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Senators' Fisher named league's third star of the week
Monday, 11.23.2009 / 2:38 PM ET / Features
By Rob Brodie - OttawaSenators.com
|Senators centre Mike Fisher has been named the NHL's third star of the week for the period ending Sunday, during which he produced six points in three Ottawa wins (Getty Images).
Now the National Hockey League has, too.
The hard-working Ottawa Senators centre has been named the league's third star of the week for the period concluding on Sunday. In three straight home-ice victories, Fisher collected six points (two goals, four assists), posted a +5 rating and won 65.5 per cent of his faceoffs (36-for-55). Both goals, including the game-winner, were scored in a 3-2 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs.
"It's a first for me," a grinning Fisher said about the NHL recognition. "It's a nice honour, for sure."
With nine goals and 20 points in 20 games, Fisher is already well on his way to erasing the memory of the 2008-09 season, when he produced just 13 goals and 32 points -- his lowest totals in more than seven years.
"He's been dominating at times out there," Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson said of his current linemate. "He does it all. He takes important faceoffs, he kills penalties, he plays on the power play. He's an energy guy every night. He's definitely been outstanding for us."
Senators head coach Cory Clouston agreed Fisher's honour is one that is well deserved.
"He's played with different guys at different times of the year but his game hasn't changed," said Clouston. "I think that's the most important thing. If he just continues to play the way he does, he complements whoever is on his line."
Team guy that he is, Fisher prefers to spread around some of the credit for his early-season offensive success.
"I feel good with the puck and for whatever reason, it's been better offensively," he said. "A lot of it is our team play and how the team has been playing. My linemates have been great. A lot people on our team deserve credit (for this)."
San Jose Sharks centre Joe Thornton and goaltender Carey Price of the Montreal Canadiens were selected as the week's first and second stars, respectively.


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Cotto has to put pressure like most said because if he tries to box Floyd from the outside he'll get outboxed. He needs to put Floyd on the ropes, land hooks to the body with straight rights. I just dont see how Miguel can beat him from the outside with Floyds speed and counters. Keeping the fight close is he bet chance.
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Please Cotto fans, you guys don't SERIOUSLY believe he'll beat Mayweather....right???
I mean, being a fan is one thing but rooting blindly for him because his family just randomly happens to come from the same part of the Caribbean your family came from is pretty stupid to be quite honest. That or you guys were some hardcore wrestling fans and just crossed over to boxing with the same admiration and dedication you had for Hulk Hogan. I would imagine you guys aren't dense enough to actually bet money on Cotto though. Highly doubt that.
My question, are there any NSB Cotto fans that actually think Cotto is going to win?
ps. please spare me the whole "this is boxing, anything can happen" talk. of course anything can happen. someone could come in strapped with bombs and blow up the building too. stick to the script!
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honestly, if the floyd that showed up for ortiz shows up for cotto... cotto might actually have a better chance than what most give him.
IMO, floyd looked a bit stationary... a bit slower....and threw sloppy combos...
im comparing him to his previous performances... he looked SHARP against shane & jmm.... i feel if the bizarre ending didnt happen, floyd wouldve had a hard night. not because of ortiz, its more of a reflection of floyd slipping.... due to multiple possibilities: inactivity, lack of motivation, lost the love for the sport, just collecting a check.... floyd HIMSELF stated he lacks motivation to fight.
and if floyd continues to promise/deliver a more fan-friendly gameplan, then we might see some good moments for cotto.
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well cotto been brutally beat two times now. Everyone was discrediting pac's win because of how Tony destroyed him. So now everyone is saying he is better after going trough two savage beatings??
Having said that I don't go that route anyway. I love this fight and I feel cotto will be competitive. But I just find it funny how floyd fans loved the word " leftover " and now flip flopping.
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This appears to be a bug in P2 CSS (style.css) - other form elements have width (and max-width) 97.45% while #postbox input#posttitle and #postbox input#postcitation (and .inlineediting input[type="text"] as well) have 97.6% getting resulting in 630.5px and 631.476px. Both should be rounded to 631px... but apparently browsers do it differently.
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btw make.wordpress.org/core uses 1.4.2-wpcom that does have this fix...
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Bruner's in the South Carolina Army National Guard, and he's a counter-drug helicopter pilot. He was just one of the many vets and wounded warriors in Jackson for the hunt.
"We are associated through the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources' Take One, Make One program," said Hampton Caughman, who helped set up the event.
The event is one of dozens of hunts around the state each year. They're all inspired by his son who was an avid hunter. Army Specialist Thomas Caughman was killed in Baghdad in 2004, after his up-armored high-mobility-multi-purpose wheeled vehicle suffered rocket-propelled grenade hits and small arms fire.
"He left us a letter that was returned to us in his personal belongings, and one of the lines was, 'Carry on with your lives and don't ever forget you live in a country that so many people have sacrificed for,'" said his father.
Kenny Jarrett is a rifle maker who owns the large piece of land in Aiken County and was happy to lend it for this special hunt.
"If you're down here with us, you'll see the laughing and the joking and the badgering," Jarrett said.
He says the reward for him is seeing the vets come back with their prizes.
"Pretty much, we went out and had a pretty good time today," said SFC Charles L. Williams.
SFC Williams of Fort Gordon was happy, too. Coming back from combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, his injuries were less visible.
"Not actually wounded physically, but I had some mental issues going on," he said.
But after bagging his deer today, those injuries were the last thing on his mind.
"It's just something that gives you a peacful mind, a peaceful state," he said.
Cowden Plantation in Jackson accomodates two of these hunts a year. The participants are drawn from a hat because they get so many applicants. There were people from all over the area, and many were from even farther.


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I really was ready for Rahal to complain after his wreck, but I thought he showed a lot of class with his attitude and mea culpa after the race. I have to give him a lot of credit for that.Zachary Houghtonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655203023071900204.post-65630022761603467082012-06-10T00:55:23.141-04:002012-06-10T00:55:23.141-04:00Well you're probably crafting that post-race e...Well you're probably crafting that post-race entry, but I'm fired up now so will have to comment on your pre-race article.

Loved it! Drivers lifting (i.e. driving) sure seems to be the way to go. Great storylines abound. Dario with bad luck. Dixon (mr reliable) crashes. Marco not listening to his pit crew and putting himself 6 laps down - jeez if that guy could just get personality lessons from Hinch, how different his whole team could be. Power being the bad guy (even if I think Kanaan was trying to pull a late move that would have taken out all three of them). Wilson closing in, then Graham cementing the certainty that he didn't inherit his father's steely nerves. Take your pick, great race!allen boothhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com


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A rare moment. Eye to eye with a spirit bear.
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In the deep green of the Great Bear Rainforest, a white bear looks out of place. Like so much of the life in this region these rare bears rely on the autumn runs of salmon. Here, a spirit bear consumes a pink salmon, the smallest, but most numerous salmon species.
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Emerging Europe's Bonds and Currencies 'Will Diverge'
Investing in emerging market local currency debt is as much a bet on the currency as on the bond itself.
But emerging Europe's currencies and local government bonds are likely to part ways, with the bonds holding firm while the currencies sink, especially if data suggest the U.S. economy is pulling ahead of the euro zone. So says the latest research from Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
If U.S. interest rates rise relative to European ones, emerging European local currency-denominated government bonds ought to remain attractive–their yields are still higher than those in the US or euro-zone, after all.
But the region's currencies could struggle if they follow their usual habit of tracking the euro, according to David Hauner, EEMEA fixed income strategist at the bank in London.
Relatively poor euro-zone growth will hit emerging European countries harder than other emerging markets because of their closer economic ties to the struggling euro area, Mr. Hauner said. That gives central banks in Eastern Europe more scope to cut interest rates, which would provide opportunities in bonds but limit currency gains, says Mr. Hauner.
His research finds that emerging European five-year bond yields generally tend to move in the same direction as five-year German bond yields, which have been sinking, while the opposite is true for their relationship with five-year U.S. yields. This holds for Polish and Czech bonds in particular. (Yields move inversely to bond prices.)
But as and when the US outlook brightens, as it is doing already by some measures, and as US interest rates start to rise, assuming the euro area is still hobbled by weak growth, the euro is in line for a beating. That certainly seems to be happening now, with the dollar shooting higher across the board after upbeat labor data Thursday, and the euro sinking. Emerging European currencies such as the Polish zloty, the Hungarian forint and the Czech koruna have a tendency to track the euro. Therefore a lower euro should, all else being equal, lead to weaker emerging European currencies even as rates continue to perform well.
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Boeing 747 Sized Fatberg Forms Under Shepherd's Bush
Monday 1st September 2014
A fatberg the length of a Boeing 747 has formed underneath a road in west London.
The fatberg. Picture: Thames Water
The congealed mass of fat, wet wipes and other litter wrongly put down drains and toilets has formed under a 80 metre stretch of Shepherd�s Bush Road.
A team of sewer experts from the Thames Water spent last week working to break up and remove the fatberg using high powered water jets, so as to prevent sewer flooding to nearby homes and business.
Dave Dennis, Thames Water sewer operations manager, said wet wipes and cooking fat were the main culprits - with �12 million a year spent on rectifying blockages.
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"The sewers serve an important purpose - they are not an abyss for household rubbish. Fat goes down the drain easily enough, but when it hits the cold sewers, it hardens into disgusting �fatbergs� that block pipes," Mr Dennis commented.
"Wet wipes cling to the fat. Fat clings to the wipes. And pretty soon your fatberg is out of control and sewage is backing up into roads, gardens and in the worst cases flooding up through toilets and into homes.
"We�ve found all sorts in this sewer � from tennis balls to planks of wood . It goes without saying they shouldn�t be in those pipes. London � bin it, don�t block it."
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Before privatisation of the energy suppliers, they were known as the North of Scotland Hydro Electric Board. A proportion of your energy bill charge goes to SSE for local delivery of electricity to your home if you live in this distribution area!
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Spinifex people
The Spinifex people, or Pila Nguru. are an Indigenous Australian people, whose traditional lands are situated in the Great Victoria Desert,[1][2] in the Australian state of Western Australia, adjoining the border with South Australia and to the north of the Nullarbor Plain. They maintain in large part their traditional hunter-gatherer lifestyle within the territory,[1] over which their claims to Native title and associated collective rights were recognised by a 28 November 2000 Federal Court decision. In 1997, an art project was started in which indigenous paintings became part of the title claim. In 2005, a major exhibit of their works in London brought the artists widespread attention.
The name Pila Nguru does not rightly translate to 'Spinifex People', although it may be inferred. "Spinifex People" more accurately translates as "Arnangu Pilatja", meaning "people of the Spinifex". In the name "Pila Nguru", Pila translates to "spinifex", and Nguru is the affix; -nguru means "from", and thus the word Pilanguru translates to "from (the) spinifex", or as "home country in the flat between sandhills".[3] For instance, when asked where are you from, a Spinifex person could answer, "Ngayulu pilanguru", which means "I am from the Spinifex" (in this case, the word 'country' is inferred). Thus, "Arnangu Pilatja" is the more proper designation for the people. In South Australia, the word Arnangu is written Aṉangu (with the n underlined).
The word "Spinifex", used to denote the people, does not itself directly describe the people. By itself, the word spinifex comes from the Spinifex grasses, which are prevalent in the region, meaning that referring to the people as the "Spinifex people" as opposed to simply the "Spinifex" is preferred. The transliterated Arnangu word "pilatja", meaning "of the spinifex" is also used by many of the Spinifex people.
As European settlers of the region considered the lands remote, inhospitable and unsuited for agriculture or even pastoralism, there has been comparatively little direct contact between the two cultures and peoples.
Settlers were granted pastoral leases from around 1910, but once they saw the arid land, they did not attempt agriculture. Some religious missions were attempted in the 1930s, since the new railway often attracted curious indigenous people to it out of the bush. By the 1950s, so little was known about these people that the British chose the Nullarbor for nuclear weapons testing, as they believed it to be devoid of people.
Cundeelee was the only Mission between Kalgoorlie W.A. and Port August in S.A. after the close of Ooldea Mission in 1942. It was gazetted as a Mission in 1950, though in 1958 it was settled in tents. Later corrugated aluminium Nissen huts were erected, followed by three Missionary residences cum-homes for children; a school and residence, 6 Bed 'C Class' Hospital, store, mechanical workshops etc. It ceased to be a Mission when it was handed over to Community control in 1978-79. It ceased to be a Community when 'Upurlupurlila Ngurratja', new Community Village for the "People of Cundeelee", was built at Coonana. Here there was a more ample water supply to allow conventional housing. This was inhabited in 1986 with the start of the new school year, and finally closed early 2014, as the Community at Tjuntjuntjarra became the home of the Arnangu Pilanguru - the People from the Spinifex.
Upurlupurli is the Arnangu dreaming name of the rock hole just South of the old Mission site. It means 'tadpole' which abounded in the water there when refilled by rain. It was a ceremonial meeting place between the Desert and Coastal Ngatju and Mirning peoples before the Trans-Australian Railway was built. From the late 1920s until 1942, Karonie T.A.R was the main depot for a series of Government ration depots from which food on a monthly basis was distributed to itinerant Arnangu 'Aboriginal people', probably because of prevailing drought. Cundeelee became the main ration depot from about 1939 until its close in 1942. The other distribution points were at Zanthus T.A.R. and one distribution point about half way from Cundeelee to Queen Victoria Springs.
Atomic testing, 1953-1957[edit]
When graded roads were built for the Giles Weather Station (part of the Weapons Research Establishment) during 1952-1955, officials learned that indigenous people - probably then around 150 - lived west of the sites. An officer, the expert bushman Walter MacDougall (1907–1976), was sent to warn them of the impending tests. A total of nine small hydrogen bombs ranging up to 25 kilotons were tested at Emu Junction (2 tests, 1953) and Maralinga (7 tests, 1956–1957). Given that only one officer and an assistant were assigned to warn the Spinifex people who lived across an enormous area far to the west of the test sites, many of the Spinifex were never informed, nor did they leave the area. Officially, all were forced to leave their lands and were not allowed within 200 km of ground zero. Officials made a leaflet drop, but the Spinifex could not read the leaflets and were wary and afraid of the aircraft.
In the later stages of the bomb trials, MacDougall discovered that up to 40 Spinifex [people - read arnangu] may have been hunting over the eastern portion of the prohibited Maralinga area while the tests were being conducted, moving as far east as Vokes Hill and Waldana. One family of twelve were the nearest people, living at Nurrari Lakes less than 200 km west from Maralinga. Although close enough to hear the larger bombs explode, they were healthy several years after the tests.
The Australian Royal Commission was unable to determine if Maralinga Tjarutja or Pila Nguru people had been exposed to damaging levels of radiation from fallout, due to the lack of medical records and medical centres. Maralinga bomb plume maps show prevailing northerly winds during tests, whereas the Spinifex lands are 300 km to the west of Maralinga. The closest group was at Nurrari Lakes about 180 km west. Scott Cane's otherwise definitive native title study, Pila Nguru (2000), contained almost no details as to how bomb testing radiation affected the Spinifex people.
Native Title[edit]
In 1997 the Spinifex Arts Project was begun to help document the Native Title claims. Both Native Title paintings, the Men's Combined and the Women's Combined, document the entire Spinifex area; they show the claimants' birthplaces and express the important traditional stories that cross and give shape to the area.[4]
The Spinifex people were the second tribe in Western Australia to receive recognition of their Native Title land rights in 2000,[5] in accordance with Section 87 (agreement) of the Commonwealth Native Title Act 1993. The ruling, by the Federal Court of Australia, in a case brought by a third party on behalf of the Spinifex People, found that agreement had been reached between the applicants and the two named respondents: the State Government of Western Australia and the Shire of Laverton, over a sector of land encompassing around 55,000 km2.
This territory - which was designated as either unallocated land or park reserve, and contained no pastoral leases - lies to the north of the lands of the Nullarbor People, to the east of the Pilki People and to the south of the Ngaanyatjarra Lands, the eastern boundary being formed by the South Australian border. Apart from the area of two Nature Reserves, the only specific "other interests" identified within the territory was for public right-of-way along an existing road which traversed some of the territory.
The Native Title claim was made by twenty-one families constituting the current Spinifex people. Some People of the Spinifex had begun returning to their land from around 1980. From 2001 many of those who left to live at the Christian missions have since returned to their homelands and the Unnamed Conservation Park Biosphere Reserve (now Mamungari Conservation Park). In 2004 the government turned over the pristine wilderness area of 21,000 sq/km jointly to the Pila Nguru and the Maralinga Tjarutja.
In early 2005, the Spinifex people became famous for their solo and group artworks, due to the effect of a major art exhibition of their work in London.[6] Their boldly-coloured 'dot paintings' are not the usual polished commodities produced by many northern tribes for sale to a non-aboriginal art market, but are authentic works that the Spinifex People have made for their own purposes.[2]
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- Kalgoorlie, W.A. Pila Nguru: art and song from the Spinifex people. Paupiyala Tjarutja, 1999.
- Cane, Scott. Pila Nguru: an ethnography of the Spinifex People in the context of native title. 2000.
- Scott Cane (2002). Pila Nguru: The Spinifex People. Fremantle: Printing Press. ISBN 1-86368-348-8.
- ^ a b Cane, Scott (2002). Pila Nguru: The Spinifex People. Fremantle Arts Centre Press. ISBN 1-86368-348-8.
- ^ a b Anne Loxley, "Pila Nguru: The Spinifex People", The Sydney Morning Herald, 2002-08-03. Retrieved 2007-04-21.
- ^ Mens Combined - Pila Nguru from Paupiya Neil Murphy Indigenous Art. Retrieved 2007-04-21.
- ^ The Spinifex Arts Project website, accessed 28 Nov 2010
- ^ Spinifex Government of Western Australia, Office of Native Title. Retrieved 2007-04-21.
- ^ Nomads' art wins praise in London Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2005-03-15. Retrieved 2007-04-21.
External links[edit]
- Video of British Nuclear Tests
- Spinifex Native Title map Southern Australia pdf
- Spinifex Native Title map Western Australia pdf
- Federal Court decision on Native Title claim (Mark Anderson on behalf of the Spinifex People v State of Western Australia [2000] FCA 1717)
- Iain Grandage, "Journeys with Spinif", SOUNDS AUSTRALIAN NO 68 (2006), THE JOURNAL OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSIC CENTRE (pdf)


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Morning MoneyBeat Asia: Market Rallies, Despite News
Market Snap: At the New York close: S&P 500 up 0.8% at 1653. DJIA 0.7% at 14931. Nasdaq Comp up 1% at 3649. Treasury yields rose; 10-year at 2.897%. Nymex crude oil down 1.2% at $107.23. Gold down 1.6% at $1,389.90/ounce.
How We Got Here: U.S. stocks have been falling on the Obama administration's saber rattling, and over fears about the Fed winding down its stimulus package amid an improving economy. But Wednesday U.S. stocks had their best day in a month – a day when the odds rose of a U.S. military strike in Syria, and the economic news provided more cover for the taper.
A key Senate panel approved a resolution authorizing the Obama administration to use military force against Syrian President Assad, and President Obama, in a press conference, said that his credibility wasn't on the line over Syria's alleged use of chemical weapons, the world's credibility was.
On the economic front, the Fed's latest Beige Book report showed an economy that continued to plod along. While the report wasn't particularly definitive, the monthly auto sales figures were. U.S. auto sales hit their highest annualized rate since November 2007, just before the start of the recession.
Geopolitical pressures mounting. Auto sales surging, giving the Fed even more cover to start winding down its stimulus program. Just the setup for a stock rally, right? In the market's pretzel logic, it is.
Coming Up: The countdown begins in Asia to Friday's U.S. jobs report. It is the last major data release ahead of this month's Fed meeting, which is expected to produce a decision on whether or not the central bank will begin rolling back its monetary easing program.
Syria returned to the fore Wednesday just as markets in Asia had begun to claw back some of last month's losses and will again be in focus as President Obama pressed his case for military action there.
"While markets look stable at the moment, any further signs that the US is ready to move on Syria will probably send investors back towards safe haven assets and out of risk," said Stan Shamu, market strategist at IG in Melbourne.
What You Missed Overnight
Senate Panel Backs Force Against Syria The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a resolution Wednesday authorizing President Barack Obama to conduct military strikes against Syria.
Stocks Notch Broad Gains Stocks notched the largest one-day rise in five weeks Wednesday after Federal Reserve data showed overall economic activity continues to expand, though at a slow pace.
Samsung Unveils Smartwatch Samsung on Wednesday unveiled a highly anticipated watch-phone called the Galaxy Gear, opening a new front in the battle over "wearable" devices.
'There Is No More Privacy' Russian computer-security expert Eugene Kaspersky says consumers a paying a price with their new technologies, and that price is privacy.
From The Wall Street Journal Asia
China Weighs Deregulating Aviation Market China is taking steps to deregulate its domestic and international aviation market, and may amend its closely watched air-transport treaty with the U.S.
Dark Clouds Over Australia's Economy As China's economic engine slows, sending prices for iron ore and coal sharply lower, Australia is facing an economic dislocation.
Thailand's Dhanin Looks for Deals Thailand's richest man, Dhanin Chearavanont, is once again on the acquisition trail.
Rupee Tumbles, Then Rebounds Sharply India's rupee went on a wild ride Wednesday, falling to within a whisker of its record low against the dollar before rebounding after the central bank intervened.
From MoneyBeat
Who Cares About Syria? The Fed's Tapering The brutal truth is that Wall Street doesn't care about war. Right now, all it cares about is the Fed.
Gross, Gundlach Hit by Outflows Two of the world's biggest bond-fund managers were hit again in August as investors pulled out cash, a sign that rising interest rates continue to rattle investors' appetite for fixed-income.
This Day in Crisis History By the fall of 2008, the picture for hedge funds was getting downright ugly.
Avoiding the Mistakes of the Great Moderation There seems to be a growing feeling among the Fed's policymakers that while quantitative easing was necessary during the height of the financial crisis, it has since offered diminishing returns.


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Santiago, Chile
Apr. 22, 2009 to Apr. 24, 2009
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Nelson Baloian , Department of Computer Science, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Francisco Claude , David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada
Roberto Konow , Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile
Sebastian Kreft , Department of Computer Science, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
This paper presents a system called E-Breaker for supporting small and medium size group authoring of any kind of documents following a regular structure. The system supports a decentralized model of development, thus not requiring a central repository. A set of rules for content ownership maintains the synchronization of the work among all members of the developing team which can work on- or off-line. It allows fine-grained locking of documents' content.
Nelson Baloian, Francisco Claude, Roberto Konow, Sebastian Kreft, "E-Breaker: Flexible, distributed environment for collaborative authoring", CSCWD, 2009, International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design 2009, pp. 173-178, doi:10.1109/CSCWD.2009.4968054


text: Washington, DC, Jan. 14, 2013 -- The American Institute of Architects Billings Index remained in expansion territory in November, the organization reported in late December.The index was at 53.2, up from the mark of 52.8 in October. The new projects inquiry index was 59.6, up slightly from the 59.4 mark of the previous month."These are the strongest business conditions we have seen since the end of 2007 before the construction market collapse," said AIA Chief Economist Kermit Baker.The index is a barometer for future construction projects.


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I*CARE Education Module "Crossroads" Wins 3 Telly Awards
I*CARE was recently awarded three 2010 Telly Awards which honor excellence in television programs as well as video, film and online productions placing MD Anderson in a distinguished group that includes Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Studios, ESPN and Time Warner Cable. I*CARE won bronze recognition in the education category and the training category and also received the highest Silver People's Telly Award for the "Crossroads" module. This educational module depicts interactions between physicians and patients regarding emotions in response to hearing bad news. The type of response the physician uses can change the course of the interview and the quality of the interaction. The entry went through a rigorous judging process, competing against thousands of national and international entries of high quality. I*CARE received one Silver statuette and two Bronze Statuettes made by the same company who makes the Oscars.
The Telly Awards was founded in 1978 to honor excellence in local, regional and cable TV commercials and programs as well as the finest video and film productions and work created for the Web. Their mission has been to strengthen the visual arts community by inspiring, promoting and supporting creativity. Today, the Telly is one of the most sought-after awards by industry leaders, from large international firms to local production companies and ad agencies. The 31st Annual Telly Awards received over 13,000 entries from all 50 states and 5 continents. Each entry competes against a high standard of excellence. Judges are from all regions of the United States, representing large and small firms including advertising agencies, TV stations, production houses and corporate video departments. People's Telly Awards entries are posted to the Telly Awards YouTube channel for a period of four weeks and during that time, the online community views and rates videos to help decide People's Telly Award Winners.
Other winners included AEG Network Live, American Masters/WNET, AOL Media, Astrocast.tv, Bass Pro Shops Film & Video, Boehringer Ingelheim, Booz Allen Hamilton, CBS Television Distribution, Comcast Spotlight, Cox Sports Television, Discovery Channel, Eagles Television Network, Elvis Presley Enterprises, ESPN, Fox Sports International, Golf Channel, Harpo Studios, Hasbro, Hewlett-Packard, Learning Seed, Lockheed Martin, Miami Dolphins, Microsoft, NBC Universal, New York Jets, Outdoor Channel, PGA Tour Productions, State Farm Insurance, Suddenlink Media, The Weather Channel, TV Guide Network, Weber Shandwick, Women in Film.
Walter F. Baile, M.D., professor of psychiatry at MD Anderson Cancer Center, and Robert Buckman, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine at the University of Toronto, and Adjunct Professor at MD Anderson are known world wide for their work in patient-provider communications. They created this module along with Project Director Cathy Kirkwood. "I'm so grateful that at MD Anderson we have the talent and resources to bear," Baile says. "I don't think there's any other medical institution in the world that could put together a site to bring content to people in such an exciting way."
Special thanks go to MD Anderson's experts, including UT Television (Greg West, Director, and Tom Eschbacher, Video Director), Sunni Hosemann, Program Education Coordinator, for script development and editing, Diana Garcia, Standardized Patient Actress, along with an institution-wide collaboration for making the program such a success. In 2005, Ms. Kirkwood was the Project Director of the Integrative Medicine Education Component and recruited Dr. Baile, Dr. Buckman, and other experts to participate in another award winning video "Important Conversations: Complementary Therapies and Cancer" which won the International Health and Medical Media (FREDDIE) award. This award is considered the "Oscar" of the medical media world.
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2012 - Distinguished Teaching Professor – Walter F. Baile, M.D. – in recognition of outstanding contributions to education
Walter Baile, M.D.¸ Director and Cathy Kirkwood, MPH, Project Director are the 2012 John P. McGovern Award recipients. The award is given by the American Medical Writers Association (AMWA) to recognize persons who have demonstrated excellence in biomedical communication and who have made significant contributions to the field, particularly having a national or international impact.This site complies to the HONcode standard for trustworthy health information: verify here.
We have been recognized as a Healthlinks Select Site
I*CARE has been accepted to the ACGME Outcome Project Web site. RSVP - Recognize Success Via imPlementation is a showcase for works-in-progress of activities that may be used to teach and assess the general competencies.
We were awarded a FREDDIE Award for 2005 by the International Health and Medical Media Awards
Walter F. Baile, M.D., is the American Academy on Communication in Healthcare's 2010 Lynn Payer Award recipient for Outstanding Contributions to the Literature on the Theory, Practice and Teaching of Effective Health Care Communication and Related Skills.
I*CARE was awarded three Telly Awards, two bronze in the categories of "Education" and "Training" and the highest Silver award for the "Crossroads" module in May, 2010.


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PORTSMOUTH — Downtown tobacconist Federal Cigar was granted a state license on Thursday to serve liquor at a cigar bar in its new 36 Market St. location.
The state Liquor Commission's Division of Enforcement unanimously approved an on-premise cocktail lounge license for the cigar shop that last month was advertising for bartenders and cocktail servers. Federal Cigar management isn't yet revealing detailed plans and the bar is not open, according to an employee who answered the phone there Thursday. Staff is "in the process of setting up the bar" and will discuss details when it is up and running, the employee said.
Since relocating from Ladd Street, the cigar shop also recently launched an electronic cigarette and vaporizer business, Cloud 9 Vapor, with a tasting bar for customers to puff flavored vapors.
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Definition of skiffle in English:
noun[mass noun]
1British A kind of folk music with a blues or jazz flavour that was popular in the 1950s, played by a small group and often incorporating improvised instruments such as washboards.
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- From swing to big bands and from skiffle to psychedelia, the face of music was ever-evolving in the four decades starting in the 1930s.
- A skiffle group is never gonna happen ever again.
- Glasgow-born Donegan paved the way for the British pop explosion of the 1960s with skiffle, a blend of folk, blues and jazz.
2US A style of 1920s and 1930s jazz deriving from blues, ragtime, and folk music, using both improvised and conventional instruments.
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- Without Elvis, we might all be listening to jazz or skiffle.
- Forster makes similar observations on 'Born to a Family,' working off of a nice change-of-pace skiffle beat.
- On a skiffle groove, the Chicks wag their fingers at the homemakers' life, singing about the pleasures of cooking, dusting, and breeding.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Andrew J. Annaldo, longtime chairman of the city Board of Licenses, a city councilman in the 80s and a one-time mayoral candidate, says he won't seek another term.
The 58-year-old gave his decision to Mayor Angel Taveras recently, but says it has nothing to do with the recent criticism over the board's choice to suspend and fine the Cheaters' owner.
"Believe me, the chairman's job is grueling," says Annaldo. "It's lengthy, time consuming and I have other businesses. It has become a real full-time job."
Annaldo owns Wines and More, in Cranston, and is a lobbyist at the State House.
His departure from the licensing board is effective after his current term expires in January 2014. He says he has no plans to run for office, particularly for mayor.
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Officials from the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah have refused to meet with former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, who is in Lebanon, Carter's spokesman Rick Jafculca said Wednesday.
Carter requested the meeting with the Iran-backed movement - which is recognized as a terrorist group by the United States - as part of a two-day visit to Lebanon to assess whether his Atlanta-based Carter Center will monitor parliamentary elections, which are scheduled to take place by May 2009
Jafculca confirmed a meeting had been requested with Hezbollah, but added that the group "were not able to meet" Carter.
"I am going to meet with as many of the political parties as possible," Carter had said on Tuesday. "I understand that several leaders of Hezbollah said they were not going to meet with any president or former president of the United States, so I don't know yet."
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GAME NAME: Pixel Boy and the Ever Expanding Dungeon
DEVELOPER(S): Giant Box Games
PUBLISHER(S): Giant Box Games
GENRE(S): Shooter, Rogue-lite, Indie
RELEASE DATE(S): May 30th, 2014
Imagine, if you will, a rogue-lite (otherwise known as a roguelike-like) shooter where death and a great soundtrack are a given and everything else is randomised. Granted, randomised elements and certain death are staples of any roguelike or rogue-lite worth its salt, but Pixel Boy and the Ever Expanding Dungeon takes that approach and tweaks it a little; it does so just enough to make it an easy recommendation. What Pixel Boy has essentially done is integrate a Borderlands-like weapon system, by which I mean an absurd amount of weapon variety, and used that to increase the inconsistency between runs. And yes, on this occasion, inconsistency is a good thing: After all, no one wants an easy rogue-lite game.
Let's get straight into the good stuff, shall we. I'm, of course, talking about weaponry, for no shooter will ever get my seal of approval without a capable and pleasurable armament. I suppose I should've begun with Pixel Boy's premise, but it's a fairly simple one, kill all the things and move to the next dungeon. In that respect, Pixel Boy sticks to what works and it's for that reason that I want to usher us on.
Like any good rogue-lite or roguelike game, Pixel Boy presents you with increasingly difficult dungeons for you to overcome. Moreover, every time you take on a dungeon, not only will the mobs and that particular dungeon's layout be randomly selected, but so are your potential weapon pickups. And here's where things get interesting. There is a rather huge selection of weapon types to uncover, from spreaders to weapons that apply a damage-over-time debuff. Better yet, picking up multiple weapon types (which are actually a lot more like upgrades really) will cause their effects to merge and your weapon will become that much more effective. Best of all, there is no limit on the amount of effects that can be applied. Add more upgrades and your firepower becomes increasingly destructive.
Because of this near near-limitless upgrade approach, crafting is a rather important extension of the weaponry system within Pixel Boy. Obviously, with so many weapon types available to you, you'll want to mix, match and augment your capability to eradicate pixelated enemy scum as much as possible. For that you'll need crafting. What crafting does is allow you to combine the weapons you currently have equipped into a single amalgamated upgrade – keep in mind that you can only have 3 upgrades at any one time, thereby granting empty slots with which to add new weapons and have them combine with your already combined ability. What it means is a heck of a lot of variation (or potential variation). Inevitably, if I was going to scrutinise anything, I'd have to say that some types of combinations are far more effective than others, but that's hardly a negative to get worked up over. In fact, having to make do with what you've got, whether it effective or not, is part and parcel of any good roguelike or rogue-lite game. Finally, various armour types with an array of perks and attribute boosts can also be crafted. Armour is seriously useful in Pixel Boy, and so the ability to craft it is appreciated.
Speaking of attributes, as he vanquishes his pixelated foes, your character is capable of levelling up and becoming that much stronger. Levelling up rewards you with attributes points that you can apply to an assortment of stats, all of them important. It'll be up to you on how to level up your character, but there are definitely wrong ways to do it and you'll soon make that realisation when latter dungeons become a little too much to handle. Luckily, Pixel Boy is a rogue-lite and so encourages you to replay the game. Unfortunately, this is its one only real failing.
Pixel Boy's biggest fault is a lack of character and personality in places. At times, the game lacks that little bit extra needed to take the game from being good to being great. Don't get me wrong, it's great fun, but it struggles to incentivise the player beyond its mechanics. Nevertheless, let it not be said that Pixel Boy is boring. Rather, I quite enjoyed Pixel Boy and its unique take on the rogue-lite sub-genre.
Since we're on the topic of attracting the player, visually, Pixel Boy looks a lot like its namesake. It's a collage of vividly coloured blocks and looks like it's made of exaggerated or rather large pixels; it sort of works. Beyond that, lighting and textures are simplistic and emphasise the aesthetic Pixel Boy seems to be going for. It wants you to focus on eradicating mobs and provides an awesome soundtrack while you do so; I'd even go so far as to say that Pixel Boy's soundtrack is one of the better ones I've heard this year so far. However, I should note that Pixel Boy's lack of personality has passed on over to some of the game's presentation. In this case, the narrator – there's a narrator by the way – does a fine attempt at injecting a little humour into the game, but it's not really enough of a catalyst to keep you satisfied all of the time.
All in all, Pixel Boy and the Ever Expanding Dungeon Dungeon is great little rogue-lite romp, if only suffering in its attempt to entice you back into the game after a couple playthroughs. With that said, it's definitely worth those first few attempts and with promise of daily dungeon mode, additional powerups and more means a little more appeal in the department it lacked the most.


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Last updated: July 24, 2012
First published: July 24, 2012
Article written by Brett M. Christensen
About Brett Christensen and Hoax-Slayer
Subject: Mystery Shopper Job Offer
Shopper's Guide wants you to run a survey on two prominent companies in your area.
The 1st is a Western Union Location
The 2nd is a Restaurant
There has been reports about lack of good services and bad Management of their employees,the complaints were based on reports which their customers forwarded anonymously and Phone calls which were also made to the head office.The Western union location was reported for evaluation, Negligence for the following reasons:
I) Customers have reported their money missing
II) Slow services
III) Unbalanced transfer charges
The 2nd company was reported to be rendering
(I) Poor services
(II) Rudeness to customers
(IV) Excess charge
(V) Late opening time and Closing before time.
Your Secret Evaluation would be:
1) To make a transfer of funds from this western union location to another Mystery shopper, and the funds would be picked up by the mystery shopper at the exact location Which a customer reported her funds missing.
2) You would have to record the time at which you go to the location and how many minutes it took you to get service.
3) You would be sent a check/Money order which would cover your payment of $200 and also for the duty. As soon as you receive the check/money order, you would cash in at your bank, and deduct your $200.00, and use the balance of the money for the services.
4) Upon receiving the funds, the locations address would be forwarded to you, and also the Name and address of whom the Mystery shoppers transfer would be made to. You would have to keep a comprehensive report on every activity you carry out.
5) You would also provide me with the name of the cashier that attended to you. Please, confirm to me that you did received this message so that the check/Moneyorder can be sent out to you ASAP.
Full Legal Name :
Address :
City :
State :
Zip code :
Country :
Nationality :
Home and Cell # :
I will await your prompt response, its very important that you respond to this mail if not we take it that you are not interested in the job.
Best Wishes and Regards .
Alan McCoy.
Detailed Analysis
At face value, emails like the examples included above appear to offer quite lucrative and easy work to job-seekers. Billed as "mystery" or "secret" shopper positions, the offers claim that workers will be paid for evaluating specified services and that they will be sent funds to be used in these evaluations.
However, these are not legitimate mystery shopper jobs, but rather clever schemes designed to turn the proceeds of crime into untraceable cash. Those who fall for the scam and take up one of the offered jobs will be sent cheques or money orders, ostensibly for use in evaluation assignments. They will be instructed to cash the cheques or money orders, deduct a percentage of the funds for their "wage" and then use the remaining cash for their shopping evaluations.
But, unfortunately for the would-be mystery shoppers , the cheques or money orders will turn out to be stolen or counterfeit.
In many cases, the first assignment the "shopper" receives will be to evaluate a money transfer service such as Western Union. They will be told to wire cash remaining after they have deducted their percentage to another "worker" as a means of testing the quality and integrity of the money wire service. In other cases, the shoppers will be told to cash the cheques or money orders at a particular bank and evaluate the quality of the service provided by the bank's staff. Again, they will be instructed to wire the cash to another worker after their bank evaluation is complete.
Of course, the "other workers" will in fact be the scammers themselves. In this way, the criminals responsible for the scam have managed to turn fake or stolen cheques into cash that cannot be traced back to them, thus effectively "laundering" the proceeds of crime. Meanwhile, the "mystery shopper" will be the one left to face any legal ramifications when police discover that it was them who processed the bogus cheques or money orders and come knocking at their door. If the victims processed the funds via their own bank accounts, they may also be left out of pocket when the bogus cheques are finally rejected by their bank.
Mystery shopper laundering scams are a sibling of another common type of job scam in which victims are hired to work as "payment processing agents" for supposed overseas businesses. These "workers" are told that they need to receive payments from customers, process the payments via their bank accounts, deduct their "wage" and send the remaining funds back to their "employer" via cash transfers. Again, the purpose of these schemes is to launder the proceeds of crime and point law enforcement investigations towards the innocent "workers" rather than the criminals who actually stole the money in the first place.
Be wary of any job, be it a mystery shopper position or payment processing agent, that requires you to cash cheques or process funds via your own bank account and wire money back to other people as cash. Genuine organizations are very unlikely to conduct business in such a manner. Nor are they likely to require workers to effectively pay themselves by deducting a percentage from the funds they are supposedly required to process.
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Last updated: July 24, 2012
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LaRosa's plans Columbus expansion
Pizzeria looking for franchise partners in central Ohio
A local pizzeria chain plans to expand into central Ohio.
LaRosa's announced Wednesday that it planned to open restaurants in Columbus, extending its reach beyond Cincinnati, northern Kentucky, southeastern Indiana and the Dayton area.
The family-owned restaurant chain is trying to recruit potential franchise partners who are experienced and successful in the Columbus area, particularly those who currently operate other eateries.
LaRosa's will celebrate the kickoff of the campaign with a "perfect pizza meet and eat," a free pizza sampling day on Friday, Oct. 26. A mobile pizza kitchen will serve free pizza from 11 a.m. to 2: p.m. at 8800 Lyra Drive, near Polaris Fashion Place.
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PennDOT channels vehicle savings to road work
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation employees are driving fewer state-owned vehicles and fewer miles in their own cars, and that's saving taxpayers more than $4 million annually, Transportation Secretary Barry Schoch said Thursday.
The department has reduced its fleet of "company" cars and SUVs by nearly 30 percent since 2003, to 1,500, and regularly reviews vehicle and mileage logs to make sure that remaining cars are assigned to employees who drive the most miles, Schoch said.
The money saved is being invested in road and bridge improvements, he said.
Author Salmon to appear at Saturday book signing
Author Verel Salmon will appear at a book signing Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Werner Books, 3514 Liberty St., in the Liberty Plaza.
Salmon, a former teacher, Millcreek Township schools superintendent and farmer, has written a 810-page Civil War book, "Common Men in the War for the Common Man.''
The book chronicles the history of the 145th Pennsylvania Volunteers Regiment -- the third Erie regiment formed during the Civil War -- from its organization through the Battle of Gettysburg.
Copies of Salmon's book will be available to purchase at the signing. Refreshments will be provided, and the event is free and open to the public.
Pitt: Nervous grad teacher phoned in bomb threat
PITTSBURGH -- A University of Pittsburgh grad student who was nervous about her ability to teach a class instead made two bomb threats so it would be canceled, campus police said.
Nancy Bruni, 34, of New Kensington, was charged with terroristic threats and threatening to use a weapon of mass destruction.
Pitt police charged the School of Arts & Science grad student earlier this week with phoning in a threat, and then leaving a note about a bomb in a campus restroom on March 20.
Police said they eventually traced the call to her phone and confronted Bruni last week, when she allegedly confessed to making both threats.
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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO)-- With one of the most thrilling games this season, the Fruita Monument boys edged Montrose 55-52 for their third straight SWL title. The Grand Junction girls also beat Central 60-41 for an SWL title.
FMHS (20-3, 9-1) played a back-and-forth game with Montrose, and were even down by six at one point in the third quarter. But thanks to 37 points by Drew Bridges, the Wildcats won their 29th out of 30 league games.
GJHS (19-4, 9-1) won their second straight title with their win over Central. Montrose also finished at 9-1 in league, but GJHS held the tie-breaker for the title.


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To Orwell Today,
re: JOHNNY BOURASSA FLIES FARLEY MOWAT
I really enjoyed watching The Snow Walker movie and wish that I could get an original copy of either the essay from Walk Well My Brother or the published book of the Snow Walker. Mr. Farley Mowat is an excellent writer and author and I am now discovering his works. Where could I find some of his original works, even though I am in the U.S.?
Thank you for every thing,
Shirley Brownfox
Greetings Shirley,
You could probably find Farley Mowat's books in a second-hand bookstore, which is where I found my copy of THE SNOW WALKER:
I saw the movie THE SNOW WALKER last summer when it played in the local cinema. It was about a bush pilot who is on his way to Yellowknife (same as my uncle Johnny Bourassa) when his engine cuts out. He crash-lands on a frozen lake and then attempts to walk out of the tundra. It's based on the short story WALK WELL, MY BROTHER by Farley Mowat.
The story WALK WELL, MY BROTHER is the 9th of eleven short stories in the book (pages 132-148).
My belief that Farley Mowat had Johnny Bourassa in mind when he wrote the short story WALK WELL, MY BROTHER (which was made into the 2003 movie THE SNOW WALKER) is reinforced upon re-reading his recollections of Johnny as described in PEOPLE OF THE DEER.
All the best,
Jackie Jura
To Orwell Today,
Thank you for my inclusion in the website.
-Shirly Brownfox
JOHNNY BOURASSA DIAMOND IN ROUGH and IN MEMORY OF LOUIS BOURASSA and SNOW WALKER JOHNNY BOURASSA and U-2 SEARCHERS FIND BOURASSA and JOHNNY BOURASSA'S MISSING PLANE and JOHNNY BOURASSA FLIES FARLEY MOWAT and THE BOURASSAS OF PEACE RIVER & TRIBUTE TO LOUIS/JOHNNY BOURASSA
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