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French Open Final!
Roger showed a brilliant display in the semi-final of the French Open today, ending Novak Djokovic's winning run with a 7-6,(5), 6-3, 3-6, 7-6(5) victory and setting up a meeting with Rafael Nadal in the final.
"I've trained a lot during my whole life for these kinds of matches," Roger said. "There was an enormous amount of pressure on Novak and he really played well."
Roger had an answer to just about everything Djokovic showed on court today, even though cumulating 46 unforced errors on the way, five more than his opponent. After taking the first set in a tiebreaker, Roger managed an early break in the second and brought home the set smoothly. Djokovic came back in the third set as Roger also committed too many errors. Just like the opening set, the fourth was a tough fight with breaks on both sides, ending in a tiebreaker. That proved another immensely tight fight, but Roger eventually rode home the victory with his 18th ace.
Our champ will now face Rafael Nadal on Sunday in the final of the 2011 French Open in what promises to be another classic duel between the two players. It is the fourth time in six years that the two meet in the Paris final.
and federer is still able to win wimbly or US (I hope so) !!


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While you won't see superstars Lindsey Vonn and Ted Ligety here quite yet, local training has commenced at Golden Peak and Copper Mountain, with the speedsters training downhill at Copper and the technical specialists hitting gates right here at Golden Peak starting this morning.Copper Mountain hosted a group of U.S. Ski Team members, including Olympic bronze medalist Andrew Wiebrecht and Nor-Am overall winner Julia Ford, on Wednesday for the opening of the U.S. Ski Team Speed Center at Copper; today, technical racers, including Will Brandenburg and David Chodounsky, will head over to Golden Peak Competition Center to begin slalom and giant-slalom training.The Wednesday opening of theU.S. Ski Team Speed Center at Copperis a benchmark accomplishment for the new downhill training facility, now in its second season. Last year, USSA gave a glowing endorsement of Copper's improvements to the former training runs - which were still used by the U.S. Ski Team - saying the new, longer and steeper slopes made it the best November downhill training center in the world. However, last year, uncooperative weather and other delays postponed the opening until mid-November. "Being here now is a huge advantage for us," Ford said. "We'll have top-to-bottom training runs the whole month of November."With Copper as an optimal speed training facility for the U.S. Ski Team, Golden Peak in Vail represents the other side of that coin, with its world-class technical training grounds.In anticipation of the U.S. Ski Team's arrival here this week, workers in Vail have been tirelessly prepping the multimillion-dollar facility.Ski & Snowboard Club Vail Operations Manager C.B. Bechtel is among those hard at work."On Monday, we started grooming the hill out, getting the snow where we need it and getting a good surface on it," Bechtel said. "We've been blowing snow at every opportunity we can since Oct. 1."Bechtel said approximately 70 ski teams will visit Golden Peak over the next month or so, with more than 20 national teams included."Twenty-two to 25 different nations will be sending their actual national team to train," he said. "In November, every top ski racer in the world will train on Golden Peak. So if you love ski racing, this is the place to be."With the only men's World Cup event in the U.S. also being right here in the Vail Valley at Beaver Creek, Nov. 30-Dec. 2, ski team members such as DavidChodounskyfeel right at home training at Golden Peak."It's awesome. You get the home feeling, you don't have to feel as much like you're traveling out of a suitcase, and you can watch football on Sunday," Chodounsky said. "We were always in Vail for races in high school, so it's very familiar for me."Chodounsky may present a special case for feeling right at home here in Colorado, since the Crested Butte resident grew up skiing the familiar slopes of the Centennial State, but he's not alone in enjoying more of the comforts of home while training locally."Anytime we're in the U.S., it's like home territory, which just makes the whole process a lot easier," Marco Sullivan said. "And at Beaver Creek, the great thing is having the fans there and the family and friends. ... Whether you win or lose, you're still going to go have a beer at the Coyote (Cafe)."Ski Team press officer Doug Haney said all-star GS skier Ted Ligety feels pretty comfortable in Levi, Finland, the site of the next World Cup event, a slalom on Nov. 11. Ligety will stay in Levi through that date before heading back here to Vail, where he'll begin training at Golden Peak."Obviously, he's skiing pretty well right now," Haney said.Ligety won the first World Cup event of the season, a GS in Soelden, Austria, by 2.73 seconds, the largest margin of victory in that event in 34 years.Ligety is expected to be preceded in his arrival to Vail by Lindsey Vonn, who is scheduled to get to the valley Nov. 9.
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Jane Leeves has made her mark in the entertainment world, acting in television, theater and film over the past 20 years. Leeves is currently starring as Joy Scroggs in the TV Land series "Hot in Cleveland," which premieres its fourth season on Wednesday, November 28 at 10pm ET/PT. The sitcom follows three fabulous friends from Los Angeles (Valerie Bertinelli, Leeves and Wendie Malick) whose plane, bound for Paris, is forced to make an emergency landing in Cleveland. After discovering that theyre still "hot" in Cleveland, they decide to move there and start over together, renting a Victorian home that comes with a sharp-tongued caretaker, played by Betty White.
TV audiences know Leeves from the hit television series "Frasier," in which she played Daphne Moon, the warm-hearted physical therapist from Manchester, England. The part won her a Screen Actors Guild Award® and nominations for both an Emmy® Award and a Golden Globe®. She is also known for her role as Marla Penny, a recurring role on "Seinfeld," and as Audrey, the girlfriend of Miles Silverberg on the hit television series "Murphy Brown." Leeves has appeared on a multitude of other television shows, including "Desperate Housewives," "The Starter Wife," "Twenty Good Years" and "Misconceptions."
She graced the world of theater by starring as Sally Bowles in the Roundabout production of "Cabaret" on Broadway. Leeves has also lent her voice to various animated television series, including "The Penguins of Madagascar," "Phineas and Ferb" and "The Simpsons" as well as the major motion picture "James and the Giant Peach." Leeves also appeared in the film "Music of the Heart," which co-starred Meryl Streep.
Leeves is no stranger to honors. In June 2011, she along with co-stars Bertinelli, Malick and White was presented with the key to the city of Cleveland by the mayor. Earlier that year, "Hot in Cleveland" was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award® for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series.
Jane also founded the Tellurian Foundation, a line of all natural skin care and baby products. A portion of the profits are donated to those who strive to provide help to those in need. More information can be for on the foundations website, www.telluriannaturals.com.
She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children.
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Joy Scroggs is THE eyebrow styling queen of Beverly Hills. She was engaged once in her 20s (but was left at the altar); she had a child at 15 and gave him up for adoption. Now in her mid-40s, Joy doesn't suffer fools lightly; she's judgmental and calls 'em as she sees 'em. On the surface, she's cynical and pessimistic, yet inside, she's vulnerable and an utter romantic. She has a strong and instant dislike toward caretaker Elka, perhaps because the two have more in common than either would like to admit.


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OAKLAND -- The standing ovations are done. The bottled water celebration in the locker room is over. The beards have been shaved.
Having clinched a playoff spot, the Warriors turn their attention to the next goal: keeping the No. 6 seed in the Western Conference.
"With the position we're in now, if we keep that six seed it probably means we won three of our last four and we're playing good basketball," said point guard Stephen Curry, among the happiest Warriors to end the no-shave pact. "So it kind of goes hand in hand with us being where we want to be going into our first series, no matter who we play."
The Warriors have been on a kick to close the season playing their best. Peaking at the right time is how coach Mark Jackson puts it. The reality is the Warriors' best chance at advancing past the first round is to stay where they are in the standings.
They woke up Wednesday with five possible first-round opponents. And, clearly, the options at No. 6 are better. So holding off Houston, which is a game behind the Warriors, is a priority.
Falling to No. 7 means facing either Oklahoma City or San Antonio, owners of two of the best three records in the NBA. The two powerhouses are jockeying for the top spot. The loser faces the No. 7 seed. Golden State doesn't match up well with either.
"Just win as many games as we can, take care of our business, and that will play itself out," Jackson said. "We want to be healthy. We want to be playing good basketball. I think whoever is laying in front of us, we'll be just fine. But it's taking care of our own business first."
Staying at the No. 6 spot presents much more palatable options, though still difficult. Entering Wednesday, the Denver Nuggets held the No. 3 seed. They are relatively impossible to beat in Denver, where they are an NBA-best 35-3 on their home court. But they lost starting forward Danilo Gallinari to a torn ACL, and starting point guard Ty Lawson hasn't played since March 27 because of a heel injury. So the Nuggets may be vulnerable.
The Memphis Grizzlies also could wind up with the No. 3 seed. The Warriors went 0-3 against Memphis, a big and physical team that gives Golden State fits.
But the three games were all close, and Memphis has its flaws. The Grizzlies are 26th in the league in scoring average (93.6 points per game), so if the Warriors can speed up the pace, they can present problems for the Grizzlies.
One of the best matchups available to the Warriors would be the Los Angeles Clippers. They entered Wednesday two games out of the No. 3 spot, but many Warriors fans are hoping they rally.
Golden State is 3-1 against the Clippers. The Warriors' strengths -- guard play, power forward, deep bench -- match up well against the Clippers.
But priority No. 1 is staying at No. 6.
The Warriors must stay ahead of Houston because the Rockets own the tiebreaker, having won 3 of 4 against Golden State. But Houston has the more friendly schedule.
The Rockets host Memphis on Friday and Sacramento on Sunday. They go to Phoenix on Monday and close the season at the Lakers on Wednesday.
Golden State hosts Oklahoma City on Thursday then visits the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday. The Warriors come home to play the Spurs on Monday before Wednesday's season finale at Portland.
The likelihood is the Warriors will have to win at least two of their last four games. So Golden State won't be able to take its foot off the pedal.
"We still have work to be done," Jackson said. "We have a mission. Our goal wasn't to win 40-something games or get into the playoffs. It's bigger."
Read Marcus Thompson II's Inside the Warriors blog at www.ibabuzz.com/warriors.


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Michael J. Hume, along with Jahnna Beecham and Malcolm Hillgartner, wrote "Dogpark: The Musical" now playing at Oregon Cabaret Theatre. The trio has written other musicals, including "Holmes and Watson Save the Empire," which Hume directed. He is currently in rehearsal for "The Heart of Robin Hood" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. We chatted one afternoon about the process of writing musicals with friends.
MH: It was like "Singing in the Rain." Malcolm would be on the piano; we could just sit there writing songs and creating riffs. Then I'd come home and write, and we'd send computer stuff back and forth.
EH: It's nice that you can collaborate; writing alone can be daunting.
MH: Nothing will send you screaming like that empty piece of paper. That's when you decide that you really do like weeding — anything to not confront that. The key thing is, don't stop and think. The pen (or the keypad) must always be flowing; don't edit yourself, just do it. There are times when you're just inspired, and it keeps coming, and that is rare. Don't stop and look at the punctuation. Do that later.
EH: As an actor, what are the qualities of a director that you admire?
MH: A good director is someone who creates a very supportive, creative work environment. The energy in the room determines how many risks you take and how comfortable you feel to try something new. A good director is somebody who's prepared, but not rigid about it, who can feed you ideas so subtly that you feel that they're your own. A director's going to be a different person to every person in the cast. Some actors want a parental figure. Some actors want to be completely left alone — they'll know when they need help.
As a director, you spend hours of preparation, then it's all thrown away the minute you walk into the rehearsal room. But you have all of that to back you up based on what's going to be thrown to you. A good director says yes to all ideas. If you keep saying yes to an actor, his intuitive side is going to come out; and his bad ideas will go away eventually.
EH: At the American Conservatory Theatre, you were directed by Bill Ball; what did you learn from him?
MH: The unbridled theatricality; the great entrance. For group scenes, he would bring in big books of the Dutch Masters' paintings, and he would say, "Look at all the different ways of how these bodies are relating." He taught us how to sculpt ourselves so that the scene is always focused, but creating something interesting.
EH: You studied with Uta Hagen; what insights did she have for you?
MH: She used to say, "Overacting, underacting, there's only acting. There's no such thing as going too far, if you believe it, and you make the audience believe it, and it's grounded in something real and true."
EH: What are your criteria for a great production?
MH: One-hundred percent unity is nearly impossible. It's really hard. All of the performers and all the designers on the same page, lined up with the director's interpretation of the playwright's intention. When it's all unified, when it all tells a really clear story, when it involves you, when it moves you, when it makes you question your own position in the universe, when it's all working with all of its pistons, that's rare — a transcendent theater experience.
"Dogpark: The Musical" runs through May 26 with performances at 8 p.m. Thursdays through Mondays and 1 p.m. Sundays. For further information, call 541-488-2902 or visit www.oregoncabaret.com.
Evalyn Hansen is a writer and director living in Ashland. She trained as an actor at the American Conservatory Theatre and is a founding member of San Francisco's Magic Theatre. Reach her at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Friday, Nov. 9, 2012
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Some upcoming closures in Richmond and Columbia counties could affect your commute.
In Richmond County, the outside lane of Mike Padgett Highway will be closed between mile markers 10 and 11 while crews do repairs on the shoulder from Tuesday through Friday. This will take place from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The eastbound right lane of Riverwatch Parkway near the Greene Street ramp will be closed on Tuesday from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The closure will happen while crews replace two sections of the right shoulder guardrail.
The eastbound left lane of Riverwatch Parkway will be closed in the same area on Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. while crews replace the center guardrail.
In Columbia County, temporary road closures are scheduled for Saturday from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. due to the Mekenna Project 5K Walk/Run. This will prevent traffic from going through Bedford Drive, Bettys Branch Way, Brandermill Road, Country Place Lane and Graystone Way. Drivers will not be able to go between Gibbs Road and Washington Road using subdivision roads.
Drivers will not be able to access Parliament Road from Furys Ferry Road starting Monday, which will remain closed for 120 days. The closure is scheduled so crews can make upgrades on water infrastructure. To enter the West Hamptom or Watervale subdivisions, drivers will need to use Marlboro Street and Westhampton Drive or Vaughn Road.


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With the judges' "save" option having expired, "American Idol" fans were left to wonder how the show would finish out the season without falling short of its scheduled May 16 finale.
During Wednesday's performance show, host Ryan Seacrest hinted at a "surprise twist" to come, and on Thursday the surprise was revealed:
No one gets eliminated this week.
Ho hum.
Yes, the Top 4 finalist will get a do-over next week -- a twist that we could see coming from miles away.
"And the person who could be at risk tonight is ... no one!" said Seacrest near the end of the show.
That doesn't mean, however, that the 38 million votes cast this week are all for naught. They'll be carried over and added to the tally next week when the Top 4 will be whittled to three.
As for where the singers rank this week, Seacrest revealed that the Top 2 consisted of Angie Miller and Kree Harrison, while the Bottom 2 was made up of Amber Holcolmb and Candice Glover. So Miller and Harrison already have a head start going into next week.
The show included performances by Season 10 alum Stefano Langone, who sang "Yes to Love" off his upcoming album, and Season 9 champ Lee Dewyze, who debuted "Silver Lining," a song he wrote.
In addition, Glover got a surprise visit from Drake, who said her voice sounded "angelic" when she performed his hit, "Find Your Love," on Wednesday.


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For the Marietta-Washington County Convention and Visitors Bureau, summer actually begins during the cold, snowy months.
To sell the area as a tourist destination through June, July, August and beyond, the bureau hits the trade shows and buys advertising in magazines and other media during the winter.
"The middle of summer is very event-driven," said Casey Knowlton, public relations and social media coordinator. "Most of our marketing efforts put forth over winter, we are starting to see the results of that."
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The Valley Gem leaves the Ohio River Levee on Wednesday to return to its Muskingum River dock after dropping off passengers staying at the Lafayette Hotel.
One of the jewels in Washington County's crown is Marietta College, Knowlton said. The bureau spoke to parents and students recently.
"They like the things students could do and things they could do when families visit," he said. "It gives us a new avenue to touch people."
Jan Shepheard, a designer at Two Peas in a Pod Florist, which has been in business for 10 years, said she always sees increased traffic starting with the Marietta College graduation in May, especially on weekends.
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Day trip visitors spend an average of $139 per party in this area, while overnight visitors spend around $362.
Visitors who live outside the local area were surveyed, and 27 percent of the respondents have visited Marietta and Washington County more than 10 times in the past two years. Sixty-two percent of the visitors surveyed rated their overall experience at 9 or 10 on a scale of 1 to 10. Fifty percent of those surveyed said they planned to come to town eventually.
The city's 6 percent hotel/motel tax is split 50/50 with the Marietta-Washington County Convention and Visitors Bureau every year, and represented $339,881 of the bureau's total annual income of $421,470 during 2012. All told, the city's hotel/motel tax receipts through March were $162,120, reflecting a 39.7 percent increase over the same period in 2012. Much of the increase has been attributed to workers in the oil and gas industry.
Source: Marietta-Washington County Convention and Visitors Bureau annual financial report released in April, Times research.
"Some do spend money on gifts, and many come back again and again," Shepheard said. "The more it gets into the summertime, we have more people visiting, especially during the Ohio River Sternwheel Festival and the boat races."
Knowlton also said Marietta ranks very high in the Buckeye State in terms of visits. When people go on vacation, he said, people seek out things they cannot see in their own backyards.
"It's difficult for local people to imagine going on vacation where they live," he said.
Knowlton said Washington County's total tourism impact is 1,691 jobs and $191 million in sales. The county represents one of the highest economic impacts for the southeast Ohio region. In general, Knowlton said, southeast Ohio seems to be the smallest market of the five regions in the state in terms of tourism.
"We stand alone at the top along with the Hocking Hills region," he said. "We ranked highest in terms of sales."
In town on Friday, Allyson Huston, of Canton, decided it was the perfect weekend to take her traveling companion on a well-deserved weekend away from work for a little rest and relaxation.
Their first choice as a destination?
The pair were sitting on the patio Friday evening enjoying the view of the Ohio River, the boats and a glass of wine. The 54-year-old said she had been here a few times, especially for the Ohio River Sternwheel Festival.
Her companion, Ron Varner, 56, also of Canton, was enjoying his weekend getaway. They plan to cruise on the Valley Gem as well as a pontoon on the Ohio Saturday.
"I like it down here a lot," Varner said. "It's going to be a future weekend getaway."
Things are really picking up this time of year, said some area merchants.
"Summer is one of the best periods here," said Scot Monaghan, 66, owner of Barking Dog Books & Art, 212 Putnam St. "For retail business, summer and Christmas, that's our year."
Monaghan and his wife have owned the shop for about 10 years and say they are looking forward to a good year. The June 14 Merchants and Artist Walk, they said, was the biggest they have experienced since they open the doors a decade ago.
On the second Friday evening of each month (May, June, July, August and November), visitors can stop in at more than 35 shops and visit with area artists and crafters.
The Monaghans' store is gearing up to participate in a downtown-wide scavenger hunt for visitors and shoppers involving fairies and gnomes in early July. They also plan a craft project using found items to decorate a fairy house, similar to doing a gingerbread house at Christmas, a book signing and presentation on fairies for adults only.
Monaghan said the presentation will be reminiscent of the original Grimm fairy tales, many of which are too frightful for children.
Carol Grimm, owner of Bridals by Carol G., at 154 Front St., said while her business caters to brides and weddings, which doesn't tend to bring much tourist traffic to her door, she does have summer dresses available, too.
"It's nice to see the tourists) walk up and down the sidewalks," she said.
Many of the trends the travel industry is seeing, especially nationwide, are reflected in what is happening in Marietta and Washington County.
Some of the developing trends in the area, Knowlton said, include smaller groups coming from Cleveland, Akron and other areas of northeast Ohio, which includes church groups looking for a retreat location or other groups looking to camp out. Several motorcycle groups from Columbus or Pittsburgh are seeking out the stretches of highway across the county, Knowlton said. People in larger cities also are looking to Marietta and Washington County for experiences not found in their urban areas, such as outdoor recreation, historic sites and heritage and outdoor recreation, such as golf or fishing.
"In terms of visitor hearsay, it's the vibrant downtown they like and that it's charming," Knowlton said.
He said while motorcoach tours do flock to some areas, the retiree market has changed dramatically. Those people who are newly retired are less likely to get on the bus. They are traveling on their own for the flexibility most motorcoach tours don't offer, he said.
That trend is being seen statewide and across the nation, said Tamera Brown, public relations manager for Tourism Ohio.
"Baby boomers as they reach 60, don't travel like their father and mother did," Brown said. "The older generation was more willing to step on a motorcoach with a set itinerary. The baby boomers want to be their own boss. They want to do things when they want to do it. If they travel, they are going to travel with a small group."
When smaller groups of travelers visit Marietta, the bureau can help direct them toward sites that meet their interests. For cooking, visitors can take advantage of The Cook's Shop or The Marietta Brewing Co., especially when beer is in production. They may also enjoy the time-honored Campus Martius Museum, Ohio River Museum and The Castle.
"We have seen an increase (in traffic) now that summer is here," said Dana Styer, who owns Marietta Brewing Co., 167 Front St., with her husband, Tony.
Dana said the restaurant offers a sampling of five of their in-house beers for $6 served on a paddle and floats with homemade root beer, a hit with small groups.
Along with permanent businesses and attractions, the area offers plenty of events, including the Ohio River Sternwheel Festival in September and the Marietta Sweet Corn Festival and the Riverfront Roar in July .
The CVB announced in the spring that the American Queen plans three visits to Marietta this summer: July 29 and Aug. 7 and 11.
"It's important for Marietta to step up and be open for the American Queen and what is happening in the community," said Terry Archer, sales associate at Goldline Jewelry, 150 Front St., as she cleaned a display case in the store's front window Thursday.
"We are ready for summer," Archer said. "We have a great summer season with tourism."
The bureau also is stepping up its marketing to the snowbird segment of the population, Knowlton said.
The snowbirds typically leave their homes in the snow belt cities of Erie, Pa., Cleveland, Buffalo, N.Y., and even Canada as they make their way down Interstate 77 to warmer nests in the south for a few months.
Knowlton said the snowbirds tend to return four to five times to a location such as Marietta if they stop just once.


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A rich postapocalyptic YA fantasy perfect for fans of Graceling and Tamora Pierce, this sequel to C. J. Redwine's Defiance continues the story of warrior Rachel Adams and her love, Logan McEntire. With their city-state ravaged, their lives threatened by rival armies, and a band of survivors looking to them for leadership—Rachel and Logan must work to forge a new future for them all.
Abandoning the ruins of their home to take their chances in the Wasteland, the group soon realizes their problems have only begun: an unknown killer —possibly inside their ranks—has begun picking off the survivors one by one. And Rachel and Logan must question whether the price of freedom may be too great—and whether they can make it out of the Wasteland alive.
Baalboden has been ravaged. The brutal Commander's whereabouts are unknown. And Rachel, grief stricken over her father's death, needs Logan more than ever. With their ragged group of survivors struggling to forge a future, it's up to Logan to become the leader they need—with Rachel by his side. Under constant threat from rival Carrington's army, which is after the device that controls the Cursed One, the group decides to abandon the ruins of their home and take their chances in the Wasteland.
But soon their problems intensify tenfold: someone—possibly inside their ranks—is sabotaging the survivors, slowly killing them off. The chaos and uncertainty of each day puts unbearable strain on Rachel and Logan, and it isn't long before they feel their love splintering. Even worse, as it becomes clear that the Commander will stop at nothing to destroy them, the survivors begin to question whether the price of freedom may be too great—and whether, hunted by their enemies and the murderous traitor in their midst, they can make it out of the Wasteland alive.
In this daring sequel to Defiance, with the world they once loved forever destroyed, Rachel and Logan must decide between a life on the run and standing their ground to fight.
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Critical Praise
"An engaging fantasy" — Booklist
Praise for DEFIANCE: "A well-paced, heart-wrenching tale of loyalty, courage, and love." — Romantic Times
Praise for DEFIANCE: "C.J. Redwine's DEFIANCE is a gritty, thrilling adventure sprinkled with moments of breathtaking tenderness. I read it in one sitting." — Rae Carson, Morris Award finalist for THE GIRL OF FIRE AND THORNS
Praise for DEFIANCE: "Spellbinding, romantic, and impossible to put down." — Julie Kagawa, New York Times bestselling author of the Iron Fey series and the Blood of Eden series
Praise for DEFIANCE: "DEFIANCE defies all reader expectations, giving us both a post-apocalyptic setting rife with history and a plot that's as much about the discovery of one's own humanity as it is about survival." — Lisa Mantchev, author of EYES LIKE STARS
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- Imprint: Balzer + Bray
- On Sale: 08/27/2013
- Pages: 496
- List Price: 8.99 USD
- BISAC1: YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Fantasy / General
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Brings you a whole lot of amazing new gestures and actions for your Magic Mouse and Macbook touchpad and (new) the magic trackpad! You won't believe how convenient and productive working with BTT can be.
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Very promising and so far updated daily. Essential software if you own a mac with a multitouch touchpad. I only wish it was optimized in terms of cpu usage..
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State rewards 'top' schools' improvements
Published: Thursday, December 6, 2012 at 8:12 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, December 6, 2012 at 8:12 p.m.
State education officials have rewarded 10 Terrebonne Parish schools and seven Lafourche Parish Schools for improving at some of the fastest paces in the state.
"Top Gains" schools in Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes
Lafourche Parish
Bayou Blue Elementary School
Central Lafourche High School
Chackbay Elementary School
Golden Meadow Lower Elementary School
Lockport Upper Elementary School
Sixth Ward Middle School
South Lafourche High School
Terrebonne Parish
Boudreaux Canal Elementary School
Broadmoor Elementary School
Dularge Middle School
Evergreen Junior High School
Honduras Elementary School
Houma Junior High School
Montegut Middle School
Mulberry Elementary School
Schriever Elementary School
Grand Caillou Middle School
Source: Louisiana Department of Education
The schools are what the Department of Education calls "Top Gains Schools." To earn that designation, each school must do two things: grow its school performance scores by a pre-determined amount and increase the number of students showing proficiency in academic subjects.
State officials announced Wednesday that schools that met those goals last year will each get $8,500.
School performance scores are based largely on student test scores, though they also include measures such as dropout rates and school attendance.
To meet its growth target, a school must improve its score quickly enough to be on pace to meet the overall goal of 120 — an "A" — by 2014.
Schools must also improve on the percentage of students who test well enough to show they have the skills and know the material required for their grade level. The bar for improvement is set by the federal government's "No Child Left Behind" program.
About 440 of the state's more than 1,500 schools met those targets, earning the "Top Gains" label.
"We're very proud of these schools for meeting these targets," said Carol Davis, assistant superintendent in Terrebonne. "Many of these schools have been meeting these targets several years in a row, so it's nice that the state is recognizing them."
Karen Gisclair, assistant superintendent in Lafourche, said each school would use the money for different purposes, bolstering areas that most need improvement. A school that does well in English but has lower science scores, for example, could purchase equipment for its science labs.
"In the grand scheme of things, it's not a whole lot of money. The honor is probably more important than the money," Gisclair said. "But we're very grateful for the money, and it will help our schools get some things they couldn't afford if they hadn't gotten it."
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Molina finalizes $4.5M, 2-year deal with Rays
Published: Monday, December 2, 2013 at 11:44 p.m.
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ST. PETERSBURG - Catcher Jose Molina is staying with the Tampa Bay Rays, finalizing a $4.5 million, two-year contract.
The 38-year-old, whose deal was announced Monday night, has spent the last two seasons with the Rays. He started a career-high 87 games and batted .233 with two homers and 18 RBIs in 99 games.
The veteran of 14 major league seasons, who had become a free agent, is a .238 career hitter with 39 homers and 213 RBIs.
Earlier in the day, the Rays non-tendered outfielder Sam Fuld, making him a free agent.
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Disclaimer: While I believe the Taser is not a product I would own or rely upon for my safety, I am NOT an expert. All of my information is based off the product marketing material, the Taser website, and conversations with Taser users (LE, instructors, etc). You should do your OWN research and make your own choices. The following rant is entirely geared around my own assessment for my own situation and the single case cited in the rant. YOUR situation is entirely different and thus my rant probably does not apply well to you.
Tasers are less lethal weapons. They are not 100% safe (safe being nonlethal), and cannot be. Any weapon capable of incapacitating someone in a semi reliable manner has the chance of killing. This should be drilled into anyone's head before they use a weapon. If a suspect dies from a tasing, it should be reviewed in exactly the same manner that using a firearm would generate. Lethal force is lethal force, regardless of whether a suspect was shot, tased, or brained with a baton. "But I used a taser!" is not and should not be a defense. Mind you, I'm not saying an officer or non-LE person is automatically in the wrong if any suspect dies (regardless of method used), far from it.
Personally and professionally, I find Tasers to be not a good product. Not from a "don't tase me bro" anti-police way. Bit of background, I'm a "security specialist" in a generic sense. Information security, IT security, physical security, etc. When I look at something, I ponder all of the strengths and weaknesses.
One day an acquaintance asks me about Tasers. She works with a lot of cash and occasionally has to transport it. Her company allowed and encouraged carrying a Taser. She asked me what I knew about them. Aside from learning about them in a basic sense back in the military along with other less lethal weapons for crowd control, I didn't know much. Thankfully, there's a EMS/fire/LE/etc supply store across the street. So I went across the street and learned more about them.
First off, two models. LE and a "civilian" model, the Taser C2. (The clerk didn't like when I joking pointed out that police are civilians too, which was even more amusing.) I didn't ask too much about the LE version, as my acquaintance was interested in buying one of the cute looking C2 models. The civvie model is light, curvey and non-threatening looking. It's called the Taser C2, and is visually packaged to express the impression of "consumer electronics" instead of weapon. But hey, that's just aesthetics. Nothing wrong with that. So let's move on to why it's a bad product that is dangerous to the user.
It fires a single cartridge costing $25, which contains compressed air, wire, barbs, etc. And allegedly some kind of micro-ID thingies that can potentially be used to identify a perp as well as the owner. There is no OEM training cartridge for the civvie model. Which means you CANNOT safely test the device unless you're handy with electricity and know how to safely ground something conductive. There is no way to turn off the juice, so it is risky to test the Taser on anything that is conductive and improperly grounded. Besides it being insane to never being able to safely test and practice with an allegedly life saving device, why is this worrisome?
If you did not read the manual, did not test the device and need to use it in self-defense, you will quickly learn that you have been hauling around a $350 ish paperweight. See, the device needs activation.
I swear to the gods, I am not lying. A weapon that needs permission before usage. I find the concept horrifying, personally, but I guess certain folks would love it. Here is the proof: https://activate.taser.com/c2activation/ You must pay an additional fee for a private company to conduct a background check. If you do not pass or don't activate the product, the Taser C2 is disabled. If the person processing the request makes a mistake or the necessary IT equipment malfunctions, you are out $350 for the device and another $10 for the background check. Since it is a private company, there is no oversight or accountability laws to govern its background checks. And since you can't safely test it, you have no guarantee that your unit will function as it is needed to function. If you somehow can safely test the unit, it is $25 per functionality check.
Why is this? So if a felon buys a Taser, he can't use it. Yes, that is the company's exclusive justification for such a radical product flaw. Because no felon would lie and give false information to Taser's activation folks, or pay someone else to activate the Taser. Felons are known for their scrupulous honesty and for never lying to suit their own needs.
Let's ignore the fact that you also handed over your name, address, driver's license and other deeply personal information to a company. An identity thief's dream. I wonder how much they pay their data entry clerks? Enough that they wouldn't be tempted to earn some side cash selling your information? This also assumes the company will not give out your personal information or sell it. Let's also ignore the deeply offensive treatment of their customers. Each and every customer is treated like a potential criminal at best, and like a mindless child at worst. It is their company, and they can make a buck however they choose.
Well, let's move onto usage. The design is only practical if you have one attacker. It converts to a "stun gun" if the cartridge is expended (and the unit is not disabled), which is a nice thought and only slightly less useful than having a heavy rock. It allows you to zap a person up to 50 times. But the official usage doctrine for the C2 is to press the button (the C2 model gives shocks in 30 second durations), drop the unit, run to a safe location and call 911. So following that logic… the manufacturer specifically suggests the unit is near useless against more than one aggressor. Unless you carry multiple Tasers, of course.
A $2 knife is starting to sound like a more durable, better designed and significantly safer weapon. I'd buy my acquaintance a full auto MP5 and pay an insane retainer to the sharkyist defense lawyer in the region before I could in good conscience pick up a Taser for her. Hell, I'd buy her a rock before I'd buy her a Taser. Thankfully, the tasteful PR DVD included in the product packet was enough to convince her that they are a really bad idea. It's a dangerous, poorly designed, and hideously expensive weapon with limited functionality. She's leaning towards a Keltec or a XD compact.


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With a Bit of Faith, Religious Tech Entrepreneurs Hope to Make a Splash
JERUSALEM — The Israeli settlement-city of Modi'in Illit, situated midway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, is an unlikely place to find an innovative technology startup entrepreneur. It is a fast-growing city whose inhabitants are mostly ultra-Orthodox – strictly devout Jews who spend most of their waking hours in religious study halls poring over the meaning of ancient texts. The city's religious makeup also means very large families with very low incomes, explosive birth rates, and huge amounts of garbage from all those baby formula boxes and nappies.
But it is precisely in this environment that Nissim Hazan, a 42-year-old father of 13, founded a startup that caters to one of the city's most pressing needs: a radio-frequency chip-based system that monitors municipal garbage collection and optimizes their performance. The system Hazan developed, and which won him a startup competition this week, combines GPS signals from hardware installed on garbage trucks with data it collects about actual garbage bin collections. The tracking and analysis system helps local municipalities cut garbage collection costs by controlling truck routes and tender prices for vendors. A pilot system is already in operation in Modi'in Illit.
Hazan's company, CleanCity, serves an even more important function than garbage collection: employment. With about only half of haredi men in the workforce, the ultra-Orthodox, which make up around 17% of the Israeli population, are wallowing in poverty and decreased living standards – all the while their numbers are rapidly rising. According to Israel's national census most Haredi families have only one breadwinner and an average of 7 children.
CleanCity now employs 40 Haredi women as software developers. The women are all graduates of a software engineering programs.
Hazan is a rare bird in Israel, a country teeming with tech entrepreneurs and more research employees per 1,000 citizens than any other country in the world.
He is not university educated, and is deeply religious, spending a lot of his time studying in a kolel, an advanced Jewish religious studies institution for married men. And he lives in a settlement away from the political and financial hubs of the rest of the country.
By contrast, many Israeli tech startup founders are secular graduates of the Israel Defense Force's military intelligence, computer, and signals communications units, now plying their trade in the secularist, fast-paced metropolis of Tel Aviv.
But it is entrepreneurs like Mr. Hazan and others that the government and private venture capitalists are trying to support. Jerusalem Venture Partners, a VC firm which hosted this week's startup competition for haredim, is helping two non-profit organizations – The Haredi High-Tech Forum and SifTech, a Jerusalem based entrepreneurship center, to create a mentoring program intended for haredi tech entrepreneurs. On the same day as the startup competition, the Israeli Ministry of Economy announced a new program it hopes will enable more haredi tech entrepreneurs, including 200 hours of free mentoring and grants of up to 1.7 million shekel.
"Innovation loves diversity and heterogeneity…be it gender, ethnicity, or culture. Our main challenge now is to create more Haredi startup success stories," said the economy ministry's chief scientist Avi Hasson.
An earlier version of this post incorrectly reported that the 40 ultra-Orthodox women employed by CityClean were data analysts. They are employed as software developers.


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Neuro wrote: what about a xaul zan vs bombzo album
subsketch wrote: This is the best. An Epic Beard Men album is all I care about now.
Sage Francis wrote: We've been kicking around this idea for a quite a while now. I'm convinced we need to do this project. The moment when I realized we had something truly special is when someone on my facebook page complained about how this song isn't "deep." That was the tipping point. Time for a full album. Let's get this done in a year's time and have some fucking fun.
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Deputy Has Surgery After Head-On Collision
Driver of other vehicle is in critical but stable condition
Published: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 at 10:33 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 at 11:22 a.m.
AUBURNDALE | A Polk County Sheriff's Office patrol car was struck head-on by a Lakeland woman driving on a suspended license Tuesday night, critically injuring her and causing the deputy driving the patrol car to undergo surgery for a broken bone, the Sheriff's Office said.
Deputies said Julie McTeer, 22, was heading north along Old Dixie Highway near Evergreen Street in her 1992 Toyota Camry about 6:50 p.m. when, for unknown reasons, she drifted onto the right shoulder.
She over-corrected and veered back onto the roadway, crossing into the southbound lane, where she struck the marked PCSO Chevrolet Impala, according to a sheriff's office report.
The driver, Deputy Robert McPherson, 35, had just left a call for service in the area.
The collision caused both cars to rotate and come to a rest on or near the southbound lane, the report said.
Both drivers had to be extricated from their cars, the report said.
Deputies said McTeer, who was not wearing a seat belt, was taken by ambulance to Lakeland Regional Medical Center, where she was admitted in critical but stable condition.
McPherson, who joined the sheriff's office in 1998, also was taken to Lakeland Regional, where he underwent surgery for a broken bone. Officials say he is in stable condition.
He was wearing a seat belt when the crash occurred.
McTeer's license was suspended in October for unpaid fines, She also had been arrested in 2009 for driving on a suspended license.
Preliminary information indicates that McTeer was impaired at the time of Tuesday's crash, deputies said.
A sample of her blood has been sent to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement for analysis.
The investigation is ongoing and charges are pending, investigators said.
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Wofford basketball preview capsule
The Terriers face Hampton on Friday in Wilmington, N.C.
Published: Thursday, November 22, 2012 at 11:38 p.m.
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WOFFORD vs. HAMPTON
When: 2 p.m. Friday
Where: Wilmington, N.C.
Records: Wofford (1-4), Hampton (0-3)
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Top scorers: Wofford — So. G Karl Cochran (17.6 ppg., 4.0 rpg.); Fr. G Spencer Collins (12.2 ppg., 4.2 rpg.); So. F Lee Skinner (11.0 ppg., 7.6 rpg.). Hampton — Fr. G Deron Powers (10.3 ppg.); Fr. G Dwight Meikle (10.3 ppg., 6.3 rpg.); Jr. C David Bruce (10.3, 7.7 rpg.)
Notes: Wofford has lost all three games so far on this road trip. The Terriers fell against Ball State (66-61), Ohio University (73-50) and Richmond (64-58). Wofford was down by three with 34 seconds remaining. … Hampton lost to William & Mary (69-51), Richmond (68-58) and Ohio (75-65) in this tournament. … Wofford freshman C.J. Neumann, who was making his first career start at Richmond, took an elbow to the jaw in the opening minutes and did not play the rest of the game. ... Wofford has the lowest field-goal percentage in the Southern Conference. The Terriers are shooting only 38 percent from the floor overall and 34 percent (eighth) on 3-point style. ... Wofford, however, is No. 1 among SoCon teams in defensive rebound percentage at 76 percent. … Cochran ranks fourth in the league with 17.6 points per game. Skinner is tied for fifth in rebounding.
Next: The Terriers play host team UNC Wilmington at 2 p.m. Saturday before returning home from a five-game, nine-day road trip. They are home Nov. 28 against Winthrop.
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Quote: i will never see you in person.
Quote: your a piece of shit, just cause your black your being a huge dick head about all this.
Quote: get off the fucking band wagon that so many of your colored friends share.
Quote: whites are not devils
Quote: we are all racist, we are all prejudice. deal with it
Jesse wrote: amano> Racism is a simple thing, it doesn't require a privileged position. All it requires is attention to race - generally in a prejudicial context, but in any event it has nothing to do with what someone is empowered to do - just the angle in which they regard things.
Notch> Yeah, 89 was roughly when I was getting into rap (I'm 22 and I live in Nova Scotia, I was especially fortunate to get into it when I did). But here's part of my point - you're totally right that at that time, the lines were already drawn in the sand. By 89, we all knew rap was "a black thing". We need to go back further to that to strip rap of its hard and fast racial affiliations. All I'm saying is that I'd be surprised if anyone said rap was especially FUBU before 1983 at the absolute earliest.
Was the face presented by rap to the world a black face? Yes, no question. But that face didn't belong to a uniformly black body, and furthermore it wasn't concerned with the matter until someone else said it ought to be.
Picture a party at the Roxy in 1977... who's uprocking? Who has the paintstains? Who's on the wheels? Are they really ALL black in that picture? Because if they are, that picture is probably just backlit.
kilgore trout wrote: your right, its stupid to debate fashion.
just wanted to say just b/c suttin is expensive doesn't make it tasteful and vice versa. just look at 217$ sean john velour suits, ugh.
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A groundbreaking and original book, What's Mine is Yours articulates for the first time the roots of "collaborative consumption," Rachel Botsman and Roo Roger's timely new coinage for the technology-based peer communities that are transforming the traditional landscape of business, consumerism, and the way we live. Readers captivated by Chris Anderson's The Long Tail, Van Jones' The Green Collar Economy or Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point will be wowed by this landmark contribution to the evolving ecology of commerce and sustainability.
WHAT'S MINE IS YOURS is about Collaborative Consumption, a new, emerging economy made possible by online social networks and fueled by increasing cost consciousness and environmental necessity. Collaborative Consumption occurs when people participate in organized sharing, bartering, trading, renting, swapping, and collectives to get the same pleasures of ownership with reduced personal cost and burden, and lower environmental impact.
The book addresses three growing models of Collaborative Consumption: Product Service Systems, Communal Economies, and Redistribution Markets. The first, Product Service Systems, reflects the increasing number of people from all different backgrounds and across ages who are buying into the idea of using the service of the product-what it does for them-without owning it. Examples include Zipcar and Ziploc, and these companies are disrupting traditional industries based on models of individual ownership. Second, in what the authors define as Communal Economies, there is a growing realization that as individual consumers, we have relatively little in the way of bargaining power with corporations. A crowd of consumers, however, introduces a different, empowering dynamic. Online networks are bringing people together again and making them more willing to leverage the proverbial power of numbers. Examples of this second category include Etsy, an online market for handcrafts, or the social lending marketplace Zopa. The third model is Redistribution Markets, exemplified by worldwide networks such as Freecycle and Ebay as well as emerging forms of modern day bartering and "swap trading" such as Zwaggle, Swaptree, and Zunafish. Social networks facilitate consumer-to-consumer marketplaces that redistribute goods from where they are not needed to somewhere or someone where they are. This business model encourages reusing/reselling of old items rather them throwing them out, thereby reducing the waste and carbon emissions that go along with new production.
WHAT'S MINE IS YOURS describes how these three models come together to form a new economy of more sustainable consumerism. Collaborative Consumption started as a trend in conjunction with the emergence of shared collective content/information sites such as Wikipedia and Flickr and with the recent economic troubles and increasing environmental awareness, it is growing into an international movement. The authors predict it will be a fully fledged economy within the next five years.
In this book the authors travel among the quiet revolutionaries (consumers and companies) from all around the world. They explore how businesses will both prosper and fail in this environment, and, in particular, they examine how it has the potential to help create the mass sustainable change in consumer behaviors this planet so desperately needs. The authors themselves are environmentalists, but they are also entrepreneurs, parents, and optimistic citizens. This is a good news book about long-term positive change.
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Critical Praise
"Part cultural critique and part practical guide to the fledgling collaborative consumption market, the book provides a wealth of information for consumers looking to redefine their relationships with both the things they use and the communities they live in." — —Publishers Weekly
"Collaborative consumption is an ideal signalling device for an economy based on electronic brands and ever-changing fashions." — —The Economist
"This is an inspiring book about innovating entrepreneurs in an economy where people are seeking ways to connect with each other- through business." — —Delta Sky
"The latest buzzword and trend is defining how we do business in the new millennium" — —Vogue Australia
"[T]he authors have laid out the social and economic logic for collaborative consumption with such religious fervour and zeal that one can't help but become converted to this new world order." — —Edwards Magazine Bookclub
"The authors give hundreds of examples of how people are finding new ways to share and exchange value…[T]he book is packed with some pretty interesting statistics…If you're unaware of what's happening in the peer-to-peer exchange space, this book will quickly bring you up to speed." — —Emergent by Design
"What can the next wave of collaborative marketplaces look like? Botsman and Rogers answer this question in a highly readable and persuasive way. Anyone interested in the business opportunities and social power of collaboration should consider reading this book." — —Tony Hsieh, author of Delivering Happiness and CEO of Zappos.com, Inc.
"People are normally trustworthy and generous, and the Internet brings the good out far more than the bad. We're seeing an explosion of modest businesses where people help each other out via the Net, and What's Mine is Yours tells you what's going on, and inspires more of the same." — —Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist
"Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers have offered a convincing, charming and in every sense collaborative account of how the new networks that have disrupted our lives are also likely to alter them, and entirely for our good." — —Adam Gopnik, author of Paris to the Moon and Through the Children's Gate
"Amidst a thousand tirades against the excesses and waste of consumer society, What's Mine Is Yours offers us something genuinely new and invigorating: a way out. Anyone interested in the emerging economics and culture of collaboration will want to read this profoundly hopeful book." — —Steven Johnson, author of The Invention of Air and The Ghost Map
"[F]ull of impressive examples of entrepreneurs establishing new markets. Ultimately, the authors' optimism is infectious." — —The Australian
Product Details
- Imprint: Harper Business
- On Sale: 09/14/2010
- Trimsize: 6 in (w) x 9 in (h) x 0.92 in (d)
- Pages: 304
- List Price: 26.99 USD
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I have two PS3's and my brother (next door) has two as well all connected to my router (wired). I am wondering how many PS3's this media server can stream to at once? Is there a limit on the server or just whatever my bandwidth and CPU limits are?


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- Athlete and Sport Program Plan
- Classification
- Coaches Education
- Events
- IPC Licensing
- Officials Training
- Records
- Selection Procedures
- Team Rosters
- U.S. Rankings
Athletics events have been a part of the Paralympic program since the first Paralympic Games in Rome, Italy, in 1960. Events include track, throwing, jumping and the marathon.
The rules of Paralympic track and field are almost identical to those of its non-disabled counterpart. Certain allowances are made to accommodate certain disabilities. For example, the blind and more severely visually impaired runners compete with guide runners, who are often attached by the wrist with a tether to the runner. More information on IPC Rules can be found by visiting the IPC Athletics website.
Paralympic track and field competition is open to male and female athletes with physical disabilities such as dwarfism, amputation/limb loss, blindness/visual impairment, spinal cord injury/wheelchair-users and cerebral palsy/brain injury/stroke.
How Do I Become a Paralympian?
IPC Introduction to Para Sport
Find a local program in your community - visit the Paralympic Resource Network.
High School Track & Field Opportunities for Athletes with Physical Disabilities
A number of states now have inclusion rules which will allow athletes with a physically disability to participate and score points for their team at high school regional and state finals/championships. The states include Alabama, California, Georgia, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin. Scoring events are offered for certain track events and field events.
For more information, please contact the individual state's high school sports association. Examples of inclusion can be found by visiting the Coaches Education page.


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Dartmouth researcher: Comet, not meteor may have triggered dino extinction
"How do we get something that has enough energy to generate that size of crater, but has much less rocky material? That brings us to comets," study author Jason Moore, a paleoecologist at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, told BBC News. [Meteor Crater: Experience an Ancient Impact]
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The Mac OS X version of RealPlayer. Useful for playing RealAudio and RealVideo files.
- Download and play Flash video
- PerfectPlay enabled pausing and seeking within live clips
- Playlist window
- Play RealMedia, QuickTime, Windows Media, and Flash Video
Required OS: 10.5
Tags: real , player , realplayer , realaudio , realvideo
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Hey, please .flv format should be supported
Real Player is fantastic, but it should have a library like in the Windows version!
the actually screenshot (in italian) is mine! W L'ITALIA!
I had RealPlayer years ago.
I will not install it again without having serious reasons to do that!
This new version (11 Beta) has some nice features.
You can use the built-in browser to search for videos in YouTube, Dailymotion or any other site and then you may download them with a single click.
And RealPlayer now plays FLV files and even Windows Media files (WMV, WMA, etc.).
This is still a beta version. And it has crashed twice when I tried to play a video from the Finder browser. But if you select the file (click it once) and choose "Open with...", there will be no problem. Or then (of course...) you may select RealPlayer as the default player for certain kinds of files. I have deleted SWF & FLV Player and now I'm using RealPlayer as the default player for FLV files. (Yes... I know Perian also plays them well.)
I have a nose hair trimmer. It's a lot like RealPlayer--I use it, but I wish I didn't have to. RealPlayer lacks many features that make using VLC such a pleasure. But if you want to see/hear something in Real's proprietary format, you have no choice.
not bad....needed to view clips/tracks from amazon.co.uk/.com
Is there any other player or component that can play real content ?
Windows version is complete garbage. Mac version is actually half decent.


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Give her the support she needs for all of her favorite activities in the Under Armour Feather Shield Girls' Gradeschool Running Shoes. Made to stand up to heavy wear and tear, these sneakers also feature stylish, bold colors for a fun look she'll love.
Whether she's at practice or on the playground, the Micro G midsole and durable spring plate on these Under Armour running shoes will give her the traction and responsive feel she needs. The full-length 4D Foam sockliner ensures a custom fit and feel with no slippage, while the synthetic and textile upper allows her feet to breathe.


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Last week, we took part in that oh-so Bay Area pastime, hauling the kids up to Lake Tahoe for the first time during "ski week."
I'm not much of a skier -- and we're all better off that I stay off the slopes -- so it was more like "sledding week," as we tackled the hill behind the rental house near Tahoma that we shared with three other families.
One of the joys of coming home, of course, is finding out what you missed while you were away. I was pleasantly surprised to find in my email that Clara and Fernando -- the peregrine falcons who roost at San Jose City Hall -- have already produced three eggs this season. The first arrived last Tuesday.
Mom and Dad are taking turns at the nest right now, and it won't be long before the eyases hatch and FalconCam watchers will get the disgusting thrill of watching the little ones get fed bits of pigeon. You can find a link to the Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group's camera at www.sanjoseca.gov (click on the "Government" tab, then "City Hall," and then "City Hall Falcons").
CINEQUESTING: The biggest event in the South Bay this week is the start of the Cinequest Film Festival in downtown San Jose. The 23rd edition opens Tuesday night with a screening of Sally Potter's film "Ginger & Rosa" -- a coming of age tale set during the Cuban Missile Crisis -- at the California Theatre.
The screening is followed by the Opening Night Party at the Corinthian Event Center at North Third and St. James streets. The seven-block trek isn't a quick walk, especially for anyone in heels, so be prepared to drive.
Most of this week's attention is aimed at the Maverick Spirit Award presentation to Harrison Ford, also at the California, on Sunday. I've heard that single tickets for that event have long sold out, but you can still get admission with one of the festival passes, which range from $150 to $500. Even the pass won't get you in if you don't arrive early for the 7 p.m. event.
You can keep tabs on the hectic schedule at www.cinequest.org (or by downloading the very helpful smartphone app). And I hope you follow along as I'll be tweeting from the parties and screenings throughout the festival at Twitter.com/spizarro.
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Report: NC jobless rate falls to 6.9 percent
Published: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 at 11:35 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 at 11:35 a.m.
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina's unemployment rate fell to 6.9 percent in December.
The state Commerce Department said Tuesday the state's jobless rate dropped from 7.4 percent in November. The reported unemployment rate fell 2.5 percentage points last year.
The report shows that during 2013 almost 125,000 fewer people were reported as unemployed. Gov. Pat McCrory started taking credit this month for an economic comeback he says resulted from Republican tax cuts and fewer business regulations.
But economists say the fast drop in the unemployment rate could be because so many people have become discouraged, are giving up on finding a job and are no longer being counted.
The state's population of working-age adults who are looking for jobs shrank by 111,000 in 2013.
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Free Pattern for a Cowl Neck Sleeveless Sweater
We have a super sewing crush on Miz. Elaine May, AKA The Selfish Seamstress. She is a fabulously quirky combination of smart aleck attitude and red hot talent! She created this pattern for a sophisticated sleeveless cowl-neck sweater in size XS-S. The pattern is a simple three pieces and designed for knits. We'd love to see it made up in this soft burnt orange sweater knit– perfect for an afternoon drooling over the lushly colored paintings at the Diebenkorn exhibit!


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Los Altos has played under the radar this season in the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League's lower division, quietly winning games and building momentum.
Saturday, the Eagles' quiet season took a loud turn. In one of the upsets of the weekend, Los Altos stunned top-seeded Westmoor 75-66 at Santa Clara High to advance to the Central Coast Section Division II boys basketball semifinals.
The eighth-seeded Eagles (19-7) will return to the same gym Tuesday to play Willow Glen for a trip to the final.
"It was a phenomenal team effort," Los Altos coach Bob McFarlane said. "Westmoor is an excellent team, and they have some spectacular athletes."
Westmoor (23-5) had received the top seed after beating El Camino to win its league tournament a week earlier.
But Los Altos, which won the SCVAL's El Camino Division with an undefeated record, clearly wasn't intimidated by its athletic opponent as it took the lead in the first half and withstood a late charge in the second.
Point guard Nate Vieira led Los Altos with 22 points, and Daniel Rosenbaum added 14.
John Mayuga had 24 points for Westmoor, and Wai Min, who attracted a lot of defensive attention from Los Altos, finished with 17.
"If you leave him one-on-one, he will score," McFarlane said of Min. "We strategized to be in early help position, basically sit in his driving lane. If he wanted to drive, he was going to have to drive into two guys."
Leigh 41, Mountain View 39: Leigh missed shot after shot and trailed nearly the entire game against Mountain View. But Kimo Francisco's 3-pointer with 26 seconds left gave the Longhorns a victory in the Division II quarterfinal at Santa Clara High.
Francisco tied the score 38-38 on a drive to the basket with about a minute left. After a Mountain View free throw broke the tie, Francisco buried the decisive 3-pointer from the top of the key.
"We just didn't want it to be our last game," said Francisco, who had 18 points. "We just put everything out there."
Leigh will play St. Francis, which beat Aragon 65-54, in the semifinals Tuesday at Santa Clara High.
Willow Glen 42, Leland 40: With Willow Glen trailing by a point, Mikey Riley hit a 3-pointer with 28 seconds remaining to give the Rams their fourth victory over Leland this season and a spot in the Division II semifinals.
"I've got to thank Taylor Meeker for giving me that pass out of the double team," Riley said. "We knew defense was going to be our key to the game. We just had to play D, and we pulled it out at the end. It was a good win."
Evergreen Valley 56, Oak Grove 46: Guru Sanghera scored 23 points as Evergreen Valley advanced to the CCS Division I semifinals.
The Cougars will play top seed Bellarmine College Prep, a 61-31 winner over Wilcox, on Wednesday at Santa Clara High.
Palma 64, Gunderson 43: Gunderson's turnaround season ended in a Division IV quarterfinal loss against second-seeded Palma at Menlo School.


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"The biggest, deepest Beatles book ever." –Rolling Stone
"This beyond-essential dive into the Beatles' early Liverpool and Hamburg days is a wildly evocative portrait of our lads on the verge." –Entertainment Weekly
"A fast-moving page-turner overflowing with warm humor, passion, and (of course) music…For anyone who loves music, this book is the genuine ultimate." –VH1.com
"Astonishing…Lewisohn's masterful, step-by-step account raises the intriguing possibility that the Beatles' success was anything but foreordained ." –Bloomberg News
"A definitive history of the band…Mr. Lewisohn's chronicle fills in vital details that had been missing from the existing Beatles canon and corrects mistakes that have been reprinted for years." –The Wall Street Journal
"Lewisohn treats his subjects seriously, as historical, if ultimately remarkable, figures, and eschews the myriad myths that have grown up around the band in favor of the sorts of details and minutiae, wrapped in a serious but breezy narrative, that give us the fullest picture of who John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and, eventually, Ringo Starr were." –Esquire
"Astounding…. packed with revelations and demystifications." –The Economist
"[Mark Lewisohn is] arguably the most widely respected Beatles historian currently working, and his bona fides served him well — not only in terms of gaining access to materials and interviews, but in obtaining the necessary perspective for a clear-eyed appraisal of rock's most beloved band." –CNN.com
"These are the least documented, least known years in the Beatles' lives but in some ways the richest material, as Lewisohn shows John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Richy Starkey (not yet Ringo Starr) as wartime Liverpool babies who get inspired by American R&B, rock 'n' roll and skiffle records (the last played partially on washboards and tea chests) while becoming the first British generation in decades to avoid call-up to National Service." –Chicago Tribune
"The choicest parts of the band's story are the early, pre-fame years, culminating with 1962. These are the hell-for-leather years, the period when a band from a grimy, bomb-scarred city—a city that didn't exactly turn out world-beaters—defied long odds and commenced a quest that has something almost preordained about it. In this book, which focuses on 1957 to 1962, Lewisohn picks up on that supernal feel to the Beatles' success, and at times his own wonder that all of this ever happened, with one amazing coincidence after another, feeds into our own…Lewisohn has a knack for underscoring the moment, the precise moment, when things change." –Slate.com
"No half measures here: If you ever cast an eye toward Pepperland and wished for an epic Beatles bio, this sprawling tome would seem to be pure payoff." –The Boston Globe
"The story is told so definitively that, after this, that really should be it…Lewisohn is a Beatles oracle." –The Guardian (UK)
"I can think of no greater praise for Tune In than to say that it gives The Beatles the beginnings of the biography they deserve….gripping." –Financial Times
"Unlikely to be surpassed as factual record…Once anointed 'Beatle Brain of Britain' while working in accounts at BBC Radio, Lewisohn amasses and investigates facts without sacrificing an iota of the excitement." –Telegraph (UK)


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Fan Control
Do you think your MacBook (Pro) is running to hot? Give Fan Control a try then.
Some MacBook (Pro) are just to hot for daylong use. Fan Control adjusts the minimum fan speed depending on the current CPU temperature. For safety, it leaves the original automatic fan speed control intact.
Required OS: not specified
Tags: macbook , pro , fan , control , temperature , system , cooling , internals
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The Systems Preferences interface acts weird under 10.6.7 and Lion.
I'm using this tool for Snow Leopard without any problems for months now. Great tool to cool down my MBPro.
DO NOT run this program, or any other "fan controlling" program. I work for an apple specialist, and these programs will most definitely screw up your mac. Sorry guys, but the outside of the mac is SUPPOSED to be hot, that's what keeps the heat away from the processor so the computer doesn't crash. If you are seriously worried about heat then do things right- call apple and get your computer fixed.
It sucks my macbook pro gets hot now and smcfancontrol will not work!!!
working well with Leopard (only tried command line app):
doesn't work on leopard any longer! my powerbook is dying from overheating here!
Maybe I'm missing something, but why is this labeled Universal when it doesn't work on PPC-based Macs?
Indeed; the 1.2 release works perfectly. I've filed a new version report.
This is easily the best fan management solution available.
new version was released today, check it out, works fine on my Leo
Fabulous, but 1.1 is sadly broken with Leopard.


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Recipe: Quinoa Coconut Cereal + The Power of WAMP!
Healthy eating begins with two simple principles:
Processed Foods = Bad
Whole and Minimally Processed (WAMP) Foods = Good
The idea that eating whole foods is good and processed foods is bad may seem self-evident, but it's not as obvious as you might think. In fact, pinpointing WAMP foods isn't simple. Processed foods can be sneaky and disguise themselves as healthy foods without our noticing.
For example, we all know that chips, fries, and doughnuts are processed junk-type foods — that's obvious. But what about bagels, cereal, and yogurt? Maybe not—it all depends on the ingredients that make them what they are. Most bagels are full of refined, processed wheat, and mainstream cereals are stuffed with processed sugar — they're certainly not WAMP foods. The fact is there isn't a standard, regulated definition of the words "whole" or "minimally processed." You'll need to learn what makes a food WAMP and what doesn't because labels on packages won't tell you.
Luckily, there are a few key attributes that flag a food as WAMP.


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The story of both our students and Onondaga Community College—our past, present, and most definitely our future—is a story about perseverance and aspiration. A college that opened with 500 students in an old typewriter factory in Downtown Syracuse, Onondaga now has more than 35,000 alumni and was recently named one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the nation by Community College Week. Our graduates include local CEOs, health care providers at all levels, business owners, engineers, and world-renowned artists and musicians. Still we, and our students, continue to persevere and to aspire to even greater accomplishments in the years ahead.
The world of radio and television just comes naturally to me. I've always dreamed of being the on-air personality or working behind the scenes as an executive producer. And now, as the operations manager of Onondaga's Internet radio station, SuperMix, I'm getting the hands-on experience that this career demands. I really feel like I'm on my way.
Before coming to Onondaga, I attended a four-year school. But it really wasn't the right fit for me. The Onondaga campus is close to home and an affordable way for me to get the experience and education I need. What I like most about this career is that I can be creative and get involved in a variety of activities. Every professor has been willing to go the extra mile to encourage me to learn as much as I can and to experience as much as possible. Last year, I had the chance to earn college credit while participating in a paid internship experience at Walt Disney World®.
After graduation, I know I will be ready to transfer to a four-year school to complete my bachelor's degree in radio and television production. Coming to Onondaga allowed me to figure out what I really wanted to do.
I've always wanted to use my life to help others. When I first came to Onondaga, the Nursing program really interested me. It wasn't until I participated in a unique five-week research opportunity through Onondaga at Binghamton University that I discovered my true passion. While there, I conducted research in behavioral neurobiology alongside other students from two and four-year colleges. My new career goal? To become a biomedical researcher.
I moved to upstate New York from Sonoma Valley, California looking for a change. Choosing a community college made sense to me for a number of reasons. Affordability was important, but being able to take a variety of classes to discover where my strengths lie was key. I'm pursuing a dual degree in Math/Science and Engineering Science and plan to transfer to a four-year school when I graduate. What I've learned over the last two years is that I don't have to rush myself through to a four-year college. In fact, I feel more established and better prepared to transfer because of my time spent at Onondaga. I know now what's important to me and I can see more clearly the possibilities for my future.
Being part of the back-to-back championship men's lacrosse team was an amazing experience. I didn't come to Onondaga right out of high school, choosing instead to work in the construction industry. But then Coach Wilbur called wanting to recruit me to play for the Onondaga lacrosse team. After discussing it with my family, I decided that I have the rest of my life to work – now is the time for college. I chose humanities as my major with an emphasis on law enforcement. And I played defense for the lacrosse team. Two decisions. No regrets.
Honestly, if Onondaga wasn't here, I would not have gone to college at all. It just worked best for me. I'm now in training at the Central New Police Academy right on the campus and hope to someday become a Sheriff for the county. The Academy is tough. Tougher than winning a championship. But, it's something I really want. I love Central New York. My family is here and it's where I want to spend the rest of my life.
I started at Onondaga Community College as a Humanities major with a journalism concentration. My goals were to focus on my studies and use my talents to make a positive impact on the world. After working part-time at a local hospital as a nursing assistant, I realized that nursing is my calling—specifically the fields of oncology and HIV/AIDS. Eventually, I would like to travel internationally with an HIV/AIDS Foundation and help educate underdeveloped countries about prevention and treatment and to give care to those already affected.
I believe the purpose of college is to explore your options and your interests in order to uncover a career path that is right for you. This has certainly been true for me at Onondaga. There are a variety of courses to choose from that help students find their niche. And there are so many opportunities to get involved in the campus community. I am president of the Whole Earth Club and I think we've made some great progress so far in informing the campus community about "green" ways of life. I've met new people, I've set new goals for myself, and I love the fact that I'm making a difference at Onondaga.
I always knew I would go to college. I chose Onondaga for two reasons: to live in the residence halls and to play basketball. I grew up in Central New York, but I really wanted to be on my own for the first time. And Onondaga gave me that opportunity. The residence halls are everything I thought they would be. Plus, I'm not very far from my family for visits on the weekends.
In high school, I played basketball as a point guard and was recruited by Coach Wheeler to play for Onondaga. The biggest difference between playing high school and college ball is that everyone is here because they want to be. We're a strong team. I like athletics—it's what I'm good at. I'm a general studies major and my dream job is to teach physical education and coach at the high school level. But for now, my goal is to help the Onondaga women's basketball team make history.
I came to the United States from Iran three years ago and at Onondaga I've discovered a whole new life. My father attended school in upstate New York and our family had taken many vacations to America, so when I arrived at Onondaga I was familiar with American customs. My biggest challenge was perfecting my limited knowledge of the English language.
Through architecture, my goal is to create something new. Something that has never been created before. I am a very creative person and architecture gives me the opportunity to sharpen my skills. I've found that I'm most drawn to commercial architecture. My professors gave me the chance to put my skills to the test when they assigned me the project of creating a concept design for a Green Living Center on campus. I thoroughly enjoyed the challenge and am pleased that a computer animation tour of the center is featured on the College Web site.
Architecture gives me the chance to visually communicate my thoughts and ideas to the world. After Onondaga, I plan to continue my studies in architectural technology at a four-year school in New York.


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Okay, I'm a verified newb who stumble upon this cool app.
I installed it on my PC and the PS3 sees all the folders, but it won't stream or copy any video or audio files. It either says "There are no tracks" or when I try to copy a file to the PS3 is says "There are no tracks that can be copied." Also it doesn't seem to detect .jpg or .png files...
And then I see "#--Transcoded--#" on some folders.
What do all these things mean, in simple terms, I beg you. All of you seem like coders!!!
thanks for any help.