round the globe and here we are again. It's a new season of "The Amazing Race" and host Phil Keoghan looks well-rested and cheery. Eleven teams have gathered at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, anxious to start their race to the cool million. But first, we get a glimpse of this hodgepodge of folks.
"Wynona and me are a cross between redneck and country," Chuck the taxidermist says. "I very much love doing taxidermy. It's become an obsession, much like hunting. Kill the animal, eat the animal, mount the animal and keep the memory on your wall forever."
There is zero chance we will forget who these people are, what with the mullet and all, but the Amazing producers give us a little country music soundtrack just in case. We've got toothless hockey players, newlyweds, a father-son pair of cancer survivors from Utah (the son had testicular cancer, the dad had prostate cancer and gets choked up every time he talks about his boy). There are SoCal surfers, doctor twins, YouTube sensations, a pair of besties in orange, a pair of firefighters and Nashville country singers from the band Stealing Angels.
Breathless in Bora Bora
It's an eclectic group, all right and their first stop will be ... Bora Bora. There's room for just five teams on the first flight, so that quintet -- the taxidermist, docs, orange besties, Utah dad-and-lad and the surfers -- forms a fast alliance. The first team to arrive at the pit stop will be given not one but two express passes, one to keep and one to share, Phil has told them. The group agrees to award the passes to teams one and two.
Meanwhile, the second flight's travelers are making nice. "In our everyday life, we don't have many friends," newlywed girl says. "I don't care."
"Her likability factor is low," Max, her new husband explains.
"Probably zero," she says, with no trace of regret or embarrassment. They shmooze a bit with Team YouTube, as hubby cigar-salesman voice-overs, "Katie put on her best fake voice."
"I had so many horrible conversations," she says. "It was brutal."
Here we'd thought taxidermist Chuck's mullet was an "Amazing Race" first, but we have never hated a team as quickly as we do the newlyweds in all 22 seasons.
One member of each team will be riding a helicopter up to 10,000 feet, then taking the quick way down, free-falling at speeds of 120 miles per hour. Their partners will take a water taxi to the splat zone. Er, I mean, the safe landing zone. Jamil, one of the twin docs, says, "Everything inside of you is saying, 'Don't jump! You're leaving a perfectly good helicopter.' But it's the Amazing Race."
The Roadblock
Once on the ground, they'll proceed by water taxi to Eden Beach, where whoever didn't drop like a rock through 10,000 feet of air will have to hunt through 400 sand castles, seeking the next clue, in the searing heat. Whatever they destroy they must rebuild.
"It was like opening a Christmas present that was empty and then wrapping it back up," surfer Jessica says.
As the sun bakes the sand, it's clear that rebuilding the castles is going to become increasingly difficult. A ukulele player serenades them and a dog pees on the castles. Chuck and Wynona start hunting through coconuts, much to other teams' delight, before they finally figure out that everyone else is farther down the beach.
The surfers are the first to finish. They race off, clue in hand, to build an outrigger canoe and paddle to the Motu Cafe, the pit stop. Paddling is more difficult than it appears. Lean even slightly and the boat capsizes, surfer boy says after they tip over.
Everyone else is still building sanding castles when the second flight's passengers begin arriving. The doc is griping, Wynona is whining. Some of the teams have been out there for three hours or more.
"I honestly get the feeling this might be what hell is like," one country singer tells the other.
The Pit Stop
The surfers are first to the mat, and they win both express passes. Hockey players Bates and Anthony arrive second, followed by Utah dad and lad (#3, so they're expecting the express pass), besties Pam and Winnie (#4), the roller derby moms (#5), YouTubes (#6) and Chuck and Wynona (#7).
"We have never had hair like this on the Amazing Race," Phil tells him, gesturing to Chuck's remarkable mullet.
"It's business in the front and party in the back," Chuck tells him.
Having capsized, the docs finally come in, very wetly, as team #8.
Back at sand castle central, the last teams -- the newlyweds, country singers and firefighters confer. They decide to give up and take the penalty. Now it's a footrace. Or rather, an outrigger-building race. The firefighters are first off the beach and the first to capsize. Also, the second. So the newlyweds and country singers beat them to the mat, earning a safe berth and a four-hour penalty at the start of the next leg. The firefighters are sent sadly home, knowing that they will never live this down at the fire station: "We got beat canoeing by two blond girls."
Next time: The surfers start reneging on their express pass promise, but that may be moot because Utah dad seems to have ruptured his Achilles tendon. Also, manta rays!


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BAY POINT -- One reason Mike Powis bought his house was its location adjacent to rolling hills and hiking trails set aside as open space.
Now, there are deep grooves cut into those hills. And where the land slopes down to a street stands a large a "no trespassing" sign, even though the area west of Powell Drive is zoned as open space meant to be accessible to the public. All the changes have happened since the previous owner sold the 90-acre parcel to Testament Investments LLC, which lists Jacqueline Seeno as the active officer, last December.
"When we bought here, we expected the hills to be open space forever. And I'm getting the feeling that's not what they are doing. They are defacing the hills and cutting big things on it," said Powis.
A representative of Seeno Construction Co. declined to comment.
The land was zoned as open space as a condition of approval in 1991 for KB Home to build two subdivisions. The parcel has been sold to other private landowners since then, but that does not change the requirement for it to remain open space.
In recent months Testament extended barbed wire to an existing trail head gate that had allowed passage to the open space area and put up the large "no trespassing" sign on the gate, neighbors say.
"They want to prevent the public from going into this area, but the public has a right to go into this area," Ray O'Brien said. "This is the history of the Seenos. They do what they want to do and then deal with the consequences."
Testament has since installed an adjacent pedestrian gate next to the gate with the "no trespassing" sign.
O'Brien sent a letter to county officials, saying he had concerns that grading work was being done on the land without proper permits.
The county is keeping on eye on the changes, but at this time has determined that the grooves dug into the land do not amount to illegal grading, said Brian Balbas, Contra Costa's deputy director of public works.
A Testament representative told Balbas it has improved existing fire breaks on the land in preparation for bringing cattle to graze there. Cattle grazing is allowed on the land and has been done by previous owners.
Balbas said the county will also post public access signs on the pedestrian gate, and that Testament has agreed to modify its "no trespassing" sign on the adjacent gate. But on Friday, the sign was still there.
"(Testament is) going to come with a custom sign that is more appropriate for that area," so it won't send a mixed message, said Balbas. "It is a bit confusing."
Powis would like see the sign removed.
"It would be nice to get rid of that big 'no trespassing' sign," he said "It's really intimidating, considering there is an open trail there."
Contact Eve Mitchell at 925-779-7189. Follow her on Twitter.com/eastcounty_girl.


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Suspicious fire in Etowah under investigation
Published: Monday, December 10, 2012 at 6:14 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, December 10, 2012 at 6:14 p.m.
County detectives are investigating a suspicious house fire in which an Etowah woman discovered her trailer's door ablaze late Saturday.
Firefighters arrived at 48 Cornflower Drive around 11:10 p.m. to find the singlewide trailer's "door and doorframe on fire," said Assistant Fire Marshal Joe Swain.
The home's occupant had thrown water on the fiery door and firefighters were able to quickly extinguish the remaining flames.
"She said she was in bed and didn't know anything was going on until she heard the smoke alarm going off," Swain said.
Investigators sent three charred samples collected at the scene to a lab for testing. They suspect some sort of accelerant was used to ignite the door.
Capt. Frank Stout of the Henderson County Sheriff's Office said the woman blamed a neighbor for torching her door, but added that detectives haven't determined the fire's cause.
"There was a suspicious fire of suspicious origin," Stout said. "As far as developing a suspect, we're still investigating. We're trying to see if it's neighbors, is it kinfolk? We don't know yet."
The woman's front door still had a metal face on it, Swain said, but was "pretty much destroyed. It'll have to be replaced."
Fire departments that responded were Etowah-Horse Shoe Fire Department, Mountain Home Fire Department, Mills River Fire Department and Valley Hill Fire Department.
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SNOWMASS VILLAGE - Nearly 400 U.S. military veterans - ranging from an 87-year-old former soldier in the Korean war to a 21-year-old recently wounded in Afghanistan - have converged at Snowmass Village for the 27th annual National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic.
An estimated 108 veterans are participating in this type of clinic for the first time, said Jordan Schupbach, a spokesman for the Office of National Veterans Sports Programs and Special Events.
That's perfect because a goal of the program is to get disabled veterans interested in new opportunities for therapeutic recovery from injuries and illnesses, Schupbach said. Veterans who attend the Snowmass clinic are encouraged to remain physically active when they return to their hometowns. The program helps them find adaptive sports clubs in their communities.
"We facilitate that better than just saying, 'Good luck when you get home,'" Schupbach said.
The winter sports clinic has been in Snowmass Village since 2001. More than 200 ski instructors for the disabled, as well as current and former members of the U.S. Disabled Ski Team, teach lessons on the slopes. The disabled veterans also participate in scuba diving, rock climbing, kayaking, sled hockey, curling and snowshoeing.
The event is co-sponsored by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Disabled American Veterans. Opening ceremonies were March 31, and the event ends April 5.
The first winters sports clinic attracted 90 disabled veterans in 1987. It was originally held at Powderhorn resort near Grand Junction then moved to Crested Butte before settling at Snowmass. Veterans have to sign up in June, so numbers fluctuate. There have been as few as 305 participants, to as many as this year's 400, since 2001.
The event is open to male and female U.S. military veterans. Some participants have been wounded so recently that they are still on active duty, Schupbach said. Participants have suffered everything from traumatic brain injuries, spinal-cord injuries, orthopedic amputations, visual impairments and other disabilities.
Schupbach said 93 of the 400 participating veterans were injured while fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan. There are 54 women among the ranks of the 400.
Some participants have excelled at winter sports, advancing to the U.S. Paralympic Ski Team.
"That's not our goal, to create a Paralympian here," Schupbach said.
Instead the broader goal is to help the veterans realize their disabilities don't have to be obstacles to an active, fulfilling life.


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Editor's note: Republican candidates Jeff Layman and Johnie Rosenfeld face each other in the June 26 primary. Look for the profile story on Rosenfeld in tomorrow's Vail Daily.
EAGLE COUNTY - Jeff Layman has spent just about all of his adult life in public service in Eagle County. Now he hopes voters will send him to an Eagle County commissioner's seat.
Layman, a Republican, is running for the District 1 commissioner seat now held by Democrat Peter Runyon, who is term-limited. Democrat Jill Ryan is also seeking the seat, but so is Minturn Republican Johnie Rosenfeld. That means Layman and Rosenfeld will first face off in the state's June 26 party primary.
Layman has been a cop in the valley for more than 30 years, nearly 20 of which were spent with the Vail Police Department.
"I did virtually everything in that department," Layman said. His duties in Vail included patrol officer, administrator, and, on two occasions, acting chief. In that role, he supervised a project that essentially rebuilt the Vail police station.
After his time in Vail, Layman was Avon's police chief for about seven years, and then was second-in-command at the Eagle County Sheriff's Office. In 2010, Layman was hired as Eagle-Vail's community manager.
Besides those paid jobs, Layman has also served on the boards of local nonprofits, from his own church to local Boy Scouts to the Battle Mountain High School Accountability Advisory Committee.
"I have a real heart for community and public service," Layman said. "I want to take that 30-plus years and apply it on the county level."
And Layman has a number of ideas that he'd like to accomplish as a commissioner. With the county looking at another serious drop in property tax revenue in 2014, Layman said a thoughtful approach will be required to match public services to available funds.
"I don't agree with an across-the-board approach to budget cutting," he said. "I don't think all county departments or offices should be treated the same. If you're going to have a back-to-basics approach, you need to fund the services people want and need.
"It's a lot of work," he added. "It's harder than taking a meat cleaver to the budget. But you have to look at what's going on in the community."
Layman wouldn't offer specifics on what he'd cut - he said he'd prefer to analyze the budget from the inside. But, he said, in some cases the county might be able to bring in nonprofit groups, towns and special districts to try to provide some services the county now funds itself. And, he said, it's going to be important to draw from the wealth of expertise available in the county.
Layman said he'd seek the advice of county residents about any number of issues. Many second homeowners or people who have retired to the valley are successful in any number of ventures, and many of them are willing to volunteer their time, he said.
That advice could be most valuable for economic development, Layman said. And the county does need some kind of plan to help discover and encourage the "next big thing" in the local economy.
While Layman said there isn't a lot the county can do to jump-start economic growth, there are some tools available.
"We need to get the international terminal at the airport done," he said. "The return on investment could be enormous."
The county should also be more welcoming to development proposals, he said. There aren't many developers who want to build anything right now, he said, but the run-up to development provides work for planners, architects and others. When those professionals leave because there's no work, that takes away people who serve on school boards and nonprofit groups, he said.
Aside from economic development, Layman said the current board has spent too much time and effort on its open-space efforts. Layman said he's been critical of the way county funds have been spent and also tends to believe the current policy doesn't follow the spirit of the original ballot question.
"I'd favor a ballot question in the near future that would ask voters a question, or series of questions, about what their wishes are," he said.
While Layman said he wants to change the county's course, he also said that won't happen in a vacuum.
"I'm very deliberative in my process," he said. "I want to hear all sides."


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If companies founded by Stanford graduates formed an independent nation, it would be the 10th largest economy in the world, according to a new study by two Stanford professors.
University graduates have created an estimated 5.4 million jobs and generate annual revenues of $2.7 trillion, based on responses to the 2011 Alumni Innovation Survey, sponsored by the venture capital firm Sequoia Capital.
Among its other findings:
The study, "Stanford University's Economic Impact via Innovation and Entrepreneurship," analyzes the results of a large survey of Stanford alumni and faculty conducted in 2011 by Charles Eesley, an assistant professor in the Stanford School of Engineering, and computer scientist William F. Miller of the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Although the university is well known as a breeding ground for entrepreneurs, this is the first study to quantify the sheer scale of the university's economic impact.
Conclusions were based on about 30,000 responses of Stanford degree-holders and faculty from the 1930s to present.
They attributed the success, in part, to classes specifically designed to develop entrepreneurs, such as the Design School's "LaunchPad," the Business School's "Creating a Startup," and the Engineering School's "Spirit of Entrepreneurship."
In 1909, Stanford grad Cyril Elwell founded Federal Telegraph -- the first major high-tech company to be formed in what became Silicon Valley. Since then, alumni have founded tech giants like Google, Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems, as well as a stream of new startups that feed the region's innovation pipeline.
Now Stanford-affiliated companies generate revenue that accounts for almost half of the total sales reported by Silicon Valley's largest firms.
There also is a growing diversity among those companies' founders. The proportion of companies founded by grads who were non-U.S. citizens climbed from 29 percent in the 1950s to 42 percent in the 2000s. Women comprised 5 percent of company founders in the 1950s, jumping to 29 percent in the 2000s.
In the 1950s, electronics, communications and publishing were the top industry categories. During the 1990s and the height of the dot-com boom, more than 30 percent of the firms founded were in software or Internet industries with another 14 percent in communications. In the 2000s, there is increasing interest in energy and cleantech -- over nine percent of firms are classified as energy related, up from 3 percent in the 1970s.
The study also looked at so-called "social innovation" by Stanford graduates and faculty. It estimates that more than 30,000 nonprofit organizations have been created, such as the microfinance organization Kiva, The Special Olympics and Acumen Fund, which supports entrepreneurs in developing economies.
Contact Lisa M. Krieger at 650-492-4098.


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AUGUSTA, GA, March 3, 2006---Eighty percent of Americans do not know that home fires are the most common disaster in the United States. Moreover, half of families with children are using high-risk methods to heat their homes this winter.
Those are some of the findings of a poll just released by the American Red Cross, whose local chapters helped families affected by nearly 67,000 home fires last year--92 percent of all Red Cross disaster responses. In fact, the Augusta Chapter responded to more than 189 home fires last year here in Augusta, and provided 484 families with immediate emergency assistance.
Despite the reality of this threat in Augusta and across the country, two-thirds of those surveyed cited floods, hurricanes, tornadoes and mudslides as greater threats to their family than home fires.
With heating costs rising as much as 25 percent this winter, the Red Cross poll found that four in 10 families (42 percent) say they are using alternatives such as a space heater, fireplace or wood/coal stove to stay warm. The figure is even higher--49 percent--among families with children under 18. The National Fire Protection Association reports that children are twice as likely as adults to die in a home fire.
Alternative heating sources are involved in 74 percent of fire-related deaths, according to the U.S. Fire Administration, yet only 27 percent of those surveyed identified them as leading causes of home fires. In fact, only 10 percent of those who use fireplaces and 17 percent of those who use space heaters realize that both are leading causes of home fires.
"Every year in Augusta, home fires are the single most common disaster threat," said Kathleen Kosmoski, Executive Director "and for a family that has lost everything, a home fire is just as devastating as a major tornado or hurricane."
Nearly three times every week, the Augusta Chapter provides fire victims with assistance for food, clothing, prescriptions, temporary shelter and other special needs an affected family may have. This relief is made possible by generous donations from people throughout Augusta.
"The Augusta Chapter would greatly appreciate donations from people in Augusta to support our ongoing disaster relief efforts in our community," said Kathleen Kosmoski, Executive Director of the Augusta Chapter. "And I encourage Augusta residents to contact the Augusta Chapter for vital information on how to make a family emergency plan and to keep your families safe from fire this winter and throughout the year."
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The American Red Cross is where people mobilize to help their neighbors -- across the street, across the country and across the world -- in emergencies. Each year, in communities large and small, victims of some 70,000 disasters turn to neighbors familiar and new -- the nearly 1 million volunteers and 35,000 employees of the Red Cross. Through more than 800 locally supported chapters, more than 15 million people gain the skills they need to prepare for and respond to emergencies in their homes, communities and world. Some 4 million people give blood -- the gift of life -- through the Red Cross, making it the largest supplier of blood and blood products in the United States. The Red Cross helps thousands of U.S. servicemembers separated from their families by military duty stay connected. As part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, a global network of 181 national societies, the Red Cross helps restore hope and dignity to the world's most vulnerable people. An average of 91 cents of every dollar the Red Cross spends is invested in humanitarian services and programs. The Red Cross is not a government agency; it relies on donations of time, money and blood to do its work.


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BRECKENRIDGE - After a year of dismal sales tax returns in 2012, things are finally looking up for hard-up Summit County government coffers in the first two months of 2013.
Sales tax revenue increased roughly 16 percent in January over the same month's collections last year and was up approximately 10 percent in February as well, according to county finance officials.
"That's a great start to the year," county finance director Marty Ferris said at a recent work session for the Summit Board of County Commissioners. "Last time we had a February like this was 2007 and 2008."
The town governments in Summit County, on the backs of a recovering commercial sector, saw gains in sales tax revenue last year, but the county government continued to struggle, looking primarily to revenue from businesses surrounding Copper Mountain and Keystone Resort to support sales tax revenue in a bad snow year.
"It has been so many months since we've had any good news," county manager Gary Martinez said at the work session Tuesday.
The county generally collects about 45 percent of its $4.5 million in annual sales tax revenue for the year in January, February and March alone.
The county is now up 12 percent year-to-date from last year.
And the good news didn't end with sales taxes.
New information from the valuation period that ended in June of last year shows that property values didn't decline as much as initially expected. County officials were expecting a 6 percent drop in property taxes for the collection period beginning in 2014, but new data shows the decline will be less than 3 percent.
"We thought it was going to be worse, but it's not going to be so bad after all," Summit County Assessor Beverly Breakstone said. "We're back on track with people building homes ... that means employment."
Officials were bracing for a bigger drop in property tax revenue - the county governments' primary source of income - next year while still reeling from a 17 percent cut that began in 2012, reflecting the impacts of the recession on the housing market.
But Breakstone says that market seems to be recovering. The town of Frisco had no decline at all in property values between the summer of 2010 and the summer of 2012.
"Originally, when we started collecting the data in July of 2010, we were a little concerned," Breakstone stated in an email. "But values have increased slowly but continuously. ... The taxing entities should be pleased that their budgets will not be hugely impacted. Hopefully taxpayers feel good about this too."
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Winter Park - Team Summit has been well represented at the U.S. Alpine Championships in Winter Park this week. The event, which is taking place just on the other side of a couple mountain passes, draws the best ski racers in the country for one last hurrah in the competition season.
Among those skiing for Team Summit are Conor McDonald, Miranda Sheely and Nicole Anderson - all of whom are true locals, not transplants. Mark Miller, of Dillon, is also racing this week for the University of New Mexico.
"This is the culmination of the whole season," said Team Summit coach Tyler Johnson. "The national championships are awesome. It lets these kids see how they stand next to the world's best. It gives them a great opportunity to see how they rank up, and it shows them where they can make improvements."
All three of the current Team Summit racers are in the J1 age group (17-19 years of age). They've been racing against the likes of Tommy Ford, Andrew Weibrecht, Lindsey Vonn and Julia Mancuso.
Every turn this season is a bonus for lifelong Copper Mountain local Conor McDonald, who is coming off of serious back surgery: an L5 S1 disc fusion, which included eight screws, two rods and a "chunk of plastic." That was in June, and McDonald, who is a prospect of the U.S. Ski Team, didn't expect to race very hard, or at all, this winter.
"This year, I wasn't even really supposed to be skiing, so it's just cool to be here," McDonald said. "I wasn't supposed to be on snow until February of this year, but I had a really fast recovery. I was on snow in December and was able to get a few races in January. ... It's still healing; it'll take about a year. "
In this week's slalom, McDonald started 49th and finished 29th, a remarkable improvement, especially considering the warm snow conditions.
"(McDonald) only got half a season in, but when he came back, he was immediately right back to his old form," said Johnson. "That enabled him to get to this level, to get into nationals. Even with the injury, he was able to jump right back on the horse."
McDonald qualified for the U.S. Ski Team last year, but was unable to attend the tryout camp due to the surgery. However, this year, the racer plans to take part in the team's summer camps in Chile. If that doesn't work out for whatever reason, McDonald is also scoping college prospects, perhaps in Alaska or Montana.
Anderson has already been accepted to Dartmouth and will eventually race on the school's prestigious ski team, but not until she's good and ready. There might be another year of competition on the FIS circuit before she hangs up the speed skis for collegiate GS and slalom racing at the old Dartmouth Skiway.
Anderson has had some stellar results this week, improving from a 47th start position to finish 29th in the slalom. She went on to finish 31st in the super-G.
"It was hard up top and very peely, and then sugary down low. The snow got really soft down at the bottom part of the course," Anderson said. "I came here last year, and (the conditions) are really different. But it's a lot of fun."
Anderson is also coming back from injury, a dislocated wrist and broken hand in December, which required surgery and slowed down her season a bit.
"I have a spot on the (Dartmouth) team, so I just have to decide if I want to go this year or next year. I can defer a year and do another year of PG skiing," she said.
"Anderson has been on everybody's radar for quite some time," said Johnson. "She's always in the hunt. She's a good skier. She's got a good head on her shoulders, and she's a hard worker."
Passing a milestone in a ski-racing career is always nice. It's even better if you can do it twice in a row. For Team Summer ripper Sheely, it was winning a FIS race, which she did on back-to-back occasions in Telluride.
Sheely also qualified early in the season for all the FIS-Us (which feature college-age racers). This week is her first rodeo at the national championship.
"It's been going really well. I trained really hard this summer," Sheely said. "This is my first time at nationals. It's cool, but it's also a little overwhelming. I get really nervous."
In Friday's super-G, Sheely moved up from 55th to 45th on inconsistent snow. In the slalom Wednesday, she improved from 58th to 36th.


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The Educational Specialist degree (Ed.S.) in School Psychology at GSU has been designed to equip professionals to directly and indirectly deliver a continuum of educational and mental health services to children and families in the region and beyond, and to work with teachers and other educators in public and private schools and other educational settings to enhance student learning and well-being.
The program of study incorporates theoretical and applied approaches across developmental, cognitive, social, and behavioral domains to promote the development of a superior level of professional competence towards the implementation of school psychological services that are empirically supported, data driven, and culturally competent.
Graduates of the program are prepared to enhance student achievement and wellness by functioning in multiple roles including treatment, assessment, and consultative modalities, as well as teaching and research roles. The entire program is a four-year, cohort-based model providing future school psychologists with a solid professional and academic foundation reflecting depth and diversity in both psychology and education.
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The School Psychology program is a four-year, cohort-based model providing future school psychologists with a solid professional and academic foundation reflecting upon depth and diversity in both psychology and education. Students accepted into the Ed.S. in School Psychology program will also earn a Master of Arts in School Psychology and will be eligible to apply for practice in Illinois.
I. Educational and Psychological Foundations (12 Hours)
PSYC 6606 Cognitive/Educational Psychology...................3
PSYC 6221 Psychopathology.................................................3
PSYC 6629 Seminar in Human Development........................3
PSYC 6635 Seminar in School Psychology.............................3
II. Data Based Decision Making and Assessment (18 Hours)
PSYC 7620 Psychoeducational Lab...........................................3
PSYC 7625 Psychoeducational Assessment and Intervention..3
PSYC 7630 Diagnostic Lab I......................................................3
PSYC 7635 Psychodiagnostics I: Intelligence............................3
PSYC 7640 Diagnostic Lab II......................................................3
PSYC 7645 Psychodiagnostics II: Psychobehavioral..................3
III. Intervention, Consultation, and Program Evaluation (3 Hours)
PSYC 7320 Theories of Psychotherapy......................................3
IV. Field Experiences (3 Hours)
PSYC 8965 Practicum in School Psychology..............................3
Phase I Total: 36 Hours - Culminates with the earning of the Master of Arts (MA) in School Psychology
Phase II: Years Three and Four:
l.Educational and Psychological Foundations (6 Hours)
PSYC 7240 Topics in Multicultural Psychology.....................3
PSYC 8635 Neuropsychology: Brain and Behavior................3
II. Data Based Decision Making and Assessment (3 Hours)
STAT 8260 Advanced Statistics in Behavioral Science.........3
III. Intervention, Consultation, and Program Evaluation (12 Hours)
COUN 7725 Family Systems: Theory and Practice...............3
PSYC 7650 Crisis and Intervention Strategies for Schools....3
PSYC 8858 Advanced Assessment and Intervention.............3
PSYC 8930 Consultation and Program Evaluation.................3
IV. Field Experiences (9 Hours)
PSYC 8866 Advanced Practicum in School Psychology..... 3
PSYC 8960 Internship in School Psychology I................... 3
PSYC 8961 Internship in School Psychology II.................. 3
Phase II Total: 30 Hours - Culminates with the earning of the Educational Specialist Degree (Ed.S.) in School Psychology
School Psychology Program Total: 66 Hours
Must be completed prior to admission with no grade below "B" allowed. Equivalent GSU courses are in parentheses.
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4. Proof of having taken the General Test of the Graduate Record Exam (GRE) within five years of intended admission. Applicants are recommended to have GRE combined scores of 316 on the Verbal and Quantitative sections (or a combined Verbal and Quantitative score of 1050 if taken prior to August 2011); and 4.5 on the analytical writing section.
5. Evidence of satisfactory professional writing and analysis by one of the following:
a. A grade of "B" or higher in PSYC3102 (Thinking and Writing in Psychology) or its equivalent;
b. A score of 4.5 or higher on the Analytical Writing section of the GRE General test.
Applicants not meeting this criterion may have to complete PSYC 3102 or its equivalent prior to or upon admission to the program.
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8. Completed Statement of Character Form. (click here to download the form)
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West Alabama football No. 12 in AFCA poll
Published: Monday, September 9, 2013 at 11:00 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, September 9, 2013 at 11:25 p.m.
LIVINGSTON | After a 42-6 victory over Clark Atlanta, the University of West Alabama football team moved up four places to No. 12 in this week's American Football Coaches Association Division II Poll.
The Tigers travel to McNeese State on Saturday for a 7 p.m. kickoff at Cowboy Stadium in Lake Charles, La. The 18th-ranked Cowboys of the FCS are off to a 2-0 start.
West Alabama is one of four Gulf South Conference teams in the AFCA Top 25. Valdosta State (1-0) is ranked No. 1, followed by UWA (1-0), No. 22 North Alabama (1-0) and No. 25 Delta State (1-0).
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Hello everyone,
I recently discovered QCAD as an alternative to xfig to make some technical drawings to use in LaTeX.
When my drawing is complete, I print it into a postscript (.ps) file which I transform using "ps2eps" on the Linux command line.
After that I include the .eps file in my LaTeX document. I generate the final result (.pdf) using the chain: LaTex --> dvips --> ps2pdf
Here comes my question:
When I use a linewidth of 0.09 in QCAD I get a perfect result when I print my generated .pdf file but on the screen the linewidth in the .pdf is very thin and weak.
When I use a linewidth of 0.13 (ISO) the .pdf is perfect on my screen but when printing, the lines in my drawings are too thick.
Darn, there is nothing in between 0.09 en 0.13...
I tried several things as:
* generating pdf files from my drawing and use pdflatex --> same result
* using Inkscape to open a drawing (.dxf) and save it as .ps --> Inkscape does a very nice job. The drawing is perfectly antialiased when opened and looks perfect on screen and in print. But the problem is, it is not 100% compatible with .dxf, so my drawing changes considerably.
* ....
Is there someone who knows how to use QCAD for LaTeX with perfect results on the screen and in print without continually switching the linewidth?
Thanks for your advice.
PS: I could still use xfig which does a good job, but I like the extended possibilities of QCAD very much...


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SAN JOSE -- After three surgeries, Bill Jackson can't play tennis or racquetball anymore and he was falling out of shape, a demoralizing state of affairs for a proud, athletic guy.
"I had been sitting on my tail for a while," the tall, 66-year-old real estate agent said Wednesday at the Evergreen Community Center southeast of downtown San Jose. "Then some friends introduced me to pickleball."
On gimpy knees, Jackson can't run as fast as before, jump as high or hit as hard, but he really doesn't have to in this game to enjoy it. No matter who's playing, pickleball requires much less power and speed than other racket sports. More often than not, Jackson got to the ball and hit it back with grace and accuracy, just like in his glory days.
"This is more my speed now," he said.
Pickleball debuted this week at two San Jose community centers, where city officials will measure its popularity for a few months. The other site is the Seven Trees Community Center in East San Jose.
However, the game has already taken off around the country. The Rossmoor/Walnut Creek Pickle Ball Club has grown rapidly since its inception about five years ago, and in May hosted the first regional tournament during the Bay Area Senior Games, drawing players from Napa to Santa Cruz. The club has drawn visiting players from Canada, Texas and the East Coast and is asking the city to dedicate a couple of tennis courts to the sport: Just one will fit four pickleball courts.
"It's very popular," said Dick Hildebrand, the club's president and a player himself. "It's addictive."
According to the USA Pickleball Association in Arizona, it's aging baby boomers like Jackson leading the way. The group counts 150,000 active members, almost triple the number in 2010, and probably a lot more it can't track.
The game is a hybrid of racket sports. The court dimensions come from badminton, the low nets from tennis. The paddles are adapted from ping-pong and the ball is a modified whiffle ball.
In general, the rules make pickleball easier to play and follow. For example, the ball is served underhand, not overhand as in tennis, and it must bounce once on the return and not be volleyed in midair. Scoring is simple: The first to 11 points wins the game.
"It's not so rigorous and it's not a power game either," said Steve Ryan, the community center's recreation supervisor. "You can still work up a sweat even though it looks like there's not that much work involved."
At 68 and already familiar with the game, Sheila Munson was one of the more accomplished players at the center. She spent as much time teaching newcomers as playing.
"The game is easier on the joints for a lot of seniors," she said. "Because the court is smaller, they don't have to run as much or as hard. But it's still a workout!"
According to the Pickleball Association, the game was invented in 1965 by the late Joel Pritchard, congressman from Washington State, and a businessman friend, Bill Bell. They had returned from playing golf to find their families sitting around bored at Pritchard's house. The property had an old badminton court but not enough rackets, so the two friends improvised and started playing with pingpong paddles and a perforated plastic ball.
However, the source of game's name remains in dispute. According to the Pickleball Association's website, Joan Pritchard, the congressman's wife, said she borrowed the name from the "pickle boats" in rowing, which are manned by extra rowers not selected for the main boats. Another story has it that the game was named after the Pritchards' dog Pickles.
Pritchard and Bell set about designing the game and setting rules, always keeping in mind that is was for entire families to play together. The first pickleball tournament was held in 1976 in Washington State. By 1990 it was being played in all 50 states.
Setting up a pickleball court is relatively cheap, Ryan said. His staff at the Evergreen center put up two portable nets inside a vinyl-floored recreation room and laid out the courts with yellow tape. They bought a few paddles and balls, and, bingo, they were ready to go.
Young people are taking up the game, too. Cordelia Jiang, 23, said she heard about it through Meetup.com, an online social network.
"It's really easy to pick up," she said at the Evergreen center after she and Munson teamed up for a victory against Jackson and his teammate. "It's casual, but it's still a workout."
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Cisco and Others Fund Ayla's Effort in 'Things' Software
David Friedman and Thomas Lee learned that the 'things' part of the Internet of Things is very difficult for a startup. So they are taking on other aspects of connecting the world's devices together, a plan that is attracting investors.
Ayla Networks, the company they founded, is announcing a second funding round that includes money from Cisco Systems–one of the biggest cheerleaders for the Internet of Things movement–as well as other investors with an eye toward China and other international markets.
The $14.5 million Series B round–one of the topics being discussed at an event Wednesday being hosted by Cisco's venture capital arm–brings the total raised to date by Ayla to $20 million.
Friedman, Ayla's chief executive, and Lee, a Stanford University professor of electrical engineering since 1994, aren't shy about talking about the failings of their prior startup. ZeroG Wireless, as it was called, tried to develop low-power Wi-Fi chips that would go in various kinds of products to help them connect to the Internet and to each other.
The thing is, there are many chip makers already that have been tackling wireless communications and other aspects now associated with the Internet of Things. And designing chips takes a lot of time and money.
"One of the big learnings back then," Friedman said during a gathering with reporters Monday night, is that "chip companies are kind of hard to do."
So ZeroG was sold to Microchip Technology, for what some publications called a "fire-sale" price, and the two men ultimately came up with another line of attack.
Instead of competing with all those semiconductor companies, Ayla styled itself as an ally; it developed a kind of platform that includes software and a Web service to help to help other companies connect and coordinate with many different kinds of chips. Ayla also developed circuitry that it has convinced some chip makers to incorporate to help manage networks of connected things.
In other words, a bit like how Microsoft Windows became a unifying standard in PCs, Ayla wants to become a platform so all kinds of companies can jump on the Internet of Things bandwagen without specialized semiconductor or software expertise. And Ayla hopes to get a small royalty for each of the things connected.
Another one of Ayla's founders, Phillip Chang, has deep connections in China, Friedman said. So the company has been putting a lot of its early efforts into cracking into the nascent Internet of Things market there.
Also for that reason, one of the investors in Ayla's latest funding round is SAIF Partners, one of China's largest venture-capital firms.
Ayla can only drop some names of customers, which so far have mainly desired to keep a low profile. But Friedman said one is a major maker of classic-style thermostats, one of the sectors facing competition from new-wave companies like Nest Labs, recently acquired by Google.
Friedman said Ayla felt like "sending out flowers" to Nest every time it announces a product, because its moves tend to prompt action on the parts of other companies that turn to Ayla.
Another key player at Ayla is Adrian Caceres, a vice president of engineering who formerly spent time at Amazon's Silicon Valley Lab126, where he worked on Kindles.


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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO) - There is no doubt to the importance of water to commerce.
"The river is huge for the economic impact on the valley. Without a river, half of our business wouldn't be here," said Rondo Buecher, co-owner of Rapid Creek Cycles.
For us in the Grand Valley, that's the Colorado River.
"Not just the Colorado River but also the Gunnison, major tributaries to some of our major economic sectors as well," said Hannah Holm, the coordinator of the Water Center at Colorado Mesa University.
One of which would be tourism, and rafting will be a focus at a forum on the value of the Colorado River to local economies. With a number of companies offering different ways to get out on the water, water levels of the Colorado has a mixed effect on local businesses.
"So the water is lower. But it's warmer. It's still great for floating and boating. What has really picked up for us this year is the stand up paddle boards because with the low water it's a really great year to learn stand up paddle boarding if you want to do it," said Buecher.
Low water levels mean something different for the orchards in Palisade. And as the demand for water increases from the Front Range, quality becomes an issue.
"Really, the biggest user of water, as far as taking water out of the river, is agriculture. We really rely a lot on the Colorado River to maintain our agricultural industry," said Holm.
"There's all kind of influences actually. You know, Denver and the Colorado Water Users Pack, they change, they dump it out of certain reservoirs. And we could actually get saltier water or cleaner water depending on which reservoir they dump it out of," said Donovan Talbott, owner of C & R Farms.
The farmers are first in the pecking order for water, but other users can make things flow easier.
"If you water at night and do those things to kind of save water, then I think that you'll be happier as far as we'll be happier cause we won't be having to shut everyone down," said Talbott.
Which is part of the reason for the forum. To get a feel for how everyone is affected.
"Just the general quality of life that the river is part of makes a difference in people's decisions to, to locate here. Including people who may be entrepreneurs," said Holm.
"And we're hoping to double business this year and continue to do so in the future. It has a huge economic impact for the town of Palisade. And it's just growing every year," said Buecher.
The value of the Colorado River forum takes place on May 22 2012, in the CMU University Center Ballroom. More information can be foud here: http://www.coloradomesa.edu/watercenter/index.html.


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Julie Andrews says her four-octave voice isn't coming back.
The Oscar and Tony Award-winning actress said in a recent interview that a botched operation to remove noncancerous throat nodules in 1997 hasn't gotten better. It has permanently limited her range and her ability to hold notes, according to the Huffington Post.
"The operation that I had left me without a voice and without a certain piece of my vocal cords," said Andrews, who starred in such quintessential stage and film musicals as "The Sound of Music," "My Fair Lady" and "Mary Poppins."
The actress says she can still speak "pretty well" and can still hit a few bass notes, "So if you wanted a rendition of `Old Man River' you might get it, but I'm not singing as much these days."
Andrews has sung in public since the operation, including in the 2004 film "The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement" and in a 2010 London concert. But she called those "speak-singing."
So she's getting into hip-hop?
The 77-year old says she's devoting her time to her books and in directing theater.
Her latest children's book, "Little Bo in London: The Ultimate Adventure of Bonnie Boadicea" was just released by Harper Collins. It's the fourth and final book in the series about a possibly magical ship's cat that travels the world with the man who rescued her. It's the 27th book she's co-written with her daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton.
Andrews says, in a strange way, she feels fortunate about the ordeal because it has pushed her to find a "different way" of using her voice. Paraphrasing a line from her "Sound of Music" character Maria von Trapp, Andrews said "When one door closes another window opens."
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Dorothy Chorpenning, 99, of Marietta, passed away peacefully on Dec. 23, 2012.
She was born July 5, 1913, in Espy, Pa. to Ralph and Lucinda Sharretts. She was preceded in death by her husband, John, her parents, three siblings, and a daughter-in-law (Judy).
She was an active member for more than 20 years in The Marietta Photographic Society, which was founded by her late husband in 1950. She was a homemaker and enjoyed cooking, baking, and canning. She was member of Christ United Methodist Church since 1943, where she participated in their Women's Society. She enjoyed taking photography trips and spent many enjoyable times at their get-away cabin with family and close friends.
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"Your 99 1/2 years on this Earth were wonderful and you will be missed by your family, the many people of Marietta that you touched with your quiet grace and wonderful photographs" ... Allison Chorpenning Shaw.
"She was such a kind person. She introduced me to gardening. Dot gave me some of my first perennials (columbine) and indoor African violets. Two of my favorites to this day." ... Caroline Beidler.
"Great Aunt Dot was truly a lovely lady. We are all so blessed to have known such a special person like her." ... Julie Chorpenning-Arens.
"My heart is broken today."... Heather O'Brien Copley.
She is survived by two sons: Larry Chorpenning (Betsey) and J. Brent Chorpenning (Jeanette); two daughters, Cynda O'Brien (Phillip) and Lauralee Pellecchia (Anthony); seven grandchildren, four great-grandchildren; a brother and sister, and many nieces and nephews.
Services are to be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Christ United Methodist Church, 301 Wooster Street, Marietta 45750 or to Marietta Hospice, 450 Pike St., Marietta 45750.


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Do you believe in prophecy? The Bible as literal truth? Armageddon? The Rapture? The return of the Da'jaal? Or the creation of a worldwide caliphate as a harbinger of the end of time? More important, if presented with compelling evidence, would you believe that there are today powerful forces actively conspiring to bring about these cataclysmic events within our lifetime?
In his provocative book Racing Toward Armageddon, Michael Baigent, bestselling author and one of the most controversial religious theorists of our time, turns his keen attention to modern-day Jerusalem and its increasingly important role in global affairs, exploring yet another of his explosive theories: that hard-liners within the three great Abrahamic religions, many of whom hold positions of enormous influence in government, industry, and the military worldwide, are working to hasten our end as prophesied in each of their texts and traditions of faith. Exposing these forces, the myths upon which many of their beliefs are based, the stealth action they have been taking for decades, and the insidious and potentially devastating effect they are having upon the educational, political, cultural, and spiritual fabric of our society, Baigent poses the pressing question: Can we really afford to remain oblivious much longer?
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Look fuck you guys alright! Obama was right to use assassinations and robots because fuck you, my country is run by a Bond villain and I god damn well like it. #oblofeld
Look fuck you guys alright! Obama was right to use assassinations and robots because fuck you, my country is run by a Bond villain and I god damn well like it. #oblofeld
If you spell "Panzadolphin" backwards, you get Nihplo Daznap.
Panzadolphin is a Snatcher made by the researcher Nihplo Daznap to stop the deletion of thread pages.
Do I look like Sting aswell?
Well you just come at me with your fancy video games and memes and cultural references. I'll tell you what you can do with it. I want to take all that clever you got in you, hold it up to the light and look at it -- just like that. That's good. Now I want you to turn it around -- real slow now -- and shove it right up your little candy rooty poo!
Investigation complete.
Gatsby was the Snatcher. He has been terminated.
I still can't believe you told dude he had mommy issues. That was fucked up.
He got what he dished out.
I'm just glad that I wasn't losing it. I could have sworn The Bar was at 1033 pages only a few hours ago. I started to feel like a mental case trying to figure this shit out. I guess I should browse other parts of the forum more.
Yeah, well...shit happens. Not even changing my post to match your edit because it makes sense either way.
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Tell you one thing though. I'm about this fucking close to turning the entire forum into an EFG thread
Don't hold back on our account.
Time to get this thread back on track.
Japan scrambles jets as Chinese plane flies over disputed isles
Europe deepens union with ECB as chief bank watchdog
Also um Rev, sorry for going off topic, made you a picture though
You know what's scary though? I just trolled the fucking Dalai Lama and no one even noticed the question. They just kept right on telling him how great he is. That's how mythologies get started. Him, North Korea, the Old Testament, on down the line. Because no one ever tells our emperors that they have no clothes and if anyone did, they would simply be ignored.
So, Susan Rice has been forced out of contention for the ambassador position despite having never actually said anything incriminating, or even inaccurate, concerning Benghazi (thanks, corporate-owned media, for topping yourselves yet again in TOTALLY screwing up a bone-simple story), and "right to work" laws continue to spread like gangrene (because, of course, unions have totally dominated management in recent years, and workers are utterly out of control and really need to be reined in). Not my favorite week.
While I've seen nothing but good things from right-to-work in my personal experience I don't care for the reasoning behind it and see the possibility for severe abuse.
related read) despite possessing a college degree I'm always curious about just how bad things could get at the other end of the spectrum.
To be frank, I find it difficult to muster up a whole lot of open gumption until the pervasive and ridiculous "CEOs are gods and kings" mentality finally dies a well-deserved death at the hands of people with something resembling an influential mouthpiece...it's discouraging enough that so many people have yet to abandon that worldview on their own, especially in light of recent(-ish) news.You gotta keep on tryin' though. Even if it doesn't make a difference, it's better than giving up.


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Blake Shelton performing free concert Thursday at Blind Horse Saloon
Published: Thursday, March 21, 2013 at 5:38 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, March 21, 2013 at 5:38 p.m.
Contemporary country music superstar Blake Shelton will give a special concert Thursday at the Blind Horse Saloon in Greenville.
Shelton made the surprise announcement earlier today via Twitter. "Greenville, South Carolina... You!!!!!! Blind horse saloon tonight!!! Be there," Shelton tweeted.
According to WSSL-FM's website, doors open at 6 p.m. and the show starts at 8 p.m. Admission is first-come, first-served, no exceptions.
The free concert is open to anyone 18 and up. Attendees, of course, must be at least 21 years old to consume alcohol.
Shelton, who recently received three Grammy Award nominations, burst onto the scene in 2001 with his debut single, "Austin," which reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. He has since charted more than 20 other singles, including such chart-toppers as "Over," "Honey Bee," "God Gave Me You" and "Hillbilly Bone."
Shelton is also known as the husband of country singer Miranda Lambert and as a judge on such TV shows as "Nashville Star" and "The Voice."
The Blind Horse Saloon is located at 1035 Lowndes Hill Road in Greenville.
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CORPUS CHRISTI – The latest episode of Islanders Insider – Episode 14 – is now online and available for viewing. This week, Steven King talks with Coaches Wilson and Chadwick in addition to presenting a feature on Islanders Soccer and their first player, Meghan Cordero.
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