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For the eleventh year in a row, National Jewish Health has been named the best respiratory hospital in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. The ranking is part of the 2008 "America 's Best Hospitals" guide published by the weekly newsmagazine.
"This recognition continues to be tremendously gratifying. Once again our faculty and staff have risen to the challenge of providing the best care possible to our patients," said Michael Salem, MD, President and CEO of National Jewish. "We are also thrilled to have our new name, National Jewish Health, prominently featured in such a widely read magazine and website."
As part of the ranking, board-certified pulmonologists around the country mentioned National Jewish more often than any other hospital when asked to name the best respiratory hospitals in the nation. In addition to recognition by pulmonologists, the hospital rankings were based upon various care related factors, such as nursing and patient services.
National Jewish has world-renowned programs in respiratory, cardiac and immune disorders including asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lupus and other rheumatologic diseases, coronary artery disease, lung cancer, and allergies.
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REDWOOD CITY -- The last CEO of Electronic Arts (ERTS) was a figure well-known in the industry even before taking the job.
The new CEO? Not so much.
The video game giant on Tuesday named Andrew Wilson, a longtime company executive, as its new CEO. Although Wilson most recently ran the company's crucial EA Sports label, he was not as high profile a figure as fellow execs Peter Moore, EA's chief operating officer, or Frank Gibeau, who oversees all of EA's labels. Indeed, analyst Colin Sebastian, who covers EA for Robert W. Baird, called Wilson, 39, a "dark horse" candidate.
Sean McGowan, a financial analyst who covers EA for Needham, agreed.
"It's a little unusual that they would go with somebody internal that's not one of the more visible guys that they had been putting in front of investors," said McGowan. "I'm not taking anything away from this guy's credibility, but he wasn't held out there as an heir apparent."
EA's move comes six months after its former CEO, John Riccitiello, resigned after a rocky six-year reign. It also comes after former executive Don Mattrick reportedly spurred the company's offer to become its CEO to take the same job at rival Zynga instead.
In a letter posted on EA's website, Larry Probst, the company's executive chairman, said EA chose Wilson after a "rigorous search" that included both internal and external candidates. Probst praised Wilson for his business and creative talents, his skills as a communicator and his passion for the business.
"I am convinced that Andrew was an inspired choice by our Board, and one I expect the team at EA will enthusiastically support," Probst said in the letter.
Wilson, who joined the video game giant in 2000, promised to keep the video game company on its current long-term path toward depending more and more on distributing its products digitally, rather than through packaged goods. Nearer term, though, he vowed to keep the company focused on meeting its goals for its current fiscal year.
In a letter posted on EA's website, Wilson said he believes "EA's strategy is sound." But, he added, "We have plenty of work ahead to ensure our collective success."
Despite being relatively unknown, Wilson was a "safe" choice, said Sebastian.
"Everyone knows him there," he said. "He's unlikely to shake things up too much."
Yet his choice still represents something of a risk for the company. There's a decent chance that Moore or Gibeau will leave the company after being passed over for the top job, analysts said. And the strategy he vowed to continue is arguably the same one put in place by Riccitiello, who was ousted after uneven results.
"It's debatable, for sure" whether the company should stick with that strategy, said Sebastian. But, he added, "from the board perspective, the company is on the right path."
Probst has led the Redwood City company as its executive chairman since Riccitiello left while it searched for a full-time CEO. Even after Wilson takes the reins, Probst will remain executive chairman "to support Andrew in his transition to CEO," Probst said in a separate letter on EA's site.
Wilson started in EA's Australian offices. Since he joined the company, he has overseen its Asian online publishing operations, as well as its studio in Seoul, and has served as executive producer of the popular FIFA soccer franchise. He is the first CEO of EA to have formerly served as head of one of its studios.
EA will pay Wilson an $800,000 annual salary and he will have a potential bonus of $1.2 million, according to a regulatory document EA filed on Tuesday. The company also granted him 1 million stock options that will vest over more than four years. As part of his promotion, Wilson will join EA's board of directors.
EA made the announcement after the close of regular trading on Tuesday. In after-hours trading, the stock was off 14 cents, or about 0.5 percent, to $27.46. In the regular session, EA's stock ended the day up 64 cents, or 2.4 percent, at $27.60.
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Tallahassee, FL - EJ Manuel passed for three touchdowns in the opening seven minutes and sixth-ranked Florida State's defense held lower-division Savannah State to 28 yards Saturday on its way to a 55-0 victory in a game called in the third quarter because of lightning.
The Seminoles bolted to a 35-0 lead in the first quarter as Manuel completed 11 of 13 passes for 161 yards and five different Seminoles scored touchdowns. Manuel didn't play after the opening quarter.
Florida State (2-0) led 48-0 at halftime and finished with 413 yards. James Wilder Jr. and Kelvin Benjamin each scored two touchdowns.
Savannah State, a Football Championship Subdivision school, has been outscored by a combined 139-0 in its first two games this season. It was beaten 84-0 at Oklahoma State last week.


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Nicole Berns '14 (political science/comparative literature) is a perfect example of how students can engage with their studies and participate in groundbreaking research in their field of interest.
Through the Undergraduate Research Engagement Program (UREP) in the Department of Political Science, Berns works with PhD candidates Matthew MacWilliams and Edward Erikson on a research project that engages Facebook metrics to measure campaign effectiveness. It's been getting quite a bit of attention in the media. Since Politico Playbook published their research, Policy Mic, Business Journal, In The Capitol, and TechPresident have discussed it.
"I became involved in UREP because I wanted to engage in political science from a new perspective," says Berns, "When Matthew told me about their research project, I immediately wanted to be part of it. Social media has the potential to redefine the approach of election campaigns. I hoped to learn how."
UREP is designed to partner advanced undergraduate political science and legal studies majors with faculty for hands-on, one-on-one research experiences. The program is unique because it offers a new model for undergraduate education in the social sciences. It trains students to work collaboratively with faculty to develop studies with real world significance and to carry them out with practical, readily transferable skills that will provide them with a crucial edge in the job market.
As a research assistant in the ongoing study, Berns is aiding MacWilliams and Erikson in discovering whether Facebook can predict who wins Senate seats in 2014. In order to engage Facebook metrics to measure campaign effectiveness, they are examining growth of the candidate's fan base, growth of those engaged with the candidate's page, and the campaign's success in mobilizing people.
Berns says the research has been very well received, especially in Washington. Her involvement in the project has also led to networking opportunities with professionals in different fields who have reached out to give feedback on the research. This is significant for Berns because she plans on moving to Washington after graduation and becoming an active part in politics. She credits UREP with enriching her educational experience and paving a path for her career.
"If you are the type of student who enjoys being engaged with what you study, I definitely recommend UREP," Berns urges, "Working with my professors and the Political Science Department has offered me a unique perspective and approach to academia that I would not have gained had I not become a research assistant."
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An Integrated Federal Food Survey
What We Eat in America (WWEIA) is the dietary intake interview component of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). WWEIA is conducted as a partnership between the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). DHHS is responsible for the sample design and data collection, and USDA is responsible for the survey's dietary data collection methodology, maintenance of the databases used to code and process the data, and data review and processing. USDA also funds the collection and processing of Day 2 dietary intake data, which are used to develop variance estimates and calculate usual nutrient intakes.
Data Collection
Two days of 24-hour dietary recall data are collected in WWEIA, NHANES. The Day 1 interview is conducted in person in the Mobile Examination Center (MEC). After completion of the in-person interview, an appointment is set for the Day 2 interview. The Day 2 interview is collected by telephone 3 to 10 days following the MEC interview, but not on the same day of the week as the MEC interview.
WWEIA data are collected using USDA's dietary data collection instrument, the Automated Multiple-Pass Method (AMPM). The AMPM is a fully computerized method for collecting 24-hour dietary recalls either in person or by telephone. In this multiple-pass method, information is collected by 5 standardized steps. The AMPM is a research-based approach designed to enhance efficient collection of complete and accurate food intake data in large-scale national surveys and reduce respondent burden. The AMPM is updated yearly to reflect the changing food supply. Read more about the AMPM.
At the MEC dietary interview, a set of three-dimensional food models are available for the participant to use when reporting amounts of foods. After the Day 1 interview, participants are given USDA's Food Model Booklet and a limited number of three-dimensional models (measuring cups and spoons, a ruler, and two household spoons) to be used for estimating food amounts during the telephone interview. The Food Model Booklet includes two-dimensional drawings of various sizes of glasses, mugs, bowls, mounds, circles, and other measures.
Information Collected During Interview
Data Processing
USDA's Food and Nutrient Database for Dietary Studies (FNDDS) is used for processing the WWEIA dietary intakes. The FNDDS includes comprehensive information that can be used to code individual foods and portion sizes reported by WWEIA participants and also includes nutrient values for calculating nutrient intakes. FNDDS values are updated for every 2-year WWEIA, NHANES release cycle. The FNDDS is available for free download from the USDA's Food Surveys Research Group (FSRG) website. It can be used to enhance analysis of the WWEIA dietary intake data, as well as in coding and analyzing data collected in other studies. Read more about the FNDDS.
WWEIA/NHANES Data Release
Data are released at 2-year intervals. All NHANES files are available for free download from the NHANES website.
All data files are in SAS® transport format (.xpt) and can be used with any package that supports that file format. For general information on downloading the data, consult the frequently asked questions page for the data cycle in question.
Each data release file is accompanied by three additional components:
To receive an e-mail notice from FSRG when new WWEIA data are released, you may join the FSRG listserv.
Dietary Intake Data Files
For each 2-year data release cycle, the following dietary intake data files are available:
Dietary Data Web Tutorial
This tutorial walks you through the steps of conducting an analytical project from beginning to end, with examples of many common analytic procedures. Click here to open up a new window at the NCHS website.
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When citing a WWEIA, NHANES data file, documentation, codebook, or frequencies:
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center, Food Surveys Research Group (Beltsville, MD) and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics (Hyattsville, MD). What We Eat in America, NHANES YYYY-YYYY Type of File: Descriptive Name of File (FILENAME). (YYYY, Month). Available from: http://www.cdc.gov/remainder_of_url.xxx [accessed MM/DD/YY].
For data files, use the release month and year given with the associated codebook.
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center, Food Surveys Research Group (Beltsville, MD) and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics (Hyattsville, MD). What We Eat in America, NHANES 2003-2004 Data: Dietary Interview - Total Nutrients Intakes -- First Day (DR1TOT_C). (2006, September). Available from: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/nhanes/nhanes2003-2004/dr1tot_c.xpt [accessed 09/11/06].
When you use WWEIA, NHANES data in an analysis, please include among your keywords:
Frequently Asked Questions
What is What We Eat in America, NHANES, and when did it begin?
What We Eat in America (WWEIA), NHANES is a national food survey conducted as a partnership between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). WWEIA represents the integration of two nationwide surveys - USDA's Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals (CSFII) and HHS' NHANES. Under the integrated framework, DHHS is responsible for the sample design and data collection. USDA is responsible for the survey's dietary data collection methodology, development and maintenance of the food and nutrient databases used to code and process the data, and data review and processing. The two surveys were integrated in 2002.
How often are WWEIA, NHANES data released?
Data are released every two years as one dataset. The first WWEIA, NHANES data release was for 2001-2002. The most recent data release is 2009-2010.
How many days of dietary intake data per respondent are available in WWEIA, NHANES?
Beginning with the 2003-2004 data release, two days of dietary intake data are available per respondent. The 2001-2002 release includes one day of dietary intake data. Data collection for 2002 included a second dietary recall (Day 2). Because of confidentiality reasons concerning release of single-year data, dietary data for Day 2 were not publicly released.
What nutrients are included in the WWEIA, NHANES data?
How are the WWEIA data released?
WWEIA data are posted on the NHANES Examination File web pages for the respective survey year. There are two types of WWEIA data files, the Dietary Interview Individual Foods File and the Dietary Interview Total Nutrients File. The data are in SAS® transport format with a .xpt filename extension. Accompanying the data files are additional files containing codebooks, documentation, and frequencies.
Is it possible to combine WWEIA data from different release cycles?
Yes, the sample design for NHANES makes it possible to combine data cycles in order to increase the sample size and analytic options. However, in order to combine cycles appropriately, researchers must pay attention to variations between data cycles, including the following:
There are some individuals who have a record in the Total Nutrients File but no records in the Individual Foods File. Why?
A small number of WWEIA respondents ate no food on the survey day. They are referred to as "fasters." They can be identified by searching for records in the Total Nutrients File with the number of foods equal to zero. Fasters' intake records are considered to be complete, even though they did not report any foods or beverages. For all nutrients, they have a value of zero.


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5/6/93 The Palace, Albany, NY (Rvwd 11/94)
Without question, the best Tweezer in my collection in the 1990-3
span. The second set opens with a very good Suzy with a great jam.
Tweezer comes next. A very standard uneventful opening. Sure, the
usual exaggerated lyrics here and there. No hints of what is to
come. At the very beginning of the jam, Mike has the audacity to play
what is basically Sweet Emotion's (but not quite if you listen
carefully) primary bass line over and over again for the first few
minutes. It sounds really, really awesome (unless you hate Sweet
Emotion). Trey ignores him, but Page steps up and drops some Sweet
Emotion chords as well.
The jam is very bold and raw until Trey breaks out of the Force and
steps out in front of everyone, soaring magnificently on the
Languedoc. Soon, the jam gets taken over by Trey, and frankly, gets
really weird, with everyone just tooling around. Actually doesn't
sound too good.. just weird (like Bangor and Bomb Factory do at
times). They just all screw off for a few minutes. Then Mike and
Trey lock into a weird repetitive lick that would have become dull if
they had continued on it longer than they did. [Editor's Note: They
jam on the main riff of the Dude of Life's Crimes of the Mind in here,
which I didn't recognize back in 11/94 when I reviewed this Tweezer.]
Mike soon fires up the bass out of this lick (after Page adds his two cents),
and then Trey starts firing off chords and They blast off into a
rocking Tweezer finale jam -- that actually isn't the finale!!
Suddenly, they drop this raw near-the-end-sounding Tweezer jam and
move into this sweeeeeeet, beautiful, awe-inspiring minute or so of
blissful melodic Play (that's right.. 'Play" for all you Derrideans
out there.. you know who you are). It is ORGASMIC!! Then the typical
Tweezer theme arises again very powerfull,y and the plebeian
slowed-down end-of-the-theme standard ending "jam" (!) comes in.
(exhale) At nearly twenty minutes, this is a killer Tweezer that --
though it includes 3 or so minutes of just plain old fucking around
that sounds weird -- is simply fantastic as a version. If they had
just continued wailing instead of going into that weird chaotic
mind-melting interlude I would give this version a 9.0 "must get this
fucking tweezer" rating. This wouldn't be fair to Eureka 4/92,
though, which is also a killer version of Tweezer. I think I like
this one more, though. I have to give it a must have rating. 8.5 .
There. I've done it. It's over. Flame away. Please, one of you has
got to think that this is the lamest version of Tweezer ever.. I'm
ready to hear your "rationality" regarding this.
Oh yeah, and this show (set, actually) had Dick Solberg doing some
stuff on violin with the boyz which sounds great.. 'That's Alright
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SAN FRANCISCO -- The Giants have been on the wrong end of a no-hitter, walk-off hits and blowouts while losing 33 of their past 50 games. But as Monday turned to Tuesday, the Giants found a way to lose that left manager Bruce Bochy shaking his head.
"That's as frustrating a game as we've had," Bochy said.
The Giants lost to the New York Mets 4-3 in 16 innings in a game that lasted 5 hours and 26 minutes. Tim Lincecum and the bullpen held the Mets down for most of that time, but the lineup couldn't break out of a slumber that seems to be derailing a repeat bid.
The Giants left 18 runners on base, their highest total since 1998. Thirteen were left on base in extra innings.
"You've got to find a hole, keep competing, keep fighting," right fielder Hunter Pence said. "Just battle. I haven't gotten much done with runners in scoring position. Part of it is maybe being too aggressive. It's tough when it's going like this."
The Giants wasted a handful of opportunities to end the night long before the Mets won it, leaving the potential winning run in scoring position in the 11th and 12th innings and the bases loaded in the 13th and 15th. They put the potential tying run on second and the potential winning run on first with one out in the bottom of the 16th but again couldn't score.
All the missed opportunities opened the door for the Mets as players wore down late into the night. Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford, who had made a spectacular run-saving play in the 11th, misplayed a grounder with runners on the corners and two outs in the top of the 16th. The Mets, who already had played 15-plus innings three times this season, made the run hold up.
Nearly half a day earlier, Bochy, hoping for a spark, moved Brandon Belt up to the No. 3 spot in the order. The start was Belt's first in the No. 3 spot, but it was a more familiar middle-of-the-order bat that got the Giants on the board. With Marco Scutaro on first and two outs in the first inning, Buster Posey crushed a 95 mph fastball from Matt Harvey into the left-field seats. The homer was the 13th of the season for Posey. He also had a double and a single against Harvey.
Harvey is a leading candidate to start for the National League in the All-Star Game, an honor given to Tim Lincecum in 2009. For most of Monday night, Lincecum looked like the pitcher who earned that start four years ago.
He struck out the first two hitters of the game and had six strikeouts through four hitless innings. A single by Marlon Byrd and a double by John Buck got the Mets on the board in the fifth, but Lincecum mixed in two more strikeouts while getting out of the inning.
Lincecum entered the night with a 7.45 ERA in the sixth inning this year, and thanks to some rough defense, the wheels came off again. Eric Young led off the sixth with a triple to left field and scored when Andres Torres whiffed while sliding for Daniel Murphy's flare to left. David Wright followed with a grounder to third, and Murphy was safe at second when Pablo Sandoval attempted to get a force-out. Scutaro then attempted to get Wright out at first but threw the ball away, allowing Murphy to advance. A double-play grounder by Ike Davis scored Murphy, putting the Mets on top 3-2.
Lincecum bounced back in the seventh, striking out two to reach double-digits for the first time this season. Lincecum gave up six hits and three earned runs over seven innings and finished with just one walk and 11 strikeouts, his highest total since July 14 last year. Lincecum threw 70 strikes, a season high.
Lincecum had lost four straight decisions, but the Giants got him off the hook in the seventh when Pence broke an 0-for-24 slump with a triple and Crawford followed with a single to center.
Neither team threatened for several innings until the Mets put two runners in scoring position with two outs in the top of the 11th. Byrd hit a hard grounder to short, but Crawford made a diving stop into the hole and a strong throw to first to get the Giants out of the inning.
The Giants caught a break in the bottom of the inning when Posey hit a one-out pop-up to right field that was dropped by second baseman Daniel Murphy, allowing Posey to take second. After an intentional walk of Sandoval, Pence lined out to right field and Crawford popped up to short.
Gregor Blanco singled with two outs in the bottom of the 12th and moved to second on Scutaro's single, but Belt struck out for the fourth straight time on a night when he went 0 for 8 with five strikeouts.
That would be the beginning of a theme in extra innings. The Giants put at least one runner on in seven of the last eight innings but could never get the winning run across. They were 1 for 15 with runners in scoring position and have just three hits in their past 51 at-bats in those situations.
"What, 18 guys left on ..." Bochy said, his voice trailing off. "We just had a tough time making a play."
"I definitely want to go out there and do well for myself and maybe show them what they could have had, I guess," Wheeler said, smiling. "It'll definitely be fun."
Wheeler played with several current Giants, including Belt, Crawford and Hector Sanchez. Instead of being part of the core in San Francisco, Wheeler has teamed with Harvey to give long-suffering Mets fans a little hope.
The 23-year-old said he has no hard feelings about the trade, even after watching the Giants win a title without him.
"It's the game of baseball -- you trade people and make deals so you can win," Wheeler said. "It happened, and it will probably happen again sometime. It's the game."
For more on the Giants, see Alex Pavlovic's Giants Extra blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/Giants. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/AlexPavlovic.


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Published: Monday, December 10, 2012 at 10:31 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, December 10, 2012 at 10:31 a.m.
Donna Stickley of Lake Wales is still in contention for the $100,000 prize on the CMT show "Redneck Island."
Stickley, 26, escaped possible elimination when her team, Southern Thunder, was forced to vote on sending a member home after losing a challenge.
The majority voted to eliminate Kyle Medina of Tennessee.
The sixth episode of season two airs at 9 p.m. Saturday.
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The 256-slice scanner can capture the body's skeleton, organs and blood vessels in the minutest of detail. The SOMATOM sets the standard regarding speed and radiation dose reduction for CT scanners. It requires only a fraction of the radiation dose that is delivered by many other scanners. With this scanner, a completed scan of the entire chest region can be completed in just 0.6 seconds. Thus, patients are no longer required to hold their breath during exams, like they have in the past.
"Now that Robinson Memorial Hospital has this new technology, we will be able to diagnose coronary artery disease, as well as congenital heart conditions using Cardiac CT; a non-invasive procedure compared to an invasive catheterization angiography," stated A. Roger Tsai, MD, Cardiologist at Robinson Memorial Hospital. "This new technology will certainly benefit our patient population."
The more detectors or 'slices' in a scanner, the better the resolution of the image it produces. The strength in the 256-slice scanner means it can find early signs of restricted blood flow or other possible issues before symptoms appear or an organ becomes permanently damaged. Because of the 256 detectors, it is possible to perform whole-body scans on a person six feet, six inches tall in less than 4.7 seconds.
"This piece of equipment will allow us to provide more detailed exams than before and at a significantly reduced dose of radiation, thus benefiting our patients," stated Edward Bury, MD, Medical Director and Chairman of the Department of Radiology at Robinson Memorial Hospital.
"We've been looking forward to acquiring this new CT technology for a long time," said Judy Mink, Director of Radiology at Robinson Memorial Hospital. "It's so exciting to see it all come to fruition and to know that we made the right decision. The images are absolutely beautiful and the new capabilities this scanner offers will help our physicians make quicker and more accurate diagnoses for our patients."
The SOMATOM Definition Flash 256-slice CT scanner is now available for patients and is located at Robinson Memorial Hospital in Ravenna. Patients must be referred by their physician for a CT scan.


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Diphthong oi
Diphthongs occur when an unstressed "i", "u", or "y-ending" appears next to another vowel in the same syllable. Their vowel sounds do not change, but they blend together to form a single syllable.
One such vowel combination, "oi" (or "oy" word ending), is pronounced like the "oy" in the English word "boy," except that it is a somewhat shorter sound. Note that when there is a written accent over the letter "i", the diphthong is "broken" and the two vowels are pronounced separately.
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SAN JOSE -- Chinh N. Nguyen, a 36-year-old who was slain when gunfire peppered an Alum Rock Avenue restaurant Monday night, was a devoted family man with a 3-year-old daughter and a son on the way, a computer geek in the tech industry who did nothing to make himself a target, according to a close friend.
"I can't believe it," said his friend and co-worker Carlos, who didn't want his last name used because of the lack of information about the homicide. "Everybody is in shock."
Nguyen was struck by at least one bullet when someone fired into the Hoang Hon Bar and Restaurant just after 10 p.m. Two other people were also shot but suffered injuries not considered life-threatening, police said.
Nguyen was taken to Regional Medical Center where he was pronounced dead around 2 a.m. Tuesday.
Carlos said Nguyen lived with his wife and daughter in South San Jose, and was very excited that he was soon to become a father to a son.
"She started her third trimester a couple of days ago," Carlos said. "He'd been looking at strollers. He was going to buy a baby car seat from me that I wasn't using. He was researching preschools for his daughter."
Carlos said Nguyen was a team leader at a Sunnyvale-based Juniper Networks, where "he was probably the most knowledgeable guy on the team."
"He always had an answer for everything," Carlos said, adding that Nguyen had an affable demeanor that made him popular among colleagues.
"He was the guy who would talk to anyone there, whether it was a janitor or a director," said Carlos, who sat next to Nguyen for the past six years. "Man, we had so much fun together. He was always joking around. It's just not going to be the same."
He said Nguyen had recently returned from a trip to Vietnam, where he visited his parents.
"On Monday, we had a really deep conversation," Carlos said. "He worried about his parents. He wanted to bring them over here."
Police have not identified any suspects or a motive in the shooting, and have called it "random." There were no updates to the investigation Wednesday night.
Carlos said he didn't know who Nguyen was with at the Vietnamese restaurant and bar, but said "that's pretty late for him to be out."
"Knowing him, he was probably there for his friends," he said. "He never did any kind of wrongdoing. He was a family guy who worked all the time."
Nguyen's slaying was the city's 31st homicide of the year.
Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call homicide detectives at 408-277-5283. Anonymous tips can be made through Silicon Valley Crime Stoppers at 408-947-7867 or www.tipsubmit.com and may be eligible for a reward.
Contact Eric Kurhi at 408-920-5852. Follow him at Twitter.com/erickurhi.


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OAKLAND -- Warriors coach Mark Jackson had no problem with Stephen Curry passing up the do-or-die shot at the buzzer.
Curry found a wide-open Harrison Barnes with the game's final seconds ticking away, but the struggling second-year man couldn't convert as the Warriors fell 121-120 to the Minnesota Timberwolves at Oracle Arena in a game otherwise filled with offensive fireworks Friday.
"That's a heck of a play, and we missed the shot," Jackson said of Curry, who poured in 33 points and wished he had added one more to his final total of 15 assists.
"Your job as a superstar or star basketball player is to put us in position to get us a great look, and he did his job. That didn't lose us the ballgame."
What irked Jackson was a Warriors defense that struggled to get stops at the start of the game and ended up allowing the Timberwolves' Kevin Martin to hit the winning jump shot with 8.4 seconds left, sending Golden State to its fourth loss in five games and third in a row at Oracle.
Martin finished with 26 points and afterward mused he thought each team was going to score 200 points. All-Star big man Kevin Love had 26 points and 14 rebounds, and center Nikola Pekovic added 22 points and 14 rebounds, with baskets coming too easily for Jackson to accept.
"I think that we are not defending at a high level to start ballgames. We've been bad, and that's on our starters," Jackson said.
"We have not been ready for whatever reason, and it's been disappointing. The proof is in the pudding. The history of this franchise, the history of this basketball team, you are not going to get anywhere attempting to outscore people, and that's not who we are, and that's not who we're going to be."
Andre Iguodala tried to rally the Warriors with 11 of his 16 points in the game's final four minutes. He hit two free throws with 27.9 seconds left to give the Warriors a 120-119 lead before Martin had the last laugh.
Curry had the ball in his hands on the final play but said he saw two defenders in his way and Barnes open to take the shot. It missed, and Barnes finished with two points on 1-for-7 shooting.
"It's just one of those things where we did not want Curry to get it," Timberwolves coach Rick Adelman said.
"He made a nice play, the guy was open, but you have to pick your poison sometimes."
Said Curry of the opportunity at having Barnes get an open look: "It's a great shot, one that we'll take."
Scoring, Curry said, was not Golden State's problem. The Warriors scored the final 10 points of the third quarter to seize a 98-91 lead heading into the fourth quarter. Curry connected on a 3-pointer, saw his layup miss tipped in by Draymond Green and then passed to a wide-open Marreese Speights for a dunk to cap the scoring in the quarter.
The Warriors and Timberwolves scored at will in the first half, going into the locker room with the score tied at 63 and the lead having changed eight times.
The Warriors' Klay Thompson caught fire with 16 first-half points, finishing with 18. Curry scored 15 points in his first quarter of play since receiving word he was voted an All-Star game starter.
Curry put the Warriors ahead 29-28 -- their first lead of the evening -- when he completed a four-point play, banking in a 3-pointer while getting fouled. It was a quick six-point spurt for Curry, who after a driving in for a layup quickly got the ball back for the 3-pointer after a steal on the other end from Green.
David Lee finished with 23 points and seven rebounds, and Andrew Bogut had eight points, 11 rebounds and seven blocks. Both Warriors big men remained in the starting lineup after having suffered injuries in the team's previous game.
Durant has gone on a tear of late, scoring at least 30 points in his last nine games before missing Friday's game at Boston with a sore shoulder.
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Snow may be falling this week at Lake Tahoe, but high-end property values along the Nevada shoreline seem to be doing just the opposite.
In a blockbuster sale announced Friday, superstar software entrepreneur David Duffield reportedly paid a whopping $25.5 million for the Osprey Estate in Incline Village, an eight-acre lakefront Shangri-La not to be confused with the other eight-acre lakefront Shangri-La he purchased nearby for $27.6 million in 1999.
The Osprey sale, according to listing agent Kerry Donovan of Chase International, constitutes the priciest residential deal that Tahoe has seen since 2008. And real estate agents say it's a clear sign of a housing boom building among deep-pocketed homebuyers seeking the relatively safe harbor of a state with no individual or corporate income tax.
"We've got a lot of buyers up here who've been sitting on the sidelines for six years now and they're tired of waiting and think it's time to move," said Donovan, who handled the Osprey sale but would not confirm Duffield was the buyer; the sale was first reported by The Wall Street Journal, which cited public records.
"A lot of factors have bubbled up to drive this," she said, "including the passage of California's Proposition 30 in November," which raises personal income-tax rates for Californians making more than $250,000 a year and triggers a four-year hike in the state's sales tax starting Jan. 1. Real estate agents say Silicon Valley's current tech boom is also contributing to the trend, minting overnight millionaires with money to burn on tony Lake Tahoe addresses.
Donovan says that while non-lakefront housing prices around Tahoe remain beaten down by the recession, the limited inventory of waterside properties has helped trigger multimillion-dollar deals.
"The lakefront has not seen a lot of price deterioration in recent years because sellers haven't been pressed to sell," she said. "But there are now a handful of sales under contract, not quite at the $20 million level but getting close."
Duffield, who co-founded Pleasanton-based PeopleSoft and Workday, reportedly purchased the Osprey property through Nevada Pacific Development, where he serves as president. According to news reports, the estate once was home to inventor Jerome Lemelson, whose more than 600 patents made him one of the nation's most prolific inventors before his death in 1997. The property enjoys nearly 700 feet of prime lake frontage, including a private beach and pier. The main house is 7,100 square feet in size, with an adjacent guesthouse and conference center.
According to public records, the property's seller was the Dorothy Lemelson Qualified Trust, named after Lemelson's widow.
Other realty agents in and around Incline Village say the local real estate market has been particularly frisky of late, with the number of available homes practically decreasing by the day and the once reliable reductions in sales prices becoming a thing of the past. Century 21 McGregor Realty's Joanna Rice said Friday that "most of the brokers up here are busier now than they've been in the past two or three years.
"I've seen an incredible increase in sales just since midsummer," said Rice, "and I've just had my best fourth quarter ever. Two weeks ago, out of the clear blue sky, I sold two of my listings, one of which I'd had for years; and both were all-cash offers."
Rice said that "while prices on properties under $1 million have remained steady so far, that will soon change as the supply of homes continues to shrink."
Contact Patrick May at 408-920-5689; follow him at Twitter.com/patmaymerc.
Eight acres on two adjoining parcels
Main residence, approximately 7,100 square feet
Nine bedrooms
12 bathrooms (9 full, 3 half)
White sycamore hardwood flooring, European and Indiana limestone, and V'Soske rugs accentuate the interior spaces.
Conference center
Master wing with two offices, sun room, living room with fireplace, additional bedroom
Great room with cathedral ceiling and fireplace
Garage with parking for six vehicles
Indoor pool
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Alabama Utility Makes Two Major Wind Power Purchases
November 27, 2012
The Alabama Power Company has approval from the state Public Service Commission to purchase more electricity from Midwestern wind projects. The company announced on October 10 that the deal with Buffalo Dunes Wind Project, LLC, mirrors one previously approved with Chisholm View Wind Project, LLC. Combined, the deals add up to 404 megawatts of electricity, and each project is under contract for 20 years.
Chisholm View Wind Project, located in Grant and Garfield counties, Oklahoma, is scheduled to begin operations in December 2012. The Buffalo Dunes Wind Project will be built near Garden City, Kansas, with a targeted operation date of 2014. The contracts are expected to provide net savings to Alabama Power ratepayers. See the Alabama Power press release.


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Duke Energy and Progress Energy to Merge
Duke Energy and Progress Energy have announced a merger agreement to combine the two companies. Subject to shareholder and regulatory approval, the merger of Duke Energy and Progress Energy will create the nation's largest utility, with more than 7 million customers in six regulated service territories – North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio. The two companies' mix of coal, nuclear, natural gas, oil and renewable resources will total approximately 57 gigawatts of U.S. generating capacity. The combined company will be called Duke Energy and headquartered in Charlotte, N.C.
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Duke Energy and Progress Energy are sharing this common Web site for the convenience of their respective shareholders and others interested in the planned merger of the companies. The sharing of this site should not be viewed as an indication that the companies have combined operations in any way prior to the closing date, or an indication that either party is responsible for statements of the other.
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This document contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are typically identified by words or phrases such as "may," "will," "should," "anticipate," "estimate," "expect," "project," "intend," "plan," "believe," "target," "forecast," and other words and terms of similar meaning. Forward-looking statements involve estimates, expectations, projections, goals, forecasts, assumptions, risks and uncertainties. Duke Energy and Progress Energy caution readers that any forward-looking statement is not a guarantee of future performance and that actual results could differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statement. Such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements about the benefits of the proposed merger involving Duke Energy and Progress Energy, including future financial and operating results, Progress Energy's or Duke Energy's plans, objectives, expectations and intentions, the expected timing of completion of the transaction, and other statements that are not historical facts. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements include risks and uncertainties relating to: the ability to obtain the requisite Duke Energy and Progress Energy shareholder approvals; the risk that Progress Energy or Duke Energy may be unable to obtain governmental and regulatory approvals required for the merger, or required governmental and regulatory approvals may delay the merger or result in the imposition of conditions that could cause the parties to abandon the merger; the risk that a condition to closing of the merger may not be satisfied; the timing to consummate the proposed merger; the risk that the businesses will not be integrated successfully; the risk that the cost savings and any other synergies from the transaction may not be fully realized or may take longer to realize than expected; disruption from the transaction making it more difficult to maintain relationships with customers, employees or suppliers; the diversion of management time on merger-related issues; general worldwide economic conditions and related uncertainties; the effect of changes in governmental regulations; and other factors discussed or referred to in the "Risk Factors" section of each of Duke Energy's and Progress Energy's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). These risks, as well as other risks associated with the merger, are more fully discussed in the preliminary joint proxy statement/prospectus that is included in the Registration Statement on Form S-4 that was filed by Duke Energy with the SEC on March 17, 2011 in connection with the merger as well as in any amendments to that Registration Statement filed after that date. Additional risks and uncertainties are identified and discussed in Progress Energy's and Duke Energy's reports filed with the SEC and available at the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Each forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date of the particular statement and neither Progress Energy nor Duke Energy undertakes any obligation to update or revise its forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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This document does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, or a solicitation of any vote or approval, nor shall there be any sale of securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. In connection with the proposed merger between Duke Energy and Progress Energy, on March 17, 2011, Duke Energy filed with the SEC a Registration Statement on Form S-4 that included a preliminary joint proxy statement of Duke Energy and Progress Energy that also constitutes a preliminary prospectus of Duke Energy and on April 8, 2011, April 25, 2011 and May 13, 2011 Duke Energy filed with the SEC amendments to that Registration Statement. These materials are not yet final and may be further amended. Duke Energy and Progress Energy will deliver the definitive joint proxy statement/prospectus to their respective shareholders. Duke Energy and Progress Energy urge investors and shareholders to read the preliminary joint proxy statement/prospectus regarding the proposed merger and the definitive joint proxy statement/prospectus, when it becomes available, as well as other documents filed with the SEC, because they contain or will contain important information. You may obtain copies of all documents filed with the SEC regarding this transaction, free of charge, at the SEC's website (www.sec.gov). You may also obtain these documents, free of charge, from Duke Energy's website (www.duke-energy.com) under the heading "Investors" and then under the heading "Financials/SEC Filings." You may also obtain these documents, free of charge, from Progress Energy's website (www.progress-energy.com) under the tab "Investors" and then under the heading "SEC Filings."
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Duke Energy, Progress Energy, and their respective directors, executive officers and certain other members of management and employees may be soliciting proxies from Duke Energy and Progress Energy shareholders in favor of the merger and related matters. Information regarding the persons who may, under the rules of the SEC, be deemed participants in the solicitation of Duke Energy and Progress Energy shareholders in connection with the proposed merger is contained in the preliminary joint proxy statement/prospectus and will be contained in the definitive joint proxy statement/prospectus when it becomes available. You can find information about Duke Energy's executive officers and directors in its definitive proxy statement filed with the SEC on March 17, 2011. You can find information about Progress Energy's executive officers and directors in its definitive proxy statement filed with the SEC on March 31, 2011 and Amendment No. 1 to its Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 17, 2011. Additional information about Duke Energy's executive officers and directors and Progress Energy's executive officers and directors can be found in the above-referenced Registration Statement on Form S-4. You can obtain free copies of these documents from Duke Energy and Progress Energy using the contact information above.


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October 6, 2005
It's the World Championship for Still Target Shooting. And starting this year, the annual event will be in Edgefield at the National Wild Turkey Federation.
"There's not many places where you can get crowned world champion and that's kind of the draw here," said Rhett Simmons.
The draw is bringing more than a hundred people to Edgefield from places like Oregon, Illinois, Connecticut and North Carolina.
Competitors get one of these targets. They're trying to perfect their skills, so the goal here is to shoot as many pellets into this red circle.
The money raised from the Still Shoot supports the Turkey Federation's outreach program Wheelin' Sportsman.
"Wheelin' Sportsman provides outdoor opportunities for disabled individuals," Simmons said.
But competitors' cash will also be flowing at Edgefield businesses. They're buying gas and food here, and staying the weekend.
Joe Stertz owns the Edgefield Inn. This championship has filled all his rooms and the calls keep coming.
"We've turned away probably enough people to fill this place twice over," Stertz said.
Because of that, surrounding areas will reap tax dollars, too.
It's a competition that's a blast for business.
Organizers of the Still Shoot hope to grow this and bring in more competitors each year. And if you enjoy target shooting, it's not too late to join in. The Still Target Shoot is Friday and Saturday, you can stop by the Wild Turkey Federation between 9 and 5. The final competition for the world title is Sunday.
Click here for more information on the event and click here for more information on the Edgefield Inn.


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We have all seen the sad looking pre-frosh tour groups tromping around campus in the rain. It is easy for us to forget, now that we're comfortably established at college, that it is actually application season; In fact the Tufts ED deadline just passed this week. In honor of those poor souls back home who are feverishly writing their supplements, I thought I'd make this week's post about my Tufts pre-frosh experience with music.
Every college student needs a spot on campus. You know the kind I mean; a spot where you can go whenever you need to get out of the dorm, a spot where you can get homework done but you don't have to, a place that is comforting and safe, and is unquestionably yours (even if others go there too). For some this spot is a special nook in the extremely quiet music library. For others it is at the base of a certain tree on the President's lawn. For others still it is a spot in a tree on the president's lawn. For me this spot is The RezQuad Café. I go in most nights between 10 and 11 with my laptop and a pile of work. I order my skim chai latte to stay (it comes in a big mug but for the price of a small) and set up a work station in one of the comfy chairs.
The only time I've been south of the Mason-Dixon Line was to go to Austin City Limits in 2007 and, quite frankly, I barely count the liberal oasis of Austin, Texas as the South. In fact, I had never heard a real Southern accent until I went to Nateva this summer and met James. And, let me tell you, James is from the South. Hailing from Shreveport, Louisiana, he was the last person I expected to meet in rural Maine. But there he was, sitting at our friend Kelsi's campsite on Saturday morning, and when we started to chat, his Southern accent is what admittedly drew me in, but his story is what kept me listening. (more…)
This week's post is hopefully only one of many I'll be writing about Tufts musicians over the course of the year. Last week I wrote briefly about DJ and his band Take Care. It seems, however, that I was way behind. They have actually released a new demo and two of their songs have already been featured on indierockcafe's best new releases list alongside big-deal names like Sufjan Stevens and Belle and Sebastian. This new demo is really quite good; an immense improvement from the earlier album (NOT EP as I mistakenly suggested last week) and you should download it here.
This past Fourth of July weekend, I popped my music festival cherry. This has been a lifelong ambition of mine, due in large part to my desire to be Janis Joplin and roll around in the mud at Woodstock. Unfortunately, I never really had the resources or the wherewithal to organize and get myself to a music festival until this summer. (It's ironic that wanting to be a hippie requires so much planning.) My friend Sam and I chose to go to the first-ever Nateva Music Festival in Oxford, Maine primarily because of its pretty amazing line-up: Furthur, Passion Pit, the Flaming Lips, George Clinton, She & Him, and Grizzly Bear, among many others.
About a month ago, a bunch of kids on my hall were all sitting around on the floor hanging out. Actually this happens every day (which means I never get any work done) but on this particular day we were talking about concerts. A bunch of people had just been to see Chiddy Bang at College Fest. Others had just come back from the Vampire Weekend concert at Bank of America Pavilion. My next-door neighbor Ali began lamenting the fact that she had bought two tickets to see The Tallest Man on Earth play at Somerville Theater but couldn't find anyone else who liked him. As it turns out I am a fan of Tallest Man on Earth. I am a new fan; a fan, who up until recently, only had a handful of songs on her iPod but a big enough fan to be psyched for his concert. I love his distinctive voice, the poetry of his lyrics, and the fact that he's a Swede but he plays Americana folk music.
Editors Note: This is the first of our weekly columns from our eager contributors. Every day during the week we will post one column, and you can expect to see the same author's work every week after that unless otherwise noted. Ellen Mayer's column is entitled "The Awkward Freshman Playlist" and will chronicle her experiences at Tufts and the music that goes along with it. -MD
For freshmen, most conversations during the first weeks of school go something like this: Nice to meet you, (insert name), where are you from? What dorm are you living in? Do you know what you want to study? This conversation is unsatisfactory on oh so many levels. To begin with, you know you'll forget a solid half of the people you've met anyway. And then, if you're like me, what you really want to know is not whether you're new friend is from Connecticut, Massachusetts, or New Jersey, but rather what music does he or she like.


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Predation of Indianmeal moth larvae by Lyctocoris campestris(F.) (Hemiptera: Anthocoridae) in different stored commodities
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You know how when people win awards, like an Oscar for example, they get up there and gush things like "I'd just like to thank my parents, and the academy, and my fifth grade drama teacher, and God for this award, omigod!!!"? Well, if I was put in a position today where I was going to have to gush on stage about, say, my computer use, then I know what I would say. There I would be, staring into the sea of admiring faces, and I would gush: "I would just like to thank my PC, the internet, and Microsoft... because as a Linux user I have naturally been complicit in intellectual property infringement and therefore owe Microsoft a good deal of money. Thanks baby, couldn't have done it without you. Oh, and the cheque's in the mail."
Or that's what Steve Ballmer reckons I should say, anyway.
Good ol' Steve. There he was, hanging out at the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) conference in Seattle having a bit of a Q & A session as reported in the Computerworld article Ballmer: Linux users owe Microsoft, and apparently "Microsoft was motivated to sign a deal with SUSE Linux distributor Novell Inc. earlier this month because Linux 'uses our intellectual property' and Microsoft wanted to 'get the appropriate economic return for our shareholders from our innovation.'"
Isn't that nice? There I was, thinking that if I was going to thank anyone, to owe anyone for my techno-stuff, the list might include my significant other, a couple of programmer friends, Mark Shuttleworth and the Ubuntu developers, all those who worked on Debian before them and the mass of people involved in developing GNU/Linux in the first place... And now, all of a sudden, those people aren't worth a damn because what I am ACTUALLY doing, according to our mate Steve, is trampling all over Microsoft's intellectual property, wantonly using it for my own personal gratification and possibly my income, and I haven't even paid for that priviledge!
I feel so dirty and cheap.
Most people in the FLOSS community think Steve and Microsoft are FUDslinging, and have made it clear that any so called infringement charge wouldn't stand up in court. Furthermore, Pamela Jones says Steve should actually TELL the community where the bits in the kernel that infringe actually are, because then we could get rid of them or work around them. But apparently, all those of us who don't use SUSE (and therefore haven't paid our intellectual property dues) are infringing on Microsoft's intellectual property, and someone will have to pay. Steve has been pretty generous though, and has mentioned that the deal with Novell isn't exclusive and they are happy to make other deals with other companies (Red Hat, your name was mentioned) so that they won't be infringing if they sign some burning parchment in their own blood.
What I would like to say to Steve is echoing Pamela Jones's sentiments. Tell us where it is, Steve—this infringement you speak of. I'm sure lots of people will be willing to pick up a metaphorical scalpel and dig out the offending bit of code. I wouldn't want to OWE you, Steve. I want to be free of any notion that I should be grateful and accountable to you. And I certainly don't want you to own me, or any of the products that I use.
Now that would make me feel really dirty and cheap.
Show us the code song
Steve, show us the code, show us the infringing code, show us the code.
Steve, code that infringes please show it.
Steve,I show you mine if you show me yours. Oh, Open source is well open. Have you any of ours in yours?
Steve, show us the code, show us the infringing code, show us the code.
Anyone who wishes to add a stanza remember to be polite.
The stench of sulfur
I gather yesterday Ballmer spoke, and today the stench of sulfur still hangs in the air today. No great surprise that he wishes to run a "protection racket" in the practice of software, and sees Novell as his local neiborhood enforcer. I would rather pump gas in NJ for a living than make a "deal" with a sociopathic thug like Mr. ballmer simply to beg for the "right" to practice my chosen profession, which is the kind of world he wishes to create. Evil creates evil, nothing new here.
Hide your candy, folks!
Steve is coming this way, and boy does he look angry.....
I don't know what paper he showed the folks over at Novell to scare $40M out of them. It must have been really ugly.
I'd say: let M$ really sue someone, and let's see if they can win it. Lives may be lost in the process, but Novell looks very very lost anyway, with that chain around the neck...
40 vs 400
Novell got $440M and Microsoft $40M
Does'nt that mean that Microsoft have 10x more infringing code?
"Does'nt that mean that Microsoft have 10x more infringing code?"
To my mind, it mainly means that $400 million is peanuts to Microsoft. Just as with tax dollars, mind you, it came out of *our* pockets originally - or at least, those of us who have paid the Microsoft tax lately.
Microsoft Tax
As a matter of economics, the monopoly price for a typical product doesn't shift a lot (it does shift a little bit) in resonse to costs: the benefit to the supplier of their monopoly is that they get to cream off the surplus value (excess over the normal rate of return) for themselves.
As inquitous as it is, the code was paid for by the shareholders, not the customer, as every dollar incrementally spent on code is probably a little less than a dollar from the shareholders. It would be different in a competitive market; serving the shareholders rather than the consumers is the biggest reason why we have so much DRM in Vista.
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This just seems like a scam
This just seems like a scam between the two companies
Boycott Novell
Let us all remember who it is that is complicit in this FUD campaign, Novell 's self-serving deal legitimizes Microsoft's assault on Linux.
Regardless of the technical wording of the deal, and whether it can be established that Novell is violating the letter of the GPL 2, they are certainly violating its spirit, Novell must not be supported.
Novell hasn't done anything wrong
So they got $400 million from MS, and now they're going to sell products together. What's your problem with that? If you don't like it, don't buy their closed-source products.
Linux and mono remain free software. Novell hasn't done anything to change that - indeed, nobody can change that. That's the beaty of free software, right?
I think Novell has done enough for free software to deserve our respect, and we owe them too much of a moral debt to turn on them angrily just because they took MS money. Where's the offense? Promising not to sue MS over Novell patents? The way I see it, Novell got MS to fund free software development in exchange for not suing over software patents, which are evil anyway. That's great! Let's have more deals like that!
You may claim that Novell is giving up a valuable legal weapon in case of an MS patent offensive against other linux developers. But surely you'll recognize that:
1. Novell cannot stop other parties from suing MS over patents should the need arise.
2. Patents are far less effective against a deep-pocketed closed-source company like MS anyway.
So, to sum up, there's no significant downside to this deal for the free software people, as far as I can tell.
Novell re-licensed UNIX IP to MS
Since Novell appears to still own the rights to the UNIX System V IP that SCO thought it own, Microsoft had to renew that deal or risk killing their UNIX-MS products. At least that's what I think Novell sold MS. :)
On the RedHat front, Steve hasn't been listening to what RedHat has been telling Microsoft. Clean the wax out of your ears, Steve. RedHat told you to "pack sand".
this is illegal
If Ballmer can't prove it, MSFT can be sued for interference. You can't through fud around without any proof. Hello triple damages!!!
Is Microslop using SCO Lawyers?
Ah guys.
Stop picking on Steeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevvvvve.
Time To Market
I think with the final Release date for Vista coming around the corner, this just another one of Microsoft's ways of marketing.
Of course it's a scam
And for just such a reason I absolutely, positively REFUSE ( and will encourage others to do so as well ) to make any use of any product, by-product or derivative that in any way, uses or is associable with MONO. Here I was battling to not only get things working under OSX ( anyone who's ever tried to get MonoDevelop built on OSX would attest to this ), but no more.
Gone are the days when MONO will grace the surface of any platter of any hard drive installed in any computer I own. I will burn the copies of SuSe professional distributions I've actually PAID FOR in the past, in sad homage to the SELLING OUT of Novell who I once held a Gold Certified Partner rating with ( oh those many moons ago while I in college ).
If I were Miguel de Icaza, I would seek out some VC's and buy out all Mono development out from under Novell. Disassociate yourself with it all, Miguel. Before Microsoft pulls back it's ECMA licenseship parts of .NET, leave you holding the bag while saying, "Fooled ya !".
Sounds like the RIAA
Just like the RIAA, a lot of accusation but no substance.
FUD: 1984 Reloaded
Pretty much says it all:
Share if you like :-)
Could it be around the IP
Could it be around the IP technology? I mean, Linux code is *probably* although defintly distinct from Unix's code owned by SCO. Now whilst SCO are attempting to sue IBM and NOVELL, Novel has proven that it held the rights to Unix way before Sco brought it off Bell Labs or whoever. It's also widely acknowledged that MS copied and pasted code for networking from BSD years and years ago. Effectively meaning that SCO and Novell could refute that IP networking code is owned by them alone. Something Microsoft wants them to fight for, since it's pay off to Novell makes it immune to attack - but an enemy of linux is a friend of MS. I'm talking about the actual source code used in all products rather than any patents against the IP Protocol or concept.
Now at the end of the day, Linux is safe and always will be, because even though MS, SCO and Novell are multi-million dollar companies, Linux is supported by the biggest computer companies in the world. 2 Companies so big that there are on the fotune 500 list near the top. I am of course, talking about IBM and Sun Microsystems. IBM of course, make roughly 5 or 6 times the money microsoft makes every year.
With those companies supporting Linux 100% it's easy to see us *little guys* at the bottom have nothing to worry about.
I hope you all find my "conspiracy theories" interesting.
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"It's also widely
"It's also widely acknowledged that MS copied and pasted code for networking from BSD years and years ago. Effectively meaning that SCO and Novell could refute that IP networking code is owned by them alone."
Read the BSD licenses, No one owns a BSD code alone. Unix had a different license. Anyone can copy, modify and use BSD licensed code and relicense it and only has to acknowledge the authors. mac OSX is based on BSD codes.
MS fud machine runs very well
The Microsoft FUD machine is running very well indeed so MS is capable of producing something that actually works lol.
So SCO-like it's funny
Remember Caldera being turned into The SCO Group and turning itself into a litigation and FUD-generating company? That was because it was not very far from being broke.
No Microsoft takes up the self-same tune. What should that tell us about Microsoft's financial future?
Wish Microsoft all the luck they can get - it won't be us who decide whether it is good or bad luck.
Easy Money
Here's the deal microsoft.
I'm using linux infringing on your code
Give me $400,000 and I'll give you $100,000 in return
Somehow this idea of paying so as to avoid being sued reminds me of "paying-for-protection".
Does anyone remember a time when shops had to pay for protection otherwise someone would come and smash the shop or even the hands of the owner?
Anthony Bonello
Microsoft Open Source Free Licence
Let it go another way. Let MS to make their source code free and open. In US there are many pretty Intellectual Property laws. Let's pick up people to change one to force Intellectual Property Owner to free their rights after some time.
For Example: for software and music - 2 years...
And after 2 years MS will be forced to give away source code.
Ho my.......
How many things are in Vista or Other Microsoft products who had copied ?
Please Steve, show your code and stop crying like this.
No wonder my employers (who
No wonder my employers (who have a budget of > $600M / year) won't let a windoze box through security !!!
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OAKLAND — There's a belief by some that Raiders owner Mark Davis signed safety Charles Woodson just to sell more tickets to home games and jerseys with Woodson's name on them.
That's true, in part. Yet, it's also a fact that Woodson isn't your ordinary 36-year old, and he brings more to the equation than selling power.
"The scary thing about it is, I watch him on film and in practice every day and the guy's still got it," Raiders veteran offensive tackle Khalif Barnes said a short time after the Raiders beat the Jacksonville Jaguars 19-9 at the Coliseum in Woodson's first regular-season home game since he signed with the Raiders in the offseason..
"It's not like he's old and can't move. The dude can still play. It's crazy actually. He's a machine. I don't know how he does it after 17 years."
Plenty of thirtysomethings still can play, but how many of them can fly through the air, literally, with the greatest of ease and make perhaps the play of the day?
Woodson showed doubters about his ability to play at a high level just how much he has left Sunday, when he left his feet and launched himself shoulder height toward Jaguars running back Maurice Jones-Drew in the second quarter.
Woodson scored a direct hit, just as Jones-Drew pointed himself toward the Raiders goal line, and dragged down Jones-Drew at the 3-yard line. The Jaguars settled for a field goal two plays later.
"It don't matter, man," Woodson said of his heroics. "I'm just flying over a building in a single bound."
Raiders coach Dennis Allen called the play "huge" and said it helped the Raiders shift momentum.
"Any time you see a guy like Charles Woodson who has played as long as he has and the way he can play at the level that he's played," Allen said, "for him to make an effort play like that really gives the whole team and the defense in particular a lot of momentum. It was a great play."
Woodson's also making a huge impression on his teammates, especially the younger ones.
Rookie cornerback D.J. Hayden didn't see Woodson's high-flying acrobatics. Just the same, he said, he draws inspiration from a player the Raiders selected in the first round of the 1998 NFL draft.
"It's motivation," Hayden said of Woodson's play. "If he can do it, anyone of us can do it. ... Hopefully a little bit of him rubs off on me."
Through two games so far, the Raiders defense allowed only 30 points, or slightly more than what the Raiders allowed per game last season, when Woodson was wrapping up his Green Bay Packers career.
Call it the Woodson Effect? Call it whatever you want, Woodson said, but there's a feeling that the Raiders are on to something meaningful defensively.
"We're onto playing good, hard football," Woodson said, "and that's all we can really ask of everybody. (Sunday), for the most part, we did our job as a team collectively. We beat a team I felt like we were supposed to beat and that's a step in the right direction."
Of course, Barnes would say in a lighter moment, Woodson might need a cane to take that step.
"He could play another two or three years if he wants to," Barnes said. "He's the true definition of a guy that does it because he loves to, because he really doesn't have to. It's plays like that, man, there's not a lot of guys in this room that would put their body through that."


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While tallying the final votes for the annual BGH Top Ten countdown, one trend became immediately clear, even if it wasn't obvious as the year progressed: 2013 was the year of the alt-horror movie. Some may argue the point, but depending on your tally, we're looking at roughly three of the top ten and six of the top 15 films that could be considered "true" horror -- that is, film's whose primary aim is to scare and excite.
The reality is that starting with the number one film, and moving down the top ten, most of these films come with caveats or tongues planted firmly in cheek.
10. Warm Bodies
2013 has been full of zombie movies, games, and books, so it was nice to have some comedy in the midst of all of the "serious" zombie business. Nick Holt managed to be an engaging and fun zombie just looking for some love.
9. Mama
10. Elysium
Allegory as subtle as a jack hammer didn't ruin a film that I admired for at least trying to be science fiction. The characters are conflicted and desperate, and seem to be living moment to moment. In an age were sci-fi films (really, all of genre) are dominated by super geniuses that always make the right moves, it was refreshing.
9. Evil Dead
5. The Conjuring
Although I'm not usually one for supernatural escapades, even I have to respect "The Conjuring" and its kitchen-sink approach to jump scares and possessed things. "Based on a true story" has never been stretched so far, and I ain't mad about it.
4. Sightseers
10. American Mary
You had me at "stripper".
9. World War Z
Was it true to the book? Was it better than the book? Did it stay true to the book? I have no idea, I never read the book. Brad Freakin' Pitt folks. All your arguments are negated by those two pools of fantasy we call eyes.
10. John Dies at the End
Again, being caught up simply in the story, "John Dies at the End" stands out for simply going against the grain. The story is nonsensical times, but it has a definite destination and it gets us there. It just has a lot of fun on the ride there. Formulas are easy, so it's nice to see a film that throws said formula to the way side.
10. Lords of Salem
10. Warm Bodies
On the podcast, Eric called it adorable; we would have said whimsical and charming. Regardless, if your cynicism is stowed in the overhead compartment during viewing, this should be a pretty enjoyable experience.
10. Dark Skies
Simple but effective. 'Dark Skies' is a derivative alien invasion film but strong performances and solid effects combine for a decent horror romp.
9. This is the End
A riotous good time with a slew of famous faces keep this apocalyptic comedy generating laughs and fun throughout.
8. The World's End
10. Maniac & The Act of Killing
The only two films this year that nearly had me take a shower when they were over. One a remake of the 1980 cult classic the other a documentary that employs powerful reenactments of historical violent culls in the Philippines to reconcile the personal delusions of the perpetrators. Bonus points to Maniac for best opening horror sequence of the year.


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The wiki main page has been updated and the one describing the tree structure created. Please shout, if you miss some info that should be there.
The next version will make use of AdditionalFolder(s)AtRoot; finally found a simple way to integrate them (thanks to chocolateboy for testing).
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Child of the Sun Festival Thrives and Grows
Published: Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 5:34 p.m.
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Downtown Lakeland will be filled with the sounds of footsteps hitting pavement and jazz music in the air.
WHAT: Child of the Sun Festival.
WHEN: Saturday. 3 to 10 p.m. Jazz Festival, 7:15 a.m. 5K, 7:30 a.m. Urban Triathlon, 11 a.m. Kids Fun Run, Noon Heart Healthy Pledge Walk.
Concert Schedule: 3 p.m. Brian Sutherland Trio, 3:45 p.m. Florida Southern Jazz Ensemble, 4:45 p.m. Free Time, 5:45 p.m. Jeff Phillips Collective, 6:45 p.m. Belinda Womack, 7:45 p.m. Valerie Gillespie, 9 p.m. Bogus Pomp.
LOCATION: Lake Mirror Promenade, 121 S. Lake Ave., Lakeland.
TICKETS: Free jazz concert. $25 to participate in 5K.
CONTACT: www.cotslakeland.com.
The Lakeland Rotary Club Child of the Sun Jazz Festival and Urban Triathlon will be all day Saturday around the Lake Mirror Promenade in Lakeland.
This year's jazz festival will start an hour earlier, 3 p.m., with Lakeland pop-folk rock band the Brian Sutherland Trio. Sutherland performed for the VIP party at last year's festival and was so well-received they moved him to the main stage.
"We're pretty thrilled," Sutherland said. "We think it's an awesome opportunity for us to share the stage with some really talented, talented musicians."
Other jazz acts returning to the stage include the Florida Southern College Jazz Ensemble, the Jeff Phillips Collective and Belinda Womack.
"She's a phenomenal vocalist and has always been a crowd favorite," Michelle Ledford, marketing chair of the Child of the Sun Festival, said about Womack.
Headlining the event is Bogus Pomp, a Frank Zappa-inspired group playing rock, jazz and everything in between. Over the years, the group has performed with The Florida Orchestra and The Boston Symphony.
The first Child of the Sun Festival was held in 1988 and continued until 2007. After a financially forced hiatus, the Lakeland Rotary Club has operated the event the last three years with the addition of the fitness events. Approximately 5,000 guests are expected to attend this year's festival.
The day starts with the 5K run through downtown at 7:15 a.m. People interested can sign up online or on the day of the race.
The Urban Triathlon features a 0.33-mile swim around Lake Mirror, a transition to a 12-mile bike ride through downtown and then close out with a 5K run.
This year's event features several new elements to the fitness side of the event.
There will be a Kids Fun Run for ages 2 to 12. This free race will divide the kids into age groups and have them run various lengths, from 1K (0.6 miles) for ages 7 to 12 to 25 yards for ages 2 to 3. All kids participating will receive a ribbon and a goodie bag.
There will be a Heart Healthy Pledge Walk beginning at noon, which will continue until 2 p.m. The pledge walk is for anyone interested in raising money or awareness for the Rotary Club's AED Project. AED, or automated external defibrillator, is a portable device that administers an electric shock to restore a steady heartbeat after a heart attack.
"We have one member whose life was saved from an AED available on site where he fell from his heart attack," said Ledford, a Rotary member. "We also have another member who lost his wife, had there been an AED within close proximity, her chances of survival would have been increased. So our Rotary Club has a very personal story in why we've adopted this special project."
Patrons are encouraged to bring blankets and chairs for watching the jazz festival, but guests also are asked to leave coolers at home, as money from food and drink vendors goes to the AED project.
The goal is to put an AED in every Lakeland Police Department car. Their goal is to raise $120,000. The cost of one AED is $1,200.
"You don't have to participate in the event in order to contribute. Anyone can make a donation because this is benefitting the entire community," Ledford said. "For the Lakeland Police Department as first responders to have these devices, it benefits every resident here."
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