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Longwood University's Summer Literacy Institute is one of six programs in the country to earn a formal national commendation from The Affiliate Assembly of the American Association of School Librarians (AASL). The commendation recognizes the Institute's support of the profession and alignment with AASL's learning standards and program guidelines and principles expressed in AASL's mission and value statements.
The Virginia Educational Media Association nominated the Institute for the award in recognition of "providing teachers and school librarians with professional development and an opportunity to forge collaborative relationships." The nomination, forwarded from the AASL Affiliate Assembly, was reviewed and approved by the AASL Board of Directors.
"It is an honor to receive this national recognition from the American Association of School Librarians," said Dr. Audrey Church, co-director and associate professor and coordinator of the School Library Media Program. "The Summer Literacy Institute provides an opportunity for school librarians, literacy coaches, reading specialists, and classroom teachers to come together, to grow and develop, and to interact professionally. We are proud to sponsor the Institute and proud that Longwood's efforts were recognized in this way."
Now in its seventh year, the 2010 Summer Literacy Institute attracted 175 educators from across Virginia and covered topics including reading aloud, storytelling, fluency, book talks, oral tradition, group writing, and readers' theatre. The event is cosponsored by the Literacy and Culture and School Library Media graduate programs in the College of Education and Human Services. The co-directors are Dr. Church and Dr. Jeannine Perry, assistant dean of the College of Graduate and Professional Studies and associate professor and coordinator of the Literacy and Culture Program.
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Who will win this battle of strength and wits? Goliath (highest) cards are stronger and can capture more cards, but by cleverly playing the David (lowest) card, it allows you to take the highest card in that trick. Capture cards and increase your score, but more is not always merrier!
The twist in David & Goliath is that each card is worth its face value, up to two cards per color. If you have more than two per color, each is now worth only one point! It's the Large vs. the Small in this fun family game, where a clever balance of the two will help you win the battle!
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Reinhard Staupe
Playroom Entertainment
Alexander Bradley
Year: 2004
Players: 3 - 6
Time: 20 minutes
Ages: 8 and up
Weight: 256 grams
- 90 playing cards
- instructions (English, Spanish, French, German)
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Average Rating: 3.8 in 6 reviews
After reading several glowing reviews about this one, I decided to give it a try. Boy, am I ever glad that I did! This is one of those rare games whose rules can be related in only a few sentences, but requires *many* sessions of playing to get a decent sense of the strategies.
My only caveat is that while the box states that it is a game for 3-6 players, I don't recommend it with less than 4. While you certainly *can* play it with only 3 players, it's a far stronger gaming experience with 4, 5, or 6 gathered around the table.
Anyway, if you like simple games, with very elusive strategies, I can't recommend this game more highly. This game, along with Hol's der Geier, stand out among card games for generating so much fun with such extremely clever and simple rules. Highly recommended.
60 seconds to learn. Devilishly difficult to win. A great blend of skill and chance where any family member can win the game. A card game where every trick has a twist and turn to it as you try to improve your point score and/or harm your opponent's ability to get a good score.
One of my favorite stories to tell in Children's Church is the story of David and the giant Goliath. The story appeals to every small child who faces big challenges in their life and always keeps them fascinated. When I heard that there was a card game version of David and Goliath (Playroom Entertainment, 2004 - Reinhard Staupe), I was initially wary, since I've found that most games with Biblical themes are usually garbage or worse. Still, I saw a couple of good reviews on the internet, so gladly participated in a demo of the game when at Origins one summer.
And I was amazed at just how much fun the game really was. The idea was simple, really - have the small card take the largest card, and the largest card take the rest - but it just worked well. I immediately enjoyed playing the game, and it has remained, since then, one of my favorite trick-taking games. It's enjoyable because I can get many people to play the game - some who normally don't play games at all, and I've seen many "non-gamers" fall in love with the game, requesting it time after time. It's destined to be a classic card game, one on the top tier.
There are five suits of cards in the game, denoted by color (red, yellow, blue, green, and purple). Values of each suit (depending on the number of players) are added to the deck, from 1 to 18. The deck is shuffled, and fifteen cards are dealt to each player. On a round, the starting player chooses any card and plays it on the table. Each other player must "follow suit" (play the same color), placing it in front of them. If a player doesn't have a card of the played color, they can play any card from their hand. The player who played the card with the lowest number (regardless of color) receives the highest card for their score pile. The player who played the card with the highest number (regardless of color) receives all the rest of the cards. All won cards are placed face up in front of each player, sorted by color. The player who played the highest card starts the next round.
This continues for fifteen rounds, until all cards have been played and won. Players then total their points. For each color, if a player has only one or two cards of that color, they receive points equal to the numbers on the card. If they have three or more cards of a color, they receive one point per card. Each player adds their sum to the final total, and another round begins. After one round for each player has occurred, the game is over, and the player with the highest total wins!
Some comments on the game...
1.) Components: The cards have some neat artwork on them by Alexander Bradley. If you put the cards in order, from "1" to "18", and flip through them, you can see wee David growing up to be fearsome Goliath. This is nice and gives a certain visual appearance that the bigger numbers are "giants". The only problem with the card designs are that the colors are pretty much indistinguishable from each other outside of color, making them difficult for color blind folk. The cards are of good quality and fit snugly inside a plastic card insert in a small, sturdy box.
2.) Rules: The rules take only four pages of a multilingual rulebook and wouldn't even need to be that long except that there are full-color illustrations, making it so that absolutely anybody can understand the game. And there's just something that's naturally intuitive about the theme. The big number gets all the small numbers, but the smallest number pegs the biggest number in the forehead, winning it. Even teenagers and children can pick up the game (perhaps not the subtle strategies), and it's easily one of the most successful card games I've ever introduced.
3.) Scoring: The scoring system is simply ingenious. Players strive to get a couple high numbers in each color, and then not take any more cards. But it's a real struggle to keep from taking that third card in each color. If I have two yellow cards, "14" and "9", that's worth twenty-three points to me. Taking a third yellow card will make them worth a whopping total of three points, which is a twenty point loss. Therefore, players are often attempting to play middle cards - cards that are neither high nor low, for much of a round, trying to take only a few cards at most. Once a player goes over their three cards in a color, though, they might as well go "whole hog" and attempt to take every color card that they can. There are other games that have a similar concept, Relationship Tightrope and Turn the Tide. While both of those games are excellent games, David and Goliath beats them for sheer simplicity and fun.
4.) Fun Factor: When writing this review, I realize that there's really not a whole lot more I can say about it. I'm sure that many paragraphs could be written about the nuances of strategy, but I simply enjoy the game because I have fun doing so. David & Goliath is quick and easy, but more importantly, it's fun to everybody who plays the game.
Okay, maybe not everybody will like the game, but I haven't run into any yet who don't. There are times where I enjoy a good game of Puerto Rico or Princess of Florence with their various options and deep strategy. But many other times, I'm simply content with a light card game - one that is easy to teach to others and play. With many people understanding the trick-taking genre, and the interesting theme, David & Goliath is one of my most successful "gateway" games, and will stay on my shelf for quite a long time (except for those multiple instances where people demand to play it.)
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This is one of my favorite trick-taking games. The cards are in five color suits, but never mind that now. The highest card of any color wins the trick and its owner collects all but the highest card played; this "Goliath" card goes to the player of the lowest card ("David"), to be scored later. After 15 rounds the scoring starts, and this is when colors do matter. One or two cards of a color earn their face value, but more than two score only a point each. Toward the end, things can get as tense as a drawn slingshot.
The small card-size box contains simply a pack of 90 cards numbered from 1 to 18 in each of 5 colours. However many players there, you use only enough cards to deal 15 to each of you. So, with six players you use all the cards, with five you use those numbered 1 to 15, with four those numbered 1 to 12 and with three those numbered 1 to 9. The game is basically yet another trick taking game, but it has one or two delightful twists.
As in Whist, one player leads a card and the others must follow suit if they can. If they can't, they may play any card. There are no trumps. When more than one card of the same number is played in a trick, the latest one has precedence. The highest and the lowest cards played in each trick will capture cards and because it is important to be able to see who has played what, we've found it better if instead of playing cards to the centre of the table, you lay your card in front of you.
Right, fairly basic so far; but now comes the first twist, and this will (or should!) seriously affect your decision on which card to play. The person who played the lowest card, irrespective of colour, wins the highest of the cards played to the trick; the person who played the highest wins all the rest. In each case, duplicated numbers are treated as mentioned above. Cards won are placed face-up in front of each player for all to see. Play continues like this until all cards have been played.
Okay, you say, so what? Well, the scoring at the end of each round is the other twist in the tail. If you have won just one or two cards of a colour, they each score their face value; if you have won more than two cards of a colour, they each score only one point. After several rounds, the player with the most points wins.
If you give this a little thought, I'm sure you will appreciate the problems and opportunities that arise when it's your turn to play a card. Everybody can always see who is in the lead and can try to turn the leader's singles and pairs into multiples. On the other hand, you are naturally trying your damnedest to increase and defend your own score. Moreover, even though you can see what cards have been played and can deduce what remain, you cannot be sure if and when a duplicate number might be played. Really great stuff from a small and fairly simple game -- the same old question, why didn't I think of it?
Although I've now played this little gem for getting on for 20 times, I still cannot really give you a length of time for it. It depends an awful lot on whom you are playing with and how seriously you want to play. For this reason, therefore, it is an excellent game for really concentrated play, but equally good for families and older children. For me, it is right up there with Sticheln and Hat-Trick, which is high praise indeed! If this masterpiece and Basari are examples of Herr Staupe's future offerings, we are certainly in for a treat from this up and coming master craftsman. Highly recommended. 9 out of 10 in my book -- and that's only because 10's don't seem to be acceptable in the hobby.


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EVANSTON, Ill. — Trey Burke scored 23 points, Tim Hardaway Jr. added 21 and No. 2 Michigan pounded Northwestern 94-66 on Thursday night to remain unbeaten.
Off to their best start since they opened the 1985-86 season with 16 wins, the Wolverines (14-0, 1-0) had no trouble in the Big Ten opener.
They built a 21-point halftime lead and were never challenged by Northwestern (9-5, 0-1).
Michigan shot 59.6 percent overall and made 13 of 22 3-point attempts. Burke shot 9 of 16 overall and hit 4 of 6 3-pointers. Hardaway was 6 of 8 from the field and 4 of 5 from long range.
Jared Swopshire and Kale Abrahamson each scored 11 points for Northwestern, which allowed the most points in a game this season.
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Olynk scored 14 points in the second half as the Bulldogs (14-1, 1-0) won despite shooting a season-low 43.4 percent from the field. Reserve guard David Stockton added nine points and four steals and Kevin Pangos scored nine points.
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There are times when you're impressed, and times when you're really impressed. Seeing the completed student productions at the Digital Wave Family Event was one of those times you had to be really impressed. During the 2-week Digital Wave Summer Academy, high school students learned about climate change while also gaining 3D design skills. Students formed groups, and each group chose a topic – groups chose everything from deforestation and sea level rise to carbon emissions and acid rain. After doing some individual research on their group's topic, students went to work creating their masterpieces in the virtual world of Second Life. Their challenge was to design and build 3D virtual exhibits and animations, with the goal being to create something that would help others learn about climate change. All the projects turned out to be amazing. Check out just a couple of them that students presented to their families and Museum staff at this event. (Each image has a description of that group's topic below the image.) And just try not to be impressed by what these students learned and created.


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Athens, GA - The Georgia Equestrian team -- ranked No. 1 in the first
national poll of the season -- returns to the competition ring this weekend against one of its chief rivals. Fourth-ranked South Carolina visits Georgia for a Saturday dual meet that begins at 2:00 p.m. at the UGA Equestrian Complex in Bishop. Admission is free.
The Bulldogs arrive at this weekend's showdown undefeated in two meets thus far, having already defeated Kansas State and SMU at home. South Carolina also opened the season with wins over SMU and South Dakota State, but the Gamecocks dropped a tie-breaker decision at home to SEC rival Auburn in its last meet three weeks ago. These two teams will meet again in their annual home-and-home series next February 5.
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Georgia coach Meghan Boenig said. "We have a healthy respect for South Carolina. It's always been a great rivalry, very evenly matched. We can't afford to let up for even the slightest bit against them. We're very excited about the challenge."
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double duty against the Gamecocks. Michelle Morris, Carly Anthony, Grace Rogers and Abby O'Mara will ride in both Fences and Flat events. On the Western side, senior Diandra St. Hilaire will lead the Bulldog reiners into competition while the senior trio of Dana Wilson, Laura Upton and Katelyn Van Allen will headline the Horsemanship squad.
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In this paper, we discuss a set of functional requirements for software exploration tools and provide initial evidence that various combinations of these features are needed to effectively assist developers in understanding software. We observe that current tools for software exploration only partly support these features. This has motivated the development of Sextant, a software exploration tool tightly integrated into the Eclipse IDE that has been developed to fill this gap. By means of case studies, we demonstrate how the requirements fulfilled by Sextant are conducive to an understanding needed to perform a maintenance task.
Software exploration, program comprehension, reverse engineering, software maintenance, software visualization.
Thorsten Sch?fer, Michael Eichberg, Michael Haupt, Mira Mezini, "The SEXTANT Software Exploration Tool", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol.32, no. 9, pp. 753-768, September 2006, doi:10.1109/TSE.2006.94


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Acknowledgments: The authors thank the staff of the Duke Clinical Coagulation Laboratory for technical assistance; Gerold Bepler, MD, Stephen Kantrow, MD, and Charles Greenberg, MD, for critical review of the manuscript; and Victor Hasselblad, PhD, for statistical analysis.
Grant Support: In part by an Institutional Research Grant (ACS-IRG 158K) from the American Cancer Society; a Clinician-Scientist Award Initiation Grant (91-149) from the American Heart Association and Genentech, Inc.; and a grant (MO1-RR-30) from the National Center for Research Resources, General Clinical Research Centers Program, National Institutes of Health. Dr. Ortel is a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences.
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Background: Recommended therapeutic international normalized ratios (INRs) for oral anticoagulation in patients with lupus anticoagulants who sustain a thromboembolic event are controversial. Patients with lupus anticoagulants often have a prolonged prothrombin time, which may complicate management of anticoagulant therapy.
Objectives: To determine the validity of the INR as a monitor for warfarin therapy in patients with lupus anticoagulants and to investigate alternate approaches to monitoring warfarin therapy in these patients.
Design: Prospective case series.
Setting: Tertiary care hospital.
Patients: 34 patients with lupus anticoagulants.
Measurements: Prothrombin times were determined by using several thromboplastins, and INRs were calculated for the patients receiving warfarin. Factor II levels, chromogenic factor X levels, and prothrombin-proconvertin times were determined for patients receiving warfarin.
Results: For patients with lupus anticoagulants who were not receiving warfarin, prothrombin times were often elevated and varied significantly with different thromboplastins. Individual thromboplastins differed in sensitivity to the presence of a lupus anticoagulant. For patients receiving warfarin, INRs obtained by using different thromboplastins greatly varied and often overestimated the extent of anticoagulation. Chromogenic factor X levels and prothrombin-proconvertin times correlated well with each other and with established therapeutic ranges.
Conclusions: Lupus anticoagulants can influence prothrombin times and lead to INRs that do not accurately reflect the true level of anticoagulation. Use of the INR to standardize prothrombin times is invalid for some patients with lupus anticoagulants. To prevent supratherapeutic or subtherapeutic anticoagulation, these patients must be individually monitored with a test that is insensitive to lupus anticoagulants.
Phospholipid-dependent reactions (PL) include activation of factor X to factor Xa by factor VIIa-tissue factor (extrinsic factor X-ase complex), the activation of factor X by factor IXa in the presence of factor VIIIa and calcium ions (intrinsic factor X-ase complex), and the activation of prothrombin by factor Xa in the presence of factor Va and calcium ions (prothrombinase complex). Antiphospholipid antibodies have been shown to interfere in vitro with the activation of factor X by the intrinsic factor X-ase complex and the activation of prothrombin by the prothrombinase complex .
The ratios were obtained by using eight different thromboplastins (white square = Dade Innovin, black square = Simplastin Excel, white triangle = Dade Thromboplastin C Plus, black triangle = Simplastin Excel S, white circle = Dade Thromboplastin IS, black circle = Simplastin, white diamond = MDA Simplastin L, and black diamond = Sigma thromboplastin).
Values are for 16 patients who had lupus anticoagulants and were receiving warfarin. The results of the prothrombin-proconvertin time and chromogenic factor X assays are compared in the left panel, results of the factor II and chromogenic factor X assays are compared in the middle panel, and the international normalized ratios obtained by using Simplastin Excel S (black square) and Dade Thromboplastin IS ( ) and results of the chromogenic factor X assay are compared in the right panel. The horizontal and vertical lines mark the following therapeutic ranges for the individual assays: prothrombin-proconvertin time, 9% to 27%; chromogenic factor X, 11% to 42%; factor II, 5% to 35%; and international normalized ratio, 2 to 3.5. Values for the factor II, chromogenic factor X, and the prothrombin-proconvertin time assays are the percentage of control pooled plasma activity.
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Issue No.11 - November (1976 vol.25)
pp: 1074-1077
G. Hannington , Allen Clark Research Centre, Plessey Co., Ltd.
The design of a high-speed, high-accuracy floating-point digital differential analyzer (DDA) system is described. The advantages of a floating-point system are expounded. It is shown that the problem of module interconnection can be alleviated using matrix methods, and a practical implementation of a multiplexed system with a semiconductor fast data storage area is described.
Algorithmic microprogramming, DDA, integrating computer, special purpose computer, virtual processor.
G. Hannington, D.G. Whitehead, "A Floating-Point Multiplexed DDA System", IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol.25, no. 11, pp. 1074-1077, November 1976, doi:10.1109/TC.1976.1674557


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A word meaning both cool and awesome, created by Elias Toufexis
"Thanks everyone. You're all cool and awesome... Cawesome!"
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A take on the oft used chillaxin, cawesome takes the words cool and awesome to new, exiting levels they've never visited. The supercool can pronounce the starting (caw) as a crow(as in caaaaawwww. One would need to actually sound like a bird cawwing to do this), to emphizie cawesomeness.
Tim: The Casino Royale has $1 Margarita's & Michelobs!
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Tim: Caaaawwww-some.
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An ingenius encapsulation of the words awesome and cool into one ultrasmooth and easy to swallow package.
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Bill Shock System Being Considered by the FCC
You walk into one of the many wireless carriers retail stores out there, and you find a phone you really want. You may drop a few bucks right then and there, whether or not you get the free phone, and then you walk out. New phone, probably a new phone number, and a new, two-year contract lingering over your head. After you get over the fact your first bill is ridiculously high (you've got to love those activation charges), you get set on a particular monthly price. But then, a few months down the road, you get a bill that's higher than you expected. And, suffice it to say, you're shocked. No worries: the FCC wants to help you.
The "Bill Shock" initiative is designed to make wireless carriers here in the States emulate those in Europe. Basically, if your bill goes over a certain, set limit, then the carrier would send you a message, or alert, telling you that your bill is getting higher than you might like. This would hopefully get you to stop doing whatever it is you're doing to acquire the higher chargers, or perhaps set your plan accordingly to your usage. The carriers in Europe are required to do this, so Joel Gurin, the Chief of the Federal Communication Commission's Consumer and Government Affairs Bureau, believes that carriers here should have to do the same thing.
This reaction is coming from hundreds of wireless subscribers out there complaining to all the right people that their "surprise bills" are getting ridiculous. We love the idea of a warning system to let people know if their bills are getting too high for their own good, but we're wondering if the amount could be set by the consumer, and not by the wireless carrier. If you're supposed to be paying $150 a month, it would make sense to set the warning system at $151, so you aren't already a hundred dollars in the hole, even before the system kicks in.
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UCSD studies your tweets for signs of depression :(
Earlier this year, a UCSD professor's research into tobacco trends on Twitter unearthed such 140-character gems as "Smoking that good hookah with the bro Sultan! #GoodOldDays #brotherforlife" and "Beer ponggg / hookah round 2 with my goons waddduppppppp. I love when my parents rnt home!"
Now, family and preventive medicine professor Mike Conway is studying Twitter again. This time, he's looking to see if its users are depressed.
The National Institutes of Health is providing $82,800 to assist Conway's "public health surveillance" work. This being America in the modern age, it has led to depressed-sounding headlines from outlets leery of any kind of government surveillance.
The Washington Free Beacon: Feds Studying How to Use Twitter For 'Depression Surveillance'
The Daily Caller: Good news: the U.S. government will soon monitor your tweets to gauge your mental health
So what'll Conway find? Well, we already know from a 2011 University of Vermont study that some Twitter users are happier than others. (California is happy-ish. Yay!)
And we know from this 2011 Vice story that some people use Twitter to combat depression.
I've e-mailed Conway about what he hopes to accomplish — and if he's on Twitter himself. I'll update this post when I hear back from him.
But basically, over the course of a year, he and other researchers will explore "ethical issues and challenges to privacy" involved with collecting public health data on Twitter, engage directly with users, ID depression symptoms and figure out ways of "monitoring depression levels in the community."
A project description says 16 percent of all people suffer from depression over their lifetimes and that information about the illness is generally gathered from telephone surveys that require lots of money and manpower. (Editorial aside: Talk about a depressing job.) So why Twitter? The largest public health telephone survey reaches only 0.13 percent of the public, and Twitter reaches far more in real-time; 340 million tweets were posted daily during 2012 when Conway was studying tobacco and discovered many people had negative views of tobacco and positive views of hookahs and e-cigarettes. Is there a better way to stay on top of trends across communities in real-time?
So is this type of "surveillance" an unwarranted government intrusion or an easy way to measure public health concerns? What do you think? Please weigh in below.
Here are a sample of comments from The Washington Free Beacon's story page:
Orwellian_Dilemma: It seems to me that the government could use Twitter to determine if people are paranoid as well. Uh, wait. . . .
Zanshi: So, if someone claims to be depressed, and the next day something happens that cheers them up, does that mean the gov't spooks are going to call that person bipolar? Because government imbeciles NEVER overreact to non-events... EVER!!!
etpietro: Look on the bright side: [notorious Twitter ranter] Alec Baldwin may finally get the help he so desperately needs.
[And from the inevitable "stay classy" and/or quote "Anchorman" category of comments:]
formerly_Sean_M: Go f*ck yourself, University of California, San Diego.
Here are some more comments from Infowars, which also published The Free Beacon story.
money everywher: You'd never know we were $17 trillion in debt.
Guest: Every day I wonder to myself when the other shoe will drop.
laura: Brave New World
Puppet Theater: I wonder who gets to decide who is "depressed"? Perhaps people angry with government are just depressed? Or people who don't believe mainstream news tells them are depressed? Maybe they need some corrective thought treatment.


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We are learning more about the accused trigger man in the murder of former Harlan County Sheriff Paul Browning Junior.
If convicted, Raymond Harris could face the death penalty.
The prosecution finished presenting their case and Raymond Harris' defense attorneys had a chance to call a few of their own witnesses.
They say Harris' was a drunk who's not responsible for the murder.
Two men admit to having roles in a plot to kill former Harlan County Sheriff Paul Browning Junior, while he was campaigning for re-election.
Dewayne Harris and Johnny Epperson point the finger at Raymond Harris.
They say he's the one who used a pistol, that was later recovered in the Cumberland River, to shoot Browning in the back of the head.
Harris' defense attorneys say Harris was an alcoholic not a murderer.
"The drinking got worse as time went by," Donna Harris said.
Harris' former wife of nearly 20 years says Raymond Harris changed drastically after he was electrically shocked in a construction accident in the 70s.
"You could follow it. It trailed completely over every part of his body and the palm of his hand was blown." Donna Harris said.
Having trouble recovering she says Harris soon became an alcoholic.
Donna: He'd sit down there and drink and pass out across the railroad tracks like it was a bed. he'd use the rail as a pillow.
Attorney: On an active rail?
Donna: Yeah.
Raymond Harris' son-in-law says he saw Harris just a short time before Paul Browning Junior was killed.
"He was drinking. He was really drunk and he couldn't even talk. I borrowed $10 off him," Daniel Miller said.
Defense attorneys say that shows Raymond Harris was incapable of committing the murder.
The defense and prosecution both wrapped up their cases today.
They'll make their closing arguments Tuesday morning and by noon Tuesday the jury will likely be deliberating the fate of Raymond Harris, who could get the death penalty if convicted.


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Belkin Introducing Verizon iPhone 4 Case Line
Belkin has announced that they are making a case line for Verizon iPhone 4. The case comes in three different design which are the Grip Vue, Grip Groove, and ProFit Armband. They all available now in Verizon Wireless retail stores. The three design are made specifically for the repositioned buttons on the Verizon iPhone 4.
The ProFit Armband is case that attaches to the arm with a neoprene design which give the users comfort and won't be distracted by the device, but still accessible while working out. The Grip Vue is a case comes with a light texture and see through. It comes in two different color: clear or purple. As for the pricing, it will cost you $24.99. Pricing at $19.99, the Groove Grip is a silicone case with a wave like pattern on it.
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I remember when THREE first came out they got slated for their coverage and quality of calls.
All these years on are they any better?
If you have good/poor connectio nfor phone/internet let me know (as wel las the area you use it)
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3 has gone a lot better... but I carry 3 sim cards, vodafone, 02, and 3g. I think o2's the best, but 3 has more benefits for a cheaper value. Also, you can juggle girls with these (not literally).
I think they have a coverage map thing on their website.
It's no good in my area.
There coverage is OK but the signal does have a tendancy to just drop all of a sudden, which is annoying :l
I'm moving to O2...
3 is amazing had no problems at all.
People slate Three too much! Their signal isn't THAT bad! I live in Cardiff and I get average 3/5 bars.
Who can offer this deal;
2 year contract;
HTC Desire - unlimited texts, 900 minutues, 1GB internet
for only £17!!!
I've been with them for 3 years.
Its all about opinions and where people live in terms of signal coverage.
Me.. in Bristol.. its amazing.
O2, i couldnt get it in parts of my bedroom.
Their signal has been fine for me, it's the same as the Orange coverage in my area and they're the only two that do cover it. It's their customer service that was **** for me. They took ages to repair my phone, whilst my Dad who is on Orange got a new replacement phone the next day.
I'm moving to Orange next month.
I am planning to go SIM only so hopefully wont need to use their repair service
I have heard them mainly get slated for sales technique and not living up to deals/ fixing problems
I might get a PYG SIM and try it out.
A lot of my friends complained with the 3 coverage. They lost it when they went to areas with tall buildings. But I think it has gone better. Orange was the same with some other ppl.
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Dallas Opera gets $20 million in new endowment funds
The Dallas Opera has added $20 million to its endowment, thanks to $10 million in new donations to match a $10 million challenge from an anonymous donor. The two-year campaign had an Oct. 31 deadline.
The new funds, to be received in the next few months, will be added to approximately $2 million in existing endowment funds. General director and CEO Keith Cerny estimates the total endowment will yield about $1 million in annual income and provide a cushion in case of emergencies.
"Obviously, our board chair and I are extraordinarily happy that we have made this match, and had this support from the community," Cerny said. "We're feeling very positive about the company's future."
Major donors to the campaign included the Hamon Charitable Foundation, Linda and Mitch Hart, Joy and Ronald Mankoff, Mrs. Eugene McDermott, Phyllis and Tom McCasland and Margot and Ross Perot/The Perot Foundation.
The opera company's Cultural Renaissance Endowment Fund was launched in late 2009 to help stabilize long-term finances. The 2009 move into the Winspear Opera House realized a long-held dream of a purpose-built home in the Dallas Arts District, but added approximately $4 million in annual costs. With both ticket sales and donations impacted by the ongoing economic slowdown, the company ended the 2010-2011 season with a $4 million deficit.
The company has made some major cost-cutting moves, including cancelling one of five operas originally scheduled for 2011-2012, Leos Janácek's Kátya Kabanová, and planning its long awaited Tristan und Isolde as a semi-staged production with projections instead of sets.
Cerny expects to present only three fully staged productions in the Winspear again in 2012-2013, but he is considering alternate venues for smaller-scale operas. In March, the company will present its first production in the Wyly Theatre across Flora Street, British composer Peter Maxwell Davies' The Lighthouse.
In a period when performing-arts organizations across the country are facing major financial challenges, Cerny still expects a $1.9 million deficit for 2011-2012. But he has a plan to bring the budget back in balance by 2014-2015.


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|We have applied high amplitude (~10 MA/cm2) alternating current (AC) at 100 Hz and direct current (DC) to copper interconnect lines with widths in the few-micrometer range covered with a thick layer of SiO2. Under our test conditions of Joule heating, the lines typically fail with lifetimes from 100 to 100,000 s, with a well-defined correlation between cyclic temperature range and the logarithm of lifetime. Post-test scanning electron microscopy (SEM) examination reveals substantial voiding, and grain growth particularly in AC tests at the higher cyclic temperature ranges. Lines without the full SiO2 constraint fail much sooner than the constrained lines for similar cyclic temperature ranges. The less-constrained lines also had surface contours that were not present on the fully constrained lines. Optical observations during the tests indicate that the void generation appears different during the AC and DC tests, with a saturation behavior occurring in the AC tests, sometimes long before failure. The distributed void density in our AC tests was at least as great as that in the DC tests.
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Sudeep-PN Sathya's second film stalled
The film is a remake of Ravi Teja-Ileana's Telugu film Kick. Sudeep plays the lead and Praneetha Subhash, who debuted through Darshan's Porki, appears his live interest in the film, which would be directed by PN Sathya and produced by N Kumar. In December 2009, it was reported that it would start shooting from January 1.
Now, director PN Sathya, who had holed up in a hotel room for four months to work on the project, is said to be very upset over not being paid for his efforts. Sources claim that N Kumar has not paid a single rupee for the efforts of the four months. However, it is said that the producer wanted to change the director, but Sudeep did not accept his idea.


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Balloon Dad Richard Heene Is Absolutely Obsessed With Scratching His Back
Remember Balloon Dad? He's still weird.By Dan Amira
Remember Balloon Dad? He's still weird.By Dan Amira
But they don't plan to pay.By Adam K. Raymond
Not literally, unfortunately.By Dan Amira
If Richard Heene didn't exist, we would have to invent him, or whatever.By Lindsay Robertson
Mayumi Heene cracks.By Lindsay Robertson
The situation on the ground outside the Heene family's suburban home is descending into chaos.By Lindsay Robertson
But what constitutes a "media outlet" these days, anyway?By Lindsay Robertson
It's a publicity stunt, just like we all thought. And by a bunch of lousy actors who met in Hollywood!By Lindsay Robertson
The Heenes are in hot water.By Lindsay Robertson
Don't put Richard Heene in a box. He'd probably love that!By Lindsay Robertson
Who knows what Richard Heene will say at the press conference today?By Lindsay Robertson
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Tabloid journalism
Tabloid journalism is a style of journalism that tends to emphasize topics such as sensational crime stories, astrology, gossip columns about the personal lives of celebrities and sports stars, and junk food news. Such journalism is commonly associated with tabloid sized newspapers including the National Enquirer, Globe, The Daily Mail, or The Sun, and the former News of the World. Not all newspapers associated with such journalism are in tabloid size, and neither do all newspapers in tabloid size follow this style. For example, the format of Apple Daily is broadsheet, while the style is tabloid.
Often, tabloid newspaper allegations about the sexual practices, drug use, or private conduct of celebrities is borderline defamatory; in many cases, celebrities have successfully sued for libel, demonstrating that tabloid stories have defamed them.
An early pioneer of tabloid journalism was Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (1865–1922), who amassed a large publishing empire of halfpenny papers by rescuing failing stolid papers and transforming them to reflect the popular taste, which yielded him enormous profits. Harmsworth used his tabloids to influence public opinion, for example, by helping to bring down the wartime government of Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith in the Shell Crisis of 1915.
Supermarket tabloids[edit]
In the United States and Canada, "supermarket tabloids" are large, national versions of these tabloids, usually published weekly. They are named for their prominent placement along the checkout lines of supermarkets. Supermarket tabloids are particularly notorious for the over-the-top sensationalizing of stories, the facts of which can often be called into question.[citation needed] These tabloids—such as The Globe and The National Enquirer—often use aggressive and usually mean-spirited tactics to sell their issues. Unlike regular tabloid-format newspapers, supermarket tabloids are distributed through the magazine distribution channel, similarly to other weekly magazines and mass-market paperback books. Leading examples include The National Enquirer, Star, Weekly World News (now defunct), and the Sun.
Most major supermarket tabloids in the U.S. are published by American Media, Inc., including The National Enquirer, Star, The Globe, National Examiner, ¡Mira!, (U.S.) Sun, and Weekly World News, which is now a Sun insert and website.
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Tabloid newspapers in the United Kingdom, collectively called "the tabloid press", tend to be simply and sensationally written and to give more prominence than broadsheets to celebrities, sports, crime stories, and even hoaxes. They also take political positions on news stories: ridiculing politicians, demanding resignations, and predicting election results.
The term "red tops" refers to British tabloids with red mastheads, such as The Sun, the Daily Star, the Daily Mirror, the Daily Record and the Daily Sport.[1] The red top distinguishes them from the Daily Express and Daily Mail, which are considered "middle market" tabloids.
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|Wikinews has related news: An interview with gossip columnist Michael Musto on the art of celebrity journalism
- ^ Stephen Brook, press correspondent (6 December 2007). "Red-tops on the rise, survey shows". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 1 April 2012.
- Martin Conboy (2006). Tabloid Britain: Constructing a Community Through Language. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-35553-7.
- Kevin Glynn (2000). Tabloid Culture: Trash Taste, Popular Power, and the Transformation of American Television. Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-2550-0.
- Paula E. Morton (2009). Tabloid Valley: Supermarket News and American Culture. University Press of Florida. ISBN 978-0-8130-3364-8.
- Colin Sparks; John Tulloch (2000). Tabloid Tales: Global Debates over Media Standards. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-8476-9572-0.
- Herman Wasserman (2010). Tabloid Journalism in South Africa: True Story!. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-22211-4.
- Barbie Zelizer, ed. (2009). The Changing Faces of Journalism: Tabloidization, Technology and Truthiness. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0-415-77824-4.


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As I put fingers to keyboard, the government is shut down. The question before us is, does it matter?
Politics being politics, I expect the current issues to be resolved quickly, though perhaps not before the so-called October 17th date when the debt ceiling is reached. Fears of that date are widely exaggerated as this is the date the government "runs out of money" if paying all bills at their assumed time.
But, like any business or person, the government can prioritize their payments. The Treasury Secretary has great flexibility regarding who to pay and when.
Considering the Treasury brings in about $150 billion in revenue per month and interest payments total about $25 billion per month, it's difficult to see a potential problem with Treasury bond payments. In fact, if we get to the point of prioritizing payments, it may be quite telling how those priorities shake out.
Instead, this will be another round of political brinksmanship that will, in the end, add nothing to either side, create no real change in the state topics under discussion, further downgrade the "politician" in the minds of the average voter, and simply provide fodder for the next election.
Who will win? That depends on the spin.
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Blog Post 4-19-11
Good afternoon, everyone! I was out sick before, during and after the last Board of Trustees meeting. :)
The Board approved the changes to Governing Regulations II, about addressing the Board and the posting of Board agendas. Yea!! Many thanks go to Robynn Pease, Ernie Yanarella and Ryan Smith, who began this effort - Joe Peek, Ryan and I picked up where they left off this summer. This was a great group effort among the student, faculty and staff trustees! I also appreciate the contribution of Pam May, chair of the Board's University Relations Committee, who suggested simplifying the language in December, which greatly improved the final wording.
I have four items on my "to do" list for today's blog post.
1. Staff Senate Elections
The nomination period for election to the Staff Senate has begun! Please visit http://www.uky.edu/Staff/Senate/elect/senate/2011/index.htm for more information on the election. Consider talking with your co-workers and supervisor about running for a position in the Staff Senate. The Staff Senate represents staff employees at the university level and we need a robust Senate membership to do it effecitvely! Feel free to contact a current senator about time commitments, etc. Being a member of the Staff Senate is an excellent way for you and your department to remain abreast of changing policies and benefits, new proposals, etc.
If a UK employee is having a financial crisis, there is a new resource available. CRISIS, the new UK financial assistance program initiated by the Staff Senate, will assist employees in need by providing a one-time payment of up to $500. CRISIS (Crisis Relief In Situations Involving Staff) is funded by employee contributions, either through a payroll deduction of as little as $5.00 a month (divided if you are paid bi-weekly), or a one-time donation by check. More information about the program can be found at http://www.uky.edu/HR/WLC/crisis_program.html. Please consider donating today!
3. Preferred Presidential Candidate Forums
As you may know by now, there will be forums for staff, faculty and students on Monday, May 2 in order for us to meet the preferred presidential candidate. (That person doesn't really exist, yet. The Board will meet at the end of April to deliberate on the finalists and choose a preferred candidate). More information will be forthcoming in the near future, but please plan on attending this forum – it will be live streamed, so you can also attend from your desk!
On another note, the Staff Senate will be putting out a survey for ALL STAFF to fill out the afternoon of May 2, after the preferred presidential candidate forum for staff. (The survey will close that evening, so you'll have to be quick!) There will be only five questions, and the intent is to solicit input from as many staff as possible. The survey results will help inform the final Board decision on the preferred candidate.
4. UK Remembers
The second annual "UK Remembers" ceremony will take place this Thursday, April 21, from 12:15 – 12:50 pm on the north lawn of the Main Building, Patterson Drive side. (Rain location is Lexmark Room, Main Building.) This is an opportunity for members of the University community to come together and remember the employees, students, retirees, alumni, etc. who have passed away.
If you cannot attend in person, you can visit the Work-Life home page (www.uky.edu/HR/WorkLife) and very shortly before the event begins, there will be a link to a video stream of the memorial.
As always, if you have suggestions, etc., please don't hesitate to contact me (firstname.lastname@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com).


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1A network of social interactions and personal relationships.
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- Social isolation is not just a reflection of erosion of social networks between Somalis.
- One neglected aspect of sibling influence is the extent to which siblings influence a child's social network.
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Any one who has been fortunate enough to read the first edition of this book (1941) will be pleased to know that in the second edition the author has expanded the book from 187 to 237 pages. He has enlarged certain portions of the text and has corrected any errors that he has discovered or that have been brought to his attention. He fortunately has had a fine response from his readers and has received many constructive suggestions which have been followed. However, he has not departed from his original plan of writing a book which is aimed at increasing the clinical skill of the anesthesiologist without necessarily preparing him for examinations. Well written books devoted to one subject are valuable; however, when a second edition appears, it has all the advantages of containing not only the opinions of the author but those of a great many of his readers.
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Eric Shah was accepted into an internal medicine residency at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
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Definition of copyist in English:
1A person who makes copies, especially of handwritten documents or music.
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- Cantillon employed clerks in his bank - professional copyists and document preparers - who could have made copies in their spare time.
- It of course took quite some months to copy a book, but a skilled copyist could manage a document much more quickly.
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- They were note perfect but not mere copyists, they were re-creating the feeling of the music as well as the sound.
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The Friends of the Brentwood Library is forming a Brentwood Library Foundation, which will spearhead fundraising efforts for the new community library.
The Friends group is looking for business and community-oriented individuals who support the library and the foundation formation. If you are interested in serving on the Brentwood Library Foundation Board of Directors, fill out the application which can be found at the library or on"line at http://ccclib.org/friends/bre.html. Please return the application by May 16 to Diane Alexander, president of The Friends of the Brentwood Library, at email@example.com.
Contact Diane at 925-634-5456.
Friends of the Oakley Library Book It Run & Walk!: At 8 a.m. April 12, the Delta Science Center at Big Break Regional Shoreline hosts a 10K and 5K Run/Walk. Support the Friends of the Oakley Library by participating in this inaugural fun run. Proceeds from the run will go toward building a new library for the city of Oakley. All events start and finish at the park's Delta Science Center, 69 Big Break Road. For more information, go to: http://worknotes.com/CA/Oakley/Library/apt17.aspx. Registration is at https://runsignup.com/Race/CA/Oakley/BookItRun. For more, emial firstname.lastname@example.com.
Volunteer Literacy Tutor Training: Would you like to help an adult learn to read, write and spell better? Project Second Chance, the Contra Costa County Library adult literacy program, announces training for volunteer literacy tutors. Training starts on 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. April 23 and continues April 26 and May 3 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. All 14 hours are required. No previous teaching experience is required. To register, visit our website at www.ccclib.org/psc or call us at 925-927-3250.
IT'S RAINING CATS AND DOGS!: Throughout April, children in Pittsburg are invited to participate in "Kids' Read -- Cats and Dogs," a program that encourages them to read the same books and participate in discussions and activities centered on the books. "Skippyjon Jones" by Judy Schachner is the title for children in preschool through second grade. Kids in grades 3-5 will laugh and cry over the bittersweet experiences of Opal and her dog in "Because of Winn Dixie" by Kate DiCamillo. The Friends of the Pittsburg Library, Railroad Book Depot, the Pittsburg Women's Community League and the Pittsburg Library teamed up to sponsor book-related events for children throughout the month of April. A pet parade, a stuffed animal sleepover, and a movie showing are a few of the activities.
Thanks to a grant from the Keller Canyon Mitigation Trust Fund, children can pick up their free copy of the books throughout Pittsburg (Pittsburg Library, Railroad Book Depot, and all Starbucks locations throughout Pittsburg -- excluding the Starbucks in Safeway) while supplies last. Of course, they can always check out a copy of the book at the library as well! For more information, call 925-427-8390 or visit ccclib.org.
Liz Fuller is a community library manager at the Brentwood library. Reach her at 925-625-3589, 925-516-5294 or at email@example.com.


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CHELSEA, Mass. — State Garden here has issued a voluntary recall of nearly 100 different brands of bagged salad mixes due to possible Listeria contamination. The items, sold under labels including Nature¹s Promise, Nature's Place, Northeast Fresh and a variety of private label brands, were bagged at State Garden's Chelsea, Mass. plant on January 4. All of the mixes have a "best if used by" date of January 15, 2011 and traceback codes of 45693 and 45703. Currently, no incidents of food ...
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