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Floyd Mayweathe Jr.'s fight against WBC welterweight beltholder Victor Ortiz will be televised on Primetime pay per view in the United Kingdom, Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer told RingTV.com on Sunday.
Mayweather-Ortiz, dubbed "Star Power," will be on HBO Pay-Per-View in the United States from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
HBO's parent company, Time Warner, plans to use some of its other networks — such as CNN — to promote the fight as Showtime did with Manny Pacquiao-Shane Mosley on CBS. HBO also will feature its popular 24/7 series.
"The entire Star Power card will be on pay per view here in the United Kingdom with Primetime as the pay-per-view provider. So in the same way that HBO and Time Warner will be doing in the United States by using their different platforms and the magazines and the television stations, the same thing is going to happen here in the United Kingdom," Schaefer said during a telephone interview from London on Sunday.
"Primetime is owned by a very wealthy group which owns major newspaper assets as well as one of the five terrestrial television stations in the United Kindom. So we made a deal with them where 24/7 is going to be shown in the United Kindom as well. And, the magazines and the newspapers will be in play as well."
The Mayweather-Ortiz winner will be a potential opponent for English junior welterweight titleholder Amir Khan, whose victories in defense of his WBA belt over Paul McCloskey and, Zab Judah were recently aired on Primetime pay per view.
"The Khans have been using Primetime as well," said Schaefer. "So there's going to be a big news conference here about that this week. That will be at Time headquarters in downtown London."


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Winners & Losers: Miramar, Bieber
Winner: Miramar Air Show
The high-flying tradition puts last year's cancellation in its rearview and announces plans to return in October. Start your neck-craning training now.
Read the story: Miramar Air Show a go for 2014
Winner: Grammy Love
San Diego's Jeff Moore and Jaime Miles and Jesse Greika and Anthony Rollar are among the couples who got hitched en masse during the Grammy Awards broadcast. Can't wait to hear what Madonna got them.
Read the story: Locals wed on historic Grammy broadcast
Winner: Sanford-Burnham center
The La Jolla research institute receives a $275 million anonymous gift to support development of drugs and treatment for cancer, Alzheimer's and other diseases. That's change for the history books.
Read the story: Sanford-Burnham gets record $275M gift
Winner: Jerry Brown
A new poll gives California's governor the gift of record-high favorable ratings and major support for his new budget. A collective case of high-speed rail amnesia and he can call it a day.
Read the story: Strong support for Brown, budget, poll says
Winner: Our aching ears
The men of Mötley Crüe swear on a case of Aqua Net that their latest tour will be their last. They'll bring their tunes and tattoos to town on July 30 if you want to hold them to it.
Read the story: Mötley Crüe's last tour San Diego-bound
Loser: Funny money
Sen. Ben Hueso, Assemblywoman Shirley Weber and District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis plan to return contributions linked to our expanding campaign-finance scandal while we wait for the next dirty shoe to drop.
Read the story: Hueso, Weber will return lobbyist money
Loser: Arctic Atlanta
Less than three inches of snow maroons drivers, strands kids at school overnight and blankets Atlanta's mayor and Georgia's governor in controversy for lack of preparation. The mittens are coming off.
Read the story: Winter storm causes wrecks, gridlock in the South
Loser: Music lovers
Folk giant and underdog champion Pete Seeger dies at 94, leaving a hole in our musical hearts and a legacy we will sing into eternity.
Read the story: Folk singer, activist Pete Seeger dies in NY
Loser: Drought denial
The Sierra snowpack is sad, our reservoir levels are shrinking, and mandatory water rationing could be on its way. Pray for rain and prepare the sponge-bath.
Read the story: Amid drought, California agency won't allot water
Loser: Bieber. Still.
Toxicology reports say the Biebster had Xanax and marijuana in his system when he was pulled over in Miami Beach last week, while more than 200,000 petition-signers say he should be deported. Worldwide detox anybody?
Related story: Should Justin Bieber be deported? He can be irritating

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Contemplative prayer (sometimes called centering prayer or Christian meditation) is a form of wordless prayer that aims to open us to the divine presence within. Service times: Wednesdays at 12:15p in the church; Thursdays at 5:30p in the church. All are welcome. No prior experience necessary. Participants gather in the chancel of the church and, following a brief meditation, and sit together in silence for 30 minutes.
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Powerful Grid environments for different communities were developed and implemented in the previous projects of the D-Grid Initiative. In order to bring more users into the Grid, however, the entry threshold must be as low as possible. One aspect of this is a security infrastructure that is also attractive to groups of users who have only limited experience with the use of personal certificates.
The Gap Project is rising to this challenge and will develop solutions that facilitate access to the Grid for users with limited technical expertise. Building on the experiences of the participating community Grids C3Grid, MediGRID and TextGrid, solutions will be developed that both respond to the specific requirements of the users, and that are at the same time generic enough to be used by other communities as well.
Correspondingly, the following use cases have been chosen for development:
Use Case A:
Users without a personal certificate, who use a Short-Lived Credential Service (SLCS)
After logging into the portal, authentication proceeds within the framework of the DFN-AAI federation by means of Shibboleth using the user's home identity provider, after which short-lived certificates are to be used. In order to fine-tune authorisation on the part of resource providers, SAML (Secure Assertion Markup Language) assertions will be used, which will also contain VO (Virtual Organisation) management information.
Use Case B:
Users with personal certificates
The authentication process will be simplified for those users with a personal certificate who generally do not access a Grid computer directly, but rather authenticate via a portal or through web-based software. In addition to EUGridPMA-conformant certificates, other circumstances will be considered (e.g. medical profession certificates from the health system or certificates from industry). These users should be able to use these certificates in the Grid if the issuing certification authority (CA) has a sufficiently high security level and the resource provider in question accepts certificates of this sort.
Use Case C:
Users who want to use certain applications in the Grid on an ad-hoc and quasi-anonymous basis
Individual authentication of users is not necessarily required or desirable for certain application scenarios in the Grid. Examples include access to validated climate data for the interested public, some applications drawn from bioinformatics, and access to published texts. These applications have the potential to bring other groups of users to the grid. For this reason, a procedure that responds in particular to organisational and legal concerns is being developed for these cases.
The requirements of C3-Grid, MediGRID / Services@MediGRID, TextGrid, PartnerGrid, DGI and BIS-Grid have been incorporated in project planning. The Gap-SLC project, however, is open for cooperation with other projects and will host a workshop after the project has begun in order to gather information about the needs of other communities.
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HIV & AIDS Health Center
Treatment as Prevention
If you have HIV, one of the most important ways you can protect yourself and your partner is to stick with your antiretroviral treatment. Treatment can reduce the amount of virus in your body called the viral load, so much that it doesn't show up in tests.
"If you have your viral load down to an undetectable level, the risk of giving HIV to someone else is quite low," says Michael Melia, MD. He's an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
That said, you shouldn't rely on treatment alone as protection, Melia says.
"We always tell people to use more than one form of protection, like treatment along with a condom," says Brad Hare, MD. He's the director of the HIV/AIDS Clinic at San Francisco General Hospital. While no one form of protection is 100% effective, combining them can strengthen your defenses.
PEP and PrEP
In some cases, people without HIV can benefit from HIV medications.
PEP (post-exposure prophylaxis.) This is like a "morning-after pill" for HIV. If you think you've been exposed to HIV -- maybe the condom broke -- see a doctor right away. You may be given antiretroviral drugs for 28 days. It's generally effective, but get it as soon as possible -- within 72 hours of exposure and preferably sooner.
PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) This is treatment before you might be exposed. You start taking antiretroviral drugs now to protect you from HIV if you come in contact with it.
Who needs PrEP? An HIV-negative woman who is trying to get pregnant with an HIV-positive partner might need PrEP, says Hare. It helps protect her and the baby. If you sometimes have sex without a condom you may need to consider PrEP. Talk to your doctor.
Other Tips for Mixed-Status Couples
While you may focus on immediate issues as a couple -- like keeping the uninfected person safe -- you might worry about the big picture, too. What does this mean for your relationship and your future?
Keep talking. Don't let HIV isolate you or push you apart. Communicate your worries and concerns.
It's okay if sex seems scary right now. Focus on other ways of being intimate -- like cuddling, hugging, and casual kissing. It's important that you stay connected.
Get help. Schedule a visit to a health care provider together to talk about HIV and prevention. Make sure you understand all the answers. Look for support groups in your area or think about couples counseling.
Plan ahead. Don't let HIV put your life on hold. "If you or your partner have HIV, you have to plan for education, a family, a career, and retirement," Hare says, "just like everybody else."


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By Sgt. Travis Zielinski 1st ACB, 1st CAV DIV, USD-CMarch 9, 2010
CAMP TAJI, Iraq - Multiple units operating out of a single hub have provided ground commanders in and around Baghdad with 20,000 hours worth of aerial coverage, hitting the milestone March 7.
Unmanned aerial vehicle operators and maintainers from 10th Mountain Division, 3rd Infantry Division and 2nd Infantry Division come together under the roof of Company G, 2nd Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, U.S. Division-Center, to act as the center of operations for all launches, landings and maintenance required to keep the Shadow UAVs in the air.
"There is melding of the maneuver battalions, the aviation battalions and the different tactics from each - all together in one spot," said Warrant Officer 1 Dave Phaneuf, an unmanned aircraft systems technician in 2nd Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mnt. Div., USD - C.
At any given time within the 24-hour day, Co. G has multiple UAVs in the air supporting ground operations throughout the Baghdad area. Maintaining the aircraft in order to meet the operational demands of the ground commanders requires care and attention to detail.
"It all starts with the smallest of inspections and they (UAV maintainers) are doing it repetitively - 12 to 15 times a day," said Phaneuf. "If they are not doing the smallest thing right, then they can't get the big things right."
"Everyone here has the same zero-defect mentality," he said.
Under garrison conditions, a UAV unit will fly an average 200 hours in a year. The UAVs maintained by the Soldiers under Co. G have reached 20,000 hours in a 10-month span.
"The 1 ACB has kept the same op-tempo and the same hours flying with what they did with five platoons here - now they are doing it with three," said Phaneuf. "We properly mitigated the risks and are using the Shadow at its potential. Knowing what the limits of the aircraft are has actually increased its usage in pushing it out to those forward units."
Once the aircraft are launched from Camp Taji, a forward unit will take control of the vehicle for the remainder of the operation, handing control back to Co. G for landing when the mission is complete.
Between missions is when a large portion of Co. G's work is completed, ensuring the aircraft stay on a flight worthy status.
"We work non-stop from when we get here to the time we leave for the day; it is pretty fast paced, but it makes your day go by faster," said Richard Klitz, from Fort Lewis, Wash., a UAV maintainer with 2nd Battalion, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, USD - C.
For all the work involved in keeping the aircraft going, reaching 20,000 hours is a milestone the maintenance technicians pride themselves on, said Klitz.
The operators and maintainers sustain their tempo, knowing the importance of the UAVs to the ground commanders, even though they rarely see or hear about the end result.
"The guys here, they don't get to see a lot of what happens, so when I get reports or video of things that happen, I will bring them in so they can read it and see that their day-to-day work here is actually paying off," said Phaneuf.
"When they finally do get the feedback, they will say, 'Alright, I got a little job satisfaction now.'"


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There's been a handful of great reviews (which I generally aggregate on the product page here on this site) but there's also been a notable review on Barnes & Noble (where the book is ALSO free -- it's free everywhere. Cause that's how I roll).
"I am a 16 year old girl, and I found this story hilarious. It is funny, a little crude, and somewhat dark. I love Zaphod's character. He is a cyncial zombie, and reading the book from his point of view makes it hilarious. This book really seems to poke fun at today's society--from the teens of today to the way the world works--and I found it very enjoyable. There is some talk of sex/porn and other topics along those lines, but other than that I thought it was a great book. I would love to read more from this author!"
This is a great review. And if you've read the book and HAVEN'T left a review, I think you should write something similar. Or completely different. Or whatever. Just leave a review. Preferably on Amazon.And if you won't do it for me -- the author who poured his heart and soul into a work of creative fiction -- do it for zombie awareness.Nah, I'm just kidding. Do it for me. Please?
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Morning team,
Steve Allen here and we've finally reached the holy grail, the pinnacle of the week! It's Friday. Although I believe it's going to be a hot weekend, which will ruin my plans.
We've some fantastic guests for you this weekend, 4 legends. Mr Ronnie Corbett is in to talk about his comedy career and Jay, Jimmy and Merrill Osmond are in to talk to you about their music tour, which is funnily enough called the 'Last Tour', although they assure me that it won't be their final swansong!
We've had some fantastic stories on the free podcast all week, but we end the blog with a sad story about one of the worlds most famous lyricists. The prolific American songwriter Gerry Goffin - who was behind more than 50 hits - has died at the age of 75. He's best-known for tracks like: You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman, Up on the Roof, and The Loco-Motion. All fantastic songs, and he teamed up with his ex wife Carole King. It's sad news to bring you on a Friday, but it's only right to pay respects to a legend.
Thank you for all of your texts, tweets and emails this week!
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Rob Minkoff fell in love with animation watching "Peabody's Improbable History" segments on The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show on television growing up in Palo Alto, Calif. Now 51, he thinks he also was moved by the father-son relationship between Mr. Peabody, the brilliant beagle, and his adopted boy, Sherman.
"My father was very cerebral," he says at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Dallas, where he was doing interviews about his direction of the animated Mr. Peabody & Sherman, which opens Friday.
"I never doubted that my dad loved me. But there's that moment in the film, where he tells Sherman, 'I have a deep regard for you,' that gets to me."
As with the original cartoon, Minkoff's film tells the story of how Mr. Peabody (voiced by Modern Family's Ty Burrell) creates a WABAC time machine to teach Sherman (Max Charles) history. On TV, Mr. Peabody often fixed something in history that wasn't going as it should. In the film, Mr. Peabody gets Mona Lisa to smile for her Leonardo da Vinci portrait.
The film's focus, though, is on Mr. Peabody's fight to keep Sherman. A teacher (Allison Janney) challenges the right of a dog to adopt a boy. Sherman, too, has to work through his feelings when a classmate, Penny (Ariel Winter), taunts him about having a dog for a dad. Stephen Colbert voices Penny's difficult dad.
Minkoff reunited with his former Disney boss, Jeffrey Katzenberg, now the CEO of DreamWorks Animation, for the film. Minkoff was a longtime Disney animator who was all of 20 and an undergraduate at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles when hired to assist with The Black Cauldron in 1985.
He stayed on to help animate many Disney favorites, from The Great Mouse Detective to The Little Mermaid, but he's best known for co-directing another story about a father and son — Disney's blockbuster The Lion King, which won Academy Awards for original score and song.
He also helmed the popular live-action Stuart Little and Stuart Little 2 films about a mouse adopted by humans who, like Sherman, struggles with feeling different. Minkoff says the father-son story was on his mind as he worked because he was anticipating becoming a father as he and his wife, Crystal Kung, planned, expected and had their son, Max, in 2012.
His wife is a 76th-generation descendant of Confucius, which makes Max a 77th-generation descendant. He considered taking the WABAC to meet Confucius, he says, but opted instead for the French Revolution, ancient Egypt, the Italian Renaissance and the Trojan War.
Of course, the trip could still happen if the film does well — "maybe in the sequel," he says.
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CHARLESTON -- Mr. and Mrs. Greg Luehmann have announced the engagement of their daughter, Megan Jean Luehmann, to Jacob McMikle Priday, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ron Priday of Sikeston.
The future bride is a 2004 graduate of Charleston High School and a 2007 graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia where she received a bachelor's degree in occupational science. She is pursuing her master's degree in occupational therapy.
The prospective bridegroom is a 2004 graduate of Sikeston High School. He is pursuing an agricultural economics degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia where he was a four-year starter on the baseball team. He was recently drafted by the Houston Astros.
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Armed with fantastic feedback we've received from our customers' employees and partners' we've been working hard over the past few months to bring you the new and improved UNIVERSALGEAR.COM.
The new site has tons of new features to make your shopping experience easier and more enjoyable. Here are some of our favorite improvements:
- Shop by Brand: Since most of us are loyal to a few brands' we've added a Shop By Brand area featuring some of our most popular brands. Don't see your favorite here? Just enter the brand name in the Search box on the top left of the site. In seconds' you get a page of all products currently on that site that have that brand name as part of the title.
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- Better Stock Status: The new site is now linked to our inventory system' so we'll only show you products that we have in stock.
- The Blog: Through our new blog' we'll keep you up-to-date on the latest trends in men's fashion. We'll also spotlight new brands' recount our travels to fashion events throughout the globe (ok' mostly in New York) and give you the dish on which celebrities were spotted wearing our clothes (have you seen American Idol contestant Chris wearing the Diesel Zaf jeans?).
So what are you waiting for? It's time to take the new site for a spin.
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In early August the Senate failed to act on a sensible, bipartisan proposal to improve the nation's cybersecurity. With the recess days away, and with a heated election set to dominate the final months of the 112th Congress, "A Bill to Enhance the Security and Resiliency of the Cyber and Communications Infrastructure of the United States" (S.3414) may never again see the light of the Senate chamber. We cannot afford to let months pass while our power, water, and communications infrastructures are inconsistently protected from those who would do Americans harm; the nature and extent of the threat to our nation's security continues to necessitate some immediate legislative action. Although the bill, co-sponsored by Joe Lieberman and Susan Collins, did not generate congressional consensus, it provides the Obama administration with a strong framework it can leverage to develop an executive order. The issuance of such an order would be sure to draw sharp criticism, but the framework for federal agencies provided by the Lieberman/Collins bill would be an effective (if only temporary) response to our nation's most pressing national security threat.
The legislation's detractors have aligned in two opposing camps of criticism. Some argue that the bill is an extreme manifestation of regulatory overreach – subjecting vast industries to government-mandated standards for securing their private networks. Others have decried the most recent iteration of the bill as toothless and impotent, incapable of encouraging actual change in the industries providing our nation's critical infrastructure. While these arguments may resonate among ideologues, their myopic prioritization of election-year party politics over national security, and their consequent substantive shortcomings have yielded what Senator Lieberman described as a "colossal abdication of duty" on the Congress's part.
First, claims of "regulatory overreach" are thrown around on the Hill so often as to render them virtually meaningless; in this instance, the claim is particularly absurd. The final iteration of the bill set standards for security with an entirely voluntary public-private partnership. In exchange for agreeing to comply with a set of standards, private entities that control portions of our nation's critical infrastructure would be granted a series of benefits including the ability to help shape those very standards. Other benefits and incentives included access to shared information from intelligence and defense agencies, priority assistance from government cyber-incident experts, expedited security clearances for appropriate employees, and protection from legal liability in the event of an attack. Any proof of compliance with these standards would be voluntary as well – except in the instance of an attack, after which a provider would have to demonstrate their eligibility for legal protection. All of this coordination and information sharing would be centralized in the Department of Homeland Security, with support from all other relevant civilian and military agencies, who would together form the new National Cybersecurity Council. This set of incentives was created to draw in businesses, to get them engaged in sharing information and building better practices. But nothing was mandatory – so how could it be "regulatory overreach?"
The most absurd aspect of this argument is that some of its advocates have actually proposed more stringent regulation in the past. Senate Republicans' SECURE IT bill, or the House's CISPA, would hand control of cybersecurity information sharing and monitoring over to the NSA. How can one possibly argue that having a military agency renowned for its lack of transparency and minimal civilian oversight not qualify as regulatory overreach, while a voluntary, cooperative network overseen by a civilian agency does?
The opposite critique is that such a voluntary structure provides little assurance that water, power, communications, and other critical infrastructure-providing industries will comply with baseline standards. The incentives mentioned above are substantial – and companies that take advantage of them will find that the dollars and cents benefits will not be far behind. How many companies are breached on a regular basis? How many would welcome help from the highly capable members of the US electronic defense complex? How many would welcome the raw intelligence to be able to counteract threats before they are compromised? And how many major companies will be willing to expose themselves to liability for allowing thousands or hundreds of thousands of American citizens to be put at risk while their competitors shield themselves with better information, better technology, and legal protection? Further, the argument that S.3414's voluntary structures provide insufficient compliance incentive is undermined by its proponents' past support for proposals with inferior incentive structures. CISPA and SECURE IT offer critical infrastructure providers unlimited liability protection, but they do so without mandating compliance with certain baseline standards – essentially eliminating any reason these providers might have to improve their cybersecurity practices. We may not be able to stop every threat, but the incentives created by the Lieberman/Collins bill would ensure that our best minds will be at work, cooperatively, to prevent grave risks to Americans.
So what now? With the Lieberman/Collins bill stalled, and little progress likely to be made – how much time can we as a nation allow ourselves to be vulnerable? In the days before the bill's failure, a Senate colleague remarked that, "this is a bill designed to last twenty years," so getting the framework right is important. But it would only take twenty minutes, maybe twenty seconds, for something to go truly wrong. Do we fail to plug the hole in the ship's hull because we don't have a permanent fix? Our critical infrastructure is indeed a leaky ship, but Lieberman/Collins was the answer we needed to plug the holes. An executive order to create the authority and information sharing framed by that bill will protect our nation for the coming months until Congress hammers out a deal for the next twenty years.


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Milpitas Police Depart-ment is still investigating the Nov. 22 stabbing of a 30-year-old woman at Embassy Suites hotel.
Milpitas police Lt. Henry Kwong said this week the investigation into the stabbing is ongoing.
"There's been no arrest at this time," Kwong said.
Police said the victim, who suffered serious, but non-life threatening wounds, has been released from the hospital.
At about 5:25 p.m. that day, Milpitas police responded to 901 E. Calaveras Blvd. on the report that the victim had suffered several lacerations on her upper body consistent with a cutting instrument. Police had initially confirmed the victim and suspect were acquaintances. Police further claimed the stabbing did not appear to be a random act of violence and that there was no immediate threat to public safety.
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Anyone with information regarding this investigation is asked to call Milpitas Police Department at (408) 586-2400. Information can also be given anonymously by calling (408) 586-2500.
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Police are looking for a missing man in southern Kentucky.
Max Dale Brock, 45, was last seen on Saturday at his home in Knox County.
Police began searching for Brooks on Thursday in some fields around his home in the Woolum community.
At this point, investigators don't have any leads on what happened to him.
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Episode 4: Red Hot Chili Cookout
To catch up from last week: Austin chef Paul Qui won $20,000 in the quickfire for a chilled soup he made featuring a ghost pepper, the world's hottest pepper, and Houston's Sarah Grueneberg did the state proud when her group's chili was the cowboys' pick at the Tejas Rodeo. One of the Chicago chefs (tattoos, mohawk, hipster feel) went home.
Episode 5: Don't be tardy to the dinner party
Our rowdy crew hit the road to drive from sponsored Texas city No. 1, San Antonio, to sponsored Texas city No. 2, Dallas.
Houston, by the way, is not feeling slighted at all that the series skipped our fare, foodie city when the Visitors Bureau declined a pay for play deal, judging by this commercial that ran on Bravo during the show.
Quickfire challenge: Cook a dish on roadside picnic tables
On the road, the chefs chat it up to really get to know each other and discover who's gay, who's taken and who used to be a fattie.
It's all a bunch of roadtrip funtimes until, oh no! What's this State Trooper doing in the middle of the dead-end road we were told to drive down? Could be trouble, or it could be a quickfire?
Indeed, Padma Lakshmi and New Orleans chef John Besh met the contestants mid-trip to challenge them to make a dish using a survival kit and camp stove. I hate these nasty, canned-food, gross-out challenges. Most of the dishes looked sloppy and sounded disgusting: green bean casserole, randomly seasoned ramen and tofu topped with Crystal Light powder.
Even the winning dish was tough to imagine anyone enjoying: Lindsay's sardine saltine cracker club and Vienna sausage soup.
Elimination challenge: Cater a progressive dinner in Highland Park
The rest of the show appeared to a decidedly fancier demographic (though perhaps not the most sophisticated palates in all of Texas).
The chefs crashed the kitchen's of Dallas' 1 percent in Highland Park, where they had to impress a group of rich diners without scaring them away with ingredients they refuse, like cilantro, bell peppers and garlic. Seriously.
In three teams, the chefs make appetizers, dinner and dessert at three decked-out mansions for a progressive dinner. All the made-up, picture perfect wives — including a self-professed "lifestyle expert" (WTH?) — had specific requests while the husbands were pretty much whatevs.
Paul Qui, of Austin, knew what was up: "Generally with events like this you want to impress the lady of the house. If you impress the lady, the man will go along."
Making a cigar out of collard greens, chicken and cumin is not a way to impress the ladies, Chris.
In between awkward small talk with the judges about their 1,000-person nuptials and grand vacation plans, they made apt food critiques, including:
"That looks like blood." (It was a red wine reduction.)
"It was fancy, but a big giggly looking." (That's panna cotta for ya.)
"I thought Dakota's dessert was worth every calorie." (The judges agreed with this one.)
Houston native Sarah Grueneberg and Paul both made it into the the top for their roasted veggie appetizers, as did Grayson and Dakota for their desserts. The judges picked Paul's fried Brussels sprouts with grilled prosciutto and spiced crème fraiche as their fave.
It seems a little unfair that the apps/'zerts groups had an easier task and ended up in the top. The main dishes… not so much. The biggest fail ended up being an overcooked cheese-stuffed salmon by cute Mexican-American chef "Choo-Choo" Chuy. Unfortunately, we only heard him called this nickname as he was saying goodbye.
Top Chef Texas airs Wednesdays at 9 p.m. on Bravo.


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Drive Alert is a hard drive warning system that will warn the user of impending hard drive failures while there is still time to take action, such as backing up data to a replacement device. Drive Alert will display a green hard drive icon in the finder menu when all monitored drives has been verified as good and will turn red if it detects that a failure is going to occur.
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GameWindow - fullscreen + setting the resolutionPosted Sunday, 2 August, 2009 - 18:31 by james_lohr in
At present, if I create a new GameWindow, with a resolution of say 800x600, and then set the WindowState to fullscreen, instead of changing my monitor resolution to 800x600 (as I would expect), it just overrwrites the resolution with my current desktop resolution.
So, how do I change my monitor resolution? I've spent a good 25 minutes googling, and I found:
OpenTK.Graphics.DisplayDevice and OpenTK.Graphics.DisplayResolution help enumerate available displays and resolutions (yes, the code is multi-monitor aware ;) ), and provide methods to change the settings of any display.
...but the I can't for the life of me find these elusive methods. Are they perhaps private? - if so, how do I get at them?
At present, if I create a new GameWindow, with a resolution of say 800x600, and then set the WindowState to fullscreen, instead of changing my monitor resolution to 800x600 (as I would expect), it just overrwrites the resolution with my current desktop resolution.
This was discussed in the forums. I'm not sure what is the current state of this part of the API. If I might, I certainly wouldn't expect GameWindow to change the screen resolution :)
OpenTK.Graphics.DisplayDevice.ChangeResolution() and
OpenTK.Graphics.DisplayDevice.RestoreResolution() are the methods you are looking for.
Edit: I made a mistake in my orginal post, it's DisplayDevice, not DisplayResolution. Sorry!
Woah woah woah, there seriously needs to be some documentation up on how to use this part of the library because it's very confusing if you're used to how the majority of games libs do it (i.e. they only support a single monitor).
This is how I expected it to work - (for anyone referring to this thread, this is wrong) :
//get an array of all the resolutions that my monitor supports OpenTK.Graphics.DisplayDevice[] resolutions = OpenTK.Graphics.DisplayDevice.AvailableDisplays; //I expected this to be a static method, but it's not so this won't even compile OpenTK.Graphics.DisplayDevice.ChangeResolution(...)
For anyone referring to this thread, this is how it actually works:
// returns an array of displays, one per monitor - on a single monitor computer, this will just be of length 1 OpenTK.Graphics.DisplayDevice[] displays = OpenTK.Graphics.DisplayDevice.AvailableDisplays; //get a list of available resolutions for the first monitor resolutions = displays[0].AvailableResolutions; //change the resolution to one that is supported displays[0].ChangeResolution(resolutions[x]); //or set it manually displays[0].ChangeResolution(800,600,32,60);
In hindsight it's extremely simple, and works exactly as it should. The problem was that I wasn't expecting the support for multiple monitors, and that was where the confusion arose from. - also, no amount of googling showed up any snippet of code (like the one above) for simply setting the resolution on a single monitor.
Perhaps it was just me being slow, or the fact that I recall using a previous games library where "availableDisplayModes" was used to mean the available resolutions (which is rather similar to "availableDisplays"). Anyway, at least this thread now exists, so noone else will have the same problem as myself.
Probably half the problem is that C# comes with such good development tools that people don't even bother documenting stuff because they just assume that other programmers will have enough common sense to explore the available methods themselves throught the IDE. :P
As part of the ongoing documentation effort, I've added a new chapter describing the DisplayDevice class.
If you are using OpenTK 0.9.9+, you can optionally pass a DisplayDevice to the GameWindow constructor. This will ensure the GameWindow is instantiated on that specific device (OpenTK 0.9.8 and older would always instantiate GameWindows on the primary display).
Finally, you can query the actual bounds of the device using the Bounds property. This can be useful in some obscure cases, where you might like to know the actual position of each device relative to the rest.
Excellent! :)
Great work in supporting multiple display devices - as james said - it is quite unique among the graphics libraries out there. Eg. I'm not sure even the widely used SimpleDirectmedia Library (SDL) supports this.


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UNIVERSITY PARK - Penn State doesn't have a starting quarterback or a backup, according to quarterbacks coach Jay Paterno.
It has two number ones, he said after the Nittany Lions' 23-18 win over Purdue.
And yet, Rob Bolden was the first quarterback in the game Saturday, just as he's been all season.
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Penn State quarterback Matt McGloin is pressured by Purdue defensive end Ryan Russell on Saturday.
Bolden, through his father, threatened to transfer after he was not used in the Outback Bowl. He and his father held a meeting in January with Jay Paterno and Joe Paterno, and Bolden's request to transfer was denied.
Jay Paterno said Saturday that Bolden was not assured of a starting job if he returned.
"Joe didn't promise anything," Jay Paterno said. "[We said] we're going to go out and compete, and that's it. And Rob never asked for anything. He said, 'I just want a chance to compete.'''
Bolden played the first three series Saturday, led a touchdown drive on the second series, and wound up 2-for-4 for 40 yards. His TD drive included a pair of passes to Brandon Moseby-Felder, including a 19-yarder to the Purdue 1.
But when he came out for the third series, he threw two errant passes to Devon Smith.
"Somewhat frustrating" is how Bolden described not building on the 7-0 lead. "But all in all, we got the win."
Bolden also started the second half and was 0-for-2 on his only series.
McGloin, meanwhile, was 2-of-8 in the second quarter for 22 yards and had a touchdown pass dropped by tight end Andrew Szczerba. After Purdue cut Penn State's lead to 13-12 in the third quarter, McGloin completed three straight passes for 51 yards, and Silas Redd scored on a 9-yard run.
McGloin was just as sharp on his next drive, completing three more for 72 yards before, leading 20-12, he was picked in the end zone shooting for freshman Bill Belton, and Purdue's Albert Evans returned it 55 yards.
McGloin wound up 8-for-17 for 145 yards.
JayPa called McGloin's pick, which hit off Belton and was snagged out of the air, "a fluke," and he wanted to keep McGloin in there to build his confidence.
And he believes the rotation is working.
"We're dealing with human beings, and you think about their psyche," he said. "These aren't robots. When you coach quarterbacks, it's about playing psychologist. We have five more big games to play, and we need both of them.
"We have to have more consistency out of both of them and one of the great byproducts of this is neither one of them takes a play off in practice. Even Mike [Robinson] and Darryl [Clark] had a tendency to back off in practice a little bit because they knew they were the guy. I've never seen two guys this focused in terms of learning everything."


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With skipper Doug Loft suspended, manager Micky Adams could be forced to make three changes from the team held to a goalless home draw by Bradford on Tuesday night.
Full-backs Richard Duffy and Dan Jones are both doubts ahead of the weekend visit of the Shrimpers having missed training on Thursday.
"We'll give them as long as we possibly can, but both must be doubtful," said Adams.
"Dan looks as though he's tweaked his knee ligament and he did well to through the second half on Tuesday, and Richard has an ankle problem.
"We do have options, but I'd rather my two main full-backs were available. We'll have to assess everybody right up to the last minute."
With Loft beginning a three-match ban following his red card in midweek, Rob Taylor may come into contention to replace Jones. Although Adams could also switch Adam Yates to left-back and move new signing Anthony Griffith to right-back.
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Hardly has the dust settled on the Microsoft Pink Verizon leak, when along come live - if blurry - shots of one of the handsets themselves. You're looking at the device codenamed Pure, a touchscreen slider with a full QWERTY keyboard and - according to a leak of the firmware - a 480 x 320 display. The firmware also confirms the Verizon launch, together with traces of of Zune, as well as Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo! and Windows Live.
It also confirms that the Turtle has a 320 x 240 display, and that there are alternative codenames - Pride and Lion - for the Turtle and Pure CDMA versions respectively. There's also what's believed to be a social networking center, called The Loop, and the whole thing is based on Windows CE albeit heavily hidden with a distinctive UI that borrows from the Zune and Windows Phone 7. Says the source of the firmware leak:
"Everything is programed in .NET a lot like 7 is. It does not say it inside the files where I have seen, but It is coded in XAMl and is in the structure that CE 7 is supposed to be structured, it is my belief that it will be based off CE 7, and it will have a lot of tie in to Windows Live as well."
Gizmodo's tipster reports that the device was "intuitive, 'better than Android,' and decorated with Windows Phone 7-style animations throughout," though that's based on a few seconds use. They also saw an app store, though currently empty of titles. Meanwhile over at Twitter, user Conflipper apparently also has some firmware access of their own, and has released a few shots of the UI - including the dialer and PIN screen - together with a photo from the Pure's camera.
No release date has been leaked for the Pure, but the assumption is that it'll land at around the same time as the Turtle, at the end of April 2010. Microsoft were tipped to be preparing the Pink platform as a replacement to the Sidekick, and it certainly looks like that's what these devices are turning out to be: social networking-heavy media phones with an emphasis on usability rather than the sort of enterprise functionality you'd get on Windows Phone 7.
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January 9, 2008This women is a great healer...she reaches out heart, mind & soul to help those in need of unconditional guidance. I am very blessed to have a person give great deliverance of her wisdom to me.
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I am an experiencer. I like to get my hands dirty and dip my toes in the water. I don't just march to the beat of a different drummer, I dance the fandango. I think that I am generally a kind and caring person but I only give people one real chance. I don't like being taken advantage of. I am a den mother to many and yet I like to abdicate all responsibility by empowering those in my care. I am an educator and love to impart wisdom and knowledge to help others attain personal growth. I am gifted as a healer and am intuitive but not for profit. I think that I was born to do something important with my life but I am still trying to figure out what exactly that consists of.
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Muddied WatersSun, April 5, 2009 - 12:57 PM permalink - 0 comments
The waters are muddied
With all that came before
Clouded with past hurts
Betrayals as dark as river bottoms
The stain of broken trust
Cast upon its surface
I can barely see my face
In its reflecting mirror
Just visions of fear and mistrust
And the monsters of my past
I am not Narcissus
Caught up by my own beauty
To sit forever, gazing into this pond of love
I will not dip my toes
To test her waters
The piranhas below the surface
They bite and rend flesh
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Ah, this healing process! I find as I am growing back into being myself that I feel compelled to write and revisit my innermost thoughts and fears, my great uncertainties about life, relationships, and my own state of mind. I thank each of you, my beautiful friends, who support me in my struggle, with your love and kindnesses. I gain strength by your love. I will get through this and I know that time really does heal all wounds. Sometimes it just feels as though it could take forever.Sun, July 6, 2008 - 10:08 PM permalink - 2 comments
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A horrified local councilor has expressed concern that puppies are being sold around local car boot sales and markets.
Alliance representative and dog lover Neil Kelly said he was "disgusted" when local people informed him of their suspicions.
Councilor Kelly was walking his own two beloved Red Setters, Finn and Molly, around the Enkalon car boot sale about a month ago when a local woman approached him.
Clearly distressed by what she had witnessed, the woman informed the local representative that she believed that a number of puppies were being sold, and also provided him with a photo of two dogs in a cage in the back of a vehicle at the boot sale.
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Glassdrummon man Martin Hearty was crowned Bard of Armagh at the annual competition at the City Hotel in Armagh on Friday night, November 22. In the performance of a lifetime, before an absolutely packed audience of 1,000 people from all over Ireland, Hearty was pronounced the winner to the delight of a large crowd of supporters from the wider Crossmaglen area.
Spokesman for the judging panel, Frank Galligan, from Donegal, said that Martin's poem, "The Culchie Gangster," not only involved the art of satire to a high level, but was delivered magnificently and he had brought out the sheer humor in every verse, holding off the serious challenge of renowned bards from Cavan, Kerry, Sligo, England and many parts of the North.
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The jury in the trial of Carlow man accused of raping and sexual abusing three young girls over 30 years ago had retired for a third night, having failed to reach a verdict.
The 51-year-old accused, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to 91 charges of rape, attempted rape and indecent assault of three girls in a Carlow town between February 1978 and December 1986.
The man has been charged with 28 counts of indecently assaulting and 26 charges of raping a first complainant, his niece, from the time she was almost seven until she was 13 years old.
[Source: Irish Independent]
An 18-year-old from Cavan Town may see herself facing the wrath of Simon Cowell in the new year. Nadine Lyons has made it through the preliminary auditions for Britain's Got Talent.
The popular T.V. talent show, which is in its eighth season, has been holding auditions all across the U.K., and Nadine attended the Belfast leg in the Europa Hotel. Speaking excitedly to The Anglo-Celt, the raven-haired beauty exclaimed:
"It's up in the air at the minute. I got through the first and second round auditions and now I'm waiting to see if I will be up in front of the judges. I think only a certain amount of people got to this stage, so it's very exciting, I'm so happy!"
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M.E.P. Sean Kelly has called for the establishment of an online local skills database to promote Irish rural locations like Ennis, with a view to increasing the geographical spread of Foreign Direct Investment (F.D.A.).
"In order to encourage a more regional spread of F.D.I. in Ireland, we need to promote the advantages of our regions and the educated workforce people based there," said Mr. Kelly, who is M.E.P. of the Year for Research and Innovation.
He noted how an excellent initiative running in the U.S. State of Indiana provides a working example of how Ireland could launch a skills database.
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A friendly call service, which rings elderly individuals living alone across the city and brings a bit of warmth and kindness to their day, has extended their services to five days a week.
Friendly Call Cork brings a few minutes of cheerful chat to people who might not have anyone to call in on a day-to-day basis.
The service, which is free, also operates as a security measure for people, offering peace of mind to isolated or vulnerable individuals.
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Five Derry nursing students have been rewarded for their academic excellence and professionalism by the University of Ulster.
Jamie-Lee McGriskin was awarded the university's Princess Macha Award for demonstrating outstanding performance in caring and communicating with patients and families during her student placement.
Sandra Laranjeira received the Northern Health and Social Care Trust Award for best academic performance in year one; the Royal College of Nursing Award for best academic performance in year two was presented to Karen Scott; the Western Health and Social Care Trust Management Award was presented to Ciara Devlin in recognition of her outstanding performance during her management practice learning experience; and the Institute of Nursing and Health Research Mona Grey Award for Excellence in Research went to Carla McClintock , recognizing excellence in research.
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Update - Dec. 10, 2009
Second dose for elementary age children 9 and younger rescheduled to Dec. 15, 2009
Forms and information:
For Pond Cove students
All documents are in pdf format. Requires Adobe
Update - Nov. 13, 2009
Schools report increase in flu-like illnesses consistent with H1N1 virus
Focus continues on prevention of flu in students, staff and families
Download letter in pdf format
November 13, 2009
Dear Cape Elizabeth Parents/Guardians:
This letter is to inform you that our community is experiencing an increase in influenza-like illness consistent with novel influenza virus (H1N1). Although we have only two identified H1N1 cases, we are very aware that a variety of flu and other symptoms are keeping some students out for periods of time. We would like to inform you of current recommendations for decreasing the spread of influenza.
Our focus is on prevention of influenza among school students, staff and families. We encourage all families and staff to take these steps to stay healthy.
This school year has offered us some real challenges as we deal with the issues of new H1N1 strain, coupled with other issues ranging from mononucleosis, strep, pneumonia, and seasonal colds. Working closely with nurses across the state, as well as the CDC, Cape Elizabeth has been very active in the program to provide vaccinations and mist treatment. As of today, we will have provided preventative measure to over 80% of our students, truly a record for a single school district.
As we currently work directly with Maine CDC to ensure that all students in Cape Elizabeth public schools are receiving the vaccination or mist, the pre-school and private school settings are being scheduled through the CDC and Cumberland County Public Health District. Unfortunately, we continue to wait for the supplies necessary to manage our staff and local health care personnel including EMS workers.
Please be aware of steps we can take to identify early ill students and staff:
The school nurses review the absence information on a daily basis. When you call the school to report a student being out, please do leave a message about whether the student has a fever and/or congestion, cough or sore throat, or that the student is out for other reasons. Providing the fever temperature, if one is present, will also be helpful. This information will help our nurses keep accurate records and avoid several hours of telephone calls each day. The daily absence account for both students and adults in the Cape Elizabeth Schools is reported daily to my office.
Our school nurses, Paula Harris at Pond Cove, Cindy Tardif at Cape Elizabeth Middle School, and Tatiana Green from Cape Elizabeth High School, along with Barbara Cummings, have dedicated many, many hours to manage the needs of our students. A very special thank you also goes to Dr. Jeff Saffer, Jeff Shedd, Kim Sturgeon, Tom Eismeier, Gary Lanoie, Janet Hoskin and Andrea Fuller, who with the nurses, have met with me every Friday morning at 7:00 am since early September to ensure we are ready for each step along the way. I have also had the advantage of working weekly with the Cumberland County Public Health District to review and manage the work on H1N1 in this county and across the state.
If you have questions, please feel free to contact the school, your healthcare provider, or the Maine CDC at www.mainepublichealth.gov or 1-800-821-5821. Resources on influenza for parents are also available at: www.cdc.gov/h1n1/parents/.
Yours truly,
Alan H. Hawkins
Update - Nov. 6, 2009
If you would like your child to receive a flu vaccine at school, please completely fill out the consent form and return it to the Cape Elizabeth Middle School Nurse's Office by THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12. Please complete a new consent form even if your child turned in paperwork for the last clinic and was unable to attend.
All documents are in pdf format. Requires Adobe
Update - Oct. 30, 2009
Keep checking the flu clinic calendar at www.maineflu.gov for non-school clinics that are open for high risk populations.
It is important for people to educate themselves accurately about the risks of the various formulations. There is much misinformation circulating that is impacting people's decisions about both the live vaccine and about vaccine containing thimerosal. Two good sources for information include:
If someone in your household is sick with ILI (influenza like illness): It is important to understand that you should contact your healthcare provider to ask about antiviral medicines (Tamiflu or Relenza) if the sick person and/or a household member meets one or more of these criteria:
Update - Oct. 22, 2009
H1N1 Flu Clinic Information
Oct. 21, 2009
We are preparing for our first H1N1 vaccination clinic for students on Friday, Oct. 30 at the Town Center Fire Station Community Room. This is subject to change depending upon availability of the vaccine.
The clinic will assure that our children will receive the vaccine as early and as efficiently as possible, which will reduce the impact the flu will have on school and on our children's learning.
This is clinic is not for the seasonal flu vaccine.
Unlike the seasonal flu, children and young adults have a higher risk for getting very sick with the H1N1 flu.
Getting the H1N1 flu vaccine is the best way to avoid getting the flu.
Vaccination consent forms are going out to parents today. If you would like your child to receive a flu vaccine at school, please completely fill out the consent form and return it to school by MONDAY, OCTOBER 26. Included in the packet will be:
All documents are in pdf format. Requires Adobe
Please realize that H1N1 vaccine supplies are being sent primarily to schools at this time, so if you plan to have your child vaccinated it will be most easily obtained at the school clinic. It is hard to predict supply and shipment, but we are very hopeful that our vaccine supplies will arrive in time for this clinic.
If you would like to learn more about influenza, please go to www.maineflu.gov or www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/.
There is also a toll free information line 1-888-257-0990 staffed by professionals available to answer your questions Monday through Friday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Please watch this Web site for updates as more information becomes available.


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> I was curious about the tabbed messaging in Shredder Alpha 1. No
> problem opening a new tab, but then the message is not loading in the
> new tab. There doesn't seem to be any GUI configuration option for
> tabs yet. Has anyone else seen this or is there eventually a
> preference to be toggled? I'm using Linux. Haven't tried with Windows
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> Thanks.
The Tabs interface is still experimental. My gripe is I have yet to
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News Release | Recognition by BCR
If you're a Virginia resident, you live within an hour's drive of one of
Virginia's 36 award-winning state parks. If you're not a resident, be sure to visit one and check out its outstanding offerings and excellent facilities.
But don't take our word for it. The National Sporting Goods Association's Sports Foundation Inc. also says Virginia is home to the most well managed park system in America. The association, which represents more than 22,000 retailers and 3,000 suppliers, gave DCR's State Parks Director Joe Elton its national gold medal and state park award in Denver, Colo., in early October 2001.
The gold medal is given in odd-numbered years to the state park system considered most outstanding in recreational management and that which best provided park, recreation and leisure services to its citizens. Virginia's park system finished a close second in 1999 and is only the third system to garner the elite award. Ohio won in 1997 and Florida took honors two years later. Dixie Sporting Goods Co. of Richmond this year nominated DCR's park system.
Virginia's special park system is unique not only for its stunning natural beauty and unmatched offerings. It's also the only state park system in the United States to have opened on one day, June 15, 1936. Six parks throughout Virginia were unveiled that day. Many of their original facilities, most of which were built by the Civilian Conservation Corps, have been restored and are still used.
DCR Director David G. Brickley said he felt the park system was so honored because it has remained true to its nature-oriented origins yet has adapted by incorporating modern improvements such as climate control and environmental education centers. The parks have excelled also, he believes, by taking advantage of other DCR programs that focus on open space and recreational planning, the use of soil and water conservation measures, dam management and natural heritage resource administration.
Joe Elton echoed these sentiments, adding that he is particularly grateful to the hundreds of DCR employees and thousands of volunteers who have "dedicated tens of thousands of hours of hard work over 65 years to make Virginia's State Parks the best in the nation."
Click here to learn more about this special park system. Call the Virginia State Park Customer Service Center, 1-800-933-PARK, to make a reservation or learn more about park offerings and amenities.
Click here to download a copy of a resolution in which Virginia State Parks are recognized for receiving this honor. It was passed by the Virginia Board of Conservation and Recreation on Nov. 13, 2001.
News Release
Issued by the Office of the Governor
For Immediate Release
Virginia State Parks named best in the nation
RICHMOND - Governor Jim Gilmore today announced that Virginia's state park system has been recognized for excellence in park management as the National Gold Medal and State Park Award winner, an award presented by the National Sporting Goods Association's Sports Foundation, Inc. in cooperation with the National Recreation and Park Association. Dixie Sporting Goods Co. of Richmond nominated the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, which manages Virginia's state parks.
"This national recognition verifies what Virginians have known for years -- that our state parks are among the best in the country," said Governor Gilmore. "This recognition from such a prestigious association will help showcase our state parks as an attractive destination for Virginians and visiting tourists."
The National Sporting Goods Association is the world's largest sporting goods trade association, representing more than 22,000 retailer/dealer outlets and 3,000 suppliers, product manufacturers and sales agents. Its sports foundation began the gold medal awards in 1965 and added a state parks category in 1997. The National Gold Medal and State Park Award is given in odd-numbered years to honor the nation's outstanding state park system for excellence in the field of park and recreation management and their contributions in providing park, recreation and leisure services to the citizens of their state.
"In managing Virginia's state parks, we have remained true to the original vision established in the 1930s, " said DCR Director David Brickley. "We've done this by actively managing our natural resources, retaining the natural beauty of our parks and complementing that beauty by incorporating modern improvements like central air and heat in cabins and state-of-the-art environmental education centers. Our state parks have benefited from the combined expertise of our department staff in areas such as open space and recreational planning, the use of conservation best management practices, natural heritage resource management and even dam management."
Six Virginia state parks opened June 15, 1936, making Virginia the first state in the United States to dedicate all of its parks on the same day. Many of those facilities have been restored and are still in use today.
"Hundreds of DCR employees and countless volunteers dedicated tens of thousands of hours of hard work over 65 years to make Virginia state parks the best in the nation," said DCR State Parks Director Joe Elton. "Virginia now joins an elite list of state park systems honored with the Gold Medal."
A finalist two years ago, Virginia joins the 1999 winner, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection's Division of Recreation and Parks, and 1997's winner, the Ohio Division of Parks and Recreation.
For more information about Virginia state parks' activities and amenities or to make reservations, call the Virginia State Parks Customer Service Center at 1-800-933-PARK or visit the DCR web site at www.dcr.virginia.gov.


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You can explore the race course in a number of different ways:
This map show the teams as reported by the latest GPS measurement that has been recieved. It is produced and hosted by Multisport Live.
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These maps show the teams as reported in by Checkpoint Staff. This is the official timekeeping, but will not show the exact location of the teams in real-time.
Fully interactive map. Also has lots of pictures and information from the internet community (be sure to turn on the Panoramio and Wikipedia Layers in Google Earth).
Note: the satellite image resolution around Sundsvall is quite poor, but further inland it is excellent.
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Refocused Luis Ramos Jr. ready to rebound from first loss
One-time lightweight prospect Luis Ramos Jr. takes on hard-punching Fidel Maldonado Jr. in the main event of tonight's Golden Boy Live! show from San Antonio. Ramos, who took a break from boxing before joining trainer Abel Sanchez's Big Bear, Calif., camp, says he is rededicated to the sport.


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Victoria College's Law Enforcement Academy offers continuing education training to Texas peace officers. The Law Enforcement Academy offers training mandated by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE) as well as other training based on regional needs.
View the 2016 In-Service Training Calendar.
To view more Workforce & Continuing Education courses, including online courses, see the current schedule.
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Lawsuit Funding From CaseAdvance: What People Are Saying
I was in a terrible automobile accident and less than 3 months after the accident was diagnosed with cancer. To make matters worse after my diagnosis, my husband left me. Being abandoned by my husband was terrible but because of the accident I could not work and the bills started piling up. This caused me even more stress and despair. I found CaseAdvance on-line and within two days a check was sent to my home. Thank you CaseAdvance. The money you sent will allow me to continue to pay my bills until my case resolves. Lisa L. [Florida]
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I signed a contract with another lawsuit funding company for 15,000. After about 6 months I needed some additional funds and was told no. I tried other companies, but was repeatedly told that due to the prior advance there was no additional money available for me. CaseAdvance was different. They paid-off the initial debt to the previous lawsuit funding company, got me $10,000 additional money in my pocket, and saved me $500 per month. Wow! CaseAdvance took care of me when nobody else would. Dan S. [Texas]
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(Please note: some content may not be complete on the beta site.).
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|William C. Stone; Geraldine S. Cheok; K M. Furlani; David E. Gilsinn;
|Object Identification Using Bar Codes Based on LADAR Intensity
|September 01, 2001
|Tests of a novel concept for tracking construction components were carried out at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The approach makes use of laser radar and retro-reflective barcodes attached to manufactured building materials. Tests were conducted for various barcode sizes and spacings through a variety of ranges to a maximum of 40 m. At 40 m, it was possible to infer one byte of information content in a 1D barcode measuring 575 mm (22.6 in) in length with no special optical processing for a LADAR instrument with an aperture beam diameter of 25 mm and a beam divergence of 2.7 mrad. Simple thresholding post-processing techniques were employed to study the resulting intensity data and to deduce minimum detectable bar gap spacing. These analyses have suggested paths to significant resolution enhancements based on image processing and optical physics simulation techniques.
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|September 10-12, 2001
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Q I'm really peeved that work on Highway 101 at Highway 85 and Shoreline Boulevard has just stopped. ... When will they finish this project? It is maddening. My stomach turns in knots every day as I drive south around 4:30 p.m. and anticipate the mess where it can take me 20 minutes to go five miles. ... It's been so long that the weeds are growing tall in the cracks where the new lanes will be! ... This nightmare has been going for what? Three years now? ... Thanks for any update. At least knowing the end will make the nightmare a little more palatable.
Phil L., Carol Moholt, Chris Meunier and more
A The nightmare is near an end. Truly!
Caltrans will start paving 101 around May 12 and is shooting to complete paving and widening before July 4. This $72 million job will add auxiliary lanes in both directions along 101 from 85 to Embarcadero Road. There will be some minor ramp work and other items to complete later in the summer.
Bernie-the-Caltrans-Man says "people are under the impression that because it's warm out that we should be paving, but the nighttime temperatures are still too cold. This paving is of rubberized hot mix asphalt that requires a minimum temperature of 55 degrees."
Q Why do parking lot people put electric vehicle chargers in prime spaces right up front?
Don Phillips
San Jose
A For this I turn to a new Roadshow consultant -- Tor-the-EV-Installer:
"The biggest complaint we get from non-EV drivers is that the charging spaces always seem to be right in the middle of the best part of the lot, or right in front of the main entrance. Spaces that are usually coveted/occupied by early arrivals are suddenly off limits and it causes friction.
"More than once I've seen an irate non-EV driver park in the charging spots that were formerly 'theirs' and get towed as a result, causing people to be upset on all sides.
"The truth is that most employees who use EV charging don't care where they're located and would be more than happy to walk from the far side of the lot if it meant less conflict and less instances of gas cars parking in the charging spots. Unfortunately, having seen the money involved in all these charger projects, the reason for the placement is simple: running electric lines to the far corners of the lot can triple or quadruple the cost of the project.
"The best power with the shortest runs (and thus the least amount of trenching and other expensive labor parts) is usually right up front against the building, so that's where they end up. It's not that EV owners are getting preferential treatment; it's usually the only affordable place to locate chargers."
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Can you find out for my daughters when they will repair Foxworthy?
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This was the first video-tapped tests I have done, and found the review of the tape to be eye opening; do most people have their tests taped?
We don't normally tape the the kyu tests. If someone wants theirs taped and brings a camera they of course can tape it. We do tape the dan tests. Well actually we tape the dan pre-tests. Basically we test and it is taped. Sensei lets the testee review the tape first and write down any thing that the testee sees that should be worked on. Next sensei reviews the tape and looks for stuff that he feels should be fixed. Next the whole class views the tape and offers up the things they saw that need fixing. If sensei feels that there really isn't that much to "fix" then he will let the pre-test stand as the actual test. If there is enough stuff wrong to warrant another go around the person is usually given 3 to 6 months to make the corrections before they take their "real" test.
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Professor Mary Wirth and graduate students Bingchuan Wei and Benjamin Rogers from Purdue University demonstrate a quantum leap in protein column efficiency. Using colloidal silica particles of submicrometer diameters (470 nm), they obtained plate heights that were as much as 15-fold lower than the theoretical limit for Hagen-Poiseuille flow. The smallest plate height was 15 nm, 500-fold smaller than previous reports for pressure-driven protein chromatography. This remarkable achievement was attributed to "slip flow," which is explained in this installment. The authors also present a practical example using this new concept.
The plate heights of commercial liquid chromatography (LC) columns have changed little over the last 20 years, following the trend of H min ≈ 2d p, where d p is the particle diameter (1). Simulations have shown that H min ≈ d p is the limit for nonporous particles (2). With particle sizes dropping by only a factor of about two during the last 20 years, as such plate heights have improved by the same factor. The reason is not a lack of diligence or creativity; instead, it is because of the fundamental limits of mass transport, with the ultimate limit being the velocity spread of the mobile phase across the spaces between particles. We recently used a nanofluidic phenomenon called slip flow (3–8), which greatly reduces this velocity spread, thereby reducing the plate height dramatically. We demonstrated a plate height as low as 0.03 d p, which was 15 nm (9). This opens a new horizon for efficiency in ultrahigh-pressure liquid chromatography (UHPLC).