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Alex Ross has revealed new X-Men and Captain America lithographs that will be available at Comic-Con International 2014.
In his latest series of covers, Alex Ross pays homage to Norman Rockwell, Steve Ditko, Michelangelo, Neal Adams and more, celebrating 75 years of Marvel.
This week, Finn and Jake pull double duty, Black Widow takes public transportation, A princess hangs tough and Alex Ross goes retro.
Everything old is new again as painter Alex Ross tackles Adam West, Burt Ward and the heroes of Astro City in his latest cover work.
Kevin Smith puts words in Adam West's mouth, argues for a Batman/Green Hornet animated feature and promises Ben Affleck will deliver as the Dark Knight.
Alex Ross takes two out of five slots while the covers for "Fables," "Secret Avengers" and "Nightcrawler" all represent.
Alex Ross's latest Marvel 75th Anniversary variant is for June's "The Savage Hulk" #1, and CBR has the exclusive first look at the cover.
The time-displaced Brotherhood of Evil Mutants returns in Brian Bendis and Stuart Immonen's "All-New X-Men" #27!
"American Vampire: Second Cycle" has two CotW entries, joined by "Winter soldier: The Bitter March," "The Shadow" and "Curse."
Kevin Smith returns to comics with co-writer Ralph Garman and artist Ty Templeton for the digital-first "Batman '66 Meets the Green Hornet."
Marvel's latest Alex Ross-illustrated variant cover sees the painter taking on the original X-Men, plus the "All-New, All-Different" cast.
Writer Kurt Busiek and artist Graham Nolan discuss "Astro City" #12, the first series issue drawn by a guest artist from start to finish.
"Amazing Spider-Man" returns in April, and with it comes a new cover in Alex Ross's series of variants celebrating Marvel's 75th anniversary.
A new "Daredevil" volume launches from Marvel Comics in March, and with it comes a variant cover from "Marvels" painter Alex Ross.
Writer Kurt Busiek speaks to CBR about "Astro City's" return at Vertigo, his four-part Winged Victory story and the current superhero pop culture landscape.
James Robinson and Leonard Kirk take over Marvel's "Fantastic Four" with a new #1 which finds the team facing new and dangerous challenges.
The "Marvels" painter returns to Marvel Comics for a series of variant covers in 2014 celebrating the publisher's 75th anniversary.
J.H. Williams III says farewell to "Batwoman," the "pre-apocalypse" gets bizarre, "Zero's" repeat performance and The Shadow enjoys his alone time.
As the debut of Chris Roberson's new "Doc Savage" series creeps closer, Dynamite Entertainment has provided CBR wth an exclusive first look at John Cassaday's retro-style variant cover for the first issue.
With Dynamite's announcement at Baltimore Comic Con of a new "Doc Savage" series, CBR News spoke with writer Chris Roberson about taking on one of the all-time great pulp heroes for a new generation.
This week, physics go haywire, Hank and Jean go all "Young Romance," Deadpool is the bomb, RoboCop takes a last stand, The Shadow gets the spotlight and Joe Fitzgerald goes to hell.
AMC has released Alex Ross' promotional poster image for "The Walking Dead" season four, which will appear at Comic-Con International 2013 in San Diego.
At a recent Los Angeles press event, director Guillermo del Toro discussed the recent "Pacific Rim: Tales from Year Zero" graphic novel, based on the recently-released feature film.
Alex Ross talks about melding the Golden Age and the modern day in "The Owl" as he and JT Krul's Dynamite take reignites the Project Superpowers universe with the story of a sidekick gone wild.
"Dark Knight" movie producer Michael Uslan returns to his first love as he writes the ultimate pulp crossover for Dynamite Entertainment in "The Shadow/Green Hornet: Dark Nights."
This week, Astro City receives a visitor from beyond, the Fearless Defenders "Fight!," things get explosive for the Winter Soldier and Scooby-Doo gets a message from the stars.
With the acclaimed series returning as a Vertigo title after a three-year absence from comic store shelves, painter Alex Ross explains how he worked to mature the look of "Astro City's" heroes
The screenwriter behind Guillermo del Toro's Robots Vs. Monsters epic, Travis Beacham explores the history of their world in "Pacific Rim: Tales From Year Zero" while sharing an exclusive look at pages from the OGN.
As Dynamite's pulp crossover "Masks" concludes with the reveal of a master villain, writer Chris Roberson pens a new tale of "The Shadow" to introduce the hero's murderous new nemesis.
Writer Kurt Busiek spoke with CBR about this summer's return of his multiple Eisner and Harvey Award winning series, "Astro City" with new publisher Vertigo Comics.
Courtesy of Dynamite, CBR presents an exclusive preview of "The Owl" #1 by J.T. Krul and Heubert Khan Michael, with covers by Alex Ross and Ardian Syaf. The Owl returns July 3!
It's X-Wings versus TIE Fighters in this exclusive preview of Brian Wood and Carlos D'Anda's "Star Wars" #5! The latest issue of Dark Horse's hit series goes on sale May 8.
Slow month for new releases in book market! Debate continues over Rick Perry editorial cartoon! Gerard Way and Shaun Simon talk "Fabulous Killjoys"! Interviews with Alex Ross and Paul Pope! Plus more!
First-quarter sales in the direct market up 29 percent over last year! Alex Ross talks about his early influence! John Ostrander on the art of the fill-in issue! Gene Simmons, fanzine contributor! Plus more!
Less than a month after announcing that Astro City will return in June as part of âDC proper,â DC COmics has revealed Kurt Busiek and Brent Anderson's superhero series will actually be released under the Vertigo banner.
Legendary Entertainment announced a graphic novel prequel to "Pacific Rim," scripted by the film's writer Travis Beacham with guidance from director Guillermo del Toro and an Alex Ross cover.
Comic Book Resources spoke with Jai Nitz about his upcoming "Dream Thief" from Dark Horse Comics, upending expectations, getting help from your friends and writing for yourself.
Kurt Busiek, Brent Anderson and Alex Ross' "Astro City" returns to comic shelves June 5 under the DC Comics publishing banner after a nearly three-year hiatus following the dissolution of Wildstorm.
Dark Horse Comics has provided CBR with an exclusive preview of "Star Wars" #3. Han Solo and Chewbacca take the spotlight in Brian Wood and Carlos D'Anda's latest issue, on sale March 13.
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Microsoft Has to Digest Nokia Phones; What About Earnings?
With the Nokia deal finally closing today, the clock is officially ticking for Microsoft to detail not only how it plans to integrate and make use of the massive, struggling mobile-phone business. Another good question: What will the impact be on earnings?
When reporting third-quarter results Thursday, Chief Financial Office Amy Hood said Microsoft just hasn't had enough access to Nokia's numbers to provide significant guidance. It's true that the deal closed several months after the companies had intended because of some regulatory holdups.
Hood's response was to a question about whether something had changed to Nokia's business that would hold back Microsoft from giving an update on the financial future. Her response:
It really wasn't a choice. The reality is, we have not had the type of access until close where we could confidently begin to give the type of guidance that I believe we have come, and you have come, to expect from us, in terms of the depth and analysis required to get there.
They do report in a different accounting system, it needs to be converted to GAAP. We have not had access to forward projections, I haven't had deep access to their systems, and so until we get that, which really starts tomorrow, it's not really a question of whether it was this week or next week, it's really a question of us getting the confidence and access to be able to report at the level of details I know you all would expect me to do.
That was a savvy dance step, given how tightly wound these companies are. Nokia is publicly traded with publicly available data. Microsoft knows it is taking on close to 30,000 employees through the $7.5 billion deal. The man who was Nokia's CEO is now running Microsoft's devices group. Microsoft has data on shaky Windows Phone sales.
There's no doubt Hood gets into the weeds on numbers during her quarterly chats with Wall Street's analysts — they sometimes thank her for such transparency on the call. In this case, Hood got to sidestep talking about Nokia's drag by saying her guidance wouldn't meet her nitty-gritty standards. Talking generally about a business isn't the same as providing analysts with specific data that can help Wall Street with its models.
Wall Street will have to wait a few more weeks to get a better sense of the Nokia hit. What do we know so far?
For the fourth quarter, Nokia said sales of its Lumia line of Windows phones declined. As the Journal's Sven Grundberg reported at the time, both companies had highlighted an uptick in smartphone sales when they announced the deal in September. But in January, Nokia said handset revenue was down 29% from a year earlier and 4.5% from the prior quarter. Nokia had sold 30 million Lumia phones in 2013, well more than the 13.3 million it sold the year before, but well short of Microsoft's goal of 50 million.
In her opening statement during Thursday's call, Hood said Nokia's business results have undoubtedly changed in the months since Microsoft struck the deal. She said Microsoft is still "committed to achieving annual cost synergy targets of at least $600 million within 18 months of close."

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Fedora 7 Test 4 was launched last week and I'm excited! Right now I'm downloading the ISO to try it out and, although I'm aware that there are plenty of new features for me to explore in the distribution itself, many of the elements that have me most excited are changes relating to their infrastructure: they are setting out to empower the community more than any other distribution has.
Chief among the changes to Fedora for the project's seventh release is the merger of Core and Extras. The reason for this is that they intend to make all of the tools used to build the releases available to the wider community, with some functionality even being let loose from Red Hat's internals. This, they hope, will help to encourage greater community involvement and also make it easier for individuals and organizations to spin their own versions and releases. The other benefit of this merger is that it will remove any perceived distinction between the quality of packages in the old repositories, which has long since disappeared.
Another related feature of Fedora 7 is the introduction of an official Live CD spin, featuring versions specific for GNOME and KDE. This, like the rolling out of the build system, has been done with the idea of enabling the community at its center. There is a new package being created called livecd-tools which, when pointed at a kickstart file and a repository URI (be it a remote location or a local disk), will generate a live CD. The best part about this is the use of the kickstart file: it contains all the information about what configuration and which packages should be included on the live CD in an incredibly user friendly manner. This allows community members to pick their own package manifests, default locales along with all the settings such as keyboard layout, and custom wallpapers (and presumably artwork in a more general sense).
The other feature that will be immediately obvious to end-users is the planned redesign of the project's homepage, which is listed as a "must have" for the release. The introduction of a simple, clean front page to the massive (and inevitably intimidating) resource which is the Fedora wiki can only be a good thing: whether it's making it easier for people to find out exactly what Fedora is, or if it's making it easier for people find documentation, or if it's making it easier for people to get involved with the project, can only be a good thing!
Infrastructure changes aside, there's a lot to look forward to in Fedora 7: the default inclusion of Network Manager and better wifi chipset support is a massive plus point for any laptop user; integration of KVM with Fedora's graphical virt-manager for a superb visualization experience; a beautiful default theme, which in my opinion includes an amazing looking login screen; fast-user switching; yum speedups; the latest Gnome and KDE releases along with all the other software updates.
OK, that was possibly the longest sentence ever but the message is clear: Fedora 7 is going to be a fantastic release! Let's not forget, either, Fedora sticks to a fairly rigid policy regarding licenses: if it doesn't qualify as Free or Open Source then it doesn't get included in the distribution. I intend on experimenting with some of these new features over the next week, especially the livecd-tools and I'm will be writing a guide in my next post for anyone who wants to follow in my steps.
NetworkManager default inclusion
"default inclusion of Network Manager" - this was already the case for the last Fedora releases. Since NetworkManager is in a usable state, the NetworkManager is included and enabled by default in Fedora!
No champion of community!
Fedora is all but a champion of community. If any distribution could be called that it is Ubuntu. Fedora has especially failed on the community level. Many active users have left Fedora because of that. Fedora has tried to silence unofficial Fedora voices and has tried to mainstream some websites. many, like me, have left Fedora because it is not possible to be freely associated. The Ambassador system tries to bind users into the distribution. And its a fact that Red Hat still decides tha major issues. I have switched to Foresight Linux where no membership is required - and users find many more distributions that are organized more openly and friendly.
Thilo Pfennig
Blog: http://flinux.wordpress.com/
I consider myself a member of the Fedora community and don't find what you've said to be true (obviously or I wouldn't have written the piece!).
What do you mean by:
"Fedora has tried to silence unofficial Fedora voices and has tried to mainstream some websites"
"The Ambassador system tries to bind users into the distribution"
Membership is required for contributors to some parts of Fedora, such as the Docs project, but this is to ensure the legal issues are taken care of, largely as a result of their connection to Red Hat - anybody is *welcome* to join.
Membership is not required for people who just want to get help or to help others. Join the IRC channel #fedora on freenode or visit Fedora Forum where there is a massive community of friendly people more than willing to help; or also the mailing lists where this is always active and friendly discussion.
I can see how in the past, before these were clearly linked to within the distribution, you may have found some of these hard to find; now, however, they're linked to from the default home page in Fedora and are a great starting place for new users!
No other distribution that I know of has gone through, such lengths as creating easy to use live CD tools, to allow their users to use and share the software in which ever way they see fit. Saying that, there are many great distros and you have to find the one that suits you best: I was just explaining some of the great new features in F7 that will empower the community. I don't want to start a flame war here!
Membership is required
At Fedora you even need to sign a CLA if you just want to fix a small typo in a wiki. You say: "this is to ensure the legal issues are taken care of" - Which means giving Red Hat the copyright of any typo I fix. The bug question is why Fedora actually needs to do everything different, including choosing weird, outdated licenses that are incompatible with GFDL and CC licenses.
The IRC-Channel: I asked some months ago where I can fetch FC4 packages - unfriendly answer was FC4 is dead. I then got the answer from Foresight channel where to get it from kernel.org.
Another bad thing: If you do install a testing version of Fedora you will ALWAYS have to install from scratch. Nobody will be there to help you. At Foresight you can move forward and abckward from development to stable branch as often as you want without any headache.
About the Live CD-Tools: Ubuntu just DID it, Foresight has this from the start. That Fedora needs such a long time is absolutely no pro argument.
So I dont see Fedora either be positive on the community or the technical level. I have used it for years and finally di give up as I realised that its just nor possible to change anything where Red Hat said "no way". For me this is no community distribution. A real community distribution discusses and decides things openly. Fedora says it is a meritocracy - thats right. You have to be either a Red Hat employee or me constantly active in a way that Red Hat likes to have some influence. If you criticize its very hard to make any impact.
I have just made the opposit experience with Foresight - sure its a smaller distro - but still - the community is much more positive - and people who want to help are welcome - no matter what colors they wear. We even have a lot of Gentoo or Ubuntu guys who will propably not switch. But hey thats ok. On Fedora I often was told that I would need to be on Fedoras side to be heard at all.
Thilo Pfennig
Blog: http://flinux.wordpress.com/
what a brilliantly crafted troll
-1, Troll
When has the Fedora Project tried to silence unofficial voices? There's plenty of unofficial Fedora sites out there, which the Fedora Project actively embraces and supports. For example, Fedora Unity and Fedora News and Fedora Forum. None of those are run by Red Hat people -- all by Fedora volunteers. As the leader of the Fedora Project, I can tell you that I have never tried to shut down any Fedora websites (even the ones that say bad things about us), and I have always said that it would be unacceptable for anyone else to do so either. The only time that Fedora has to ask people to change what they are doing is if they are violating our trademark. If you don't understand why that is important, I recommend that you read a bit about US trademark law.
How does the Ambassador system try to bind anyone to a distribution? All they do is show up at events, hand out DVDs, and talk about Fedora and Free Software.
Major issues are decided by the Fedora Board, which is comprised of 5 Red Hat Employees and 4 Community Members. Additionally, more and more responsibility for Fedora Engineering has been pushed to a committee of leaders within Fedora that is also a well-balanced collection of community and Red Hat leaders.
You are spreading FUD. Either give some examples of recent history, or admit that your complaints may have been valid a few years ago, but that recent history shows clear improvement.
comitee != community
I have witnessed myself, as you know as Fedora project leader, to voice my opinion and got a lot of bad feedback - it was just not possible to discuss things openly, as they were already decided by some company or comitee. I have also followed in Germany how Ambassadors and websites got some pressure to follow a Fedora mainstream.
The Ambassadors: Yeah THEY show up on events - but this should the role of random users and there should not be the need of an "official" ambassador to hand out DVDs? Again: I dont know of any other distribution that has implemented a system of this kind.
It would have looked better if you would have admitted that you are the Fedora Community leader. uts not me spreading FUD - its you and other Fedora Ambassadors that are spreading FUD and fooling people.
On my blog you once said you would answer to my criticism (back then i was still a Fedora user) but you never did. Fedora seems to be very active at working on the public image that it gives while at the same time not trustung their own users. I am not talking about an outside view. I have contributed in the past - I was excluded from the wiki because I did not want to sign a CLA/give Red Hat the copyright of my work and I have still tried to change some decisions that were made including writing you in length what my criticism was. The reactions that can partly be read in mailing lists were all but encouraging and I have also heard a lot of people who abstained from contributing to Fedora. Fact is that Fedora is very red-hatian. it might not be official Red Hat but Red Hat has build a system that they control and its just a fact that other distributions, especially Ubuntu do A LOT better in the community sector than Fedora. Who does not see that is blind.
Thilo Pfennig
Blog: http://flinux.wordpress.com/
Facts about CLA and such
Naturally, I am not a lawyer, and I cannot give legal advice. This is just my studied opinion.
Thilo Pfennig wrote ...
I have contributed in the past - I was excluded from the wiki because I did not want to sign a CLA/give Red Hat the copyright of my work.
No where in that document does it give copyright to anyone.
If you re-read the document, or have a lawyer read it for you so you can get a legal interpretation of the document (as I have), you see that it grants Red Hat, Inc., on behalf of the Fedora Project, a copyright license. The language is in fact very similar to what you see in various terms of usage. It gives the Fedora Project (the entity on behalf of which Red Hat is requesting this grant of license) the rights to do stuff such as ... display your contribution on a webpage; store your contribution in CVS; move your contribution to a different SCM than CVS; put your contribution in a Fedora ISO; and so forth.
Even when you contribute to Wikipedia, it reminds you that your work is now licensed under the GFDL:
The Fedora CLA makes it easier for the Fedora Project to make Fedora, distribute Fedora, and not get itself, Red Hat, or anyone else in legal trouble at the same time. If you don't like those ideas, you continue to be welcome to not sign it.
As for the Wiki, we are at least and at last close to providing a click-through only interface to accepting the CLA, so Wiki-only contributors can join without using a GPG key.
As for the choice of license, it is obvious why Fedora chose it -- it is simply the best license for the job. The reasoning is explained here:
Fedora makes choices in the direction of maximum freedom. That includes choosing the best content license available. Other people's lawyers can offer them other solutions and licenses to choose from. Fedora's lawyers have their own opinion, and it's a well-respected one in all other matters.
Yeah talk about facts
I said "I did not want to sign a CLA/give Red Hat the copyright of my work."
You said "No where in that document does it give copyright to anyone."
But also: "it grants Red Hat, Inc., on behalf of the Fedora Project, a copyright license."
So does Red Hat get a copyright of my work? Yes, it does.
You said "Even when you contribute to Wikipedia, it reminds you that your work is now licensed under the GFDL". Sure, GFDL, but I do not grant the Wikipedia Foundation my copyrights.I would not contribute then, too. You seem to mix up licenses and copyrights. I am very much for free licenses, but I do not trust Red Hat so far that I would like them to relicense my material, especially when people say that the CLA allows Fedora not to having to discuss relicensing in teh future again.
I also like to question why Red Hat should get any copy rights if in fact Fedora is a community project. Why then does a company need copyrights of contributions? I could imagine those rights be nice for a community organisation.
You said "As for the choice of license, it is obvious why Fedora chose it -- it is simply the best license for the job." -
Ok lets quote the FAQ:
"Why Not Use Another License, Such as a Creative Commons (CC) License, or the GNU Free Documentation License (FDL) ?
The legal counsel for the Fedora Project carefully examined all of the well-known content licenses, and concluded that only the OPL met all of the criteria for an unambiguous and enforceable license that would guarantee the freedoms of contributors and users."
Ok, the reasoning is: We dont care what the community says - and we also do not care if the publishers of the OPL have recommended to the Creative Commons licenses, (Wikipedia: "The OPL is now largely defunct, and its creator suggests that new projects not use it.", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Publication_License) Fact is that this is a license prior to CC and the CC licenses were build after seeing what problem arose from this license (optional clause, etc.). I also like to cite the GNu organisations words about the OPL:
Open Publication License, Version 1.0
This license can be used as a free documentation license. It is a copyleft free documentation license provided the copyright holder does not exercise any of the "LICENSE OPTIONS" listed in Section VI of the license. But if either of the options is invoked, the license becomes non-free.
This creates a practical pitfall in using or recommending this license: if you recommend "Use the Open Publication License, Version 1.0 but don't enable the options", it would be easy for the second half of that recommendation to get forgotten; someone might use the license with the options, making a manual non-free, and yet think he or she is following your advice.
Likewise, if you use this license without either of the options to make your manual free, someone else might decide to imitate you, then change his or her mind about the options thinking that that is just a detail; the result would be that his or her manual is non-free.
Thus, while manuals published under this license do qualify as free documentation if neither license option was used, it is better to use the GNU Free Documentation License and avoid the risk of leading someone else astray.
Please note that this license is not the same as the Open Content License. These two licenses are frequently confused, as the Open Content License is often referred to as the "OPL". For clarity, it is better not to use the abbreviation "OPL" for either license. It is worth spelling their names in full to make sure
Another fact is that this licenses is incmpatible with CC AND woith GFDL which are both more popular. Every free software project should rather choose a license that is compatible than a license in fact nobody uses. Ah right, not nobody, Red Hat did. What a coincidence?
So you really think that your lawyers are so much smarter than the ones of GNU and Creative Commons and so many other distributions? I think Fedora does work similar as the OpenOffice.org project here. Wow and they also have a license of their own! The thing is: If every project would use a license of its own one really could just remove the license and just have a CLA and a copyright, because nobody else would use the license.
Real live example: I wanted to copy some stuff from OO documentation to Wikipedia (there are some nice descriptions about layout terms). Fact is: I could not, because OOs documentation is PDL while the one of Wikipedia is GFDL. This in fact means that neither Abiword, Scribus nor Koffice could use this, too.
Or simply: If a user writes a great explanation in the Ubuntu wiki (which is licensed: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/License CC-BY-SA-2.5 which is pretty standard) - you could not copy this great explanation but your users or a Red Hat employee would have to write from scratch.
So alltogether I can neither agreee that those comitee decisions have been very smart, nor do I agree that Red Hat is not beeing granted copyrights over material of the users (well in fact not over my content,but only of those users who have signed the CLA). I hope you now have deleted my content because I was not allowed to remove mine - and in fact nobody asked me or any other wiki user what we think would be a smart solution.
I still thinK Fedora is technically interesting and also has some great people on board, but it is not THE community distribution. I won't either say its OpenSuse, but there are many other distros who lsiten much more to the users. A distribution should be happy about people who spread the word. I wanted to do this but could not, because only Ambassadors should, and as I did not want to become want and did not want to get sued by Red Hat because I did I had to switch the distro. This is NOT a good example how to build up a nice community. The opposit. If you say: Every user is welcome to spread the world and hand out CDs/DVDs or give tlaks about Fedora then I would see first signs in Fedoras policy which I would welcome because the Fedora users deserve to be respected as they are Linux users like we all are.
Thilo Pfennig
Blog: http://flinux.wordpress.com/
Stop flaming, please
> A distribution should be happy about people who spread the
> word. I wanted to do this but could not, because only
> Ambassadors should, and as I did not want to become want
> and did not want to get sued by Red Hat because I did I had
> to switch the distro. This is NOT a good example how to
> build up a nice community.
Wow. That's nonsense. And you know this. You've been part of the german community at fedoraforum.de for some time. And we weren't punished by Max, Red Hat or Fedora at all for doing our job.
You dislike the status of an ambassador. That's ok. But please, don't flame Fedora on every place you could find for this descision. Talk to them and discuss the step. And if you still disagree, well, that's a point that could happen. :)
"So does Red Hat get a
"So does Red Hat get a copyright of my work? Yes, it does."
No. It gets a copyright license. If you don't understand the difference you are confused about copyright laws.
"Ok, the reasoning is: We dont care what the community says - and we also do not care if the publishers of the OPL have recommended to the Creative Commons licenses"
You say this but you don't have any proof validating it. Wikipedia is not a proof since anyone can edit it to say anything they want. One of the netbsd founders said that netbsd is irrelvant. Should we all stop using netbsd immediately? It is a copyright license and it can stand on its own regardless of anyone thinking in a different way about it including the founder.
"Every free software project should rather choose a license that is compatible than a license in fact nobody uses. Ah right, not nobody, Red Hat did. What a coincidence?"
This is NOT true. You were already corrected for this false claim in the mailing list and you repeat it again now. Open publication license is used by many organizations including orielly publications.
"I think Fedora does work similar as the OpenOffice.org project here. Wow and they also have a license of their own! "
False. Openoffice.org uses LGPL. They dropped the sun specific license long back. Again a claim corrected in the mailing lists already. Millions of users are happy using Fedora. Your repeated incorrect claims is not going to stop that. If you are happing using another distribution feel free. Noone is stopping you.
more clearance
I said: "So does Red Hat get a copyright of my work? Yes, it does."
Jef said: "No. It gets a copyright license. If you don't understand the difference you are confused about copyright laws."
No, you dont understand: A OPL or GFDL is a license. You are granting some rights and some freedoms to anybody. You do not need a CLA to use a free license. The CLA additional to the OPL defines that Red Hat is granted a full copyright without any limits. What the CLA does not anc can not do: It can not take away the copyright from me. At least in Germany that would be illegal anyway. In Germany a copyright always belongs to you and thats why there is no public domain in Germany like in the US.
Again the quote: "Contributor Grant of License. You hereby grant to Red Hat, Inc., on behalf of the Project, and to recipients of software distributed by the Project:
* (a) a perpetual, non-exclusive, worldwide, fully paid-up, royalty free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute your Contribution and such derivative works; ..."
This means that Red Hat can do what ever they want with my content and the sense of this license is to
a) Give Red Hat the possibility to protect my content from misuse outside the project and
b) To allow Red Hat to print my contributions like for use in RHEL and I give them the full copy rights. I can not revoce the license or later come and demand money from Red Hat if a HOWTO I make and they sell earns them a lot of money.
But this CLA is indeed more than just a simple license like the OPL or any other license would be that gives ANYBODY similar rights. So they decided that the OPL just gives Red Hat not enough rights. So they do it different as the Wikimedia Foundation who just accepts anonymous and contributions by name without forcing users to sign any further agreements or giving the Foundation any additional rights. In fact Red Hat would have the right to take my content, put it in a book, sell it and protect it by their own rights and by that loosing the original OPL. The only theing they may not do is to tell ME that i may not publish my own content any more. It also gives Red hat the right to decide tomorrow that all documentation contenmt will be GFDL or CC licensed, no matter under what license the contributors published their content. So in fact the CLA is a way to circumvent the OPL as it gives Red Hat similar rights as I have - copy rights - call it "copy right license" or "copy rights" anyway the right to copy without having to follow the OPL - why else should they have added a CLA if the OPL would have been enough for them?
I am not claiming that Red Hat is planning something evil, rather I think that lawyers like recommending their company to be always on the save side. But this includes in this case that they recommended that additionally to the free content license the contributor must give Red Hat more rights, so they can protect themselves better or easier.
I said: "I think Fedora does work similar as the OpenOffice.org project here. Wow and they also have a license of their own! "
Jef said: "False. Openoffice.org uses LGPL. They dropped the sun specific license long back. Again a claim corrected in the mailing lists already. Millions of users are happy using Fedora. Your repeated incorrect claims is not going to stop that. If you are happing using another distribution feel free. Noone is stopping you."
OpenOffice.org quote: "The document license is the Public Document License (PDL)." (source:http://www.openoffice.org/license.html)
You seem to have no idea at all about licenses
I have now contacted the authors of the licenses and urged them to clarify the position about the OPL on the blog at http://www.opencontent.org/blog/ . I hope they do. I have read their statements on the old pages which they seemed to have taken offline now. As far as Iknow the problem with the OPL always was the optional clause and in fact the OCO also had criticized the CC for doing some similar "mistakes" with too many options (commercial/non-commercial,etc.) - althought these options are much more standardized as they are in the OPL.
Thilo Pfennig
Blog: http://flinux.wordpress.com/
"But this CLA is indeed more
"But this CLA is indeed more than just a simple license like the OPL"
Regardless of this it is a copyright license and it does not give your copyright to someone else. You still hold your copyrights and Red Hat gets a license. Same for FSF with any GNU software, Apache, Sun with Openoffice.org or opensolaris etc. Red Hat is doing nothing very different here
"I can not revoce the license or later come and demand money from Red Hat if a HOWTO I make and they sell earns them a lot of money."
That's the case with any Free software license.
"I have - copy rights - call it "copy right license" or "copy rights" anyway the right to copy without having to follow the OPL"
Again copyright and copyright license is not one and the same. Learn some basic legal theory.
"why else should they have added a CLA if the OPL would have been enough for them?"
It has already been explained to you several times and is in the fp.org wiki. OPL does not cover the entire range of software in the distribution but only some formal documentation. If a contributor had patent rights none of the copyright licenses would cover that. The CLA would.
"OpenOffice.org quote: "The document license is the Public Document License (PDL)." (source:http://www.openoffice.org/license.html)
You seem to have no idea at all about licenses"
No. YOU don't. I already said OPL is used by many many vendors including Oreilly. So stop propogating this lie.
"I have now contacted the authors of the licenses and urged them to clarify the position about the OPL on the blog at http://www.opencontent.org/blog/ . I hope they do"
Until they do you can stop claiming this since it cannot be verified.
"The Ambassadors: Yeah THEY
"The Ambassadors: Yeah THEY show up on events - but this should the role of random users and there should not be the need of an "official" ambassador to hand out DVDs? Again: I dont know of any other distribution that has implemented a system of this kind."
Ignorance is bliss. Ambassadors are merely marketing point of contacts when people need to do more organized events. Openoffice.org does this. In fact this idea was suggested originally by Colin Charles who is a non Red Hat guy involved with Openoffice.org marketing and now is the community manager of MySQL. MySQL of course follows a similar system now.
"I have contributed in the past - I was excluded from the wiki because I did not want to sign a CLA/give Red Hat the copyright of my work"
The CLA does not give your copyright to Red Hat. It gives a copyright license to Red Hat on the behalf of the Fedora Project as they are the legal entity. Major difference there which was already pointed out to you when you brought this up on the mailing lists. Do you know that many major projects do this too? Openoffice.org, MySQL, Apache etc.
"it might not be official Red Hat but Red Hat has build a system that they control"
Wrong. The build system for Fedora Extras has always been open and Fedora 7 has a unified external and open build system for the entire repository.
You are the guy who made a bad fuss over simple misunderstanding and left Fedora followed by GNOME marketing recently.
I think you are not aware of
I think you are not aware of ubuntu.
"I think you are not aware
"I think you are not aware of ubuntu."
The distribution which installs proprietary and illegal kernel drivers by default? Yes, we are aware of it.
"No other distribution that
"No other distribution that I know of has gone through, such lengths as creating easy to use live CD tools"
Thats simply not true. You just need to broaden your horizons a bit more :). Foresight's use of rBuilder Online allows you to create not only LiveCDs, but VMware images, domUs, QEMU/Parallels images, even MS VHD images. Can you say that for your livecd-tools? What's even better is that the rBuilder servers do it for you - no need to run a kickstart on a local development box.
Stop Pointless Meta-Discussion
I'm sorry you have not liked Fedora in the past. It sounds like you wont like it in the future no matter what happens.
-- Welcome to Linux! --
An inherit joy to Linux is you get to do whatever you want with it and use whatever collection of packages (call it a distro if you want) you find fit. The Fedora 7 release *is* a positive thing. Stop trying to smear forward progress.
I don't know....
I don't know, it seems like most distributions have their share of dirty laundry when it comes to community.
Ubuntu planet has quite a few posts about censorship recently. Seems like Canonical may have been upset about the "Ubuntu on Dell" announcment leaking out a little bit early. Novell certainly got it's fair share of community criticism in recent months and Debian at times seems to be (IMO) run by 3rd graders.
"So I dont see Fedora either be positive on the community or the technical level. I have used it for years and finally di give up as I realised that its just nor possible to change anything where Red Hat said "no way"."
This hardly seems fair. I believe Redhat has more active kernel developers than any other distribution. Also, I think Network Manager was created by Redhat developers. Hardly "not being positive on the technical side".
Lots of leaders in the Linux and BSD world have left projects due to disagreement. Theo de Raadt, Matt Dillon, Gael Duval, Daniel Robbins, etc. Lots of other leaders make unpopular decisions (I remember some being upset when Patrick Volderking of Slackware stopped packaging Gnome in Slackware).
I don't think this has to a bad thing. Without strong leadership, there are too many voices to satisfy and things seem to just stagnate (again, right or wrong, I'll pick on Debian). Finding a distribution that listens to your voice more closely doesn't mean the rest are bad...it just means the one that listens to you more closely is best for you.
Finally, I've found using words like ALWAYS and NOBODY usually get me in trouble.
>I don't think this has to a bad thing. Without strong leadership, there are too many voices to satisfy >and things seem to just stagnate (again, right or wrong, I'll pick on Debian). Finding a distribution >that listens to your voice more closely doesn't mean the rest are bad...it just means the one that >listens to you more closely is best for you.
One can not agree on all points, true. But a "community distribution" has to base on the community and not on comitees or lawyers. And although I do not use Debian I have very high respect for their community and what they try to do, even if they sometimes seem to overdo it. In fact criticizing Fedora is a kind thing to do. Its much better as to keep the criticism for oneself.
But I admit that I am not a believer in meritocrazy as a model for a distribution. I rather prefer either a hardcore community model or the benevolent dictatorship where often more is possible, because the project leader needs other people that simply will go away if he does not listen to them.
Thilo Pfennig
Blog: http://flinux.wordpress.com/
Why the flame?!
Please, all, I didn't intend to start a flame war with the article!
Thilo, it seems like you've had a bad experience with Fedora/Red Hat in the past, but the point of the article was simply to show the amazing things that are going on in Fedora 7 that are really going to benefit the community.
To Max and Karsten etc, I can understand wanting to set the record straight and put forward your point of view but let's not help carry this on longer than is needed...
As for people who like Foresight Linux, Ubuntu etc - that's awesome too! Clearly they meet your needs and please tell us about them but in a context that doesn't carry a derogatory tone. There are loads of distributions all doing great work and all contributing back up stream where possible and this benefits us all.
The reason is simply that you presented as the beste community Linux wone could imagine - and thats neither my experience and there are also some facts that thell something different. Don't worry - i did not mean this personally - I just wanted to add my experience. And in fact the points that were mentioned should have been discussed on the community more openly. Fact is, that I left Fedora only because of the community, which I think is generally a bad thing and indicates that soemthing is wrong. I am not a distro hopper, although I have had some of them since 1997. Right now I use Foresight - the primary reason is, that although this is not a community distribution as Fedora defines itself, I and the community can decide and discuss much more core things (even the Logo).
So the question is maybe "What is a community distribution?" Or "hat is a good community distribution?" A distribution can also choose to work in different styles like a) Everything that is done must be decided democratically or b) Those who do things or are more affected decide when a decision has to be made (anarchistic) or c) Those who have gained support from a company or through essential contributions decide in comitees (meritocracy).
From my view a distribution can not be meritocratic and community based at the same time. This is a community more like an infantry but not as part of the distribution.
Thilo Pfennig
Blog: http://flinux.wordpress.com/
Further OPL clearance
Thankfully David, the writer of the OPL has answered to my request to clear this finally in a blog post:
Quote: "Anyone interested in a license like this is far better off using a Creative Commons license."
I think this should clarify some doubts but underline the point i was trying to make and that were reflected in the open content discussion for many years. I just could not find a link to a good comprehensive text that discussed that or made the status of the OPL more clear. I hope you will now see that my criticism relating the OPL was also not just FUD as some claimed here but indeed based on facts. It maybe be that some lawyers still like the OPL more, but it just does not reflect the status of the open content debate any morem where as one CC license (CC-BY 2.5 or newer) even allow one-way compatibility to GFDL.
One should not see licenses as "does the job best for distribution X", but rather choose licenses who are modern and widely accepted and also more compatible so that content exchange gets easier.
Thilo Pfennig
Blog: http://flinux.wordpress.com/
Who needs Micro$oft!
Who needs M$ to try and tear down open source. Your example here to someone that may never have used Linux or OSS, is perfectly clear. Instead of people all banding together to make things better in the open source community, there always has to be people tearing it down. People have different outlooks and opinions on communities, because they have different expectations. Maybe rather than all of these comments complaining about what Fedora may have done in the past, why not just look hopefully towards the future, and not allow that kind of thing to happen at your favorite distribution. Don't lose sight of the fact that every distribution is only part of the larger open source community, and isn't that what it's really all about?
Thanks Thilo
This is an excellent post about the OPL. Very thought provoking and really clarifies the point you were trying to make.
I can understand your position much better now...when I originally started reading this thread I was thinking "man, this guy is a nutter". Funny how clarifications change things :D
Very good points Thilo. For
Very good points Thilo. For those of you who seem to casually disregard this user by opening first defense or some of you who are saying the likes of "Look towards the future, don't worry everything will be fine, blah blah blah" I think you should back track and re-read. This user is making good points about the context of creeping privilege for licensing in the FOSS community. It's a shame that ordinary user's are having to take on the responsibilities of law perspective. Unfortunately these are the days where ownership and licensing is increasingly becoming a cut-throat business, even under our own scared umbrella of protection.
We are the community. If we don't watch what they're doing then who will? Don't support companies who slowly disregard the principles that our communities were founded on. It's as simple as that.
GFDL and other info
could one of you please help me out with some information. Is GFDL not a copyleft vs copyright provision? If it is copyleft then the fuss is about nada. If something else I stand corrected and uninformed. I would like to inform our own community at vectorlinux.com of this issue.
thxs for your time to respond !
GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL or simply GFDL) is a copyleft license for free documentation, designed by the Free Software Foundation.


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Published: Sunday, March 31, 2013 at 10:59 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, March 31, 2013 at 10:59 a.m.
SARASOTA COUNTY - A 21-year-old Sarasota man received critical injuries when he was struck by a vehicle Saturday night.
The Florida Highway Patrol says that, shortly after 8:15 p.m., Bryan Lee Petersen of Sarasota walked across the eastbound lanes of Bee Ridge Road outside of a crosswalk. Thomas Allen Koon, 24, of Sarasota was eastbound and approaching Beneva Road when his Dodge Ram struck Petersen.
Paramedics took Petersen to Blake Medical Center in Bradenton.
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Friends of the Lower Calaveras River is planting native grass and flowers on the south bank of the stream at the University of Pacific from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday.
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GILROY -- The family of a man slain in a Wednesday night street shooting identified him as Jesse Emmanuel Silos, a newly engaged 30-year-old former gang member who was turning his life around after a prison stint but got caught "in the wrong place at the wrong time."
Silos was shot on Chestnut Street just before 9 p.m., according to police, along with a second victim who was hospitalized but survived his wounds. Police did not release any further information about the case on Friday, but previously said they have no known motive and are "evaluating a variety of leads."
Silos' mother Christina Varela said her son -- who was living in Firebaugh -- was gunned down when he went to visit an acquaintance in Gilroy, where Silos had previously been involved in a gang. Varela said the shooter confronted Silos' acquaintance, who still has gang ties, and opened fire.
"He wasn't even there five minutes," Varela said. "Everything happened so fast. Someone walked up and pulled a gun, and (Silos) was shot in the back as he was running away."
Silos was arrested in 2008 after commandeering a van occupied by a mother and her three kids while fleeing police, who wanted him in connection with a domestic violence incident and another involving brandishing a firearm.
He was taken into custody when pursuing officers, who had lost him, noticed a terrified woman in a van and stopped it to find Silos in the back seat. Nobody was injured, and Silos was booked on carjacking, weapons and drug charges.
Varela acknowledged that her son had gotten into "bad stuff on the streets," but said he served three and a half years behind bars and came out a changed man.
"He didn't go back to gangs," she said. "He was ready to get married and make a life for himself."
Silos became engaged last month, and the wedding was going to happen next year, Varela said. While he had a plumbing license, Silos' real passion was as a tattoo artist at his Traviaki Ink studio, where he would tattoo "anything you wanted" but was particularly fond of Aztec and Dia de los Muertos designs.
"Everybody got tattooed by him," she said. "I got one, too."
She said Silos was a big man with a big heart and a lot of friends and family, including three children age 11, 6 and 5.
"He was funny, and just a happy guy," Varela said. "He loved to play around and he loved kids."
Varela said Friday afternoon that she had mixed emotions after viewing Silos' body at a Gilroy funeral home.
"I feel much better after seeing him," she said. "But it hurts so much. And the bad part is coming, when he's laid into the ground and I never see him again."
Private services are being held next week.
Silos' slaying was the first homicide of the year in Gilroy. Anyone with information about the case is asked to call Gilroy investigators at 408-846-0350. Anonymous tips can be made at 800-782-7463.
Contact Eric Kurhi at 408-920-5852. Follow him at Twitter.com/erickurhi.


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Bald And The…Beautiful? Did These Celebrities Look Better Or Worse Without Their Hair?
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Did These Celebrities Look Better Bald?
Being bald. It's liberating, exciting and sometimes a disaster. While it's always crazy to see someone rocking the bald look at first, we tend to get used to it. And other times, we just shake our heads and wait for them to grow it back. Here are some celebrities that did the bald look.
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Police are investigating after a Sanford man was shot while driving and then crashed into a building.
Authorities say officers found 28-year-old Timotheus Devon Dunbar in his car just before midnight Friday.
Dunbar had been shot in the head. Police say someone in another car traveling in the opposite direction fired at Dunbar's vehicle.
Dunbar crashed into a business and was taken to a hospital, where he later died. A passenger in his car wasn't hurt.
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DETROIT -- Sean Doolittle said Coco Crisp makes that catch 99 times out of 100. Crisp thought differently.
"I like to think I make it 100 out of 100," Crisp said. "But obviously, that's changed."
The A's overcame Crisp's drop of Miguel Cabrera's seventh-inning, two-out fly ball that allowed two Detroit runs to score and put the Tigers ahead 3-2. But after a 5-4 walk-off loss Sunday in Game 2 of the ALDS, the error loomed large in the outcome at Comerica Park.
Doolittle entered in relief of starter Tommy Milone in the bottom of the seventh, and after getting two quick outs, surrendered consecutive singles to Austin Jackson and Omar Infante. Cabrera followed with a floater off the end of the bat to center field.
Crisp, playing deep in Comerica's spacious center field, had to run a long way but appeared to have caught up to the ball. When Crisp tried a basket catch, the ball hit off the heel of his glove. Crisp tried to snare the rebound in midair and, in one last-gasp desperation try, even tried to grab it with glove-less right hand as both he and the ball hit the ground.
"I got a good read off the bat," Crisp said. "It's one of those judgment calls, either try to catch it like that or try to slide into it. It's just unfortunate that I didn't make the catch. I felt like I should have made it, obviously. I'm better than that. It would have been nice to make that second-effort catch, too. In this type of situation, you've got to make that play."
A's manager Bob Melvin said most center fielders wouldn't have had a chance to get to that ball.
"He breaks back and then has to recover and covered a lot of ground to get there," Melvin said. "Obviously, until you've tried to make that play ... and the ball's bouncing a little bit as far as your eyes go ... he ended up making a basket catch that just popped out of his glove."
Cabrera had stung two doubles to left-center field and hit a deep fly to center that Crisp caught. Doolittle thought Cabrera's swing in the seventh might have been a factor in Crisp's error.
"You watch him in center field, he covers a ton of ground," said Doolittle. "(Cabrera) took a pretty healthy hack at it. I don't know if he took a step back first, but he ran such a long way to catch that ball. It's just one of those rare things. You're not going to see that very often with a guy like Coco."
Said A's right fielder Josh Reddick: "He just got caught in between. We've seen him make that catch 100 times this year. (The error) just happened at an unfortunate time."
Crisp said he would have felt a lot worse if the A's hadn't bounced back to take the lead in the top of the eighth. Yoenis Cespedes singled, stole two bases and scored on a wild pitch to tie it at 3-all, and Reddick homered to give Oakland a 4-3 advantage heading to the bottom of the eighth.
"After I made that error, it would have been easy for us to hang our heads," Crisp said. "I didn't, but the other guys didn't, either. They came back and picked me up and made me feel a little bit better about myself."
Crisp said he didn't second-guess his approach to the play.
"It was a pretty fast play, and it's one of those plays where you're trying to make a decision on how you're going to try to catch the ball," he said. "I still believe I made the right decision. The only other option is to slide into it, which I'll also do. I've caught them both ways. It's unfortunate that the decision this time didn't work.
"I don't know if I've ever dropped either one, to my recollection," continued Crisp, who made just two errors in the outfield in 113 games during the regular season. "It's just one of those in-the-moment situations, and at the last moment, it just didn't go in the web. It went into my palm. It sucks, but that's the way it goes. I have to forget about it -- it's going to be tough to forget about it -- but we have to come back next game with a clean slate and try to be better."
If they expect to come back from down 0-2, Crisp said the A's have to put all of their mistakes from this tough weekend behind them and keep grinding forward.
"During the regular season, if you make a mistake, you shake it off," he said. "That next game is a clean slate. On days when you do something good, you hang on to it for that day. The next day comes and none of that matters anymore. So that's how you kind of have to go about it with the good and the bad. You have to clear your mind and go get 'em."


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The Daily Telegram of Adrian reports Michael Lee Threet faces up to six years in prison for the theft when sentenced May 9 in Lenawee County Circuit Court. He guilty to a felony larceny in a building charge and a habitual offender count.
Authorities say the Adrian man stole the kitchen equipment Dec. 7 from The Daily Bread of Lenawee, a nonprofit soup kitchen about 60 miles southwest of Detroit.
Asked by Judge Margaret M.S. Noe why he took the items, he said it was to sell them. Threet also said he had three prior felony convictions.


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A little googling reveals that Cheetah only imports a small subset from SVG, namely only <path/> elements (or spline elements). It ignores all other elements, including lines.
See also:
"The problem is that it is important to convert a object (circle, rect, text, etc) to a path. Since Cheetah3D only reads the path informations from the .svg file."
".svg files can contain rects or text. But Cheetah3D only imports the Bezier paths from the SVG file. So convert the rect in Illustrator to a path and Cheetah3D should be able to read it."


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SAN FRANCISCO -- Just when you thought the Giants' season couldn't get any more galling, they staged a thoroughly horrific homecoming Monday night against the worst road team in the major leagues.
Following up Sunday's nightmare in Washington, when they turned a 6-2 lead into a 14-6 defeat, the Giants dropped an excruciating 3-2 loss to the injury-riddled Colorado Rockies at AT&T Park that just might have been worse.
San Francisco committed four errors, hit into four double plays, and hard-luck starter Jake Peavy committed a run-scoring balk that effectively handed the Rockies, who are without Troy Tulowitzki, Carlos Gonzalez and several other key players, just their 19th road victory against 44 losses.
For good measure, manager Bruce Bochy was tossed in the eighth inning by home plate umpire Doug Eddings for shouting something from the dugout after Buster Posey took a called third strike on a decidedly low pitch. Bochy was so disgusted, he kicked dirt on home plate after going nose to nose with Eddings.
"Obviously, I didn't like it," Bochy said. "That's why I wasn't around to watch the end of the game."
Bochy and the Giants should be kicking some dirt over this loss. Eddings had a shaky night, to be sure, but the Giants had no one to blame but themselves for this defeat. They could muster just two runs in seven innings against Colorado starter Tyler Matzek, who came into the game with a 2-9 record, a 5.38 ERA and zero victories in seven previous road starts. Moreover, the Giants had at least one base runner in every inning but could score only single runs in each of the first two.
"I think we all feel like we had this one in our grasp and weren't as sharp as we normally are," said Posey.
That was an understatement. If the Giants can't beat the beat-up Rockies at home, how can they be expected to beat the better teams down the stretch?
"We've got to beat everybody," said Peavy. "But we've just got to play better baseball all the way around. We had some chances to win that game, and we've all got to do more, starting with me."
On this night, despite his throwing error and balk, Peavy did enough. He allowed just one earned run over seven innings despite some touchy moments of his own with Eddings in the seventh inning.
But the game got off on the wrong foot from the outset. Second baseman Joe Panik threw wide of first base on the first batter of the game, Charlie Blackmon, for the first of the four errors. Peavy committed the second, throwing a wild pickoff with Blackmon on second, who subsequently scored on a sacrifice fly.
Then in the third inning, shortstop Brandon Crawford committed his 19th and 20th errors of the season on consecutive batters, which Colorado converted into two runs that ultimately proved the difference. Crawford, who also went 0 for 4, now leads all major league shortstops with his 20 miscues.
" We just played sloppy all the way around," Crawford said. "We didn't play good defense -- I can't remember the last time we made four errors. We didn't get a guy in from third with one out -- stuff like that will lose you games."
The Giants did survive a dodgy top of the seventh to keep things close. With two out and nobody on, D.J. LeMahieu singled and Matzek worked a walk, although an enraged Peavy thought he'd struck out the pitcher on an offering that was called ball three, and he gave Eddings an earful.
"I'm an emotional guy, and it's all directed at wanting to win," Peavy said. "Doug's been around a long time, and he's a really good umpire. I just asked him to look at those pitches, and I thought they were there."
Blackmon singled to right, and Eddings called LeMahieu safe at home even though Hunter Pence threw an on-target bullet to Susac at home plate. The Giants challenged the call, however, and it was reversed on replay. But they still couldn't take advantage over the final three innings.
Colorado (Jorge De La Rosa 13-8) at Giants (Madison Bumgarner 14-9), 7:15 p.m. CSNBA


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Holocaust Denial on Trial, Trial Judgment: Electronic Edition, by Charles GrayTable of Contents
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The evidence relied on by the Defendants for the risk of damage to the plates
12.12 The risk of damage arose, according to the Defendants, in three ways. Firstly, when during Irving's first visit the plates were removed from the archive, there was risk to the plates when they were left in a hiding place. According to the evidence, the plates were left on waste ground for the whole afternoon. There was a risk of someone taking them or of damage if it rained.
12.13 The plates were exposed to further risk by reason of their being handled and, on the second, visit by their being taken via Munich to London and back. Even allowing that Irving took great care of them the plates were at one time or another in the hands of three Sunday Times employees.
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Delcie Light has been married for 53 years to Bill Light. They have three grown children: Christiane is a V.P. at Universal-NBC in California, Bill is an attorney in Manhattan Beach CA, and Jim lives in Devils Lake and owns and operates Computer Clinic. The Light's enjoy 8 grandchildren.
Delcie earned a B.S. from NDSU and a M.S. from UND. She has taught people from 3-73, but mostly teenagers for 25 years at DLHS.
She enjoys family (including a dog and two cats), home, flowers, watching kids and critters, travel, living in North Dakota with 4 seasons, reading, writing, researching (the wonders of a computer!), and genealogy.
The Republicans keep pushing privatization: schools, parks, highways, Social Security and Medicare, and even in some places Law enforcement and Security.
That would mean more profits for the priviledged few. Indiana leased out some of its highways, and in our travels, we have found their highways to be inferior to those in North Dakota---even though drivers pay a toll to drive on them. We tried to visit a park in Arkansas, but we could enter only into the private, corporate gift shop. If we wanted to stroll in the park, we had to pay $8 each.
We all benefit when the young are educated, productive citizens. The talents of thousands of bright young minds would go undeveloped if children were denied an education because their parents could not afford to send them to school. Up until recent ideologues saw the possiblity of profits in schools, in the US we understood the benefit to the nation of making a basic education available to everyone.
The oldest student I ever taught was a gentleman of 73. His story was typical of the WWII generation. He had to stay home and work on the farm in the days when most farm work was done with horses and human labor. At age 73, he graduated with a GED! He was so proud and so grateful to be given that opportunity at no charge. And he was so intelligent he completed the courses in just a few months. Seeing his joy brought tears to all who had helped him achieve that dream. Private profit? No. Public benefit? Yes, by rewarding a fine family man, a veteran, a citizen for a life well lived. And all of his children were college graduates!
Free Public education, paid for by all, for all is profitable for ALL---not just a few "investors."


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FE-Mittelschrift NOV 16 2007
Erik Spiekermann on FE-Mittelschrift, the typeface used for German license plates.
The official typeface for our license plates is now called FE-Mittelschrift, with FE meaning it is Fälschungs-Erschwert, i.e. difficult to forge. Apparently car thieves, terrorists and notorious law-breakers had been exploiting DIN's geometric construction principle and turning E into F or 3 into 8 etc by simply using a bit of black tape or white paint.
Here are all the alphanumeric characters:
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my right socks always gets torn with a hole after a few days at a place where there is a bony projection right under my right toe-this projection is a normal projection located under any toe-i think its a misaligned feet problem though i have normal feet-i just walk every day for abt an hour -the other foot doesnt exhibit such problem.also this projecion problem is so strong that i ve had holes punched at the same place thru my shoe sole after a few months every time.what can i do-i know the foot alignmenet wont change-can i tape that projection but then will it give me corns,i mean what should i do.
This doesn't sound like a normal projection as you put it. Have you had an X-Ray to see it it's a bone spur? Have you broken this toes before and it didn't heal well? If it's a problem or causes you pain or difficulty to walk you should have it evaluated. If it causes you to change your gait or limp when you walk you will develope joint disease in possibly your knee or hip over time.
hi ultimate-the projection or whatever doesnt pain at all so i doubt it could be a spur.i havent broken this toe earlier
I agree with the suggestion to get a professional opinion because it is a problem that can lead to balance and stability issues in the future. For the short-term, you could try doubling your socks on the right foot with compression wear and a slightly thicker sock for the second layer. This would add some additional padding and you may also want to try replacing the inserts in your shoes, so again looking for increasing the cushion. Overall, it is a good idea to get it checked out and see what the most appropriate options are for a permanent solution.
Wishing you all the best
it cant b a spur bcause i ve had my foot x rayed twice last year and the year prior for plantar facscitis which troubled me then -the x ray didnt reveal any spur either in the heel or anywhere in the foot
hi jasko u suggest doubling up socks in my right foot only -wont that disbalance my gait and create more probs for me
So it's a projection on the sole side of your right littlest toe? Is the projection on the skin of the toe - like a callus? Or is it something sharp that is poking through the skin?
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November 16, 2012
Lancashire County Council has teamed up with the crowd-funding website Funding Circle to launch the Local Business Lending Partnership.
The partnership is a pioneering scheme designed to stimulate local economic growth and employment through improved access to business finance. The pilot scheme could become a blueprint for small business lending in the public sector as a whole.
As part of the partnership, the council will lend an initial £100,000 to Lancashire-based businesses using Funding Circle, the online marketplace where people directly lend to small businesses. It is anticipated that the partnership could grow to a multi-million pound commitment over the next five years.
James Meekings, co-founder of Funding Circle, said: "This revolutionary partnership will deliver much-needed finance to growing businesses in Lancashire, in turn creating jobs and boosting the local economy. Lancashire County Council is leading the way for other local authorities to follow, injecting finance right into the heart of the local business community."
County councillor Michael Green said: "This is a ground-breaking way to fund business growth and a first for any council in the UK. There is great potential to grow the Lancashire economy in the future. Working with Funding Circle, our aim is to unlock more of this potential."
Lancashire's 52,000 small businesses are responsible for more than 50% of local private sector employment. However, according to figures from the British Bankers Association (BBA), loan facilities in the region fell by 30% between Q1 and Q2 in 2012.
A recent study by Funding Circle found that 42% of small businesses in the North West said they would increase staff numbers if they could obtain finance.


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The Neosho Lady Wildcats were still within striking distance when the fourth quarter rolled around, but the Nixa Lady Eagles hit their free throws down the stretch to seal a 54-40 victory in the Central Ozark Conference large division opener at NHS on Monday.
Nixa opened the game by grabbing a 12-5 lead in the first quarter, and stretched that lead to 27-13 by halftime.
Neosho's offense came alive in the second half, however, as the Lady Wildcats scored 15 in the third and 12 in the fourth quarter. But Nixa remained consistent as they scored 12, 15, 13 and 14 points in their four quarters.
With the deficit in the single digits for most of the fourth quarter, the Lady Wildcats remained a couple of possessions away from making it a one-possession game for the majority of the final period, but when forced to foul late the Lady Eagles knocked down their foul shots and began to pull away.
Gina Raper teamed with teammate Angie Allen to provide most of the offensive punch for the Lady Eagles. Raper poured in 15 points to lead the team while Allen finished with 13. Madison Wells also factored into double figures with 10 points while Tasha Leavitt added nine, Kayla Copeland two and Alex Sorenson five.
A force inside the paint, Morgan Rogers led Neosho with 10 points while Matty Liedtke chipped in eight, Corea Lowery and Chelsey Henry seven each, Morgan Rathmann six and Whitney Wise two.
The loss dropped the Lady Wildcats to 6-7 overall, 0-1 in the COC.
The Lady Wildcats go to Carl Junction for a showdown at 6 p.m. Friday.
Nixa also won the junior varsity game, 39-29. Chelsei Marion led the Lady Wildcats with nine points in the game.
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August 25, 2010 at 3:27 pm
Thank you so much for your insight, Kerry! I'm one of those neurotypicals that cannot have a relationship. Well I CAN have a relationship, but I CHOOSE not too ;). My seven year old son is on the spectrum. This is an issue I can definitely identify with. As he grows older and is more socially aware I worry about his future and what that holds for him relationship wise. Thank you, again. I appreciate your perspective and look forward to more blog posts :).
August 25, 2010 at 10:13 pm
what do you mean by nuerotypicals who cant have relationships.almost all non autistics have sexual relationships.thats very good youve had several relationships by 22.i had one girlfriend in all my twenties.
August 26, 2010 at 9:44 am
My son is eleven and a moderately funtioning autistic. I'm also very worried about his future and whether he will have any relationships beyond family members. When I think about what might happen to him once I am gone I cringe.
August 26, 2010 at 12:38 pm
Kerry, thank you so much for your honesty concerning your relationships. My beautiful 3 1/2 year old grandson is on the autism spectrum. He is such a happy child and brings all his huge extended family such joy. Kerry, you are a talented writer. Please keep sharing your insights. Thank you…
August 27, 2010 at 7:15 am
I am a teacher of children on the Autism Spectrum, and of the thousands of fascinating things I have learnt about people with ASD it's that there are so many people who manage to get through school, get decent jobs, find someone to love and have families …… and many of them without ever being diognosed. So stay positive and stay true to yourself Kerry… and never let ASD stand in your way of anything!
August 27, 2010 at 1:49 pm
Hi Kerry!
I have a 12 year old son with Mild to Moderate PDD- NOS. Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified. I took him to Middle School this past Monday August 23rd. I wondered after I dropped him off would he ever be able to date? I saw a couple of young ladies walk past "in cheerleading outfits" and wondered would he ever go on a date with young ladies like that. Well you are an Awesome Young Man for sharing insight with us. I appreciate it. Best Regards!
September 3, 2010 at 4:04 pm
I am 46 with Asperger's Syndrome. Didn't know until I was 42 but that explained why so many boyfriends came and went in days or weeks, or why even friendships seldom last. I have been blessed to have been married to a saint of a husband for 25 years. It has been rough at times – communication, of course, being our worst problem but now that we at least know what the problem is, we have found ways of dealing with it. Our lifestyle is quite limited due to my needs and "episodes" and I often feel bad that he is with me instead of an NT. Saint that he is, he stays with me. My husband has often suggested to parents with AS teens that seek dating relationships that a family discussion with the NT be had to explain that the AS is nothing to be afraid of, what to possibly expect, and how to retry communication mishaps with patience. I am living proof that there are people out there with which AS individuals can date and even marry. Education and patience is all it takes.
June 14, 2011 at 1:50 pm
Thanks so much for your post Kerry. Our 5y/o son is PDD-NOS, and an only child; I worry daily about his life since we are older parents. He is so smart, and loving, but he is extremely touchy and yet evasive around children his age. I pray he will be "okay" and reading your post gives me hope!
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The Mazda MX-5 is a modern motoring icon, a two-seater, open-topped sports car with an overriding focus on fun.
Through three generations and 25 years, the MX-5 has wormed its way into the hearts of millions, whether as an inexpensive route to rear-wheel-drive handling purity or as a simple, pretty roadster in the classic vein.
Now with its first 25 years up and a new fourth generation MX-5 arriving immenently, what better time to look back at the history of the MX-5, its concepts, special editions and landmark derivatives?
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The original Mazda MX-5 launched in 1989 at the Chicago Motor Show before going on sale in North America and Japan later that year and arriving in Europe in 1990. Although the Mazda MX-5 is known as such on these shores, it's always been the Mazda Miata in the US and the Eunos Roadster in Japan.
The classic cigar shaped body and front-engined, rear-wheel-drive layout have been present from the outset but the pop-up headlamps didn't last.
Mazda won at Le Mans in 1991 with the 787B prototype accompanied by a deafening sonic assault from its rotary engine. To celebrate, the marque built 25 Mazda MX-5 Le Mans special editions in the same green and orange livery as the race car. The colour scheme was not for the fainthearted but the car lived up to its looks with a 152bhp turbocharged 1.6 under the bonnet.
The MX-5 was 10 in 1999 and that called for the first of many anniversary editions. The 10th Anniversary edition wasn't just a mats and flaps job, it added a six-speed manual gearbox and Bilstein dampers to the standard package. All 7,500 cars came with Innocent Blue paint.
The second generation MX-5 was launched at the 1997 Tokyo Motor Show with the tough task of improving on the original car's 400,000 global sales. The pop-up headlamps bit the dust and the car grew slightly but the MX-5's winning formula remained unmolested.
The MX-5 Mono-Posto concept made its debut at the SEMA aftermarket tuning show in Las Vegas in 2000. With a single seat and a custom 187bhp turbocharged engine built by tuning specialists HKS, it was seen as the ultimate expression of Mazda's Jinba Ittai design philosophy, which translates as 'rider and horse as one'. Not much use on the school run though.
The Mazda Performance Series concept car of 2001 brought racing car technology developed by Mazdaspeed to the MX-5 including adjustable suspension, aluminium brake discs and a 1.9-litre 198bhp powerplant.
The lightweight SkyActiv technology that's gradually filtering out across today's Mazda range and is set to feature on the fourth generation MX-5 was previewed by the MX-5 Ibuki way back in 2003.
The concept car's use of lightweight materials and a petrol/electric hybrid powertrain with regenerative braking made sure it lived up to its name, which means 'to breathe new life' in Japanese.
The sculpted front end of the Mazda Roadster Coupe TS concept set pulses racing at the 2004 Tokyo Motor Show. The car was inspired by classic Aston Martins and the Abarth Clubman race series of the 1960s. A roll cage and a low seating position confirm its focus on track use.
2005 brought the arrival of the third generation Mazda MX-5 a significant step forward from the mk2 car with multi-link rear suspension, traction control, stability control and a beautifully simple roof mechanism added. It was named as Japan's Car of the Year in the same year.
Production MX-5s had always had folding soft-top roofs but in 2006 Mazda added an alternative. Equipped with a folding hard-top roof, the car was known as the 'Power Retractable Hard Top' in Japan but Europe went for the far catchier Roadster Coupe.
The roof mechanism on the MX-5 Roadster Coupe added 36kg to the car's weight but didn't reduce boot space. It proved a popular option for MX-5 fans in areas where prevailing weather conditions aren't always conducive to open-topped motoring and also added an extra security dimension to the car.
A comprehensive facelift for the MX-5 was debuted at the 2008 Paris Motor Show. The car took on the sharper front-end look that was prevailing across Mazda's model range at the time and benefited from a series of mechanical improvements.
The engine redline was upped by 500rpm in the 2.0-litre manual model while suspension and gearbox were also tweaked. An automatic was also offered for the first time in Europe.
The MX-5 celebrated its 20th year in production in predictable style with another special edition. The MX-5 20th Anniversary Edition had Recaro bucket seats, 17" 10-spoke wheels and was a range of highly questionable exterior decals as cost options. Without the stickers, the standard cars looked very fetching in patriotic red, white or blue shades.
The MX-5 has had a lightweight philosophy engrained upon it from the word go but the Superlight concept that debuted at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 2009 took things to extremes.
Using advanced lightweight materials and forgoing a windscreen, it tipped the scales at 993kg (the original mk1 MX-5 weighed 940kg). The car also featured a Mazdaspeed cold-air intake and exhaust.
Despite endowing the car with a chassis that could clearly handle it, Mazda has always shied away from giving the MX-5 big headline-grabbing power outputs. The MX-5 Super20 changed all that.
Built for the SEMA car show in the US, the fixed-roof MX-5 Super20 harboured a 240bhp Cosworth tuned engine, Mazdaspeed suspension with coilover springs and a Racing Beat exhaust. The matte grey paint with orange details unterlined its potency.
Mazda North America dreamed up a third way for the MX-5's roof arrangement in 2011, fitting it to the MX-5 Spyder concept. The lower-profile canopy stretched over the car was supposed to give a more dynamic look. We just wonder how easy it is to put up in a hailstorm.
Interestingly, the Spyder was fuelled by isobutanol, a biofuel used in Mazda's racing programme.
The MX-5 special editions kept coming and the Kuro (black in Japanese) of 2012 proved to be one of the more memorable. It was inspired by the MX-5 GT4 race car and offered black exterior side stripes, mirrors and foglight surrounds as well as black stitched leather seats inside.
Mazda's entry into the GT4 race championships with the MX-5 also spawned the MX-5 GT concept that took Goodwood Festival of Speed by storm in 2012. The car got adjustable suspension and a turbocharged power boost to 202bhp.
The reaction to the GT was such that Mazda built the visually similar MX-5 GT Jota production version, a limited number of which sold for £30k each. Jota Motorsport tweaked the normally aspirated 2.0-litre engine (no turbo here) up to 203bhp, sharpened the steering and fitted Ohlins suspension.
What's the wildest Mazda MX-5 special? That'll be the Super25 concept. This was basically a racing car built for the SEMA show in 2012. It featured a full roll cage, Sparco racing seat and a full race harness. Mazda also chucked a dazzling set of PIAA 40 Series halogen lamps on the nose.
The '55' numbers on the doors reference the Mazda 787B's 1991 Le Mans victory.
We're encouraged to think of the MX-5 as a stripped back driver's car by a lot of these special editions and concepts but Mazda's roadster can get pretty luxurious too. The MX-5 Sport Graphite edition was a case in point with leather heated seats, a TomTom sat-sav and full Bluetooth integration.
The last hurrah for the mk3 Mazda MX-5 was this, the 25th Anniversary Edition. Based around the Roadster Coupe model and its retractable hard-top roof the car features off-white leather seats embossed with a 25th Anniversary logo. Billstein dampers and 17-inch 'Dark Gunmetal' alloy wheels. Not bad for £23,000.


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- Erosion of the rocks around the dikes created Arizona's richest placer deposits, and the site of Arizona's greatest gold rush.
- Because of their resistance to weathering, they accumulate on shale slopes and sometimes form small placer deposits in stream beds.
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A Minneapolis woman will join first lady Michelle Obama at Tuesday's State of the Union address.
Abby Schanfield was born with toxoplasmosis, a parasitic disease. She has had lifelong medical problems, and says without the Affordable Care Act — the health care reform law championed by President Barack Obama — she'd have little chance of buying medical insurance on her own.
Schanfield is a recent University of Minnesota graduate. The Star Tribune (http://bit.ly/Y4QR4w) reports that under the Affordable Care Act, she can stay on her parents' insurance policy until she turns 26. Prior to the new law, Schanfield would have lost coverage on her 21st birthday.
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Started all 18 games in her debut season … played most of the season at midfield or forward … posted 20 shots on the season, putting nine on goal … scored her lone goal of the season in the 53rd minute at Oral Roberts (9/29) as she posted a career-best five shots … matched that total in the season finale against Northwestern State (11/3) and added four shots at Abilene Christian (10/18).
Played alongside fellow Islander Becca Chance at Deer Park High School … helped the team to an area championship and a regional qualification under Leslie Porterfield … was named Deer Park's offensive MVP … first team all-district in each of the most recent three years … scored a total of 77 goals over the most recent three seasons … one of three Islanders to have played club soccer for Space City FC under Randy Evans … led the team to the Premier League state championship in 2012 … also lettered in cross country as a freshman … a member of the National Honor Society.
Brooke Ashlyn Erdmann was born on March 22, 1995, in Pasadena, Texas … the daughter of Courtney Kincaid-Erdmann and Ron Erdmann … has two brothers, Andrew and Keaton … intends to major in education at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.
Caldwell on Erdmann:
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Duet Between Rihanna and Chris Brown Evokes the Past
Rihanna's new duet with Chris Brown titled "Nobody's Business" (aka "Nobodies Business") echoes some past pop and blues hits–and the couple's own troubled history.
The new song, from Rihanna's coming album "Unapologetic," features the line "It ain't nobody's business just mine and my baby."
Rihanna's duet partner Brown pled guilty to assaulting her, his then girlfriend, in a 2009 incident and was sentenced to community service and probation. The two have since begun to work together again on various songs.
The line "ain't nobody's business" is borrowed from Michael Jackson–who was hunted by tabloids much of his life–who first crooned the line on his 1987 hit "The Way You Make Me Feel."
But the lyric has roots that go further back than that. Blues great Bessie Smith belted out similar words on her classic 1923 cut "Tain't Nobody's Biz-ness If I Do," a song that has been recorded by a host of other performers.
Smith's version of the song closes with the lines:
I'd rather my man would hit me
Than to jump up right and quit me
'Tain't nobody's bizness if I do, do, do do
I swear I won't call no copper,
If I'm beat up by my poppa
'Tain't nobody's bizness if I do, if I do
Almost a hundred years later, in Rihanna's new song, the public is again left to confront the thought of a woman reuniting with a man with a history of abuse.
Listen to all three songs. What do you think?
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MONTGOMERY, W.Va. – A pair of three-point shots to tie the game in the closing seconds fell off as the University of Pikeville fell to WVU Tech 64-61 Monday night.
Pikeville (5-15) took a five-point lead with 3:19 to play when sophomore Christin Haney nailed a three to make it 60-55. It was Haney's fourth successful three-point shot in her first five tries as the Lexington native led the Bears with 16 points while pulling down six rebounds.
From there, however, Tech scored nine of the game's final 10 points, getting five of them on seven free throws in the final 1:51.
With the score tied at 61, a free throw by Courtney Sturdivant with 14 seconds left gave the home team the lead for the final time. The deadlock was the 11th of the game.
Sturdivant missed the second toss but the Golden Bears got the rebound. After another foul, Amber Tully sank both free throws with 13 seconds left.
Tully led all scorers with 24 points, nailing 6-of-13 from the arc.
Pikeville was only 24-of-67 (35.8) percent from the floor, including 5-of-16 from deep. The Bears were only 8-of-14 from the line.
WVU Tech (10-11) won on a night it sank only 30.6 percent of its shots. Tully's six treys accounted for all but two of its connections from behind the arc.
Haney was joined in double figures by juniors Callisha Johnson's 12 points and Brogan Conley with 10. Conley added a team-high eight rebounds.
Tully had one teammate in double figures. Roche Wimberly tossed in 15 while pulling down 10 rebounds.
Pikeville returns home on Thursday night – and to Mid-South Conference play – when it hosts Bluefield College at 6 p.m. at the Expo Center. On Sunday, Indiana-Southeast visits at 3 at the UPike Gym.


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I am inquiring about the family of James Austin and Eliza Rozell Austin. Their next to youngest daughter, Malinda is my great grandmother. I knew my great grandmother well, but I would like more information or her younger sister Emma. Did Emma ever get married and if so, to whom?
Both Malinda and Emma were born in Quitman. Malinda, my great grandmother is buried in Peoria cemetery, Hill county, Texas. Do you know where Emma is buried?
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Bobcats like this one in Paul Bolduc's backyard in Sullivan have been seen roaming around New Hampshire. Wildlife officials say reports of captures and sightings have been on the rise. (Courtesy)
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A licensed and registered fitness specialist and dietitian will speak on the importance of exercise and good nutrition habits for seniors from noon to 2 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 8, at the Ashland YMCA.
The program will be about how exercise and good nutrition choices can help seniors remain independent.
The event is open to the public. Attendees should bring a sack lunch.
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