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March 16, 2010 | Editor's Note: In late January, BioTeam consultant Chris Dwan and his wife traveled to Haiti to lend support for the earthquake relief efforts. Here is his first-person account of the devastation, the resilience of the people, and the needs for the future.
Inside the Box | Ten days after the Haitian earthquake on January 12th, my wife and I received a call that there was space available for us to join relief efforts in Haiti. We traveled with Family Health Ministries (FHM), a group that has been in Haiti for the past 15 years, building clinics, schools, an orphanage, and a women and children's clinic. The group serves several communities in Haiti, from the worst slums of Port Au Prince, to Leogane (the epicenter of the quake), to a tiny mountain village called Fondwa.
We have been to Haiti with FHM several times since 2006. Most of the buildings where we previously had worked were leveled. One surviving building was the FHM clinic in the "Terre Noir" neighborhood of Port Au Prince, close to the airport and perhaps a mile from the slums of Cite Soleil. This clinic, sharing a walled compound with a church and a school, was where we lived and worked for six days.
On the day we arrived, we set up a triage area, a system for taking vital signs, physician rooms, and a pharmacy/waiting room. We were not planning to see the seriously injured—our clinic was intended as an ambulatory care center for the "walking wounded." Each day by sunrise, there was a line of at least 100 patients waiting on rows of benches outside the gate. We worked through the day with a break for lunch, generally closing up around sunset. With 6 health care providers and 9 other supporters, we saw more than 1,500 patients over six days.
During our time there, we treated broken bones, wounds, infections, and severe dehydration in perhaps 10% of the patients we saw. Each day, we could think of 5 or 10 people who would likely have died except for our help. For the remaining 90% of the patients who came to see us, we took time to listen to each person's story and to provide basic medications. We treated what we dubbed "Earthquake Survivor Syndrome": inability to sleep, night terrors, acid stomach, and generalized body pain. Every person who set foot in our clinic was able to tell their story at least three times (in triage, to the providers, and again in the pharmacy). Nobody left empty handed, although we felt incredibly helpless handing out ibuprofen, TUMS, and Tylenol to people in such straits.
Each person on the team had multiple roles; I worked in our makeshift pharmacy, counting pills and mixing suspensions. I also organized the meager laboratory, running blood sugar and hemoglobin tests and the occasional pregnancy test. In the evenings I worked on the satellite uplink and sorted out software issues with the clinic computer. Our resident architect had the much more daunting task of examining standing and fallen buildings through several of the poorest communities in Port-au-Prince. The loss of so many lives in Haiti was directly related to poor quality concrete, insufficient structural support, and non-existent building codes. Whereas steel can flex and retain most of its strength, concrete shatters under duress. Because of this, many surviving buildings are essentially death traps, made up of materials (in his words) not suitable for a dog house.
There are many positive things that came out of our trip to Haiti. In the week that we had to prepare, people showed astonishing generosity. My Bioteam colleagues provided a mobile satellite Internet uplink that we used while bringing the building's link back online. This allowed the medical team to post blog updates (read mine at http://blog.bioteam.net/tag/haiti/). Friends, coworkers, and local institutions came together providing materials until my living room looked like a medical supply depot.
Some images stay with me: The little girl with severe dehydration who sat next to me for hours, taking tiny sips of rehydrating solution every couple of minutes until she was able to eat a little and walk home with her mother. The man who began demolishing the building next door to the clinic, using a 5-pound sledgehammer and the strength of his arm. "If he hasn't given up hope, how could we?" became a touch phrase on the team. The people who came to see our unshaven and motley crew of providers were dressed in their Sunday best—they somehow found a way to shine their shoes and press their shirts even though they were sleeping under tarps near their ruined houses.
The Return
"How is the country doing?" people ask since my return from Haiti. "Badly," I reply. I've seen stories in the media that things are "returning to normal," but as someone who has visited Haiti on a few occasions, this is simply not true. What is true is that the people who were going to succumb to trauma have died. The United Nations (UN) estimates that between 100,000 and 200,000 people were killed in or immediately after the quake. Perhaps those who claim 'normalcy' refer to the fact that most of the visible bodies have been cleared from the streets, and the backlog of funerals is beginning to clear.
Life has resumed in Haiti to some extent because it must, but in a constellation of refugee camps rather than in an impoverished but functional city. The UN uses the acronym "Spontaneous Temporary Settlements" rather than the colloquial "tent cities." They estimate nearly 600 STS city-wide with an estimated 1 million people living in temporary shelters in and around Port Au Prince. (Perhaps another half million people have abandoned the city for a countryside already wracked by poverty and deforestation, and inhabited by subsistence farmers.) These tents, tarps, and pieces of scrap will have to last through the next hurricane season, until major portions of the city are razed, the rubble is carted off, and the buildings rebuilt. Even three weeks after the earthquake, we saw the first signs of tuberculosis, malaria, cholera and other communicable diseases. Without aggressive preventive measures, these deadly and preventable diseases will characterize life for many in the STS for years to come.
Despite all of this, the Haitian people are bearing up remarkably well. We saw the same amazing resilience, ingenuity, and deep faith that we have come to know and love. We saw those with little giving of what they had to help others with nothing. There is a Haitian saying that held true: "If there's enough for two, there is enough for three." Certainly there were occasional scuffles and confusion over food or clean water, but these were the exception rather than the rule.
Technology in Haiti is highly decentralized. Wherever possible, systems are configured to function without a central power or communications grid. Because Haiti leapfrogged copper connections in favor of a loose network of wireless and satellite networks, the cellular networks stayed online through the aftermath of the quake. That being said, electric power is intermittent—every household and business that can afford it has multiple methods of generating and storing electricity. Most Haitian facilities know how to route power to various subsystems, conserve limited electricity and make do without when resources are scarce. Decentralization meant that even without city power, we had a solar panel generating electricity and (eventually) a reliable Internet connection through the satellite dish installed on a neighboring church. Unfortunately, one cannot ship antibiotics over TCP/IP. Even the best telemedicine requires real medicine on the ground.
By contrast, Haiti's governmental and social organizations were highly concentrated in Port Au Prince and were decapitated by the earthquake. Death was remarkably egalitarian. Because of the timing of the quake, some groups escaped largely unscathed, while others were decimated. In many cases technical schools, businesses, and some entire government ministries were depopulated—the national nursing school lost every member of the second year class.
Where do we go from here?
First and foremost, we must continue to pay attention to Haiti and to aid the Haitian people in rebuilding their country. The initial outpouring of generosity needs to convert into a steady commitment over the next decade. The crisis has already faded from our 24-hour news cycle, and it would compound the tragedy if our massive initial effort merely stabilized the wounded, allowing them to die in a raging epidemic of preventable disease.
As much as possible, Haiti needs support to do its own rebuilding. Haitians are looking to earn their livelihood—but many of the institutions that used to educate and employ them have disintegrated. Medical, construction, communications, and government teams need to partner with Haitian-run organizations and provide investment, work-exchange, training, and long term partnership to help the country get back to a position of stability.
Further Reading:
Partners in Health is a group started by the Boston physician Paul Farmer. They have a 25 year history in Haiti, and were on the ground when the earthquake struck. Tracy Kidder's book Mountains Beyond Mountains is an excellent resource on Farmer's efforts. The Uses of Haiti, by Farmer himself, provides some details on the history of the country.
UNOSAT has compiled some remarkable maps and graphics showing a data driven analysis of the devastation.
This article also appeared in the March-April 2010 issue of Bio-IT World Magazine.
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On Sunday January 13, Beverley's cafechurch fresh are hosting an event called "from Soldier of Fortune to Soldier of God". Ex mercenary John Heaton will tell the dramatic tale of how God intervened to change his life, leading him to become a life changer himself.
"John Heaton was plying his trade as a mercenary in the Far East when he had an experience of God that changed his life forever", said fresh host for the evening Chris Peach. "We are so privileged that John has agreed to come and tell us his story, it's truly amazing. From being a mercenary John is now passionate about helping turn around the lives of disaffected young people. He was trained by man to take lives, and now has been trained by God to save them. He used to travel the world for money, now he travels the UK promoting the cause of Eagle House, a Christian organisation supporting young people around the world; enabling them to be the best they can be. It's a complete turn-round.
Hearing a dramatic tale like this is going to be an inspiring start to 2013, and as usual at fresh, there will be an opportunity for discussion and to ask John questions, and also a quiz, and coffee of course!"
The event starts at 6:30pm, but once again fresh are asking people to come early to get a place, as they expect this to be another popular event. They will be opening the doors early again at 6:20pm
fresh is a cafechurch hosted by Beverley Baptist Church, but says Mr Peach "it's not meant to be anything like church, it's for people who don't 'do' church. Everyone is welcome to just come along and have a coffee and join in if they want to, or they can just sit and listen".
For more details about fresh go to www.ifresh.org.uk , visit www.facebook.com/freshbeverley or call 01482 863 811.

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According to his office West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey sent a letter to President Obama on February 11 "expressing his concerns about the current direction of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and urging the president to change the agency's "current path" by nominating a more reasonable successor to recent EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson". As an example of the EPA's unreasonableness, the highly publicized letter cited the agency's "delay in issuing a permit for a West Virginia mining site" which, "resulted in the layoff of nearly 150 workers."
The problem is that it wasn't true. There was no layoff, a fact revealed not by a reporter or a news organization. It had to be pointed out by a guy named Rob Goodwin in the Charleston Gazette.
Sadly, gaps between rhetoric and fact, like the one in Morrisey's letter, are commonplace in West Virginia - in its politics, in its news reporting and in its lawmaking.
One of the few journalists to readily acknowledge the problem is Ken Ward, Jr. of the Charleston Gazette. Ward recently issued a series of tweets bemoaning the frequency with which lawmakers make unsubstantiated claims and are assisted by reporters who echo the claims, neither demanding sources nor checking the facts. So, when at a recent hearing on reforming the procedures under which teachers are hired and fired, Senator Bob Plymale claimed that grievance judges almost always side with seniority, Ward tweeted to a reporter covering the hearing, "Does he have data to support that?"
Of course, Plymale didn't.
Meanwhile, Ward has shown us how it should be done. Last year, in the wake of the Upper Big Branch mine tragedy, Governor Earl Ray Tomblin signed a "monumental" mine safety bill, which, a Ward story revealed, did almost nothing. The law didn't require real-time ventilation and monitoring of coal dust, which caused the UBB explosion. "New" rock-dust standards were redundant, having been enacted two years earlier. An "anonymous mine safety tip line" was also already in existence. A requirement that miners be tested for drugs addressed an issue that has never been tied to a mining disaster and which had nothing to do with the UBB explosion. And the bill's increased fines for safety violations have not been implemented to this day.
It's important to note that Ward's story wasn't an "opinion piece." It didn't stake out a position either "for" or "against" the law. Nor was it really an example of "investigative journalism" since the facts contained in the story required only a comparison of the new law's provisions to existing state and federal law. The story was simply a solid piece of reporting that presented the new law in the context of the facts. And they, not Ward's opinion, undercut the governor's claim that the law was "monumental."
Sadly, Ward's work is a rarity. Consequently, we're regularly confronted with bogus claims and heavily hyped, but vacuous pieces of legislation that attract fawning press coverage with nary a trace of analysis.
Since 2010 West Virginia has been cutting corporate income taxes ostensibly to stimulate job growth, but with no quantitative evidence that jobs have been added. Meanwhile the state will lose more than $191 million in revenue by 2017 and now faces the prospect of painful budget cuts.
Similarly, West Virginia hands out roughly $100 million annually in corporate tax incentives, loans and grants without any analysis of their effect. Only every three years does the Commerce Department provide the legislature with a report, and even there it omits the names of recipient companies, the size of their incentives and any results that have or have not been achieved.
Then there's the EPA's supposed "War on Coal," which is widely believed to have cost West Virginia thousands of jobs. Yet, there is no data to support the claim, nor is the absence of that data often reported. Meanwhile, there is abundant data showing that massive miner job losses have resulted from automation, the increased use of strip mining and mountaintop removal, and, most recently, the emergence of inexpensive natural gas as a competitor to coal. But, state leaders would rather blame the EPA and reporters let them.
Similarly, the natural gas boom is regularly said to be creating tens of thousands of jobs in the state. At last count, fewer than a thousand jobs have been created and there has been no measurable increase in economic activity or employment in the counties where drilling is most prevalent, all facts which are almost never noted in stories about "the boom."
Finally, the governor is considering whether West Virginia should expand Medicaid under Obamacare. He publicly wrings his hands over the costs to the state, which are almost never quantified. Meanwhile, he and the press regularly fail to mention the $600 million in federal funds that expansion will inject every year into the state's economy.
In short, West Virginia is often an accountability-free zone where content-free politicking combines with fact-free news coverage to produce impact-free laws - laws that may appeal to public sentiment, but which accomplish little or nothing, often at the price of draining the state of resources.
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld observed that there are known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns, but in West Virginia we're also afflicted with knowable unknowns, and we're afflicted with them because we're just too lazy to ask or, better yet, demand.
- Sean O'Leary may be contacted at www.the-state-of-my-state.com. A version of this column with links to sources may be found at www.the-state-of-my-state.com.


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BROOKLYN, N.Y., Aug. 13, 2010 – International singing duo Eranga and Prianga recently took to the stage at Prospect Park Residence, a senior living community located in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. The husband-and-wife musical team, who are originally from Sri Lanka, performed songs from around the world in a variety of foreign languages. Their repertoire included folk music, popular songs and show tunes.
"The residents greatly enjoyed Eranga and Prianga's performance," said Director of Activities, Theresa Hines. "They were very impressed by their talent and ability to sing in so many different languages, and were honored to meet a local celebrity," noting Prianga's role in the recent "Fabulous Las Vegas" commercials for the New York Lottery.
After the concert, the duo met with residents and guests, discussing musical styles and the numerous places where they have performed. David Pomerantz, left, Executive Director at Prospect Park Residence and Theresa Hines, right, gather to thank Eranga and Prianga for their performance.
The concert was part of Prospect Park Residence's music programs, which feature Sunday concerts offering everything from jazz to classical, folk and contemporary performances.
Prospect Park Residence is located at One Prospect Park West at Grand Army Plaza. For more information about Prospect Park Residence or its programs that are open to the public, call (718) 622-8400 or visit www.prospectparkresidence.com.


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Write The User Manual As You Go
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Write the user manual as you go.
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Write the user manual last.
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The technical writer who believes this is possible has no experience. Is the company going to wait for several months after all programming work is done for the manual to be written? See
Don't write a user's manual, write a Frequently Asked Questions instead.
Don't worry about user manuals at all, assume the software is so easy to use that they can use the product intuitively.
If the iterations are short enough, there is very little difference between writing the user manual "as you go", "as the first step in each iteration", and "as the last step in each iteration".
In those rare and wonderful cases where the customer actually knows what they want to do long before the development process begins then the user manual could be written before the first board is etched or the first line of code is compiled. I did a captive stint at a firm that created completed user manuals for products that were totally vapor, then set the engineering staff to the effort of making a product that worked exactly like the manual said. 15,000 manuals printed up beforehand kinda makes one think twice about trying to change a feature on the fly, y'know?
Hilarious! Was it a 100 page manual with a 200 page errata? In my experience, documentation written before the software (including specifications) ends up including a fair amount of logical contradictions and even violations of mathematics and the laws of physics. The software is like the documentation's
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I'm glad you are so easily entertained, Ian. In your experience, indeed. You are simply revealing how limited your experience is when you make blanket statements like that.
The firm in question had been in the controls business for twenty years and was considered the Cadillac of the industry. They had put hundreds of successful products on the market and had made dozens of controls similar to the model in mind. These guys had Worked Out A System for presenting information to the user and getting his inputs. The (very sizable) user base really didn't want "improvements" to the UI if it meant making changes to the way they conducted their own business.
Therefore, the user manual represented all that the instrument was supposed to do and exactly how the user should go about doing it. With that in mind I simply built the durn thing the way I was told.
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@RedWingsFeed: Warren Police Searching For Missing 22-Year-Old Woman: Theresa Dekeyzer was last seen... http://t.co/x5KIR79Xmg via @CBSDetroit #RedWings
WTF? Are they insinuating that this is his sister or something?
Where does it say that anywhere in the article? Also her last name is spelled differently then his.
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NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. - Members of the Parks Police High Angle River Team were summoned to the White Water Walk this afternoon to assist in the safe removal of patrons who were temporarily stranded in the Niagara Gorge after an elevator outage.
About 60 visitors and four staff members became temporarily stranded in the gorge at 1:40 p.m., when a door position sensor malfunctioned. The elevator had just reached the boardwalk level when the malfunction occurred, and as a result there were no patrons trapped in the elevator.
A team member descended into the gorge to be with the patrons.
The time estimated to repair the elevator necessitated the commencement of an evacuation of the boardwalk using a special device called a Monorack. Approximately 25 people were safely removed using this gasoline powered "alpine railway" before the elevator was restored at 3:20 p.m.
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When you just get tired of looking at your own words,
and when you can't pick up the red pen,
When you feel like your work is worth nothing
or when all you can think about is yourself...
Time to do a reading week!
Like my little poem says, it's time. I've gotten pretty sick and tired of looking at my own work, tired of editing. I still love it, but this is where too much is not a good thing.
Part one on my seven day journey is...
Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Goodreads summary: Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth's fate hinges on one girl. . . .
Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She's a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister's illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai's, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world's future.
I thought that this book was really super-duper well-written. I didn't feel like there was a lame moment, or anything to complain about. I went into it kind of knowing what it was about. Cinderella adaptation, sure. About a cyborg, more the merrier. Cover, beautiful. Setting in New Beijing, why not?
And I kind of gave myself a breather, thinking that the ending would be happily ever after, or as I tell my friends, a "fairy-tale" ending.
Everything about this book was wonderful, and I still feel like Cinder is a great heroine. She cracks jokes in the face of danger, and takes prejudice against her with a mussed up dress. She was great.
Spoiler (Kind of. I just say whether or not I like the ending)
I didn't like the ending, pretty much at all. I didn't understand more of it, and it took me a re-read to see what exactly happened. It was building up to this great moment, with a clearly defined voice and a crystal clear way of explaining how things are happening, then boom. I'm highly confused and she's on the ground, but she isn't dead, but they aren't killing her? I'm confused. But I get how it ended, or at least the basics of it.
Definitely worth reading, but be prepared for a not-so-fairytale ending.
Random writer facts: Marissa likes to use shell, ironic/irony, and loads of mechanical terms (which I enjoyed.)
Next is Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor. Pretty excited for this one, and let me give you a bit on the first page since you're here.
The first page is really...intricate. It took me a second time to look through before I saw the brilliance of the writing. It set the tone, and it showed me a ton about the character without the character even having to talk to another person. Great first page. Jealousy.


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Emergency management officials have ordered evacuations of homes in several areas as wildfires burn across the state.
The Oklahoma Department of Emergency Services says no injuries have been reported.
The largest fire was burning an estimated 78 square miles in Creek County and the western sections of the town of Mannford was under and evacuation order. Creek County Commissioner Newt Stephens told reporters Saturday afternoon that numerous structures had been burned.
Evacuations were also ordered in the Drumright area in Lincoln County; near Quinton in Pittsburg County; and in the Glencoe area of Payne County;
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Last month, we reported the rumours of Radiohead performing at an East Coast version of the Coachella Festival. As it looks now, the band will play even two shows at the festival.
URB reports in their newest issue that Radiohead will headline two of the three nights at All Points West, the New York City Festival. The festival, being put on by Coachella organisers AEG Live and Goldenvoice, will take place on August 8, 9 & 10. Technically, it's not in New York, but on the other side of the Hudson: New Jersey's Liberty State Park, where Radiohead played two headlining shows seven years ago. [thx Tim]


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Alex Dickerson stood in the clubhouse, watching the lone flat screen TV, cheering.
It wasn't in celebration of the Curve's 4-0 win on Saturday, though. He was applauding as his alma mater, Indiana, was making the first appearance in the College World Series for a Big Ten team since 1984.
While Dickerson stood cheering, a few locker stalls away was Drew Maggi, who played in the College World Series with Arizona State.
But if either Dickerson or Maggi decided to say no to college, he may not have been standing in the clubhouse of a Pirates affiliate. The two also wouldn't have made history at their respective schools.
Dickerson and Maggi, two players drafted out of high school originally, decided to not go pro right away, went to college and are prime examples of how that decision can put a player on the map thanks to their performances.
"Even as just a person, I couldn't handle this lifestyle if I got offered a lot of money out of high school," Dickerson said while his Hoosiers beat Louisville in their first game of the CWS. "I couldn't handle it right out of the gate."
The Washington Nationals drafted Dickerson out of high school in the 48th round. Dickerson said no to go Indiana. After his almost three seasons with the Hoosiers, he improved his stock, getting picked in the third round by the Pirates in 2011.
Maggi also improved where he was drafted when he decided to go to Arizona State. Maggi was drafted in the 47th round in 2008, but after two years with the Sun Devils, he was taken in the 15th round when he signed with the Pirates.
"I think guys that come out of high school that go straight to pro ball, I think they are stupid," Maggi jokingly said. "Not literally, but I feel like the experience of college is once in a lifetime. My experiences in college, I'd never change. I wouldn't be who I am today."
Maggi played a huge part for the 2010 Arizona State team that went to Omaha, including blasting a two-run homer in the 12th inning to send the Sun Devils to the College World Series. That was his second trip to Omaha.
"There's a feel to it that is just indescribable," Maggi said of Omaha. "It's just fans that love baseball. That town is just all about those two weeks of baseball where the best college teams are trying to win a national championship."
Dickerson's college career was something also remembered by Indiana baseball fans. He won the Big Ten triple crown (.419, 24 home runs, 75 RBIs) in 2010 as a sophomore, earning him a unanimous selection as the Big Ten Player of the Year. The year before that, Dickerson was the Big Ten Freshman of the Year.
Those years with the Hoosiers not only earned him a third-round pick, but a $380,700 signing bonus with the Pirates in 2011.
"It made me who I am as a player today on and off the field," Dickerson said of his college years. "I definitely built all my strengths when I was there."
While there is no requirement to attended college to enter the MLB draft, college has been helpful for improving stock for guys like Dickerson and Maggi. Several other Curve players weren't drafted out of high school, but going to college put them on the map.
"You become smarter,more intelligent," Maggi said. "Definitely the experience, you go to a big college, and you've got to learn. I feel like in high school there is no pressure really. Once you get to that level - it's just - there's so much pressure on you."
While Maggi got the ultimate destination - and the most pressure filled - for college baseball players, Dickerson said he is reliving what it would be like through some of his old teammates.
"It's good to see that program building up," Dickerson said. "It's good for the Big Ten. It's just good to see them finally getting the wins that they needed. Getting to the College World Series, it's just a huge deal. I'm really stoked for them."
Both agree that their college years changed who they were as baseball players and people. Those years also prepared them for professional baseball.
"I never been a big leaguer, but I imagine that's what it feels like," Maggi said.


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Obama has no desire to reduce nation's debt
President Obama spent a week flying around the country at great expense to tell us that because of these devastating budget cuts, the government will have to furlough food inspectors, border guards, teachers, and the list goes on and on.
However, less than 48 hours after the "devastating" budget cuts took effect, Secretary of State John Kerry said the Obama administration is "rewarding" Egypt with an immediate $190 million, part of a larger pledge of $450 million because of its promise of economic and political reforms. Kerry also said a separate $60 million is for a new fund to provide direct support to Egyptian entrepreneurs and young people. I guess the 20 fighter jets we gave them weren't enough.
Since Obama is in the mood to cut, perhaps he should reconsider the $6 billion he promised in November to the countries of Malaysia and Brunei, for support of the U.S.-Asia Pacific Comprehensive Partnership for a Sustainable Energy Future group.
So, part of my tax withholdings from my paycheck is paying for green energy projects in Southeast Asia and Egyptian entrepreneurs. Don't we have to borrow half of that money from China?
I wish the president would go golfing more often instead of threatening and polarizing our citizens. This president has zero intention of reducing our debt and zero credibility.
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There are some good reasons to sign up for automatic bill payments, but I've never seen the downside more dramatically illustrated than this month in Michigan.
That's where the mummified body of a middle-age woman was found in her garage, more than five years after she is believed to have died, after the money in her bank account that had been automatically paying her bills finally ran out.
A Detroit Free Press report said the woman had about $54,000 in her account in 2008, when she is believed to have died. Those funds automatically paid her bills, including lawn care apparently, until the cash was gone and the house foreclosed on.
Now, that was an extreme case, to be sure. Most of us would expect a friend or family member - maybe a neighbor - to notice if we died.
But you can bet that if your bills are being automatically deducted from your bank account, those payments will keep on going until you (or your estate) stop them.
That can be a good thing. The whole point of automated payments is, after all, to make sure your regular bills are paid on time without having to worry about them.
Automated payments can be a handy way to take care of regular monthly bills. Most banks will let you schedule automatic payments from an account. Some companies, including utility providers, will allow automatic payments from a credit card account - a fine idea if you always pay the credit card bill in full each month so as not to rack up interest charges - and many companies will offer to withdraw funds directly from your bank account.
But just like putting an airplane on auto-pilot or a car on cruise control, using automated payments doesn't mean you can set it and forget it.
Here are some things to watch for:
If you schedule automated payments from your bank account, make sure the due date for the bill is the same each month. Credit cards, for example, typically bill on a 28-day cycle, so the due date will move up by a few days in most months. Some cards allow setting a billing date that won't change, which simplifies things.
If you schedule automated payments from a credit card account, remember that you'll have to update your information with bill collectors whenever your credit card's expiration date changes. You'll know the expiration date changed because you'll be issued a new card with a new date, but sometimes all the biller will know is that the old card they have on file doesn't work any more.
If you allow companies to automatically debit (withdraw funds from) your bank account, don't forget to check your bank statements and confirm that they have taken the correct amount. Personally, I avoid giving companies permission to withdraw funds from my bank accounts.
If you are married or otherwise in a relationship with shared financial responsibilities, make sure that information about automatic payments is shared with your partner. If something were to suddenly happen to you, they'd need to know how the bills were getting paid.
Finally, keep track of all the bills you put on auto-pilot. You may find that some of the things you are automatically paying for each month, or each year, are things that you no longer want or need.
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An 18-year old Lahmansville resident was arrested on Tuesday pursuant to an Indictment returned by a Federal Grand Jury on Aug. 21, officials said.
According to U.S. Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, Andrew Carr was named in an 8-count indictment charging him with one count of manufacturing methamphetamine; one count of possession of material used in the manufacture of methamphetamine; and six counts of possession of pseudoephedrine knowing it would be used to manufacture methamphetamine.
Carr appeared before Magistrate Judge John S. Kaull Tuesday and was remanded to the custody of the United States Marshals pending a detention hearing to be held on Nov. 8.
If convicted, Carr faces up to 20 years imprisonment and a $1,000,000 fine on the manufacturing charge; 10 years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine on the possession of material charge; and, 20 years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine on each of the possession of pseudoephedrine charges.
This case will be prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen D. Warner and was investigated by the United States Forest Service.
It should be noted that the charges contained in the indictment are merely accusations and not evidence of guilt, and that each defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.


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Thursday, April 25, 2013
Pinewood Preparatory School announced four more academic scholarship letter of intent signers recently. They join nine athletic and nine academic scholarship letter of intent signers at Pinewood so far this year.
Megan Patterson has done an exceptional job academically, taking 16 advanced level classes, including six AP classes. She has maintained a 4.63 GPR her senior year, while keeping busy with Karate, the Student Ambassadors Program and the Interact Club. She has a talent for working with young children, and has worked as a tutor with Project Hope, a Pinewood Teacher Cadet, and a volunteer with the Pinewood Plus Program. Megan plans to major in Psychology, with the goal of becoming a Child Psychologist. Patterson will be attending the University of Kentucky.
Veronica Pieretti came to Pinewood in the sixth grade, and has done incredibly well, maintaining a 4.46 GPR while taking Honors English, History and Marketing. She was the Co-Editor of the yearbook and is a Teacher Cadet. She has also been active in cheerleading, where she enjoys mentoring Pinewood's Cheer Cubs and participates in the Interact Club. Pieretti will be attending Winthrop University.
Cory Ryan is consistently on the Honor Roll, excelling in AP English and maintaining a 4.7 GPR. He is a talented performing artist, and has participated in Play Production Class for many years. He is part of a talented group that started performing musicals at Pinewood and has taken the Performing Arts Program to another level. Outside of Pinewood, Ryan has worked in local community theater, took part in a performing arts trip to Scotland, and was selected to the Broadway Student Summit and The Juilliard School's Summer Program. Ryan is one of five students nationally (along with fellow Pinewood student Ryan Ball) to receive an International Thespian Society Scholarship for make-up design. He will be attending Coastal Carolina University next fall.
Justin Todd is a solid student, taking a mix of college placement courses while maintaining a 4.5 GPR his senior year. He enjoys helping people, and spends his spare time volunteering at his church, visiting hospitals and helping the elderly. Todd works in the Leaders Club at the Summerville YMCA, and was Pinewood's delegate to Boys' State, a program that has changed his direction, and inspired him to speak about its positive impact to other students. After an intensive college search process, Todd has decided upon the University of South Carolina, were he plans to study medicine.
Pinewood Preparatory School is a private, college preparatory school dedicated to giving students in pre-school through 12th grade an exceptional education. With rigorous academics, small class sizes, competitive athletics, diverse extra-curricular and fine arts programs, and a family-like atmosphere, the school develops well-rounded students who are prepared for the world that awaits them. For information, visit www.pinewoodprep.com.
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Since 1990, Bart and Daphne Araujo have carried on the tradition of making monster Cabernets from the Eisele Vineyard, adding Syrah into the mix as well. Their flagship bottling is dense, powerful and rich, typically with soil-inflected notes of plum, mocha, tobacco and smoke, and very suave tannins.
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ON OTHER PLATFORMS: PC, Xbox360, Playstation 3, WiiThe game will immediately follow the events of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, where Russia continues its invasion of the United States of America, and has also expanded its offensive to European countries the UK (referred to as \"England\" in the game), France and Germany.
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genre: Shooters
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release date: Nov 08, 11
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While the activity chart on Xbox Live is about what you'd expect, the Xbox Live Arcade sales chart has a few nice surprises when it comes to recent releases, with Terraria finishing in second... » MORE
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Last week on Xbox Live played out pretty much how you'd expect, with Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 and Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition dominating the most played games, and Minecraft placing ahead of... » MORE
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While the deals on Call of Duty: Black Ops II and Modern Warfare 3 may not be any better than what Amazon is currently offering, the rest of the Call of Duty Games on Demand titles on sale today are... » MORE
Feb 27, 2013Xbox Live Activity: February 18th - 24th, 2013
The Capcom Arcade Cabinet's debut on the Xbox Live Arcade wasn't enough to overtake Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Decade Duels Plus, which sits comfortably behind perennial #1, Minecraft: Xbox 360... » MORE
Feb 13, 2013Xbox Live Activity: February 4th - 10th, 2013
Just like we said in the last activity period, there aren't many surprises on the most played Xbox Live games list, with the top 9 remaining the exact same week-to-week. On the XBLA side of... » MORE
Feb 07, 2013Xbox Live Activity: January 28th - February 3rd, 2013 - Skulls of the Shogun Debuts at #9
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Nov 29, 2012Black Ops 2 Beats Halo 4 on Xbox Live
Major Nelson reports that there are more players playing Activision Blizzard's Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 than any other title on Xbox Live. The shooter is closely followed by Microsoft's Halo 4... » MORE
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Although FIFA 13 is still the top-selling title in the United Kingdom, Dishonored took the second spot on the weekly chart. Check it out (the chart represents sales for the week ending on Oct... » MORE
Oct 01, 2012FIFA Back Atop UK Chart, Borderlands 2 Still Best on Steam
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In the United States, the total revenue from retail games, consoles and accessories contracted by %20 during July - that's according to data gathered by NPD. Word is that sales of game goods at... » MORE
Aug 06, 2012Olympics Game Continues to Sell in the UK
Well, this was pretty much expected. The London Olympics are at the center of attention, especially in the United Kingdom where gamers are buying the official Olympics video game more than... » MORE
Jul 30, 2012Olympics Game Outsells Lego Batsy, Arma 2 Top Dog on Steam
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Jul 23, 2012None Shall Stop Lego Batsy, Arma II Top on Steam as Usual
Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes, from Warner and Travellers Tales, is holding the first spot on the UK sales chart for the 5th week in a row. Check it out: 1. Lego Batman 2: Dc Super Heroes -... » MORE
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Jan 10, 2012FIFA Keeps 1st Spot in UK Sales
And again, FIFA takes the top spot in UK weekly video game sales. No surprises there: 1. FIFA 12 (EA) 2. Battlefield 3 (EA) 3. » MORE
Jan 03, 2012FIFA Rules Sales in UK
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Dec 19, 2011Skyrim Holds 1st Spot in UK Chart
UK gamers are preparing for the Holidays by stuffing their Xmas stockings with copies of Skyrim. Here are the top sellers in the UK for the week ending on December 17: 1. » MORE
Dec 12, 2011Skyrim Finally Takes Charge in UK
Skyrim, the sizzling RPG from Bethesda, has overthrown the UK top-seller, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Activision's popular shooter was in the lead on UK weekly for quite some time, but it appears that Brits prefer getting lost deep within Tamriel, rather than shooting and 'perking' their way to gaming stardom. » MORE
Dec 10, 2011MW 3 & Skyrim Dominate November Sales
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Dec 05, 2011Modern Warfare 3 Holds As No. 1 On UK Chart
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is still the best-selling game in the UK, closely followed by FIFA 12 and Assassin's Creed Revelations. Check out the UK top 10 chart for the week ending on December 3: 1. » MORE
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EA CFO Eric Brown announced at the Baird Technology Conference in San Francisco that the recently released shooter Battlefield 3 sold 8 million units and shipped 12 million. » MORE
Nov 28, 2011Modern Warfare 3 Clings to Top of UK Chart
Modern Warfare 3 remains the best-selling game in the UK and no other release has managed to topple it. Here's the UK chart of top-selling titles for the week ending on November 26: 1. » MORE
Nov 21, 2011Modern Warfare 3 is King in the UK
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JACKSON, MI – Jackson County's community mental health agency is getting creative with raising much-needed revenue.
LifeWays first "Everything Under the Sun" rummage sale, organized to help offset the agency's deficit got underway Friday. Starting at 9 a.m. Friday, the sale will go through 4 p.m. and then continues from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at the former Hollywood Video store, 1190 N. West Ave. (at the southeast end of the LifeWays building.)
"It's going fantastically," LifeWays CEO Maribeth Caldwell said. "I think we're going to have a really good outcome out of this."
Rummage sale visitors can find office furniture, equipment, baked good, household items and handmade crafts for sale. Photos of the items and a complete list of items can be found on the LifeWays website. Staff and board members donated their time in organizing the sale and creating a "Cooking for a Cause" cookbook that is also for sale.
The cookbooks have been selling well so far, Caldwell said, as have the office supplies and they had plenty left. After Saturday's sale ends, the organizers will attempt to sell any unsold metal items for scrap for more funds as well as donate any times not sold during the two days.
Some of the funds from the event will be used to help those who do not qualify for Medicaid but the proceeds will also go towards the organization's local fund. LifeWays had a structural deficit of $1.6 million in its local fund that had been accumulating since 2007. Reduced revenues from tenants at the LifeWays-owned headquarters at 1200 N. West Ave. and declining interest on investments are two major factors deficit. Cadwell earlier told the Citizen Patriot the deficit wasn't immediately evident due to surplus in the organization's Medicaid fund as well as staff turnover in the finance department.
Though this is the first time the organization has done a fundraiser like this, Caldwell said given the outcome by Friday afternoon they would consider hosting another rummage sale in the future.
"This is our first attempt at fundraising like this so we didn't have anything to benchmark against this," she said. "Really anything we can do to raise funds for the local funding issue is positive. I think the staff has enjoyed participating in it (and) based on what we're seeing so far I would say yes (they will have another)."
LifeWays became a mental health authority in 1996. That resulted in it becoming more independent from Jackson and Hillsdale county governments. It also resulted in giving LifeWays the ability to buy, sell and lease property and invest its money to make up for reduced county funding.


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What Is a PSA Test?
A prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test measures the level of PSA in a man's blood. PSA is a protein produced by the cells of the prostate, a small gland just below a man's bladder. PSA circulates through the entire body at low levels at all times.
A PSA test is sensitive and can detect higher than average levels of PSA. High levels of PSA may be associated with prostate cancer before any physical symptoms appear. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), prostate cancer is the second most common cancer among men in the United States (CDC, 2012). However, high levels of PSA may also mean you have a noncancerous condition that is increasing PSA levels.
A PSA test alone is not enough for a doctor to make a diagnosis. However, doctors take the result of a PSA test into consideration when trying to decide whether a man's symptoms and test results are due to cancer or another condition.
Controversy with PSA Test
PSA tests remain controversial because doctors and experts aren't sure if the benefits of early detection outweigh the risks of misdiagnosis. It's also not clear if the screening test actually saves lives. Because the test is very sensitive and can detect increased PSA numbers at low concentrations, it may detect cancer that is so small it would never become life-threatening.
This is called an overdiagnosis—and more men may face complications and risks of side effects from the treatment of a growth than they would if the cancer had been left undiagnosed. It's doubtful those small cancers would ever cause major symptoms and complications, because prostate cancer, in most—but not all—cases, is a very slow-growing cancer.
PSA levels rise with age, so doctors must use a PSA reference range to determine if a man's PSA levels are average or troublesome. However, according to the National Cancer Institute (NCI), healthcare providers do not favor these ranges. These ranges may lead to false negatives or delayed diagnoses in as many as 20 percent of men in their sixties, and 60 percent of men in their seventies (NCI, 2012). Your doctor will know if one is right for you.
Why Is a PSA Test Needed?
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, prostate cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in American men (CDC, 2012). All men are at risk for the disease, but a few populations are more likely to develop prostate cancer. These include:
- older men
- African-American men
- men with a family history of prostate cancer
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the use of a PSA test along with a digital rectal exam (DRE) to detect prostate cancer in men age 50 and older. Some doctors may use the test in men who are at higher risk for prostate cancer by age 40 or 45. A PSA test is also FDA-approved to monitor the recurrence of prostate cancer (CDC, 2012).
Early detection is an important part of most cancer treatments, and a PSA test may be able to detect the earliest stages of prostate cancer. Other reasons your doctor may order a PSA include:
- to monitor prostate cancer treatment
- to determine what's causing a physical abnormality on your prostate (your doctor will detect this during a physical exam)
- to help decide when to begin treatment
How Do I Prepare for a PSA Test?
If your doctor requests that you have a PSA test, make sure that he or she is aware of any prescription or over-the counter medicines, vitamins, or supplements you take. Certain drugs may cause the test results to be falsely low. If your doctor thinks your medication might interfere with the results, he or she may decide to request a different test, or may ask you to avoid taking your medicine for several days so the results will be more accurate.
How Is a PSA Test Administered?
A sample of your blood will be sent to a laboratory for further examination. To withdraw blood from an artery or vein, a nurse or healthcare provider will insert a needle—most often in your elbow. You may feel a sharp, piercing pain or slight sting as the needle is inserted into the vein.
Once the nurse has collected enough blood for the samples, he or she will remove the needle and hold pressure on the area to stop the bleeding. The nurse will then put an adhesive bandage over the insertion site in the event you still bleed a bit more.
The blood samples will be sent to a laboratory for testing and analysis. Ask your doctor if he or she will follow-up with you regarding your results, or if you should make an appointment to come in and discuss the results.
What Are the Risks of a PSA Test?
Drawing blood is considered safe. However, because veins and arteries vary in size and depth, getting a blood sample is not always simple. The healthcare provider who is drawing your blood may have to try several veins in multiple locations on your body before they find one that allows him or her to get enough blood.
Drawing blood also has several other risks. These include:
- a risk of fainting
- excessive bleeding
- feeling light-headed or dizzy
- an infection at the puncture site
- a hematoma (blood collected under the skin) at the puncture site
What Can I Expect After a PSA Test?
If your PSA levels are elevated, you will likely need additional tests in order to diagnose the reason for the elevated numbers. Other possible reasons for a rise in PSA include:
- you recently had a catheter tube inserted into your bladder to help drain urine
- you recently had testing done on your bladder or prostate
- you have a urinary tract infection
- you have prostatitis (an inflamed prostate)
- you have an infected prostate
- you have benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), or an enlarged prostate
If you have an elevated risk of prostate cancer or your doctor suspects you may have prostate cancer, a PSA test can be used as part of a larger group of tests to detect and diagnose prostate cancer. Other tests you may need include:
- a digital rectal exam
- a free PSA (fPSA)
- repeated PSA tests
- a prostate biopsy


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TOT's ousted acting president Vuthiphong Priebjrivat yesterday accused the Army of asking the state agency to give it financial support of Bt800 million for the procurement of electronic equipment for national security reasons.
Vuthiphong's expose was apparently a retaliatory move against TOT's board, chaired by General Saprang Kalayanamitr, which yesterday ousted him from all positions, including his directorship of TOT. The removal took immediate effect.
A board member, Colonel Natee Sukonrat, who was appointed to replace Vuthiphong, explained that the equipment was related to a project that TOT should support in the restive deep South.
"It's our duty to support any state agencies when it comes to national security concerns. The board had already asked TOT to study how much it needs to support the equipment purchase," Natee said.
He declined to confirm or deny whether the equipment was worth Bt800 million, as claimed by Vuthiphong. General Saprang denied yesterday there was any lack of transparency in the request for TOT's financial support.
Natee said that Vuthiphong's removal stemmed from his criticism of Information and Communications Technology Minister Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom in a conflict over the proposed "telecom network pool", which was originally suggested by Vuthiphong.
The pool would see TOT consolidating the management of key telecom networks in Thailand as part of an effort to maximise use of the country's telecom facilities. After the consolidation, TOT
would lease networks to telecom operators and convert their concession contracts to network leases.
The ICT ministry has opposed the plan, saying it is inappropriate to convert telecom concession contracts.
Vuthiphong yesterday said he had cleared up all misunderstandings with Sitthichai.
He said there was a board meeting last Friday to consider the confidential issue of a request for TOT's support to buy certain electronics equipment for national security purposes, worth Bt800 million.
Vuthiphong claimed he was the only director opposing the request and he told the board that, as acting president, he would not sign any disbursement for the proposed financial support.
Vuthiphong also asked the secretary of the meeting to record the opinions he voiced at the meeting. He distributed these to the media yesterday after being removed by the board.
According to the secretary's record, Vuthiphong asked the board why neither the Army nor the Defence Ministry used its own secret budgets to purchase the strategic equipment, instead of requesting financial support from TOT.
Moreover, he asked, if the request was concerned with national security, why was the request letter not sent to TOT by the main national security organisations, instead of by an internal unit of the Army/Defence Ministry, which was not a juristic person?
He told the meeting that the request would financially burden TOT.
Vuthiphong warned that if the request was leaked to the public - which he said was likely to happen - it would affect the confidence of TOT employees and the public in the board's attempts to stamp out corruption and promote transparency in the organisation.
According to the meeting record, Vuthiphong said TOT's chairman, General Saprang, would be hardest hit by the resulting lack of confidence.
Usanee Mongkolporn
The Nation


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Assassin's Creed II Sells Nearly 9 Million
Ubisoft cites the games "exceptional performance" in its financial report.
Ubisoft has announced that its action-adventure game Assassin's Creed II sold "nearly 9 million units" during its first few months on the market.
This figure comes by way of a financial report released by the company this morning, which cited the game as one of the reasons that its fourth quarter sales were higher than initially predicted.
The data only covers the game from its November 17, 2009 release through the end of Ubisoft's fiscal year, which was March 31. Lifetime sales were not revealed at press time.
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Comments (9)
The story should have followed...Posted: May 18, 2010 12:00AM PST by Burkemaster
How ubisoft is going to start charging like EA for used games to play online. They are hurting cause sales are down, yet are tooting their horns about how well assassins creed did.
Just an observation.
it was flashy and...Posted: May 18, 2010 12:00AM PST by The_Nintendo_Us
had substance, this mabye a good example of the fact the press matters, yes they do fail to praise a game every once in a while(phyconaughts) but on the other hand, the difference between selling well and incredablly well between assassins creed and number two was critical praise.
Great news.Posted: May 18, 2010 12:00AM PST by Hellslinger1
Deserves every penny that game makes. Easily top five of last year.
Not as good as it should have beenPosted: May 18, 2010 12:00AM PST by EKGTrooper
While it was better than the first, it was still repetitive and still a bit boring. They still didn't open it up as much as I would have liked and it still felt very limited. Next time how about we get more things to do? Your on the right track but still a far way off Ubisoft.
Good job Ubi,Posted: May 18, 2010 12:00AM PST by SamuraiTerry
I now just hope that the follow up includes some kind of co-op. The assassinations would be sweet if you could collaborate with someone.


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Perhaps the most ambitious project at Yahoo is one that seeks to take GPS data and make it more widely available between your mobile phone, desktop, and even in your car. What's more, any app will be able to tap into this information – with your permission, of course.
Yahoo Fire Eagle's Project Lead, Tom Coates, answered some questions about how the Fire Eagle project works.
TechRadar: How does Fire Eagle work technically?
Tom Coates: The idea behind Yahoo Fire Eagle is that lots of services could get better or more interesting if they could respond to your location. Fire Eagle is about helping you capture your location and sharing it with those services.
It's the control panel that gives you control about when, where and how much (city, state, exact point) information you share. Technically, Fire Eagle connects with these other services through the OAuth standard.
A site will ask Fire Eagle if it can get or update your location, you say yes or no, and how much you're prepared to share, and from then on that site can get access to your location through our web APIs. You can revoke that permission at any time.
TR: How could the idea be expanded - what is the potential?
TC: Fire Eagle is about bringing your location - with your permission and at any level of accuracy you want - to the web. You can update it once, from a phone or a website or wherever really, and then that information goes wherever you want it to.
At the simple end that could be showing the neighbourhood you're in on your blog, or sharing your location with Facebook so that your friends can see where you are, or someone could build an app that showed you your progress on runs, or plotted where you were as you were travelling around the world.
You don't have to share your location in public obviously - you could just use it so that when you went to a search engine it showed you results from around the area you're in right now.
Another interesting thing you could do would be to 'geotag' things. With your permission you could use Fire Eagle to mark where your photos were taken and show that on Flickr, or mark the place where you sent an email or wrote a Twitter message.
That way you could see all the things written about Barack Obama written in Sweden or everything written about the credit crunch by people in Nebraska. The way we think about it is that pretty much any service on the internet could be more interesting if it could personalise itself to where you are, and Fire Eagle's there to make that possible.
TR: What really makes Fire Eagle compelling?
TC: Fire Eagle is exciting for a variety of reasons, but two key attributes stand out. Firstly, Fire Eagle is an open platform. It offers web and mobile developers a simple way to build new location-based applications – think maps, movies, local events, mobile apps and more – without having to do the costly and complicated heavy lifting of developing geo-aware applications.
Instead, third-party developers can simply take advantage of Fire Eagle's APIs to make their existing services almost instantly location-aware, or make applications that already capture location-information more valuable to users by allowing them to use that information elsewhere across the internet.
Secondly, Fire Eagle is revolutionary in its treatment of user data. We focused on giving people complete control and feedback on the disclosure and usage of their location information.
Users choose which applications can see their location data, how much detail they're prepared to share with any individual application and they can revoke those permissions at any time. They can also delete their information from the system, or completely hide themselves.
TR: How was the project developed? Was usability testing involved and how?
TC: Fire Eagle started as a collaboration between a small team in Yahoo's London office and Yahoo Research Berkeley. The potential of the idea was recognised by the company and it became an official Brickhouse project in August 2007.
Fire Eagle went through a very deliberate development process and was released as a developer beta in March of 2008, before becoming generally available to developers and consumers in autumn 2008. Fire Eagle's user interface and especially its revolutionary approach to user data was researched and tested significantly during the development and beta phases.
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Bills Have Big Plans for QB EJ Manuel
Former Florida State QB E.J. Manuel hasn't had the best first season in the NFL. But, the Bills have big plans for him?as he heads into his second season.
The team wants to see him make significant strides since being a rookie and they?ve tweaked their coaching staff to help them realize that goal.
Todd Downing is the new quarterbacks coach and former Ravens wide receivers coach Jim Hostler has been hired as a senior offensive assistant. This will put more eyes on the quarterback after offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett handled those duties by himself last season.
Extra coaching won?t help much if Manuel can?t stay on the field. At a Thursday press conference in Indianapolis, Bills coach Doug Marrone stressed the need for Manuel to stay healthy in order to make the improvements that the team wants to see.
?He played last year and?really didn?t practice?that much,? Marrone said, via Tim Graham of the?Buffalo News. ?If you think about all the players that played in the league, he probably practiced the least and played.?For us, the priority, just like all the players, is to make sure that we keep him healthy. It?s important for us, important for his development.?
Marrone said that the team could also add a veteran quarterback to back up and mentor Manuel.?
For more on this story visit: Josh Alper, Pro Football Talk


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Healing A Broken Heartby Sarah La Saulle Sharon Kagan
The loss of a love is a nearly universal emotional crisis, whether the end is divorce, desertion, or a mutually agreed-upon separation. At first, friends and family are there to offer a shoulder to cry on, but after a few months there's an expectation that we just need to get over the crisis and move on. Thus, unprocessed, painful feelings are buried, leaving us numb. Or we repeat damaging relationship patterns over and over again. The situation doesn't have to be like that. Healing a Broken Heart guides those of us grieving for a lost love through four metaphorical seasons of recovery with provocative questions -- and journal pages on which to respond -- to help move us forward. The four seasons serve as powerful metaphors for the stages of the grieving process. Summer is the season for charting the course of a relationship: remembering hopes and expectations, the warning signs that went unheeded. During autumn, journalers accept the reality of breaking up and acknowledge things about the relationship that didn't serve their needs. Winter brings the pain of grief over the profound loss. Finally, spring -- and, with it, renewal -- invites readers to examine and understand how their family history may have affected their past relationships. Punctuated throughout with poems and moving meditations, the thoughtful, interactive approach of this book offers the time and space we all need to heal when our hearts are broken.
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- Bookshare Web Reader - a customized reading tool for Bookshare members offering all the features of DAISY with a single click of the "Read Now" link.
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- DAISY Audio - Similar to the Daisy 3.0 option above; however, this option uses MP3 files created with our text-to-speech engine that utilizes Ivonas Kendra voice. This format will work with Daisy Audio compatible players such as Victor Reader Stream and Read2Go.


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Economic Survey 2013-14
Jul 09, 2014
Eco Survey's ghost writers highlight UPA failures, set tough reforms agenda for Modi
There was no Chief Econmic Advisor guiding the Economic Survey put out today. But it clearly sees the mess left behind by the UPA and sets a strong reform agenda for the NDA government #Arun Jaitley #Ajay Shah #Economic Survey 2013-14 #Union Budget 2014-14 #NIPFP
Feb 28, 2013
Union Budget 2013: Is Chidu the one man who can turn things around?
According to industry experts, Chidambaram is making the right noises. He has to ensure that he does not go the populist way like his predecessor. #P. Chidambaram #Budget 2013-2014 #budget2013-videos #Economic Survey 2013-14
Feb 27, 2013
Dear Sonia Gandhi, please read Rajan's Economic Survey 2013
Raghuram Rajan has said it clearly: "uncapped subsidies" are problematic. Is Sonia Gandhi listening? #Raghuram Rajan #Budget 2013 #Economic Survey 2013-14 #EconomicSurvey2013


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Palm Responds to App Catalog Critics
Palm has announced that it will simplify its developer program for the Linux-based Web OS behind its new Palm Pre smartphone. The device maker is thereby responding to hefty criticism about its App Catalog.
That apps and applets have become the business model for the increasingly sophisticated smartphones was already well demonstrated by Apple and its iPhone-related App Store. Mobile phones equipped with Google's Android platform have adopted the same model. Even Nokia has given its smartphones in the OVI market access to free and cost-based software in its Symbian systems. That Palm is now using the same strategy with its App Catalog doesn't come as a surprise. Palm is asking $99 per year and $50 per application for the service. The revenue is then split 70/30 with the participating applications, Palm keeping 30.
It was mainly some additional restrictions to which developers objected, as described quite clearly by Jamie Zawinski in his blog. Palm prevented him as App Catalog contributor from distributing his applications (which he provided free to the catalog) on his own website. He alludes to a "hoop I would not jump through" in the Palm requirements: "You can only distribute your app via the Palm App Catalog. Do not make your app available on your website or anywhere other than the App Catalog."
Palm has now responded to appease what it considers important contributors to its market. In its announcement, it includes a "Distribution on the web" item that provides Palm developers who wish to promote their apps outside the App Catalog a special URL linked from the catalog.
Palm would take on certification and, if desired, the full service with billing and transactions. Developers could then use their own marketing resources without being fully tied to the catalog. The process might take a while, however. Palm is "officially opening the doors" to the program starting in December. Zawinski meanwhile is skeptical and released a blog update on the App Catalog "nightmare."
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Innovative system adds a hard drive and Ubuntu Core to the RPi for an IoT hub.
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Linux is two weeks younger than we thought!
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The Apache Software Foundation considers retiring OpenOffice
Adobe Gives New Life to NPAPI Plugin for Linux
Adobe won't kill the plugin in 2017
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Linux Foundation's big event celebrates the 25th anniversary of Linux
Linux Turns 25
Linux has evolved from "won't be a professional" project to one of the most professional software projects in the history of computers.
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Competitors get in the game with RHEL without Red Hat
Linux on Windows 10 Poses a Security Risk
Security researchers have already notified Microsoft; some fixes are available
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