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Feeling remarkably fresh for someone working on three hours of sleep (poker is a cruel mistress), I threw my backpack in the trunk and settled in for ride. Behind the wheel was my friend Arun, who generously offered to drive for the trip down to protest the Keystone XL pipeline in Washington D.C. I'd been anticipating this excursion for at least two solid months, so despite my fatigue I was pumped to finally be underway.
Joining us for this excursion were Shayna, my Andover-connected companion from the Portland, Maine protest a few weeks ago, and Ben, a pleasant fellow in his 40's that Arun found on an internet ride-share board. Together the four of us spent the next ten hours chatting, snacking nonstop, and cheering wildly whenever we crossed over into a new state. Being the only meat-eater in a car full of herbivores, I did have to tune out several conversations about favorite brands of tofu and recipes for wheatgrass-infused healthy planet juice. (Going vegetarian/vegan is something I'm considering for the future…but for right now, Meatless Mondays is the best I can muster). I took advantage of this tune-out time to open my newly-purchased Pokemon deck and teach myself the rules. More on that in a bit.
We rolled in to D.C. pretty late, dropped Ben off at his hotel, and made our way over to my friend Leslie's house where we'd be staying. Leslie is a great friend who I've known since the late 90's when we worked together at the now defunct online game company Digital Addiction. Back then I was fresh-faced college student working in an unfamiliar environment far from home, and Leslie really took me under her wing. This weekend she expanded that wing space to include Arun and Shayna…for 48 hours she fed us, housed us, and generally gave us the run of the place. For all of this wonderful hospitality, all she asked in return was for me to play some Pokemon with her 7 year old son Maddox.
As a game designer, I'd be remiss if I didn't take this opportunity to rant about Pokemon, and what an awful game it is. My first experience with it was actually 15 years ago: I'm only slightly ashamed to admit that I watched the television show for a season or two when it was first becoming popular. The Pokemon card game is rather poorly balanced, meaning players often end up in "win more" situations: advantages in deckbuilding (having the best/rarest cards) or during gameplay (being the first to have a strong, fully-powered Pokemon) tend to compound themselves and turn games in to one-sided bloodbaths. In short the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. I'm sure there are some incredibly insightful comparisons I could make here to America's inequality-fostering brand of capitalism, but but instead I'll just say: fuck you, Reshiram. If I never get hit with a "Glinting Claw" attack ever again, it will be too soon. 😛
Cut to the following morning, and the moment Maddox spotted me he had is deck ready and was eager to battle. Like many kids his age, Pokemon is an obsession…it's the last thing he thinks about before bed at night and the first thing he thinks about when he wakes in the morning. We got in maybe three games before breakfast, each one more vicious and lopsided than the last, but I took my beatings like a champ. The best part was Maddox's nonstop G-rated trashtalk, which often devolved in to maniacal cackling during moments of particular triumph. We stopped playing when breakfast was served…Leslie continued her fabulous hosting by feeding us pancakes, and soon we were out the door and on the way downtown for the protest.
In and out of the Metro stations, Washington felt alive…we took pleasure in picking from the crowd all the other people who were clearly headed in for the protest. One group we chatted with on the way was Vanessa Rule and her family. Vanessa is a leader of 350 Massachusetts, and it was great to talk with her and to bank away another important contact from the local environmental scene, since I'm sure we'll be seeing a lot more of each other in the future. At the foot of the Lincoln Memorial we met up with the rest of the sizable Massachusetts contingent, and together we marched to the rally site in the shadow of the Washington Monument. There we listened to several uplifting speeches, surrounded by a huge crowd of 40,000-50,000 people. Similar to Portland, the speeches ran on too long and people got cold and restless, but soon enough we hit the streets and started our march to the White House.
If you've never been part of a big protest, it's a lot like running a marathon or doing a walk for charity. Mingling shoulder-to-shoulder with thousands of people who share your passion and values can't help but fill you with energy and put a smile on your face. The signs, the creativity, the singing and the scenery all contributed to a really terrific experience. Feeding in to this was my sign, which turned out to be kind of a hit. Real life people love memes just as much as internet people…who knew? Of the roughly 20 people that approached me to talk and take pictures, there was a clear division along age lines. Everyone under the age of 50 thought my sign was hilarious, and anyone over the age of 50 were intrigued and wanted to know what it meant. The only negative of the afternoon was that Shayna again suffered terribly from the cold, most visibly in her miraculous color-changing fingers.
After we made our sweep of the White House and the rally began winding down, we all went back to Leslie's to have dinner and strategize. Arun and Shayna decided to return downtown for the official post-rally party, but I took the opportunity to visit my old high school friend Eric White, who lives just over the border in Virginia. All in all it was an incredibly fun and fulfilling day, and when I got back after midnight, I was unconscious the moment my head hit the pillow.
The next morning we got up, ate some breakfast, socialized, poked around Leslie's attic to make sure no homicidal racoons were going to pop out and maul her (she heard noises up there during the night), and then said our goodbyes. I'd like to give a big shout out to my companions, who made the whole trip fun and interesting, and an even bigger shout out to Leslie for being an amazing host. I'm still new to this game of environmental activism, but the feelings of community and connection you get from it are the best part, and something I'm looking forward to more of in the future.


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Corpus Christi, TX • Chapman Field (500)
LIVE VIDEO/STATISTICS: GoIslanders.com
Friday, April 15 • 2 p.m.
ISLANDERS: RHP Ian Campbell (5-2, 2.81) | SFA: RHP Jared West (5-1, 2.97)
Saturday, April 16 • 2 p.m.
ISLANDERS: RHP Justin Meza (2-2, 4.50) | SFA: LHP Tyler Herriage (1-4, 5.10)
Sunday, April 17 • 1 p.m.
ISLANDERS: TBA | SFA: RHP Zack Taylor (3-2, 2.84)
The Texas A&M - Corpus Christi baseball team will play host to Stephen F. Austin in the first full conference series at Chapman Field this season. The Islanders come in at 22-15 overall and 7-8 in Southland play, while the Jacks are 22-11 overall and are just a game back of first-place Texas State at 10-5 in conference. Each team lost two of three games last weekend, while SFA is coming off a midweek win over Arkansas-Pine Bluff.
The Islanders are 9-8 all-time against the Lumberjacks, including a 4-4 mark in Corpus Christi. The Islanders are also 4-4 against the Jacks on the road in addition to a neutral-site win in 2008. Last season, SFA took two of three from the Islanders in Nacogdoches.
Since opening the season 16-5, Stephen F. Austin has slowed slightly, going 6-6 over its last 12 games. The Lumberjacks opened conference play 8-1, sweeping Central Arkansas and Northwestern State, then taking two of three from Nicholls. Since then, they have lost series at Texas State and at home against UTSA to sit at 10-5 in conference play.
SFA has been impressive on the mound, posting a 3.06 team ERA, including a bullpen that has nine hurlers with an ERA of 3.00 or lower. On the offensive side, Bryson Myles has been one of the top players in the league with his .422 average and 29 steals. The Jacks have a .291 team average and have slugged 15 homers on the year.
Teddy Roosevelt wasn't speaking of senior Matt Holland when he uttered that, but there may be no phrase that applies better for the Watkins, Iowa, native. Holland, who is in the Southland's top 10 in doubles, triples and home runs on the year, is a very measured individual. And though he is an important leader for the Islanders, he does so by example.
He leads the team with his 15 multi-hit games and 13 contests with more than one RBI. With 13 two-baggers, he is just seven shy of the season record.
At UTSA, the lefty rocked his third and fourth homers of the year, the latter a mammoth shot that cleared the batter's eye in center, 405 feet from the plate. He had three hits, a run and an RBI in the opener with Lamar and a clutch two-run double at Houston-Victoria to give him 33 RBI on the season.
But his performance against Texas Tech on March 12 was by far his most impressive of the season. The senior went 4-for- 6 and hit for the Islanders' first cycle of the season and the first since Jacob Perales turned the trick against UTPA last year. Needing a longball to complete the trick with two down in the ninth and the bases loaded, Holland ripped a 2-0 pitch over the wall in right for a grand slam to finish off the cycle.
Coming into 2011, senior Ian Campbell's role on the team was expected to provide depth to the staff. But his performance as of late has earned him a spot as the Friday starter last weekend.
Campbell showed his worthiness for that selection, as he tossed a four-hit shutout at Lamar on Friday. It was the first complete-game shutout for the Islanders since Roy Ferdin had one in 2008. He did not allow a runner past second base until the ninth inning, and finished off the affair by getting Ted Zentek to go down swinging.
In 11 appearances, including eight starts, Campbell is 5-2 with a staff-leading 2.81 ERA. The senior, who throws four pitches for strikes, has allowed less than one hit per inning and has 46 strikeouts in 57 2/3.
The soft-spoken Glendale, Ariz., native played two years at Yavapai Junior College before transfering to the Island University prior to the 2010 season. He went 3-5 with an 8.17 ERA in 2010 for the Islanders.
Alvin Community College transfer Michael Boyle had saves in his first two career appearances, and with 19 games to go on the year, he has already anointed himself as the Islanders' single-season and career record holder with seven saves.
On Saturday, Feb. 19, against MVSU, the Houston native closed out both of the Islanders' wins in the doubleheader, earning his first two career saves.
In the win over Oregon State, he proved his gutsiest, punching out four in 1 2/3 and stranding the tying run on third. He struck out the side in the ninth to send the crowd of 3,000-plus to its feet in sealing the win. He has since posted four more saves, including two in conference action.
Somewhat overshadowed by Matt Holland, Trey Hernandez and Week 1 Southland Conference Hitter of the Week Chris Vergne, righty Jacob Perales has been one of the team's best hitters in the first 367games. The Moody High alum is second on the team with a .362 average and is among the team leaders with three homers and 33 RBI.
Perales' performance at Nicholls and the Texas Tech Invitational earned him SLC honorable mention. The senior hit .429 with 11 RBI in five games, including eight RBI in the series at Nicholls. His best game of the season saw him go 3-for-5 with five RBI to lead the Islanders in Saturday's 12-1 rout. The Corpus Christi native now has 19 career home runs to place him sixth in Islanders lore.

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The surfing medalists have been crowned at the 14th Edition of the Pacific Games, held at Passe de Ouarai at Ouano (La Foa), New Caledonia. The locals stepped up into the big three Pacific Surfing Powers, meeting Tahiti and Fiji with newcomers Guam and Papua New Guinea also pushing their claims into the final medal rounds.
Competition increased momentum as the event moved through three qualifying rounds for the semi-final places in the three categories of Shortboard Open Men and Women and Longboard. Consistent four foot set waves throughout the three-day event peeled hollow and fast along the reef, providing the perfect setting for surfing athletes to impress the judges.
It was obvious to everyone attending that the standard of surfing in this region has skyrocketed since the last Games in Samoa in 2007.
The Grand Finals decided the Gold and Silver medal winners, to excite the fans in the flotilla of boats bordering the reef's edge.
The Longboarders hit the water first. Heifara Tahutini (TAH) registered a high early score, leaving Remy Darkis (NCL) waiting for a good wave of his own to mount a challenge. Tahutini showed all the skills of the champion. Good wave selection, strong turns in critical sections of the waves, floaters and nose rides all got their turn in his repertoire.
Darkis worked hard on lesser waves, taking it to his limits with multiple carving turns and nose rides. Tahutini picked off a heat-winning wave in the late stages of the final, racing the critical sections the length of the reef with aggressive moves to win the Gold.
The Women's final saw Jenna Cinedrawa (NCL) take the initiative with a good early wave that was topped by Patricia Rossi (TAH), who managed to do a couple of critical turns. Cinedrawa then forged ahead with additional set waves and an attacking approach of power turning and re-entries. Rossi fought back again, showing the skills and courage of the seasoned competitor she is but fell short on the bell as she rode her last wave. Cinedrawa's wave selection, powerful paddling, aggressive attitude to the wave, carving turns and flow, helped her take the Gold.
The Men's final was a fitting conclusion to the program of the day. Jolcelyn Poulou (TAH) showed his waterman's skills to find the best waves, displaying a vertical and powerful approach of strong bottom turns, lip line turns and floaters to set up his high scores. Jordan David (NCL) surfed tight and fast but couldn't find the scores he needed on the smaller waves. Poulou threw himself around on the set waves aggressively, defying the sections with snaps and floaters, taking a well deserved Gold medal.
A medal ceremony was held onshore attended by representatives of the Organizing Committee for the Pacific Games and local government and community of La Foa.
Teams attending were Tahiti, New Caledonia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Guam, Vanuatu and Kiribati. All athletes lived on site at the Ouano Surf Lodge throughout the event, providing a great opportunity for a cultural surfing exchange for the region. Local surf taxi boatmen ferried athletes and public to the site where a large boat served as spectator podium.
The success of this event has set the scene for increased surfing activity in the region and set a benchmark for surfing as dependable and valid sporting contributor to the Pacific Games program.
Final placings:
1 Heifara Tahutini [TAH] GOLD MEDAL 17.02
2 Remy Darkis [NC] SILVER MEDAL 12.80
3 Ian Muller [FIJ] BRONZE MEDAL
4 Titima Mange [PNG]
1 Jenna Cinedrawa [NC] GOLD MEDAL 11.10
2 Patricia Rossi [Tah] SILVER MEDAL 10.87
3 Kim Bennett [FJI] BRONZE MEDAL
4 Elizabeth Nakos [PNG]
1 Jocelyn Poulou [TAH] GOLD MEDAL 18.37
2 Jordan David [NC] SILVER MEDAL 13.56
3 Aca Ravulo Labalaba [FIJ] BRONZE MEDAL
4 Cheyne Purcell [GUA]
The event was presented by the New Caledonia Surfing League and featured a floating two level judging platform that housed the judging computer system and judging panel on top and marshaling area below at water level.
Passe de Ouarai is on the outer reef about 6 miles directly by boat from the Ouano Surf Lodge that was used as the home base for thee event. Live vision was relayed to shore by wireless and digital photographs provided to web media by a dedicated media team.
The International Surfing Association and Federation Française de Surf provided a Technical Delegate and Head Judge to support the event.
A full digital coverage is available at www.merpassion.com.
Press release compiled by ISA Vice President and Pacific Games Surfing Tournament Technical Director Alan Atkins.


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China's Problems Still Manageable, Says Nobel Laureate
Racing to modernize, China has accomplished an unprecedented feat, expanding its economy 10 percent annually for three decades. Now the country faces slower export sales to customers in Europe and the United States. Some economists fear that problems in the developed world could disrupt China's boom. But Nobel Laureate Michael Spence is confident that the Beijing government will be able to steer through the difficult times, he said at a November event sponsored by the Chazen Institute of International Business and the Social Enterprise Program at Columbia Business School.
"I tend to be an optimist on China," he said. "There are people who have bet against China every year for the last 31 years, and they have lost money every single time."
A decade ago, China relied heavily on exports to the developed world, he noted. But now much of China's trade comes from emerging economies such as Brazil and India. Those countries should continue growing even if Europe stagnates. "Emerging markets can sustain growth when the advanced countries are flat," he said.
To be sure, China has significant problems, including rising debt and increasing inflation. But Spence argued that these challenges are manageable. The aggregate sovereign debt is still well under 50 percent of GDP, a figure substantially below that of the United States and most developed countries, he noted. In addition, the government is raising interest rates to cool the economy and keep inflation under control.
In the coming years, China is likely to enjoy continual rapid growth as the economy enters a new phase that will rely on domestic consumer spending instead of export sales, he said. As part of the 12th Five-Year Plan, the Beijing government will seek to boost wages and profits by making factories more efficient and capable of producing sophisticated products. The aim is to move workers from low-skilled jobs to positions that require higher skills and pay better wages. "The labor-intensive sector of the economy will be exported to countries that are at lower stages of development," he said.
By emphasizing sophisticated manufacturing, China is following the successful course taken by other developing countries, including Japan and Korea, he said.
"The economy is starting to change very fast," said Spence. "They are moving in the direction of increasing their productivity and competitiveness."


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Microsoft will not renew its distribution and licensing agreement with LookSmart. LookSmart and Microsoft have agreed to extend the terms of the current agreement through January 15, 2004, after which the agreement will terminate.
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I love to be right....
The other statements still make sense.
I read an article a few months back where the MS people were talking about Search... and improving the users experience by serving them better advertising.
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I personally believe that M$ are too incapable of seeing past the short term $ to produce a high quality search experience.
The risk from them is the integration of search into the browser in some mandatory way.... an unethical method of forcing out Google/etc by leveraging their relative control of the browser market (which in itself of course was obtained via unethical means).
It's in the DNA of these guys. They can't win by producing a better product and competing fair and square. They'll go for the backdoor underhand approach. Just watch them.
How about integration in to the OS like they are talking about with the next Windows release.
I don't understand why everybody are so happy of MSN dropping Looksmart. Looksmart was a pretty cheap why to advertise with pretty dissent traffic (from MSN).
If you are professional webmaster you would like a steady traffic and Looksmart was pretty good source of traffic. You can't count on Google free unless you like to dance every month with your position up and down or you are not doing it for a living
Dropping Looksmart is not good for Google or Yahoo...Microsoft is taking over...and they will...they will allow everybody to receive free traffic in the beginning and then they will start to charge. This is a predicted 7 billion dollars market by 2007...so if you think Microsoft is here to provide us with a better search experience....then I have a bridge for sale
Did you ever try to advertise with MSN? 40K a month minimum they will not even talk to you for less
can you effort it?
Winning is in the DNA of M$ without any doubt. Winning any game is not about any one single element. Having the best golf swing doesn't make you the US Open champion. Having the best car doesn't make you the number one car manufacturer. Having the best software product certainly doesn't give you a God given right to be numero uno in the software industry.
There are many elements to success, M$ knows how to play better than the competition, and with it brings a certain level of stability.
A bad golfer will blame his clubs....those who knock M$ for outplaying the competition should join the country club frequented by the golfers who claim they would be great if only they had a decent set of clubs ;)
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Incredible. Go read some history... about two years ago....
>> Winning is in the DNA of M$... <<
No. It's winning by using every filthy, scumbag, dirty trick in the book. Winning by exploitation. Winning by having no ethics or morals whatsoever.
That's not winning, it's cheating, and it's not good for anyone. And yes, hopefully Dodger is right and ultimately M$ will be broken up. It should have happened long ago, as this lot are simply not capable of decent human behaviour.
Have you read the article that explains that if MS were broken up it would actually benefit, both financially and from a competitive standpoint?
I hate the guy (my best buddy) that beats me regularly on the golf course every weekend, well at least until we get to the 19th hole. Then I appreciate (usually after a few beers) why it keeps happening to me. He is a better player! MS are the better players, complaining about them won't win.....learning from them will help much more ;)
They don't cheat...they just play every advantage available, sometimes cutting it very close to the line. They are very competitive, and in a capitalist society you have to respect that, don't you?
Those that lose will always complain, whine, claim cheating, call it underhand tactics, and make every excuse in the book for their own failure.
The winner is the winner....if you lose, be honorable in defeat (I'm trying), and go out to play to win another day. "Rubbishing" the competition never wins ;)
If enough people actually thought MS were "scumbags" I'm sure they would ditch their stock. In reality the major shareholder keeps ditching his stock and the general public keep buying it.......says to me that most people think "If you can't beat 'em join 'em".
ultimately M$ will be broken up.
I really hope so because it would unlock some value for the share holders. I put a hundred shares in my pension fund just after the IPO and they have appreciated by over 30,000% but a nice little bonus just before retiring would be the cream on the cake :)
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You just don't get it.... at all. It ISN'T because they win. Definitely not. It's a question of HOW they approach business.
No, they don't cut it "very close to the line", they blow the line away. They destroy competitors by cheating and deploying the most despicable tactics possible.
>> Those that lose will always complain, whine, claim cheating <<
When have I lost to them? Eh? Patently I haven't.... so what nonsense you are speaking here.
I am simply observing that M$ have no ethics and hopefully one day will be broken up. Many, many people, who also have never 'lost' to them, believe exactly the same. Many people hate them for it.
I guess it's a question of your own ethics. Some people have them (decent ethics). Some don't, and will defend an organization like M$ who don't have any either. That's life.
>When have I lost to them? Eh? Patently I haven't.... so what nonsense you are speaking here.
You seem to have interpreted that comment as personally targeted at you....I never post anything based at an individual. But I'm sure you don't dispute that some organizations have lost to MS? (e.g. Netscape).
>Many people hate them for it.
Many people hate lots of successful corporations and other individuals....the successful folks usually assume this as par for the course.
>defend an organization like M$ who don't have any [ethics] either.
I don't defend them (they don't need defending).....I just admire them. They employ over 50,000 people, are very successful, maintain corporate responsibility and by all measures of decency in today's world behave extremely ethically. Ask an MS employee if he/she is worried about their future!
Do they hit competition hard...yes, of course they do. They want to take care of their own interests and their employee's interests. If anyone thinks this is a bad thing....so be it. Personally I can relate to a company that wants to win, for its shareholders, directors and employees.
M$ have a virtual monopoly and if they use their OS to promote their products to the disadvantage of other businesses and the public they will be caught and punished.
They have been warned but they will try anyway - they will lose more respect and ultimately share value as people turn from them when they come under the scrutiny of the regulators.
Your golf analogy demonstrates that you simply don't understand the problem.
Microsoft didn't receive a "granted" almost monopoly on anything.....they gained what they have through business skills.
>M$ have a virtual monopoly and if they use their OS to promote their products to the disadvantage of other businesses and the public they will be caught and punished.
Okay...whatever....please state the law in any country that backs up this ridiculous statement. The Berlin wall fell over a decade ago.....we now live in a capitalist society!
>They have been warned but they will try anyway - they will lose more respect and ultimately share value as people turn from them when they come under the scrutiny of the regulators.
Hmmm....so you don't think the DOJ has already put them under the microscope? MS has had several dark days and still came out smelling of roses for its shareholders.
>Your golf analogy demonstrates that you simply don't understand the problem.
Maybe...or maybe you don't? Time will tell....meanwhile I'll continue to buy MS stock and take the risk if you have no objections to my freedom of action?
USA , Australia for starters - it's called anti competitive behaviour and it's illegal. They aren't competing they're eliminating competition.
Wake up to yourself - buy as much stock as you like but don't try to defend the indefensible just to justify your investment in a monpopoly that's running close to the wire.
There is no law that says a company that has the majority holding in the marketplace must give it up because a few lily livered competitors don't like it!
Sure there are anti-trust laws, but MS has been though that cycle, been found playing too close to the line in a couple of instances, and been reprimanded accordingly. That day is history....now we move on. Blame 'em for trying to win? I don't!
MS wins because it is prepared to call its hand against the full house. When that happens it loses.....but that doesn't happen often.
Who is right and who is wrong, is not going to be decided in this thread....it is going to be decided several years from now. I'm betting on MS, some others are definitely not.......let's see!
There are laws that prevent companies moving to monopolise any market against the interests of the public as I said.
Nothing to do with competitors not liking it.
If you were effected by the potential of this you would sing another tune. Time will tell, I agree with you on that at least.
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Now I wonder how they did that.... how they got off that nice big legal hook. Work it out. The usual M$ route.
>> Many people hate lots of successful corporations and other individuals... <<
Google are successful, but they are rather more admired than Microsoft. You seem to have a blind spot for the reasons for that.
>> .....I just admire them <<
You are partly what you admire, so that says rather a lot about you and your character.
>> buy as much stock as you like but don't try to defend the indefensible <<
Dodger is correct. If you can twist reality to justify it to yourself, go ahead, but don't try to convince me that M$ is anything other than a grubby zero-ethic cheating enterprise that one day WILL be brought to justice.
Yeah why? because they are sending you free traffic. I wonder if they charge for the traffic you still going to like them so much.
I like Google, I like their traffic but I pay for my Google traffic I like Looksmart (MSN) much better because the traffic is not as expensive as Google. Too bad it's over but I am sure next I am going to like Inktomi and Yahoo.
I like Microsotf because over the years I made a lot of money using their products. I use Windows, I use Windows server, FrontPage and Visual studio. The new .NET product is great bytheway
As mentioned over on the MSNBot thread, the question is not whether MSN is creating their own search service but rather when that service will go into operation. M$ has (I'm sure) taken a close look at how LS does its business, seen how much money Google is swimming in, and decided that they could make lots of money too if they did things somewhat differently than they have to date.
The question with search engines in the past is how much paid advertising denigrated the validity/relevance of returns. In the past, Altavista fell from grace for that very reason. What worries me about MS getting into the SE game is that it would be trivial to integrate a MSN-search-centric function into Longhorn, etc. that shuts out other SE's unless the user is willing to open a browser and then go surf at Google.
Thus, the user is betrayed by the convenience rather than the relevance of the search function built into the OS. Nevermind the possibilities regarding the redirection of folks away from other SE's that MS could integrate into its IE browser ("Think these results are good enough? Come see what we can offer you!"). Etc.
I hope the folks at Google are already running like crazy. Netscape and the long list of other burned-out MS competiors should be enough warning. As the courts have determined, MS broke many laws in terminating their competitors, but the big bucks MS spent on capitol hill have finally paid off - the government in its current incarnation won't touch the company.
joined:Apr 13, 2002
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Start -> Search -> On the Internet ...
Yeah, yeah, that's well known.
This is something different as it is integrated into the way files are stored on and fetched from the hard drive. It involves personalizing search based upon who your hard drive says you are.
My Reply -
I would never use MSN's search over Google's search.
MSN brings queries 'targeted advertising'
Google brings nothing more than what it finds on pages througout the world. It returns pure results
If you have ever used skip tracing databases you would agree that nothing holds a candle to Google.
You can find dirt on just about everybody or any company on Google.
I open my browser with about:blank and immediately start using my Google toolbar to find what I need. I laugh at poor computer users who open internet explorer and are by default sent to msns home page.
I received some good traffic through Looksmart(via MSN)the last year or so,(actually probably the best $300 spent)
but I would never try to optimize for MSN over Google...
There is no way my computer is ever going to know what I want to search for unless I type it into my google toolbar -until the day comes when we speak to our computers and they understand what we want and return the information we need!
it's off topic here, but I wonder, how will the desktop look as a marketing venue when microsoft has the architecture the way it wants it in longhorn?
half the people will use the then-3rd party services like google, the other half are like the pilgrims of today, marks and victims that we want to sell to also.
So there will be two (or three) primary ways to sell to them, for prices that will have to allow ROI even for modest sellers.
How's all that going to look?
maybe it can come back on topic a little - for MS search, I don't think they need a very good one Brett, the kind of people they'll trap inside their experience won't know the difference .. and MS will move according to marketing tides and timetables, not technological
remember, Microsoft are not a technology provider, they're a merchandiser, and always have been. It's the only way to think about them.
Is that apart from the ten adverts per page for some searches?
If you ignore the Looksmart backfill being advertising, then MSN only shows ten ads per search. If they stick with the same format when they switch to pure Inktomi then MSN won't be showing any more ads than Google.
Personally, I find that Google's quality has wained somewhat over the past few months and if MSN produce a good quality crawler, I will be happy to give it a fair trial.
That is a voice of reason. MS have already done the right thing by dropping LookSmart. If they replace it with 50 Overture listings then I will be the first to condemn them.
But as of right now, and Danny's comments, we have to assume it will be primarily INK based.....and sometime after their own search technology.
MS are way behind the field in this arena, but they can afford to catch up quickly.
I have no complaints with M$ search as long as they don't build it in to their OS to lock out other search engines.
I don't care how many ads they have as long as they don't use the default OS of the planet to exclude other SE's. That's illegal, no one will stand for it.
Google is still the best by far, M$ will not be able to compete with it on any level playing field because they will go for the dollar first at the expence of relevant search results.
Google ads are easily distinguished from the general search results, I bet M$ will not do that.
What is and isn't legal is determined by courts of law....not by me, not by you and not by anyone else, other than those who sit on Juries and wear robes.
If MS decide to do something that the general public don't like....then you need not worry...the general public will vote with their mice.
Condemning MS for what they may or may not do in the future is pure conjecture.....let's wait and see first :)
LS are foolish in many respects to be reying on one company for so much of their revenue.


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Lawmaker Takes Acid Test on Fukushima Water
Being a politician can be a thankless job requiring unique talents, especially for those overseeing the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. But after a stunt at a Monday press conference, one Japanese lawmaker set a tough precedent for his colleagues: must be willing to drink water taken from a puddle inside a nuclear plant.
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With TV cameras rolling, the parliamentary secretary for the Cabinet Office, Yasuhiro Sonoda, downed a glass of water originally taken from a puddle located inside the building that houses reactors No. 5 and 6 at the troubled Fukushima Daiichi plant in an apparent attempt to prove that progress is being made in the plant clean-up work.
It wasn't to quench his thirst. In a tense scene that might have seemed more appropriate in an episode of "Fear Factor" rather than under the unflattering fluorescent lights in the briefing room at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s headquarters, Mr. Sonoda finished the glass in two swift gulps as a way to show the water – that had been through a process to decontaminate it of radioactive elements — was safe enough to drink. (See the video here at about minute 6:30)
Having downed it, even Mr. Sonoda seemed aware that his action might conceivably be taken for little more than a stunt.
"Just drinking (the treated water) does not mean safety has been confirmed. I know that," he said. "The best way is to present data to the public."
Prior to the big swigs, Mr. Sonoda had attempted to do just that, reading off a report card of test results that deemed the water safe to imbibe: Cesium-134 and 137, as well as alpha and beta radiation were not detected in the water. Yes, there was a small amount of tritium, but, the lawmaker explained, at a level in line with the guidance levels recommended by the World Health Organization for drinking water. The damages incurred on March 11 at reactors 5 and 6 weren't as severe as those that hit the other four at the plant.
So why drink the water? The stunt was the culmination of multiple requests by journalists attending Mr. Sonoda's regular news conferences to put his money where his mouth is.
The water in question has been a sticking point at recent briefings. As one of the major pillars of its cleanup efforts, Tepco has been removing radioactive cesium from pooled water left behind the March 11 tsunami inside reactor buildings. But with temporary storage facilities approaching full capacity, the utility company said Oct. 7 it would start using treated water taken from close to the Nos. 5 and 6 reactors to spray on nearby trees to control dust movements and prevent potential fires.
To prove its safety, "Would you at the least drink a glass of the water?" asked freelance journalist Yu Terasawa at an Oct. 13 news conference. Mr. Terasawa noted that other lawmakers in leadership positions have similarly obliged: former Prime Minister Naoto Kan and then-chief government spokesman Yukio Edano both ate produce from Fukushima prefecture to reassure the public the food is safe to eat.
In response, Mr. Sonoda readily stepped up to the plate: "I don't want it to be taken as some kind of performance," he said Oct. 13. "But if that's the best way to show the water is safe, then I won't mind drinking the water right here, in front of everyone, at any time." (See live video here at about 58:00)
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May 13, 2006
Honolulu, Hawaii - After the first full day of competition at the 2006 WAC Championships, the University of Nevada track & field team is in fourth Friday at Cooke field in Hawaii. Nevada scored one medal, and four second-team All-WAC honors and qualified another six runners into Saturday's finals to rack up 37 points.
Idaho currently leads the eight-team field with 47 points over 2006 WAC Indoor Champion Louisiana Tech with 43. In front of Nevada is Utah State with 40 points and behind the Wolf Pack is New Mexico State with 32.
The Wolf Pack scored big in its first event of the day with the hammer throw. Senior Caira Hane (Hillsboro, Ore.) won a silver medal in her best event with a throw of 57.25-meters. Fellow senior Janine Bodo (Reno, Nev.) also scored in the event with a sixth-place 55.03-meter throw. The Pack throwers kept it going strong with senior Jamie Martino (Reno, Nev.) placed fourth in the shot put with a throw of 14.66-meters. Sophomore Inger Appanaitis (Brookings, Ore.) pulled out a surprised performance with her sixth-place finish (14.23m) when she was not even one of the top ranked shot putters in the WAC top-marks going into the meet.
Long jumpers brought in more field-event points with two more top-eight finishes in the long jump. Junior Ciara McMillian (Vacaville, Calif.) finished fifth with a jump of 5.78-meters while sophomore Ashley Land (Chandler, Ariz.) added even more individual points finishing eighth (5.51m).
On the track, most of the events were just preliminaries, but the distance runners competed in finals of the 3,000-meter steeplechase and 10,000-meters. In the steeplechase, senior Melis Garner (Roseburg, Ore.) paced the Wolf Pack with a fifth place at a time of 11:23.33. In the grueling 10,000m, it was senior Kendall Knowles (Bend, Ore.) with the top Nevada place at sixth in 39:05.92 followed by sophomore Amanda Gramly (Las Vegas, Nev.) in eighth at 39:34.01.
Only one day remains in the meet with the conference champion begin crowned on the end of the day Saturday. The first of the women's events will begin with the javelin at 2:30 p.m. (HT) and the 4x100-meter relay on the track at 3:05 p.m. (HT). With a higher number of athletes in Saturday's finals than expected, and a number of events yet to be compete, Nevada will look to make a run at winning its first-ever WAC Outdoor Championship. The Wolf Pack has twice won the WAC's indoor title, one WAC cross country title, but the last outdoor title it won was the Big West in its final year in the conference back in 2000.
Team Standings (Seven Events Scored) 1. Idaho, 47 2. Louisiana Tech, 43 3. Utah State, 40 4. Nevada, 37 5. New Mexico State, 32 6. Hawai`i, 30 7. Boise State, 25 8. Fresno State, 19
Nevada First-day WAC Scoring Finishes Hammer Throw Caira Hane (2nd, 57.25m) Janine Bodo (6th, 55.03m) Shot Put Jamie Martino (4th, 14.66m) Inger Appanaitis (6th, 14.23m) High Jump Amanda Boice (7th, 1.63m) 3,000-meter Steeplechase Melis Garner (5th, 11:23.33) Long Jump Ciara McMillan (5th, 5.78m) Ashley Land (8th, 5.51m) 10,000-meters Kendall Knowles (6th, 39:05.92) Amanda Gramly (8th, 39:34.01)
Nevada Qualifiers into Saturday's Finals 100-meter Dash Jerita Wilson (6th, 12.07) 200-meter Dash Jerita Wilson (7th, 24.92) 400-meter Dash Shaina Wright (7th, 57.51) 100-meter Hurdles Analisa Serrano (5th, 14.50) 400-meter Hurdles Polly Smith (2nd, 1:01.80) Rosana Medina (5th, 1:03.66)
Burns continues international run in China
Monday, June 29, 2015 - Women's Basketball
Wolf Pack golf alums qualify for the U.S. Open
Monday, June 8, 2015
A letter from Doug Knuth: Much to be proud of for Wolf Pack fans
Thursday, May 28, 2015 - General
Pack women's golf signee Collom wins state tournament
Thursday, May 21, 2015 - Golf
Letter from Doug Knuth: Questions and answers about our 2015 football schedule
Monday, March 9, 2015 - Football
Pack puts on clinic for local children in Puerto Vallarta
Friday, March 6, 2015
Former Nevada coach headlines Boys and Girls Club Dinner
Friday, January 30, 2015 - General
Christenson earns spot in World Cup rifle competition
Wednesday, January 14, 2015 - Rifle
Pack freshman Surin races against her Olympic medalist father
Tuesday, January 6, 2015 - Track and Field
A letter to Wolf Pack fans from Doug Knuth: Successes on the field and in the classroom.
Monday, January 5, 2015 - General
Former Nevada track & field standout Hanson passes away
Tuesday, December 23, 2014 - Track and Field
Tonight's Wolf Pack basketball game will feature "Kindness Minute"
Saturday, December 13, 2014 - General
A letter to Wolf Pack fans from Doug Knuth: Mackay Stadium renovation approved
Friday, December 5, 2014 - Football
Wolf Pack Fans, Reward Yourself and the Team
Monday, November 17, 2014 - Football
Wolf Pack women's basketball hosts free skills clinic
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This category lists the boxers who have held a generally recognized world title in the Welterweight division under the Marquess of Queensberry Rules.
- The maximum weight for this division is 147 pounds (66.7 kg or 10½ stone).
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Be Assertive, Resist Injustive, President Kagame tells youth
KIGALI, Rwanda, July 23, 2014 /PRNewswire/ – Rwanda's President Paul Kagame has told African youth that their role in fighting corruption is not to give or receive. He made the remarks during an interactive session July 21 with youth from various African countries who are participating at the two-day Youth Dialogues conference organized by the Mandela Institute for Development Studies (MINDS) in Kigali, Rwanda.
Responding to various questions from young men and women from different parts ofAfrica, President Kagame said young people should be assertive and resist injustice in whatever form it manifests itself:
"Sometimes you need to be stubborn. As they stay on course of causing you problems, you stay on the course of pushing back. At the end you are the ones who pay the price if it goes wrong and benefit if it goes right."
President Kagame pointed out that Africans should endeavor to find solutions to their own problems and resist the urge to look around for assistance and blame for their predicaments.
"The tragedy Rwanda has experienced should be a lesson to us. We cannot go looking for solutions elsewhere," said the President. "We have accepted a sense of mediocrity and a tendency to look at others and not to ourselves for solutions."
He added: "The blame for what is wrong goes around but we also need responsibility to go around otherwise we may wait for another 100 years if we keep thinking Western taxpayers are responsible for our development. The more we accept responsibility for our problems and the more we look for solutions within, the faster we will develop."
The annual youth dialogue is the second conference organized by the Mandela institute for Development Studies, following the 2013 Ghana youth dialogue. The youth dialogue provides a platform for young Africans from across the continent to interrogate current levels of African youth's involvement in electoral and governance processes.
The Kigali dialogue has attracted about 100 participants from 43 African countries drawn from Community leaders, students, journalists and political parties within the age bracket of 15-45 years.
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Definition of castle in English:
- Here, you can see stone cannon balls built into the castle walls, defensive battlements and interior living quarters.
- I sat in the guard barracks in the outer wall of the castle battlements.
- THE 5ft-thick walls of a medieval castle have seen the light of day again after centuries buried underground.
- Castle Howard is the property of the Howard family, while Harewood House and Burton Constable belong to trusts.
- The real Grace Nugent been a near neighbor, living at Castle Nugent four miles north of Edgeworthstown.
- Hopefully soon they would catch up to Ian's caravan, and would return to castle Laramont with Rana.
verb[no object] (often as noun castling) Chess
- Also, he would like to clear the back rank before he castles to give his Rooks greater maneuverability.
- At this point I think Black could simply castle when once again I see nothing wrong with his position.
- And White lost more than a tempo, more like two or three since it took five bishop and knight moves to make the captures and Black did not lose a tempo with castling and only made two capturing moves with his rook and king.
- 'He's just a crybaby if you ask me,' the other spat as he castled his king.
- If White's King was castled, then 4.Nxd6 would be equal.
- But if the kings are castled on opposite sides and the half-open file bears down on the enemy king, it's a big plus and can easily offset even doubled isolated pawns.
castles in the air (or in Spain)
- Visionary unattainable schemes; daydreams: my father built castles in the air about owning a boatMore example sentences
- The neurotic is the type of person who's continuously building dream castles in the air.
- Please tell him just to gently post the mail into the box I have so willingly provided, and then tell him to be on his way, to beat his path away from my dreamy semi-consciousness, and leave me to my somnolence, my reverie of castles in the air.
- if you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. now put the foundations under them.
- ( archaic)Example sentences
- Each of the worlds that you fly in are unique, from barren wastelands and deserts to a castled city to flying through ice caverns or a volcano.
Late Old English: from Anglo-Norman French and Old Northern French castel, from Latin castellum, diminutive of castrum 'fort'.
Castle goes back to Latin castellum, 'little fort' from castrum 'fort'. To build castles in the air is to have daydreams or unrealistic fantasies. It comes from a Latin phrase used by St Augustine, who became bishop of Hippo in North Africa in ad 396. Another version, originally a translation from medieval French, is to build castles in Spain. This country was probably chosen because it was a distant place where it would have been extremely unrealistic to build—most of it was under the rule of the Moors at the time the phrase was first used in French.
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There are 2 main definitions of Agenda 21 in English:
Agenda 21 1
1990s; earliest use found in EPA Journal. In reference to the 21st century.
There are 2 main definitions of Agenda 21 in English:
agenda 2
- When he had been Mayor he had proposed that Any Other Business be removed from the meeting agendas.
- The meeting discussed the agenda for the games and a further meeting will be held at a later date.
- I am more than content to discuss this issue further and will add this to the agenda for our next meeting.
- In most cases they raise the funding on the basis of their own agendas, plans and proposals.
- Top of the agenda were plans for the Atlantic League designed to accommodate big clubs from the smaller countries.
- Advocate for inclusion, but if they fail them in that regard, they should create their own programs and agendas to address the needs we neglect.
- Into their barren lives comes Aunt Miriam, a social worker with an agenda.
- According to Harawira, the unions had their own agenda - closely aligned to protecting the interests of the company.
- The various pressure groups which preserved these stories all had their own agendas.
- Alter people's agendas so that no two contain any common item.
- We will be sending you a calendar of events for the entire year, which should help organize your agendas and allow you to offer your utmost participation.
- Also included is an attractive leather bound agenda made with recycled tropical fibers such as coffee, tobacco and bananas as well as an executive brass pen made with recycled brass.
Although agenda is the plural of agendum in Latin, in standard modern English it is normally used as a singular noun with a standard plural form (agendas). See also data (usage) and media1 (usage).
on the agenda
- Scheduled for discussion at a meeting: the rights of minorities would be high on the agenda at the conferenceMore example sentences
- Also, the Civil Defence chief has been continuing to place the issue on the agenda of meetings.
- Ivory will again be a major issue on the agenda at the 11th meeting of CITES in April.
- Plans to construct a wind farm are on the agenda for the September meeting of Ramsbottom and Tottington Area Board.
- 1.1Likely or needing to be dealt with or done: his release was not on the agendaMore example sentences
- Celebrating St George's Day in April was likely to be high on the agenda, she said.
- But deals are definitely back on the agenda, particularly among mid cap companies.
- War is likely to be high on the agenda as entrepreneurs attempt to work out whether the conflict is good or bad for business.
set the agenda
- Influence or determine a programme of action: he has set the agenda for future work in this fieldMore example sentences
- The authors touch upon the importance of actors influencing and setting the agenda on biotechnology.
- As a reporter, she has spent her life setting the agenda and seems determined to continue to do so in our time together.
- By setting the agenda and influencing judgments, innovations become targets of imitation.
Early 17th century (in the sense 'things to be done'): from Latin, neuter plural of agendum, gerundive of agere 'do'.
actor from Late Middle English:
An actor was originally simply 'a doer', usually an agent or an administrator; the theatrical sense dates from the 16th century. Like act (Late Middle English) it comes from Latin actus 'thing done', which comes from agere 'to do, drive'. This is the basis of other English words such as agenda (early 17th century) 'things to be done'; agent (Late Middle English) 'someone or thing who does things'; agile (Late Middle English) 'able to do things'; agitate (Late Middle English) originally meaning 'drive away'; ambiguous (early 16th century) 'drive in both ways', a word, which appears to have been coined by the English scholar and statesman Sir Thomas More (1478–1535), originally in the sense 'indistinct, obscure'; transaction (Late Middle English) 'something driven across or through' and many more. Actuality (Late Middle English) originally had the sense 'activity'; from Old French actualite from actualis 'active, practical'. The modern French word actualité (usually meaning 'news') is sometimes used in English to mean 'truth', a sense not found in French as in: 'When asked why the company had not been advised to include the potential military use, he [Alan Clark] said it was our old friend economical…with the actualité' (Independent 10 November 1992).
Words that rhyme with agendaaddenda, amender, ascender, attender, blender, Brenda, contender, corrigenda, descender, engender, extender, fazenda, fender, gender, Glenda, Gwenda, hacienda, Länder, lender, mender, offender, pudenda, recommender, referenda, render, sender, slender, spender, splendour (US splendor), surrender, suspender, tender, Venda, weekender, Wenda
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Collection A
- Artists Josh Wink, Danny Serrano, Gonzalez, Gonzalo (Spain), Anil Chawla, Nic Fanciulli, Gary Beck, Philip Bader, Robert Dietz, Steve Mac
- Release Date 2011-10-24
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- Description Following a successful summer with releases from Steve Mac, Spencer Parker, &ME and many more,Saved presents their new compilation series "Collection". Making a presence on Collection A is music from established and new label artists. Josh Wink delivers a rendition of Steve Mac & Nic Fanciulli's "Give it to me" and Gary Beck presents another peak time bomb called "Funk Up High".Making their debuts on the label is Cadenza's Robert Dietz as well as Gonzalez & Gonzalo who have collaborated with Danny Serrano on "Wasabi". Anil Chawla returns to Saved for the first time since 2006 with "Silver Digger" which has been massive for Richie Hawtin as does Berliner Philip Bader with "Amir Loves you". The final addition to the compilation is a single from label boss Nic Fanciulli called "Neve & Me"


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Santa Barbara police said they caught three men accused of beating up a security guard after they were caught shoplifting.
Police said it happened at Sears in La Cumbra Plaza in Santa Barbara.
Investigators said the 17, 18 and 22-year-old men were all on probation.
They left on foot and were caught in a nearby neighborhood.
The evidence includes surveillance video from Sears.
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The level of filling-in and when it is cognitive
This informative and conceptually stimulating target article is very useful. I merely query whether the term "illusory contours" is appropriate for gap filling; "illusory surfaces" seems better – and "fictional surfaces" better still. These seem to be rule based rather than knowledge based, suggesting indeed the importance of distinguishing rules (analogous to syntax in language) from knowledge (equivalent to semantics) for classifying perceptual phenomena.


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How a Male CEO's Kids Affect His Workers' Pay
Let's say you work for a company run by a male chief executive whose wife is about to give birth to a child. You might want to cross your fingers they have a daughter.
The gender of a male CEO's children — particularly his first-born — can significantly affect the salary of his employees, according to new research from Aalborg University economics professor Michael Dahl, University of Maryland Smith School of Business professor Cristian Dezso and Columbia Business School professor David Gaddis Ross. The paper was presented Friday at the American Economics Association annual meeting.
First, the bad news. In general, when a male chief executive has a baby, his workers' salaries shrink by 0.2%, or about $100 per year. There's a 0.4% drop if he fathers a son, according to the study of almost 1,600 births to more than 18,000 male CEOs at 10,655 private companies in Denmark between 1996 and 2006. That might be because the executive feels he has to hoard resources for his own family, the paper suggests. One clue: the researchers also found that a male CEO's own wages rise 6.3% after the birth of a son and 3.5% after the birth of a daughter.
But there's good news for workers too: the dynamics change if the CEO and his wife have a daughter, particularly if she is their first child. Employees' wages actually go up after the delivery of a first-born daughter. Female employees get the larger boost: their salary tends to grow by 1.1%, compared to a 0.6% gain for male employees.
In general, female workers benefit more when a male CEO has kids, regardless of the child's gender. Even when the executive has a son, female employees' salaries shrink by a more modest 0.2%, compared to a 0.5% drop for male workers. And when the son is the executive's first child, female employees' salaries actually go up 0.8%.
That could be because becoming a father alters an executive's view, particularly toward women, the paper suggests. Previous research shows men's esteem for their wives often rises when they become mothers and this shift may nudge male executives to also view their female employees as more competent, the authors note. Other studies have also shown that men sometimes care more about other people's well-being after fathering a daughter.
"I have two daughters," Mr. Ross noted on Friday. "Do I think having kids has influenced me? Heck yes."


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Crofoots were early settlers of Onondaga County
and Cortland County, New York. Chapter 26 of Smiths history of Cortland includes this information
about the family: James Crofoot was one of
the prominent early settlers and probably
emigrated from Connecticut about the year 1806,
arriving in Preble during the latter part of that
year. He settled on lot 88 and was one of the
very first to locate in Baltimore. Other
Crofoots were businessmen, the tavern-keeper, the
township supervisor, a tanner, and a shoemaker.
The David
O[liver?] Crofoot in this picture may have been
James Crofoots grandson, and was born 08
Oct 1833 in Preble, Cortland County, NY. David
and Sarah E. Tallman, born 16 Mar 1841 in Preble,
were married 08 October 1867, also in Preble.
David and Sarah
had the following children: John Tallman Crofoot,
born 14 Oct 1869; Mary Emma Crofoot, born 12 Dec
1870 in Preble; Henry C. Crofoot, born Aug 1875;
and Wellington A. Crofoot, born 29 Sep 1877, also
in Preble. It seems amazing that Wellington
Crofoot died in Los Angeles, California, but see
below for a further California connection.
The Elmwood Cemetery of Preble township,
Cortland County, contains these gravesites:
Sarah E. Tallman Wife of David O. Crofoot
bu[ried] February 11, 1895 aged 54 yrs. Daughter
of Moses T. and Jerusha Peters Tallman and
David O. Husband of Sarah Tallman bu[ried]
July 11, 1914 aged 80 yrs. Son of Alonzo and Jane
Severson Crofoot.
Here is a small
family mystery: the Tallmans, husband and wife,
are in Hannah Richs photograph album, as is
the Tallmans son-in-law. But why isnt
Sarah, their daughter and his wife, also there?
Hard as it is to believe, then,
David Crofoots picture was taken in
California in 1866!
Daguerreian Registry gives us this further information
about photographer Selleck: he was active as a
daguerreian in New York City and San Francisco,
California, and he was a member of the New York
State Daguerreian Association in 1851. In his
advertising in 1852 he stated that he was
formerly with Brady's (Matthew Bradys?)
gallery, and for six years was the principal
operator there. From 1854 to 1861 he was listed
in San Francisco, California, on Clay Street.
The Cleveland Museum of Art tells us that Muggeridge
learned the art of photography in 1867,
possibly from his friend Silas Selleck. Soon
after, [Muggeridge] emerged as the
"artist-photographer" Eadweard
Muybridge. Also known as "Helios," the
proprietor of a mobile photo wagon called the
Flying Studio, he became associated with
Selleck's Cosmopolitan Gallery. More
about Muggeridge and his revolutionary
photographic work can be found at Bigshotz
Panorama Photographers - Past & Present.
Selleck seems to
have taken pictures of a number of west coast
luminaries of the time, including an 1863
portrait of Prof. J D Whitney, State Geologist of
The Fine Arts Museums of
San Francisco own another Selleck picture, an odd
photograph of nine-month old Emily Tucker in 1860
or 1861, and the Bancroft Library Pictorial
have another Selleck portrait: Unidentified
So . . . David O
Crofoot of Cortland County, NY, went west
sometime before 1866, had his picture taken by
famous photographer Silas Selleck in San
Francisco, and returned in 1867 to marry Sarah E
Tallman in Preble township, where their four
children were born. What was he doing in
California? Did he ever return there? And how did
it happen that his son went to Los Angeles?
This just in about the California
Connection: because of his picture, we know that
David Crofoot was in California in 1866. One of
his children died in California. Now, David's
mother-in-law, Jerusha Peters Tallman, was the
sister of Richard and John Peters, and it seems
entirely possible that David met his wife through
Richard Peters, who lived in the same township
that he did.
Is it too
far-fetched to imagine that this passage from the
Delaware County Biographical Review might shed
some light on David Crofoots business on
the West Coast?
In the year
1850, having purchased a farm in the village of
Bloomville, [John Peters] removed to that
village, where he shortly after engaged in that
mercantile business. This was the period when the
gold excitement of California was at white heat;
and as an experiment, he made at different times
large shipments of butter to that market. One of
the methods adopted with fair success for
preserving it sweet during the journey of two or
more months necessary for its transit was that of
packing the butter in small wooden kegs, holding
about one gallon, identical in style with the
old-fashioned oyster-kegs. These kegs were in
turn packed in large casks of sixty or more
gallon capacity, and the vacant spaces carefully
filled with Turk's Island salt. These weighty
packages were then carted by team to Catskill,
thence by water to New York, and thence around
Cape Horn [at the bottom of South America],
crossing the equator twice on their journey to
the forty-niners in that then far-off
land of golda venture which proved a
financial success.
and Carolyn have attempted to identify all
persons in the album and learn more about them
through research of various records. If you can
help us identify or add further information to
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"It has been twenty-eight days since she last spoke to me. How can she not call or reach out in some way? I have no idea if I'm going crazy or if I'm already there. Is this what it feels like?
I'm afraid of the thoughts that I'm having. My only relief is when I'm sleeping . . . When I am able to get rest, I risk dreaming of her. The dreams are happy ones, but then I wake and feel the truth bearing down on me . . .
I go upstairs and locate a loaded 9-millimeter handgun. It is heavier than I remember.
I say a prayer to God to forgive me and to understand why I can't go on anymore like this. I beg God to realize that I will never be able to fit into the life that I've created, that I will never be accepted.
I pick up the gun and put the end of it in my mouth. It's cold. I hold it steady and get my right thumb on the trigger and prepare to pull it by pushing it outward.
I close my eyes . . . thumb still on the trigger.
My mind is going a million miles an hour. I think of my family, my dogs, my friends, my fans, the sun, a kiss from Julia, and music.
Then I hear a noise.
It is the sound of my heart pounding in my head . . ."
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Doctor explains why women choose double masectomies
Surgery reduces chance of cancer recurringUPDATED 8:34 PM EDT Sep 04, 2014
Dr. Suzanne Hoekstra of Mercy Breast Care Specialists of Maine explains why women with breast cancer choose to have double masectomies. Although a recent study concluded the surgery does not increase women's survival odds, Hoekstra said women may choose it to avoid surgery again and that double masectomies drastically reduce the odds of cancer recurrence.Video Transcript
FOLO-STINGER FL IN HEALTH HEADLINES.. MORE AND MORE WOMEN DIAGNOSED WITH BREAST CANCER THESE DAYS ARE HAVING DOUBLE MASTECTOMIES. DOCTORS SAY THERE HAS BEEN AN INCREASE IN WOMEN UNDERGOING DOUBLE MASTECTOMIES FOR EARLY STAGE CANCER IN ONE BREAST.. THIS DESPITE A NEW STUDY WHICH SUGGESTS THE SURGERY DOESN'T IMPROVE SURVIVAL ODDS WHEN COMPARED TO A LUMPECTOMY...THE REMOVAL OF THE TUMOR AND RADIATION. WHILE IT MAY SEEM HARD TO UNDERSTAND WHY SOMEONE WHO HAS CANCER IN ONE BREAST WOULD CHOOSE TO HAVE THEM BOTH REMOVED.. RATHER THAN JUST THE TUMOR..A LOCAL DOCTOR WE TALKED TO SAID MOST OF THE WOMEN WHO DO IT ARE THINKING ABOUT THEIR FUTURE. FOLO-VO1 FOLO-SOT VO 22:02:22-22:02:41 'this is why most women will say I understand I can have a will say I understand I can have a lumpectomy but I don't want to think about having cancer again, I don't want to have surgery again. And even though a double mastectomy doesn't completely eliminate any chance that they will get breast cancer again, it drastically reduces it." DOCTOR HOEKSTRA SAYS SHE HAS SEEN AN INCREASE IN PATIENTS REQUESTING DOUBLE MASTECTOMIES, BUT ADDS EACH PATIENT'S "CANCER TREATMENT' IS A PERSONAL CHOICE.
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Only in da interwebz can a murder/suicide turn into an e-beef....
And neither here nor there I found PatSox's Raider trade joke hilarious....
The Underdog Challenge IX: Champion
The Underdog Challenge X: Champion
Mad props to LaMaar for not mentioning the killer....from his FB page:
LaMarr Woodley
"Thoughts and prayers are with kasandra perkins and the surviving 3 month old baby, as well as those impacted by the KC tragedy."
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actually he was very cool. This is also the same place I became a John Elway hater.
Jordon had the most security, but still shook hands, signed autographs, and casually chatted with people. As did 90% of the celebs there.
John Elway...had security as well (not all of the celebs had security but Jordon and Elway stood out in this regard)...Mr. Dikwad wouldnt even acknowledge the fans. No hand shakin, no autographs, no contact what so ever. Purely focused on his golf game. These tourneys are FOR the FANS....all monies go to charities anyway. I saw Elway walk with in 3 feet of what musta been a 10 year old boy, wearing an Elway jersey, holding a Bronco's replica helmet... screaming Elways name for an autograph...and this bastard looked right at the boy, smiled, and kept walkin. FUK THAT!! No reason, except for being a conceded a$$hole he woulda or even coulda done that. FUK JOHN ELWAY!!!!!
*whew...that little tirades been peculating for a while. Glad I typed that out *
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If the Chiefs play tomrrow, I'm kinda tempted to pick up their defense for this week.
I bet it shuts the panthers the **** down...you watch.
And if I were them, I'd want to play, talk about an outlet to vent their frustration, something to play for. What I wouldnt want to be is the team playing them, how ****ty would you feel if you owned them?? That my friends, is a conflict of interests that I would want no part in. I'd go for the win, but dayum...
Man, I've been a Belcher fan since his rookie year. What a terrible tragedy. I had a similar situation happen in my family, so I know what they're going through. My prayers go out to all those affected.


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SIKESTON -- Virgil Eugene Knuckles, 85, died Feb. 14, 2012, at his home in rural Sikeston.
Born April 27, 1926, in Morehouse, he was the son of the late Avery Ernest and Betty Brock Knuckles. He worked for Shell Oil Company in Illinois and later moved to Missouri when he bought a farm south of Morehouse to become a farmer -- which he was for more than 45 years before retiring.
On March 19, 1949, he married Clara Tarpley who survives of the home.
Other survivors include: two sons and daughters-in-law, Greg and Lemma Knuckles of Tyler, Texas, and Vernon and Pam Knuckles of Sikeston; two daughters and sons-in-law, Barb and Ron Towe and Sharon and Mike Hodgkiss of Sikeston; two brothers, Eugene Knuckles of Mt. Enterprise, Texas, and Clifford Downs of DeSoto; six grandchildren, Chris Hodgkiss, Shawn Towe, Jeromy Towe and Joseph Knuckles of Sikeston, Brian Towe of Patterson and Angela Knuckles McCabe of Belmont, N.C.; and 10 great-grandchildren.
One son, Ernest Lee Knuckles, one daughter, Debbie Knuckles, and five brothers and one sister preceded him in death.
Visitation is scheduled from 5-8 p.m. today at the Ponder Funeral Home where services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday. His grandsons, Brian Towe and Chris Hodgkiss, will officiate.
Burial will follow in the Memorial Park Cemetery in Sikeston.
Pallbearers will be his grandchildren: Chris Hodgkiss, Brian Towe, Angela Knuckles McCabe, Shawn Towe, Jeromy Towe and Joseph Knuckles.
Online condolences may be sent at www.ponderfuneralhome.com.
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text: When I got my kids home from school today, my 5 yo insisted that I teach her how to knit "the right way". Up until now, I have only showed my kids how to do loom knitting, since that is a bit easier for them to do alone. Well, I gave in and got out a pair of needles (10" straight aluminum) and a partial skein of acrylic and sat down to show her how to do it. I cast on some stitches, and knit slowly the first row so she could see how it was done, then sat her in my lap to get her going. I put her hands on the needles and then held her hands for the first couple stitches, then had her start to do it more, with just me helping. By the next row, she was doing it all by herself! Now, not to say that she doesn't need some help now and then, but she is now sitting alone and giving it a go. Not too bad for being only 5 years old.


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December 19, 2006
AUGUSTA, Ga.---The FBI has just released numbers that show violence and murder are on the rise across the country.
Here where you live, stealing guns is becoming more popular.
Investigators say the two may be connected.
Hundreds of the deadly weapons have disappeared from homes, cars, and businesses in the past few months.
That means more guns on the streets...and more chances for deadly violence.
A burglar broke through Ronald Benning's bedroom window and went straight for the gun.
"I was mad!" Ronald said. He's a victim of a growing trend: burglars who are only after weapons.
Investigators say hundreds of guns in the wrong hands make the streets a dangerous place.
Something another man we spoke with, who prefers to stay anonymous, knows all too well.
"You can't even walk down the street without them in your face," he said. "Robbing you, beating you down just for the hell of it."
The FBI says he's right.
The kind of violence the man was talking about is up almost four percent across the country.
Reports show criminals are getting more aggressive and stealing more often.
Richmond County has seen 1500 burglaries in the past six months. About a quarter of those were gun thefts. It's also seen about a hundred assaults and homicides. So what do the burglaries and homicides have in common? Most happen in south and east Augusta.
Investigators say that's no coincidence. People are probably stealing weapons to protect themselves from the growing dangers of the streets.
And there's a good chance the people taking them are dangerous themselves.
"The person stealing them obviously has bad intentions for that weapon, whether for personal use or to sell it to someone else in the streets," the man said. He says people have black market weapons.
"Of course they do. You'd better have one to protect yourself."
"They don't need no guns," said Ronald.
His fear is that the gun he once used for protection will be used to hurt someone in his community.
Investigators say the best way to protect your weapons is to lock them in a gun safe. It's a little more expensive, but it's a lot safer than a cabinet...and it could keep one more deadly weapon from getting into the wrong hands.
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"Hurrah!!! WHAT A BUILDING!!!"Campus life at UCP is full of fun and enthusiasm, new campus of university is situated at middle of JOHAR TOWN with a covered area of approximately 400,000 square feet, having the capacity to lap more than 5000 students. UCP lays equal emphasis on academic and co-curricular activities. Therefore, besides a team of highly-qualified faculty, a host of clubs and societies are functioning under proper supervision to groom us in a balanced manner. There are many important clubs/societies and good facilities are available at UCP.
"A TACTITURN LIBRARY" Tripple-storey air conditioned digital library is a part of the campus. The library provides to students a comfortable and peaceful environment for reading. More than 17,000 books are available on wide range of topics related to field of business, commerce, business law and engineering. Library has the subscription of several national and international newspapers and magazines.
"SShhhh BE QUITE!!!" More than 60 Class rooms are equipped with multimedia projects for use by the teachers and students. All the classes are based on a spacious sitting arrangement having the capacity of more than 50 students.
"A FUTURE INVENTOR" The faculties are furnished with the latest high-tech labs that include Electronics Engineering, Instrumentations & measurements, Telecom Engineering, Data communication & networking labs. Each lab is air conditioned and having the multimedia facility.
"WORLD ON FINGERTIPS" Computer lab consists of latest speed systems of core2due and Pentium processors made by SUN Microsystems having built in CPU's, and Round the clock internet facility are given to the students.
"PLAY WITH AIR"A free WI-FI connectivity is given to the students with in the range of 500 meters at all.
"ATHLETES OF FUTURE"A sport complex of UCP is consists of three gymnasiums and two swimming pool for all students. Where as indoor games are also arranged for students including snooker, carom, and video games as well.
"THE PLACE TO BE" The air conditioned multi speakers auditorium of the campus having the capacity of more than 500 students. The university conferences, seminars, Workshops, Social events, Drama and music sittings are arranged in the auditorium.
"BE A BOOK" UCP has its own book shop on campus for our convenience. That provides a wide range of stationery items at competitive rates.
"CALM DOWN!!!" The University of Central Punjab has a full-service cafeteria which offers something for everyone. Whether you are looking for a quick snack such as a sandwich or samosa, or something more substantial, you'll find it here. The cafeteria is open daily from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. for your convenience.
"PARK THE VEHICLES" Two large area basements are served for parking the vehicles having a vast capacity of more than 750 cars & 2000 motorcycles.
"JUST FUN!!!" Number of clubs and societies are functioning under proper supervision to groom the students into versatile citizens.
"COME TO ARRANGE" This club coordinates all the on-campus events and generates healthy activities for the university students. The membership of this club is offered on the basis of academic performance and interview by panel. The president of the club is selected by the faculty and officers of the university through a strong selection process.
"BUSINESS MEN!!!" Society of encouragement of entrepreneurship (SEE) is another platform for the students of UCP that helps to discover their potential as future entrepreneurs and successful business owners helps UCP students to access all established forums such as EBP, Punjab development Fund LCCI and others of the like. The presidency of SEE is given to a student with sound academic score and entrepreneurial vision.
"CHILL TIME!!!" Three most interesting societies working under the supervision of qualified staff is Movie Dramatic & debating club. A weekend scheduled movies of English and Urdu languages are arranged at the auditorium for the students free of cost. Drama club organizes the Drama's on the special events at the campus. Debating society is working for the future debaters and speakers. This society also selects the team of UCP debaters for participation in national and universities level competition held by government and prospective departments all over Pakistan.
"AN ENGINEER" This society is strongly working for the engineers of the university; Give them the facility to make their electronic projects free of cost. The president of this society is a faculty member chooses by the Dean of the department.
"SAFE YOUR FUTURE" UCP provides advisory services to all students of the university. The academic advisor reviews the relevant academic records of students and advises them on selection of courses. The advisors help the student in determining the course work to be completed before applying for further studies abroad.
"CAREER PLANNING" University of Central Punjab has on campus career planning and consultancy bureau .UCP annual job fair also provide the opportunities for students to qualify for established organizations such as Mobil ink, Warid , Ufone, Telenor , Citibank, UBL,ABL,RBS and others like that.
"AT A GLANCE" Overall the campus life of the UCP is serving all the present day requirements for making the students the future leaders and proudly skipper of Pakistan in all over the world.


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WACO, Texas — Senior Tia Brooks capped off her Big 12 career with another title, claiming the outdoor shot put championship with a throw of 18.51 meters at the Big 12 Championships at the Hart-Patterson Track Complex on Saturday.
The 2012 Olympian and defending national champion broke her own conference outdoor record of 18.22 meters set last season, winning her fifth conference title overall by over five feet.
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