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most agree that piracy is illegal and wrong to some extent, many feel the media
industry is behind the times when it comes to digital distribution. They
argue that media companies fail to provide consumers with appealing options
hence consumers take matters into their own hands and resort to piracy.
They also complain that the piracy punishment resembles mob tactics more
than a fair legal process, with million dollar verdicts against everyday citizens, threats, and off-the-record settlements.
Unfortunately for those unhappy with the situation, it may be about to get
I. The EC's New Copyright Chief -- A History of Working to Cut Owner
The European Union has been appointed Maria Martin-Prat to head their copyright
commission. The copyright commission is part of the EU's business
regulatory body, the European Commission (EC). Ms. Martin-Prat will be
replacing former chief Tilman Lueder, who is heading to a new position
in China.
Ms. Martin-Prat had formerly left the EC and enjoyed employment working
at International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, the parent
organization of the U.S.'s RIAA, Canada's CRIA, and Britain's BPI.
During her stint at the IFPI, Ms. Martin-Prat worked to try to outlaw backup
copies of media. The EC provides a private copying exemption, dubbed
the European Fair Dealing. The U.S. enjoys similar exemptions, which
the RIAA/IFPI have contended in the past are illegal. They argue that making backups is "stealing" and
you should just repurchase damaged/lost content. Ms. Martin-Prat argued [PDF] that backups have "no
reason to exist".
She contends that backup exemptions violate the three-step test first written into the Berne
copyright convention 50 years ago. Those steps state that exemptions are
only fair if they:
Does the Commission not see any problems in recruiting top civil
servants from special interest organisations, especially when being put in
charge of dossiers directly related to their former employers? If not, why not?
Does the Commission feel that such an appointment would help to build
confidence with the European Parliament and the general public that the
Commission can be trusted to handle copyright-related issues in a fair and
balanced manner?
Does the Commission not see any problems in recruiting top civil
servants from special interest organisations, especially when being put in
charge of dossiers directly related to their former employers? If not, why not?
Does the Commission feel that such an appointment would help to build
confidence with the European Parliament and the general public that the
Commission can be trusted to handle copyright-related issues in a fair and
balanced manner?
Mr. Engström was even more emphatic in his own blog, slamming the EU
for supporting what he sees as corrupt cronyism. He writes:
Welcome to the European Union, where the big business lobby
organizations are calling most of the shots at the Commission, and where
citizens are just seen as a nuisance to be ignored. I guess the only real news
is that they don't even bother to try to hide it any more.
Given existing EC rules and policies, the organization now has to respond to
the criticism pertaining to the appointment, justifying its controversial
This is not the first time that the issues of corruption, favoritism, and bias
have been raised in Europe. During the iconic trial of the Pirate Bay,
the judge in the trial was found to have formerly worked for a copyright protection organization.
He provided jurors with information that the Pirate Bay admins' legal team felt
was inaccurate and misleading. The trial resulted in a conviction, a sentence of prison time, and a massive fine for
the admins.
The legal team tried to appeal the verdict and sentence, but ended up losing before an unsympathetic
higher court.
quote: As the Libs, at least in the USA, are the ones who look to control all aspects of a citizens life, I'd put her as a Lib.
quote: I see conservative politicians who acknowledge that this country was founded on Christian principles, but I have yet to hear one that wants to turn this country into a theocracy.
quote: As for low-risk narcotics, do some real research on the harmful effects of marijuana first. However, I don't think sending pot smokers to jail solves the problem. A better solution would be to ban drug users from all government benefits instead. No welfare, no section 8 housing, no disability because you are too drugged out to work. There are way too many druggies living off the taxpayers. If they say the drugs don't affect them, then let them work and support themselves. And if they get caught driving under the influence, or selling/giving drugs to minors, then throw the book at them.
quote: As for abortion, the 1st reasonability of the federal government is to protect life, it's the 1st item of the 1st amendment to the constitution. If you believe that it's a live, there is no choice in the matter. As for when life begins, nobody really knows for certain, but technology can allow a baby to survive at 5 months, so I'm pretty sure we can call it a life some time before that.
quote: Most conservative are NOT against abortion in the case of rape or when the mother's life is at risk, that's just liberal scare talk.
quote: Yes you can cherry pick examples but too often I see people on the left twisting them to support their side.
quote: Most of western civilization can be traced back to "Christian principles",
quote: but that does not make us a theocracy.Iran is a theocracy, since it has religious leaders (of one specific religion) running the country, to the exclusion of anything else.
quote: I wasn't justifying the use of Alcohol and Tobacco by saying that marijuana is not low-risk. They all have health and social risks, in fact my father died young due to smoking tobacco.
quote: I've seen, uses marijuana that was legally grown under government license at single research location (using illegal pot in a study would get the researchers in trouble). This marijuana is very weak compared to what is currently being sold on the street, which makes these studies biased towards your side of the argument.
quote: As for a mother who loses her baby in a crash, most states DO have laws concerning this. If you kill a pregnant woman, you can be charged with not only killing the woman, but will killing her unborn child. If the woman survives, but the fetus doesn't, you can still be charged with the killing.
quote: As for abortion, what age would you say a fetus is conscious? Only after it's born, 1 day before its born, at 8 months, at 5 months?Studies have shown that the brain starts developing very early, during the 1st trimester, and by the 5th month, brain activity patterns resemble an adult. This is based on science, not religion, and the destruction of a conscious being is murder.


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I'm hearing from a good source that Microsoft is ready to give a major facelift to the company's Zune music player that could mean its evolution into a new smart phone from the company.
My source says that the new device falls under the codename "Pink" and that it will combine the company's Zune and technology from Microsoft's purchase of Danger Inc., the company that brought us the Sidekick flip phone available on T-Mobile.
more interviews like that
One of the best interviews ever on channel 9, it was fun watching this great woman! Btw. i think she is hot
Wow, what happened Roz... the Kin ws a dismal failure.
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Wasn't this one carry-over from the last game?
I believe that Dillon had asked Tootoo to dance at the end of Tootoo's shift and they never got to it.
That would make this unfinished business.
Regardless. I'd rather see a real fight than a staged one, but even a staged one is better than nothing as long as it's only occasional.
If nothing else, we got some nice energy from it.
Oh- and for the gals in the Hot Wings thread: Remember, ladies, I dibbsed him first.
Which I would agree with you if...He was the first fight. But the first fight was with Eric freaking wimp Nystrom......Was Eric trying get his face beat in or what. hahahaha


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School: Canisius
Nickname: Golden Griffins
Affiliation: Metro Atlantic Athletic
Coach: Terry Zeh
2011-12 record: 12-18, 6-12
Allison Braun is the type of player who doesn't overwhelm you with a impressive statists. But make no mistake, when she went down with a leg injury midway through the last season, the Golden Griffins were in trouble. What the senior guard brings to the team is difficult to quantify but makes all the difference on the floor.
"We got to early January and we were probably right about where I thought we would be," coach Terry Zeh said. "We were right around the .500 mark. And then Allison went down and when Allison went down, we went down. People might look at that and say, 'How can you say that? She's averaged four points a game.' Allison is the heart and soul of the team. So we ceased to get better in practice because she wasn't there to toe the line for everybody. Therefore, along with our other injuries we started to regress and get worse instead of better."
Braun returns this season healthy and ready to lead a Canisius team that ended last season on a six-game losing streak.
Part of the problem was injuries, not just the season-ender to Braun but a series of nagging ones throughout the lineup. Part of the problem was inexperience. Now it's a matter of being a year better, not just a year older.
Junior Jamie Ruttle led the team in scoring (11.7 points per game). Also back is senior Ashley Durham, who averaged 9.6 points. Durham spent much of the time last season at point guard, an unnatural position for her. That was evident in her 127 assists to 138 turnovers. This year, Zeh is moving her off the ball, allowing her more freedom to do what she loves — score.
"I felt like I've tried for three years to change what she wants to do instead of going with what she wants to do," Zeh said. "In our system, I can't always have our point guard wanting to score a lot and that's what Ashley wants to do. So we moved her to the two, where she can be a little more aggressive with those things."
Keys to Success
With Durham at the two-guard, the Griffs need to find a point guard. And they may not settle on one until later in the season. Among those who have gotten time at the spot in practice are sophomore Brooke Angelos, redshirt freshman Ashley Gomez, freshman Tiahana Mills and sophomore Kayla Hoohuli.
Hoohuli has the most experience of the group, returning from a steep learning curve of a freshman year.
She averaged 8.6 points a game and had flashes of great play, but she was still recovering from tearing her ACL in March of her senior year of high school. An improved Hoohuli, particularly on defense, is a key for Canisius this year.
While the Griffs had things happen outside of their control last season (injuries), they've worked to improve on two key areas they can control — turnovers and effort. The Griffs need to take better care of the basketball and give a more consistent effort throughout the season.
Big games
Canisius opens up by hosting Big 4 rival Buffalo on Friday while hitting the road to play at St. Bonaventure on Dec. 16. Other key non-conference games will be at Akron (Dec. 1) and at the Long Beach State Classic. Once MAAC play rolls around, look for key matchups with Marist (Jan. 18) while late-season home games with Manhattan (Feb. 22) and Fairfield (Feb. 24) could be important. Games against Niagara are in Buffalo Jan. 27 and Lewiston March 1.
The Griffs finally have some veterans. If they can cut down on turnovers and show up interested in playing games for 40 minutes, Canisius should finish at .500 and get out of the pre-quarterfinal round of the MAAC tournament.
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He gives love a good name!
Jon Bon Jovi made one super-fan's dreams come true when he surprised her by walking her down the aisle Saturday at the Graceland Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas – 24 years after he married wife Dorothea at the exact same venue.
In August, Australian Bon Jovi fan Branka Delic had started an online petition recruiting him for her wedding to Gonzalo Cladera. The rocker was to be in town the same weekend for the "Because We Can" tour at the MGM Grand.
"Bon Jovi, we're begging you. Make this wedding happen!" Delic wrote. She also sent pleading Tweets leading up to the wedding, such as, "The day is near, Jon boy. Is it a date or what? Please don't let this devoted Aussie bride down."
Still, Delic couldn't believe it when the musician actually showed up to lend his arm. Afterward, she Tweeted, "You did more than make my dream come true, you changed my life forever! An amazing man with an amazing generous heart."
Bon Jovi shared his own photo of the wedding walk, "captioning, "Congratulations @branksd! May you & Gonzalo have a lifetime of happiness, love & memories together - ALWAYS!"
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PITTSBURGH - Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger took a long time to emerge from the trainer's area of the Steelers locker room on Sunday afternoon.
When he finally hobbled his way to his locker and spoke to the media, he was unusually short with his answers.
"Disappointment, pain, letting a lot of people down,'' Roethlisberger said of how he felt while leaving the field, "and it doesn't feel good.''
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Pittsburgh's Ben Roethlisberger walks off the field, followed by an NFL Films camera man, after the Steelers lost to the Bengals Sunday afternoon.
Roethlisberger hasn't had to deal with many playoff-less seasons in his NFL career, but Sunday's 13-10 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals not only clinched a non-winning season for the Steelers but also eliminated them from the playoff hunt with one game remaining.
Roethlisberger didn't want to point a finger at anyone but himself. His interception with 24 seconds remaining in the game helped set up the Bengals' winning field goal.
"We should be [in the playoffs] if it wasn't for me,'' he said. "We have a lot of talent, and it shows. We have some good guys.''
The Steelers fell to 7-8 and will finish the regular season at 1 p.m. next Sunday at home in a meaningless game against the Cleveland Browns. The Bengals improved to 9-6 and clinched a playoff spot for the second straight season.
Since Roethlisberger joined the Steelers in 2004, they had made the playoffs in six of his eight seasons. The eight losses this year will be a new low for coach Mike Tomlin in his six years as coach.
"We have a quality team here,'' Steelers linebacker Larry Foote said. "But at the end of the day, you are what your record says you are. You can say, 'shoulda, coulda,' but our record told us who we are.''
Foote and the Steelers defense did their best to keep the roller-coaster season alive. The defense didn't allow any Bengals touchdowns and gave up two field goals, which were set up by a short punt and Roethlisberger's late interception.
The Bengals gained a 7-0 advantage late in the first quarter when Roethlisberger tried to throw a short pass to tight end Heath Miller in his own end of the field, and Cincinnati cornerback Leon Hall intercepted the ball and returned it 17 yards for a touchdown.
The Steelers immediately marched down the field but came away with no points when a bad snap on a field-goal try contributed to Shaun Suisham missing from 24 yards.
Later in the second quarter, Pittsburgh rookie Drew Butler managed just 37 yards on a punt from his own 5-yard line to set the Bengals up with a short field. Bengals kicker Josh Brown booted a 41-yard field goal to extend Cincinnati's lead to 10-0.
"We have to do better,'' Roethlisberger said. "We have to start moving the ball, and stop getting behind the chains and making it hard on ourselves. I have to play better.''
Roethlisberger gave the Steelers hope with a 60-yard touchdown pass to Antonio Brown before halftime and later led the Steelers on a 10-play, 45-yard drive in the third quarter to tie the game at 10-10 on a Suisham 40-yard field goal.
But Pittsburgh wasted several second-half opportunities. They didn't come up with any points following two Cortez Allen interceptions and a forced fumble. And they also failed to capitalize when Cincinnati coach Marvin Lewis had Josh Brown attempt a 56-yard field goal with 3 minutes, 22 seconds remaining in the game and was well short.
The Steelers also gave the Bengals good field position when Suisham was short on a 53-yard field-goal try with 1:51 left in the game.
"We did things to give us a chance to win the game,'' said Roethlisberger, who finished 14-of-28 for 220 yards with two interceptions and was sacked four times. "But I blew it.''
With the score still tied, 10-10, the Steelers took possession of the ball at their own 11-yard line with 44 seconds remaining. After reaching the 29 and with 24 seconds left, Roethlisberger overshot Mike Wallace near midfield, and Cincinnati safety Reggie Nelson intercepted the ball and returned it to the Pittsburgh 46.
"It just came off my hand high,'' Roethlisberger said. "And as soon as it left my hand, I knew it.''
With 14 seconds left, Cincinnati's Andy Dalton connected with A.J. Green for 21 yards, and Green, who finished the game with 10 receptions for 116 yards against a banged-up Steelers secondary, got out of bounds with eight seconds remaining.
Josh Brown then silenced the Steelers crowd by drilling the game-winning 43-yard field goal into the closed end of Heinz Field.
"We just didn't make the plays late in games this year,'' Steelers safety Ryan Clark said. "When we were 12-4 and winning Super Bowls, we weren't blowing teams out. It's these types of game where we would make plays in the fourth quarter. This year, we were finding ways not to make plays.''
The end result for the Steelers is a season that was expected to be somewhat promising but was ultimately derailed by injuries and inconsistent play that will make the upcoming offseason even more interesting than the previous ones.
"We lost too many games early in the season,'' Steelers defensive end Brett Keisel said. "You can't go 0-3 on the road. Yet we still had a chance [Sunday]. We were just snake bit this year. We fought hard, but it wasn't meant to be.''


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The AlwaysOn Availability Groups feature is a high-availability and disaster-recovery solution that provides an enterprise-level alternative to database mirroring. Introduced in Microsoft SQL Server 2012. AlwaysOn Availability Groups maximizes the availability of a set of user databases for an enterprise. Deploying AlwaysOn Availability Groups involves creating and configuring one or more availability groups. Each availability group is a container for a discrete set of user databases, known as availability databases, that fail over together. An availability group can have multiple possible failover targets (secondary replicas). Moreover, you can configure secondary replicas to support read-only access to secondary databases and for performing backups on secondary databases.
High Availability (Windows Cluster) + Disaster Recovery (Mirroring)
Primary + 4 secondaries
1 automatic failover pair
2 synchronous
2 asynchronous
Can place multiple nodes & databases in Availability Groups
Can do backup and reporting off secondaries
Availability Groups support Virtual names
Built in compression and encryption
Windows Server Core supported
Multi-site clustering across subnets
Support for network attached storage
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on October 2, 2012 - 12:14 AM
Some of Lindy Ruff's top players are skating half a world away. The Buffalo Sabres' coach has no idea how Tyler Ennis looks in Switzerland. Ruff doesn't have an inkling how Christian Ehrhoff is spending his time in Germany.
Still, Ruff would rather have his players compete in Europe than practice in Amherst.
The number of Sabres playing for foreign teams is expected to rise this week. Thomas Vanek is going to sign in Graz, one of the Austrian towns in which he grew up. Andrej Sekera went to Slovakia after Ehrhoff and Ennis boarded their transatlantic flights.
Ruff is glad they decided to ditch the informal workouts being done locally by other locked-out Sabres.
"My feeling is if you can play, play, whether you're a half a world away or not," Ruff said. "Playing's a good thing. You can keep your skills sharp.
"I worry more about the guys that are, after a month or so, just playing a little bit of shinny hockey and practicing a little bit. It's tough to stay sharp. You don't have that physical challenge. You don't have the challenge of elite players playing against you, and I think those players have a bigger challenge than those guys that are going and playing."
There's still no word on whether the Sabres will all play together, but the NHL moved one day closer to canceling or postponing regular-season games Monday.
Representatives from the league and the NHL Players' Association took a break from meetings but are scheduled to resume talks today. The sides are $1 billion apart regarding how much the players should earn in the next collective bargaining agreement, and the scheduled Oct. 11 opening of the season is rapidly approaching. The league is expected to whack an early chunk of the schedule as soon as today.
If the lockout does end, Sabres General Manager Darcy Regier agrees with his coach that the players skating for teams will be more prepared than their counterparts who are practicing on their own.
"Hopefully, we get back to playing soon, but whenever that's going to be everyone expects there to be very little time to get up and going," Regier said. "It gives anyone who's playing an advantage, certainly, whether they're playing in Europe or playing in the American League in Rochester."
Vanek is joining the list of players in Europe. His website posted an interview Monday in which he stated he was going to skate for the Graz 99ers. He had been torn whether to stay in Buffalo with his wife and three young children, uproot the family and go overseas or depart on his own. His website said he was going by himself to Graz, which is where his parents live.
Ruff, meanwhile, plans to spend his days observing the Amerks. He got to know Vanek, Derek Roy and Ryan Miller in Rochester during the 2004-05 lockout, and Ruff will skate alongside the Sabres' minor-leaguers again. He and Amerks coach Ron Rolston are designing a system for both teams that would result in seamless recalls.
"We've spent several hours in the last couple weeks in meetings with Ron and his staff and our staff just trying to get together how we'd like both teams to play, so when they come here there really isn't much of an education process," Ruff said. "Some subtleties will have to be different when it comes to personnel on special teams, but a system that works for both teams."
Ruff's team will be a lot different than the one he had last season. Roy is gone, replaced by Steve Ott.
"If you look at Derek's ice time you know what I thought of him as a player because he led our team in ice time," Ruff said. "I think he had a real tough stretch. He dealt with some tough injuries. Asked probably a little bit more in some situations. During our run at the end of the year, he was a big part of it. Pushed hard to have us play with a little bit more of an edge.
"We're going to miss his playmaking, but in Derek's case he probably thinks it's a new look for him knowing he was a big part of our team."
The trade left the Sabres extremely young at center, with the 22-year-old duo of Ennis and Cody Hodgson expected to anchor the top two lines.
"We've taken a step that has put us in a little bit of a scary category because we're young there," Ruff said. "We've got Tyler that probably finished the last 30 games playing center ice but did a heck of a job. We feel that his work on the faceoff dot has to improve, some of his defensive responsibilities are going to have to get a little bit bigger, but we think he can get the job done.
"I think there's where we have a little versatility with Ville [Leino]. We've got some versatility with Steve Ott in the middle of the ice."
Ruff is glad to have Ott, who brings the toughness and tenacity the Sabres have lacked. The coach says plugging the forward into the lineup with fellow newcomer John Scott and holdovers Cody McCormick and Patrick Kaleta should raise the team's intensity level.
"In our case we wanted to be a harder team to play against," Ruff said. "We wanted to be more physical. I think we're still going to need our better offensive players to have a little bit of a physical edge, and I think if they're backed by a Scott and an Ott and the likes of that, now you've got McCormick and Kaleta, the strength of all 12 guys, that level should be raised.
"You just hope for a quick resolution [to the lockout] and get this going."
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Religious Conviction and Political Advocacy
Jeffrie G. Murphy
Arizona State University College of Law
The Modern Schoolman, Vol. 78, No. 125, January/March 2001
Citizens in liberal democracies advocate all sorts of things for all sorts of idiosyncratic and even silly reasons and yet it is thought by many liberals that the person offering those reasons does not violate some deep principles of good "citizenship" unless the reasons either invite the label "religious" or, as with racist reasons, tend to undermine the values of liberal democracy itself. But why single out religion in this way? If democratic politics thrives on the Millian idea of the marketplace of ideas, are we to assume that only religious ideas and perhaps antidemocratic ideas lack such market value? In this essay I will raise some (perhaps naïve) questions and try out some tentative and highly revisable suggestions.
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Justices Face a Test on Race
A University of Texas Admissions Policy Aims to Help High-Scoring Minorities
Affirmative-action cases at the Supreme Court typically feature assertions that racial preferences give unqualified minority applicants an unfair leg up.
But in arguments Wednesday over college affirmative action, the justices will confront a paradox. The small admissions program being challenged at the University of Texas at Austin accepts black and Hispanic applicants who score higher than the minority students enrolled under UT's principal admissions program, which is color-blind and considered constitutional by all parties to the case.
Texas state law, adopted to preserve diversity after a 1996 lower-court decision suspended race preferences, guarantees UT admission to students graduating in the top 10% of their high-school class. The university also admits about a quarter of its students through a "holistic" evaluation that considers race. That approach, which is being challenged, is the main method that other states such as North Carolina use to achieve diversity.
Other state universities, military academies and top private colleges have lined up behind UT in the case, hoping to preserve largely unfettered discretion over admissions decisions as long as they avoid obvious racial quotas.
In Texas, the 10% plan ensures entry for thousands of black and Hispanic students from very poor neighborhoods, and makes the university comparable in diversity to pre-1996 levels. For opponents of the holistic program, that is proof enough that UT need not consider race to ensure campus diversity.
"The top 10% plan has proven to be a more effective mechanism for creating a diverse campus at UT than did race-based affirmative action," said Edward Blum, whose Project on Fair Representation fights affirmative action and backed the latest case.
But UT worries that minority students who rank somewhat below the top 10% in the better Texas high schools are losing out. They are typically the children of middle-class or professional black and Hispanic parents.
Such students, UT says in its Supreme Court brief, "are, on average, more likely than their top 10% counterparts to have attended an integrated high school," and "on average, have higher SAT scores than their top 10% counterparts"—a critical factor in boosting the university's rank in U.S. News & World Report's ratings.
"The African-American or Hispanic child of successful professionals in Dallas who has strong SAT scores" has "great potential for serving as a 'bridge' in promoting cross-racial understanding," UT argues. Such students would "help dispel stereotypical assumptions…which actually may be reinforced" by the presence of minorities admitted only because of the top 10% plan, UT says.
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But Abigail Fisher, the plaintiff in the Supreme Court case, says that UT violated her 14th Amendment right to "equal protection of the laws" by denying her admission through the second bracket because she is white.
In a friend-of-the-court brief, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill said that dropping its holistic approach and adopting a color-blind, top 10% plan in North Carolina would actually increase the minority share of the student body, to 16% from 15%. But "it would simultaneously depress almost every other indicator of academic quality," lowering the average entering SAT score by 55 points, to 1262, the brief says.
The university adds, "Many of the new 'automatic admits' would quickly find themselves educationally lost amid the faster pace of Chapel Hill."
Such arguments provide an inadvertent rebuttal to part of the challengers' argument: that consideration of race harms its intended beneficiaries by injecting less qualified students into highly competitive classrooms where they are likely to fail.
Stuart Taylor Jr., a journalist and co-author of a new book called "Mismatch" that is skeptical of affirmative action, said that if he were forced to choose, UT would be better off dropping the 10% plan and taking race into account directly through a holistic evaluation. But all in all, "they'd be better off without either," said Mr. Taylor.
Still, he acknowledged "a positive side of the top 10% plan in terms of socioeconomic egalitarianism, rewarding the people who've done best in the environments they've grown up in."
The top 10% plan has had some effect in equalizing opportunity in Texas, said Mark Long, a University of Washington economist who has studied the issue and isn't involved in the case. He said: "The number of high schools that send any students to the University of Texas has gone up quite a bit. The share of students who come from rural areas has gone up," as has that "from higher-poverty schools and higher-percent minority schools."
Gail Heriot, a University of San Diego law professor who helped file a brief backing Ms. Fisher, said UT could protect its academic quality by dropping both the top 10% plan and affirmative action.
That advice is unlikely to resonate among administrators, said William Leiter, a political-science professor at California State University, Long Beach, and co-author of a textbook on affirmative action. For university officials, the importance of racial diversity is "part of their DNA now," he said.


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Worldwide Exclusive: Hotel Missoni Kuwait's The Journey, Part 3
The word 'exclusive' may have lost its actual meaning, but today, dear La Moda readers, we promise that you are getting something that qualifies as a worldwide exclusive in the real sense of the word.
The recently opened Hotel Missoni Kuwait has provided us the worldwide exclusive launch of the third installment of its much-discussed animated short film "The Journey" to share with you.
Hotel Missoni Kuwait – The Journey, Part 3
The film has been produced to signal the exciting birth of Hotel Missoni Kuwait – the region's most highly anticipated hotel development, fusing the timeless style of the prominent Italian fashion house and interiors label with the expertise of one of the world's leading hotel operators, Rezidor Hotel Group.
To anticipate further the luxurious allure of Hotel Missoni Kuwait, the third part to "The Journey" will be available for exclusive viewing only here on La Moda from today until May 3rd. Premiering last February, the series bears witness to the journey of brand's founders Rosita Missoni and Ottavio Missoni across the world starting from Milan, where the label was born, to Kuwait, the sizzling Gulf city.
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The luxury hotel is located on Arabian Gulf Street, nestled between the entertainment and main shopping district of Kuwait City. With a prime location at the fashionable Symphony Centre, the new property offers panoramic views of the Arabian Gulf and the Kuwait City skyline. Animated with bursts of bold colour, the hotel features 169 rooms including 63 suites, all of which allow guests to enjoy magnificent views of the Gulf.
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Tips for Inviting Personality Into Your Home's Interior Design
Our home is our sanctuary for rest and pleasure, and its design is most likely a reflection of our lifestyle and personality. If the look of your home hasn't changed for decades, you may be stuck in a rut. Do you play it safe with neutral colors and low-key decor? Perhaps you're the type of person who prefers to stay within a comfort zone. Invite excitement and unpredictability into your life by starting with some home improvements and design updates. Similar to our wardrobe and hobbies, updating our home can have a positive effect on our mental, emotional and spiritual health.
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Transforming the energy of your home doesn't have to be an expensive renovation project, and your walls don't have to be the only source of bright and stylish color. Accent a subdued wall with bold and colorful accents. Grommet curtains in colors jonquil, azalea or currant add character to white or beige walls. You can also play up your drapery with fun patterns and prints. Home decor store Z Gallerie offers Venetian Blue and Citrus Grey panels in a variety of geometric shapes that create a contemporary appearance. Minor room accents in bold hues can also instantly and easily give a home personality. Pair couches, sofas and sitting chairs with throw pillows in an orange geometric pattern or grey, orange and turquoise contemporary print available on Etsy.com.
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Unexpected design choices and pairings can create an interior space that's anything but ordinary. Live life outside the rules and make life more interesting by marrying two unlikely design elements into a contrasting, yet stunning interior-design theme. Envision a modernistic style with retro accents. Pair antique furnishings with luxury furniture. Imagine an elegant design theme decorated with DIY crafts.
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As you juxtapose design contrasts, strive for balance. Chalmers suggests using artifacts and old-fashion pieces in conjunction with more modern and refined elements. Light fixtures and textiles are excellent options for adding dimension to the design of a room. From mid-century modern floor lamps and Victorian wall sconces to Oriental floor rugs and elaborate tablecloths, a wide variety of lighting and textile options can serve as excellent contrasting design accessories.
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DAS Collection have recently branched out from abayas into dresses. A stunning debut if we must say. The peach number is our favourite and our top pick of their collection. DAS we salute you!
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It was more of a comment on the massive shift in opinion. People were acting like we're never going to win a game again. I haven't been here long, but I can guess that you guys were ready to start slitting your wrists when we went on that 6 game losing streak. I can only imagine how you guys were filled with immeasurable glee during that 23 game home winning streak. You guys are so bipolar it's crazy. One day Babcock and Holland are geniuses the next they're the worst at their respective jobs. One day Franzen is Mr. clutch the next he's trade bait. One day Zetterberg is the most valuable player on the team the next he's a lazy piece of s***. We're fans of one of the greatest sports franchises in history, grow a pair and act like it. If you truly believe that the wings are a great team it will become a lot easier to deal with adversity.
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Thursday, May 16, 2013
Sculpture in the South opens May 18 with 30 world-class sculptors exhibiting their work in Azalea Park in Summerville.
The 15th annual show and sale opens Saturday, May 18, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and again on Sunday, May 19, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Admission is $5 or $7 for the entire weekend.
Collectors and first time art enthusiasts will have a chance to mingle with world-class sculptors.
All day Saturday and Sunday, sculpture demonstrations, kids activities and family fun are offered and all sculpture purchases benefit Summerville's Permanent Public Sculpture Collection.
Make sure and bring blankets and a picnic from 5 to 8 p.m. on Saturday night, for Jazz Under the Stars, a free evening of music brought to you by the Arts Business Civic Coalition.
Sculptors include Robert Allison, Joan Baliker, Betty Beasley, Karen Brodie, Julie McCraney-Brogdon, Susie Chisholm, Glo Coalson, Joe Collins, BJ Coughlin, Darrell Davis, Allen Ferg, Martin Gates, J. Gail Geer, Jim Greene, Lou Greiner, Gary Grossman, Jack Hill, Gregory Johnson, Julia Knight, Sharon Licata, Roger Martin, Judy Mooney, Ron Moore, Alex Palkovich, Scott Penegar, Josephine Pratt, W. Stanley Proctor, Karla Rundquist, Wayne Salge and Garland Weeks.
Founded in 1998, Sculpture in the South promotes the arts through education and creation of an accessible public sculpture collection that enhances our community.
The nonprofit annually hosts world-class sculptors in the historic park for a weekend of sculpture displays, demonstrations, refreshments and student sculpture displays, all accompanied by local musicians.
Sculpture in the South welcomes both locals and out-of-town visitors to stroll though its outdoor sculpture park and get to know sculptors from across the country.
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Don't jump to conclusions when it comes to Robert Pattinson's dating life. Although he spent time with Kristen Stewart less than a week ago, it appears that he may still be romancing model Dylan Penn.
The two were spotted getting cozy at the Spare Room in the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on Wednesday night to celebrate Angie Banicki's travel memoir, 30 Before 30: Traveling Under the Influence.
"The two chatted and flirted inside," an onlooker told PEOPLE. "They were a little cautious, making sure people noticed they did not come together."
He showed up with close pal Nick Jarecki while Penn, who is the daughter of Sean Penn and Robin Wright, arrived separately with a group of her own friends.
"They were chatty and flirty in the beginning, but by the end of the night he was in the corner with a friend and she was talking to Michael B Jordan," said another party goer.
Overall, "Rob was being social," the onlooker said. "Girls were chatting him up. He and Dylan were very kind and chatty but definitely made a point to keep things a bit separated."
A pal told PEOPLE that Pattinson has been "dating around."
For the latest on Pattinson's relationship with Stewart and Penn, pick up PEOPLE magazine's newest issue on stands Friday
Robert Pattinson's Flirty Night Out with Dylan Penn
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Man shoots himself during SWAT standoff, deputies say
Brevard man hospitalized after incident
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A Titusville man is in the hospital after shooting himself during a standoff with officials in Brevard County, according to deputies.
Police said they were called to a home on Melody Lane in reference to someone making suicidal threats Tuesday night.
Investigators said they observed the 19-year-old resident holding a gun.
Multiple attempts were made to try and speak with the man, but he never spoke to police or SWAT team members.
The SWAT team eventually made entry into the home and prior to getting to the man shot himself.
The man was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries.
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Baltimore, Maryland sits along the Patapsco River and the Chesapeake Bay. It was founded early in the eighteenth century and grew rapidly as an important Mid-Atlantic seaport. Over the centuries, Baltimore has evolved into a "City of Neighborhoods" with 72 designated historic districts today. It is Baltimore's embrace of its diversity that makes its culture one of a kind.
Walk along the waterfront and take in the size and artistry of historic ships. Tour the interiors to see how captains and sailors lived on board for months and even years at a time. Stroll through Patterson Park - one of the city's foremost green spaces - stopping at Boat Lake, the Pagoda, and the Marble Fountain. Spend an afternoon in the Walters Art Museum where you can marvel at pieces from ancient Greece and Rome to modern American Art Deco. Catch a baseball game at the new Camden Yards or a horse race at the historic Pimlico racetrack.
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Now, there's a question to ponder…deeply. And what better time is there to do it than during Advent, the season of prayerful watching, waiting, and pondering the mystery of the Incarnation, God becoming human for us. This Year of Faith is an especially appropriate time to think about faith — not faith in the abstract, but faith as it affects our daily lives and the lives of those with whom we interact. Our faith should inform everything we say and do.
Advent begins this Sunday, Dec. 2, and with it comes a special seasonal blog, created by my colleague and friend here at the Archdiocesan Catechetical Office, webmaster Jim Connell. You are invited to visit our website, www.nyfaithformation.org to read and post to "What is Faith?" Each day this blog will feature a short Scripture passage from the daily Mass readings and an answer to the question, "What is faith?" based on that Scripture. We hope you will post your reflections and comments. You have much wisdom to share.
Your friends in the Archdiocesan Catechetical Office look forward to your participation.
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quote: The problem with your debunk is that you cherry picked 1998.It's just like the people who, a couple of years ago, said the earth was cooling in the last decade. Well yeah, that 1998 El Nino episode and 2007 cool spell did wonders for your cherry picked regression line.Fast forward to 2011, and the exact same methodology - one decade trendline - results in a warming trend. I could take a positively sloped function linear function, add some neutral perturbations, and you'd see the same regions of positive and negative slopes. Therefore 10 year slopes are useless.
quote: The unusual thing about 20th century warming isn't the absolute temperature, but rather the rate of temperature increase. It is possible that our temperature proxies of the past simply mix data from adjacent decades and are simply incapable of resolving short, rapid rises in temperature. However, as far as we can tell, the current rate of warming is unprecedented.
quote: Well that's weird. I actually just up-rated a Swash post. Maybe the world really is ending!
quote: When the Facts Change, I Change My Mind. What Do You Do, Sir?John Maynard Keynes
quote: A very substantial increase in CO2 has occurred and there has not been a year hotter than 1998 since 1998.


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Sharon, Pa. – Penn State Shenango will host a Graduate School Fair from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Tuesday, October 23, in its campus auditorium located on Shenango Avenue in downtown Sharon, Pa. Anyone who is considering graduate school or has begun the process of applying to a college or university for graduate school is welcome to attend the event.
The following colleges and universities will be at the fair: Clarion University, Edinboro University, Gannon University, Geneva College, Point Park University, Robert Morris University, Seton Hill University, Slippery Rock University, University of Pittsburgh, Westminster College, Youngstown State University, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, and Penn State World Campus.
If you are a student who is already in the process of applying to graduate schools and would like to have your personal statements reviewed, Laurie Verost, assistant director of Career Services from Penn State University Park campus will be on hand to review your essays and make recommendations.
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on November 14, 2012 - 3:50 PM
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Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and area residents were in the giving spirit Wednesday.
A stream of people flowed through the parking lot of Rich Products Corp. from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. with enough donations to fill a tractor-trailer.
By noon, another truck was brought in after the first one became full and eventually four trucks filled.
The tractor-trailers will transport the provisions to downstate residents still recovering from Hurricane Sandy.
"The turnout exceeded our expectations," said Dwight Gram, Rich's vice president of corporate communications.
Rich's headquarters at the corner of Niagara and West Ferry streets was the drop-off site, where residents, businesses and Rich employees made their donations.
Donated items included work supplies like shovels, gloves and rakes. People also contributed clothing for youngsters such as jackets and hats, baby supplies and pet supplies.
Even four beds – box springs and mattresses – were donated.
Jesse Ball, a Buffalo resident, stopped by with cleaning supplies.
"I feel like there is so much left to do. It's going to be a long haul," she said.
Representatives from the Martha P. Mitchell Community Center and Greater Royal Church drove up with a van full of clothes, coats for children, food, water and paper products.
"People helping people," said Albert D. Wilson Jr., pastor of Greater Royal.
Aside from the two tractor- trailers that will be hauling the contributions from the public, Rich Products also donated $100,000 worth of food products, including 60,000 servings of breakfast and dessert items for volunteers and victims alike.
A third truck will transport the food to the Hurricane Sandy relief team at Happaugue, Long Island.
Debra A. Norton, an attorney with the law firm Paul William Beltz PC, dropped off some cleaning supplies and clothing, but she felt she and others could do more.
"We could provide temporary housing here. I have two empty bedrooms in my house that single moms with little kids or elderly people could use," she said. "Then they wouldn't feel so isolated."
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Recursive Function for Greatest Common Divisior
Q.write programe for the greatest common divisor of integers X and Y is the largest interger the evenly divides both X and Y. write a recursive function gcd that returns tha greatest common divisior of X and Y. the gcd of X and Y is defined recursivly as follows: if Y is equal to 0. then gcd (X,Y) is X; otherwise gcd (X,Y) is gcd (Y,X%Y) whre % is the modulus Operator.
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The Juicebox Mafia thinks that Israel's operations in Gaza were a failure. They're self-hating juice!
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on March 3, 2013 - 11:53 PM
July 2, 1923 – March 2, 2013
Vincent Pellegrino, a retired auto collision shop repairman, died Saturday in his Cheektowaga home after a long illness. He was 89.
Born in Lafferty, Ohio, the son of Italian immigrants, he worked in Montana in the Civilian Conservation Corps as a teenager and moved to Buffalo in 1940. He enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1943 and served in World War II in the Pacific as an amphibious-vehicle mechanic. He took part in the invasion of Okinawa and attained the rank of corporal.
Returning from service, Mr. Pellegrino took auto repair courses at Burgard Vocational High School.
He repaired cars in independent collision shops before joining Mernan Chevrolet on Bailey Avenue, where he worked in the body shop from 1954 until he retired in 1989.
He was a past president of the Fraternal Order of Eagles in Lancaster.
Surviving are his wife of 61 years, the former Theresa Catalano; a son, Vincent Jr.; three daughters, Julie DiCerbo, Myla LeBlanc and Vanessa Wazny; and three sisters, Norma Bianchi, Rita Mortellaro and Mary DiNatale.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Sauer-Lynett-Amigone Funeral Home, 1922 Kensington Ave., Cheektowaga.


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I can't share any details now but we will ALL be home very shortly.
In 2009 my family adopted a child from Russia. All of our friends wanted to know how a single income family was able to save for a debt-free adoption. We are now adopting twin girls from Uganda. This blog is how God has grown our family.
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quote: The last reason is actually the most compelling to me since eventually the laws will switch from needing a special license to have an automated car, to needing a special license to drive yourself. The only people driving themselves would be people who actually like to drive and are good at it.
quote: You're talking yet another massive blow to freedom and liberty, courtesy of Government mandates.
quote: I'm not surprised that YOU would favor discriminatory and arbitrary standards designed to marginalize those who decide to drive for themselves, but I'll have none of it.


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But the decidedly quirky, relentlessly charming (did we mention beautiful?) star, 22, says she had no such crush growing up.
"Teen obsessions? You know, it's funny. I never had posters on my wall," she told reporters after taking home four Teen Choice Awards Sunday night for her work in Divergent and The Fault in Our Stars.
That's not to say she didn't have something keeping her attention at home.
"I was really obsessed with sewing as a teenager," she added. "True story!"
And that's just another positive message parents and youngsters alike can appreciate from Woodley, who gave the Teen Choice audience something to think about when she accepted her honors earlier in the evening.
"In my opinion, you can be brave and jump off trains, but the truest form of bravery and courage is to wake up every single day and to be ourselves," she said while accepting her first surfboard of the night. "That is something all of us have the opportunity and choice to make each and every morning."
Post-show, she elaborated on her "you do you" mantra.
"We all have a message to share regardless of age, right?" she said. "It's so important to be ourselves."
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Whitney Houston's music will live on forever – and now, she'll be immortalized in another medium as well.
Madame Tussauds is remembering the legendary singer who died last year with not one, but four separate wax figures.
"We were extremely honored when Madame Tussauds approached us about doing four figures of Whitney from different points in her 30-year career," Houston's manager and sister-in-law Pat Houston said in a statement on behalf of the family. "This is something we are excited to do for the fans."
The unveiling marks the first time in 200 years that the museum has simultaneously created so many different figures of the same subject. While each took shape at the Tussauds studio in London, they will be displayed in separate cities.
Houston performing the national anthem at the 1991 Super Bowl is going to Washington, D.C.'s Tussauds; Hollywood will get her in her 1992 movie The Bodyguard; Las Vegas will display the young Houston as seen in her 1988 video for "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)"; and New York will exhibit a more recent likeness of the singer, from a 2009 photo shoot for her final studio album.
"She was a true and rare talent, and we are exceedingly proud to be adding her wax likeness to our attractions in the United States," said Rosemary Preta, director of marketing, Midway USA, Merlin Entertainment Group.
Houston's wax figures will be unveiled in New York on Thursday, nearly a year after her passing.
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WOW, did you hear Holly's fart...it was a real ass clapper.
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Someone so stupid and fat that when they say something, the only sound is the echo of their ass cheeks resonating.
Jimmy is such an idiot -- what an assclapper!
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stupid white girl; especially skanks and hoes that like to take it up the butt, as they do they clap and scream for joy they also have jiggly arms and thighs that are also used to clap fuck.
Yo man your girlfriend is an ass clapper.... last night the people next door thought we were having a party because of all the clapping
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A person that has the ability to turn on and off their lights with a large clapping fart.
Poor Grandma May is having a hard time keeping her lights on. Her assclapper is not agreeing with the chili.
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Quite simply... a person... who claps ass's... with his face...a douche bag so to speak.
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People keep telling me that reformatting your hard drive is a good way to get an old pc running like new again. I'm a bit in the dark as to EXACTLY what doing so would entail what it would require and what it will do. I understand that most if not all of what is on my pc will be gone and am in the process of backing it up to a flash drive. I also have heard that the drivers will be gone but i have a hard copy of all the Drivers I'm aware of. How can i get a list of all the drivers i use? Any information would be helpful I'm not even sure how to do this or where to start or why i should.
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Yes it can make your PC as good as new but that also means your PC will loose all the data unless you know how to take a backup of all of them to a place where they are not effected by the PC format
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So a say flash drive or Compact disk would be a good back up? What more can you tell me about Reformatting?
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Wednesday, May 14, 2014
A Moncks Corner man was arrested on Monday, May 12, 2014, and charged with possession with intent to distribute marijuana.
The suspect, Gregory Anthony Fields (28), was stopped by a Berkeley County Sheriffs Office Selective Enforcement Team deputy after disregarding a traffic signal at South Live Oak Rd. and West Main Street in Moncks Corner, according to Capt. Mike Williams. When the deputy approached the vehicle, he smelled an odor of marijuana coming from within and asked the driver to step out.
A search of Fields person revealed almost a $1,000 in a pants pocket and 122 gross grams of marijuana was discovered under the front seat with a street value of approximately $1,230.00 along with a digital pocket scale.
Fields was booked at the Hill-Finklea Detention Center and released on bond following a hearing on Tuesday.
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I forget exactly but something went wrong with the bobsled or skeleton feed or prerecorded tapes and the main thing available was the cd feed from ice dance so that was on almost all prime time. I recorded most of the CDs. The entire top 10 and more.
Thanks for filling me in, gmyers. So it was an accidental last hurrah (Olympic hurrah) for the CD, at least for U.S. viewers.
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The part of a clipper/swan or similar cigarette lighter which holds the flintwheel. This can be removed and is used for packing down/inserting a roach into the end of a joint.
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quote: It still bends some important laws but experiment always trumps theory.
quote: Propellentless thrust is impossible? Not true. A laser or other light source aimed out the back would cause some small (but measurable) amount of thrust - with no propellent.
quote: The term "cold fusion" is meant to be about the initial state of the reactants.
quote: Once fusion has occurred the reactants do increase in temperature since that's how the released energy manifests.
quote: I never understood how cold fusion was supposed to generate energy.
quote: Research into Cold Fusion continues in private and government facilities and there is progress being made.
quote: What progress?
quote: Despite all that you have said, there is still money being put into this and has been since the original experiment. I will assume that someone sees some potential in it.
quote: Then when someone finds an aspect for which you did not account, you redesign the experiment to handle that then redo the experiment. Rinse and repeat. Then, and only then, do you publish and go around claiming a new discovery.


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Depending on the process and who provides the statistics, downstream processing accounts for between 50–80% of the cost of producing biotech drugs. Whatever the exact number, protein purification looms large in the economic viability of a product. Hence the interest in systematizing and streamlining recovery and purification, from discovery scale to multiton production.
Marcel Ottens, Ph.D., assistant professor in the department of biotechnology at Delft University of Technology, sees growing interest in QbD and design of experiment (DOE) approaches that incorporate process analytic technology.
Dr. Ottens, who specializes in high-throughput experimental and mathematical approaches to optimizing chromatographic separations, predicts ongoing improvement in higher-flow and -capacity chromatographic resins, membranes, and monoliths, innovation in ligand chemistry (e.g., mixed-mode resins), affinity antibodies, antibody fragment-based chemistries, and greater reliance on operational modes like continuous and simulated moving-bed chromatography. Augmenting these advances will be greater adoption of disposables and an emphasis on facility fit to accommodate higher expression levels.
Shifts in expression systems with direct impact on purification will occur as well. "Although mAbs produced via mammalian cell culture currently dominate the protein therapeutic market, simpler expression systems like yeast and E. coli will become more significant," he says.
Despite these innovations, Dr. Ottens predicts that the industry's innate conservatism, forged by regulatory issues, will continue to hamper process improvements. Other hurdles include the high cost of capture resins, higher titers, and the complexity of therapeutic biomolecules. "We still lack sufficient knowledge of the physical-chemical properties and phase behavior of proteins, particularly with respect to adequate purification process design."
Recognizing these changes are coming, vendors are viewing separation scale as a continuum. As QbD concepts infiltrate protein development and manufacturing, small-scale and early-stage protein isolation will be viewed as a warm-up for pilot and large-scale purification. DOE is already helping processors identify binding and elution characteristics with an eye toward scaleup.
GE Healthcare's recent introduction of PreDictor™ plates and the ÄKTA™ avant line of chromatography systems exemplify this.
PreDictor Plates, which are 96-well microtiter plates charged with resins for rapid screening of conditions critical to binding, elution, and washing, show excellent correlation with chromatography column results.
From these miniaturized experiments process developers can move on to PreDictor RoboColumn™, consisting of miniature columns packed with resin. Another option is the column-based ÄKTA avant instruments, which help fine-tune conditions derived from PreDictor plates in small-column formats and provide robustness testing.
"Together, these products help process scientists characterize their design space efficiently, and thereby, develop a safe and robust process," comments Eric Grund, Ph.D., senior director, biopharma applications. "DOE software used with these products allows you to do fewer experiments and get better understanding of the process before scaling up."
Dr. Grund recognizes that it's possible to overthink and overcharacterize processes before scaling up. "You have to be smart to know when to move on to the next study. We're still all learning how to use these tools."
Novel antibody formats like fragments and IgMs that lack Fc regions are changing the notion of platform separations. At the same time, therapeutic molecules are becoming more complex, for example biobetters with extended plasma half life, cell culture-manufactured vaccines, virus-like particles, and other molecules for which platform separations do not exist.
"If you don't need an Fc region, why produce a 120 KDa molecule when you can achieve the same result with an antibody fragment?" asks Laurens Sierkstra, CEO of BAC, a specialist in high-affinity protein purification products.
BAC in essence creates purification platforms for complex molecules by designing protein A-like affinity resins for initial capture from fermentation broth, cell culture, or plasma. Other steps, such as ion exchange, polishing, ultrafiltration, and virus inactivation are performed as needed.
With GE Healthcare, BAC has introduced products for purification during discovery and preclinical stages through large-scale production: KappaSelect for antibody fragments, VIIISelect for therapeutic proteins, and AAV for viruses. "We are building a product portfolio that can act as the 'protein A' for the purification of all major classes of new biotherapeutics," Sierkstra says.
The technology is based on single-domain antibodies, which are 110-residue peptides consisting of one variable domain of a heavy-chain antibody. Single-domain antibodies exhibit the same affinity as intact antibodies but are more resistant to heat and cleaning regimens. The antibodies are generated in llamas then cloned and expressed in large quantity in baker's yeast. Protein A is produced similarly in E. coli. The ligands are attached to a suitable bead or surface to form the capture resin. According to Sierkstra, resulting resins are stable to base and strong acid.
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DeAndre Hopkins excelled in an up-tempo spread offense at Clemson. Now, he will see if he can shine in the West Coast offense used by Houston Texans coach Gary Kubiak.
Hopkins on Thursday night was selected by the Texans with the 27th pick in the NFL draft. As expected, he was the only player connected to the state of South Carolina picked Thursday.
Several others could get drafted tonight, in the second and third rounds, including USC free safety D.J. Swearinger and Clemson running back Andre Ellington.
But for Thursday, the spotlight belonged to Hopkins, who compiled gaudy statistics at Clemson, while playing in a system that differs from the one he now must learn.
"The biggest question I have on Hopkins is: Does this style of offense translate to the NFL?" said former NFL coach Jon Gruden, on ESPN's broadcast of the draft.
In Houston, Hopkins gets to play alongside Andre Johnson, one of the NFL's best receivers in recent years. Johnson had 112 catches last season for 1,598 yards and four touchdowns. The Texans' No. 2 wide receiver was 31-year-old Kevin Walter (41 catches, 518 yards, two touchdowns). The team released him last month, after seven seasons.
"I've been hearing the buzz that Andre Johnson needed another receiver on the other side of him," Hopkins said on a teleconference with Houston reporters. "When I heard him say that, I was like, man, I'm that guy."
Hopkins' position coach in Houston, Larry Kirksey, is familiar with Clemson coach Dabo Swinney. Kirksey was an assistant at Alabama when Swinney played there. Then they coached together in 1993, when Swinney was a first-year graduate assistant at his alma mater.
Hopkins going to the Texans wasn't a surprise. Four mock drafts predicted the pick, including two from CBS Sports, one from the NFL Network and one from The Washington Post.
Hopkins was the second receiver selected, behind West Virginia's Tavon Austin, who went eighth to the St. Louis Rams. At February's NFL combine, Hopkins didn't help his stock by running the 40-yard dash in 4.57 seconds. (The 15th-best time for receivers was 4.5.) He tied for 10th among receivers with a 36-inch vertical jump. But at his pro day last month, Hopkins ran the 40 in 4.41 and 4.46 seconds, putting himself in contention for the first round.
Even as a late first-rounder, he will make lots of money on his first NFL contract. The 27th player drafted last year, offensive guard Kevin Zeitler, got a four-year contract from the Cincinnati Bengals that was reportedly worth $7.544 million, including a $3.926 million signing bonus. All told, about $6.1 million of the contract is reportedly guaranteed.
Hopkins is the 25th Clemson player to go in the first 27 picks, and the fifth since 1999, joining defensive end Gaines Adams (fourth in 2007), running back C.J. Spiller (ninth in 2010), receiver Rod Gardner (15th in 2001) and cornerback Tye Hill (15th in 2006).
Hopkins, who is 6-1 and 214 pounds, came to Clemson in 2010 from Daniel High, which is located just five miles from Memorial Stadium. In the three years before he turned pro early, he made good on his ranking as the No. 12 receiver in the Class of 2010, according to Rivals. He caught 206 passes in his career for 3,020 yards and 27 touchdowns. He holds the school records for yards and touchdowns, is second in catches and also ranks first with 12 100-yard games.
During his final two seasons, Hopkins thrived in offensive coordinator Chad Morris' spread system. His catches jumped from 51 in 2010 to 71 and 82 in 2011 and 2012, when he had the best receiving year in program history. His 18 touchdown catches in 2012 ranked second nationally and were an Atlantic Coast Conference record. He his 1,405 yards last season also were the most in Clemson history.
He capped his career with a masterful performance in Clemson's 25-24 win over LSU in the Chick-fil-A Bowl – 13 catches for 191 yards and two touchdowns, after being limited to one and two catches in his previous two games, against South Carolina and North Carolina State.
In the bowl game, on the drive that ended with the game-winning field goal as time expired, Hopkins made three catches for 46 yards, including a 26-yarder on fourth down and 16 from the Tigers' 14-yard line. The sliding grab on a perfect throw from Tajh Boyd is one of the most important plays in school history, as it sustained the Tigers' hopes of finishing 11-2, tied for the second-most wins in school history, and the most since the 12-0 national title season of 1981.
Hopkins' 13 catches that night tied his own school record. He set it in last season's opener against Auburn, which, like the bowl, was held in the Georgia Dome. From start to finish last year, Clemson fans serenaded him by shouting a stretched version of his childhood nickname, Nuk, which is pronounced "nuke" and stems from his preference for NUK pacifiers as a baby.
A possible issue for Hopkins cropped up after reports surfaced that his hotel room at the combine was trashed. Hopkins denied being involved, and Texans offensive coordinator Rick Dennison said the team looked into what happened "enough to know it was not an issue," Dennison told Houston reporters. Hopkins said the team never even asked him about it.


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A 15-year-old girl who was the lone survivor of a mass shooting of her family is being called a hero after she played dead and later called 911, likely saving the lives of her maternal grandparents.
Cassidy Stay was grazed in the head by a gunman's bullet but managed to contact police to warn them about Ron Lee Haskell, who had entered her family's home in Spring, Texas, on Wednesday and allegedly went on a shooting spree after they refused to tell him how to find his ex-wife, Stay's aunt, who had previously lived there, ABC News reports.
Haskell, who first attempted to enter the home dressed as a FedEx delivery driver – and later returned to kick the door in – allegedly shot and killed Stephen and Katy Stay and four of their children, ages 13 through 4. He wounded Cassidy who pretended she was dead as he tied the family up and headed off to find her maternal grandparents.
Officers, however, got to her grandparents' home first and, after a standoff, captured Haskell, who has been charged with capital murder. He collapsed in a Texas courtroom Friday as charges were read against him. Stay, who sustained a fractured skull, is expected to fully recover as her family honors her strength amid such tragedy.
"We are in awe of her bravery and courage in calling 911, an act that is likely to have saved all of our lives," said her maternal grandfather Roger Lyon in a statement. "She is our hero."
Police also credited Stay's quick thinking with stopping the gunman's violent rampage.
"The surviving victim was able to provide first-responders with information regarding Haskell's whereabouts," a sheriff's office spokesman told ABC News. "They blocked Haskell's car by ramming it with a pair of armored vehicles, and he surrendered after a three-hour standoff."
Stay has remained courageous and thoughtful as her grandparents support her through her loss and injuries.
Her paternal grandmother, Joyce Stay, told KABC after the two spoke by phone: "I said I was so sorry about everything that's happened but I am so thankful you are still here with us," Joyce told her granddaughter. "But she said, 'My mom and dad are in a better place.' "
Wounded Teen Who Called Police After Family's Mass Murder Called a 'Hero'
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- 3 lengths: 6 - 8 in. - Beadalon Silver-Plated Memory Wire, large bracelet size
- 22 - 11x6mm Two hole strand spacers with crystal center (A)
- 44 - 4mm Clear smooth bicone color coated glass beads (B)
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Note: Finished Length: 7 1/4 in. Adjust bead amounts for smaller or larger bracelets. In the instructions, the different beads are referenced as A, B, and C, as noted in the materials list.
1. Measure your wrist, add ¼ in. (.635cm) and cut three lengths of memory wire to this measurement. The bracelet shown is 7 1/4 in.
Tip: To cut memory wire, either use memory wire shears, or hold it with pliers at the desired point and bend it back and forth until it breaks – usually a couple of times. Do not use a wire cutting tool: memory wire is tempered; its hardness will damage your tool.
2. Using BeadFix, glue an end cap to one end of each length of wire. Hold the end cap in place for a minute or so to allow the glue to set.
3. Start with the middle strand of wire. Thread beads in the following pattern:
1 C - 1 A - 1 C - 1 A (back facing forward)
Follow this pattern, reversing every other strand spacer to fill your length of wire.
4. Finish with 1 C bead. Using BeadFix, glue on an end cap.
5. Thread the second wire through 1 C bead. Then pass it through the second hole of the closest spacer bead to the end of the middle wire. Pick up 1 B, 1 C and 1 B. Pass through the next strand spacer (A). Continue to the other end of the wire. End with 1 B, 1 C, 1 B and an end cap.
6. Repeat step 5 for the remaining length of wire.
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And You Call Yourself a Film Buff?! – The Wild Bunch
By John Smith
The year is 1913. A small town in Texas is alive with music, children laughing, and a Temperance Union parade. Life is simply happening, but soon death and destruction invades the town and symphony of pain and gunfire erupts. This sudden contrast of mood and the unflinching, unapologetic violence makes for one of the most intense and memorable introductions in film history. It also sets the tone for Sam Peckinpah's brutal anti-Western, The Wild Bunch.


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When you are so drunk you fall asleep after fornication with a partner, and forget mandatory bladder relief. While sleeping you release a raging torrent of urine onto "said" victim. Upon waking up to the smell of asparagus, you make a quick exit.
Damn Steve has perfected the 'ol sleepy peepee so well the girl thought she pissed herself.
โดย Kaninja 28 พฤษภาคม 2005
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Refers to the inevitable loss of blood flow to the penis while bicycling long distances, which numbs the appendage creating the sense that your "pee-pee" is asleep.
I had some serious sleepy peepee at around mile 20 of that ride.
โดย LancePants 17 กันยายน 2009
When you cannot get it up despite all efforts.
"Wow did you hear, nathan had a sleepy peepee when with that one girl?"
"Really, that sucks."
"Really, that sucks."
โดย senor pockitz 24 สิงหาคม 2009
One is said to have "Sleepy Pee Pee" when an erection occurs while drowsy.
I just got home from a 12-hour shift and felt a little too comfortable in my bed. As a result, I've got sleepy pee pee. -Zzzzz...
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